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Anglican vicar Peter Owen-Jones has taken a sabbatical to travel the world with a BBC team to explore different religions around the world in the early 21.
Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide for faith in the land, with eighty rituals through six continents in the space of a year.
The six major world religions are just a part of history. Faith is belief in the sacred, and is expressed in a variety of rituals, denominations, sects, cults, tribal religions and new religious movements.
Pete mission is to witness and participate in rituals rarely filmed before taking the religious pulse of the planet and to understand the depth of the fascination of humanity with divinity.
As an Anglican priest, Pete faced by cultures that will test their values and prejudices – you will be surprised, even offended, but also enlightened.
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Contrasting Firstime Design (FTDL) and Fossil Group (FOSL)
May 16th, 2019 - Comments Off on Contrasting Firstime Design (FTDL) and Fossil Group (FOSL) - Filed Under - by Lindsey Winhoffer
Filed Under: Comparison Articles - Investing
Firstime Design (OTCMKTS:FTDL) and Fossil Group (NASDAQ:FOSL) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and dividends.
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This table compares Firstime Design and Fossil Group's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Firstime Design -0.93% -2.88% -1.60%
Fossil Group 1.34% 8.88% 3.21%
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Firstime Design and Fossil Group's revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Firstime Design $14.21 million 0.52 -$130,000.00 N/A N/A
Fossil Group $2.54 billion 0.27 -$3.48 million $0.78 17.42
Firstime Design has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fossil Group.
Volatility & Risk
Firstime Design has a beta of -0.22, indicating that its share price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fossil Group has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Firstime Design and Fossil Group, as provided by MarketBeat.
Firstime Design 0 0 0 0 N/A
Fossil Group 1 1 1 0 2.00
Fossil Group has a consensus price target of $19.33, indicating a potential upside of 42.26%. Given Fossil Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fossil Group is more favorable than Firstime Design.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
89.1% of Fossil Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.0% of Firstime Design shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Fossil Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fossil Group beats Firstime Design on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Firstime Design
FirsTime Design Limited, through its subsidiaries, designs, imports, and distributes home goods and other sleep environment products in the United States. It provides clocks, headboards, tables, lamps, armoires, and folding beds. It sells its products through various retailers, as well as through a network of e-commerce channels. The company was formerly known as The Middleton Doll Company. FirsTime Design Limited is based in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.
About Fossil Group
Fossil Group, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and distributes consumer fashion accessories in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. Its principal products include men's and women's fashion watches and jewelry, smartwatches, handbags, small leather goods, belts, and sunglasses. The company manufactures and distributes private label brands, as well as branded products purchased for resale in non-FOSSIL branded retail stores. It offers its products under its proprietary brands, such as FOSSIL, SKAGEN, MICHELE, MISFIT, RELIC, and ZODIAC, as well as under the licensed brands, including ARMANI EXCHANGE, BMW, CHAPS BY RALPH LAUREN, DIESEL, DKNY, EMPORIO ARMANI, KATE SPADE NEW YORK, MARC JACOBS, MICHAEL KORS, PUMA, and TORY BURCH. The company sells its products through company-owned retail and outlet stores, department stores, specialty retail stores, specialty watch and jewelry stores, mass market stores, e-commerce sites, licensed and franchised FOSSIL retail stores, and retail concessions, as well as sells its products on airlines and cruise ships. As of December 29, 2018, it owned and operated 63 retail stores and 113 outlet stores located in the United States, as well as 181 retail stores and 127 outlet stores internationally. The company was formerly known as Fossil, Inc. and changed its name to Fossil Group, Inc. in May 2013. Fossil Group, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
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At the age of thirteen, Stephen Bishop found himself at a crossroads. A clarinetist with hopes of becoming a History teacher, he was forever changed after watching the Beatles one night on "The Ed Sullivan Show." He convinced his brother to buy him an electric guitar. He bought a "Mel Bay" chordbook and began to learn to play guitar and make up chords as well, writing his first song,"Surf's Turf.." a pathetic sounding instrumental. He formed a band called, "The Weeds" and began to play at local fraternity parties incorporating his own original songs with various songs from top 40...
The Weeds won 2nd place at the Claremont Battle of the Bands, prompting one of the judges to explain that "Stephen Bishop is going to be a big songwriter someday!" Determined to fulfill that prophesy, Stephen made the trip to Los Angeles. He walked the streets with his $12 acoustic guitar, playing songs for various publishers in Hollywood... eventually landing a publishing deal at $50 a week for E.H.Morris Publishing. One of his songs was recorded only to be followed by a long wait...many years went by. At one point, Stephen considered leaving L.A. to return home and work for his Dad's Insurance company. Through a good friend, Art Garfunkel heard some of his new songs and recorded two of them on his Gold recording, "Breakaway."
He started playing around town singing his songs in person for artists like,"Barbra Streisand...Bette Midler..Diana Ross...Michelle Phillips..." Shortly thereafter, he was signed to ABC Records who released his first album, "Careless." His two hits from that album were,"Save It For a Rainy Day," and "On and On.." Soon the album went gold, as well as his next album, Bish.
He sang the hit theme, "It Might Be You," from the movie, "Tootsie," as well as writing and/or singing 13 other films including, "Animal House," and "Separate Lives.." from "White Nights." His songs have been sung by artists such as: Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Art Garfunkel, Steve Perry, Stephanie Mills, Kenny Loggins, Johnny Mathis, Phoebe Snow, David
Crosby, The Four Tops, Aswad and Pavarotti.
Stephen has been nominated for a two Grammy's and an Oscar nomination for his song, "Separate Lives". His last CD was entitled, "Blue Guitars.." His newest album is an acoustic guitar and vocal solo album called, "YARDWORK." MCA recently released a hit compilation in the Millennium series that is currently out in the stores...
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Happy Halloween! Did you know that there may be ghosts in your tech budget? Today we're going to explore how to scare out these specters so as to make well-informed tech purchases.
As you may know from reading this blog, I whole-heartedly advocate for 1:1 classrooms (that is, one device per student) - or even 1:many classrooms (many devices per student), However, when schools begin to make purchases to meet this goal, they are often surprised with new costs down the line... and no remaining budget to address these needs.
For example, an iPad 2 can cost you around $399. So many schools will simply budget $399 times their number of students. However this is just the base cost of the device. Just as when you purchase a cell phone, you might also need a new case, extra battery or a few apps, purchasing new classroom technology comes with its own "add on" costs. Below are a few questions to consider when purchasing any new 1:1 devices.
Will the devices be going home?
If so, great! You won't need to worry about securing and charging them overnight. If not, then there is an added cost for purchasing a power and security cart. If you want to go the extra mile (which I recommend for my schools), then you also would want to pay the premium for a cart that also simultaneously syncs all the devices as well. After all, manually syncing digital content to 30 devices one at a time is not an ideal use of afterschool time.
What kinds of apps do you want to purchase?
There are more and more amazing free apps on the marketplace and it's entirely possible for a teacher to be completely successful without purchasing a single paid app. However there are also a slew of paid apps that are incredibly powerful and useful in the classroom. While one may look at the average pricetag of $2-3 per app and think a $20 iTunes gift card will set them for life, it's important to remember that you must pay licenses for each device onto which the app is downloaded. For example, if you wanted to download a $3 app to 100 devices, you'd need $300. Multiply this out to a building full of iPads with several apps on each and you'll definitely want to add some room in your budget for these purchases.
Will you need to provide protective cases?
Most people who have owned a smartphone have experienced the heartache of a shattered screen. In the slippery hands of our students, this hazard is exponentially more likely. Coupled with the fact that mobile devices are even more powerful when actually mobile - i.e., taken on field trips, around the school building, etc - durable cases become a necessary expenditure. As heavy-duty, long-lasting cases range from $25-75 per device, this is another line item to keep in mind.
Can students afford to bring in headphones?
One of the powers of digital learning is allowing students to create and interact with media. As such, headphones - preferably those with a built-in microphone - become the new "pencil" requirement for the classroom. However many students' families can't afford to send their kids to school with these tools. Some teachers head to the dollar store while schools make investments in headphones for their classrooms.
Can your building's wireless network handle these new devices?
Finally, there is the WiFi question. Schools across the country are quickly increasing the number of devices on their wireless network by the hundreds overnight and then struggle with the challenge of slow or dropped signals. In some cases, carts of devices lay dormant in the corner as teacher complain that they "don't work" because the WiFi is unreliable. While there are a number of amazing activities that one can do on an iPad or similar devices without Internet access, a strong connection makes them much more powerful tools. So when purchasing large numbers of devices, take a moment to evaluate your network and see if it needs any upgrades.


This is an excellent story I read yesterday after seeing it on a friend's Facebook page. I thought I must share this story with others! It's slightly reminiscent of The Egg by Andy Weir, and an equally beautiful story.
I've called this story "Life After Delivery" because I can't find the actual title and it doesn't mention who the author is, and to me that title fits.
The perspective of the story certainly had me viewing life after death in a different way. We become caught up in the fear of life after death, that it never occurred to most of us to think of life after delivery. When we were in the womb all we knew was the womb and then we appeared here and started 'living'.
Who's to say this stage of 'life' isn't just another womb preparing us for what comes after?
The 'Wrong' Way to Live…I Love It!


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Deaf and hard of hearing students discuss nuances of their education
Brian Massimino is passionate about education. In his third year of getting a teaching credential in deaf and hard of hearing education, he is seeking a master's degree in special education.
"I love watching (students') eyes light up once they understand a particularly difficult concept and they're eager to learn more," Massimino said in two interviews conducted via e-mail. "This single moment is what makes teaching worthwhile for me."
Massimino is one of many deaf studies majors on campus who are educating themselves to work with the deaf and hard of hearing community. Massimino is also one of more than 200 deaf students enrolled at CSUN this semester.
"I am passionate about education for the deaf because as a deaf individual, I want to give deaf children the same educational opportunities I have had," he said.
CSUN has the second largest deaf student community of any university in the nation, as well as one of the only deaf studies major programs.
But even in a campus well-equipped for deaf students, the lack of resources and communication is a constant issue deaf and hard of hearing students struggle with.
CSUN opened its entire curriculum to deaf and hard of hearing students in 1970 when it was San Fernando Valley College. From the beginning, services provided were free of charge and included interpreting, note-taking and tutoring. As the campus continued to expand, so did the deaf and hard of hearing community.
By 1972, the Center on Deafness was established as a place to house administrators involved in deaf programs on campus. Consequently, Campus Services for the deaf was also established as a sub unit to become a mediator for students and services.
In 1978, the center was renamed the National Center on Deafness, and by 1989 the Jeanne M. Chisholm Hall was built. The building is a major resource for the deaf community on campus. Deaf students access all types of services, such as counseling, tutoring and library services.
Kathy Lloyd is a graduate student in counseling, with a bachelor's degree in deaf studies. She is also a student assistant at the NCOD. Lloyd is a hearing student, but has been immersed in the deaf community since she was 15. Her hard of hearing uncle taught her the American Sign Language alphabet.
"I was always fascinated by the language," Lloyd said.
Lloyd had to wait until college to get involved with deaf studies, but is working her way to becoming a deaf and hard of hearing counselor.
Recently, Lloyd has been sub-interpreting for a sixth grader at a nearby charter middle school. It is a different experience for young deaf students who are in a hearing learning environment, she said.
"I don't think it's fair for (the student) because he always has an adult watching over him, while other students don't," Lloyd said.
Interpreters provide the opportunity for equal access to a public education, yet at the same time they widen the divide between the deaf student and the rest of the class, Lloyd said.
The interpreter becomes a constant third person involved in the deaf student's communication and education process – a vital and integral part.
"ASL is a visual language," Massimino said. "One just needs to know how to facilitate that language to educate deaf children."
Sometimes the addition of the third person can confuse communication.
"Lots of information is lost through the interpreting process," Lloyd said. "I am not deaf, but I think deaf students would learn better if teachers signed."
CSUN student Julienne Nguyen disagrees.
The junior psychology major said she prefers an interpreter to a class taught in sign language. She was brought up in a hearing family and said she is completely comfortable in a hearing classroom.
"Deaf professors are too aggressive with their signing," Nguyen said.
Jennifer Burnett, junior criminology and criminal justice major, said she has grown accustomed to the third person involved in her education. In her hometown of Granite Falls, Washington, she had the same interpreter for her four years in high school.
"I'm used to it," Burnett said. "It's a part of my life."
Even at CSUN, with such a large number of deaf studies majors, there is a lack of interpreters as the demand far surpasses the supply.
Lloyd said the skill needed to interpret in a college lecture course is considerable.
"Even after seven years, I don't feel comfortable doing it," she said.
Team interpreting, in which interpreters work in pairs and rotate breaks every 20 to 30 minutes, is increasing.
Interpretering is not the only service required by deaf and hard of hearing students. They register with the NCOD to receive other services such as captioning, note-taking and tutoring.
Captioning and note-taking are another way in which deaf students obtain information in a hearing-class environment. There are two types of captioning: Realtime and TypeWell.
Realtime captioning requires court reporter typing skills and provides the deaf student with word- for-word text of the lectures and discussions in the class. TypeWell paraphrases all the verbal communication in class. Both are skills that only professionals provide and need to be contracted by the NCOD.
For students like Nguyen and Burnett, note-taking services make the difference between passing and failing a class.
Note-taking is a service usually performed by students in the deaf students' classes. Students take notes on carbon paper, so there are two copies available. A $50 stipend is given to the student-assistant, plus priority registration provided by the NCOD.
"I need a note-taker because if I write the notes myself, I'll miss what the interpreter is saying," Burnett said.
The deaf and hard of hearing students interviewed recognize a lack of resources, but do not allow that to discourage them.
"I don't see a difference between my education and anybody else's, except that I struggle with the issue of a lack of services," Burnett said. "It doesn't allow me to get the equal access a hearing-student does."
Regardless of the struggles involved with learning in a world set up for all five senses, deaf and hard of hearing students are now pursuing all levels of education.
"I had my share of troubles just like any other student," Massimino said.
"No student should have to go through having your teachers and advisers tell you you're not smart enough, but I persevered knowing I was able to do whatever I wanted to do."
As one walks through Chisholm Hall, there is a sense of tranquility, but the CSUN deaf community is far from silent. It speaks through the hands of those who seek to give it a voice. As a flyer that hangs on the wall there reads, "Let your voice be heard."
Connie Llanos can be reached at connie.llanos.600@csun.edu.
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Men Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery Face Federal Hate-Crime Charges
Ahmaud Arbery Photo: Family Photo
In February 2020, two armed white men in a pickup truck chased down 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery while he was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia. With the help of a third man, they boxed in Arbery — who was Black — and confronted him, shooting him point-blank. On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted those three men on federal hate-crime charges, adding to the murder charges the state announced last spring.
"He was killed because of hate. It was initiated by hate," Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, said of the indictment, which is well over a year in the making. "We look at this as one step closer to justice for Ahmaud."
According to the Department of Justice, Travis McMichael; his father, Gregory, a former cop; and William "Roddie" Bryan face one count each of interference with rights as well as one count each of attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels also face charges for "using, carrying, and brandishing — and in Travis's case, discharging — a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence."
From Left: Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan. Photo: Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center/Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock
Although Gregory told police early on that Travis shot Arbery, claiming he resembled a burglary suspect neither of them had actually seen, it took local prosecutors months to charge any of the men involved. Initially, the McMichaels argued that Arbery attacked them, yet footage of the young man's final moments tells a different story. The McMichaels saw him running and hopped in their truck, followed by Bryan, ultimately blocking Arbery's path and engaging him in a struggle when he tried to run away. Travis then fired his shotgun at Arbery multiple times, killing him. The Justice Department considers this a hate crime, charging that the men "used force and threats of force to intimidate and interfere with Arbery's right to use a public street because of his race." They saw a Black man in a mostly white neighborhood and assumed criminal activity.
In addition to the federal charges, Bryan and the McMichaels face state charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal attempt to commit a felony after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case last May. Before that, the local district attorney — George Barnhill, the second DA to take on the case, after his predecessor recused herself over her connections to the McMichaels; ultimately Barnhill would have to do the same — concluded that the men had acted in accordance with Georgia's citizen's arrest and stand-your-ground laws. Barnhill wrote that they were in "hot pursuit" of a man they had decided was a burglary suspect, had "solid firsthand probable cause, in their neighborhood," to stop him, and that their intent had been "perfectly legal." The GBI disagreed, however, and arrested the McMichaels within 36 hours of investigation. No trial date has yet been set.
Meanwhile, Cooper-Jones filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the McMichaels and Bryan, which also names the district attorneys. "When I laid Ahmaud to rest, one of the last things I shared with my son was, 'I will fight for you, son,'" she said in February. "Now it has been revealed what happened. My fight turns into justice."
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By U.S. Mission OSCE | 28 January, 2019 | Topics: Statements, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | Tags: Russia, Ukraine
Response to the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine, Ambassador Vaidotas Verba
The Project Coordinator in Ukraine (PCU) plays an indispensable role in providing assistance to Ukraine. Key projects offer training on psychological support to people in conflict-affected areas; advocate for humanitarian demining; promote the safety of journalists; and support policy recommendations that draw attention to the plight of displaced persons.
By U.S. Mission OSCE | 6 July, 2017 | Topics: Sections & Offices, Statements, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | Tags: Ukraine
Secretary Tillerson's Call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
The Secretary accepted condolences from President Poroshenko on the death today of a U.S. member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM).
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Ambassador Baer's Interview with Gazeta.ru
One of the things that gets misunderstood is that while it is true that it is difficult to reach consensus today in the OSCE, on most things, there is agreement by at least 55 or 56 States. It is usually one or two holdouts. When it's one, it's usually the Russian Federation. And when it's …
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Q: How can I convert number from textbox to int array? can I convert string (numbers) from textbox to int array in struct.
OurDataList SingleMemberData = new OurDataList(3);
SingleMemberData = (OurDataList)PlayersData[currentPlayerShown];
**SingleMemberData.champlosses[tabControlChamp.SelectedIndex] = new[] { Convert.ToInt32(mtloss3.Text) };** EDITED
PlayersData[currentPlayerShown] = SingleMemberData;

Error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'int[]'
I tried to find it, but no answers.
I have also same problem with string in the listbox.
SingleMemberData.champ[tabControlChamp.SelectedIndex] = new[] { listBoxChamp.SelectedItem.ToString() };

A: If SingleMemberData.champwins is an array, do like this:
SingleMemberData.champwins = new[] { Convert.ToInt32(mtwins3.Text) };

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Ever get a hankering for baby? A white baby in particular? Maybe in smooth, rich ice cream?
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You can pick up your very own baby-cake for $5.99 US dollars. And it's iced.


Once you've created the tile package, there are three methods you can use to add it to your ArcGIS account.
Browse for the tile package, enter a title and tags, and click Add Item. Note that you can choose to either publish the tile package immediately upon upload or upload the item and publish it later. When attempting to upload tile packages that exceed 1 GB, you will see a message warning, "File too large." In this case, upload the package using ArcGIS for Desktop as described in the following section.
Open the Share Package geoprocessing tool. Click Geoprocessing, then choose Search For Tools. Type "share package" and locate the Share Package (Data Management) tool.
Locate the Share Package tool. On the Analysis tab, click Tools. In the Geoprocessing pane, type "share package" in the Search window to locate Share Package (Data Management).


Your database is configured for ARCHIVELOG mode, and a daily full database backupis taken. RMAN is configured to perform control file autobackup. In which three scenarios do you need media recovery?
Your database has been running with a peak load for the past hour. You want to preserve the performance statistics collected during this period forcomparison when you analyze the performance of the database later. What must you do to achieve this?
A. Increase the window size of the moving window baseline so that it equals the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) snapshot retention period.
B. Createa baseline on a pair of snapshots that span the peak load period.
C. Generate Active Session History reports for the peak load period.
D. Set the snapshot retention period in AWR to 60 to avoid automatic purging of snapshots for the past hour.
Which three statements are true about space usage alerts?
A. Alerts are issued only when the critical threshold for space available in a tablespace is breached.
B. The sum of active extents and allocated user quotas is considered to compute space usage for an undo tablespace.
C. Databasealerts can provide warnings about low space availability at both tablespace and segment levels.
D. Alerts are not issued for locally managed tablespaces that are offline or in read-only mode.
E. A newly created locally managed tablespace is automatically assigned the default threshold values defined for a database.
You use multiple temporary tables frequently in your database. Which two are benefits of configuring temporary undo?
A. Performance improves because less redo is writtento the redo log.
B. Temporary undo reduces the amount of undo stored in undo tablespaces.
C. Performance improves because data manipulation language (DML) operations performed on temporary tables do not use the buffer cache.
D. Performance improves because no redo and undo are generated for the temporary tables.
Which two statements are true about Oracle Data Pump export and import operations?
A. You cannot specify how partitioned tables shouldbe handled during an import operation.
B. Only data can be compressed during an export operation.
C. Existing dump files can be overwritten during an export operation.
D. Tables cannot be renamed during an import operation.
E. Metadata that is exported andimported can be filtered based on objects and object types.
A. It executes successfully and sets the Fast Recovery Area as the local archive destination.
B. It executes successfully and issues a warning to set LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST while opening the database.
Your production database uses file system storage. You want to move storage to Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM). How would you achieve this?
Which two statements are true about Oracle network connections?
A. A listener may listen on behalf of only one database instance at a time.
B. A server process checks a user's authentication credentials and creates a session if the credentials are valid.
C. The listener continuously monitors a connection after the user process connects to a service handler.
D. The listener always spawns a new server process to deal with each new connection.
E. A connection request from a client is always first received by a listener running on the port that is used for the connection request for the database server.
Which two actions does an incremental checkpoint perform?
A. It signals CKPT to write thecheckpoint position to the data file headers.
B. It writes the checkpoint position to the data file headers.
C. It advances the checkpoint position in the checkpoint queue.
D. It writes the checkpoint position to the control file.
Which statement is true aboutusing the Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) to upgrade your database from Oracle Database 11g to Oracle Database 12c?
A. It terminates if the SYSTEM tablespace in the source database is not autoextensible.
B. It automatically makes necessary changes to Oracle environment variables.
C. It automatically enables unified auditing in the upgraded database.
D. It automatically adds new data files if there is not enough disk space to grow.
Your database has three undo tablespaces and the default undo tablespace is not autoextensible. Resumable space allocation is not enabled for any sessions in the database instance. What is the effect on new transactions when all undo space in the default undo tablespace is in use by activetransactions?
A. Transactions write their undo in the SYSTEM undo segment.
C. Transactions wait until space becomes available in UNDOTBS1.
D. Transactions write their undo in a temporary tablespace.
What should you do to ensure that a job stored minimal job metadata and runtime data on disk, and uses only existing PL/SQL programs?
A. Create an event-based job.
B. Create a lightweight job.
C. Specify the job as amember of a job class.
D. Use a job array.
You want to schedule a job to rebuild atable's indexes after a bulk insert, which must be scheduled as soon as a file containing data arrives on the system. What would you do to accomplish this?
A. Create a file watcher and an event-based job for bulk insert and then create another job to rebuild indexes on the table.
B. Create a file watcher for the bulk inserts and then create a job to rebuild indexes.
C. Create a job array and add a job for bulk insert and a job to rebuild indexes to the job array.
D. Create an event-based job for the filearrival event, then create a job for bulk insert, and then create a job to rebuild indexes.
Which two additional tasks should you perform with regard to the OS-level owners and groups?
Which two statements are true about the (PMON) background process in Oracle Database 12c?
A. It records checkpoint information in the control file.
B. It frees unused temporary segments.
C. It kills sessions that exceed idle time.
D. It registers database services with all local and remote listeners known to the database instance.
E. It frees resources held by abnormally terminated processes.
You want to upgrade an Oracle Database running Oracle Database 11g to Oracle Database 12c. Which three tasks should be performed before a manual upgrade?
Which of these requirements can be met while creating a database by using the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA)?
Which two statements are true about availability audit features after migration to unified auditing?
A. The ability of users to audit their own schema objects is not available in the post- migrated database.
B. Operating systemaudit trail is available in the post-migrated database.
What can be automatically implemented after the SQL Tuning Advisor is run as part of the Automated Maintenance Task?


In the News (from The Telegraph): "Computers can determine your personality better than friends, just by analysing the posts you have 'liked' on Facebook, a Cambridge University study has shown.
"Now researchers, by analysing self-reported personality scores for what are known as the 'big five' psychological traits – openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism- have created an algorithm which can accurately predict personalities simply based on Facebook interactions.
"And, surprisingly, it knows your character better than your close friends.
My Comment: Everything is simple in the human being because he is made of only one desire to be fulfilled (to fill himself, to enjoy). It is possible to create the image of this desire by several (test) "likes." Then, all the other person's actions could be accurately predicted.
Having created such an image we already know what the person's responses will be when you address him. Now, you just need to write a program to control the person—because a completely controlled robot is in front of you!
Sorry, but the computer cannot analyze the particularly interesting Facebook phenomenon of the "I must like everything my friends post so that they will know I "like" them and so that they will "like" my posts. Simply exhausting and ridiculous in the end. In other words…computers are still not able to analyze the "motive" behind all those likes. A human can however, figure that out simply by observing the phenomenon for a bit. So…at least for the moment, we still have the upper edge.


business organisation, write an explanatory note on OTCEL?
write an explanatory note on OTCEL?
Define how Controlling is an all pervasive function?
In 2007 and 2008 Boeing ran into several publicized issues with regard to its management of a globally dispersed supply chain. What are the causes of these problems? What can a company such as Boeing do to make sure such problems do not occur in the future?
What type of management theory does asda practice? What are the different approaches to management used by asda & British airways?
What are the different Styles of Leadership?


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Rhoda Lillian Rennie (2 May 1905 in Benoni – 11 March 1963) was a South African freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she was a member of the South African relay team which won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event. She also competed in the 100 metre freestyle competition and in the 400 metre freestyle event, but was in both eliminated in the first round.

Rennie committed suicide in Johannesburg in 1963.

References

External links
Rhoda Rennie's profile at Sports Reference.com
Rhoda Rennie's obituary
Rhoda Rennie's grave

1905 births
1963 suicides
People from Benoni
Transvaal Colony people
South African female swimmers
South African female freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers of South Africa
Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for South Africa
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Gauteng
Suicides in South Africa
20th-century South African women

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"O Romeo, Romeo!—wherefore art thou Romeo?" – An excerpt from William Shakespeare's play – Romeo and Juliet.
Juliet Capulet – During the Elizabethan era, girls weren't allowed to become actors in theatres and majority of characters like "Desdemona", "Lady Macbeth" and "Juliet" were actually played by men. Shakespeare's tragic romantic play "Romeo and Juliet became an instant success overnight. The lead characters in the play are considered equally powerful as "Hamlet", "Othello" and "Macbeth". Juliet Capulet is the female protagonist of the tragic play who unknowingly falls in love with Romeo only to realize later that her lover belongs to the rival family. On one side Juliet can't bear the separation of her lover and on other side she has to abide by the rules laid by her family.
Though Romeo and Juliet get married secretly, their hopes of living together are short-lived. A scuffle between Romeo and Tybalt, the Juliet's cousin takes place where Tybalt is killed by Romeo. What happens next is series of tragic events that tears apart the lovers and brings an end to the eternal love.
Actresses who portrayed Juliet – The role of Juliet Capulet was played by Olivia Hussey in the 1968 movie – Romeo and Juliet while Claire Danes portrayed the modern Juliet in the 1996 movie adaptation, directed by Bazz Luhrmann. The new adaptation on Romeo and Juliet featured hailee steinfield as Juliet in the 2013 movie.
If you want to know more about Juliet in detail, then you should definitely read this tragic masterpiece – Romeo and Juliet where every line written by Shakespeare is a priceless gem in the world of literature.
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Father warns parents after masked man snatches child's tablet computer
Updated: 18 Jun 2016 - 09:38PM
"Splectron" said a masked man snatched his daughter's Samsung tablet in Kingstown Park.
The father of a teenage girl is urging parents to advise their young children not to expose their expensive devices or jewellery if they are alone in public.
Regis "Splectron" Williams also wants parents to urge children not to chase their assailants — as his daughter did — if someone grab the device and run.
The popular videographer and promoter made the plea in a conversation with iWitness News on Saturday after making a post on Facebook in which he said a masked man snatched his daughter's tablet computer from her in Kingstown Park Saturday morning.
He said his daughter, who turns 13 on Monday, had been dropped off at the Football Federation office near Victoria Park after soccer training Saturday morning.
She decided to walk to his home and was playing with her tablet between St. Martins Secondary School and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ("Mormon Church") when a masked man grabbed it from her and ran.
"… my daughter did the unthinkable and proceeded to chase the guy down the road," Williams said, adding that persons saw her running after the man and chased after him.
"He (assailant) then tossed the tablet in some bush or grass and continued running. So after retrieving her tablet, she went and told her mom, who informed me, nearly giving me a heart attack," Williams said.
Williams said his daughter was still visibly shaken when he met her later on Saturday.
Regis "Splectron" Williams is happy that his daughter suffered no physical harm during the ordeal. (Photo: Facebook)
"I had to ask her if she was crazy to follow the guy who robbed her. Now he could have lost his mask during the chase and, she seeing his face, so [as] to avoid getting caught, he could have knifed her up, or shot her. So I sternly rebuked her for running after the thief, putting her life in grave danger," the father said.
"… please advise your kids [that] if they are robbed, not to give chase or fight with the robbers. It's not worth getting gutted like a pig over a piece of jewellery or electronics or even cash; all these can be replaced but life can't," Williams said in the post.
"I can buy back a tablet anytime, I told her but I can't buy your life back. So parents when your kids leave home on Saturdays, if you can, accompany them or have someone escort them. That will be good, or advise them not to walk roads that can be deserted on a Saturdays or weekends in general," Williams said.
He was grateful to the persons who assisted his daughter.
"To the folks who came to her assistance, thank you very much, and I think more police should be patrolling the outskirts of Kingstown as well to keep the would-be bandits off the street and prevent crimes like these from happening," Williams said.
Williams said that his daughter was supposed to spend the weekend with him, but was so affected by the incident that she asked to go back to her mother's house.


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Introduction: This paper presents a case report of chiropractic management of a patient with myofascial cervicalgia as a sequela to carotid endarterectomy.
Case Presentation: An 83 year old male presented with a chief complaint of chronic right anterior neck pain and an associated tender mass. His surgical history includes a right carotid endarterectomy performed 32 months prior to initial chiropractic consult.
Management and Outcome: The patient was treated weekly with Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) of the right cervical spine musculature and instrument assisted manipulation of the right first costovertebral joint. The patient's pain resolved after five visits without sustained soreness or other side effects following treatment.
Discussion: Post-surgical pain is a common problem with a high degree of morbidity and a high overall cost effect. Myofascial adhesions are a well-documented cause of postsurgical pain. IASTM was effective and safe in treatment of pain and adhesion in a patient with chronic pain following carotid endarterectomy.
More than 140,000 individuals die from stroke every year, making it the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer . Patients with carotid artery disease may undergo a preventative surgery known as carotid endarterectomy (CEA) during which a surgeon will make a 5-10 cm incision on the carotid artery and remove accumulations of atherosclerotic plaque [Figures A-C]. Another common alternative treatment known as carotid angioplasty stenting (CAS) utilizes an inflatable balloon to displace the plaque and a stent to lower the risk of future blockage . It is estimated that 100,000 CAE procedures occurred in the United States in 2010 .
The utilization of CEA declined between 1997 to 2010 as the use of CAS increased  despite studies suggesting that CEA is the preferred procedure in symptomatic patients due to decreased postsurgical risk of stroke when compared to CAS . CEA has its own risks, specifically with regard to health related quality of life measures such as difficulty swallowing and persistent neck pain [5, 6]. The more invasive nature of the CEA increases the risk for and intensity of postsurgical pain. As with other open surgeries, myofascial pain with adhesion is a common postsurgical complication [7, 8, 9].
Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) is an emerging treatment for conditions with myofascial components. Evidence indicates that soft tissue mobilization promotes healing by increasing fibroblast production  and instrument assisted cross fiber massage has been shown to accelerate early tissue level healing as well as the orientation and formation of collagen fibers in ligament injuries .
The patient is an 83 year old caucasian male with right anterior neck pain and an associated soft, tender, mobile mass measuring approximately 2 cm by 3 cm in size. His surgical history includes a right carotid endarterectomy 32 months prior to initial chiropractic consult. He reported that the pain began a year and a half ago without inciting event or injury. He described the quality of pain as a soreness which he rated at a 2-3 out of 10 on the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) where 0 equals no pain and 10 equals the most intense pain imaginable. The patient reported some pain relief from prescription acetaminophen (325 mg tablet, two per os every 6 hours as needed for pain). The patient's medical history includes right carpal tunnel release, right hip replacement, left quadriceps tendon repair, left forearm osteomyelitis surgery, and a bone marrow surgery. Two months prior, a computed tomography study showed signs of cervical degeneration. The patient also reports a history of transient ischemic attacks prior to, as well as several following the carotid endarterectomy. Patient consult was sent from an otolaryngologist who was seeing the patient for the neck discomfort and dysphagia as well as otitis externa and impacted cerumen.
Physical examination yielded mild to moderate palpatory tenderness at the right anterior cervical region as well as the right supraclavicular fossa. Palpation also revealed moderate to severe hypertonicity of the anterior cervical musculature including the right sternocleidomastoid (SCM) and anterior and middle scalenes. Cervical range of motion was normal in flexion, but decreased in extension, left rotation, right rotation, left lateral flexion, and right lateral flexion. Active cervical right rotation, left lateral flexion, and right lateral flexion were provocative for right anterior neck pain. Static and motion palpation revealed a tender superior prominence of the right first rib as well as a decrease in superior to inferior fluid motion of the right first costovertebral joint.
Following the consult evaluation, the patient's costovertebral joint was adjusted by a chiropractor with an Impulse® Adjusting Instrument (NeuroMechanical Innovations, Chandler, AZ) with a superior to inferior and lateral to medial line of correction. Additionally, IASTM was performed utilizing a FAKTR® Instrument F4 and emollient (FAKTR-PM, Inc., Asheville, NC) on the right, hypertonic anterior cervical musculature. Following initial treatment the patient rated his pain at 0 out of 10 on the NPRS and noted on a subsequent visit that he remained without pain for three days.
The patient completed a short course of conservative care at a frequency of 1 visit per week for 4 weeks, during which he underwent the same intervention of instrument adjusting and IASTM as needed. Adjustment of the right first costovertebral joint was accomplished on visits 1-4 only. IASTM treatment progressed from visit to visit as follows: neutral cervical position; passive right and left rotation; active patient cervical motion of combined flexion and right lateral flexion and right rotation into combined extension left lateral flexion and left rotation; resisted cervical motion from combined flexion and right lateral flexion and right rotation into combined extension, left lateral flexion and left rotation. Patient pain presentation on the third visit was decreased to 1-2 out of 10 on the NPRS and 0 out of 10 on the penultimate visit. Patient reported feeling better following the first and second visit, and the patient stated that he had no pain or soreness following the care of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th visits.
During of the fifth and final visit of initial course of care, the patient presented with a pain intensity of 0 out of 10 on the NPRS and reported only three exacerbations since the fourth visit which he rated at 2 out of 10 in terms of pain intensity. Following active treatment on the fifth visit, a home exercise program was described, demonstrated, and observed with instructions regarding frequency provided to the patient for stretching of the anterior neck musculature, specifically the SCM. The patient was asymptomatic at the conclusion of the fifth visit and was discharged with self-care recommendations and the option to return to clinic on a symptomatic basis.
Fascia becomes important clinically when it loses stiffness, becomes too stiff or has decreased shearing ability . A surgical operation can cause adhesions that, regardless of the surgical procedure adopted, are traceable in the underlying layers, with fascial tissue failing to differentiate the adjacent structures effectively leading to entrapments [13, 14]. Fibrous adhesions are known to be painful, prevent normal muscle mechanics and decrease soft-tissue extensibility . This case presented the use of a minimally invasive treatment for chronic post-CEA neck pain of myofascial etiology and yielded a good outcome over 5 weeks, without negative side effect.
The mean follow-up cost for CAE for one year is over $1,000  and in 2012, the United States alone had an estimated 100,000 inpatient CEA procedures . This creates a cost burden that is substantial and post-operative adhesions are associated with substantial morbidity and present a risk over time that can run into decades . Due to the nature of many operations, fascial layers are often disturbed during surgery, but more often than not, little to no attention is given to the remodeling to this anatomy.
When providing care directly to an area of increased and delicate vasculature, especially with complications such as stroke, precautions such as a thorough history and physical examination are of a paramount importance. Although the results from one case cannot be generalized, further study is indicated to determine if this procedure could benefit other patients for whom chronic postsurgical pain is a problem.
The authors recognize limitations of this case study. Generalization of the diagnostic findings and outcomes represented in this case may not necessarily apply to other patients.
Supported by the Department of Veteran Affairs. The contents of this paper do not represent the view of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government. Public domain image(s) provided courtesy of The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/carend part of the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
4. International carotid stenting study investigators. Ederle J, Dobson J, Featherstone RL, Bonati LH, van der Worp HB, de Borst GJ, Lo TH, Gaines P, Dorman PJ, Macdonald S, Lyrer PA, Hendriks JM, McCollum C, Nederkoorn PJ, Brown MM: Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2010, 375(9719):985–997.
5. Stolker JM, Mahoney EM, Safley DM, et al: SAPPHIRE Investigators Health-related quality of life following carotid stenting versus endarterectomy: results from the SAPPHIRE (Stenting and Angioplasty with Protection in Patients at High Risk for Endarterectomy) trial. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions 2010, 3(5):515-523.
6. Cohen DJ, Stolker JM, Wang K, Magnuson EA, Clark WM, Demaerschalk BM, et al: Health-Related Quality of Life after Carotid Stenting versus Carotid Endarterectomy: Results from CREST (Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy Versus Stenting Trial). Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2011, 58(15):1557–1565.
7. Hetmann F, Kongsgaard UE, Sandvik L, Schou-Bredal I: Prevalence and predictors of persistent post-surgical pain 12 months after thoracotomy. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 2015, 59(6):740-8.
8. Luleci N, et al: Myofascial pain at post-sternotomy patients after cardiac surgery: A clinical study in 1226 patients. Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation 2008, 21(4):239–243-239–243.
9. Ferguson, L: Idiopathic scoliosis: The tethered spine II: Post-surgical pain. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 2014, 18(4):501-513.
10. Gehlsen, GM, Ganion LR, et al: Fibroblast responses to variation in soft tissue mobilization pressure. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 1999, 31(4):531-5.
11. Loghmani, M, Warden, S: Instrument-Assisted Cross-Fiber Massage Accelerates Knee Ligament Healing. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy 2009, 39(7):506-514.
12. Klingler W, Velders M, Hoppe K, et al: Clinical relevance of fascial tissue and dysfunctions. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2014, 18:439.
13. Bordoni, B, & Zanier, E: Skin, fascias, and scars: symptoms and systemic connections. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 2014, 7:11–24.
14. Barnes, MF: The basic science of myofascial release: Morphologic change in connective tissue. J Bodywork Move Ther 1997, 1:231–238.
15. MacDonald GZ Penney MD Mullaley ME, et al: An acute bout of self‐myofascial release increases range of motion without a subsequent decrease in muscle activation or force. J Strength Cond Res. 2013, 27(3):812‐821.
16. Vilain KR, Magnuson EA, Li H, Clark WM, Begg RJ, Sam AD, 2nd, et al: Costs and cost-effectiveness of carotid stenting versus endarterectomy for patients at standard surgical risk: results from the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy Versus Stenting Trial (CREST) Stroke. 2012, 43:2408–2416.
17. H Ellis, BJ Moran, JN Thompson, MC Parker, MS Wilson, D Menzies, A McGuire, AM Lower, RJ Hawthom, F O'Brien, S Buchan, AM Crowe: Adhesion-related hospital readmissions after abdominal and pelvic surgery: A retrospective cohort study. Lancet 1999, 353:1476.
Public domain image(s) provided courtesy of The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/carend part of the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


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That Famous Quote Attributed to Mother Teresa? Turns Out, It's Not Hers
Mother Teresa of Calcutta at a pro-life meeting on July 13, 1986 in Bonn, Germany
Deacon Greg Kandra | Jan 12, 2016
Earlier today, I posted on the remarkable note Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin left behind in his locker—containing a famous lesson in living often attributed to Mother Teresa.
As with so many famous quotes, its provenance is more complicated. The "Paradoxical Commandments" were not written by Mother Teresa, though she did help popularize them.
A reader sent me this:
The Paradoxical Commandments were written by Kent M. Keith when he was 19, a sophomore at Harvard College. He wrote them as part of a book for student leaders entitled The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council, published by Harvard Student Agencies in 1968. The Paradoxical Commandments subsequently spread all over the world, and have been used by millions of people.
Mother Teresa put the Paradoxical Commandments up on the wall of her children's home in Calcutta. The fact that the commandments were on her wall was reported in a book compiled by Lucinda Vardey, Mother Teresa: A Simple Path, which was published in 1995. As a result, some people have attributed the Paradoxical Commandments to Mother Teresa.
As Kent explains in his book, Do It Anyway: The Handbook for Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness in a Crazy World:
"I found out about it in September 1997 at my Rotary Club meeting. We usually begin each meeting with a prayer or a thought for the day, and a fellow Rotarian of mine got up and noted that Mother Teresa had died, and said that, in her memory, he wanted to read a poem she had written that was titled "Anyway." I bowed my head in contemplation, and was astonished to recognize what he read-it was eight of the original ten Paradoxical Commandments."
"I went up after the meeting and asked him where he got the poem. He said it was in a book about Mother Teresa, but he couldn't remember the title. So the next night I went to a bookstore and started looking through the shelf of books about the life and works of Mother Teresa. I found it, on the last page before the appendices in Mother Teresa: A Simple Path. The Paradoxical Commandments had been reformatted to look like a poem, and they had been retitled "Anyway." There was no author listed, but at the bottom of the page, it said: "From a sign on the wall of Shishu Bhavan, the children's home in Calcutta."
Mother Teresa thought that the Paradoxical Commandments were important enough to put up on the wall of her children's home. That really hit me. I wanted to laugh, and cry, and shout-and I was getting chills up and down my spine. Perhaps it hit me hard because I had a lot of respect for Mother Teresa, and perhaps because I knew something about children's homes. Whatever the reason, it had a huge impact on me. That was when I decided to speak and write about the Paradoxical Commandments again, thirty years after I first wrote them."
What Was on Mother Teresa's Wall
What exactly was on Mother Teresa's wall? According to Lucinda Vardey, in Mother Teresa: A Simple Path (New York: Ballantine Books, 1995), page 185, there was "a sign on the wall of Shishu Bhavan, the children's home in Calcutta." This is what the sign said:
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered,
LOVE THEM ANYWAY
If you do good, people will accuse you of
selfish, ulterior motives,
DO GOOD ANYWAY
If you are successful,
you win false friends and true enemies,
SUCCEED ANYWAY
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow,
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable,
BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY
What you spent years building may be
destroyed overnight,
BUILD ANYWAY
People really need help
but may attack you if you help them,
HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY
Give the world the best you have
And you'll get kicked in the teeth,
GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY
The commandments have been revised and altered over the years, sometimes distorting the original meaning. You can read more about that at the link.
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Hey, I got back from deployment 2nd week in Feb but I've been super busy visiting friends and family and getting my civilian job/life back on track. I'll be around Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning for some XvT games.
Lets keep it alive, NAT support added recently so anyone can play from any connection!
I'll play every month! I have wed-fri off so anytime, I'm dying to play multiplayer. Xwing vs Tie Fighter as well.


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Examining Obama's higher ed legacy
An emphasis on empowering the middle class translated to a zeroing in on accountability and access, with mixed results
Jarrett Carter
President Barack Obama arrived in Washington in 2008 in the midst of one of the nation's worst financial recessions, with a message of hope and change as an empowering element of advancement for the middle class. Part of that message was an emphasis on higher education reform, with a platform of growing the industry to help the nation reclaim its position as the world's most prolific in the production of college graduates.
The same emphasis on standards and accountability that summarize President Barack Obama's mark on K-12 education translate to higher education. Over the course of eight years, the Obama Administration has worked to promote affordability, access, cost management and transparency in higher education. But many of those initiatives have created mixed messages and outcomes for families about the value of education, versus the education as a value add to workforce development.
Under former Secretary Arne Duncan, the administration zeroed in on sexual assault and affordability and the idea that college is a fundamental right that should be made available to all students. The administration was a strong proponent for the two-year sector and was the first to propose the idea of free community college. But just as notably, the administration's support for historically black and minority serving colleges and universities was seemingly non-existent, which seemed to counter the idea of Obama's strong focus on Civil Rights.
The arrival of John King did not change the direction of the administration's education policy. But if the Duncan education department is most known for free community college, the college scorecard and student loan reforms, it may be the tying of federal funding eligibility to certain metrics like transgender bathroom access and the decimation of the for-profit sector that marks King's time in the secretary's chair.
Below, we revisit some of the very public hits and missed opportunities of the Obama administration's higher education policy:
Affordability and access
In June 2009, the Department of Education announced its first set of major reforms, beginning with an overhaul of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Changes included stronger connectivity to federal tax information, and the removal of 26 questions from the application without significant bearing on potential awards. These changes accompanied increases to the federal Pell Grant program to $5,350 for annual awards; a number that would increase by $500 in the final year of his presidency.
In the following year, President Obama signed historic legislation eliminating student loans being offered by private lending institutions, expanding Pell Grant funding, and capping student loan payments to not exceed 10 percent of annual income. The Pell Grant funding, which earlier this year was expanded to include incarcerated learners, is expected to approach nearly $6,000 in 2017.
The administration's single biggest effort on affordability came in January 2015, when President Obama proposed a plan to make community college free for all students meeting certain academic goals, and for states opting in to subsidize 25% of the total tuition costs. That plan, which has undergone significant changes under Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton version of the proposal, factors to be a lingering element of the Obama Administration's legacy on higher education that will transition to become a point of emphasis for the next president.
Months later, ED officials announced a new plan to pilot financial aid assistance for more than 1.5 million incarcerated students who will be eligible for release in five years. The program was launched to aid in reducing criminal recidivism, and to bolster workforce development in trade and technical related fields.
In June 2010, the Department of Education made some of its earliest and strong statements on the credibility of degree programs. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking emphasized review and certification of high school programs which granted diplomas or early college credits, but also included language about for-profit and proprietary schools using predatory methods of marketing, which were not fulfilled and creating heavy student loan debt loads for millions of students.
In March 2011, the administration debuted its College Toolkit, one of the first public views of federal recommendations to states on how to address rising costs, historic social disparities and workforce development in higher education. This document, which offered statistical analysis of job placement, earnings, the importance of community college in supporting students who would not be admitted to four-year degree programs, and the growing number of adult learners, was a foundational document for several ED initiatives that would draw national attention in President Obama's second term.
This notice began an all-out pursuit of for-profit institutions, which drew congressional scrutiny during the same year for receiving billions in federal student loan disbursements, but also posted some of the nation's worst outcomes in graduation rates and job placement. In June 2014, officials announced plans for increased review of Corinthians Colleges, one of the nation's largest for-profit education companies. Citing repeated requests for documentation verifying job placement and recruiting information, the school placed the company on heightened cash monitoring and required it to wait 21 days after student enrollment data submission to withdraw financial aid. The move essentially bankrupted the college and created a blueprint for dismantling the for-profit sector.
Between April 2015 and September 2016, Corinthians and ITT Technical Institute closed their doors under pressure from the Department of Education created by financial penalties, enrollment prohibitions and forced disclosures to students about their status with the federal government. But in the preceding years, the Obama Administration's commitment to transparency grew with its 2013 introduction of the college scorecard, an online tool designed to help families compare institutions based upon metrics like annual costs, graduation rates, loan default rates and job placement. Six months later, the president discussed plans to debut a federal ranking system for colleges based heavily upon data organized in the scorecard. The plan, after intense criticism from colleges and universities nationwide was scrapped in 2015.
Campus as a foundation for social change
President Barack Obama delivered the commencement speech at Morehouse College in May 2013, and created national dialogue about the role and view of black men from the White House. With remarks touching on themes of black men 'not making excuses,' avoiding cynicism and working to be better fathers, it was among the most prominent examples of Obama revealing personal views of race and responsibility, and the first instance of a perceived habit of chiding black people in public black spaces.
To many, the Obama Administration head-first approach to speaking about cultural issues was among the most covered and discussed elements of its higher education legacy. But for many, his usage of the college platform was the beginning of sharp criticism from some presidents and advocates, who used the Morehouse speech as the foundational element of years of underfunding, neglect and criticism of HBCUs from the Obama White House. From a lack of engagement with the White House Board of Advisors on HBCUs, to dismissal of Congressional Black Caucus members on the subject of HBCUs, many would regard relationship with black colleges, in the best of descriptions, as complex; in the worst, hostile.
In May 2014, the Department of Education revealed a list of dozens of institutions under investigation for potential Title IX violations stemming from sexual assault cases. Spurred by student complaints to the department of improper or non-response to sexual assault allegation, or compliance reviews launched by the department, the release promoted promoted a national movement of students sharing stories of institutional failures in sexual assault response.
In September 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor and Education jointly announced the awarding of $500 million in funding for community colleges to implement distance learning and on-campus support mechanisms for students pursuing credentialing in trade and technical careers. It remains one of the largest rounds of financing for colleges and universities over the course of the Obama Administration, and was the single biggest initiative designed to jumpstart workforce development as a central theme for the department's vision for education in the 21st century.
Four years later, the administration announced a new initiative to pair colleges with for-profit institutions to offer courses to low-income students for professional credentials and degrees in manufacturing and tech jobs. Schools were chosen and charged with guaranteeing access to affordable academic and technical curriculum, and protections for students.


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xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, the latest manga bestsellers from the hit-maker atelier CLAMP, are now transposed into two brand new feature anime films! The two films have completely original scripts, but as their manga versions, the stories are interlinked despite they take place in different dimensions, making this new type of "collaborative movie" a first for the film industry.
xxxHOLiC started in Young Magazine in February 2003, followed by Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- in May 2003 on the pages of Shonen Magazine. They are the two masterpieces that celebrate CLAMP's fifteen years as a group, composed by Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Okawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona. After their major debut in 1989 with RG Veda, CLAMP have won popularity around the world with titles such as Magic Knight Rayearth, Chobits and Cardcaptor Sakura. Although the two series were appearing in two separate magazines and had two separate worldviews, CLAMP decided to link the stories. This new approach surprised everyone and ushered in a new age to the world of manga. The story encompasses the origin of their respective worlds, as well as aspects of other manga created by the atelier. We are witnessing the entire CLAMP World being created.
Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- has already been made into animation as a TV series started on NHK from April 2005, gaining more fans, while xxxHOLiC receives here its first media adaptation.
...if you pay an appropriate remuneration for it.


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Home/Business/BBC Worldwide signs Paralympic World Cup deal
The commercial arm of the BBC has signed a deal with Fast Track on behalf of Paralympic World Cup Limited to distribute the Visa Paralympic World Cup. The deal commences with a BBC produced one-hour highlight package of this year's Paralympic World Cup, which begins on May 12 in Manchester. The programme, which will cover the four disciplines of athletics, swimming, track cycling and wheelchair basketball, has already been pre-sold, by BBC Worldwide, to 146 territories for broadcast across Europe, Africa and Asia.
BBC Worldwide signs Paralympic World Cup deal
BikeBiz 10th May 2005	Business
Richard Hornsby-Smith, sales manager sport, BBC Worldwide, said: "The Paralympic World Cup has a great following and we are looking forward to further raise the profile of this groundbreaking event around the world."
The Paralympic World Cup is a Grand Prix style multi-sport event and provides the biggest international elite level disability competition outside of the Paralympic games. Over 350 athletes from 46 countries will be taking part.
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Look no further for the perfect summer party dress because you have found it. The red color give this a-line dress a touch of the shabby chic look which is all the rage in the fashion world. The off the shoulder design is great for giving off a look of confidence. The lace hem is a tender touch that gives a touch of softness to the design. The best materials and finest craftsmanship went into the development of this dress and it is sure to please. You will be a pleasant sight when you step out and show the world your great style and sense of fashion. The solid color makes this dress easy to accessorize and dress up for more formal occasions.


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1 What computer manufacturers developed on Windows
2 How to make it work under Linux
2.1 Graphics under Linux
2.2 Problems
2.3 Solutions
What computer manufacturers developed on Windows
The aim of using two graphic cards is mainly to provide a good compromise between a powerful card whose power in needed only when running demanding programs, and an integrated card, which would not be well suited for those usages. On Windows, the load between the discrete and the integrated card is automaticly balanced, when the right drivers are installed.
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How to make it work under Linux
Graphics under Linux
At startup, the Linux kernel starts using a video mode and setting up low-level graphic drivers which will be used by the applications. Most of the Linux distributions then use X.org to create a graphical environment. Finally, a few other softwares are launched, first a login manager and then a window manager, and so on. This hierarchical system has been designed to be used in most of cases on a single graphic card.
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Tieto and Folksam have a relationship dating back to 2012, when Tieto was entrusted with the task to manage Folksam's infrastructure and applications. In recent years, Folksam has responded to the increased digitalisation of society by undertaking a major restructuring of its entire operations.
Increased digitalisation is one of Folksam's main focus areas. As Folksam's partner, Tieto will build an infrastructure that enables an even higher level of automatisation, increases data-driven development and meets the need of both the market and customers at a faster rate through more frequent releases. Investing in a modern IT environment also strengthens Folksam's position as an attractive employer for IT specialists.
The deal is worth more than SEK 600 million and extends over 5 years. Folksam will from now on use Tieto's standardised services within areas such as Private Cloud and service bundles such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. With the help of Tieto's service Application Cloud Assessment, Folksam will also get a clear overview of its application portfolio and its modernisation journey toward cloud-based solutions. Folksam will also receive the added value of Tieto's ecosystem, which includes subsidiary Avega with its vast expertise within cloud solutions, agile change processes and Microsoft and RedHat.
"Our partners in the insurance industry are quickly facing increased demands and expectations from their customers. In such a competitive industry, it's important to be able to offer customers the best service possible and to quickly get new updates and offers to market. Transitioning to Tieto's own cloud services provides exactly those types of possibilities for increased innovation," says Gun-Marie Rinaldo, Customer Executive at Tieto.
The changing needs that Folksam is seeking a solution for are mirrored to a great extent by Tieto's own journey as a company – from being the leading supplier of infrastructure to also being the partner that creates business development through digitalisation and steps into the future together with the customer. A key part of Tieto's concept for success is to have close customer relationships in combination with strategic expansion.
"We are proud of the increased trust that Folksam is giving Tieto in relation to its digital change journey," says Gun-Marie Rinaldo.


This Cranberry Buckle is an easy skillet cake recipe filled with sweet and tart cranberries!
It's cranberry season! From Thanksgiving, to Christmas, all the way through New Year's cranberries can be used in everything from drinks to desserts. I love using cranberries in recipes because I think they are so pretty and I love their tartness. Add a little sugar and they have the perfect mix of sweet and tart. I've used cranberries for years in things like my cranberry fluff, but this year I've been experimenting with cranberries in new recipes. I've made this amazing cranberry sweet potato casserole and this cranberry buckle that is out of this world.
First we should probably start with what a buckle is. I had never heard of it either but a friend of mine from the Midwest introduced me to it. A buckle falls into that same category of desserts as cobblers, crumbles, crisps, grunts, and brown betties. A buckle is a cake-y batter that is poured into a pan or skillet first and then has fruit placed on top of the batter. The cake rises up around the fruit giving it a buckled look. It's really easy to make and it uses simple ingredients so it is perfect for the holidays when you need to whip up something quick and easy for last minute guests who stop by.
The cake batter is made with a mix of flour, baking powder, milk, and sugar. I like to make my buckle in a skillet so I melt butter in my skillet then pour the batter in and sprinkle cranberries over the top. Sprinkle a little extra sugar over the top and put the whole thing carefully in the oven to bake at 350 degrees F for about an hour, or until a toothpick poked into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
When it comes out of the oven this rustic cake smells so good! Cut it into a wedge and serve it on a plate with a scoop of ice cream and you've got yourself the perfect winter dessert!
This Cranberry buckle is a simple skillet cake filled with tart cranberries.
Heat a 10 inch skillet over medium high heat and melt the butter in it.
While the butter melts make your batter. In a large bowl combine sugar, flour, and baking powder. Whisk to thoroughly combine.
Add milk to the dry mixture whisking it together.
Add the vanilla stirring until mixed.
Pour the melted butter into the mixture, stirring until fully combined. Then pour the mixture into the skillet.
Sprinkle the cranberries over the top of the mix going all the way out to the edges. The cake will puff and the cranberries will move inwards as it bakes.
Sprinkle the top with a little more sugar and then place the skillet in the oven.
Bake cake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted int he center comes out clean.
Serve warm with a scoop of ice cream and enjoy!