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And join people from all across Canada who are fighting hunger and working for healthy and sustainable food.
The Final Eat Think Vote Numbers Are in: We've Accomplished Great Things Together
The numbers speak for themselves: 68 Eat Think Vote events across Canada, 164 candidates attended, 4461 participants, and millions reached through radio, television, newspapers and social media. We are so unbelievably grateful for everything Canadians did to make the Eat Think Vote campaign a huge success. This look back on on our campaign to make food a federal election issue is for you. We could not have done it without you.
Time to table an overarching national food policy
That first op-ed along with a slew of other media coverage at the beginning of July signalled the Eat Think Vote campaign had arrived. Those who cared deeply about our food system helped welcome Eat Think Vote into world by tweeting, posting on Facebook, and publishing in newsletters and on websites about the campaign. Then they asked us how they could help.
"We all have a role to play in creating a more sustainable food system. Yet it will take more than the marketplace to create a healthy, sustainable food system. Beyond simply "voting with our forks" as individuals, we need to strengthen and unify our countless efforts." -- words of Diana Bronson, Food Secure Canada's executive director in the Chronicle Herald.
Eat Think Vote was going to give Canada something unique: a series of community organized meals where local candidates and the voters would 'come to the table' and discuss the food issues Canada needs to act on now. Through Eat Think Vote we set out to unite Canada's food movement in a way that had never been done before.
We knew campaign's 'good food for all' message would resonate with Canadians. One month later a pre-election opinion poll ranked food, specifically the rising costs of food, the No. 2 issue concerning Canadians as the election period began. Eat Think Vote was off to a great start. The events were still to come.
Citizen Mobilization: So many great events...
Eat Think Vote searched high and low across the country for the rest of the summer looking for good food organizations and food champions to host, organize and participate in Eat Think Vote events. We wanted to mobilize as many people as possible to say loud and clear: it's time Canada adopts a national food policy where no one goes hungry and everyone has access to healthy and sustainable food.
Our hard work clearly paid off. By mid-September, our campaign and Eat Think Vote events exploded back onto the scene.
[View the story "Eat Think Vote " on Storify]
What we had not anticipated were all the different shapes and sizes Eat Think Vote events would come in: collecting petition signatures at farmers markets in Niagara, Ontario, voter registration in Nelson, BC and Cape Breton and food discussions "speed dating" with candidates in Montreal.
Each Eat Think Vote event was unique. Each event got our food system message across to candidates in its own way. Each served up delicious and nutritious food that was shared and enjoyed by all. As we approached Election Day it appeared our message was getting through to political parties.
The Survey: 4 Parties Support A National Food Policy
Early on in the campaign, we asked candidates to pledge for a national food policy, but because of certain consideration in the electoral law, we had to switch to a less-binding approach.
Our campaign was already over the moon with all the great Eat Think Vote events that had been organized from coast to coast to coast. A week before Election Day we received more good news.
Food Secure Canada had sent out the Eat Think Vote survey to all five major political parties to find out where the parties stood on our campaign issues. A week before Election Day we published the results: the Liberals, NDP, Greens, and Bloc Quebecois were all in favour of adopting a national food policy.
Click for the full survey results.
"We're delighted to see the vast majority of Canada's political leaders recognize how important good food and our food system is," Diana Bronson, executive director of Food Secure Canada told Ipolitics. Read full article.
The future of our food system looked a little brighter that day. Take a look at where the new Canadian government stands on Canada's most pressing food issues.
Every bit counts
One article in our newsfeed really cannot tell the full story of how Canadians from communities thousands of kilometres apart and facing similar and sometimes differing food challenges came together with one goal in mind: to make what we eat and what we grow a federal election issue. There are just so many great stories, people and organizations that emerged from this campaign. We wish we could name them all.
We showed our politicians food matters to voters. Now, it is up to all of us to show our new federal government that everyone Canada has the right to healthy and affordable food.
Eat Think Vote was just the beginning. We have no plans of stopping now.


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Kinemalogue
More of a Flash Gordon fansite than anything else
What goes up, must come down
It resurges, all right, and then just slides slowly away...
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Written by Dean Devlin, Nicholas Wright, James A. Woods, James Vanderbilt, and Roland Emmerich
With Jeff Goldblum (David Levinson), Bill Pullman (Thomas J. Whitmore), Brent Spiner (Dr. Brakish Okun), Deobia Oparei (Dikembe Umbutu), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Catherine Marceaux), Maika Monroe (Patricia Whitmore), Liam Hemsworth (Jake Morrison), Jessie T. Usher (Dylan Hiller), Angelababy (Rain Lao), Travis Tope (Charlie Miller), Nicolas Wright (Floyd Rosenberg), Judd Hirsch (Julius Levinson), Vivica Fox (Jasmine Hiller), William Fichtner (Gen. Adams), and Sela Ward (Pres. Lanford)
Spoiler alert: moderate
By now, everyone's already made up their mind about how they feel about Roland Emmerich. This is neither a good thing nor a bad thing, necessarily; if you spend enough time with the works of any artist, you get to know them, and if you like them, then you begin to understand why they make the choices they do. If you don't like them, however, then it's as they say: familiarity simply breeds contempt. But I do like Roland Emmerich, and I really love Independence Day, so I wasn't about to be dissuaded from seeing its distant sequel, the fruits of his long-delayed reunion with his writing partner, Dean Devlin, just because people I don't trust anyway told me not to. For a while, I was even rewarded for my faith: for Independence Day Resurgence does so much right, for so long, that I was half-convinced that, if it could just stick its landing, it might even be better than the first. My God, maybe even better than Stargate.
It does not stick its landing.
But it is a pretty long time before we find Resurgence hobbling off the stage, trying to pretend that there's not a piece of broken leg jutting out of its thigh. It begins as strongly as ID4 ended, throwing you right into a world that appears, in most respects, to be a completely logical extension of the civilization-shattering events of the first movie. What we have is an alternate 2016 that has spent the two difficult decades since July 4th, 1996, rebuilding society with the help of scavenged alien technology, and preparing to fight the next battle in an ongoing cosmic war. The very first shot of the film, once we're past a nightmare sequence suffered by old ex-President Pullman that goes to setting up the plot, is the Washington Monument, rebuilt as a stack of white bricks bearing the names of the innumerable Americans who died during the war, which stands next to a replica White House that serves both as the seat of American government, as well as the local node of what appears to be a united global government, established years earlier and dedicated entirely to the deployment of a shiny new global military machine. Thus, new technology sits next to battered old technology, and it's all quite strikingly weird.
Indeed, there could have been a whole movie about this, that really took ahold of the radically altered socioeconomic relationships and theories of government arising from humanity's anticipation of the Second Impact—and yet, beyond obviously, if this is the movie you really wanted, you'd have needed Emmerich and Devlin to have stayed away. Instead, they do the best job they can, which is by no means perfect, but suits their particular idiom nonetheless: putting you inside a classic but underserved science fiction scenario, and letting you fight your own way out when it comes how their world might actually work. (Of course, when it comes to relationships and exposition, they display nothing but their infamous lack of subtlety, using long, awkward conversations to reveal facts that each character involved already knows.)
But, hey, such is the movies.
The plot, though, is even simpler than the first. Eschewing Emmerich and Devlin's usual Irwin Allen-style collision of random human beings within a disaster, we have characters who are connected to one another already by way of the returning members of the cast. (Their number, of course, does not include Will Smith, since he was apparently far too busy failing to get Oscar buzz for Concussion to return to Steve Hiller; but you will be touched, or at least amused, by Emmerich's generosity to Smith's killed-off character, whose beaming portrait graces the White House walls.)
Anyway, it goes more-or-less like this: the aliens sent a distress signal back to their hivemind, galaxies away, and now they're coming back, bigger and badder than ever before. Those touched by the telepathic communications of the aliens during the first film—notably, President Whitmore and a not-quite-dead Dr. Brakish Okun—know that danger is once again upon the Earth, and try to make their prophecies of doom clear through their maddened ravings. Meanwhile, our science hero, David Levinson, is in Africa taking a gander at the one intact alien spaceship on Earth, which became the property of an alien-fighting warlord during the chaotic years right after 1996 when nobody in the developed world bothered helping Africa (again, this film's world-building is tolerably great). That ship has recently just been turned back on, but not by any human agency. As for the imprisoned aliens who survived the war, they're all screaming—though, as the trailer helpfully let us know, what they're actually doing is celebrating.
At last, a messenger arrives from outer space, and while its marked aesthetic similarity to Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still leads David to ineffectually advise the new President not to shoot the fucker down, the human race has only left its old hatreds and prejudices behind because it's embraced a new one: all aliens must die. Too bad this alien was coming with an offer of assistance. (Too bad, also, that Emmerich and Devlin, having accidentally stubbed their toes upon a worthy theme, can't bring themselves to do anything with it.) Even worse, the evil alien queen and her planet harvester is right behind our new alien friend, giving the moon a much-needed haircut and smashing the Eurasian continent to bits just by fucking landing on it. And the highwater mark (so to speak) of the whole film arrives during these globe-punishing proceedings, when, as if in answer to the whole world's critique of ID4, Emmerich and Devlin savagely execute the one returning character who had the least right of anybody to have actually survived the first film.
After that, what we have is the same shit that's in every blockbuster of the last several years, one more time. Even the big mid-film destruction porn scene feels a little bit more perfunctory than it ought, especially when it's powered by the gorgeous (and novel) mechanic of the alien harvester's independent gravity. It's still pretty great—the harvester itself is almost Lovecraftian in its frame-busting scope (and Silver Age Justice League in its silliness), so big you rarely see anything more than a fraction of its truly cyclopean expanse. Unfortunately, though, this scene, which ought to spell the end of our world all by itself, is too short and too confusing to really stick with you, even for just a few days. ID4, we recall, soaked in the suspense of its apocalypse. Resurgence is curiously unwilling to let us savor the recognizability of all the landmarks which Emmerich turns into smithereens, to the point where I only know that the needle-like structure was supposed to be the Burj Khalifa because somebody told me it was.
And, well, after that, things really get kind of muddled.
This is not to say it's a complete wash: even at its very worst, it remains passable entertainment, merely of a rather dull kind. In its way, even this is uncomfortably strange, since Emmerich's typical approach to every project since Stargate has been to fluctuate wildly, between his legitimate talent (that is, his genuinely-awesome action filmmaking) and his widely-loathed avocation (the host of ruinous assumptions he apparently has about what makes his dumbassed intended audience spew Coke from out their noses).
But, while it's not the first thing that Resurgence does well, and it's certainly not the best, Resurgence fixes its predecessor's most gruesome problem: you see, Resurgence is as chock full of jokes as any Emmerich joint to date—to the extent it might be a half-successful comedy with disaster film pretensions, rather than the other way around—and yet something like less than 2% of this film's comic relief is really, painfully bad, which represents a very significant improvement.
We may chalk that up to the decision to repopulate Emmerich and Devlin's cursed Earth with a new lot of subordinate fighter jock heroes, who are boring rather than obnoxious: Liam Hemsworth (playing Maverick); Jesse Usher (also playing Maverick); Travis Tope (Goose); Chinese model Angelababy (Iceman for Heteros); and, most bafflingly, indy horror ingenue Maika Monroe (possibly Jester, but all Top Gun analogies must eventually break down). These five humans range across the fullest possible spectrum of actorly mediocrity; and Monroe, the only one with a solid track record, barely manages to convince you she's alive. Thus you ponder if there's any sense in being bothered that (apparently) nobody ever asked Mae Whitman to reprise her role as President Pullman's daughter, above and beyond the likelihood that she got DUFFed out of a character who, in all honesty, is so marginal and sexless that even if you did malevolently buy into the bizarre idea that Whitman is somehow "not attractive enough" to be the female lead in a major Hollywood production, it's impossible to square this with the objective fact that Monroe isn't asked to be this film's "female lead," or much of anything beyond another Emmerich and Devlin Character Module.
But yes, you probably should be a little bothered, and not just on a moral level: because whatever possible upside there might've been to this approach—vanilla tastes better than poison—it cuts decisively against the grain of Emmerich's usual strategy, which is to people his films with semi-famous folks (like Whitman!) who can bring their own extrinsic personality into the fray. That's how Independence Day wound up with any memorable characters in the first place, despite Emmerich and Devlin's utterly mechanistic screenwriting style. To give credit where it's due, however, Deobia Operai does make something of an impression, as the alien-slaying African warlord, and he's the only new guy you could enjoy outside the presence of the old guys.
Luckily, though, Resurgence brings back enough of the old cast to still make it feel like a legitimate continuation. Thus does Goldblum Goldblum all over the place, and when he's around, Resurgence can be a beautiful thing. Let's not forget Brent Spiner, either, whose Dr. Okun rises from a coma only to berate his boyfriend for growing both fat and bald in the intervening twenty years—it's the sort of Bayish joke that oughtn't work, but kind of does. And, sure, there's some kind of While You Were Sleeping gag somewhere in here, but I just can't find the words necessary to bring Bill Pullman into it.
But maybe that's because (President) Pullman is the weakest link in the whole cast! He's marginally compelling only so long as his telepathic trauma keeps him weird; but the very moment he becomes a real player in the plot (at the latest, the instant he shows up with his great crazy old man beard shaved off), it becomes clear that Pullman is either making some horrifyingly bad acting choices, or he just got so bored with his character that he couldn't even deliver his character's last line with with anything more energetic than a yawn. It's so contemptibly bad that you can practically picture the editor desperately trying to give it the slightest punch, though he only succeeds in ruining it further, slamming the knife down on the scene before Pullman can even close his damn mouth.
And so, our story concludes—well, actually, our story does not conclude, because this one ends on a sequel hook about an intergalactic war, and yet does not have the basic decency to render the Earth uninhabitable, thus making Resurgence's space opera origin story remotely worthwhile. So our story climaxes, anyway, with an utterly goofy and imagination-free scene that proves, solely, that Emmerich and Devlin didn't learn anything from the world's reaction to their attempt to appropriate Godzilla for America. Born from the kernel of a pretty great idea, in the execution, it's rote and boring and way, way too busy, cursed with yet one more swawm of ugly CGI, such as we've seen in every other space-based movie for the past decade. (And, for God's sake, who decided that every laser should be an indistinguishable shade of green?)
But no: there is a fair amount to enjoy as Emmerich and Devlin set up their brave new world, just to knock it down again. But Resurgence collapses under the weight of its own passionless boilerplate at precisely the point that its predecessor was just starting to get good.
Posted by Hunter Allen at 8:56 PM
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Q: Unable to generate UUID id for my entities I'm working on a web project using:

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*Spring 4.x (Spring Boot 1.3.3)

*Hibernate 4.x

*PostgreSQL 9.x

I'm new to Postgres DB and for my tables I decided to use (for the first time) UUID identifiers, but I'm having some troubles...
For ID field I used Postgres uuid type and I set as default value uuid_generate_v4(). All works correctly when I generate a new row directly by a PSQL insert, but I cannot create a new record by my application.
As an example, this is how I declared an entity in my application:
@Entity
@Table(name = "users")
public class User {

    @Id
    @Type(type = "pg-uuid")
    private UUID id;

    // other fields and methods...

}

For this declaration I'm using the Type Hibernate annotation.
Find operations work well, but when I try to make an insert I get this exception:

org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaSystemException: ids for this class must be manually assigned before calling save(): net.myapp.User;

Followiong this tutorial I tried to solve the issue. I changed my entity definition to:
@Entity
@Table(name = "users")
public class User {

    @GeneratedValue(generator = "uuid2")
    @GenericGenerator(name = "uuid2", strategy = "uuid2")
    @Column(columnDefinition = "BINARY(16)")
    @Id
    private UUID id;

    // other fields and methods...
}

But now I'm getting wrong ID values when I retrieve (existing) data from DB (still haven't tried insert...).
So what is the right way to define ID field in my case?

UPDATE
Using the second definition...
When I try to find by ID, I'm getting:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: operator does not exist: uuid = bytea
    Hint: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.

When I try to create new record:

org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessResourceUsageException: could not execute statement; SQL [n/a];

A: I used this configuration and this is working for me and
I am using

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*Spring Boot 1.5.2

*Hibernate 5

*PostgreSQL 9.6

Entity.java
@Id
@Column(updatable = false, nullable = false, columnDefinition = "uuid DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4()")
@GeneratedValue(generator = "UUID")
@GenericGenerator(name = "UUID", strategy = "org.hibernate.id.UUIDGenerator")
private UUID id;

before that I am suggesting you to load uuid-ossp it into your database to use it.
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "uuid-ossp";

A: I use the following configuration and it works. I am using Glassfish as application server.
@Id
@GenericGenerator(name = "uuid", strategy = "uuid2")
@GeneratedValue(generator = "uuid")
@Column(name = "key", unique = true, nullable = false)
@Type(type="pg-uuid")
private UUID key;

The table key has the Postgres uuid type:
CREATE TABLE billuser.billingresult (key uuid NOT NULL,   .... )...

A: Worked as a charm:

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*Create a custom configuration class
package mypackage;

public class PostgresUuidDialect extends PostgreSQL9Dialect {

@Override
public void contributeTypes(final TypeContributions typeContributions, final ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry) {
    super.contributeTypes(typeContributions, serviceRegistry);
    typeContributions.contributeType(new InternalPostgresUUIDType());
}

protected static class InternalPostgresUUIDType extends PostgresUUIDType {

        @Override
        protected boolean registerUnderJavaType() {
            return true;
        }
    }
}

*In your application.properties add this
spring.jpa.database-platform=mypackage.PostgresUuidDialect
(change mypackage according to your needs)
Pros: you don't need to use any special annotation in your JPA entity
Cons: this obscure class in your project...

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Did you know that more than half of the effort required to learn Spanish is in the study and use of verbs?
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Did you ever have to memorise multiplication tables when you were young? 1 x 2 = 2, 2 x 2 = 4 … one times two is two, two times two is four, and so on. If so, as an adult, can you still recall them?
Learning verbs is no different: once you have memorised the verb conjugations, you can get down to the business of learning how and when to use the various tenses.
The courses at El Patio step their way through the various verbs tenses in a particular order. We spend the first few Elementary levels in the present tense, before introducing three past tenses. Even with so much time in the present tense, we still don't ever have enough class time to present a detailed overview of present tense conjugations. Here is your chance!
We've created five, unique 3-hour sessions to present these overviews, for various verb types and tenses. We show the conjugation patterns of regular verbs, and look for patterns within irregulars – even irregular verbs have patterns within their irregularity!
In the 'conjugation' Verb Workshops we look at the forms and in the 'uses' Verb Workshops, we practise how to use them. In Verb Workshop Subjunctive you see the conjugation of the present subjunctive and some key uses.
You can do a single one of 3 hours, or more than one, there being discounts for multiples.
Find descriptions of each Verb Workshop below and ENROL IN A WORKSHOP HERE.
The illustrations used below, as well as for the covers of the Verb Workshop booklets, are engravings by Gustave Doré, a 19th century French illustrator.
Doré created these illustrations for an 1860 French edition of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605, 2nd volume 1615).
Here is an English version of Don Quijote (Project Gutenberg) with Doré's illustrations in the text – he made over 200 engravings for this edition.
Get your present tense sorted!
Get a bit more sophisticated in the present tense!
Open up the past with some meaty tenses!
Refine and polish up your knowledge with exercises – you'll eventually get it!
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Following recent amendments to the law a foreign company may opt to establish a branch in Malta. Oversea companies setting up branches in Malta are required to register the branch in Malta with the Maltese Registry of Companies within one month from establishing a branch or a place of business in Malta. In terms of the Maltese Companies Act, a foreign or 'oversea company' is a body corporate which is constituted or incorporated outside Malta.
The Maltese Companies Act covers the provisions concerning 'oversea companies' (or bodies corporate, incorporated outside Malta) which set out to establish a branch or place of business within Malta. In particular, Section 385 of the Companies Act details the documents which must be delivered to the Registrar of Companies for registration within one month of the establishment of the place of business.
A branch of an oversea company (managed and controlled outside Malta) would be taxable in Malta only on income arising in Malta and on income arising outside Malta but remitted to Malta. The taxable income of a Maltese branch shall be subject to the same corporate tax system as Maltese Companies: The income of the branch would be taxed at the same rate as that of a Maltese company. Non-resident shareholders of overseas companies may qualify for refunds of tax.
Double Tax Agreements: Subject to any particular conditions in a particular double tax treaty, branches of foreign companies may use the provisions of a relevant Malta double tax treaty with another jurisdiction.
No withholding taxes: Branch office profits are not subject to any withholding taxes at the time of transfer or later. A branch's profits are only subject to the corporate tax charge at the domestic rate.


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Americans stay a step ahead
By Gregory M. Lamb
@GregLamb
It's not clear whether nature or the news media abhor a vacuum more. If there are events to be analyzed, we analyze. That's why we're trying desperately to tell you what is the zeitgeist of these post-Sept. 11 times. It's what we do.
And, by the way, you're a tough bunch to figure out.
Yes, we report in amazement, many of you are able to laugh again. But irony died, right? Oops, not at The Onion, a satirical online humor magazine, which is back doing scathing parodies, including a fictitious quote from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in which he asks "that all Americans be quiet, stop asking questions, accept the orders of authorities - and let us get on with the important work of defending liberty[!?]."
Some of you are glued to "All Terror, All the Time" cable news networks. But others are watching "Friends" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in huge numbers. Aha! This year you're not watching many new TV shows! But, oh yeah, that's just the way things are every fall.
"The [movie] box office really has not been affected in a major way by the events," Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations, tells the Associated Press. The tough and violent "Training Day," with usual good-guy Denzel Washington playing a corrupt cop, topped the box office last weekend. Video stores rented or sold violent pictures as usual, including movies specifically about terrorism.
And jokesters aren't avoiding Sept. 11 material after all. At a New York fundraiser, comedian Colin Quinn said he couldn't get used to New Yorkers now trying to be friendly. "It just doesn't work," he is quoted as saying by The New York Times. "It still sounds like a threat. On an elevator, a guy says, 'Beautiful day today: right or wrong?' "
Write us at entertainment@csps.com.
Biden stays above the pack – and aims fire at Trump
Obama seeks to calm fears over terrorism ahead of holiday season
Hospital shares patient scans with Google: Can they do that?


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Passion meets pride
Investment in students leads to a better life for MS patients
Augustine J. Devasahayam (AJ) is working hard to make life better for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in Newfoundland and Labrador and, ultimately, around the world.
His research path led him here to Atlantic Canada – a place with the highest rate of MS in the world. Specifically, his path led him to Dr. Michelle Ploughman, Memorial University's Canada Research Chair in Neuroplasticity, Neurorehabilitation and Brain Recovery.
Mr. Devasahayam, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial, is one of the first recipients of three O'Dea Research Fellowships, newly established by John and Janet O'Dea.
The couple feel strongly about supporting individuals with disorders like MS so they can "get more of their lives back."
Their motivation fits well with Mr. Devasahayam's passion.
"People living with long-standing diseases such as MS need new treatments founded on novel ideas, conceptions and discoveries," he said. "At Dr. Ploughman's Recovery and Performance Laboratory, I have opportunities to test new rehabilitation ideas."
From left, researcher Augustine Devasahayam and donors Janet and John O'Dea at the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial.
From India to here
Mr. Devasahayam's research interests began to develop while working as a physiotherapist. He started to look closely at fitness among sedentary individuals in India, where he took a keen interest in developing new strategies to restore movement in those with walking difficulties.
While working as a research assistant in New Zealand, he saw the problems people with MS face.
"Both clinicians and people with MS know that participating in regular exercise will improve physical endurance and walking ability," he said. "However, people with MS report fatigue and heat sensitivity as some of the barriers that prevent them from engaging in regular exercise."
Having come to Canada for more research opportunities, the O'Dea Research Fellowship encourages Mr. Devasahayam to "think bigger." He wants to become a successful rehabilitation researcher, undertaking projects that advance fundamental basic science research into the clinical setting.
Already, he's been co-principal investigator on an MS study that has given several patients the ability to exercise when they thought they never would again.
'You gave my life back to me'
Work like Mr. Devasahayam's is what motivated the O'Deas to establish the fellowship at Memorial.
"I was immensely impressed," said Mr. O'Dea, about his time as co-chair of the Faculty of Medicine's Building a Healthy Tomorrow capital campaign. "I became motivated by the work that was being done here. I discovered stories that needed to be told as to why this is such a worthwhile medical school to support."
For Mrs. O'Dea, motivation came from her career as a physiotherapist and clinical co-ordinator for physiotherapy candidates pursuing studies at Dalhousie's School of Physiotherapy.
"We both felt strongly about health care, about research and especially about providing opportunities for students." — The O'Deas
She recalls one moment in particular: one of her colleagues' patients had come close to losing his life. When he came through his ordeal and was discharged from rehabilitation, his parting words were, "Doctors saved my life, and you gave my life back to me."
"I can only begin to imagine the extent and breadth of the research and learning that enabled physicians to save this young man's life," said Mrs. O'Dea.
"But, hugely important to him was his rehab team. It's why research in physical medicine and rehabilitation is meaningful to me, for us, so that individuals with brain disorders like MS, head injuries and stroke might one day get back more of their lives."
After a discussion over coffee with Dr. Ploughman, both she and Mr. O'Dea say they were "blown away" with the research happening in the lab.
"We both felt strongly about health care, about research and especially about providing opportunities for students."
Valued at $10,000 each, Megan Kirkland, a MD-PhD student, and Arthur Chaves, also a PhD candidate, are the two other recipients of the first O'Dea Research Fellowships.
'No going back'
https://gazette.mun.ca/research/no-looking-back/


The UK's 14 million private vehicles used for business – or 'grey fleet' – is responsible for 3.6 million tonnes in CO2 emissions, and costs employers £5.5 billion a year.
It's 'hiding in plain sight' and threatening health, safety and efforts to tackle climate change if more isn't done to make up for years of being neglected by transport policy.
Those are the headlines from Getting to grips with grey fleet, a new collaborative report from Energy Saving Trust and the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA).
The report is the biggest effort ever to quantify the scale and nature of the UK grey fleet, and was certainly needed, as the issues associated with grey fleet go beyond carbon.
Our researchers found that grey fleet vehicles are some of the oldest – averaging 8.2 years – and least safe vehicles on our roads, while also emitting high levels of air pollutants.
The UK is under pressure to take serious action on air pollution in order to reduce related deaths and illnesses.
Incredibly, the report highlights that annual NOx emissions of grey fleet vehicles in the UK are equivalent to twice those of London buses. Actively managing grey fleet can reduce mileage by 15 per cent, which would achieve the equivalent pollution reduction of taking 225,000 cars off the road altogether.
"Bosses should introduce rigorous electronic mileage management systems to reduce 'mileage inflation' by employees claiming a mileage allowance, and remove the incentive to drive unnecessary business miles.
With the BVRLA targeting a 50 per cent reduction in grey fleet mileage and costs by 2020, a major push is needed to highlight the alternatives to grey fleet use and spread best practice guidance. The public sector is in the spotlight as a key target of efforts.
Do you use your car for work? Does your workplace offer you sustainable transport options? Tell us what you think in the comments below, or tweet @energysvgtrust.
Funded by the Department for Transport, we offer free fleet consultancy to SME businesses and public sector organisations. Read the full report: Getting to grips with Grey Fleet.


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Magistrates' Court
British tech billionaire can be extradited to the US to face fraud charges
Published: 23rd Jul 2021
Re: The Government of the United States of America v Michael Richard Lynch (2021)
A judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court has ruled that British businessman Mike Lynch, the former CEO of Autonomy plc, should be extradited to the US to face criminal fraud charges. Autonomy plc was acquired by Hewlett Packard, and Mr Lynch faces charges including securities fraud relating to the $11 billion acquisition.
The judge refused Mr Lynch's attempt to block his extradition to face 17 counts including wire fraud and securities fraud. The final decision will be made by the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, with the possibility of appeals thereafter.
Alex Bailin QC and Mark Summers QC were involved in this case.
https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/lynch-v-usa-judgment/
Alex Bailin QC
Mark Summers QC
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Фјодор Николајевич Јурчихин (; Батуми, 3. јануар 1959) је руски космонаут и тест пилот. Укупно је провео више од 537 дана у свемиру. Боравио је на Међународној свемирској станици као члан три експедиције, а летео је у свемир и као члан мисије спејс-шатла. Тренутно је у свемиру, на МСС као члан Експедиција 51/52. Истиче се по броју и трајању свемирских шетњи, којих је у каријери имао 9 у укупном трајању од преко 59 сати.

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 Фјодор Јурчихин
 Биографија на сајту -{Spacefacts}-

Рођени 1959.
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In the Hutch inspiration is always found!
Ahh! A Fairy Sleigh, a gift for artisan friend dear, Will speed through the snow to find new delight across the sea!
A Polar Bear ! Needle felted and ready to go to a new home, Leif had to give him one last pat.
The Polar Bear and his Sleigh!
I never tire of Tomtens and foxes!
Another nod to Autumn as Winter comes, a Little Acorn Gnome finds a lovely home and Willodel Wren comes to visit!
Times for Celebrations and Gatherings that Winter Brings..
Gatherings of togetherness...theatre and dinner!
I will be adding more photos to this post in the next days!
A visit from the Frog Prince, The Golden Bumble Bee and Finley..all find homes!
The Golden Bumble Bee was originally made with a flower bed, but a real house was requested and this is what was made for her. Along with the new home, a Bumble Bee Gnome is coming too.


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Ли́па — село в Україні, у Турійському районі Волинської області. Населення становить 246 осіб.

Історія
У 1906 році Липа-Станіславівка, колонія Новодвірської волості Володимир-Волинського повіту Волинської губернії. Відстань від повітового міста 29 верст, від волості 7. Дворів 8, мешканців 49.

Населення

За переписом населення України 2001 року в селі мешкали 242 особи. 100 % населення вказало своєю рідною мовою українську мову.

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 Список населених місць Волинської губернії. —  Житомир: Волинська губернська типографія, 1906. — 219 с.

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Missak Manouchian, revolutionary leader of French Resistance against Nazis
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"I joined the Army of Liberation as a voluntary soldier and I die within inches of victory and of the objective. Happiness to those who will survive us and enjoy the Freedom and Peace of tomorrow. I am sure that the French people and all those who fight for freedom will know how to honor our memory with dignity. At the moment of death I proclaim that I have no hatred for the German people and for whomsoever, everyone will have what he will deserve as punishment and as reward."
Who he was
Missak Manouchian was a leader of the armed French resistance against the Nazis during World War II. He became the head of the FTP-MOI, a subgroup of the resistance mostly made up of immigrants from Hungary, Romania and Poland. Many of the group's members were Jewish.
Manouchian was born in Adiyaman in the Ottoman Empire in 1906 and was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. His parents had died during the massacres but he managed to escape with his brother and reach Marseille in France. An avowed communist, he became involved in the Communist Party in France while concurrently publishing an Armenian newspaper called Zangou.
Upon outbreak of World War II he was imprisoned and released, after which he joined the resistance to lead a group of fellow Armenians. The attacks and assassinations carried out by Manouchian and his fellow combatants increased his profile within the FTP-MOI, but also with the Nazis. He was listed on an infamous Nazi propaganda poster called "l'Affiche Rouge" ("the Red Poster"), where he was noted as the Armenian leader of the group.
Manouchian was eventually captured by the Nazis and executed.
Manouchian was a poet and was opposed to violence until he was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis for being a communist.
Learn more about him
New York Times: Army of Crime (Review)
100 Years, 100 Facts: Missak Manouchian
100 Famous Armenians


Many times people are too bored or tired to plan anything to do during weekend. Often, we prefer to just lay on the bed and watch TV or sleep, but there are so many things we can do and actually enjoy weekends. Here are some of the most interesting things you could consider doing even this weekend.
We all have a car that we dream about. Why not drive it? Every city has a local dealer where you can go and test cars. Take your time to enjoy the car you have always wanted, even if it's only for an hour.
This idea is great for couples or groups. You can have a great night with movies and alcoohol and the good part is that you don't have to clean up the following dayy.
Whether you are new in your city or not, you can take a bus tour to discover the city's beauties and other things you didn't know about it.
If you do not really know how to make a good coffee, you can take a coffee course and learn to prepare it as a pro. You will most certainly not regret this decision once you will impress everyone with a nice cup of coffee.
This is the best opportunity for you to have fun while racing around obstacle courses and at the same time learn how to be safe on the road.
Many people underrate theatre and opera and think of them as snobbish. Try to go there at least once and you will definitely enjoy it. You just have to try it on your own to realize it.
There's nothing more beautiful and simple than stargazing. What about seeing and understanding what really happens in outer space? Go to the nearest planetarium and enjoy the wonders of our universe.
I'm telling you, there's nothing more relaxing than enjoying a day at the spa. All you have to do is go there and let other people pamper you with massages and natural treatments. Sounds good, eh?
It is a great feeling when an old friend calls you and wants to spend time with you. You can get in touch with an old friend and spend some quality time together remembering all the fun you had.
Everyone enjoys going to picnics, but what about a fancy one? You can take out your finest cutlery and glasses and make the best salmon, egg and cucumber sandwiches. Don't forget the champagne, especially if you want to have a good time with your loved one!
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As you know, all I did during my vacation in NY is cardio (I walked a lot which is a good thing) Now that I'm back in my (dull) country, I'm also back at the gym.
I did a full body this morning.
Neat. Now we get a millijournal too.
Yesterday was 20 min HIIT cardio.
I like reading the millilog.
I was all sore this morning but instead of doing cardio like I usually do every other day, I hit the gym to do shoulders.
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Interview With A KDP Author: Stacey Upton Bracey, Author Of "The Tales Of Darkwood" Series
We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with author Stacey Upton, creator of the popular fantasy series, The Tales of Darkwood, to explain her process as well as her current and future projects.
From e-Book to Print: A Learning Curve
As someone who gets her work out through self-publishing, we asked her about how she operates KDP, if she has someone else doing the tech aspects of this for her, and her usual process from manuscript to upload. "I learned KDP on my first book, which was a non-fiction account about our year of recovery after our condo was destroyed by fire," she explained. "Our rescue dog alerted us, or we would've been destroyed as well."
"I wrote everything in Word," she continued. "Once I had the book written and edited, I used Kindle Create to format it. Formatting an e-book in KDP is pretty straightforward. The print version was another story. I don't understand technical things very easily, so I downloaded the instructions, printed them out, and moved very slowly through them. It's a great FREE way to format your book, but I will say there was a big learning curve that included both frustration and tears for the print version. BUT I DID IT, and so can anyone else."
And how did her process evolve after her first publication? "Since then, I purchased a formatting program called Atticus that works really well if you've correctly formatted your Word document first. Again, I watch the tutorials every time I use it, but it works really well, and I don't need to understand gutters, etc. I recommend it if you have a little money to spend. I got the lifetime membership to it, as I write 6-8 books a year. It formats in both epub and pdf, so you are covered for your kindle and for paperbacks. It can do fancy things for your interiors, too. I use some of that aspect, but not a lot of it."
How Stacey Learned About the Right Cover Art
When asked about cover art and design for her books, she dove right in with a crash-course for first timers: "In terms of covers…. I know my limitations! I certainly appreciate art, but am not myself an artist. I commissioned my first cover from Fivver, and got pretty good results. I was on a shoestring budget for that book, and had decided I needed a good editor more than anything else. I knew a gal who'd done work in memoir (definitely pick an editor in YOUR GENRE), and she was willing to let me do payments over several months. I learned a lot from working with her, and it was the right investment to make."
"For my "Tales of Darkwood" series, I delved into premade covers, and after a few days of hunting, found one I really liked. I got lucky with the artist I chose. She is responsive, and doesn't take months to render a cover, and can easily fix the parameters if KDP says the uploaded cover doesn't fit the page count. They are picky about that.
"Premades are much cheaper than custom covers," she continued. "Mine was $45 for the ebook, and an extra $125 for the paperback wrap for the first Darkwood book. Since then, I've gone to custom covers with her, which run between $300-$500 per cover, which includes both the ebook and the print version. So much rides on your cover, especially in KU, it is worth it to me to pay top dollar."
Editors vs. Self-Editing
And when asked about outside editors sculpting her work, she explained that she handles most of those duties herself. "I save up in between books, and no longer pay for an official editor for my work. I do have a proofreader and a solid Beta reading team which consists of a mix of teachers and avid readers. Between them, and my lifetime subscription to ProWritingAid, and Word's Editor, I catch about 98% of the typos. I use the read-aloud function in Word to help me catch most of the rest. At the end of the day, there are ALWAYS going to be typos or mis-used words. I catch them in every book I read, traditionally or indie published. At some point, you need to let your darlings fly."
KDP vs. Brick-And-Mortar
Often on the mind of any author is their take of if they will be offering their creations in traditional brick-and-mortar booksellers and shops. "I don't yet. Going 'wide' and getting my books printed by D2D (draft to digital) or Ingram will be the next steps, once my entire series is complete. With D2D, they will deliver your book to various print entities, or you can contract with each entity yourself, and keep a bit more of the profit. For now, I am straight KDP, content to learn one thing at a time. It's the vision in my head, however. I see an entire shelf of my books in the library and in Barnes and Noble. Not in the discounted section, thank you."
We followed up by asking her what books she had written and published prior to using KDP? "No books, I had articles and short stories published over the years, as well as plays and screenplays. For me, Amazon was the way to go from the gate, once I decided I was going to go Indie." And on the topic of what eventually led her to KDP, she informed us that she "did a LOT of research, and concluded that Amazon holds a huge share of the market. It made sense to me to plop into that pond, even if I was a tiny fish in it. Perhaps a plankton."
In terms of her overall opinion of KDP as it pertains to her work, "I like it. It works for me, in that it is pretty simple to navigate, and manage my marketing," she said. "I am not a pro marketer at all, but they offer good tutorials within KDP. I have used their 'kindle countdown deal' once so far, and saw a HUGE jump in my KU reads, and in buy-through to the next book. I plan to use it again in just a few days when I release my book four, by putting my book 2 on sale for .99 with the countdown deal for five days. I also like that it has KU, so people on a budget (whom I totally relate to) can read, read, read."
"My writing plan has me putting out 3 novellas packaged into one book, and 2 full length novels in my Darkwood series by June of next year. The 2nd half of the year I'll be participating in 3 SF/F anthologies I've been offered, and at least 3 Paranormal Romance/ 2nd Chance Romance books under my pen name of Stacey Christine. So six books, and then the 3 anthologies coming out in 2023."
The Fire Before the Darkwoods, or, How Stacey Got Her Start(rek)
Whenever we talk to a new or growing artist, we also want to know how they started on this journey. "I've always been a reader. As a geeky, glasses wearing, fat kid with no friends—books were my go-to, and solace. My greatest wish as a child was to become a librarian. I got into acting instead, and over the years, found I wrote better material than a lot of what was being offered, especially when I moved to LA and did comedy. I wrote a noisy little one-act play that got industry attention, and got hired to write movies because at the ripe age of 30, I was 'old' and 'female', so I checked a couple of 'equal opportunity' boxes at the studios. That led to a couple of my movies being made, and ghostwriting a lot more. I also supplemented the lean times as a Reader, and read for a lot of big agencies and movie stars."
"Then I got chosen for an internship on Star Trek: Voyager, where I learned a whole new way of structuring stories that I use to this day, as well as writing for established characters, which helps if you want to be a series writer for books. It was a fantastic gig, plus I had been a Star Trek fan since I was five years old. It was truly a dream job that I got to extend for a time working as a writer's assistant for both ST:V and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
"Then, life brought on kids and bankruptcy, so I had to go to work in a different career for a long time. I kept writing little things here and there, a couple more plays, reading for Hollywood producers, a few more ghostwriting gigs. But never actual books… because they scared me, they were sacred."
"Then the fire happened, and it changed my outlook. I felt like I had been neglecting a gift for telling my own actual book stories for too long. So, I wrote the first book, On Rescue Dogs and Losing Everything, and it did pretty well. I started researching what it took to be a full-time, successful writer via social media and articles. I took a couple of short writing workshops that had interesting story prompts, one of which was the nugget that became the Darkwood series. Finally, I took a class in writing YA (young adult), because I always feel legitimized by a class, and with that behind me, I started writing the Darkwood books, started a publishing brand for my own books, and am truly hopeful it will be my third career.
Advice To New and Aspiring Writers
When asked what advice she would give to young writers who may still believe that they need to go through the old gatekeeping system in order to get published, she instantly related. "I thought that was what I was going to do as well! Publishing has changed a lot, even in just the past five years. It's actually not hard to get an agent, but getting into one of the 'Big Five,' publishing houses as one of their authors (which looks to be turning into the 'Big Four,') is long odds. There are vanity presses, and small presses, to be sure. But I learned that even if you do get picked up by one, your advance is likely to be small, and they still expect you to do a lot of the marketing yourself. And that it takes about two years for a book to work its way through their system, even one that doesn't have a lot of changes dictated by the publisher. Changes that might not be your vision.
"For me, the marketing was the one thing that I (still!) have shortcomings in, and wanted. You won't get marketed as a new writer by a publisher, they expect you to do that on your own. Plus, I wanted to keep more of my royalties and I like the control being my own publisher gives me. I decide on the cover, the font, the story, what character I want to write about, what fairy tale I am going to twist. For a few genres, trad publishing may still be the way to go. I just know as a fantasy writer, there's a lot more opportunity for me as an indie, more money too."
Stacey's Universe: Inside The Tales of Darkwood
And what of her stories contained within these books? We wanted to know much, much more. " Tales of Darkwood is a five-book, dark fantasy/found family/twisted fairytale series that will be complete by the end of this year. I started with an idea from Neil Gaiman, who taught me how to ask, 'what if.' My 'what if' was: what if the stepmother in Hansel and Gretel wasn't the evil one? What if the kids were? After all, they do push a woman into an oven… and it just built from there. That book is The Twins of Darkwood, which can be read as a stand-alone. It is SUPER dark, but then again, it's Grimms Fairy Tales and medieval times. It wasn't a jolly, light time-period."
"Then I wrote a 30k novella as a give-away book to introduce people to the series, Witch of Darkwood. The main character in that ties into Twins. The story I told in that led to a prequel book about the real mother of the Twins, Bella, a feisty girl who is willing to poison herself to save her family even if they do drive her crazy. That book, The Traveller's Tale eventually became my first book in series, as the characters I created there (in a twist of Sleeping Beauty) had plenty to say, and continue to do so! I have a fantastic over-arching curse that will be overcome by book 5, twisting together the storylines in the first four books to a very satisfying conclusion. They are all great reads, page turners that my readers say they cannot put down."
The Muses of Darkwood: Stacey's Inspirations
On the topic of who or what her main influences are, her response is a broad who's who of the sci-fi and fantasy genre. "I read about three books a week currently, in a mix of fantasy, thriller, mystery, horror, and the occasional non-fiction book. When I was young it was more like seven to ten books a week. I've always tended towards fantasy, anything to remove me from reality. I fell in love with Jules Verne, and of course The Lord of the Rings. I think I read that series about ten times. I also resonate with Greek myths and of course, Grimm's Fairy Tales. Favorite authors include Susan Cooper, Naomi Novik, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, Nora Roberts (sue me), Sara Douglass, Neil Gaiman, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Patrick Rothfuss (I'm still holding out hope for his book 3), Leigh Bardugo, V.E. Schwab, and Jay Kristoff."
From Fan to Growing a Fanbase: How to Market When You Hate Marketing
"I (have a) growing a fan base via a monthly newsletter, made up of folks who've read my books, or who wanted to get my free book," she stated when asked about her fan base and keeping in touch with them both directly and through marketing. "I do that via Bookfunnel and MailerLite. I have about 800 subs right now, which I hope to grow to 1,000 by the end of the year via author swaps and a bit of advertising via Amazon. I also interact on IG, and have a dedicated Darkwood Reader Group on FB, as well as author pages in Goodreads, Amazon, and on FB. I like hearing from readers, and they've helped me name a few characters in the books. I just put a fun contest into my latest book, Starcrossed of Darkwood, and linked to my author email so that folks can connect that way if they'd like.
"Marketing is still my weak point. I am taking a class (of course, ha) in FB marketing, as well as Amazon Ads. I have participated and gotten great results from getting my books placed in newsletters such as Fussy Librarian, Book Doggy, and Book Gorilla when I put a book on sale. (Psst, Twins of Darkwood will be on sale for .99 from August 29th-Sept 2nd.)"
Beyond the Darkwoods
And what of her other creative endeavors, including a play she just had produced? "Yes, I still have a hand in playwriting. I have two full-length plays that are being produced in theatres around the country. I love community theatre, and was able to craft a couple of lovely plays that are one-set, easy to produce. One is Death by Design, a funny murder-mystery, a take-off on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. The other is Like Kissing Moonlight; if you see that play, you'll see my heart. It is a heartwarming, funny mash up of a couple of Chekov plays set in modern-day Appalachia featuring a decision point in an extended family. Both plays feature ghosts in them. I like ghosts."
Future plans for our featured author? "I plan on having forty to sixty books written in the next ten years, and to participate in at least two anthologies a year. I will continue to write fantasy, both dark and high, as Stacey Upton Bracey. My pen name, Stacey Christine, will carry the romance side of things, both paranormal and 2nd Chance Romance, Small Town Romance. I do plan to go wide eventually—you know that libraries hold a special place in my heart, that they saved me as a lonely child. I visualize seeing a full shelf of my books in a library on a daily basis when I go for my mental-health walks. Of course, with my film and television background, I also expect to see adaptations of my work in that medium as well. I've already re-written my play Like Kissing Moonlight into screenplay format!"


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UC Hastings Gets Paperless Timesheets – with UCI's Time Reporting System
UC IT BloggerJune 27, 2017All Articles, Feature ArticlesChrista Chen, Shared Services, TRS, UC Hastings, UC Irvine, UCI
By Christa Chen, HR IT Projects Supervisor, Office of Information Technology, UC Irvine. In a tale of shared services done right, UC Hastings College of the Law is the latest to adopt UC Irvine's Time Reporting System (TRS).
The project took root at a meeting in February 2015, organized by UC CIO Tom Andriola, to bring together UC shared services owners so they could discuss the challenges of shared services and decipher the secrets for success.
At the meeting, UC Hastings' then-CIO Jake Hornsby heard about TRS from UCI Assistant CIO Kian Colestock and immediately thought UC Hastings should consider it rather than buying or building its own. Certainly TRS is an affordable option compared to vendor solutions, in part because it already is configured to work within the UC environment.
Controller Deborah Tran said what really sold UC Hastings on TRS were intangible benefits – things like helping employees more accurately account for their time, getting UC Hastings ready for UCPath (a new payroll system) adoption, and being able to train supervisors on work rules.
TRS is a web-based time reporting system that collects employee work hours, gets the supervisor's approval, and uploads work time electronically to the University's Payroll Personnel System (PPS) or to UCPath. My team at UCI, Human Resources IT, managed the conversion, hosts the service for UC Hastings from the AWS cloud platform, and provides ongoing IT support in a software as a service model. Colestock was the project champion, from drawing up the MOU with Hastings to providing the leadership and resources to push the project through to completion.
Currently, six locations use TRS: UCI, UCLA, UCD, UCM, UCOP, and now UC Hastings. At first, we would just give the code to the campus. But we learned that it was hard to help them if there were problems and they had made changes locally. Now we are stressing a standardized code base.
Prior to the successful TRS launch in February 2017, UC Hastings was still using paper timesheets, Tran said. "I have a philosophy of continuous business improvement, and that was one workflow that had to be brought into the 21st century!" She explained that the law school's students and faculty are extremely mobile. "With TRS, they don't have to turn in something based on our office hours of 9:00 to 5:00."
After an initial gap analysis, the project entailed three parts: moving to TRS, moving to a biweekly schedule, and moving to leave management in PPS. We hired a project manager dedicated to the project, and UC Hastings helped cover the costs. A commitment to collaboration really defined the project, and actually three locations participated: UCI, UC Hastings, and UCOP. The team at UCOP really went the extra mile to help build the integration between TRS and UC Hastings' PPS instance, convert Hastings' monthly employees to biweekly payroll, and transition their leave management to PPS.
Andriola, an advocate of the location-led shared services model, said, "My congratulations to the whole team. It is a great example of collaboration between sites for mutual benefit, as well as a more effective way of leveraging IT investments at the University."
Colestock added, "The project blossomed from an informal conversation into a cross UC collaboration that benefits both locations in achieving their local goals while adding new capability to the collective."
At UCI, we are proud to have worked with UC colleagues to achieve something that helps UC Hastings as an organization and has value for individuals too. Tran said, "I think the most positive feedback we've seen is from our student employee population. It's so easy for them to enter their time and submit it. There's a very clear work flow. Students now have more time to focus on studying the law!"
For more information, visit the about TRS at UC Hastings website.
Larry Delaney June 27, 2017 at 4:16 pm
Congrats to UCOP's PPS team of Barbara Vanden Borre, Christopher Scott, Norm Flynn and Kathy Stevens. As stated above "The team at UCOP really went the extra mile to help build the integration between TRS and UC Hastings' PPS instance, convert Hastings' monthly employees to biweekly payroll, and transition their leave management to PPS."
Laura Maiy Lesher July 10, 2017 at 11:55 am
I love hearing about how TRS continues to positively impact so many of our fellow UCs. And, it's no surprise to me that Christa's HR IT team in UCI's OIT was instrumental in bringing UC Hastings' TRS online. Christa has been one of the most knowledgeable and helpful people with whom I've worked in my 10 years here at UCI. Her willingness to share her expertise and insight has proved invaluable to me throughout my time as a TRS Central Time Administrator at UCI.
Additionally, working collaboratively on the TRS UCPath Conversion with so many UC System colleagues from all over California has been a fantastic opportunity to connect, learn, and grow–both professionally and personally. I look forward to seeing what we're able to accomplish as we continue pushing forward together.


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KIBC Chairman Markos Williams congratulates Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Chief of HH the Crown Prince's Diwan
Markos Williams, Chairman of the Kuwait India Business Council yesterday congratulated Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al Ahmad Al Sabah whose appointment as the Chief of His Highness the Crown Prince's Diwan for a four year period was approved by the Kuwait Cabinet on Monday.
Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, a politician and prominent member of Kuwait's ruling family has held various portfolios in Kuwait's Cabinet. He was the Minister of Oil, Minister of Health, Minister of Communication and Minister of Finance. Expressing his happiness over Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al Ahmad Al Sabah's new assignment, Markos Williams said "Sheikh Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah has always been supportive of our endeavours and graced our events personally. Given his wealth of experience we are confident that he would be an asset to His Highness the Crown Prince of Kuwait".
Kuwait India Business Council (KIBC) is a non profit grouping of Kuwaiti and Indian businessmen and professionals with Indian business interests and functions under the patronage of Sheikh Talal Khaled Al Ahmad Al Sabah. KIBC is affiliated to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and EXIM Bank of India.
Hani Alsisi
Proud of you Mr. Markos,
Wish you all the blesses and joyful in your life for you and your kind family.
Sekhar Bonthapuri
Indeed it is a privilege for all Indians to have a person like Markos Williams, who is a Torch Bearer for Indian Community. He projected India''s image in a Unique way. His elite connections in Indian & Kuwait governments were always value adding to the Indian community. He is always welcomed with great honor among the Diplomatic community in Kuwait. I wish him long healthy life and Prosperity.
Dr. Sekhar Bonthapuri
Arch Bishop
Kuwait Evangelical Lutheran Church.


This section contains a list of new features introduced with Druva inSync 5.3.
End-users start backing up on the new storage immediately.
End-users retain their old snapshots on the previous storage.
End-users can restore data from any snapshot, even those that are on the old storage.
With inSync 5.3, you can only create storages optimized for performance. However, disk space saving storages that were created in the earlier releases will be supported.
With inSync 5.3, you can mass-deploy proxy server configuration on inSync clients.
inSync supports HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxy types. After deployment, inSync client can access inSync server through proxy servers with static IP address as well as through proxy servers whose details are published through a PAC file or a WPAD URL. It also supports authentication at the proxy server, either through a single user ID and password or through active directory credentials of a user.
The end-users can configure proxy settings during inSync client activation or from the inSync UI.
The inSync client UI is greatly improved in inSync 5.3.
An always visible action bar that can be used to start backups and restores, pause inSync client, open inSync Share folder, and access inSync Web.
A left navigation panel providing quick access to the Summary, Preferences, and My Account pages.
Tool tips on buttons and links to guide the users.
The Restore button on the action bar now opens the Restore window. In the previous release, it would open the Restore page on inSync Web.
Revamped Mac client interface that is inline with Mac style guidelines.
inSync 5.3 offers administrators the ease of configuring laptop backup content based on the operating system of the user devices. The administrator can configure folders, email client, and settings for a specific OS.
Mandate content to be backed up based on OS.
Prevent other apps from accessing inSync content.
Prevent users from downloading content from inSync server for offline access.
Manually wipe inSync container on the mobile devices.
Choose to back up their device.
Choose the data to be backed up.
Specify schedule and resource settings for their backup.
inSync 5.3 offers the end-users the ease of configuring folders and files for backup. They can now browse their computers folder hierarchy and select the folders and files for backup.
End users can now create folders and upload files directly through inSync Web.
Administrators can mandate end users to password-protect the links that they share with others. If not mandated, the end users can choose to enable password protection for their links.
End users can now collaborate with users outside their organization. The guest users will have access to the folders shared with them through a Web browser, and can upload or modify content in it.
inSync 5.3 offers greater transparency on administrator and end user activities.
As an inSync administrator, you can view granular details of administrator and user activities.
More activities have been added to the user audit trail.
The audit trail retention period is customizable.
The admin audit trail can be downloaded in CSV or HTML format.
inSync 5.3 adds support for the Unity interface used on Ubuntu computers.
inSync 5.3 adds support for Mac OS X Mavericks.
With increased data deduplication, inSync 5.3 saves more space on your storages.
With inSync 5.3, you can restore inSync data to the original location or a custom location on the SD card of your mobile device.
This section contains a list of known issues for Druva inSync 5.3.
Restore of a folder that contains more than 10000 files initiated either from inSync client or from inSync Admin Console fails. During restore, the inSync interface stops responding.
Workaround: Restore from inSync Web.
Storage becomes unhealthy if the location of database folder is changed.
inSync users cannot restore data over WAN.
Workaround: Restore data over LAN.
If the backup/insync port is changed, the new port number is not visible in the activation email that is sent to the users.
Workaround: The inSync administrator must manually edit the template for the activation email to include the modified port number.
Customizations to the Reset Password Email template are not applied.
22455 In the Express Configuration or Advanced Configuration wizards, none of the folders appear selected on the Update Profile page.
Workaround: Select the folders that you want to backup.
Sometimes, the profile details pages are not displayed if a storage is unhealthy. This is a rare occurrence.
22439 Multiple versions are backed up for files with .eml extension stored in the inSync Share folder even if no changes are made to them. The issue is caused by Windows Search Service.
Workaround: Disable Windows Search Service or turn off Windows Indexing on the Windows computers where inSync client is installed.
When you rename or move any folder in inSync Share when it is being synced, an empty folder with the old name is retained in the inSync Share folder.
Workaround: Avoid renaming or moving a folder immediately after creating it in the inSync Share folder.
If user data exceeds the quota defined by the administrator, syncing of inSync Share folder fails. However, on the inSync client, the Share status is displayed as Completed.
French and German versions of Getting started.pdf is not available in the inSync Share folder.
On Windows 8 computers, a Help icon appears on the task bar instead of the inSync client icon. This is only observed after upgrading inSync client to version 5.3.
On OS X Mavericks, overlay icons in inSync Share are not displayed in the list view.
On OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6), overlay icons in inSync Share are not updated.
On Linux and Mac computers, restore for some special files (such as socket and symbolic link) does not complete.
This section contains a list of issues fixed in version 5.3 (patch 1).
On OS X Mavericks, the share options displayed when a user right-clicked on any file or folder inside the inSync Share folders did not work.
On OS X Mavericks, integrated mass deployment of inSync client was not supported.
This section contains a list of issues fixed in version 5.3.
inSync could not restore files with file paths more than 259 characters.
Only contacts on the SIM card were being backed up from Android devices. Contacts synced from Google account were being ignored.
The revision numbers of the installers for inSync 5.3 Professional edition are listed in the following table. The revision number is a part of the installer name. Use the revision number to ensure that you have the correct installer.
If you have an existing installation of inSync Professional edition, you can upgrade to inSync 5.3. Use the revision numbers listed in the table to identify if your current installation can be upgraded to inSync 5.3.