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Die Santander Consumer Bank AG ist ein deutsches Kreditinstitut in der Rechtsform einer Aktiengesellschaft mit Unternehmenszentrale in Mönchengladbach. Sie ist eine hundertprozentige Tochter der spanischen Banco Santander S.A.

Die Santander Gruppe gehört mit über 133 Millionen Kunden und Präsenz in mehr als 40 Ländern zu den größten Banken der Welt. In Deutschland ist die Bank mit der Santander Consumer Bank AG vertreten. Die Santander Consumer Bank AG weist einen Kreditbestand in Höhe von 30,8 Milliarden Euro auf und hat rund 4,3 Millionen Kunden.

Das Geschäftsmodell der Santander Consumer Bank AG stützt sich auf drei Säulen: das Privatkundengeschäft, die Kfz-Finanzierung und die Konsumgüterfinanzierung. Die Santander Consumer Bank AG ist die größte herstellerunabhängige Bank im Bereich Auto, Motorrad, und (Motor-)Caravan und unterhält zehn Händler-Vertriebs-Center in den Ballungsräumen Hamburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, München, Hannover, Berlin, Stuttgart und Mönchengladbach. Das Konsumentenkreditgeschäft konzentriert sich auf die Handelssparten Unterhaltungselektronik, Computer und Möbel.

Die Santander Consumer Bank AG unterhält in Deutschland ca. 210 Filialen. Sämtliche Bankdienstleistungen werden auch direkt via Online- und Telefon-Banking angeboten. Insgesamt beschäftigt Santander in Deutschland mehr als 3.000 Mitarbeiter.

Die Santander Consumer Bank AG ist Mitglied im Cashpool, im Bankenfachverband e. V., in der Bankenarbeitsgemeinschaft e. V. und im Verband deutscher Pfandbriefbanken. Santander ist dem Einlagensicherungsfonds des Bundesverbands deutscher Banken angeschlossen.

Geschichte

Die Bank wurde 1957 als Curt Briechle KG Absatzfinanzierung vom gleichnamigen Kaufmann in Mönchengladbach als Absatzfinanzierungsgesellschaft für Automobile gegründet. Im Jahr 1968 wurde das Unternehmen in eine Aktiengesellschaft umgewandelt und in Bankhaus Centrale Credit AG umfirmiert.

1987 erwarb die spanische Großbank Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH) die Bank zu 100 % und benannte sie in CC-Bank AG um. Im Jahr 1988 erwarb die Royal Bank of Scotland 50 % der Aktien der CC-Bank. Im Jahr 1996 kaufte die Santander Central Hispano die Aktien von der Royal Bank of Scotland wieder zurück.

2002 fusionierte die in Köln beheimatete AKB Privat- und Handelsbank mit der CC-Bank AG. Die Kölner Hauptverwaltung der AKB am Friesenplatz wurde aufgelöst. Im Jahr 2003 wurde die ebenfalls zur BSCH-Gruppe gehörende Santander Direkt Bank AG aus Frankfurt mit der CC-Bank verschmolzen.

Zum 1. Oktober 2004 wurde der Marktauftritt der Bank an das Corporate Design der spanischen Muttergesellschaft angepasst. Seitdem hieß die Marke Santander Consumer CC-Bank; die offizielle Firmierung lautete zunächst weiterhin CC-Bank AG. Im August 2007 erfolgte die offizielle Umfirmierung im Handelsregister zur Santander Consumer Bank AG.

Am 1. Juli 2008 verkaufte die Royal Bank of Scotland ihre Konsumentenkreditgeschäftseinheit ECF (European Consumer Finance) an die Santander Consumer Finance. Darunter fiel auch die RBS (RD Europe) GmbH mit Niederlassungen in Ratingen (Deutschland), Houten (Niederlande), Merelbeke (Belgien) und Wien (Österreich), die nun organisatorisch zur deutschen Santander Consumer Holding GmbH gehören. Durch den Kauf wurde auch die Handelsmarke ComfortCard in den genannten Ländern übernommen.

Zum 1. Juli 2009 ging die bereits im November 2008 erworbene GE Money Bank GmbH aus Hannover in der Santander Consumer Bank AG auf.

Im Juli 2010 wurde bekannt, dass das deutsche Privatkundengeschäft der SEB an Banco Santander verkauft wird. Der Kaufpreis für die 173 SEB-Filialen betrug 555 Millionen Euro. Zum 31. Januar 2011 ging das Privatkundengeschäft mit etwa 1 Million Kunden und etwa 2.400 Mitarbeitern an Santander über und firmiert nun unter Santander Bank – Zweigniederlassung der Santander Consumer Bank AG.

Am 1. Juli 2016 startete die PSA Bank Deutschland GmbH, ein Joint Venture, an dem die Santander Consumer Bank AG zu 50 Prozent beteiligt ist. Die PSA Bank bietet mit den Marken Peugeot Bank und Citroën Bank Autofinanzierungen, Leasingprodukte und Händlereinkaufsfinanzierungen an. Über die PSA Direktbank stehen Einlagenprodukte zur Verfügung.

Im September 2016 erlangte die Santander Consumer Bank AG die Pfandbrieflizenz. Ende November 2017 hat die Bank erstmals einen Pfandbrief begeben.

2018 vereinheitlicht die Santander Consumer Bank AG ihren Markenauftritt und wird in Deutschland nur noch mit "Santander" auftreten. Im Zuge dessen wurden die Vertriebsnetze von "Santander Consumer Bank", "Santander Direkt Bank" und "Santander Bank" zusammengelegt.

Unternehmenszentrale und New-Work-Konzept
Da nach der Fusion mit der AKB Bank im Jahr 2002 die Mitarbeiterzahl auf über 1.300 stieg und diese an fünf verschiedenen Standorten in Mönchengladbach arbeiteten, wurde bis Mitte 2007 an der Karmannsstraße in Mönchengladbach eine neue Unternehmenszentrale unter der Adresse Santander-Platz 1 gebaut.

In dem von den Architekten Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner geplanten Gebäude arbeiten die Mitarbeiter der Santander Consumer Bank AG mit dem sogenannten New-Work-Konzept. Besprechungsräume für größere Gruppen bzw. kleine Räume, sogenannte "Think Tanks", für 1 bis 3 Personen dienen der Kommunikation genauso wie "Chillout-Lounges" oder Kaffeebars.

Zwischen 2013 und 2015 entstand ebenfalls in Mönchengladbach an der Madrider Straße im Nordpark in Sichtweite des Borussia-Parks ein weiterer Gebäudekomplex, der in seiner Form und Aufteilung an die Unternehmenszentrale am Santander-Platz angelehnt ist.

Beteiligungen
Die Santander Consumer Bank AG hält zum Stichtag 31. Dezember 2021 Beteiligungen an folgenden Gesellschaften:

Santander Consumer Leasing GmbH, Mönchengladbach (100 %)

Santander Consumer Technology Services GmbH, Mönchengladbach (100 %)

Santander Consumer Operations Services GmbH, Mönchengladbach (100 %)

Hyundai Capital Bank Europe GmbH, Frankfurt a. M. (51 %)

PSA Bank Deutschland GmbH, Neu-Isenburg (50 %)

VCFS Germany GmbH, Köln (50 %)

Schufa Holding AG, Wiesbaden (0,55 %)

Engagement
Im globalen Unternehmensbereich Santander Universities unterstützt Santander Studierende und Höhere Bildung weltweit und unterhält Partnerschaften zu mehr als 1.200 akademischen Institutionen in 20 Ländern weltweit, darunter zu den deutschen Universitäten Bremen, Heidelberg, Köln, der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Freien Universität Berlin, der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, der Universität des Saarlandes, der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, der Technischen Universität Dresden, der Technischen Universität München sowie der Hochschule Niederrhein.
Darüber hinaus ist Santander Universitäten Premium-Partner des Deutschen Hochschulverband und Partner des Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft.

Kritik
Die Santander Consumer Bank AG ist kein Mitglied im Arbeitgeberverband des privaten Bankgewerbes und somit nicht an Tarifverträge gebunden. Bei Santander herrscht nach Gewerkschaftsangaben ein "Wildwuchs von unterschiedlichen Vergütungen", der in den letzten Jahren durch die Zukäufe von Banken entstanden sei. Knapp ein Drittel der Arbeitnehmer seien in einer hauseigenen Leiharbeitsfirma und ausgelagerten Tochtergesellschaften beschäftigt. Laut Jörg Reinbrecht vom ver.di-Fachbereich Finanzdienstleistungen gebe es "sogar Beschäftigte, die nur auf Provisionsbasis arbeiten, ganz ohne Festgehalt. Sie arbeiten in kleinen Filialen, die nur Kredite verkaufen, nichts anderes". Die Bank bestreitet dies.

Die Gewerkschaft ver.di verhandelte seit Februar 2012 mit Santander über einen Haustarifvertrag. Insbesondere die von SEB übernommenen Beschäftigten forderten die Weitergeltung ihres Tarifvertrags für alle Santander-Mitarbeiter. Im April 2013 kam es nach 14 Monaten Verhandlungsdauer zu einer Einigung zwischen Santander und ver.di. Für die Beschäftigten in den Filialen trat rückwirkend zum 1. April 2013 ein Tarifvertrag in Kraft. Für die Beschäftigten in den Hauptverwaltungen gilt weiterhin kein Tarifvertrag; die Santander Consumer Bank hat sich für 2014 zu Tarifverhandlungen mit ver.di verpflichtet.

Santander rückte im Frühjahr 2012 vom kostenlosen Girokonto ab und verlangte von einem Teil der Kunden wieder Kontoführungsgebühren. Die Information der betroffenen Kunden wurde als Marketingaktion verpackt. Die Bank bietet inzwischen wieder das kostenlose Girokonto ohne Bedingungen Santander BestGiro an.

In einem Urteil vom November 2012 sah das Landgericht Mönchengladbach in der Vorgehensweise der Bank eine Irreführung der Kunden, eine Vertragsänderung bedürfe der ausdrücklichen Zustimmung des Kunden.

Verbraucherschützer kritisieren außerdem unzulässige Gebühren für Kredite. So verlange Santander bei Ratenkrediten Bearbeitungsgebühren in Höhe von bis zu 3,5 Prozent der Kreditsumme. Inzwischen liegen wegen Kreditbearbeitungsgebühren mehrere Gerichtsurteile auch gegen Santander vor. Verbraucherschützer haben wegen der Vielzahl der Betroffenen eine Schutzgemeinschaft für Bankkunden organisiert, die in 150 Fällen bereits Klagen gegen Banken zur Rückzahlung der Gebühren erhoben hat.

Verbraucherschützer kritisierten 2015 unberechtigte und unzulässig hohe Gebühren für Adressermittlungen, Mahnungen und geplatzte Lastschriften.

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
 Beim "BankenMonitor 2017" der Fachzeitschrift Autohaus gewann die Santander Consumer Bank mit Mazda Finance in der Kategorie "Marken ohne Herstellerbank" den ersten Platz.
 markt intern: Zum zwölften Mal in Folge wählen Automobilhändler die Santander Consumer Bank zur "Besten Autobank 2016"
 Gütesiegel Fair Company des Job- und Wirtschaftsmagazins Karriere der Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt
 Die IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein zählte die Santander Consumer Bank Mönchengladbach mehrfach zu den besten IHK-Ausbildungsbetrieben der Region

Weblinks
 Unternehmenswebsite

Einzelnachweise

Banco Santander
Kreditinstitut (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Unternehmen (Mönchengladbach)
Gegründet 1957


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I frequently take stuff from an Excel spreadsheet and insert it into a Word document. I don't use Office's specialized tools for this, simply because I don't trust Microsoft software. I just select a range of cells in Excel, copy it to the Clipboard (command-C), switch to my Word document, and paste the contents of the Clipboard.
In such an operation, a range of cells in Excel becomes a table in Word, which is expected. The text formatting and the table cell formatting is all screwed up, but that, unfortunately, is to be expected with Microsoft as well. I usually select the entire table I've just inserted and remove all its text formatting by applying my default paragraph and character styles to it with two keyboard shortcuts.
After I've done that, typically the table is wider than what I want, because what looks like a fairly small table in Excel becomes a huge thing in Word. Don't ask me why. All I know is that, after I've inserted the table and removed the text formatting, I select the entire type and use the Table > AutoFit > AutoFit to Window command. That makes it more manageable.
So, as you can see from this description, I have a number of fairly effective strategies to work around Office's user-hostile behaviours. Unfortunately, there are things that you simply cannot work around, no matter how much you customize your Word environment. Here's one problem that got in my way this morning.
I had a table in a Word document that I had created using the procedure outlined above, i.e. by copying a range of cells from Excel, pasting it, and reformatting it. Then I went back to Excel and selected another range of cells with the exact same number of columns and copied it. I went back to my Word document, place my blinking cursor at the beginning of the text in the very first table cell in the top-left of the table, and pressed command-V.
Normally, in Word, when you have a range of cells in the Clipboard that has X columns, and you place the cursor at the beginning of the text in the very first cell in an existing table with the same X number of columns, if you paste the contents of the Clipboard, Word replaces the existing cells with the new cells, preserving your overall table format in the process.
So I expected the same thing to happen when I pasted my range of cells from Excel into an existing Word table with the same number of columns. Tough luck. Instead of replacing the existing cells with the new cells, Word actually… inserted the range of cells from the Clipboard as a table within the table, i.e. as a complete table located inside the first table cell of my existing table!
I double-checked and, sure enough, if I pasted the range of cells from Excel somewhere else in the Word document first and then copied and pasted it back in the existing table after having placed the cursor at the beginning of the text in the first table, this time Word did replace the contents of the existing table cells with the new cells, as expected.
In other words, even though a range of cells in the Clipboard is a range of cells in the Clipboard, Word doesn't behave in the same way depending on whether that range of cells comes from another Word table or from an Excel document.
And of course the only way around this is what I have just described, i.e. you have to first paste the range of cells from Excel somewhere else in the Word document, and then copy it from there and paste it into the existing table to get the expected behaviour.
I don't call that a work-around, though. I call that a royal pain in the neck. Because of course, since I am so used to copying and pasting ranges of cells between Word documents, I always forget that, when the range of cells is coming from Excel, the behaviour is not the same. And I get caught off-guard every time.
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Review: Rob Hart's 'The Warehouse' is whip-smart thriller
By OLINE H. COGDILLAugust 19, 2019 GMT
"The Warehouse: a Novel" (Crown), by Rob Hart
Futuristic thrillers such as "1984," ″Fahrenheit 451″ and "The Handmaid's Tale" succeed because the plots harbor more than a few kernels of truth that make the stories believable. Add Rob Hart's whip-smart thriller "The Warehouse" to that oeuvre. The engrossing plot not only seems that it could happen, but also, in many ways, is happening now. We have met the future, and it is here. Hart creates a world that seems as normal and plausible as your own neighborhood but, at the same time, is frightening and devoid of freedoms.
The massive tech company Cloud claims to be the "solution" to a crumbling America as it dominates retail sales and the labor market. People are too afraid to go to stores after the Black Friday Massacres, events chillingly referred to in passing. Need a book, a razor, or a cooking utensil? Just order it online through Cloud and it will be shipped immediately, arriving via a drone. MotherCloud's mega warehouses are located throughout the United States, where employees live and work. (No need to ever leave when everything you would ever need is there on the perfect climate-controlled premises.) Workers wear color-coded shirts to show the roles they have — security, technology, packing the boxes — and CloudBands guide them throughout the facility and record each expense they incur.
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Weekly Whip w/c 20th July
The final week of Parliament before the summer recess kicked off with the Foreign Secretary coming to the House to give a Ministerial Statement on China. After the imposition of a new security law in Hong Kong, the U-turn decision to ban Huawei from 5G infrastructure, and the serious concerns of human rights abuses in Xinjang, the China-UK relationship is under strain to put it lightly.
In addition to welcoming the Statement from the Government, Alistair Carmichael pressed his concerns to Dominic Raab, drawing attention to the sobering drone footage of prisoners being tied-up and blindfolded before boarding a train, and the recent interception of a shipment of human hair. Though we must be cautious in the usage of the word, Alistair noted, these are the early stages of genocide and the recent developments are extremely disconcerting. The world is watching.
The Foreign Secretary must take seriously our options for further sanctions against the Chinese regime. The violations of human rights against the Uyghurs cannot be ignored any longer. We can start by acknowledging them for what they are: genocide. @AppgXinjiang pic.twitter.com/XMhxYNkdHK
- Alistair Carmichael (@amcarmichaelMP) July 20, 2020
Monday's main business was the Trade Bill which makes provision on the implementations of international trade agreements now that the UK is leaving the EU. The sad poetry was laid bare for all to see, as the Bill came through during a week where the Government is said to be close to abandoning trade deals with both the EU and the US. The severe mismanagement of the future of our country is so difficult to ignore that even Tory backbenchers are questioning the leadership. A number of Tory rebels put amendments down to back Parliamentary scrutiny, but it was not enough to stop the Government's power grab.
Sarah Olney, as International Trade Spokesperson, gave a damning speech in the Chamber, outlining the various ways in which this Government is undermining our democracy and subverting Parliamentary authority at any opportunity.
"It is an assault on our very idea of what a Parliament is for to determine that these decisions are best made behind closed doors, without consultation or discussion."
The Lib Dems, led by Sarah, walked through the aye lobby on a number of occasions on Monday night to defend Parliament's right to scrutinise any future trade agreement, safeguard high standards of produce, and ensure that the NHS is off the table in all discussions. However, the way the Tories are performing, there will not be any trade deals to scrutinise anyway.
Parliament should have the opportunity to weigh up our priorities when we enter into trade agreements. My speech on the #TradeBill yesterday pic.twitter.com/D0P3NjHokS
- Sarah Olney (@sarahjolney1) July 21, 2020
As of tonight's votes, parliament will have no say over future UK trade deals. MPs now have less scrutiny over trade deals than when we were part of the EU. #TakeBackWhaaaaat
- Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 (@libdemdaisy) July 20, 2020
Daisy Cooper, our Spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, was granted an Urgent Question on the future of the BBC. From August 1st, the BBC will only fund free licenses to the over 75s that receive pension credit. Two-fifths of those entitled, nearly 1.2 million people, are not receiving it because many do not know how to claim and struggle to apply.
Focusing on changes to license fee exemptions, programming, and job losses, Daisy made our position clear that the BBC license fee exists to give the BBC protection from political interference and the Government should have never put the long-standing institution in this position. The BBC is not a de-facto arm of the DWP and should not be making decisions on welfare, that is the role of government.
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An active day in the Chamber for Daisy, she then took the lead on the main business of the day: The Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill, where Liberal Democrats had some concerns. The UK has suffered a number of tragic terrorist attacks in recent weeks and months. The first duty of government is to protect people from this kind of violence, and Lib Dems will always work to ensure that our security services have the tools and resources they need to do their jobs.
However, Daisy highlighted that the Bill would massively expand the Home Secretary's power to impose Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures with weakened standards of proof and no regard for civil liberties. The changes do not walk the crucial balance between our national security and cherished freedoms which our party will always champion.
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Wednesday 22nd July
The last day of term opened with the Lib Dems receiving yet another commitment from the Prime Minister during PMQs. Chair of the APPG on Coronavirus, Layla Moran received assurances from the PM after pressing him on reviewing the upcoming recommendations from the cross-party Group's findings the handling of the pandemic. Learning the lessons from the previous months will be vital in preventing more lives being lost and the dangers of a second wave.
Important concession from PM in response to my question at #PMQs. He's committed to considering conclusions of the cross-party rapid inquiry I'm chairing into the handling of pandemic. It's vital lessons are learned before a potential second wave this winter. pic.twitter.com/MqlyMYsB0j
- Layla Moran 🔶🟡 (@LaylaMoran) July 22, 2020
Before winding down for summer, the Speaker granted a UQ on the much-anticipated Russia Report which was released on Tuesday morning. It revealed shocking negligence on the part of the British Government in preventing foreign interference with our democratic process as far back as 2014. While questions remain about our national security and 21st Century technology, Alistair Carmichael, in solidarity with Julian Lewis, the new Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, cornered the Minister on protecting the ISC from another kind of interference. This time, we are worried about the antics of certain party-political special advisors who seem to be developing a consistency in undermining the rule of law, national security, and Parliamentary sovereignty. We will have not forgotten this come September 1st.
The House will not be sitting until September 1st, so this will be the last Weekly Whip until then. Our MPs will take the time off to return home to their constituencies and focus on local issues, but we will be ready and raring to go come the return of Parliament.
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First in the list is Adamawa State. Adamawa State is known as the land of beauty. Looking for one of the States in Nigeria with gorgeous women, then, Adamawa may come first in the list. Adamawa State is dominated by the Fulani speaking tribe. The State capital of Adamwa State is Yola. Adamawa State was created in 1991.
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In machine learning, often the most accurate learning methods tend also to be the least intelligible. Machine learning methods such as random forests, boosted trees, neural nets, and deep learning, often are very accurate, but are also difficult to understand. They are all black-box models. There has been progress in learning how to open up these black boxes to try to understand what is inside them, but we still have far to go. Because we can't yet understand these models, it can be dangerous to use them in critical applications such as healthcare despite their high accuracy.
In the mid-90's we trained a neural net to predict the probability of death (POD) of pneumonia patients. All patients in the data set already had been diagnosed with pneumonia. The goal of the model was to predict which patients were high or low risk. Low-risk patients could be treated as outpatients, but high-risk patients needed to be hospitalized. We trained many different machine learning models on the data. The neural net was the most accurate model.
You don't need a background in medicine to question this rule. We asked the doctors about this rule at the next project meeting. They thought carefully and said that it probably was a true pattern in the data. They consider asthma a serious risk factor for pneumonia. Most patients presenting with pneumonia who had a history of asthma probably were immediately admitted to the hospital, or possibly even to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). Moreover, patients with a history of asthma probably pay more attention to how well they are breathing and go to care sooner if they are having difficulty breathing. They get to healthcare faster. This combination of getting to care faster, being treated as high risk once you reach care, and then being aggressively treated is so effective that it reduces the chance of dying for asthmatic pneumonia patients below that of the general population, which may not always get to care so rapidly and receive such aggressive treatment.
It is great news for healthcare that the treatment asthmatics with pneumonia receive is very effective and reduces their chance of dying. But potentially this is bad news for machine learning, which is learning that asthmatics have reduced risk. It is true that asthmatics have less risk, but only if we treat them quickly and aggressively. Unfortunately, our plan was to use machine learning to predict which patients were high or low risk, so that low risk patients could be treated as outpatients. If the model predicted that pneumonia patients with a history of asthma have lower risk, then the model might suggest that asthmatics did not need to be hospitalized. This, of course, could be bad for the asthmatics. Fortunately, we knew it was risky to use a black-box model like a neural net to make these kinds of predictions for patients, so we didn't field the neural net despite the fact that it was accurate on test data.
There also is research to develop machine learning methods that are very accurate, but white-box instead of black-box. Researchers at Microsoft and Cornell recently developed an improvement to a method originally invented by statisticians in the 1980's (GAMs: Generalized Additive Models) that allows GAMs to be as accurate as random forests and neural nets on problems such as healthcare, but also to be extremely intelligible. We applied this new white-box GAM method to the pneumonia data set from the 1990's. The resulting model is as accurate as the best neural nets we trained on this data years ago, but unlike the neural nets, is very transparent. We could easily see that the new model had learned that asthmatics have lower risk of dying from pneumonia. This is to be expected because this is a true pattern in the data.
But the new transparent model also learned that patients with a history of chest pain, and patients with heart disease, also had less risk of dying from pneumonia. We assume these also are true patterns in the data: patients with a history of chest pain and heart disease presumably pay more attention to how well they are breathing, are already plugged into healthcare, probably get to care faster, and probably receive more aggressive treatment. These are all very good things for patients who have now come down with pneumonia.
We believe the neural net trained back in the 90's also learned these things about chest pain and heart disease, but we didn't know it back then because the rule-based system did not learn rules about chest pain and heart disease. It was only when we saw the modern, intelligible GAM model that we recognized that the data had more complexity than just the asthma problem.
The good news is that the new GAM models appear to be as accurate as neural nets on healthcare problems, but are very transparent and editable. This makes it easy to detect when the model has learned bad things (e.g., that pneumonia patients with a history of asthma, chest pain or heart disease have less risk), and to fix the model when these kinds of problems are detected.
Learning that pneumonia patients with a history of asthma, chest pain and heart disease have less risk of dying from pneumonia is not necessarily right or wrong. If an insurance company wants to use predictions of patient mortality to decide what to charge for insurance and how much money to set aside for the healthcare of patients that will survive, then a model that takes into account factors like asthma when predicting mortality will be more accurate and will help the insurance provider make more accurate financial decisions. If, however, the plan is to use the risk predictions to help decide which patients should be treated as in- or outpatients, then the model should not predict that patients with a history of asthma, chest pain, and heart disease have less risk --- they actually have increased risk if not properly treated. Thus the correctness of the learned model depends on exactly what the model will be used for. The data, and models trained on the data, are not in and of themselves inherently right or wrong. This underscores the importance of being able to understand what a model has learned so that informed decisions can be made about the suitability of the model for the purpose for which it will be used.
These intelligible models are useful in domains other than healthcare. For example, in domains where we might be concerned about the model learning to be biased based on factors such as race, gender, and socioeconomic status, GAM models can be used to make what is learned from these variables transparent, and to then allow the bias to be removed from the models before they are deployed. This capability is critical if we are going to use machine learning in important applications that affect people's health, welfare, and social opportunity. The models we are developing are not perfect, but they represent an important step forward in the accuracy vs. intelligibility vs. edit-ability landscape.
Good thing we didn't deploy the neural net!


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Araneus tinikdikitus este o specie de păianjeni din genul Araneus, familia Araneidae, descrisă de Alberto Barrion și Litsinger, 1995.

Este endemică în Filipine. Conform Catalogue of Life specia Araneus tinikdikitus nu are subspecii cunoscute.

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Format: Students learn to understand the flow of a text; exams can combine poetry recitation with a discussion with the examiner prompted by a chosen stimulus (introductory exams) or the verses chosen (graded exams).
Outcomes: self-confidence, conversation skills, memorisation, rhythm and timing, diction, projection.
Format: Students learn how to perform a piece of piece of prose, interpreting context, subtext and characterisation. Performers build up a character from physical appearance and personality, through to hopes, dreams and aspirations.
Outcomes: self-confidence, memorisation, interpretation, creative thinking, staging, making choices, presentation skills, sensitivity to material.
Format: This 'duet-style' exam allows two students to rehearse together on a piece of prose that relies on their ability to react to one another's performance as a stimulus.
Outcomes: interaction, collaboration skills, teamwork, dedication, memorisation, presentation skills.
forms a part of a wider creative work. This subject can also be studied in a duologue format.
Outcomes: Collaborative performance skills, memorisation, emotional delivery, multi-disciplinary arts approach, musicality.
1) Drama exams can be taken in the same manner as instrumental exams – working through the grades from 1 to 8, and sitting them in front of an external examiner up to once every term. The drama lessons usually comprise small groups (between two to four students) or individual sessions of up to 30 minutes in length. The charges can be made to schools for these lessons and fees to parents organised by each individual school, or fees can be organised directly with parents, thus eliminating the school's financial involvement.
2) Pupils are normally withdrawn from their timetabled school lessons to receive drama tuition and this is ideally provided on a rota system to minimise curriculum disruption. Pupils are encouraged to complete any school coursework missed due to drama lessons.
3) The main examination boards used by the Drama Support Service are LAMDA and Trinity Guildhall, although the choice of examination board is up to each Drama Support tutor. Naturally, some tutors are more familiar with certain subjects than others.
4) Currently examinations are only offered in the English language.
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U.S. inflation shows signs of cooling at 7.1% in November, below estimates
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Inflation in the U.S. came in at 7.1% in November, compared to the 7.3% year-on-year forecast. The month-on-month increase was 0.1%, down from 0.4% in October.
Cryptocurrencies and traditional stock markets rose in response as yields dropped.
While inflation shows signs of easing, interest rates remain elevated. The market is watching to see how much the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates tomorrow, with the expectation that it will slow down the pace from its recent increases of 75 basis points to 50 basis points on the assumption that inflation is taking a bit of a breather.
While today's data is unlikely to sway the Fed in its rate decision being announced tomorrow, U.S. core and headline inflation figures will likely set the tone for the central bank, and by extension, the upcoming year, said David Stritch, a currency analyst at Caxton.
"Today's U.S. CPI data will give us an idea on how the market pricing for the Fed's terminal rate will clash with the dot plot projections that will come out tomorrow, and that will, in all cases, hammer any potentially optimistic market sentiment," said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, a senior analyst at Swissquote Bank.
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For the past several months (actually 5 years) I have been juggling numerous tasks at once.
I did get the honor of meeting 2 pretty amazing ladies from Pure Romance. Lindsay Daily and Erica Wilder They are trained knowledgeable Advanced Consultants for the company. Due to the nature of their products, their display consisted of lotions only. After speaking with them (having been an adult product representative at 1 time myself) I was quite impressed with the Pure Romance company. Yes, I was quite impressed with these amazing ladies and hope to see them again soon. Maybe we will try another get together in January?
Since I am up & babbling early today, I want to say thank you to the following people for Saturday night…….Dawn Bussey Lewis, Tony Lewis, Scott Traver, Alan Anderson, Dan Lang, Bob (Robert) Gehm. As usual you folks are covering my rear end. I Love you all dearly! Here's to many more years making beautiful music together.
Everyone have an absolutely Great Day!!!


One of the most well-maintained "premier" national parks in the country, it is home of the nation's rare and endangered species of flora (like the dwarf bamboo) and fauna (e.g., the cloud rat, kock's pita, serpent eagle, Philippine deer, Philippine pig, etc.). It is also home to some of North Luzon's ethnic tribes; four of them actually reside within the park – Ibaloi, Kalanguya, Kankana-ey, and Ibanag, and most of them consider Mt. Pulag a sacred place not only because they consider it a resting place and playground of their gods but also a place where they bury their dead.
I am way prepared to our trip as I completed all gears and apparels needed before reaching the summit. Two weeks before I have already purchased at lazada a tent and sleeping bag, borrowed winter jacket from a friend and gathered all my necessary wear and things to bring. The team fetch me at the house, left 11:30 am then on our half way to Baguio, I remember that I forgot my medical certificate but didn't bother me. We are 12 in a van, can feel their excitement on this trip.
We arrived at Baguio 2 am, waited for organizer's advise. Finally, our transportation came, set ourselves and put our bags full of things on the top of jeepney. Sleepless night of preparation and travel to Baguio made us worried especially me. As the jeep started, we could no longer steal a nap since the road is rough and it's shaky inside. There's 2 hours ride from Baguio to DENR for registration. A 1 hour ride from DENR to Bokod, Mt Ranger Station.
We had an orientation at DENR, marked us as a head count and I bought a gloves near the office for my additional warmth.


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Ex-world champ fighting at Miami drive-in
M&R Boxing Promotions Presents "Drive-In at the Fair," a live outdoor professional boxing experience on Thursday, September 24th. The event will take place at the Miami-Dade County Fair & Expo. Organizers are showing their utmost respect for the protocols and safety of all participating in the event and the attending public. There will be over 100 well-spaced available spots for fans in attendance to choose from. The attending public will have the option to tune into the event from their car, have a pre-order of contactless concessions brought to them, and can even bring their own chairs to watch the event.
The main event will feature former WBC flyweight world champion Cristofer "Latigo" Rosales (30-5, 21 KOs) of Nicaragua vs Juan Kantum (21-9-3, 15 KOs) of Mexico in a 10 round super flyweight contest.
It's a quick return to the ring for Rosales who is fresh off of his 4th round stoppage of Jeno Tonte of Hungary this past August 29th. Kantum will provide a stern test as he has fought many high-level fighters including a prime now four-divisional world champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez (49-2, 41 KOs), who was unbeaten at the time.
In the co-feature, talented Melvin "Melo" Lopez (21-1, 12KOs) of Nicaragua (now based in Miami) will look to continue his march towards a world title opportunity facing Yeison Vargas (17-4, 12 KOs) of Colombia in a 10 round bantamweight bout. Lopez fought as well August 29 winning by TKO in round 2 Szilveszter Kanalas.
Both fighters are managed by WRAM Boxing (William Ramirez) who believes both fighters will be back into world title contention in the near future. "Cristofer and Melvin are coming off of recent stoppage victories. I am confident they will both be in a position to challenge for world titles before too long," said Ramirez.
Rounding out the card: Serik Musadilov, Frank Diaz, Chris Otero, Manuel Correa, Emmanueal Austin, Feifilimai Faiva, and Tayre Jones in separate bouts.
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May 1, 2017 2:26pm
Kevin VanDam has landed the biggest bass of the day - at least a 5-pounder, maybe bigger. It's listed as a 5-0 on BASSTrakk, which allowed him to close the gap on leader Dustin Connell to 2-12.
However, time is running out. Check-in time is 2 p.m.
Basking in the sun
This 8-foot alligator was basking in the sun watching Ish Monroe fish.
Updated by Bassmaster Marshall Bill Ford
Pre-tournament forecasts spot-on
The Elite Series anglers often get accused of low-balling in their pre-tournament predictions, which are based on three days of practice. It's tough to make an accurate prediction when often you're not setting the hook on the bites you get, and you're simply looking for bites, not exploiting those spots. But in the case of Ross Barnett Reservoir, the forecasts were pretty much spot-on. Consider the following, gathered prior to the anglers' meeting Wednesday.
"I've fished here a lot over the last eight or nine years," said Brock Mosley. "It's only about an hour from where I live. Being consistent is real hard to do on this lake, any time of year.
"I think 64 pounds is going to be real strong this week. Somebody is going to catch 20 pounds one day, then come in with 9 or 10 pounds the next. It always happens that way here."
First-day leader Brandon Card is a prime example of what Mosley was referring to. Card caught weighed 22-14 on Day 1, 11-0 on Day 2 and 6-10 on Day 3. Mark Davis is another example with daily totals of 20-10, 11-4 and 6-14.
If Dustin Connell reaches his goal of 13 pounds today, he'll have 65 pounds, a single pound more than Mosley predicted.
Tie breaker?
Craig Lamb
This tournament is shaping up to be tightly contested. A race to the finish. Unless, of course, Dustin Connell scores that crucial fifth fish to round out his limit.
However, anything can happen when you have two VanDams and a list of B.A.S.S. veterans, several with more than two decades of experience, in the lineup.
Is there a possibility of a Championship Tuesday?
The answer is yet to come. Meanwhile, there are some rules in place in the event of a tie. Here those are, taken straight from the B.A.S.S. official rulebook.
In case of a tie for first place weight at the end of the tournament, there will be a fish-off between the tied competitors under the direction and special rules established by tournament officials. Ties for standard cuts and places below first at the end of the tournament will be resolved in the following order:
(1) individual with heaviest single day catch during competition;
(2) if the tie is not broken, the next tiebreaker will be the individual with the second heaviest single day catch during competition;
(3) if the tie is not broken, the next tiebreaker will be the individual with the largest number of legal fish weighed during competition;
(4) if the tie is not broken, the next tiebreaker will be the individual with the largest number of legal live fish weighed during competition. If the tie is not broken by applying the foregoing procedures, the tie will remain a tie. When ties for cut position are not broken by the foregoing procedures, competitors still tied will compete for the next cut. Additional places will not be awarded. Monetary prizes for each competitor will be awarded in equal amounts. Angler of the Year points will be awarded for the place of the tied position and each competitor will be awarded equal points. In B.A.S.S. Elite events where weights are zeroed, ties for cuts going into the final round shall be broken by Angler of the Year standings following most recent concluded Elite Series event. A tie for first at the end of the AOY Championship shall be broken by the above procedures and not result in a fish-off.
Big hour of fish catches
The Final Day of action has been slow at times, but given the conditions these anglers are dealing with; we can only be so lucky with the catches we've seen.
6:15 - 7:15 a.m. — 8
8:15 - 9:15 a.m. — 16
9:15 - 10:15 a.m. — 10
10:15 - 11:15 a.m. — 9
The catch numbers have been pretty consistent, but two hours stand out to me. The most numbers we've seen today came in the 8:15 to 9:15 window when 16 catches were logged. But the other hour that has been as crucial to this final day was this past hour. Only 9 fish were caught during the 10:15 to 11:15 hour, but we saw two 4-pounders go in anglers' livewell. Mark Menendez started the hour off with a 4+ pounder and leader Dustin Connell closed that hour with his biggest of the day.
Add in two 3+ pounders for the field and we've seen 4 of the 5 biggest catches of the day so far. Hot hour for the Top 12. What hour will be hot to end the day for the 12 best?
Menendez goes year round
Earlier this week the pros lamented that Ross Barnett would fish "small." That made avoiding standout features prone to high fishing pressure a good place to avoid. Nothing stands out more on the lower lake than the very long riprap shoreline along a dam.
This morning Mark Menendez told me he's camped out along such a standout feature. The riprap along the dam.
The longer he stayed the more Menendez learned about the area. That's a nugget the average angler can use.
"Those fish live around the dam year-round, and a quantity of fish is available that replenishes itself every day," said Menendez. "I didn't have to worry about running around the lake trying to find new fish."
That is wise advice for the average angler. Focusing on a reliable area with a year-round population of bass. Fundamentally, that is an area that supports the bass population year round with habitat, depth and food. Examples are backwater sloughs, lakes, river systems and riprap shorelines.
Earlier in the week Menendez also told me he cycled through lots of 14-inch borderline keepers to get the quality bite.
He built confidence with every kicker fish that came along. And here he fishes. Alone at one of the most obvious features on the lake.
Connell getting closer to his goal
Dustin Connell's goal today is 13 pounds, as he noted on Bassmaster LIVE earlier this morning. He just got 4 1/2 pounds closer with his fourth fish and retook the lead. He now has 4 bass totaling 9-5. One more like the last one, and he'd be right at his goal.
Connell started the day with a 5-pound, 8-ounce lead over Kevin VanDam, 5-15 over Jonathon VanDam and 7-1 over Mark Menendez, his three closest competitors so far today. Do the math and you see that those guys need 18 to 20 pounds, respectively, to contend with Connell if he reaches that 13-pound goal.
Photo by Seigo Saito
What happens in tie?
Jim Sexton
It is tight at the top of the BASSTrakk leaderboard right now. Jonathon VanDam is leading. Mark Menendez is just 7 ounces back. Kevin VanDam is 9 ounces back from the leader. Dustin Connell is 12 ounces back, and he only has three fish. And Bobby Lane is 1 pound and an ounce back. Of course these are all estimates.
Several fans are asking, what happens if we have a tie at the top? According to rule C21 for the Bassmaster Elite Series, "In case of a tie for first place weight at the end of the tournament, there will be a fish-off between the tied competitors under the direction and special rules established by tournament officials."
We've already had a day postponed by a big storm. This tournament would hit legendary status if we also have a fish-off. Stay tuned!
Connell's spotted bass advantage
May 1, 2017 11:06am
On Day 3 Dustin Connell was elated after catching a 3-pound spotted bass. The reason why is the central Alabama native cut his angling teeth by catching spotted bass.
Specifically, he learned his trade on the Coosa and Alabama river systems, where spotted bass are found in abundance. So is current and there is plenty of that right now on the Pearl River.
That key spotted bass might be a clue as to how this tournament will end.
Connell just admitted to avoiding a key area until now. Give him lots of credit for waiting until ideal conditions set up for a spotted bass bite. Those bass are more current driven than largemouth.
Connell is making quick runs to specific pockets with current breaks that are ideal for attracting spotted bass.
That is not to suggest that he will stick with this pattern all day. But it does give him a distinct advantage. He is doing something different from his peers. That has made all the difference this week for the top anglers. It might make a huge difference since his bite is best in the afternoon.
What is a hot tree?
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Watching LIVE you can see Dustin Connell talking about "fishing a hot tree." What he means is, a tree that looks like prime fish habitat. Connell is flipping very thick deep green wood cover on the edge of the river channel. He believes with two 4-pound bites he can seal the deal.
It may take an abundance of trees before Connell finds these bites, but he is fishing with patience and selecting which trees he's flipping with precision. He noted he believes the spotted bass will be more prone to bite with bluebird skies, than largemouth in post-frontal conditions.
Like I said in an earlier blog this week, Connell told me the night after the Classic, "if there's one tournament I'm gonna win, it'll be Ross Barnett."
He's fishing with confidence.
Let's see if the rookie can pull it off.
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Researchers are studying the use of mobile phones to document the spread of malaria. The study is part of an effort to stop or control the disease.
The World Health Organization says malaria mortality rates have fallen by twenty-five percent since two thousand. Yet the disease killed an estimated six hundred fifty-five thousand people in twenty-ten.
Scientists say malaria-carrying mosquitoes cannot travel far on their own. But the insects can, and do, catch rides in the belongings of people who travel. Malaria also can be spread by people who come from an area with large numbers of malaria cases. They may show no signs of having the disease themselves.
That is what Harvard University researchers discovered in Kenya. They found that the disease mainly spreads east from the country's Lake Victoria area with people who travel to the capital, Nairobi.
Researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health reported the finding. It was based on the mobile phone records of fifteen million Kenyans.
Caroline Buckee is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard school. She says one of the first steps in stopping malaria is to learn how human travel might be adding to its spread. She says it has been difficult to follow large population movements with methods like government census records.
In Kenya, the researchers estimated the distance and length of each phone user's trip away from home. This information was based on messages to and from the mobile phone carrier's twelve thousand transmission towers.
The researchers then compared that information to a map showing reports of malaria in different parts of the country. The researchers estimated each user's probability of being infected in a given area. They also estimated the likelihood that a visitor to that area would become infected.
The result was a picture showing malaria transmission routes starting in Lake Victoria. Caroline Buckee says such evidence could influence malaria control efforts.
She says researchers are investigating using mobile phone records in other areas to help identify malaria transmission routes. A report on the study was published in the Journal Science.


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Q: Framework7 Single Searchbar for multiple Virtual Lists The Task
Picture the typical search-bar and list of results. With framework7 in my Cordova app we can of course implement this easily even with a virtual list where elements aren't all being rendered. But what I'm trying to implement is a search-bar which will effect two virtual lists. The reason for this is as part of the app I'm creating there will be a list for new and refurbished equipment. Each list is on a different slider tab on the same page, so only one list will be seen at any one moment. But I need to use a singular search-bar to filter both.
What I've done so far
Currently the slider with two separate virtual lists is set up, the search bar is initiated. Is there any good way to allow the searchbar to apply to both lists without going crazy with the customSearch true parameter. If that is the only option how would I keep the default methods for filtering lists, I simply want to apply it twice.
I've also considered creating a second searchbar with display:none and having it copy input over from the seen searchbar. Then hidden searchbar could apply to one list while the seen one would apply to the other. But that would be really hacky and not neat at all.
Sorry If this is a bit unclear, I'm not sure how best to approach the challenge, thanks for any help

A: I initialise my two virtual lists, I make the search function accessable from outside of that. Then I initalise my searchbar with customSearch true, on search I use my virtual list (vl) array and search them individually using the filter and query functions available. It was a bit of a pain but this works perfectly fine. The vl[1] in this example is just a copy of vl[0] since I haven't actually set it up yet.
    function virtualSearchAll(query,items){//search query
        var foundItems = [];
        for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
            // Check if title contains query string
            if (items[i].internal_descriptn.toLowerCase().indexOf(query.toLowerCase().trim()) >= 0) foundItems.push(i);
        }
        // Return array with indexes of matched items
        return foundItems;
    }

    var vl = [];
    vl[0] = myApp.virtualList('.vl0', {//initialise new products
        items: selectProd,
        template: '

{{internal_descriptn}}

',
        searchAll: function(query,items) {
            return virtualSearchAll(query, items);
        }
    });
    vl[1] = myApp.virtualList('.vl1', {//initialise test/referb products
        items: [{internal_descriptn:"test desc",model_id:"wehayy"}],
        template: '

{{internal_descriptn}}

',
        searchAll: function(query,items) {
            return virtualSearchAll(query, items);
        }
    });

    var mySearchbar = myApp.searchbar('.searchbar', {
        customSearch: true,
        searchIn: '.item-title',
        onSearch: function(s) {
            previousQuery = s.query;
            for (let n in vl) {
                let vlItems = virtualSearchAll(s.query,vl[n].items);
                vl[n].filterItems(vlItems);
                if(vlItems.length === 0) {//if the search has no results then show no results element else hide it
                    $('.vl'+n+'-not-found').show();
                } else {
                    $('.vl'+n+'-not-found').hide();
                }
            }
            highlightRows();
        }
    });

I should add that highlightRows() is part of a different functionality which needs to be refreshed on every search. You can ignore that

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The idea of changing something you have already got used to is not easy. This is true especially for a place you have called home for years. When asked to suddenly move out for whatever reason, it could be extremely painful for you.
Over the years, you have built memories around that home. You have also come to love that place for everything that it is. You might have laughed and cried over the years, but your home remained a constant. You knew that you always had that same place to go home to at the end of the day.
There is nothing wrong with being too emotional. You are still trying to process the whole idea of leaving. You are not yet ready to just let things go. Take your time to feel sad about it. Don't force yourself to just accept this change when you are not yet ready. Over time, you will realize that there is nothing you can do and you just have to move positively forward.
At this point, the only thing that you can do is be hopeful for the future. There might be something out there waiting for you. It is time to move because there is a better job opportunity that you have to grab. You might also want to raise your kids in a better neighborhood. You have valid reasons for leaving. You should stop feeling bad about this decision and start moving on.
Once you have finally moved, you will be ready to open a new chapter in your life. You are now creating new memories. You can look forward to a new beginning.
It is time to stop crying about the past and look forward to something new. Isn't it exciting to finally break your old routine and have something new in your life? This is a challenge that you will most likely enjoy in the long run. Again, there is nothing wrong with feeling bad about moving. However, at some point, you have to stop dwelling on the pain and feel more optimistic.


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Q: How can I use Ajax to check the status and result of a django-celery task? The Django Celery documentation suggests there are URLs I can check to get the status of a task. What are these URLs?

A: To access these URLs, you need to include them from one of your urls.py files. For example:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url('^tasks/', include('djcelery.urls')),
)

You would then access them using, for example, http://example.com/tasks/{{ task_id }}/status/.


Soultak3r1 is a nation led by Lord Soultak3r1 on the continent of North America. Soultak3r1's government is a Absolute Monarchy with very moderate social policies. Economically, Soultak3r1 favors moderate policies. The official currency of Soultak3r1 is the Dollar. At 1,707 days old, Soultak3r1 is an ancient nation. Soultak3r1 has a population of 4,846,200 and a land area of 33,800.00 sq. miles. This gives it a national average population density of 143.38. Pollution in the nation is everywhere. The citizens' faith in the government is completely depleted with an approval rating of 0%.
HEY! I've got nukes and that little red button is kinda loose.
04/12 05:52 am - founded a new city, Whoeverland.
02/22 09:39 pm - founded a new city, Xoriland.


Trusted online gift shop for Filipinos. Regalo Manila is an online gift delivery company dedicated to send flowers and gifts to the Philippines. It started in 2007 specializing on catering overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) or foreigners who want to send gifts, food items and other stud to their love ones in the Philippines. Its products range from flowers, chocolates, stuff toys and some food items from the top restaurants in the country. Regalo Manila provides a simple service. Customers simply order and the company delivers the gifts to its designated recipient without the hefty international shipping fees. As a one of the pioneers in the online gift delivery industry, Regalo Manila is the top choice of most OFWs and foreigners in sending gifts for special occasions.
Regalo Manila provides Flower Deliveries for special days like birthdays, anniversaries, Valentines, Christmas and Mothers Day. It also has Gift Deliveries for a special someone on their which can be a selection of toys, jewelry and others. It also deliveries fast food whether a KFC bucket or a Jollibee party bundle, pizza or any meals from our listed food chains. It can also make anonymous Deliveries. One can simply watch the delivery from afar.
Regalo Manila is the preferred gift delivery company in the Philippines because it provides an Assortment of Gifts to choose from. It gives client the Power to Send Easy-To-Expire Gifts. It Sends Nothing but Fresh Flowers. It Spices Up Gifts by Request. It is Backed Up with 7 Years of Experience. It delivers food, flowers and gift right on the dot. It provides impeccable Quality Customer Service. It offers Good Value for Your Money. It provides Personalized Gifts. And it provides Flexible Payment System inlcuding PayPal, 2CheckOut, Western Union, BDO, Moneygram, Cebuana, LBC and M Lhuillier.
Regalo Manila can be contacted in the nos. USA No: 001-213-9841010 Call: +63-02-4132273, Text: +63-908-8848712.
How to get to Vegalink Makati?
Question: How to get to Vegalink Makati?
Answer: Vegalink Philippines main call center office is currently located in Guadalupe Commercial Complex, along EDSA, Guadalupe, Makati City. Nearest landmarks to are Jollibee, BDO and Trace College.
If you are coming from EDSA, the fastest way to Vegalink Makati is via MRT ride to Guadalupe station; then take a 3 minute walk towards Guadalupe Commercial Complex.
Residents from Pasay, Taft, Manila and nearby areas can take a LRT ride to Buendia station; then take a jeepney ride going to Guadalupe and alight near Jollibee; then take a 3-5 minute walk to reach Vegalink Guadalupe.
Residents from Pateros, Taguig, Pasig and nearby areas can take a jeepney/FX taxi ride to Guadalupe; then take a 5-10 minute walk towards Vegalink Makati. Use the map provided below to navigate your way to Guadalupe Commercial Complex.
How to go to Health Carousel Ortigas?
Question: How to go to Health Carousel Ortigas?
Answer: Health Carousel Philippines main call center office is currently located in Taipan Place building, along Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center Pasig City. Nearest landmarks to Health Carousel Ortigas are BDO, Jollibee and BPI Family Bank.
If you are coming from EDSA, take a MRT or bus ride to Ortigas/Megamall; then take a 10 minute walk along Julia Vargas ave. onto Emerald ave. to get to Health Carousel Ortigas. Use the pedestrian overpass to cross Emerald Avenue.
Residents from Pasig, Cainta and nearby areas can easily reach Health Carousel Ortigas via jeepney/bus ride going to Robinsons Galleria and alight near Emerald ave. (fronting Meralco office); then take a 5-10 minute walk towards Taipan building.
Residents from Mandaluyong, Sta. Mesa, Quiapo and nearby areas can take a jeepney ride going to Pasig (via Shaw) and alight near San Miguel ave. (after EDSA-Shaw flyover); then take a jeepney ride going to Robinsons and alight near Emerald avenue; then take a 3 minute walk to Health Carousel Ortigas. Use the map provided below to pinpoint exact location of Taipan building.
Question: How to go to MSGNI Quezon City?
Answer: Multi-Source Global Network main call center office is currently located in LOC building, along V. Luna corner eastwood ave., Quezon City. Nearest landmarks to MSGNI Quezon City are NSO building and Jollibee.
Residents from San Juan, Sta. Mesa, Manila and nearby areas can take a LRT-2 ride to Cubao station; walk towards EDSA and take a bus ride to Fairview; alight near V. Luna/Jollibee and take a 1-3 minute walk to reach MSGNI Quezon City. Alternate route to Multi-Source Global Network is via LRT-2 ride to Betty Go Belmonte station; walk towards Boston st. and take a jeepney ride to Fairview/PhilCoa/V. Luna; alight in front of LOC building.
If you are coming from EDSA, the fastest way is via MRT ride to Kamuning station; walk towards East avenue and take a jeepney ride to Fairview/V. Luna; and alight in front of MSGNI Quezon City. Alternate route to Multi-Source Global Network is bus ride to Fairview and tell the driver to drop you off V. Luna road; then use the map provided below to pinpoint exact location of LOC building.
Residents from Pasig, Cainta and nearby areas can take a bus/jeepney ride to Robinsons Galleria; walk towards EDSA and follow EDSA route to get to MSGNI Quezon City.
18 V. Luna Rd. East Ave.
How to get to 77 Global Ortigas?
Question: How to get to 77 Global Ortigas?
Answer: Seven Seven Global Resources main call center office is currently located in Orient Square building, along Emerald avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Nearest landmarks to 77 Global Ortigas are Jollibee Emerald and El Pueblo.
Residents from San Juan, Sta. Mesa, Quiapo and nearby areas can get to Seven Seven Global Ortigas via bus ride going to Pasig; alight at Robinsons Galleria and take a jeepney ride going to Ortigas center; tell the driver to drop you in front of Orient Square building. To save on transportation cost; alight at Emerald avenue and take a 10 minute walk to reach Orient Square.
Residents from Pasig, Cainta and nearby areas can take a jeepney/bus ride to Robinsons Galleria; alight near Emerald avenue (front of Meralco office); and take a 10 minute walk towards 77 Global Ortigas.
If you are coming from EDSA, the fastest way to Seven Seven Global Ortigas is via MRT ride to Ortigas station; then take a 15 minute walk towards SM Megamall, turn left on Julia Vargas, turn left again on Ruby road until you reach Orient Square building.
Residents from Mandaluyong, Kalentong and nearby areas can take a jeepney/fx taxi ride going to Pasig (via Shaw); alight at San Miguel ave. (after EDSA-Shaw flyover); take a jeepney ride going to Robinsons Galleria and alight at El Pueblo; then take a 3-5 minute walk to reach 77 Global Ortigas.
How to go to F&A Hub Ortigas?
Question: How to go to F&A Hub Ortigas?
Answer: F&A Outsourcing Hub main call center office is currently situated in Jollibee Plaza, along Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Nearest landmarks to F&A Hub Ortigas are Subspace Coffee House and Mang Inasal.
If you are coming from EDSA, the fastest way to F & A Hub Ortigas is via MRT ride to Ortigas station; then take a 10-15 minute walk towards Guadix drive; left turn on ADB ave; right turn on Garnet road; right turn on Emerald ave. to reach Jollibee Plaza. Use the map provided below to navigate your way to Jollibee Plaza building.
Residents from Pasig, Cainta and nearby areas can take a jeepney or bus ride going towards Greenhills; alight near Emerald avenue (fronting Meralco office); then take a 5-10 minute walk to easily reach F&A Hub Ortigas.
Residents from San Juan, Sta. Mesa, Quiapo and nearby areas can take a bus ride going to Pasig/Cainta and tell the driver to drop you off Emerald avenue; then take a 5-10 minute walk towards F & A Hub Ortigas.
How to go to OneWorld Ortigas?
Question: How to go to OneWorld Ortigas?
Answer: OneWorld Connections main call center office is currently located in Orient Square building, along Emerald ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Nearest landmarks to OneWorld Ortigas are Jollibee Emerald and El Pueblo.
Residents from Pasig, Cainta and nearby areas can easily reach by taking a jeepney ride going to Robinsons Galleria; alight near Emerald Ave. and take a 10 minute walk towards Orient Square building OneWorld Ortigas.
Residents from Mandaluyong, Sta. Mesa and nearby areas can take a jeepney/FX ride to Pasig (via Shaw) and alight near San Miguel Ave. (after EDSA-Shaw flyover); then take a jeepney ride along San Miguel ave. and alight at the back of Orient Square building to get to One World Ortigas.
If you are coming from EDSA, take a MRT ride to Ortigas station; then take a 10-15 minute walk towards Ortigas Center to reach OneWorld Ortigas. FX taxis going to Ortigas Center are available at the back of Megamall; alight near El Pueblo and take a 3-5 minute walk to get to OneWorld Connections.


We hope that you are enjoying a wonderful Independence Day! There is a lot to reflect on today in terms of our nation, and we hope that this holiday prompts you to pray for our leaders and our fellow citizens.
Today we're kicking off GMBA Camp week here on the blog! Those of you who are at camp, we hope that you enjoy lots of God's blessings and walk away at the end of the week closer to Him and ready to work for His kingdom.
Those of you who aren't at camp can still enjoy a slice of what's happening this week. The camp theme is "The Way" and guiding scripture is John 14:4-6, "And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Each day on the blog, we'll bring you the camp newsletter, Words for the Way, courtesy of the newsletter editor, Sister Christine Martorana. This is the same newsletter (with a few minor alterations) that each camper receives daily. You'll see familiar faces and names, and you'll also learn a little about what the camp theme means.
CLICK HERE to read today's newsletter!
You can also view photos of camp by searching Facebook and Instagram for #GMBwAy2016.
This is the last week of our photo challenge! Here's this week's prompt.


Frywall splatter guard lets you cook what you love without worrying about the mess. From burgers to tofu, spinach to marinara, Frywall keeps the sizzle in the pan and the spills and splatter off your stovetop.
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In this arrangement, I have ranunculus and tulips. There is also tons of foliage from the hedges. The lady who owned our house before us was a very keen gardener. I am so lucky to have inherited all the evergreen she had previously planted as it really does make a difference to my vases and it seems making flower arrangements at home is a real easy task for me because of this.
I wanted to use up my Ranunculus (small peach flowers) as they are not coping too well through the chilly nights and coming towards the end of their plant life anyway. I have placed them around the rim of the vase, slightly lower than the tulips. This will give a great visual to seated guests viewing the arrangement from the side.
For my second arrangement that day, I have used the same flowers but in a different color pallet. I had been asked to style a tablescape for a lunch affair and decided to add some copper and gold tone to pop against the pink. This is a small waterproof washbag from Primark and it cost me just one pound. I popped a glass vase inside and filled with flowers. I also added a blossom branch from my tree.
I think I will leave it there for this week and save another batch of ideas for another post. In the meantime please do check out this quick tutorial of how to arrange a vase using cut flowers. Feel free to subscribe for future tips and tricks.


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Hudson Motor Car Co. ist eine ehemalige US-amerikanische Automobilgesellschaft, die von 1909 bis 1954 existierte. Im Jahr 1954 fusionierte Hudson mit Nash Motors zur American Motors Corporation (AMC).

Geschichte
Die Hudson Motor Car Company entstand im Jahr 1909 in Detroit. Den Namen erhielt sie nach Joseph Lowthian Hudson, der das Startkapital für die Firmengründung aufbrachte. Die Firma erwarb sich bald den Ruf eines innovativen Automobilherstellers. Folgende heute selbstverständliche Ausstattungsmerkmale erschienen zum ersten Mal in Fahrzeugen der Marke Hudson:
 Anlasser
 Warnleuchten für Öldruck und Lichtmaschine
 ausgewuchtete Kurbelwelle

Bis zum Ende der 1930er Jahre hatte sich Hudson mit bis zu 300.000 Fahrzeugen jährlich bis auf den dritten Platz der amerikanischen Herstellerliste vorgearbeitet. Im Jahr 1929 stellten nur Ford und Chevrolet mehr Autos her.

Preisgünstigere Fahrzeuge brachte man unter den Namen Essex (bis 1931), bzw. Terraplane (ab 1932) heraus. 1954 wurde die Gesellschaft mit Nash Motors zur American Motors Corporation verschmolzen. Die Hudson-Modelle – zu diesem Zeitpunkt allesamt technisch überholt – wurden 3 Jahre nach der Fusion eingestellt.

Motorsport
In den 1950er-Jahren war Hudson eine beliebte Marke in der NASCAR-Serie; insbesondere Dick Rathmann setzte in all seinen 128 Rennen zwischen 1951 und 1958 auf einen Hudson Hornet und konnte damit 13 Siege sowie ebenso viele Pole-Positions erringen.

Trivia
Aufgrund der weiten Verbreitung der Marke wählte John Steinbeck den Hudson Super Six als Fahrzeug seiner Protagonisten in dem Roman Früchte des Zorns.

Im Disney/Pixar Film "Cars" wird die Figur von Doc Hudson durch einen Hudson Hornet verkörpert.

Der erste Wagen, in dem der Chauffeur Hoke Miss Daisy umherfuhr, war ein Hudson Super Eight.

Zeitleiste der Modelle

Literatur

 George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G–O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1, S. 725–730. (englisch)

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Ehemaliger Pkw-Hersteller (Michigan)
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Detroit)
Gegründet 1909
Aufgelöst 1957
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Detroit)


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class Tables::EventsTableResultsPresenter < Tables::TableResultsPresenter
  def self.for_convention(convention:, pundit_user:, filters: {}, sort: nil, visible_field_ids: nil)
    scope = Pundit.policy_scope(pundit_user, convention.events.where(status: "active").includes(:convention))
    new(
      base_scope: scope,
      convention: convention,
      pundit_user: pundit_user,
      filters: filters,
      sort: sort,
      visible_field_ids: visible_field_ids
    )
  end

  field :category, "Category" do
    column_filter :event_category_id
  end

  field :title, "Title" do
    def apply_filter(scope, value)
      Names.string_search(scope, value, ["title"])
    end

    # Weird hax: we're handling the actual sorting in expand_scope_for_sort
    def expand_scope_for_sort(scope, direction)
      scope.order_by_title(direction)
    end

    def sql_order(_direction)
      nil
    end
  end

  field :title_prefix, "Title prefix" do
    def apply_filter(scope, value)
      value.present? ? scope.title_prefix(value) : scope
    end
  end

  field :my_rating, "My rating" do
    delegate :user_con_profile, :pundit_user, to: :presenter

    def apply_filter(scope, value)
      return scope if value.blank?
      scope.with_rating_for_user_con_profile(user_con_profile, value)
    end

    # Weird hax: we're handling the actual sorting in expand_scope_for_sort
    def expand_scope_for_sort(scope, direction)
      if user_con_profile && !pundit_user.assumed_identity_from_profile
        scope.order_by_rating_for_user_con_profile(user_con_profile, direction)
      else
        scope
      end
    end

    def sql_order(_direction)
      nil
    end
  end

  field :first_scheduled_run_start, "First scheduled run" do
    delegate :pundit_user, :convention, to: :presenter

    def expand_scope_for_sort(scope, _direction)
      Pundit.authorize(pundit_user, convention, :schedule?)
      scope.joins(<<~SQL.squish)
        LEFT JOIN runs ON (
          runs.event_id = events.id AND
          runs.starts_at = (
            SELECT MIN(runs.starts_at) FROM runs WHERE runs.event_id = events.id
          )
        )
      SQL
    end

    def sql_order(direction)
      "runs.starts_at #{direction}"
    end
  end

  field :owner, "Owner" do
    def expand_scope_for_sort(scope, _direction)
      scope.joins(:owner)
    end

    def sql_order(direction)
      "user_con_profiles.last_name #{direction}, user_con_profiles.first_name #{direction}"
    end
  end

  field :created_at, "Created at"

  field :form_items, "Convention-specific form items" do
    def apply_filter(scope, value)
      value
        .each
        .inject(scope) do |acc_scope, (identifier, values)|
          if values.present?
            acc_scope.where(%("events"."additional_info"->>? IN (?)), identifier, Array(values))
          else
            acc_scope
          end
        end
    end
  end

  attr_reader :pundit_user, :convention

  def initialize(base_scope:, convention:, pundit_user:, filters: {}, sort: nil, visible_field_ids: nil)
    super(base_scope, filters, sort, visible_field_ids)
    @convention = convention
    @pundit_user = pundit_user
  end

  def user_con_profile
    return nil unless pundit_user&.user

    @user_con_profile ||= convention.user_con_profiles.find_by(user_id: pundit_user.user.id)
  end
end