Are all Eurostar™ services direct?
How often do Eurostar™ services operate?
What stations do Eurostar™ services depart from?
Do all stations have step-free access?
What is the journey time for London to Disneyland® Paris?
How far is Marne-la-Vallee/Chessy from the Disney® Parks and Disney® Hotels?
What is the difference between Standard and Standard Premier Tickets?
What is Disney Express luggage service and how do I use it?
What documents do I need to take with me while travelling with Eurostar™?
Do I need to check-in before the departure?
Are the trains accessible for the Guests with disabilities?
Can I book my Disneyland® Paris package with Eurostar™ tickets?
Do infants/toddlers get a seat on Eurostar™ service?
What does the UK Home Office legislation regarding Exit Checks mean for me?
Are there passport control facilities at Marne-la-Vallée/Chessy when departing Disneyland Paris?
Eurostar™ offer both direct and indirect services to Disneyland® Paris. The direct service operates once a day excluding Tuesdays, Saturdays and Thursdays. However, during school holidays direct trains run on additional days of the week. The indirect services run daily. For information on Eurostar™ packages to Disneyland® Paris, visit our Travelling by Rail linked below.
When a direct service is operational, trains run once a day to Disneyland® Paris, however the indirect trains run regularly several times a day. Please search our website www.disneyholidays.co.uk/disneyland-paris/ for more information about times and availability.
Both direct and indirect services depart from St Pancras International (located in central London with easy transport connections), Ebbsfleet International (located in in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, just minutes from M25, Junction 2) or Ashford International stations (located in Ashford, Kent linked by local train services from Kent and East Sussex).
Yes, all stations have step-free access for guests. However, please note that there will be no step-free access at Ashford International from 23rd August until 10th October 2017 as the lifts are being serviced.
If you're using the direct service from St Pancras International, it takes 2h 45m to get to Disneyland® Paris. If you're travelling via Lille, the estimated travel time is only 3h 18m. (Times from Ebbsfleet and Ashford are slightly less).
Marne-la-Vallee/Chessy station is located in the heart of Disneyland® Paris - just a few minutes' walk away from the Disney® Parks and Disney® Hotels. Our Disneyland® Paris map highlighting the location is included within our mini guide which you will receive in your travel documentation pack.
In addition to all the comfort that Standard class offers you, with Standard Premier you will get more room to stretch out in a reclining seat, as well as a light meal and a drink served at your seat. Walt Disney Travel Company offers both tickets as part of a Eurostar™ inclusive package. You can find out more about pricing and availability on our website.
Disney Express is included only on direct Eurostar™ services. It gives you the opportunity to head straight to the Disney® Parks on arrival into Marne-la-Vallee/Chessy station, meaning you can start your magical adventure in no time at all.
You'll get your Disney Express luggage labels onboard the direct train to Disneyland® Paris. Upon arrival at Marne-la-Vallee/Chessy train station, simply drop off your luggage at the Disney Express desk and it will be taken to your Disney® Hotel straight away. You will then be able to collect it when you check into your Disney® Hotel later that day.
You can now choose to add the Disney Express luggage service when you are travelling indirect via Lille and if you have booked your Eurostar™ travel independently. This service can be added for £14 per person. You will not receive luggage tags with these travel options, however, when you arrive at Marne-la-Vallee/Chessy train station, simply drop off your luggage at the Disney Express desk and it will be taken to your Disney® Hotel straight away.To add Disney Express luggage service to your booking, please contact our Disney Experts on 0800 16 90 737.
On the journey home, whether you're travelling direct, indirect or if you've booked your Eurostar independently, you'll be able to collect your luggage from the Disney Express desk at the station before you board the train.
All passengers including infants must have their valid passports and train tickets with them at all times throughout the journey.
Yes, you need to check-in at the station at least 30 minutes before the departure. We advise you to arrive at the station 50 minutes before departure to make sure you have time to check-in and enjoy the start of your magical holiday. Detailed check-in information will be included within your travel documentation.
Eurostar do not impose any weight restrictions for your luggage. If you are travelling with an adult ticket, you can take up to 2 pieces of luggage and 1 small piece of hand luggage, each bag can be up to 85cm long at its widest point. You are permitted to take 4 bottles or cans of beer and 1 bottle of wine per person on Eurostar. No spirits are permitted.
There are accessible fares available for guests with disabilities, so please call 0800 169 0737 to speak to one of our Disney Experts, who will be able to assist with your request. Please note that the passengers will need to use their own wheelchairs if required.
Yes, you can book a Eurostar™ transport inclusive Disney package with the Walt Disney Travel Company. To check availability and pricing, please visit our website www.disneyholidays.co.uk.
Children under 4 do not get a seat on the trains and will need to sit on their parent's lap. However, if you'd like a seat for your little one please call our Disney Experts on 0800 169 0737.
The legislation requires identity checks for all travellers exiting the UK.
Eurostar and P&O Ferries have travel documentation checks (i.e. passport, identity card, group passport) across their terminals and ports. We would advise you to allow plenty of time to pass through the terminal or port and have your travel documentation to hand.
No. Travellers passports will need to be checked upon arrival back in the UK. This might mean that you'll need to queue for a short time at your destination station.


Went back to our new multi-pitch crag with Joe on Saturday. This crag sends down two legs from a steep upper section and is a bit like Hopalong Cassidy – the left leg being shorter than the right. We had previously, with Cearbhall, climbed the right leg, so, on Saturday, inspired by the goings-on in France, we opted for the left. It gave a good, value-for-money, 3-pitch VS, with the final pitch providing the crux at 4c. As luck would have it, Joe drew the short straw and had to cope with the two hardest pitches, the first and the last, but he managed admirably. He named the route The Old Curiosity, and full details will follow soon.
Earlier, we had paid a flying visit to A Nudder granite crag, situated in the same area – give or take 50k – and put up two routes in the 4a/4b category.
Not only that, but on another occasion we paid a vist to the little-known and secluded Rushy Glen, where, on a steep, in-your-face crag, we put up some more routes in the VS/HVS grades.


Identifying the next big thing and catching the right wave to ride is everyone's dream . That has been the constant quest for business to succeed no matter what industry they are in. With disruption happening across industries, in the last decade there had been a lot of startups that are buzzing with technology as the key enabler to disrupt.
Looking at the last decade of disruptions – an online website killed brick and mortar book stores first ( Amazon vs. Barnes & Nobles), and slowly they started dominating selling pretty much everything on the earth including turkeys for thanksgiving. Startups to Big companies are in constant quest for this next big thing to create a breakthrough in the industry. The breakthrough could be anything like an iPhone, iPod , Search advertising or even a simple app like Whatsapp ( to remind it was worth 19 Billion USD) or even a platform like Windows or Android. The one common thing among them - other than making huge money for business, the disruption had real impact on people. The scale at which it swept the whole world was enormous.
Sharing Economy based ideas / Peer to Peer Economy : Almost 70% of the business ideas submitted were on this space, were the focus was about sharing an additional resource which some one own. The business ideas try to help end provider earn money effectively using that resource by sharing and also provide value addition for the end customer. The main company that is building the infrastructural support for this system would pocket a considerable chunk of profit to themselves and by scaling across markets they would grow. The ideas proposed were around providing Car Rides, Errand work for people, Home cooked food , personal living space - houses / condos , or money for lending. All these were enabled with the help of technology , mostly an App or a website which is social. So the leading startups in this space – Airbnb ( For shared house or vacation rentals) , Uber/Lyft ( Car Rides) , Task Rabbit (Errands) , EatWith ( For food or sharing the dining experience). But for Peer to Peer lending there is yet to be a leader in the space as of now, but Facebook tried building this part of the messenger app and we are yet to see breakthrough in that. This is one space to watch as the new generation tries to rely more on a sharing economy than owning economy we were in. In the previous generation ownership value was very high and with the new trend it is going down and this space would see some successful startups in the coming years.
Education based ideas : This is one industry ripe for disruption. It is also an industry and mostly run for profit except the one which is government run. Rest of them in majority are run for profit. There were about 20% of ideas in this area around - E-learning, e-certificate management, online tutor-student matching, predictive analytics to improve student performance, alumni management, learning infrastructure like email, shared space for files etc. There have been many companies trying to disrupt this space especially breaking the university system– Massive open online courses by Coursera , Udacity and edX are some recent developments in the last few years. There are also some good open source learning management system like Moodle and the big companies like Google, Microsoft all are trying with their own products like Google Helpouts and their productivity apps customized for education sector. But yet this is one place yet to be really explored for breakthrough. Even Coursera like MOOC made the content available to the masses, the dropout rate is pretty high with the number of people who actually complete the course is low vs registering for a course. The learning outcome is yet to be measured. Also how will this really impact in people's life for better jobs, or better productivity etc. are yet to be measured successfully.
Agriculture based ideas : This is a big market and definitely needs to be enabled further with technology. In India, there was not high PC penetration, but now there is internet penetration with the help of smart phones. There were couple of good ideas with smartphone / feature phone based ideas to help the farmers and also some crowdsourcing ideas around this. Especially helping farmers to arrive at pricing in a crowd sourced way rather than relying on middle men and may be the commodity exchanges. I have not really researched on the startups in this area, but an interesting space to watch.
There were few other ideas related to security , and social reporting apps with Geo-tags. There was a lot of social and crowdsourcing aspects added to most of the ideas. It was an interesting read overall going through the various B Plan ideas, and I have been brainstorming quite some time with my friends to start some business. As always its not about the idea alone, but problem we are solving for people and the execution of that really matters for success even if that idea may not be novel. If we do a good job in showing the customers real value they would definitely make a switch even if some other alternative exists. Watching this space, in identifying the next big thing is interesting and I would continue to do.


I hope you have wonderful weekend. I wake up late today in super creative mood.
So I create 4 cards already and I love them all.
Well I made it. I'm really in recycling my leftovers.
I have big envelop full of thin strips of paper. In the past I used them to make 3" x 3" card front, but this year I was inspired by quilt suite in the catalogue and I decide to make larger pieces.
It was my best decision this Sunday !
And I love the texture of this card, and this quilted paper look.
I cut spool and needle using Quilt Builder Framelits Dies.
Sentiment from the Christmas Quilt Stamp Set match perfect this design.
Oh, how I love this card, Katarina! The embossing over top of the paper is such a great step-up for the quilted look. Beautiful! Thanks so much for playing along with this week's sketch challenge at the Global Design Project.


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UAS Advocacy Committee
Since the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) established and implemented rules for commercial and civil use of small unmanned aircraft systems (Part 107), a lot of work has been done to further shape a national UAS policy. In collaboration with industry stakeholders, the federal government has taken steps to advance UAS research, expand commercial operations, and enhance the safety and security of the National Airspace System (NAS). The 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act, proposed regulatory rulemakings, and continued government and industry partnerships will help to further move UAS forward. Still more is needed, and the following policies should be a priority for government and industry to ensure our skies remain safe and secure while advancing UAS in the U.S and around the world.
SAFETY & SECURITY: There are several facets to safety and security, including accelerating the rulemaking for remote ID, facilitating the deployment of UAS mitigation technologies and providing law enforcement with the appropriate authorities to mitigate errant or malicious UAS.
REMOTE IDENTIFICATION: Remote Identification, acting as an electronic license plate, is a foundational building block needed to unlock the potential of wide-scale commercial drone operations. Remote ID will increase safety, security, and accountability by removing anonymous operators from the system, which will also help address privacy and nuisance concerns. Establishing remote ID and tracking standards will help alleviate safety concerns raised around UAS and their increasing use, as well as facilitate the enforcement of existing state laws. It is also vital for the ultimate realization of a UAS Traffic Management system (UTM). However, the rulemaking process for remote ID is not expected to start until July 2019, and a final rule is still in the distant future. Aviation regulators should prioritize the creation of a globally harmonized remote identification standard. The industry urges our government partners to find a way to expediate this process.
UAS MITIGATION: Implementing UAS mitigation policies, technologies, and systems, which the UAS industry has been hard at work developing starts with remotely identifying and tracking drones. Regulators in the U.S. and around the world need to work swiftly to implement these solutions in a safe and effective way. Industry is willing to work with the appropriate government stakeholders to identify technologies that successfully mitigate improper use of UAS while preserving lawful commerce and avoid introducing safety risks to lawful operators.
The Role of ENFORCEMENT: Providing law enforcement with the proper authority to mitigate errant or potentially malicious UAS. The industry supported granting additional authorities to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice as part of the recent FAA reauthorization, and will continue to work with our security partners to ensure they have the appropriate authorities to keep our skies secure. Passive tools that can detect and identify UAS and their operators on the ground should be encouraged to be used broadly, in advance of authorization to use active mitigations.
CYBERSECURITY: As use of unmanned technologies expands into new applications and industries, cybersecurity becomes an important consideration for all parts of the ecosystem. During this formative period for unmanned systems, AUVSI supports the development of strong public-private partnerships to foster voluntary, risk-based approaches to data security and operations management, the development of industry-driven consensus on data management best practices and security standards that ensure critical mission information is accessed by authorized parties, and the development of industry-driven consensus security standards. Prescriptive regulation or government-imposed requirements will inhibit the flexibility necessary to effectively address a constantly evolving risk and may result in a check-list approach to security that is ineffective over time.
SPECTRUM: UAS require swaths of spectrum to function. More spectrum is needed for UAS to one day use command and control technologies at higher altitudes, detect-and-avoid systems, transmit payload data, and strengthen safe operations of UAS in the NAS. In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) grants the use of spectrum. As the FCC issues proposed rulemakings on the use of specific bands, such as 5Ghz and 6Ghz, it needs to consider future UAS operations and rely on more industry conducted research, testing, and analysis of UAS spectrum use taking place.
THE ROLE OF STATE, LOCAL & TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS: As more UAS are integrated into the NAS, state, local and tribal governments are attempting to enact legislation that gives them authority over the airspace. AUVSI acknowledges that states and localities retain their police powers over privacy and nuisance issues. However, Title 49, Part A, Section 1 of the U.S. Code, states: "The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States." This federal control of the airspace—delegated in practice by the U.S. Congress to the Federal Aviation Administration—is a bedrock principle of aviation law that dates back well over 50 years and is one of the reasons that the United States maintains an aviation safety record that is the envy of the rest of the world. AUVSI supports opportunities for state, local, and government entities to help shape national UAS policy without infringing on the FAA's jurisdiction, such as the FAA's UAS Integration Pilot Program.
PRIVACY & PROPERTY RIGHTS: The UAS industry is committed to ensuring an individual's right to privacy. As expanded operations and integration of UAS into the NAS approach, more frequent UAS operations over private property will spur legal action aimed to transfer authority of the airspace from the FAA to states, local governments, tribal governments, and property owners. This transfer jeopardizes the safe integration of UAS into the NAS by creating a patchwork of different rules that operators must navigate.
Opportunities for state, local, and government entities to shape national UAS policy on privacy without infringing on the FAA's jurisdiction over the NAS exist and should be promoted as the appropriate means of developing and safeguarding privacy concerns. For example, in 2015, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) convened representatives from government, industry, and civil liberty groups to develop a set of best practices for UAS privacy, accountability, and transparency to ensure that UAS operators are flying responsibly. The industry participated in this process, and the resulting best practices build upon the existing legal framework on privacy and provide clear guidance for operators.
COMPETITION & TRADE: Our members drive innovation, and their cutting-edge products and services are revolutionizing the way we live and work. Their innovation enables companies of all sizes to reach new markets, create jobs, and raise the standards of living. Fair and open trade, and free flow of investments, are key to UAS innovation. By opening markets, reducing barriers and regulations, and injecting more certainty and predictability into the marketplace, trade and investment agreements are key catalysts for the innovation progress that drive our global economies and markets.
A stable and open trade and investment environment further promotes technology transfer and the international harmonization of standards is essential to realizing the full potential benefits of unmanned systems. Updating multilateral arrangements, such as the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), and the U.S.'s own International Trafficking in Arms Regulation (ITAR), to reflect the advances in unmanned technology is critical to growing this market. Encouraging continued progress on both fronts will provide the conditions required to ensure adoption of unmanned technologies by today's pioneers who are laying the groundwork for the many applications of our nascent industry.
INFRASTRUCTURE: America's aging infrastructure inhibits the potential of the UAS industry, and the industry supports updating infrastructure to enable expanded operations and allow for the development of new technologies such as urban air mobility (UAM). Necessary improvements may range from updating the electrical grid to developing a UTM system to creating UAS-specific infrastructure such as vertiports that will enable takeoffs and landings from existing structures.
Additionally, a UTM system that works alongside the FAA's Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is necessary to further integrate UAS into the NAS and allow for expanded operations such as fully autonomous flights or beyond visual line of sight. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 calls for rulemaking on a UTM system, though its creation is still in its infancy. The industry urges the FAA to act swiftly to develop this system to unlock the full potential of UAS.

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Q: Updating old swift code. 'CGPointMake' no longer available is there a swifty way to re-write this code? I am new to swift and trying to create a to-do list app. The following code block is what I am working with:
//MARK: - horizontal pan gesture methods
func handlePan(recognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
  // 1
  if recognizer.state == .Began {
    // when the gesture begins, record the current center location
    originalCenter = center
  }
  // 2
  if recognizer.state == .Changed {
    let translation = recognizer.translationInView(self)
    center = CGPointMake(originalCenter.x + translation.x, originalCenter.y)
    // has the user dragged the item far enough to initiate a delete/complete?
    deleteOnDragRelease = frame.origin.x < -frame.size.width / 2.0
  }
  // 3
  if recognizer.state == .Ended {
    // the frame this cell had before user dragged it
    let originalFrame = CGRect(x: 0, y: frame.origin.y,
        width: bounds.size.width, height: bounds.size.height)
    if !deleteOnDragRelease {
      // if the item is not being deleted, snap back to the original location
      UIView.animateWithDuration(0.2, animations: {self.frame = originalFrame})
    }
  }
}

The error message:
'CGPointMake' is unavailable in Swift
Searched google and nothing specifically relating to this problem on Google to how to update this operation.
Is there a new way to preform this same function?
Please help. Thank you

A: You use the CGPoint constructor
center = CGPoint(x: originalCenter.x + translation.x, y: originalCenter.y)

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CGPoint(x: xPos, y:yPos).

Change your

CGPointMake(startX, startY) to CGPoint(x: startX, y: startY)

and you can create a CGPoint

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We were so thrilled to be Kate and Kyle's engagement photographer last month and are even more excited for their wedding at the Botanical Gardens later on this year! It was way too hard to pick out the best photos at the end of this session because they all turned out so well! Congratulations, Kate and Kyle!


HOCKET founding member, Thomas Kotcheff, has been selected as the recipient of The University of Southern California's 2015 Presser Foundation Music Award! The award is given annually to encourage and support in a special way the advanced education and career of truly exceptional graduate music students who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music.
The Presser Foundation Award will be used to finance two commercial recordings of eight newly commissioned works written for HOCKET. The first will be HOCKET's debut LP to include commissioned works by Sean Friar, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, David Werfelmann, Jeffrey Parola, and Jordan Nelson. Released soon after will be a follow up EP featuring HOCKET's collaboration with Kettle Corn New Music composers Alex Weiser, Emily Cooley, and Ryan Harper and will additionally include short works by HOCKET members Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff.
Remaining funds from The Presser Foundation Award will be used to subsidize travel costs to performances throughout the Southwest in the 2015/16 season and to help finance a documentary chronicling the process of commissioning, rehearsing, and bringing these new works to life.
HOCKET is very excited about collaborating with some of the young leaders of American composition on these new commissions and embarking on this recording project. Follow HOCKET's social media accounts and website for updates!


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Unfunded pension liabilities as the key to ageing, climate challenges?
By Susanna Rust2020-12-08T13:36:00+00:00
"If I visualise Greta, in 20-30 years' time… today's millennial generation and Generation Z have the challenge of paying into the existing pension structure, paying additional debt, and the challenge that the climate's really looking pretty bad by then, so it's really unworkable unless it's all joined up today."
Simon Daniel, CEO and co-founder of smart battery company Moixa and self-described innovator, has an idea for how pensions could be the key to delivering on the Paris climate accord. But his "net-zero pensions" idea isn't to be confused with the drive among, and for, pension funds to align investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement, because Daniel has his eye not on pension assets but on the UK's unfunded pension obligations.
These, he argues, could be redirected into net-zero carbon emission services, like energy or mobility, with the government then able to invest and allocate the future cashflow commitment today to fund debt to build low carbon infrastructure.
The state could then become a dominant purchaser of the greener energy and deliver it back to future pensioners in the form of energy as a service.
In other words, his idea links the twin challenges of ageing populations and funding net-zero delivery by 2050.
"This new net-zero doctrine can be a centrepiece of COP26 and a platform for UK leadership," says Daniel. "It radically rethinks how we meet our obligations to pensioners as societies age, while also delivering climate recovery for future generations."
He adds: "We must build, serve and create jobs for a low carbon tomorrow, as a social imperative today. The UK can provide a blueprint for the new US government and the EU to address fundamental social issues while delivering COVID recovery, ultimately enabling the world to deliver on the Paris Accord."
Data points informing Daniel's thinking include the amount of money required to achieve the low carbon energy transition, current UK debt levels, projections for ageing societies, and the proportion of the UK's £8trn pension liability spent on paying for energy and transport costs through retirement (over one-seventh, he says).
Debt must be created to fund investment for net-zero and recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, Daniel says, but it must be minimised "to avoid saturating the tax-payer and the next generation with additional tax and debt repayments".
How it would work
In terms of how Daniel's net-zero pensions would become reality, he says he envisages a number of stages, or a sort of domino effect.
It would first find application in private pensions, then among corporate defined benefit (DB) schemes before moving to the level of public DB promises and then more broadly into state pensions.
"The UK should enable an opt-in to net zero services by encouraging a regular deduction from state pensions, and allow DB scheme members to also make this choice," writes Daniel in a paper about his idea, entitled 'The social responsibility of nations is to reduce debt'.
"This swap should be emphasised in terms of its moral, economic and social benefits, particularly on the wider debt and climate debt impact. It may even be prudent to mandate it or, together with private and defined benefit scheme reliefs, require it in order to retain any triple lock mechanism on wider pension income paid as cash."
He emphasises the swap as an opt-in, however. At a corporate DB level, Daniel says enabling future pensioners to allocate part of their pension into net-zero energy and mobility services could reduce funding shortfalls.
Simon Daniel, co-founder and CEO of Moixa
"Given the £280bn missing across UK FTSE and PPF 7800 companies, there is a major opportunity for pension legislation to help schemes enable a partial opt-in to net-zero pension delivery for energy and then mobility services," he writes in his paper.
The entrepreneur adds that government policies could encourage tax relief and favourable credits where employers use assets and capabilities for internal scheme shortfalls by providing net-zero services to former employees, instead of topping up funding from profits.
"Considering the overall £280bn shortfall, a significant transfer or delivery of scheme obligations as services could crystallise significant balance sheet savings and improve FTSE performance, as well as drive a virtuous circle of internal investment in renewables, batteries, mobility technologies and jobs," Daniel writes.
Second attempt
Daniel's "net-zero pensions" resuscitates an idea that he was promoting in 2014, in connection with George Osborne's freedom and choice reform that gave individuals aged 55 and over the freedom to access their defined contribution savings as they wish.
With David Cameron, Daniel went to the Northern Future Forum, an annual informal meeting of prime ministers, business leaders and others from nine eastern European and Nordic countries plus the UK, to present the idea of 'energy pensions' – pensions that pay energy bills retirement and fund energy efficiency and term purchase of low carbon energy supply.
"It's sort of sitting been in the background, but with net-zero being legislated and the growing debt and COVID I decided to look at it again," says Daniel. "I see this as a policy initiative to foster a debate on whether the net-zero pension approach can address the funding challenge."
He says he wants to throw the idea into the mix "for the brains of the industry who are thinking about how to move the world forward through COP26 as a focus point".
He adds: "I'm not an economist, I'm a scientist and an innovator. I have had an opportunity to talk to some experts in industry who think it's a very good example of lateral thinking, but there are also sceptics."
Daniel's take on that is to say that before lockdown, people wouldn't have said what is happening today would be possible.
"The world is going through a very significant transition," he says.
"I think now is a better time to look at a once-in-a-generation change in the system to try to have a fiscal strategy to reduce the long-term liability of nations."
Daniel's paper can be found here.
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December 2020 (Magazine)
Fiscal stimulus is likely to be a common feature in the coming decade and investors need to assess how it will affect the economies of different countries and regions
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Hopefully one of the few benefits of the COVID-19 crisis will be to show that the impact of an ageing population is exaggerated. There are other key elements informing the ability of a society to provide decent pensions by whatever means.
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Animals Make Us Human: Fire and Glider
Sarah Jacob in conversation with David Lindenmayer
Animals Make Us Human is a collection of writings by scientists, storytellers and photographers, edited by Leah Kaminsky and Meg Kenneally. It is a reflection on the devastating bushfires of 2019/20 and a celebration of the fascinating and unique wildlife who call our broad continent home. Proceeds from the book support the Australian Marine Conservation Society and Australian Wildlife Conservancy. In this two-part series, two of the book's contributors delve deeper into the book's subject matter, in conversation with Right Now's Managing Editor Sarah Jacob.
David Lindenmayer is a landscape ecologist who has been conducting conservation and biodiversity research across Australia for almost four decades. His essay for Animals Make Us Human was about greater gliders.
You've been working as an ecologist for almost 40 years now. How has your view of the nature of interrelationships between human and other animals in this country changed during that time?
Our political masters have become ferociously anti-environment. The days of really good environment ministers and really well-versed high-level public servants giving frank and fearless advice are [in the past]. The vast majority of Australians are disconnected from their environment, they are more concerned about the cost of a cappuccino than trying to solve some of the serious environmental problems in this country. Sometimes that's pretty hard to come to terms with.
But after the 2019/20 bushfires, it's really changed in many ways, I've never seen so many people sending emails asking, "What can we do?" A friend of mine who was managing the Facebook page for Wildcare said they have never seen so many donations.
Almost three billion animals were killed or displaced in the fires, and I note that you said in an interview with Phillip Adams in January 2020 that you've never seen fires like this. Would you be willing to share your personal reaction to that last bushfire season?
That's true. I've never seen anything even remotely like [those fires]. I had the New South Wales fire app going the entire time. I was worried about my staff in Victoria and NSW, we were working earlier in the fire season, and there were days when we decided that the fire risk was too high to go onto people's property.
Then one evening I was driving with my wife down to see my brother, who lives in the southern part of Canberra. We came over a little rise to drop down onto the main highway, and my wife just looked at me and said "F***, look at that." The mountains were on fire.
We had been living in smoke for weeks and weeks and weeks, I had a chest infection as a result. It was just like we were living in Armageddon. It was just incredible. The scale of the fires became more and more obscene – millions, and then tens of millions of hectares of country.
My first experience of fire was in 1972, when I was a teenager. The 2009 fires burnt out my parents-in-law's farm in Victoria and I lost friends in several different places. But this year was just something again.
What do you hope this book will achieve?
I think this is a brilliant book because you have wonderful people who are writers and scientists, lots of deep and heartfelt experiences from right across Australia.
My wife is a scientist and also a very successful novelist. When I first wrote my contribution [to the book] my wife said to me, "Jeez you're a dry old boring scientist – have you got a pulse? Aren't these special animals, don't you love them?" And I said, "Yes of course I do." So I rewrote it a few times. It was a wonderful experience to be forced to think about how animals really do make us human, and why it's important to forge that link between animals and humans, and to care about the planet.
Scientists are often expected to stick to the facts and not voice an opinion or show emotion. But you've been outspoken about the threats to our natural environments. What have the consequences been for you?
It doesn't always make you popular. I've been torn to pieces in the Murdoch media, but I'm going to continue to speak out about why Australia's environment is so special and why we should do something about it.
I think it's important to show some passion. If I can't be passionate about a greater glider or an old-growth forest, having worked in these wonderful environments for almost 40 years, then who is going to get excited about it?
Being a scientist is incredibly exciting, you discover extraordinary things. Not everyone gets their rocks off looking at trend curves or simultaneous differential equations, but people do get excited about this notion that you can stand in a field in a red jacket and a male flame robin will come up and get angry with you, because they're red and you're red, which is what happens.
My story in the book is about this wonderful animal, the greater glider, it makes a living from one of the most shit diets of all time – eucalypt leaves, like the koala – except it's tiny, and most animals that only eat leaves are really big. It's an incredible story of survival and persistence in an incredibly hard environment. Australians need to know more about these animals because they don't occur anywhere else.
When my son was first born, my wife and I were working in Tumut, west of Canberra, catching greater gliders and putting radio transmitters on them, because we wanted to know how they moved through these little patches of native forests surrounded by pine plantations, which they can't live in. So there is this wonderful photo of me with my six-month-old son on one arm, and a greater glider on the other. That's my two passions – wildlife and family.
You get involved in the environment because you want your kids and other people's kids to be able to experience it and have a healthy environment to grow up in.
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Epiphone E360TD-C12 Riviera Model 12 String Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1967), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, serial # 878538, sparkling burgundy finish, laminated maple body, mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, black hard shell case.
The Epiphone Riviera C-12 string may be one of the less well remembered electric 12's of the 1960's, but is an excellent design and one of the better instruments of its kind. Generally it is the same as the 6-string Riviera, with only a non-vibrato 12-string tailpiece and a longer headstock to distinguish it.
The Epiphone mini-humbucking pickups are actually quite suited to a 12-string format, and compared to the similar Gibson ES-335/12, this guitar is crisper and clearer-toned, while still being capable of cranking up to breakup level if desired.
This fairly rare example is finished in a very dark version of the "Sparkling Burgundy" lacquer finish used by Gibson specifically around this period, and appears more purple than most. This is a cool and very useful electric 12, the favorite of at least one player -- Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys used a sunburst example of the Rivera 12 for many years in the 1960's and 70's.
Overall length is 44 1/2 in. (113 cm.), 16 in. (40.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.).
Clean overall with some moderately heavy checking to the finish. The finish overall shows some dings and chips with one noticeable gash in the back of the neck around the 10th fret. The hardware is original except for a new repro Tune-O-Matic bridge and the pickguard is a modern reproduction.
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Daylight modelling may be required for all habitable rooms, or for specific areas that are likely to be problematic, such as rooms adjacent to light courts and "saddle bag" bedroom designs. EcoResults can incorporate daylight modelling into any of our ESD reports to troubleshoot the design and demonstrate compliance with the relevant authorities best practice guidelines. Another benefit of doing Daylight Modelling is that once it is modelled, the date from the daylight model can often be reused to perform JV3 thermal modelling for Class 2-9 buildings.


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Muru-D announces its second intake for 2014 / 2015
News » Profiles » Muru-D announces its second intake for 2014 / 2015
Mat Beeche - October 20, 2014 4 MIN READ
With a successful class now under its belt the Telstra backed startup accelerator muru-D is getting ready for another round, this time with 11 promising startups selected for the program.
Powered by Telstra, muru-D provides $40,000 seed capital investment in return for six per cent equity in the business. The accelerator is a unique opportunity for start-ups to access six months of business support, a collaborative workspace, mentoring and coaching to help them grow, develop and expand.
Ann Parker, muru-D Co-founder, said, "Yet again, we've been able to uncover world class entrepreneurial talent and are delighted with the quality of applicants coming into the academy. We've seen just how significant this experience has been for our first round graduates and we can't wait to get class #2 underway.
Out of the 11 teams, two startups applied for the last intake and were rejected – taking on the feedback received at that point in time, the founders returned for a second crack and were successful. Diversity is also a promising theme in this intake including three female CEOs, two female CTOs and more than eight nationalities represented with founders from Iran, China, Argentina, Brazil, Zimbabwe, the US & UK and of course Australia.
The one aspect that muru-D was known for during intake one was the variety in of industries the startups covered. This new class is no different with businesses from the sport, education, travel, hospitality, sustainability and technology sectors.
Let's meet the muru-D class two startups:
FanFuel
A platform that allows athletes to be sponsored by their fans. Through crowd funding, users can secure any funds for their sporting careers. According to the website, Fanfuel is the brainchild of Daniel Paranetto, an aspiring race driver who lived through the pains of seeking sponsorship. During his career, Dan saw the best talent in the sport struggling to progress due to financial pressures and lack of sponsors, while people with the right contacts and big pockets moved up the ranks.
FreightExchange (site not live yet)
FreightExchange is a digital marketplace where long distance transport operators can sell unused capacity to businesses that need to ship goods. It provides an holistic view of available capacity via simple online and mobile interfaces, and is capable of integrating with existing IT systems to provide instant freight transport quotes and bookings.
WattBlock
Wattblock is an independent website which is designed to assist other unit blocks and strata schemes reduce their energy consumption. Wattblock uses details about your "block" [read city block etc] to make calculations about your common area energy consumption. Some basic information and your block's last energy bill or financial statement is all you need to create your profile.
Disrupt Surfing
Disrupt Surfing helps users custom make their own surfboards. Using technology to Disrupt. Customers tell the startup all the dimensions & Disrupt Surfing uses 3D printing design technology to make a digital set up of their board and then shape, glass and spray it by precision computer.
You Chews
At You Chews, the vision is to create a world where inspiring, delicious food can be found at every meeting and event. Cofounder Liz Kaelin is a dietitian, and is driven by providing a platform where small, local, bespoke food businesses can share and celebrate their amazing food with the community. Kaelin says You Chews is on a mission to make ordering amazing catering online simple and fun.
TripALocal
Tripalocal is an online platform that connects travelers with local hosts for authentic local experiences. Travelers can step into the shoes of locals and discover a city from their perspective. Locals have the opportunity to become true entrepreneurs by sharing their passion with travelers and set their own reward.
Peep Digital
Peep Digital, we have developed an intelligent platform that simplifies the international phonetic system and makes English pronunciation easier and faster to master. It offers a practical, fun and effective way to practise with all the sounds of the English language.
VClass (website not live yet)
The first ever hybrid education platform that combines the power of Internet, VoIP and traditional pen and paper to create an online teaching experience like face to face.
Instrument Works
Is bringing the Internet of Things and Big Data to the users of scientific and industrial instrumentation so they are not left behind in the 21st century. Starting with pH and temperature sensors it aims to offer its customers a complete range of fully portable and un-wired sensors, all controlled by smartphones and other touch-screen and cloud-connected enabled devices. Instrument Works is developing a whole ecosystem of devices using its simple-to-use DataWorks software app.
Founders Ben Liau and Desmond Hang
CrowdSourceHire
The online service which targets startups and small and medium enterprises gives clients access to the right people by assisting them with their pre-hire evaluation in the web development industry. Founded by Ben Liau and Desmond Hang, the idea was conceived when they both ran their own startups and encountered bad experiences with failed hires. This particular experience showed the duo first hand how hiring the wrong people could lead to delays in pushing the product into the market whilst costing the business time and money.
Soccer Brain (website not live yet)
A startup that makes it easy for anyone to coach a team, providing tailored, interactive training sessions week-by-week for coaches and players.
On the announcement, Charlotte Yarkoni, Executive Director, Telstra Software Group and muru-D Co-founder said, "Nurturing innovation within Australia is critical to ensure we're continuing to fuel our economy with exciting and disruptive technology companies. If we don't innovate, we risk becoming irrelevant. It's a priority for Telstra and we're starting to see it become a priority for more and more organisations, which is very exciting for everyone involved in the business".
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Retiring the American dollar
Off into history's sunset, like the cowboy. This image (modified) is called 'Dollar Green' by the artist mancaalberto (http://mancaalberto.deviantart.com/)
Seventy years ago, to the very month, a man named Henry Morganthau celebrated the creation of a "dynamic world community in which the peoples of every nation will be able to realise their potentialities in peace". It was the founding of what came to be called the Bretton Woods institutions (named after the venue for the meeting, in the USA) and these were the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development – better known as the World Bank – and the International Monetary Fund.
None of the lofty aims that seemed so apposite in the shattering aftermath of the Second World War have been achieved, although what has been written are libraries of counter-factual history that claim such achievements (and more besides) commissioned by both these institutions and their web of supporting establishments, financial, academic, political and otherwise. Instead, for the last two generations of victims of 'structural adjustment', and of 'reform and austerity' all that has become worthwhile in the poorer societies of the world has been achieved despite the Bretton Woods institutions, not because of them.
Now, seventy years after Morganthau (the then Treasury Secretary of the USA) and British economist John Maynard Keynes unveiled with a grey flourish a multi-lateral framework for international economic order, the Bretton Woods institutions are faced with a challenge, and the view from East and South Asia, from Latin America and from southern Africa is that this is a challenge that has been overdue for too long.
Let's get the de-dollarisation of the world started.
It has come in the form of the agreement between the leaders of five countries to form a development bank. Russia's President Vladimir Putin, China's President Xi Jinping, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma made formal their intention during the sixth summit of their countries – together called 'BRICS', after the first letters of their countries' names – held this month in Brazil.
What has been set in motion is the BRICS Development Bank and the BRICS Contingency Reserves Arrangement. Both the new institution and the new mechanism will counter the influence of Western-based lending institutions and the American dollar, which is the principal reserve currency used internationally and which is the currency that the IMF and the World Bank conduct their ruthless business in (and which formulate their policies around, policies that are too often designed to impoverish the working class and to cripple labour).
At one time or another, and not always at inter-governmental fora, the BRICS have objected to the American dollar continuing to be the world's principal reserve currency, a position which amplifies the impact of policy decisions by the US Federal Reserve – the American central bank – on all countries that trade using dollars, and which seek capital denominated in dollars. These impacts are, not surprisingly, ignored by the Federal Reserve which looks after the interests of the American government of the day and US business (particularly Wall Street).
In the last two years particularly, non-dollar bilateral agreements have become more common as countries have looked for ways to free themselves from the crushing Bretton Woods yoke. Only this June, Russia's finance minister said the central banks of Russia and China would discuss currency swaps for export payments in their respective national currencies, a direction that followed Putin's visit to China the previous month to finalise the gigantic US$400 billion deal between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). It is still early, and the BRICS will favour caution over hyperbole, but when their bank opens for business, the sun will begin to set on the US dollar.
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Retired Professor
Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (retired), where she joined the faculty in 1981. One of the first tenured women at the Harvard Business School and the youngest woman to receive an endowed chair, she earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. She has been a featured columnist for BusinessWeek.com and for Fast Company Magazine.
Professor Zuboff's most recent article is "Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism" (McKinsey Quarterly, September 2010), derived from her work over the last decade with new enterprises geared to the emerging challenges of individualized distributed commerce. Her work on distributed capitalism builds on the research published in her book, The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism (Penguin, 2003), co-authored with her husband, former Chief Executive and philosophy Ph.D. Jim Maxmin. Long before the economic crisis of 2007-2008, this far-reaching multi-disciplinary effort integrated history, sociology, management, and economics to explain how today's business models have reached the limits of their adaptive range. The Support Economy anticipated many of the dynamics at the heart of the financial meltdown as it chronicled the institutionalization of zero-sum adversarial conflicts between consumers and businesses. Today's consumers have moved beyond mass produced goods and services to instead seek individualized relationships of advocacy and support that enable control over their lives and meaningful channels for voice and influence. The chasm that has come to separate new people and old organizations is filled with frustration, pain, and mistrust. It has also ignited the next wave of wealth creation on a global scale, as new principles of distributed capitalism combine with distributed technologies to meet these new needs.
The Support Economy has been praised and translated around the world. Many now credit it as providing a prescient and comprehensive analysis of the underlying dynamics responsible for the worldwide economic crisis. It was selected by strategy+business as one of the top ten business books of 2003 and ranked number one in the "Values" category. BusinessWeek named it the "number one idea" in its special issue on "Twenty Five Ideas for a Changing World". Inc. magazine described The Support Economy as "the new new thing" in its special anniversary issue on entrepreneurship. The book has also been featured in dozens of other magazines and newspapers including the Economist, Fast Company, the Financial Times, the Times of London, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and Across the Board (The Conference Board) as well as in major publications in Germany, Italy, India, China, Brazil, Croatia, Japan, Canada, and South Korea.
In 2006, strategy+business named Professor Zuboff among the eleven most original business thinkers in the world. She was featured in 2004 as a "Creative Mind" in strategy+business, described as "a maverick management guru…one of the sharpest most unorthodox thinkers today." From 2003 to 2005, Zuboff shared her ideas on the future of business and society in her popular monthly column "Evolving", in the magazine Fast Company. From 2007 through 2009 she was a featured columnist for BusinessWeek.com. Professor Zuboff's work has been showcased on CNBC, Reuters International, and the Today Show as well as in Fortune, Inc., Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, CIO, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and many other news outlets. Bostonia Magazine voted her one of the "Five Smartest People in Boston". She has been heard on over 200 radio shows, including top coverage on NPR's Marketplace, TechNation, Sound Money, Morning Edition, BBC, and the BBC World Service.
Author of the celebrated classic In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988), Professor Zuboff has been called "the true prophet of the information age". In the Age of the Smart Machine won instant critical acclaim in both the academic and trade press—including the front page review in the New York Times Book Review-- and has long been considered the definitive study of information technology in the workplace.
In 1993, Professor Zuboff founded the executive education program "ODYSSEY: School for the Second Half of Life" at the Harvard Business School. The program addressed the issues of transformation and career renewal at midlife. During twelve years of her teaching and leadership, ODYSSEY became known as the best program of its kind in the world.
Professor Zuboff has published dozens of articles, essays, book reviews, and cases on the subject of information technology in the workplace, as well as on the history and future of work and management. Her scholarly monograph "Work in the United States in the Twentieth Century," appears in the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (1996). Her lectures on "The Information Society" are featured in the Smithsonian's permanent exhibition on "The Information Age". She has served on editorial boards including the Harvard Business Review, the American Prospect, and Organization. She serves on the boards of the Legatum Center at MIT, The Natural Resources Council of Maine, and The Heartwood Regional Theater Company. She has been awarded research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Professor Zuboff lectures, leads seminars, and consults to businesses and governments around the world. Some of her recent presentations include The Bankinter Future Trends Forum (Madrid, Bilbao), Fortune Brainstorm, The Specialty Schools and Academies Trust (UK), The Exelon Corporation, The Performance Theater (Budapest), The Finnish Academy of Sciences, The University Continuing Education Association, The TechNation Summit, European Consumer Day (Zurich), The Senior Human Resource Managers Global Forum, The Knowledge Management Network, The Service Innovation Consortium, The Discovery Companies, Demos (London) , The Economist CIO Forum, the CRM Forum, The Sloan Leadership Conference, The Triple Bottom Line (Canada), The National Consumer Council (UK), Sogetti (Amsterdam), and General Electric.
Shoshana Zuboff has delivered major invited addresses at Cambridge University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The London School of Economics, The European Information Systems Society, The Royal Society of Arts , The British Computer Society, The Smithsonian, The American Society for Training and Development, The National Education Association, The American Management Association, and many others.
Professor Zuboff lives with her husband, Jim Maxmin, and their two children on a fresh water farm in mid-coast Maine.
Publications Research Summary
Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, and James Maxmin. The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. New York: Viking Press, 2002. View Details
Zuboff, S. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books, 1988. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Disruption's Tragic Flaw." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (March 23, 2015). View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization." Journal of Information Technology 30, no. 1 (March 2015): 75–89. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2010): 45–55. View Details
Zuboff, S. "The Emperor's New Workplace." Scientific American (September 1995). View Details
Zuboff, S. "Heroic Work." American Prospect (January 1993). View Details
Zuboff, S. "Informate the Enterprise: An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century." National Forum (summer 1991). View Details
Zuboff, S. "Work in the United States in the Twentieth Century." In The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century, edited by S. Kutler, R. Dallek, D. Hollinger, T. McCraw, and J. Kirkwood. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. View Details
Zuboff, S. "The Emperor's New Information Economy." In Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work, edited by W. Orlikowski, G. Walsham, M. Jones, and J. DeGross. London: Chapman & Hall, 1996. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, David A. Thomas, and Monica C. Higgins. "SACD Final Paper Assignment." Harvard Business School Exercise 404-018, August 2003. View Details
Higgins, Monica C., David A. Thomas, and Shoshana Zuboff. "Career Choice-Making Case Assignment, The." Harvard Business School Exercise 403-054, August 2002. View Details
Higgins, Monica C., David A. Thomas, and Shoshana Zuboff. "Written Interview Assignment, The." Harvard Business School Exercise 403-052, August 2002. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, and Dave DeLong. "Matt Compton's Job Search." Harvard Business School Case 489-057, October 1988. (Revised July 2000.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, Dave DeLong, and Kathleen Scharf. "Alex Dean." Harvard Business School Case 489-039, September 1988. (Revised July 2000.) View Details
Sloane, Carl S., Shoshana Zuboff, and R.Keith Giarman. "Daniel Rothstein." Harvard Business School Case 493-089, May 1993. (Revised July 1996.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Lilliane Atwood." Harvard Business School Case 494-012, June 1993. (Revised July 1996.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Motorola: Institutionalizing Corporate Initiatives." Harvard Business School Case 494-139, May 1994. (Revised October 1994.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Motorola Corp.: The View from the CEO Office." Harvard Business School Case 494-140, May 1994. (Revised October 1994.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Motorola-Penang." Harvard Business School Case 494-135, May 1994. (Revised August 1994.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Motorola-Elma." Harvard Business School Case 494-136, May 1994. (Revised August 1994.) View Details
Gogan, Janis Lee, Donna B. Stoddard, and Shoshana Zuboff. "Motorola: Government and Systems Technology Group." Harvard Business School Case 494-137, May 1994. (Revised August 1994.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "David Melcher." Harvard Business School Case 493-087, June 1993. (Revised April 1994.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Laura Ashley (A): Creating a World Class Service Organization in Support of a Global Brand & Federal Express." Harvard Business School Case 493-018, June 1993. View Details
Sloane, Carl S., Shoshana Zuboff, and R.Keith Giarman. "Alan Stein." Harvard Business School Case 493-088, May 1993. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Don Burr." Harvard Business School Case 490-014, September 1989. (Revised August 1990.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-031, November 1988. (Revised March 1990.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 490-076, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Don Burr, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-065, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Steve Shirley, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-067, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Alex Dean, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-069, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Ken Meyers (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-072, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A) and (B), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-073, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Self-Assessment and Career Development, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-037, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Dual-Career Couple Decision Making: A Class Assignment, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-038, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Adult Development: Readings from Robert Kegan, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-066, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Career Choice-Making Case Assignment." Harvard Business School Background Note 490-075, February 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Job Search Strategies: Martha Applebaum, Sandy Lansford, and Matt Compton, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-074, January 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Student Cases on Career Choice-Making, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-070, January 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Introduction to the SACD Course, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-064, January 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Dennis Stevenson, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-068, January 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Experiential Focusing: Background and Classroom Exercise, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-071, January 1990. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Steve Shirley." Harvard Business School Case 490-004, September 1989. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Dennis Stevenson." Harvard Business School Case 489-045, September 1988. (Revised October 1988.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (C): The Back-End Project." Harvard Business School Case 486-111, May 1986. (Revised October 1986.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 486-081, January 1986. (Revised October 1986.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (B): Strategy and Technology." Harvard Business School Case 486-110, May 1986. (Revised October 1986.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (A): The Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Case 486-109, May 1986. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (D): Implementation of the Central Liabilities Pilot." Harvard Business School Case 486-112, May 1986. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (E): Assessing the Implementation Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 486-113, May 1986. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 486-098, April 1986. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (Abridged), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 486-099, April 1986. View Details
Lodge, George C., Janice McCormick, Richard E. Walton, and Shoshana Zuboff. "Sources and Patterns of Management Authority." Harvard Business School Background Note 484-039, October 1983. (Revised December 1984.) View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek." Harvard Business School Case 485-057, December 1984. View Details
THE SUPPORT ECONOMY: WHY CORPORATIONS ARE FAILING INDIVIDUALS AND THE NEXT EPISODE OF CAPITALISM
Corporations are hopelessly out of touch with the people who depend upon them for consumption and employment. They can't be fixed because they are stuck in an approach to capitalism, 'managerial capitalism' that has become an obstacle to wealth creation.The book explains the demise of managerial capitalism and the rise of a new 'distributed capitalism' aligned with the needs of today's society and capable of igniting a new wave of wealth creation for the twenty-first century.
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That Warm Feeling
by Brenda Rodriguez General Contributor May 2, 2018
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A Warm Feeling
The way you make me feel is a different kind of warm. You make me feel the way it feels to sleep next to a fireplace. That fuzzy feeling one gets from laying in bed. I know I've explained how it feels to be wrapped in a warm blanket, and its that feeling; the feeling of utter comfort and love.
That's the feeling you give me.
Your arms are the warm and comforting feeling that I want on me always. It's a feeling of safety that one wants to hold on to for the rest of their life. That feeling you give me is the same feeling I have when I'm at home and theirs soft jazz playing. The same kind of warmth that you feel when you look at a Christmas tree. It's a feeling that's so special that it's almost hard to put into words.
I feeling that I cant full describe but only feel. It's the feeling of my knees going weak as I look at you from across a room. It's the feeling of the blood rushing to my cheeks when you kiss me. Its the feeling of safety when we lay in bed at night.


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Disabled vet 'left almost destitute' from $100M Ponzi scheme, he says at businessman's sentencing
Jimmie E. Gates
Disabled veteran Eric Orth of Canton said former Madison County businessman Arthur Lamar Adams' Ponzi scheme left his family almost destitute.
"It left me in a terrible position," said the 49-year-old. "It took most of what I had."
"Between my parents and myself we lost $1.2 million," Orth said.
Adams pleaded guilty in May in a plea agreement to one count of wire fraud involving the scheme that duped up to 300 investors, including U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, in a $100 million Ponzi scheme.
Adams's sentencing hearing began Monday and will continue Tuesday. Orth, who uses a walker, was the first investor to provide a statement to U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on the impact of the scheme. Five other families testified Monday.
Adams faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Several duped investors are expected to give statements during Adams' sentencing hearing.
Orth said he invested in Adams' company, Madison Timber Properties, and even cashed out a disability insurance policy and invested the money from the policy with the company. He didn't say the amount of the policy.
Orth said he believed through Adams' company he had everything set up to ensure his family would be taken care financially for life. His wife had a stroke and they have a teenage son.
But that all came crashing down when it was learned Adams' business was a Ponzi scheme.
Orth said he had been living on his VA disability payments, but that barely covers his household expenses. He said his mother and stepfather stepped in to lend his family money.
"We were destitute until my mother stepped in," Orth said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Fulcher, who is prosecuting the case, said in court that Adams confessed to the FBI and admitted his company was a Ponzi scheme.
Federal prosecutors said the scheme worked by recruiting investors to invest at least $100,000 each in Madison Timber Properties.
"These were victims," Fulcher said in court Monday. "They had no clue what was going on."
Fulcher said investors were told they would be receiving interest on the money they invested, but there were no interest or profits.
"It was all fraudulent transactions," Fulcher said.
Adams' attorney, John Colette, argued Monday that some investors received checks and that money they received should be deducted from the loss calculation.
The government calculates the financial loss between $65 million and $150 million and uses that amount to calculate a higher sentencing guideline range for Adams.
Colette opposes using that part of Adams' presentencing report on the loss calculation. He said the loss should be about half of the $80 million in the report.
Reeves can sentence Adams under the federal law statute with the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison or under the federal sentencing guideline range, which Reeves said is current from 235 months to 240 months in prison.
Prosecutors haven't said whether anyone else will be charged in the scheme.
At least one investor has filed a lawsuit against Adams' company.
Sherri Hughes, who owns Highway 22 LLC in Madison County, said in her civil lawsuit that she is one of the defrauded investors. She filed suit in Madison County Circuit Court against Adams; his business partner, William B. McHenry; and Madison Timber Properties.
Court records show that in 2017 Adams paid one unnamed recruiter approximately $2.44 million and another more than $1.6 million. The payments were commissions for the individuals' work recruiting investors.
New Orleans-based attorney Allyson Mills, appointed receiver by the federal court to try to recoup as much of investors' money as possible, has issued notices to recruiters paid to entice investors for Adams' company that she plans to take legal action if they don't return money to defrauded investors.
On Oct. 1, Mills filed a lawsuit against Michael D. Billings and MDB Group LLC; Terry Wayne Kelly Jr. and Kelly Management LLC; and William B. McHenry Jr. and First South Investments LLC.
The complaint alleges the defendants identified new investors for Adams' company and for each investment made by an investor recruited, each received a cut of the investor's payment, amounting to more than $16 million in commissions.
Mills said she made an offer to suspend litigation if the parties agreed to work toward a negotiated settlement.
Mills said Billings (and MDB Group) didn't agree to the offer.
Kelly (and Kelly Management) and McHenry and First South Investments undertook a 14-day negotiation. Mills said the negotiations with Kelly were productive, and it is likely a proposed settlement will be recommended.
However, Mills said she was unable to reach a settlement at this time with McHenry. The litigation will continue against Billings and McHenry.
Mills has also made requests to numerous other organizations, including the University of Mississippi Athletics Foundation, to return money donated by Adams over the years.
More:Madison County businessman in $100M Ponzi scheme gave Ole Miss more than $400,000
More:Lawsuit demands return of more than $16M from Ponzi scheme


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Q: jsvideo html5 trouble on iis I'm having trouble using jsvideo on a IIS server for this project
joewilliegospel .com
For some reason everything works perfectly fine on my local computer but once I uploaded it I ran into the issue of the video not playing.... (when you click on the "Watch Now")....
Not sure what the issue is, but I read it might be from the server so I uploaded this web.config file:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".m4v" mimeType="video/mp4" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".f4v" mimeType="video/mp4" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".ogm" mimeType="video/ogg" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".ogv" mimeType="video/ogg" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".ogg" mimeType="video/ogg" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".flv" mimeType="video/x-flv" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

If anyone can help it would be appreciated, I'm finally learning to use HTML 5 a bit for mobile devices and tablets but I honestly never dealt with IIS before...

A: Turned out this had to do with the host: The host had the client on a limited plan for some ODD reason but I switched over to a Linux plan and all has been well. IIS... EUGH.


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                $scope.prefix = result;
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