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The Wheel of Time Episode 8: Release Time For Finale Revealed
Season 1 of The Wheel of Time is coming to an end with the release of Episode 8 this week, and here's everything you need to know about the finale's release schedule.
The Wheel of Time is one of the biggest projects of Amazon Prime for 2021. Based on Robert Jordan's fantasy novels, The Wheel of Time grabbed the attention of millions of viewers by the magical lore, diverse characters, and jaw-dropping visuals.
The last week's episode of The Wheel of Time was, without a doubt, one of the best episodes so far. We finally have an idea about who the Dragon Reborn could be, and now, everyone is eager to see how things would move forward in the final episode.
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Amazon Prime will update the library with Episode 8 of The Wheel of Time at 12 AM GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) on December 24th. So, in some regions, fans will get the episode on December 23rd, thanks to the time difference.
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Central Timing: 6 PM CST (December 23rd)
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British Timing: 12 AM GMT (December 24th)
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Q: How can I find the equation for the position vector of a particle at time t? Question: At time $t = 0$, a particle is located at the point (I, 2, 3). It travels in a straight line to the point (4, 1,4), has speed 2 at (I, 2, 3) and constant acceleration $3i - j + k$. Find an equation for the position vector $r(t)$ of the particle at time $t$.
The solution says to find the velocity vector by integrating the acceleration vector. When I do this, I get
$\vec{v}=3t\vec{i}-t\vec{j}+t\vec{k}+C$
The solution also says the the vector of the particle path is $<3,-1,1>$ since it's just $<4-1,1-2,4-3>$. I understand this part as well.
I'm confused about this part:
The solution says that since the speed is 2, this means $|\vec{v}|=2$ and
$\frac{\vec{v}}{|\vec{v}|}=\frac{<3,-1,1>}{\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}}$
The velocity is a product of direction and speed so
$\vec{v}=|\vec{v}|*\frac{\vec{v}}{|\vec{v}|}=2*\frac{<3,-1,1>}{\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}}$
I don't understand why I'm using
$|\vec{v}|=2$ and $|\vec{v}|=\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}$

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The solution also says the the vector of the particle path is $<3,-1,1>$
The solution says that since the speed is 2, this means $|\vec{v}|=2$ and $\frac{\vec{v}}{|\vec{v}|}=\frac{<3,-1,1>}{\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}}.$
The velocity is a product of direction and speed so $\vec{v}=|\vec{v}|*\frac{\vec{v}}{|\vec{v}|}=2*\frac{<3,-1,1>}{\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}}$

The above is totally correct. Your confusion

I don't understand why I'm using $|\vec{v}|=\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}$

stems from

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*thinking that \begin{gather}\frac{\vec{v}}{|\vec{v}|}=\frac{<3,-1,1>}{\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}}\tag{*}\\\iff \vec{v}=<3,-1,1>,\end{gather}

*and conflating path vector and velocity vector.
The given path/direction vector $<3,-1,1>$ (let's call it $\vec{h})$ is unique up to a positive scalar multiple: after all, $<9,-3,3>$  and $<12,-4,4>$ too can be considered the particle's path vector. Each of these path vectors has the same unit vector equalling that of the velocity vector $\vec{v};$ equation $(*)$ is stating this relationship between $\vec{v}$ and $\vec{h}.$
To be clear: $$\\\frac{<3,-1,1>}{\sqrt{3^2+(-1)^2+1^2}}=\frac{\vec{v}}{|\vec{v}|}=\frac{<12,-4,4>}{\sqrt{12^2+(-4)^2+4^2}}.$$

A: You seem to be using the notation $|\overrightarrow{v}|$ in two different ways, which is confusing.
The direction of motion is $\left(\begin{matrix}3\\-1\\1\end{matrix}\right)$, and the unit vector in this direction is $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{11}}\left(\begin{matrix}3\\-1\\1\end{matrix}\right).$$So at the point $(1,2,3)$, when the magnitude of the velocity (i.e. the speed) is $2$, the velocity of the particle is $$\frac{2}{\sqrt{11}}\left(\begin{matrix}3\\-1\\1\end{matrix}\right).$$
I hope this helps.

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Q: how to hide text in an html textbox i am having a simple html text box what i want just as the user type something in it the text should be invisible but the text should be there
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A: Mac,
What you're doing is kind-of impossible to accomplish using straightforward means. When you use the code you've included in the question, you're actually removing the visibility of the entire box, not just the text content.
Some ideas:

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*Make the textcolor the same as the background color.

*Use the onKeyPress event, after every keystroke take the value from this box, and append it into a hidden textbox you've got elsewhere on the page (or a javascript variable.

Combining these should be pretty effective in what you're tryin to do.
More important is the question: Why would you want to do this? Could you elaborate on what it is you're trying to accomplish here?
Edit: I see you're doing this for passwords. In that case, why not use the <input type="password"> field? That way the browser know it's a password field and hides the input automatically (using the standard dots, or stars).

A: instead of setting visibility="hidden" try display="none"
Edit: didn't noticed it's about passwords - in this case you should use type=password for the input element.

A: It looks like you're trying to make a homebrew password field? It would be much simpler to just use <input type="password" ...> instead.

A: For a Password protected field please just use the "password" type.
<input type="password" size="25" />

A: Just give color property as trasparent to the element i.e. to the Input in your case.


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Last night we ended what was, at least to me, an extraordinary journey through John's first letter. The disciple Jesus loved showed us, as we have seen so many times before in the Bible, that there are only two ways to live. As one ancient writer put it: "There are two Ways, one of Life and one of Death, and there is a great difference between the two Ways." The Didache The way of life, John tells us, is to love Jesus and to obey His commands. Rebellion, on the other hand, leads to death. And, the one who rebels does not love God, but loves the world instead.
John ends his epistle with a single sentence that seemingly stands alone: "Dear children, keep yourselves from idols." 1 John 5:21. At first glance, this last sentence may seem out of place, or even out of left field. It is a warning that seemingly comes from nowhere -- completely disassociated with the text that precedes it.
On closer inspection, however, it is a warning that makes perfect sense. In fact, whatever its significance in the first century, it is a warning of incalculable magnitude in the world of today -- and particularly in the so-called Christian world.
"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."
I have heard it said that idolatry simply means putting anything before God. I am not quite sure where this idea comes from. Perhaps some think of the First Commandment admonition "You shall have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:3) as meaning that we can love the things of this world, as long as we love God more.
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[d] is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever."
My second objection is more practical. And, that is that I do not think it possible, once we open the door to loving things of this world, to honestly and accurately discern when our loves of things eclipses our love for God. The heart is, after all, above all things deceitful. Jeremiah 17:9.
We are really good at convincing ourselves that we put God first in our lives, but it is usually a lie. Worse, the only ones we fool with our never ending efforts to convince ourselves that that God is supreme in our lives is ourselves. You know the idols in your lives. I do not need to tell you about them.
As I was thinking about this, the Lord brought me to chapters 5, 6 and 7 of Joshua. Joshua was at long last instructed to lead the people into the Promised Land. It was a new generation -- the old had died in the desert. This new generation saw God part the Jordan -- just as their forefathers had seen the God part the Red Sea. They saw God bring down the walls of Jericho. They saw the manna stop falling from heaven, and they were able to eat from the land for the first time.
Despite all of this, one of their number, Achan, denied God the one thing he had demanded -- obedience. God would deliver Jericho into their hands, but Jericho and all that was in it was to be devoted to the Lord. Joshua 6:15-19. Despite all he had seen God do -- despite all he knew about God's power -- the shiny things found in Jericho were too much of a temptation for Achan. And, Achan took some of that which was to be devoted to God for himself. For a robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold many Israelites died -- including Achan and all of his family. Joshua 7:24-26. What an incredible price to pay for taking a few shiny things!!
Interestingly, after the sad story of Achan's seduction by the shiny things, God sent Joshua and the fighting men to conquer king Ai. But this time, God allowed the Israelites to keep the plunder and the livestock for themselves. Joshua 8:1-2.
If only Achan had been patient. If only he had not succumbed to the temptation of those shiny things -- those idols. God, as it turned out, had something waiting that was better. And, he does for us too. Indeed, that is why we are to keep ourselves from idols, and instead store up for ourselves treasures in heaven.
What are we supposed to devote to God in these last days? Only our very lives. We are to offer ourselves as living sacrifices. See 1 Corinthians 12:1-2. Because of idols the wrath of God is coming. But because of grace, something even better than the shiny things of this earth awaits for those who put their trust in Jesus.
Oh, and one more thing. If you are still wondering what idols you have in your life, let me suggest a good place to look -- a mirror.
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I'm excited about the conversation, because I know there are a lot of QuickBooks consultants who are listening to the podcast today and they're thinking, "Okay. How can I take that next step and how can I emerge from wherever I am today?" – if it's a sole proprietor to working with a couple of employees to building out an organization like yours where they can be winning sales awards issued by Intuit and they can be among the most influential people within the profession. So, let's talk about your journey a little bit.
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That was my first step. I had to prove to myself that I had enough, that they could pay for themselves. That's always been important to me. Every time I've added, there's always going to be a little dip because there's that training, but they need to be able in a certain amount of time to pay for themselves and be a value added to the team.
My growth over – I've been in business 17 years now - my growth has gone from myself in my spare bedroom to a 4,000-square foot office with 13 of us. I wait until we're at about 120% capacity and then it's like, "Okay. Now it's time to add somebody else because we have that to move over." I do stretch the limits a little bit, which, Joe, you and I will probably disagree with, but I do stretch the limits a little bit to make sure that I'm ready for that next step and not putting an undue burden on the staff. Then, I feel personal responsibility; I don't want to bring somebody in and then two months later go, "I don't have enough work, so I got to let you go."
Joe: I want to drill down on what you meant by that, because there was a little bit of an inside reference to a long-term conversation we've been having related to the E-Myth. What Robin is saying - and I think a lot of people listening would agree with this - and I actually agree with you more than I like to admit whenever we're arguing about it - but Robin's saying that before I bring on a new person, I want to make sure that I have compression. I have a compression of client need. I am going to push my own consulting schedule a little harder and then I'm going to hire that person as a pressure valve for myself.
That's actually a very smart strategy because it means that, from the time you hire the person to the time where they start generating profits for you, it shortens that curve. It also, like Robin just said, reduces the risk of a premature hire, and then having to give someone the disappointing news that, "Yeah, we just brought you on board, but looks like we don't have the work to sustain you."
Now, the downside of that – and Robin this is the ongoing conversation we have, and I think you've picked the lesser of two evils here – but the downside of that is, when you're in one of these seasons where you're building up that pressure, that compression, you don't have as much attention to focus on your business as you've increased the involvement in your business.
But it's cyclical anyway, right? As soon as you've hired somebody and you've got that pressure valve released now, you can go back to your business plan and you can shore things up and do a little bit of that strategic work. Correct?
Robin: Joe, you are absolutely right. You and I have had the long conversation about the E-Myth. We've probably had it for about 10, 15 years. Contrary to what that says, you've always said, "You're doing the E-Myth busted." I'm putting it on its end. I'm actually, as much as I hate to admit it, saying a little bit that you're right and that I really do need to step back and work on my business more instead of in it. As I've had some of this growth and now I'm up to 13 employees, I've had conversations and I'm working on things; now I need to take the position that I am the coach and not the player.
I need to take myself out of that player role and I have a long struggle with that. I need to be that player so that I can be in touch with the issues that are going on with QuickBooks, how best to consult, how best to train my staff, and how best to do that, but if I'm too far down in the weeds, then I can't do the direction of the company. Even today, 17 years in, I have that internal struggle of, what's the right time? What's the right balance to do that? I teeter totter back and forth on that, but I am taking a more aggressive role in becoming that full-time coach and not part-time coach, part-time player.
Joe: That's exactly what I think everybody listening needs to do if they're going to ever create scale. I have a business mentor, he's also my CPA. Before I ever hired my first person, as I was sitting across from him at breakfast, swearing that I never would hire my first person - this was long before I launched an events organization, this was when our entire business model was QuickBooks consulting - he said, "Well, Joe, you got a choice in life. You can either earn money or you can accumulate wealth."
By accumulate wealth, he didn't just mean how capitalistic are you or how big of a house do you want to have. What he was getting at is, do you want to earn money trading hours for dollars, however you slice that up, so that if you're working, you're making money and if you're not working, you're not making money. And you do that all the way to the day you die or retire – for me that's going to be the same thing. Or, do you want to build an organization that's bigger than you, that's scaled beyond your efforts, greater than the sum of your parts, and is something someone might want to buy one day? You have an asset.
When I understood the power of that distinction - build a sellable asset, be greater than the sum of your parts… It has financial implications and it has visionary implications.
Robin, you are absolutely passionate about the transformation of small business, which you know is Woodard's core vision. You're transforming many more small businesses with an organization of your size than you ever could have could have done by yourself. Both financially and in terms of the fulfillment of your passion, building something is almost always better for everybody listening today.
Now, you've got a phrase, Robin, that says, where you describe "eating your own dog food", and I know that that phrase is used often in the business world but can you explain what you mean by it for the ProAdvisor and the Intuit reseller?
Robin: I can, Joe, but I want to go back really quick because I want to hit on one more point if you don't mind.
Robin: I want to go back and I do want to give you a compliment and say that you were indirectly responsible for me doing my transition going from player to coach, and let me explain that just a little bit.
I believe it was two years ago, one of your speakers that you had at the conference, in which I taught every session, so I was absolutely tired. I went to the last session where somebody else was speaking, and it was about predictable success. I was so tired, I could barely keep my eyes open, but I was listening and that session woke me up like you wouldn't believe. I went back. I read his book. I went to a session on predictable success because that's what we want. We success, not just for us but for our customers, and I want it to be the same. I want people to have the experience whether it's with me or with my staff, with my team.
That's what I always struggled with. If I add people, are they going to get the same level of skill, same level of competency that they're getting with my team as they are with me? That predictable success, I believe, gave us that.
This kind of goes with the first question, how do you know it's time to hire that first person? One of the first exercises he had us do was to do an organizational chart. Not people that work for you in a box that they're in, but design your org chart of how you want it to be. Then, put the people who are doing those jobs in that org chart. Joe, how many boxes do you think that Robin was in?
Joe: By the way, this Les McKeown, the author of Predictable Success. I went to the same workshop Robin went to, which is why I brought him in as a speaker at the show. You'd be excited to know, Robin, that he's going to be back in June in Orlando at Scaling New Heights 2017.
Joe: When I did this same exercise, I was in somewhere between 10 and 15 boxes.
Robin: I was in nine boxes, and so it was very eye opening. I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to be in nine boxes.
Joe: Exactly right. Maybe in an organization the size of yours and mine - and even though our business models are a little different, I think organizationally we're about matched - maybe you're in two or three.
Right now, I'm in CEO, CMO, and COO. There are no C-level executives in my corporation but me; I have executive directors. Yes, that makes sense. Back then I was in all sorts of boxes, all spread across the entire of the org chart and in the entire of the reporting structure, and no wonder I was exhausted and no wonder I was holding the organization back.
Robin: Correct and that's what I was. Ultimately to answer your first question, how do you know? Do your org chart. If you're doing everything, then it's time to hire that next person. If you want a day off, it's time to hire that next person. There are several factors that generally are staring us straight in the face that we tend to ignore for long periods of time.
Joe: You're absolutely right. Let's go to that comment now. You have a very unique application for the "eating your own dog food" colloquialism that applies to the ProAdvisor, QuickBooks consultant, technology consultant. Tell me about it.
Robin: Yes. I'm a firm believer in, as you call it, "eating your own dog food." Some people like to say "sipping their own champagne." We're trusted advisors, so I don't want to recommend something to a client that I don't intimately know. If I'm going to go out and I'm going to say, "Oh, you need to go in and do TSheets, and it's the best thing since sliced bread and it's going to do this," but I've never opened the product, I don't use it, I've never tried it out on my staff, I've never tried it out and made sure that it works and how it integrates in and if I don't know the ins and the outs, if I don't know where it's imperfections are.
I need to know those things so that I can consult better on it, so I can consult around the imperfections if there are any, and so I know that it's the best product for their business. Obviously, there are thousands of products that now connect with QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online and you can't know all of them, but you have to be able to train in the ones that you do know and let that be your niche. Let that be the ones that you're guiding your customers to.
Otherwise, you're just going to be referring things out because you've heard that name or you saw it at a conference. If you want to refer something out, make sure that you use it. Make sure that you know it. Make sure that you're true to that and you're doing that product justice and you're doing your clients justice.
Joe: I like that. I like that a lot. That's what you're practicing on your side and I know QuickBase, which I know Intuit just divested, but QuickBase is your niche in terms of technology. Tell us a little bit about how QuickBase differentiated your practice and how you're eating your own dog food with that product.
Robin: Sure. QuickBase is an online data base, so you can build anything you need out of it. We started using it as a CRM. I tried to use QuickBooks and use the custom fields to say what version people were on and use it as a glorified CRM. Well, it's an accounting system that has some CRM functionality, but it's not a CRM. I took it to its limits and then I said, "I have to find something else." At that time, I was at an Intuit conference and they happen to have someone that said, "We have a QuickBase engineer and you can ask them anything you want. You can have a free hour with them."
For people that know me well enough, I'm like, "Sign me up." I sat and I talked to the engineer. They said, "What do you want to know?" I said, "I don't know anything. So, tell me what you have." I sat down with them and it was something that I could make into whatever I could dream.
I track everything about my clients, everything I've done with them, everything I want to do with them, everything from when our time sheets from TSheets go into there, they go into QuickBooks. I know how much time I've spent on them, billable, non-billable. I know all of my opportunities. I know what version people are on. I know everything about them, so I can use it for my technicians, to service the clients and they know what they need to do next. All the way to my sales staff, can look at them to see what products they have.
We know what constant contacts to send out.
We know what marketing to send to them. We know if they are sunset in their version of QuickBooks. Everything that we need to know about them. When we call them, we can go, "Oh. You have a payroll question. I see you're on version X; that's outdated and that's not going to work." I didn't have to log in. I didn't have to see what it is. I already knew everything about them and what their problem was before I even talk to them.
Joe: Guys, I hope you really get what Robin is saying here. I know some of you are listening to this as you're driving down the interstate, so just process the concept, and know what she's done in QuickBase is super sophisticated. It's because Robin has numerous people that are supporting hundreds of clients at any given time; it's a massive organization. The action item I want to give you from Robin's comment is – Yes, eventually, the more sophistication, the better, as long as it's manageable for the size of your organization. Wherever you start, start now to document the essential information about your clients in the areas where you support your clients.
Because Robin knows when their product is about to sunset for the QuickBooks desktop products, she can reach out to them ahead of that sunset period and help them to not have any interruptions in their payroll services, for example, because the product became sunset.
Through that pro-action, she's not only better servicing her clients, but she's also turning the brush fires that we experience when our clients call us hours before the payroll submission deadline, and say, "I can't process payroll," into a now measured task load and getting ahead of the deadlines. The client isn't panicked, her people aren't panicked, and she's making a lot more money.
If the client gets panicked and they cannot push their payroll, they might call Intuit, wait on hold for however long they might have to wait on hold because they don't have the ProAdvisor support we have, and barely make the deadline or miss it. Then, Robin's completely cut out of the mix and the client is not best served. Even if it's an Excel Spreadsheet, folks, do something to get the process going to track the data and the more you can build that into something like a fully formed CRM, the better.
Now, Robin, we could talk about the way you run your practice all day and I know we could do it all day, because you formed your strategies into a set of courses that you've taught at Scaling New Heights in the past. Rather than continuing this, because our time is limited, can you tell us a little bit about the kind of courses you've taught at Scaling New Heights? We know you're coming back in June. Tell us about Consult-a-Thon. Tell us about the operational consulting courses.
Robin: Sure. I think I've talked since the first year or maybe the second year at Scaling New Height and I look forward to it every year. It's a great teaching experience for me.
One of my favorite classes is moving from a sole proprietor to a mid-market, navigating in the Intuit universe.
I call it the Big Blue Ocean. I go through the steps that I went through that we talked a little bit about today, going through and hiring your first person, how to talk to Intuit personnel, and what they need to know. At Scaling New Heights, Joe, you bring us so many Intuit people, and we want to tell each and every one of them everything that we know about every Intuit product.
That's not good for them and it's not good for us. One of the parts of that session that I go through is how to efficiently talk to an Intuit personnel to get done what you need to get done. I bring an example in there of what I did that resulted in changes in the product because I brought the problem to the right person and I saw changes. And that Intuit person routinely checks in with me to see because of the way that we documented everything and gave it to them. That's one of the things that we did.
One of my other favorite classes is… we did a Consult-a-Thon. It was nine sessions long. We went through everything from building a team to getting a pitch from a client, finding out what their needs are, what questions to ask back, looking at third party products, how to integrate that in, and then how to turn it back around to do the sales pitch back to the client to get that sale at the end.
We went from A to Z and taught them everything they needed to know.
Joe: This experience was highly interactive, Robin. The teams even competed, and there was a winner who had serviced the hypothetical theoretical client the best over the course of the Consult-a-Thon.
Now, folks, I know that that was just a brief fly-by of it, but if this sort of a highly interactive workshop that trains you on everything Robin's been talking about on today's podcast is interesting to you, I need you to let us know. Training is all about supply and demand like any other product that you provide to a consumer. We need to know that you want this, and we'll offer it again. If you're interested in Consult-a-Thon, send an email to info@woodard.com and just tell us in the email that you would like us to add Consult-a-Thon back to either Scaling New Heights or as a standalone experience and we'll do that with Robin again.
Now, Robin has one of the most influential women in accounting and as one of the most successful ProAdvisors on the planet, I want to ask you two questions and I know that your answers are going to mean a lot to the audience here. What is one of the biggest challenges you believe the accounting profession is facing right now and what is the biggest opportunity available to the accounting profession right now?
Robin: I think the biggest challenge that the accounting profession has right now is redefining what accounting is. It's not redefining the debits and the credits, it's how we're working. Technology has changed this industry. It has always been a very reactive profession. People come in, they say, "I need X." We give them X. We do what people ask. Now, we're needing to anticipate what their needs are. We need to be ahead of the curve and we need to have a solution for their problem before they even know that they have a problem.
Robin: As far as the biggest opportunity, our biggest challenge is our biggest opportunity. Our biggest opportunity is there is no road in front of us. We get to pave our own road. If you look back at the last three or four Scaling New Heights.
Us getting comfortable with that, us moving our clients, that's our biggest opportunity. More and more we have things that ... You can do a tax return on a cellphone now. All the way down to that. Five years ago, you would have never thought that. A cellphone was for calling somebody. Now, you have all your accounting opportunities right there on your phone. You can be anywhere and everywhere for your clients. Your clients don't have to be next door and your employees don't have to be next door.
Joe: See, there you go. You just hit the nail on the head.
If I could break that down, what you're saying is there's a new wave of technology answers to small business problems. Whereas, quite frankly, if Intuit hadn't embraced the cloud, if the cloud had not come along, we had a very comfortable and either confident or overconfident QuickBooks Desktop user base.
They were saying to the accounting profession, "We figured this out. We've got it all down. We don't need you." And now there's this world of opportunity available to them and it's foreign to them again. It's almost like going back to the early 1990s and mid-1990s and this massive wave of Intuit-generated small business energy.
Then, you said, we get this double benefit, because bringing our clients to the cloud is a consulting opportunity. When we embrace it, our clients can become virtualized and anywhere in the world and our employees can become virtualized anywhere in the country and that means that it gives you, in my opinion, the ability to recruit the best possible talent at the lowest possible cost.
Not that you're going to pay that person less, but you don't have to deal with a lot of the infrastructure of traditionally supporting them. You just nailed it, Robin. That's a huge opportunity for us.
Robin: Joe, I think the possibilities are endless for us. I think it's our turn and it's our time to redesign what we want our clients, our staff, our team, to look like. The world's our oyster. We have in front of us whatever we want to do and we have the power to change what the accounting industry looks like.
Joe: We've got to be, not a thermometer, we have to be a thermostat. We have to affect that change and Robin, you are a living, breathing example of that. Thanks for being that. Not just for women professionals, that's the nature of your award, but for every single accounting professional on the planet. They should be watching what you're doing and they should be imitating that and, of course, coming to your classes at Scaling New Heights. It's going to be exciting to have you back in June.
Thanks so much for being on the podcast with us today.
Robin: Thanks for having me today, Joe.
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Google has invited artists Tunalaya Dunn, Kaveri Gopalakrishnan, Anna Haifisch, Isuri, Saffa Khan, Laerte, Estelí Meza, Karabo Poppy Moletsane, Philippa Rice, Francesca Sanna, Chihiro Takeuchi and Tillie Walden share their work this International Women's Day and are encouraging other women to do the same with #HerStoryOurStory.
While Women's Day has been celebrated for more than 100 years now in the US and many European countries there was never a particular date set for celebrations. In 1975 during the International Women's Year the UN started officially started celebrating the day on 8th March.


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Chertoff discusses emergency planning
By Keegan Bales Dec 3, 2009 12:00 AM
Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security and co-author of the USA Patriot Act, encouraged nations to work together to combat terrorism and natural disasters during a conference hosted by the University Tuesday.
Chertoff was the keynote speaker at the third annual Homeland Security Workshop where this year's topic was emergency preparedness and crisis management. Chertoff, who has faced harsh criticism for the Department of Homeland Security's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Patriot's Act impact on civil liberties, only briefly mentioned these topics during his speech.
The event was sponsored by Finmeccanica, an Italian conglomerate in the aerospace, defense and security industries, and was held in the Marvin Center.
"When we formed the Homeland Security Department, one of the biggest things was learning to plan," Chertoff said, adding that during Hurricane Katrina, "planning wasn't up to speed yet."
Chertoff emphasized that today's disasters, both natural and man-made, are global and require a joint response from all nations and levels of government.
"I would not reorganize government," Chertoff said. "It is overdone. We have a structure. We could have a better structure but everyone has ups and downs. The answer is networking."
He used the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which were planned and funded outside India, and swine flu as examples of how crises cross borders.
Chertoff said "emergency comes in all flavors and all different shapes and sizes," and said planning for these emergencies requires a lot of time in order to prepare for crisis situations.
"There is a need for planning," Chertoff said. "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. We must be able to adapt."
Because crises usually take place across multiple jurisdictions, planning must be a collaborative effort, he said.
"There is a need for integration of all the elements," Chertoff said. "Very few agencies will have a broad capability to cover everything. You see that as you build your plans and your capability. You need to act decisively to deal with a crisis. It is a physiological issue, not a technical issue."
This article appeared in the December 3, 2009 issue of the Hatchet.


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Q: Did Malfoy create the "Potter Stinks" badge? In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Draco Malfoy taunts Harry with a badge that simultaneously supports Cedric Diggory and flashes "Potter Stinks":

When he and Hermione arrived at Snape's dungeon after lunch, they
  found the Slytherins waiting outside, each and every one of them
  wearing a large badge on the front of his or her robes. For one wild
  moment Harry thought they were S.P.E.W. badges - then he saw that they
  all bore the same message, in luminous red letters that burnt brightly
  in the dimly lit underground passage:
Support CEDRIC DIGGORY - The REAL Hogwarts Champion!
"Like them, Potter?" said Malfoy loudly as Harry approached. "And this
  isn't all they do - look!"
He pressed his badge into his chest, and the message upon it vanished,
  to be replaced by another one, which glowed green:
POTTER STINKS
  ....
"Want one, Granger?", said Malfoy, "I've got loads."

Malfoy tells Hermione he has a lot of them for distribution.
Where did Malfoy get the badges? Did he create them, or modify existing Hufflepuff 'Digory' badges to add the pejorative against Potter?

A: Yes, he made them.
Within the books it's not explicitly stated whether Malfoy made the badges or whether he was simply enthusiastic in distributing them to his friends but in some of the later "Writings by JK Rowling" we learn that he did indeed make them himself.

Draco resorted to many different dirty tactics in his perpetual quest to get under Harry's skin, or discredit him in the eyes of others including, but not limited to, telling lies about him to the press, manufacturing insulting badges to wear about him, attempting to curse him from behind, and dressing up as one of the Dementors
Draco Malfoy By J.K. Rowling

Moving down the canon scale, the Pottermore articles about 'Malfoy's best zingers' state that he "organised" the badges and speculates about how he "mass produced" them.

Draco Malfoy was a total nightmare at Hogwarts: he was awful to
Muggle-borns, mean about people less well-off than his unattainably
rich family and annoyed Harry every chance he got. Like that time he
organised those 'Potter Stinks' badges. Slow clap, Malfoy.
The worst Draco Malfoy burns of all time

and

The time he mass-produced 'Potter Stinks' badges
Draco clearly looks down on Hufflepuffs (he insulted the entire house
the first time he met Harry), so the only reason he supported Cedric
Diggory in the Triwizard Tournament is because he hated Harry that
much. The 'Potter Stinks' badges were an iconic Draco move, firstly
because he really is the sort of person who thinks badges are some
kind of epic burn, and secondly because there's a possibility that
Draco sat in his dorm room in his free time carefully making loads of
magical badges. Imagine him, sat on his bed, bleakly drawing the name
of his worst enemy over and over again. Who'd have thought he was that
creative?
Every time Draco Malfoy was just too Draco


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Centla es un municipio del estado mexicano de Tabasco, localizado en la región del río Usumacinta y en la subregión de los Pantanos.

Su cabecera municipal es la ciudad y puerto de Frontera y cuenta con una división constituida, además, por tres villas, cuatro poblados, 63 rancherías, 41 ejidos, 25 colonias, ocho fraccionamientos y 23 sectores.

Su extensión es de 3 093 km², que corresponden al 10.8% del total del estado; esto coloca al municipio en el cuarto lugar en extensión territorial.

Toponimia

Su nombre proviene del vocablo náhuatl Cin-tla, que significa "En el maizal".

Historia

La historia de los primeros pobladores del municipio de Centla se pierden en la inmensidad y obscuridad del tiempo pasado, esto, aunado a los pocos monumentos históricos existentes, hace muy difícil esclarecer este misterio.

Lo que se sabe es que las llanuras de Centla estaban muy pobladas por los Maya chontales a la llegada de los primeros españoles en 1518. La población más importante era Potonchan ciudad capital del señorío de Tabscoob, quien tenía un intenso comercio al ser un puente natural entre los mayas de las tierras altas del Petén guatemalteco y el señorío de Acalan con las poblaciones mayas de la Península de Yucatán e incluso con los Mexicas y otras culturas del Altiplano Central.

Juan de Grijalva, fue el descubridor de estas tierras, cuando el 7 de junio de 1518 descubrió el río en ese entonces llamado río Tabasco, y que desde esa fecha se llama "Grijalva", desembarcando en Potonchan y entrevistándose con las autoridades mayas, incluso se dice que Grijalva le regaló su jubón de terciopelo rojo al cacique maya Tabscoob, quien a cambio le obsequió diversas joyas.

El 12 de marzo de 1519 desembarcó en la "Punta de los Palmares" el conquistador español Hernán Cortés, y se introdujo por el río Grijalva hasta el poblado de Potonchan en donde a diferencia de Grijalva, fue recibido en forma agresiva por los indígenas, quienes le hacían señales de que se fueran. Cortés al no poder convencerlos con palabras, decidió hacerlo a través de la fuerza.

Es así, como el 14 de marzo de 1519, se llevó a cabo en esas llanuras de "Cintla" la que sería la primera gran batalla entre indígenas y españoles en la Nueva España, la famosa Batalla de Centla, en la que participaron según el español Bernal Díaz del Castillo más de 40,000 indígenas, y en donde intervino por primera ocasión el.caballo en una batalla en el nuevo mundo, provocando un verdadero impacto en los indígenas ya que pensaban que caballo y jinete eran la misma persona, lo que fue determinante para la victoria de los españoles.

Después de conseguida la victoria, y una vez concertada la paz, el 25 de marzo de 1519 Hernán Cortés llegó al tronco de una gran ceiba (árbol sagrado de los mayas) y dando dos golpes con su espada, tomó posesión de las tierras a nombre de los monarcas españoles, y fundando la Villa de Santa María de la Victoria, primera población española en México. Ese día, se llevó a cabo también la primera misa cristiana en territorio continentál de América oficiada por Fray Bartolomé de Olmedo y el capellán Juan Díaz.

El 8 de mayo de 1525, llega a la Villa de Santa María de la Victoria Juan de Vallecillo, que sería el primer gobernador de la provincia de Tabasco, con la encomienda de pacificar la provincia, cosa que no logra. Posteriormente, en 1526, Cortés envía a Baltazar de Osorio, quien también fracasa en su intento de pacificar la región, por lo que viaja a México a solicitar más ayuda de Cortés.

En 1529 llega Francisco de Montejo, quien por fin en 1535 logra pacificar parcialmente la provincia y comienza a organizar desde aquí la conquista de Yucatán y Cozumel.

En 1557 se comienzan a sufrir las primeras incursiones de los piratas en las costas de Centla, y en 1558 los piratas se apoderan de la Isla de Tris (hoy Isla del Carmen), intensificando sus ataques a la capital provincial de Tabasco, la cual incendian y destruyen en muchas ocasiones, destacando los ataques de 1597, 1600, 1614 y 1639, lo que provoca que poco a poco los habitantes de la villa de Santa María de la Victoria vayan abandonando la ciudad, hasta que el 24 de junio de 1641 las autoridades españolas por decreto firmado por el Virrey Diego López Pacheco trasladan los poderes de la provincia a la villa de San Juan Bautista (hoy Villahermosa), con lo que los pocos habitantes que quedaban abandonan la villa de Santa María de la Victoria.

La ciudad y puerto de Frontera, fue fundada en el 30 de marzo de 1780 cuando el cura Don Tomás Herguera, con un grupo de familias funda la villa de San Fernando de la Frontera. Años más tarde, se le cambiaría el nombre por el de Guadalupe de la Frontera, que fue sede de la aduana estatal en 1829 y 1834, y por decreto del Presidente Benito Juárez, desde el 1 de diciembre de 1871 el puerto de Frontera es sede oficial de la Aduana marítima en Tabasco.

El 3 de marzo de 1825 el Congreso constituyente del Estado de Tabasco, decreta la ley por la que el estado queda dividido en tres departamentos, la ciudad de Frontera se anexa al departamento de "La Capital" con cabecera en San Juan Bautista (hoy Villahermosa).

El 5 de diciembre de 1833 se declara en Frontera la epidémia del cólera morbo ocasionando gran cantidad de muertes. Juan Federico Maximiliano, Barón de Waldeck, viajero checoslovaco que fue el primer viajero de renombre que visitó Tabasco, escribiría:

Personajes Ilustres

 Tomás Helguera: Presbítero, fundador en 1780 de la ciudad de San Fernando de la Frontera (Hoy Ciudad y Puerto de Frontera, actual cabecera del municipio de Centla).

 Andrés Calcáneo Díaz: (1874 – 1914) Político y escritor.

 Quintín Aráuz Carrillo: (1892 – 1923) Fundador de las primeras ligas agraristas.

 Antonio Ocampo Ramírez: (1914-1983) Abogado.

 María del Carmen Paredes Zaldívar: Primera mujer en ocupar la Alcaldía (1977-1978, muriendo en el cargo).

 Ulises García Hernandez: Político. Presidente Municipal (1956-1958).

 Armando Pérez Chan: Político, escritor e historiador del Municipio. Alcalde (1980-1982).
 Profesor José Ezequiel Cortázar Maldonado: (1928-2008) Exdirector de la Escuela Primaria "Ing. Joaquín Pedrero Córdova"; y exdirector del Plantel 12 del Colegio de Bachilleres de Tabasco.
Ángel José Mora Suárez: (1925-2017) Dibujante, autor gráfico de la icónica historieta mexicana "Chanoc", publicada ininterrumpidamente durante más de 20 años, a partir de 1959. Por su trazo ágil y de gran dinamismo, se le considera uno de los grandes maestros de la historieta mexicana.
Francisco Ascanio Zenteno: Poeta. Premio Nacional de Poesía por "El Día que Desperté Pájaro".

Localización
El municipio de Centla se localiza en la región del Usumacinta y la subregión Pantanos teniendo como cabecera municipal a la ciudad y puerto de Frontera, la que se ubica al norte del estado, entre los paralelos 18°40'; de latitud, al sur 18°02' de latitud norte, al este 92°16', y 93°05' de longitud oeste.

Colinda al norte con el Golfo de México, al sur con los municipios de Macuspana y Centro, al este con el estado de Campeche y el municipio de Jonuta, y al oeste con los municipios de: Centro, Nacajuca, Jalpa de Méndez, y Paraíso.

Extensión
La extensión territorial del municipio es de 3,093 km², los cuales corresponden al 10.8% respecto al total del estado, y ocupa el 4º. lugar en la escala de extensión municipal.

Su división territorial está conformada por: una ciudad, tres villas, cuatro poblados, 63 rancherías, 41 ejidos, 25 colonias, ocho fraccionamientos y 23 sectores.

En el municipio se ubican nueve centros de desarrollo regional en los que se desarrollan la mayoría de las actividades económicas y sociales, estos son: ejido la Estrella, poblado Francisco I. Madero, villa Ignacio Allende, villa Vicente Guerrero, villa Cuauhtémoc, poblado Ignacio Zaragoza, poblado Simón Sarlat, poblado Quintin Arauz y ranchería Boca de Chilapa.

Geografía

Límites municipales
Tiene límites administrativos con los siguientes municipios y/o accidentes geográficos, según su ubicación:

Orografía
El territorio es completamente plano; cuenta con llanuras costeras, llanura y pantanos, llanuras con dunas, llanura aluvial, con gran cantidad de cuerpos de agua, arroyos, lagos ríos. La altitud máxima que se registra es de 10

Hidrografía
El suelo del municipio se beneficia con los dos ríos más caudalosos del país: el Grijalva y el Usumacinta; este último recibe las aguas del río San Pedrito en Tres Brazos, para luego unirse al río Grijalva que desemboca en el Golfo de México por la Barra de Frontera. además, surcan el municipio infinidad de ríos secudarios como el San Pedrito (que se une al Grijalva y al Usumacinta en la zona conocida como "Tres Brazos)

Al este de la ciudad de Frontera se encuentra el río San Pedro y San Pablo, que sirve de límite natural con el estado de Campeche.

Cuenta además con un potencial lacustre de aproximadamente 16,117 has, destacando las lagunas El Viento, Chichicastle, El Tocoal, Santa Anita, El Loncho y San Pedrito.

Y otros muchos ríos más, así como existen también gran cantidad de lagunas y lagos y una amplia zona de pantanos.

Clima

Tropical con lluvias regulares durante 6 meses y alcanza temperaturas max. de 43 °C, en primavera-verano y mínimas de 18 °C. en invierno.
En otoño,las temperaturas pueden llegar hasta 19 °C.Pero,regularmente,su temperatura es de 29 °C

Principales Ecosistemas

El principal ecosistema son los Pantanos de Centla, considerados reserva de la biósfera con una extensión de 302,706 ha, que abarca parte de las zonas bajas de los municipios de Jonuta y Macuspana. Y que es considerado el humedal más importante de Mesoamérica y uno de los 15 más importantes del mundo.

La vegetación predominante es la selva y la sabana. La flora es la propia de los climas cálidos y húmedos.

Flora

Existe gran cantidad de especies de flora y fauna acuáticas, típicas de los pantanos tropicales. Una de las aéreas más importantes protegidas del estado de Tabasco son los "pantanos de Centla".

La diversidad de la vegetación se refleja en la flora que va desde los pantanos hasta los árboles y arbustos como la guaya, jondura, jobos, pomarosa, pitahaya, caimito, anona, pan de sopa, marañón, coco, mango y naranja.

Fauna

El municipio es hábitat de diversas clases de peces, tortugas, cocodrilos, monos y otras especies más, hoy día bajo amenaza, por la disminución de su hábitat. Podemos encontrar las siguientes especies con su nombre común y su situación actual

Tipos de vegetación
Perduran la selva alta perennifolia y subperennifolia, selva mediana subcaducifolia, selva baja perennifolia, popal, tular, carrizal, matorral espinoso inundable, matorral inerme inundable, palmar inundable, pastizal natural y cultivado, sabana, palmar inundable, vegetación acuática y subacuática.

 Tipos de hábitats: dunas, pantanos, esteros, manglares, marismas, espejos de agua dulce y salobre, islas fluviales. Alta

Recursos Naturales
Se cuenta con árboles maderables que se utilizan para la elaboración de viviendas y muebles, así como recursos provenientes del mar, ríos, lagunas y pantanos en donde existe una gran extensión de zonas de manglares; este municipio está considerado como el de mayor potencial pesquero del estado. A continuación se reproduce la lista completa de árboles con su nombre común y su situación actual:

Mangle (Amenazada)

Coco (Amenazada)

Cedro (Amenazada)

Guaya (No Amenazada)

Caimito (No Amenazada)

Anona (No Amenazada)

Pomarosa (No Amenazada)

Pan De Sopa (No Amenazada)

Mango (No Amenazada)

Hay también, importantes yacimientos petrolíferos, existiendo actualmente 56 pozos petroleros en 12 campos, que tienen una producción diaria de 29,127 barriles y un volumen de producción diaria de gas natural de 161.9 millones de pies cúbicos.

Economía

Actividades productivas

El municipio tiene 309,300 ha. De acuerdo al Cuaderno Estadístico Municipal, edición 1998 del INEGI, la superficie agrícola era del 3%; la pecuaria del 25%; la forestal del 2%; y el restante 70% estaba destinado para áreas urbanas, cuerpos de agua y áreas improductivas.

Sector primario

Agricultura

Hasta finales de los años noventa destacaban el cultivo de coco y los cultivos básicos como el maíz y frijol, así como los frutales y la pimienta. En 1997 la superficie sembrada fue de 10,483 has, la actividad del coco ocupó 7,375 ha que representaron el 70.35%; en 2011 se registraron 4,900 has sembradas de maíz. De la misma manera en 2011 los cultivos como frijol solo registraron 500 has sembradas y el chile verde solo 146 has.

Ganadería

La ganadería es otro sector importante en la economía local, practicándose esta actividad de manera extensiva.
Según datos del INEGI, en 2011 el volumen de producción de canal de bovinos fue de 2,529 toneladas, el deporcinos fue de 563 toneladas, la producción de ovinos fue de tan solo 15 toneladas, y la producción de aves de corral fue de 570 toneladas.

Pesca

Esta una actividad importante en el municipio ya que tiene 80 km de litoral, el puerto aún representa un polo pesquero importante del estado, a pesar de las afectaciones que han sufrido por la explotación petrolera aun se mantiene con una producción considerable. Las especies con mayor demanda son: pigua, camarón, robalo y mojarra.

Sector secundario

Industria

Se elaboran productos con pieles de bovino, lagarto, nutria y tiburón. Hay además talleres de reparación de embarcaciones, que representan la actividad industrial más importante del municipio, siendo el más grande de ellos el taller de reparaciones navales perteneciente a la V Zona Naval Militar.

Sector terciario

Comercio

La actividad comercial se ha extendido ampliamente en el municipio con la instalación de grandes cadenas comerciales y tiendas de autoservicios no solo en la cabecera municipal si no que también en sus principales villas donde los principales productos son alimentos, calzado, vestido, mueblerías, electrodomésticos, ferretería, materiales de construcción, refacciones para automóviles, libros, bebidas, etc.

Servicios

Cuenta con diversas instituciones bancarias, negocios especializados en la preparación de alimentos, diversas líneas de transporte terrestre dentro y fuera del municipio, farmacia, refaccionarias, almacenes de ropa, mueblerías, papelerías y supermercados.

Turismo

Playas
Por sus condiciones naturales el municipio cuenta con lugares propios para disfrutar el turismo de playa y ecoturismo; contando para ello con las playas Miramar, Pico de Oro, la Bocana, la Victoria, el Bosque, las cuales son muy visitadas por turistas locales y regionales.

Playa el Bosque
Es una playa de mar abierto de 40 m de ancho, de arena fina color gris, pendiente suave y oleaje moderado. Se encuentra a una distancia aproximada de 90 km de la capital del estado.

Playa Miramar
Tiene aproximadamente 5 km de longitud, 100 m de playa seca y 10 de playa húmeda; la pendiente y oleaje son suaves, el agua es templada color azul verde; cuenta con palapas y se ubica a una distancia de 65 km de la capital del estado.

Playa Pico de Oro
Tiene aproximadamente 3 km de longitud, 5 m de playa húmeda y 5 m de playa seca, con pendientes y oleaje suaves, la arena es de color gris, y el agua es color azul verde. En la orilla existe una barrera de cocoteros que alberga las enramadas, restaurantes, vestidores y sanitarios. Se ubica a una distancia de 70 km de la capital del estado.

Playa la Bocana
Se encuentra ubicada en la bahía formada por el río Grijalva, antes de desembocar al Golfo de México. La arena es fina, el agua templada de color verde y oleaje suave. Se puede practicar la natación, la pesca y hacer recorridos en lancha, río arriba o llegar a mar abierto.

Playa la Victoria
De arena fina color gris oscuro, tiene una longitud aproximada de un km y 40 m de ancho; la pendiente es suave, el agua turbia y templada.

Ecoturismo

Reserva de la Biosfera Pantanos de Centla

Para la actividad ecoturística el municipio cuenta con los pantanos de Centla, decretada reserva de la Biosfera, desde 1992, siendo el área de humedales protegidos más extensa de Norteamérica, al contar con 302,706 hectáreas protegidas y es considerado uno de los 15 humedales más importantes del mundo. Actualmente se encuentra en la lista tentativa de la UNESCO para ser nombrado "Patrimonio de la Humanidad".

En la reserva de la Biosfera Pantanos de Centla existen diversas opciones para practicar el ecoturismo, así como el avistamiento de aves. Dentro de la reserva, existe la estación "Tres Brazos" la cual es el centro de vigilancia de la reserva, así como un centro de monitoreo ambiental. También ahí está la "Casa del Agua" que cuenta con diversas instalaciones de servicio turístico como museo, recorridos, torre para vista panorámica, así como muelle para realizar recorridos turísticos por la reserva.

Se localizan en la delta de los ríos Usumacinta y Grijalva. Con una extensión territorial de 302,706 has; conformada por los municipios de Centla Jonuta y Macuspana considerada como reserva de la biosfera donde se han identificado alrededor de 260 especies vegetales que pertenecen a 89 familias botánicas; de ellas, 79 especies son alimenticias o medicinales o se utilizan para la construcción, como combustible, cercos vivos, y para artesanías. 10 especies están reportadas como vulnerables o en peligro de extinción.

En esta zona se puede observar una amplia diversidad de al menos 39 especies de peces, 50 anfibios y reptiles 60 especies de mamíferos y 110 de aves. En el área hay 9 especies de animales cuyas poblaciones han sido seriamente disminuidas, local, nacional y mundialmente, a tal grado que algunas de ellas se encuentran en peligro de extinción como el manatí, cocodrilo, tortuga blanca, halcón peregrino, cigüeña jabirú y aguililla pescadora.

Manglares
En este municipio se unen los dos ríos más caudalosos del país, el río Usumacinta y el río Grijalva, que en conjunto, con la vegetación de manglar y popal tular, constituyen un fascinante paisaje, hábitat de especies como el saraguato, mico de noche, erizo, mapache, nutria, ardilla, gavilán, lechuza, pelícano, loro, cotorro y calandria.

Actividades Productivas
El municipio tiene una superficie de 309,300 ha. De acuerdo al Cuaderno Estadístico Municipal, edición 1998 del INEGI, la superficie agrícola era del 3%; la pecuaria del 25%; la forestal del 2%; y el restante 70% estaba destinado para áreas urbanas, cuerpos de agua y áreas improductivas.

La superficie total agrícola es de 309,300 ha, la pecuaria 9,279 ha y la forestal de 77,325 ha.

Demografía

Grupos Étnicos y fundamentales
El municipio cuenta con una población indígena de 11,042 habitantes, de los cuales 3,266 hablan lengua chontal de Tabasco; el resto lo componen otros grupos étnico. Sus actividades principales son la agricultura, la ganadería y la pesca, debido a los altos índices de marginación en el municipio se ha dificultado el desarrollo social y económico de las comunidades indígenas .

Evolución Demográfica

Año, Total, Hombres, %, Mujeres, %.

1950: 27,062; 13,558; 50.1; 13,504; 49.9

1960: 32,776; 16,558; 50.5; 16,218; 49.5

1970: 42,882; 21,634; 50.5; 21,248; 49.5

1980: 53,778; 27,232; 50.6; 26,546; 49.4

1990: 70,053; 35,498; 50.7; 34,555; 49.3;

2000: 88,181; 44,281; 50.22; 43,900; 49.78

2010: 102,110; 50,925; 49.88; 51,185; 50.12;

Fuente: Cuaderno Estadístico Municipal 1998 INEGI

Panorama sociodemográfico de Tabasco 2010

XIII Censo General de Población y Vivienda 2010

De acuerdo a los resultados preliminares del XIII Censo General de Población y Vivienda 2010 del INEGI, el municipio cuenta con 102,110 habitantes, 50,925 hombres (49.88%), y 51,185 mujeres (50.12%) lo que representa el 4.6% de la población total del estado registrando el municipio una densidad de población de 38 hab/km².

Infraestructura social y de comunicaciones

Educación
El sistema educativo de todos los niveles en el municipio está integrado por 269 centros escolares a los que asisten regularmente 28,905 alumnos que son atendidos por 1,102 docentes.

De esos 269 planteles, 97 son de preescolar, 131 de primarias, 33 de secundarias, 7 bachilleratos, existiendo además 3 centros de educación especial, 3 de capacitación para el trabajo, 39 laboratorios, 0 talleres, 14 bibliotecas escolares, 12 bibliotecas públicas en el medio urbano y rural.

Además el municipio cuenta con 3 planteles de Educación Superior, La universidad ASBEMAAN Ubicada en el centro de la ciudad en Morelos y mina, el Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Centla (ITSCe) ubicado en las afueras de la cabecera municipal fundado en 2001, la Universidad Intercultural de Tabasco (campus Centla) ubicado en la Villa Vicente Guerrero, además el bachillerato tecnológico Instituto de Profesiones M.A.(IPMA) ubicada en el centro de la ciudad en la zona del centro, dichas instituciones desconcentradas del gobierno del estado.

Salud
La demanda de servicios médicos es atendida por organismos oficiales y privados en los medios urbano y rural, contando para ello 30 unidades médicas; 29 de consulta externa y una de hospitalización general de la Secretaría de Salud.

Los consultorios rurales proporcionan los servicios de medicina preventiva, consulta externa y medicina general, los centros de salud materno-infantil ofrecen además de los servicios ya mencionados, los de laboratorio de análisis clínicos, rayos X y de regularización sanitaria, atención obstétrica, ginecología pediátrica y hospitalización.

Seguridad Social
Se cuenta con 28 unidades médicas, 27 de consulta externa y una de hospitalización general. El Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) tiene una unidad de consulta externa y el Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) cuenta con una de hospitalización general.

Asistencia Social
Hay 26 unidades médicas: 24 de consulta externa y una de hospitalización general; así como una unidad del DIF de hospitalización general.En la zona rural hay 11 casas de salud, además de consultorios médicos particulares.

Abasto
El municipio cuenta con 7 mercados públicos, 76 tiendas DICONSA, una del ISSSTE, además de contar con grandes tiendas comerciales y supermercados del sector privado entre los que destacan Soriana Express de GRUPO SORIANA, Bodega Aurrerá filial mexicana del corporativo estadounidense Walmart y un almacén comercial de la cadena de Almacenes COPPEL y se instala una vez a la semana un tianguis o mercado sobre ruedas. Así también Dunosusa, Compucopias, Telas Parisina, y próximamente Famsa.

Cultura

Artesanías

Se elaboran con dientes y mandíbulas de tiburón, conchas, caracoles, escamas, estrellas de mar, etc. Se fabrican también objetos de madera, pieles y lirio acuático.

Ballet Folclórico de Centla
El ballet folclórico del municipio de Centla nació el 19 de marzo de 1982 en las instalaciones de la escuela secundaria federal "ingeniero Félix Fulgencio Palavicini" a cargo del profesor José Zepeda Cortéz, formándose así una de las instituciones que ha puesto en alto a escala nacional al municipio de Centla y al estado de Tabasco.
Conformado por 45 personas entre bailarines, tamborileros y personal de vestuario, el ballet folclórico del municipio de Centla ha participados en diferentes estados de la república por mencionar algunos como: Morelos, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Feria de Tabasco, Chiapas y Campeche. y recientemente ha logrado llevar la cultura tabasqueña a diversos países, dando cuenta de la gran diversidad de la cultura mexicana.

Ferias y tradiciones
18 de julio Feria de Vicente Guerrero.

Última semana de mayo. Feria Municipal.

3ª. Semana de julio Feria de Chilapa.

23-29 de septiembre Feria en Allende.

7-12 de octubre Feria en La Estrella.

2ª. semana de diciembre.- Feria en Cuauhtémoc.

26 de enero al 2 de febrero .-Feria de la integración de frontera

Corpus Christi .-Fiesta del señor de tila en Frontera y Chilapa

Tradiciones y costumbres

Los festejos de la villa Quintín Arauz donde año con año se baila la Danza del Baile Viejo.
feria de la integración de frontera -26 de enero al 2 de febrero. Además de la feria municipal y las ferias de los diferentes centros integradores.

Música

Música de viento, tamborileros y marimba. Las canciones "Las Muchachas de Frontera" y "Camino de Frontera" de Manuel Pérez Merino.

Traje Típico

Las mujeres, falda larga floreada, con bastante vuelo y blusa blanca de algodón con cuello bordado de flores en punto macizo. Los hombres, utilizan pantalón y camisa blanca de manta, paliacate rojo al cuello, sombrero chontal, morral, machete y bush.

Gastronomía

Dentro de la gastronomía típica de Centla destacan los siguientes:

Alimentos: una rica variedad de guisos y cócteles, con productos del río y del mar, entre los que sobresalen, la pigua, jaibas, robalos, camarones y las mojarras; de la mesa típica tabasqueña, pejelagarto en verde, asado en ensalada o empanadas de la misma manera destaca la elaboración de embutidos como el queso de puerco y el pan relleno de membrillo.

Dulces: destacan dentro de una gran variedad, los de coco, papaya, nance y cocoyol.

Bebidas: chorote (bebida refrescante de maíz cocido con cacao)

Principales localidades
Frontera: cabecera municipal, en ella se encuentran ubicados los principales edificios públicos del municipio y las representaciones estatales y federales, además de grandes cadenas comerciales recientemente asentadas en la cabecera. Las actividades más representativas son la prestación de servicios y el comercio, además ha sido propuesta de manera continua para proyectos de desarrollo marítimo, comercial e industrial este se debe a su ubicación estratégica en una zona petrolera la cual es objetivo de muchas empresas relacionadas con la industria. La población es de 23,024 habitantes, y se localiza a 80 km de la capital del estado.

Vicente Guerrero: principales actividades son la ganadería, la agricultura, la fruticultura, la pesca y el comercio el cual ha crecido de manera importante en los últimos años. Cuenta con Playas turísticas cercanas a su ubicación además de diversos servicios de transporte público y una unidad de medicina general. La distancia a la cabecera municipal es de 33 km y su población es de 9,354 habitantes.

Ignacio Allende: principales actividades son la ganadería la agricultura, la pesca y el comercio. La distancia a la cabecera municipal es de 31 km y su población aproximada es de 3,547 habitantes.

Cuauhtémoc: su principal actividad es la ganadería, la agricultura y la fruticultura.La distancia a la cabecera municipal es de 44 km y su población es de 3,476 habitantes.

Simón Sarlat: Villa. Las principales actividades son la ganadería y la agricultura. La distancia a la cabecera municipal es de 34 km y su población es de 3,317 hab.

Ignacio Zaragoza: sus principales actividades son la ganadería y agricultura. Cuenta con una población de 2,497 habitantes

Francisco I. Madero: sus principales actividades son la ganadería, la agricultura y comercio. Cuenta con una ubicación estratégica pues se ubica cerca de pozos petroleros y playas turísticas. La distancia a la cabecera municipio es de 13 km y su población es de 2,304 habitantes.

Quintín Arauz: sus principales actividades son la pesca y la siembra de básicos. La distancia a la cabecera municipal es de 48 km y su población es de 1,283 habitantes.

La Estrella: sus principales actividades económicas son la ganadería y agricultura. Su distancia a la cabecera municipal es de 11 km. Su población es de 1,113 habitantes.

Cronología de los Presidentes Municipales
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Ignacio de la Cruz Zetina 1947-1949

Rodrigo Caparroso Pozo 1950-1952

Julián Jaume Magaña 1953-1955

Ezequiel Jiménez León 20/03/1955 -28/03/1955

Darvelio Asmitia Fernández 29/03/1955 -31/12/1955

Ulises García Hernández 1956-1958

Cresencio Alamilla Manuel 12/09/1958 -31/12/1958

Juan Sabino Olive 1959-1961

Antonio Lara Mendoza 20/05/1961 -31/12/1961

José Luis Varela Mendoza 1962-1964

Ramón Tellaeche Merino 1965-1967

Moisés Álvarez Luna 1968-1970

Homero Pedrero Priego 1971-1973

Orestes Somarriba Calderón 01/01/1974 -16/05/1974

Rodrigo Caparroso Pozo 1974-1976

María del c. Paredes Saldivar 1977-1978

Lorenzo Marín López (interino 17 días)

Jaime Parés García 1978-1979

Armando Pérez Chan 1980-1982

Amado Francisco Franco Suárez 1983-1985

Julio César Vidal Pérez 1986-1988

Anastacio Hernández Ramírez 1989-1991

José Luis Várela Álvarez 1992-1994

Napoleón Rodríguez Suárez 1995-1997

Romeo Benjamin García Mora 1998-2000

Francisco Herrera León 2001-2002
Lulio Marín Ortiz (interino) 2003

José David Ascencio Arellano 2004-2006

Nicolás Bellizia Aboaf 2007-2009

Aquiles Reyes Quiróz 2010-2012

Ramón Hernández Sánchez 2013-2015

Gabriela del Carmen López Sanlucas 2016-2018

Guadalupe Cruz Izquierdo 2018-2021

Véase también

 Tabasco
 Gobernantes de Tabasco
 Himno de Tabasco
 Municipios de Tabasco
 Villahermosa

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Gil y Sáenz, Manuel: "Compendio Histórico, Geográfico y Estadístico del Estado de Tabasco". Consejo Editorial del Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco. 1979.
 Torruco Saravia, Geney: "Villahermosa, nuestra ciudad". H. Ayuntamiento de Centro. 1987.

Enlaces externos
 H. Ayuntamiento Municipal de Centla
 Pantanos de Centla

Municipios del estado de Tabasco
Municipios ecológicos de México


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Ethnicity, Language, & Religion of Singapore
Singapore is dominated by the ethnic Han Chinese, but many citizens are also Mandarin Chinese or a combination of these two. The next largest ethnic groups in Singapore are the Malays, a group related to the Polynesians, and Indians.
Singapore has a couple official languages, of which Mandarin Chinese is the most common as just over a third of the people are native Mandarin speakers. English, another official language, is natively spoken by about 25% of the population and Malay, another official language, is natively spoken by about 15% of the population. The final official language is Tamil, which is only spoken by about 3% of the population. The breakdown of who speaks what language is fairly consistent with the ethnic breakdown, although some variations exist. Nearly all of native Mandarin speakers are ethnic Chinese, most of the Tamil speakers are ethnic Indians, the Malay speaker are generally ethnic Malays, while the native English speakers tend to be any number of ethnicities.
Your Guide to Singapore:
● Singapore Page
There are dozens of other languages spoken in Singapore, but nearly everyone can communicate in either Mandarin or English. These two languages are the primary languages of communication in the small nation and many businesses officially function in one of these two languages.
About 40% of Singapore's population is Buddhist; these followers are primarily ethnic Chinese. Another 15% is Muslim, primarily consisting of the ethnic Malays and another 15% Christian. Taoists, Hindis, and atheists make up the majority of the remaining population.
Buddhism is a religion or philosophy that encourages people to strive for enlightenment. Adherents believe that each being is reborn until enlightenment is reached, at which time they escape the cycle of birth and death. To accomplish this, every being must speak, act, and live in a positive manner; this is magnified with the force of karma, which dictates an individual's later life and/or their rebirth.


Jonathan Hemlock is an assassin for CII.
He is good at teaching art because he has an actual passion for art. He is an avid connoisseur of art, spending all of his available money to acquire exotic works of art for his own pleasure.
He once had almost as much passion for mountain climbing and was considered one of the best in that extremely cliquish sport. Time has taken some of the pleasure, and ability, out of him and since its cost collided with his other love, one had to give.
Hemlock has one other vocation that brings in even more money than his teaching; he works for CII, a counter-assassination secret governmental organization run by a bizarre albino named Dragon. Under the direction of this man to whom natural sunlight or any bright light at all is extremely painful, CII performs a highly covert duty that the other intelligence agencies need but do not want to handle. It takes care of sanctions, the euphemism for killing the killers of U.S. agents.
As the series begins, two events collide to cause Hemlock trouble. The first is his decision to resign from CII effective immediately. He has tired of the killing and tired of the danger and feels his art collection is fine the way it is. The second is the murder of a CII agent. Dragon knows that the aggression against his own agency must be punished and for that he wants only the best, namely Hemlock.
Since Hemlock is not interested in the money and Dragon desperately needs Hemlock, the pressure begins.
When the man who trained Jonathan Hemlock is killed on assignment, the head of CII asks Hemlock to step in to avenge the killing, Hemlock declines but is soon extorted into action. The killer, identity unknown, is said to be a member of an expedition to climb the Eiger in the Alps. Hemlock must join the group to find out who the killer is and take him out.
Jonathan Hemlock has traveled to England for a vacation from his writing when he is approached by the British Secret Service to assist in finding the maker of several pornographic films involving some of England's top leaders. While he has no desire to get involved, he is left with no choice.
Jonathan Hemlock's art collection is stolen by his former employer to force him to take one more sanction, a kill that will force him to attempt a climb of the one mountain he has failed.
Virtually every reference I've read to Trevanian's Hemlock series refers to it as a satire of the spy genre, written with tongue firmly in cheek. Perhaps it is but it is still a very exciting series with lots of adventures and darn good writing.
One problem with a 'satire' is that it usually goes either to an extreme and becomes silly and fairly laughable or it turns out terribly subtle and ends up being just like those being satirized.
On the other hand, sometimes an author can wish to write an adventure novel that is, first and foremost, fun and which doesn't take its genre too seriously. I don't know what Trevanian's deep-seated goals were. I just know he wrote a terrific two-book series about a very enjoyable character.


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Twitter Will Allow Users to Switch Between Relevant and Most Recent Tweets on Android, iOS
By Chakri Kudikala September 18th, 2018 AT 2:44 PM
Social media platform, Twitter today announced that it would be giving more control to its 336 million users by converting their timeline into a pure reverse chronological feed. In a series of Tweets, Twitter revealed its plans of testing a new feature which will allow its users to switch between relevant and most recent tweets. To recall, back in 2016, Twitter stated that it would only show 'most important tweets' on its platform, which disappointed several users, but the company has now revealed its plans for bringing back the old chronological feed. Notably, Instagram also has the same chronological feed algorithm which displays the most important posts first, rather than the newer ones.
Twitter Testing Two New Ways to Feed Viewing
Giving its over 336 million users more control, Twitter has announced that it will completely revert their timeline into a pure reverse chronological feed. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Twitter announced that in the coming weeks, it will start testing a "way to switch between a timeline of tweets that are most relevant for you and a timeline of the latest tweets".
"We've learned that when showing the best Tweets first, people find Twitter more relevant and useful. However, we've heard feedback from people who, at times, prefer to see the most recent tweets," said Twitter.
"Our goal with the timeline is to balance showing you the most recent tweets with the best tweets you're likely to care about, but we don't always get this balance right," it added.
How to Switch Between Relevant and Most Recent Tweet Feeds?
A user has to flip on the feature in settings from the iOS or Android Twitter app. When you open Twitter after being away for a while, the tweets you're most likely to care about will appear at the top of your timeline- still recent and in reverse chronological order. The rest of the tweets will be displayed right underneath, also in reverse chronological order, as always.
"At any point, just pull-to-refresh to see all new tweets at the top in the live, up-to-the-second experience you already know and love," said Twitter.
"We're working on making it easier for people to control their Twitter timeline, including providing an easy switch to see the most recent tweets," said Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour.
Twitter has updated the "Show the best Tweets first" setting. "When off, you'll only see tweets from people you follow in reverse chronological order. Previously when turned off, you'd also see 'In case you missed it' and recommended tweets from people you don't follow," it noted.
This is one of the best moves made by Twitter in recent times, and hopefully, Instagram also follows the same method of allowing users to switch between their feed.
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McLean, VA — September 24, 2013 — Novetta CEO Peter LaMontagne will chair and Novetta is the Diamond sponsor for the Defense Strategies Institute's Big Data for Intelligence Symposium on November 18-19 in Alexandria, VA. The Symposium is free to government employees; it will be held at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center, located at 701 N. Fairfax Street. The theme will be "Creating Actionable Intelligence from Large Unstructured Data Sets".