This article looks at how employers can manage poorly performing employees. This article is addressed at employers who have employees who show a lack of skill or aptitude for their work and are making persistent low-level errors. Frequently, these are employees who are doing their incompetent best but cannot reach the standards required by their employers. Sometimes it is due to a poor attitude. If it comes down to a question of poor attitude, an employer might like to consider treating the matter as one of misconduct and taking the employee through the disciplinary process. Where employees are seemingly doing their best but not reaching the standard required, the process which needs to be followed is slightly different.
The first point to note is that issues with employees should generally be addressed as soon as they emerge. Generally, the longer an employer leaves it, the harder it is to go back and address the issue. An employer might start by taking informal management action, such as simply having a conversation with the employee about where the employee is going wrong and what is required of him. It would be a good idea to make a note of the conversation for future reference but no formal documentation is required.
If the standard of performance required is being made clear to the employee but he is still not performing, an employer should consider invoking formal performance management process.
At the first stage the employer should ensure he investigates the situation and the reasons for the poor performance as much as possible. The employee should be formally invited to a performance management hearing at which the employee's underperformance and the reasons for it should be discussed. At this stage the employer may choose to issue the employee with a written warning. The employee should then be given a period of time to improve (the length of which will depend upon the nature of the job and the nature of the underperformance) and he should be given appropriate support and training to help him meet the standard.
If after a first formal performance management hearing, the employee improves, then no further action will be needed; however, if the employee fails to improve, he will need to go through a further formal performance management hearing. This time the result could be a final written warning. Again, the employee will need to be given time to improve with support and training. Again, if the employee improves, then formal procedures will end at that stage. However, if the employee fails to improve a further formal hearing will consider whether or not the employee should be dismissed.
The key to conducting a fair formal performance management procedure is to ensure that the employee is clear about the standards required and he is given adequate time to improve as well as appropriate support to do so. Employers should also ensure that they follow the appropriate procedural safeguards by giving proper formal notice of meetings, adequate time for the employee to prepare, an opportunity for him to be represented by an employee or a Trades Union representative and a right of appeal following a warning or a dismissal.
Performance management procedures can be time-consuming so, from a practical and commercial point of view, it might be simplest to reach a financial agreement with an employee to leave the business. It is advisable to take legal advice before entering into any kind of negotiation. If an agreement can be reached, the employee should be asked to sign a Settlement Agreement. This protects the business and it prevents the employee bring any claims in an Employment Tribunal. Getting an employee to sign a Settlement Agreement tends to be a quicker and easier way of resolving the issue when compared to going through performance management procedures; however, the disadvantage is that the employee would need to be incentivised, usually with a sum of money, in order to agree to the Settlement Agreement.


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This time, will there be any solicitation of suggestions, input or thoughts from club member users about what we might like to see in a site re-design? I, for one, found it disappointing the last go-around that the entire process wasn't inclusive of the general membership & user-base in that regard, or that there wasn't a bit more organized relaying of information & updates about the whole thing.
Even the lowliest plebeians sitting on the top seats of the Roman Colosseum were afforded the opportunity by the emperor to shout whether a defeated combatant might be allowed to live or die, even if the emperor decided against the will of the crowd. Even if all suggestions made are entirely ignored, the masses, miniscule in number as they are, might be somewhat appeased by the illusion of inclusion.


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Women successfully acted as film directors. The most famous women directors of feature films in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema were Tahmineh Ardekani, Ferual Behzad, Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, Takmineh Milani, Puran Derakhshandeh, Kobra Sa'idi, and Marziyeh Borumand. In their works, women directors refer to all women in Iran and discuss their problems. For example, Rakhshan Bani-E'temad in her first feature film Off the Limit, portrays a woman who is so confined to her domestic environment that her husband prefers to do shopping himself. In her second film Canary Yellow, she depicts a strong and powerful woman, a good mother and wife and a weak and naïve man, the head of the family. In the film Narges, Rakhshan Bani-E'temad depicts love triangle with a man and two women. She tries to explore love relations and personal problems of women. It is found that Rakhshan Bani-E'temad won the first prize in the 1992 Fair Film Festival for directing Narges�� (Naficy 135). She was the first woman director in the history of Iranian cinematography who was awarded for the feature film. Her style is designated as social realism in which there are many satirical scenes. One more well-known woman director of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema is Puran Derakhshandeh. In her films, she pays special attention to educational matters and depicts women as �active and progressive elements�� of Iranian society (Bassiri 1). In her film Relation, a young girl has some problem in hearing and speech, and is treated badly by her neighbors and friends, but she is supported by his mother. Due to her mother's sacrifice, the girl is cured of her physical handicap and succeeds to communicate with other people. It is found that Puran Derakhshandeh's style of film-making is psychological realism. Most of her films discuss the theme of lack of communication, psychological problems of women, etc. The other famous woman who has already proved her talent as a film director is Tahmineh Milani. In her film Legend of the Sigh, she discusses the life of women intellectuals. The film proves that under some circumstances a woman in Iranian society may be helpless, dependent and humiliated person.
Hamid Naficy states that �while women's presence as directors is impressive, women are underrepresented in many technical areas of the film industry such as production, distribution and exhibition�� (135). It is found that the presence of women in Iranian cinema of post-revolutionary period was influenced by persistent negotiations between the government officials, film-makers and spectators. Moreover, an important role was given to the institutionalization of modesty in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema that resisted the expression of human emotions, feelings and intimacy between women and men (Zeydabadi-Nejad 23). It is interested to notice that some scenes that showed men and women alone engaged in conversation were coded by the spectators as intimate scenes of love (Naficy 149). It means that some innocent shot was charged with sexuality.
To sum up, women in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema were given more freedom. They were not only allowed to film, but also they were allowed to act as film directors. Women film directors discussed many acute issues in their films, such as psychological problems of women in Iranian society, the relationships between men and women and other important themes. However, they had to abide by the code of modesty. Many films were criticized by the government officials or religious organizations.

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An application of partial least squares for identifying dietary patterns in bone health.
Author(s) : Yang TC., Aucott LS., Duthie GG., Macdonald HM.
Adresse : Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Seebohm Rowntree, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
In a large cohort of older women, a mechanism-driven statistical technique for assessing dietary patterns that considers a potential nutrient pathway found two dietary patterns associated with lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density. A "healthy" dietary pattern was observed to be beneficial for bone mineral density.
Dietary patterns represent a broader, more realistic representation of how foods are consumed, compared to individual food or nutrient analyses. Partial least-squares (PLS) is a data-reduction technique for identifying dietary patterns that maximizes correlation between foods and nutrients hypothesized to be on the path to disease, is more hypothesis-driven than previous methods, and has not been applied to the study of dietary patterns in relation to bone health.
Women from the Aberdeen Prospective Osteoporosis Screening Study (2007-2011, n = 2129, age = 66 years (2.2)) provided dietary intake using a food frequency questionnaire; 37 food groups were created. We applied PLS to the 37 food groups and 9 chosen response variables (calcium, potassium, vitamin C, vitamin D, protein, alcohol, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc) to identify dietary patterns associated with bone mineral density (BMD) cross-sectionally. Multivariable regression was used to assess the relationship between the retained dietary patterns and BMD at the lumbar spine and femoral neck, adjusting for age, body mass index, physical activity level, smoking, and national deprivation category.
Five dietary patterns were identified, explaining 25% of the variation in food groups and 77% in the response variables. Two dietary patterns were positively associated with lumbar spine (per unit increase in factor 2: 0.012 g/cm(2) [95% CI: 0.006, 0.01]; factor 4: 0.007 g/cm(2) [95% CI: 0.00001, 0.01]) and femoral neck (factor 2: 0.006 g/cm(2) [95% CI: 0.002, 0.01]; factor 4: 0.008 g/cm(2) [95% CI: 0.003, 0.01)]) BMD. Dietary pattern 2 was characterized by high intakes of milk, vegetables, fruit and vegetable juices, and wine, and low intakes of processed meats, cheese, biscuits, cakes, puddings, confectionary, sweetened fizzy drinks and spirits while dietary pattern 4 was characterized by high intakes of fruits, red and white meats, and wine, and low intakes of vegetables and sweet spreads.
Our findings using a robust statistical technique provided important support to initiatives focusing on what constitutes a healthy diet and its implications.


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"Zero Humanity" Policy Ongoing: Hundreds of Migrant Kids Still Not Reunited With Parents
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The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which led to the separation of children from adults who crossed the border illegally, has fueled a national outcry.
Some 350 children separated from their migrant parents this summer still have yet to be reunified, despite a court-ordered July 26 deadline to do it and endless hours of pro-bono legal aid. About half of those kids are on track for reunification.
Federal officials declined to comment for this story. But in a Sept. 27 report, they said they're trying to "identify any possible barriers to [the children's] discharge" and are working with the American Civil Liberties Union to find solutions for reuniting families.
The kids who remain in federal custody are divided into two categories:
The first includes 141 children whose parents waived their rights to reunification or indicated they did not immediately intend to reunite with their kids—likely because they reasoned their children would have a better chance at an asylum claim if they stayed in the United States.
Then there's another 29 cases where the U.S. Department of Homeland Security found parents unfit for reunification, arguing there were "red flags"—anything from criminal histories to abuse allegations to pending DNA results. Those combined 170 children will remain in shelters indefinitely.
For the "red flag" and waived reunification rights cases, children can be released to outside sponsors, usually another family member. But even that's become complicated. Potential sponsors must undergo suitability assessments that leave them vulnerable to deportation if they're undocumented themselves. In September, 41 people were deported after going through background checks and fingerprinting in the sponsorship process, making it less likely that relatives will come forward and claim separated kids.
The second includes 136 other children who simply haven't been reunited yet; the ACLU is working to locate and identify parents both inside and outside of the country for reunification or to find another appropriate person to release the children to.
Advocates and attorneys for these families say they are completely overwhelmed, stuck cleaning up a massive, government-sponsored mess that has fallen squarely in their laps since the ACLU sued to force the reunifications. Lawyers for the ACLU and other nonprofit groups have taken up much of the responsibility of finding parents who were already deported, though they've emphasized in court documents that the government should bear that responsibility because "it was the government's unconstitutional separation practice that led to this crisis." Meanwhile, a new report released Tuesday concluded Homeland Security was never prepared for "zero tolerance" to begin with.
The Sept. 27 federal report said the government is currently working to discharge 34 children to their parents or to sponsors in the U.S. Another 27 children are expected to be reunified in their country of origin.
But it could be months before kids whose parents were deported or waived their rights to reunification get moved out of federal custody.
For the deported parents, immigration attorneys are working with the ACLU and local humanitarian aid agencies to locate family members in their home countries. It's a time-consuming, arduous process given that many of the families live in isolated, mountainous or rural Central American communities.
Meanwhile, shelters are growing to accommodate the number of unaccompanied migrant children, some of them holdovers from this summer's "zero tolerance" separations. A federal care shelter in Tornillo recently expanded to hold 3,800 children. The average length of stay in these shelters has also increased in the last year, from 34 days to 59 days.
For the remaining kids separated under "zero tolerance," it's a waiting game. Without the same level of national attention they got this summer or a new court-ordered deadline to spur government urgency, this last piece of the family separation crisis remains the most difficult to resolve.
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We already know we have to divide an array into two sub-array for quicksort algorithm. Here I'll describe how this partitioning actually works. If you want to know about how quicksort works, follow my other post on quicksort working principle. I followed Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) for writing this tutorial.
Finding an integer pair with given sum is a very familiar problem in algorithm community. The general problem is: given an array of integer numbers and a given sum, how do we find out a integer pair with given sum?


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Mr. Lyle "Pops" F. Woodhead
Lyle "Pops" F. Woodhead of S. Attleboro, passed away peacefully with his family by his side, on Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 91 years of age. Beloved husband of the late Catherine "Kay" F. (Tuffy) Woodhead. Son of the late Anna (Rock) Pappas and Fred Woodhead. Loving father of Catherine Woodhead of Taunton, MA; Lyle Woodhead Jr. and his wife Dolores of Cranston, RI; Randy Woodhead and his wife Lisa of Glocester, RI; Richard Woodhead and his wife Deborah of Attleboro, MA; and Nancy Mattes and her husband John of Bristol, RI. Cherished grandfather of 8 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. Brother of George "Rich" Woodhead of S. Attleboro. Lyle was born in Attleboro and was a graduate of West High School in Pawtucket, RI. He worked at First National Stores, Sturdy Memorial Hospital and at Brainin Advance during his career. He was a life-time member of St. Theresa's of the Child Jesus Church in S. Attleboro, MA. He loved watching his kids and grandchildren play sports. Lyle enjoyed the time he spent with his family. Relatives and friends are invited to attend visitation on Saturday, July 3, 2021 from 9-10:30 AM at Duffy-Poule Funeral Home, 20 Peck Street, Attleboro. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at St. Theresa's of the Child Jesus Church, 18 Baltic St., S. Attleboro at 11 AM. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations in Lyle's name, may be made to St. Jude's Children's Hospital (www.stjude.org) or to RISPCA (www.rispca.com).
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Located on Antigua's Caribbean coast, St. John's is the capital with much to offer its guests.
Renowned for its numerous world class beaches St John's is recognised as a haven for relaxation. It is much more than this though as St John's has a rich history, in particular its naval history. It is a perfect example of how culture can be brought into your holiday. The coral reefs, once the bane of enemy ships, now attract snorkelers and scuba divers from all over the world.
Locals in St John's welcome tourist into their way of life and encourage them to visit the vibrant farmers markets on the southern edge of the island. Enjoy folk crafts, colourful tropical fruits, and a buzzing crowd. They make for a lively and interesting holiday.
Also, discover its cathedral and art galleries which give you a pathway into the island's past and future. The museum, housed in the colonial Court House (1750), displays colonial artifacts recovered on archaeological digs on the islands.
Why not explore the town's candy- coloured architecture and the ruins of sugar plantations on the outskirts. You can also go on a luxury Heritage Quay shopping excursion or for the more adventurous you can take advantage of the islands warm, steady winds and do a spot of sailing.
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US officials bracing for imminent North Korea test of intercontinental ballistic missile: report
by Tal Axelrod - 12/21/19 7:43 AM ET
U.S. military and intelligence officials are reportedly bracing for an imminent test by North Korea of an intercontinental missile as negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang continue to stall.
North Korea has threatened to give the U.S. a "Christmas gift" if no progress is made on lifting sanctions, but officials appear to accept the fact that President Trump has no options to prevent a test, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The North testing a ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. would mark a major setback for Trump's efforts to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear and missile ambitions, something he has touted as a top foreign policy initiative. It would also come as the president faces major political fallout domestically after the House voted to impeach him this week.
While the president often cites a lull in such testing by North Korea as evidence of his diplomatic prowess, officials told the Times that should North Korean leader Kim Jong Un resume testing, it would mark a sign that the White House is jammed in its options and will be less inclined to lift sanctions.
Military officials told the Times that there are no plans in the works to destroy a missile on the launchpad or intercept it in the atmosphere. The administration is likely to pressure the United Nations Security Council for tightened sanctions in the event of a test, a strategy that for two decades has ultimately failed to blunt Pyongyang's aggressive rhetoric and progress on its nuclear and missile programs.
In its most recent threat, North Korea said the U.S. could "pay dearly" after it sponsored a U.N. resolution condemning Pyongyang's "long-standing and ongoing" violations of human rights.
Trump and Kim have held two official nuclear summits that have thus far yielded little progress. The last one, which took place in Vietnam in February, ended early without an agreement. North Korea has blamed the stalled negotiations on Washington's "political and military provocations."
Trump and Kim met for a third time briefly in June at the border between North and South Korea, though a subsequent meeting in October between aides broke down without any progress.
Kim suspended nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests last year during a diplomacy campaign with Washington and Seoul but has threatened Pyongyang could embark on a "new path" if the U.S. maintains sanctions on North Korea, conducting a series of other missile tests this year.
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The United States carries out the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to assess elementary and secondary students in the United States on subjects including mathematics and science.
Space leaders, and other relevant agencies in the United States have frequently expressed concerns that the supply of potential new STEM workers is not adequate to meet future demands
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There is a broad consensus that high-quality STEM education is critical to producing a workforce capable of maintaining a competitive edge in numerous technological areas, including space. However, space leaders,…
Starting at the 4th grade level, only ##% of students tested proficient or higher in mathematics in 2007, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as…
The production of highly skilled scientists and engineers has its foundation in student performance during early education at the primary and secondary levels. Long-term trends in these areas show that…
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La Isla Hornby es una de las Islas del Golfo septentrionales, se encuentra en el Estrecho de Georgia, entre la Isla de Vancouver y la costa pacífico de la Columbia Británica, Canadá.  En ella reside una pequeña comunidad de 966 habitantes según el censo de 2001. Durante la guerra de Vietnam fue un lugar de refugio para los insumisos estadounidenses. Mucha de esa gente aún vive en la isla. En los últimos años se ha convertido en un destino turístico cuadriplicando su población en los meses estivales. Hay un ferry que conecta la isla con la Isla Denman y la Isla de Vancouver.

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Before joining the Hope Street Group, Kip served as a Spanish teacher and teacher leader in Kentucky for 15 years. His love for teaching, learning and reflection is one of the reasons he became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2013. Similarly, to deepen his understanding of Hispanic culture, he took a sabbatical in 2009 to teach in a small town in Guatemala and deepen his global competency skills.
He's passionate about creating opportunities for educators to connect, collaborate, and lead – it's why he served for two years as a Hope Street Group KY Teacher Fellow from 2013-2015. He also led virtual communities for the Center for Teaching Quality from 2014-2015, sat on the Teacher Advisory Council for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014-2016 and supported the non-profits Sevenzo and Curio Learning while still in the classroom, where he most recently worked as a teacher hybrid for Jefferson County Public Schools.
Kip brings expertise in social media strategy and network mobilization and is passionate for his new position of Networks Manager.


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ESPN reports a couple roster moves for the Bears Monday, as the team inked DT Mick Williams to a two-year deal, and dumped injured defensive tackle Averell Spicer.
The Bears announced on Monday the signing of defensive tackle Mick Williams to a two-year contract, while in other moves, the club waived injured defensive tackle Averell Spicer. The Bears didn't disclose financial terms of Williams' contract.
An undrafted free agent who joined the New York Jets after the draft, Williams earned 2009 Big East co-Defensive Player of the Year honors at the University of Pittsburgh. Williams also earned recognition as a first-team all-conference pick.
Williams had five sacks at Pittsburgh last season, in addition to 17 tackles for lost yardage while forcing three fumbles in 13 games. Williams posted 98 tackles, 12.5 sacks and 33.5 tackles for lost yardage over his collegiate career.


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Omnicell Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results | Omnicell, Inc.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMCL), a leading provider of system solutions to healthcare facilities, today announced results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011.
GAAP results: Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $62.9 million, up $5.7 million or 9.9% from the fourth quarter of 2010 and down $1.5 million or 2.3% from the third quarter of 2011. Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2011 was $245.5 million, up $23.1 million or 10.4% from the year ended December 31, 2010.
Fourth quarter 2011 net income as reported in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $4.1 million, or $0.12 per diluted share. This compares to net income of $0.7 million, or $0.02 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2010 and net income of $3.0 million, or $0.09 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2011. For the year ended December 31, 2011, net income was $10.4 million, or $0.30 per diluted share. This compares to net income of $4.9 million, or $0.15 per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2010.
Non-GAAP results: Non-GAAP net income was $6.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2011, or $0.19 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income for the fourth quarter excludes $2.2 million of stock-based compensation expense. This compares to non-GAAP net income of $3.6 million, or $0.11 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2010, excluding $2.6 million of stock-based compensation expense and $0.4 million of income tax expense on the repatriation of profits from India associated with the facilities consolidation announced in the third quarter of 2010. Fourth quarter 2011 results compare to non-GAAP net income of $5.4 million, or $0.16 per diluted share for the third quarter of 2011, excluding $2.4 million of stock-based compensation expense. Non-GAAP net income was $20.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, or $0.60 per diluted share, excluding $9.5 million of stock-based compensation expense and $1.0 million of pre-tax litigation claims settlement expense, net of a $0.4 million tax effect. Non-GAAP net income was $14.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2010, or $0.43 per diluted share, excluding $9.0 million of stock-based compensation expense, a $2.4 million gain ($1.4 million, net of tax) related to the settlement of litigation claims, and $2.7 million of charges ($2.0 million, net of tax) related to restructuring, reduction-in-force and repatriation of profits from India associated with the facilities consolidation.
Product backlog as of December 31, 2011 totaled $134 million, up $7 million or 6% from December 31, 2010.
"Overall, 2011 was a very good year for Omnicell," said Randall Lipps, Omnicell's President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. "Revenue was up 10%, non-GAAP net income was up 42%, and although year ending backlog was lower than expectations, backlog grew 6% from 2010. I'm very happy with our introduction of new products, our growth of the customer base, and our entry into new markets during the year."
Omnicell will hold a conference call at 1:30 p.m. PST today to discuss fourth quarter and 2011 year-end financial results. The conference call can be monitored by dialing 1-800-696-5518 within the U.S. or 1-706-758-4883 for all other locations. The Conference ID # is 44215896. Internet users can access the conference call at http://ir.omnicell.com/events.cfm. A replay of the call will be available today at approximately 4:30 p.m. PST and will be available until 11:45 p.m. PST on February 3, 2012. The replay access numbers are 1-855-859-2056 within the U.S. and 1-404-537-3406 for all other locations, conference code # 44215896.
For more information about Omnicell, please visit www.omnicell.com.
c) 2010 litigation settlement. In the third quarter of 2010 we settled two pending litigation matters with Flo Healthcare LLC (now part of InterMetro Industries Corporation), with payment to InterMetro of $2.7 million. The resulting $2.4 million credit to third quarter 2010 selling general and administrative expense reflected adjustment for the settlement with release of the liability in excess of the amounts settled.
d) 2010 restructuring charges In the third quarter of 2010 we incurred charges for restructuring and impairment in executing our plan for consolidation of our Bangalore, India and Woodlands, Texas offices with our California and Tennessee facilities. These charges consisted of severance for departing employees and relocation benefits for transferring employees, exit and disposal costs related to the closed facilities, and impairment of abandoned leasehold improvements.
f) 2010 income taxes on repatriated foreign earnings. In the third quarter of 2010, the closure of our Bangalore, India office resulted in a charge for repatriation taxes and a valuation allowance against related deferred tax assets.
Management adjusts for the above items because management believes that, in general, these items possess one or more of the following characteristics: their magnitude and timing is largely outside of Omnicell's control; they are unrelated to the ongoing operation of the business in the ordinary course; they are unusual and we do not expect them to occur in the ordinary course of business; or they are non-operational or non-cash expenses involving stock option grants.
ii) We present ASC 718 share-based payment compensation expense in our reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures on a pre-tax basis because the exact tax differences related to the timing and deductibility of share-based compensation, under ASC 718 are dependent upon the trading price of Omnicell's common stock and the timing and exercise by employees of their stock options. As a result of these timing and market uncertainties, the tax effect related to share-based compensation expense would be inconsistent in amount and frequency and is therefore excluded from our non-GAAP results.
(a) This adjustment reflects the accounting impact of non-cash stock-based compensation expense related to the impact of ASC 718 (formerly referred to as SFAS No. 123R) for the periods shown.
(a) The 2011 adjustment is for the accrual of a $1.0 million pre-tax litigation settlement in operating expenses ($0.6 million, net of tax effect of $0.4 million) in the first quarter of 2011. The 2010 adjustment reflects the reversal in operating expenses for the settlement of litigation in the third quarter of 2010 for amounts less than accrued.


Misty is now back in a hospital cage after her op. The op itself went well but she has lost a fair amount of hair through stress. Much from her belly and a few chunks out of her flanks. The mammary tissue and lump have been sent for histology but her full body X-ray was clear with no obvious cause for concern.
Hopefully new boyfriend intro to GL will happen soon!
Glad Misty came through ok. She should get her hair back now that the hormones are taken care of.
Hoping for a good recovery!
I'm glad to hear Misty is home and doing well.
Yay for Misty being home. Continued best wishes on her speedy recovery.
OK, Misty is doing well in her recovery, although bored to tears in her cage and she still has bald patches. The new boyfriend visits frequently but probably doesn't help the situation as he wanders off when there's no sign of her coming out.
I guess we should have a little formal introduction to the new handsome man in our lives. It may be changed, but at the moment he is currently nicknamed Captain Chaos after the Cannonball Run character and bumbling superhero, both perfectly apt for the way he does zoomies about the place and causes utter chaos as he shoots past Misty's cage and she throws a hissy fit not being able to join in.
So, did anyone guess this superhero's identity?!
He has made the cupboard his own.
Discussions on a possible breakout.
Oh, man, he is cute!!
It's him, it's him, it's him!
I secretly hoped it was. He's the fella that caught my eye. Pleased to make your acquaintance, Captain.
I hope Misty's recovery is speedy so she can come out and join him.
He's adorable and they look excited to be see each other. Glad to read Misty is recovering well and can't wait for her to meet up with him and touch noses (or whatever they'll do when they meet).
Misty gave me a scare (and herself) last night by getting stuck in the bars of her cage chewing to get out to her boyfriend.
She'd managed to hook her top teeth over a bar then shove her nose through the space above turning her head in the process and ended up wedged against an upright bar. All I heard was faint baby squeaks like a lost youngster and found her absolutely motionless with her nose wedged through the bars.
Luckily when Misty is panicked or scared she freezes. I checked where her teeth were, and managed to move her teeth and nose along a bit and turn them slightly to get her teeth unhooked and her nose pushed back and free her. Big sighs of relief all round!
It didn't stop her chewing the bars completely but she did it more on the plastic base instead. Thankfully she has a checkup at the vet tonight and may get the all clear to get more freedom.
Misty has now had her final vet post op check and everything is going really well and her hair is growing back around the wound site. So far it is slow to grow back where the stress patches are but her hair is so thick you don't notice them. She is now free to roam with her boyfriend and bosses him about at every opportunity. He takes it all in his stride with much excited squeaking at times. I did let them together early as the constant squeaking from Misty was getting to all of us plus she was getting VERY bored in her hospital cage and getting herself into trouble.
Aw! Well done, Misty :) and I love the name Marley - and the associated connections are really good too!
We always had names starting with an 'M' but I ran out of ideas! I didn't have a Misty or a Marley!
I love Marley's new name. It does suit him very well. Glad they're getting along.
I just wish their nightly discussions were a little quieter. It never gets really dark here at this time of year and the poor boy is not quite so used to seagulls who are clearly organising the daily sortees from my bedroom roof at 4 am. Marley has to join in, which brings complaints from Misty and occasionally myself when I feel it has gone on long enough. Then he decides it must be breakfast time since its now very light outside so he trots back and fore to the cage. I haven't been able to cross the piggy language barrier yet that breakfast is still 4 HOURS AWAY!
They have at least learned that when my radio alarm goes off and music starts plying that 'she' will get up soon and feed them so I often find them already in the cage waiting for breakfast by the time I've blearily stumbled out of bed after my early morning interruptions.
Your place sounds very interesting in the morning. You'll never have to worry about sleeping too late again! I'm glad they are getting along so well.
The nightmare continues and truly the end of an era.
Sadly I've lost another piggy. Misty had been treated for a URI 3 weeks ago and got the all clear at the vets about 10 days ago. Sadly something came back with a vengeance on monday night when she was off her food and didn't have the usual loud shrieks at teatime. I still had a few doses of Baytril left so she got one of those and I called the vet first thing tuesday. I live close enough that she got an appointment first thing, was x-rayed and heart meds discussed as it was unsure from the x-ray if it was congested lungs or enlarged heart. She was started on meds while still at the vets and I took her home at lunchtime. The poor piggy had very heavy breathing and was not a good colour and with her having so much white it was easy to spot.
Luckily Marley will only be on his own for a week before going back to Thistle Cavies. He was only ever on loan and I'm heading over there next week for another visit. He will be back with his girlfriends as before. So sad as I was hoping to catch up and update Tiggy's Tales with lots of pics of the happy couple since I will be on holiday for the next 2 weeks.
Since I'm due to go into hospital in October and with recovery time I won't be getting any more piggies for the foreseeable future.
For the first time in 15 years I'll be pigless and petless! I'm truly gutted.
Oh Webs, I'm so sorry.
Oh Webs! I'm so so sorry. Hugs and tissues.


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David Haskell selected as Humana Lecture Series speaker
Award-winning author David Haskell will visit campus as part of Centre College's Humana Lecture Series, giving readings from his book The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature.
Set on a wooded hillside in Shakerag Hollow, Sewanee, Tennessee, the book follows Haskell's observations of one square meter of forest floor over the course of one year. Haskell borrows the Buddhist concept of the mandala — a circular symbol that represents the entire universe — when describing the tiny patch of life he examined regularly (pictured right, photo by Buck Butler).
Haskell's work is a winner of the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies, a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and runner-up for the 2013 PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. The Forest Unseen won the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award and the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature.
In addition to being a critically acclaimed author, Haskell is an award-winning professor of biology at Sewanee University. In 2009, he was recognized as the Carnegie and CASE Foundations Tennessee Professor of the Year, thanks to the unique way his classes blend scientific exploration, contemplative practice and community action.
Haskell's lecture will be on Tuesday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Wiesiger Theater.
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Too Many Chefs?
Honey, Where Would I Be Without You ?
Lee Westcott's a rising star of the London restaurant scene, with his uber-cool Typing Room in Bethnal Green Town Hall setting a high standard of finesse and pure enjoyment of food and flavours. Continue reading "Too Many Chefs?"
In The Apiary : Mid June : Jet and Indigo
Debriefing – Photo by Hung Quach – Jet and Indigo
In life, as in beekeeping, when you collaborate with talented people, good things happen.
When Hung (pronounced "Hoong") Quach approached me to propose an article about the Bermondsey Street Bees' rooftop apiary, in the "Locality" section of her Jet and Indigo blog, I was delighted to accept. I had been especially impressed with the crispness and clarity of her photographs (and her food images in particular) and Hung's bee photography certainly did not disappoint! Continue reading "In The Apiary : Mid June : Jet and Indigo"
In the Apiary : Mid-May : An Inspector Calls…
At 5.31pm precisely the doorbell rang. It was the Seasonal Bee Inspector for South London, Brian McCallum, sent from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) on a routine visit to the Bermondsey Street Bees. In the 8 years in which I have been keeping bees, this was my first visit from an inspector. Or, as I like to look at it, the first time I have been offered a free beekeeping lesson from an expert, paid for by Her Majesty's Government. Hey, Brian, great to see you! But what kept you so long? Suiting-up on the roof terrace, I noticed that Brian's bee-suit's breast pocket has a badge with the insignias of "Fera" and "National Bee Unit" sewn into it. Now, there used to be a government department called Fera, which was formed in 2009. But Fera is now a limited company, owned 75% by Capita plc and 25% by DEFRA (Department of Food and Agriculture). Of course, DEFRA was created to absorb the splendidly-titled Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) in 2002. And the Bee Inspectorate was transferred from Fera to APHA late last year. Can anyone out there explain why government departments change their name-tags as freqently as those of the baristas at your local Costa Coffee? Dizzying, isn't it? Anyway, smoker lit, we set straight to work. Brian was soon performing the slow ballet of beekeeping on our precarious fourth storey rooftop. Standing in a narrow gully between the pitched slate roof and the brick parapet on which the hives stand, we danced a pas-de-deux, as elegantly as possible in our veiled bee-suits, visiting Abbey Hive, Square Hive, Swarm Hive, Neckinger Hive, Leathermarket Hive, Shard Hive and Thames Hive.
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In The Apiary – April 2015 – First Inspections
First Inspections
Spring has been a long time coming, but finally, I've been able to crack open my hives and inspect the Bermondsey Street Bees, checking up on their health, development and well-being – and especially on each hive's Queen.
Let's take a closer look at these Green Queens. Green was the Queen marking colour for 2014, when these Majesties were born. This year's dab of fast-drying marker pen on a new Queen's thorax will be Blue. But more of that another time. Let's focus on the Queens in each hive as the business end of 2015's season gets underway:
Jade, Queen Of Abbey Hive
Abbey Hive is my breeding hive. It has consistently produced excellent, well-tempered and productive Queens for my Apiary. Queen Jade is no exception: victorious, happy and glorious, indeed. Right now, Abbey Hive is the most populous of all my Bermondsey Street hives and it has a smattering of drones already, with a few more to come, but the look of the cells on the bottom of a couple of the frames and some empty "play cups". Taking my cue from the bees I have just put a Snelgrove board in, with the intention of raising some more model Queens from this genetic dynasty.
Esmeralda, Queen Of Shard Hive
Shard's Queen Esmeralda was introduced to this queenless hive 10 days ago and she is going great guns. Amazingly, she seems to have physically grown in stature since I moved from a small mating hive into the more capacious Shard hive. Just goes to show…
Myrtle, Queen Of Thames Hive
It looks as if Myrtle, Queen of Thames hive, has been bustling around vigorously, too, given the faded patch of paint on her thorax. Not to worry. I'll get her a makeover soon.
Grunhilde, Queen Of Neckinger Hive
Finally, a glimpse of Grunhilde, Queen of Neckinger hive – she starred in my rooftop video ("Extreme Beekeeping") earlier this week – so I don't want to all this media exposure going to her head!
So there we are: an introduction to the Bermondsey Street Bees and their anointed Queens. And there's more: there'll be updates "In The Apiary" updates every month throughout the summer!
Extreme Beekeeping
Top Left – Extreme Beekeeping (Thanks To Florence Rowland)
Life's never perfect, is it? Yes, the sun was shining. And indeed, the temperature was balmy. But it was blowing a storm on the Bermondsey Street Bees' rooftop when I transplanted Neckinger Hive from a 5-frame nucleus into a full-size hive, having waited all weekend for better weather. Welcome to Extreme Beekeeping !
BBC R4 "Saturday Live" Interview
Radio 4 Bee-Recording Kit
Last Saturday, 4th April, BBC Radio 4 joined me on my rooftop to meet the Bermondsey Street Bees. In case you missed it, here is the BBC podcast of the show.
Open the 4th April show and advance to 44 minutes and 20 seconds into the programme. That's the start of my slot.
All You Have To Do Is Add One Pete Ross…..
It was all great fun and R4's Pete Ross was rock-steady up on the roof with the bees – a consummate professional.
My one regret was that the impassioned words on my Forage Campaign were left on the cutting room floor. So here's are the "stab-points": "Bees can't eat kind words". "Bees won't thrive on good intentions". "It is the moral responsibility of every beekeeper to ensure sufficient forage for their bees". Rant over!
So I am resigned to going down in posterity as the guy who ended up under Helena Bonham-Carter (in the show's interviewed guest list, that is), rather than as the Martin Luther of modern beekeeping.
Next time, I'm shooting for Desert Island Discs. I bet no-one's ever asked Kirsty for: "Ted Hooper's "Guide To Bees and Honey", please."
I like radio. I'm told I have the perfect face for it.
Oyez, Oyez !
Bermondsey Street – The Buzziest Street In London.
Tune into BBC Radio 4's "Saturday Live" from 9am – 10.30am on 4th April 2015 to hear all about the Bermondsey Street Bees.
It's Abbey Hive's first inspection of the year – and we're shouting it from the rooftops!
Christmas Day Varroa Treat(-ment)
The varroa mite is an ubiquitous parasite on British honeybees.
Just imagine having a spikey dinner-plate stuck to your back, vampiring your vital fluids – and you have an idea of what a varroa mite does to a bee.
So beekeepers treat their bees against varroa throughout the year, but this mid-winter application of a very dilute (3.2%) rhubarb acid (oxalic acid) in sugar syrup is the most important off all, since the hive should have little of no brood in it – which is where the varroa mites themselves breed – and so all the mites are on the bees (the technical term is "phoretic") and they are vulnerable to the acid, which the bees transfer around their winter cluster.
In this video, the hive is opened for just one minute as the treatment is applied, so that the overwintering cluster of bees in the brood chamber, heated by the bees to a mid-20C temperature even on my chilly rooftop, does not get dangerously cold.
This will reduce the varroa load dramatically and set the Abbey Hive bees up for a healthy build-up into the spring. Merry Christmas !
Setting Out The Stall: Green Baize, Honey, Bee-Mugs, Honey & Salt Hand-Scrub & Such
At last Saturday's Night Market on Bermondsey Square, we were selling our award-winning Bermondsey Street Honey. And we sold out.
Our stall was very much a family affair, with Sarah's immaculate styling putting our product on elegant display and Xander, Maff and I selling the honey, candles, honey and salt hand-scrub, natural beeswax furniture polish, bone-china bee-mugs and organic T-shirts (OK, so we didn't sell many T-shirts at a couple of degrees above zero!).
Worker Bees
A shiver ran down my spine as it occured to me that our stall was precisely on the spot where Bermondsey Abbey had stood, founded just after the Norman Conquest on the site of a 7th Century monastery. That sudden time-shift placed the Bermondsey Street Bees as the inheritors of a 1300-year history of beekeeping in that very place.
While I knew that bees and monks went back a long way, I pondered on that connection and came up with a few reasons why monks would have been keen beekeepers.
Wax was an important commodity for churches. With stoutly-build walls to withstand Viking raids and small windows to allow maximum advantage to defenders against aggression, the ability of a beeswax candle to light the interior, even on the brightest summer's day, was invaluable. Unlike tallow (animal fats), beeswax burns clean, with a heavenly smell of wax and honey. So the monks would have valued their bees partly for the devotional aspect of their wax combs.
Bees are excellent pollinators. Even though the science of pollination was unknown in the 7th century, the happy propinquity of honeybees with a kitchen garden – and many arable crops – would not have escaped notice. Bees would have been important to sustain a large religious community. But in a modern, urban brickscape like Bermondsey Street, it is imperative for us to create adequate forage. To that end, I have put flowerbeds into St. Mary Magadalen Churchyard (Southwark grant) and fruiting, edible plantings into Leathermarket Gardens (with plants from Bankside Open Spaces Trust) and I maintain an allotment at Alscot Road, by Bermondsey Spa. We need to do more than just talk about forage provision to ensure a healthy, happy bee-population in London.
And finally, there's the honey itself. Let's not underestimate what honey would have represented in when the Bermondsey Abbey was set up in 1082 by Alywn Childe. It had been a luxury item in nature long before human beings existed – ask any bear! And consider: when you put some honey in your mouth, that sunburst of sweetness is precisely the same sensation as the first human being would have experienced. True, the same would go for oysters – except that honey is a substance made by other creatures, it is not the creatures themselves. Surely that is part of the wonder of honey as a foodstuff.
It is humbling to acknowledge that honey had already reached its peak of perfection millions of years before mankind started walking upright and that, subsequently, the ingenuity of the human race has failed to improve upon honey's sublime simplicity.
Remember that, in the 7th century, there was no sugar, no treacle, no chocolate, no candy. Honey was the only way to store sweetness to enjoy on its own or to add to another foodstuff. Honey, this rare and remarkable substance, once sealed on the comb, can be stored almost indefinitely.
And then there honey as a medicine, salving wounds and soothing allergies, and then again as an agent of fermentation, used to produce intoxicating drinks, like mead. And do you know what ? Bermondsey Street Honey is a key ingredient of award-winning Hiver Beer since the first batch was bottled in 2012. Another resonance, ringing down the years from ancient Bermondsey Abbey to today.
But before I get completely carried away, let's just say that I'm proud to be carrying on the ancient tradition of Bermondsey beekeeping – and selling our honey with Sarah, Xander and Maff on the spot where Bermondsey Abbey used to stand.
Doing A Roaring Trade
At The Hive Entrance : Abbey Hive Video
At The Hive Entrance : Abbey Hive
Wouldn't it be nice if there was no dividing line between your work and your way of life?
Spend a minute to meditate, if you will, watching the comings and goings at the entrance of Abbey Hive on my Bermondsey Street rooftop, hauling in the Lime flow.
Now apply to become a bee!


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Buy TikTok Verification has a secret "Heating" (cheating?) button
According to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes, Buy TikTok Verification and ByteDance employees frequently engage in "heating," which is a manual process that guarantees certain videos receive a specific amount of views.
Heating is cheating. Six current and former employees of Buy TikTok Verification and its parent company, ByteDance, as well as internal documents and communications reviewed by Forbes, Buy TikTok Verification and ByteDance staff use a practice called "heating" to artificially boost the distribution of certain videos in addition to relying on the algorithm to determine what becomes popular.
According to one of those sources:
"The heating feature refers to boosting videos into the For You feed through operation intervention to achieve a certain number of video views," an internal Buy TikTok Verification document titled MINT Heating Playbook explains. "The total video views of heated videos accounts for a large portion of the daily total video views, around 1-2%, which can have a significant impact on overall core metrics."
Buy TikTok Verification doesn't publicly disclose this, of course. Sources stated to Forbes that Buy TikTok Verification has used "heating" to attract influencers and brands by artificially increasing the view count of their videos, indicating that this practice may have benefited some influencers and brands that Buy TikTok Verification has business relationships with at the expense of others it does not have partnerships with.
"Heating" suggests that some videos on the For You page may not be based on personal preference but rather intended to increase views for specific brands or creators. Without labeling, it isn't easy to distinguish these videos from regular content.
Potential abuse cases. Sources have informed Forbes that employees have misused "heating" by using it to boost the view count of their own or their loved ones' accounts in violation of company policies. Documents reviewed by Forbes also support this, showing that employees have used "heating" on their own accounts and the accounts of people they have personal relationships with. One document revealed that an account had received over 3 million views due to this type of "heating" incident.
How Buy TikTok Verification has responded. "We promote some videos to help diversify the content experience and introduce celebrities and emerging creators to the Buy TikTok Verification community. Only a few people, based in the U.S., have the ability to approve content for promotion in the U.S., and that content makes up approximately .002% of videos in For You feeds." Buy TikTok Verification spokesperson Jamie Favazza wrote.
Dig deeper. You can read the full article from Forbes here.
Why we care. If Buy TikTok Verification is artificially inflating the view count of some videos through "heating," it could skew the metrics that marketers use to evaluate the success of their campaigns. This could lead to brands investing in partnerships or collaborations with influencers or channels that may not have as large of an audience as they appear to have, ultimately reducing the ROI of their marketing efforts.
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Judge comes up with 'bespoke' process for dealing with Laurentian's creditors
Justice Geoffrey Morawetz said the situation requires a 'balancing of competing interests' to ensure it remains fair
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A judge has come up with a "bespoke" methodology for Laurentian University to deal with its creditors, one that he hopes will streamline the process.
The insolvent university, which is restructuring under the auspices of the Companies' Creditors Protection Act (CCAA), was in court last week, making several requests, including a methodology for processing creditors' claims.
Creditors, which include three banks to which Laurentian collectively owes around $130 million, as well as Laurentian employees recently laid off as part of its insolvency restructuring, who seek to receive their severance pay, must submit their claims by July 30.
Justice Geoffrey Morawetz issued his endorsement May 31, but it came with his own amendment to the claims process.
He said he agrees with the submission made by the counsel for one of Laurentian's creditors, TD Bank, "that it is important to move quickly — but not to rush."
Laurentian said it's required to complete the CCAA process by the end of December.
"This requires a balancing of competing interests, to ensure that the process remains fair to all," Morawetz wrote in his endorsement.
He said there are no set rules to govern the claims process, and the situation "calls for a bespoke process."
That "bespoke process" would involve the appointment of four "inspectors" that would be involved in the claims process.
Two of the inspectors are to be representatives of the pre-filing lenders (the three banks owed collectively $130 million), with the remaining two "inspectors" being drawn from the group of creditors who file claims in excess of $5 million.
The court-appointed monitor overseeing Laurentian's insolvency (the firm Ernst & Young) is required to consult with this "inspector group" for any claim.
"The Monitor is authorized to compromise any material claim – provided it has received permission from three members of the 'inspector group,'" Morawetz wrote.
Morawetz proposed this process as a way of addressing a proposal made by TD Bank, one of the banks to which Laurentian owes money.
"I am concerned that the TD Bank proposals could delay the claims process from being completed on a timely basis," he said.
TD Bank proposed that the monitor, Ernst & Young, consult with the pre-filing lenders and any such other stakeholders as the monitor deems appropriate with respect to each claim in excess of $5 million.
Any of these parties objecting to the acceptance of these claims would have then been able to apply to the court within 10 days for a review of the proposed acceptance.
But Morawetz said he's given to understand there might be in the range of 15 or so claims of more than $5 million against Laurentian.
He said he's "hard-pressed" to see where such a claimant wouldn't be considered one of the parties that need to be consulted in the proposed process for these major claims.
"The sheer size of the group would impede its mandate and progress," wrote Morawetz. "The process will cease to be efficient and effective in resolving issues."
In his May 31 endorsement, the judge also approved several other requests put forward by Laurentian last week. That includes the appointment of Sudburian Louis Pagnutti as the chief redevelopment officer to assist it in its restructuring efforts.
Morawetz also approved Laurentian's request to increase the existing cap on the maximum amount of fees that may be incurred by and paid to independent counsel for the board during the CCAA proceeding from $250,000 to $500,000.


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This Lebanese Is Known As One Of The Greatest Organists Of Our Time
Jasmin Lilian Diab·
The Église de la Sainte-Trinité is a Roman Catholic church located in the ninth arrondissement of Paris, France. It is a construction of the Second Empire era, built between 1861 and 1867, and cost almost 5 million Francs at the time.
The church is known internationally for its former organist, the French composer Olivier Messiaen.
Incredibly, this world-renown organist was replaced by the talented Naji Hakim, a Lebanese organist, composer, and improviser, born in Beirut in 1955.
La Trinité, as it is known, was designed by Théodore Ballu as part of the beautification and reorganization of Paris under Baron Haussmann.
It inspired the design of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church in Quebec City and the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California.
Naji Hakim was introduced to the organ during his elementary school studies at the Collège du Sacré-Cœur in Beirut.
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He began with private piano lessons but, when he was nine or ten years old, he began work on his own at the organ, using various methods such as Marcel Dupré and Gleason.
In 1975, the Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Beirut, where Hakim was studying in Lebanon, closed down because of the Lebanese Civil War.
So, he moved to Paris to finish his engineering studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications.
Hakim continued his organ studies in performance and improvisation with the famous French organist-improviser-composer Jean Langlais (1907–1991) with whom he worked for about ten years.
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It was upon Langlais' encouragement that Hakim entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he obtained seven first prizes in organ performance, organ improvisation, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, analysis, and orchestration.
Hakim was the organist of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, Paris, from 1985 until 1993, and went on to succeed Olivier Messiaen at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, from 1993 until 2008.
Next Concerts -> #lebanon 28.05.19, Collège du Sacré-Coeur, Beyrouth, LEB 20h30 125e Anniversaire du Collège du Sacré-Coeur – en collaboration avec NDU Louaizé In honore beatissimae Virginis Mariae Mario Rahi, Serghei Dayan, violons – Anna Gyogchyan, alto – Hayk Babayan, violoncelle Naji Hakim, piano Oeuvres de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart et Naji Hakim 30.05.19, Collège du Sacré-Coeur, Beyrouth, LEB 125e Anniversaire du Collège du Sacré-Coeur 20h30 En l'honneur de Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Naji Hakim, orgue #najihakim #musicinlebanon #concert #organmusic #classicalmusic #beirut
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To date, he has composed works for organ, two organs, organ duo, and organ with other instruments, as well as orchestral and concerto works, solo instrumental and chamber works, and vocal works.
He has won several awards for performance, improvisation, and composition. His Symphonie en Trois Mouvements won the composition prize of the "Amis de l'Orgue" in 1984.
He went on winning the first price of The Embrace of Fire in 1986 in the International Organ Competition in memory of Anton Heiller, at Southern Missionary College in Collegedale, Tennessee.
In addition to that, he was awarded the Prix de Composition Musicale André Caplet from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1991.
Hakim has also been the recipient of first prizes at the International Organ Competitions held in Haarlem, Beauvais, Lyon, Nuremberg, St. Albans, Strasbourg, and Rennes.
Most recently, Hakim performed at St. Michael's Church in Ireland as part of the distinguished Pipeline Festival 2019, where he was introduced as "one of the greatest organists of our time."


I've been a proud Teardrop travel trailer owner for a month now and I'm thrilled to say, this is one of the best ideas I've ever had. After 7 years of housesitting and living on the road, it's so wonderful to have my own space!
The advantages of Teardrop camping have been even more obvious this week in not-quite-spring Colorado. After a few hot weeks in Utah and a few warm days in New Mexico, my first night in Colorado at Great Sand Dunes National Park was downright frigid!
Fortunately for me, the Teardrop is insulated and I was quite cozy. In the middle of the night, I awoke to icy flakes pinging the outside of the Teardrop and I remember thinking, "sounds like snow!" Sure enough, when I opened the door in the morning, the Great Sand Dunes were dusted with white!
Not a lot of snow, but enough to swell Medano Creek into an icy river! Usually, this creek only flows for a few weeks in the spring; the rest of the year it's a dry channel. Those few flowing weeks, however, are key to the existence of the Great Sand Dunes: the creek carries sediments out of the mountains and deposits them on the floodplain southeast of the dune field. Prevailing westerly winds then blow the grains back into the dunes, where they pile up against the barrier of the Sangre de Christo mountains. Over millions of years, this seasonal cycle has created the highest sand dunes in North America.
Swollen Medano Creek was beautiful – I've never seen a landscape of mountains, dunes and water – but it presented a very chilly challenge: I had to cross the creek to get to the dunes! It wasn't deep, but it was fast and freezing.
Crossing swollen creeks is always a little risky. Wearing proper footwear is key. Never go barefoot! I wore my water sandals across and carried my boots. My poor toes were painfully cold the rest of the hike! Both dogs made it across with no problem, although Bowie wasn't thrilled to get his feet wet.
The upside: we had the dunes all to ourselves!
15 Responses to Snowstorm in Great Sand Dunes!
solo is the best way to see dunes!
Cool travels. Looking forward to following the journey.
Wow. Love these shots. What a place.
Hard to believe it's the same country as Pittsburgh!
Haha well it's very far from Pittsburg!
When we crossed Medano Creek, it was pleasantly mild-flowing and warm – and I waded across barefoot. But had to wear hiking shoes beyond, as the sand there is not at all like hiking (and even backpacking) barefoot in White Sands National Monument, which I've done several times.


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CNPC, CNOOC mull deal for Exxon's Iraq oilfield stake
by Bloomberg
China's oil giants China National Petroleum Corp. and CNOOC Ltd. are considering acquiring Exxon Mobil Corp.'s remaining stake in an oilfield in Iraq, which could fetch at least $500 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
Assessing energy merger and acquisition opportunities in a time of pandemic
by Ian Simm
Mergers and acquisitions have been slowed by the COVID-19 outbreak. But as companies embrace the energy transition opportunities will arise
UAE approves Cnooc's offshore entry
Abu Dhabi has approved the transfer of rights, from China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) to Cnooc Ltd, in the Lower Zakum and Umm Shaif and Nasr offshore concessions.
Zenith pays off first tranche in Tunisia deal
Zenith Energy has paid $250,000 to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. (KUFPEC) as a first payment for its acquisition of the Sidi El Kilani concession in Tunisia.
China eyes African opportunities
Amidst the oil price crash crisis and the pressure on companies, opportunities are emerging for those with resources.
Oil CEOs write open letter saying pandemic 'sharpens focus' on climate goals
The chief executives of 12 major oil and gas firms have written an open letter saying the Covid-19 pandemic won't delay climate action but has instead "sharpened" the focus on it.
Woodmac: Coronavirus and the impact on gas and LNG
by Wood Mackenzie research director Robert Sims
As with all commodities, the impact of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on Chinese gas demand will depend on both the severity and length of time required to contain the outbreak.
Technology and tribulations in Sudan
Sudan has undergone a tumultuous 10 years, from the loss of much of its oil production with the breaking away of South Sudan, to the recent and dramatic change of government.
South Sudan plans licence round
South Sudan plans to offer 13 blocks under a licence round to be launched in the first quarter of 2020, moving away from the previous preference for direct negotiations.
China's CNPC quits flagship Iran gas project as sanctions bite
China National Petroleum Corp. is no longer a partner in Iran's biggest natural gas project, and the Persian Gulf nation will develop Phase 11 of the giant South Pars field on its own, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said, according to the ministry's Shana news service.
OGCI reveals new initiatives to meet Paris goals
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) today unveiled a series of initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).
Niger-Benin pipe plan moving ahead
China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) signed a transportation convention with Niger on September 15.
Plans for mega LNG project submitted in Mozambique
A joint venture owned by ExxonMobil, Eni and CNPC has submitted a development plan for the first phase of the Rovuma LNG project off Mozambique.
Who gets hit when US resumes Iran sanctions?
President Donald Trump's decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran threatens to tighten global oil markets and could derail tens of billions of dollars in business deals.
China gas giant 'confident' US energy ties set to deepen
The head of China's largest natural gas importer believes the country's energy ties with the U.S. are set to deepen, despite trade conflict between the world's two largest economies that has roiled financial markets.
Chinese step in if Total exits Iran, report says
China's CNPC is ready to step in if Total decides to exit its Iranian projects to comply with US sanctions, a news report said.
Eni in exploration pact with China's CNPC
Italian energy company Eni has signed a pact on oil and gas exploration and production opportunities with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
Shell finds $1bn buyer for Argentine gas stations, report says
Shell has found a buyer for a chain of Argentine gas stations worth more than $1billion, a news report said.
CNPC to reduce staff by 20%
China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) said it will reduce its staff at its headquarters in Beijing by 20%.
Total breaks away from pack to sign Iran gas field deal
French firm Total has signed a preliminary agreement with Iran for the development of one of the world's biggest gas fields.
CNPC approves plans to restructure its oilfield service business
China's top energy group China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has approved plans to restructure its oilfield services business.
China's biggest oil company posts 52% decline in 2015 profit
China National Petroleum Corp., the country's biggest oil and gas producer and the parent of PetroChina Co., said profit fell 52 percent as lower oil prices punished global explorers.
PetroChina sees profits plunge by 70% in 2015
PetroChina , China's biggest oil and gas producer, reported a 70 percent slump in its full-year 2015 profit, with earnings upstream and in the marketing segment both taking a hit from lower prices.
Chevron, Petrochina start production from delayed Luojiazhai field
by Niamh Burns
Oil major Chevron and PetroChina started production from an onshore gas field at the end of 2015 after years of delays. The Luojiazhai field has an annual production capacity of three billion cubic metres of gas.
Gazprom Neft signs MOU with CNPC
Gazprom Neft has signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with China's CNPC.


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Bis[tris(pyridin-2-yl)methanol-kappa 2N,N ']palladium(II) dinitrate at 150 and 298 K
Canty, AJ and Skelton, BW and Traill, PR and White, AH, Bis[tris(pyridin-2-yl)methanol-kappa 2N,N ']palladium(II) dinitrate at 150 and 298 K, Acta Crystallographica Section C - Crystal Structure Communications, 60, (7) pp. m305-m307. ISSN 0108-2701 (2004) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1107/S0108270104010893
The title complex, [Pd{(py)3COH}2](NO 3)2, where (py)3COH is tris(pyridin-2-yl) methanol (C16H13N3O), studied at 150 and 298 K, has the potentially tridentate ligands present as bidentate ligands, with the Pd atom at a centre of symmetry. At 150 K, the Pd - N distances are 2.022 (3) and 2.026 (3) Å. The mean planes of the coordinated pyridine groups form dihedral angles of 42.1 (1) and 45.3 (1)° (at 150 K) with the coordination plane; the uncoordinated rings situated either side of the coordination plane form dihedral angles of 42.2 (1)° with it. The nitrate ions are regular and interact weakly with the hydroxyl group.
Transition Metal Chemistry
Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences
Canty, AJ (Professor Allan Canty)
Traill, PR (Mr Peter Traill)


Top Ten Tuesday topic is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Today's topic is Top Ten Books I Was "Forced" to Read, whether it is from required reading, a book club, or just an extreme amount of peer pressure! This week's list is no particular order.
When I saw that Crime and Punishment was part of my required SUMMER reading for AP English my senior year of high school I'm sure I was thinking, really?! What surprised me though was how much I really liked it. Sure, nearly half of the book could have been omitted (especially the subplot with his sister's drama) but the story of redemption in it is powerful to me. I even did a video project in college based on this book.
I read The Picture of Dorian Gray the same summer as C&P, and enjoyed it as well. Oscar Wilde's commentary of his society is filled with wit and it was easy to understand, even if I didn't know much about the time period and place. Also, the ending's a kicker.
I read The Crucible my junior year in high school and it really made an impact on me how the characters stood up for themselves, disregarding what others said of them and even disregarding that they could be put to death.
I'm pretty sure I read To Kill a Mockingbird my sophomore year in high school as well, but unfortunately I have a little more book amnesia with it. Of course I remember the main themes and that I did enjoy it, but I definitely need to revist it sometime, especially now that I am older and can look at it with new eyes.
I read this play my senior year of high school and again, I just loved Oscar Wilde's wit. If you need a light read that feels intellectual at the same time, this is a perfect fit.
I read Night my junior year of high school and found this story of a Jewish Holocaust survivor powerful. I had read The Hiding Place previous to this, so I was not unaware of concentration camp horrors (I would highly recommend it as well, by the way), but I always like hearing someone else's story about what happened to them during WWII. It's an important reminder of a dark time in history.
I read The Hobbit in eighth grade I believe, and admittedly, I actually remember very little of it (let's say when I saw all those dwarves in the movie adaptation I was completely surprised). However, I think this book was unknowingly a turning point for me. I didn't think there was any way I could like this book, but I did, and I think that it might have helped me down the road be more open to different genres than what I had been reading.
Thanks to some junior high aged girls at church, two friends, and Lionsgate, my interest in The Hunger Games got picqued to the point where it could not be ignored. FINE, I'LL READ IT! Clearly, I'm glad I did. Not only did I love it and the entire trilogy, but it got me back into reading after quite a hiatus, and it re-introduced me to the YA market, which was booming with some great content.
I am in a blogger's book club and we have read one book so far, What's Left of Me. As mentioned in previous posts, I had the chance to get my book signed by Kat Zhang and get the sequel Once We Were early as well, so I felt compelled to buy and read it as well. Thankfully, I enjoyed both!
What books were you "forced" to read but ended up really enjoying?
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I was forced to read Jane Eyre for a college lit course. I didn't have a positive image of the classics at that point (they're so dreary and dull), but this book helped open my mind a little. I loved it.
I haven't read Jane Eyre yet, but a lot of people seem to like it!
I loved Night as well. That's on my list of Top Ten Books I was "Forced" to Read. I actually didn't like Crime and Punishment. Maybe I'll feel differently now, but in high school it just confused me way to much. I think it was the character names. I had difficulty keeping track of who was who.
The names can be confusing, so that's understandable! Thanks for stopping by!
I especially love the last two! I haven't read the sequel to the last but its so exciting! and clearly, you love THG XD So excited for the movie <3 I hope they don't mess up D: I have yet to read the Hobbit. The movie seems more me-friendly. Haha!
I think Catching Fire is going to be good! It looks really good! And the book The Hobbit might almost be easier than watching ALL the movies once they're all out! The Hobbit book is much more geared towards children than Lord of the Rings.
I totally forgot about Night. That would have made my list for sure!
Glad I am not the only one who thought most of Crime and Punishment could have been taken out. You had to read that in high school? Even for AP English that seems a bit extreme. I had to take an 18th Century Russian Lit class to complete my minor and this was on the reading list. Among the others it was probably one of the best ones. So much gets lost in translation with Russian I think.
A lot probably does get lost in translation. I actually thought it was a good read for an advanced high school class, or at least it was for me. Thanks for stopping by!
I was really late in starting to read "The Hunger Games" series, so I feel like that could have made my list in the whole "because everyone else was telling me to read it" category.
It's interesting how there are so many "must read classics," but of course what a person actually ends up reading varies by their education.
I too read The Hunger Games trilogy because everyone under the sun seemed to be reading it, haha! The Crucible and To Kill a Mockingbird were also required reading in school for me, and I love Rebecca and The Hobbit, which I read on my own. But I my favorite required reads were Macbeth, Frankenstein, and Stoppard's Arcadia, all of which we read in my AP English Lit class senior year of high school.
I don't think I read Macbeth, but I didn't like any Shakespeare that I did read, and same with Frankenstein, but I feel like everyone else does like it! I do think it explores interesting ideas, for sure.
You should totally read The Crucible! It's great!
I actually read most of these, though some of my own choice. Crime and Punishment was one for my "Non-Western Lit" course, and I didn't really like it… The names were so weird!
Rebecca is a very good read! I need to re-read it sometime!
I love that particular cover too! I saw it while ago and featured for a post about favorite book covers. Wish the one I had read in high school had such a pretty cover!
Great list- I wish I had been assigned Rebecca in high school!
It was actually not strictly assigned to me, but I had to do a film project on a classic and it was what my teacher recommended when my group was struggling with what to pick. Glad we chose it!


Sunday Times best-selling crime writer Amanda Robson on how her creativity is linked to her beloved Brecon Beacons.
Many years ago, when my husband and I were in our twenties, we won a trip in a raffle, to a B&B in a remote part of the Brecon Beacons.
It was during the 80s, in the peak of the London property boom. We were London yuppies, attending dinner parties, where people bragged about the value of their flats, eyes wide with greed. Competitive conversation bored me in the 80s. It still bores me now.
So, we ran away for the weekend to the Brecon Beacons National Park, and fell in love with it. But we didn't entirely evade the nation's property fixation. Walking on the top of the Black Mountain, north of Ystradgnlais, we came across a man, in full walking regalia, waving estate agents details in the air. He asked us to help him try and find the property he was about to view, as he had become totally lost. We couldn't believe anyone was trying to find a property on top of a remote mountain range. We looked at the map. It was further down the mountain. We walked there with him. The property was a dud. A ruin. And in those days you were not allowed to build up ruins within the national park. But we stood and looked at it transfixed. It seeded a dream. To buy a house in the mountains. To get out of London whenever we could.
It took us a year to find the right place. A small house in Twynllanan, Llandduesant, with a view so beautiful it featured on the front of the Ordnance survey map. We were very proud of that fact.
But the house had issues. First, its outside paint work. Bright pink rendering with bright blue window frames. Not tasteful cottage pink but electric pink that scorched your eyeballs. My husband tells me it had planning permission to build a garage painted the same colours. We didn't take it up. The house also needed; re-plumbing, re-wiring, a new roof, damp proofing, asbestos removal, a kitchen, a bathroom. It took us three years to do up.
The years rolled on. Our sons were born. We made good friends. We went walking in the mountains with babies in back-packs. Celebrated Christmases, children excited by the snow on the hill-tops. Went wild swimming in the surrounding rivers. Camping wild on local moorland. I was too busy to write in those days.
We eventually moved from Twynllanan and bought a farmhouse outside Talgarth, the house we live in now; equidistant from Hay-on Wye, Abergavenny and Brecon. A perfect location for walking. For cosy pubs and comfortable restaurants. The Black Mountains sit behind us, the Brecon Beacons a short drive away. This is our peace. Our sanctuary. Our secret escape. I began writing here.
I remember that day so clearly. Ensconced in our secret hideaway; one son revising for A-levels, the other for GCSE's, husband at work. I was upstairs ironing. That was the moment, my light bulb moment, when I realised my life had stopped moving forward. I had been a stay at home Mum for too many years. Everyone else in the family had lives that were moving forwards, but I was simply an enabler.
I switched off the iron and left the house. Walking with my dogs along the bridle path above it. Turning to cross the farmland on the other side of the path. Wind humming in my ears. Surrounded by the blur of green upon green, rich emerald countryside green. The green no fabric or dye, however sharp, can mimic. Gnarled winter sheep with twisted coats eating obsessively. I stopped at the top to savour the view. I could see for miles around. Away from the Black Mountains, right across Herefordshire. Hardly any houses. Hardly any villages. Looking at an undulating carpet of grass and hedgerows. Watching a buzzard rise into the ice pale sky, pan scrub clouds moving towards me. So far from the City. So far from London life.
And I knew it was time. Time to do what I had always dreamt of since I was a teenager. Write a novel. What I had wanted to do since I read Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, when I was twelve. It fascinated me. I immediately read it again to try and discover how she had done it, and couldn't quite fathom it out. Rebecca was the first book I truly loved. I didn't realise at the time that it was a psychological thriller. So many years on, now I am a published novelist, psychological thrillers are my thing.
I write in a bedroom at the back of the house, my window looking out onto the Black Mountains. The only sound to disturb me is the sound of the river gurgling past, the occasional bleating of sheep, or the cry of a bird. Sometimes I hear the barking of a dog carried on the wind from the small holding next door, our nearest neighbours, half a mile away. Perfect peace for writing.
Walking in the mountains inspires me. It gives me the freedom to open up my mind to new ideas. My favourite walks are Pen-y-Fan, the highest peak for miles so the views are spectacular. It looks majestically Himalayan in snow. And the Black mountains: either Pengenffordd to Crickhowell, or Talgarth via Waun Fach. The views down the valley towards Crickhowell are breath taking. As is the view off the ridge to the low-lands surrounding Hay-on-Wye. The Black Mountains are the best place to go to free your mind. You can walk all day and not bump into another soul. You can walk and walk and just concentrate on yourself.
Walking, searing beauty, peace, freedom. What more could a writer want?


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sap.ui.define(["jquery.sap.global", "./library", "sap/ui/core/Control", "sap/ui/core/InvisibleText", "sap/m/ButtonType", "sap/m/ToggleButton"],
	function (jQuery, library, Control, InvisibleText, ButtonType, ToggleButton) {
		"use strict";

		/**
		 * Constructor for a new DynamicPageHeader.
		 *
		 * @param {string} [sId] ID for the new control, generated automatically if no ID is given
		 * @param {object} [mSettings] Initial settings for the new control
		 *
		 * @class
		 * Overview
		 *

		 * The {@link sap.f.DynamicPageHeader DynamicPageHeader} control is part
		 * of the {@link sap.f.DynamicPage} family and is used to serve as header
		 * of the {@link sap.f.DynamicPage DynamicPage}.
		 *

		 * Usage
		 *

		 * The {@link sap.f.DynamicPageHeader DynamicPageHeader} can hold any
		 * layout control and has two states - expanded and collapsed (snapped).
		 * The switching between these states happens when:
		 *

		 *
the user scrolls below its bottom margin

		 *
the user clicks on the
		 * {@link sap.f.DynamicPageTitle DynamicPageTitle}

		 *
through the {@link sap.f.DynamicPage DynamicPage}
		 * property headerExpanded

		 *

		 * Responsive Behavior
		 *

		 * The responsive behavior of the
		 * {@link sap.f.DynamicPageHeader DynamicPageHeader} depends on the
		 * behavior of the content that is displayed.
		 *
		 * @extends sap.ui.core.Control
		 *
		 * @author SAP SE
		 * @version 1.42.8
		 *
		 * @constructor
		 * @public
		 * @since 1.42
		 * @alias sap.f.DynamicPageHeader
		 * @ui5-metamodel This control/element also will be described in the UI5 (legacy) designtime metamodel
		 */
		var DynamicPageHeader = Control.extend("sap.f.DynamicPageHeader", /** @lends sap.f.DynamicPageHeader.prototype */ {
			metadata: {
				library: "sap.f",
				properties: {
					/**
					 * Determines whether the header is pinnable.
					 */
					pinnable: {type: "boolean", group: "Appearance", defaultValue: true}
				},
				aggregations: {

					/**
					 * The content of the header.
					 */
					content: {type: "sap.ui.core.Control", multiple: true},

					/**
					 *  The pin/unpin button in the header.
					 */
					_pinButton: {type: "sap.m.Button", multiple: false, visibility: "hidden"}
				}
			}
		});

		/*************************************** Static members ******************************************/

		DynamicPageHeader._LIBRARY = "sap.m";

		/**
		 * Retrieves the resource bundle for the sap.f library.
		 * @returns {Object} the resource bundle object
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader._getResourceBundle = function () {
			return sap.ui.getCore().getLibraryResourceBundle(DynamicPageHeader._LIBRARY);
		};

		DynamicPageHeader.ARIA = {
			ARIA_CONTROLS: "aria-controls",
			ARIA_EXPANDED: "aria-expanded",
			ARIA_LABEL: "aria-label",
			LABEL_EXPANDED: DynamicPageHeader._getResourceBundle().getText("EXPANDED_HEADER"),
			LABEL_SNAPPED: DynamicPageHeader._getResourceBundle().getText("SNAPPED_HEADER"),
			LABEL_PINNED: DynamicPageHeader._getResourceBundle().getText("PIN_HEADER"),
			LABEL_UNPINNED: DynamicPageHeader._getResourceBundle().getText("UNPIN_HEADER"),
			STATE_TRUE: "true",
			STATE_FALSE: "false"
		};

		/*************************************** Lifecycle members ******************************************/
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype.onAfterRendering = function () {
			this._initARIAState();
			this._initPinButtonARIAState();
		};

		/*************************************** Private members ******************************************/

		/**
		 * Determines the pin/unpin toggle button state.
		 * @param bValue
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._togglePinButton = function (bValue) {
			this._getPinButton().setPressed(bValue);
		};

		/**
		 * Shows/hides the pin/unpin button without re-rendering.
		 * @param {boolean} bValue to show or hide the button
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._setShowPinBtn = function (bValue) {
			this._getPinButton().$().toggleClass("sapUiHidden", !bValue);
		};

		/**
		 * Fires the pin/unpin press event.
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._pinUnpinFireEvent = function () {
			this.fireEvent("_pinUnpinPress");
		};

		/**
		 * Initializes the DynamicPageHeader ARIA State.
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._initARIAState = function () {
			var $header = this.$();

			$header.attr(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.ARIA_EXPANDED, DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.STATE_TRUE);
			$header.attr(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.ARIA_LABEL, DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.LABEL_EXPANDED);
		};

		/**
		 * Initializes the DynamicPageHeader pin/unpin ARIA State.
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._initPinButtonARIAState = function () {
			var $pinButton;

			if (this.getPinnable()) {
				$pinButton = this._getPinButtonJQueryRef();
				$pinButton.attr(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.ARIA_CONTROLS, this.getId());
			}
		};

		/**
		 * Updates DynamicPageHeader ARIA attributes values according to expanded/collapsed (snapped) state.
		 * @param {Boolean} bExpanded expanded or collapsed (snapped)
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._updateARIAState = function (bExpanded) {
			var $header = this.$();

			if (bExpanded) {
				$header.attr(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.ARIA_EXPANDED, DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.STATE_TRUE);
				$header.attr(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.ARIA_LABEL, DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.LABEL_EXPANDED);
			} else {
				$header.attr(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.ARIA_EXPANDED, DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.STATE_FALSE);
				$header.attr(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.ARIA_LABEL, DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.LABEL_SNAPPED);
			}
		};

		/**
		 * Updates DynamicPageHeader pin/unpin button ARIA attributes values according to the pinned/unpinned state.
		 * @param {Boolean} bPinned determines if the DynamicPageHeader is pinned or unpinned
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._updateARIAPinButtonState = function (bPinned) {
			var oPinBtn = this._getPinButton();

			if (bPinned) {
				oPinBtn.setTooltip(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.LABEL_UNPINNED);
			} else {
				oPinBtn.setTooltip(DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.LABEL_PINNED);
			}
		};

		/**
		 * Lazily retrieves the DynamicPageHeader pin/unpin button.
		 * @returns {sap.m.ToggleButton}
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._getPinButton = function () {
			if (!this.getAggregation("_pinButton")) {
				var oPinButton = new ToggleButton({
					id: this.getId() + "-pinBtn",
					icon: "sap-icon://pushpin-off",
					tooltip: DynamicPageHeader.ARIA.LABEL_PINNED,
					type: ButtonType.Transparent,
					press: this._pinUnpinFireEvent.bind(this)
				});
				this.setAggregation("_pinButton", oPinButton, true);
			}

			return this.getAggregation("_pinButton");
		};

		/**
		 * Focuses the DynamicPageHeader pin/unpin button.
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._focusPinButton = function () {
			this._getPinButtonJQueryRef().focus();
		};

		/**
		 * Returns the DynamicPageHeader pin/unpin button DOM Ref.
		 * @return {jQuery}
		 * @private
		 */
		DynamicPageHeader.prototype._getPinButtonJQueryRef = function () {
			return this._getPinButton().$();
		};

		return DynamicPageHeader;

	}, /* bExport= */ false);