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SETI Director Says Aliens Won't Try To Kill And Eat Us
By David Wharton | 9 years ago
Hollywood has a long history of besmirching the good name of any hypothetical alien beings that might someday stop by for a visit. For every one E.T. or Mac and Me, there are dozens of war-mongering would-be world conquerors determined to serve man (it's a cookbook!). Even Stephen Hawking, one of the brightest minds of our age, suggests that any contact with an advanced extraterrestrial race would most likely be really, really bad for us puny humans. Jill Tarter, the Director of the Center for SETI research, however, has a more optimistic view of first contact.
SETI, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, has been scanning the skies for signs of any cosmic neighbors for decades, and it's understandable that the head of an organization actively involved in trying to hunt down aliens would give the little green men the benefit of the doubt. When it comes to the tendency for fiction to paint ETs as hostile space invaders, Tarter suggests that these tales often say more about us as a species than they do about the fictional aliens in question. She also specifically counter's Hawking's more pessimistic view on the subject. Speaking to Phys.org, Tarter said:
While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree. If aliens were able to visit Earth that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food, or other planets. If aliens were to come here it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn't be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either. We should look at movies like Men in Black III, Prometheus and Battleship as great entertainment and metaphors for our own fears, but we should not consider them harbingers of alien visitation.
That, of course, is exactly what the aliens want you to think, which is why they've been gradually conditioning us to accept colonization through decades of alien-invader movies. That may be pure conjecture on my part, but we'll see who's calling who crazy when I'm leading the underground human commando force and you're being served with a side of mint jelly. Viva la resistance!
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Guide to the Papers of Major-General Sir Francis...
Guide to the Papers of Major-General Sir Francis Cunningham Scott
Manuscript Name Papers of Major-General Sir Francis Cunningham Scott
Extent 1.2 cm (1 box)
Abstract This small collection comprises a personal diary kept by Major-General Sir Francis Cunningham Scott, KCB, KCMG, when he served as a Major with the 42nd (The Highland) Regiment of Foot during the Ashanti War of 1873-1874.
The collection has been arranged in box then folder order.
Major-General Sir Francis Cunningham Scott was born in 1834, and died on 26 June 1902. He joined the Army on the 24 November 1852 as an Ensign in the 42nd (The Highland) Regiment of Foot, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Regiment, 18 August 1854; promoted to Captain, 6 September 1855; Major, 26 March 1868; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 April 1974; Colonel, 1881; Honourary Major-General 25 March 1896.
He served in the Crimean War, 1854-1855 at the battles of Alma and Balaklava, on an expedition to Kertch and Yenikale, and at the siege and fall of Sevastopol, received medal with 3 clasps, Medjidie medal, 5th class, and Turkish medal. During the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858, he served at Cawnpore, Seraighat, Khodagunj, Shumsabad, the siege and fall of Lucknow, attack of fort Rooyah, Ally Gunge, and the attack and capture of Bareilly, he received a medal with clasp. During the Ashanti War, 1873-1874, he served at the battle of Amoaful, commanded the 42nd Foot at the capture and destruction of Becquah, battle of Ordahsu (wounded), and capture of Coomassie, twice mentioned in despatches 1874, received a medal with clasp; Inspector-General of Gold Coast Constabulary, 1891; directed operations against the Jebus on the West Coast of Africa, 1892; commanded the Ashanti Expedition, 1895-1896; and command of the local forces in Trinidad and Tobago, 1898.
He received a CB, 31 March 1874, KCMG, 16 August 1892, and a KCB 31 March 1896.
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Great Brian Army list, January 1902
The New annual army list and militia list : for ... (being the ... annual volume), containing the dates of commissions, and a statement of the war services and wounds of nearly every officer in the army, ordnance and marines, Volume 22, 1861.
[Manuscript Item], Papers of Major-General Sir Francis Cunningham Scott, Academy Library, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MS 171, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
This collection was purchased from Maggs Bros Rare Books on 3 January 1985.
Scott, Francis Cunningham, Sir, 1834-1902 -- Diaries.
Ashanti War, 1873-1874
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 42nd
Great Britain. Army. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Great Britain. Army -- Foreign service -- Ghana
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Diary kept when Scott served as a Major with the 42nd (The Highland) Regiment of Foot during the Ashanti War of 1873-1874, business card and menu details, 1874


With memorials, splash pads and future pools on the way, Liberty Hill is looking closely at another issue in the effort to improve the local park system – connecting them together.
In a brief presentation to the Liberty Hill Parks & Recreation Board at its May 15 meeting, Jordan Maddox with Halff Associates, updated the Board on the progress of the trails master plan.
The trails plan will work in much the same way the recently adopted transportation plan will for the city as it grows, outlining the future vision so it can be included as much as possible in development plans.
"When the city is looking at capital improvement projects, applying for grants, development and working with TxDOT, CTRMA and these transportation entities, that you can get some of these shared-use paths, off-street trails, and start getting some connectivity, down to River Ranch, down the San Gabriel and to some of the other city parks," Maddox said.
The map of proposed in town trails, including the already-approved shared use path along Loop 332 from downtown to State Highway 29 to the east, is the short-term plan, looking out 10 to 15 years.
It also includes a trail from downtown the other direction on Loop 332 to City Park, a trail east along SH 29 to US Highway 183, and trails along RR 1869 and CR 279 to reach River Ranch Park. Off street trails along the San Gabriel River and paralleling the railroad tracks are also mapped.
The goal is to connect as many parks and school campuses as possible within the system.
In a wider view, beyond the 15-year plan, Halff has also mapped out potential trails in conjunction with the transportation plan.
"We have incorporated all of those paths into this plan, on the assumption there will be some sort of pedestrian sidewalk or some type of trail associated with that roadway when it gets built," Maddox said.
The next step is to bring the completed plan to the parks board for approval and then to the city council for adoption.
While it is a separate project, the parks master plan with Williamson County that Halff is putting together will also impact Liberty Hill, as it looks more in-depth at the San Gabriel River trail options.
Maddox said they expect to finalize the report for presentation to the Parks Board in June.


Nokomis Area Groundwater Issues	MPRB has partnered with the City of Minneapolis and other agencies to investigate what is known about high groundwater challenges in areas around the lake.
Current Phase: For more information and updates, see the City of Minneapolis project page.
For more information and updates, see the City of Minneapolis project page.


For the past three years we have sent of team of volunteers on an exciting adventure to build a footbridge in an isolated community in Africa. This year, for the first time, the team travelled to eastern Uganda. This is their story.


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Richard R. Nicklaw LEICESTER — Richard Russell Nicklaw, age 87, died Friday, July 5, 2019, at Helen Porter Nursing Home in Middlebury. Mr. Nicklaw was born in Leicester on Aug. 11, 1931. He was the son of Russell and Hazel (Tyler) Nicklaw. He had been a Leicester resident all of his life. He grew up here where he received his early education. He graduated from Brandon High School, class of 1949. Mr. Nicklaw was a dairy farmer and sugarmaker. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He enjoyed gardening and bowling. Surviving are three sons Richard "Rick" Nicklaw and companion Bonnie Litchfield, Rusty Nicklaw and wife Lori, John Nicklaw and wife Cheryl, all of Leicester; two brothers Harold Nicklaw and wife Joan and Frank William "Bill" Nicklaw and wife Yvonne, all of Leicester. Seven grandchildren, a great-grandson and several nieces, nephews and cousins also survive him. The graveside committal service and burial will take place on Thursday, July 11, 2019, at 10 a.m. in Pine Hill Cemetery in Brandon.


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Allie Colman, an EisnerAmper tax manager discusses changes to the PATH Act that make the R&D tax credit very attractive to start-ups and small businesses. Allie covers the impact on the payroll and AMT taxes, who qualifies, how much the credits are worth and how to apply.
The first key impact is to payroll taxes. Small business that meet specified gross receipts thresholds can now apply a certain amount of its R&D tax credit – up to $250,000 annually – to offset its employer portion of FICA liability immediately, rather than carrying the credit forward to offset potential income tax liability.
Secondly, small businesses that pass certain business structure and gross receipts tests can utilize the credits to offset both the regular and alternative minimum tax.
Dave Plaskow: Hello and welcome to EisnerAmper's podcast series, where we try to dig a little deeper on accounting and finance issues facing business professionals and their clients. Today's topic is how startups can get an immediate cash benefit from R&D credits. I'm your host Dave Plaskow and with us today is Allie Colman, an EisnerAmper Tax Manager. Allie, welcome, and thanks for being here.
Allie Colman: Great to be here, Dave.
DP: So, Allie, tell us about what type of tax credits we're talking about.
AC: We're going to be talking about the two changes that were made to the R&D credit under the 2015 PATH Act primarily related to payroll taxes and AMT.
DP: In a nutshell, what makes the change to the PATH Act significant? Why is this a big deal for companies?
AC: Startup companies that have losses typically don't know when they're going to start making money when they're going to be paying tax, so they have these R&D credits that are getting carried forward indefinitely for 20 years, and they don't know when they're ever going to be able to get a benefit from it. So now this gives those companies that are incurring losses an instant benefit from the R&D credit that we're calculating, and it saves them cash. So, for companies that are in loss positions, they need to conserve cash where possible, and this is a way for them to do that.
DP: So it's more of an immediate help.
AC: Right. So R&D credits are normally carried forward for 20 years to offset income tax liability, and there are some companies that have losses for 30 years. So some of those R&D credits may go expired. But we actually are able to now give them instant cash to offset their FICA payroll taxes.
DP: So, yeah, that is a big deal.
AC: Yeah, and it's also kind of an incentive for them to hire new employees, right?
AC: Because it's to payroll taxes, so that's saving them money but they can still get more resources.
DP: Why don't we start with the payroll tax?
AC: Sure. So, the changes to the R&D credit allow qualified small businesses to apply a certain amount of their R&D credit to offset the FICA portion of employer payroll taxes, rather than carrying the amount forward indefinitely to offset potential income tax liability.
DP: So when you say qualified, what do you mean by qualified?
AC: So, the benefit applies to corporations, partnerships, LLCs or individuals that have gross receipts of less than $5 million in the year of election. However, there is another little nuance that you cannot have any gross receipts for any taxable year proceeding the five-tax-year period ending with the tax year. So, in English, that means that you cannot have any gross receipts prior to the 2012 tax year if you're making the election for 2016.
DP: And how much is the credit for?
AC: The credit is limited to the lesser of $250,000 or the amount of your R&D credit calculated on your 2016 tax return. Whatever portion of the credit is not used in the current quarter can be used to offset future quarter's FICA tax liability.
AC: And the credit's actually available for five years, so it could be a potential tax savings of $1.25 million.
DP: And what's the process for applying for the credit?
AC: Normally, you just compute your R&D credit on the Form 6765 that's filed with your tax return that's filed with the IRS. That part doesn't change, but there is an additional Form, 8974, and that's where you indicate what portion of your R&D credit you want to use to offset FICA. That is also filed with your income tax return, and then when you file your 941, your payroll tax return, you just attach that 8974 with it every quarter, so they'll know what portion of your payroll tax you want to offset with your R&D credit.
DP: Now let's turn our attention to the AMT. What's the impact there?
AC: So previously the R&D credit couldn't really be used to offset the alternative minimum tax, or 'AMT' as we savvy tax people call it. The PATH act lets certain taxpayers utilize the credit to offset both regular tax and AMT. So prior credits that are generated in 2016 going forward can be used to offset AMT. Unfortunately, this isn't retrospective, so any of your previous R&D credit carry forwards are still limited to just income tax. So it's really just a benefit for R&D credits 2016 going forward.
DP: And who's eligible for the AMT benefit?
AC: So it's available to small businesses that are private corporations, partnership or sole proprietorships. Then there's also, similar to the R&D side, there is a gross receipts limitation. So the average annual gross receipts of the entity for the three taxable-year period preceding the taxable year must not exceed $50 million. Again, interpreting that, so for 2016, you would have to look at your 2013, 2014 and 2015 gross receipts, take the average, and if it's less than $50 million, then you're good.
DP: Well this sounds like a really good deal for startups and small businesses, so, thanks for this great information.
DP: And thank you for listening to the EisnerAmper podcast series. Visit EisnerAmper.com for more information on this, and a host of other topics. And join us for our next EisnerAmper podcast when we get down to business.
Alexandra Colman is a Senior Tax Manager serving clients in the life sciences, biotechnology, manufacturing and distribution, and retail industries. Allie works with large corporations, both public and private, on multistate returns and tax provisions.
EisnerAmper LLP is among the nation's largest full-service advisory and accounting firms providing accounting, audit and tax services to a broad range of clients. We can assist small businesses and life science companies with the R&D tax credit provided under the PATH ACT. Our team of experts can assist with your company's payroll taxes and FICA taxes or the AMT to ensure your form 6765 and form 8974 provide you with the greatest cash benefit under the R&D tax credit allowed under the PATH Act, and minimize your overall tax liability.


Telling executives they need to have clear goals and retain talent seems, well, silly. Isn't that common sense? But the truth is, so many organizations are failing on fundamentals—and don't even realize.
Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun says it's time to go back to the basics. And she has the data to prove it. Sadun and other researchers have surveyed 15,000 organizations in 34 countries about core managerial practices. What they've found calls into question the conventional wisdom about operational excellence. It's not just table stakes. Nor is it distinct from strategy. In fact, operational excellence is so rare, so hard to achieve, that it can actually be a strategic advantage.
Joining me now is Raffaella Sadun. She's a co-author of the new article "Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?" It's in the September–October 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Raffaella, thank you so much for being here today.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: Are you telling me that the good people of the world are not reading HBR enough?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: They are. Don't worry. They all read HBR. They all do. What I'm telling you is that maybe they read HBR and they think they are doing what HBR tells them to do. But in practice they don't. So although we know that certain practices should be done, it's very rarely that we go and really self-evaluate: What are we doing? Are we really using them? Are we being objective in the way we look at data? Are we even collecting the right data? We are surprised by the fact—we asked managers to self-evaluate, and then we compared their self-evaluation with our score. We found that there was a very large discrepancy. Everybody is above average when you ask them what they are, right?
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: I'm wondering if there was a conversation you remember with a manager where the person sort of realized in the conversation, oh, I'm not as good as I thought I was?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Oh, yeah. I remember talking with a manager that we interviewed. We had the results on his organization. He came out at the very bottom. And I remember this feeling of, how is that possible? It was a good moment of realization that maybe there were some improvements that could be done. It was a moment of, is this how we want to do things? Maybe we do things because it's perceived to be better for us. But, you know, can we question? Should we change or not?
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: What are some of the other reasons that companies struggle to improve at management?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: One is awareness—so not knowing that they're behind. The second one is the issue of skills, which is very important, and I think that that has actually a public policy type of angle to it, too. Some of the practices that we survey require minimal level of literacy and numeracy skills. If your workforce does not have these basic skills, it's going to be hard to implement them because you're effectively shifting the discussion to numbers—checking, you know—even if it's basic stuff, sometimes a workforce cannot apply it. The third one, which I think, it's fascinating and has not been really started well, but it's this issue of organizational dynamics and resistance. And I think that it comes down to the fact that you are when you are introducing a process in a company, you're asking people to standardize what they do to some extent. Nobody likes to be standardized. And especially who doesn't like it? The very skilled individuals hate it.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: Yeah people chafe under process sometimes.
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Yeah, yeah. I think I think it's because sometimes processes are felt as constrained on what you do, and you sort of lose sight of the fact that if you're able to move the organization toward processes that are not, you know, bureaucracy, but they're processes conducive to learning and improvement, you get such a large gain as an organization that they overweight your personal cost. I'm fascinated by the idea of studying how this resistance, right? How does it play out, and how do you overcome it?
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: Yeah. Do you have any kind of ongoing research about that now?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Yeah, actually in the in the health care setting in a developing country. You know, we've been working with a set of 50 hospitals and in particular the neonatal intensive care units. One thing we noticed there is that the basics, for example, hand-washing—you know, the rate of hand-washing in the sense that intensive care unit is below 10 percent on average, which is tragic. Neonatal mortality rates are very high. What we're realize working with these hospitals is that the extent to which people where nurses were following clinical protocols very much depended on the way their bosses, their clinical head, were working with them. Some of them were very good at sort of creating this coordination with the nurses: meeting with them regularly, talking about how things were done, how things should be done, getting their feedback.
Others were completely disconnected from the nurses, and really there wasn't this—they were not managing them. So what we're trying to do is, can we think of a management intervention where we teach the clinical heads to be better coordinators. And can this lead to improve clinical quality and therefore lower infection rates for the kids. That's one example where I really think basic management can have a powerful effect. And it's important to study whether that's true and, you know, study it in a rigorous fashion.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: What are some of the patterns you've seen so far and just between different types of companies or across different countries?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: It's fascinating. So, the level—the differences that we've seen are— first of all, there is a big difference across countries. And that is something that—you know, I mean, I'm an economist, and I came to this research because I was interested in why are certain countries growing more than others, right? And can we link it back to companies? And this is absolutely— you know, if you look at the management data, there is a very large difference across countries: you will see the developed countries, as you would expect, are much more professionalized; the firms are much more professionalized than in developing countries. This is an important finding because it's telling us that perhaps one of the reasons behind this difference is levels of development can be traced back to the organizations themselves. It's not just, you know, the government is not working or the education system is not working.
It's something that has to do with firms, with people: managers. So that's the first level of differences. And then I think what was really striking and surprised us as much as it surprised other people is the level of different heterogeneity differences, even within countries and even within the same industries within countries. So you look at the US, probably the most developed country. Even within the US, you will observe that there are some companies that are really well-managed and some companies are still not implementing the basics.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: In your view, what are some examples of managerial basics?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Yeah. So, let me give you another one of my favorite examples: meetings.
RAFFAELLA SADUN: And I'm not talking about just, you know, the frequency or the length of the meetings, but: how do you approach your meetings? Do you have an agenda that is discussed? Do you have a follow-up plan? Are you using data, or are you just telling people, you know, your gut feeling? Or ordering people what to do. I think it is important because it's one of those instances where, if run well, you can learn a lot. You can learn, you know, you can learn from the experience of the participants; you can think about new ways of doing things; you can allocate responsibilities and create accountability, if done well. And, you know, if they're not done well, as we all know, they can be a complete waste of time. So what is interesting is that actually there are some well-known processes on how to conduct meetings, and these are some of the things that we capture.
We ask managers if they have an agenda. We ask them if they have a follow-up plan. We try to understand how the interactions work in these meetings. So that would be one very basic example that I think affects everybody when you look at different firms.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: One of the big differences you see is the worst managed firms in your sample seem to be founder-led firms and family firms. Why do you think you found that?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: What fascinates me, at least, is that when you look at the family firm, for example, Absolutely there is there is a willingness to make the firm grow or to make it to keep it profitable over the long term. But the family firm also makes as it has a mix of objectives, right? So, one is making money, for sure. But then there is all this other emotional bond: I want to be the boss or, you know, I really would like for my kids to work with me. Well, it turns out your kids are not necessarily always the best managers. And so once you start mixing business with family, you know, you might make decisions that are very good for what we call private benefits of control: being your own boss or giving a job to your kid but day might not be necessarily the best thing for the firm itself or for the managerial quality of the people working in a firm.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: So people already think they're doing a good job. They chafe under this sort of mandate to be doing things in a more standardized way. Was there sort of anything else that came up in terms of why it is just so hard to do? I mean, as you say, it's not rocket science. Like, we sort of know what people should be doing.
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Yeah, and I think it really comes down to the fact that it's not going to be—you know, if it's only one person doing it this type of process, is typically doesn't have a strong impact on organizational performance. You really want to have different parts of the organization working together with this common language. When that happens, the gains can be really large; but until you get to that point, it's a costly process. And so, you know, you might have organizations that decide to start a Lean trajectory. How many Lean initiatives are there? Many. But, you know, what happens in practice? Well, the, you know, manufacturing people are very excited about it. But sales and marketing really hates it. And so, what happens next? Well, it's the, you know, flavor of the month. It's abandoned, and it's not part of the culture of the organization, and so you just leave it there.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: Does it matter what the CEO is like? Does it matter if a CEO is a great manager? You know, can he or she sort of push that through the whole organization, or does it just not quite get that far?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: I think the CEO can have a very strong influence on management practices. And I think what's really interesting is, if you have strong processes, the CEO doesn't have to check constantly and what people are doing. It's a little bit counter-intuitive: a CEO can have a strong effect, as long as the CEO is able to convey this idea of, you know, we have to work together on this, so it's more a kind of building consensus. That's where I see the role of the CEO as being really important in translating what moving towards a process-oriented organization is across the hierarchy and making sure that there is a strong signal of, this is how things are going to be done; this is how we work together. What happens is, so in doing that, CEOs have to realize that they will start to delegate much more. So, you know, they're not in charge of operations anymore, necessarily, because they have established processes that allow other people to do this job.
So the effectiveness of the CEO is—I think CEOs can be very effective once they give themselves, if you like, a new job description, which is not so much working on the minutia or the micromanagement piece, but they can really step up to this role of coordination and persuasion.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: I'm wondering if you've seen a kind of similar transformation in a company where the CEO or senior team has managed to really turnaround people's thinking and actually really improve the management of their firms?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: As you can hear from my accent I'm Italian. So, one is an Italian company that—Moleskin. And it was really interesting, you know, Moleskin is relatively, you know, was really small when they decided that they wanted to professionalize what they were doing and hired a professional manager to do that. And what was fascinating to me was to see how the professional manager changed the way things were done within Moleskin, introducing processes that were foreign to the company up to that moment because it was led through this sort of tacit knowledge that was embodied in the founder. And that is a transformation that took some time to do, and it took a very strong partnership with the founders themselves to realize, which, I think was a point. Imagine had the, you know, they were backed by a private equity company; imagine a different approach, where you would have just you know walked in on day one and said, this is how we do things today. What would have been the odds of success in that case? Through the partnership, he was really able to understand what they knew, what the founders knew, and scale it up so that that knowledge was accessible to many different people.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: So, in the article you recount the kind of famous story of how GM tried to adopt the Toyota production system and failed. What is the difference between a company that kind of successfully makes this transition and a company like GM that says, "Hey, this is great; we're going to do this" and then it just totally just sputters out?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Yeah. You know the case of GM, I think, it's fascinating because my interpretation of what happened is that there was an underestimation of really the type of implicit agreements that you need to have between the top of the organization and the workforce for these processes to be embraced. In the GM case, the relationship between the workforce and the management was—there was a trust between the two of them. So you cannot—once say tried to introduce processes that would lead to higher productivity, the thought was, if we become more productive as a workforce, they're going to fire us; they don't need us anymore. And that is a major obstacle, right, because you have to convince people to do things in a different way. And the threat to the workforce is that by becoming more productive they're going to lose their jobs. And this is something that is not just GM. GM is just an example of why using management processes is hard.
You know this is one of the concerns. And so, I think that again it goes back to the idea that we tend to say this process are so, so basic We're just going to tell people to do things in a different way. You really have to work with, you know, getting a mutual understanding with your employees. And that it's only at that they will believe, you know, the fact that by changing the way of doing things there would be a benefit not just for you but also for them.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: The kinds of firms that seem to come out at the top end of the best managed firms are private equity firms. And I'm just sort of curious about that tension, because usually when a firm is bought by a PR firm, the staff do feel like, oh, we're all going to be fired. So can you just explain like how does that work? How do PE firms pull this off, even, maybe, if there's not a lot of trust?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: You know, you don't have to rebuild trust. You're basically starting from the assumption that there is a minimal level of trust. There is selection of the workforce. So, in some cases, some firms actually, you know, change the entire top team. There is a conscious understanding that if you want to change the way things are done, you have to work with people that believe in what you're doing. You know, that already is creating a more homogenous sort of set of beliefs across the workforce. And then there is that accountability. And so, you know, if it's accountability that is built—sometimes it's built through monetary incentives; sometimes it's built through, again, the creation of our common language of performance results. That's my understanding, is that there is this way of doing it systematically from the top to the bottom that helps create a common set of understanding of how things are going to work forward.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: There is this kind of debate about, like, which comes first: If you have a great culture and a trusting culture, do you then have operational excellence? Or is it operational excellence that creates a sort of culture of winning and trust? Where do you come out on that chicken-versus-egg question?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: You know, it also has some strong historical roots. For example, we've measured the extent to which managers delegate to other people and you can see that the patterns of delegation vary very much across geographies, even within the same county. Let me give you the Italian example. Firms in the north tend to delegate much more to the workforce than plants in the south. And Italy is one of those countries where the level of generalized trust—forget about these individual companies varies tremendously for historical reasons within the country. In the north, they tend to be more trusting, relative to the south; it relates back to social capital. So, to some extent, trust is exogenous. It depends on where you know where your firm is, the history of the company, the patterns, the relationship that you had with your employees, going back to the GM example right?
At the same time, trust is a variable that can be changed. I go back to the idea that the top of the organization can play an important role in building trust.
But if you want organization to follow management principles, you as a CEO should make sure that you know you buy into them right.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: You know what is the proper role of places like business schools and training programs? Because it seems like there are a lot of expensive and prestigious programs, and managers learn a lot of things there, but are they learning things that would help them address this specific issue?
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess you know I have the I have the experience of my students at HBS. And when we discuss cases where it's clear that what distinguishes an organization is the use of processes, but the use of processes, you know, throughout the hierarchy, as we discussed before, you know, they question whether, you know, is really something that is going to lead to competitive advantage. They can't believe that these things which are so basic and so known can actually be a source of performance differentials. So, I think that maybe one aspect that I'd love to see more is really exposing the students to this variety of how things get done in practice. Maybe you can embed them in organizations and you can see, this is a well-run organization; this is a badly run organization. What do you make of it? And what's your role? How would you change how things are done? And it's the same with executive students, which come, and they have this moment of realization that they could do things differently. If it's only one person from an organization coming and getting exposed and then he or she goes back and there isn't a commitment from the top, it's going to be hard to change. So, when you think about training program, I think it's important to think about training from not just learning the abstract but thinking proactively, how am I going to adapt? How I'm going to use this when I go back?
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: Raffaella, thank you so much for being with us.
RAFFAELLA SADUN: Thank you so much.
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: That's Raffaella Sadun. She's a professor at Harvard Business School. And she's a co-author of the article, "Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?" Read it in the September–October 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review—or on HBR.org.


Agency law has changed on numerous occasions in Massachusetts over the past decade for the types of representation that can occur. I will try to break it down into its simplest terms for the laymen to understand.
SELLER'S AGENT- A Seller's agent works exclusively for the seller. A seller can engage the services of Realtor to sell his or her home. This is often refereed to as the "Listing agent". In this instance the agent works for the seller. The agent owes the seller undivided loyalty, reasonable care, disclosure, and obedience to lawful instruction, confidentiality and accountability, provided, however, that the agent must disclose know defects in the real estate or seller's home.
The Realtor must always put the seller's best interests 1st and negotiate for the best price and terms for their client, the seller. A good Realtor selling homes in Metrowest MA will never put their financial interests ahead of their seller client.
It pays to interview an use a good Realtor when selling your home in Massachusetts. See my blog on Smart Questions to ask the Realtor you are interviewing. These are great questions to ask as they will weed out the Realtors that don't do much business. It makes sense to hire a pro! I would also look at my blog about Making smarter choices in picking your Real Estate Agent.
The seller, when selling their home in Massachusetts can authorize their listing agent to allow sub-agents or Seller's agents to show the property. This is something I would absolutely stay away from!! When a seller allows sub-agency to occur they are opening themselves up to the potential lawsuits from wrongful misrepresentation from a sub-agent or seller's agent. See my blog Metrowest MA Real Estate - Why most companies don't offer sub-agency to get a better understanding of what I am talking about.
The art of marketing/selling a home in Metrowest Massachusetts has changed dramatically over the last few years. The Internet has changed how real estate is bought and sold in Massachusetts. See selling your home in Metrowest MA to get a better understanding of how Internet exposure has changed the real estate game.
Buyer's Agent - A buyer's agent works exclusively for the Buyer. A buyer can engage the services of a Realtor to represent them exclusively as well. Like in the above example, the Buyer's agent owes the buyer undivided loyalty, reasonable care, disclosure, obedience to lawful instruction, confidentiality and accountability provided, however, that the Realtor must disclose know defects in the property. Again, like in the example above, the agent must be looking out for their buyer clients best interests and not their own. A good buyer's agent will be invaluable to their client in providing appropriate comparable sales data for the home they are interested in, as well as analyzing that data to form a basis of value and negotiating strategy to accomplish buying the home at fair market value or if lucky, below fair market value.
A good buyers agent will never recommend that a buyer spend over fair market value to procure a home. The agent should never have their pocket book in mind. A buyers agent that has a good track record of sales and honesty are very important. A good agent that does a fair amount of business does not have to be worried about where their next check is coming from and therefore can be more objective when advising their client. Of course there are times when a buyer will spend over what an agent has recommended, that is fine because the buyer is choosing to do so on their own. Beside negotiating on the buyers behalf, A good buyers's agent will have an understanding of individual town demographics, School data, Highway access, and other things relevant to a buyers individual needs.
Dual Agent - Dual agency has changed quite a few times in Massachusetts over the last decade. At present Dual agency only occurs when an agent hired by the seller to work for them as a seller's agent, also works with a buyer in the same transaction. In this instance the Realtor would be representing both the buyer and seller. Written consent is required in Dual agency prior to the execution of an offer. A dual agent can not satisfy fully the duties of loyalty, full disclosure, and obedience to lawful instruction which is required of a exclusive buyer or seller agent. A dual agent still must owe a duty of confidentiality or material information and accounting for funds. The written consent for Dual agency must contain the information provided for in the regulations of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Real Estate Brokers and Sales people. A sample Dual agency consent form is available at the Boards MASS.Gov website.
I make it a practice to get consent from both the the buyer and seller well before an offer is drawn up. I will always explain how Dual agency works in Massachusetts when I am sitting down with the seller to list their property. I will also explain to a buyer upon 1st meeting them how Dual agency occurs in Massachusetts.
One of the advantages I have ,because I work in a team, is that I am almost always able to remain working exclusively as a buyer's or seller's agent. If a buyer becomes interested in one of my listings I am able to refer them to one of my team mates.
Facilitator - The last type of agency in Massachusetts is facilitation. Facilitation is not that common in Metrowest MA. A facilitator is when a Realtor the seller and buyer in reaching an agreement but does not represent either the buyer or seller in the transaction. many companies will not allow facilitation for this very reason. Unless otherwise agreed the facilitator has no duty to keep information obtained about the seller or buyer confidential.Should the buyer or seller expressly agree, a facilitator relationship can be changed to become an exclusive seller's or buyer' agent relationship with either the buyer or seller.
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Smoking increases the risk for a number of diseases and health issues, including lung cancer. One step to promote healthier communities in Saskatchewan's north is to provide resources and strategies to help people quit smoking and reduce the number of young people who start.
The Northern Tobacco Strategy works to build environments that are resistant to commercial tobacco use while being respectful of the traditional use of tobacco, focussing on two target populations: pre and post-natal mothers and youth.
Based on PACT/TAR and other successful tobacco cessation programs, the training program is tailored to a northern Saskatchewan context using local data and knowledge and the experience and input of health care providers from the region.
A 2010 survey conducted by the Northern Tobacco Strategy revealed that many health care providers in northern Saskatchewan ask their clients about commercial tobacco use but do not know how to help a client who says they want to quit. The Brief Intervention for Tobacco Cessation: Helping Pregnant and New Mothers is an interactive training session to help service providers increase their capacity to offer tobacco cessation support to their clients.
In an effort to engage youth, we launched the social media campaign, Beyond the Pack.
Using Facebook and other social media platforms, Beyond the Pack prompts youth to consider their motivations, preconceptions, and behaviours concerning smoking. In addition to educating youth about the differences between traditional and commercial tobacco and exploring the risks and dangers of smoking, the campaign also features community influencers who discuss why commercial tobacco use isn't for them.
This brochure provides information on electronic cigarettes, including what they are and how they can impact your health. Included on the back is a guide to help parents talk with the teens about e-cigarettes.
This half day training is designed to help front line services providers who work with mothers gain the knowledge and skills they need to conduct brief intervention with the clients. Brief interventions are a quick, evidence based way to help increase the likelihood that a client will quit commercial tobacco.


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0:05Skip to 0 minutes and 5 secondsCAROLINE KNAGGS: My name is Caroline Knaggs. And I'm a librarian in the law library Monash University. We are going to talk about how to get started finding the law and understanding its meaning. Law is not static but evolves and changes regularly as new legislation is passed through Parliament and new judgments or cases are handed down by the courts. So being able to conduct legal research effectively will help you to feel confident in finding the current law. In Australia, there are freely available handbooks online, covering all aspects of life's interactions with the law in the state or territory in which you live.
0:47Skip to 0 minutes and 47 secondsSo for example, in Victoria, the law handbook published by the Victoria Legal Service is a great resource, as it gives an overview of the law and how it affects every day life. This is what the handbook looks like. Use the contents to go in and have a look around. Another useful site is Everyday Law, friend of Victoria Law Foundation, which will assist you to find and understand the law related to everyday events, such as traffic offenses. These are two local examples, but you will need to investigate, research, and read to find out about the law in your country. Here are some examples to get you started. You probably use Google extensively.
1:34Skip to 1 minute and 34 secondsBut did you also know that there is an advanced Google? Advanced Google enables you to tally your search. You can see here that you can be quite specific with how you enter your search terms. You can combine your terms. You can limit to specific domains, for example dot gov for government sites or dot edu for education institutions and to specific jurisdictions, such as dot au for Australia or dot nz for New Zealand. You will find that there's a lot of information readily available. But you need to be careful and assess what you find to ensure the information is accurate, current, and reliable. To do this, you could check where the information has come from.
2:25Skip to 2 minutes and 25 secondsYou should always cross check and compare what you find also. I'm going to search intellectual property as a phrase and add in the terms song, or music, or composition, and limited government websites in Australia because I want to find out what's happening locally. Here are my results. And scanning through, there are a range of materials I've found. There are a couple of references to cases and to legislation, both of which are primary sources of law, and to various reports, guides, and websites, which discuss intellectual property and help you to understand that area of the law. These are secondary sources or commentary. Advanced Google also includes various tips to help you to enter the search.
3:21Skip to 3 minutes and 21 secondsWhy don't you try out some searches in Advanced Google and see what you can find?
Watch Caroline show you how to use advanced search features to help you start finding law resources online.
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Contribuer à la protection et à la valorisation du capital environnemental unique de la RDC en préservant l'intégrité du Complexe de la Garamba comme bien Public mondial, et en augmentant les retombées économiques positives pour les populations environnantes.
The EU has committed €20 million to protect forests, support biodiversity conservation, and combat illegal wildlife trafficking in the Congo Basin.
This report highlights Asia's immense natural capital and provides information and analysis in support of a strategic approach to halting environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in the region. As its title suggests, the problem is far greater than the survival of a single iconic species, the tiger. Vanishing species are just a part of complex natural ecosystems that provide vital services to humanity. Many such services, if lost, are simply irreplaceable.
This project improves the competitiveness of the banana industry in the face of the tariff preference erosion in the EU market, while ensuring its environmental and socio-economic sustainability in the long run.
At the occasion of the International Day of Biological Diversity, European Commission's DG International Cooperation and Development is launching a major study: 'Larger than Tigers: Inputs for a strategic approach to biodiversity conservation in Asia'.


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Kurdish (Sorani)-English/English-Kurdish (Sorani) Dictionary & Phrasebook by Nicholas Awde
Paperback / Awde, Nicholas - $ 14.00
Sorani (also called Kurdi) is a Kurdish language spoken mainly in Iraq and Iran, with an estimated 15 million speakers world-wide. The Kurds are spread across the countries of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, as well as Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Lebanon. There is also a large diaspora of Kurds, which is especially prominent in Europe. In all, there are up to 40 million speakers of the Kurdish languages world-wide. Generally written in Perso-Arabic script, Sorani is now also found in Romanised form. This easy-to-use phrasebook uses the official Sorani Latin alphabet to aid instant communication. In addition to a pronunciation guide, included are: a resourceful two-way dictionary, containing over 4,000 entries; an informative grammar section; useful appendices of Sorani numbers, opposites, and key verbs; useful lists covering such things as emergency, health care, political, relief aid, and combat terms; and, a collection of travel-oriented phrases.
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Has John Abraham replaced Ajay Devgn in Saade Saati?
You are all set to make the transition from television to films with 'Gold'. Considering the fact that it's not easy for TV actors to make a successful shift to Bollywood, how would you describe your journey?
Television has given me everything and I am a very proud TV actor. Films, for me, is another medium and yes, this is a very exciting phase of my life with 'Gold' releasing and some other projects in the pipeline. It's been quite a journey. There was a period when I was very busy with 'Naagin' and later 'Naagin 2', and was completely caught up in the shoots and other events. Then suddenly one day, I got a call for Gold's audition. I remember I was on the set of Naagin and had to remove my make-up and rush for the audition during lunch break. I requested them to shoot somebody else's scene after the lunch break, because it wouldn't have been possible for me to finish the audition and return on time. After that, two months passed by and there was no news. Then one day, I got a call saying that I had been shortlisted and the makers wanted to meet me. We met, they spoke to me for two minutes and I was on board. I had already read the script and loved it, and I was absolutely elated to be a part of Gold. That's how it all began.
I am a very secure person and that's how I have always been because of my parents. I don't like to rush into things and would rather wait for the right time. I'm extremely emotional, but all my emotions and fantasies are restricted to literature or my close friends. When it comes to work, I'm clear about things. So yes, I was always sure that I would never leave everything that I have, to do a film just for the sake of it. If it was something that didn't excite me, I wouldn't take it up because I was content with what I had. In that sense, I am a happy person.
Television, too, has its share of ups and downs. You made your acting debut with the popular show, 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi', but after that, there was a lull until you returned with 'Devon Ke Dev Mahadev'. How did you cope with that?
Actually, that was a different phase and there was something else going on in my mind at that time. I was contemplating going to Delhi and becoming an IAS officer, I was very good academically and my dad always wanted me to be an IAS officer. But I also loved acting and so, eventually, I decided to stay back.
When news of you entering Bollywood first emerged, it was said that Salman Khan would give you your first break, which clearly is not the case. So, did Salman have any role to play?
You should actually pose this question to Ritesh (Sidhwani, producer of 'Gold'). Salman Khan has had no role to play in my Bollywood debut; I don't know how these reports emerged and I wonder why anybody would do that for me. Is it so unbelievable that after acting for 10 years and being a Bengali, I can't land a Bengali character's role by myself? It was hurtful.
How could such false news do the rounds? What hurt me was that the media gave me no credibility as an actor. It was my moment, but they took it away from me. Also, if I talk about this, it will look like I am using Salman sir's name for publicity, and I don't want to do that. He is someone I love and respect immensely. I have been his fan since I was a little girl, and I used to collect his posters and pictures. So, I don't want to just take his name, but now that this has come up, let me clarify that I have not got a single call from Salman Khan's production house for any role.
What about 'Dabangg 3'? Aren't you a part of it?
No, I haven't received a call for any film.
Do you think one needs a godfather to make it in the film industry?
What has worked for me is hard work and luck. It's about the unison of time, space and action, it's about being at the right place at the right time. About one needing a godfather, I don't know how that functions because I have never had one.
How was it working with a senior actor like Akshay Kumar in 'Gold'?
He is an amazing human being to begin with. He is a superstar, but he never lets you feel that. I remember on the first day of shoot, I was very nervous. I had to smile for a scene, but I was just showing my teeth. That's when Reema (Kagti, director) actually came to me and said, 'Don't be so much in awe!' I give Akshay the entire credit for taking away my uneasiness. One thing you can learn from him is sincerity. He is so much fun generally, but the moment the camera is rolling, he gives his 200 per cent. That's very inspiring.
Being a Bengali, did you have any inputs to offer him for his character?
Not at all. In fact, he helped me and would tell me to take certain pauses or incorporate certain nuances in my mannerisms. Also, there was a dialect coach for him, so he didn't need my help.
When you started as an actress, you were quite open about your personal life, which is not the case anymore. What brought about this change?
I was very young. It was not about being open; it's just that I didn't understand anything. My father always taught me to be honest, as he said that makes life easy. But I genuinely believe that your personal life is your own, and you should talk about it only when you are comfortable.
But no interview of yours can be complete without a question on actor Mohit Raina, popular as Mahadev. There have been rumours about the two of you being a couple since many years. Are you seeing him?
Mohit is getting into films, too. What do you have to say about that?
Why do you think it's difficult for TV actors to make an impact in Bollywood?
You can't generalise it. Every person's journey is different. On television, people are doing exceedingly well and are happy.
Filmmakers tend to believe that TV stars are over-exposed and that perhaps goes against them. So, did you consciously keep a low profile over the past year or so?
No, I got this film while I was doing 'Naagin 2'. In my case, I was not planning to leave television and wait for films to come my way. After 'Naagin', people told me that I should try my luck in films, but I went ahead and did 'Naagin 2'. If this movie had not happened, I would have done the next 'Naagin', too.
So, where does television figure in your scheme of things today?
Right now, I have taken a break from TV, because I genuinely have no time. TV is my home and I am never going to leave it; I will somehow find a way to be connected to TV. I just want to enjoy my work, give it my 100 per cent and leave it to God. I believe that you should let life surprise you and take you where it's supposed to.


The provincial government is pleased with the announcement that the federal government and 10 other nations in the Asia-Pacific region have concluded discussions on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), formerly referred to as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Our government fully supports the federal government's commitment to strengthening its economic relationship with its CPTPP partners: Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Malaysia, Mexico, Chile, and Peru. If ratified, the agreement would have direct benefits for New Brunswick as it would substantially lower or eliminate tariffs on a wide range of goods, including forestry and value-added wood products as well as fish and seafood products. Anytime we remove trade barriers it is good for us as we are the most export-oriented province, but we will ensure that if New Brunswick industries have any concerns or suggestions they are heard as the federal government considers signature of the agreement.


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Remain close to God, catholic archbishop tells Nigerians
Michael Emere, acting as Jesus Christ, carrying the Cross at Seat of Wisdom Catholic Church, University of Ibadan, as Christians marked Good Friday…yesterday	PHOTO: NAJEEM RAHEEM<br />
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev Adewale Martins, has urged Nigerians not to allow the current economic hardship in the country to deter them from developing a deeper relationship with their creator.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Martins, in his Easter message yesterday, said a life devoid of God is not worth living.The cleric, who said there was no problem that God could not solve, assured Nigerians that the Almighty had not abandoned them.
"God will surely right all the wrongs inflicted on the country over the years by selfish and greedy leaders," he said.Martins noted with dismay how many people were losing hope, warning that suicide was not and would never be an escape route from the present economic hardship.
"I have read about people jumping into the lagoon to commit suicide. This is very unfortunate. We must not allow the devil to speak words of despair into our minds and hearts, such that we lose hope.
"No one has the right to end his or her life. All life belongs to God. If you commit suicide, you are only compounding issues."You selfishly inflict pain and hardship on the people you left behind, you also will have to give an account to God who created you," he said.
The cleric urged Nigerians to use the lessons learnt during trying times to show more empathy for those in any sort of need, be it psychological, emotional or material.
He stated: "When we assist one another, I believe we will collectively surmount these trying times."On the other hand, the growing rate of suicide should also make our government to hasten up on the economic recovery plan.
"The hardship in the country is beyond imagination and we see it every day. While the plan is being put in place, government needs to provide more palliative measures that would cushion the effects of the hardship.
"All the moneys being recovered and returned should be utilised to make life more bearable for the common man," he said.The cleric congratulated Christians for the successful completion of the Lenten season of fasting and penance, urging them to rejoice that Christ, through his death and resurrection, has purchased for humanity the joy of eternal life.
Martins said: "Easter is the most important of time in the Christian Calendar. There are 50 days of Easter from the first Sunday to Pentecost.
"It is characterised, above all, by the joy of glorified life and victory over death, expressed most fully in the great resounding cry of the Christian, Alleluia!"All other expressions of faith flow from faith in the resurrection: "If Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching; empty too is your faith (1 Cor. 15:14).
Rev Adewale Martins


Over the weekend, I powered through Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, a quirky mixture of true life space adventures and a self-help book. Like a lot of people, I fell in love with the mustachioed Canuck from his many wonderful videos from the International Space Station, during his 144 day stint there. Hadfield brought that clear-eyed, can-do optimism that is so rarely seen in public media nowadays, while delivering solid science education for all ages.
His book recounts his personal and unlikely story going from a young Canadian boy watching the first astronauts take their first steps into space to commander of the International Space Station. You learn lots of the cool quirks about living in space, where even the most mundane tasks like brushing your teeth are challenging and fascinating. And you get a sense of the excitement and the tension of takeoff, spacewalks, landing, and other dangerous parts of the mission.
So whether you are interested in the experience of being an astronaut or you want to know how to live a happier, more focused life, I recommend checking out An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. It's a quick and breezy read, but it might stick with you for awhile in your head.
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Court allows discovery in a case involving UNUM. If you want the briefs and responses send an email to me.
In its response in opposition to the motion for discovery (to take depositions) UNUM explained the meaning of some of its abbreviations. See order pages 4 and 5. The court also ordered UNUM to disclose any internal memorandum regarding its mental and nervous limitation.
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Well, a paperweight will be nice. But what I really need is a computer.
A couple of weeks ago, while preparing the house for the holiday festivities, we smashed Stacey's computer screen. Our large, heavy, pointy-topped lamp executed a perfect swan dive from the couch, its temporary resting place, onto the floor. Except that, for reasons known only to Stacey, the floor was shielded by her netbook computer.
Stacey's computer with lamp-induced dent; weirdly, the lamp was fine.
As our nephew pointed out, the computer looked like it had been shot. The pointy bit of the lamp dented the back of the screen, which smashed the front of the screen, making it unusable.
Not wanting to believe that we had just wrecked a perfectly good machine, I started Googling the issue. Much to my surprise, it turns out that replacing a laptop screen is both possible and easy. A new screen was reasonably priced, and fitting it was a fun DIY project.
This YouTube video told me how to remove the old computer screen and buy the correct replacement. The video was made by Screen Surgeons, who also sell replacement laptop screens. There are videos for many different models.
Changing the laptop screen was very easy, if a little bit fiddly. The screen is held in place by six small screws and the piece of plastic that goes around the screen.
1. Remove the screws from the bottom of the screen and pry off the plastic surround.
Two screws at the bottom of the screen hold the plastic surround in place.
2. Take out the screws that hold the screen in place, two on each side.
Four screws, two on each side, hold the laptop screen in place.
3. Disconnect the wiring connector.
Putting in the new screen is a simple matter of doing these steps in reverse order.
When we put the new screen in, we turned it on before putting the plastic trim back.
The screen works well, and Stacey was delighted to have her little machine up and running again.
Replacing a laptop screen really is that easy! I hope you never have this sort of accident with any of your precious things. But, if you do, you now know that it's not the total disaster it first appears to be.
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Николай Дмитриевич Емельянов (1903?, с. Саламатово, Тобольская губерния — 20 мая 1938, Ленинград) — живописец, график.

Биография
С 1914 по 1917 год Емельянов учился в рисовальном классе Тюменского коммерческого училища (преподаватель К. П. Трофимов) и там же работал заведующим библиотекой. Преподавал рисование в тюменской школе № 1. Продолжил образование в тюменской изостудии у Е. Л. Кропивницкого, М. И. Авилова (1918—1923). Его ранние работы, созданные в Тюмени, видимо, не сохранились.

Емельянов жил в Ленинграде с середины 1920-х годов на 3-й линии Васильевского острова в доме 4 (кв. 20). В 1923 году поступил во ВХУТЕМАС — ВХУТЕИН, там учился у А. Е. Карёва.

С 1923 года Емельянов принимал участие в выставках. С 1929 года (уже на излёте существования объединения) вошёл в ленинградское общество «Круг художников» и в 1929—1930 годах участвовал в выставках «круговцев» с картинами на тему спорта. На жизнь Емельянов зарабатывал службой на фабрике «Лакокраска», которая располагалась на Чёрной речке.

С конца 1920-х до начала 1930-х годов в его пейзажных работах отчётливо видно увлечение авангардом. Позднее его индивидуальная художественная манера сглаживается, приближается к особенностям письма, присущим мастерам ленинградской пейзажной школы. Свои композиции 1930-х годов он конструировал из пятен интенсивного цвета, гармонично их распределяя и не придерживаясь правдоподобия в деталях. Его пейзажи отличает декоративность решения, организация изображения в вертикальном или горизонтальном направлении. Некоторые его работы несут следы влияния пейзажей А. Почтенного («Большая Нева у Эрмитажного театра», 1937) и Н. Лапшина («Набережная реки Мойки», 1930-е). Некоторые из его картин почти абстрактны («Пейзаж с красным домом» (1928), «Пейзаж» (1931), «Окраина» (начало 1930-х)) и тем не менее сохраняют связь с пейзажным жанром.

В повседневной жизни Емельянов любил вставлять в разговор французские слова, подписывал свои картины по-французски, однако, как отмечает А. Струкова, увлечение «французским» имело у художника бытовой характер и не отражалось на его творчестве.

В 1934 году произведения Емельянова были замечены на одной из ленинградских выставок французским художником А. Марке, который дал его работам высокую оценку.

Вместе с членами группы живописно-пластического реализма (В. Стерлиговым, О. Карташёвым, М. Казанской, Л. Юдиным, А. Лепорской, К. Рождественским, Н. Коган и другими художниками  участвовал во встречах, проходивших на квартире В. М. Ермолаевой (10 линия Васильевского острова, д. 13, кв. 2).

По воспоминаниям сына А. Русакова, Юрия, Емельянов дружил с его родителями и Г. Неменовой.

27 декабря 1934 года был арестован, в тот же день вместе с ним были взяты под стражу А. Батурин и О. Карташёв. 26 февраля 1935 года следствие в отношении Н. Емельянова было прекращено.

Вторичный арест последовал в 1937 году, однако вскоре художник был освобождён.

Последний раз был арестован в 1938 году. Расстрелян в Ленинграде 20 мая 1938 года.

Его немногочисленные сохранившиеся работы остались у друзей, позднее перешли в собрания музеев Петербурга и Москвы — известны 15 его картин маслом и 5 акварелей.

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 Ленинградская пейзажная школа 1930–1940–е годы (книга)

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Родившиеся в 1900-е годы
Члены общества «Круг художников»
Деятели культуры и искусства, репрессированные в СССР
Казнённые в 1938 году
Расстрелянные в РСФСР


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Tango was born as a social dance; it had the goal to bring people closer, permiting a gentle contact between men and women. Although Tango had, on the one hand, the pleasurable atmosphere of people enjoying themselves, on the other hand, it had the taste of the nostalgia of the immigrants and the poor gauchos who didn't have a place to call home and the loneliness of men in Argentina who missed the contact with a woman. Therefore, the embrace in Tango has the quality of connecting two human beings in a, somehow, deeper sense of mutually sharing, caring and protecting attitude.
Due to the peculiarity of the embrace (that has a reminiscence of the caring arms of the mother) the dance of Tango has been proven to be helpful when dealing with trauma. Furthermore, the fact that the Tango is meant a social dance, for that it is performed by a group of people that circulates against clock-wise in a, somehow, mythical circle. This circle remains us the ritual dances of ancient cultures, where the energy was concentrated by the circularity of the movement with a sense of protection.
Beyond this wonderful feeling of union with the other, openness and trust, Tango is by nature closely linked with the concern of understanding the Other. For example, the man needs to know if the woman is ready for the next movement, or where her feet are. On the other side, the woman has to guess and follow the man's movement. Another interesting thing here is that both need to keep their roles in order to dance properly: one has to lead and the other has to follow. Although they can switch their roles, both cannot lead at the same time. However, it is truth that followers can "suggest" movements to the leaders and leaders may need to "accompany" the followers' movements after leading them. It is a dialogue between the two bodies' movements, but a dialogue with clearly delimited roles. This fact has been found helpful for people who have trusting issues and for those who have difficulties in decision making or driving their lives.
Because of these characteristics, Tango has been used as adjuvant therapy in the treatment of several psychological disorders as Social Phobia, Depression, and even Schizophrenia. (Trossero, F., 2006) Generally it has been found to be a helpful tool for all kinds of relational problems and it's actually used in couple's therapy.
For the same reason it has been used with elderly people in order to help them improve balance and coordination. (McKinley, P., 2005). Furthermore, remembering complicated series of steps may help memory exercising, a reason for which it has been applied as a successful form of therapy in Alzheimer patients.
Inner Tango is a therapeutic technique.
InnerTango is both, a joyful activity and a therapeutic technique that fosters personal growth by deepening the body-awareness and the expression of internal states through shared dance movements. It combines elements from Tango dance and music, bodywork and inner movements as well as focusing experiential psychotherapy.
It is a way to reach internal meanings, bodily routed, about our human experiencing and also about the way we relate with others, particularly with those of a different gender. That is how we gain better understanding about those meanings, to increase their acceptance or eventually, to modify them.
InnerTango is, also, an optimal path for developing a more equilibrated sense of self, as it helps us get in touch with our body axes and inner source of strength and positive self-regard.
All that inspired by the beauty of Tango music and dance which, by itself, provides the adequate environment and stimuli for acquiring a sense of harmony: within us, and with the music, the partner and the world around us.
InnerTango is recommended for deepening self-knowledge, rebuilding a healthy connection with our body and exploring feelings. It is also recommended as a complementary therapy for psychological disorders such as relational difficulties, psychosomatic pain and stress management.


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Come along to the beautiful Ballroom at the Palais Royale Katoomba, and enjoy two radio plays performed before a live audience, which is famous for its mirrored walls. Using scripts transcribed from original performances of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. Following these plays, enjoy a delicious afternoon tea. Both plays will be performed in the Ballroom which is wheelchair accessible. There will also be lucky door prizes. A bar will be available pre and post performance.
Contact 4784 6300 regarding the titles of the plays on offer closer to the date. CD's of our previous performances will be available at $10.00 per CD, after the show.
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Accompaniment: "To Adam also and to Eve did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." In the picture, we see that God appeared as the parent of Adam and Eve. Ah … ah … ah … ah….
1. God created these two men, and He regarded them as His companions. As their only family,He took care of their life and their, their food, clothing, shelter, and travel. Here, God appeared as the parent of Adam and Eve. God created these two men (two men), and He regarded them as His companions (regarded them as His companions, companions). As their only family (only family), He took care of their life (ah) and their, their food, clothing, shelter, and travel (food, clothing, shelter, and travel). Here, God appeared (appeared) as the parent (the parent), appeared as the parent of Adam and Eve. In this thing God did, men cannot see God's loftiness or God's supremacy or God's mysteriousness and unfathomableness, much less see God's wrath and majesty. They only see God's humbleness and lovingkindness, see God's concern for man and His responsibility and loving care for man.
2. God treated Adam and Eve with the same attitude and in the same way as human parents are concerned about their children, also as human parents tenderly love, look after, and care for their children. It was true and real,visible and tangible. God treated Adam and Eve (Adam and Eve) with the same attitude and in the same way (with the same attitude and in the same way) as human parents are concerned about (parents are concerned about) their children (their children), also as human parents tenderly love, look after, and care for (tenderly love, look after, and care for) their children. It was true and real (true and real), visible and tangible (visible and tangible), visible and tangible. God did not stand in His lofty position but personally made the coats of skins for mankind and clothed them. Although this thing is simple and even not worth mentioning in men's eyes, it causes all those who follow God but have been full of vague imaginations about God to see God's realness, see God's loveliness, and see God's faithfulness and humbleness, to see God's realness and loveliness and see God's faithfulness and humbleness.
Accompaniment:"To Adam also and to Eve did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." In the picture, we see that God appeared as the parent, the parent, the parent of Adam and Eve, appeared, appeared as the parent of Adam and Eve.


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Q: Use datareader.GetSchemaTable to create SQL Server CE table I'm using an IDataReader in .Net to run queries against Oracle and SQL Server databases... Is there any way to use the result of GetSchemaTable to easily create a SQL Server CE 4 table? This seems to me like one of those things someone should have invented already, I just can't seem to find it.
I found this project on Codeplex, which is almost exactly what I need, but not quite.

A: You can use my SQL Compact scripting API, allows you to generate any type of SQL based on a SQL Compaxct schema: http://exportsqlce.codeplex.com

A: To get Schema of a table in databases which do not provide any GetSchema kind of functions, we normally run a Select command.
"Select top 1 * from mytablename"

Fill a DataTable with this command.
This will give you a Single row or may be not if the table is empty,  but will provide the schema of the concerned table.
I had a same problem when i was asked to do so in SQLite and i did as mentioned above.

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We will be closed on Sunday, April 21 for the Easter Holiday. We will be closed on Sunday, April 21 for the Easter Holiday.
Crochet this adorable, colorful and very useful market bag while learning the treble crochet V stitch. This is a fun way to expand your crocheting knowledge and add some skills to your toolbox.
Must know basic crochet stitches including chain, single crochet, double crochet and slipstitch.
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Mervyn Albert Thomas Burns
Memorial: Thornbury - St Mary's Church
Regiment: Royal Air Force
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Flight Sergeant Pilot
Parents: William and Ella Lilian Burns
Home address: Horseshoe Lane, Thornbury, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Butcher's Assistant
Date of death: 11/08/1942
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Thornbury and commemorated St Mary's Church
Mervyn's father was killed during WW1 whilst serving as a stretcher-bearer on the Somme and Mervyn was exactly 12 months old at the time. He was the youngest of 3 brothers and was aged 8 when his mother got married for a second time, this time to Nelson Higgins a coalman. Mervyn and his eldest brother Francis both attended Thornbury Grammar School.
Mervyn worked for a brief period as a policeman then at Trayhurns the Thornbury butchers. He was also a member of the Home Guard and the Secretary of Thornbury A. F. C. Mervyn married Isobel Rose Jones in 1942 and they lived in Thornbury.
Mervyn joined the RAF in 1940 and was trained in Canada. On 11th August 1942 Mervyn and 2 others took off from RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire in Hudson Bomber T9355 for a night flying exercise. The aircraft crash landed just after take-off near the perimeter of the airfield and all 3 crew members were killed. Mervyn's brother Francis had also served in the RAF and was Killed in Action 6 months before Mervyn.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
Thornbury Roots - http://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/families/burns-higgins/
http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york42/t9355.html


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Medindia » Child Health News
Brain Structure, Family Income Impact Kids' Cognitive Functioning
by Mansi Shroff on April 2, 2015 at 3:26 PM
A study revealed that children of richer, better-educated parents have bigger brains and more cognitive skills than their less-fortunate peers, but this can be corrected with social help and teaching to overcome the differences.
The distinctions were most profound in regions of the brain supporting language and reading, executive functions like memory and decision-making, and spatial skills, experts in the United States reported in Nature Neuroscience.
International Women's Day 2012 – "Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty"
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The impact was "meaningful in terms of the way the brain is working in these kids", study co-author Elizabeth Sowell of the University of Southern California told AFP.
"We found that the relationship between brain (structure) and family income impacted kids' cognitive functioning," Sowell said by email.
The study stressed that solutions lay within reach, including better school lunches, motivated teaching and community programmes to encourage children.
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"It is not too late to think about how to impact resources that enrich the developmental environment, that in turn help the brain wire itself together," Sowell said.
Socioeconomic inequalities have long been seen as linked to differences in cognitive development, but the extent to which it affected brain structure was unclear until now. In what is claimed to be the biggest study of its kind, Sowell's team tested 1,099 typically developing boys and girls aged three to 20, from diverse population groups.
They compared parents' income and education level to children's brain surface area, measured by scans, as well as their cognitive test scores. They corrected for other potentially confounding influences on brain structure such as genetic ancestry.
Aside from the differences observed between the brain surface area of children in the lowest and highest income levels, there was also a striking disparity between income groups at the lower end of the scale.
There was a bigger difference, for example, between the results in kids from families earning either $30,000 (28,000 euros) or $50,000 per year, than those earning either $90,000 or $110,000.
Sowell said the reason behind that difference was unclear. "It seems reasonable to speculate that resources afforded by the more affluent (nutrition, child care, schools etc) help 'wire' the brain through development," she said. "The most important point we want to convey... is not 'if you are poor, your brain will be smaller, and there is nothing that can be done about it.' That is absolutely not the message!"
Source: Medindia
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The El Dorado County Fire District Honor Guard was established in 1997 by eight founding members: Gary Baldock, Jon Grissom, Mark Johnson, Matt Keck, Bruce Lacher, Ken Parker, Mike Pott and Randy Sager.
As representation of solidarity and respect for fallen firefighters, the Honor Guard is proud to participate in the National Fallen Firefighter ceremonies in Colorado Springs, Colorado as well as the California Firefighters Memorial Ceremony in Sacramento. The Honor Guard has brought a level of tradition and reverence to funerals and ceremonial events over the past 12 years.
Current members of the Honor Guard are Paul Dutch-Commander, Mike Hardy, Chadley Harris, Mark Johnson, Paul Lohan, Dave Mitchell, Ken Parker and Mike Pott. Two of our Honor Guard members also participate with the Sacramento Firefighters Pipe and Drums; Dave Mitchell and Mark Johnson.