Workable organizes candidate information into a standard format, using 'fields'; different segments for each piece of information. This makes it easy to find what you need at a glance, e.g. name, resume, contact details.
The out-of-the box candidate profile in Workable is designed to include fields that are standard for every company. However, some roles require more detailed or specific information from candidates (e.g. pilot license number, starting salary).
Alternatively, request a demo and a qualified member of the team will get back to you to map out a plan customized for your company.
Custom fields enable you to collect the exact information you need from candidates and store it automatically on their profile.
These fields can be added to application forms or used internally by the hiring team. You can also set the visibility of fields, meaning that certain information remains confidential.
Note: If you don't think custom fields are a good fit for your needs right now, you can still add extra questions to your application forms.
These fields are displayed on job application forms. Candidates will have the option to fill them out when they apply. The information received will be stored on the candidate's profile.
These fields are displayed on candidate profiles and can be filled out by members of the hiring team.
Workable offers a broad range of data formats, outlined below. An implementation specialist will help you determine which option is best for the data you want to collect, and where on the candidate profile the fields should be displayed.
Short Answer: limited to 128 characters, short answer fields are best-suited for cases where multiple choice options might be too lengthy or where you would like a concise, free response. Uses could include: "What is your strongest skill?", "What is your favorite movie?", "Describe yourself in 100 characters".
Yes/No: ask candidates to provide a yes or no response.
Date: ask the applicant to select a date from a calendar menu. Common uses include: requesting a potential start date, determining a date when licensing/certification was received.
Dropdown: enable the user to select an answer from a dropdown menu. Use this option if there are multiple brief answers to a question, which would take up too much room on the page as a standard multiple choice question.
Multiple Choice: this field type will allow you to add multiple answer options. Choose whether only one answer can be selected or multiple answers.
Number: this field type will only allow users to input numbers. Uses include: asking about current salary or years of experience.
File upload: ask the applicant to attach a file. This is useful for collecting portfolios or other documentation which would not be included in a resume or cover letter.
After implementation, custom fields are accessed via the Recruiting preferences section of your account.
Super Admins can change the visibility options for fields on this page. You can also quickly reference your fields and see if the data is User or Candidate provided.
Click the link describing the audience to change the visibility options.
Candidate-provided fields will appear when you create the application form for a job. Set them to mandatory, optional or off per job as required.
When a candidate applies you will see these fields included on their candidate profile.
User-provided fields are set in the Workflow section of the job editor. You can enable or disable fields depending on their relevance to the job.
Custom fields (both candidate and user) will appear on candidates' profiles. The location of each field is set at the implementation stage. If you have turned off a field for a given job then it will not appear in the candidate profile. You can turn the field on at any time to have it appear.
In the above screenshot the company has added a custom 'Salary Info' section to record the candidate's expected and current salary. At the beginning of the default 'Summary' section they have inserted a field to record an "Available after" date.


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GMIT announces suite of new Cybersecurity courses in response to skills shortage
Part-time and online courses include Springboard and HCI funded programmes
GMIT is pleased to announce a suite of new cybersecurity courses developed in close collaboration with industry and in consultation with the Regional Skills Forum West and academic partners over the past two years, in response to a skills shortage in this discipline.
The courses range from ordinary (L7) degree to postgraduate Certificate (L9) and Master of Science (L9), including programmes funded under Springboard and the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) through the Higher Education Authority (HEA).
The five courses are the L7 Certificate in Network Cybersecurity (Springboard funded) and the L7 Certificate in Data Cybersecurity (these L7 Certificates combine to a major L7 Bachelor of Science degree in Network Cybersecurity); the L8 Higher Diploma in Cyber Risk & Compliance (HCI funded); the L9 postgraduate Certificate in Cyber Operations (Springboard funded); and the Master of Science in Cybersecurity Operations (2 year) for graduates of the Certificate who wish to pursue a TU structured masters.
Dr Seamus Dowling, Programme Chair and lecturer in Cybersecurity, GMIT Mayo, says there has been massive interest in these courses since applications first opened a year ago for the Springboard funded L7 Certificate in Network Cybersecurity. "There have been three intakes already into this L7 certificate and the first intake into the L8 Higher Diploma began in November. The L9 postgraduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Operations is expected to commence in January 2021."
"The need for cybersecurity skills and upskilling opportunities are well documented in national reports such as the "Programme for Government "Our Shared Future" and "Technology Skills 2022: Ireland's Third ICT Skills Action Plan". These new cybersecurity programmes were developed in close collaboration with HP Enterprises (HPE), Galway, and their Cyber Defense Centre following consultation with the Regional Skills Forum, GMIT and NUIG where stakeholders identified skills shortages and educational opportunities."
"The courses are designed by lecturers who have over 20 years' experience delivering IT Support (L6), IT Administration (L7) and IT Services Management (L8) programmes.", explains Dr Dowling.
"We delivered significant security content in these programmes and realised that we could pivot towards cybersecurity. Each staff member has undertaken significant upskilling in cybersecurity, from professional certification to PhD, to ensure that students are exposed to industry relevant content. The new programmes allow students to pursue minor awards in cybersecurity and also to amalgamate these minor awards into a major award. This facilitates working professional re/upskilling on a part-time basis using a modular approach. Our graduates and current students come from diverse industries such as Defense Forces, Gardai, Aviation, Journalism, Legal as well as core IT and Cybersecurity roles."
"Development meetings with HPE highlighted major skills shortages in cybersecurity and identified how GMIT could help address these shortages. These meetings resulted in the development of informed, relevant programmes designed to increase cybersecurity skillsets in the area of network, data, risk, compliance and operations. HPE and GMIT view this upskilling as having a regional remit, to increase the talent pool of dedicated cybersecurity professionals," adds Dr Dowling.
GMIT are currently accepting applications for January 2021 starts in the following:
L7 Certificate in Data Cybersecurity (30 Credits). This award provides a pathway to pursue a BSc degree in Network Cybersecurity. Applicants can visit https://www.gmit.ie/lifelong-learning-mayo/computing/certificate-data-cybersecurity-spa for more information.
L9 Certificate in Cybersecurity Operations (30 Credit, Springboard+ funded). This award provides a pathway to pursue a Master degree in Cybersecurity Operations. Applicants can visit https://springboardcourses.ie/details/8679 for more information.
For further information please email: Seamus.Dowling@gmit.ie
Dr Seamus Dowling, Programme Chair and lecturer in Cybersecurity, GMIT

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All options, including a strike, are on the table if management doesn't negotiate in good faith, according to a union official.
BART management and union leaders, who have been negotiating without success since April 1, resumed their war of words after members of the transit agency's second-largest union voted unanimously against management's contract offer.
Jesse Hunt, the president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents about 900 train operators, station agents and power workers, said about three-quarters of his members voted on the offer Tuesday and all of those who voted cast "no" votes.
Members of BART's largest union, the BART chapter of Local 1021 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 1,400 mechanics, custodians, safety inspectors and clerical employees, will vote on the contract proposal on Thursday.
At the voting location, the union was already asking for people to sign up for picket times. That is not a good sign for BART riders.
Local 1021 spokesman Carlos Rivera said the results will be available sometime after 8 p.m. Thursday. Rivera declined to predict the outcome of the vote, saying the union's leaders "want to let the membership decide."
Hunt said his members are upset that management didn't give serious consideration to a proposal by BART's unions that he said would achieve $760 million in long-term savings.
Hunt said the union proposal would save $700 million over 25 years by extending from five years to 15 years the time period before employees would be eligible for retirement health benefits.
He said the proposal would save another $60 million over the next two years.
Hunt accused BART management of having "a take-it-or-leave-it attitude" and alleged that once management made its offer last Thursday night it refused to properly consider the unions' proposal.
But BART spokesman Linton Johnson said the unions' offer fails to address the immediate fiscal crisis the transit agency faces, as it's trying to save $100 million in labor costs as part of its effort to deal with its large budget deficit, which is expected to be $310 million over the next four years.
Johnson also said changing the eligibility period for retirement health benefits isn't possible under the rules of the state's retirement plan, alleging that the unions are proposing to switch to a plan the state doesn't even offer.
Johnson said an actuarial analysis that will be discussed at a special BART board meeting on Thursday finds that the unions' projections are hundreds of millions of dollars short of the purported $760 million in savings.
He said the analysis shows that the unions' proposal "at best saves us a little money and at worst costs us money."
Jean Hamilton, the president of BART's third-largest union, Local 3993 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents about 200 middle managers, said she still hasn't scheduled a vote for her members because she said she needs to get more information from management.
Members of ATU Local 1555, SEIU Local 1021 and AFSCME Local 3993 all voted overwhelmingly last month to approve a strike if a settlement isn't reached on a new contract.
There also are two small unions that prepresent BART police officers and managers. However, they're barred from oing on strike.
Johnson said the police unions haven't yet scheduled a vote on management's proposal because they're still meeting with management.
Johnson alleged that the leaders of SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555 "in effect staged a publicity stunt" shortly after 11 p.m. last Thursday night when they told a large group of reporters who gathered outside the negotiating site and said they were unhappy with management's offer but would take it to their members for a vote.
The announcement was made shortly before the contract for union members expired at midnight Thursday.
Johnson said when the union leaders made their announcement management was still in the process of fleshing out its proposal to AFSCME Local 3993 and the police unions.
Although the unions theoretically could go on strike at any time, Hunt said his union doesn't have any strike plans at this time and other union leaders also said they don't have any immediate strike plans.
However, Hunt said all options, including a strike, are on the table if management doesn't negotiate in good faith.
The unions previously said that they might ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a 60-day cooling-off period in negotiations but Schwarzenegger announced on Tuesday that he won't take that step if he's asked to do so.
BART directors sent the governor a letter last month asking him not to declare a cooling-off period.
Johnson said the most likely next step in the process is that contract talks, with the help of state mediators, will resume Monday afternoon.
Johnson said that in the unlikely event that SEIU Local 1021 members approve the contract, BART's board would approve and implement the contract with that union and continue negotiating with the other unions.


Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Alicia Keys has changed her management team.
After four years, she has parted ways "amicably" with Will Botwin at Red Light Management and is now being co-managed by two industry veterans at Maverick.
Beyonce leads the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards with eight nominations. Rappers Iggy Azalea and Eminem follow with seven nods apiece.
There weren't any huge red carpet mishaps or fake Rolex malfunctions at the 2014 BET Awards Sunday night (June 29), so the focus was more on how the celebrities showed out during the occasion. The best dressed stood out based on creativity and class.
The 2014 BET Awards are full of comedic relief thanks to host Chris Rock and more than entertaining due to the wealth of performances from some of hip-hop and R&B's biggest names. The onstage experience is even more momentous thanks to the network recognizing the accomplishments of the game's superstars. Check out the big winners below.
NBC has released the first teaser promo for 'The Voice' Season 7, which will debut on Sept. 22, and we have our first look at Gwen Stefani and Pharrell joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton on the judges panel.
One Direction fans have had their sights set on a collaboration with Pharrell Williams ever since Liam Payne was spotted hanging out with Pharrell last summer. Now, the 'Get Lucky' singer is inciting that hope once again.
Pharrell Williams, Pitbull, Dr. Luke and Kool & the Gang are among the artists who will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.


It's been regarded as one of the biggest fashion fails of David Beckham's career.
But the footballer-turned-fashion-mogul says he stands by his sarong.
The 39-year-old hunk, who launched his own fashion collection with Belstaff this week, was universally mocked after he stepped out in the skirt-like garment with wife Victoria Beckham in 1998, but he insists would be happy to put one on again.
David, whose wife became a world renowned fashion designer, is considered an international style icon having just been honoured with fashion line Off Road: David Beckham for Belstaff.
Speaking on ITV morning show Lorraine from New York on Wednesday, he said: 'Sarongs are great. That's one thing I never regret because I thought it looked great and I would still wear it now.
The trend-setting father of four, who was looking suitably dapper at a fashion party to launch his line on Tuesday, makes more fashion hits than misses these days but admits he still has his regrets.
'Over the years it's not just myself, everybody looks back at old pictures of themselves and thinks, "I can't believe I wore that, or I wish I hadn't wore that, or what was I thinking?"
'You make mistakes over the years or you wear things that were right at the time,' he continued.
Having spent most of the week in New York watching his wife wow with yet another collection of failsafe favourites at Fashion Week, it was over to David, who joined Jade Jagger and a fashion crowd for his own unveiling.
The retired footballer admits he often gets advice from wife Victoria about what he should wear and insists he trusts the fashion designer's opinion.
He added to Lorraine: 'She has her say ... well, she has opinions. I'm my own person so I think if something looks good then I'll wear it. But she definitely has opinions over the years about certain things I wore.
However, David - who has sons Brooklyn, 15, Romeo, 12 and Cruz, nine, as well as three-year-old daughter Harper with Victoria - admits he doesn't tend to vary his clothing choices as he knows what he likes and sticks to it.
While the former England captain doesn't change up his clothing choices much, he admits he is 'very proud' of former Spice Girls singer Victoria's achievements in the fashion industry.
He added: 'I'm very proud of what she's achieved, what she's done. To go from being a Spice Girl, the biggest girl band in history, to be respected in the fashion industry, that's something that doesn't happen overnight.


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Congratulations to Our 2010 Award Recipients!
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst — submitted by Lori Goldner
First place recipient Dr. Lori Goldner, Professor of Physics, is developing state-of-the-art optical equipment that allows microscopic examination of single biomolecules and their interactions with their environment. Tightly focused laser beams serve as "optical tweezers" to position sub-micron-sized droplets of fluid that contain the molecule, acting as a tiny test tube. Dr. Goldner can then investigate the structure and actions of the molecule using a confocal fluorescence microscope. These techniques have application both in biochemistry, where they allow detailed examination of molecular interactions such as those between proteins and RNA, as well as in physics, where they can be used to observe how biomolecules assemble into complex structures such as crystals and tubes. Ultimately, the studies will aid in the development of more effective drugs and advanced nanofabricated materials.
In addition to conducting advanced research in optical techniques for biophysics, Dr. Goldner is a superhero mentor to her students. She has made her laboratory equipment available to her students so that they can gain first-hand experience with the tools and techniques they will need to use in their own work after graduation. Her intention for the grant award is to fabricate optical tweezers and other advanced optical tools that can be dedicated to student use.
University of Southern California — submitted by Armand R. Tanguay, Jr.
Second place recipient Dr. Tanguay, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Ophthalmology is developing an ultra-miniature camera that can be implanted in the human eye and connected via a microelectrode array to the retina, with the ultimate goal of restoring sight to the blind. Previous retinal prostheses, already in clinical trials, used an external camera mounted on eyeglasses, requiring extensive head movements to scan the environment. By contrast, the intraocular camera's location within the sac that normally contains the eye's lens allows for a natural coupling of head and eye movements. The degree of camera miniaturization required is made possible by studies of the visual psychophysics of human vision in the low resolution limit, which in turn relaxes key imaging constraints. This project involves an interdisciplinary collaboration with retinal surgeon Dr. Mark S. Humayun at USC, and holds long-term promise for restoring functional vision to victims of degenerative diseases such as Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).
Like Dr. Goldner, Dr. Tanguay is passionate about both undergraduate and graduate teaching, and is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC. His classes are often enlivened by a tour of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems at the USC Keck School of Medicine, where several volunteers experience different blindness conditions as well as the restoration of their sight while navigating through the laboratory wearing a visual prosthesis simulator.
Tufts University — submitted by Corey Shemelya
Third place award recipient Corey Shemelya, a graduate student in Electrical Engineering, is working on the development of optical tools for the evaluation of materials used in photovoltaic and thermophotovoltaic power generation. The tools will support his research into material selection and processing for the fabrication of these two different device structures. While concentrating photovoltaic cells should achieve conversion efficiencies of over 50%, which is a significant improvement, the thermophotovoltaic cells could be used to improve the energy efficiency of any device by harvesting waste heat.
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Siena College — Jason Hofstein
University of Colorado — Matthew Hayman
University of Massachusetts Amherst — Jennifer Ross
University of Missouri — Ping Yu
University of Utah — Steve Blair
Vanderbilt University — Qi Zhang
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) -- Canada's Olympic hockey team won't have current NHL players on the ice, but plenty of players from other leagues.
Hockey Canada drew talent Thursday from seven different leagues across North America and Europe after the NHL bowed out of competing in South Korea. That's in stark contrast to Canada's Olympic champion teams in Vancouver (2010) and Sochi (2014), which were loaded with NHL stars.
Forwards Gilbert Brule, Mason Raymond, Derek Roy and Wojtek Wolski and goaltender Ben Scrivens are former NHL veterans on the team. It's the first time Canada will go to the Olympics without NHL players since 1994.
They don't exactly bring the star power of Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews and Carey Price, all Olympic gold medalists. Still, expectations are Canada will bring home its third straight Olympic gold medal and 14th men's title.
General manager Sean Burke, coach Willie Desjardins and Team Canada officials scoured Russia's Kontinental Hockey League and Switzerland's National League, among others, for players talented enough to wear the Maple Leaf on the world stage.
"I have to thank (Hockey Canada) for the geography lesson and the air miles," said Burke, joking at a press conference Thursday. "I apologize I can't do this in French, but I could probably do it in Russian."
The bulk of the NHL experience comes from a half-dozen forwards.
Chris Kelly, who won the 2011 Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins, leads the way with 833 regular-season games in the NHL.
Most recently the 37-year-old Kelly, who has 123 NHL goals and 166 assists, signed a tryout contract with Belleville of the AHL.
Roy played 738 NHL games for Buffalo, Dallas, Vancouver, St. Louis, Nashville and Edmonton with 189 goals and 335 assists. Rene Bourque played 725 NHL games, notching 163 goals and 153 assists for six teams including Calgary and Montreal.
Maxim Lapierre played 614 NHL games for Montreal, Anaheim, Vancouver, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Raymond saw action in 546 NHL games with Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Anaheim.
"When we go to these Olympics, this team will make Canada proud," Burke said.
Wolski, who thought his hockey career was over a year ago due to a neck injury, played in 451 games for five teams. The blue line is less experienced with Cody Goloubef leading the way with 129 NHL games.
Defensemen Chris Lee and Mat Robinson have not played in the NHL. Chay Genoway has one NHL game and Maxime Noreau six.
Goalies Justin Peters, Kevin Poulin and Scrivens have 277 NHL games between them, spread between eight teams. Peters plays in Germany, Scrivens in Russia's KHL and Poulin for a Croatian team that plays in the Austrian league.
Thirteen players come from the KHL, four from the Swiss league, three each from Sweden and the AHL, and one from Germany and Austria.
Training camp starts Jan. 28 in Latvia. Canada starts Olympic play in a group with the Czech Republic, Switzerland and host South Korea.


And, never do any exercise or stretches if you have pain doing it. If you go to physical therapy and the therapist does something that begins to hurt you, yell "STOP." In my experience, many physical therapists -- even supposedly good ones -- can make your condition worse. I repeat: If a physical therapist does something -- or has you do something -- that hurts you, yell "STOP."
Your physical therapist should always ask you how your comfort level is when they increase the intensity of an any exercise or hands-on manipulations. I believe it is malpractice if they do not. They should back-off if you have pain. If you are getting worse in physical therapy, you should see your doctor as well as look for a new physical therapist.


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Many US based readers will be well aware of the ribbing President Obama has received in recent times about what some see as his over-reliance on teleprompters, and what transpires when his equipment occasionally fails.
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Title 33. NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
Chapter 18. LONGSHORE AND HARBOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION
Section 944. Special fund
33 U.S. Code § 944. Special fund
(a) Establishment; administration; custody, trust
There is established in the Treasury of the United States a special fund. Such fund shall be administered by the Secretary. The Treasurer of the United States shall be the custodian of such fund, and all moneys and securities in such fund shall be held in trust by such Treasurer and shall not be money or property of the United States.
(b) Disbursements; bond of custodian
The Treasurer is authorized to disburse moneys from such fund only upon order of the Secretary. He shall be required to give bond in an amount to be fixed and with securities to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller General of the United States conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duty as custodian of such fund.
(c) Payments into fundPayments into such fund shall be made as follows:
Whenever the Secretary determines that there is no person entitled under this chapter to compensation for the death of an employee which would otherwise be compensable under this chapter, the appropriate employer shall pay $5,000 as compensation for the death of such an employee.
(2) At the beginning of each calendar year the Secretary shall estimate the probable expenses of the fund during that calendar year and the amount of payments required (and the schedule therefor) to maintain adequate reserves in the fund. Each carrier and self-insurer shall make payments into the fund on a prorated assessment by the Secretary determined by—
computing the ratio (expressed as a percent) of (i) the carrier's or self-insured's workers' compensation payments under this chapter during the preceding calendar year, to (ii) the total of such payments by all carriers and self-insureds under this chapter during such year;
computing the ratio (expressed as a percent) of (i) the payments under section 908(f) of this title during the preceding calendar year which are attributable to the carrier or self-insured, to (ii) the total of such payments during such year attributable to all carriers and self-insureds;
dividing the sum of the percentages computed under subparagraphs (A) and (B) for the carrier or self-insured by two; and
multiplying the percent computed under subparagraph (C) by such probable expenses of the fund (as determined under the first sentence of this paragraph).
All amounts collected as fines and penalties under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into such fund.
(d) Investigations; records, availability; recordkeeping; provisions of sections 49 and 50 of title 15 applicable to Secretary
For the purpose of making rules, regulations, and determinations under this section under and for providing enforcement thereof, the Secretary may investigate and gather appropriate data from each carrier and self-insurer. For that purpose, the Secretary may enter and inspect such places and records (and make such transcriptions thereof), question such employees, and investigate such facts, conditions, practices, or matters as he may deem necessary or appropriate.
Each carrier and self-insurer shall make, keep, and preserve such records, and make such reports and provide such additional information, as prescribed by regulation or order of the Secretary, as the Secretary deems necessary or appropriate to carry out his responsibilities under this section.
For the purpose of any hearing or investigation related to determinations or the enforcement of the provisions of this section, the provisions of sections 49 and 50 of title 15 (relating to the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents) are hereby made applicable to the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the Secretary of Labor.
(e) Depositories; investments
The Treasurer of the United States shall deposit any moneys paid into such fund into such depository banks as the Secretary may designate and may invest any portion of the funds which, in the opinion of the Secretary, is not needed for current requirements, in bonds or notes of the United States or of any Federal land bank.
(f) Limitation of liability
Neither the United States nor the Secretary shall be liable in respect of payments authorized under section 908 of this title in an amount greater than the money or property deposited in or belonging to such fund.
(g) Audit by Comptroller General; finality of payment determinations; credits of disbursing officers
The Comptroller General of the United States shall audit the account for such fund, but the action of the Secretary in making payments from such fund shall be final and not subject to review, and the Comptroller General is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of any disbursing officer of the Secretary for payments made from such fund authorized by the Secretary.
(h) Civil actions for civil penalties and unpaid assessments
All civil penalties and unpaid assessments provided for in this chapter shall be collected by civil suit brought by the Secretary.
(i) Proceeds available for certain paymentsThe proceeds of this fund shall be available for payments:
Pursuant to sections [1] 910 of this title with respect to certain initial and subsequent annual adjustments in compensation for total permanent disability or death.
Under section 908(f) and (g), under section 918(b), and under section 939(c) of this title.
To repay the sums deposited in the fund pursuant to subsection (d).
To defray the expense of making examinations as provided in section 907(e) of this title.
(j) Audit to Congress
The fund shall be audited annually and the results of such audit shall be included in the annual report required by section 942 of this title.
(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 44, 44 Stat. 1444; July 26, 1956, ch. 735, § 8, 70 Stat. 656; Pub. L. 92–576, § 8, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1256; Pub. L. 98–426, §§ 24, 27(a)(2), Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1653, 1654.)
1984—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted "Secretary" for "commission". See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.
Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(a), substituted provisions requiring that, at the beginning of each calendar year the Secretary estimate the probable expenses of the fund during that calendar year and the amount of payments required (and the schedule therefor) to maintain adequate reserves in the fund and that each carrier and self-insurer make payments into the fund on a prorated assessment by the Secretary determined by (A) computing the ratio (expressed as a percent) of (i) the carrier's or self-insured's workers' compensation payments under this chapter during the preceding calendar year, to (ii) the total of such payments by all carriers and self-insureds under this chapter during such year; (B) computing the ratio (expressed as a percent) of (i) the payments under section 908(f) of this title during the preceding calendar year which are attributable to the carrier or self-insured, to (ii) the total of such payments during such year attributable to all carriers and self-insureds; (C) dividing the sum of the percentages computed under (A) and (B) for the carrier or self-insured by two; and (D) multiplying the percent computed under (C) by such probable expenses of the fund (as determined under the first sentence of this paragraph) for provisions which had formerly required that at the beginning of each calendar year the Secretary estimate the probable expenses of the fund during that calendar year and each carrier or self-insurer make payments into the fund on a prorated assessment by the Secretary in the proportion that the total compensation and medical payments made on risks covered by this chapter by each carrier and self-insurer bore to the total of such payments made by all carriers and self-insurers under the chapter in the prior calendar year in accordance with a formula and schedule to be determined from time to time by the Secretary to maintain adequate reserves in the fund.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(b), redesignated subsec. (f) as (e). Former subsec. (e), which authorized the appropriation to the Secretary of the sum of $2,000,000 which the Secretary was required to deposit into the fund and directed that, upon deposit in the fund such moneys would be treated as the property of such fund, that the sum, without additional payments for interest, would be repaid from the money or property belonging to the fund on a schedule of repayment set by the Secretary, that full repayment had to be made no later than five years from the date of deposit into the fund, and that each such repayment, as made, would be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts, was struck out.
Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted "Secretary" for "commission". See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(b), redesignated subsec. (g) as (f). Former subsec. (f) redesignated (e).
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(b), redesignated subsec. (h) as (g). Former subsec. (g) redesignated (f).
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(b), redesignated subsec. (i) as (h). Former subsec. (h) redesignated (g).
Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(c), inserted "and unpaid assessments" after "civil penalties".
Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(b), redesignated subsec. (j) as (i). Former subsec. (i) redesignated (h).
Subsec. (i)(1). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(d)(1), struck out "and 911" after "sections 910", inserted "certain" before "initial", and struck out "which occurred prior to the effective date of this subsection" after "disability or death".
Subsec. (i)(4). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(d)(2), inserted "(e)" after "section 907".
Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(b), redesignated (k) as (j). Former subsec. (j) redesignated (i).
Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(e), substituted "The fund shall be audited annually and the results of such audit shall be included in the annual report required by section 942 of this title" for "At the close of each fiscal year the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a complete audit of the fund".
Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 98–426, § 24(b), redesignated subsec. (k) as (j).
1972—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(a), substituted "special fund" for "special fund for the purpose of making payments in accordance with the provisions of subsections (f) and (g) of section 908, of subsection (b) of section 918, and of subsection (c) of section 939 of this title".
Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(b), increased compensation payment for death to $5,000 from $1,000; inserted provision for compensation which would otherwise be compensable under this chapter; deleted second sentence, less two provisos, now incorporated in subsec. (j)(2) of this section; deleted first such proviso for priority of payments authorized by subsec. (f) over other payments authorized from the fund; and deleted second such proviso, now incorporated in subsec. (k) of this section.
Subsec. (c)(2), (3). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(b), added par. (2) and redesignated former par. (2) as (3).
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(b), added subsec. (d). Former subsec. (d) redesignated (f).
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(b), added subsec. (e). Former subsec. (e) redesignated (g).
Subsecs. (f) to (i). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(b), redesignated former subsecs. (d) to (g) as (f) to (i), respectively.
Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(d), added pars. (1), (3), and (4), and incorporated former part of first sentence of subsec. (a) and former second sentence, less provisos, of subsec. (c)(1), in provisions designated as par. (2).
Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 92–576, § 8(d), incorporated former provisions of subsec. (c)(1), last proviso, in provisions designated as subsec. (k).
1956—Subsec. (a). Act July 26, 1956, § 8(a), substituted ", of subsection (b) of section 918 of this title, and of subsection (c) of section 939 of this title" for "of this title."
Subsec. (c)(1). Act July 26, 1956, § 8(b), substituted provisions relating to availability of fund for payments under sections 908(f) and (g), 918(b), and 939(c) of this title, proviso that subsec. (f) payments have priority, and further proviso requiring annual audit, for former provision that fifty per centum of each payment shall be available for the payments under section 908(f) and (g) of this title.
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–426 effective Sept. 28, 1984, see section 28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98–426, set out as a note under section 901 of this title.
Amendment by Pub. L. 92–576 effective 30 days after Oct. 27, 1972, see section 22 of Pub. L. 92–576, set out as a note under section 902 of this title.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Treasury, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Functions of Coast Guard, and Commandant of Coast Guard, were excepted from transfer when Coast Guard is operating as part of Navy under former sections 1 and 3 (now 101 and 103) of Title 14, Coast Guard.
[1]  So in original. Probably should be "section".


"The award-winning author of Prospero's Daughter has written a novel more intimate than her usual big-picture work; this moving exploration of immigrant identity has a protagonist caught between race, class and a mother's love."Ms. MagazinePraise for Prospero's Daughter:"Gripping and richly imagined . . . Nunez is a master at pacing and plotting."The New York Times, Editors' Choice"Nunez's fiction, with its lush, lyric cadences and whirlwind narrative, casts a seductive spell."O MagazineAnna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez's finest literary achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns to themes of emotional alienation, within the context of class and color discrimination, so richly developed in her earlier novels.Anna, the novel's main character who has a successful publishing career in the United States, is the daughter of an upper-class Caribbean family. While on vacation in the island home of her birth she discovers that her mother, Beatrice, has breast cancer. Beatrice categorically rejects all efforts to persuade her to go to the United States for treatment, even though it is, perhaps, her only chance of survival. Anna and her father, who tries to remain respectful of his wife's wishes, must convince her to change her mind.Elizabeth Nunez is provost at Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York, and an award-winning author of seven novels, includingProspero's Daughter (New York Times Editors' Choice; 2006 Novel of the Year,Black Issues Book Review) and Bruised Hibiscus (American Book Award). She is co-editor with Jennifer Sparrow of the anthologyStories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad.
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Chatting At A Picnic Table
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She had been more interested in his son than his art. And he had been more interested in her art than in her son. It was hard for him to imagine that she even had one, a son, and one that was a bit younger than his own. "How's your son?" she would ask when the met. "He's great," he would say. After some more of this chit-chat like that about her son and his son, they would talk about art, his art; for, in this situation her art was already established as art, and his art was just becoming or just about to become established as that. And she leaned over his work on the picnic table they were seated at and talked about it. While she did so, while she was leaning in, getting closer and closer to the paper lying on the wooden picnic table, he found it harder to imagine that she had a son, and even stranger that she and her husband had named their child, when translated into English, what means the word "God" from "Isten" in Hungarian, which was his name: Isten. That was strange. But it wasn't just that.
It wasn't just the large difference in age between them, and their both having very young children—toddlers—and the added oddity that it was the much older woman in this case who had the very young son rather than a man with a fifty-year old's paunch and a two year old after having had a first run at family life that totally burned out starting over again. It wasn't that, however likely and usual such imaginings go. It was that she was so much farther ahead in her art than he was when, in the distance of time measured forward from the ages of the births of their small children as a zero point, they were about the same. So, from that perspective he was so much behind her, perhaps even hopelessly. "I really like this piece," she said at the end of their conversation. "It's got a narrator who seems to be quite sure of himself almost to the point where as the reader I almost feel he can't be trusted anymore, if that makes any sense. And I always like that very much about your work." Straightening her back, she put her own notebooks in a canvas bag, looked him briefly but directly in the eye with hers, and, after touching the wooden pin holding the back of her hair in position, got up from the picnic table to pick up her son somewhere else by 3.
At The Other End Of Love
She had had a family once. And they were still alive, they were still living. Presuming nothing offhand and terrible had happened. She had had a magazine subscription once. And it got canceled or just ran out. And then it got canceled. But the waterfalls of Niagara, the ash of Pompeii, and the tidal wave that washed over the coastline of Southeast Asia are not the same. Not with the lives of people and what people make. Things get washed over and destroyed; so many people continue to live on. And her children, well, they got on. Somewhere and somehow. And besides, the father of who had been her children, he'd get to have somebody to give his money to now. Soon enough, the three children would get that. And that was a good thing for him. Getting to decide where his loot went, besides it all going to the government and several charities people use to avoid that. And, too, avoiding ever having to split his fortune between her and them. She was done with all that. That wasn't her thing. Beth had just woken up one day and said to her husband, while he was still sleeping, out loud, "Hank, I've have eaten my way to the other side of love, and all that's left is the husk." And she went. Didn't sign any official papers declaring this, or declaring that. Just like that.
"Family" was not so different from "bank account," or "hurricane lamp," or "spinning wheel." They were all things, and just as good as any of them. And Beth knew that for most of her life they had given, it seemed, purpose and meaning and value to that life. And of all things, the hardest had been family. It went practically without question. Family, she understood, looking over the old body of her husband asleep in matching plaid flannel pajama tops and bottoms like a kid, was the hub of a gigantic steel wheel that turned over, rolled over, climbed over, mounted and crushed everything in the name of itself. You could love, murder, avenge, justify, promote, deny, explain everything in its name. And it did. It was going to. And it had. She had had a boyfriend once. She had had a pet canary. And they are gone now. Whooshed to another time, a time that one does not, and longer belongs to. In fact, you can put anything in the pluperfect, the past perfect, and things disappear just like that in language. In the language she used, things had just disappeared one day just like that.


Last week the wonderful team at Situations Recruitment invited GSPCA Manager Steve Byrne to see them at their office in St Peter Port.
Situation Recruitment team members Michelle, Jenny and Lisa greeted Steve with a large box of wonderful gifts for the many animals in the care of the GSPCA.
All of the team are hugely grateful to the wonderful staff at Situation Recruitment for such a kind and wonderful gift which will help bring Christmas to the animals in our care at the Animal Shelter.
Yesterday GSPCA Manager Steve Byrne was asked to pop along to Situations Recruitment to meet Directors Jenny Mitchell and Melissa Campbell.
Not knowing the reason why Steve made his way in the wind and rain to their office near Market Square.
The GSPCA would like to wish one and all a very Happy New Year for 2013 and we hope everyone has had a nice Christmas.
Please remember your pets and animals tonight on this eventful evening when many celebrate until the early hours of the morning bringing in the New Year.
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Every day the GSPCA rescue, rehabilitate and rehome animals and the summer months are certainly the busiest time of year.
This year we have extra help thanks to Situation Recruitment. Once a month a member of their staff spends a day at the Shelter. Whilst at the GSPCA they are helping care for the hundreds of animals and birds at the Shelter.
Andrew Partlow popped along for his first day last Friday and within minutes of arriving found himself scrubbing the many bowls down on the hedgehog unit.


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Is The Publishing Industry Eating Itself?
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We hear much about how the publishing industry is changing, and it is often attributed to the growing emphasis on digital content, eReaders, tablets, and so on. The economy, a factor in every business, has hit this industry like many others and, with customers tightening their wallets, lowering prices is a common way many businesses try to increase sales.
After the last article, The Future of Reading, I thought more about the way books are sold in brick and mortar stores, and an observation I made while working in that end of the business led to the title of this article. In a very specific way, the process by which books are being sold appeared to me to be undermining its own foundation. It began when I saw new books arrive in retail stores, only to be 'returned' after a short while (unsold), but then magically reappear as 'salebooks'. The thoughts below are ones I believe anyone would have, especially an author, if you spent time looking at the bookseller business, at least the huge retail chain way of selling. These thoughts may not apply to independent bookstores, I am sure they have unique pressures all their own, but they may be something everyone should think about in an industry undergoing change.
When a new hardback book appears, especially by a popular author, the cover price is commonly in the mid-$20.00 range, though it can be in the mid-$30s . What many people may not know is that the big retail booksellers purchase books from the publisher at 55% off the cover price, a fairly standard industry discount. On a $25 book, the major retail booksellers likely spend $11.25, giving them a substantial margin to play with (Walmart may even demand a higher discount.) Booksellers say they need this margin to be able to compete, with often means a book is stickered with a 20-30% discount the moment it arrives in the store (but not always.) With every other store presumably doing the same thing, it appears to be merely a marketing ploy to influence customers, but that's business. However, the discounted price still leaves a 20-25% profit for the bookstore. The sticker comes off soon enough, at which point the bookseller is making the full 55% profit.
Such a huge wholesale discount may explain why a book is priced at $25-$30 to begin with, since that increases the publishers 45% share. Booksellers do have powerful sway in forcing the 55% discount. If, for example, a publisher only gives a 30% discount to the bookseller, the book in question will probably never show up on the bookstore shelves. The store might order it for a customer but, shelf space is reserved for books with a higher profit margin…so you can imagine the pressure on publishers. Books with the higher profit margin get into the stores, others probably won't, and smaller publishers unable to offer the 55% discount are out of luck, as are their authors.
Using the pricing example above, after a book is sold to a bookseller, the publisher's $11.25 goes to cover their costs, which include the initial printing costs (often less than $5.00) and marketing and promotional expenses (sometimes charged against the author's royalty.) The author's share eventually comes from whatever is left. An author's agent may also get 15%, but I'm of the opinion that a good agent is worth every dime. Still, it isn't hard to see that of the original $25 price, the authors share may only be a few dollars, if that, all contingent on whether the hardback is sold—which is where more strangeness comes in.
In the last few years, the economy and the advent of digital publishing have seriously affected the old-school publishing industry. Many magazines disappeared virtually overnight. Money is tight and customers certainly feel the pinch, whether it is $25 for a hardback or even $14 for a trade paperback. There have been half-price and used bookstores for years, but now, in the major bookstore there may be an entire section of the store that has books at far cheaper prices, brand new popular titles that in many cases were on the shelves at full price just a few weeks before? Enter—the Salebook section!
Books arrive at bookstores every week, sometimes daily. At the same time, books currently in the store must be shipped out to make room for the new arrivals. What isn't selling has to be returned to the publisher, usually sooner rather than later, to meet return policies, clear shelf space, or just free up tied up cash. Many of the books on the shelves are standard titles, classics for example, that are always there, leaving perhaps only 25% of the existing shelf space for new books to come and go. The return policy is a critical fact of life for any book that makes it to the bookstore, after all, the store does not want to get stuck eating the cost of an unsold book. Every month or two, retail bookstores will scan every book in the store and, based on sales, timing, or other factors, any book might be selected to be 'voided', returned to the warehouse or back to the publisher for credit. The return policy is a vestige of the great depression, or so I've read, intended to keep the booksellers in business to sell the publishers product. However you look at it, the publisher and bookseller are hooked together between the customer and the author. Even with this symbiotic relationship, what publisher wants get stuck with a supply of returned, unsold books?
The following example is drawn from experience with a hard back book by a very successful author, one I read myself, which made this instance a memorable one (nevermind who, I'm not telling.) In this case, when the new hardback book first arrived in the store, perhaps 10 copies, all were priced in the average $25 range. After a month or two, of the six copies remaining on the shelf, five were 'voided' and returned. Within a few weeks, the softcover version of the book arrived in the store, priced in the $14 range, which was about average.
A few weeks later, 5 hardback copies, still looking brand new and untouched, arrived back in the store—only now priced at $7.95 as a 'salebook'. If the store bought the book initially at 55% off the cover price, was the store now selling it at a loss? Eh, highly unlikely. And yet, here were brand new hardback's for about half the cost of what the recent softcover was selling for—and there was still one hardback on the shelf at the full $25 price! I was acutely aware that a customer who was not told about the lower price in the salebook section might not be a happy camper, but a customer who learned this fact certainly would be! So what was driving this apparent undercutting of the last hardback on the shelf, not to mention the new $14 soft cover books that had just come out?
The impression I had after seeing this happen many times and 'asking around' as an author, is that the publisher definitely wanted the bookseller to sell all books, including these 'returns' that could be reclassified as 'salebooks'. And, the bookseller was happy to unload these back-again brand new books if they could reacquire them at a hugely discounted rate. In short, send the book back to the publisher (or at least give him a list of what's coming back), the publishers cut a deal for some low price ($3-$6) if the bookseller will keep the book, and the bookstore gets the book back at a hugely discounted price, but one where the bookseller can still make a 20-50% profit. A point worth remembering is that the cost of the materials to make the physical book likely sets a bottom line fixed price; any lower and the publisher may not even recover the cost of materials. If you are an author, I encourage you to check for yourself and compare the published price (above the barcode) in these discount sections with the sale price. Then, see if there is still one on the shelf at full price. Some softcover books, originally with a $14.95 cover price, appear in the 'salebook' section at $3.00.
What is this doing to the industry itself if booksellers cultivate a salebook business by swinging new books into this highly-discounted state? One major bookseller recently opened a store selling only 'salebooks'…and where does anyone think these books come from?
When Amazon first came on to the scene, people quickly realized that, if they are willing to wait a few days, they could get a book at a greatly reduced price. The current state of the publisher/big-bookseller industry…perhaps without even realizing it…is creating a similar culture. Customers are learning that if they just wait, and the wait is getting much shorter, the expensive $25 book will eventually be in the discount book section at $7.95…or less! It seems self-defeating for publishers to sell excess books back to booksellers at hugely discounted rates, knowing that the bookseller is silently training their customers not to buy the book when it comes new from the publisher.
As is happening now, publishers are turning down smaller market books and less-known authors in favor of big names or hot topic books they think will sell. The publishers, trying to survive, are looking for higher profits and less returns, which is fair enough from that perspective. The reality is that this also reduces the variety and volume of books, meaning there are fewer books to fill up the shelves and less variety for readers to choose from. With less new books coming from the publishers, shelves begin to thin out, which is something booksellers definitely do not want. The only option is to remove shelving, convert it to other products (notice the toys and junk now in bookstores,) or…(wait for it)…fill the space with salebooks at big discounts. But these books immediately undercut the sales of new books, the lifeblood of the publishing industry. It is a downward spiral for the old way of doing things.
From an author's perspective, I've wondered whether a book that is sent back to the publisher as 'unsold', ever generates any profit for the author himself. If the publisher threw it away, it certainly would not, but if the publisher sells it back to the bookseller after labeling it as 'returned/unsold', and sells it for a price that covers their cost and a little profit, what is the author making from that deal? It seemed to me at the time that booksellers were supporting their business with the creative works of authors who don't know what is happening with their books. To be clear, I do not know what the full arrangement is that lets bookstores end up with a brand new book to sell at a fire sale price…I am only making an observation and asking questions that I think both authors and publishers should think about. But if books are rapidly turned around and resold as discounted salebooks, and customers quit buying new books because they've learned it will be $6.95 in a few months, where is the motivation to the author trying to write and survive. Clearly, many authors will begin to write and sell directly to their customers, something that is definitely happening with digital publishing. And, authors who have been dropped or rejected by the big publishers and hence, the big retail stores, will have to work out book signing events and distribution through local or independent book stores…which I think is good for both.
I once read that Frank Herbert, author of Dune, explained the underlying premise of his book as, "He who can destroy a thing, controls it." The person who can destroy it, or at least turn it off, is really in control. So who controls the publishing industry? Is it all based on who owns the printing press and who does the selling…just the paper and ink? I suspect not. The customer is after the content, the story, the information, the idea, making the most valuable commodity in the publishing business the mind of the author. The entire industry is nothing without authors and their ideas. Booksellers and publishers who have tried to control access from the writer to the reader, run the risk of eating themselves alive by continuing selling and pricing strategies that ultimately diminish the value in the very books they need to sell to survive. Fortunately, as digital publishing expands, authors are realizing that they can do it all for themselves, meaning authors who take control can survive and prosper, regardless of the industry. As soon as independent printers and independent bookstores realize they can work directly with an author to print a real book, publishing will go back to being about creating a product that pays for itself—and sells itself.
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Detour de Force, produced by Juno and Grammy award winners Eric Ratz and Mark Howard, is the band's broadest reaching and most diverse album to date. Its 14 tracks include the sonically adventurous "Flip", the hopeful and infectious "Good Life" and "New Disaster". The album's stylistic voyage moves from the uptempo fun of "Flat Earth" and country-flavoured "Roll Out" to the gentle melodies of "Live Well", "The National Park", "God Forbid", "Man Made Lake" and the sonic roller-coaster of the closer, "Internal Dynamo". Consequence of Sound described the album as "playful in its structure and crowd-ready hooks while thematically addressing the human condition with acuity."
Over the course of 33 years, the Toronto quartet has sold 15 million records worldwide and built up an arsenal of hits such as "If I Had a $1,000,000", "One Week", "Pinch Me" and "The Big Bang Theory Theme". Widely acknowledged as one of the best live acts on the planet, BNL has hosted a cruise, had its own ice cream flavour, won eight Juno Awards, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2018. As Ed Robertson, Jim Creeggan, Tyler Stewart and Kevin Hearn put it on 'Good Life', "Wasn't easy but it turned out alright/Wouldn't trade it for another…You don't wanna miss this mutha"
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One among quite possibly the most widespread electrical wiring questions is on how to wire a switch. Although working with switches at your house is very easy, wiring one may not be that easy for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is in fact quite simple to wire. You'll find different kinds of switches, but for this instance, let's say you happen to be setting up a single-pole toggle switch, an incredibly frequent swap (along with the easiest).
You will discover three colours of wires inside a typical single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and inexperienced. Splice the black wire in two and link them around the terminal screws - just one on major along with the other around the bottom screw on the switch. The white wire serves for a supply of uninterrupted energy and it is normally related to your gentle coloured terminal screw (e.g., silver). Connect the green wire into the ground screw of the switch.
These measures would usually be sufficient to produce an average change function without having a problem. Nevertheless, for those who aren't self-confident that you simply can accomplish the endeavor thoroughly and safely and securely you greater let the professionals get it done alternatively. Right after all, there's a cause why this task has become the most popular electrical wiring thoughts questioned by a lot of people.
For many rationale, how you can wire a ceiling fan is also certainly one of quite possibly the most widespread electrical wiring questions. To simplify this undertaking, you should utilize just one switch for just a single ceiling fan. To wire the supporter, it really is just a make any difference of connecting the black wire of your ceiling fan towards the black wire with the switch. If there is a light-weight, the blue wire must be linked into the black wire in the change in addition.
You will discover causes why they're one of the most frequently requested electrical wiring inquiries. One, several imagine it's straightforward to perform, and two, they are the prevalent electrical tasks at home. But then you really should not set your basic safety at risk inside your goal to economize. The stakes could even be a lot higher in case you seek to cut costs and do an electrical wiring task devoid of sufficient awareness or knowledge.


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Michelle Obama Michelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaThe Hill's Morning Report — Category 5 Mueller storm to hit today Warren praises Ocasio-Cortez in Time 100 Beyoncé in 'Time 100' profile: Michelle Obama empowers black Americans MORE revealed that her fictional hero is Pippi Longstocking, the adventurous title character in Astrid Lundgren's well-beloved book series.
The former first lady was the subject of the New York Times feature "By the Book" on Thursday, which asks prominent figures about their reading habits.
Obama, who is in the midst of a multi-city tour for her bestselling memoir, "Becoming," said that it may appear "odd" for her to see Pippi, "with her red pigtails and freckled skin" as a role model, but noted that there were very few characters "who looked like [her]" when she was growing up.
"I like to flip through it from time to time because it always seems to give me an extra boost when I need it," she said of Mandela's book, which he gave to her as a gift when the Obamas visited him in 2011.
She said that she gravitates to fiction when looking for new books to read, and often gets suggestions from her chief of staff or her husband, former President Obama.
Barack Obama is known as an avid reader, and often takes to Facebook to share lists of his recommendations.


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Congressional Climate July 5th, 2017
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Senate Floor Schedule
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Pressure on McConnell to deliver ObamaCare repeal
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is in the pressure cooker as Republicans seek to deliver on the healthcare reforms they've been promising voters for years.
The majority leader has drawn high marks in recent years for his ability to keep the Senate GOP conference unified, but that discipline has been shattered by the divisive healthcare debate.
Conservatives have at times challenged McConnell's leadership over the years, but now those complaints are spreading to different corners of the conference.
Last week, McConnell got into a heated exchange with moderate Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a close ally who has major concerns about Medicaid cuts in the legislation.
EPA mulls options after appeals court blocks delay of Obama-era methane gas rule
The Environmental Protection Agency is weighing its options the day after a federal appeals court blocked the EPA from delaying implementation of Obama-era methane regulations, a major victory for groups fighting against the rollback of environmental rules under the Trump administration.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt first informed oil and gas industry leaders in a letter in April that the agency was reconsidering methane emissions rules, which required oil and gas companies to identify and fix equipment leaks, and placed a 90-day pause on certain core requirements for companies under the regulations. Later in June, the EPA announced a formal two-year freeze of the regulations in order for the agency to "look broadly" at the rules, absorb public comment and issue a final action on the specific requirements.
But in a 2-1 decision Monday from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the court concluded Pruitt "lacked authority" to halt implementation of the regulations.
UN to Meet on North Korea After U.S. Confirms Rocket Was ICBM
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting later Wednesday after the U.S. confirmed North Korea's rocket launch on July 4 was its first intercontinental ballistic missile.
As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un bragged about sending more "gifts" to U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korea and the U.S. announced Wednesday they had conducted a joint ballistic-missile drill in waters off the eastern coast of the Korean peninsula.
With Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling North Korea's actions a "new escalation of the threat" to the U.S. and its allies, the UN is set to issue a condemnation of the missile test, which comes in defiance of international sanctions. Still, with China and South Korea also calling for caution, and urging fresh efforts to entice North Korea to talks, the prospects for strong action appear limited.
Kim's progress toward acquiring missiles that can carry a nuclear warhead to the U.S. mainland also show how efforts to rein him in — from international sanctions to U.S. and Chinese pressure — have not worked. Even so, Tillerson called for "global action" to stop a "global threat."
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Q: How do you calculate Byte Offset? I am confused by the concept of byte offset.
In my textbook the examples always show the word aligned byte offset as being two bits but doesn't really explain how they arrive at that value. It says they are word aligned so  the offset is 2 bits. This doesn't really make sense to me because I thought words were 32 bits so wouldn't the offset have to be larger than just 2?
Branching off of this, what exactly is the difference between word addressable and byte addressable and how do I calculate their respective offsets?

I have a problem that I am trying to work through that deals with all of these things. I am trying to calculate the tag, set, block offset and byte offset for a direct mapped cache. The data is 32 bits long. The cache is byte addressable and each access returns a single byte. Each line in the cache holds 16 bytes.
Here is what I have so far:
I think there are zero set bits because its direct mapped. I think byte offset is also zero because it returns 1 byte and \$log_2 1=0\$.
I think block offset is 4 because each block is 16 bytes and \$log_2 (16) = 4\$
So In this case I think I would have [tag = 28 bits][index = 0 bits][block offset = 4 bits][byte offset = 0 bits] but I'm not sure.
Am I on the right track??
Thank you!!

A: To understand the difference between byte- and word-addressable, understand that a byte is always 8 bits, while a word may differ from system to system. Take, for example, an 8-bit system with 2 byte words. The instruction size is one word, but the bandwidth of the system is only 1/2 word. The system must be byte addressable so that it can load the instruction 1-byte at a time. It cannot be word addressable because it cannot handle a full word of data at a time. In this system, the byte offset would only be 1 bit, to choose between the first or second byte in the word.
I would like to help with the cache addressing but it's been a while and those are very detail oriented calculations. Best of luck!

A: A four-byte word's bytes can be numbered 0, 1, 2, and 3. In binary, these values fit into two bits: 00, 01, 10, 11.
If a four byte word is aligned, then its byte address in memory is an integer divisible by four. This address has a binary representation ending in 00:  XXXX....XXXX00.   The addresses of the four bytes within the word are ...XXX00, ...XXX01, ...XXX10 and ...XXX11. In other words, the binary encoding of the offsets 0, 1, 2 and 3 fits into the least significant two-bit fields: these offsets can be expressed without changing any of the other bits in the address.
Hence "two bit offset".

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on Washington and Jefferson. They, after all, owned slaves, he said.
slavery, it is protesting treason and making war on the United States.
treason. Officers make war, privates just fight them.
country with the possible exception of President George Washington.
What do the words "history" and "heritage" mean to these people who use them to rationalize their protests?
into the U.S. nor were they allowed to keep any property they owned.
actions weren't acceptable. It is illegal in Germany to honor anything from the Nazi Era; the national anthem was changed, the Nazi salute is illegal; sympathetic articles about the Nazi era cannot be published.
Washington, D.C? Why was Lincoln's birthday never a national holiday?
Monuments to and about traitors to the United States is a bridge too far.
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Homepage / Cranfield's women in defence: Dr Sarah Morris, Senior Lecturer in Digital Investigation
Cranfield's women in defence: Dr Sarah Morris, Senior Lecturer in Digital Investigation
Working in defence and security isn't all about weapons and blowing things up. To coincide with International Women's Day on 8 March and this year's #ChooseToChallenge theme, we hear from three of Cranfield University's experts working in a variety of roles in the sector.
Sarah's work in digital investigation and forensics involves her gathering information from digital devices ranging from washing machines to smart watches. It includes supporting law enforcement in their day-to-day operations and providing intelligence for ongoing activities either in the military or police, and providing cutting-edge knowledge of how to work with devices, in particular research methods as devices change so often.
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What do you enjoy most about working in defence and at CDS?
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Is there a woman in particular that inspired your career in defence?
Professor Jackie Akhavan has been my mentor for several years and is a fantastic source of strength and inspiration about working within defence and academia. She has inspired me to continue to develop my digital investigation career within a defence context.
What do you wish you'd known when you started your career?
That whatever your passions, there is a career out there to match it. When I was in the sixth form, people thought it was a terrible choice to study Maths, Law and Computing, even though they were the three things that interested me. Everyone (including careers) said it wasn't a combination that fit with a career area. It turns out, Digital Forensics was still in its infancy and not widely known, but it was there, and it combines those three areas.
Do you have any advice for women beginning their career in the industry?
Believe in yourself and follow a path that makes you want to get out of bed every morning.
Do you feel the defence industry has changed as a place for women to work and build a career?
It's changing, and things are improving, but I think there are still times where things feel harder than they should. However, every step forward is a step in the right direction
Do you feel empowered as a woman in defence?
Whenever I tell people what I do, I find myself getting very animated and bouncy. I love my job, and I love my area of expertise; that passion makes me feel empowered.
Is there anything you #ChooseToChallenge as a woman in the defence industry?
I regularly get involved with mentoring women, giving presentations, and doing media work to promote my field. I think it's essential for everyone to see that defence and academia all kinds of people and backgrounds. Seeing that will hopefully encourage others to engage with or join us.
Do you think the industry has changed in terms of the stereotypes and bias it was once renowned for?
There are more opportunities, and you are heard more than when I started, but I'd say it's changing and developing positively.
Do you think Cranfield has helped to challenge the stereotypes of women in defence?
At Cranfield, like a lot of my female colleagues, I've been given a voice and supported by senior staff and the media team to grow my career and community engagement. This support provides us with the opportunity as a university to challenge the stereotypes and promote inclusion.
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Men's Golf Swings for State Championship
Last year's golf team featuring Danny Fernandez, left, and Jin Park, right, made Head Coach Greg Osbourne proud. This year's team is just as promising and its shooting for the state championship.
Alex Gonzalez, El Vaquero Staff Writer
Another season is upon the Glendale College men's golf team, and this year it hopes for continued success with high expectations and goals.
Last year the Vaqueros finished at the top of the conference and regional. The team placed second in both the Western State Conference and the Southern California Regional.
However, the team finished seventh in the Southern California Regional, ranking the team third in the final state standings.
Head coach Greg Osbourne wants the same success for his team this year with the same goal in mind: winning a state title.
"Expectations are to win the league, place first or second in the regional, go to state and make a run at a state championship. Those are our expectations this year," said Osbourne.
Osbourne is confident about his team, but they are also a young team.
"We have 13 of the best players in the area, but only six can play," said Osbourne.
Michael Timpson, team captain, and sophomore Nick Quintanilla have returned for the new season. Timpson was all West Coast Conference, All Southern California Region team last year.
Quintanilla was MVP of the team two years ago, and he red shirted last year.
Another standout on this year's team is Ricard Maloof. The freshman played at St. Francis High School and he was a member of the Pasadena Star News All-Area team.
Despite the fact that this year's team is young, Quintanilla is confident that inexperience means nothing on the golf course.
"I think golf is such an individual game that it isn't about college level competing experience, but its about experience in general," said Quintanilla. "A lot of our guys have played in tournaments outside of Glendale and that's giving them the experience that they need."
Both Quintanilla and Timpson have the same goal in mind: victory.
"I want to win state as a team and individually," said Timpson. "I've been working with coach, and he has helped with my pre-shot routine and the fundamentals of golf. So I can achieve my goals of winning state," said Timpson.
The team's first goal of course is to make sure that their grades are good. Osbourne imposes to the members to maintain their grades.
"We stay in school get the best grade point average and move on to a four-year," said Osbourne.
The men started the season off strong, first at the Orange Empire Tee Off Classic, a two-day tournament in Los Serranos.
However they placed fifth in their conference opener at College of the Canyons on Feb. 6 and fourth at Santa Barbara City College on Feb. 13.
"Right now I feel that we should be tied for first but we're in third," said Osbourne "We have to keep on proving ourselves."
On Sunday the Vaqueros travel to La Purisma Community College for a two-day tournament against Santa Barbra Pt. Conception.
Alex Gonzalez
Alex Gonzalez, Staff Reporter
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