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Q: How can I style a part of text which is between two  elements? I'm trying to add CSS to a part of text from an XML rss feed (and I can't change it).
And what about using Javascript?
The problem is that I want it smaller with right-alignment.
The part of text I'm talking about is "This offer is valid till ##/##/##".
here is the problem:
http://jsfiddle.net/WC5F8/1/
.itemContent br {
text-align:right;
font-size: 0.5em;
}

A: This is impossible with just CSS, all the text in that div element is character data (CDATA) interspersed with the br elements. With CSS you can only target entire elements and their entire contents. If you cannot change or rewrite the HTML, you cannot restyle a subset of the CDATA of a single element.
With Javascript it's hard, since you have the same limitations of not being able to select entire elements. You'd have to start splitting content by arbitrary criteria, such as hoping there's always the same number of
 elements. The solution would be inherently unstable.

A: This is possible with just CSS, without Javascript, if you are willing to give up on hiding the
. That is to say, don't hide all the
s in the div, only the last one.
li > div > br:last-child {
    display:none;
}

.itemContent {font-size:.5em}
.itemContent::first-line {font-size:2em}

The trick is to halve the font size for the whole div, and then restore the first part of the div (up to the first br) to the original size.
Updated fiddle

A: The problem is that JavaScript is processed asynchronously. In your code, jQuery will first look for any .itemContent elements (but will not find any). Then FeedEk loads the RSS file and inserts it's contents to the DOM. That's why your code doesn't work, you look for the elements too early.
You can only access the .itemContent elements after jQuery finished loading and processing the RSS. Unfortunately FeedEk doesn't provide a callback method, so you don't know when it finished. There is a workaround when you use jQuery's ajaxSetup. FeedEk internally uses jQuery's Ajax functions, which provide a way to invoke a function after the Ajax request and it's processing finished.
I tested this with the code you provided and it worked for me. Just replace your own FeedEk call:
$(document).ready(function () {

  jQuery.ajaxSetup({
    complete: function () {
      $('.itemContent').each(function(i, element) {
        $($(element).find('br')[0].nextSibling)
        .wrap('
')
        .before('

'); // if you really need
s
      });
    }
  });

  $('#divRss').FeedEk({
    FeedUrl: 'http://dimmituquando.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default',
    MaxCount: 10
  });

});

A: try this, using inline-style-tags:
This offer is valid till ##/##/##

A: Using javascript, you would need to modify the feed's html to wrap that piece of text in a div so that you can style it.
http://jsfiddle.net/WC5F8/2/
$(".itemContent").html(function(i,html){
    return html.replace(/(offerta valida fino al \d+\/\d+\/\d+)/i,"
$1
");
});

css:
.itemContent .offervalid {
    float:right;
    font-size: 0.5em;
}

Note, i think there's a typo in your sample code. Offer valid till 2031?

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Q: Resize video in PyQt I am building a video player using PyQt and OpenCV. Using a separate thread I read a video file with OpenCV and then send it to the DisplayFrame class that uses the paint event to display each frame.
My question is how can I make the video resize like VLC Player? Rendering black empty space around the video if the player window is to wide or high and resizing the player window and keeping the video proportions the same?
Class used for displaying frames:
class DisplayFrame(QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(DisplayFrame, self).__init__(parent)
        self.image = QImage()
        self.setAttribute(Qt.WA_OpaquePaintEvent)

    def paintEvent(self, event):
        painter = QPainter(self)
        painter.drawImage(0, 0, self.image)
        self.image = QImage()

    @pyqtSlot(QImage)
    def set_image(self, image):
        self.image = image
        self.update()

A: You must adjust the size of the image to the size of the window. To do this you must change:
painter.drawImage(0, 0, self.image)

to:
painter.drawImage(self.rect(), self.image)


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The mission of the North Kingstown Police Department is to ensure that police services are delivered in an effective and efficient manner - providing a quality of life for all residents and visitors that is free from the threat or fear of crime impacting their lives. This mission is accomplished by employing contemporary methods and techniques while remaining ever vigilant of the need to operate with the utmost regard for customer service.
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The North Kingstown Police Department is commanded by the Chief of Police and is currently staffed by 56 sworn personnel and various civilian support staff. Our Operations Division is commanded by a Captain who oversees four squads. Each squad consists of two supervisors - Lieutenant and a Sergeant, and six patrol officers. The patrol officers work one of two 12-hour shifts, starting at 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Two squads are assigned to each shift, providing 24-hour 7 days a week of coverage to the Town of North Kingstown.
The remaining police personnel are assigned to the Administrative Division or the Detective Division. The Administrative Division is overseen by the Administrative Captain whose staff consists of an Administrative Lieutenant, two training officers, and a technical services officer. The Detective Division consisting of six detectives including a Detective Lieutenant Commander. Additionally, one patrol officer is assigned as a School Resource Officer to the North Kingstown High School. The Prosecution Office is staffed by a Detective Sergeant.
Civilian support staff includes four full-time dispatchers (one assigned to each of the four squads), three secretaries, one clerk, and one custodian. The Animal Control and Harbormaster staff include one Animal Warden, one part-time Assistant Animal Warden, a part-time Harbormaster, part-time Harbor Clerk, and two part-time Assistant Harbormasters.
The Police Department is depicted in the Department Organizational Chart.
The Command Staff
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Sergio López Miró (born August 15, 1968) is a former international top swimmer from Spain, who won the bronze medal in the 200 meters breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

He competed in college for Indiana University and American University. López served as the head coach for the men's and women's swim teams at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia from 2005 to 2007. In 2007 he became the head swimming coach at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida and has coached several swimmers onto the U.S. national team: Ariana Kukors, Charlie Houchin, Ryan Murphy and also Singapore's Joseph Schooling.

He was appointed head coach of Singapore Swimming as well as an adviser coach of the coaching academy of the Singapore Sports Institute, with his term starting on January 1, 2015.

On April 30, 2018, Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock announced Lopez's hiring as head coach for the university's swimming and diving programs.

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Living people
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Today was the so called Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It is called the biggest sale day of year, I have never went out shopping on Black Friday, I do not like huge crowds and hate the rudeness of the people on this kind of a day. I saw one report of a Wal-mart employee killed by a stampeding crowd in New York. I would hate to think how those people would act if it was an emergency or a natural disaster. Makes me want to stay in my house with my dogs with the door locked.


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To be known as a good Customer Success organization, it's important to provide a high level of service not only to the external, paying customers, but also to the internal ones – your employees.
How are employees your company's true competitive advantage?
Despite all the talk of people being a company's best asset, too many businesses waste this resource.
They seek to hire talent, yet treat the talent in place poorly. The talent become FTEs, a business unit, a number on the budget. So, in time, the strong talent leaves and the weaker employees stay on to fail your customer success management.
Talent acts, cooperates, creates, decides, delivers, innovates, and performs. In a super competitive environment, these virtues distinguish your performance.
How you make things happen?
Competitive advantage is not a personality cult. It does not depend on your promises or deals. It depends on the external customers' satisfaction. But, as the Customer Success leader, what you must get your mind around is that their satisfaction depends on the performance of your internal customers.
Trust employees to act when necessary.
Build structures, strategies, and tactics that speed decision making.
Remember: remind yourself every day that it's not all about you!
You need to make your leadership apparent. Employees know you by what you do even before they hear what you say.
Review and understand the work. Work to create jobs that put workers in charge of their work. This increases their accountability which improves their outcomes.
Respect and reward contributions. Any gesture, from a simple "way to go" to a formal recognition, shows appreciation for quality performance.
Visit and revisit the floor. They may be a building away or on another floor, but they need to see the face that goes with the "orders." Your presence completes the team.
Feed on feedback. Invite employee input, but make sure you make the feedback work. To make it work, you should set up regular conversations, dialog, or brainstorming sessions. It shows respect and extends ownership in the project.
Draw big pictures. Be honest about your goals and how they align with the organization's. Sharing the understanding of their personal performance role in profit margins and business success will purchase their support and loyalty.
Leadership is often a matter of creating trust. And, trust is a modeled behavior. Employees' ability to share your confidence and optimism creates the stability and certainty they need to remain engaged.
Remember: no one wants to be managed. Everyone wants to be led.
Your customer success will not last if you provide excellent external customer service but treat your employees badly. As CS leader, you present an authoritative image to your clients, and if your employees do not deliver, your image suffers immediately.
If they fail to deliver or time, package things well, or install products well, it creates a snowball effect. You and the company earn a reputation for a place not worth dealing with or working at.
In this very competitive business world, everyone competes on the same customer-focused service level. If that does not differentiate your CSM approach, you have no other asset.
Caution – if you do not treat potential employees (job candidates) with respect, you risk developing a negative reputation for your company in the long run.
My wife, a seasoned freelance Human Resources Director, tells me stories all the time, of certain companies that she's having a hard time hiring for because the company managed to ruin its reputation in the job market. In other words, candidates heard bad things from others who were part of the recruiting process, and prefer not to work there. It becomes very difficult to reverse this reputation.
When you do not treat candidates well, the message gets out to others. The word-of-mouth will haunt you as job candidates avoid your interest.
As the snowball gathers volume and speed, you will find it difficult to hire and retain quality employees. And, as recruiting talent suffers, so does the quality of your product and service.
The idea: inappropriate recruitment process creates a bad reputation for the company >> Company then has more difficulty attracting good candidates, and eventually left with less-than-perfect employees >> This, in turn, affects the quality of the products and services, which then makes clients leave to seek better service.
Now, is there conclusive and irrefutable scientific proof that a less-than-respectful hiring process will eventually snowball into financial ruin for a company? No (or not yet). That being said, do we really want to take that chance?
Respond quickly and in a transparent manner. Update regularly on their status in the process.
Don't make promises you're not sure you can keep.
Remember: one day you can be on top, another day on the bottom. Stay respectful.
Employee retention and a respectful recruiting process are not less important than customer retention.
To stay successful, you need talent. You need the talent to build well, improve tangibly, and deliver as ordered. You need talent that responds and innovates, trusts and volunteers. You need skills that matter to the product and to your clients.
Talent stays under leadership that respects, honors, and collaborates. It needs nourishment more than hierarchy, encouragement rather than instruction.
What do YOU do to build strong and long-lasting relationships with your employees?


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12 Questions With Curator/Artist Daniel Pfalzgraf
Posted by arts_louisville | Apr 24, 2020 | Visual Arts | 0
Daniel Pfalzgraf, Attica Scott, and Mahogany Mayfield in front of "Glory" by CreativeSoul Photography.
Interview by Keith Waits
Daniel Pfalzgraf is a multimedia artist and curator who has been exhibiting art professionally for twenty years. He is currently the Curator for the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, Indiana. Pfalzgraf was also previously Director of The Green Building Gallery, Director of Media Services at B. Deemer Gallery, and an assistant preparator at the Speed Art Museum (all in Louisville, Kentucky) and was the Media Coordinator at Bill Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also worked as an independent curator creating exhibitions under the name of LoCAL.gallery.
Pfalzgraf's current series of work, Kentucky Game, are blind contour drawings on paper painted in with oil paint and other mixed media and explore the themes of attraction, hunting, and collecting. Pfalzgraf has blockchain-based digital artwork based on this series available to buy and sell on the Pixura platform and also maintains a blockchain-based digital art collection on the SuperRare platform. Artwork included are pieces created by other artists and are available for sale.
1. How has The Carnegie Center created programming to engage its audience?
All hands on deck. We are all chipping in to create content in as many forms for as many different audiences as we can.
Al Gorman is a great writer and he's been working on a series of blog posts about some prominent local artists, such as a Barney Bright (including a walking tour of his work in New Albany). He's also developed different art activities that can be done with common materials found in many households.
Julie Leidner has been developing some art activities for elementary and middle school students.
Eileen Yanoviak is hosting preschool art playdates online, and book club discussions for adults.
Since the museum is closed and people can't come to see the current exhibition, Permanent and Natural, I've been working on trying to create ways for people to experience the work online, such as getting all the images and label copy online. I've also been writing an online interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" story based on artwork in the exhibition that will be a fun way for kids to explore the work in the show.
Just before everything got put on lockdown, I interviewed State Rep. Attica Scott and Mahogany Mayfield, a founder of Girls League of the West (GLOW). We recorded it and will be posting it next week. I have to give a big shout out to our media coordinator, Jesse Fox. She's been doing a ton of work managing our social media scheduling, editing videos, and managing our website and digital content.
We are also developing ways that we can engage with high school students, with seniors who are quarantined in assisted living facilities, as well as some potentially fun public art initiatives. Those projects haven't been released yet, but will be added to our newly created Digital Resources page on our website as we continue to create new content to share. Sometimes, we also just have to add a little levity to the situation and hop on the social media trends of the day, like the Carnegie Center Quarantine House Challenge, where people pick which art exhibitions they'd want to be quarantined with.
One of the most challenging things is trying to serve those who don't have access to online content. Eventually, we will be able to go back to working in the museum and the library (the Carnegie Center is a branch of the Floyd County Public Library) on a limited basis prior to opening up to the public. Once we get to that point, we can grow our reach by creating projects that can be distributed through the Library-To-Go program. There's no telling how long this will last, obviously, but we're creative people and there are a lot of ways we can work with limited resources and exposure.
2. At the moment, how far out have you canceled or postponed things?
It's a bit of a moving target, and we've had to adapt from one day to the next based on the news. Many of our programs are canceled/postponed "until further notice." That will likely be in place until at least the fall, if not longer. Some exhibitions have been postponed.
We hope we will be able to provide limited access to our space later this summer, but who knows.
3. Do you anticipate being able to reschedule?
Many of them, yes. We had one major program planned that we had to cancel.
I've been fortunate to be able to maintain flexibility with our exhibitions, so (fingers crossed), no one will need to miss out on any shows on our schedule.
The artists in Permanent and Natural have agreed to let us hold on to their work so we can extend it until the end of July. The show was only open for a few weeks before we had to close everything down, and it has some really amazing work in it, so I hope there will be some time for people to come see it.
Form, Not Function, our annual art quilt exhibition that is one of our most popular shows that typically opens in May, but I was able to push it to August – October, and reopen the call for art for it.
Past Performance As Indicator of Future Outcomes, a group show of women who use artificial intelligence to create art has been moved from this year to next (Feb – April, 2021). I think it's going to be pretty groundbreaking for our community, the first of its kind that I'm aware of in the region. So we decided to move it back to protect it, so to speak. In order to serve the artists and community best, we want to exhibit it when we can get maximum engagement.
The most difficult part, I feel, doesn't necessarily have anything to do with being able to physically serve our community. The challenge is going to be how we will be able to create these programs and exhibitions with major drops in funding being projected. Many foundations and donors are reallocating their funding from cultural institutions to services that address disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. An understandable, but still unfortunate position to find ourselves in. But, you do what you can do and keep pressing forward with what you have to the best of your abilities. Being an institution that provides free programs and exhibitions, we really have to step up and provide great opportunities for the community, especially in times where people are under considerable strain.
4. Your education is as an artist and you have exhibited quite a bit. What pulled you in the curatorial direction?
Well, my love has always been about art, whether mine or others. I love making it and I love looking at it. It's kind of been a personal mission for me to grow understanding and appreciation of contemporary art with more and more people. I love it, and I want others to love it like I do, or at the very least develop an appreciation of the benefits it provides. I started that mission by being an artist and creating installations and exhibitions that I thought would excite, educate, and entertain people. I've had some very powerful moments talking with strangers about the work and themes behind my work at Swanson Contemporary. I think I really helped develop some deep connections with people who weren't frequent or typical "art people."
Curation, for me, began developing while I was living in Atlanta and grew after moving back to Louisville working in galleries and museums. Working in the art world every day, you really get to see how much great work is being made by so many artists out there. They're able to say and create so many different things, and they can do it better than I ever could as an individual artist. So, I just felt like I could serve the community, and my mission, better by featuring other's work more than my own work. That allows me to explore more and different topics than I could address with my work, and I could do it with much more frequency.
I basically curate three or four shows a year now, all with their own unique focus. That can reach so many more people than if I focused on creating one body of work for solo shows every two years.
5. You had built a reputation as an independent curator. What has it been like fulfilling that role for an established institution like The Carnegie?
Beyond the stability and consistency of work, the biggest difference (and benefit) is 1.) having an institutional name behind you to gain access to artists' work, and 2.) having an actual budget to work with. I HIGHLY recommend being able to work with a budget. (LOL) Not that I have a huge budget to work with, it's actually quite modest, to be honest. For comparison's sake, the Carnegie's exhibition budget is only approximately 3.5% of the Speed Art Museum's exhibitions budget. But I can get creative and stretch the impact of each dollar spent on the exhibitions. I never would ever have been able to show work by Kerry James Marshall, Dread Scott, Fahamu Pecou, Sonya Clark, William Wegman, or Robert Pruitt if I was independently curating local spaces. Sorry about that name dropping, but I am quite proud of what I have been able to accomplish at the Carnegie.
Working independently offers exciting energy developing unique shows with ever-changing sets of constraints (resources and spaces, primarily). Sometimes you may have a little more freedom (like with content), but the opportunities to do things are fewer and further apart.
I still get that thrill of wide-open opportunities when working on our public art program, though. Changing spaces and budgets keeps things exciting. We are finishing up the region's first public art skatepark, the New Albany Flow Park. That was a major project that took over four years to complete, but we did it. The idea was something that I may have thought of before working at the Carnegie, but having that institutional name and reputation behind me helped legitimize the project and provided access I couldn't have had otherwise. Shout out to Mayor Jeff Gahan and the City of New Albany, SoIN (the Southern Indiana Convention and Tourism Bureau), Develop New Albany, the Humana Foundation, the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana, Duke Energy, Ceasar's Foundation of Floyd County, Samtec Cares, and all the individuals who contributed to making the dream a reality.
6. What do you imagine "The New Normal" will look like for visual arts?
A lot less money to work with for starters. I imagine that will be a temporary condition, but it will be interesting to see who is able to do what with less in the foreseeable future.
Last year, I was on a panel at the Louisville Free Public Library called "Conversations with a Curator." The moderator, Chelsea Harris, asked the panel what we saw in the future for contemporary art and curators. My answer then was I predicted we would see a radical shift of decentralization of the current art world structure. Fewer ivory towers and king-makers. More influencers. I also said that today's curators will be working in marketing and sales tomorrow.
I know that probably sounded pretty hyperbolic at the time, but if anything, the current climate of our situation only strengthens my belief in that. Everyone is rushing to develop new and unique content to draw eyes on their projects, they're becoming marketers and influencers whether they want to or not (some better than others). I don't think all that work will be forgotten about and discontinued once we are able to gather in groups publicly again.
The part regarding the decentralization of the art market relates to another thing that I am very much interested in, digital-based artwork. Self-quarantining and online transactions will only expand the reach and impact of digital art in the art world.
This is something that I am pretty passionate about, and I also think that it is something that our region is woefully behind in. Crypto Art (art saved on blockchain), finally provides an avenue that allows artists to create digital artwork and provide verified one-of-a-kind uniqueness as a digital asset so people can freely buy and sell digital-based work without diminishing value due to duplicity.
I want to bring awareness to these things to our community, which is one of the reasons we're doing the Past Performance… Artificial Intelligence-based exhibition. But there is only so much I can do in my role as a curator. We need investment from our leaders and institutions if we want to be relevant beyond our fifty-mile radius.
COY howl, Charcoal and oil on paper, 22 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches, Daniel Pfalzgraf
7. Do your responsibilities in New Albany allow you sufficient time for a studio practice?
I do have a body of work in progress, but I am slower to produce than I used to be. Part of that, too, is because I don't have any immediate plans for showing it. I started showing at Swanson Contemporary in 2004, but now that they're closed, I doubt I'll try showing with any other local galleries.
I have a series of paintings I've been working on with around 30 or 40 something pieces completed, but I hope to have twice that many done eventually.
8. What do you feel is most needed in the Louisville area's visual arts community?
Digital art…artists, buyers, sellers, and exhibitions. Innovators and investors.
Also, better representation that extends beyond the city so it's easier for artists to live here and make a living. I have a whole list of things I think we need here that I would love to make happen, but I can't give everything away free (lol).
9. If you hadn't become an artist, what would you be doing?
Marketing. I think it's really fun trying to figure out how to get people to pay attention to what you want and getting them to invest in it. A few years back I went back to school to get an MBA degree, and the marketing classes were by far my favorite courses, by a wide margin.
I'd like to think I'd be a plastic surgeon, but I don't think I could've gotten into med school with my grades in high school.
10. What music have you been listening to?
I have a shuffle mix of music that I play all the time: Destiny's Child, Electric Wizard, The Misfits, Mastodon, The Birthday Party, MGMT, Frank Ocean, fIREHOSE, Kendrick Lamar, Burning Spear, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Stooges, Noname, Oddisee, Childish Gambino, Black Uhuru, The Cars, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Bauhaus, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Johnny Cash, Digable Planets, Bjork, Fugazi, Animal Collective, The Black Angels, The Police, A Tribe Called Quest, Outcast, Quasimoto, Joy Division, Modeselektor, Melvins, Rung Petchburi, and The Sugarcubes.
A few other performers pop in and out of that shuffle from time to time, but those are the basic foundation.
11. What book is on your bedside table now?
A stack of completed, in progress, and likely abandoned books.
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency, by Annie Jacobsen (really interesting read)
The Escape Artist, by Brad Meltzer (pretty terrible read)
Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely (enjoying it so far)
Likely abandoned (maybe pick back up another day):
Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin (meh)
Saint Germain on Alchemy (I've started and stopped this one the past 15 years)
12. What is the first thing you will do when you can come out of quarantine?
Probably go get some ice cream with my daughter, and go to the skatepark with my son. And if Louisville City FC is playing, going to games at the new stadium.
SHC small, Charcoal and oil on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, Daniel Pfalzgraf
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Ethiopia dam project could start generating power in June
Ethiopia's $1.8 billion dam project under construction along river Omo could begin generating power by June and be fully operational by early 2016. The Gilgel Gibe III dam will nearly double the country's energy output, helping to resolve chronic power outages and sustain a booming economy. CCTV America's Girum Chala reported this story from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Reports have suggested that the hydroelectric power generating dam project has been delayed by about three years, due to funding related constraints. But now the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation has announced that close to 90 percent of the dam is complete and the first phase of power generation will begin in June 2015.
"We are reducing it to five years or six years.because other wise we cannot catch up with the growing demand," Mekuria Lemma, director of Strategic Power Generation Investment said.
With plans of exporting power to the rest of the African continent, Ethiopia is harnessing its water, wind, and geothermal power sources with a $15 billion investment.
"The investment in Ethiopia is currently booming and the main back bone for this investment is energy. So from our assessment or studies the demand for electricity is growing more than twenty five percent per year," Azeb Asnake, CEO of Ethiopian Electric Power said.
Right now, Ethiopia exports power to Kenya, Sudan and Djibouti, and it has lined up power exporting plans to Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and Yemen.
Source and video: http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/01/02/ethiopia-dam-project-could-start-generating-power-in-june
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Summary of the work Project Management and Technological support to facilitate, advise and deliver Technology change projects to the business areas that have been defined in scope.
Budget range Up to the maximum value of £4.9M over the term. Spend in 19/20 on equivalent coverage is likely to be approximately £1m-2m.
Why the work is being done The work is to ensure that organisations that are part of the Home Office are able to continue to fully integrate with the HO and make use of technology capabilities. The second reason is to be able to support local HO capability where there may be skills which are not available or require developing and meet specific to the Business Area's operational needs.
Problem to be solved Deliver technology change in the wider HO Businesses , in a responsive way, through the use of skilled, experienced and qualified resources.
An arm's-length body is an organisation that delivers a public service, is not a ministerial government department, and which operates to a greater/lesser extent at a distance from Ministers. The term can include non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), executive agencies, non-ministerial departments and public corporations.
Any work that's already been done There are a number of projects that are currently in flight and being undertaken by the incumbent supplier. These projects are at varying stages of completion and should a new supplier be successful in bidding for this work there may be a requirement to handover and transition these projects as seamlessly as possible.
Existing team The teams with which the supplier will be working will be different across the business units, although there is a single point of contact for the overall project as well as a single commercial lead.
Address where the work will take place Home Office London Sites: 2 Marsham Street, Croydon, Hendon.
Potential for working on site of ALBs offices.
Other locations regionally as required.
Working arrangements Statements of Work will have specific working arrangements and base locations included.
Typically the project team will be expected to be on client site 4 days a week with flexible working where required.
The work may be undertaken on a fixed price or T&M basis.
Ability to provide highly qualified individuals or teams with SC clearance at short notice.
Ability to articulate client requirements and turn these into SOWs with deliverables and outputs.
Ability to manage, report and provide weekly flash updates with progress updates of projects to the individual project leads, TPS2 project and commercial leads.
Ability to provide the right level of resources in terms of grades and provide a full justification for the individual proposed against the job descriptions and day rates.
Engagement across Business areas to understand the individual projects and work packages, including budgets, plans, creation of ROMs, and approval process etc.
Ability to work with stakeholders of different level of technology maturity, ability to understand complex technology solutions etc.
Reporting on financial metrics on spend to date and project status across the portfolio of projects.
Experience of client side delivery and ability to deliver on time and to budget.
Experience of working in central government department and delivering a similar offering to another government department.
Ability to work with challenging stakeholders, working with them to articulate requirements and turn them into meaningful SOWs complete with deliverables and project outputs.
Ability to work collaboratively with permanent staff and suppliers.
Approach to knowledge transfer, upskilling and sharing of best practice with the client.
Flexibility in approach in order to meet changing priorities and business requirements.
2. Is SC the minimum required clearance for any and all human resources? This is already stated in the advert.
3. Can you explain your understanding of capped time and materials and can you confirm whether you are expecting the supplier to assume delivery risk, i.e. supplier to complete work at own cost if original budget is exceeded? The supplier is expected to estimate and price the scope of work (SOWs) on a project by project basis. Each SOW will have deliverables that the supplier must ensure are completed prior to the end of the engagement. These deliverables will be scoped in collaboration with the client.
4. Ability to provide highly qualified individuals or teams with SC clearance at short notice." – Can you clarify this requirement please? Will the authority sponsor SC clearance in the event that individuals who are highly qualified do not possible SC clearance given the process of obtaining SC needs a government sponsor etc. Many thanks Yes, where it is necessary to do so.
6. The 45% price weighting suggest you place a high value on cost. How will you assess this element, will it be purely on the proposed day rate? Further information will be included in the tender documentation if a supplier is successfully down selected.
7. Please can you share further details on the current 'in flight' projects and types of resources required to ensure successful completion? Further information on the requirement for transition/handover will be provided at the next stage of process.
8. Of the 15 specialist roles identified, please can you share a view on the expected number of each role in FY19/20 as well as any expectation of the "in demand" roles? An estimation of the demand for each role will be provided to all successful suppliers in the next stage of the process.
9. In that you have listed the NCA as one of the ALB's, please can you confirm that DV resources are not required? DV clearance may be required in some projects, largely this will be the exception.
10. Please can you break out the 45% Technical Competence evaluation, so that we understand the weighting for each individual question both in the 'Essential Skills and Experience' and the 'Nice-to-have Skills and Experience' question sets? The 45% technical evaluation is for the next stage in the procurement and not for this stage.
Your response will be evaluated on each of the essential and desirable skills, the 45% has no relevance to this.
12. Will members of ALBs be involved in evaluating responses? The evaluating panel has not yet been decided, also we are not sure what relevance this question has.
13. While you have mentioned the budget for 19-20, can you please comment on an approx. number of SoWs needed to be catered? Would the SoW relate to transition of work from incumbent of would it relate to a fresh task? Can you commit on a minimum longevity of SOWs? We are asking these questions to enable us to facilitate discounted rates It is not possible to provide details on the exact number of SOWs for 19/20, this would depend on the requirements from the business.
This may relate to SOWs as part of the transition from the old supplier to new or fresh SOWs as you put it.
In terms of the longevity of SOWs this is difficult to state, it depends on the individual requirement from the business.
14. Can you please give us the brief idea of the technology to be used in these projects? It would be beneficial if you can give us one or two examples of projects which arm-length bodies are trying to achieve.
SMEs do not have large pools like 'Large' applicants. Most SMEs have capabilities in particular technologies. This procurement exercise would be much easier to compete for an SME is such information was available at this stage. Due to the wide ranging requirements that arise across the business it is not possible to give you a list of technology currently utilised by individual projects.
15. You make reference to the need for "A pool of extensive in house resources". Do you have a threshold for the minimum number of permanent staff a supplier would need? No, however we would expect the supplier to have a good internal resource to draw upon.
16. One of your questions asks for "Ability to articulate client requirements and turn these into SOWs with deliverables and outputs.". How are you differentiating deliverables and outputs? Deliverables can be defined as the tangible end product(s) that the project will produce in order to meet the project objectives. Deliverables are only produced to enable the achievement of the project objectives.
Outputs can also include a deliverable however may include things which are not planned for, but have been created as a result of the deliverable. Deliverables tend to be time bound whereas outputs may be the unexpected result of a process, i.e. a discovery piece of work may require interviews, the transcript/raw data could be an example of an output from the project.
18. Will this opportunity be awarded to one supplier or will multiple partners be engaged ?
More information will be provided at the next stage.


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If you are in need of a dental restoration, our dentists will explain the option of CEREC one-visit dentistry. CEREC technology improves our patients' experiences as it reduces the number of visits to the office to receive a custom dental crown, onlay (partial crown), or other type of dental restoration. With CEREC technology, you will not need a temporary crown or restoration, and you will need to visit our office only once for your restoration to be completed. In addition, the advanced digital scanning technology used to create CEREC restorations allows us to eliminate the need for messy impressions. We welcome you to contact us today at Luth & Heideman Center for Dental Care to learn more about the benefits of CEREC technology and to schedule your visit with our caring dentists.


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He burst on to the bridge scene as a Junior with a truly remarkable run of success.
Barnet was the first Scottish player to win the prestigious "Sunday Times" (Macallan) Invitational Pairs, in 1976, aged 25, with 21-year-old Michael Rosenberg.
In 1997 Barnet decided to move to USA to concentrate on playing, writing about and teaching Bridge. In the year 2000 his book Playing With the Bridge Legends was published by Masterpoint Press. Since moving to USA he has won 3 National Championships and many Regionals.
When I first decided to make a website it was very unclear how I should proceed. Fortunately I received a recommendation from my golfing friend Larry Cohen and he directed me to Martin Bozhilov at Attain Dreams.
Over a period of a few months he dealt with the various issues of planning and presenting my ideas and material in the most effective way.In order to do this he suggested some good solutions.Ultimately I was delighted with the end result. I am advised by my users that the site is both visually entertaining ,and easy to navigate through ,which is the key.
One of the most important aspects of a website is being able to adept and change information and material when required . While it is still early for me Martin has helped me do that with the site . He has also spent a substantial amount of his time teaching me to add my own material ( when it is not too complex).
I have no hesitation in recommending Martin Bozhilov. He has proved to be straightforward, easy to work with, and very professional. He is someone you can trust to put a lot of effort to your problems and come up with a solution.
Take a tour of my site at www.shenkinbridge.com to see his work.


Bandol is a wine region in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d`Azur region of France, located half way between Toulon and Cassis. It gives its name to a local appellation producing red Mourvedre-based wines, aged roses and some white wines. Perhaps the best known domaine is Domaine Tempier which has long been featured at leading restaurants in the United States.
Bandol is also an authentic seaside resort with many sand beaches, cliffs, inlets, and creeks surrounded by hills of pines and willow. Its magnificent crystal clear water makes it a popular spot amongst scuba divers. Its marina accommodates more than 1,500 boats, including yachts, sailing ships, tuna boats and trawlers.
Port Location – The closest port is located in Toulon, approximately 20km's from Bandol. Bandol has a marina for smaller watercraft.
Travel Links – Hourly rail links are available from Toulon to Marseille (45 min) and to Nice (1h30).
Toulon-Hyères regional airport, 18 km east of Toulon is linked to other French airports. Ryanair offers a direct flight from London Stansted to Toulon.
Toulon is a large port and offers several international routes including Ajaccio, Bastia and Ile Rousse (Corsica).


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A framework is a generic term commonly referring to an essential supporting structure which other things are built on top of.

Framework may refer to:

Computing
 Application framework, used to implement the structure of an application for an operating system
 Architecture framework
 Content management framework, reusable components of a content management system
 CSS framework
 Enterprise architecture framework
 Framework (office suite), a DOS office application suite in 1984
 Framework Computer, a laptop manufacturer for modular laptops
 Framework-oriented design, uses existing frameworks for application design
 List of rich web application frameworks
 Logical framework
 Multimedia framework, handles media on a computer and through a network
 Software framework, a reusable set of libraries or classes for a software system or subsystem
 Web framework, for development of dynamic websites, web applications, and web services

Education
Australian Qualifications Framework, the hierarchy of educational qualifications in Australia
Curriculum framework, a plan, standards or learning outcomes that define content to be learned
European Qualifications Framework, a hierarchy of educational qualifications in the European Union
Malaysian Qualifications Framework, the hierarchy of educational qualifications in Malaysia
National Framework of Qualifications, the hierarchy of educational qualifications in Ireland
Schools Interoperability Framework, a data sharing specification for academic institutions

Government and law
Framework agreement
Framework decision, a legislative act of the European Union
Legal framework, a form of legal doctrine
Local development framework, a spatial planning strategy
Logical framework approach, a management tool used in international development projects
National Service Framework, policies by the National Health Service of the United Kingdom

Music
The Framework, Canadian indie-rock band
Frameworks (band), American post-hardcore band
Frameworks, 2015 album by Samuel Seo
 "Framework", 2013 song by The Story So Far from What You Don't See

Other uses
 Conceptual framework, a set of theories that serve as the guiding principles of research
 Cultural framework, traditions, value systems, myths, and symbols that are common in a society
 Framework (building), a proposed building in Portland, Oregon
 Framework interpretation (Genesis), an interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis
 Framework region, a region in the variable domain of a protein
 Media engagement framework, a construct to understand social media marketing-based audiences
 Framework Computer, a company to provide a sustainable and repairable laptop

See also
Frame (disambiguation)
Framing (disambiguation)
Framework convention (disambiguation)
Framework Directive (disambiguation)


Gynecologic Oncologist - Physician Needed-located minutes North of Boston-Join one of Boston's preeminent Health systems. Affiliated practices have experienced tremendous growth and are now located in 75 locations across more than 30 towns in Metro Boston and Northeastern Massachusetts. Comprised of three Truven Health Analytics top 100 hospital organizations in the country: The Medical Center, a renowned teaching hospital affiliated with the Tufts School of Medicine, perennially voted the top hospital to work for in the state and recognized by Blue Cross and Blue Shield as the top quality hospital in Massachusetts for the last two years running. The system is one of the best in Boston and is the high quality, low cost alternative, poised for increasing and continued success in the new health care environment as evidenced by the increase in hospital volume last year of 4% in a market that declined in hospital volume by 3.5%. In your practice when you join , you will find the leader, as a sustainable health system and a model for accountable care and patient centered medical homes in Massachusetts.You will be using EPIC for your EMR and you will be supported by staff functioning at the top of their licenses who know how to manage your needs, your day and your patients. This is the future of healthcare.


Ideal location. Take the free trolley system, it is across the street and save your feet.
I really like this hotel. The staff was friendly, rooms were well decorated, clean, and it is a good location. We got great value for our money. We will definitely stay here again.
It's only a block off King Street, which is awesome. And the breakfast is better than at most Hamptons. Pro tip: the Charleston visitors' center is across the street.
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Acquiring straighter teeth no longer requires uncomfortable metal braces with pinching brackets and multiple wires. Invisible braces align your teeth without restrictions on what you eat, discomfort, or obvious dental work. At Cool Springs Laser Dentistry, you have the option of ClearCorrect inserts that coax your teeth into alignment. Dr. Kellye N. Rice can evaluate your mouth and determine if this therapy is right for you. If you live in Brentwood, Tennessee, contact Cool Springs Laser Dentistry to make an appointment, or use the convenient online booking tool.
ClearCorrect is a set of customized clear tray braces that you wear over your existing teeth. You can remove them when you need to brush your teeth and eat; while you wear them, they exert enough gentle force to bring your teeth into a better position. They fit snug over your teeth and are transparent, so people will not even know you're wearing them.
Who is a candidate for ClearCorrect?
What is the advantage in using ClearCorrect?
Traditional metal braces make cleaning your teeth difficult. With ClearCorrect, you can brush and floss as you're accustomed to, keeping the health of your teeth pristine as you adjust their alignment.
You don't have to forgo sticky, crunchy, or large foods – like whole apples. The aligners slip off easily so you can eat your favorite foods even while you improve your smile.
The ClearCorrect aligners are also far more comfortable than traditional braces and much more discreet. Most people won't even notice them.
How do I go about getting ClearCorrect?
Dr. Rice begins the process of prescribing your invisible braces by making photographs, radiographs, and digital impressions of your current bite. She sends them to the ClearCorrect laboratories, where they make precise 3-D models of your bite and create a series of custom clear aligners designed for you to wear that move your teeth into optimal position over time.
Dr. Rice also develops a treatment plan so you know when to move to the next set of aligners to keep the changes in your teeth progressing. And no worries!!! The cost of the preliminary scans go towards your treatment plan if you accept within 3 months!!!!
How often do I have to wear ClearCorrect?
For optimal results, wear ClearCorrect aligners about 22 hours per day. Dr. Rice directs you to change aligner sets every two to three weeks, depending on your progress.
Plan to wear ClearCorrect for several months or up to a year and a few months, depending on the complexity of your treatment plan. In a consultation, Dr. Rice can give you an idea of your specific timeline.


Planning is the selection and relating of facts and making and using of assumptions regarding the future in the visualization and formalization of proposed activities believed necessary to achieve desired result.
Organizing is the part of managing that involves establishing an intentional structure of roles for people to fill in an organization. The purpose of an organization structure is to creating an environment helpful for human performance. It is then management tools and not an end. Although the structure must define the task to be done, the rules so established must also be designed in the light of the abilities and motivations of the people available designing an effective organization structure is not an easy managerial task. Many problems arises in making structures fit situations.
Staffing involves filling and keeping filled, the positions in the organization. This is done by identifying the work force requirement inventorying the people available and recruiting, selecting, placing, promoting, appraising, planning the careers, compensating and training.
7. Rewarding people to achieve enterprise goals.
Leading is influence people so that they will contribute to organization and group goals. All managers would agree that most problems arises from peoples desires and problems , their behavior as individuals and in groups and that effective managers also need to be effective leaders. Leading involves motivation, leadership styles and approaches and communications.
It is regarded as a key function of a manager to bring in harmony among individuals and an effort towards accomplishment of goals.
2. Sub Optimization are some of the new approaches developed in the field of decision making.
Controlling is measuring and correcting individuals and organizational performance. It involves measuring performance against goals and plans, showing where the deviations from standards exit and helping to correct them. In short controlling facilitates the accomplishment of plans.Controll activity generally relate to the measurement of achievement. Some means of controlling like the budget for expenses, inspection, record of labors-hours lost, are generally familiar. Each shows whether plans are working out.
4. Bench marking is one of the management techniques that facilitates an organization to uplift its performance levels to the best of industry standards and also catch hold of the strengths of the competitors and rectify the weaknesses prevailing in one's own firm.


Users can synchronize their SmarterMail calendar with iCal by using the CalDAV protocol on computers running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and later.
Click Accounts. Click + to add an account.
Select Account type CalDAV from the drop-down menu.
Enter your Full email address, password and server address. Your server address is your domain preceded by mail. as show in the example below.
You will more than likely get an error that says, "No CalDAV servers were found" or, "iCal found the server, but can't login". if this happens click Create and follow the instructions in step 6.
Ensure your full email address and password are filled in.
Enter secure.myvcgmail.com for server address.
A new account will appear in the list.


Well, I decided that since y'all were SO helpful when I asked for your thoughts and suggestions for my wedding hair – I'd see if Tulle Nation could help me narrow down my wedding jewelry. I'm super excited because an old friend of mine (old as in "we went to junior high together" not "we're using walkers to get around") sweetly offered to make all my wedding jewelry as a gift! Can you say, "Yeehaw!"???
So, Tulle Nation – what do you think? Which of those designs do you think would work best with the dress (or do you think I should go in a completely different direction?)? I was really hoping for a colored necklace, like greens or blues, but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be best to stick with a champagne white color? Chime in, y'all – you know I'm listening!


Thanks for pointing that out Zach! Do you know if Safari on Windows renders exactly like it does on Mac? If it does, that would help me out a lot when testing since I don't have a Mac!
Now that is going to be an age-old question. Naturally, I would guess "yes", but really it's anyone's guess at this point I suppose. I haven't seen any rendering breakdowns between the two platforms yet. My guess would be that rendering would be nearly identical, with possibly one or two really small glitches that you might never run into in normal practice.


Awesome mix! Best one yet!!
This is an awesome mix !
Love the variety of upbeat mixes! So easy to use!
fantastic app! Great tracks that keep your feet moving and so many options!
This is awesome. Get it now.
A great adventure indeed! That 30 minute mix flew by! Loved it!
Good songs, great beat .
This mix is awesome! I went thru is 3 times and ran 7.15 miles which is my furthest distance!
Awesome!! Totally rocked! Didn't even notice the time and workout was great!
All the of the songs in the mix are radio edits. While that insures no explicit language, it doesn't change the adult themes that are present in popular music. We base the explicit/clean value purely on language. I'm sorry if you were offended by any of the songs in the mix, and if you did hear some explicit language we might have missed, please let me know & we'll edit the mix or change it's value to explicit. Thank you for your feedback!
Awesome! only one or two songs I didn't care for.
Great beat for a short, quick run!
This mix is the perfect mix of music for a quick run. I love the energy burst toward the end that pushes me end strong.
love it!! so upbeat and motivating!!
I love this one - can we have it extended to 60mins & I'll join?? It's just the right mix & always makes me smile whilst I'm running!!!
holy crap...I am sore but that was an awesome workout!!!
Great music for workout !!!!!
Upbeat mix of great hits- kept me moving!
Great mix gets you completely pumped up and running to the max!
This is the one that really got me running - started out just trying to run til Taylor Swift - now playing it at least twice!! Live dancing along whilst I'm running!!!
Amazing! Keeps the fire burning!
Love love love- pushes me until the end!
Great App. Keeps me moving!
Tried many mixes but this is by far my most favourite one.
Great mix! This app rocks!
Great mix! Kept me moving and motivated!
Feel the burn! Woohoo for Saturday afternoon run and some get up and go music! Woot!
Last song cuts off, poor timing.
I love it! Gets me going every time!
Quickly became a favorite mix!!
I love the songs in this mix it is soooo cool!!
Great work out mix! It sure does motivate me to run!
Just love this app. Such a great variety of music gets me through my workout in a breeze. Thanks.
Great upbeat tempo for fast run!
Longest run since my injury!!
Best Mix Yet!! DJ Marc is ALWAYS on my music wavelength!!
Awesome mix!! My workout was over before I knew it thanks to this mix!
Amazing mix! 30 mins without blinking an eye!!
good songs to get you going.
Really enjoyed this mix! A new favorite!
Definitely kept me going! Everytime Anaconda comes on I want to stop and busta move or twerk or whatever!
This is a great mix for a quick evening run.
Brilliant mix. Keeps you going!!
7/10 for me... not bad.
Fantastic running mix, I love it and this app!!
love it. wish it was longer.
Trying not to have my favorite DJs but I keep migrating to this guy!!!
Awesome app, can't rate highly enough!
nice mix! last song is great to push through.
amazing mix of beats that kept me going.
my jam... and my peanut butter jelly *2.
I loved this mix! The transitions were smooth and the build ups kept me going.
I did legs superset. ..
I love the variety of music to choose from. I am so excited to use this app for my next run.
This is my favorite mix that keeps me motivated on my long runs!
Great mix to keep you going!
Great music to run to!!!
Amazing station! And no skipping this time!
A bit sore today but the music definitely helped pushing me through!
Love this mix for group fitness!! Great variety and energy!
love this station....pumps me up every time!
Awesome songs, perfect tempo, get pick me ups!


Can screening older patients for cancer save lives?
Cancer screening of the elderly is warranted for those cancers for which early detection and treatment improve life expectancy. There is excellent evidence to include screening for breast cancer with clinical examination and mammography for elderly women. There is also reasonable evidence to screen for cervical cancer with PAP testing in elderly women who were previously unscreened, although there is no evidence to support continuing the practice in women who have had consecutive normal PAP tests. No evidence supports or refutes screening programs for colon, prostate, skin, or oral cancer in the elderly. The authors recommend including screening for colon and prostate cancer in the routine examination of office patients. The potential benefit for the rare patient in whom an early stage cancer is discovered and treated is large and worth both the physician's and patient's time and effort. The authors recommend screening only patients deemed to be at high risk for skin and oral cancer. The main factor favoring continued screening in the elderly is the burden of suffering and the pronounced increased incidence of the disease in old age. Lastly, the authors recommend against routine screening for lung cancer in the elderly.


Yes, Europe, you're right: It is silly that our week starts on a Sunday. Sorry. That's just the way we do it. But ... you can fix it so your week starts on a Monday, like a proper calendar should.
Head to your Me page and click "My Basecamp Settings.""
Scroll down to "Calendar options" and click the box to show Monday as the first day of the week on your calendar.
This will affect both the calendar and the date picker you use to assign due dates. It will not affect other accounts you're on, so if you have multiple Basecamp accounts, you'll need to select this option in each account.


The founder and CEO of Nidec has visited Leroy-Somer to outline his vision for the future of the businesses. Shigenobu Nagamori, who launched Nidec in Kyoto, Japan in 1973, presented to Leroy-Somer staff at their headquarters in Angouleme, France on February 3. The event was simultaneously broadcast to Leroy-Somer staff across the world.
Mr Nagamori spoke about the opportunities presented to the business, and was positive about the impact Nidec could have in the future. Questions were invited from existing staff members regarding investment, job security and proposals for future growth.
Nidec boasts a strong track record of facilitating growth among its business, through investment in engineering, design and resources. It has also demonstrated a clear strategy to drive growth in the company, as well as providing considerable benefits to customers through a far wider range of available products and services. Leroy-Somer's product ranges offer a complementary fit with the Nidec line-up, bringing significant benefits for all parties and, importantly, their respective customer bases. The combination will now allow Nidec to sell the entire range of products as a package into all key market spaces, while also allowing Leroy-Somer access to new markets.


Please get involved in Michael\'s Special 5K Run/Walk - Runners Pushing Riders. We have partnered with the 31st Annual Disabilities EXPO.
We hope to have 500 wheelchairs participating in the Run.
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X-Men Apocalypse Adds Lana Condor as Jubilee
Though she currently has no credits on her IMDB page at this time, Lana Condor's first entry will be huge! The virtually unknown actress has landed a prime role in X-Men: Apocalypse. She will play one of the youngest team members to ever fight alongside Professor Xavier and his school […]
X-Men: Apocalypse Cast Keeps Growing
Earlier in the week, director Bryan Singer confirmed that mutant Angel would be appearing in the franchise sequel X-Men: Apocalypse. He did so by releasing a piece of concept art that depicted the character in some sort of cage, possible as part of a circus. The director didn't, however, say […]


acids needed for human growth and development, and required for muscle tissue repair.
fending off premature aging symptoms and signs.
bodily functions, while strengthening the immune system and promoting good health.
preventing coronary heart diseases, heart attacks and strokes.
·	Brazil nuts contain also good amounts of omega-6 fatty acids, which also protect the heart.


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DOCTORAL, MINORS, CERTIFICATIONS
The coaching minor offered through the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education is based on the Coaching Education National Standards issued by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. This minor is useful for those interested in sports programs, recreation, travel leagues, and more. Employment for coaches and related fields is expected to increase over the next few years and the expansion of new professional teams and leagues may create additional openings for coaching opportunities.
Economics Minor
Economists conduct research, collect and analyze economic data, monitor and write about trends in the economy and predict future trends. They study the production and distribution of goods, resources and services within society. The economics major at Valdosta State University prepares students for a variety of careers in government and in the private sector. Economics majors may also choose to pursue graduate studies in areas such as law, business, urban planning, journalism and more.
Environmental Studies Minor
Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary minor focusing on how human systems have impacted the natural world. Our program draws from a variety of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences that provide students with a wide range of perspectives on environmental issues. These issues are becoming a focus in public and private sectors.
International Studies Minor
Valdosta State University's minor in international studies provides students with a fundamental understanding of international studies as an academic field and highlights the dynamics involved in international affairs. Students with minors in international studies also gain valuable exposure to world regions, transnational affairs, or a disciplinary specialty that is international in scope. Students will also have opportunities for undergraduate research, service, experiential learning, and community engagement in the international field.
International Sales Professional
International Trade Specialist
Nutritional Science Minor
Nutritional science is an academic discipline that offers an intellectual approach to the study of nutrition as it contributes to health promotion by primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. The study of nutritional science provides accurate assessments of the roles of functional foods and nutrients as they affect and are affected by humans' intellectual, biological, psychological, social, cultural, environmental, economic, and spiritual being. This minor includes the integration of holistic health concepts with alternative and complementary healing practices and contemporary medical regimes. This minor offers students the opportunity to explore research demonstrating the importance of nutritional balance (variety, moderation, and activity) to quality of life and holistic health. The nutritional status of Americans is compared and contrasted to other environments and cultures around the globe. The minor encourages the acquisition of practical experiences, the development of intellectual expertise in various aspects of nutritional science, and initiation of creative interventions to facilitate and motivate behavioral changes related to nutritional problems and diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis.
Recreation and Leisure Minor Minor
Recreation and Leisure Minor
Recreation and leisure is a thriving industry with phenomenal growth, tremendous potential, and diverse career paths. Nearly 300 million Americans work, go to school, complete tasks to maintain their family and still work to find time to participate in some form of recreation. When Americans stop for recreational activities, they typically spend about 4.5 to 5 hours each day engaging in those activities. In the future, Americans are likely to demand more from their free time and more from government offices, businesses, and agencies to provide opportunities for recreation and leisure. A variety of organizations and individuals are needed to engage in recreational programming and provide leisure activities, which is why earning a minor in Recreation and Leisure will lead you down an exciting career path.


The verdict is in. Portugal decriminalized* drug use and possession in 2001, including heroin and cocaine. Fourteen years later, heroin addiction rates have been cut in half and the number of drug-related deaths has been cut by 75%. The fear that decriminalization would cause an increase in so-called drug tourism never materialized.
None of the fears promulgated by opponents of Portuguese decriminalization has come to fruition, whereas many of the benefits predicted by drug policymakers from instituting a decriminalization regime have been realized. While drug addiction, usage, and associated pathologies continue to skyrocket in many EU states, those problems—in virtually every relevant category—have been either contained or measurably improved within Portugal since 2001. In certain key demographic segments, drug usage has decreased in absolute terms in the decriminalization framework, even as usage across the EU continues to increase, including in those states that continue to take the hardest line in criminalizing drug possession and usage.
By freeing its citizens from the fear of prosecution and imprisonment for drug usage, Portugal has dramatically improved its ability to encourage drug addicts to avail themselves of treatment. The resources that were previously devoted to prosecuting and imprisoning drug addicts are now available to provide treatment programs to addicts. Those developments, along with Portugal's shift to a harm-reduction approach, have dramatically improved drug-related social ills, including drug-caused mortalities and drug-related disease transmission. Ideally, treatment programs would be strictly voluntary, but Portugal's program is certainly preferable to criminalization.
The Portuguese have seen the benefits of decriminalization, and therefore there is no serious political push in Portugal to return to a criminalization framework. Drug policy-makers in the Portuguese government are virtually unanimous in their belief that decriminalization has enabled a far more effective approach to managing Portugal's addiction problems and other drug-related afflictions. Since the available data demonstrate that they are right, the Portuguese model ought to be carefully considered by policymakers around the world.
Criminal justice reform is one of the most important and pressing issues of the day. We are the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in our nation's prisons or jails — a 500% increase over the past thirty years. In October 2013, our nation's incarceration rate was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. We have imprisoned 25% of the world's prisoners even though our population is only 5% of the world's population. More than half of the people incarcerated in federal prisons were sentenced to prison for drug offenses. A June 2015 ACLU poll of citizens likely to vote in 2016, found that 7 in 10 people favor criminal justice reform.
Meaningful criminal justice reform cannot happen in this country unless we decriminalize drugs. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate for President who supports decriminalization. Unfortunately, however, he only supports decriminalization of marijuana.
We do not have to reinvent the wheel. Portugal's 14-year successful experience decriminalizing drug possession and use, including heroin and cocaine, provides us with a comprehensive master plan to follow. No legitimate reason exists to not implement this plan as soon as possible.
The first step, of course, should be to declare amnesty and restore full civil rights to everyone convicted of a non-violent drug offense and to release everyone who is incarcerated for a non-violent drug offense.
*Decriminalization in Portugal does not mean legalization. Decriminalization means drug possession for personal use and drug usage are still prohibited, but violations are deemed to be non-criminal administrative violations similar to parking tickets. Drug trafficking continues to be prosecuted as a criminal offense.
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Парк «Перемо́га» — парк-пам'ятка садово-паркового мистецтва місцевого значення в Україні. Об'єкт розташований на території міста Звенигородка Черкаської області, на проспекті Шевченка.

Площа — 2 га. Статус отриманий згідно з рішенням  ОВК від 27.06.1972 року № 367. Перебуває у віданні Звенигородської міської ради.

Джерела
 Перелік територій та об'єктів ПЗФ місцевого значення (Черкаська обл.)
 Бурій Валерій Михайлович. Міські парки Звенигородщини : Парк "Перемога" // Валерій Михайлович Бурій: біобібліогр. покажч.; тексти. — Черкаси: Вертикаль, 2013. — С. 146-147.

Парки-пам'ятки садово-паркового мистецтва Черкаської області
Природоохоронні об'єкти, засновані 1972
Звенигородка
1972 у Черкаській області