It may sound like the contents of a college vending machine, but these are actually among the foods that thousands of Puerto Ricans have been living on for the past month.
Panned by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, the Federal Emergency Management Agency rations have been the subject of frequent criticism and social media rage since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in late September.
In a public appearance on Friday, she rifled through a federal shipment of chocolate pudding and other snack foods before throwing the box aside as if disgusted.
The snacks have also earned the derision of many on social media, such as the sports journalist Josh Sánchez. On Oct. 12, he tweeted a picture — since retweeted more than 19,000 times — that shows an alleged FEMA food bag filled with Skittles and vienna sausages.
But experts say that critics don't understand how emergency food works. In an environment where most people still don't have power or reliable communications, even "junk food" can — and frequently is — part of the solution.
What exactly FEMA has shipped to Puerto Rico remains a matter of some confusion.
A month after Hurricane Maria made landfall, the agency is still engaged in a massive feeding operation with an overlapping patchwork of local agencies, private contractors and nongovernmental organizations.
Local leaders, tasked with distributing emergency food shipments, have opened and repacked aid boxes before handing them out — making it unclear which items came from FEMA and which came from the nearly 80 other relief organizations operating on the island.
FEMA repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether it has distributed specific items, such as Skittles, that have become the subject of social media scorn. Instead, FEMA stressed that the agency and its partners are distributing more than 2 million meals per week on the island of 3.4 million people.
"To imply that there is something inappropriate about providing nutritional meals and snacks does not accurately depict the feeding mission currently being executed in Puerto Rico," the agency said.
FEMA rations, typically supplied by agency contractors, include hot, prepared meals, shelf-stable "Meals-Ready-to-Eat" and grocery boxes filled with canned and boxed goods. The foods supplied in Puerto Rico are equivalent to those the agency has distributed in other disaster zones, and it has used many of the same contractors as it did to source meals for survivors of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
According to current FEMA contractors and contract solicitations, all of the agency's meals comply to strict nutritional standards. One recent FEMA posting sought food contractors to make thousands of sandwich lunches, at 800 calories or less.
Another solicitation sought a supplier for tens of thousands of cans of bulk ground beef, boneless chicken, carrots, beans and corn for its hot-meal operations — plus rice, peanut butter, canned fruits, Adobo seasoning and crackers.
Still, there's the matter of the Cheeze-Its and the beef jerky. Some observers have questioned whether such foods are appropriate, or sufficient, in a post-disaster setting.
But experts say that, in moderation and over the short-term, these foods provide both calories and a much-needed sense of normalcy. After all, most Americans do regularly consume packaged snack foods: $44.3 billion's worth in 2015, according to the market research firm Euromonitor.
Familiar foods are more palatable to recipients and easier to source, explained Iain Logan, the co-founder of the consulting firm Global Emergency Group.
They're also a comfort, said Jeff Nene, the spokesman for the humanitarian group Convoy of Hope, which has distributed some Little Debbie cakes alongside much larger shipments of rice and dehydrated vegetables.
Ultimately, Nene and others stress, no one intends disaster survivors to eat snack foods as meals, or to eat them over the long-term.
Already, FEMA is transitioning away from shelf-stable meals, such as MREs and "snack packs," toward grocery boxes and hot foods.
The agency is also helping grocery stores restock so that Puerto Ricans can choose foods for themselves. While almost 90 percent of the island's supermarkets are open, according to the Government of Puerto Rico, most of the island still lacks power, and some stores have struggled to stock their shelves.
For Logan, the humanitarian consultant, that issue looms far larger than the question of FEMA's taste in snacks.
20 million people are at risk of starvation. Here's how it got so bad.


Flud's new platform allows news enthusiasts to create their own news profiles, recommend content to their community, discover new information and sources from friends, and to build information networks around key interests. The San Diego-based startup recently received funding from Detroit Venture Partners and Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures.
Flud thinks of its content as having three tiers. Tier 1 belongs to the publications that are ubiquitous at news stands: Time; Cosmo; Sports Illustrated. Tier 2 is the place for niche blogs that are widely read—think TechCrunch or Perez Hilton. Tier 3 is the home of blogs that may not be household names, but that have enough of a readership to stay relevant in the market.
Tier 3 is where Ghoshal sees a big opportunity with Flud users. The new platform includes a feature that allows users to see who else is reading an article at the same time they are. (Ghoshal calls it "serendipitous news discovery.") Ghoshal is hoping that users will be pleasantly surprised to see 20 or 30 other people reading the same cult-favorite blog they are, and that will lead them to reach out for additional content recommendations.
Other new features in the updated platform include a Flud button, which allows users to endorse high-quality content; an activity feed to track what's trending inside a user's news circle; the ability to push content out to Tumblr and connect to Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Instapaper, and Read It Later accounts; and synching across devices so that a user's "news legacy" follows them from phone to tablet and vice versa.
It was the popularization of the tablet computer, Ghoshal says, that inspired he and Matthew Ausonio to found Flud in the first place. "The tablet was intriguing, and we guessed that using them to read news would be huge," he says.


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Biodegradable Polymers: polymers of future
Meet Kamal
Department of Chemistry, Christ Church College, Kanpur-209 801, U.P., India
Biodegradable polymers are also developed by the amalgamation of individual components to create a new material. For example, starch and polyolefins can be blended to create biodegradable packaging. The synthesis process requires either cast or blown film. The polyolefins aid in improving the mechanical properties of the biodegradable material while high amounts of starch — as much as 60% in mass concentration are used to fashion the material into something biodegradable. Demand for biodegradable polymers has been rising as a result of environmental concerns regarding the use of nonrenewable materials. Styrofoam and other plastics are among the most produced materials used for packaging and other applications. Such materials cause land and water pollution and have been linked in some studies to health problems in humans and animals. In order to solve these issues, scientists and engineers are diligently innovating and creating new biodegradable polymers. They are widely used in different fields and applications, such as packaging, agriculture, and healthcare. Different kinds of materials used to develop biodegradable polymers are being researched and tested by scientists and engineers to evaluate their effectiveness, safety, and environmental sustainability. Biodegradable polymers are being integrated into society and becoming a norm in plastic packaging that promotes a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. Indeed, it is becoming the next big thing: The market size of biodegradable plastics is expected to grow to $6.12 billion by 2023, according to a business report from Markets.
Kamal M, Awasthi D. Biodegradable Polymers: polymers of future. ANSDN [Internet]. 31Jul.2022 [cited 29Jan.2023];10(01):. Available from: https://anushandhan.com/index.php/ANSDHN/article/view/1769

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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, a brewery from Milton, Delaware, which ranks amongst the 15 largest craft breweries in the United States, has named George Pastrana as the brewery's new president and COO. The position had been idle for more than one year after Nick Benz departed the company in October 201, a role he performed for only two years. In the meantime Sam Calagione, who had founded the company in 1995, took over as interim CEO.
Pastrana has an intense marketing background and has worked in the last 15 years in leading positions for several companies selling such diverse products as CIBA Vision contact lenses, Durex condoms, Scholl foot care and footwear, Mazola and Capullo cooking oils, Karo corn syrup, Argo corn starch, Patak's Indian cuisine, Fleischmann's yeast brand and Kingsford baking powder, among others.
It needs to be seen if Pastrana is more lucky on the new job than Benz, who started in 2003 as chief financial officer, was promoted to COO in 2006 and to CEO in 2014. Until that time the functions as a CEO was performed by Calagione, who wanted to step back from day-to-day business and to focus more on a role as ambassador of the brand, on product development and his various activities around beer, including documentaries, Discovery's "Brew Masters" TV series and even non-doc movie appearances like 2011's The Dish & The Spoon (he played a brewery manager).
Up to today Dogfish Head Brewing is one of the fastest growing breweries in the United States. The brewery installed a new canning line and gradually expanded its sales territory in recent years. Another success factor is the introduction of a line of fast-growing distilled beverages. Last year the brewery increased volume sales by nearly 15%.
Dogfish Head had seen a slower rate of growth in the years before as the company stayed with one brewery in Milton as other craft brewers in the west opened plants in the East. The company also resisted the urge to discount its brews or depend too much on its most popular offerings, such as its 60-minute IPA.


Crazy Parrots From the CK Parrot Club!
All Proceeds Benefit St. John Ambulance Therapy Dogs!
Competitors arrive at the event field no later than 3:30!
Your dog MUST have good recall!
on this crowd pleasing new show!
We just can't believe our luck to have the opportunity to host one of the most ELITE POLICE CANINE UNITS in North America!
Welcome Windsor Police K9 Squad!
This is such an exciting presentation of the best of the best 2 and 4 legged officers. Come watch their presentation this year on Sunday, July 21st.
Exclusive To This Area - Lure Coursing!
Woofa~Roo Dashers introduced this fantastic sport to Essex County last August and has quickly grown in popularity!
Though lure coursing was developed as a performance event for sighthounds, many breeds of dogs have the ability to lure course. Welcome to Woofa~Roo Dashers!
Many dogs love the thrill of the chase, not just sighthounds. It doesn't matter if your dog is a small terrier, a Labrador Retriever or a mixed breed, if they love to chase things, they will love lure coursing!
Nick Howchuck and His Extraordinary German Shepherds!
Meet and Greet Our Local Celebrity Pets!
Ranked 52 in the World!
Windsor / Essex County Humane Society.
We are thrilled to have Border City Barkers Agility Club return with their dynamic show of well trained athletic K9s!
Are you looking for a fun activity to do with your dog? Border City Barkers can help you get started on the road to Agility!
Check them out at our Indoor Soccer Field at the Libro Center Sports Complex.
Watch Dogs fly as they launch themselves off a 40 foot dock into a 28,000 gallon swimming pool. These are amazing K9 athletes converging on Amherstburg to compete in dock diving!
Do you have a crazy, jumping, water-loving dog? Then DOCK DIVING might be a FUNTASTIC fit for you! Please click HERE to register to compete.
On-site registration is available for $30.
Woofa~Roo's Sterling Canine Citizen Award!
Competitors arrive at the event field no later than 3:00!
New This Year - Heel To Music!!!
Freestyle Dog Dancing and Stunt Shows!
A Dynamic Weekend With A Charitable Twist!
We have a Funtastic Festival planned for animal lovers of all ages. But the best thing about Woofa~Roo Pet Fest is our charitable component. We have several events which will benefit our charities located on Adoption Circle at the entrance of the Libro Center. Our rescues / charities are always looking for volunteers, forever homes and foster homes. Please check them out !
Don't forget our Silent Auction which also benefit our Charities. (now located indoors in the main lobby of the Libro Center Sports Complex). Quality gift baskets and amazing prices. A MUST SEE!
If you are thinking about adding a new pet to your family . . . talk to one of our rescues . . . because every animal needs a family to love.
Does your dog have what it takes to be a Sterling Canine Citizen? Would you like to show off your canine companion's great social skills? How about an award that validates your hard work and training? Well we have it with our Woofa~Roo Sterling Canine Citizen Award!!
Test your dog's skill, training or just have CRAZY FUN in the Gauntlet.
Check out this obstacle course designed for two or four legged kids!
Have CRAZY FUN for a great cause!
Try dock diving at one of our charity splashes running in between waves. $20 for 5 tickets (each ticket is valid for a turn on the dock).
All proceeds benefit our rescues and charities charity. Registration for try dockdogs is onsite only!
We are anxious to hear of Jack & Maverick's scent detection work, therapy dog visitations and their new celebrity status since working on a new local film.
The Woofa~Roo Challenge, A Game Of Distraction!
How distracted is your dog? Challenge his/her urges in this brand new game at Woofa~Roo Pet Fest.
This is a timed event that will test your dog's ability to ignore distractions.
Three categories of dogs - small, medium and large - 1st place prize in each category.
$5.00 for every two tries!
Proceeds benefit St. John Ambulance Therapy Dogs. Have CRAZY FUN for a great cause!


REAP THE BENEFITS OF BECOMING AN ACCREDITED AGE FRIENDLY BUSINESS!
STEP 1 – Sign up and nominate an 'Age Friendly Champion' for your business.
STEP 2 – Set aside 1 hour for nominated staff to complete a short online Elevator Dementia Awareness training course.
STEP 3 - Attend a 2 hour Age Friendly Workshop at Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel on Tuesday 19th February from 11am to 1pm, after which finger food and light refreshments will be served. If you can send along more than 1 staff member, all the better!
STEP 4 - Consult with some of your older customers to find out what improvements they would like to see. For example, use of larger fonts on printed materials and signage, providing chairs with armrests, placing products within easy reach etc.
STEP 5 - Develop and implement 3 Age Friendly actions, in response to the concerns of your older customers, in order to become an accredited Age Friendly Business and highlight this by displaying your Certification and a Window Sticker at your business premises, as well as being listed online at agefriendlyireland.ie and included in local media coverage.
This is a win-win opportunity and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, so don't delay and sign up today by emailing us at admin@kilkennychamber.ie or calling 056 7752767. The closing date for sign up to the forthcoming programme is Thursday 31st January.


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People & Parliament transforming society
Transport and communication
Roads and railways
Kent Case Study
Making Tracks Across Kent
Turnpike roads
Turnpike roads survived the coming of the railway.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, many roads were maintained by turnpike trusts. These were individual bodies established by acts of Parliament which had powers to exact tolls to pay for the upkeep of the roads.
Although turnpike roads must have felt the impact of the railways, at a local level travel would not have been greatly affected. As a result turnpike trusts continued in existence until the development of Local Authorities in the late nineteenth century.
One turnpike trust near Marden that was greatly affected by the railway was the Brandbridges Road Turnpike Trust. Their road was crossed by the railway just down the line from Marden. The Trust had already been advised that the level of the road would have to be sunk to between 10 and 14 feet lower than its existing level. As this would leave the road much more liable to flooding, and make draining any floodwater away much more difficult, the Trust decided to dissent to the Railway.
Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Brandbridges Road Turnpike Trust, 29th February 1836.
Despite the difficulties the Railway caused, the Trust remained in existence until 1884 and was one of the last remaining Trusts in the area.
Special Meeting of the Trustees of the Brandbridges Turnpike Trust
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To find out more about the project, visit People and Parliament: Connecting with Communities
Find connections, past and present, between Parliament and your town
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The mandate of the Participatory Governance Initiative at Arizona State University is to promote excellence, collaboration, and innovation in participatory governance research and practice. The Participatory Governance Initiative is a university-wide interdisciplinary space that aims at bringing together academics, students, elected and non-elected government officials, community members and practitioners interested in the theory and practice of participatory governance. Special attention is paid to the examination of emerging trends and innovative experiments around the world that are relevant to the realities of governance and public engagement in the 21st century.
The Participatory Governance Initiative is hosted by the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, in the College of Public Programs (UCENT Building, 411 N. Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ).
The Participatory Governance Initiative is devoted to undertake teaching, capacity building, research and dissemination activities aimed at the study and promotion of participatory democracy initiatives, particularly at the municipal level of government.


"Leif Erikson - Discoverer of America" from 1916.
Funny that the Vikings in the postcard have dark hair. Did Erikson have dark hair? I would have thought that he would have had blond or at least light brown hair.
Leifur and his older brother Thorsteinn are described as the fairest and most hansom men in Greenland in that time in Eiriks saga. Thorsteinn died from plague.
I'm sure someone can Photoshop it to make it correct... reddish blonde.
Vikings never wore that kind of armour, or helmets with wings or horns.


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Cowkeeping Prize Winners
The Liverpool Cowkeepers had the opportunity to participate when either the national show or the county show came to the city. The county show in Lancashire has an interesting pedigree. The Manchester Agricultural Society (instituted 1767) and the Liverpool Agricultural Society (instituted 1830) merged to form the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society – instituted November 1847. This then merged with the North Lancashire Agricultural Society (instituted 1847) to form the Royal Manchester, Liverpool and North Lancashire Agricultural Society – instituted in 1874. Finally, this became the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society in 1893.
The history of the Society is summarised in the following extract from an article published in The Liverpool Mercury on 6th September 1871:
So far back as the year 1767, upwards of a century ago, when agriculture was surrounded by the protection of a restrictive policy and many of the leaders of the Manchester Anti-Corn Law League were unborn, Cottonopolis had its agricultural society; but, compared with the operations of kindred institutions in these latter days, its sphere of influence was comparatively a limited one.
It was not until the year 1830 that Liverpool could boast of an independent society; and though these two organisations continued for several subsequent years to keep alive the spirit of emulation and competition which formed so essential a part of their constitution, their operations were crippled and their position was anything but satisfactory. In this state they continued till the year 1847, when, in consequence of their depressed condition, and their operations extending over much of the same country, it was resolved to effect an amalgamation between the Manchester and Liverpool Societies, which have since been identified as one.
An appeal was made to resident landowners and others, which, though handsomely responded to by some, did not meet with the general success that had been expected. On the 19th of September 1848, the first annual show of livestock and implements took place at Manchester, under the presidency of the late Earl of Derby, then Lord Stanley, when £513 was received in subscriptions, of which £400 was offered for competition in 112 prizes, and about £303 was actually paid. Limited, as were the operations of the society at the commencement of its career, its first year's proceedings were considered satisfactory, the balance sheet showing the sum of £22 in favour of the Society.
The Show in 1849 was held in the Old Haymarket, Liverpool under the presidency of Lord de Tabley, and, both financially and as regards the attendance, was little better than a failure. At that time, great depression prevailed throughout all interests of British agriculture in consequence of the abolition of the Corn Laws, which many landlords and tenant farmers considered indispensable to the maintenance of British agriculture. It was fearlessly asserted by some that, with the heavy charges upon land, it would be impossible for practical farmers to contend with the foreign producer, even if landlords were to allow them to cultivate land rent-free. The folly and groundlessness of these apprehensions were then clearly seen by the anti-corn law school and have since been abundantly demonstrated.
The first immediate effects of the legislative changes having passed away, a reaction commenced, and the show in the following September, held for the first time in Warrington, exhibited signs of a marked improvement in the description of the stock shown, the attendance of visitors, and the financial results. The hopes excited of continued success were, however, doomed to disappointment, for, in the following year, when the society again held its meeting at Manchester, the receipts fell to the lowest sum ever realised by the society, proving that the success of agricultural gatherings is not necessarily identified with the crowded population of the neighbourhoods which they are held. It is but fair, however, to state that this marked falling off in attendance, and consequently in receipts, arrived not so much from an indisposition to the claims of agriculture, as from the preoccupation of the minds of the people of Manchester with the visit of the Queen to that town about that time.
In 1852, the fifth year of the society's existence, the meeting was again held in Liverpool, under the presidency of the Earl of Sefton, but, in consequence of the prevalence of a grievous disease amongst cattle, which carried off several valuable herds, the competition for that class of prizes was less than usual. For the first time, an exhibition of poultry was in 1852 added to the society's show, and in each succeeding year it has proved a very attractive item in the general proceedings. In the subsequent four years, Altrincham, St. Helen's, Wigan, and Warrington were respectively the scenes of the show, which was marked by varied degrees of success. In the ten years alluded to, the total amount received in subscriptions and donations amounted to £5413 1s. 6d., averaging £541 6s. per year; prizes offered, £4542 18s., exclusive of £467 11s. special prizes; amount actually paid, £3553 7s. 3d.
From this time the society appears to have entered upon a successful career, which has followed it to a greater or less degree up to the present time. In 1858 Manchester was once more visited by the society, and on that occasion the meeting was a most successful one, exceeding both in attendance and receipts those of Liverpool in the following year. The annual exhibitions have been held in the following towns in addition to those already enumerated: Bolton, Ashton- under-Lyne, Birkenhead, Knutsford, Oldham, Southport, and Wigan. In consequence of the prevalence of the cattle plague in 1866 the show was that year abandoned, and when, in 1869, the show of the Royal Agricultural Society took place in Manchester, the annual exhibition of cattle and implements by this society was suspended.
In every town the general committee have been assisted by local gentlemen well acquainted with each district, who have rendered essential service not only in the arrangements of the show, but in the collection of local contributions, which have materially assisted the promoters of the show, by enabling them greatly to augment the list of general and special prizes. Whenever change has been necessary to enlarge the operations of the society, or to adapt it to any special circumstances that may have arisen, the committee have cordially concurred in necessary alterations without in any way affecting the constitution of the society, and to the proper exercise of this spirit much of the success of the institution may be traced.
As we have already stated, there was no independent exhibition by this society in 1869, and we are not in possession of the necessary statistics to enable us to include in the above table the returns for last year, when the show was held at Wigan. But, upon reference to a record made at the time, we find that about £2000 was then given in prizes, including £300 offered by the local committee; but the amount locally subscribed, including expenses, was nearly £1000. The total entries at Wigan were 2829, including implements, 1858; horned cattle, 122; horses, 174; sheep, 90; pigs, 56; poultry, 196; dogs, l08; cheese and butter, 41; grain, roots, and seeds, 85. The estimated number of visitors was 2,000, and the money taken for admission was about £1200.
After the lapse of twelve years, during which the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society has visited some of the principal towns in various parts of Lancashire, with greater or less success, Liverpool has been once more selected as the locality for the great exhibition of 1871, which opened yesterday with every prospect of success. Considering the magnitude of the town of Liverpool and of the city of Manchester, it may be thought by some that it would be desirable to hold the exhibitions alternately in those great centres of commerce and manufactures; but the history of the society proves that the success of its annual shows does not depend exclusively upon the teeming population of the district in which such shows are held, but rather upon the interest taken in agricultural pursuits generally; and inasmuch as the society was organised mainly for the improvement of stock, the introduction of new implements, and the encouragement of scientific farming, it would be manifestly unjust to the subscribers to confine the shows to neighbourhoods in which agriculture occupies but a comparatively inferior position.
In the early part of the present year, when it became known that the committee had determined to hold the exhibition in Liverpool, his Worship the Mayor (Mr. Alderman Livingston) convened a meeting at the town-hall for the purpose of forming a local committee, whose principal duty it would be to raise the requisite funds for increasing the prize list, so as to attract to the show the best cattle, implements, and miscellaneous articles, and consequently to increase the competition. Some of the frequenters of the Exchange Flags, and a few of the most influential merchants of Liverpool, are amateur agriculturists; but the great majority understand far more about bales of cotton or ship loads of merchandise than they do of short-horned cattle or of the newest invention in agricultural implements. However, they rallied in influential numbers at the call of the chief magistrate, a powerful committee was organised, and the result of their labours has been a subscription list of upwards of £2200, the greater portion of which has been handed over to the general committee to augment the prize list.
In the selection of a spot for the exhibition, two things were considered essential – namely, proximity to a railway station, so as to afford facilities for the unloading of cattle and implements, and situation near enough to the town to enable the inhabitants and visitors to reach the show yard without much difficulty or fatigue. In addition to extent and capacity, the Parliament Fields, as they are generally called, seemed to possess all the prerequisites for the site of a successful exhibition; and after a careful examination of other places, the Parliament Fields were chosen. The ground abuts on Upper Parliament Street on the north and stretches away to the south, its length being about 450 yards and its width varying, from 200 to 360 yards. Some time since this portion of ground was completely fenced in, except on the south side, so that little else was necessary to prepare it for the show than the enclosure of the south end and the erection of the necessary buildings for the protection of the animals and implements shown.
Shows were held in towns all over the county including: Manchester, Oldham, Blackburn, Burnley, Bury Rochdale, Southport, Blackpool, and Lancaster. The county show came to Liverpool on a number of occasions: 1849, 1852, 1859, 1871, 1883, 1892, 1899, 1905, 1914, 1923, 1931 and 1938.
The county show did not take place in those years when the national show was held in Lancashire. The national show - run by the Royal Agricultural Society of England - came to Liverpool in 1841 (Falkner's Field – 7 acres), 1877 (Newsham Park - 75 acres) and 1910 (Wavertree Playground - 108 acres). These shows were very popular – the 1910 show experienced 138,000 attendances.
The Royal Agricultural Show, Wavertree Playground - 1910 (© Mike Chitty, The Wavertree Society).
Success at these shows gave the prize-winners a unique window of opportunity (until the next show) to publicise the quality of their premises, practices and products. Signs and banners were erected proclaiming the title of 'Best Kept Shippon' or 'Best Cow' of whatever class. Certificates and cups were displayed in prominent places on dairy walls or in shop windows. And, prize-winning cattle were paraded around local streets wearing their rosettes. All this pageantry took place with one principle aim in mind – that of gaining a competitive advantage over other dairies, but especially over those dairies selling railway milk.
The Liverpool and District Cowkeepers Association sponsored a number of classes that were only open to entrants from within the association area:
• Town Dairy Cows – competition limited to Members of the Liverpool & District Cowkeepers Association (and kept on premises within the district of the Association at least three months after the Show). Various classes of weight and type.
• Town Shippons and Dairies – competition open to all Cowkeepers within a radius of seven miles of the Town Hall. Prize for Best Kept Shippon, Milkhouse and Shop or Dairy. General Appearance, Arrangements for Convenience, Economy of Labour, Cleanliness, Air Space, Light and ventilation of Shippon, were taken into account in awarding the prizes.
• Cowkeepers' Milk Turnout - the whole turnout (Mare or Gelding, Float, Harness, Tankard etc.) is taken into consideration when being judged, and all must have been used in the delivery of milk for one month prior to the show.
Listed below are the prize-winners of some of these classes over different years.
Horned Cattle: Mr. H. W. Beauford, Formby Hall, near Southport; Mr. Benjamin Baxter, Elslack Hall, Skipton; Mr. William Parker, Carleton Hill, Penrith.
Cart Horses: Mr. John H. Wood, Humberstone, near Great Grimsby; Mr. John Bromley, Lancaster.
Light Horses: Mr. J. M. K. Elliott. Heathencote, Towcester; Mr. George Clay, Minton House, Wem; Mr. W. S. Atkinson, Barrowley Hall, Leeds.
Sheep: Mr. John Wood, 4 Harewood Hill, Darlington; Mr. Thomas Horley, The Fosse, Leamington.
Pigs: Mr. C. M. Sexton, Wherstead Hall, Ipswich; Mr. R. H. Watson, Bolton Park, Wigton.
Dogs: Mr. John Douglas, Clumber, Worksop; Mr. Matthew Hedley, Redhill, Surrey.
Poultry: Mr. Edward Hewitt, Sparkbrook, Birmingham; Mr. Richard Teebay, Fulwood, Preston.
Cheese and Butter: Mr. R. Pedley, Crew; Mr. Henry Warburton, Manchester.
Grain and Roots: Mr. James Ray, Warburton Park, Lynn; Mr. John Hornby, Minshull-vernon, Middlewich.
Implements: Mr. Robert Whalley, Bold, Warrington; Mr. William Scotson, Aigburth, Liverpool; Mr. Maxwell Scott, engineer, Tranmare.
Stewards of Departments:
Horned Cattle: Mr. Joseph Cliffe, Mr. G. Henderson, and Mr. G. Halsall; Light Horses: Mr. C. Richmond, Mr. J. S. Wilson, and Mr. T. Atherton; Heavy Horses: Mr. J. Southern and Mr. J. Halsall; Sheep: Mr. James Wood.
Pigs: Mr. W. Hand; Poultry: Mr. Hindson; Dogs: Mr. Henry Neild, Mr. John Statter, and Mr. C. Morris; Grain and Roots: Mr. Thomas Finchett; Cheese and Butter: Mr. James Dickenson; Implements: Mr. Edward Rothwell and Mr. R. Shuttleworth; Stewards of Finance: Mr. John White and Mr. Robert Lansdale; Showyard Committee: Mr. Henry Neild, Mr. G. Hale, Mr. Robert Whalley, and Mr. Thomas Atherton; General Director: Mr. William Owen; Secretary: Mr. Thomas Rigby.
PRIZE- WINNERS (SHORT-HORNED BREED):
Bulls above two years old: 1. H. Thompson, Maiden Hill, Penrith, Cumberland; 2. W. Linton, Sherriff Hutton, York; 3. Marquis of Exeter, Burghley Park, Stamford, Northamptonshire.
Bulls above one but under two years old: 1. Rev. W. Sneyd, Reels Hall, Newcastle, Staffordshire; 2. T. Lace, Grenaby, Isle of Man; 3. R. Parker, Fern Hill, Burnley.
Bull calf above six but under twelve months old: 1. J. Knowles, Wetherby House, Wetherby; 2. P. Statter jun., Stand Hall, Whiteside, Manchester; 3. Rev. W. Sneyd.
Cow above three years old, in milk or in calf: 1. J. Outhwaite, Bainesse, Catterick, Yorkshire; 2. J. Walesby, Kirkham, Cadeby Hall, Grimsby; 3. A. Dugdale, Rosehill, Burnley.
Heifer above two but under three years old: 1. and 2. F. J. S. Foljambe, M.P., Osberton Hall, Worksop, Nottinghamshire; 3. The Earl of Harrington, Elvaston Castle.
Heifer, above one but under two years old: 1. E. J. Smith, Islanmore, Croom, Limerick; 2. and 3. Rev. W. Sneyd.
Heifer Calf, above six but under twelve months old: 1. J. Farrer, Thorneyholme, Burnley, Lancashire; 2. E. H. Cheney, Gaddesby Hall, Leicester; 3. The Earl of Harrlngton.
Ayrshire Cow or Heifer, above two years old, in milk or in calf: 1. The Earl of Crawford and Belcarres, Haigh Hall, Wigan; 2. Arthur Woods, The Grange, Sefton, Liverpool; 3. T. Statter, jun.
Welsh cow or Heifer, above two years old, in milk or in calf: 1. F. W. Earle, Edenhurst, Huyton; 2 and 3, T. Statter, jun.
Kerry Cow or Heifer above two years old, in milk or in calf: 1. Rev. J. C. Macdons, Hilbre House; 2. J. G. Morris, The Priory, Allerton; 3. H. Inman, Rose Bank, Stretford, Manchester.
French or Channel Islands Cow or Heifer above two years old, in milk or in calf: 1. G. Maples, jun., Wavertree, Liverpool; 2. and 3. J. P. Duff, Lydiate House.
French or Channel Islands Bull, of any age: 1. W. Brothers, Ramsdell Hall, Lawton, Cheshire; 2. H. S. Woodcock, The Elms, Wigan.
Kerry Bull, of any age: R. Gladstone, jun., Court Hey.
Welsh Bull, of any age: J. Jones, Talhirion, Gaerwen, Anglesey.
Ayrshire Bull, of any age: 1. J. Tweddle, Askerton Castle, Cumberland. 2. R. Kerr, Birchtree House, Fazakerley, Liverpool.
Bull of any breed, belonging to a landlord resident in the district, that is allowed to serve the cows of his tenants gratis: Silver medal, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.
Pairs of Cows for dairy purposes, in milk or in calf: 1. J. Kenwright, Tarbock, Prescot; 2. T. Statter, jun.
Pairs of Heifers, above two, but under three years old: 1. J. Dickinson, Upholland, Wigan ; 2. T. Statter, jun.; 3. C. W. Brierley, Rhodes House, Middleton.
Single Heifer above two, but under three years old: 1. cup or £10. C. W. Brierley; 2. J. Dickinson; 3. W. Dale, Thornton Lodge.
Pairs of Heifers, above one but under two years old: 1. C. W. Brierley; 2. T. Batter, jun.; 3. J. Dickinson.
Single Heifer, above one but under two years old: 1. and cup, W. Birch, Stand Farm, Aintree; 2. C. W. Brierley, Rhodes House, Middleton, Manchester; 3. H. Neild, The Grange, Wesley, Manchester.
Pair of Heifer Calves, of exhibitor's own rearing, under twelve months old: 1. C. W. Brierley; 2 and 3. J. Gooldman, Clay House, Hale, AItrincham.
First Prize! Chestnut Grove Dairy - 1899 (©Kathryn Robinson)
There were no cattle classes due to a national outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
Town Shippons and Dairies.
Class 29 – for Best Kept Shippon, Milk-house, and Shop or Dairy, situated within the borough of Liverpool or Bootle.
First Prize, £10 to Thomas Backhouse, 58 Tetlow Street, Liverpool
Second Prize, £5 to Margaret Woof, 28 Avison Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool
Silver Medal to Thomas Clark, Salisbury Road, Marsh Lane, Bootle
Horned Cattle.
Dairy Cow, in milk, whose last caIf was born within three months of first day of show. 1. T Howard, Bretherton, Preston; 2. C Wolfenden, Bootle; 3. R Alderson, Bootle.
Town Dairy Cows.
Pair of Cows, in milk or in calf, kept within six miles of the Town Hall, Liverpool, and the property of bona-fide town cowkeepers. 1. R Alderson, Bootle; 2. C Wolfenden, Bootle; 3. J Verity, Liverpool.
Cow, in milk or in calf, kept within six miles of the Town Hall, Liverpool, and the property of bona-fide town cowkeepers. 1. C Wolfenden, Bootle; 2. R Alderson, Bootle; 3. M Verity, Kirkdale, Liverpool.
Competition limited to members of the Liverpool & District Cowkeepers Association and kept on premises within the district of the association for at least 3 months after the show.
Class 24 – Town Dairy Cow, any breed or cross-breed, in milk or in calf, over 11 cwt.
First prize - £10 to R. Batty & Sons, 85 Aigburth Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool
Second Prize - £5 to R. Batty & Sons, 85 Aigburth Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool
Third Prize - £3 to Thomas Backhouse, 58 Tetlow Street, Liverpool
Reserve – W. Akrigg, White House Farm, Grassington, Liverpool
Class 25 - Town Dairy Cow, any breed or cross-breed, in milk or in calf, not exceeding 11 cwt.
First Prize - £10 to R. Batty & Sons, 85 Aigburth Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool.
Second Prize - £5 to W. Scarr, 6 Russian Drive, Stoneycroft, Liverpool.
Third Prize - £3 to Robert Tunstall, Parkside, Anfield, Liverpool
Reserve – John Hogg, 3 Back Parkfield Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool.
Class 26 - for Best Kept Shippon, Milk-house, and Shop or Dairy, situated within the borough of Liverpool or Bootle.
First Prize - £10 to Rowland Harper, Chestnut Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool
Third Prize - £3 to John Kendal, 2 Blenheim Road, Smithdown Road, Liverpool
Cowkeepers' Turnouts.
Class 93 – Cowkeepers' Milk Turnout, over 14 hands to be regularly used for delivering milk for not less than 1 month after the last day of the show.
First Prize - £5 to James Wolfenden, 36 Chapel Road, Waterloo, with 'Yorkshire Canute'.
Second Prize - £3 to Chas Wolfenden, 1 Beech Street, Bootle, with 'Donald'.
Third Prize - £2 to James & Richard Atkinson, Greenbank Dairy, Smithdown Road, Wavertree
Reserve – Frank Heath, Mulberry Street, Liverpool
Highly Commended – Peter Warburton, 69 Leta Street, Walton
Class 94 - Cowkeepers' Milk Turnout, over 14 hands to be regularly used for delivering milk for not less than 1 month after the last day of the show.
First Prize - £5 to N. Strickland, 15 Mulberry Street, Liverpool
Second Prize - £3 to Charles Wolfenden, 1 Beech Street, Bootle with 'Blue Bell'
Third Prize - £2 to W. W. Robinson, 92 Webster Road, Liverpool.
Reserve – R. Batty & Sons, 85 Aigburth Road, Liverpool
R. Batty & Sons, 57 Arundel Avenue (© Brian Snelson)
Town Dairy Cows
Class 23 - Dairy Cow, any breed or cross-breed, in milk or in calf, over 11 cwt.
First Prize - £8 to J. & R. Atkinson, Dunbabin Farm, Wavertree
Second Prize - £5 to R. Batty & Sons, 57 and 59 Arundel Avenue, with 'Hothorne'
Third Prize - £3 to C. E. Bateman, 16 Aigburth Vale, Liverpool
Reserve – Thomas Backhouse, 8 Tetlow Street, Liverpool
Highly Commended - Joy Brothers, 362 Smithdown Road with 'Nancy'
Class 24 - Dairy Cow in milk or in calf, not exceeding 11 cwt.
First Prize - £8 to J. & R. Atkinson, Dunbabin Farm
Second Prize - £5 to Thomas Chapman, 79 Tiber Street
Third Prize – £3 to Wm. T. Dean, 8 Attwood Street, Anfield with 'Dot'
Reserve – J. & R. Atkinson, Dunbabin Farm
Highly Commended – J. & R. Atkinson, Dunbabin Farm with 'Sunlight'
Class 25 – Pair of Dairy Cows, in milk or calf, any weight.
Second Prize - £5 to C. E. Bateman, 16 Aigburth Road
Third Prize - £3 to R. Batty & Sons, 57-59 Arundel Avenue
Reserve – Joy Brothers, 362 Smithdown Road
Dairy Cow over 11cwt.
First Prize - H Wood, Finch House Farm, West Derby
Second Prize - Joseph Henry Wilson, Great Crosby
Third Prize - Mrs Annie Herd, 36 Greta Street
Fourth Prize - J R Dinsdale, St Oswald Street, Old Swan.
Dairy Cow under 11cwt.
First Prize - Mrs Annie Herd, 36 Greta Street
Second Prize - Robert Haygarth, Carisbrooke Place, Walton
Third Prize - J R Dinsdale, St Oswald Street, Old Swan
Fourth Prize - H Wood, Finch House Farm, West Derby
Competitions limited to bona fide cowkeepers within a radius of 13 miles from the town hall, on the Lancashire side of the river.
Class 372 – Dairy Cow, calved, 11cwt and over.
First Prize - £6 to James Clare, 3/5 Langton Road, Smithdown Road
Second Prize - £4 to M. Braithwaite, Aigburth Vale, Aigburth
Third Prize - £2 to Robert Batty, Grassendale Farm, Aigburth
Fourth Prize - £1 to John Hogg, 3 Back Parkfield Road, Sefton Park
Reserve – John Herd, 48 Alwyn Street, Aigburth
Very Highly Commended – R. Batty & Sons, Sefton Park and Wavertree
Highly Commended – T. Cropper, 33 Sweden Street, Waterloo
Commended - John Mason, Chapel Road, Garston
Class 373 – Dairy Cow (calved), under 11 cwt.
First Prize - £6 to Robert Batty, Grassendale Farm, Aigburth
Second Prize - £4 to F. Smith, 120 Allerton Road, Woolton
Third Prize – £2 to R. Batty & Sons, Sefton Park and Wavertree
Fourth Prize - £1 to T. Cropper, 33 Sweden Close, Waterloo
Cowkeepers' Turnouts
Class 374 – Mare or Gelding 14.2 hands high and over.
First Prize - £6 to W. T. Nevitt, 102 Smithdown Road with 'Princess'
Second Prize - £4 to Chas. H. Green, 4 Aintree Road, Bootle with 'Confina'
Third Prize - £2 to Gilbert Dean, 8 Attwood Street, Anfield with 'Peggy'
Fourth Prize - £1 to L. A. Thwaite & Sons, 32 Longfellow Street with 'Gay Boy'
Reserve – Richard Thwaite, 53 Annerley Street, Earls Road with 'Albin Swell'
Very Highly Commended – William Mark, 131 North Hill Street, Princes Park with 'Mollington Duchess'
Well Turned-Out! Richard Thwaite. (© Roy Thwaite)
Class 375 – Mare or Gelding under 14.2 hands high.
First Prize - £6 to J. W. Norton & Son, 1 Shallot Street with 'The Creation'
Second Prize - £4 to W. T. Nevitt, 102 Smithdown Road with 'Prelude'
Third Prize - £2 to W. T. Nevitt, 102 Smithdown Road with 'Prince'
Fourth Prize - £1 to R. Batty & Sons, Sefton Park and Wavertree with 'The Judge'
Dairy cow, most suitable for a town dairy, calved (11cwt. and over).
First Prize - £5 to J. Evans, Tarbock, Prescot.
Second Prize - £4 to J. H. Moor and Sons, West Derby, Liverpool.
Third Prize - £2 to J. H. Moor and Sons, West Derby, Liverpool.
Fourth Prize - £1 to William Herd, Dingle, Liverpool.
Dairy cow, most suitable for a town dairy, calved (under 11cwt.).
First Prize - £5 to William Herd, Dingle, Liverpool.
Second Prize - £4 to J. Brenkley, Liverpool.
Third Prize - £2 to John Herd, Aigburth, Liverpool.
Fourth Prize - £1 to Robert Batty, Liverpool.
Working Dairy
Best and largest quantity of butter, made in cleanest and most approved style (open).
First Prize – Miss C. M. N. Ingham, Blundellsands.
Second Prize – Miss E. Birchall, L.C.C. Farm, Hutton.
Third Prize – Miss C. M. Lee, Minsterley, Salop.
Hogg's Dairy - 3 Back Parkfield Road (© 2017 Google)
Liverpool & District Classes – the property of members of the Liverpool & District Dairy Farmers Association.
Trade Turnouts (2-wheeled)
Class 419 – Mare or Gelding over 15 hands.
First Prize - £5 to Christopher F. Swinbank, 1 Newcombe Street, Anfield, with 'Melbourne Princess'.
Second Prize - £4 to John Winn, 325 Smithdown Road, with 'Flash Jim'.
Class 420 – Mare or Gelding not to exceed 15 hands.
First Prize - £5 to Palatine Dairies Ltd., St Clement Street, Blackburn, with 'Studholme Forrester'.
Second Prize - £4 to James H. Moor & Sons, Beech Farm, Eaton Road, West Derby.
Third Prize - £2 to United Co-operative Launderettes Association Ltd., 42 Deansgate, Manchester, with 'Squire'.
Reserve – Fred Wood, with 'Al's Majesty'.
Champion Prize for Best Turnout in Show - to Christopher F. Swinbank, 1 Newcombe Street, Anfield, with 'Melbourne Princess'.
Special Prize for Best Exhibit of Hackney type - to Christopher F. Swinbank, 1 Newcombe Street, Anfield, with 'Melbourne Princess'.
Dairy Cows and Fat Cows
Class 422 – Dairy cow, calved, any weight.
First Prize - £5 to Richard Taylor, Otterspool Farm, Aigburth, (roan)
Second Prize - £4 to Jas. H. Moor & Sons, Beech Farm, Eaton Road, West Derby, (black and white)
Third Prize - £2 to M. J. Dugdale, Woodend Farm, Grassendale, (red and white)
Fourth Prize - £1 to T. Coulthwaite, Gladstone Road, Seaforth.
Very Highly Commended – Jas. H. Moor & Sons (red)
Class 423 – Dairy cow in calf, any weight, to calve within 3 months after the show.
First Prize - £5 to E. Townley, 4 Whitefield Road, Everton.
Second Prize - £4 to S. Thwaite, 85 Aigburth Road.
Third Prize - £2 to T. H. De Ville, Moss Farm, Derby Lane.
Fourth Prize - £1 Jackson Bros., 64 Cambridge Avenue, Crosby.
Reserve – Jackson Bros.
Highly Commended – Edward Harper (roan).
Class 424 – Fat cow, any weight.
First Prize - £5 to George Smith, 30 Caryl Street.
Second Prize - £4 to George Bargh, 134 Carisbrooke Road, Walton
Third Prize - £2 to T. A .Harper, 2 Vicar Road, Anfield
Fourth Prize - £1 to Richard Jones, 28 Errol Street, Aigburth Road
Reserve – S. Thwaite
Highly Commended – John Hogg, 3 Back Parkfield Road, Sefton Park
Highly Commended – William George Swinbank


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Time to prove applications are under Governance
Application owners will use this new discipline to prove applications are under governance and create a framework for managing business applications consisting of entitlements and roles. Once defined, the entitlements and roles within a business application can be published as self-service items by the owner.
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Hello, and welcome. My name is Hanno Bunjes. And I'm happy to be with you all today. Thank you for joining this session on application governance with Identity Manager. So the main question that we're trying to answer today is how does Identity Manager help you prove that your applications are under governance. Central to application governance is the persona of an application owner. So application owners are the ones who manage applications who know exactly which entitlements and roles application consists of. So once business applications are defined, owners can then manage how access to these applications can be requested in the IT shop of Identity Manager. Key performance indicators help validate compliance against business objectives. Application governance contains a set of predefined KPIs to track compliance over time. Governance-relevant information can be defined based on these business applications. So once you have established applications as a concept, you can leverage this information when defining, for example, SOD rules or, for example, saying that no one should have access to two critical business applications at the same time. The next release of Identity Manager will include this new application governance module that bring applications to the data model as a first class citizen. Let me take a moment to clarify some things that application governance is not. For example, it's not about connectors or mapping fields. Data import from external systems happens before you define business applications. Application governance does not care how exactly entitlement data is important to the system. It's also not something low level or technical. It's not something that is reserved for IT or operations teams. It's very much something that is involving the business team members who are the subject matter experts for business applications. Also, it's worth pointing out that application governance is an optional new module, and it does not change how the various Identity Manager components interact with one another. Application governance works on top of everything else. It's not an architectural change. It adds functionality to the IT shop. It adds functionality to [INAUDIBLE] station and to other modules, but it does not replace any of those components. So what is an application? A business application simply is comprised of a set of entitlements. If you import data, entitlements often exist as a simple flat list, and bringing these entitlements under governance is mostly about organizing them into larger and more manageable units-- the applications. For example, when an entity has customers who use AD LDS tree to implement thousands or [? 10,000s ?] of business application authorizations, a business application may not exist as such in any one target system. It may span several types of target systems. What is an entitlement? It can be anything from the Identity Manager data model that you would expect. It could be a system entitlement from the unified namespace, which is our abstraction of all possible target systems. It could be a system role which itself bundles entitlements. Resources or account definitions as well as report authorizations can also be added as entitlements to applications. It's worth saying that of course you can mix entitlements from different types into one application. Let's take a look at creating an application. This is the simple web form that the administrator uses to create a new application in the system. The interface prompts for just a few properties that are central to the definition of an application. There are actually lots more. You have the option to create a new service category or to reuse an existing one. This integrates well with a situation where you may already have configured entitlements and service categories, and you're just now moving to define applications. Once you've added the application to the system, you can add new entitlements or roles at any time. Here you have the option of publishing entitlements to the IT shop one or several at a time. Unpublishing is the opposite-- removing the entitlement from the shop and revoking user's access. Here's what happens when I click Publish. I see the list of IT shops that the entitlements will be published in. IT shops define the scope of service items visible for a given user. You can have different shops to define different catalogs for groups of users-- for example, if you want to organize the shops by region or by department, for example. It's easy to schedule a date in the future when the entitlements should be added to the shop. You can set up a publishing date now so that users will be able to request access starting next month, for example, and once you've told the system to publish the new entitlement, not the new state. Let's take a closer look at publishing entitlements. [? Now ?] some of you are very familiar with the internal architecture of identity manager, and you may have been wondering-- what about service items? Well, the good news is when an entitlement is published, a service item is created if necessary. So you don't need to do that manually. The entitlement will become available through the assigned IT shops and the selected service category. These use cases are all available in the web UI. There is no need to deploy a .NET front end like the manager tool to do this. Here's another cool feature that we built-- the on-the-fly role creation. When adding entitlements to the application, you also have the option of grouping related entitlements in a role. Why should you do this? Well, this is useful in a scenario where different entitlements should only be requested as a bundle and not individually. This is a long requested feature for all of Identity Manager, and we're now able to bring this feature to the product. But there's more to the application. This is all information that the application owner can enter. Does the application run in a test environment, in staging, or in production? What kind of authentication does the application implement-- single sign on, federation, or multifactoral authentication? There's also the notion of risk classification. Does this application provide access to critical systems? If so, a risk index will need to be set on the application. And who needs to approve access to this application? Every application can be assigned an approver role to determine who gets to approve access. Every application corresponds to a service category in the IT shop. Now if you'll recall, service categories defined the navigation in the web portal. So an end user goes in, finds a service category containing the relevant entitlements, and submits a request. It's important to note that entitlements can also belong to a different service category. If you have an application consisting of a large number of entitlements, it makes sense to split them up in several service categories, as this will help users find the right items to the right access that they need. Let's now move on to key performance indicators. On the applications of your page, the application owner is presented with a set of KPIs that measure different things about this application. As you can see here immediately, some KPIs do not meet the required threshold. So you can click on them to drill down to find the root cause. The data for all these key performance indicators is recorded in the system so you can track the revolution over time. Here are some examples for application specific KPIs. All entitlements should have an assigned owner. No entitlements should cause a compliance or SOD violation. No entitlements should cause a company policy violation. All applications should be part of an attestation campaign. And an application should not have any outlier entitlements, meaning that entitlements come from an unrelated system and the assignment was likely made in error. An application should never have an excessive number of assignments, also pointing to a potential error in the data. There are also global KPIs relating to the system as a whole and available to the system administrator to give an overview of how many applications there are, how many entitlements have been organized into applications, and how many applications are integrated with authentication mechanisms managed by recertification campaigns, and so on. And in the session, you may have noticed that the screen shots look a lot different than the look and feel of previous Identity Manager web apps. The reason is that we've built this on our new HTML5 stack that will become the foundation of all of Identity Manager's web applications over time. While [? reiterating, ?] we've also spent a lot of time on the look and feel, and I think this represents a major step forward for the product in terms of user experience. Thanks also to our dedicated user experience team, we have spent a significant effort to talk to partners and customers about their ideas and requirements for bringing business applications under governance. And one of the cool things about the UNITE conference is always the UX Whisper suite. And some of you will remember those. And this feedback was extremely important to us, especially when building the application governance module. So I look forward to having that back once we all get to meet in person again. But in the meantime, please do reach out, and we want to hear about your ideas and thoughts. Let me close by summarizing what we've covered in this session. The application governance module for Identity Manager delivers an easy way for application owners to determine who can request entitlements, choose specific entitlements for certification campaigns, validate key performance indicators against business objectives, and publish applications to the IT shop service catalog. And that concludes my session for today. I want to thank you for joining me. Please enjoy the rest of UNITE. Thank you.
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Last week saw 3 entries. This week you must take one of these three games, and expand it however you see fit. You might want to replace the levels, redo the art, add new features, or just make the interface a little neater. Whatever you choose to do, make sure the new game has at least the heart of the old one.
Guide Mr Stickman across the screens, from left to right.
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Of the many things American Indians acquired through trade with whites, few items held greater value than glass beads, and female artists throughout much of native North America quickly mastered the craft of bead working. This exhibition presents exemplary selections of beadwork, primarily from four culture areas—Plains, Great Lakes, Subarctic, and Northeast—and explores the techniques, as well as the functional and cultural significance of these pieces. This brightly beaded art served as a highly visible expression of ethnic identity and pride that continues to this day.
Curated by Michael H. Logan, University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology.
Support provided by Home Federal Bank, UT Ready for the World, Nick & Fran Newell Museum Fund, AARP, Knox County, the City of Knoxville, and the Arts & Heritage Fund.


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We uncover, challenge and connect ideas from entrepreneurs, technology and society. Our mission is to build a community beyond the bubble – from today's startup underdogs to tomorrow's thought leaders. I am informed about processing of my personal data and the right to withdraw my consent. In addition, solving the trust and security issue is a requirement to make AI Assistants transactional at scale. It still feels different to give out your information to a real human being on the phone as opposed to a virtual one. Getting involved in the audio startup as a partner for this project will help reduce the risk of this plan.
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Microsoft's own LUIS is used to configure your own business logic with advanced NLP and AI training capabilities.
But AI takes the abandoned cart workflow a step further with intelligent, personalized recommendations.
The company was created by ex-Google and Baidu engineers who felt that the big companies were moving too slowly in this arena.
A product that helps companies automate the process of signing up new employees.
Step 4 – Once you've chosen the best sales enablement chatbot platform for your business in consideration of your budget and sales enablement chatbot requirements, create and deploy the chatbot. Drift is a platform that utilizes live chat and automated chatbot software. ManyChat is a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform with integrated live chat and chatbot communication. Its goal is to us AI to deflect support volume on your digital channels without compromising on customer experience. Sales enablement involves providing a sales team with the tools, information, and content required to sell more effectively. Therefore, a sales enablement chatbot assists in providing these tools and making sales more efficient.
Swim.ai's goal is to enable businesses to mine continuously streaming data into actionable insights. Leveraging machine learning, the company's "open core platform" augments the decision-making process by providing streaming data and contextualizing data sources. IBM has been a leader in the field of artificial intelligence since the 1950s. Its efforts in recent years center around IBM Watson, an AI-based cognitive service, AI software as a service, and scale-out systems designed for delivering cloud-based analytics and AI services.
Two-year-old Aflorithmic may not have chosen a name that deviates from the tongue, but it's all about language and audio. Freshchat is an omnichannel, AI-driven, self-service chatbot solution for customer service that has solutions for both small business and enterprise clients. Until NLP and AI heavy chatbots are able to hold real conversations, it feels like you're paying for enterprise level software, but what you're really getting is a chatbot team from Reply.ai. Aivo is another AI heavy chatbot platform that powers your customer support, helping you to respond in real-time via text or voice.
Explore pre-packaged datasets is another option if public data or proprietary speech data collection doesn't suit your needs. Public speech datasets are another option if you don't intend to use yours. These datasets are a part of the public domain and could be gathered for open-source aidriven audio startup gives voice chatbot projects. Speech data also has natural environmental background acoustics, dynamic users, and devices. The case study did not provide details, but reports that deploying Kylie enabled Computel to decrease its response time, and reduce the training time of train new agents.
A B2B company that allows banks to choose between an AI/ML-driven platform and a human-driven platform for OCR, fraud detection, and other similar tasks. A tech company focused on helping startups and entrepreneurs increase retention of new hires through a data-driven approach. A platform that provides data-driven analytics to help guide companies in making the right decisions. They're currently in early seed, with the founders describing their value as helping companies "make better decisions with less data". It's also a user driven marketplace where users can connect with sellers. A way to share and store health-related data, accessible via an app, so people can both contribute and access it.
Proprofs Chatbots are powered by artificial intelligence and are designed to help support sales teams and service agents. Their AI chatbots can provide automated answers and agent handoffs as well as collect lead information and book meetings, all without human intervention. Proprofs prioritizes ease of use over advanced functionality so while it's easy to build chatbots with no-code, more advanced features and sophisticated workflows may be out of reach.
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New Warning against a Brexit, Leading in Polls
11th June 2016 13th June 2016 Jason PlantLeave a Comment on New Warning against a Brexit, Leading in Polls
Thirteen British Nobel winners warned on Saturday against …
Thirteen British Nobel winners warned on Saturday against a Brexit that would put scientific research in the UK "at risk", a new warning issued when the light of exit from the European Union is widely given in head in a new poll.
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, the group of scientists believes that "the prospect of a loss of EU funding is a major risk for the British scientific research."
"Science fuels our prosperity, our health system, our innovation and our economic growth," warn the researchers, including physicist Peter Higgs Nobel Prize winner in 2013 and biochemist Paul Nurse, awarded in 2001.
"The claims of pro-Brexit under which the Treasury would fill this hole [in funding] are naive," they add, noting that the proportion of UK GDP given to research is already at "well below the average of countries EU and OECD countries. "
Their warning comes a ORB survey for online newspaper The Independent, which gives the "Yes" vote for Brexit leading by 10 points, twelve days before the vote on the 23rd June.
According to the institute, which is based on an online survey of 2,000 people, 55% of Britons are in favour of leaving the EU, against 45% are being opposed. A previous ORB poll for The Independent in April, gave a slight lead to yes (51%).
If the average of the polls made by the site WhatUKThinks it gives the supporters of maintaining the EU and advocates a Brexit elbow to elbow 50% of recent opinion polls have reported ' Leave a progression of the camp, the British currency plunging and sowing panic in the headquarters of the pro-EU.
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Lord Rob Hayward, parliamentary and respected expert on elections, said that "the probabilities are inclined to vote out" of the EU. He said the polls might well underestimate the support Brexit.
"I think we will win", prophesied Friday evening on BBC head of anti-European party Ukip, Nigel Farage, who made an exit from the UK to the EU target of his political life.
John Curtice, a professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and specialist in the study of the polls, called for its part to remain cautious about the idea of an increase in pro-Brexit camp.
Faced with the threat of a Brexit, supporters of maintaining the UK in the EU have raised the tone Friday.
Very discreet until then, the British Labour Party was emancipated from its leader Jeremy Corbyn, accused of defending without much enthusiasm a holding in the EU to toughen its anti-Brexit position.
"We must redouble our efforts," commented Vice President of Labour Tim Watson on the BBC. A Brexit "would lead to a fiscal emergency, further cuts in the public sector and tax increases," he had said earlier in the day, based on a report by the Institute of Studies budget.
Der Spiegel, the leading German magazine, as he implores Saturday the British to make the choice to stay in the EU, in a special issue largely in English.
"Please do not go" ( "Please do not go"), as the weekly influential A flag of the Union Jack in the background.
In an interview with the magazine, excerpts of which were released on Friday, the German Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble warns the United Kingdom that "it is in inside, outside is outside," and therefore the country will be most of the benefits of the European single market if Brexit.
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Amber Heard Arrested For Hitting Girlfriend & Accused Of Abusing Other Partners According To Johnny Depp's Lawsuit
By Nia Tipton — Written on Apr 16, 2022
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Amid the defamation lawsuit being filed against Amber Heard by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, claims have resurfaced alleging that Heard abused her ex-girlfriend back in 2009.
Depp and Heard are currently battling it out in a Virginia court over a 2018 op-ed Heard wrote in The Washington Post in which she accused her ex of abusing her — which Depp denies.
Instead, Depp has alleged that Heard was the abuser in the relationship and is using past allegations against the "Aquaman" actress to support his claim.
Amber Heard was accused of abusing ex-girlfriend Tasya van Ree in 2009.
Heard had been arrested by Port of Seattle Police on September 14, 2009, after the actress and her then-girlfriend, Tasya van Ree, got into an altercation at the airport after Heard allegedly grabbed and struck van Ree's arm.
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After Heard was arrested and her mug shot taken, her case was assigned a number and she appeared in King County District Court in Seattle the next day, on Sept. 15, 2009.
It was there she learned that prosecutors had declined to press charges against her, according to USA Today.
Heard and van Ree had started dating in 2008 and later split in 2012, but still remained close friends, with van Ree speaking out in defense of her ex-girlfriend after the domestic abuse allegations came to light.
Tasya van Ree has defended Amber Heard.
In a statement issued by Heard's publicist in 2016, van Ree said Heard had been "wrongfully" accused and that the entire incident had been blown out of proportion, adding that two cops had "misinterpreted and over-sensationalized" the incident.
"I [recall] hints of misogynistic attitudes toward us which later appeared to be homophobic when they found out we were domestic partners and not just 'friends,'" the statement said.
She had also spoke on the current allegations that Heard is facing from Depp. "It's disheartening that Amber's integrity and story are being questioned yet again. Amber is a brilliant, honest and beautiful woman and I have the utmost respect for her."
Johnny Depp claims several of Amber Heard's exes have accused her of abuse.
In court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, according to the NZ Herald, Depp claimed to have had conversations with a number of Heard's former romantic partners about her alleged history of abuse.
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"Several women who have been in a relationship with Ms. Heard have come forward to share their personal experiences of brutal violence and other abuse at the hands of Ms Heard," Depp reportedly wrote.
"My advisers have and continue to interview these victims, who remain deeply fearful of Ms. Heard, and to collect evidence from these victims."
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million claiming defamed him by describing herself as a "figure representing domestic violence" in The Washington Post.
Amber Heard's former assistant accused her of verbal abuse.
In the latest testimonies, Heard's former personal assistant, Kate James, who worked with the actress between 2012 and 2015, says Heard verbally abused her on multiple occasions while Depp was a "total southern gentleman."
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"She leapt out of her chair and put her face approximately four inches from my face, spitting in my face, how dare I ask for the salary I'm asking for," James recalled.
She says the incident occurred after Heard became angry when James pushed back against the $50,000 salary she had been offered, which was about half of what James usually makes.
James had also described Depp as being "peaceful, calm, and very quiet," adding that she had never seen him be rude or yell at anyone throughout her time working with Heard.
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Nia Tipton is a writer living in Brooklyn. She covers pop culture, social justice issues, and trending topics. Follow her on Instagram.


The solar panels atop the Madison Public Library can be seen lower right in this January 2015 image.
Madison's City Council adopted an ambitious energy plan at its meeting on Tuesday June 7, with only one no vote from the 20-member council.
The plan commits the city to reduce its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, reduce overall energy consumption by half by 2030, and get a quarter of its electricity, heating and transportation energy from clean sources by 2025.
Mitch Brey, campaign organizer of the group RePower Madison, described the plan as an important step in creating clean energy policies and programs in the city. He noted that some aspects of the plan are already enshrined in city or state policy, but the new plan calls for new resources or action to help fulfill those goals.
Along with the aforementioned targets, the plan calls for establishing a city-wide Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, making it easier for property owners to finance energy improvements; developing an inventory of all the city-owned property suitable for rooftop solar; and ensuring implementation of a benchmarking resolution passed last year, which would document buildings' current energy consumption to chart future improvements.
It also calls for convening a working group to review the city's existing climate change plan, creating permanent staff positions focused on energy issues; and supporting regional clean energy and carbon reduction efforts including with local colleges and universities and the sewer agency.
He pointed to the inventory of buildings ripe for solar development as an example of how the real test will come when the city acts on the information it has gathered.
"That's great, something the city should do, and once they have that list the next step would obviously be to install solar in those areas," he said.
Madison is widely known for its culture of sustainability and environmentalism, a culture largely reflected by elected officials and civic leaders including through the existence of the Sustainable Madison Committee.
But the local utility, Madison Gas & Electric (MGE), has drawn criticism from clean energy advocates in recent years for policies seen as hostile to distributed solar, including significant increases in fixed charges the customer pays regardless of how much energy they use.
The utility promised not to increase fixed rates this year, after outcry about the previous increases. Brey said that they'd like the utility to reduce the current fixed rates, which are among the highest in the state.
MGE has announced its commitment to clean energy including its own stakeholder and community engagement process, though Brey and others worry that the utility will not carry out the full process outlined in the plan. Brey hopes the city plan will help sustain or bolster MGE's community engagement process.
The plan suggests specific collaborative action between the city and MGE which could include promoting electric vehicles, developing a utility-scale solar farm, upgrading the grid including investments in smart meters and smart inverters for solar panels, and developing rate designs that encourage using energy at low-cost times.
Sustainable Madison Committee member Rajan Shukla described the plan to the Capital Times as symbolic of larger struggles for a clean and just environment, likening it to the fight for clean water in India, where his family is from.