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NBA Trade Rumors: Is Writing on the Wall for Andre Drummond to Join Nets?
David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images. Pictured: Andre Drummond.
Sep 23, 2021, 02:12 PM EDT
Let me take you back a bit.
July 2014: Kyrie Irving, James Harden and Andre Drummond win gold in the 2014 FIBA World Cup.
July 2016: Kevin Durant, Irving and DeAndre Jordan win gold in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Durant and Irving had been friends since 2011; Durant and Jordan went back all the way to KD's college recruitment. But the three spent time together on that team and celebrated afterward together.
June 2019: Irving and Durant decide, without telling the Nets, they're going to sign with the Nets. Jordan is part of the package deal. Jordan has expectations to start.
March 2020: The Nets fire Kenny Atkinson, highly regarded for the job he'd done to rebuild the Nets and put them in a competitive position.
January 2021: The Nets trade both Jarrett Allen and Caris LeVert, key members of the Nets' resurgence, in a deal for Harden. Allen is traded to the Cavaliers, which is odd, given that they have both JaVale McGee and Drummond under contract. Both players and the team have been playing well.
February 2021: The Athletic reports a league scout believes that Drummond could wind up being bought out by the Cavaliers, eventually joining the Nets.
Monday, Feb. 15, 2021:
Reporting with @WindhorstESPN: The Cleveland Cavaliers are no longer planning to play center Andre Drummond as they work to trade the two-time All-Star prior to the NBA's March 25th deadline, sources told ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 15, 2021
When pinged on this news, two independent league sources not involved in trade talks shared the same sentiment: Unless a team comes to the table, the result will be a buyout for Drummond, leading to him signing with the Nets.
That whole timeline I shared reinforces a few key ideas. Pre-existing relationships reinforced by playing together in the Olympics bred future personnel decisions, particularly by the Nets, where Durant and Irving clearly run the show.
We also know the duo don't exactly keep things under the radar. They're pretty open about their intentions. Bread crumbs were leading to Durant and Irving teaming up and Jordan's name was often sprinkled in. Brooklyn was one of the first leaked suitors for Harden, leading to premature reports of a "done deal."
So while the Raptors are reportedly a suitor for Drummond, according to Shams Charania at the Athletic, the question is whether the outcome will be significantly different than what the cards foretell here.
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Drummond is on an expiring contract, so any team that takes him on is dealing with his inconsistent attitude and effort and the fact that they have to then commit to a future contract based on what they give up for him. You can't send out a role player and a pick, even a second-rounder, and then have nothing to show for it in six months.
If Drummond's wish is to join the Nets, he'll get to make that decision this summer no matter what happens from here on out. That presents a possible chilling effect on talks, a league source suggests.
"Can you give up assets if the guy has already made his mind up about this summer?" the source said. "But no one knows if he's there yet. It's just a concern you have to weigh, alongside everything else."
The Nets are an obvious suitor for Drummond but are almost entirely out of assets to send for the Cavs, given what they gave up for Harden. They need a defensive center, since Jordan lacks the ability to make much of a difference on that end at this point in his career. Drummond's effort is inconsistent, but earlier this season, with a surprisingly plucky Cavs team, he was exceptional (until the Allen trade when he checked out, Larry Nance Jr. got hurt and the wheels fell off).
The Raptors have been searching for a center upgrade, having gone through Alex Len and Aron Baynes with Chris Boucher starting to struggle, as well.
The Celtics might be another candidate. If the market sours for Drummond, the Celtics can offer young players with upside or seek to use their traded player exception from the Gordon Hayward deal alongside picks. According to league sources, Drummond was thought to be a free agency candidate for the Celtics last season before he opted into the last year of his deal.
Brian Sevald/NBAE via Getty Images. Pictured: Kyrie Irving (left) and Andre Drummond in 2018.
Drummond's culture fit with Boston is dubious, however. Effort is a key part of the program, and much of Boston's success has come from consistent high-effort from all of their players. Brooklyn is much more of a "try when it matters" kind of team, as evidenced by their high-profile wins and sub-.500 record vs. teams under .500.
If Drummond is bought out, he may have offers from other championship contenders. The Lakers have Marc Gasol and Montrezl Harrell but have missed the raw size advantage that McGee and Dwight Howard provided last season. Their issues with Nikola Jokic on Sunday, even considering Anthony Davis' injury, were proof of that matchup problem.
"Any veteran player with value on the buyout market is going to have the Lakers on the list. Whether that means the Lakers want him or not is another matter," a league source noted.
Adding Drummond to Brooklyn would solidify a rim threat with Harden, Durant and Irving. Brooklyn is 21st in defensive rebound percentage, allowing the third-most points in the paint per 100 possessions. Drummond's often frustrating wax-and-wane focus may be best suited in Brooklyn with Kyrie Irving's "art" and under Steve Nash's coaching.
If another team comes in and snags him, the Nets may have the most to lose short-term, but any suitor has to try and see if they can finally provide the culture that manages to get consistency out of a maddeningly talented player.
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"No more troubles." A week ago, just before his second day-trip further north into the valley, Caine had decided to inspect his ammunition. The rifle rounds — dependable, old-fashioned 7.62 x 51 mm — were fine, but he had discovered a potentially fatal flaw in the propellant receptacle of his NeoCoBro machine pistol. The receptacle seal had a deep and recent nick in its gasket: had Caine even test-fired the weapon before checking it, excessive amounts of the exothermic liquid in the propellant canister would have been injected into the catalytic ignition chamber. The resulting explosion would have been dangerous, even deadly. It was a suspicious flaw — particularly since Caine had checked the gasket himself after Brinkley had issued him the weapon as a close-range defense against Pavonosaurs and their ilk. He had not bothered to mention — for everyone implicitly understood the significance — that the only time the weapon had been out of his immediate possession was when he had gone for his drive with Consuela. Helger's symbolic fingerprints were manifest upon the gasket.
A command given for the benefit of Helger, who had not indicated that he was listening to their communiqué. But again, everyone knew better.
"Well, good luck. Keep us in the loop and don't be shy about calling in. Brill's giving me all sorts of hell for not sending you out with more equipment." That was a backhanded reference to the equipment he did have: specifically, the uplink beacon/communicator. It was also a reference that Helger wouldn't understand: Caine had hidden the uplink/communicator before leaving his room that first morning: its tamper-proof case had never been disturbed.
Caine folded in the antenna on his smaller, conventional radio and watched Delta Pavonis wink out behind the sheltering peaks: fronds waved in front of it, their silhouettes coyly assisting the setting star with its farewell fan-dance. The largest of the weed-bushes resisted the dying of that light: the mauve spines of their great, spatulate leaves began to glow faintly. Floral bioluminescence.
Caine unwrapped a condensed protein chew-stick, gnawed at the exposed end while he unpacked the perimeter motion sensors he had borrowed from Helger's equipment cache. He hopped down from the broad rocky shelf upon which he planned to sleep: according to most accounts, the Pavonosaurs and their smaller relatives did not like moving across rock. Their heavily taloned, four-toed feet were evolved for maximum traction and turning speed in the thick loams and dense underbrush of heavily vegetated areas. Upon unyielding rocks, their talons were like iron spikes, always at risk of skittering out of control.
Caine moved fifteen meters away from his little sleeping-mesa, starting walking its perimeter at that range, placing the sensors as he went. It was already deep dusk when he finished his protein stick, placed the last sensor — and heard a noise in the brush behind him.
Recent practice paid off: he had the shoulder-slung Valmet semiautomatic down and in his hands in a single motion, snapping the safety off as he brought it against his hip. Nothing — yet. Use the seconds you have. Holding the venerable assault rifle steady — his right hand tucking the pistol grip into his body — he reached up with his left and pulled the night vision goggles down sharply from their perch on his forehead. His left hand never stopped moving: leaving the goggles, he brought it down to the rifle's forestock, then brought the weapon up to his shoulder as he scanned the brush.
The bioluminescent leaves stuck out like the skeletons of burning green-white trees, courtesy of the light-amplification lenses. The integrated thermal-imaging system showed the body heat of a fading contact — either very small or very distant — receding up the slope, directly away from Caine's camp. Intriguing, but first things first: he turned slowly, weapon up, scanning the entire perimeter. Nothing else. He swung back to the first contact: gone. As though it had never been there. Very small — or very fast — indeed. Here, as on Earth, and probably on every world where predators had ears, the night sounds reasserted once the rapid motions and urgent activity had passed.
Caine tilted the goggles back up on his head, felt the darkness wash in around him like a tidal surge of enigma. He hopped back up on the irregular rock platform that was his campsite, stared at his sleeping roll. Before, at the end of a day's hiking, it had always been a mute promise of sleep.
Tonight, it looked like a body bag.
A shuddering crash in the underbrush — not more than one hundred meters further up the valley — triggered an immediate repentance of his curiosity. He snatched the Valmet, snapped the large safety lever down, dropped to one knee, sighted in the direction of the sound.
Which reprised itself, coming closer. Something was pounding through the bush: a dense thump, thump, thump was punctuating the other intermittent sounds — ferns being smashed aside, tuber-trees squealing out sharp bursts of the air that they held within their hollow trunks, bladderlike. He saw movement — a rustle in the ferntops — at two o'clock, swung about slowly to face in that direction, iron sights raised to his right eye.
A blackish-brown shape burst out of the brush, well in advance of the approaching thumps. Caine almost fired, then flinched his finger off the trigger — just before he realized it was going too fast for him to hit, anyhow: the creature had already swerved to one side, evidently either avoiding Caine or taking evasive action. Probably evasive action — because the heavy pounding sound was now right behind it.
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Q: How to add and substract total duration I have a php $_POST variable where it displays the total duration from a previous page. The variable is below:
<?php  $postduration  = $_POST['durationChosen']; ?>

The format of the Total Duration is like this "00 Hrs 00 Mins 00 Secs"
What I have is a textbox and linked with that textbox is a timepicker where the user can select their duration for each question. Again the format of the duration displayed in the timepicker
is "00 Hrs oo Mins 00 Secs".
What will happen is the user will select a duration from the timepicker and it will be displayed in a textbox (this happens at the top). The user is then able to click on the "Add" button and what this does is
that it adds the duration in a new row in a textbox. The user can change the duration within an added row if they wish.
Now what the total duration needs to do is to automatically be subtracted or added depending on what is displayed in the added rows.
I will give you an example below by text on what I mean:
Total Duration when page first opened: 00 Hrs 30 Mins 00 Secs

Total Duration Now: 00 Hrs 05 Mins 00 Secs

Row 1:  00 Hrs 10 mins 00 Secs
Row 2:  00 Hrs 10 mins 00 Secs
Row 3:  00 Hrs 05 mins 00 Secs

If you look at exampe above what it is stating is that when the page was first opened there was a total duration of 00 Hrs 30 Mins 00 Secs. But I have added 3 Rows which all contains their
duration. Altogether the 3 rows makes 25 minutes. So the Total Duration now displays 00 Hrs 05 Mins 00 Secs. This is because 30 mins minus 25 mins equals 5 mins remaining.
So does anyone know haw this can be achieved (P.S I want the total duration to display this format if Total Duration is surpasses "- 00 Hrs 00 Mins 00 Secs" (Minus is included in this format))
Below shows the code of the main textbox with timepicker which is used and then added into new rows (I want Total Duration to add or minus depending on selection in this textbox):

     Question Duration

<input type="text" id="questiondurationpicker" name="questionDuration" readonly="readonly" />

Total Duration Remaining: <?php echo $postduration; ?>

Jquery:
$(function() {
    $('#questiondurationpicker').trenttimepicker({
            timeFormat:'hh mm ss',
            hourGrid: 4,
            minuteGrid: 10,
            secondGrid: 10,
            showOn: 'button',
            buttonImage: "Images/clock.gif",
            buttonImageOnly: true
            });

            });

Below is code displaying the textboxes with timepickers for each row which have been added (I want Total Duration to add or minus depending on what is displayed in these textboxes for each row)
Jquery:
function insertQuestion(form) {

var $tr = $("

");
var $duration = $("	")

     $('#questiondurationpicker').each( function() {

     var $this = $(this);
     var $durationText = $("<input type='text' class='questiondurationpickerRow' readonly='readonly' />").attr('name',$this.attr('name'))
                     .attr('value',$this.val())

    $duration.append($durationText);

    });

    $tr.append($duration);
    $('#qandatbl').append($tr);

$('.questiondurationpickerRow').trenttimepicker({
            timeFormat:'hh mm ss',
            hourGrid: 4,
            minuteGrid: 10,
            secondGrid: 10,
            showOn: 'button',
            buttonImage: "Images/clock.gif",
            buttonImageOnly: true
            });

}

Thank you and hopefully this makes sense. If not then please tell me and I will try and clarify it best I can.

A: If I understood the problem correctly, all you need to do is to add names to additional textboxes created via "Add" button you mention at the beginning. Probably creating an array is the best, for example: name="additionalDuration[]"
Then in your PHP file you will have two $_POST variables: base duration and an array of additional durations. At this point all you need is to parse all durations and add or substract them to calculate the total duration and then format it the way you want.
If you need help with parsing the submited time and calculations, feel free to post a comment to this answer.
Update, example of submitted parsing:
// example function to convert submitted date into seconds
function time_to_seconds($str) {
    if (preg_match("#^(\d+)\D+(\d+)\D+(\d+)$#", trim($str), $match))
        return $match[3] + 60 * $match[2] + 3600 * $match[1];
    return 0;
}
// taking base time as a starting amount
$total_duration = time_to_seconds($_POST['baseDuration']);

// for each additional user input calculating the total duration
foreach ($_POST['additionalDuration'] as $add)
    $total_duration -= time_to_seconds($add);

// formatting the output
echo date("H \H\r\s i \m\i\n\s s \S\e\c\s", $total_duration);

As I saw in your post, all additional data is substracted from the base duration. That's why I'm using -= for each of them. Correct me if I'm wrong.
And again, feel free to ask further questions should they appear.

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Mia Tyler, rodným jménem Mia Abagale Tallarico (* 22. prosince 1978, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA) je americká modelka, herečka, producentka a mluvčí kampaně za zdravé sebevědomí. Je známá svou charismatickou osobností a přitažlivým vzhledem i přes nadměrné hmotnosti, které je zastánkyní a na kterou je hrdá. Je dcerou slavného rockového zpěváka Stevena Tylera ze skupiny Aerosmith a nevlastní sestrou herečky Liv Tyler.

Dětství a mládí
Mia Tyler se narodila v Lebanonu ve státě New Hampshire, rodičům Stevenu Tylerovi a matce, herečce a modelce Andyho Warhola a groupie Cyrindě Foxe. Její původní příjmení Tallarico má původ v otcově občanském jménem: Steven Tyler má italské kořeny z otcovy strany. Po narození své dcery napsal Tyler skladbu "Mia", která vyšla na albu Aerosmith s názvem Night in the Ruts (1979).

Mia vyrůstala v úplné rodině v New Hampshire, která však žila bohémským životem, proto se o ni starala také chůva. Otec, drogově závislý hudebník, trávil mnoho času na turné, matka nechávala kolem domu nedbale poházené a vyprázdněné nádobky od kokainu a věnovala se nočnímu životu. Její rodiče se rozvedli v roce 1987.

Do roku 1988 žila v přesvědčení, že je jedináček, dokud se na koncertě Aerosmith nesetkala Liv Tyler, toho času Liv Rundgren, která oplývala velkou vzhledovou podobností. Následně po setkání zašla nevlastní sestra Liv za svou matkou Bebe Buell a zeptala se, zda je Steven Tyler jejím otcem. Ta přiznala, že jí skutečnost utajovala z důvodu Tylerovi drogových a sexuálních excesů a nechtěla, aby Liv vyrůstala v přítomnosti drogově závislého otce.

Mia si k sestře Liv vytvořila velmi blízký vztah. Časem se však smířila i s rodiči, s nimiž měla v teenagerském věku vztah vyhrocený. V roce 1990 se přestěhovala do New Yorku, kde začala navštěvovat školu Manhattan's Professional Children's School.

Kariéra
Když jí bylo sedmnáct let, objevila se v televizním pořadu House of Style hudební stanice MTV. V té době spadala pod módní agenturu Wilhelmina a objevovala se v elitních magazínech jako Seventeen, Teen, Teen People, Mode, Us, Jump, YM, Moxie Girl nebo populárním Vogue. Objevila se však i na titulní stránce časopisu Flare. Jako modelka také pracovala v Mekkách módního průmyslu, New Yorku a Paříži.

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Detroit Lions need a defensive enema, and some, to fix their issues
You don't have to be a history major to know what happened the last time the Detroit Lions started a season 0-2.
The year was 2015, and the Lions returned home from a Week 2 road trip for a primetime game against an AFC power that only added to their misery.
Two losses turned into three, and quickly into five, and eventually an ugly 1-7 start led to the dismissal of several prominent people from the organization: offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi; offensive line coach Jeremiah Washburn; general manager Martin Mayhew and president Tom Lewand.
That's not to suggest any of that is about to happen now. Not 0-3, though the odds certainly favor that with the New England Patriots (6.5-point favorites) coming to town this week, and not the mass midseason scapegoating that often defines underachieving teams.
The Lions played a quarter or so of good football in Sunday's 30-27 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, which is a quarter more than they played in last week's season-opening meltdown against the New York Jets.
Progress? Sure, but not enough to have me believe a turnaround or anything close to it is in the cards.
Historically, teams that start the season 0-2 have about a 12 percent chance of making the playoffs, according to ESPN. So while the Lions season isn't over, the police have already been called to the party.
The New Orleans Saints did the unexpected last year when they rallied from an 0-2 start in the best division in football to come within a play of reaching the NFC championship game. They found a spark plug on offense in rookie Alvin Kamara and somehow awoke their perpetually under-performing defense, and now the Lions must do the same.
Windsor:Lions lift hopes, then crush them (again) — what else's new?
The Lions are in need of their own defensive enema, and it's past time to give more touches to impressive rookie running back Kerryon Johnson. But to even make this season worth watching, there are three critical issues they need to fix.
The run defense
The Lions hired Patricia in part for his defensive wizardry – the Patriots ranked in the top 10 in scoring defense in each of his six seasons as defensive coordinator – but little has changed beyond the aesthetics of a unit that's allowed 78 points in two games, tied for most in the league.
While some of that can be attributed to turnovers (the Jets had too many short fields last week) and poor special-teams play, the Lions run defense has regressed from the middle-of-the-pack unit that got worse as the season wore on last year.
More:Lions fans becoming numb to the losses. How do you feel?
The Lions are allowing 179.5 rushing yards per game, a small sample size but also far and away the worst mark in the NFL. (The Oakland Raiders, owners of the league's 31st-ranked rushing defense, have allowed 154 ypg through the season's first two weeks.) On Sunday, Matt Breida, ticketed for backup duty this year before Jerick McKinnon tore his ACL, had runs of 66, 28 and 20 yards, with the first and last of those runs coming in succession on one dagger of a three-play, 97-yard touchdown drive.
There's no quick fix for this run defense, no white knight out there in free agency to pair with Da'Shawn Hand and complement the little good the Lions are doing up front. And the task will only get more difficult with games against Ezekiel Elliott, Todd Gurley and David Johnson ahead. But if the Lions don't improve dramatically against the run, they're headed for a top-10 draft pick.
The deep passing game
The Lions kept their head above water on offense last year, despite their incompetence running the football, because they had one of the best deep passing games in the NFL. Marvin Jones averaged 18 yards per catch and when the offense needed a big play, Matthew Stafford usually delivered.
That hasn't been the case so far this year, as Stafford has five of the Lions' six turnovers and he completed just 1 of 6 passes that traveled 25 yards or more on Sunday. Twice against the 49ers, Stafford missed an open Jones downfield, and the only big play he hit (67 yards to Golden Tate, with Tate doing most of the damage after the catch) came on a busted assignment.
More:Lions stock watch: Kenny Golladay stars, Taylor Decker down
"Two for sure to Marv that I thought I had chances at that just overthrew by, I don't know, I'll look at the film, but it didn't seem like much out there," Stafford lamented after the game. "I got to hit those and we've got to find a way to connect on them. He's doing a great job of getting open down the field, I just got to get him chances."
Stafford didn't offer any explanation for the passing-game problems Sunday. And while those are admittedly lower-percentage throws, they're something the Lions need to connect on if they're going to overcome their leaky defense.
The sloppiness
Oh, the sloppiness.
Stafford threw four interceptions in the opener against the Jets and lost a fumble on Sunday against the 49ers. He's tried to do too much at times, perhaps as a way to overcome the Lions' other deficiencies.
And Stafford is not to be singled out here. The Lions have given up long special-teams returns in both games they've played, missed tackles and dropped passes have been problematic, and on Sunday they committed 10 penalties for 105 yards, including two that wiped out big plays.
More:Lions look better, but will start 0-5 in Matt Patricia era
Nick Bellore, the Lions' best special-teams player who drew one of those flags to negate a Jamal Agnew punt-return score, said penalties are a result of "just us being selfish out there."
"The margin of error in these games is so slim, doing stuff like that will cost you a game," he said. "We saw it, I hit him in the back or whatever and it takes points off the board. And can't do that if you want to win games in this league."
The Lions aren't winning games in this league right now, and if they don't get their act together quick, that won't change.
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I left this post for the end of January because I didn't want these goals of mine to come across as New Years resolutions. These definitely aren't New Years resolutions, they are just things I want to work on throughout the year.
Recently I've gotten into this really reallyyy bad habit of sleeping 3/4am and waking up around 9am. It's SO bad and it's really affecting my dark circles like they aren't dark enough already, grrr. It's also been triggering these horrible cluster headaches whilst I'm at work or at uni. I received thisworks Sleep Plus Pillow Spray at the QVC SS16 Press Event (click here) back in November so what a better time to put it in use.
As I wake up super early, on my days off I tend to stay in bed for an extra 4/5 hours watching YouTube or a film. Yes, it's my day off I get to be lazy but then I realise how much time I waste when I could be running errands. I end up running my errands around 3/4pm, then I get home late and I feel like I've just wasted my entire day. I really want to get myself into the routine of getting out of bed as soon as I wake up!
I tend to stress out over the most littlest things and it drives me absolutely crazy. Stress makes me break out like MAD, it ruins my skin and my hair starts falling. Recently, it hasn't been too crazy as I've been on holiday and uni has only just started. I want to learn to be more patient with things and believe things will always happen in time.
I came across this quote the other day and I do believe it's 100% true. Since becoming a blogger, the amount of hate comments and emails I've gotten has been horrible and I always always ignore them because they don't get to me one bit and the only opinions that matter to me are the people dearest and you- my lovely followers. I always try to be as positive I can be within the blogosphere as well as day to day life and I will definitely be continuing to do so.
If you already follow me on Snapchat (skinfacebeauty) then you'd know I recently spent an entire weekend at a spa with my best friend. We both needed a weekend off from our real life and what better way to spend it. I haven't been swimming in forever and it just felt so good to swim again. I would love to go swimming again regularly, maybe on my days off- it's SO calming!
I have a bad bad habit of cluttering my room. I am forever tidying up and it gives me the biggest headache. I definitely need to learn to put things away as soon as I'm done with using them instead of just throwing it on my table. I used to always pick on my mum and sister for hoarding things and it makes me so sad to say I have become one of them! I have started to hoard magazines, makeup and anything with pretty patterns (all for Instagram pictures). No more cluttering!
As I've been off work and on holidays from uni, I have been uploading so much more often. I want to stick to that routine and upload at least twice a week. I love blogging, it's definitely one of my favourite hobbies. I have so much in store for you all and can't wait to share it with you!
I get tons of requests on my Snapchat *skinfacebeauty* to start a YouTube channel. I absolutely love watching YouTube videos, I spend a lot of time watching other YouTubers do their thang whilst I do housework, get ready to go out or just in bed. Doing YouTube videos myself just isn't my thing. I'm more of a 10 second Snapchat videos kinda girl (which I do sometimes upload on my Instagram *_skinfacebeauty*. And I love blogging! So the answer is no, I won't be doing YouTube!


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Q: InfoPath form - The following location is not accessible, because it is in a different site collection I have a site in test with Lists forms customised using InfoPath web forms. Environment is 2013.
When I try to open the forms after restoring in Production I get the error:

The following location is not accessible, because it is in a different site collection: http://mycompany.com/sites/xyz/Lists/Template/SalesMaster/template.xsn.
Click Try again to attempt to load the form again. If this error persists, contact the support team for the Web site.
Click Close to exit this message.

The website url in the above is correct and it points to my List in production, I'm not sure why it says location is in different site.
I tried to publish the form using InfoPath Designer but it publishes fine still I get the above error in browser in my InfoPath view.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.


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Employee & Customer Experience Turning Employees into fans
Turning Employees into fans
In research, there is an 85% correlation between the way your customers feel about your brand and the way that your employees do. In this lesson, business consultant Shaun Smith, explains that if you really want to create advocates among your customers, you have to create advocates among your employees.
Grant Leboff: Shuan, what's interesting is, in marketing, people talk about turning their customers into fans and getting word-of-mouth referrals from customers. In the book, you also talk about the importance of turning employees into fans which, I think, a lot of people sometimes miss. Say just a little bit more about how you go about doing that.
Shuan Smith: We found in the research that we've done that there's about an 85% correlation between the way your customers feel about your brand and the way that your employees do. If you really want to create advocates amongst your customers, you first of all have to create advocates amongst your employees. When you do so, they behave in a way which is on brand, which is on purpose.
An example of that was 02, the telecommunications company. Some years ago they decided to create fans amongst their customers and part of that was licensing what was called the Millennium Dome into the 02 arena. [The Millennium Dome was built by the UK government as part of the millennium celebrations on the south bank of the River Thames in central London] The O2 arena became a entertainment venue that O2 made available to its best customers as a thank you for being great customers and as a different experience.
The first thing they did, though, having rebranded the Millennium Dome in the O2 arena was to take many of their own employees there for a big party. It was a huge concert party for all of their employees. Because what they said was they recognize in order to turn their customers into fans, they had to, first of all, turn their employees into fans. Therefore, they wanted their employees to experience what the customers would experience before they did.
Another thing that's so important, it's that mirror, it's that parallel process of creating an employee experience which is the mirror for the customer experience, because both of them become stronger, become more authentic, become more robust as a result. I think the worst thing of all is when a company talks about one thing, about delighting its customers, and is miserable to its employees.
It's interesting if you're looking at the press of the last few weeks. You may have seen there's been a lot of comment about minimum wage, minimum living wage, and restaurants that are changing the contractual conditions of their employees in order to try to make ends meet, if you will. There's a lot of debate about how is it that these organizations can be so unfair to their employees and at the same time trying to give a great service to their customers.
The answer is, well, you can't do those two things. You have to create a means to be fair to both to give a good experience to both.
Grant Leboff: What are the key ingredients in creating a great employee experience and therefore, having those advocates internally because it's probably something that people have the aspiration to achieve? What are the tangible steps that need to be taken to make it happen?
Shuan Smith: The first one really is to be clear about what motivates your employees. Of course, we think it's money and that is part of it, but it's not the biggest part of it. The biggest part of it is feeling that the employee is valued and is creating value. When we feel that we are doing something which is in itself meaningful, which is purposeful, and we feel that what we do makes a difference, that is incredibly satisfying. It's something which becomes intrinsically rewarding.
Yes, we need to have money, we need to have salary in order to keep ourselves whole, but what really motivates people is that sense of making a difference. It doesn't matter what level you are in an organization, it doesn't matter how junior you are, you still want to make you feel that you're making a difference.
Treating people in a way, connecting them, and the work that they do to making that difference is the first thing. It isn't just I turn up, I do my job, I go home. It's I turn up and I do this, which creates value for my customers and for my … That is about communication, it's about training.
Secondly, I think it's about the way that they're led. The day-to-day interactions with managers and supervisors, people often say, "You don't leave companies, you leave the manager." I think that's true. People may say, "Well, I'm leaving for more money," but fundamentally often what's driving people leaving an organization is dissatisfaction with the relationships that they have at work with their peers or their manager.
It's leading people, in a way, which makes them feel part of … and belong to part of that unit. Then, I think, it's creating conditions at work which just reinforces the fact that you are in the right place. You feel you have friendships, you have communications, you get feedback, you feel like you're growing, you feel like you're developing, you feel like this is an important part of your life as opposed to just a job of work to be done.
All of that then creates the employee experience. Now some organizations are being very intentional about creating an employee experience using exactly the same methodology as they do for the customer experience, so looking at all of the touch points along the employee journey and saying, "How did we really differentiate at that touch point?"
We were doing some work some years ago for a very well-known fashion retailer and when you looked at the advertisements to the customers, they were vibrant, they were funny, they were just very creative. When you looked at the employees or rather the advertisements for the employees, they were incredibly boring. They were just so boring and uninspiring, and wasn't true. The reason was because it was the ad agency that created the customer advertisements, and it was the HR Department that created the employee advertisements.
We said, "Why don't you get the ad agency to do both," and we did. That just bought the two things together.
Grant Leboff: You talk about the importance of employees feeling like they're making a difference. To what extent do you think it's important, especially in today's world with the multiplicity of communication to empower employees?
Shuan Smith: Empowerment is very, very important because when people feel that they have some level of control or power over their circumstances is when a lot of the stress goes. There's been a lot of research to show that the most stressful thing that you can do is to disempower somebody. If they feel they have no opportunity to influence the outcome, that's when stress levels go through the roof, so empowering people, giving them a freedom within a framework…
So yes, people do need to have a framework, they do need to have guidelines, they do need to understand what they can do, what they can't do, what they can decide, what they can't decide because you give people some latitude. That is usually much more motivating for them, and by the way, they'll usually make much better judgments than otherwise.
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Shaun Smith has been a leader in expanding management attention from the narrow focus on customer service to the wider, more strategic drive towards customer experience. He is the founder of Smith+co the leading UK based customer experience consultancy and is also co-author of five acclaimed business books, his most recent being, 'On Purpose – delivering a branded customer experience people love'.
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A few Fridays ago I went with some friends to Gingerboy, to celebrate the lovely Miss T's birthday. She had not been there before, so I wanted to make sure she tried all of my favourite dishes from my favourite chef: the son-in-law eggs, the chilli salt cuttlefish, the red duck leg curry and the side of smoky wok greens (all of which I have written about before). Happily, our waitress was able to accommodate all of these dishes plus more in the $65 a head banquet option. There were a couple of other dishes that I hadn't had before but really enjoyed, including the grilled wagyu in la-lot leaves with sour chilli vinegar, and the lime and galangal basted baby chicken with peanut tamarind caramel (and studded with cubes of dragonfruit, yum).
But what I really want to write about today is the dessert platter.
We got it to share between the four of us as part of the banquet, though you can get it on the a la carte menu for $34.50. Loved the Thai spin on each little dish!
Below, on the left, is the chilli orange sugared banana fritters, with mint and Baileys ice cream. The chilli and orange really sexed up the fritters, the mint and ice cream cooled them down. And on the right is the chilled dark chocolate pudding, with rice crusted apple and chilli raspberry. You can't really see it in the photo, hidden behind the ice cream as it is, but the rice crust on the apple gave it a great texture.
But here are the ones I got really excited about. On the left is the spiced pear and tapioca dumpling in syrup, with young coconut soup. The dumpling had a texture just like a prawn dumpling, but the taste of spiced pear and tapioca... it completely did my head in. I loved it. The young coconut "soup" was more of a sorbet, but a completely crazy sorbet with a slick smooth texture devoid of water crystals. I'm not sure I can describe it properly, but the texture was unlike anything I'd ever had before. I went to the bustling kitchen to ask the dessert chef how he did it - he said it was all about keeping the coconut cream in balance with the sugar syrup. It's still a bit of a conundrum to me - must go back there on a quiet afternoon and get the proper inside scoop.
Next to that is the tofu cheesecake with champagne ginger jelly and poached rhubarb, which I was less enthusiastic about. But boy oh boy did I love the little barrel of tom kha custard with palm sugar syrup, topped with a sliver of dried candied pineapple. Tom kha ingredients (coconut, kaffir lime, galangal, lemongrass)... but in custard form. SO delicious.
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Afterwards, we walked up the rickety stairs to the red floor of New Gold Mountain for more cocktails. The guy running the floor gave us fantastic service, and I'm really glad he talked me out of an Aperol Sour and into the Gingerbread Man - it was deeeelicious!
Man I love the banquet option... really great value, even more so if there are just a few of you. Last time I went we seemed to get just as much food for a 3 person banquet as we did for a 5 person banquet, which was especially appreciated for the dessert platter.
I feel gibbed. When I had the degustation for my birthday there was FAR too much fried food, and all we were served for dessert were banana fritters (ie more fried stuff). The room was also incredibly overheated to the point where we felt uncomfortable.
Yo Miles, they really were lovely. Gotta get yerself back there!
Hi Anonymous J - while their food is generally very spiced and spicy (hawker style) I've never found their food overbearingly salty. Was there any dish in particular that stood out?
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Who has no faults? To err and yet be able to correct it is best of all. Since time immemorial, all have lauded the ability to correct faults as being wise, rather than considering having no faults to be beautiful. Thus human actions have many faults and errors – this is something that neither the wise nor the foolish can avoid – yet it is only the wise who can correct their faults and change to good, whereas the foolish mostly conceal their faults and cover up their wrongs.
This week we will be having a Dharma Talk by our guiding teacher, Barry Briggs, JDPSN. Senior Dharma Teacher Timothy Woollard, Do Gam of the Cape Cod Zen Center, will be giving the introductory talk. We will have some light refreshments after the talk. Bring your own mug for tea if you want to reduce the use of disposable cups.
Join Barry Briggs, myself, and others for dinner before practice this week. We will be meeting at 5:30 PM at Bangkok Thai Cuisine, 10 Court St, near the corner of North Street. No need to RSVP, just show up.
Next week, on Wednesday, February 11th, Barry Briggs, JDPSN, will be giving kong-an interviews during practice. This will be the first time we have offered kong-an interviews during regular practice in Plymouth. On Saturday, February 14th, Barry will be leading a one day retreat at the Cape Cod Zen Center in South Yarmouth.


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Tamba Taylor (also spellt 'Tailor') was a long-serving paramount chief of the Kissi people, Lofa County, Liberia. Taylor served as part of the collective presidency of Liberia 1995-1997.

He was born on September 29, 1898 in a Kissi family in Milimalah, Kissi Chiefdom (in present-day Foya District). His name was Tamba Lamie Kongor. He received no formal education. He later changed his name to 'Taylor', due to his profession as a tailor. He would later claim to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and Ghanian President Kwame Nkrumah.

He became paramount chief in 1957. He served on various national commissions, most notably the National Unification Programme Taylor of President William Tubman. Taylor became popularly known as 'the millionaire of Lofa'. He was rumoured to have had dozens of wives and would have fathered some 200 children.

During Samuel Doe's period as leader of the People's Redemption Council ruling Liberia in the 1980s, Doe sought Taylor's support for the junta government but Taylor didn't heed the call.

During the First Liberian Civil War, following the creation of the Liberian National Transitional Government, Taylor's name was proposed as a potential chairman of the Council of State (a provisional collective Presidency) by National Patriotic Front of Liberia leader Charles Taylor (who has no relation to Tamba Taylor). The December 21, 1994 Accra Agreements outlined that Tamba Taylor would chair a new Council of State, but the Accra Agreements were never implemented. Tamba Taylor became one of six members of the Council of State chaired by Wilton G. S. Sankawulo installed on September 1, 1995. When the Council of State was restructured after the 1996 Abuja Accords, Tamba Taylor retained his seat on the Council. However, Tamba Taylor's participation on the Council of State was largely symbolic - in practice he was often excluded from procedings or unable to follow the conversations due to language barriers.

Taylor died in October 2000. He was succeded as paramount chief by his son Momo S. Taylor. A community hall in Foya District, the Tamba Lamie Taylor Council, is named after Tamba Taylor.

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text: Bronx Cemeteries Bronx STATS 2020 WOODLAWN CEMETERY 4199 Webster Avenue (718) 920-0500 www.thewoodlawncemetery.org Serving over 3,000 families each year, the 400 acre Woodlawn Cemetery is an active cemetery with new developments and provides a full line of products and services including private & community mausoleums, cremation service as well as in ground burial options. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011, the historic site is known for the celebrated fi gures at rest, signifi - cant works of architecture and the fi nest collection of memorial art in the nation. Woodlawn was established in 1863 as a non-sectarian cemetery serving people of all cultures, religions, races and economic groups. In 2017 Woodlawn was designated as a Level II Arboretum and features more than 140 unique species of trees, each tree labeled and mapped for easy identifi cation. Many of the "Builders of the Bronx" are memorialized at Woodlawn including Louis Haffen, the fi rst Borough President, Louis Risse, designer of the Grand Concourse and Robert Moses who developed much of 20th century New York. Internationally known entertainers Celia Cruz, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis are in Woodlawn's care as well as author Herman Melville, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, publisher Joseph Pulitzer and retailer JC Penney. Outstanding monuments include the memorial to Isidor and Ida Straus who lost their lives aboard the Titanic, the elaborate mausoleum for members of the Belmont family and the Egyptian tomb of dime store magnate F.W. Woolworth. ST. RAYMOND CEMETERY 2600 Lafayette Avenue (718) 792-1133 www.straymondparish.org/ cemetery.html The Cemetery of St. Raymond, the only Catholic cemetery in the Bronx, has been a part of the parish since 1842 and has expanded from the original cemetery in front of the church and on the site of the elementary school to the Old Cemetery on Tremont Avenue to the new Cemetery and Mausoleums at the Lafayette Avenue site. The Cemetery provides in-ground burials, in-ground crypt burials in the new Holy Cross section, Mausoleum burials and niches for cremains and burials in the base of the granite Cross located in the Holy Cross section. The entire cemetery complex is 180 acres and when fi lled (almost 4,000 burials are held each year) will be a holy and prayerful burial site for more than half a million people. Buried in the cemetery are Dr. L.Sullivan Ives, founder of The Catholic Protectory (originally an orphanage on the Parkchester site); Bishop Pernicone, the fi rst Italian American Bishop of New York; Jazz singer Billie Holiday and Fr. Frank Duffy of the Fighting 69th regiment, among other well known names. A special Garden of Innocents is where still-born and young babies are buried with dignity and solemnity. In 1964, a portion of the St. Peters Section was set aside for the burial of Priests of the Archdiocese of New York. There is also a section for the Sisters of Charity who continue to serve the parish and a section for the Sisters of St. Ursula. OLD WEST FARMS SOLDIERS CEMETERY Bryant Avenue and E. 180th Street Information: he responsibility of caring for the plot. ST. ANNE'S CHURCH AND GRAVEYARD 140th Street and Brook Avenue (718) 585-5632 This designated Bronx landmark has occupied the space at Bryant Avenue and E. 180th Street since 1815. There are 40 soldiers buried at the site. The fi rst soldier buried here was Sam Adams, a veteran of the War of 1812; the last, Valerino Tulosa, fought in World War I. The cemetery was founded by John Butler and the Butler family retained possession until 1953. Since then, New York City has inherited the responsibility of caring for the plot. HUNT FAMILY CEMETERY (DRAKE CEMETERY) Drake Park on Hunts Point and Oak Point avenues. This is on of the smallest cemeteries in the Bronx. Drake Cemetery was named after Joseph Rodman Drake, a poet who made a name for himself in the 1800's. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, he requested to be laid to rest near the Bronx River. Since then, members of the prominent families of the era – the Hunts, Leggetts, etc. have been buried here. FERRIS FAMILY PLOT Commerce Street near Westchester Avenue Ferris Family Plot - Commerce Street near Westchester Avenue – This cemetery originally belonged to the Ferris family, which had large holdings in the area beginning in 1667. Benjamin Ferris owned what is now Westchester Square in 1839. Captain Watson Ferris sailed for California to fi nd gold in 1851 and died of yellow fever in Panama. His body was 42 BRONX STATS - NOVEMBER 20, 2020 BTR placed in a barrel of rum and is, according to Bronx historian John McNamara, interred in the "family vault behind Westchester Square," where the Ferris Family Plot is said to be. JESUIT CEMETERY Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus July 11, 1847 marked the fi rst burial in the old Fordham cemetery on a hillside, east part of campus: Joseph Creeden, aged 26, Irish-born Jesuit novice Brother. In April 1889, after payment of $93,966.25, New York City took title to 26.845 acres of Fordham's east campus, which included the college cemetery. The property was taken by the authority of the state 1884 New Parks Law. Those acres later became part of the New York Botanical Garden. Thereafter the cemetery could no longer be used and so for a short time 3 Jesuits' bodies were kept in a vault in the St. Raymond cemetery. In January 1890, he remains of 61 Jesuits), three seminarians, nine college students, and two workmen were transferred to the new cemetery near the university church. January 24, 1909, marked the last burial in the Fordham cemetery: New Yorkborn Fr. William O'B. Pardow, aged 62, formerly Jesuit provincial superior and famous preacher. In 1999, at a newly formed committee's suggestion, the deteriorating tombstones were replaced by low granite markers. The cemetery and the markers were blessed by the Rev. Gerald Blaszczak, S.J., Rector of the Jesuit Community, in a wellattended ceremony. On April 5, 2000, a permanent plaque was placed beside the cemetery to bear witness to those interred in "God's Holy Acre." ST. PETER'S CHURCHYARD Westchester Avenue While the current St. Peter's Episcopal Church was built in 1855, the parish grounds have actually existed since 1693 and contains many graves dating back to the late 1690's. St. Peter's Church, Complex and Cemetery were designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1976, and listed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 1983. BERRIAN-BASHFORD BURYING GROUND East of Van Cortlandt Mansion and West of the lake in Van Cortlandt Park c/o Van Cortlandt House Museum Van Cortlandt Park Broadway and W. 246th Street (718) 543-3344 Members of the Ackerman, Berrian, Bashford and Warner families are known to be buried at this site, with gravestones dating back to between 1794 and 1807. Most graves were marked by rough fi eldstones. In some cases, the initials of the deceased were engraved into stone, while formal monuments were erected for others. The New York City and Northern Railroad was cut through the northern end of the plot around 1890, where African-American slaves are thought to be buried. PELHAM CEMETERY 73 Earley Street (718) 885-3036 Pelham Cemetery is so named because City Island was still a part of the Westchester town when the cemetery was fi rst placed here in the 1880s. It is the only waterside cemetery in the Five Boroughs and while it was created in the 1880's, there are older gravestones within its grounds. The cemetery is fi lled with the gravestones of wellknown Pelham families and early settlers. In addition, the grave sites of veterans of the Civil War and virtually every war since may be found in the cemetery. CORSA FAMILY BURIAL GROUNDS Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus The circular garden behind St. John's Hall is the spot of the private burial ground of the Corsa family who owned the land that Fordham University now occupies. The site was discovered in the 1840's when St. John's Hall was under construction. MOUNT SAINT VINCENT CEMETERY College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale This cemetery contains the remains of approximately 150 nuns. POTTER'S FIELD Hart Island The City purchased Hart Island from the Hunter family for $75,000 in 1868 and established the site as a public cemetery for the burial of those persons who died penniless or whose bodies went unclaimed. In the fi rst year, 1,875 burials were performed. Potter's Field has been used by a variety of agencies over the years, including the Department of Correction. In 1948, at the behest of inmates, a 30-foot high monument, located in the center of the burial site, pays tribute to the departed there. The DOC still maintains and operates the site. Burials continue to be performed there by inmate labor, under supervision of Correction staff. Hart Island is closed to the public. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY 3051 E. Tremont Avenue (718) 829-5326 The First Presbyterian Church of Throgg's Neck was organized in 1855 and the cemetery was used during the 19th Century. The church was destroyed in a fi re in 1870. It is believed that church records may have been destroyed in that fi re. A new church was built in 1883. CEMETERIES NO LONGER IN EXISTENCE Bensionia (Morrisania) Cemetery: This grave site was originally an Indian Burial Ground and contained many prominent families. The graves were reinterred to Woodlawn and the former grave site is now the home of P.S. 138 Old Berrian Cemetery – Located at Fordham Road and Sedgwick Avenue, the site was once the fi nal resting place of the Berrian, Valentine and Cromwell families. Fordham Manor Dutch Reformed Church – Once located on Kingsbridge Road, the remains were eventually reinterred in Kensico Cemetery in Westchester. West Farms Dutch Reformed Church – Most of the interments at this cemetery, once located at Boone Avenue and 172nd Street, were removed to Woodlawn Cemetery. Westchester Methodist Church – Located at 2547 E. Tremont Avenue, the cemetery here once contained members of the Fowler family as well as church members and townsmen. In 1940, the remains were removed to a churchyard in Jamaica, Queens. PELL FAMILY BURIAL PLOT 895 Shore Road On The Grounds of the Bartow-Pell Mansion & Museum Thomas Pell, the fi rst Lord of Pelham Manor, settled the area in 1654. The family burial plot, dating from the colonial period, contains six graves of family members - the oldest belonging to Isac 9sic) Pell, who died December 14, 1748. The site is a short walk from the mansion and, of course, it is opened to the public during the daylight hours. The Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy Brookside Cremation Garden. Saint Raymond Cemetery /www.thewoodlawncemetery.org / /www.thewoodlawncemetery.org /


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W52 — термоядерная боеголовка, разработанная для баллистической ракеты малой дальности MGM-29 Sergeant, используемой армией США с 1962 по 1977 год. W52 имеет диаметр , длину  и вес 950 килограммов. Она имела мощность в 200 килотонн и поступила на вооружение одновременно с подписанием советско-американских соглашений об обоюдном запрете ядерных испытаний (впоследствии, когда испытания были возобновлены, вскрылись конструктивные недостатки W52). Боеголовка была разработана Лос-Аламосской национальной лабораторией. В ходе разработки и испытаний произошло два чрезвычайных происшествия, в которых погибло четверо сотрудников лаборатории, в обоих случаях имела место детонация инициирующего взрывчатого вещества химического взрывателя. Производилась с середины 1962 по начало 1966 года, находилась на вооружении до 1974 года, на складском хранении до 1977 года, после чего хранившиеся запасы были утилизированы и пошли на создание новых боеголовок. Серийное производство боеголовок W52 было налажено на , обслуживавшемся компанией General Mills (до 1963 года), а затем Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co. (с 1963 года) по заказу Комиссии по атомной энергии США. В общей сложности были произведены 300 боеголовок W52.

Исследователь Чак Хансен (Chuck Hansen) утверждает, основываясь на своих исследованиях ядерной программы США, что термоядерная боеголовка W52 и ядерная боеголовка W30 использовали общий дизайн деления первой стадии, и что этот дизайн был прозван Boa primary

Надёжность
Было выпущено три модели W52: Mod 1, Mod 2 и Mod 3. Испытание боеголовки, проведенное в 1963 году, провалилось, показав, что модели  Mod 1 и Mod 2 W52 были по сути бесполезны. Mod 3 впоследствии была переработана, чтобы работать должным образом.

Неудачи конструкции Mod 1 и 2 W52, наряду с ранними проблемами боеголовок W45 и W47, по-прежнему активно используются в дискуссии о надёжности американского ядерного оружия в будущем, без продолжения ядерных испытаний

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New Ontario Regulation Increases Options for Eye Care Services for Ontario Residents
College of Optometrists of Ontario
TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2014 /CNW/ - Ontario residents will enjoy greater choice and convenience when seeking eye health and vision care when a new regulation comes into effect on April 15, 2014. The government has approved a new professional misconduct regulation for optometrists, including modernized conflict-of-interest provisions, that enhances collaboration between optometrists and opticians.
"The public of Ontario will benefit from more options when seeking eye care now that many of the restrictions that prohibited optometrists from working in association with opticians, and others, have been removed," says Paula Garshowitz, Registrar at the College of Optometrists of Ontario. "While providing more choice and greater convenience, the new regulation will ensure that all Ontarians continue to have access to high-quality optometric services."
This regulation is the culmination of the efforts of the College and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, in consultation with the College of Opticians of Ontario and with the support of the Ontario Association of Optometrists.
Key amendments include the following:
More flexible and collaborative working relationships between optometrists and opticians
Easier access for Ontario residents to their prescriptions
Greater convenience for Ontario residents in having their prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses filled
Modernized rules for advertising and the naming of optometry practices
Updated conflict-of-interest rules for optometrists
The College of Optometrists of Ontario regulates Ontario's more than 2,100 optometrists in the public interest. An optometrist is a doctor of optometry who diagnoses, treats, manages, and prevents diseases and disorders of the eye, and who might also provide, fit, and adjust eyewear.
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Article: Shark and ray teeth from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of north-east England
Author(s): Charlie J. Underwood, Simon F. Mitchell and Kees J. Veltcamp
UNDERWOOD, C. J., MITCHELL, S. F., VELTCAMP, K. J. 1999. Shark and ray teeth from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of north-east England. Palaeontology, 42, 2, 287–302.
Sampling of hiatal horizons within the Hauterivian part of the Speeton Clay Formation of north-east England has produced teeth of several species of sharks and rays, four of which are previously unnamed. One species of shark, Cretorectolobus doylei sp. nov., and two species of rays, Spathobatis rugosus sp. nov. and Dasyatis speetonensis sp. nov., are named, whilst the presence of an indeterminate triakid shark is also noted. Synechodus dubrisiensis (Mackie) is shown to be a senior synonym of S. michaeli Thies. Although the dasyatid ray and triakid shark are by far the oldest representatives of their respective families, the overall composition of the fauna is considered to resemble more closely assemblages known from the Jurassic than those from upper parts of the Cretaceous.
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Petrovo Brdo je razloženo naselje v zatrepu Baške grape v Občini Tolmin.

Naselje leži vrh 803 mnm visokega prevala ob cesti Železniki - Bača pri Modreju na razvodju med Baško grapo in Selško dolino oziroma na razvodnici med Savo in Sočo. Kraj je bil v preteklih stoletjih prometno težko dostopen kljub temu, da je preko prevala vodila pomembna tovorniška pot iz Selške v Baško dolino. Ta prometna pot je bila urejena že v poznem srednjem veku. Dostop do kraja pa je olajšala leta 1903 razširjena cesta do Podbrda in 1959 prav tako razširjena ceta proti Bohinjski Bistrici čez Soriško planino.

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V starih listinah se naselje prvič omenja 1523 pod nemškim imenom Peterlinseckh. Do 19. stoletja so bile tu le štiri gorske kmetije. Vas je nastala v okviru srednjeveške kolonizacije kmetov tirolske Pustriške doline. Sodila je v rihtarijo trinajstih vasi z imenom Rut (glej tudi zgodovino naselja Rut). Na celotnem območju se je tirolsko narečje ohranilo do 18. stoletja. O njem pričajo nekatera ledinska in zemljepisna imena. Med obema svetovnima vojnama se naselje, ki je ležalo ob meji z Italijo ni razvijalo. V bližini prevala so Italijani postavili veliko zgradbo za obmejno postojanko, ki je po koncu 2. svetovne vojne služila zdravilišču za pljučne bolezni iz Golnika.

Petrovo Brdo je izhodišče planinskih poti proti goram Porezen (1630 mnm) na jugu in Slatnik (1609 mnm) na severu.

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Hyundai's little crossover scores a big win with its mileage rating and value equation.
UPDATE 12/14/18: The 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric starts at $37,495, which just so happens to be the exact same starting price as its closest rival, the 2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV.
The affordable-EV space has a new hero of driving range, and it's the Hyundai Kona Electric. This battery-powered crossover has been officially EPA rated to go 258 miles on a single charge, the longest estimated range of any electric vehicle currently on sale that isn't built by that company run by Elon Musk.
How does the little Hyundai do it? Well, its huge 64.0-kWh battery pack is a big part of that number. The pack is larger than that of the previous champ, the Chevrolet Bolt EV, which uses its 60.0-kWh pack to achieve an EPA-estimated range of 238 miles. The Kona is also slightly more efficient than the Bolt EV, according to the government: its combined estimate of 120 MPGe beats out the Chevy by 1 mpg.
As with other EVs, there are various levels of charging for the Kona Electric. Hyundai says that the quickest method is a Level 3 100-kilowatt quick charger, which can replenish a depleted battery to full charge in a mere 54 minutes. A 50-kw Level 3 charger does the deed in 75 minutes, while the slowest method is the 7.2-kw onboard charger, which replenishes the battery in approximately nine hours and 35 minutes.
The Kona is powered by a 201-hp electric motor that sends its juice to the front wheels only—there's no all-wheel-drive option as there is on the gas-powered Kona. The electric version also has a different front end with a closed grille that we presume aids its aerodynamics.
When it goes on sale at the end of this year, the Kona Electric will start at $37,495—the exact same starting price as the Bolt EV. The Kona Electric will initially be available only in California, but Hyundai says it plans to expand availability to other zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) states soon after that.


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Haldor Topsøe SCR DeNOx and Oxidation Catalysts for the Power Industry
Through almost a century's dedication to catalysis and with a strong commitment to fundamental research, Haldor Topsøe has developed efficient and reliable solutions to emission problems. A comprehensive knowledge gained from years of worldwide experience has made the company a leading supplier of catalysts and innovative technologies.
Topsøe is one of the world's largest manufacturers of SCR DeNOx catalysts and supplies catalysts, process knowledge and equipment for removal of NOx from boilers, gas turbines, gas and diesel engines, incinerators, as well as chemical units.
The SCR reference list consists of more than 900 catalyst installations, of which the largest is in an SCR plant fitted on a 1,200MW coal-fired boiler, treating more than 5,000,000Nm3/hr of flue gas.
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With more than 20 years of experience within SCR system design, Topsøe is the optimum partner, with in-house know-how and experience from many projects. The SCR DeNOx catalyst is the heart of the SCR system, but the dosing and mixing of the correct amount of ammonia are also very important issues, which can be designed by the company as well. Topsøe has developed the patented STARMIXERTM for optimisation of ammonia injection, combined with perfect mixing and a minimum pressure loss.
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Topsøe DNX® catalysts are a unique series, with the highest activity combined with the lowest SO2 oxidation on the market today. The fibre-reinforced, ceramic titania support makes the DNX catalysts strong and durable; combined with a special pore structure, which provides an unmatched resistance towards poisoning, this ensures a long service life.
SCR DeNOx for gas turbines
The DNX series of catalysts span an operating temperature range from 170°C to 580°C, or 340°F to 1,080°F. Their unique structure allows almost unlimited temperature ramping rates, which makes the DNX catalyst the perfect choice for gas-turbine applications. Topsøe's diverse gas turbine experience ranges from IGCC and combined-cycle sources to simple cycle gas turbine applications.
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Topsøe has many installations on boilers firing 100% biomass, as well as installations on boilers with co-combustion of biomass with coal. Experience demonstrates that by choosing the right plant configuration and proper catalyst formulation, negative effects can be limited. Biomass can be co-combusted with coal without any noticeable impact on catalyst lifetime when operating with a DNX from Topsøe.
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For decades, Topsøe has supplied DeNOx systems for engines, leading to an impressive track record of more than 100 installations on both two and four-stroke stationary and marine engines operating on all possible fuel types.
Today, Topsøe offers the most compact and cost-effective DeNOx solutions for any engine type. Years of experience have been integrated into Topsøe's well-proven system design and DNX® catalyst, developed especially to resist temperature shocks, vibrations and poisons found in engine off-gasses.
The catalyst is supplied in easily-installed, lightweight cassettes and everything from the basic description of system parts to complete system design can be included in the scope of supply.
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Topsøe also offers a series of oxidation catalysts, specifically designed for abatement of carbon monoxide. These are prepared from the same unique base as the DNX SCR catalysts, combined with deep-impregnation of palladium. This provides a uniquely high oxidation activity with an unsurpassed stability, as well as when operating in sulphur and chlorine-containing gases.
The palladium-based catalysts also oxidise ammonia into molecular nitrogen and may be fitted after the SCR catalyst to remove ammonia-slip excursions that may otherwise come from SCRs operating in unstable conditions.
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The history of Sibley & Sons Construction began in 1910 when Merle Howard Sibley hauled wood and food products with a horse and wagon. With the transition from horses to trucks in the late 20s and early 30s, Merle also began construction and gravel work. When Merle passed away in 1973, he left his company to his son Merle Douglas Sibley.
Merle Jr.'s son, Mark Sibley, took over the family business and incorporated Sibley & Sons Construction in 1992. In 1998, Mark's son Marcus Sibley began working for Sibley & Sons. He eventually took the company over in 2010.
Marcus began their sister company, Sibley Transportation, Inc., that same year to expand his focus to transportation and warehousing. Since Marcus began Sibley Transportation in 2010, it has grown into a multi-million dollar company with goals of doubling in size over the next 2-3 years.
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As the band continues work on its fifth album, they look to contemporaries like Maroon 5 and Train as examples of acts able to maintain their relevance while Rock & Roll faces an uphill struggle in the mass media. "Those guys are inspirational, showing that you can come back and have a strong presence, even if what you're known for doing is having a hard time," Chris Daughtry says. Ten years after launching with a massive splash, Daughtry claims that he and the band have grown the most on stage, and that it's altered his whole sense of his work. "When we first came out, I'd only known what I'd seen," he says. "I didn't know how to be vulnerable, with no pretense. Now it's walk onstage and, especially in our acoustic shows, just be flat-out honest and open. It's really helped me realize that's actually what fans want -- they want 100 percent honesty and feeling like they got to know you better."
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Planting native plants outside of New York City's natural ecosystems cannot contribute to the biodiversity of those ecosystems, and is therefore not required by this manual. Indeed, outside of the Forever Wild and natural areas identified in the next chapter, emphasis will be placed on increasing the proportion of native plants used in Park plantings.
We can seek to restore or increase ecosystem health and attempt to restore and expand ecosystems on their edges, but there is no scientific proof that planting out into the built city will benefit adjoining ecosystems. However, it does not mean that native species cannot serve an important role in infrastructure improvements.
Role of native species
A good example is the current experiment between Columbia University and Parks to establish green roof plantings utilizing regionally native plant species. Two regional ecosystems, Hempstead Plains and Rocky Summit ecosystems, were chosen for this experiment because they closely mimicked the conditions encountered on rooftops — hot, well drained, and drought-prone.
The project is not seeking to create extensions of Hempstead Plains and Rocky Summit ecosystems onto the roofs of New York City; it is impossible to successfully transplant the totality of these ecosystems in all their biological complexity. Rather, the project sought to exploit existing knowledge of these species as they function in their natural ecosystems to create beauty and ecosystem services on rooftops.
Parks will continue to increase its use of native species in ornamental plantings designs and in right-of-way areas as appropriate. Native species have evolved to local environmental and edaphic conditions, and many have utilitarian and aesthetic qualities that can be of service to those responsible for designing and maintaining the public landscape as well as to individual property owners who seek to enhance their own backyards or street tree pits.
Parks is fortunate to have at its disposal a facility dedicated to the propagation and production of the flora of New York City"s native ecosystems – Parks Greenbelt Native Plant Center. This facility exists primarily in support of efforts to conserve, manage and restore the City"s ecosystems.
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A 17th-Century Noblewoman's Rare Poems About War-Torn England Can Be Read Online
BY Emily Petsko
Hajotthu, Wikimedia Commons // Public domain
Hester Pulter wasn't famous for anything in particular, but the 17th-century aristocrat's poems have historical value for other reasons. Pulter wrote about science, religion, politics, the English Civil War (fought from 1642 to 1651), and even the execution of Charles I, which wouldn't be all that unusual, except for the fact that she was a woman. And a woman of high social standing at that.
Although her poems can now be read online for free via The Pulter Project, the noblewoman probably never meant for them to be published back in the 1600s, according to Samantha Snively, a Ph.D candidate in Early Modern Literature at the University of California, Davis.
"In order to avoid slander, the few women who did publish usually wrote about topics more aligned with proper womanly values: household guides, devotional books and diaries, or memoirs of their husbands," Snively wrote for The Conversation. "An aristocratic woman like Hester would have been expected to behave modestly, keep quiet, and focus on her household rather than write about political conflicts and scientific experimentation."
According to Smithsonian magazine, Pulter's poems went largely unread for centuries until 1996, when a graduate student at the University of Leeds pulled them from the shelves of the university's Brotherton Library while undertaking a project to digitize 17th-century poetry manuscripts. The online portal includes both digital versions of Pulter's original manuscripts as well as transcriptions of her writings.
Pulter, who was likely born in or around Dublin in June 1605, wrote most of her poems in the 1640s and 1650s at the height of the English Civil War. As such, her poems reflect her "deeply felt responses to the carnage and chaos of the mid-seventeenth century, as to the afflictions and losses in her own life," The Pulter Project notes.
Despite being the daughter of a chief justice on the king's bench in Ireland, Pulter was critical of different political factions, including the Parliamentarians and the ruling class, while also revering monarchs like Charles I.
Snively noted that Pulter's body of work contains "early feminist ideas and addresses, in complex ways, how society constricts women's behavior, devalues their work, and diminishes their intellectual value."
Pulter—the daughter of James Ley, who became the first Earl of Marlborough—gave birth to 15 children and rarely left her home. In one poem, she laments, "Why must I thus forever be confined / Against the noble freedom of my mind?"
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EXCLUSIVE: Follow-up Interview with 'Boy Genius' Stock Picker Wonders Why
A Next-Day Sit-Down with a Reeling Mohammed Islam Shockingly Reveals ... an Ordinary American Kid Who Did a Stupid Thing and Now Feels Awful
By Ken Kurson • 12/16/14 4:00pm
Mohammed Islam, 17, has been caught in a lie. Now he just wants his life back. (Ken Kurson/New York Observer)
Every high school in America has a Mohammed Islam in it. Short, pudgy, brilliant. Eager to fit in but unsure which special skill will earn the approbation of his peers. At Stuyvesant High, an elite public high school whose incoming students must who pass a grueling entrance exam—alumna include string theorist Brian Greene, the pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, United States Attorney General Eric Holder (1969) and four Nobel laureates—Mohammed's skill was stock-picking. And his weakness, it is now clear, is a lack of understanding just how fast an adoring and gullible media can turn on you. Especially if you lie.
Mohammed Islam is the 17-year-old Stuy High senior who was the subject of a credulous-to-the-point-of-ridiculous profile in New York magazine, which claimed that he had amassed a fortune "rumored" to be $72 million (the story would only confirm "high eight figures.") The New York Post followed up with its own aggregated valentine. As the Observer revealed yesterday in an exclusive interview with Mohammed and his friend Damir Tulemaganbetov, the entire story was a lie. Mohammed didn't make $72 million, he didn't make eight figures, he didn't make anything—he never invested real money, only making simulated trades.
The Observer's Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke has exclusive details on the process. How did a middle-class 17-year-old from Queens had zero investment returns successfully run the gauntlet of a respected reporter and her magazine's skeptical fact-checking department. So that's the how it happened
But another question is why? Why did Mr. Islam do this? Why did he allow people to believe that he was some sort of master investor who was living a Wolf of Wall Street existence?
It's hard to say. As I wrote yesterday, this seems less like a well-planned scam and more like something that "will be familiar to just about any 12th grader—a fib turns into a lie turns into a rumor turns into a bunch of mainstream media stories and invitations to appear on CNBC."
But today, a fuller picture of the young man has emerged. This morning, in an exclusive follow-up interview with the Observer, again conducted at the offices of 5WPR and chaperoned by the pricey professionals the boys have hired to help manage this crisis, Mohammed shared a good bit more about his life, including the part that touched many—his claim yesterday about how disappointed his parents were with his dishonesty.
Mr. Islam had been too scared to go home on Sunday night after the story broke. But last night, having told the truth, he went home.
"I spoke to my dad. I haven't spoken to my mom yet. So far my dad says I'm in a lot, a lot of trouble with him. I'm already really sorry to him because I caused a whole spectacle and now he hasn't said anymore this morning but he said what are you going to do with this. But I'm done, basically. I'm going to get killed. If there was any way I could not be related to him that'd be good so I don't cause him any more embarrassment."
Damir Tulemaganbetov, 19, sees a brighter future for both young men. (Ken Kurson/New York Observer)
And home was not what might have leapt to mind when all of New York City was green with envy over that supposed $72 million. In fact, according to Mohammed, his home in Elmhurst is "an average apartment. Two bedrooms. I sleep in the living room by myself. My parents and my sister have the bedrooms."
Oh yeah, Mohammed's sister, who is 15 and also goes to Stuy High. That must be something to be walking the halls in her shoes. Mohammed said that since this erupted, "I haven't seen her, nor have I spoken to her." This is a 17-year-old boy who says "nor" and seems to understand what this is doing to his tight-knit, traditional family.
And what of his friend, poetically described in New York as the "son of a Kazakh oligarch, Damir is tall, slim, and cocky, like a cigarette wearing a fedora"?
"Actually, my dad never called me," said Mr.Tulemaganbetov. "I'm pretty sure he knows everything, but I don't know. Maybe he's mad at me. He knows about it."
With Mohammed, we drilled deeper. The New York story spoke of Mohammed having earned enough " to rent an apartment in Manhattan" and "acquire a BMW, which he can't drive because he doesn't yet have a license."
Faced with direct questions about these luxuries, we discovered a boy still trying hard to impress, even as the jig was up. Point blank, "Do you have an apartment?"
"I have an office in Queens. And I do have a BMW."
"The car is my father's. I get to use it."
"Do you have a license?"
"I get to use it when I'm with him, because I have a permit."
But wait. Why would a kid who is now famous for not having $72 million need an office?
Mohammed fidgets with his badly cracked iPhone. Someone named Nolan Parker, who joined Mohammed on BusinessInsider's list of 20 Teen Traders last month and lists his occupation on LinkedIn as "Aspiring Hedge Fund Manager," is buzzing. Mohammed ignores the call.
"The office …" Mohammed reluctantly struggles to get the prosaic facts out of his mouth. "… is a friend of mine's. He lends it to me to use as a tutoring center that I help manage."
So what will become of Mohammed now? And what of his once-promising future? As to be expected from a young man of contradiction—a boy named "Mohammed Islam" who delivered a fiery pro-Israel speech in Arlington, Va. at an AIPAC event earlier this year, a boy who brags of outrageous fortune but speaks so softly a tape recorder must constantly be moved closer to his mouth—the future is uncertain, and the present is day-to-day.
"I'm working on college. I applied E.A. [early action] but I have yet to look at my responses. I applied as backup." As for today … "I've been in trouble w my parents before but nothing of this caliber and that's what makes me nervous to go to school and I don't know what I'm going to do when I go to school, you know. There's thousands of kids at school so … I don't know. I'm just too worried to go. I got out of my house this morning and had to check the hallway first. I got out of the elevator and a guy was there and he knew it was me. I got out of my building and the [taxi] driver noticed me. I thought of wearing a hoodie but I was just too nervous to look at people."
Meanwhile, Damir takes a rosier view, which seems to be the dynamic between the two friends generally.
Damir, who turned 19 in November and lives in a posh Manhattan apartment, already got accepted to a school, though it's not his first choice. "Obviously the thing that happened it's not good what we did. But we're still inspired. We still are going to pursue doing business together, and as individuals. We want to make money, be successful, make our parents proud." Damir reflects a bit, takes off his glasses to enhance his appearance a bit and suddenly a thought forms in his head. "As my father says, 'it's not how you start, it's how you end it.' You can start badly but you can always wake yourself up and end it the way you want it."
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The Northeast Committee on the Environment held their quarterly meeting March 26 at the Region 1 EPA Lab in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Here, commissioners from New England toured the facility, connected with EPA staff on important scientific research, and discussed regional steps to address the prevalence of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
On March 28, 2019, the National Governors Association (NGA), and the embassies of Australia, Canada, and Denmark, hosted a policy solutions conference. Day one of the conference was centered on offshore wind and energy storage policy.
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