It's that time of year again! We usually prank our kids, but my daughter came to me a couple weeks ago and wants to get her dad. Since I was coming up with some ideas for her, I thought I would share them with y'all! These April Fool's jokes are for kids to play on parents…that means you or their other parent with your help. Have fun!
1. Put a rubber band around the sink sprayer and let your parents wash their hands. Stand near by to watch their reaction. But beware of cleaning up the water that didn't get them!
2. Put a rubber band around the push button of the spray nozzle (the kind with a hose) so the button stays down. Point it forward. When your parent uses the sink they will get a wet surprise!
3. Set parent's alarm clock for the middle of the night and hide it somewhere in the room where they will have to get up and scramble around to turn it off.
4. Move the time on your parent's clock up an hour. Best done after your parents have gone to bed.
5. If your parents have a traditional phone with a hook that presses down when the handset is in the cradle, tape it down. When they answer a call it will keep ringing.
7. Make a sandwich for your parents, but don't remove the wrapper from the slice of cheese. When they bite down they'll get a chewy surprise.
8. Stuff some cotton into the toes of your parents' shoes. They will think their feet grew or their shoes shrank.
9. Take all the cereal in the house, remove the plastic bags from the boxes, and switch them around. When your parents try to eat breakfast they will do a double-take when the wrong cereal pours out.
10. Get up a bit earlier than your parent and take the cell phone and tape it underneath their chair at the kitchen table. Then, when they are eating breakfast, call their cell phone and watch the reaction. They will look everywhere for that phone and will not think of looking under the kitchen chair!
11. Sneak into Dad's underwear drawer and safety pin all of his undies together side by side. When he pulls out one pair, they all come out!
12. Take a screenshot of the desktop on Dad's computer, and leave the image open. Let him freak out for a few minutes, believing the computer is frozen.
13. Swap out sugar for salt and watch Dad put it in his morning cup of coffee. (Be nice and have a second, non-salted cup ready to go though).
14. Get some clear plastic wrap and completely cover a door way. Be sure your around to see the face as your mom or dad walks into it.
1. Clean the house and do the dishes. Fill the car with gas and wash it.
2. Cover car with hundreds of post it notes.
3. Take the top sheet off parents' bed, and tuck the bottom end under the top end of the mattress. Pull it down and then fold it back up so that the top end is where it would be if the bed was made normally. Replace the pillow, blanket, etc., and make up the bed like it was before. When your parents get into bed, they'll be surprised when they can't slide their feet all the way down to the bottom of the bed!
4. Buy a package of "hair extensions" that match your parent's hair. (Look for inexpensive ones in the hair accessory section of a drug store or grocery store.) Snip some strands about the length of your parent's real hair and spread it around on their pillow while they are asleep. They will wake up to a real fright!
5. Buy a pack of underwear that matches those that your parent usually wears, but make sure they are one or two sizes too small. Wash them a few times so they don't look new. When your parent puts them on, on April 1st, they will think they've put on a few too many pounds.
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It would be a good prank though because if you are, like, a lazy teen, then your parents would be pretty surprised to find all of the chores done. And it would be pretty fun to watch their reaction.
I am going to do this on my parents!!
My daughter liked the one when you put coton in your parents slippers she is going to put it in her dads slippers and boots.
OMG OF COURSE I'M GOING TO DO THESE!
Ya this stuff is great. I now have lots of cool pranks to do on my family or friends.
Yes kids can't do this it is bad !!
I'm only ten to my mom would freak out if I did any of these.
It is not bad it is just kids having fun on April Fools Day!!!
Me too. This is Genius!!!
You should use a mouse and plug it in someone's computer. See what they do when you move your mouse around.
I'm so gonna do these tomorrow for my parents!!
LOL I love this website and I'm about to do the sticky note one.
Do you know what a big mess I would have to clean up… Not counting the punishment! Yet I will still do it!
I am going to do the spray nozzle trick all of these sond good but aren't really helpful I'm 10 my parents are more old – timey thanks anyways though!
me too I thought that was funny!!!!!!!!
The one with the teens; wash car and put gas in it. Clean the dishes and house.
That one cracked me up!
My mom's so picky with April fools pranks she wouldn't let me do half of those !!
These are awesome can't wait to try them.
I am difedently going to do this to my parents. I have two younger siblings and I am going to have them help with the schemes!!!
Same, I might try the cotton or the underwear one on my dad. It will be so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
these are really great suggestions!!! i am a kid so i am going to do one prank on my mom and dad.
Omg I am defenetly using the hair on the pekoe one!!!!!


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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1975.

Fellows

Arthur Erdélyi  (1908–1977)
Peter Christopher Caldwell  (1927–1979)
Sir John Charnley  (1911–1982)
Richard Weck  (1913–1986)
James Munro Dodd  (1915–1986)
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran  (1917–1988)
Denis Arthur Haydon  (1930–1988)
Geoffrey Morse Binnie  (1908–1989)
Reginald Charles Rainey  (1913–1990)
Edward George Bowen  (1911–1991)
Keith Dalziel  (1921–1994)
Paul Jose de Mayo  (1924–1994)
Sir Barry Albert Cross  (1925–1994)
Raymond John Heaphy Beverton  (1922–1995)
Sir George Malcolm Brown  (1925–1997)
John Wyrill Christian  (1926–2001)
Cesar Milstein  (1927–2002)
Sir Robert Wilson  (1927–2002)
 Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield  (1919–2004)
George P. L. Walker  (1926–2005)
Dame Anne McLaren  (1927–2007)
Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie  (1917–2008)
Andrew R. Lang  (1924–2008)
Boris P. Stoicheff  (1924–2010)
Anthony Milner Lane  (d. 2011)
Ralph Owen Slatyer  (1929–2012)
A. David Buckingham
Sir Ronald Mason
Edward Charles Slater
Sir David Cecil Smith
Frederick Whatley
Sir Christopher Zeeman

Foreign members

Henry Gilman  (1893–1986)
Michael Heidelberger  (1888–1991)
Feodor Lynen  (1911–1979)
Lars Onsager  (1903–1976)

References

1975
1975 in science
1975 in the United Kingdom

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Lisa Respers France, CNN
Updated 1:03 PM EDT, Fri August 2, 2013
Actress Lindsay Lohan has had numerous legal troubles over the past eight years, including arrests for drunken driving, reckless driving and shoplifting. Here are six of her booking mug shots, from top left to bottom right: July 2007, November 2007, July 2010, September 2010, October 2011 and March 2013. Lohan is finally off probation after completing 125 hours of community service.
Lohan poses for a mug shot in March 2013 after accepting 90 days in a "locked-in" drug rehab facility for misdemeanor charges. Her legal troubles trace back to two drunken-driving arrests in 2007.
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Lohan appears in court with her attorneys Anthony Falangetti, left, and Mark Heller in Los Angeles in March 2013. She entered pleas of no contest on two misdemeanor charges relating to a 2012 traffic accident, and she did not challenge the finding that she violated her shoplifting probation with those convictions.
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Lohan attends her probation hearing in March 2012 in Los Angeles. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner took Lohan off probation from a 2007 drunken driving case and said that she will no longer have to meet with a probation officer or appear in court on her 2011 shoplifting case, as long as she obeys all laws through May 2014.
Lohan leaves a progress report hearing at Venice Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles in January 2012.
Lohan's mug shot from October 2011 after she was arrested for probation violations. She was released after posting $100,000 bail.
Lohan is led away in handcuffs at her probation progress report hearing in Los Angeles in October 2011.
Lohan cries next to her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley as she is sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Marsha Revel during her hearing at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in July 2010. Lohan violated her probation in two 2007 drunk driving cases.
Lohan poses for a booking photo after being arrested on DUI charges at Lynwood Jail in November 2007. Lohan voluntarily reported to the facility to serve her minimum 24-hour jail sentence that was part of a plea bargain for two DUI charges.
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Lohan's mug shot from July 2007 for driving under the influence.
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Lindsay Lohan in trouble
Lindsay Lohan has new projects coming up, but critics savage new movie
A celebrity expert questions whether she can pull off diverse characters
Her "Canyons" director wrote that she is more talented than Marilyn Monroe
Remember when Lindsay Lohan was the next Ann-Margret?
Or Elizabeth Taylor? Or even Marilyn Monroe?
While that last comparison is still being bandied about – for better or for worse – today there is more buzz about "will she stay clean?" and "can she stay out of trouble?" than her talent.
Lohan's latest 90-day rehab stint, which ended this week, was taken as an alternative to three months of jail time for two misdemeanor convictions and a shoplifting probation violation finding in March.
Lindsay Lohan the actress seems to have been replaced by Lindsay Lohan the perpetual comeback kid.
And although she has continued to work sporadically, those roles have mostly been of troubled women, not unlike Lohan herself.
"At this point, we're not even sure she's still an actress," said Noah Levy, co-host of Vh1's "The Gossip Table." "Can Lindsay get sober and have a healthy and happy life? Of course she can. But can she be believable as a character that is not like herself? I don't know."
In "The Canyons," the new film written by Bret Easton Ellis ("American Psycho") and directed by Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull"), Lohan plays Tara, a woman who has a lot going on – not least of which is that her boyfriend (played by porn star James Deen) likes to invite other men and women home to have sex with them. The low-budget film had difficulties finding a distributor, and The New York Times documented Lohan's on-set antics, which nearly got her fired from the film before shooting even began.
"The Canyons" is set to be released this week via video on demand, and it has been savaged by critics for both the film and Lohan's acting.
"Lohan's performance is certainly terrible, but her steady slide started long ago," wrote IndieWire's Eric Kohn. " 'The Canyons' has nothing on the awesomely horrendous 2007 'I Know Who Killed Me,' a ultra-campy fusion of art house and crime movie tropes that fell apart in several directions at once."
Before that, Lohan made critics' hit list for her turn as Elizabeth Taylor in the made-for-television movie "Liz & Dick," about the late actress' love affair with Richard Burton. "Lohan, who has squandered years of promise and talent as a sullen-faced party girl and irregular arrestee, has been cut so many breaks, it's difficult to root for her anymore," Ken Tucker wrote in Entertainment Weekly.
While Lohan is reportedly doing well post-rehab, her biggest projects don't quite reflect the work of someone who was once on track to become the greatest actress of her generation. Instead, Lohan is slated to open up to talk show queen Oprah Winfrey while also appearing on an eight part docu-series chronicling her comeback. She's also guest-hosting for Chelsea Handler on "Chelsea Lately." Lohan can't even lay claim anymore to the title of Hollywood's most troubled ingenue, as that role has now been filled by Amanda Bynes.
So where does that leave her?
Schrader wrote in an essay for Film Comment that he believes Lohan and the late Marilyn Monroe have a lot in common.
"I think Lohan has more natural acting talent than Monroe did, but, like Monroe, her weakness is her inability to fake it," he wrote. "She feels she must be experiencing an emotion in order to play it. This leads to all sorts of emotional turmoil, not to mention on-set delays and melodrama.
"We call them "troubled," "tormented," "train wrecks" – but we can't turn away. We can't stop watching. They get under our skin in a way that controlled performers can't."
Her father, Michael Lohan, recently told E! News he believes his daughter will be "another Robert Downey Jr.," referencing the Academy Award-nominated actor who famously turned around his life and career after several arrests and rehabs.
"I'm very, very proud of what she's accomplished, how far she's come and how seriously she's taking her sobriety and her future," he said.
So we'll watch. And we'll wait. But Lohan has been here before.
In 2012, a highly publicized guest appearance on "Glee" and shots of the actress dining with iconic director Woody Allen led to speculation that Lohan was on her way to a career resurgence. Then there was chatter that the actress was "a diva" on the "Glee" set, and nothing appeared to come of the chats with Allen. One year later, Lohan was back in rehab.
All the public can count on is that Lohan is willing to take any shot given to her.
"She is great at making attempts at a comeback," Levy said. "Is she great at having career longevity? The jury is still out."

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Supply-Chain Execution: Globalization Spurs New Ideas in Software, Services
Robert J. Bowman, Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies
Supply-chain execution software is supposed to be easy to deal with. It meets a well-defined need, such as improved warehousing or transportation management. And it yields a quick payback, at least compared to big planning or accounting systems.
Recently, however, companies have begun asking for more from their execution tools. Vendors are responding with systems that are broader in scope, address unique challenges and link up with other parts of the organization. The result is a more complex universe of options, along with new thinking about what used to be viewed as discrete links in the chain.
Casual Male Retail Group Inc., the nation's largest retailer of big and tall men's apparel, purchased what might be considered a typical warehouse management system from Manhattan Associates. But the company's warehousing and inventory needs are anything but typical. In catering to this special segment of customer, Casual Male seeks to outdo the competition on product availability. It carries up to 48 sizes for each style of pants-some 30,000 SKUs overall. "Our [inventory] turns can be likened to a shoe retailer instead of apparel," says chief operating officer Dennis Hernreich.
Based in Canton, Mass., Casual Male is the product of assets picked up in bankruptcy court by Designs Inc. in May 2002. At the time, Designs was an operator of outlets for Levi's and Dockers; it sold the last of those businesses in November 2004. Now, it operates more than 500 Casual Male Big & Tall Stores, including 13 in Canada, as well as 22 under the name of Rochester Big & Tall. The company also maintains an e-commerce and catalog business.
Designs acquired a valuable asset, but one with poor distribution infrastructure. Productivity and order-processing time at the Canton distribution center was unacceptably low, says Hernreich, with key activities carried out manually. The WMS from Atlanta-based Manhattan gave the company automated labor applications, along with streamlined processes and global visibility. In particular, it allowed Casual Male to stock a large number of SKUs while keeping a lid on inventory costs. It also supports special situations, such as the handling of truckloads of seasonal pre-pack merchandise. The offloading, sorting, repackaging and shipping of such items used to take between two and three days; now it's all done in two hours.
Of special concern to Casual Male was the system's ability to handle growth, especially in the catalog and internet business, which is managed in the same building as store-bound product. Hernreich says the Manhattan WMS will work well with any new physical handling system that the company might buy, including a new sortation system which would place all jeans into one slot and drop them into the appropriate box or bucket for shipment to individual stores.
The company may soon ratchet up customer service another notch. Hernreich says it's considering a guaranteed in-stock program for core items. "If we can't get it to you in five days," he says, "then you'll get it for free."
For Casual Male, supply-chain execution isn't primarily about cutting costs or boosting the efficiency of internal operations, as attractive as that prospect might be. "Our issue," says Hernreich, "is about not disappointing our consumers."
Increasingly, companies aren't looking at execution tools in isolation, says Prashant Bhatia, director of product management with Manhattan Associates. Casual Male installed its WMS simultaneously with a merchandise management system, incorporating planning and allocation functions, from JDA Software Group Inc. And Manhattan, which started out as a pure WMS vendor, now offers software for transportation management (through the acquisition of Logistics.com) and distributed order management (from Avere Inc.), among other things. Says Bhatia: "Planning and execution solutions are going to begin to blur over the next few years."
All About the Web
The internet sits at the core of all modern-day execution software. ADP Investor Communication Services, which mails out more than 850 million financial documents to corporate shareholders each year, was in need of a Web-based system for ordering from suppliers. Last August, Roseland, N.J.-based ADP purchased the Supplier Advantage application of HighJump Software.
Supplier Advantage gives ADP visibility of what its suppliers have produced, according to Cliff Heney, senior director of material and logistics. Say the company needs to order a couple million envelopes. It can instantly view what product vendors have on hand and what has already been shipped. Arriving shipments have barcoded labels, created to ADP's specifications, identifying their origin and contents.
Decisions on price and quantity have already been made for the year. By automating the execution of those contracts, ADP spares itself hours of phone calls and reams of spreadsheets, Heney says. Moreover, through labeling and automated receipt with advance shipment notices (ASNs), "we took a step out of the operation."
ADP ships out of a 430,000-square foot warehouse in Edgewood, N.Y. A HighJump WMS ties the operation together. Heney says the company can easily handle surges of activity during its peak season of March and April, when most financial reports are sent out.
More integration, especially with suppliers' inventory systems, is in the works, says John Miceli, ADP's warehouse systems manager. For the moment, the transfer of inventory data is done manually, a system which parties at both ends of the order process would like to discard in favor of "a seamless operation," he says.
Companies have worked hard to optimize ERP systems at one end, and execution at the other. Now the challenge is to link the two, says Chris Heim, president and general manager of Eden Prairie, Minn.-based HighJump. In measuring performance, enlightened executives are going beyond the amount of product that can be pumped through a factory, or inventory through a warehouse.
"People are [adopting] much more of a supply-chain concept," Heim says. For software vendors, that means being able to demonstrate a lower total cost of ownership, rather than just the ticket price of a given application. Special attention must be paid to the aftermath of an installation, including the cost of upgrades, additional reports and new technology such as radio frequency identification (RFID).
Still to be achieved is the seamless flow of data between businesses. Heim says companies have built a number of strong links between execution and planning within their own walls (although others dispute that they've come even this far). "Where information is sticking," he says, "is between companies and their supply-chain partners." That includes the crucial link between buyers and suppliers.
A major area of focus for users of execution systems is the management of mobile resources such as containers, trucks, material-handling equipment, shipments and even people. The explosion of wireless and handheld technology has liberated both workers and their equipment. But it has also created new challenges in real-time visibility and clean data transfer. RedPrairie Corp., headquartered in Waukesha, Wis., has responded with an application which integrates various data-collection tools, including RFID (using both active and passive tags), barcodes, cell phones and satellite tracking. The whole system is designed to hook up with ERP, WMS or other supply-chain applications, keeping track of assets both in motion and at rest.
The development of mobile resource management (MRM) leads directly to workforce performance management, a contentious issue for workers who are uncomfortable with their every move being tracked by bosses. But Mike Dempsey, RedPrairie's vice president of corporate strategy and business development, says this seemingly Orwellian tool is really a means of optimizing labor scheduling. And it gives workers a clear set of standards against which they are measured, coupled with incentives for top performers.
Cardinal Glass Industries, also based in Eden Prairie, Minn., is using MRM to keep track of the heavy, expensive racks used to transport its product. Cardinal, the world's largest maker of insulated glass, has 26 plants across the country. Distribution center manager Jeff Haney says customers often receive racks from one plant, and return them to another. New MRM software from RedPrairie can help the company to balance its inventory and keep product flowing smoothly. The system, employing active RFID tags, is in the pilot stage.
Cardinal is also implementing a RedPrairie WMS at the Hudson facility, which runs a dedicated, just-in-time operation on behalf of its biggest customer. Drawing on product from four plants, the supplier keeps five hours of inventory at the customer's site, shipping out glass in the precise sequence that it's needed by the window manufacturer. The old WMS, which will be completely replaced as of July 1, dates back to the third-party logistics provider that used to run the facility, says Haney.
The RedPrairie WMS has several advantages over its predecessor, Haney says. It provides engineered labor standards for higher productivity, it can locate product by slot, and it gives customers better visibility of items in the pipeline.
TMS Software Matures
Outside the warehouse walls, companies are looking for ways to stretch the capabilities of their transportation-management systems. Created to help companies book and track shipments, mostly by truck, TMS software is now expected to provide status information over multiple modes. And it must handle related tasks such as rate calculation and shipment planning.
In the case of the latter, TMS must integrate with WMS so that the optimization of one link in the chain doesn't sub-optimize another. (For example, a TMS might call for the use of cost-efficient truckloads, leading to additional dwell time for shipments in the warehouse.) Throw in recent congestion on the road, rails and at sea, along with the desire of many companies to grab control of their inbound transportation, and a state-of-the-art TMS becomes more critical than ever.
The internet has given companies a single place where all information resides, says John Murphy, director of product marketing with Shelton, Conn.-based G-Log. In theory, data generated at the execution level can be used to balance supply and demand. Product can be released against purchase orders, production plans, production lots or standing inventory. With better responsiveness in execution, companies gain more flexibility on the production side, especially for global orders with longer lead times.
Through the global rollout of G-Log's TMS platform, known as GC3, DuPont saved $25m in inventory costs and cut at least three days out of its order-cycle time, Murphy says. The company can view all shipments and demand signals on a global basis, allowing it to balance product within its massive supply network.
Transportation systems used to be focused solely on reducing cost, says Murphy. Now they're evolving into tools for meeting customer demand. Pricey airfreight, for example, might be the way to go in cases where a buyer is running out of stock. Systems that tie together discrete applications such as TMS, WMS and even ERP can give companies a higher view of the supply chain, yielding the best decisions from a customer perspective. At the same time, they can issue alerts when any part of the network malfunctions.
Just two years ago, many companies didn't want to talk about full-blown TMS packages, says Paul Svindland, senior director of transportation and logistics with ICG Commerce in King of Prussia, Pa. Their sole focus was on getting better freight rates. But the past nine months have seen a shift of attitude. Companies now want to know how TMS meshes with ERP and other components of information technology. "Clients want to understand the true value of TMS," he says.
Why the sudden change? After several years of tight or non-existent IT budgets, companies are finally spending again. What they're buying is tools that demonstrate a clear return on investment and make a solid business case for supply-chain improvement. On the TMS side, they want a system that will help them choose the right carrier for the right lane.
Still, there are gaps in the system. Few companies have done an excellent job of integrating all of their supply-chain systems, says Svindland. The problem isn't a lack of technology; it's people. Different individuals are responsible for making decisions on planning at one end, and execution at the other. Even TMS and WMS management remains fragmented in many cases. Responsibility for IT budgeting, too, might be scattered throughout corporate silos.
By next year, more companies will be unifying their systems across transport modes and business processes, Svindland predicts. "We'll start hearing some very good success stories," he says.
A Growing Complexity
No TMS vendor can currently cover all modes on a worldwide basis, claims Svindland. But that's changing, too. More and more, companies are paying attention to the complexities of global trade. Security concerns in the post-9/11 era have given rise to a host of new regulations and demands for corporate oversight of trading partners throughout the global supply chain. At the same time, shippers are grappling with surcharges from carriers and bureaucratic requirements by origin and destination countries alike.
In response, vendors are offering a variety of execution software for managing cross-border trade. Atlanta-based UPS recently unveiled TradeAbility, a system which helps global shippers figure out duties, taxes and transportation costs, as well as access compliance rules in dozens in countries.
Such tools are an answer to increased global sourcing by manufacturers, says Alan Amling, director of UPS's international forwarding and customs brokerage arm, Trade Direct. Overseas sourcing might cut costs, but it complicates the everyday details of logistics. Services like TradeAbility are a supplement to UPS's basic tracking capability, and can be integrated into customers' web sites, Amling says.
UPS hopes that global companies, as they rely more heavily on outsourced manufacturing, will in turn outsource more of their logistics processes to experts. The idea is to offer a full range of services and systems, says Amling. Trade Direct will pick up shipments at the point of origin, consolidate them into full containers if necessary, move them through the U.S. destination port, and deliver to the customer's door, either via less-than- truckload or UPS's traditional small-package service. Says Amling: "We've staked our future on globalization."
Not surprisingly, some of the big "enterprise" software vendors are getting into the act as well. Walldorf, Germany-based SAP AG has recently updated its Global Trade Solution (GTS) to help companies do business under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and European Union trade pacts. It promises to automate the entire trade process, including vendor certification, as well as help companies comply with all documentation requirements of those agreements.
In the wake of 9/11, knowing one's end customer is vital, says Neetin Datar, director of product marketing with SAP Labs LLC in Palo Alto, Calif. The job of vetting can no longer be handed over to a freight forwarder, he argues, even at a time of increased reliance on third parties.
Meanwhile, efforts by government to modernize its information systems are pushing shippers to address their own technological prowess. Fax and hard copies are no longer acceptable ways to transit key documents to Customs and other agencies. As a result, says Datar, "there's been a huge uptick in interest in GTS."
A Triple Threat
Globalization is having a three-pronged effect on companies and their supply-chain execution systems, says Datar. They are increasing their reliance on strategic sourcing overseas. They are under enormous pressure to boost top-line growth by selling into new regions of the world. And they are relying more heavily on third-party manufacturers in China and other countries where labor is cheap.
No one execution provider can do it all. UPS has gathered around GTS what Datar dubs "a partner eco-system," consisting of carriers and other service providers who support the movement of product from origin to destination. GTS acts as the information repository for all partners, so that a change in customer orders can ripple throughout the network.
The flow of data is far from perfect. "Today, it's a major, major problem," Datar admits. He says companies are moving slowly toward an integrated environment in which information moves effortlessly from point of execution to higher-level planning or transactional engines.
One place where TMS is thought by experts to be lacking is ocean transport. The quality of software for managing the movement of goods by sea lags that of trucking, where TMS got its start. But a recent ruling by the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission could spark a change in that area.
In yet another step toward deregulation of the commercial maritime sector, FMC said that non-vessel operating common carriers, the intermediaries that typically consolidate smaller shipments into full containers, can enter into confidential service contracts with underlying ocean carriers. In the past, only the ship operators themselves have been accorded that privilege. With NVOs rushing to sign private contracts with volume discounts, "ocean-specific TMS applications may now have a reason to come into [their] own," according to a recent report by AMR Research consultant Greg Aimi. Contracting parties will need procurement optimization, rate and service databases, access to sailing schedules and settlement features, he says.
The change also opens up new opportunities for vendors such as Alameda, Calif.-based GT Nexus, which offers a portal to link ocean carriers with their customers. As NVOs jump into the confidential contracting game, ocean-freight procurement is likely to become even more complex, prompting shippers and intermediaries to seek help from execution-software vendors. Manufacturers will also be looking for ways to curb the rise in logistics expense that is the natural outgrowth of outsourcing to China, says Greg Johnsen, vice president of marketing with GT Nexus.
The ever-present focus on cost will drive companies to embrace the "on-demand" model for execution software, Johnsen predicts. Vendors like IBM and Siebel Systems have pioneered the notion of charging clients only for the services that they actually use, foregoing expensive software licenses. Now that approach promises to revolutionize the execution space as well. Multi-partner functions such as shipment and inventory tracing are a natural candidate for on-demand services, Johnsen says.
Shippers and vendors are only beginning to tap the potential of execution systems for managing multimodal transportation on a truly global scale. As Johnsen puts it: "It's an open category. It's early."
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CAP looks good for Canada's forages and grasslands
Federal-provincial agricultural partnership has great potential to shine on grasslands
FREDERICTON, NB. (Aug. 10, 2017) - Producer-led forage and grassland groups across Canada are looking at the recent Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) as a clear signal of greater things to come.
"Identifying environmental sustainability and climate change as a priority in CAP is a firm commitment by the federal government towards projects like the current Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Program our group is currently working on," says Cedric MacLeod, executive director of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association (CFGA), adding the program will develop and test a carbon reduction protocol for high performance forage management systems in Canada.
Signed at the Federal and Provincial agricultural ministers meeting in Newfoundland in July, the Canadian Agricultural Partnership is a five-year, $3-billion investment that will come into effect on April 1, 2018 to guide Canada's agricultural industry over the next five years. The new framework will focus on six priority areas, all of which have varying potential for Canada's forage and grassland producers to work within.
"Forage and grassland producers have been farming their operations with an eye on next year's harvest for millennia," says MacLeod. "Our people tend to farm with what's best for their operations and what's best for the environment on equal footing. The CAP appears to be a very welcome reinforcement of the way our people run their farms."
CFGA chairman Ray Robertson, from Ontario, says the Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Program (AGGP) research by CFGA will provide forage producers with valuable ecological information.
"Producers already know forages are valuable for capturing carbon, and the AGGP research will quantify the full value of the ecological goods and services provided by the grassland sector," Robertson says. "It will also quantify the economic value of the contributions made by individual landowners whose soil does carbon storage with their adoption of beneficial management practices and the use of new, high performance forage genetics."
The Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association (MFGA) says the CAP was warmly received across the board. Manitoba's forage and grassland production, for instance, puts it among the nation's leaders year after year.
"There's some very exciting potential that we see coming our way from CAP," says Duncan Morrison, MFGA executive director. "All eyes are turning to grass; it's finally getting out there loud and clear that, while our lands provide critically important food sources for livestock, our lands are also providing critically important benefits such as soil health, flood and drought mitigation and carbon capture to all Canadians.
"It's reassuring and motivating at the same time. We look forward to working with our federal and provincial agriculture leaders to continue this momentum through CAP."
About Canadian Forage and Grassland Association
Incorporated in 2010, the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association provides a national voice for all Canadians who produce hay and forage products and for those whose production is dependent upon forage/grassland production.
Trudy Kelly Forsythe
CFGA Communications
Email address: info@canadianfga.ca
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Panchsheel Organics Ltd Auditors Report.
To the Members of Panchsheel Organics Limited
Report on the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements
1.Opinion
We have audited the standalone financial statements of Panchsheel Organics Limited ("the Company"), which comprise the balance sheet as at 31st March 2019, and the statement of Profit and Loss, statement of changes in equity and statement of cash flows for the year then ended, and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalone financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Ind AS and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2019, and profit, total comprehensive income, changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
2. Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditors Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules there under, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
3. Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financial statements of the current period. There are no key audit matters to communicate. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
4. Managements Responsibility for the Standalone Financial Statements
The Companys Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation of these standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the accounting Standards specified under section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate implementation and maintenance of accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statement that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Companys ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
Those Board of Directors are also responsible for overseeing the Companys financial reporting process.
5. Auditors Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
6.Other Matter
The Company is require to appoint Internal Auditor as per the requirement of section 138 read with Rule 13 of Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, but has not appointed any during the year under audit.
The records of fixed assets as per requirements of clause I of Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2016 ("the Order"), are still under preparation.
7. Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
As required by the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2016 ("the Order"), issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013, we give in the "Annexure B" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
8. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2019 taken on record by the Board of Directors, one of the director Mr. Rajesh Turakhia is disqualified from being re appointed a director in terms of section 164(2)(a) of the Companies Act, 2013 as on 31st March, 2019.
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure A".
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its financial statements - Refer Note 25 to the financial statements;
ii. the Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company
For Jayesh R Shah & Co.
Firms Registration NO.104182W
Jayesh Shah
Membership No. 033864
Place: Mumbai
Date:29th May, 2019
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Q: What is the translucent green sun-dial looking thing in the vase/head chamber in Prometheus? When they first enter the chamber with the giant head, Charlie walks to the back of the chamber and looks at the scary Geigeresque mural. Enroute, he passes a table with a green translucent looking sundial thingy. What was that?

A: The DVS track answers nothing; it only describes what the question described. The three script drafts I checked, Alien: Engineers, Paradise, and Prometheus made no reference to this emerald-like stone. It seems answerable only by speculation at this point unless someone has a copy of the "shooting script" that explains it. I have not found a draft with any answers. I have rewatched the scene in context several times and scoured the net and can only find speculation. No canon or interview explanations. At this point either only the filmmakers know, or they left it as a possible toy to play with later.
Incidentally, the murals are not Gigeresque, they are simply Giger. He made them for the film, and according to this article they even used some of his old art from the unmade Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of Dune.
There is no definitive answer yet. Maybe in the sequel(s).

A: Prometheus is one of a small percentage of movies that feature a DVS (Descriptive Video Service) track, in which the action on the screen is described by a narrator for the visually impaired.  The DVS description of the scene:

As Holloway steps around a large pedestal his flashlight beam shines through a huge emerald-like stone jutting from its center.

Other than that there is nothing but the movie itself to guide us.  Nothing like that pedestal was ever used for anything in the film, so I think this is another piece of unexplained background among many.

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ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today released a letter he sent to the Secretary of the United States Air Force urging her to solidify the future of the 914th Airlift Wing at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
The Air Force Reserve unit currently flies eight C-130 cargo aircraft, but their fate is uncertain due to a number of factors. A long-term, "enduring mission" for the 914th – one on which all other Air Force objectives will depend – is critical to ensuring that the Air Force continues to fly heavy aircraft from the base. Gov. Cuomo identified a tanker refueling mission as one such possibility, and pledged the State's support in identifying a long-term plan for the base.
"For years, the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station has played a critical role in the strength and readiness of the United States Air Force – and I believe that should continue well into the future," the governor said. "New York State is prepared to take cost-saving measures in order to help craft a viable enduring mission for the base, and I hope to work with the USAF to make this a reality."
The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Stations is the largest single-site employer in Niagara County, supporting more than 3,000 airmen, airwomen and soldiers. It has an annual economic impact of more than $140 million, including direct payments that the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority receives from the U.S. Defense Department because the base is co-located with the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. The base has been repeatedly targeted for cuts and closure in multiple rounds of Base Realignment and Closure and Air Force personnel changes.
Defense budget constraints and the Air Force's declining emphasis on mid-range cargo planes have led to roughly a 17 percent reduction in the C-130 fleet since 2013. Additionally, unless the remaining planes receive expensive instrument upgrades before 2019, both U.S. and European regulations will impose significant flight restrictions that will further limit their use.
Earlier this year, NFARS was one of 18 Air Force Reserve bases nationally considered to receive the new KC-46 Pegasus tanker that is scheduled to replace the existing fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers beginning in 2017. Replacement will take several decades, during which the Air Force will continue to rely on the KC-135 for refueling missions. Additionally, delays in developing the new tankers will require reassignment and continued use of a number of KC-135s in order to meet current and future refueling needs. NFARS is an attractive location for some of those tankers.
Though not currently home to tankers, NFARS still has most of what is needed to host the KC-135 mission from when the 107th Wing of the Air National Guard flew that plane at NFARS for more than a decade, from the late 1990's until tankers were removed as a result of BRAC 2005. Having that infrastructure makes NFARS a cost-effective location for the Air Force to potentially assign KC-135 tankers from bases that will begin receiving the KC-46 in 2017. Unlike C-130 cargo aircraft, tankers do not require instrument upgrades to operate in U.S. or European airspace beyond 2019.
Cuomo's office has worked closely with the Niagara Military Affairs Council, Niagara County and the Congressional delegation to explore the possibility of the 914th undergoing a mission conversion, from an airlift mission flying C-130s, to a refueling mission flying tankers. The Governor's Office has facilitated multiple rounds of meetings for community leaders with senior Air Force leadership in Washington over the last two years, and supported NIMAC leaders on a September 2015 visit to Air Mobility Command headquarters in St. Louis for meetings with General Carlton Everhart and his staff. As the newly-confirmed AMC Commander, General Everhart is responsible for all cargo airlift and refueling missions.
Copies of Governor Cuomo's letter to Secretary James were also sent to General Everhart and General James Jackson, commander of the Air Force Reserve.
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Check out the Gilbert Bouchard book collection
Posted on January 20, 2020 January 19, 2020 by Suzette Chan
Some of the books on display at Rutherford library. Photo by Suzette Chan.
Shout-out to the University of Alberta Library system for featuring selections from The Gilbert Bouchard Collection of Postmodernism, Visual Culture, and Pop Literature at their Rutherford, Cameron, and Bibliothèque Saint-Jean branches this month!
The display is a result of a librarian's curiosity about the collection and the role that some of its comics played in her own life.
Please read Sonya Leung's story in the University of Alberta's Quad newsletter. I hope you can catch the displays this month and someday check out (literally!) the books in the collection.
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2019 Fall Dance Card
Autumn 2019 was a bit of a blur for me as I suffered two rounds of a viral cold while juggling a busy schedule. I did get out to some performances, but did not manage to write about them. I'll say a few words now for prosperity, and also because I still think about these performances.
Work: Eve 2050
Artist: Van Grimde Corps Secrets
Venue: Triffo Theatre, MacEwan University
Promo photo of "Eve 2050" (c) Van Grimde Corps Secrets
Last summer, I saw Isabelle van Grimde's dance film Eve 2050 at DYSCORPIA: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology, a massive visual art exhibit at the University of Alberta's Enterprise Gallery. The exhibit was curated by Marilène Oliver, whose sculptures can be seen in the film, and who wanted to further explore the themes of the film.
As the title implies, the film version of Eve 2050 is about humanity in the future. It was also the first part of a triptych of performances by van Grimde's company, Van Grimde Corps Secrets. The second work was a Montreal performance installation in which dancers and audience members co-mingled. The last part of the triptych was a stage performance which debuted in Montreal, and was subsequently presented in Edmonton in October as part of the Brian Webb Dance Company's current season.
I attended the first of two performances of Eve 2050 at Triffo Theatre. Walking into the auditorium, it was apparent to even those who had not seen the film that the evening was going to be about the interaction between humans and machines. A dancer was already on stage. A vertical beam of light from the stage was scanning the audience.
What followed was not merely an adaptation of the film, which was about cyborgs and human-machine hybridization. The stage performance focused on artificial intelligence and other technological inventions that have allowed humans to extend their presence beyond their bodies. Van Grimde carried over some of the dance vocabulary seen in the film and added a layer of interactive technology. Using infrared technology that was invisible to the audience, dancers triggered and interacted dynamically with seemingly 3D images, including Marilène Oliver's full-body MRI (which Edmontonians would have seen in the Dyscorpia exhibt) and an architectural rendering which was like a mind palace come to life.
The nine-member dance company was far from overwhelmed by the technology, whether digital or analogue. (One of my favourite "special effects" was a scrim in a door frame with a dancer on either side, suggesting a full-length mirror or a portal to another possible existences or selves.) Fittingly, as they were performing in the the birth city of Marshall "the medium is the message" McLuhan, Van Grimde Corps Secrets's symbiotic relationship with technology was both the means and the meaning of the work.
Van Grimde Corps Secrets
Brian Webb Dance Company
Work: Chapter One
Artist: Ballet Edmonton
Promo photo of Ballet Edmonton performing "The Rite" (c) Ballet Edmonton
Ballet Edmonton's first show of the season was also the first time I'd seen the company since it changed its name from Citie Ballet and hired dancer and choreographer Wen Wei Wang as its new artistic director in 2018.
For the 2019-20 season, Wang has put together three shows, each numbered as a chapter, rather than named. Chapter One was performed on October 25 to 27 (I attended the October 25 performance) and featured two ensemble pieces with themes of seasonal change.
The evening began with Forêts by Serge Bennathan with sound design featuring sounds of the forest by Karissa Barry and Wade Staples. All the dancers wore black outfits, but each one was a little different, so we could tell the trees from the forest. Forêts was a work of pure motion and sound that prompted me to reminisce about the way being in the forest can feel like a reassuring hug, and also a privilege to witness the dynamics within its environment.
The second piece was The Rite, choreographed by Shay Kuebler. Inspired by The Rite of Spring, the 1913 ballet by Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky, The Rite did not cause the audience to riot, but it did portray cycles of nature with choreography that rejects formal stuffiness and embraces organic movements. At first, the ensemble appeared and moved as a huddled mass. Gradually, they flew apart, like fall leaves in the wind, until one dancer portrayed a full life cycle. In the end, the other dancers huddled around her, as if taking her back into the ground, ending the piece as it began, and setting up for the next renewal.
Kuebler will be bringing his company, Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, back to Triffo Theatre on February 14 and 15, 2020, as part of the Brian Webb Dance Company's season.
I should mention that Ballet Edmonton and Brian Webb Dance Company are collaborating, sharing flip sides of the season souvenir booklet and other resources. It's a fantastic development, as the two companies perform in the same theatre and offer complementary takes on dance, with Ballet Edmonton presenting modern ballet and Brian Webb Dance Company presenting avant garde dance.
Ballet Edmonton
Work: Sara Does a Solo
Artist: Sara Porter
Date: Friday, December 13, 2019
Venue: Mile Zero Dance
Promo photo of Sara Porter performing "Sara Does a Dance" (c) Sara Porter
Mile Zero Dance has been doing interesting things with its new storefront space in Little Italy (10816 – 95 Street). It hosts daytime yoga and dance classes, evening dance performances, and all-day exhibits of art in its front lobby.
The evening performances vary from its Dirt City Cabaret series of experimental work to full-length work by the company and by guests. In December, I attended the opening night performance of Sara Does a Solo by Toronto's Sara Porter, who had also spent the week conducting workshops at Mile Zero.
Porter walked in and welcomed us after we were seated in the intimate space (it's a dance studio with folding chairs set out on the same level as the performance area). The house lights remained up as her greetings slid into an introduction, and then into the first monologue of the piece. There was no formal boundary between the three pieces of communication, and this was intentional.
Normally, I would introduce an artist with their area of practice. I might have written, "Porter is a dancer and writer", or, "Porter is a writer and dancer", but Porter's piece questions the idea of occupational labels and identity. Porter, who has taken breaks from dancing, made a statement, then amended it, reviving the tenses, challenging the urge to pinpoint an artist's activities on a static timeline. She said, "I was a dancer. I could have been a dancer. I will have been a dancer."
The piece reflected the fluidity in her life. From the audience's point of view, the program was delightfully unpredictable. Porter would follow a story with a movement piece. She would pull a seemingly endless stream of dresses out of a suitcase and wear them all. She would perform a dance to a silent soundtrack. But nothing felt out of place. Everything was about who she was as an artist.
Sara Does a Solo was a combination of memoir, theatre, and dance. She managed to keep you in the story while she deconstructed the story. At no point did being reminded that I was watching the construction of a story kick me out of the story emotionally. She had a way of keeping the audience reeled in. For example, in telling the story of how she met singer Mary Margaret O'Hara (a personal favourite of mine, so I appreciated the story and the MMOH music included in the piece), Porter repeated the beginning of Sara Does a Solo.
At the Q&A after the show, Porter said that she created Sara Does a Solo five years ago. She hasn't revised it, so as an actor, she's playing herself from five years ago. "You have to find a way to make [the work] come alive for now." Sara Porter found the way.
Sara Porter
Mile Zero Dance
Western Themes and Baby Yoda Memes
Posted on January 8, 2020 January 7, 2020 by Suzette Chan
The Mandalorian with no name. (Image: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
The Mandalorian is so fun to watch, you almost forget that it's an excellent example of how a corporate entertainment behemoth can freshen up an IP and sell a whole new product along the way.
For this week's issue of Sequential Tart, I wrote about The Mandalorian's ties to the genres that inspired George Lucas, and the secret to Baby Yoda's success as a pop culture figure.
Baby Yoda is an open signifier, practically invented for memes. Within the context of the show, Baby Yoda can mean a fresh start for the Star Wars franchise. It can symbolize a new generation that prompts older, jaded generations to act against the resurgence of fascism. It can represent renewed appreciation for artisan handicraft in a digital age (the enthusiasm for the mostly puppet creature is a marked contrast to fans' refusal to warm up to the mostly CGI characters of the prequels).
Even the storytelling style of The Mandalorian seems designed to clear a path for this adorable new overlord.
Suzette Chan in the Sequential Tart Roundtable about The Mandalorian, Season 1
(This was for a roundtable. My piece is spoiler-free. My colleague, Wolfen Moondaughter, got into the spoilery details.)


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The Close of Our $40M Series A with NEA
Belong Health, the first company dedicated to partnering with local and regional health plans and hospital systems to support the delivery of Medicare Advantage and Special Needs Plan products, today announced it has raised $40 Million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with continued participation from seed investor, Maverick Ventures. Mohamad Makhzoumi, Managing General Partner, Healthcare at NEA, will join Belong Health's board of directors in conjunction with the financing.
"Individuals with complex care needs deserve whole-person care that is regionally informed and addresses each individual's unique social, medical, and mental health needs. Our team's mission is to deliver this care through innovative insurance solutions, and we are thrilled to partner with NEA, one of the world's most impactful healthcare investors," said Belong Health CEO J. Patrick Foley.
Belong Health is fundamentally rearchitecting the healthcare experience for Medicare and Medicaid eligible individuals who for too long have only had access to disjointed or incomplete solutions. By targeting partnerships with organizations that have deep roots in their communities, Belong Health is pioneering better health insurance products and experiences for every geography it serves.
Belong Health's in-market care teams work in tandem with a partner's existing care infrastructure and other community-based resources, and leverages Belong Health's proprietary technology to optimize the management and delivery of care for every member.
A unique component of Belong Health's partnership approach is its willingness to share full, upside / downside risk with local health plans and hospital systems to launch and expand Medicare Advantage and Special Needs Plan products.
"Belong Health represents the next evolution in healthcare —maximizing the impact of local health plans that can provide integrated healthcare personalized for the specific needs of individuals while leaving no members unsupported," said Mohamad Makhzoumi, NEA Managing General Partner, Healthcare. "We are thrilled to partner with Patrick and the Belong team as they work to deliver high-quality care to the complex patients who need it most."
Belong Health will use the new financial resources from NEA to expand its team, accelerate the introduction of new care solutions for beneficiaries with complex care needs, and launch new health insurance partnerships across the country.
In the first of such partnerships, Belong Health will support MVP Health Care in launching Special Needs Products for the 2022 plan year. Belong Health's integrated care management practice will enhance MVP members' experience by providing groundbreaking care delivery solutions and engagement solutions powered by predictive analytics, behavioral science, and population health technology.
"MVP Health Care is committed to rearchitecting healthcare around our members," said MVP Health Care's President and CEO, Chris Del Vecchio. "Belong Health's ability to complement our strengths and further reimagine how healthcare is delivered is a natural evolution of our work to pioneer better health insurance plans for every community member and aid in our communities' evolving health care needs."
"The disruption of traditional primary care and health system delivery models caused by the COVID-19 pandemic makes it abundantly clear that the road ahead for plans and providers requires new care delivery and engagement models tailored to the needs of the communities they serve," said Foley. "In partnership with NEA and local healthcare institutions, we have the collective resources to launch plans that break down the traditional silos of care. We look forward to helping our current and future partners broaden and deepen their reach within the communities they serve by creating new and better insurance experiences for Medicare and Medicaid eligible populations that connects them with the clinical and community-based social support services they need.
About Belong Health
Belong Health delivers a more compassionate, straightforward insurance experience for Medicare-eligible members by partnering with regional health plans to help them launch or grow market-leading Medicare Advantage and Special Needs Plans. High-quality health care should be accessible to all, and local, regional health plans are best positioned to serve their communities as their trusted health insurance partners. www.belong-health.com.
About NEA
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With nearly $24 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm's founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company's lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 250 portfolio company IPOs and more than 425 mergers and acquisitions. www.nea.com.
Content originally released as 'Belong Health Closes $40 Million Series A Led By NEA to Accelerate New Partnership Development with Local and Regional Health Plans and Hospital Systems' on December 15th, 2021


Feeling so deeply blessed to be Catholic! What a great year we begin today on this beautiful feast day of Mary! My heart is exploding with joy!!! I hope to walk through many holy doors this year and pray countless Chaplets of Divine Mercy for the whole world! Oh, Jesus, have mercy on us and the whole world!!


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Metapoznanie (ang. metacognition) – pojęcie z zakresu psychologii, filozofii umysłu i kognitywistyki. Ogólnie rozumiane jako poznanie własnych procesów poznawczych, ich monitorowanie, regulowanie oraz kontrola.

Historia

John Flavell
Przyjmuje się, że badania w dziedzinie metapoznania zostały zapoczątkowane pod koniec lat siedemdziesiątych XX wieku przez amerykańskiego psychologa Johna H. Flavella, który w 1979 r. w czasopiśmie "American Psychologist" opublikował artykuł pt. Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive–developmental inquiry. W artykule tym badacz zwracał uwagę na deficyty małych dzieci w dziedzinie metapoznania, sugerując, że rozwój kompetencji w tej dziedzinie jest jednym z ważnych elementów rozwoju poznawczego najmłodszych. Stworzył też pierwszą definicję metapoznania, które miało być wiedzą i regulacją procesów poznawczych.

Wyróżnił kilka wymiarów metapoznania:

 wiedzę metapoznawczą – ocena posiadanego stanu wiedzy, strategii rozwiązywania problemów, wiedzy o sobie (motywacjach, przekonaniach)
 doświadczenie metapoznawcze – doświadczenia towarzyszące aktywności poznawczej (np. poczucie niezrozumienia, pewności)
 cele – zadania będące obiektem działań poznawczych
 działania – strategie działań podejmowanych by osiągnąć cele

Ann Brown
Ann Leslie Brown podzieliła metapoznanie na dwie kategorie:

Wiedzę o procesach poznawczych – refleksję na temat zdolności i czynności poznawczych; odpowiada ona metapoznawczej wiedzy i doświadczeń z teorii Flavella. Badaczka uznaje te cechę za dość stabilną i niezmienną w trakcie życia jednostki.

Mechanizmy samoobserwacji – uruchamiające się w czasie nauki lub rozwiązywania problemów, zajmujące się regulacją procesów poznawczych; odpowiadają flavellowskim działaniom, celom i zadaniom. Podlega zmianom w trakcie życia jednostki – dziecko i dorosły różnią się między sobą sytuacjami uaktywniającymi ten proces – jednakże zależy też on obecnego stanu jednostki.

Thornas Nelson i Luis Narens
To na stworzonym przez nich modelu i sposobie organizacji badań opiera się współczesna nauka o metapoznaniu. Zaproponowali teoretyczny mechanizm, w którym metapoznawczy system składa się z dwóch struktur: metapoziomu i poziomu niższego, a także przepływu informacji między nimi.

 Kontrola metapoznawcza – polega na przepływie informacji z metapoziomu do poziomu-obiektu. Są to świadome lub nieświadome decyzje, opierające się na wyniku procedur monitorujących przez nas wykonywanych.
 Metapoznawczy monitoring – polega dostarczaniu informacji z poziomu-obiektu do metapoziomu, mające na celu go zmienić. Składa się z procedur pozwalających osobie obserwować, podawać refleksji i doświadczać swoich własnych procesów poznawczych. Pozwala on też na ocenienie poziomu wiedzy koniecznej do wykonania danego zadania.

Metapoziom
Według Nelsona i Narensa metapoziom zawiera w sobie:

 Dynamiczny model obecnej sytuacji kreowany przez poziom-obiekt, bazujący na informacji z procedury monitorującej.
 Reprezentacji danego celu lub sytuacji.
 Listy możliwych zdarzeń kontrolnych możliwych do użycia przez metapoziom by kontrolować poziom-obiekt (zawiera także informacje nt. koniecznego czasu i konsekwencji wykonania akcji).
 Listy ograniczeń potencjalnych zdarzeń kontrolnych.
 Oceny procedur podejmowania decyzji według których można wykonać akcję.

Metapoznanie a inteligencja
Relacje między inteligencją i metapoznaniem nie zostały jednoznacznie określone. Według niektórych badaczy umiejętności poznawcze są integralną częścią inteligencji, bądź też jej przejawem – jako zdolność do uczenia się bądź dostęp do zasobów poznawczych. Posługując się podziałem Cattela na inteligencję płynną i skrystalizowaną, ciężko jest umieścić metapoznanie w jednej z nich – może się bowiem mieścić w płynnej, gdyż jest nieodłączną zdolnością bytu jednostki, więc też jak inteligencja płynna, niezależną od doświadczenia; bądź też skrystalizowanej – ponieważ rozwija się w trakcie życia oraz może być ćwiczona. Według triarchicznej teorii inteligencji Sternberga metapoznanie mieściłoby się w subteorii składników – metaskładników odpowiadających za przetwarzanie informacji.

Dodatkowo, poziom zdolności metapoznawczych jest jednym z najbardziej rzetelnych miar predykcyjnych osiągnięć szkolnych i akademickich, co dodatkowo łączy go z ilorazem inteligencji.

Metapoznanie a pamięć
Procesy metapoznawcze badane są w obszarze pamięci pod nazwą "metapamięć".  Wymienia się też różne sposoby pomiaru metapoznania:

Nabywanie wiedzy
 EOL (ease of learning judgements) – przewidywania dotyczące, jak łatwo przyjdzie nam przyswojenie danego materiału
 JOL (judgement of learning) – przewidywania dotyczące, jak łatwo przyjdzie nam przywołanie danego materiału z pamięci

Wydobywanie wiedzy
 FOK (feeling of knowing) – ocena prawdopodobnieństwa, że rozpoznamy poprawną odpowiedź/informację, której w danej chwili nie możemy wydobyć
 TOT (tip of the tongue) – zjawisko "na końcu języka", czyli wiedza o posiadaniu wiedzy z danego tematu/słowa, jednak chwilowe nieposiadanie do niej dostępu
 Ocena pewności – raport, jak pewnym jest się udzielonej odpowiedzi (może być udzielany przed lub po wykonaniu zadania)

Dokonania w tej dziedzinie pozwalają na wykorzystywanie ich w usprawnianiu procesów uczenia i nauczania, mając zastosowanie nie tylko w edukacji, ale także przy dostosowywaniu warunków nauczania dla osób z różnego rodzaju zaburzeniami.

Zauważono także, że pacjenci z amnezjami (jak np. Alzheimer), zachowują metapoznanie pamięci.

Metapoznanie w różnych dziedzinach nauki
Badania nad metapoznaniem prowadzone są w różnych nurtach współczesnej psychologii. Szczególnie intensywnie zjawisko to badane jest w obszarze psychologii edukacji, klinicznej i rozwojowej. Charakterystyka badań, jak i sama definicja metapoznania, różni się między dziedzinami.

 Psychologia rozwojowa definiuje metapoznanie podążając za myślą Flavella i skupia się na badaniu rozwoju metapoznania w czasie życia człowieka
 Psychologia poznawcza najczęściej definiuje metapoznanie jako "poznanie o poznaniu" i skupia się na badaniu jego mechanizmów poznawczych
 Neurobiologia poznawcza rozumie metapoznanie jako "poznanie o poznaniu" i zajmuje się badaniem jego neuronalnych korelatów
 Psychologia edukacji uważa metapoznanie za aktywny, twórczy proces w którym uczący się stawiają cele do swojej nauki i próbują monitorować, regulować i kontrolować swoje poznanie"
 Psychologia społeczna i osobowości zastanawia się nad rozumieniem metapoznania u innych
 Psychologia kliniczna definiuje metapoznanie jako umiejętność oceny myśli i działań swoich i innych
 Psychologia zwierząt i komparatywna bada ewolucję metapoznania oraz jego obecność u gatunków innych niż ludzki

Metapoznanie w psychologii poznawczej
Według Koriata istnieje pięć kategorii pytań, którymi zajmuje się psychologia poznawcza w kontekście metapoznania:

 Podstawy metapoznawczego oceniania doświadczeń poznawczych
 Słuszność tych ocen i zmiennych mających na nie wpływ
 Procesy wpływające na ich dokładność
 Wpływ metamonitoringu na kontrolę metapoznawczą
 Wspólny wpływ metamonitoringu i kontroli metapoznawczej na wykonanie zadania

W badaniach nad metapoznaniem często porusza się też kwestie uczenia mimowolnego, metapamięci, rozwiązywania problemów, podejmowania decyzji, świadomości, kontroli poznawczej czy efektu Dunninga-Krugera

Psychologia poznawcza przyczyniła się zrozumienia, jak ludzie monitorują i kontrolują swoje procesy poznawcze.

Badanie metapoznania w Polsce
Metapoznanie jest jeszcze terminem mało eksplorowanym w polskiej nauce. Badaniem i publikacjami na temat metapoznania zajmuje się prof. Ewa Czerniawska. W Laboratorium C-lab  działającym przy Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim prowadzone są badania nad wzajemnymi oddziaływaniami między metapoznawczą regulacją a monitorowaniem.  Działające przy Uniwersytecie SWPS w Warszawie laboratorium LaMELab  zajmuje się badaniem pamięci i metapoznania.

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