Doesn't look like there will be any new collective bargaining agreement between the city and the firefighters this year.
Houston's firefighters union declared an impasse with the city over a new labor contract, which a union negotiator called a "slap in the face" on Thursday.
The deadlock comes less than a month after Mayor Annise Parker announced the union was coming back to the bargaining table despite overwhelmingly defeating the city's last proposal.
"So now I'm looking at a 3 percent offer that reduces the cap on holidays, reduces the cap on vacations and I'm not supposed to take that, or have these members take that, as, in essence, a slap in the face," union negotiator Michelle Bohreer said.
The city has looked to scale back overtime costs, which earlier this year almost drove the department over budget. During the budget crisis, HFD had to pull ambulances and engines from duty some days to keep costs down.
A March contract temporarily resolved that problem, with firefighters agreeing to give up some freedom to take time off in exchange for a 2 percent raise and a $975 lump-sum payment. Those scheduling restrictions expired at the end of June.
See here, here, here, and here for the background; Mayor Parker's statement is here. The city has a legitimate interest in managing vacation time and overtime pay, as any private sector business would have. By the same token, I understand why the firefighters would be reluctant to give up something that they now have. Given the current budget situation and the overwhelming rejection of the first agreement, I have no idea how much room there is to negotiate at this point. The one thing I am sure of is that all this will be a prominent feature in the 2015 Mayoral race. It will be very interesting to see which candidates stake out which positions.
Don't expect much at this point.
Negotiators for the city of Houston and its firefighters union will return to the bargaining table to discuss a new labor contract weeks after union members soundly defeated the last proposed deal, Mayor Annise Parker announced Wednesday.
The mayor and Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 341 president Bryan Sky-Eagle had said after the vote – which saw 93 percent of members opposed – that both sides were open to more talks, but it's unclear whether a deal acceptable to the union can be reached.
In other words, officials have said, the council amended Parker's proposed budget to add a series of spending items that "spent the raise" that had been set aside to accommodate the proposed contract. The rejected deal would have given firefighters a 4 percent raise beginning Jan. 1 in exchange for restrictions on when they could take time off.
See here and here for the background, and here for the city's press release. The most likely outcome at this point is that the firefighters will continue under the current agreement, which provides no raises but also puts no restrictions on who can take vacation when, until 2016, when the firefighters hope there is a Mayor they believe to be friendlier to their interests in office. It'll be interesting to see who positions himself or herself as their champion in the race. Houston Politics has more.
Houston firefighters would give up some of their ability to schedule time off in return for a pay hike under a tentative new labor contract that city officials hope will enable them to rein in overtime costs that threatened to bust the fire department's budget this year.
The City Council and the membership of Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 341 must ratify the agreement for it to take effect as planned on July 1.
The agreement, which includes a 4 percent raise, comes on the heels of a budget crisis that has seen the department, on some days, pull ambulances and fire trucks from the streets in recent months to control a spike in overtime costs.
Firefighters would get the 4 percent raise beginning Jan. 1, 2015, along with new terms encouraging them not to miss work, which often creates the need for shifts to be filled on short notice by replacements on overtime pay.
The deal would run through the end of 2016, though negotiations could reopen in February 2016 on pay and some scheduling items. The idea behind that option, City Attorney David Feldman said, is to see whether voters amend a decade-old cap on city revenue that Parker has said will force layoffs next year if left unaltered. The deal would last only 30 months because of these uncertainties, Parker said.
Fire union President Bryan Sky-Eagle said the raise is not what firefighters deserve, but he said the union acknowledges a need to work with the city given its revenue limitations.
The contract, Sky-Eagle added, also allows for more flexible scheduling, improves a voucher program by which firefighters buy uniforms and equipment, and secures city promises not to hand its emergency medical service over to private firms or to replace the firefighters running it with civilians.
The Mayor's press release on this is here. Seems like a reasonable deal to me, and if it avoids all the overtime problems, so much the better.
Todd Clark, chairman of the Houston fire pension board, opposes the deal. The board and the union are separate, but historically, the union contract has allowed the Houston Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund chairman to be assigned full time to the pension office while drawing a city salary via the fire department.
That "special assignment" – at Parker's insistence, Sky-Eagle and Clark said – has been dropped in the proposal. Deluca said the change means Clark would report to work at a fire station. Clark said he will do so, while doing pension work on his days off – if the agreement passes.
Whether one sees this as a brilliant piece of political strategy by the Mayor or a total jerk move likely depends on one's opinion about the pension issue. The calculation is left as an exercise for the reader.
Members of the Houston firefighters' union have signed off on a deal with Mayor Annise Parker that would prevent pulling firetrucks from service to help balance the Fire Department's budget.
"We're very pleased that the union membership ratified the agreement," Houston City Attorney David M. Feldman said in a statement released Friday.
Now that the deal has been approved by rank-and-file members of the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 341, it's up to Houston City Council members to vote on it. Feldman said they will take it up on Wednesday.
See here, here, and here for the background. I can't imagine any scenario in which Council fails to approve this.


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Q: Giving file path to the button as command in GUI Python Hi i need to open a python script using GUI. Is that possible to give the file path as command to the button? I tried with the below code, but it is showing  No such file or directory. Please help
Thank you
import xlwt
from Tkinter import *
from tkFileDialog
import askopenfilename

def callback():
    filename = ('C:\python\abc.py')
    execfile(filename)

abc= Button(text='abc', command=callback)
abc.pack()
mainloop()

A: Assuming directory c:\python and the file abc exist, you could also try a raw string:
filename = (r'C:\python\abc')

Aside: If I were to see that path, I'd assume python\abc was a path and the file was missing (partially because abc doesn't have an extension).

A: The backslash is the escape character, so you should escape it to make it mean "backslash the character" and not "backslash the escape character". Try assigning filename like this:
filename = ('C:\\python\\abc')

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Frank Norman "Toothpick" Pendarvis, Jr.
April 2, 1945 - March 15, 2016
Frank Norman "Toothpick" Pendarvis, Jr., age 70, passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center in Anniston, Alabama. He was born April 2, 1945, in Nashville, Tenn., to Frank Pendarvis, Sr. and Lillian Montgomery Pendarvis. He was a retired truck driver from Action Industries and was a United States Army Verteran. He attended Marietta Church of Christ. An avid motorcyclist, he loved racing and hunting. Funeral services, with military honors, will be Friday, March 18, 2016, at 2:00 P.M. at the Booneville Funeral Home Chapel with Minister Ronnie Livingston officiating. Burial will be in Sumner's Chapel Cemetery. He is survived by three daughters, Jeannie Greene (Malcolm), Lisa Gann (Brad) both of Marietta, and Kimberly Sanchez (Tiny) of Raton, N.M.; three sisters, Ann Pharr of Marietta, Carol Taylor (W. F.) of Adel, GA. and Judy Suggs of Lenox, GA.; eight grandchildren, J. D. Greene, Brody Green, Ryker Greene, Georgia Gann, Marisa Gann, Skyler Gann all of Marietta, and Benjamin Sanchez and Ella Sanchez both of Raton, N.M. Condolences may be made to the family at booonevillefuneralhome.net.
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Fancade launches today for iOS and Android, offering thousands of user-created mini-games spanning almost all genres | Articles
Fancade is a charming, passion-filled racer, platformer, puzzler, and video game creation toolset & distribution platform all rolled into one. It's the latest game from acclaimed developer Martin Magni, and it's finally launched today for iOS and Android.
The genres mentioned above could pretty much go on indefinitely. The point being that the breadth of games already playable on Fancade is quite incredible. Beyond more standard genres, I've seen weird physics experiments, silly recreations of other games, and more.
The number of titles offering creative modes has definitely increased in recent years, especially on console and PC, but within the world of mobile gaming, I can't think of another game that delivers a made-for-mobile creative experience with the same level of elegant, smart design as Fancade.
But what really sells it is how well these bite-sized mini-games often work on touchscreen. In fact, these generally aren't experiences that would benefit from being played anywhere else.
On a practical level, the user experience is fast and fluid. Getting into a level is super easy, so even if you load up a dud, it's only a matter of seconds before you're off on your next Fancade adventure.
From my limited time with it, Magni's creation feels genuinely quirky and special, and that's before I even get into the fact that it also has a full single-player campaign to work your way through.
And remember that this is only the beginning – the levels available at launch come from the game's early access period. Fancade will only continue to grow and improve with time, and I really do hope that it forms a sizable community of creators and players that could keep it fresh for years to come.
Unlike so many games that offer a creative mode or platform, Fancade boasts dozens – perhaps hundreds – of worthwhile games to play at launch. Basically, this means that I have no qualms about recommending it in its current state, which, again, isn't something I could really say for many other, similar titles.
You'll find it available for download right now as a free-to-play game from over on the App Store and Google Play. There are ads, but you can pay to remove them for either 30 days or a full year.
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You can provide read only access to files in Class Teams if you want to share files with pupils but don't want them to be able to edit those files.
You can create a link to a Team or generate a Join Code to let them join directly without having to deal with join requests.
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Use the Mute students option if you want to stop pupil/s from posting or replying in the conversations area. This can be useful if you want to set up a team but are not ready for pupils to post to the conversations area.
Pupil to pupil private messaging is not enabled in Class Teams in Glow.
Individual conversations and conversation threads can be deleted from the Team. It may be useful to take a screen shot as evidence of a conversation before deletion.
Use Immersive Reader in Teams conversations. Click on the three dots … next to a conversation and select Immersive Reader to provide the ability to have content read aloud, adjust text size and colour.
You can Archive a team when it's no longer active. The conversations and files in the team become read-only once you archive it. All of the team activity will then be frozen and no one will be able to start new conversations or reply to posts in a channel.
Microsoft have provided a Teams interactive demo that will give you a guided tour to help you understand the app and learn the key features of Teams.


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Wendy's Salutes Veterans and Active Military with FREE Breakfast*
November 7, 2022, 6:00 AM ·3 min read
Wendy's thanks America's active military and veterans with free breakfast combo* on Veterans Day
DUBLIN, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Wendy's Celebrates Veterans and Active U.S. Military Members with FREE Breakfast Combo Offer* on Veterans Day
In honor of Veterans Day, Wendy's® is thanking those who have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Military with a FREE breakfast combo offer* with valid military ID or a Veterans Advantage card.
Whether you're a fan of the Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant, Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit or crowd favorite Breakfast Baconator® combo, the offer is a small gesture of gratitude for the men and women who work tirelessly to protect our country.
WHERE & WHEN:
Those who have served or are currently serving are invited to visit their participating Wendy's location on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11 from 6:30 – 10:30 a.m. Please check your local Wendy's as breakfast hours may vary by location.
Redeeming the offer is simple – veterans and active military simply need to show a valid military ID or a Veterans Advantage card in-store or at the drive-thru* to enjoy a morning meal on Wendy's.
The Wendy's family consists of many veterans, including its very own founder, Dave Thomas, who was a veteran himself when he opened the first Wendy's restaurant. Dave joined the Army at the age of 18 and served for two and a half years during the Korean War before returning home in 1953.
To say thank you all year-round, service members enrolled in Veterans Advantage, a veteran-founded public benefit corporation, can get Wendy's perks all year at participating Wendy's restaurants nationwide. For more information on how to enroll to take advantage of the exclusive offers, visit www.wendys.com/veterans-advantage.
ABOUT WENDY'S:
Wendy's was founded in 1969 by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio. Dave built his business on the premise, "Quality is our Recipe®," which remains the guidepost of the Wendy's system. Wendy's is best known for its made-to-order square hamburgers, using fresh, never frozen beef**, freshly-prepared salads, and other signature items like chili, baked potatoes and the Frosty® dessert. The Wendy's Company (Nasdaq: WEN) is committed to doing the right thing and making a positive difference in the lives of others. This is most visible through the Company's support of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® and its signature Wendy's Wonderful Kids® program, which seeks to dramatically increase the number of adoptions of children waiting in North America's foster care systems. Today, Wendy's and its franchisees employ hundreds of thousands of people across more than 6,800 restaurants worldwide with a vision of becoming the world's most thriving and beloved restaurant brand. For details on franchising, connect with us at www.wendys.com/franchising. Visit www.wendys.com and www.squaredealblog.com for more information and connect with us on Twitter and Instagram using @wendys, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendys.
*Free breakfast combo includes a coffee or carbonated soft drink, breakfast sandwich and seasoned potatoes. Offer available at participating U.S. Wendy's® during breakfast hours on November 11, 2022 only. One per person with veterans or military ID. Cannot be combined with other offers. Not valid for digital or delivery orders. Premium beverage upgrade is an additional charge.
**Fresh beef available in the contiguous U.S., Alaska, and Canada.
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Q: Imprimir mensagem na pagina após o echo Ao preencher um formulário em HTML, coloquei para aparecer em PHP na outra página. Porém ao preencher o formulário é chamado a outra página e os valores ficam só na URL e não é mostrado o "echo" na página. Segue abaixo o código que usei em HTML  e PHP
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HTML - <form method="POST" action="p1.php">
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PHP - <?php
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A: Olá, o seu código está certo. O que que tens que fazer é certificar que estas a correr a pagina no servidor, tens que poder acessar a sua pagina por exemplo assim http://localhost/index.php em vez de file:///C:/xampp/htdocs//index.php

A: Seu código está correto, deve funcionar perfeitamente.
Algumas causas comuns que podem afetar iniciantes:

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*Não ter um interpretador instalado em sua máquina;

Resolver isto é simples. Basta instalar um emulador de servidor, como o WAMP: Site oficial do Wamp

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*Esquecer de colocar o código PHP dentro do arquivo e organizá-lo em pastas.

No seu caso, basta que o seu p1.php esteja com o código PHP, e na mesma pasta que seu index.php;

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*Problemas com o CSS;

Verifique se o CSS não interfere na sua página.
Recomendo dar um var_dump no seu $valor. Basta adicionar isso abaixo do seu echo: var_dump($valor). Ele irá te retornar o tipo da variável e seu valor.


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The Disappointing but Expected End to the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
Naziah Roberts
The opinions expressed in this article are the writer's own and do not reflect the views of Her Campus.
The summer of 2020: when the rest of the world realized living in the United States as a black person isn't as "equal" as it should be. The Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Jacob Blake (and way too many before them) flooded both social media and city streets with the undeniable truth: Black lives are stolen by police, the people who we thought were supposed to protect us, as well as people trying to act like them. It's for this reason that the Kenosha unrest shooting carried out by Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't a surprise, but devastating nonetheless.
First, a quick recap on the Kenosha unrest shooting. On August 23, 2020, a 29-year-old black man named Jacob Blake was shot seven times by officer Rusten Sheskey, and the shooting was followed by rallies, protests, marches and property damage. On August 25, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony M. Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz with a semi-automatic AR-15 style rifle. Rittenhouse traveled from his hometown of Antioch, Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin to the protests to "protect businesses" and "provide medical aid" and left with charges of first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, reckless endangering and illegal possession of a weapon by a minor.
The trial began on November 2, and the verdict was announced on November 19 — after 3 ½ days of jury deliberation. The illegal possession of a weapon by a minor charge was dropped due to a loophole regarding the length of the barrel of the gun and Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all four other counts. Completely unarmed Black men and boys have been shot and killed on sight for just looking suspicious, but a white, underage vigilante who killed two innocent people walked away scot-free. Upon first glance, it sounds like a shock. How could our so-called justice system fail so badly? To the entire Black community, this was anything but a shock; it was expected. Even after an entire Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and the summer protests of 2020, one thing has always been clear: justice is few and far between for Black people in the United States. From Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy who was killed by an officer for carrying a replica toy gun to Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Black boy who was shot and killed by a "neighborhood watchmen" for walking home with a bag of Skittles, neither families received justice, and the list sadly goes on. Black people, especially Black men have never been seen as equal in the courtroom, and are almost always assumed to be criminals. Kyle Rittenhouse, on the other hand, a man who killed two people with a firearm he legally shouldn't have been carrying in the first place, is "innocent."
With all this being said, we have to ask ourselves: what can we do to fix this? I can't give you the answer, and no one else can, because there isn't a straightforward answer. How do you fix a system that was broken from the beginning? All I know is that it'll take a massive overhaul and a lot of time. One can only hope that one day, Black people will be able to walk out of the house without fear that they'll never return.
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Naziah Roberts is a junior at UCF majoring in Clinical Psychology and minoring in Early Childhood Development and Education and Social Inequality and Diversity. You can often find her trying out a new dessert recipe, making a new Spotify playlist, or reading about astrology when she isn't busy learning about the inner workings of the human mind! She is pursuing a career as a Clinical Psychologist for underprivileged children.
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The FES Offloading Hose End Valve (commonly referred to as a "North Sea Valve") provides safe, leak free storage and connection of cargo offloading hoses, prior to fluid transfer.
Fitted to the end of cargo offloading hoses, the FES Offloading Hose End Valve is designed to be compatible with all existing transfer connections and can also be supplied as part of the FES complete Cargo Offloading Hose Reel System. Interfacing with the offloading vessel, the valve assembly helps to ensure a leak free connection during offloading activities.
A standard 20", 300# design utilizing FES's technical experience in the fluid transfer sector provides a complete solution with design, analysis and testing in accordance with the latest industry standards. Verification of design, manufacture and testing can be completed with full third-party accreditation (DNV, ABS and Lloyd's Register among others).


New Jersey's Department of Health and Senior Services has launched a website that provides inspection reports from 260 licensed or certified ambulatory surgery centers. THe website is to be expanded to include inspection data for additional licensed health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. "We are giving consumers easy access to more information so they are empowered to make more informed health care choices," said Health and Senior Services Commissioner Mary E. O'Dowd. "Inspection reports are another tool that consumers can use when making health care decisions." Inspections of Ambulatory Surgery Centers are undertaken on a three yearly cycle to ensure compliance with state standards and every four years for compliance with federal regulations. In addition, inspections can be conducted in response to complaints.


Discussion in 'Kingdom Discussion' started by YesNoMaybeSo, Feb 11, 2019.
I figured I'd just take the time and thank the staff for working hard on the server. Even through all of the chaos and the constant "LAG!" spam in chat, I'm sure we all appreciate what the staff do, so any staff reading this give yourself a pat on the back cause you guys make it worthwhile for all us plebs. Even with the server being fairly new (at least to beta) you guys still work hard and put effort in each day.
Keep up the great work that you do to help better the community, server, and every players experience!
Thanks for your nice comment we are trying to do our best.
Wow, it is really great to know that people care and appreciate the work that the staff team put in, especially the devs, Lauren and the admins. Thanks for taking the time to make this post and i hope you enjoy your time on the savage games network.
Thank you so much for your appreciation. Even though I am not a Kingdoms staff member, I know that Kingdoms has had a lot of issues lately. However, I know that they are being resolved as soon as they can. It's players like you that let the staff fully appreciate their job. We truly appreciate players like you. It's a rare thing when we are complimented, so I just wanted you to know that it is appreciated.
Appreciate you taking the time to say this. Players don't realize what staff go through sometimes.
Thank you for taking the time to wright this. I am a fairly new member of staff but can say they are all an awesome bunch of people. I myself am not involved with the kingdoms team but i know they have been working hard at getting things to run as smooth as possible.


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Kosmin, Paul J. 2014. The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 448. Publisher's Version Abstract
The Seleucid Empire (311–64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan—the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests—the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the ancestral homeland of the dynasty. The Land of the Elephant Kings investigates how the Seleucid kings, ruling over lands to which they had no historic claim, attempted to transform this territory into a coherent and meaningful space.
Based on recent archaeological evidence and ancient primary sources, Paul J. Kosmin's multidisciplinary approach treats the Seleucid Empire not as a mosaic of regions but as a land unified in imperial ideology and articulated by spatial practices. Kosmin uncovers how Seleucid geographers and ethnographers worked to naturalize the kingdom's borders with India and Central Asia in ways that shaped Roman and later medieval understandings of "the East." In the West, Seleucid rulers turned their backs on Macedonia, shifting their sense of homeland to Syria. By mapping the Seleucid kings' travels and studying the cities they founded—an ambitious colonial policy that has influenced the Near East to this day—Kosmin shows how the empire's territorial identity was constructed on the ground. In the empire's final century, with enemies pressing harder and central power disintegrating, we see that the very modes by which Seleucid territory had been formed determined the way in which it fell apart.
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My win for today is that I started my worksheet to my internship here. Something that I have really been looking forward to, I also was able to help another student in his program and that made me feel good. I feel like I am making great progress in my life. I also went to church this, morning and started my week off great.


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MCI response to PQ on Progress of Singapore's E-sports Scene and Info-Communications and Media Professionals Required to Support Games Sector
Parliament Sitting on 2 August 2022
45. Mr Melvin Yong Yik Chye: asked the Minister for Communications and Information (a) how has Singapore's e-sports scene grown during the COVID-19 pandemic; and (b) whether the Ministry can provide an update on whether the industry has managed to fill the estimated 2,700 info-communications and media professionals to support the games sector, which was identified in IMDA's Annual Survey on Infocomm Media Manpower 2019.
1. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growth of esports globally, with its worldwide audience expected to grow +8.7% year on year, crossing 500 million in 2022.
2. Southeast Asia is a key growth market for esports. Singapore recently hosted esports tournaments such as Garena's Free Fire World Series, which saw record viewership across multiple online platforms. As digital experiences expand in breadth and scope, esports will likely grow in popularity.
3. Esports is part of a vibrant games sector in Singapore, which has created diverse job opportunities over the years. Singapore is home to game developers and publishers, including major game studios like Bandai Namco and homegrown Mighty Bear Games, which in turn create good jobs in content creation, product management, UI/UX design, and business development.
4. IMDA's Annual Survey on Infocomm Media Manpower provides an indicative sense of manpower demand based on companies' expectations of growth. This could be influenced by business sentiments and market conditions, among other factors. The 2,700 figure is thus not a target. Actual job creation will also likely differ.
5. In 2021, nearly 2,000 people were employed in the games sector. As is generally the case with the tech sector worldwide, there is still a shortage of skilled talent.
6. The Government will continue to look into ways to support growth in this dynamic space, including by enabling more jobs for Singaporeans, and training them with relevant skills to take on these emerging opportunities.


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Henry Frederick Wickham (Shrewton, 26 oktober 1866 - Iowa City, 17 november 1933) was een Amerikaans entomoloog en paleontoloog.

Henry Frederick Wickham werd geboren in Shrewton, Engeland in 1866 en verhuisde in 1871 naar Iowa in de Verenigde staten. Nadat hij in 1894  zijn studie aan de Universiteit van Iowa voltooide, werd hij hoogleraar entomologie en zoölogie aan dezelfde universiteit. Hij werkte ook voor het US. Bureau of Entomology en maakte in dat kader een aantal reizen naar plaatsen in het westen van Amerika om de keverfauna daar in kaart te brengen en insecten te verzamelen. Hij was gespecialiseerd in kevers (coleoptera) en beschreef veel keversoorten, nieuw voor de wetenschap. Daarnaast beschreef hij meer dan 230 nieuwe soorten van uitgestorven kevers aan de hand van gevonden fossielen en fossielen die door anderen zoals Samuel Hubbard Scudder verzameld waren. Zijn collectie wordt bewaard in het Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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Behzad originated the role of 'Abe' in Disgraced, which he performed at American Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, and the Mark Taper Forum at Center Theatre Group. He has worked extensively on stage at some of the best theaters in the country, especially in Chicago, where he is a proud company member at Time Line Theatre Company, and a founding member of The Chicago Inclusion Project. On screen, you can see him as 'Simon Drake' in Seasons 3 and 4 of How To Get Away With Murder on ABC, and as 'Amir' in The Chi, on Showtime.


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Mike found meaningful work early in his career, but was constantly intrigued by how people engaged in their work and what led to team success. When teams were doing well, he noticed better communication and clear direction. When teams struggled, it was because they weren't on the same page and they didn't appreciate each other's unique strengths and contributions.
He began reading and researching what impacts business success and found some common themes. People and healthy organizational dynamics (culture) are the primary drivers of success. Strategy matters but leadership is everything.
What was once simple intrigue, became the passion and the cornerstone for Sagency. When he founded Sagency in 2011, he was (and still is) eager to take on the challenge of guiding clients to achieve healthy growth.
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Developing the capabilities of people.
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The latest developments in the search for better treatments and a cure for macular disease.
Webinar to explore the latest in research and treatment for DMO
Posted: 13th January 2021 at 10:04
The first condition of our condition-specific Virtual Clinic of 2021 will take place later this month, focusing on diabetic macular oedema (DMO)
Medical research at risk
Posted: 7th January 2021 at 17:12
The progress of macular research is under threat as the coronavirus could leave a huge hole in medical research funding.
What's the latest in research and how can you get involved in clinical trials?
Last year we launched our Virtual Clinics – a series of webinars bringing you closer to the experts.
'A cure in George's lifetime would mean everything'
Posted: 21st December 2020 at 10:00
"I remember how we felt when George was diagnosed, we were absolutely devastated, because you start thinking about a 6-year-old boy, and the fact that he'd lost quite a lot of sight so quickly. It was just beyond comprehension."
New treatment for wet AMD approved for NHS patients
Posted: 16th December 2020 at 10:00
A new treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which would could see patients receiving as few as four injections a year, has been approved for use in England and Wales.
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Posted: 3rd December 2020 at 08:50
Do you have late-stage dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? If so, researchers have renewed their calls for your help.


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Q: Framed singular knots I've recently run across what one might (and I suspect people probably do) call framed singular knots, or maybe singular ribbon knots. Regardless of the name, what I mean is the following: Let $D$ be the disc and $T=S^{1}\times D$ the solid torus. Then I would like to consider smooth immersions $f:T\to S^{3}$ with the property that:

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*$f\mid_{S^{1}}:S^{1}\to S^{3}$ (here $S^{1}$ is the first factor in $T$) is a smooth immersion.

*$f\mid_{S^{1}}$ has only finitely many double points.

*The crossings of $f\mid_{S^{1}}$ are transverse.

*$f\mid_{S^{1}}$ has no $k$-points for $k>2$.

One can make sense of ambient isotopy in the usual way. Such maps have been studied by various authors in the absense of a framing, i.e. just examining $f\mid_{S^{1}}$. For instance:

Joan S. Birman, "New Points of View in Knot Theory," Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 28, Number 2, April 1993

There the Reidemeister moves for singular knots are given, and they are exactly what you would expect. The proof, of course, relies on the usual singularity theory of Arnol'd. My question is:
Question: Is anyone aware of a similar result for framed singular knots?
In principle I can return to Arnol'd's singularity theory and attempt to rederive a Reidemeister theorem, but I'd like to avoid re-inventing the wheel if possible.


Fast and furious or slow and steady? It's so easy for us to feel like there's no choice but to do more — and do it faster — in our instant, on-demand world.
But that can be draining, especially for us introverts.
And it can lead to feeling overwhelmed. Burned out. Immobilised, even.
I know… because it's a lesson I've had to learn first-hand.
Even as a little girl, I was driven to start my own business. Forget daydreaming about enchanted castles — I wanted a briefcase and my own payroll to follow in the footsteps of the person I most admired, my dad. So when I started out in earnest, my vision was clear. Like so many of the introverts I know, I've always been quietly ambitious (and just a bit of a perfectionist).
I had the highest expectations of myself and wanted to achieve success. Quickly.
But by taking on too many things — and giving in to that fast-and-furious mentality — I found myself gasping for air long before I reached the finish line.
The result? My health suffered. My family and relationships suffered. And my own sense of who I am suffered.
Until, that is, I realised the cliché really is true (as many successful, introverted business leaders shared with me too): It's a marathon, not a sprint.
That shift in my thinking helped me restart, recharge and move forward in a more sustainable way that felt … well … comfortable and authentic.
And as a result, I had the energy to go farther than before.
There are more parallels than you might think between running a marathon and running (and marketing) your own business. (Granted, those of you who know me personally know a marathon isn't on my long list of goals, but the analogy still holds true!) Here are a few keys.
Usually deciding to run a marathon means lots of planning, preparation and goal setting. Which marathon is right for you? When and how will you train? Do you need a running partner? What's your target time? How will you stay healthy and fit?
These questions apply to runners just as well as they apply to those of us who set out to quietly market our own business.
A clear goal and a clear plan — that's the starting point, whether you're in your runners toeing the start line or developing your business' marketing plan.
If you have run a marathon (or trained for any other gruelling physical task) then you know that rest days can be just as important as training days.
Your training regime (or your self-promotion and marketing strategy in this case) needs to be balanced too. You need both endurance and strength to run a marathon, and both require some recovery time for your muscles. Same goes for being an introverted businesswoman; you need balance in the day-to-day approach to your larger goals.
For me, that meant prioritising what I value most — my kids and family — and making sure I made time in my schedule for the things that nourish and energise me.
Of course, there's a sense of competition if you're in a throng of runners waiting to hear "go". But here's the thing: You're really running your own race. Maybe you want to achieve a new personal best. Maybe you're overcoming an injury and aiming to finish the marathon in good health, regardless of time. Maybe you just want to enjoy yourself and see what happens.
In other words, you don't need to look around you to determine what you "should" be doing. Speed isn't everything. Set out at a pace you can maintain — and feel good about — as you work your way towards your finish line.
As I learned, you'll be far more likely to succeed when you aren't sprinting out of the gates and comparing yourself to others.
Dozens of other introverted entrepreneurs who I spoke to agree on approaching self-promotion as a marathon, not a sprint.
They may have reached the conclusion in different ways or for different reasons, but the main message was the same.
Again, set a goal. Go at your own pace. Don't worry about the other people running around you — they might be headed an entirely different direction anyway!
Think of it as a few thoughtful high-fives (or some much-needed Gatorade!) on your way through the course.
In other words, get started.
When it comes to marketing your business as an introvert, remember that we're all on our own track with our own finish line — and you're the pacesetter.
Samantha Juraschka's article on Medium makes a valuable point too: "You're never really done." The race is part of the bigger process. And once you run one marathon, achieve one goal, what do you do? Start preparing for the next challenge. You take that stamina you've built, those lessons you've learned, and apply them again.
Going farther, achieving more, feeling more confident each time.
Self-promotion can become easier with some training and practice, just like a marathon (note I said easier, not easy!). And, as the 39 introverted entrepreneurs I spoke to shared, you can do it in a way that feels authentic to who you are.
This is just the beginning. Get the guide to discover more best practices for promoting yourself the cozy way (and stay tuned here for more tips).
I'd also love to hear in the comments below how you've managed to shift your marketing and promotional efforts to embrace the marathon mentality. Let me know!


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Q: Does Cloud Functions for Firebase make firebase-queue obsolete? I have written some server-side code to use firebase-queue](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-queue) for scalability, however, with the release of Cloud Functions for Firebase (and its promise of automatic scalability), I am wondering if there is any need for Queue...Has anyone out there combined these two technologies to a greater purpose? Specifically to Firebase developers like @Frank van Puffelen, will Functions replace firebase-queue?

A: I don't think Firebase cloud functions should render firebase-queue obsolete, and I don't think it's illogical at all to want to combine firebase-queue with cloud functions as @@Frank van Puffelen has said.
Firebase-queue provides much more than a way for tasks to listen to firebase and launch tasks.  It provides a protocol for communication between parties assigning and and responding to task requests, coordinating retries of failed tasks, reporting progress, state and additional metadata.   One of the things this allows is task chaining.
I think it would be useful for Firebase or a third party to develop a firebase-functions-queue package that extends the firebase-functions and allows you to write a firebase cloud function with the same signature as firebase-queue. Something like this:
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const functions-queue = require('firebase-functions-queue'); //extends firebase-functions with onQueue function

admin.initializeApp(functions.config().firebase);

functions.database.ref('/queue').onQueue(options,function(data,progress,resolve,reject){
    ...
    })

This new package would work just like firebase-queue and use the same metadata and options, except it wouldn't need to deal with managing multiple worker processes since cloud functions already do this automatically and seamlessly.
This would have the following advantages:

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*Would allow firebase developers to use a standard way of assigning jobs to queues, monitor progress, failure, etc.

*An app could assign a job to a queue and not care if it was being handled by a cloud function or a different environment.

*A developer could take an existing queue and move it from their node server to  cloud functions without changing the client app.

*It could even allow task chaining where one task could be handled by a cloud function and another by a different server within the same job.

A: I don't think it's as simple as saying it replaces firebase-queue. Ideally, you would use Functions for most of the common use cases for firebase-queue.
However, there are probably also some legitimate reasons to use firebase-queue anyway.

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*It's a pretty robust queuing system that allows you to use multi-state tasks and allows you to set the number of workers.

*It runs in an environment you specify instead of App Engine (you could install binaries on your server that aren't available in GAE).

*Could be cheaper depending on specifics of bandwidth vs invocations.

*It can contact third party endpoints for free, while Functions requires a paid account for these.

*Functions are still in Beta and don't offer an SLA, they also currently have some startup latencies that wouldn't be experienced in firebase-queue (this point should become invalid around GA release time).

A: firebaser here
I'm not sure if firebase-queue is not obsolete. Time will have to tell.
But we definitely now use Cloud Functions for Firebase in a lot of scenarios where we'd previously have used firebase-queue and a node worker process. No longer needing to bring our own Node.js process gives an increase in development speed. The auto-scaling of Cloud Functions has proven to be invaluable already.
Combining Cloud Functions with firebase-queue seems illogical. If you simply append nodes to the database and consume them in your function, you have the same behavior without needing the extra library.
Update: one of our database engineers just gave a scenario where Functions can't replace the queue. When making backups, the workers need to mount and unmount remote disks. That task may be possible in a Cloud Function, it is much easier to do in a standalone, self-managed Node process.


It's interesting to note that WI-FI areas are not limited to major public destinations like the Main Rome Terminal, but it's now provided even to small neighborhoods or communities like our own. It's been sometime that I've been noticing people playing with their laptops on the tables outside the bar just down our building. Then just last week I noticed the sign at the top of the post.So it's a welcome development not only for our area but also to the society as a whole.


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Q: Help with Wikibooks WikiDraw Obj-C application I decided to start learning some Obj-C. And I thought that Wikibooks wikidraw application would be a good place to start (after some very basic "Hello World" programs). I've followed the chapters and now I'm at the end of "WikiDraws view class". So now I'm supposed to be able to compile and run. Of course it dosen't work. I got a lot of errors at first but i have fixed most of them, only 6 remaining. This is one of them:
    - (void)                mouseDragged:(NSPoint) pt
{
    NSPoint np;
    np.x = pt.x - _anchor.x;
    np.y = pt.y - _anchor.y;
    if ( _dragState == 0) {
        // dragging of object
        [self offsetLocationByX:np.x byY:np.y];
        }
     else if ( _dragState >= 1 && _dragState < 9 )
    {
        // dragging a handle
        NSRect nb = [self newBoundsFromBounds:[self bounds] forHandle:_dragState withDelta:np];
        [self setBounds:nb];
        }
    }

- (NSRect) newBoundsFromBounds:(NSRect) old forHandle:(int) whichOne withDelta:(NSPoint) p
{
    // figure out the desired bounds from the old one, the handle being dragged and the new point.
NSRect nb = old;

switch( whichOne )
{ ..........

So at
     NSRect nb =  [self newBoundsFromBounds:...
 I get an error message, "Invailid initializer" and "WKDShape may not respond to '-newBoundsFromBounds:forHandle:withDelta:"- . What should I do? I'm new to coding but eager to learn.
/Carl-Philip

A: Assuming you've pasted that code in the order written in your source code and newBoundsFromBounds:forHandle:withDelta: isn't declared (as distinct from being defined) at some earlier point, I think the problem is just that at nb = [self newBoundsFromBounds:... the compiler doesn't yet know what the return type will be. An NSRect is a C-style struct rather than an Objective-C class, so the compiler really does need to know.
As a solution, either put the definition of newBoundsFromBounds:... before mouseDragged:, add it to the @interface in your header file if you want it to be exposed to everyone or declare it internally to the implementation file as a category method. To do the final one, add the following to the top of your .m, assuming your class is called WikiDrawsView:
@interface WikiDrawsView (private)
- (NSRect)newBoundsFromBounds:(NSRect) old
                    forHandle:(int) whichOne
                    withDelta:(NSPoint) p;
@end

The 'private' is just a name you get to pick, it has no special meaning. Something like 'private' is often used to signify that you're using a category in a similar way that you might use private class member functions in C++ or a language like that.
The quick way to describe categories is that they patch additional methods onto existing classes at runtime, and they use the @interface [classname] ([category name]) syntax, with no member variable section. I'm sure your tutorial will get to them, Apple's documentation on them is here. This is a common use of categories but not the primary use.

A: To address the "WKDShape may not respond" warning, make sure you declare -newBoundsFromBounds:forHandle:withDelta: before -mouseDragged:. You can add it to the public interface in "WKDShape.h", or in an anonymous category in "WKDShape.m".


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from MON 6:00 PM CST until WED 6:00 AM CST, Cherokee County
Houston woman's house floods due to busted pipe
By Stephen Morgan, FOX 26 News
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - A Houston woman is facing yet another disaster, this time, because of the freezing temperatures that led to a busted pipe in her home.
"I really can't believe this happened. Again. I got to go through all of this again," said Mary Siddiqui as water poured onto the main floor of the home she's lived in since 2009.
Siddiqui's home was also damaged during Harvey.
"Fixing everything here and this is what I got, a busted pipe in the house," said a tearful Siddiqui.
The weather was apparently too cold for the copper lines in Siddiqui's ceiling, busting some time on Wednesday while she was gone.
"And I came back about 3-something and this was going on," said Siddiqui.
Water pouring from above and with no plans of stopping. Not sure what to do, Siddiqui called 9-1-1 and says the fire department responded and attempted to turn off the water. They then told Mary to spend the night somewhere else because it wasn't safe for her to stay.
"But when I got back here this morning, the water was still on. Still going on in the house," said Siddiqui.
We were there when the Houston Fire Department returned to check on the water dumping onto Siddiqui's main floor, now flooded by a couple of inches, making a bigger mess for a lady who thought the worst was over when Harvey left.
"I can't believe it," said Siddiqui. "This happened to me."
This time the water was turned off, but after nearly 24 hours of a nonstop deluge, Siddiqui has another disaster to clean up.
"So I'm going to have to take myself a little break and go somewhere because this is too much overwhelming here," said Siddiqui. Fortunately, insurance has already said they'll help.
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