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Aurelia Spivey, Marketing Consultant with BigHand, chats with Dwight Floyd, Chief Operating Officer with Eversheds Sutherland. Dwight and his team work with Eversheds Sutherland attorneys and clients to provide superior value by developing and implementing creative pricing and service delivery strategies.
Value is rarely increased through wholesale discounting or telling clients what they need but instead by targeting – actually asking – clients about their specific goals and what they want to achieve. Dwight works closely with attorneys and administrative staff to increase Eversheds Sutherland's efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, and innovation in a dedicated pursuit of delivering its client's goals.
Dwight is a former litigation partner and a biologist who brings a different approach to some common challenges in the legal world. As in our natural ecosystem, he recognizes that everything in the legal ecosystem is connected to everything else. His challenge and goal is discovering and revealing to attorneys and clients how those connections can benefit and sustain everyone involved while still conserving resources
Dwight is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell and is an Accredited Legal Pricing Professional (ALPP) by the True Value Partnering Institute.
Find out more about the ALLP accreditation and the True Value Partnering Institute, the premier educational network for legal pricing, project management, and innovation professionals.
Understand Expectations. It's the intangibles that make a successful pricing arrangement.
Process Orientation. Technology can help package information in a way that is easily accessible to both the lawyers and clients.
It's a Relationship Business. We will continue to see the growth of relationships between legal operations professionals in corporate departments and business professionals at law firms.
The first thing you have to understand is what the client wants and needs and expects.
Dwight Floyd
I do think it's the intangibles and going back to that relationship piece that makes it feel successful to both sides.
Good morning and welcome to the Pricing Matters podcast. Our guest this morning is Dwight Floyd. Dwight is the Chief Operating Officer at Eversheds Sutherland. Good morning, welcome to the podcast, Dwight.
I would like to start with your journey. So tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to your role at Eversheds and the pricing world.
Sure, happy to, and it has been a little bit winding over the years. So I actually started out my career far, far from legal I was a biologist, actually went to grad school out in Colorado for biology, and I was studying all sorts of interesting things, including the ecology and evolution of parasites. I was a biologist working in the field, working in the lab, really enjoying that thing I was going to do teaching and research. And somewhere along that path, I got anxious and wanted to do something different, wanted to see some different sorts of problems, and started looking back at the things I had left behind from college, including potentially going to law school. I went through that process trying to figure out if that was the right thing for me. I ended up in law school in Virginia, went straight into practice in Atlanta, as a litigator in a firm down here, that is now part of Dentons, and did that for a number of years. I moved back home to South Carolina, still as a litigator, trying cases, doing the whole bit, and was a partner in my firm there. Then I got that little itch again like I had when I was back in grad school, that I might want to do something a little bit different. And so timing and opportunities came together at just the right time for me to actually switch away from practice and go into a new role for my firm, at that time about 200 attorney firms. I went into a role there that was a little bit like what I do now, it covered a lot of different areas, including pricing, profitability, LPM, and knowledge management, and pulling all those pieces together, trying to work with the firm on that, and so that got me into this part of the world. I have been at another firm since then, before I came to Eversheds Sutherland about two and a half years ago, in this pricing value role that was perfectly suited to me and also was the perfect excuse to get me back to Atlanta.
Well, I can certainly relate to a lot of those career pivots. I don't know if it's your feed or just wants a new focus and challenge. So I've done a few pivots myself.
Restless soles.
Yeah, and it's always fun to learn new things, so I think that's also what drives us. So you and I got introduced through my friends at the True Value Partnering Institute. They were on the show in episode 10, actually talking about their conference, which now seems like a million years ago, that we were able to all meet in person. And I wanted to talk to you a little bit about the accredited legal pricing professional (ALPP) accreditation and just to understand from you, what made you pursue that at that time and how has that sort of influenced your approach to pricing.
I had already been involved in TVPI and that group for a number of years, great group of folks doing everything they can to advance the profession and make it known. Sometimes while I was participating with them the Accreditation Program was started, including the ALPP, to bring some rigor and some standardization to the profession and recognize that we all come from very different backgrounds, wide, wide, different types of backgrounds. But the accreditation brings it home to note that we have a common basis of understanding at a fairly high level, and the accreditation is built around a number of different things. Which I think qualified for, I was in that first group of accredited professionals, and I think I qualified or came close to qualifying right out of the gate. So it has to do with whether you're working in the profession, whether you're at a manager level or higher, you get points for each of these things, or whether you're a director or a chief, and then there's that you've been at the profession for a while. Then there's a great deal around education, and kind of commonality of a background of education, whether it's certain types of seminars are master classes, Colin Jasper and Stuart Dodds do a legal pricing masterclass, that's kind of the bellwether for what a lot of us do. That's a multi-day, two-day, maybe three-day course, that has a wealth of information in it. So that's a big piece of the accreditation. Kevin Doolan has been really involved in the institute and he has pricing negotiation training that he does as well, as he does at our TVPI meetings. There are other academies and other coursework and Richard Bircher, in London, does a validate on pricing education. And of course, there are professional meetings, whether it's P3 or ILTA, or Buying Legal or Law Vision, and has a pricing roundtable, all those things can be part of our educational experience, because they all kind of build on one another. All of those things go together to make sure that we again have this common body of knowledge that we all implement in our particular ways, that our particular firms based on our culture and particular needs. But that along with the continuing education component of it, I think has done a lot to enrich the profession.
Fantastic, thank you for sharing that. So there's, from what I'm hearing a few different ways that you can approach getting the accreditation, but there's a common body of knowledge and a common set of seminars and education that you're able to attend and sort of build towards that accreditation.
So all that education that's behind that has certainly helped for my views of how to go about pricing, how to approach my partners and my firm, and our clients, to make the most of our relationships. TVPI itself and the group and the ability to share ideas, and the fellowship and support among those pricing professionals, that adds a whole other layer, a whole other multiplier, on top of this individual knowledge that we all hold. So it's one thing for us to all have this common background, and be able to apply it in our own ways, we're all intelligent enough that we can do that kind of in a vacuum if we had to, but because we've come together around not just the accreditation, but around TVPI, that gives us the ability to bounce ideas off of one another, it gives us the ability to support one another. We're talking about theory and common problems and changing and improving the legal industry as a whole and the things that we can do to be a part of that. So that part of it is where I really get the benefit. Letters after the name are nice and it's a good recognition, and I'm proud to have that, but what's even better is to have that group of people that we can work together to make things better.
When I was doing my research for the podcast, I was obviously looking at your LinkedIn profile, and it's a really great profile. And you really pose some very compelling hypothetical questions. You know, what if there was no hint of antagonism between the client and law firm, and no fear from either pricing requests and billing, amongst others. So I definitely encourage people to take a look. I'd love to know what inspired your quest to change the legal industry as it is today.
I've always been sort of an issue spotter. I've always been I call it nitpicky, that's what I put in the profile because that's what my dad used to always say about me, that I was being nitpicky. But I was always seeing these little things, it didn't matter what I was experiencing or doing or seeing, I would see these little things that could be improved or fixed that didn't necessarily take away from the enjoyment of what I was doing, but I can always see these little things. And it's probably why I got into legal to begin with because it's a lot about issue spotting seeing these things. You do that as an attorney, you do it in litigation, and transactional practice, but you can also do it now in this current role, where you see these different things, these processes, the way things are interconnected, and you can immediately see the things that need to be fixed, the kind of things that we could do better. It always seems to me that if I see a problem and if somebody else sees basically the same problem or challenge, maybe as a better word, if we both acknowledged the challenge, and we both look at that challenge together, even if we see it from a different lens, we're gonna come to a better solution, working on it together than by hiding our cards or trying to play what the other person is going to do or anticipate what the other person is going to do. It's kind of this, well this goes back to biology too, it's the old prisoner's dilemma sort of game theory, you're better off if everybody has all the information. So that kind of drives that, that's probably just part of my nature, so that's what drives me to do those things. To not only improve it and fix things, but to do it together, rather than in some sort of adversarial way or gamesmanship way.
That makes a lot of sense and where there's a lot of talk about that type of collaboration. Particularly before the current COVID crisis, we were talking about it, but I think this has really elevated the need for greater collaborations between law firms and clients. So do you have any examples perhaps of how that has played out with the clients and the pricing arrangement,
This may not be the kind of example you're talking about, but it's something we've been talking about with TVPI in particular recently, which is that the attorneys in our law firms have always acknowledged, even though we're doing work and we're sending bills and getting paid for solving problems for our clients, it's always been a relationship business. It has been in a relationship between the attorneys and the people that they know and the GCS office or somebody at the company, whatever, there's always this relationship. So there's some level of trust and knowledge about each other, somewhere within the system, and the more trust and knowledge there is between the client and the law firm or between the client representatives and the attorney, the easier that relationship is going to go, and the more you're going to be able to accomplish, the more you'll be able to collaborate. Well, the same is true in the pricing world as well. The more, it's still a relationship business, we're in contact with folks in the legal ops department or folks in procurement or whatever, the more we can have conversations, the more we can understand where we're both coming from, the more we can relay what we both want, or need, or where we can move or where we can't. The more those kinds of things can be shared, the better result you can get in the end. And so come back around to your example, that is increasingly, that's always happened between lawyers and GCS, that's increasingly happening between pricing folks and legal ops folks. TVPI has been very deliberate about trying to bring everybody into that circle together, you see that a little bit CLOC as well, where you got the legal ops people who are bringing in the law firms more and more, which tend to be, and when they're bringing folks in from the law firms, it tends to be the legal ops people at a law firm, that is the pricing, the LPM, the value folks. So I would say that's the best example we can see kind of in real life, and we've seen that in specific client relationships and in matters as well.
Fantastic. Yeah, I think the rise of legal operators has been a great part of the last sort of five to 10 years, and I think that collaboration is going to help us as we move through this current period. So I'm going to switch gears, as we like to say in the podcast world, and I wanted to talk a little bit about data. And I'd love to know from you how you're leveraging data to increase the precision around pricing.
Well, it was my very first hire. When I came in the first person I hired was my data guru. The person who can go under the hood and pull out any piece of information that we want, or any collection of information that we want, and look at it from all different angles. And it has been, the contribution that he has made to what we have done is immeasurable, and we couldn't have done half of what we had done without him. Because it is, as people say, the new currency, it's the way that we're getting things done, the way we're able to leverage those things and to have. I think law firms as a whole have been pretty slow, really, to leverage what they have because we're sitting on a mountain of data, a mountain of it. It's unstructured, it's hard to decipher, it's hard to put into the categories that we want it to, but there's an incredible amount of information there, that we can just get to it and look at it the right way it's going to be huge. So, so yeah, he's done a tremendous job helping us out to get better insight into where we are, where we want to go in terms of the kind of projecting or modeling, whether it's a matter or a client, or portfolio, or risk, or what have you, or our internal metrics, but also being able to provide that information to our clients, because that's important, too. That's another part of that collaborative nature of what we're doing. If we understand each other, we trust each other, and we're able to give each other information that's important to the other, then again, we're going to come to better solutions.
On the data angle, I couldn't agree more. There is definitely a mountain of data and when you are able to decipher that data, it's it is gold to us. But saying that there are some challenges in the way that we've collected data as an industry. What do you see as some of the greatest challenges around that and how the industry is starting to overcome them?
Well, the biggest one we continually talk about and it's true more and more as we build out our client experience function. Our client experiences are sort of components of traditional LPM with a larger kind of portfolio management and client-facing role with it as well. But as part of that conversation we've had, we continue to deal with time entries, things as basic as time entry and having a categorized correctly so that we know what we're doing and when, and how it fits with the budget and what the budget should look like, and maybe what the next budget should look like. So I think that time entry piece continues to be a huge challenge because even in the best of circumstances, when we're assigning tasks to things or even if we're manually reviewing all of the biggest projects, where you're manually reviewing mountains of time entries, it's still not great and it's certainly not very scalable. So I think that's kind of the holy grail right now.
What I'd love to ask now, Dwight, is what are, in your view, some of the elements of the most successful pricing arrangement that you've seen in your career?
I think it's most successful when both the client and the law firm, feel like it's a success. If either one of them feels like they were taken advantage of or given more than they needed to or somehow didn't achieve, didn't meet the expectations of the other. I think those probably, by definition, are unsuccessful. And the fact of the matter is, those types of things happen all the time, that the client or law firm or both walk away from a matter. Even if the matter was a quote-unquote winner in terms of closing the way it was supposed to at the right price, or the summary judgment was one or the name your success metric. But maybe one or both of the parties, who were involved, didn't feel as good as they might have otherwise. So that's probably the threshold issue, and that goes back to the trust and the relationship and all that. But the part of it during the course of the matter, and I think the way you keep those good feelings as good as they can possibly be, is to communicate. If you're trusting each other, and then you're communicating throughout the course of that relationship. Now I feel like I'm getting marriage advice or something but that's really what it is. It's making sure that you're not assuming what the other person is thinking. That you're trying to reflect back and say this is what's going on, this is what I'm experiencing, what do you need, what are your expectations here? What do, and to clients making all of the calls on these things anyway, so give them that opportunity, empower them to do those sorts of things. And the more they're able to do that, the better they're going to feel about how everything's being handled, even if the end result may be exactly the same thing. So I think it's really those intangibles that make it a successful arrangement. Yes, the finances matter, they matter to both sides, the client doesn't want to spend any more money than they have to spend or what they think is valuable spend and the law firm obviously doesn't want to lose money on the venture, because that's business on both sides. But I do think it's the intangibles and going back to that relationship piece that makes it feel successful to both sides.
I couldn't agree more. It does make me wonder because we see very often a hesitation to communicate. How do you work with attorneys who are hesitant to communicate during a matter, or particularly when it comes to where the price is changing or you're starting to see in the bills that things are getting ahead of themselves? Have you had to coach lawyers on having those conversations before?
Sure. I mean, those sorts of things come up all the time. We always encourage, and there are some rules of thumb, I suppose, one of which is to communicate about scope changes the instant you see them, not to go to the client and say, there's a scope change, this is going to cost more, or there's a scope change, we need to change the terms or something like that. But it is to communicate, look, this is what's going on and I understand what's happening in your matter, we need to inform you of what is going on, we don't think it's going to affect XY&Z down the road, but it could. And I think, and I'm saying this as an attorney, not as a representative of my firm or anything, but I think as attorneys we have a real fear of being wrong and we have a real fear of projecting too much uncertainty about the future, because we think it makes us look, well maybe like we don't know what we're doing. But I do think that the more we communicate about that, and the more that we can reassure the client, in the context of the uncertainty, I think the better off we're going to be because again, it goes to that relationship piece. I'm always preaching to my team about this, there is nothing that creates stress and angst more than not knowing something. And then to quote the first partner I've ever worked with, years ago in Atlanta, a problem once you identify it, is never going to get better by ignoring it. So once you see it, let's bring it to the forefront, figure out how we're going to deal with it and how we're going to communicate with it, communicate about it, and then it's either going to a be a problem down the road or it's not, but at least we've put it into its slot, and we know how we're going to deal with that down the road.
Absolutely, and I think it is common in any of us who were former lawyers, or current lawyers, it's that perfection and that feeling that you have to know, to be able to work with clients and for them to be able to trust you. But I love the way that you use the phrase reassuring the client because I think that is what makes those relationships stronger and down the line, once you've got over that fear of make having that communication, you will always be glad that you did have it and your clients will trust you more, at the end of the day. So moving on to something that is different to relationships, I would love to talk a little bit about technology and process management. I think that you alluded a little bit to that in talking about the client experience team, but how does technology and process management play a role in making your team successful?
In terms of process management, we are very much, I would not say that we're regimented by any stretch of the imagination, but I think the folks on the team are process-oriented. Because we have this, as I said at the very beginning, this desire for constant improvement and to see things that can be made better or to be more efficient, that we are in this constant improvement mode and we are trying to make these processes better. So I think that guides our thinking generally. Then you can leverage technology to help in that regard, in all sorts of different ways. But I think the biggest thing for us with respect to technology is to find ways that it can help the attorneys in their service delivery process, to get them the information they need, when they need it, in a way that doesn't disrupt their usual mode too terribly much. You don't want to make it too heavy a lift for them, for us to help them. We can't rightly go to them and say, the only way I can help you is if you completely up in the way you've been doing things for the last 25 years since you've been incredibly successful at. So I think that's a big place where technology can help us if we can deliver information, whether it's alerts or budget monitoring, or to show them data in different ways. So data visualizations, whether it's their own revenue, whether it's the performance of the matter or portfolio of matters, those sorts of things, I think that has been the biggest way we've been able to leverage some technology here. I think that helps with communication to the client as well, if we can package information in a way that is easily accessible and visible to the client, that's another place that technology can really help. And that's separate in apart from the way that technology can help aggregate, analyze, slice and dice, the data to begin with.
Absolutely and what I want to talk a little bit more about again is the team and skills. Because being a biologist, you'll relate to this question, pricing professionals come from such a variety of backgrounds. So I'd love to know, though what are the most important skills that people need to be successful in the pricing role?
I think it can vary, I don't think there's a one size fits all, perfect example of a pricing professional. I think as you have alluded to, we all got here, along sometimes very different paths, but we've gotten to a very similar spot. Our paths, however, inform how we operate within the systems where we really work, to extend the biological metaphor, the law firms that we're working with them, they all have their own ecosystems that function a little differently. Some things work and some of them some work and others we tend to call that the culture, I guess, within different firms, that's usually how they refer to themselves as their culture. But the different pricing strategies probably work differently in different cultures and in different ecosystems. If there's one universal piece that I could put my finger on, however, is that those within this, I think this is true for most of us at TVPI, that we are, we tend to be generalists, in that we're interested in a lot of different things and we're interested in understanding how all of these things fit together and we communicate across these different areas. So maybe generalist isn't the right word, but we're boundary spanners. We will call it silo wall breakers or whatever. I think we're driven, and similar to what I said at the beginning, although other people might not call it being nitpicky, but I think we all see what processes are failing because they're walled off from one another. And almost all of us are relentlessly trying to pull all those different pieces together and we do that through communication, most of us I think are at least halfway decent at doing that and trying to build those bridges between these different groups. What you find when you do that, is that most of those groups want to be freed of their silo and do realize that they may have been doing something that could be done a little bit more efficiently if it just took some time to recast. So anyways, to answer your question, lots of different paths, looking at things in lots of different ways, including people who are super financially oriented and have a complete financial background, some of whom have gone on to be CFOs, to a biologist, or a practicing attorney. So you can come at it from different ways, but we all have that common theme of trying to pull people together in different ways. Most of it is not our making decisions or being arbiters of anything, most of it is getting the right information to the right people so they can make the decisions, whether it's somebody in accounting or billing or whether it's our financial partners, or our executive partner, or the partners themselves, or even business development, or marketing, getting the information to them so they can make the right decisions.
We can't have a conversation, at the moment, we are still very much in the middle of an economic pandemic. So I'd love to talk a little bit about, what I'm calling, what people are calling, and pricing in the next normal. I've also heard the phrase that with the new dynamic, there are so many ways to think about where we are right now. So I'd love to know, from your experience, what do you think clients are expecting from their firms as we move through this period in history?
Yeah, the new normal quote unquote, new normal got played out after 2008, so I guess we have to have a better name for what we're doing now. But 2008, and everything that happened in the Great Recession, greatly informed clients and law firms about how to deal with the current crisis. I don't think anybody expected this kind of crisis, at this level, at this time, and this soon after 2008, but I think it has, you can see it with the way clients and law firms have reacted to it, that there are a lot of lessons learned from 2008 that are all for the better. I say all for the better, mostly for the better. Frankly, legal ops, Pricing and Value, and LPM, those pieces have always kind of been around, only really began to thrive after 2008, or really proliferated after 2008. So I think you'll continue to see both of those functions relied upon in this new dynamic or whatever we're going to call it.
What I'm hearing from, this is more from observers than the clients specifically, although I see as I can't really speak to what our clients are doing right now, but what I'm hearing is that clients will be and companies generally are going to be increasingly concerned about certainty in their spend and how things are budgeted. We talked a lot about that since 2008, but it was, I think there was a lot of, it's probably an overstatement, but there was a lot of lip service on both sides of the equation about that certainty and about AFS and that sort of thing. Everybody kept waiting for those things to take off more than they really had. But we really are here and a lot now because of how quickly everything changed at the end of March, the beginning of April. How quickly everything changed, that the certainty of what everybody was going to be spending for the next phase, the next budget phase or whatever was going to be increasingly important. So we think we'll see more of that. So this client experience piece, the kind of traditional LPM roles, I think that's going to become more and more important. It's going to become more important for the pricing folks to get the price right on the front end. And then also, again with LPM and client experience to make sure we're able to perform to the price along so everybody is happy. I do think that's probably going to be the biggest trend. I would somewhat hopefully say that the constant back and forth about rates and discounts, I would hope would start to subside a little bit. I mean, everybody agrees that we need to have a baseline, but I think there's a lot of breath and energy and frustration spent by clients and firms over the concept of rates. It's a real challenge, it is a challenge every year, it's a challenge, good years and bad and nothing's going to make it go away unless we start doing things a little differently.
That's an interesting point of view and I was going to ask you as well, what do you think are the greatest challenges that pricing professionals are facing at the moment? And how are they overcoming them?
The billable hour or that hourly rate is still, as inefficient as it is, kind of remains the easiest check on the whole system, from the client side, and on the law firm side. But it really does, it consumes an incredible amount of bandwidth in discussions. It interferes with that mutual collaboration about, what do you need. What can we provide? How can we get you value? How do you define value? How can we get it for you? It really gets in the way of that because it still distills everything down to an hour of input and the somewhat either market-based or arbitrary value that's been placed upon it.
I feel like this is a philosophical conversation that we could have for hours and I think my next question was a little bit of a crystal ball, and it sort of relates to this whole piece of our conversation. How do you think that the concept of value certainty is? You also talked about, how do you think it could evolve. What could start to break down that tension and that need to cling to the billable hour? Do you think?
It still goes back to those relationships and trust and communication. There are examples out there of clients and firms who have teamed up, particularly in a very large scale or exclusive single provider type situations, where they seem to like the results, and both sides feel good about it. But there are also examples out there, and the survey shows it, that some of the clients who have spent a lot of effort and a lot of money on big panel multi-year, multi-year panels, that they're not pleased with the result. So I think the real answer for value is probably that it's almost always in the eye of the beholder. That you have to, there's no one definition for it, you have to ask your client what is valuable to them in this particular situation, and it's not true across the entire portfolio, it may be very different in this particular matter, in this particular time, then it might be for the same matter in a different time, or with a different stressor or not under the shadow of COVID, or name your variable. And I guess what I'm getting back to is the communication piece because the first thing you have to understand is what the client wants and needs and expects. Otherwise, you're never going to be able to provide value. I can't remember who said it, I'm terrible at attributing quotes, this is not mine, but I have it written down on a post-it note at my office, which I'm not sitting in at the moment because I'm working from home, that, have you asked your client lately what they expect? And if you haven't, what could you possibly be giving them? I mean, are you giving them what you think they expect? It's just these questions spin up. So again, value is in the eye of the beholder in the moment, so we just need to be asking and to be asking our clients whatever they want and then figure out a way to deliver it to them.
Thank you, I couldn't agree more. It is different as you say each client, each matter, but if you can then, at the end of the day, be able to repeat back to them and say, Well, this is what you wanted and this is what we did, and here's the information. It's going to just continue to deepen that relationship. So this has been a fantastic conversation, and I always end with this. Dwight, why does pricing matter to you?
A very good question. It matters to me because it matters to the firm. It matters to our clients. And because of that, and because I'm in a position where I can contribute to the success of our clients, our external clients, as well as our partners, our internal clients, that makes it important to me. It lets me work with and solve problems in a way that, frankly, is was is less adversarial than what I did as a litigator. I love litigating, I love going to court, but if I can do the same sort of issue spotting and the same sort of, let's say, subtle advocacy, as a consultant, essentially to the partners in our firm, then that's a pretty good way to spend my days.
Fantastic. Thank you so much. That's a great answer and this has been a great conversation. Thank you for joining us today.
Chief Operating Officer, Eversheds Sutherland


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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Health officials announced Thursday a new Zika zone in Miami — a setback less than a month after declaring the nearby Wynwood neighborhood cleared of the virus following aggressive mosquito spraying.
These are the first such areas of transmission confirmed in the continental U.S., following major outbreaks of the disease across Latin America. Zika symptoms are so mild that most people who get it don't feel sick, but the disease can cause severe brain-related birth defects if a pregnant woman is infected.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that pregnant women should avoid travel to the new outbreak area, and they should consider postponing non-essential travel to the rest of Miami Dade, according to CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
Zika infections have been reported in over 1,020 people in Florida, the vast majority of them related to travel to affected areas outside the country. Miami-Dade County has the largest share of the state's burden, with more travel-related Zika infections than any other Florida county.


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Secret Affair
Secret Affair formed in 1978 and released their seminal debut album "Glory Boys" the following year.
The debut single "Time For Action" reached #13 in the UK chart, putting them at the forefront of the 'Mod Revival' movement.
In 1980, the follow up LP 'Behind Closed Doors' which featured the singles 'Sound of Confusion' and, arguably the band's most loved song, 'My World' was released.
Secret Affair will be performing highlights from their classic 2nd album 'Behind Closed Doors' to celebrate the 40th anniversary of it's release + a selection of other Secret Affair classics.
Beat The Streets 2023 Set Times Thursday 26th January 2023 Set times for this year's Beat The Streets Festival have now been announced! Beat The Streets is such an important day to raise awareness to the rising homelessness crisis and has now raised £320,000 in total for Framework, the charity that works to turn around the lives of rough sleepers providing housing, health, employment support, […]
Just Announced: Dylan Monday 17th October 2022 22-year-old Dylan, whilst tipped as one of the UK's most exciting new pop talents, was raised on a diet of classic rock and big riffs. She'll be coming to Rescue Rooms on 13th February 2023! Ticket info below 👇👇

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9 Surprising Facts About the Humble Oyster
Starre Vartan
Starre Vartan has been an environmental and science journalist for 15-plus years. She founded an award-winning eco-website and wrote a book on living green.
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Oysters may be small, innocuous creatures, but there is a lot to them. They have been mixed into soups and stews as peasant food, as well as considered fit for a king (Louis XIV of France was a fan of slurping them raw). In the modern day, they are valued not only for their taste but also for the impactful ways they serve the environment.
There's more to know. Here are nine facts that will show you how interesting these coastal mollusks can be.
1. They Can Hear
In research conducted in 2017, scientists subjected oysters to both high- and low-frequency sounds. The oysters did not respond to the high-frequency sounds. However, the low-frequency sounds — such as those made by ships, human-caused explosions, and wind turbines — caused the oysters to clamp their shells closed to keep out the noise pollution.
Shutting out noise may provide oysters with peace and quiet, but it also limits their ability to know what's going on around them, from rainfall to water currents. This can have serious negative impacts because oysters depend on those cues to start certain important biological processes, such as digestion and spawning.
2. Oyster Eating Is Ancient
Modern humans are not the first to consume oysters as food — not by a long shot. In fact, when archaeologists locate a pile of oyster shells, they know they aren't far from a human settlement. Oyster shell heaps (called middens) have been dated back to 3600 BCE, and oyster eating has thousands of years of history among Native Americans along both coasts. It's also part of the historical record in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome; medieval France and England; and Mayan culture.
3. The Shells Are Good for Your Garden
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When crushed, oyster shells can play a valuable role in horticulture as a soil additive. They contain high quantities of calcium, which helps to balance pH levels in soil, improve fertilizer intake, and strengthen plant cell walls.
Because of their coarse texture, crushed oyster shells also encourage water flow throughout soil by preventing the soil from compacting. Another benefit of this texture is that it turns away garden pests like moles and voles that could damage plants.
If you wish to use crushed oyster shells for your garden, they are available for purchase. For maximum sustainability, you can try collecting some yourself (if you live on a coast) or even reach out to a local seafood restaurant that may be willing to offer you its daily shell waste.
4. They Are Mentioned in Shakespeare Plays
"The world is your oyster" is a common motivational phrase to encourage someone to see all the opportunities that lie in front of them. It's exciting to see oysters be featured in everyday conversation, but that spotlight was originally shone on the creature by one of the most famous writers in history, William Shakespeare.
In "The Merry Wives of Windsor," one character says, "Why then, the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open." While we've done away with the violence of using a sword to open the figurative oyster of possibilities, the sentiment has stayed with us.
Lesser known is the oyster reference in "As You Like It," when the clown Touchstone says, "Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster."
5. They Clean the Water
Every day, a single oyster filters approximately 50 gallons of water. When oysters pull water over their gills, the gills trap nutrients and algae. As a result, the water exits the oyster cleaner than how it entered.
Because of these filtration abilities, oysters have been looked at as potential solutions to water pollution. In 2017, New York State invested $10 million in the expansion of oyster seeding in an attempt to improve water quality along the coast of Long Island.
6. Groups of Oysters Create Habitats for Other Sea Life
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Once oysters pass the larval stage, they attach themselves to a solid surface where they will remain for the rest of their lives. These surfaces can be piers, rocks, or even other oysters to form reefs or beds.
When oysters multiply across an area, their reefs provide anchors for other sea life to attach to, such as sea anemones and barnacles. In turn, those attract small fish and shrimp, which then invite larger fish.
7. They Protect Against Climate Change
We know that oysters filter water, but just as important as the resulting clean water are the things that they filter out of it — namely nitrogen, which typically enters water as fertilizer runoff. Although discussions around climate change typically focus heavily on carbon, the impact of nitrogen should not be ignored — nitrous oxide is over 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and it is ranked third on the list of threatening greenhouse gases.
Research has suggested that a healthy oyster habitat can reduce added nitrogen in water by up to 20 percent, making oysters a strong line of defense in the fight against climate change.
8. They Can Keep You From Catching a Cold
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Zinc is a mineral essential to immune function — it can protect you from the common cold and even the flu. And oysters are packed full of it. In fact, they have the highest amount of zinc of any food source; with 5.5 milligrams, a single oyster contains more than half the recommended daily allowance of zinc for adults. So come cold and flu season, they could be a helpful treat.
9. Many Oyster Populations Are Declining
In many places, oyster populations are declining dramatically. One study found that in Maryland, the number of adult oysters has declined by about 50 percent between 1999 and 2018. In some places, the oyster population has decreased so much that they have been labeled locally extinct. This is due to a combination of overharvesting and disease.
The hope is that because of the important services they provide — from water filtration to fighting climate change to supporting local economies — conservation efforts will ramp up.
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Home Domains - Listed Domain Category - Phospholipid binding PX Domain
PX Domain
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The structural basis for PX domain interactions with phosphoinositides have been determined from the structures of the PX domains of p40phox and Vmp7p in a complex with PI(3)P. Interactions between all PX domains and their bound phosphoinositides involve the 1-phosphate and the inositol ring. A hydrogen bond between a well-conserved residue, K92 (in p40phox), and the 1-phosphate is the most important interaction with this group. Y59 (in p40phox) forms the floor of the lipid-binding pocket in the PX domain, allowing the inositol ring of PI(3)P to stack tightly against it. This carbohydrate-aromatic stacking is likely to be a common feature of binding, since all PX domains have either Y or F at the analogous position.
Structure Reference:
Bravo, J. et al. (2001) Mol. Cell. 8(4): 829-839. PDB: 1H6H.
Domain binding and function:
The Phox homology (PX) domain is a phospholipid-binding domain consisting of ~120 amino acids. The PX domain is found in more than 250 proteins, including the p40phox and p47phox components of the NADPH oxidase complex, sorting nexins, phospholipases D1 and 2 and the kinases PI3K and CISK. PX domains show an N-terminal three-stranded β-sheet, followed by a helical subdomain made up of four α-helices. PX domains preferentially bind to PtdIns(3)P, although some have been reported to bind other phosphoinositides. Proteins containing PX domains have been implicated in a wide spectrum of functions, including protein sorting, vesicular trafficking and phospholipids metabolism.
Examples of Proteins:
PX Domain Proteins
Binding Partners
p40phox PI(3)P
p47phox PI(3,4)P2, PI(3)P
Vmp7 PI(3)P
PI(3,5)P2, PI(4)P, PI(5)P
PLD1
PI(3,4,5)P3
CISK
PI3K (Class II)
PI(4,5)P2
Referenced in part on Cell Signaling Technology Website, Reference Section on Protein Domains. We gratefully acknowledge the following contributors: Piers Nash1, Dan Lin3, Kathleen Binns2, Clark Wells2, Rob Ingham2, Terry Kubiseski2, Bernard Liu1, Matt Smith2,3, Ivan Blasutig2,3, Maria Sierra1, Caesar Lim2,3, Michael Arc1, Jim Fawcett2 and Tony Pawson2,3.
1. Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA
2. Program in Molecular Biology and Cancer, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X5, Canada
3. Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada
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Two more Philadelphia judges have been kicked off the bench, the latest development in an FBI probe of judicial corruption here.
The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline ruled on Friday that Municipal Court Judge Dawn Segal and Common Pleas Court Judge Angeles Roca be removed from office for their involvement in separate case-fixing schemes.
Lawyers for both judges say they are appealing the decisions to the state Supreme Court.
In October, the disciplinary court found that Roca had unethically intervened in a tax case involving her son by calling then-Municipal Court Judge Joseph Waters Jr., who reached out to Segal, who then reversed herself and issued a ruling favorable to Roca's son.
Waters was sentenced in January 2015 to two years in prison for fixing cases on behalf of campaign donors and political allies. He was released about a month ago.
In July, the court found Segal guilty of seven violations of judicial ethics rules, including bringing the court into disrepute.
"I got something in front of you at 1 o'clock today," Waters told Segal in an intercepted 2011 phone conversation in which he asked for favorable treatment of a politically connected defendant appearing before her.
"Oh, OK. OK," Segal responded, according to the disciplinary panel.
Wiretaps also captured Segal telling Waters she had helped him with her rulings.
In Segal's case, the court acknowledged that Segal had been approached by Waters, "a corrupt judge." And, the court said, Roca at first had only sought advice from Waters before the conversation extended to intervening in her son's case. But neither judge stood up to Waters, the court said.
"As we have said in more detail in prior decisions, when it comes to corrupt acts and the derogation of a fair and just judicial process, a judge must have 'the willingness to stand up for what was right and buck a corrupt tide,'" the court wrote in both rulings.
Roca and Segal, both Democrats, had been on unpaid suspension. If the rulings stand, they would be ineligible to hold judicial office in the future.
"I'm very disturbed by the decision," Roca's attorney, Samuel Stretton, said Tuesday.
Stretton said he was appealing the ruling because the disciplinary court ignored case law and treated Roca's and Segal's cases too similarly.
Segal's lawyer, Stuart Haimowitz, said he also is appealing.
"Judge Segal expected to be sanctioned for what she did. We hoped and expected the Court of Judicial Discipline to have considered Judge Segal's actual conduct and its own precedent when it imposed its sanction," Haimowitz said in a statement Tuesday. "Instead, it appears it took a 'get rid of them all' approach. In so doing, the citizens of Philadelphia County lost a good judge."
Stretton and Haimowitz had sought suspensions for the judges.
In addition to Waters, who pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud, Municipal Court Judge Joseph O'Neill pleaded guilty in May to federal charges connected to the judicial case-fixing scandal.
O'Neill admitted he lied to FBI agents who were investigating special treatment he gave to a Democratic fund-raiser in 2011, at Waters' request.
"He's a friend of mine, so if you can, take a hard look at it," Waters told O'Neill in a conversation caught on an FBI wiretap.


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Famous for hosting gleaming parties in Our City of Love, the Rosales family's legendary Strawberry Mansion once again opened its doors for an intimate milestone celebration of the grand dame of the house, Norma Pdilla-Rosales.
A glitzy scene greeted wellwishers complete with tastefully arranged imported fresh flower blooms that awesomely accentuated the long wood dining table.
As expected, our ever chic celebrant's daughters – Baby, Pane and Beverly Rosales – patiently orchestrated their mom's special night with their signature warm hospitality amidst sumptuous feasts by chef par excellence Ding Montelibano.
The talented pianist/crooner Joel rendered classic songs to our delight.
Cheers and wishing you more celebrations ahead, Tita Norms!


Building a strong level of guest loyalty starts by providing excellent service well before guests begin their stay. From the reservation process, to checking-in, to arriving at the hotel room itself, a guest's initial impression of a hotel can greatly influence their perception of your hotel brand for the rest of their stay.
Even after a guest's stay, their first experience can set the tone of subsequent online reviews and the decision of whether or not to return. Below, we've detailed a number of areas hotels can look to improve in order to provide guests' with a positive first impression.
In a marketplace with countless online review and booking websites, potential guests often perform extensive research on multiple properties well before they decide where to stay. Ensuring that these sites contain accurate information about your hotels is very important as to not mislead or confuse guests. Make sure to frequently check the accuracy of your properties' information on your website, OTAs, review sites, and other related websites.
Once a guest reserves a room, be sure to promptly send a confirmation email with everything they need to know before their stay. If executed correctly, the information in this email can answer guests' questions before they even arise.
When guests arrive at the hotel, the expectations they formed during the booking process will be put to the test. The check-in experience will often set the tone for how guests perceive the rest of their visit. The exterior appearance of the hotel, the friendliness of the front desk agents, and even the speed of the check-in will all factor in on their first impressions of your hotel brand.
An inefficient check-in process leads to long lines which leads to tired and stressed guests. In fact, a recent study found that guest satisfaction drops by 50% if their wait takes longer than 5 minutes. Hotels can change the entire guest arrival experience by letting them check-in remotely with the OpenKey app and skip the lines at the front desk altogether.
OpenKey also enables hotels to offer guests mobile key access to their rooms. Guests won't have to stop by the front desk to get their key, nor will they have to worry about carrying around a keycard or leaving it behind somewhere. This results in a much smoother guest experience. In fact, guest satisfaction scores improve by 7% on average when hotels offer mobile key access.
With the guest's ability to check-in and access their room from their mobile device, your staff will have opportunities to focus on more impactful ways of improving the guest experience.
One of the first things guests notice when they arrive in their room is the level of cleanliness. If a hotel is dirty, cluttered, or smells strange, guest satisfaction will drop dramatically. This will almost guarantee that they will be looking elsewhere to stay the next time they travel.
Fresh towels and linens, clean bathrooms and bedrooms, even the cleanliness of the front lobby and hallways can all improve the guest experience and help them feel comfortable in those initial moments at your hotel.
Hotel properties should make overall cleanliness – from the parking lot to the lobby restrooms, as well as the guest rooms and amenities – one of their highest priorities. In a survey by P&G Professional, experts found that the number one cause of customer dissatisfaction or complaints was due to a lack of cleanliness or improper disinfection protocols.
In today's technology-focused world, guests are no longer satisfied with a standard wall outlet, alarm clock, and TV set. Changing the art in the rooms might not be the only update needed when a hotel renovates.
Improving the speed and reliability of wifi, mobile key room access, in-room tablets, and other in-room technology can transform a frustrating or boring guest experience to a positive and engaging one.
One hotel that has taken a huge step toward innovation in improving the guest experience is the Renaissance New York Midtown. Known as New York's 'living building', the hotel has created interactive hallways that respond to gestures. Guests are also able to place their room service requests, order hotel merchandise, and so much more from the comfort of their room – which also has interiors that change with the seasons.
When a guest arrives at a hotel and is able to engage with cutting-edge technology, their first impression of your overall hotel brand is likely to be of higher regard.
The true "make it or break it" aspect of your guest experience is your staff – and how efficient and experienced they were, or how frustrating interactions were with them. By being prompt, efficient, friendly, and helpful, your staff could take a potentially ugly situation and turn it around with their actions.
Understanding the growing preference for self-service and also the ever-present need to have a pleasant person-to-person experience is the challenge of today's hotel industry. Implementing follow-up phone calls or emails after a guest books a room to find out what their needs will be during their stay is a way to improve the arrival experience well before they ever cross your threshold.
By anticipating a guest's potential needs and being aware of the reason for their stay, staff will be able to better serve them upon arrival. For instance, business travelers will benefit from learning about available amenities like free wifi, bookable meeting rooms, and 24-hour room service to the business travelers, while having a knowledgeable concierge able to give excellent recommendations for dinner and nightlife will be appreciated by the casual vacation-goers.
While it's imperative to be friendly and welcoming to all guests, catering to their individual needs gives hotels the opportunity to exceed guests' baseline expectations and make a lasting first impression.
In order to stay relevant and competitive in this technological world, hotels are reconsidering every aspect of the services they offer to their guests. Providing a pleasant first impression is no longer as simple as a smiling face at the front desk. Through a clear booking process, staff training, property cleanliness, and innovative technology, hotels can better ensure they deliver a positive first impression to all guests.


Polish-Ukrainian cooperation for development tourism in the border area.
Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in the development of tourism in the border area. Project co-financed by the European Union under the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2007-2013.
Improving the accompanying infrastructure, equipment and management of the water in Husynnem.
Improving the accompanying infrastructure, fixtures and container "Oak Forest" in Wołkowiany.
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Erick reported February 15 that a Facebook group was trying to draft Stanford Law professor and free culture champion Lawrence Lessig to run for Congress. It took 5 days but they may get their way with Lessig announcing Lessig '08, a site that will host an introduction to his "Change Congress Movement," (video above) as well as his yet to be announced decision as to whether he'll run or not.
I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so whether it makes sense to advance that movement by running for Congress.
Many friends have weighed in on that decision — both strongly in favor and strongly opposed. Many more have joined draftlessig.org and a Facebook group asking me to consider it.
The first candidate to run based on support via Facebook? Maybe not completely, but it's a headline I'm sure others may use if and when he decides to run.


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import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * File managements for a CPlex class
 *
 */
public class CPlexBuffer
{
    private List<String> obj;
    private List<String> cons;
    private List<String> bin;
    private List<String> bound;

    private String lpFileName;

    public CPlexBuffer(String prefix) throws IOException
    {
        lpFileName = prefix + ".lp";

        obj   = new ArrayList<String>();
        cons  = new ArrayList<String>();
        bin   = new ArrayList<String>();
        bound = new ArrayList<String>();

        cons.add("Subject To");
        bin.add("Binary");

        obj.add("minimize");
        obj.add("obj: ");

        bound.add("bounds");
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the file name that stores the formulated BIP.
     *
     * @return
     *      The file name
     */
    public String getLpFileName()
    {
        return lpFileName;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the list that stores the objective formula
     *
     * @return
     *      A list of string
     */
    public List<String> getObj()
    {
        return obj;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the list that stores the objective formula
     *
     * @return
     *      A list of string
     */
    public List<String> getBound()
    {
        return bound;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the list that will store constraints formulated for the BIP. Each constraint
     * is stored as an element (a string) in this list.
     *
     * @return
     *      The list that stores constraints.
     */
    public List<String> getCons()
    {
        return cons;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the list that will store binary variable constraints
     *
     * @return
     *      The list that stores binary variable constraints.
     */
    public List<String> getBin()
    {
        return bin;
    }

	/**
	 * Write the formulated BIP (constraints, objective function, etc.) into a text file for
	 * the CPLEX solver to read.
	 *
	 * @throws IOException
	 *     when there is I/O error.
	 */
	public void writeToLpFile() throws IOException
    {
        PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter (
                                 new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(lpFileName, false), 65536));
        bin.add("End \n");

        for (String str : obj)
            writer.println(str);

        for (String str : cons)
            writer.println(str);

        // if we have some bound constraint
        if (bound.size() > 1) {
            for (String str : bound)
                writer.println(str);
        }

        for (String str : bin)
            writer.println(str);

        writer.close();
        obj.clear();
        cons.clear();
        bin.clear();
    }
}

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The four and a half hour flight from London Heathrow to Larnaka goes down the Thames Estuary over the North Sea across Belgium and down through Western Germany and over the German Alps, skirting Venice and the top of the Aegean Sea with spectacular views of the dry limestone islands of the Dalmation coast, and then over the steep valleys of Serbia reaching Greece at Thessaloniki, and then across the top of the the Aegean near the Dardenelles, along the South West corner of Turkey with fabulous islands sketched out in the turquoise blue or beaten copper of the sea, over Rhodes and then left over the Eastern Mediterranean for Cyprus.
On our 2011 flight the Austrian Alps were amazing. Snow and deep valleys, even a glacier cracking out of a cwm. And little German hilltop villages in the pre-Alps in clearings in the dark, dark forest. Cloud over the Balkans and Aegean until Rhodes – huge washes of debris from the winter torrents out of the hills on the southern side. Then lots of sea, Mediterranean blue with scudding with waves. I didn't have my camera.
Later journeys brought different things as you can see below. When I did have my camera to the ready.


Another excellent review. There's usually an Ayame coupon for 15% off $40 in the Irvine World News every week, in case you didn't know. Also, I realize it's a personal preference but, in Japan the best sake is served ice cold, not hot.
oooh! i've tried zipangu and was left unimpressed... hopefully ayame will be better.
jumpcut-I realize that the best Sake is served cold. On a cold winter night though I prefer hot sake. Sake is traditionally served hot when the sake is cheap. This helps to make it taste a little better. I usually tend to think of sake like beer, kind of a working man's drink. This is why I usually object to spending $20+ dollars on a small glass. I'll take the cheap stuff, hot. Even with hot sake though, you're still usually paying $6-$9 to get less liquid than a bottle of beer.... Thanks for the tip on the coupon. I'll make sure to look for it.
I really love your review! It is truely a great blog, but I can't help but notice your lack of Vietnamese food. Orance County offers the best Vietnamese cusine this side of the Pacific Ocean, some may argue that it is even better than Vietnam itself!


Below is outlined the events where will be supporting our drivers and MS Kart teams.
Teesside Karting we attend their monthly club sprint championship.
The 4 Drivers below are the 2017 BPEC Champions all drive with LucasRacing who have won the championship for 8 consecutive years.
PLEASE NOTE THAT TRACK DATES CAN CHANGE THIS WILL ALWAYS BE THE MOST UP TO DATE SITUATION WE HAVE.


Your Bag Is Sooo Big! Would You Ever Bling It Up?
I am currently on business trip in Chicago.... wish I had more time to explore the city -but there's always next time. Anyways I have to carry my laptop with me everywhere I go, so my bag litterally feels this big to me.
Of course if this was my bag I wouldn't care how big it is...sign me up!
Would you ever bling out your day bag?
Thanks to Leah & Bliss you can have a large handbag that's already bejeweled or you can have your favorite bag customized.
It costs a pretty shiny penny, but really how fun are these?
Why did I gasp when I saw this bag?! I'm a big endorser of bling in the day, I'm a big fan of bling. I mean, it makes everything instantly better. I would totally do this.
What a cool idea! It reminds me of when cell phones were being encrusted with sparkles!
Love Them ! They make a Statement.
cute blog! these bags are adorable!
I am into more subtle bling. But then again, these bags definitely make a statement! And isn't that what fashion is all about?


Tampa, Florida native Amy Hall has been nothing short of a hardworking, intelligent Alpha Gam these past two years. Most recently, this sophomore knockout has been giving 110 percent and dedicating her heart and soul to everything that she does.
Amy is a friend to all that she meets and a star student. She is majoring in accounting and studies most waking hours of the day. If you walk into the chapter room at any given point, Amy will be downstairs with her laptop, intermediate accounting textbook and a calculator ready to go. If you see her around give her a pat on the back for the sleepless hours she puts in staring at numbers and attending accounting socials.
"Amy is the type of girl who will have a test, but sacrifice her time of studying to help others understand things so that they can excel," said her friend Collyn Davis.
Not only does she strive to be the best in her academics, but she always focuses on being a wise, selfless friend. Amy is the type of person that you don't have to put up any walls for. She accepts you wholeheartedly for who you are and is honest in all her friendships.
"She is so wise for our age and gives the greatest advice. I can't wait to room with her for the rest of college," said her close friend Abigail Pitts.
Amy is admirable, thoughtful and unconditionally genuine. We are proud of the woman she is and love to watch her grow. She is involved on campus volunteering with Project Uplift and is continously immersing herself in different accounting organizations to further her professional life. Getting even more ahead of the game, she is preparing to start a corporate tax internship in Tampa this summer before she starts her junior year.


CIAMS is proud to congratulate Adjunct Associate Professor Jeffrey Zorn on the publication of the first three volumes on the excavation of Area G at the site of Tel Dor, in Israel. Professor Zorn was responsible for this area of the excavations, and is a principal co-author of the volumes, along with Dr. Ilan Sharon and Dr. Ayelet Gilboa, co-directors of the project, and Dr. Sveta Matskevitch, a researcher at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Tel Dor is a circa eight hectare site north of Caesarea on the coast of Israel. It was occupied, more or less continuously, from the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000 BCE) to the Roman era (ca. 200 CE), with some occupation in the Byzantine and Crusader periods. Excavations have been ongoing, with periodic breaks, from 1980 to the present. Area G, ca. 450 m2 in maximum area, is the only excavation area in the center of the tel, and was excavated from 1986 until 2004. Area G was targetted specifically to give an idea of the nature of the urban core of the site. Excavations in this area revealed a copper/bronze resmelting area (Phases 12-10) of the Late Bronze to early Iron I Ages; a Canaanite style house (Phases 9-6) of Iron I to Iron IIa; poorly preserved remains of the end of the Iron Age (Phase 5); Persian Period pits (Phase 4); public and domestic architecture of the Hellenistic Period (Phase 3-2); and monumental architecture associated with a colonnaded plaza of the Roman Period (Phase 1).
The three volumes published this year cover the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age periods of occupation, with subsequent volumes to be published in the coming years on the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. The present volumes (Qedem 10, 11 and 12), about 950 pages in all, contain approximately 725 in-page illustrations, 150 tables, and 150 plates, plans and other full-page images. These volumes are a monumental contribution to the scholarship of these periods and this region, and will be a vital resource for future researchers.
Gilboa, A.; Sharon, I.; Zorn, J. R.; and Matskevich, S.
2018 Excavations at Dor, Final Report, Volume IIA—Area G, The Late Bronze and Iron Ages: Synthesis, Architecture and Stratigraphy. Qedem Reports 10. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2018 Excavations at Dor, Final Report, Volume IIB—Area G, The Late Bronze and Iron Ages: Pottery, Artifacts, Ecofacts and Other Studies. Qedem Reports 11. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2018 Excavations at Dor, Final Report, Volume IIC—Area G, The Late Bronze and Iron Ages: Pottery Plates, Phase Plans and Index of Loci. Qedem Reports 12. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.


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REVIEW: Owen/Cox Dance Group compares and contrasts Bach and Hindemith, Ludus Tonalis
Floyd Gingrich, Examiner
The music of Bach and Hindemith and its coordination with the dancers of the Owens/Cox Dance Group
The name of the program, Sunday June 7, was Ludus Tonalis, (tonal play) Paul Hindemith's 1942 crafted work for piano, which is only one of the last century's responses to Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, as well as Chopin's and Scriabin's 24 Preludes in the 19th Century. In each case, one piece in each cycle represents each step in the chromatic scale. J.S. Bach wrote his opus to demonstrate the usefulness of the well tempered scale, which he invented. As far as is known, this performance is the first choreography set to this Hindemith opus.
The program began with an homage to J.S. Bach, as the dance team performed to Elizabeth Suh Lane's memorized playing of Bach's 1720 Partita no. 3, for solo violin. Ms Lane presented the entire suite with her normal fiery precision, blending Bach's dances with the modern inventions, even moving to different positions of the stage to interact with the dancers, who at times regarded her as a totem or a month late May pole. The Baroque music was not matched with 18th dance forms, but seemed quite at home with a modern day interpretation choreographed by Jennifer Owen.
Dr. Kairy Koshoeva, renowned pianist, and newly minted American citizen, played most of the Hindemith work (the sections not included were omitted due to choreographic issues). As Shakespeare excelled in poetic beauty withing the constraints of the sonnet, Hindemith demonstrated his musical ingenuity with the challenges he set for himself.
In a 1996 article in The Quarterly of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISiS-Symmetry), "Symmetry and Dissymetry in Paul Hindemith's 'Ludus Tonalis,'" Siglind Bruhn explores various stylistic, contrapuntal, and theoretical straitjackets he turned into music. He balanced historical styles, retrograde, etc., versions of contrapuntal lines, all of which might turn into a scholastic exercize in lesser hands.
Ms Koshoeva's performance of Ludus Tonalis was well synchronized to the dancer's movements, a nod to individual skills of the entire ensemble, and the melding skills of those performers, as well as the entire production staff. Even the size and nature of the dancers' movements were in keeping with the changing mood of Hindemith's score. Dr. Koshoeva's informed playing indicated her understanding of the complicated nature of the composer's wry games; her performance was musically cogent, a remarkable accomplishment.
An informal poll taken at the after-concert discussion indicated that most of the audience members did not hear any of Hindemith's games. Perhaps those secrets are only to be comprehended by select performers as they converse over the decades with the composer and unearth his treasures.
Owen/Cox Dance Group's mission is to create new music and dance collaborations, to present high-quality contemporary dance performances with live music, and to engage as wide an audience as possible through affordable live performance, education and outreach programs.
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I'll Remember You As You Were, Not As What You'll Become
Sky Hopinka
Texts and performances by the late Indigenous poet Diane Burns bind Sky Hopinka's dazzling and mysterious blend of original and found sources, which continues the filmmaker's exploration of language, storytelling, and transcendent ways of seeing.
Toronto International Film Festival 2016
I feel very conscious of the fact that when I'm taking a shot of a landscape, it's coming from a feeling of wanting to participate in it somehow—and of not quite being able to get at it.
Sky Hopinka (1984, USA) is a Ho-Chunk Nation national and a descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Native Americans. His work focuses on positions of homeland and landscape, designs of language and culture. Hopinka has won prizes at various festivals, including the jury prize at Milwaukee Underground FF, the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker in Ann Arbor and the More with Less Award at the 2016 Images Festival. His films include I'LL REMEMBER YOU AS YOU WERE, NOT AS WHAT YOU'LL BECOME (2016) and LORE (2019) which screened in the Moving Ahead section at Locarno FF. His most recent film MALNI – TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (2020) was selected at the Berwick FF.
malni – towards the ocean, towards the shore


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It was damp and gloomy and I had no motivation at all for photography. And it shows: in the subjects, in the quality, and in the fact that all I can really think to say is how I really wasn't feeling the whole photography thing this week.
However. Things did start to pick up in the last couple of days, and I'm feeling better about next week. Not sure how it'll translate (I'm still looking at far too much rain), but I'm feeling a little more motivated in general.


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Bit Trade crowdfunding on Equitise
Australian digital currency exchange Bit Trade has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Equitise, with an aim to raise $3 million to fund its international expansion.
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The campaign will allow interested Australians to invest from as much as $475.
"At Bit Trade, we're excited by the opportunity to help launch Australia's premier gateway for the future of investment through the new asset class of smart securities," Jonathon Miller, managing director and co-founder of Bit Trade said.
He said there was no better indicator of the rising appeal of cryptocurrency as an alternative asset class for Australian investors particularly as $5.9 billion in digital currencies was traded by Australians in 2017.
"It doesn't matter if you're crypto curious or crypto serious, our platform's accessible to both individuals and institutions and we're really excited to be able to throw down the gauntlet and be the first Aussie digital exchange to open up our doors to everyday investors," Mr Miller said.
Bit Trade launched a new version of its platform in May this year and saw total registrations ramp up to over 50,000 on the platform since inception.
Mr Miller said that funds raised from the equity crowdfunding campaign will be used to continue to invest in the Bit Trade team and platform before scaling to other international markets.
Equitise was one of the first equity crowdfunding platforms in Australia last year to receive regulatory licencing approval from ASIC as part of the regulator's new framework.
Equitise co-founder Jonny Wilkinson underlined the opportunity for Aussie investors to take part in this campaign, saying Bit Trade and Equitise are well placed to capitalise on the changing regulations around equity crowdfunding in Australia.
"Interest in bitcoin hasn't died down over the years and Equitise is giving investors the chance to gain a foothold in exciting or emerging industries like the world of cryptocurrencies," Mr Wilkinson said.
"This equity crowdfunding campaign is the first time in Australia that everyday investors can help shape the future of wealth by backing an innovative company like Bit Trade who are at the forefront of the smart securities market."
Bit Trade also has an in-house innovation lab and blockchain consultancy which advises and develops software for businesses using blockchain and distributed consensus systems.
He added Bit Trade's long term strategy will be to diversify its revenue base, scale its platform and gain valuable customer insights into the daily trading habits of its users, in particular enterprise and institutions.
"We're passionate about building the next generation of wealth and we see that future being in cryptocurrencies," Mr Miller said.
"As a first mover, Bit Trade announced an exciting partnership earlier this month with mnm institute, an innovative Australian education provider to help support early stage entrepreneurs and encourage wider spread adoption."
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Abstract:Few organizations have been handling password based credentials longer than Microsoft. In addition to the diversity of legacy and current use cases, strong requirements to maintain backwards compatibility constrains the rate at which protocols and account databases can evolve. Some common protocols even became de facto industry-wide standards before being publicly described by Microsoft. So we are perhaps in a position to provide some unique perspectives on real world challenges facing password based credentials systems. Microsoft also operates one of the largest datacenter deployments in the industry. With increasing attention on datacenter power utilization and "green" datacenter technologies, any frequently called algorithm which mandates "burning" of CPU cycles should take the inherent tradeoff between security and energy costs into consideration. An internal survey of multiple product teams identified many use cases and types of password handling methods in both internal-use and shipping product code. This informed our requirements, which we lay out in this paper, in the hope that the PHC will result in a design which can be considered for inclusion in Microsoft platforms and the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).


Today, February 27, is International Polar Bear Day. I have only seen a polar bear once in the "wild", when visiting a client at Prudhoe Bay. Two bears had come in for a stroll through the parking lot. I have posted those pictures on here in the past. Today, since it is the bears' day, I figured I would go with a more natural photo. Unfortunately, I could not find the photographer's name, although she/he certainly deserve credit for such a beautiful shot.
SAFETY NOTE: It should be noted, that hugging a polar bear, on this day, or any other, is highly hazardous and not recommended by the author, or any representative of Circle to Circle.
This comes to C-to-C from the Solicitor General of Altoona.
It also came with a note: With the bears in hibernation, this is the perfect time for me to train.


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A seismic shift has occurred in British politics
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By Matthew Flinders, Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
This post was originally published on The Conversation on 9 June 2017.
The 2017 general election was a once-in-a-generation opportunity that the Tories fumbled and Labour exploited to remarkable effect. The Tories managed to spook older voters and thereby alienate a core constituency; Labour, meanwhile, both connected with younger people and somehow got them to actually vote in large numbers.
All political scholars should beware reaching too quickly for their pens, keyboards or quills; to adapt the old adage, "write in haste, repent at leisure". Nonetheless, it strikes me that a seismic shift has occurred in British politics. It is now clear that Theresa May's gamble has been a catastrophic failure. With a hung parliament, the UK's negotiating position on Brexit looks to be in tatters. Theresa May asked the British public to show its support for a "hard" Brexit, but the public declined.
The Conservative Party looks guaranteed to be engulfed by internal warfare and blame games. The only question is when. That, in turn depends upon how long May attempts to stay on as leader. Can she survive as prime minister?
After running such a personalised – even presidential – campaign and having watched her authority drain away in recent days and hours, the future looks bleak. But if May goes, the Tory Party will be plunged into a leadership contest that will create even more instability.
The Labour Party, on the other hand, has an air of somewhat unexpected jubilation about it. From debates at beginning of the election over the possibility that the party might lose catastrophically – and even split – it now appears to be almost glowing. It's even purring at its achievements in terms of shifting the terms of the debate.
The key to this was Corbyn's decision to offer a bold and clear vision of a new left-wing politics instead of attempting to win back voters from the centre ground. In many ways Corbynism reached out to the anti-political, the disenchanted, the disconnected and elements of the "left behind". But most importantly, the initial data suggests that the Labour Party made sure younger voters turned out once it had won their support.
As a new dawn breaks for British politics, the situation is one of fluidity and flux. A game is afoot – and it may well redefine a whole set of relationships, not least with Europe.
Disclosure statement: Matthew Flinders receives funding from the ESRC, AHRC, Joseph Rowntree Trust, Esmee Fairbairn Trust. He is President of the Political Studies Association of the UK.
If you enjoyed this blog post you may also be interested to read Making the case for the welfare state by Peter Taylor-Gooby.
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That year, the components of the civil code that dealt with household funds had been additionally reformed. This book, the first anthology in English, hyperlinks the considerations of Spanish women's historical past to those of girls's historical past elsewhere in Europe and throughout the world.
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Her doctoral research targeted on the evaluation of the emigration of girls and households to the Viceroyalty of Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, significantly in relation to the processes of social mobility of the colony. Spanish women love freedom and independence, so trying to regulate your girl will surely make you look dumb and you're extra more probably to lose her. Expecting her to settle with you will be the dumbest factor you'll ever do if you're relationship a Spanish woman. So keep loyal and treat her like a queen and you'll just discover the girl of your dream. Spanish women are close to their household throughout their life and trying to take her away from them would possibly make you lose her eternally.
Some 16% of Americans have ever earned money from a web-based gig platform. While most gig platform workers say they've had a positive experience with these jobs, some report going through on-the-job troubles like being treated rudely or sexually harassed. Awareness of the term Latinx doesn't necessarily translate into use.
Even so, Spanish women are shortly approaching their European counterparts, and the youthful generations understand machismo as outdated. One of the important thing features of Spanish emigration to America on this period is the significant presence of girls.
During the 1930s, abortion regulation was liberalized within the space controlled by the Republicans, however this was short-lived, because the Franco regime with assist of the Catholic Church, outlawed abortion again. Abortion remains a controversial political issue in Spain, but common moves to restrict it have lacked majority support. In latest years, abortion charges have been falling, as higher access to emergency contraception has been launched. Remember, the Spanish language speaking capability, how much you realize about Spain and its tradition https://toprussianbrides.com/spanish-brides/, appears, the means you behave when you're with your friends, and your social circle are all essential components for relationship Spanish women. Also, just like any other woman on the planet, Spanish women don't like to lose an argument. During the first few days of the Spanish Civil War, women performed an integral position within the spontaneous rebellion that prevented the immediate success of the Nationalist coup. Around one thousand of those women went on to affix the militias who fought on the entrance.
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