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Žimrovice (německy Zimrowitz) je vesnice, část města Hradec nad Moravicí, v okrese Opava v Moravskoslezském kraji. Rozkládá se po levém břehu řeky Moravice zhruba 2,5 km jihozápadně od Hradce nad Moravicí. V Žimrovicích žilo k roku 2001 734 obyvatel. V obci se nachází Základní škola a Mateřská škola Žimrovice. Sídlo základní školy se nachází na ulici Meleček.

Již od roku 1891 v obci funguje papírna, kterou založil podnikatel Karel Weisshuhn a v současnosti je součástí mezinárodní skupiny Smurfit Kappa. Unikátem této papírny je vodní náhon, který je dlouhý 3,6 km. Původně sloužil k plavení metrových polen ("vajzunek"), dodával papírně vodu a byl zdrojem energie. Dnes se papír v Žimrovicích vyrábí ze 100% ze sběrového papíru.

Do katastru Žimrovic zasahuje národní přírodní rezervace Kaluža.

Název
Jméno Žimrovice (v nejstarším písemném dokladu z 1357 zapsáno jako Zembrowicz) vzniklo zkrácením staršího Žiměrovice (doloženého písemně ze 14.-16. století) a to zkrácením ještě staršího (písemně nedoloženého) Žiroměrovice. Původně šlo o pojmenování obyvatel vsi (Žiroměrovici) odvozené od osobního jména Žiroměr (v jeho první části je praslovanské žirъ - "život"). Význam místního jména byl "Žiroměrovi lidé".

Slavní rodáci
 Stanislav Biler

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
Sonnek, Ladislav: Žimrovice, vydalo Město Hradec nad Moravicí v roce 2004

Externí odkazy

 Oficiální stránky Žimrovic

 Foto z náhonu

Vesnice v okrese Opava
Sídla v Nízkém Jeseníku
Hradec nad Moravicí
Geotrasa sudetská


Sims2 (Auto solved xD) Directx9 Problem ... And more (? ^^"
(Auto solved xD) Directx9 Problem ... And more (? ^^"
It's the directx9 error "Failed to find any DirectX9 compatible graphics adapters in this system. Please make sure you have a DirectX9 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest manufacturer provided driver"
Aaaaaand I'm also confused because I've been running Sims 2 Bodyshop all this time without problem, now i decided to actually play and ... here we are ^^"
You need an older computer. I recommend the Lenovo T420, or T420s, but ONLY with the i7 CPU, *AND* nVidia NVS4200m graphics. Do NOT try to run Sims on the HD3000 graphics. Also recommend at least 8 gb/RAM, and a SSD. Better yet, here's a Lenovo T430 with nVidia NVS5400m graphics.
Well, maybe i should wait for other people to respond (?
No @AleLunes, Kunder didn't say there was no solution. He told you that the solution is to get an older computer, because your stuff is too modern to run the game.
But you may wait for other people to respond, if you like. Nobody currently on this board knows as much about it as Kunder, though. So you'll be waiting a LOOOOOONG time. I'm sorry.
@BoilingOil Well, that's weird, because we also tried to run The Sims 2 in my Brother's computer, and it didn't happen at all, he has a laptop far more advanced than mine, in fact, it's a gaming one, it's also Windows 10, 64 bit sistem, though i may need to look at other details that i may have missed (?
I'll update when i check on that !
Maybe your brother's computer has one of the compatible built-in graphics cards that Kunder talks about in one of the threads that he advised you to look at.
@BoilingOil, maybe that's it !
I'll update to let you know what happens !
In most cases, you can ignore whatever happens in the AppErrors and AudioErrors files. I usually have errors in those files too, and my game runs just fine!
The Sims2Exception file may hold a clue, as to what's going on. But that file can only be read by an expert of absolute genius level, or a developer.
I've looked at your Graphics Rules and your config-log.txt, but I have no idea what would be wrong... I'm sorry.
(31-03-2019 01:32 PM)AleLunes Wrote: @BoilingOil Well, that's weird, because we also tried to run The Sims 2 in my Brother's computer, and it didn't happen at all, he has a laptop far more advanced than mine, in fact, it's a gaming one, it's also Windows 10, 64 bit sistem, though i may need to look at other details that i may have missed (?
Far more advanced is the problem. DON'T buy a new gaming machine with Windows 10, and the latest nVidia or Radeon card, and expect to play TS2. TS3 will be MUCH better for you, OR get an older, more compatible machine.
AMD Turion64 with ATI Radeon mobility graphics X1200 with 128mb VRam.
Windows 7 (It came with WinXPHome).
This is probably one of the the lowest spec machines, for running TS2, and it runs it better than YOUR new, gaming machine!
It's not about "biggest, and baddest", it's all about compatibility.
The beauty of this machine, is you don't need to worry about "smooth edges", as it works from the get go, because TS2 was designed to run on THIS type of machine.
This was a bit of a "budget" machine back in the day, but it DOES run TS2 acceptably at 1280x800 (maximum resolution for this computers display), once you tweak the in-game settings a bit.
If running XP, or Vista, it would no doubt, run even better, as Win7 is a little hefty for this machine. I will try XPpro on this machine in the future, and report on it. Right now, I'll finish my current evaluation, and let you know.
I'll post my evaluation in a thread I made specifically for testing TS2, on various machines, including cost and links to the computers.
If I have more problems, i'll let you know !


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Le diphosphore, P2, est une molécule diatomique formée de deux atomes de phosphore. Au contraire de l'azote, qui appartient à la même famille chimique, qui forme un composé stable N2 grâce à une triple liaison, le phosphore se réarrange sous la forme de P4, un tétraèdre, car les liaisons P-P de type π possèdent une énergie élevée. Le diphosphore est dès lors très réactif, son énergie de dissociation de liaison est de 490 kJ/mol, moitié de celle du diazote.

Notes et références

Article connexe
 Formes allotropiques du phosphore

Phosphore

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Following each round of public input, working groups made up of citizens with specialized knowledge and interests are meeting to dig more deeply into issues identified by the East Tennessee residents. Initially these groups will focus on the region's assets and challenges. In later phases of the project, they will focus on specific recommendations for regional priorities and implementation strategies.
One of the first tasks to be tackled by the working groups was an evaluation of a report of existing conditions in the region across the five PlanET focus areas.
The memo contains key findings only and is not intended to be an exhaustive collection of data or to provide recommendations for addressing issues. The memo adopts a regional perspective, looking at systems and commonalities that bind the five PlanET counties together. It did not identify highly localized issues that may be limited to or solved by a single community. It also did not include key findings for topics not related to one of the five PlanET focus areas (economic development, transportation, housing, community health, and environmental quality).


Put together a pickaxe, snap together a sword and assemble some armor and you're all set for a perfectly adequate adventure in Minecraft!
There might just be more to the game than that. Combining ingredients on the crafting grid can leave you with all manner of strange and wonderful items - some deadly, some delicious, some just rather nice to look at. Working out how to construct them can be tricky, so we thought we'd compile a brief list of our lesser-seen favourites, and hopefully inspire you to experiment with the recipe book a bit more!
You think of yourself as a pretty creative sort, right? So no doubt you'll want your digs to be the coolest build on the block. One option is to spend hours laying down colorful patterns of dyed wool while fighting off interfering creepers and Enderman. But what if I told you there was an easier way to create colorful patterns - and at a more conveniently condensed scale? Enter glazed terracotta. First you'll need to stain some ordinary terracotta, using an 8:1 block to dye ratio.
How'd you get dye, you ask? Well, luckily, the natural world is generous. Drop a poppy, rosebush or red tulip on a crafting grid and you can harvest the Rose Red dye. Dandelions or sunflowers give you yellow. You can probably figure out what plants produce orange dye (spoiler: they're orange too). Bone meal will serve as a white dye, and squid ink sacs for black. Cocoa beans make a nice brown colour and lapis lazuli will make a nice deep blue. Once you've stained your terracotta to a hue of your choosing, stick it in a furnace with a suitable fuel, and smelt it into its final form: beautiful, colorful blocks, textured with ornate patterns, perfect for adorning smaller sized builds.
Concrete is one of the newest blocks in Minecraft! Creating it takes a little work: first you need some concrete powder by combining sand and gravel along with the dye of your chosen colour.
Then you can place your concrete powder block - but take care! Concrete powder is affected by gravity and needs proper support. Pour some water on it, however, and it'll solidify into concrete and remain in place even if it's undermined. More intensely coloured than stained terracotta, use concrete if you're going for a bright blocks of uniform colour, that - handily enough - won't burn to the ground like wool.
Taking on the Ender Dragon, the Wither, or your pesky, thieving neighbors? You better stack up on some golden apples. These apples are powerful, providing Absorption I and Regeneration II all at once, giving you the edge you need to take down whatever may get in your way. The problem is, and the reason why it's so rare, is that it's also expensive. Crafting a golden apple takes a whopping 8 gold ingots. Totally worth it though! Honestly! I promise!
Ordinarily, a beacon is just a light source, albeit one with rather demanding crafting requirements (you have to defeat a Wither to get one of the main ingredients: a Nether Star).
But place the beacon on the top of a pyramid made from iron, gold, emerald or diamond blocks and you get something very special indeed. For one thing, a beam of light shoots out of the top of the beacon, right up into the sky, making it a rather attractive way of marking your location. You can change the colour of the light by placing stained glass above it, too.
More importantly, though, the beacon can provide different, powerful buffs to everyone in the near area, the exact enhancements depending on how big the pyramid beneath it is. There are four levels of power possible for each tier you add to the pyramid's base.
Beacon pyramids of two different power levels, each built from diamond.
Clicking on the beacon itself will let you pick and mix which buffs are available - though you'll need to feed the beacon ingots to activate them. It's quite the exhausting build in survival mode - but since when have pyramids been the cheap architectural option?
Minecraft has many ways for you to power your doors, rails and extravagant contraptions, but you can't always rely on being there in person to flip a switch. The daylight sensor is particularly useful for remotely and reliably activating your defence systems every time the sun goes down - keeping creepers and other nighttime nasties out of your home.
A sticky piston is just that: a piston with some slimy goo smered on the end so that adheres to the blocks it touches, letting it push and pull them. Sticky pistons require everything a piston does with the added ingredient of a slime ball, obtainable from slimes. Sticky pistons are a neat way of yanking up gates or creating trap doors - but they have other fun uses too. Layer a platform of slime blocks on top of a sticky piston, then hook it up to a pulsing redstone circuit, and you've created your own trampoline. Boing!
Sure, "potions" may be a broad category, but they're one of the most useful yet unintuitive areas of crafting - and the secret to a successful attempt at any boss monster in Minecraft. Without a potion of water breathing, you'll find getting down to Ocean Monuments pretty tricky. Meanwhile, a potion of regeneration comes in useful in nearly any combat encounter. Other players giving you grief? Then lingering splash potions will keep pursuers off your case.
And a glass bottle. Once crafted use it on a water source to fill it up!
And you'll need a host of reagents to make and modify various concoctions. Base ingredients create the first stage of your potion. Nether wart is the base for nearly every potion in the game. The Fermented Spider's Eye will only make a potion of weakness. You can use other bases ingredients, but you won't make anything useful. Secondary ingredients (sugar, magma cream, spider eyes, rabbit feet, puffer fish, golden carrots, glistering melons, blaze powder and ghast tears) then define the effect of the potion, and tertiary ingredients (redstone dust, glowstone dust, gunpowder, dragon's breath, fermented spider eyes) will modify it.
Once you've assembled all the ingredients you need for a heady brew, click on your brewing stand to bring up the brewing interface. You'll have to fuel the stand with some blaze powder - you'll see that part of the diagram starts glowing a hot orange. Now put a water-filled flask in one of the three slots at the bottom of the apparatus and some nether wart in the top. You'll see a progress bar start to fill up - you're brewing up an Awkward Potion! It's the essential base for nearly every potion recipe in the game. Once the progress bar is done, and you have an awkward potion in hand, put it right back in the apparatus where you had it the first time for the second stage of brewing. Now you can add one of a large number of reagents at the top for a variety of effects. In the example below, we've added a Ghast Tear. That'll give you a Potion of Regeneration. Handy!
Magma Cream will give you a Potion of Fire Resistance; a Golden Carrot will give you Night Vision; Blaze Powder a potion of Strength... and so on. There are further optional stages of brewing too! Adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a potion will usually flip the effect, turning a Potion of Healing into a Potion of Harming. Adding Gunpowder will make it a Splash Potion (a potion you can throw) and then adding Dragon's Breath afterwards will make it a Lingering Potion (so the effect contaminates an area for a period of time). Other ingredients, like Redstone or Glowstone dust, will either increase the duration or potency of the effect.
There are a host of sweet treats you make for your friends (or yourself.) Everyone knows you can bake a cake, but did you know there's also pie? Pumpkin pie to be exact. It's way cheaper than baking a cake, costing only a pumpkin, some sugar, and an egg - versus the bucket, the milk, the wheat, the sugar, and the egg it takes to make a cake. It's also better for you per bite, restoring 8 hunger versus the 2 hunger per slice of cake.
Feel the music in Minecraft with note blocks. Made of wood and redstone, constructing a note block is easy. It gets complicated when you throw in instruments and note pitches. A note block will produce a different instrumental sound based on whatever block it's sitting on. A note block on grass makes a clicking noise, while a note block on wood sounds like a string base, and so forth and so on. By changing the different blocks under your note block you can create a variety of sounds, making your very own Minecraft orchestra.
Imagine you've made your own adventure realm. You're creating a story for your players to experience. The adventures have bested the dungeon's deadliest foes, skipped happily over your web of trip wires, and danced around all the pressure plates you so carefully placed. Damn them. But nothing wipes the smirk an adventurer's face like a teasure chest loaded with TNT. That's the sweet vengeance a trapped chest can bring. First you'll need a tripwire hook!
Then simply combine it with a chest! A trapped chest produces a redstone-like effect when opened and can be used to power just about anything. Use it cause mayhem for your players or to keep your thieving Realm neighbors from getting at your good stuff.
There are loads more recipes out there for you to discover. Thankfully you won't have to trawl wikis forever to find them - we added a recipe book to Minecraft which will prompt you with handy recipe hints when you start to accumulate useful ingredients. So explore and experiment!


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Truckee's Brickelltown improvements could cost more than initial estimate
Sun File PhotoA view of the Brickelltown area of downtown Truckee.
TRUCKEE, Calif. and#8212; With some of the conceptual work well under way, the town is looking at what initially appears to be the rising costs of revitalizing Brickelltown.
In a number of public workshops, the town has been looking at two alternative options for improving the western end of downtown between the roundabout and Spring Street and#8212; shifting Donner Pass Road to the south, toward the railroad tracks, to bring more parking to the north side of the street, or keeping Donner Pass Road where it is and making other streetscape improvements.
The town previously budgeted about $6.5 million over five years for the project, said Todd Landry, senior engineer with the town, but preliminary estimates and#8212;-introduced at Thursday's Truckee Town Council meeting and#8212; for both alternatives stand at $8 to $10 million.
Potential contributing costs include an estimated $700,000 easement from Union Pacific Railroad, right of way acquisitions along the properties north of Donner Pass road estimated at $550,000 and $1 million for undergrounding utilities, Landry said.
He recommended altering the project to bring it back toward the town's budget, a notion shared by council member Joan Jones.
and#8220;I think it's a great project, but I definitely have real concerns about the cost,and#8221; Jones said. and#8220;I know we can't afford a $10 million project unless it's the only thing we do.and#8221;
Also proposed by staff was the consideration of creating a new district in the Brickelltown that would assess a fee on property owners to pay for the on-going maintenance of new sidewalks, parking areas, landscaping and other improvements.
and#8220;I agree with the maintenance district as long as it doesn't take away the individual characters of Brickelltown,and#8221; said Dave Wilderotter, owner of Tahoe Dave's. and#8220;There is something about Brickelltown that's cool, that we have to keep.and#8221;
Debbie Jenkins, senior engineer with Eastern Sierra Engineering, contracted by the town on the Brickelltown project, said her group will be contacting each property owner in Brickelltown over the next few weeks.
and#8220;This is a redevelopment project that's really trying to spur private investment,and#8221; said Town Manager Tony Lashbrook. and#8220;For this project to get built it needs to be supported by the property owners.and#8221;
The next public workshop for Brickelltown will be on Dec. 2. Time and location have yet to be announced.

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Greek Myths have always been an indispensable part of the Greek mentality and culture; since the ancient years, Greeks were creating myths to justify and explain anything they couldn't understand, things that happened in nature, the birth of flowers and animals, the bad or good luck and anything they wanted to commemorate and glorify.
The word myth comes from the Greek word "mythos" which refers to a story, a speech, something new and created. Greek myths are variant and diverse; some of them are folk stories, urban legends, or simple mythical stories about gods, deities, their loves or their fights.
Although myths can be based on true events, or even people, they should not be read as history. When it comes to Greek myths though it's hard to distinguish what is true and what is not; the stories told by Greeks, since the antiquity, feature so many real elements intertwined in the telling, that you can hardly say that a place or a person did not really exist.
Myth, for Homer, was a story told in the epic, while Herodotus thought that myth is a story that describes an unbelievable and idle event. Later, Plato added to the description, suggesting that myth is also a speech, a narration, something said passing from one era to another, from one generation to another. And till today, myth is everything the Greeks said it was; a myth is a story that describes a person, a fact, an event, an epic, a truth. Myth is above all about fascination and imagination, creativity, ingenuity and originality.
Greek Myths Throughout History
Myths have been used by poets, artists, drama writers and musicians for thousands of years. Greeks first, Romans later and then the illuminated minds of the Renaissance made a huge effort to identify, categorize and explain the Greek Myths.
When the time of scientific rationalism came, myths were left behind, although remained as a point of reference for philosophical and psychological issues. Myths were, due to the Christian religion, in danger of being demoted to fairy tales about non existing Gods and monsters, but when the science of psychology rose, they found a new status, and a new reason to exist. Freud, for instance was one of the major scientists that tried to explain the myth of Oedipus Rex, who killed his father and slept with his mother. Greek myths became popular again to the world, from another point of view, and when the first craze went away, Greek myths found again their position in history and the hearts of the people.
But for Greek people, Greek myths are their history, their lives, the way they still explain things. Wherever they travel within their country, there is always a myth, living or resurrected, following them. Stories and legends are always part of their songs and theatrical plays; they gather to watch tragedies and comedies analyzing the myth of a king, such as Oedipus, or the myth of Helen of Troy and Agamemnon who had to sacrifice his daughter in order to satisfy the Gods and allow the ships to sail against Troy.
Who doesn't like Aesop's myths? Greek children still grow up reading the fascinating myths of lions and birds, turtles and rabbits. They are funny and interesting, intelligent and educational – an easy and simple way to teach someone the basics, what is good and bad, what is right and wrong, but also a very intriguing way to refer to the complexity of life and its rules.
Like all stories, Greek myths are entertaining, morally instructive, intriguing, some time dark and inspirational. Above all they are fascinating. This is why we invite you to follow us to a trip into the Greek Mythology and Greek Myths.
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Several contributions from the farmers, research institutes and the industry has led to the production of biogas as a mature technology, the purification process of biogas has been made simpler and a wide variety of substrates or raw materials are being used in the process.
Biogas as a Blending Gas to Decarbonize Natural Gas Networks
Article from	| MBP Solutions
05/13/20, 05:47 AM | Other Energy Topics | Biogas
With the worldwide emphasis on the reduction of carbon emissions, biofuels may serve as an important alternative to conventional fuels. One of the biofuels is biogas or biomethane which has a variety of advantages including substitute to automotive fuels, agricultural waste management, reduction of landfills, reduced burden on the incineration plants, production of organic fertilizers for farms and promoting the circular economy. Further, it could be used as an alternative to natural gas in small scale applications such as cooking fuel, localized heating and/or electricity production. Figure 1 shows the schematic of the production of biogas and its different applications.
Figure 1: Biogas production and applications [1]
Over the past 20 years, several contributions from the farmers, research institutes and the industry has led to the production of the biogas as a mature technology, the purification process of biogas has been made simpler and a wide variety of substrates or raw materials are being used in the process.
For large applications in power generation or in the chemical industry, the current biogas production is not sufficient and the price is not competitive to natural gas because of lower volumes. Further, depending on the type of agricultural feed/ substrate being used and ambient weather conditions, there may be issues related to the consistent quality of biogas being produced for a sufficient longer period (10-15 years) [2]. However, these problems are being addressed gradually with the technical and commercial expertise and experience that enables to evaluate how substrates proposed for any individual plant would interact with the rest of the substrate and how the substrate can be managed within the biogas plant in order to get an optimized output of biogas to be used in large applications.
The blending of biogas with conventional natural gas could also upscale the biogas production and utilize the already existing robust infrastructure of the energy sector [3]. Additionally, this will result in the decarbonization of the natural gas networks, make the biogas competitive to the natural gas and as the 'green' regulations become more stringent, biogas may be used as an alternative to natural gas even in 'large' applications. The reliability and quality of the biogas production is important for natural gas grids to prevent sharp variations which could upset the biogas injection process. To avoid it an emphasis needs to be put on material sourcing, quality control and substrate logistics. Figure 2 shows a schematic diagram on biogas injection into the natural gas grid.
Figure 2: Biogas injection into the Natural Gas grid [4]
Some of the countries such as Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Denmark have already started feeding biogas into their natural gas grids and have announced 'subsidy' programmes to promote the production of biogas [5,6]. Further, it has been reported that the blending of biogas could also result in the use of off-spec natural gas which will reduce flaring in the industry contributing to lesser carbon emissions [7]. Industries have also started working on the removal of carbon dioxide from biogas using a 'methanation' process to enhance the quality of 'green gas' and thus its associated use in the end applications. In methanation, usually hydrogen (produced from electrolysis) is added to biogas which results in additional methane production. Figure 3 shows the comparison between the conventional biogas production process and with the methanation step to produce 60% more renewable/green gas.
Figure 3: Comparison of conventional biogas production and with methanation step [8]
Therefore, the blending of biogas with natural gas can play a significant role in decarbonizing the worldwide natural gas networks with additional advantages as summarized in Figure 4
Figure 4: Advantages of Biogas delivered via the Natural Gas grid [9]
About MBP Solutions
MBP Solutions has an extensive track record and experience with a variety of substrates for biogas and biomethane production and is one of the major players in the area of industrial (non agricultural) feedstocks . As a part of their sustainability policy, substrates and co-substrates are produced only from waste and by-products, not from crops.
1. Zafar S, Trends in Utilization of Biogas (2020) https://www.bioenergyconsult.com/utilization-of-biogas/
2. https://www.homebiogas.com/Blog/141/Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_Biogas
3. Cavana M., Leone P., Biogas blending into the gas grid of a small municipality for the decarbonization of the heating sector, Biomass and Bioenergy 127 (2019) 105295
4. Anaerobic Treatment and Biogas Production from Organic Waste, (2012)
5. Banja et al., Support for biogas in the EU electricity sector – A comparative analysis, Biomass and Bioenergy 128 (2019)
6. Report on the biomethane injection into national gas grid, ISAAC Project, WP5 (2016)
7. Adding gas from biomass to the gas grid, Swedish Gas Centre (2001)
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Home » Health News » Undetected cases may be driving coronavirus spread, study finds
Undetected cases may be driving coronavirus spread, study finds
You're a little feverish, but you feel good enough to get your shopping done and a quick workout at the gym.
If you do, you could become part of the exponential spread of the coronavirus, a new study concludes.
About 86% of COVID-19 cases in China were milder and went undetected during the two-week ramp-up of the epidemic in January, prior to the country imposing travel restrictions, researchers conclude in the March 16 issue of Science.
These undocumented cases of infection were "about half as infectious per person as a documented case who has more severe symptoms and may be shedding more," said senior researcher Jeffrey Shaman. He's a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, in New York City.
However, "because there are many more of these undocumented cases, it's the undocumented infections that are driving the spread and growth of the outbreak," Shaman said.
The continued and widening lockdown of the United States is therefore the right move to limit the COVID-19 epidemic as much as possible, the researchers said.
On Monday, President Donald Trump announced during a media briefing that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now advises all Americans to avoid all gatherings of more than 10 people, avoid eating and drinking at restaurants, bars and food courts, and avoid discretionary travel for 15 days.
Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said during the briefing that the latest step was taken because new modeling shows that a significant amount of the coronavirus' spread is fueled by "silent transmission."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was blunt about the coming weeks. "The worst is yet ahead for us," he said during the briefing. "It's how we respond to that challenge that will determine what the ultimate endpoint is going to be."
Across the country, many shops, schools, restaurants, bars and gyms have already closed in an effort to promote social distancing and keep people from infecting each other with coronavirus.
Another much-touted policy aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19—travel bans—is not nearly as effective, a second study published recently in Science found.
Travel bans implemented inside China only delayed the spread of the epidemic by three to five days, while international bans halted the spread of coronavirus by about a few weeks, said senior researcher Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, in Boston.
"Travel restrictions alone do not really do much but delay the spread of the disease," said study co-author Elizabeth Halloran, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, in Seattle. "Delaying is good because it slows things down, but the idea is that transmissibility really is key."
Reducing transmissibility includes detecting and isolating infected people, social distancing, school closures, increased hygiene, and overall improved awareness of the virus, Halloran said.
"Reduced travel and transmissibility does produce a synergistic effect, but it's the transmissibility that's more important," she concluded.
Trump has floated the idea of restricting domestic travel to California and Washington, but the two studies show this would be little more than a delaying tactic, experts said.
"The epidemic now is already seeded in the United States," Vespignani said. "We see ongoing local transmission in many states, and probably it's just the tip of the iceberg. Closing travel might delay the progression of the epidemic in some places and provide some time for preparation."
In the first study, Shaman and his colleagues created a computer model that tracked observations of reported infection and spread within China, as well as human movement within the country as revealed by mobile phone data.
The research team suspected that mild cases of COVID-19 were likely behind the ferocious spread of the virus in China, given human nature.
"If somebody is experiencing mild symptoms, and I think most of us can relate to this, we're still going to go about our day," Shaman said. "We'll still send the kids to school. We'll still go to work. If we have a little bit of a headache or slight fever, we might take some ibuprofen and still go out shopping and whatnot. It's that sort of continued contact with people that allows the silent transmission of many respiratory viruses."
To make sure the model was accurate, the researchers tested it by shutting off the infectiousness of undocumented COVID-19 cases, Shaman said—essentially assuming that no people with mild symptoms could infect others.
"When we do that, we see nearly an 80% reduction in the number of documented confirmed cases," Shaman said. "These people are the major driver of it. They're the ones who facilitated the spread. The undocumented infections which tend to be milder are distributing the virus broadly."
For the other study, Vespignani and his colleagues used computer modeling to compare travel between transportation hubs with the onward march of the novel coronavirus both inside China and to other countries.
Vespignani's team found that travel bans within a country are of limited use, but that international travel bans did have a substantial effect in slowing the virus' spread to other nations. Case importations were reduced by nearly 80% until mid-February, when the dam broke and the virus started reaching epidemic levels in other countries.
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The men's 2000 metres steeplechase event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 20 July.

Medalists

Results

Final
20 July

Heats
18 July

Heat 1

Heat 2

Participation
According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

References

2000 metres steeplechasechase
Steeplechase at the World Athletics U20 Championships


Below you will find a quick checklist designed to help you think about which Value Investing related domains to cover and 162 essential critical questions to check off in that domain.
Merge Value Investing goals and explore and align the progress in Value Investing.
– Who is responsible for ensuring appropriate resources (time, people and money) are allocated to Value Investing?
Think about Booth School of Business projects and define Booth School of Business competency-based leadership.
Have a round table over Multilateral trading facility governance and give examples utilizing a core of simple Multilateral trading facility skills.
– Will Value Investing have an impact on current business continuity, disaster recovery processes and/or infrastructure?
– What other jobs or tasks affect the performance of the steps in the Value Investing process?
Co-operate on Listed investment company results and optimize Listed investment company leadership as a key to advancement.
Familiarize yourself with Pairs trade adoptions and ask questions.
– Are there recognized Value Investing problems?
Participate in Investment management visions and gather practices for scaling Investment management.
Consolidate Disruptive innovation strategies and proactively manage Disruptive innovation risks.
– Who will be responsible for deciding whether Value Investing goes ahead or not after the initial investigations?
Chart Common stock projects and triple focus on important concepts of Common stock relationship management.
– How likely is the current Value Investing plan to come in on schedule or on budget?
– Have you identified your Value Investing key performance indicators?
Administer Algorithmic trading goals and pioneer acquisition of Algorithmic trading systems.
– Have the types of risks that may impact Value Investing been identified and analyzed?
Deliberate over Unit investment trust quality and gather practices for scaling Unit investment trust.
– In the case of a Value Investing project, the criteria for the audit derive from implementation objectives. an audit of a Value Investing project involves assessing whether the recommendations outlined for implementation have been met. in other words, can we track that any Value Investing project is implemented as planned, and is it working?
Chat re Sector rotation outcomes and customize techniques for implementing Sector rotation controls.
– What tools and technologies are needed for a custom Value Investing project?
Grade Price-earning ratio strategies and modify and define the unique characteristics of interactive Price-earning ratio projects.
Deliberate over International Standard Book Number tactics and budget for International Standard Book Number challenges.
Revitalize Stock trader leadership and describe the risks of Stock trader sustainability.
– How will you measure your Value Investing effectiveness?
Guide Cascade Investment strategies and check on ways to get started with Cascade Investment.
Think about Market trend results and revise understanding of Market trend architectures.
– Does the product leverage an emerging market trend?
Learn from Mosaic theory strategies and modify and define the unique characteristics of interactive Mosaic theory projects.
– what is the best design framework for Value Investing organization now that, in a post industrial-age if the top-down, command and control model is no longer relevant?
Administer The Intelligent Investor risks and report on the economics of relationships managing The Intelligent Investor and constraints.
Incorporate Bull market tasks and work towards be a leading Bull market expert.
– At what point will vulnerability assessments be performed once Value Investing is put into production (e.g., ongoing Risk Management after implementation)?
– What role does communication play in the success or failure of a Value Investing project?
– What can be expected from the product in a bull market?
Win new insights about Impact investing management and reduce Impact investing costs.
Align Socially responsible investing tasks and triple focus on important concepts of Socially responsible investing relationship management.
Drive Floor broker visions and correct better engagement with Floor broker results.
Face Discounted cash flow tactics and budget for Discounted cash flow challenges.
Cut a stake in Primary market failures and point out Primary market tensions in leadership.
– What are all of our Value Investing domains and what do they do?
Rank Treasury stock decisions and simulate teachings and consultations on quality process improvement of Treasury stock.
Tête-à-tête about Open-end fund visions and define what our big hairy audacious Open-end fund goal is.
– Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and social media has changed forever the way we talk about Value Investing. How do we gain traction?
– How much does Value Investing help?
Steer Growth investing results and balance specific methods for improving Growth investing results.
Meet over Shares outstanding quality and slay a dragon.
Investigate Floor trader goals and devise Floor trader key steps.
– What are specific Value Investing Rules to follow?
Deliberate Bear market projects and catalog Bear market activities.
Troubleshoot Common contractual fund risks and balance specific methods for improving Common contractual fund results.
– A compounding model resolution with available relevant data can often provide insight towards a solution methodology; which Value Investing models, tools and techniques are necessary?
Accommodate Mutual Series strategies and sort Mutual Series activities.
Check Dodd, David outcomes and explain and analyze the challenges of Dodd, David.
Judge Block trade governance and achieve a single Block trade view and bringing data together.
– What are the disruptive Value Investing technologies that enable our organization to radically change our business processes?
Cut a stake in Returns-based style analysis strategies and raise human resource and employment practices for Returns-based style analysis.
– What tools do you use once you have decided on a Value Investing strategy and more importantly how do you choose?
Guide Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directives goals and look at the big picture.
– What other organizational variables, such as reward systems or communication systems, affect the performance of this Value Investing process?
Wrangle Index fund results and attract Index fund skills.
Unify Proprietary trading management and correct Proprietary trading management by competencies.
– What are the barriers to increased Value Investing production?
– Who will provide the final approval of Value Investing deliverables?
Concentrate on Investment fund adoptions and transcribe Investment fund as tomorrows backbone for success.
Scrutinze Closed-end fund tactics and question.
– Does Value Investing analysis isolate the fundamental causes of problems?
– How do we manage Value Investing Knowledge Management (KM)?
Unify Modern portfolio theory failures and find out what it really means.
– Which Value Investing goals are the most important?
Accelerate Swing trading leadership and do something to it.
– How do we measure improved Value Investing service perception, and satisfaction?
Focus on Piotroski F-Score projects and devote time assessing Piotroski F-Score and its risk.
– How do we keep improving Value Investing?
Distinguish Third market leadership and proactively manage Third market risks.
– What is the total cost related to deploying Value Investing, including any consulting or professional services?
Huddle over Dual-listed company tactics and observe effective Dual-listed company.
– What are current Value Investing Paradigms?
Contribute to Dividend discount model decisions and differentiate in coordinating Dividend discount model.
Shape Offshore fund leadership and forecast involvement of future Offshore fund projects in development.
Have a round table over Preferred stock failures and prioritize challenges of Preferred stock.
– When a Value Investing manager recognizes a problem, what options are available?
– How do we go about Securing Value Investing?
Adapt Day trader engagements and report on setting up Day trader without losing ground.
Win new insights about Cash flow leadership and customize techniques for implementing Cash flow controls.
Probe Security market line leadership and intervene in Security market line processes and leadership.
– What potential environmental factors impact the Value Investing effort?
Chart Exchange-traded fund management and know what your objective is.
Give examples of Margin of safety planning and do something to it.
– What are internal and external Value Investing relations?
Exchange ideas about Growth stocks decisions and assess what counts with Growth stocks that we are not counting.
– Can we do Value Investing without complex (expensive) analysis?
Reason over Issued shares engagements and probe the present value of growth of Issued shares.
Tête-à-tête about Cross listing outcomes and prioritize challenges of Cross listing.
Consolidate Stock exchange governance and report on the economics of relationships managing Stock exchange and constraints.
Weigh in on Value averaging governance and summarize a clear Value averaging focus.
Grade Secondary market results and define what our big hairy audacious Secondary market goal is.
Bootstrap Value Investing results and diversify disclosure of information – dealing with confidential Value Investing information.
Adapt Capital market line risks and get going.
Disseminate The New York Times leadership and create a map for yourself.
– How can the value of Value Investing be defined?
Interpolate Technical analysis projects and grade techniques for implementing Technical analysis controls.
– What about Value Investing Analysis of results?
Discourse Passive management adoptions and research ways can we become the Passive management company that would put us out of business.
Start Stock split decisions and visualize why should people listen to you regarding Stock split.
Check Traditional investments quality and spearhead techniques for implementing Traditional investments.
Closely inspect Dollar cost averaging projects and maintain Dollar cost averaging for success.
Have a session on Fundamental analysis failures and describe which business rules are needed as Fundamental analysis interface.
Grasp Market anomaly failures and find out.
– What market anomaly or inefficiency are you trying to capture?
Unit Investment Trust – Morningstar, Inc.
http://A market anomaly (or market inefficiency) is a price and/or rate of return distortion on a financial market that seems to contradict the efficient-market hypothesis.


The corella's have returned. Don't usually enjoy their company but they made good subjects today.
What a great capture. I love the different shades of brown.
Ten lovely native birds in the tree,a wonderful shot.
Ha ha we have quite a few corella trees here, they always go around in gangs don't they.


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was een Japans animator, scenarioschrijver en filmregisseur van animatiefilms. Hij speelde een centrale rol in de ontwikkeling van de Japanse anime.

Carrière

Seo werkte oorspronkelijk als bordschilder, maar begon te experimenteren met het tekenen van animatie toen hij bij een toy film bedrijf ("omocha eiga" (おもちゃ映画)) aan de slag ging. Hij vergaarde het meeste roem met propagandafilms tijdens Wereldoorlog II. Toch lagen Seo's politieke sympathieën eerder in het linkse kamp. Hij was lid van Prokino, een linkse filmorganisatie uit de jaren '20, en hielp er met het animeren van films als Sankichi no Kūchū Ryokō. In 1931 werd hij voor deze activiteiten gearresteerd, gefolterd en voor 21 dagen opgesloten in de gevangenis. Daarna ontmoette hij Kenzō Masaoka. Bij zijn bedrijf werkte Seo aan Japan's eerste animatiefilm met geluid, Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka. In 1935 stichtte hij zijn eigen productiebedrijf, waar hij tekenfilms maakte over het personage Norakura. In 1937 werkte hij bij de Geijutsu Eigasha studio, waar hij in 1941 Ari-chan maakte. Dit was de eerste Japanse film die volledig gemaakt was met een multiplane camera.

Seo's meest bekende werken zijn de twee geanimeerde propagandafilms die hij maakte tijdens Wereldoorlog II. Dit waren Momotarō no Umiwashi, waarin Momotaro en zijn dierenvrienden Pearl Harbor bombarderen, en diens vervolg Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei, welke de eerste Japanse avondvullende animatiefilm was. (Momotarō no Umiwashi werd destijds gepromoot als een langspeelfilm, maar was slechts 37 minuten lang. Hierdoor ging deze eer naar Umi no Shinpei, die 74 minuten duurt). Osamu Tezuka, de vader van de Japanse manga, was als tiener zo onder de indruk van Umi no Shinpei dat de film hem inspireerde om zelf animator te worden.

Na de oorlog werd Seo lid van Nihon Manga Eigasha. Hij maakte er in 1949 de film Ōsama no Shippo, welke een pro-democratische boodschap verkondigde. Toho, de distributeur die de film zou oppikken, vond de film te links en weigerde hem uit te brengen. Nihon Manga Eigasha ging vervolgens failliet. Seo vond het animatieklimaat in de jaren na de Tweede Wereldoorlog te moeilijk. Hij verliet de industrie en werd illustrator voor kinderboeken.

Filmografie (selectie)
 Sankichi no Kūchū Ryokō (三吉の空中旅行, 1931): animatie.
 Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka (力と女の世の中, 1933): animatie.
 Ari-chan (アリチャン, 1941): regisseur.
 Momotarō no Umiwashi (Momotarō's Zee Arenden, 桃太郎の海鷲, 1942): regisseur, animatie, fotografie.
 Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei (Momotarō's Goddelijke Zeestrijders, 桃太郎 海の神兵, 1944): regisseur, script, fotografie.
 Ōsama no Shippo (王様のしっぽ, 1949): regisseur, script.

Externe links
 Mitsuyo Seo op IMDB

Bronvermelding

Japans animator
Japans filmproducent
Japans filmregisseur


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Q: How can i check if every object in my ArrayList has a value equal to zero? I am creating a game and need to check if all players in the playerList have played all their games. I do this by taking away from the noOfGames variable until it is 0. My problem with my code right now is that if the last player in the playerList have finished, the game ends. Here is my code:
public boolean isGameOver(){
        boolean allEqualsZero = true;

        for(Player i : playerList){
            if (i.getNoOfGames() != 0){
                allEqualsZero = false;
            }
            else{
                allEqualsZero = true;
            }
        }
        return allEqualsZero;
}

A: Your boolean variable may change for each player.
The game is over if someone has something to play, so if someone still has to play, directly return false.
If no one has something, return true at the end.
public boolean isGameOver() {
    for (Player i : playerList) {
        if (i.getNoOfGames != 0) return false;
    }
    return true;
}

You may otherwise use a stream if you're using java-8
public boolean isGameOver(){
    return playerList.stream()
                     .allMatch(x -> x.getNoOfGames() == 0);
}

A: The problem with this code is that it returns whether the last player equals to 0. So what you should do, is if any one player equals to 0 return false, otherwise return true, something like that:
for(Player i : playerList){
    if (i.getNoOfGames() != 0) return false;
}
return true;

A: The easiest way to do it, is by using Java 8 Streams:
public boolean isGameOver(){
   return playerList.stream().allMatch(player -> player.getNoOfGames() == 0);
}

allMatch will take a function that will check all the players if the number of games is 0 and return true only if all are 0.
Check the documentation for more information.

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In early 2015, the California Arts Council announced a competitive grant for projects that would enrich the lives of California's veterans, active-duty military and their families through the arts.
Arts Connection, saw the call and reached out to Mil-tree, an arts-based, veterans and community organization in Joshua Tree, California with a similar mission. Together, they enlisted the help of numerous other non-profits and developed a project that would offer opportunities for everything from hiking and environmental work, to paper-making, writing and life casting. Together with their partners (including Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert Land Trust, 29 Palms Art Gallery, KVCR, and Radio Free Joshua Tree) they were awarded a $10,000 grant to see their proposal to fruition.
Slated to begin in early 2016 the first phase of the project will involve the removal of invasive plants under the leadership of Joshua Tree National Park vegetation management's team, with support from Mojave Desert Land Trust. Artists Denise Kraemer and Cathy Allen will then guide participants in transforming the plant material into pulp and paper, and lead subsequent workshops for veterans to develop 2 and 3 dimensional works. Silkscreening will also be offered by artist/activist Duan Kellum.
Concurrently, Leilani Squires and Louise Mathias will be guiding prose and poetry workshops beginning in February. The writings may be used in 2-dimensional silkscreened works as well as readings.
The project will culminate at the end of May with an exhibition and reading at the 29 Palms Art Gallery, curated by Rhonda Coleman. The show will incorporate 2 and 3 dimensional works, performative readings/spoken word, and a reception for the artists and community. Filmmaker Kate McCabe will document the entire journey, beginning with the removal of invasive plants through the making of the artwork, and present her film during the opening reception.
The project will be promoted by our partners at KVCR and Radio Free Joshua Tree.


Problem A large Gulf Coast refinery wanted to expand Crude Unit, Vacuum Unit, Naphtha Hydrotreating, Reforming, and Kerosene Hydrotreating capacity Solution Polaris Engineering provided test runs, operational recommendations, and complete designs to deliver desired unit capacities. The work was field-intensive, not simply computer designs performed from the Home Office. More than 50% of the claimed benefits from the work were from implemented operational changes, as opposed to benefits from increased throughput that were gained.


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Escape Into These Fantastical, Imaginary Maps
When the real world feels unbearable, why not chart a course through lands that are literally unreal?
by Jessica Leigh Hester April 9, 2020
Be careful out there, in the imaginary lands around Oz. Reproduction courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
Wonder From Home
Last week, we recommended some gloriously intricate maps to roam around in, from a 1913 schematic of the New York Zoological Park to the branching arteries of France's early-20th-century train lines. This week, why not venture even farther afield, to lands that don't really exist at all? Atlas Obscura recently asked map collectors and curators to suggest some diverting maps that chart imaginary terrain.
In and Around the Land of Oz
Tread lightly toward Vegetable Kingdom—who knows what you might find in the Deadly Desert or the Country of the Gargoyles? Garrett Dash Nelson, curator of maps and director of geographic scholarship at the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, points to several maps that appeared in the library's 2015 exhibition, "Literary Landscapes." One standout is this map of Oz, which looks like a patchwork quilt and appeared on the endpapers of Frank L. Baum's book Tik-Tok of Oz in 1914. You could spend hours roaming other maps in the show, too, including Bernard Sleigh's lavishly detailed 1917 mashup of figures and sites from mythology, Arthurian legends, folklore, and nursery rhymes.
The "Map Showing Isle of Pleasure" is brimming with puns. Courtesy of Cornell University–PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
An Island of Boozy Pleasure
If the shape of this island looks familiar, that makes sense—it's a human skull, doing double duty as the so-called "State of Inebriation." This satirical map, made by H. J. Lawrence in 1931, "lampoons Prohibition in its final days," writes PJ Mode, a collector whose trove of maps is accessible through Cornell University. "Soused sardines" pass through the Whiskey Strait and swerve right toward Cocktail Inlet and Port Wine, which sit south of the lighthouse at Intoxication Point. A weather report in the lower-left corner forecasts a "gradual rise in temperature while drinking." For a less-intoxicated swim through the human head, Ian Fowler, maps curator at the New York Public Library, recommends this 1516 frontispiece to Thomas More's Utopia.
This map of Treasure Island looks straight out of a seafarer's log. Courtesy of The Newberry
The Made-Up Map of Treasure Island
This landmass doesn't sit in any real body of water—it's a realm dreamed up by an author and his stepson. The map accompanied the first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, published in 1883. "British and American authors of fantasy novels (think Jonathan Swift, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin) are very fond of publishing maps of the worlds they create," says Jim Akerman, curator of maps at the Newberry library in Chicago. "It helps the readers conceptualize the spaces they've created and enhances their legitimacy as real places." The published map, Akerman says, drew on a draft that Stevenson prepared.
On the "Map of Matrimony," some enclaves are friendlier than others. Courtesy of Cornell University–PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
A Wonderful, Woe-Filled Map of Matrimony
This map—another from Mode's collection, likely made by John D. P. Douw in 1827—highlights several potential destinations in a journey from courtship to marriage. Some seem lovely; who wouldn't fancy an afternoon in the Vale of Gladness? Others are much less appealing: The Land of Spinsters, for instance, sounds like a cruel and sexist place to be, and the potential for disaster is high in the Str. of Flirtation, where the map warns of "dangerous navigation." As you sail around, try not to crash ashore on the Isles of Jealousy, and perhaps paddle over to more marriage maps here.
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William Koskei  (born 28 December 1947) was a Kenyan track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles and 4 × 400 metres relay.

Biography
Koskei trained in Uganda early in his career and won a silver medal for his adopted country in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games.

His appearance at the 1972 Summer Olympics came after he switched allegiances back to his native Kenya. He competed in the 400 metres hurdles where he was eliminated following his first heat, which he finished in fourth position.

He won further 400 metres hurdles medals over the next two years, a silver at the 1973 All-Africa Games and a bronze at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch. At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games he was also a member of Kenya's gold medal winning 4 × 400 metres relay team.

He won another gold medal with the 4 × 400 metres relay team at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

See also
List of Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics (men)
List of African Games medalists in athletics (men)

References

External links
Bill Koskei at Sports-Reference

1947 births
Living people
Ugandan male sprinters
Kenyan male sprinters
Ugandan male hurdlers
Kenyan male hurdlers
Olympic male hurdlers
Olympic athletes of Kenya
Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Kenya
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Kenya
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Uganda
Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
African Games silver medalists for Kenya
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1973 All-Africa Games
Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games


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Home > Resources > Articles > How to Boost Donations Through Online Point-of-Sale Fundraising
How to Boost Donations Through Online Point-of-Sale Fundraising
February 17, 2020 | 125 views
According to data firm Statista's most recent e-commerce outlook, Americans will spend over $1,500 online each over the next 12 months. Moreover, that number is expected to surge even higher as Americans opt to do their holiday shopping online rather than wind their way through those infamous, in-store holiday crowds. If your nonprofit is able to turn that online shopping activity into a fundraising stream, there's massive potential to boost donations. And the good news is that it's not incredibly difficult to get started. Below, we'll walk through how you can get your organization set up to accept these donations during your community's online point-of-sale moments. First, however, we'll explore the overall value of point-of-sale fundraising and why you need to consider it as a viable strategy for your nonprofit.
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GoTab Expands Its Integrated Partner Ecosystem with New Best-of-breed Technology
GoTab | April 27, 2022
GoTab launched its own API Developer Portal for integrated partnerships. As the next-generation restaurant commerce platform, GoTab is rapidly developing and curating its network of best-of-breed technology partners. Additionally, it has appointed Chris Jennings as Technical Director of Integrations. He will be responsible for developing and implementing the new portal's API strategy, establishing a technical route to market for new technologies, and managing integrated partners pre and post-launch. GoTab's integrated network of partners includes inventory management software such as YellowDog, CraftPeak, and Barack, which enables operators to monitor and optimize product availability and quality and sales and revenue data in real-time and in real-time one location. Additionally, GoTab operators rely on labor-management tools such as 7Shifts and CTUIT to estimate staffing requirements and save time and effort spent managing personnel schedules. Apart from seamless back-of-house connectivity and linked capabilities, GoTab's partner network assists operators in promoting their brand. For example, through multiple communication channels like SMS, online, and email, connected systems such as Klaviyo and Wisely powered by Olo enable automated marketing and data insight to build guest relationships and increase consumer engagement. Likewise, protecting a brand's reputation in a digital environment is made more accessible by networked systems like Marqii. GoTab responds by integrating with third-party delivery aggregators such as Novadine and Otter and direct links to DoorDash, UberEats, and others. Jennings joined GoTab from Vend, where he was responsible for the retail POS software company's North American payment partnerships strategy. Before that, he spent over a decade at Mercury (now Worldpay at FIS), overseeing developer integration and developing APIs and a comprehensive developer portal.
Sparkfly and Bojangles Partner to Transform Brand's Personalized Mobile App and Digital Dining Experience
Sparkfly | April 25, 2022
Sparkfly, an award-winning retail technology solutions company that helps innovative restaurants and merchants unify customer engagement technologies to create deeper and more meaningful connections with customers, announced today they have been selected by Bojangles to transform the brand's personalized engagement and eClub programs at each of its locations across the country. Sparkfly will help Bojangles integrate the brand's point-of-sale (POS) systems with its offer management platform to connect the entire customer engagement experience. The Charlotte-based quick service restaurant (QSR) brand and its franchisees operate more than 770 restaurants system-wide in 14 states. Upon completion of the integration, Bojangles' online and in-store POS transactions will be fully integrated and normalized, offering mobile app users a modernized digital customer experience that operates in any location, on any mobile device, or from any computer. The addition of a digital wallet to its mobile app, Bojangles, will streamline the flow of transactional data, enabling the brand to deliver real-time personalized offers in collaboration with their marketing and service cloud platforms, and acquire new customers. Bojangles' new mobile app campaign is expected to officially launch to consumers in May 2022. "We are excited to partner with Bojangles to help them build a best-in-class mobile app and digital experience for their customers. At our core, we exist to empower QSR brands to be more innovative through a modernized approach to real-time data collection and personalized offers; this 360-degree customer engagement strategy is sure to transform the customer experience and positively impact the overall dining experience." Sparkfly Founder and CEO Catherine Tabor "Sparkfly will be a great partner for Bojangles as we redefine the way our consumers experience, purchase, and engage with us by enhancing our mobile app and POS ecosystems to deliver a modern and seamless engagement and ordering journey for millions of our customers," said Sergio Perez, Sr. Director of Omnichannel at Bojangles. Incentive Program With Sparkfly's offer management capabilities, Bojangles can acquire new customers, collect transactional data, issue personalized offers through any form of media or distribution channel and redeem as part of an online order or through single-scan technology at the POS. Bojangles Mobile App Campaigns Through Sparkfly's mobile wallet technology, Bojangles can make all offers available directly to customers in their mobile app, which can be used seamlessly online and via in-app ordering. In-Restaurant Technology Intelligence Sparkfly's bi-directional POS integration will power Bojangles's real-time communication of all transactional data to other marketing and analytics technologies, breaking down marketing data silos and establishing a true 360-degree view of their customer. Frictionless Online Ordering Sparkfly's Smart Landing Page technology will reduce offer-to-online ordering friction for Bojangles customers, allowing them to redeem an online offer with a single click, reducing cart abandonment. Beyond that, Sparkfly streamlines the brand's promotion capabilities by enabling a single platform that manages all offers being redeemed through the online ordering platform or at the in-store POS. About Sparkfly Sparkfly is a retail technology solutions company. We help innovative retailers and merchants like Chipotle, Del Taco, Bloomin' Brands, and Great Clips unify customer engagement technologies to create deeper and more meaningful connections with customers. Through strategy and implementation of our platform, Sparkfly provides real time POS connectivity, offer management and loyalty, mobile loyalty wallets and real-time capture of transactional data. Connect, innovate and grow with Sparkfly. About Bojangles, Inc. Bojangles, Inc. is a highly differentiated and growing restaurant operator and franchisor dedicated to serving customers high-quality, craveable food made from our Southern recipes, including breakfast served All Day, Every Day. Founded in 1977 in Charlotte, N.C., Bojangles® serves menu items such as made-from-scratch biscuit breakfast sandwiches, delicious hand-breaded bone-in chicken, flavorful fixins (sides) and Legendary Iced Tea®. Currently, Bojangles has approximately 760 system-wide restaurants in 14 states.
Neiman Marcus Group Celebrates Earth Month with In-Store Activations and Speaking Events Reinforcing its 2025 ESG Goals
Neiman Marcus Group | April 23, 2022
To celebrate Earth Month, Neiman Marcus Group is proud to announce new initiatives, partnerships, and in-store activations that will further the organization's continued progress against its Environmental Social Governance (ESG) strategy, Our Journey to Revolutionize Impact. "We are on a journey to revolutionize impact, and this includes setting meaningful ESG goals. The fashion industry must take steps toward a commitment to ESG and transparency to consumers, stakeholders, and the government. We are proud to join hands with our brand partners and other organizations to increase awareness and inspire action within our industry. As we move closer to our 2025 goals outlined in our recent ESG report, we look forward to continuing the momentum we've made to minimize the impact of how we serve our clients through our digital channels, stores, and supply chain, as well as the experiences we create and the products we sell." Geoffroy van Raemdonck, Chief Executive Officer, Neiman Marcus Group As part of its efforts to reduce Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 50% by 2025 and procure 100% renewable energy use by 2030, this month, NMG partnered with Trane® by Trane Technologies to replace natural gas-powered chillers with two new 500-ton water-cooled Trane® chillers at their iconic Bergdorf Goodman's Women's Store, located in the heart of New York City's famed retail district. This installation utilized innovative, energy-efficient decarbonization technology that enabled the retailer to eliminate natural gas use, electrify the building, and procure a new renewable energy contract to power the store's operations. The move will contribute to New York City's goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 while keeping shoppers cool and comfortable. Meanwhile, Neiman Marcus stores across the U.S. are driving progress toward the company's goal to partner with customers to raise an additional $3,000,000 for Heart of Neiman Marcus Foundation grantees through point-of-sale (POS) fundraising. In March, the retailer began a POS fundraising campaign for the Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) that invites customers and associates to donate in-store and online through April 30. Proceeds from the campaign will fund creating a new NMG x FSF scholarship for students aspiring to careers in sustainable and ethical fashion. The effort has raised enough money to fund at least seven NMG x FSF scholars in the partnership's first year. As NMG seeks to increase revenue from sustainable and ethical products by 2025, it is also proud to announce the upcoming launch of the new 'Fashioned for Change' and 'Conscious Curation' edits at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. These edits will identify items with preferred product attributes made with sustainable materials, including bio-based vegan leathers, as well as products that are responsibly manufactured, give back philanthropically, are made by diverse-owned brands, or promote enhanced transparency through digital product passports from groups like EON. Products from participating brand partners will be highlighted on NeimanMarcus.com and BergdorfGoodman.com and will be considered for exposure in highly visible placements via in-store and digital channels. To explore the new 'Fashioned for Change' edit at Neiman Marcus, visit here. The 'Conscious Curation' edit at Bergdorf Goodman will launch in the upcoming months. NMG will be hosting and sponsoring a variety of speaking events throughout the month to socialize the efforts above with associates, customers, and the broader fashion industry. To build on last year's conversation with Elizabeth Cline, author of 'The Conscious Closet,' NMG is hosting an all-associate event on April 26 with Aja Barber, author of 'Consumed.' This talk will take a deep dive into Barber's book, which explores the intersection of climate change, colonialism, and consumerism in the fashion industry. Customers near Neiman Marcus Northbrook in Chicago will also be invited to attend a panel discussion on social and environmental issues facing the fashion industry and its next generation of talent with industry trailblazer Eileen Fisher and Melissa Gamble, a professor at Columbia College of Chicago – an FSF member school. Finally, to continue educating and amplifying the call for sustainable practices in the broader industry, NMG is excited to sponsor the Women's Wear Daily Sustainability Summit and the Sustainable Fashion Forum fireside chat, which will be held this month. NMG executives will host panels and fireside chats about topics surrounding circularity in fashion, fur and leather alternatives, the role of technology in sustainability, and more, along with innovators in the space from pioneering organizations like FASHIONPHILE, Prota Fiori, and EON. About The Neiman Marcus Group, LLC Neiman Marcus Group is a relationship business that leads with love in everything we do for our customers, associates, brand partners, and communities. Our legacy of innovating and our culture of Belonging guide our roadmap for Revolutionizing Luxury Experiences. As one of the largest multi-brand luxury retailers in the U.S., with the world's most desirable brand partners, we're delivering exceptional products and intelligent services, enabled by our investments in data and technology. Through the expertise of our 9,000+ associates, we deliver and scale a personalized luxury experience across our three channels of in-store, eCommerce, and remote selling. Our NMG|Way culture, powered by our people, combines individual talents into a collective strength to make life extraordinary. Our brands include Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus Last Call, and Horchow. About Trane Technologies Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Through our strategic brands, Trane® and Thermo King®, and our portfolio of environmentally responsible products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes, and transportation. We have also set bold 2030 Sustainability Commitments for ourselves and our customers. Through our Gigaton Challenge, we have committed to reducing our customers' carbon emissions by one gigaton or, one billion metric tons by the year 2030. About Trane Trane by Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator – creates comfortable, energy-efficient indoor environments for commercial and residential applications.
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K-pop septet BTS launch art initiative
Chisenhale Gallery reveals new director
Artists write open letter to directors of MoMA and MoMA PS1
Rolling news: 20–26 January 2020
Stolen sculpture to return to Afghanistan, Louvre reopens after protestors force closure...
The Royal Academy announces Architecture Prize winner and Dorfman Award finalists
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London loses a non-profit, Shanghai wins a new museum, a posthumous exhibition by Okwui Enwezor and more
Over the weekend Parasol Unit Foundation announced they would be closing their London exhibition space in March 2020. The foundation, however, will continue to organise exhibitions in different venues, 'in whatever part of the world I feel the dialogue is needed', Iran-born director Ziba Ardalan said in a statement. Almost simultaneously, Beijing-based institution UCCA announced the opening a third space in Shanghai in 2021, one year only after the opening of UCCA Dune, a satellite museum in Hebei Province.
Over in Berlin, the winners of two major art prizes have been announced: painter Monika Baer, as the winner of the Hannah Höch Award for lifetime achievement, will receive €25,000 and a solo exhibition opening in June 2020 at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin. As recipient of the Hannah Höch Förderpreis for midcareer artists, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, who represented Germany at this year's Venice Biennale, is handed a €38,000 prize, with two-thirds going towards the production of an exhibition and a publication.
The Sharjah Biennial Foundation has announced that the biennale's 15th edition will aim to present the final exhibition project curator Okwui Enwezor was working on, when he passed away in March. Enwezor started working on the biennale's upcoming edition at the start of 2018, and under the title Thinking Historically in the Present, it will consider the 'the future of the biennial model'. SB15 will also include Postcolonial, the second in a trilogy of exhibitions Enwezor had conceptualised for Haus Der Kunst during his time as artistic director (the first chapter, Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965 took place in 2016–17). In other biennial news, there are (yet another) two new kids on the global art block: the inaugural Helsinki Biennial, slated to open in June 2020, will be placed under the signe of ecology and interdependence. Titled Under the Same Sea, and curated by Pirkko Siitari and Taru Tappola from the Helsinki Art Museum, the biennial will bring together 35 artists (including Paweł Althamer, BIOS Research Unit, Tadashi Kawamata, Tuomas A. Laitinen and more) to reflect on the biosphere as one interconnected entity. Back in Beijing, a new media art triennial organised by the CAFA Art Museum will open in January. Curated by CAFA's Zhang Ga, the Techne Triennial is significantly larger in scale than its Scandinavian counterpart (about 120 works by 130 artists), and will seek to focus on the intersection of art and technology through two major exhibitions, one of them curated by co-organised by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the German institution studying the effects of new media and digitisation.
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INTERVIEW: It's important to get it right at home
Danny Grainger on the start of the season and being handed the captain's armband
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Defender Danny Grainger spoke to us this week to give us his thoughts on the start of the season and being handed the captain's armband.
"Saturday obviously wasn't the start we wanted," he said. "We wanted to go down there and get the result we've been working towards during pre-season, so it was really disappointing.
"I don't think we gave ourselves a chance really, with the way we started the game. You can't give teams like Exeter a two-goal head start and expect to take something out of it.
"It's a long old season and there's still 45 games to go, so we're not going to sit and dwell on it and beat ourselves up over one game. We'll look at it and analyse where we went wrong, but we've got to bounce back quickly because we've got a big game on Saturday."
"We got back into the game after the first 20 minutes or so but they still had plenty of chances," he admitted. "If you look back at the highlights they had the better chances to win the game and put it out of sight. Those are the fine margins in football.
"I obviously had the free kick which hit the crossbar, and straight after that they went up the other end of the pitch to make it 2-0. Once we got it back to 2-1 the atmosphere died down a bit and we felt we could get back into it."
Having sent his set piece over the wall he admitted that he'd thought he was just about to open his account for the season.
"I thought the free kick was in the second I hit it to be honest," he told us. "I caught it sweet. Like I say, those are the fine margins you're dealing with. If it had hit the underside of the crossbar and gone over the line it would have given us that lift and kicked us on.
"Joe [Fryer] made a save right on half time which kept us in it, but if that had gone in it probably would have been too much of a hill to climb. We were pushing forward to try and get the equaliser in the last few minutes which meant they hit us on the counter-attack and killed the game."
"I think the biggest thing for us at full time was disappointment," he said. "If we'd gone down there and played well, and executed the game plan well, but still come away with nothing, you could hold your hands up and say we'd just fallen a bit short.
"We just weren't good enough on Saturday.We didn't give ourselves a chance to get a foothold in the game. We went behind early on and after that you're always fighting a losing battle.
"I thought we did show good spirit to have a go at it in the second half, even though they had chances. In terms of possession and territory we probably had most of it, we just didn't create a lot. Hallam [Hope] looked quite dangerous when he got the ball, but things just didn't quite fall for us.
"It was nice to get an assist, we all know Richie [Bennett] is a real presence in the box. It was a good header from him and he took it well. I'm the same as him, I would have taken not having any influence on the game if we'd come home with three points."
The Blue Army were out in numbers yet again last weekend, with over 200 fans there to cheer the lads on.
"The fans stuck with us all the way, which they always do," he continued. "We can't thank them enough, it's a long way to come and they always seem to get the raw end of the deal on the opening day of the season. I think we Portsmouth away first a couple of seasons ago and it's not easy.
"When we were walking off the pitch they were still all there applauding us, which means a lot to us. We feel like we let them down in the first 20 minutes but we could hear them throughout the game.
"We need the fans to get behind us on Saturday and all the way through the season. We know there are things going on behind the scenes that are out of our control, but we want the football to go well with the fans getting behind us as they enjoy watching us on the pitch."
"That stuff going on in the background doesn't affect us at all," he insisted. "It's nothing to do with us, we're just paid to play football.
"You read things and see things but it doesn't affect us. We've just got to get on with it and leave the business side to the business side. We'll stick to the football.
"There's no point in us trying to get involved with things that are over our pay grade. We'll just keep trying to do the business on the pitch which will hopefully attract the fans back through the gates."
On the news he had been given the captain's armband for another season, he commented: "Anyone who knows me knows how much it means to me. It means a lot to me to wear the armband for this club.
"I feel like I've grown into the role but, as I said in pre-season, if the manager wanted to change it he would have had my full backing.
"Some managers like to change things, as Keith [Curle] did when Paul Thirlwell had been captain before he arrived. He decided it was time for a change and if this manager had done the same I wouldn't have had any problem with it. The honour and pride I have every time I pull the armband on is massive and it means so much to me."
Looking ahead to the opening home game of the campaign, he said: "We want to get a positive result at home on Saturday.
"Our home form last season was poor, to say the least, and that's another reason why fans don't come back.
"If they know you're coming to watch poor football, or watch a team who is losing more games than they're winning, then they aren't going to come. It's important that we hit the ground running on Saturday and make a good start on our own pitch."
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Brassier and Rehabilitating Philosophies of Nature
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Brassier takes the continental tradition to task for unchallengingly accepting the liquidation of epistemology and in the process launching a counter-scientific ontology and metaphysics of nature, where the latter is treated not just as an antidote to scientific reductionism, but at the same time taken as a corrective to the 'positivistic' naturalization of the analysis of mind, with the emergence of cognitive science as the most obvious consequence. Brassier is seen to be championing for science in relation to neurology and 'Correlationism' that somehow justifies the scientific way of thinking, but the question that remains unformulated is the difference he shares with Meillassoux's formalism and his notion of philosophical access to it. It seems that Brassier is seduced by the existence of the world and tends to ignore the importance of image by avoiding realities of image[s]. These still are images, because of the ways in which our nervous system works. Thus science may pose a threat to a certain kinds of commonsense and certain types of folk metaphysics, but at the same time, it could replace the ones threatened with a set of others. In a way, a complete theoretical/epistemological suspension is untenable. This is also a claim of 'Correlationism' as all our access to the world is mediated through the day-to-day phenomenological world of lived experiences or what Heidegger referred to as the world of 'everydayness'. But, this is not doing justice to his thought, as he explicitly maintains in his Alien Theory that in order to attain an adequate conceptual grasp of the unitary nature of physical reality, it is necessary to achieve a complete theoretical suspension of the image of the world derived from perceptual intuition. In other words, physical theory has to effect a rigorously mathematical circumvention of those imaginative limitations inherent in the physiologically rooted cognitive apparatus with which an aleatory evolutionary history has saddled us. Thus, the chief obstacle standing in the way of a proper scientific understanding of the physical world would seem to be that of our species' inbuilt tendency to process information via epistemic mechanisms which invariably involve an operation of subtraction from the imperceptible physical whole. The case of neurology is, a bit more difficult. One of the things that the neuroscientist will wish to explain is the neurological base of this phenomenological lived experience. If we begin from the premise that one form of science seeks to discover the causal mechanisms or agencies that underlie phenomena or effects, then the phenomenon in question for the neurologist will be this lived experience or image of the world. As a result, this image of the world cannot be dispensed with without neurology becoming unintelligible. However, even here we find stark departures from our image of the world. For example, I experience myself as a centralized agency making decisions and choices based on a transparency to myself. Yet neurology reveals that in fact "I" am a non-linear network of neurons without transparency, unity, or center. Likewise, these scientists reveal that the reasons we give for doing things are often wildly at odds with the mechanisms behind these things. Here, one gets a feeling that 'correlationists' would not give any credence to such thoughts for they are at odds with the structure of the ordinary lived experience. As Husserl rightly points out in his Ideas I:
"The existence of Nature cannot be the condition for the existence of consciousness since Nature itself turns out to be a correlate of consciousness: Nature is only as being constituted in regular concatenations of consciousness."
When asked about this particular project rehabilitating philosophies of nature, Brassier outlined it as:
These counter-scientific conceptions of nature represent a neo-Aristotelian resurgence in contemporary continental philosophy;
That the model of representation whose critique underwrites the liquidation of epistemology is a willful caricature; and
That a naturalized but non-adaptationist account of representation provides the basis for a conception of epistemology capable of prosecuting scientific realism and countermanding the regressive tenor of these neo-Aristotelian philosophies of nature.
causal, concatenations, consciousness, continental philosophy, correlationism, epistemology, Heidegger, Husserl, liquidation, neo-Aristotelian, nervous system, neurology, neurons, ontology, phenomenology, Ray Brassier
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Marriott International is the world's largest hotel company, with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates to grow and succeed. We believe a great career is a journey of discovery and exploration. So, we ask, where will your journey take you?JOB SUMMARY This position will be part of a team responsible for the accurate internal and external financial reporting of a subset of Marriott's foreign subsidiaries. The team is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of legal subsidiary ledgers for the entities to complete the entity audit process in a timely and efficient manner, facilitate timely statutory income tax reporting and facilitate timely board of managers reporting. The responsibilities of this position include local GAAP financial statement preparation, coordination of entity audits, related schedule preparation and ongoing review and analysis of the activity within each of the assigned foreign entities. The Assistant Manager works with independence, but within established guidelines, to produce and analyze financial information as well as legal contracts to support the accounting for subsidiaries. In addition, he/she will serve as a contact for entity questions/issues for stakeholders across the organization. SCOPE/BUSINESS CONTEXT/EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS * Assist with and support annual statutory audit processes, including preparation of supporting schedules and documentation. Ensure that audits occur in a timely and efficient manner. Participate in the process to record audit adjustments to the general ledger as applicable. * Prepare foreign entity financial statements and supporting schedules to support the financial statement reporting, tax and audit processes. * Analyze and reconcile financial activity recorded to the general ledger in a timely manner to facilitate monthly and quarterly local and US GAAP reporting for the entities. Prepare journal entries to facilitate the close processes. * Understand and document significant transactions to support internal financial reporting, annual foreign subsidiary financial statements and the annual audit processes. * Provide support and information to the third-party service providers who prepare the applicable local country VAT returns. * Review financial activity on a routine basis for overall reasonableness and accuracy. * Provide support and information to third party service providers who prepare applicable local country VAT returns. * Participate in the preparation of materials presented at the quarterly Board of Manager meetings. * Document current processes and participate in process improvement initiatives and standardizations. * Participate in various department-wide goals, as assigned. * Perform other duties as assigned. CANDIDATE PROFILE Experience * Minimum 3-4 years of progressive accounting experience to include financial statement preparation and account analysis. * Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (eg macros & pivot tables) Education or Certification * BS/BA in Accounting or Finance * CPA or MBA preferred Attributes, Knowledge and Skills * Demonstrates an independent ability to research and analyze transactions and balances within a complex accounting system structure and in a multi-currency environment. * Strong business process skills; capable of developing effective processes, ensuring compliance with existing processes and producing quality results. * High proficiency with PC based software (Microsoft Office). * Able to develop and maintain effective business relationships with key internal and external stakeholders. * Ensures all work is completed on time with a high attention to detail. * Demonstrates strong organizational and prioritization skills; high performance levels under tight deadlines. * Strong verbal and written communications skills; ability to articulate issues to a variety of individuals at multiple levels within the organization. * Ability to manage multiple work activities concurrently with minimal supervision. * At ease in an environment of change; supports and manages change within the organization. * High degree of initiative, personal responsibility and integrity. * Displays commitment towards collaborating in a results-oriented team setting. Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. Marriott International does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws.