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Q: Standalone Grub2 EFI installation - grub.cfg placement? I'm trying to use Grub2 as the boot manager on an EFI system in standalone mode. (The only persistent harddisk has OS X on it; Linux and Windows drives may or may not be present at times, hence the standalone mode.)
I'm using SuperGrub2Disk, which is one EFI executable, and as I understand it Grub2's executable in this mode has an embedded disk image that it mounts for its root partition, with a copy of its own config file inside.
I'd like to override or amend this config file with an external grub.cfg. I've tried placing it next to the grub EFI executable or in the root of the ESP partition, but it's not being recognized. I've also tried to load it from a grub command line by the following command:
configfile (hd3,gpt1)/grub.cfg

This seems to have no effect other than clearing the screen - even though the config file is there as confirmed by ls.
Could anyone tell me if there's a way to use an external config file with an EFI standalone blob?

A: GRUB 2 binaries include hard-coded references to their configuration files. I haven't really been keeping track of all the gory details, but as I understand it, there are two EFI GRUB 2 binaries for Ubuntu on AMD64/x86-64 systems:

*

*grub2-efi-amd64 -- This is the version of GRUB 2 that's used on computers that do not use Secure Boot. As I understand it, the binary itself is linked on your computer from pre-compiled components included in the package. The resulting binary refers to a grub.cfg file on your Linux installation's /boot/grub directory. Thus, you can't use the grubx64.efi binary installed from this package on one computer on another one, because the binary is customized for the computer on which it was created.

*grub2-efi-amd64-signed -- This version of GRUB 2 is compiled and linked on a Canonical system so that it can be signed with a Secure Boot key. One side effect of the requirement that the binary be signed is that it cannot be customized for your system, and as a result, this version of grubx64.efi looks in the same directory as the binary for grub.cfg. On an Ubuntu system, this grub.cfg file searches for /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but in principle it could be customized to do something else.

Thus, in your case you can't use the unsigned GRUB 2 binary; if you want to use a stock Ubuntu GRUB 2 binary, you must use the signed one. Alternatively, you could build your own binary, as described here, among other places.
In your case, though, I don't think GRUB 2 is really optimal. Both rEFIt (which is now abandoned) and my fork of it, rEFInd, feature dynamic scanning for available boot loaders. Thus, if you install rEFIt or rEFInd to your internal disk's EFI System Partition (ESP) and put the boot loaders for your OSes on their respective removable media, rEFIt/rEFInd will provide you with options to boot those OSes if and only if the appropriate disk is plugged in. This behavior, however, will depend on proper management of your boot loaders, placing each one on the ESP of its respective disk; if your boot loaders are all stored on your internal disk's ESP, rEFIt/rEFInd will show non-functional OS options at all times, just like GRUB 2 would. In either case, using rEFIt or rEFInd will obviate the need to delve into the morass of manual GRUB 2 configuration.

A: I would expect that a grub.cfg placed in the same directory is read and executed by a GRUB UEFI image with both of them usually being stored on the ESP, but I don't know that much about Mac setups. (On another note the embedded configuration has very limited functionality.)
May be creating the GRUB image yourself without an embedded configuration brings you one step further to a solution, these posts might help:

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*2.1. Creating the binary and 2.2. Creating the configuration file in How to create UEFI-only bootable USB live media?

*Add a (boot) partition for Macs

A: A standalone GRUB 2 UEFI application can be created, containing an isolated GRUB 2 installation that reads a configuration file in the same directory as the application binary.
This process is described in the Arch Linux wiki, but can be done on any distrubution (as long as paths are adjusted accordingly).


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Q: How to bind two different controls to two different data sources in a single datagrid cell dynamically I have a datagrid which i am populating from sql query which has some Fee columns of bool values which shows status of fee (paid/unpaid). I want each cell of that column to display a label and a  button, label will show the amount of fee(which i have in a separate table in sql) and button will show the status if paid or unpaid based on the bool value.
I have changed the template of that fee column dynamically by detecting the bool column by using the following code which i found online, also used a value converter to change the value from bool to string for (paid/unpaid)  and got the button i wanted, but for the label i am stuck cause i don't know how to set the binding of label for the desired result.
        public class MyDataGridTemplateColumn : DataGridTemplateColumn
    {
        public string ColumnName
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        protected override FrameworkElement GenerateElement(DataGridCell cell, object dataItem)
        {
            // The DataGridTemplateColumn uses ContentPresenter with your DataTemplate.
            ContentPresenter cp = (ContentPresenter)base.GenerateElement(cell, dataItem);
            // Reset the Binding to the specific column. The default binding is to the DataRowView.
            BindingOperations.SetBinding(cp, ContentPresenter.ContentProperty, new Binding(this.ColumnName));
            return cp;
        }
    }

    private void dataGrid_AutoGeneratingColumn(object sender, DataGridAutoGeneratingColumnEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.PropertyType == typeof(bool))
        {
            MyDataGridTemplateColumn col = new MyDataGridTemplateColumn();
            col.ColumnName = e.PropertyName;  // so it knows from which column to get MyData
            col.CellTemplate = (DataTemplate)FindResource("newTemplate");
            e.Column = col;
            e.Column.Header = e.PropertyName;
        }
    }

I have achieved this till now

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Q: Making a 3D cylinder out of a polygon I have a polygon which I would like to convert to a cylindrical 3D object for an illustration:
x <- structure(list(x = c(7.99, 6.25, -1.77, -1.8, -0.48, 3.93, 7.99
), y = c(2.84, 2.31, 2.43, 2.98, 3.19, 3.26, 2.84)), row.names = c(NA,
7L), class = "data.frame")

plot(x$x, x$y, type = "n")
polygon(x$x, x$y, col = "blue")
points(x$x, x$y)

I cannot get my head around how to add z-axis with values 2 and 5 for example:
library(rgl)
lines3d(x = rep(x$x, 2), y = rep(x$y, 2), z = rep(c(2, 5), each = nrow(x)))

I would like to make the faces colored and connected. Something like the cylinders on Wikipedia illustrations, but naturally not round ends, but those polygons instead. tringles3d or polygon3d functions are probably what I should use if I used the rgl package, but I don't understand how to restructure my data.frame. I do not need to do this in rgl. That was just the R package which seemed most feasible for this task. How should I reorganize my data to plot the 3D cylinder?

A: You need to use extrude3d to create an "extrusion" of your polygon.
For example, with x as defined in the question,
x[-1,] %>%
  extrude3d(thickness = 3, material = list(col = rainbow(14)),
            meshColor = "faces") %>%
  translate3d(x = 0, y = 0, z = 2) %>%
  shade3d()

produces this image (after some manual rotation):

It uses x[-1,], because you repeated the first vertex at the end:  it wants unique vertices.
The coloring is kind of funny:  to draw the hexagons on each end, rgl draws 4 triangles, and each is treated as a separate face for the purpose of coloring.  If you want solid colors there, remember that the ends are drawn first:  so use something like
material = list(col = rainbow(8)[c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2:8)])

instead.
The other funny argument to extrude3d is thickness:  the polyhedron is drawn between z=0 and z=thickness.  Since you wanted z from 2 to 5, the thickness is 3, and the result needs to be translated up 2 units in z.
There's also cylinder3d, which is used for generating tubular structures, but extrude3d is simpler to use if you only want your polygon to show up in two places at right angles to the sides.


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Board index Fallen Flags Penn Central
Penn Central Intercity Passenger Service
Discussion relating to the Penn Central, up until its 1976 inclusion in Conrail. Visit the Penn Central Railroad Historical Society for more information.
Moderator: JJMDiMunno
Location: The cornyards of No.Cent. Indiana
Re: Penn Central Intercity Passenger Service
Post by Mitch » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:51 am
One great memory of mine on The Penn Central was when my brother and I took an evening train from GCT to Poughkeepsie.
At the time, the summer of 1975, I was a conductor on The MIlwaukee Road. My brother was attending The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) not to be confused with The Food and Beverage Institue (FBI.) The CIA was located in Poughkeepsie and I was staying with him up there. We had finished up the day in Manhattan by visiting Grand Uniform Company in GCT where I had my usual fitting of my newest uniform. At this time I was serving as the Chicago rep of Grand Uniform and I had become a friend of the company's owner who knew absolutely everybody in train service on the East Coast. The owner escorted my brother and I down to the track where the next Poughkeepsie train was departing and introduced us to the crew where upon my Milwaukee pass was politley honored, and we swapped funny railroad stories for a moment. We were seated in the rear car, an old NYC stainless through coach of Pullman extraction.
Somewhere around Ossining the coach caught fire. Smoke came billowing up from the floor followed by flames. We swung into action. My brother helped move the passengers, who seemed to take this in stride, up to the next coach. I went to the vestibule and did the only thing I could. I gave 2 on the signal, and then pulled the air. The locomotive fireman came back with an extinguisher. We threw sand and dirt on the offending flames. I was scared silly of the third rail. I figured I'd get sent back to flag. We all help each other ya know.
The fire was struck out 40 minutes later. We crawled to Harmon and cut the coach off. everything went back to normal.
As for crotchety old trainmen on the Penn Central. That was prevelant on a lot of railroads at the time. If some of today's flight attendants wore blue serge uniforms and a square cap and carried a punch and a lantern, you'd have a trainman of the old days. Passengers can play havoc on one's emotions.
The attitude came from many things. One of them was years and years of working as long as 16 hours, 7 days a week. After the time it took to hold a regular passenger run this took its toll. In a lot of cases just when a guy with 38 years rights could hold a regular passenger run, it would be discontinued and back to the box cars he went. This was frustrating. Next in line was the dispair of working trains that one knew the company hated to operate. Everything was broken, and the company was broke. Remember these guys hired out in the late '30s and early '40s when bad behavior on a passenger train was a fireing offense. They didn't start out by being mean. Working for a railroad is tough to begin with and one learns bad behavior from some of the older heads as they abused the new hires.
So when they hired out good passenger trains were newly streamined, clean, and respected by the public. Your job on a railroad was one of honor. As time went on everything slowly went to hell. Combine this with a total lack of sleep and you have the recipe for some really crappy remarks made to passengers.
One of my fellow brakeman/conductors on The MIlwaukee had an uncle that was a PC conductor on the Michigan Central division. The uncle worked Chicago-Detroit passenger jobs and my co-worker went with him one day and helped him collect tickets. A passenger stopped the guy's uncle and complained,"Uh sir? This car is too hot." The uncle turned to my friend and whispered, "Hot? I'll show her hot," and proceeded to the electrical locker and shut the air conditioning off. About 15 minutes later the conductor turned the air back on and approached the passenger, who was feeling cool air come from the vents. She replied, "Oh, that's much better."
In defense of Lines West PC trainmen I have to say I knew a number of them as we shared accomodations with them at Chicago Union Station. I don't think there was a mean one in the bunch. I rode Amtrak 40 and 41 with a number of them on my trips east. One in particular, and the only one I'll name was Harold Parr out of Fort Wayne. He was a perfect gentleman in manner and dress, and conducted himself as if the train was his personal property, and the passengers were his guests. He gave me wise counsel when I needed to be re-directed as a young passenger man. I learned a lot from him and he was a roll model for many of us.
Sisko24
Location: Westchester County, New York
Post by Sisko24 » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:53 pm
My few times on Penn Central were so awful that I was worshipful that Amtrak came along. I had my first taste of long-distance intercity passenger trains on the New York Central's Ohio State Limited when I was seven. By the time Penn Central came along, I was convinced passenger rail service could never be bad. As I was still in grade school, I still had alot to learn. Firstly, the Penn Central route was along the Pennsy's mainline, not the Central's more scenic route. That wouldn't have mattered much but, as the PC cars had no air conditioning, no air circulation unless someone opened the front and rear doors AND that we traveled through New Jersey's industrial chemical/farmland waste corridor, we were nearly asphyxiated by the fumes/scents that wafted like something banned by the Geneva Convention from the passing countryside...well you get the picture. Their cars had dirty floors, dirty seats and dirty windows. I don't remember anything about the toilets except that I was afraid to go near them. I did try once, but the fear of being sloshed by whatever was spawning in the bowl was too great for me to use the facility.
I never did ride Penn Central's Empire Service which is just as well. The Ohio State Lilmited was a great train and I have many fond memories of her: my first omelette and therefore my first dining car meal, my first view of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, my first view of the Great Lakes (Ontario and Erie) and being addressed as "sir" (and me not being in trouble when I was so addressed) as well as the first view of my eventual college town (Syracuse). I'm glad my memories of that route don't include Penn Central's incompetent and hostile service.
Penn Central's intercity passenger service, like their New York City area commuter service, will be to my memory as Freddy was to Elm Street.
LI Loco
Post by LI Loco » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:25 pm
the first view of my eventual college town (Syracuse).
Let's go Orange!
I was at the 'Cuse 71-75 and have lots of memories of riding (and photographing) Empire Service trains during that era. I even rode the original Amtrak Lake Shore Limited five days before it was annulled in January 1972.
Last edited by LI Loco on Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:56 am, edited 1 time in total.
Post by Sisko24 » Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:18 am
LI Loco wrote:
I was at the 'Cuse 71-75 and have lots of memories of riding (and photographing) Empire Service trains during that era. I even ride the original Amtrak Lake Shore Limited five days before it was annulled in January 1972.
I was on "The Hill" from 73-77. Did we ever meet? I didn't do much photographing back then and now I wish I had photos of the E-L crossing the Onondaga Valley on the trestle which was viewable from Brockway. Still, I did get to ride Amtrak to and from SU. So there's that.
Yes, let's go Orange!
Post by LI Loco » Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:57 am
Sisko24 wrote:
Send me you name by private message, Sisko.
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Post by Dieter » Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:33 pm
How many of you recall the peeling and decaying floor tile, wondering if a hole would appear or one might fall through the flooring?
I remember being in an old New Haven coach and I started getting wet on my leg during a stormy day. Instinctively, I looked to the ceiling to see if water was running out of the vent, or if it was just condensation dripping down, since the air and dehumidification systems hadn't worked in years.
Looking next to the side, there was a rusty hole, if I angled myself just so, daylight was visible through the hole, I was getting slowly soaked by wind-whipped rain.
Just another ride on the Penn Central......
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Post by Sisko24 » Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:28 pm
Dieter wrote: How many of you recall the peeling and decaying floor tile, wondering if a hole would appear or one might fall through the flooring?
Yuck! What fond memories of the "copulating worms" we have!
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
Post by Noel Weaver » Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:25 pm
I did a lot of riding on Penn Central from 1969 to the start of Amtrak and it was a "mixed bag". Some trips were great, on
time and comfortable all the way and some trips were terrible. The best trains with the exception of the new "Metroliners"
were probably the Empire Service trains between New York and Buffalo. Perlman with the New York Central wanted most of
the long haul trains off, they were losing their shirts on these trains and he made a promise to New York State that he would
operate a corridor type service between New York, Albany and west to Buffalo. The New York Central overhauled a fleet of
coaches with new interiors and seating, good AC and lighting and above all, everything clean and well maintained. This
standard continued into the Penn Central era with these trains many notches above just about everything else.
There were lots of places where passengers trains ran up till day one of Amtrak where they simply do not today.
On the former PRR side especially off the NEC the trains generally were not as good, not as clean nor as well maintained, AC
was a hit or miss affair and the trips generally were not as pleasant.
Penn Central had a lot of problems over their few years, many caused by poor management but others caused by the lack of
support for both through and suburban/commuter passenger trains. When the authorities finally woke up and decided to
help out, the services were improved.
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Post by walt » Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:08 am
I suspect that, from the hind sight of more than 40 years, given the extremely bad hand the PC was dealt from the beginning, including the problems that each of its component railroads came into the merger with, coupled with the fast deteriorating state of intercity passenger rail service in the US, among many factors, the PC probably did as well as it could under the circumstances----- which isn't saying very much. Which is simply to say that the PC was doomed before it was born.
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delvyrails
Post by delvyrails » Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:41 pm
Perlman's promises for Empire Corridor Service--hourly service all day in both directions as far as Albany and every two hours likewise to Buffalo--did not exactly succeed. It has gradually evolved into an extended New York City commuter service. As originally run, same-day returns with west-end destinations are no longer possible.
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Post by wdburt1 » Thu May 07, 2009 6:28 pm
Noel, I respect your experience and your comments, but they are not backed up by many of the comments on this forum. My own lousy experiences between Buffalo and GCT, detailed on Page 1 of the thread, were on an Empire Service train (hostile trainmen, too hot or too cold, holes in the coach floor emanating steam, flooded bathrooms, etc.) in 1971. I have to say that Perlman's commitment to quality service on this route, which I would like to believe was made in good faith, was undercut by bankruptcy and all that followed.
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Post by Noel Weaver » Thu May 07, 2009 7:28 pm
wdburt1 wrote: Noel, I respect your experience and your comments, but they are not backed up by many of the comments on this forum. My own lousy experiences between Buffalo and GCT, detailed on Page 1 of the thread, were on an Empire Service train (hostile trainmen, too hot or too cold, holes in the coach floor emanating steam, flooded bathrooms, etc.) in 1971. I have to say that Perlman's commitment to quality service on this route, which I would like to believe was made in good faith, was undercut by bankruptcy and all that followed.
Whatever, BUT I rode these trains quite often during the period between 1969 and Amtrak day in 1971 and a lot after that
too and I never encountered the stuff you mention here.
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Post by Nacho66 » Fri May 08, 2009 1:21 am
Just wanted to say, "Thanks" to all who have posted here.
I had no idea this thread would last 5 years when I started it.
You all have given me a teriffic and anecdotal description of Pre-Amtrak train service.
I STILL want to know what service was like in a drawing-room compartment on the Broadway Limited in say, 1970 though...
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Post by John Laubenheimer » Fri May 08, 2009 8:02 pm
Been there ... By this time, the IMPERIAL series 4-4-2 sleepers were showing their age. Air conditioning was a "sometimes" thing in the summer months.
I rode westbound in August 1968 & 1969; eastbound in September 1968, 1969 & 1970. As my memory serves .....
In 1968, I was in a roomette in a riveted ACF RAPIDS-series 10-6 (both ways) originally built for through service to Texas. These cars should have been retired years earlier. Dining car service was good; food mediocre at best. Both ways, the train was about 45-50 minutes late. The train still carried a minimum of 6 sleepers; my westbound had 12, due to the presence of a few tour groups. (Made for a long wait for the diner.)
In 1969 westbound, I was in a bedroom suite in the PS HARBOR-series 5 bedroom-buffet lounge car. A nice car attendant, who would stop by the room with the hors d'oeuvres offered to the passengers in the lounge. Train was 2:45 late. Eastbound was in a drawing room on an ACF IMPERIAL-series 4-4-2. I don't remember much about this trip; although the train was about an hour late. 5 sleepers each way. (Connected to the CZ; from the CITY of LA/SF.)
In 1970, westbound was in a sleepercoach on the ghost of the old CENTURY. I don't recall much. The train was 20 minutes late. Eastbound on the BROADWAY was in a drawing room on another ACF IMPERIAL-series 4-4-2. A/C only when in motion. Service still OK, but deteriorating; food disappointing. (Connected to/from SUPER CHIEF on this trip, which probably explains the disappointments with PC.) BROADWAY about 55 minutes late. Operating crews were grumpy.
After the summer of 1970, the BROADWAY's sleeper complement was reduced to a 6 DBR lounge (usually a FALL-series car, sometimes a STREAM-series car), and a couple of 10-6s (whatever could roll, but usually stainless steel). The twin diners were replaced by ex-NYC cars. By the time I rode again, AMTRAK had taken over.
Post by walt » Fri May 08, 2009 8:30 pm
Penn Central's quality of service ( or lack thereof) was essentially whatever level existed on the PRR, the NYC or the NH at the time of the merger. If the service on a particular train, or in a particular area was acceptable, it probably stayed that way through the PC's short existence. If it had deteriorated by the end of the PRR - NYC- NH days, it certainly didn't improve any during the life of the PC.
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Finally, a study of 804 65 to 94 year old people found that the most important factor in their being able to perform activities of daily living was the curvature of their thoracic, lumbar and pelvic spines. That is, if these curves were normal in their forward and backward angulations, these 65 to 94 year olds were set to continue doing their activities of daily living. (4) Our Toronto patients can do the same.
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Laura Mackay wins Frank Fenner Prize in PM Prize for Science
Associate Professor Laura Mackay, a laboratory head at the Doherty Institute has received the Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year at the 2019 Prime Minister's Prize for Science.
Associate Professor Mackay has driven a paradigm shift in the way scientists think about memory T cell responses, finding that memory T cells in tissues of the body are critical in providing a frontline defence against infection.
Her hope is that her research transforms the future of patient care with respect to infections such as malaria and influenza, as well as cancers including melanoma and breast cancer.
"This award is a huge celebration of the science that's taken place in Melbourne and Australia for several years now," she said.
"It's a huge honour to have my team recognised. Science is a team sport. It's not just my work, but the work of my team, and my mentors, collaborators and people I've worked with over so many years. It's really great to shine a spotlight on our breakthroughs."
Associate Professor Mackay works of a type of white blood cell called T cells, and specifically T cells that exist within tissues of the body.
Because these T cells are at the front line, they are where infections first enter, and what we found is that it's these tissue T cells that re more protective against infection and cancerous tumours.
"Immunological research has transformed patient care. Therapies are being improved all the time and my hope for the future is that our research will have translated into better outcomes and better treatments for patients suffering from a range of diseases such as malaria, influence and cancer," Associate Professor Mackay said.
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"it's important to have diversity in science, because it's discovery-based and a creative process. For that we need a diversity of ideas to think of new ways to solve problems. The issue of women in science is not just about gender equality, it's about keeping that diversity."
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So said President Obama in this week's State of the Union speech. The billionaire in question was Warren Buffett, and his secretary, Debbie Bosanek, sat with Michelle Obama as the president delivered his remarks.
More than common sense, the notion that Bosanek - presumably earning more modest secretarial wages - pays more than a man earning millions is outrageous. Outrageous if true, that is. But Buffett says in 2010 he paid $6.9 million in federal taxes. It's a safe bet Bosanek paid far, far less.
Obama's statement, an attention grabber, was a piece of rhetorical overreach. Elsewhere, the president made clear his concern was tax rates, not tax amounts. Ordinary incomes (such as salaries) are taxed from 10 percent to as high as 35 percent (for amounts in excess of $388,350). But taxes on capital gains (the likely source of Buffet's income) are usually around 15 percent.
Is that as bad as Obama makes it out to be?
Since we haven't seen Bosanek and Buffett's returns, it's not even clear she paid a higher rate of taxes than her boss. An analysis prepared by the Tax Policy Center, a think tank, pointed out that the top 20 percent of income earners pay, on average, 25.5 percent of their incomes to the feds (including income and payroll taxes). Those in the middle bracket average 14 percent. In other words, if Bosanek indeed had paid a higher rate, she would be the exception, not the rule.
Note to Obama speechwriters: 25 is bigger than 14.
At the heart of Obama's disgruntlement is that the government taxes capital gains at a lower rate than ordinary income. Even the rich get treated differently. A professional hockey player making $10 million a year would find most of his income taxed at 35 percent. An investor making the same amount would pay just 15 percent. Rather than shunning a visit to the White House, perhaps Tim Thomas should be protesting outside Mitt Romney's home in Belmont.
Those who support lower rates for capital gains argue that those gains are derived from corporate profits, which are themselves already subject to corporate income taxes. The lower rate, they say, is an offset for what amounts to double taxation. More importantly - and this was an argument voiced frequently by Republicans and Democrats such as the late Paul Tsongas - the lower tax rate encourages people to make risky investments, which in turn spur the growth of the economy.
In other words, the rationale for the lower rate is to get people to change their behavior in ways politicians think desirable. That's the same rationale that underlies all of the other deductions, exclusions, credits and the like that one finds in the tax code.
In fact, most of these loopholes don't accomplish much; there is, for instance, little evidence lower capital gains rates have spurred more investment (an argument Buffett himself makes). But more broadly, tax policy should be "neutral'' – it shouldn't try to distinguish between differing kinds of economic activity, favoring some over others. That should be the job of a free market, not politicians.
But the tax code is anything but neutral. All of the varying exceptions we have built into it have made it horrendously complex and, inevitably, create bizarre loopholes (such as hedge fund managers being able to treat ordinary income as capital gains). It is also the reason Americans collectively spend an estimated 6.1 billion hours yearly preparing their tax returns, a fruitless drag on the economy.
It would have been terrific if the point of Obama's claim about billionaires and secretaries had been that the code should be simplified, eliminating loopholes and treating all income the same. Far from it though. In his speech, the president proposed even more loopholes: breaks for companies than shun overseas operations, increased deductions for high-tech manufacturers, a bigger tuition tax credit, and new clean-energy tax credits.
Doubtless, all worthy goals. But their effect ultimately will be to increase further the difference in the amount of taxes some pay versus others. Obama is right. Taxes should be fairer. But by larding the tax code with even more complexity, all he'll be doing is making it worse than ever.
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The fact that I am alive and standing here in your presence to celebrate this great day of jubilee with you is, to my mind, a symbol of the fellowship we share by virtue of being "confreres" (literally, "brothers with" Christ and with one another") in this world-wide missionary order founded some 280 years ago. And I stand here to express my gratitude to God for Life, for our Redemptorist vocation, and for fellowship we share as brothers in Christ and sons of St. Alphonsus.
When you think about it, GRATITUDE is what this jubilee celebration is all about. We gather together each year as Redemptorist priests and religious to give thanks to God with our confreres, family, and friends for the wonderful way he has worked in our lives …. We give thanks to God for our Redemptorist vocation, which has allowed us as priests and brothers to live the charism of preaching the Good News to the poor and most abandoned throughout the world.
We look back on all that they have done in the past 25, 40, 50, 60, 65, 70 years … and recognize that in the end it has all been a work of God, and that they have been the ones he has chosen to be instruments of his grace and heralds of his Word.
Our Gospel, from Matthew, reminds us that Jesus is the master and head of our household, and that, because of him, we have nothing to fear. This FEARLESSNESS is one of the marks of a true Redemptorist. It is what enables us to take on great challenges and not count the cost. It is what enables us to take risks in ministry and to try to do great things for the Lord, even when it simply means, like our beloved St. John Neumann, doing simple, ordinary things in an extraordinary way. It is what enables us to be true disciples, men willing to follow in the footsteps of Jesus in the spirit of St. Alphonsus and a host of other Redemptorists who have gone before us. It is what enables us to embrace the crosses life brings us with open and willing hearts. It is what enables us to face the challenges of life and of death with courage. It is what enables us to persevere—and to do so with an open spirit and, yes, with a deep sense of gratitude to God for our vocations, our Redemptorist family, and the people we serve.


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Madore A, Yousif H, Rosenberg J, Desmond C, Weintraub R. Political Leadership in South Africa: HIV. Harvard Business Publishing. 2015.Abstract
Download GHD-033 South Africa HIV
This case describes the rapid scale-up of South Africa's national HIV/AIDS response from 2009 until 2015. After providing background on apartheid, the impact of HIV/AIDS denialism, and an overview of the health system in South Africa, the case follows Minster of Health Aaron Motsoaledi's leadership of the national department of health's HIV/AIDS program. The response included four key components: a countrywide counseling and testing campaign, capacity building to increase access to treatment, an overhaul of the ARV bidding and procurement processes, and promotion of voluntary male medical circumcision. The case highlights how Motsoaledi and his team leveraged expertise and resources from domestic and international organizations to support ambitious testing and treatment goals. It focuses on Motsoaledi's communication strategies and the factors that influenced his planning and implementation decisions. The case ends with Motsoaledi considering how to advance the national HIV/AIDS program amid larger health system issues, including overcrowding and limited monitoring capacity.
Promotion of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV (source: Global Health Delivery Project case writers)
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate how politics can shape the trajectory of an epidemic; the importance of leveraging existing resources to scale services in a public health system; the challenges of transitioning from an emergency response to a sustainable public program; and the competing interests of a vertical intervention program and the complex health system within which it operates.
Keywords: Political leadership, data and health policy, counseling and testing, adherence, advocacy, HIV treatment, health care delivery, cross-sector collaboration, vertical programs, value creation, drug procurement, civil society, strategy
Wachter K, Talbot JR, Weintraub R. Partners In Health in Neno District, Malawi. Harvard Business Publishing. 2013.Abstract
Download GHD-029 PIH in Malawi
Set in Neno District, Malawi from 2007–2012, the case focuses on the economic impact of investing in health care infrastructure. It examines management decisions that leaders of Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU) and its founding organization—Partners In Health (PIH)—made as they supported the Government of Malawi in building a hospital and scaling up the delivery of APZU clinical and social programs across Neno district. The case highlights how a non-governmental organization can navigate the politics and local culture to improve Malawi's health care system in close partnership with a strong, protocol-driven government. The case begins with Ophelia Dahl, co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health, reflecting on her December 2011 trip to Neno, nearly four years after her first visit. She observed signs of progress unrelated to health—bank branches had opened in town, a new road had been built, and the market had expanded dramatically. Ultimately, the case explores what this demonstrates about the value of her organization's investments in health.
In the foreground: One-story original structures of Neno Rural Hospital used for outpatient and maternity services. In back: Two-story building constructed by APZU and partners used for inpatient wards, meetings, computer use, laboratory work, and government offices. Source: Keri Wachter, 2012.
Learning Objectives: To understand the challenges of hiring and retaining local and expat staff, the complexity of an international NGO partnering with the government to improve health care, how leadership acumen and approaches impact scaling up and sustaining health care delivery, the relationship between the district hospital and the local economy, and how to assess impact beyond health measures.
Keywords: Global health, social equality, project management, business and government relations, partnerships, strategy, economic development, health care policy, health care delivery, public health, human resource management, developing countries, innovation
Talbot JR, Cole C, May M, Weintraub R. Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Harvard Business Publishing. 2012.Abstract
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This case traces the development of the voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) campaign in Nyanza Province, Kenya as it transformed from the subject of a randomized clinical trial into national policy. After providing some background on the cultural, political, and scientific context surrounding male circumcision, the case traces the PEPFAR-funded implementers' advances in delivering male circumcision in Nyanza. It examines the various delivery models used in Nyanza and the evolution of the relationship between implementers as well as on the development of the national strategic plan for VMMC released in 2009. The case ends with the implementers having come together successfully for two rapid, aggressive, 30-day implementation campaigns and the head of Kenya's National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme wrestling with how to make such campaigns sustainable and what lessons from the campaign to pass on to the national program.
(A) Group counseling on male circumcision; (B) mobile circumcision counseling site; and (C) circumcision being conducted in tented delivery site. Source: Nyanza Reproductive Health Society.
Learning Objectives: To understand how a randomized controlled trial may be translated into a large-scale public health program; how a surgical campaign was designed and implemented for rapid impact; the role of national and international collaboration in large-scale health delivery; and the ethical tradeoffs that arise in large-scale public health programs.
Supporting Content: There is a shorter version of this case titled Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya (Condensed Version).
Keywords: Project management, AIDS, policy, supply and demand, partnerships, strategy, innovation
Arnquist S, Ellner A, Weintraub R. HIV/AIDS in Brazil: Delivering Prevention in a Decentralized Health System. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-018 HlV/AIDS in Brazil
This case describes the Brazilian National AIDS Program's strategy in the late 2000s to prevent HIV infections. The case is set against the context of a heterogeneous, concentrated epidemic and decentralized public health system that guaranteed access to care and treatment. The case traces the nation's response to HIV from the late 1980s through 2009 via a human rights framework, highlighting the cooperation with civil society. Readers are challenged to understand the relationships between HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, decentralization and sustainability.
Decentralization Policy M&E Indicators. Source: National Department of STD, AIDS and Viral Hepatitis. (Exhibit 14 from "HIV/AIDS in Brazil: Delivering Prevention in a Decentralized Health System" case.)
Learning Objectives: Students should understand the tradeoffs involved in a decentralized governance structure, the levers a central government department can pull to influence local health care delivery in a decentralized health system, and how civil society advocacy contributes to program sustainability.
Keywords: Human rights, HIV prevention, Sustainability, Role of civil society, Strategy
Arnquist S, Weintraub R. HIV/AIDS in Indonesia: Building a Coordinated National Response. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-021 HIV in Indonesia
This case documents Indonesia's progress in developing a coordinated national HIV/AIDS response. Within the context of a new democratic government, a weak civil society sector, a newly decentralized and underfunded public health system, and a religiously conservative environment, the case describes how international donors financed and directed HIV/AIDS-related efforts for the first 15 years of the epidemic. In 2006 the National AIDS Commission (NAC) was restructured and awarded funding from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID). The case documents how DFID's flexible financing enabled the NAC to develop a single national strategy, a national monitoring and evaluation framework, and a system of local AIDS commissions. The case ends in 2009 with the NAC preparing to assume a new role as one of three Principal Recipients of the Global Fund to Fight, AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The NAC leadership must contemplate how to sustain and further the progress made in scaling up HIV prevention services while taking on new responsibilities as a Global Fund Principal Recipient.
Map of Indonesia Showing HIV Program Implementers, 2005. Source: Indonesia National AIDS Commission. (Exhibit 1 "HIV/AIDS in Indonesia: Building a Coordinated National Response" case.)
Learning Objectives: To understand the impact of external financing, donor-driven agendas, and a national champion in creating a multisectoral response to HIV in a religiously conservative, lower middle-income country.
Keywords: National strategy, sustainability, HIV prevention, flexible donor financing
Charumilind S, Jain SH, Rhatigan J. HIV in Thailand: The 100% Condom Program. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-001 HIV in Thailand Condom Campaign
Thailand's 100% Condom Program, which was implemented nationwide in 1991, is widely credited with averting a generalized HIV epidemic in that nation. This case traces the development and implementation of Thailand's 100% Condom Program including its conception, the development of a pilot program in one province, and the program's early regional expansion. It frames these events within the country's general political, economic, and health situation; the epidemiology and public perception of HIV/AIDS; the government's early HIV policy; and the economics of the commercial sex industry. The case explores how public health interventions are designed, refined, and spread. The case ends in early 1991 with the program's founder trying to find ways to spread the successful regional program nationwide.
Sex establishments in Patpong Area, including go-go bars and members clubs. Source: "HIV in Thailand: The 100% Condom Program" case.
Learning Objectives: To understand the principles behind the design of disease prevention programs and to examine how successful programs align incentives among various stakeholders to achieve their objectives.
Supporting Content: This case has a supplementary summary of history and next steps, titled The 100% Condom Program: Part B.
Talbot JR, Bohrer M, Rhatigan J. Iran's Triangular Clinic. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-006 Iran's Triangular Clinic
This case traces the development and implementation of Iran's Triangular Clinic, an innovative health care delivery program, from its beginning as a site for counseling HIV-infected individuals to an integrated facility offering comprehensive HIV, sexually transmitted disease (STD), and drug addiction treatment, care, and support. The case examines the need for such services among the marginalized population that the first clinic served within the historical, political, economic, and health context of Iran and, specifically, in Kermanshah province, where the project begins. The case raises the question of how the clinic model might be integrated into primary health care and replicated throughout the country as part of the Iranian Ministry of Health's Integrated Health Program.
Triangular clinic model. Source: World Health Organization and Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Best Practice in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care for Drug Abusers: The Triangular Clinic in Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran 2004, WHO: Cairo.
Learning Objectives: To examine how health care delivery organizations can configure their services to deliver high value health care to the populations they serve and to understand methods to engage marginalized populations in order to increase their access to and demand for health services.
Supporting Content: The sequel to this case is titled Scaling up Iran's Triangular Clinic.
Sullivan E, Drobac P, Thompson K, Rodriguez W. Botswana's Program in Preventing Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-007 Botswana's Program for Preventing Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
This case traces the development of Botswana's prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) program, from its inception as a pilot program in 1999 through its national expansion in 2002 and its struggle to improve outcomes and integrate with broader maternal and child care services through 2008. After providing some background on Botswana, its demographics and health situation, including HIV/AIDS and that national response, the case provides an overview of PMTCT—a critical challenge in global health—and describes the inception of the PMTCT program in Botswana. Readers see the challenges the program faced upon the initial scale-up and explore the key efforts and advances in process and policy that help the country overcome them and become a well known PMTCT success story. The case ends with the program wrestling with a relatively small group of women and their infants who fell through the cracks in the program and several holes in the health system that are preventing the program from eradicating infant HIV completely and tracking its progress.
PMTCT Programme vehicle. Credit: Erin Sullivan.
Learning Objectives: To understand the role of a robust strategy, including experimentation, adoption, process improvement, and policy in global health implementation and national scale-up strategies.
Keywords: Health care policy, Horizontal programming, HIV prevention, Translation of research into practice
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CMRL Recruitment: Chennai Metro Rail Limited has issued recruitment for 08 vacant seats, they have to fill these seats for the post of Site Engineer. The organization has arranged recruitment drive through which the organizations have to select the deserving candidates. Last date to apply online is 03 February 2018.
Candidates who want to apply they must have done their education in Graduation in Civil Engineering or its equivalent from recognized University.
Candidates age should be less or equal to 30 years as on 01-01-2018. Age relaxation for the recruitment will be applicable only for PWD/OBC/SC/ ST categories candidates, which is as per Governments rule.
The selection process will be done through Interview and Medical Examination.
The application fee will not be applicable to this post.
Candidate will get salary INR Rs. 40,000/- Per month after getting selected for that recruitment.
They have to visit on the official website and click on appropriate link.
Read all the instructions carefully, download the application form.
Complete the application form and attach relevant documents if necessary.
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Nicolás Kicker (ur. 16 sierpnia 1992 w Merlo) – argentyński tenisista.

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Zawodowym tenisistą Kicker jest od 2009 roku.

W grze pojedynczej wygrał 3 turnieje rangi ATP Challenger Tour.

W rankingu gry pojedynczej najwyżej był na 78. miejscu (12 czerwca 2017), a w klasyfikacji gry podwójnej na 215. pozycji (9 maja 2016).

W 2018 roku został zdyskwalifikowany na trzy lata za złamanie przepisów antykorupcyjnych.

Zwycięstwa w turniejach ATP Challenger Tour w grze pojedynczej

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Full Name Alex Burrows
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Date of Birth 11 Apr, 2019
Alexandre "Alex" Ménard-Burrows was born on 11th April 1981. He is a professional Canadian hockey player who plays for the Ottawa senators of the National Hockey League, as a left winger.
His Achievements:-
Bagged a gold medal at the 2003 World Championships, held in Switzerland
Won a gold medal at the 2005 World Championships, held in the United States of America
Won the ISBHF International Player of the Year award, in 2005
Awarded the Fred J. Hume Award, in the year 2008
Won the Most Exciting Player Award three times in 2008, 2009 and 2010 playing for the Vancouver Canucks
Inducted into the Canadian Ball Hockey Hall of Fame in the year 2010
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Mayer Brown wins Silver Award for "Legal Advisor of the Year" at P3 Bulletin's P3 Awards 2017
Mayer Brown won the Silver Award in the "Legal Advisor of the Year" category of the P3 Awards 2017, an awards series hosted by P3 Bulletin that recognizes outstanding achievements in public-private partnerships (P3s) across the Americas. This is the second consecutive year the firm was recognized in the "Legal Advisor of the Year" category.
In addition, Mayer Brown represented the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority and the Puerto Rico Ports Authority on an approximately $2.6 billion, 40-year lease agreement with Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC to privatize Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, which was named "Best Operational Project of the Year."
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Tennessee, which until recently was rural, egalitarian, and lacking in concentrated wealth, never has been a center of art patronage or production. The first generation of pioneers lacked both time and money for art, and there is hardly any documentation…
Calvert, Ebenezer and Peter Ross
Brothers Ebenezer and Peter Ross Calvert were successful photographers and painters in Nashville at the turn of the century. Both were born in Yorkshire, England, near Leeds, and studied art there before arriving in Nashville in the 1870s. The Calvert…
Cameron, James
James Cameron, portrait and landscape painter, was born in Grennock, Scotland. He came to Philadelphia with his family about 1833. When he was twenty-two, he moved to Indianapolis to become a portraitist, but he was back in Philadelphia by 1847.…
Dodge, John Wood
John Wood Dodge, portraitist and photographer, was born in New York City, the son of a goldsmith and watchmaker and his Canadian-born wife. Dodge was apprenticed to a sign painter, under whom he began to copy, then paint, original miniatures.…
Earl, Ralph E. W.
Ralph E. W. Earl, portraitist, was the son of Connecticut painter Ralph Earl (1751-1801) and his second wife, Anne Whiteside of Norwich, England. Born in England, Earl studied under his father in Northhampton, Massachusetts, before traveling to London in 1809…
Handly, Avery
Painter and portraitist Avery Handly was born in Nashville and graduated from Wallace University School and Vanderbilt University, where he majored in English and was influenced by the Fugitives. His first art instruction, at age twelve, was from Miss Emma…
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Born near Guntown, Itawamba County, Mississippi, Cornelius H. Hankins was the sixth of eight children of Reverend Edward Locke Hankins and Annie Mary McFadden Hankins. He contracted smallpox after his mother cared for Confederate soldiers. As a result, he was…
Newman, Robert Loftin
Prominent nineteenth-century portraitist and figurative painter Robert L. Newman was born in Richmond, Virginia, the second child and only son of Robert L. Newman and Sarah J. Matthews. Newman's father died when he was young, and the family moved to…
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Portraitist Samuel M. Shaver was born in Sullivan County, the son of David Shaver and Catherine (Barringer) Shaver. He may have been influenced by William Harrison Scarborough (1812-1871), a native-born Tennessee artist, four years Shaver's senior, who did portraits of…


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Q: C# EF6 index attribute not working I'm trying to combine two fields into a unique index with EF6. But the update-database command won't add the 'Owner' field into the index. I'm thinking it's because it's not a primitive type but a FK, but I'm unsure how to fix it.
public class Fund
{
    [Key]
    public int FundId { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [Index("IX_FundNameAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order = 1)]
    [Index("IX_FundIdentifierAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order=1)]
    public ApplicationUser Owner { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [Index("IX_FundNameAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order=2)]
    [MaxLength(25)]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [Index("IX_FundIdentifierAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order=2)]
    [MaxLength(25)]
    public string Identifier { get; set; }

    public double Balance { get; set; }
}

Generated indexes:

CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_FundIdentifierAndOwner]
      ON [dbo].[Funds]([Identifier] ASC);
CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_FundNameAndOwner]
      ON [dbo].[Funds]([Name] ASC);
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_Owner_Id]
      ON [dbo].[Funds]([Owner_Id] ASC);

Any help is greatly appreciated!

A: When you create a navigation property (reference to another table) you should specify the column name to use as foreign key. If you don't do that EF assumes it is a column named Objectname_Id.
You can see in the sql code that it called your column [Owner_Id]. The problem is that when you do it this way you have no control on the data annotations for that column.
Try this
public class Fund
{
    [Key]
    public int FundId { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [Index("IX_FundNameAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order = 1)]
    [Index("IX_FundIdentifierAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order = 1)]
    public int OwnerId { get; set; } // <---- ADD THIS!

    public virtual ApplicationUser Owner { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [Index("IX_FundNameAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order = 2)]
    [MaxLength(25)]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [Index("IX_FundIdentifierAndOwner", IsUnique = true, Order = 2)]
    [MaxLength(25)]
    public string Identifier { get; set; }

    public double Balance { get; set; }
}

Adding a column named ObjectId (or Objec_Id) EF understands by convention that the column is for the property Owner.
This is the script generated by the migration:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Funds] (
    [FundId] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY,
    [OwnerId] [int] NOT NULL,
    [Name] [nvarchar](25) NOT NULL,
    [Identifier] [nvarchar](25) NOT NULL,
    [Balance] [float] NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT [PK_dbo.Funds] PRIMARY KEY ([FundId])
)
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX [IX_FundIdentifierAndOwner] ON [dbo].[Funds]([OwnerId], [Identifier])
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX [IX_FundNameAndOwner] ON [dbo].[Funds]([OwnerId], [Name])

Here is an explanation of the default Code First Conventions.


I first started wild swimming in 2016. It began as just a seed. I visited the shores of Llyn Idwal (Snowdonia) and then Derwentwater (The Lake District) during the cold winter of 2016, and I wondered what it would be like to dip a toe in the silky waters. From there I researched and read books and discovered a whole new world of wonders. Not only do David and I go on walks, but we walk towards bodies of water where I ultimately get to swim. Derwentwater was my first swim, and below you will find a list of all my recent adventures. Enjoy!
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An Introduction to Wild Swimming.
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Use of social networking websites has rapidly increased over the last decade. Online social environments are quickly changing to meet the demands of younger users however the needs of senior adults are often ignored on most websites today and underrepresented in many Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) studies. The study sought to close the gap in research by providing greater knowledge about the behavioral intention and use behavior of social networking websites among senior adults. Senior adults from several locations and organizations were asked to complete an online self-administered survey answering questions that tie directly into the research hypotheses for the study and the UTAUT model to identify specific factors that influence behavioral intention and use behavior of social networking websites. Implications of the study include a better understanding and discovery of the unique needs and requirements for seniors in relation to social networking websites. Results of the study provided some important findings as the original hypotheses initially thought that the gender had a moderating effect on each performance expectancy, effort expectancy, or social influence as they each relate to a senior adult's behavioral intention to use social networking sites. However, conclusions were drawn from the data indicating that in all three instances, a significant correlation consistently did not exist among gender and performance expectancy, effort expectancy, or social influence respectively. In each instance, evidence for the moderating effect of gender was unable to be supported in stark contrast to what was previously thought at the onset of the study. It was further concluded that a senior adult's perceived performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and social influence were all found to be predictors of the senior's behavioral intention toward using a social networking website. Finally, a senior adult's perception of facilitating conditions and their actual behavioral intention to use a social networking website were found to be predictors of the senior's use behavior for a social networking website.


We just want to say that Morgan and Anna went to JUILLIARD and Tom and Christopher went to YALE and Megan went to HARVARD and Lucy and Zack went to BROWN. Everyone else's education is meaningless since it's not Ivy League. Regardless, if you feel compelled, click on the company member's picture for a bio.


It's important for leaders to remember that bringing in more money doesn't always mean longer hours or bigger marketing campaigns. When businesses are trying to determine the best way to get better revenue, delivering an enhanced sales coaching message can help drive the right kind of performance to reach that goal. Whether emotional or financial, companies need to find ways of motivating staff and making it easier for them to complete the sale.
Sometimes getting a better response from consumers simply requires basic changes to how personnel approach a sale or interact with people. Boston Online wrote that sales coaching staff could learn a lot from Girl Scout cookie sales. One Massachusetts girl was able to sell 3,100 boxes of treats in only four months, crediting her consistent cheerful demeanor and routine sales pitch as the key to convincing more people to buy from her.
"I said 'five for 20' and that won over a lot of people," Samantha Dorgan, the high-selling Girl Scout, told the source.
Companies can encourage a similar approach to their staff in order to gain like results from corporate clientele. Improving demeanor and projecting a more personable facade will allow employees and customers to engage and connect with one another more easily. Adding a compelling sales pitch to the mix can also help ensure that consumers never walk away empty handed.
If basic sales coaching alone doesn't get the right kind of revenue results, Call Center Helper recommends using incentive compensation tools. Instead of just handing out money, though, the source stated that experiences and benefits are more popular tools for getting better performance out of personnel. On top of free health and wellness resources, companies can try offering travel to corporate events or remote working options to help top producers feel like they're being given specific privileges.
What's more, the source stated that many of these more modern incentive management tools actually provide companies with returns on their investments. Remote workforce, corporate travel and wellness opportunities all help businesses cut costs in terms of facility upkeep, training and employee health. Other programs specifically teach staff how to reach consumers more effectively while cutting costs for their employers, with the winner receiving a special vacation. These tools help staff members perform better and bring in more sales revenue while also providing the business with an additional benefit.


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President Trump abused power to benefit his re-election in 2020: House intel panel report on impeachment
According to House Intelligence Committee leading impeachment inquiry against Trump, the Republican president placed personal political interests "above the national interests of the United States"
President Donald Trump (Photo courtesy: Twitter)
Published: 4 Dec 2019, 5:52 PM
President Donald Trump abused powers of his office and endangered US national security by soliciting the interference of a foreign government to benefit his re-election in 2020, the Opposition Democrats have alleged and said there was "overwhelming evidence" to impeach him.
According to the House Intelligence Committee leading the impeachment inquiry against Trump, the Republican president placed personal political interests "above the national interests of the United States" by trying to "solicit foreign interference" from Ukraine to help his 2020 re-election bid.
"The evidence is clear that President Trump used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine into announcing investigations into his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and a debunked conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election," said chairs of the three House Committees after the release of a damning report on Tuesday.
Released by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 'The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report' was written by the staff of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Reform and Foreign Affairs Committees.
In a joint statement, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B Maloney and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel alleged that the evidence is clear that Trump conditioned official acts on the public announcement of these investigations: a coveted White House visit and critical US military assistance Ukraine needed to fight its Russian adversary.
The White House immediately dismissed the report and slammed the House Democrats for their bid to remove 73-year-old Trump from office.
"At the end of a one-sided sham process, Chairman Schiff and the Democrats utterly failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump," White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said.
"This report reflects nothing more than their frustrations. Chairman Schiff's report reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing," Grisham said.
But the three top lawmakers alleged that evidence is clear that after his scheme to secure foreign help in his re-election was uncovered, President Trump engaged in categorical and unprecedented obstruction in order to cover-up his misconduct.
"These matters are not seriously contested. To the contrary, they make it plain that President Trump abused the power of his office for personal and political gain, at the expense of our national security," they alleged.
"The President's actions have damaged our national security, undermined the integrity of the next election, and violated his oath of office. They have also challenged the very core of our Constitutional system of checks and balances, separation of powers, and rule of law," the joint statement said.
Now it will be up to the Congress to determine whether these acts rise to the level of an impeachable offense, whether the President shall be held to account, and whether the United States is committed to the rule of law — or, instead, whether a President who uses the power of his office to coerce foreign interference in a US election is something that Americans must simply "get over", they said.
The intelligence committee voted 13 to 9, along party lines, on Tuesday to approve the report and send it to the House Judiciary Committee which will begin proceedings on Wednesday and consider formal impeachment charges against Trump.
According to the executive summary of the report impeachment inquiry into Trump, "uncovered a months-long effort" by him "to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference" on his behalf in the 2020 election.
Trump's scheme subverted US foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined US national security in favour of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign, the report alleges.
"The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political rival that he apparently feared the most, former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election," it said.
"To compel the Ukrainian President to do his political bidding, President Trump conditioned two official acts on the public announcement of the investigations: a coveted White House visit and critical US military assistance Ukraine needed to fight its Russian adversary," the report said.
Trump has described the impeachment proceedings as a hoax.
The report alleges that Trump ordered the suspension of USD 391 million in vital military assistance urgently needed by Ukraine, a strategic partner, to resist Russian aggression.
"Because the aid was appropriated by Congress, on a bipartisan basis, and signed into law by the President, its expenditure was required by law. Acting directly and through his subordinates within the US government, the President withheld from Ukraine this military assistance without any legitimate foreign policy, national security, or anti-corruption justification," it said.
"The President did so despite the longstanding bipartisan support of Congress, uniform support across federal departments and agencies for the provision to Ukraine of the military assistance, and his obligations under the Impoundment Control Act," it alleged.
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NHL All-Stars stage record shootout
John Tavares of the Islanders matched a record with four goals, and he wasn't the MVP.
NHL All-Stars stage record shootout John Tavares of the Islanders matched a record with four goals, and he wasn't the MVP. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1C4bYgU
Associated Press Published 10:39 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2015 | Updated 10:40 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2015
Ryan Getzlaf (15) of the Anaheim Ducks and Team Toews shoots against Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens and Team Foligno in the first period during Sunday's NHL All-Star Game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.(Photo: Kirk Irwin / Getty Images)
Columbus, Ohio — It was enough to give a goalie nightmares: A record 29 goals, 25 players with at least two points and eight with at least four.
In addition to the high-profile superstars who didn't make it to Ohio's capital city for the NHL All-Star game, defense also took a holiday.
John Tavares of the Islanders matched a record with four goals, and Team Toews beat Team Foligno 17-12 on Sunday night in the highest-scoring NHL All-Star Game.
"We had so many good players on each team," said Flyers forward Jake Voracek, who tied another record with six points. "There's going to be a lot of goals."
How much offense was there? Tavares wasn't even the MVP, although that might have been due to a little home-cooking. Ryan Johansen of the host Blue Jackets had two goals and two assists for the losing side and was selected as the MVP in voting by fans on Twitter.
Tavares was as gracious about the balloting as he was good on the ice.
"I didn't come to the game trying to get the car," said Tavares, referring to the prize given to the MVP.
"You get four goals, and obviously you think you have an opportunity. But Ryan had a good game. He had a couple of nice goals, made some nice plays."
Johansen, a budding star for the Blue Jackets, was touched by the smiles of the fans he encountered all week.
"It's meant a lot, being a part of it — seeing the fans and how much they've been enjoying all the festivities," he said. "We did a two-hour (autograph) signing. Everybody just seemed to be having a great time. All the kids were laughing and having a lot of fun."
The players, at least those on offense, had a lot of fun once the game started. The wild, no-defense exhibition even featured a fake fight to go with goals in bunches.
It was the most goals in the event's 60-year history, eclipsing the 26-goal burst in North America's 14-12 victory over the World in 2001.
Tavares' four goals gave him a share of the All-Star record that was established by Wayne Gretzky in 1983, and equaled by Mario Lemieux (1990), Vincent Damphousse (1991), Mike Gartner (1993) and Dany Heatley (2003).
Voracek's six points tied another mark set by Pittsburgh legend Lemieux.
Captain Jonathan Toews of the Blackhawks had a goal and four assists, as did Boston's Patrice Bergeron. Dallas' Tyler Seguin had two goals and two assists.