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Trader Michael Milano works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 23, 2018.
The benchmark 10-year note yield edged up to 3.035 percent for a second day as jitters about growing federal borrowing spurred more selling in USA government debt.
The impact is already reverberating in many emerging markets, with JPMorgan's emerging market bond index .JPMEPR hitting a two-month low.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 14.25 points, or 0.06 percent, to 24,448.69, the S&P 500 gained 0.15 points, or 0.01 percent, to 2,670.29 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 17.53 points, or 0.25 percent, to 7,128.60.
Several chip makers had flagged near-term concerns about smartphone demand, adding to worries over a US ban on companies exporting goods to Chinese telecom-equipment firm ZTE.
Turning to recent news and events, 10-year US Treasury bonds are now yielding 3.003%. The yield inched past 3 percent shortly after the open of stock trading on Tuesday before pulling back slightly.
All eyes will be on scandal-hit social media firm Facebook FB.O , down 0.3 percent, when it reports results after the closing bell.
And then? Bye-bye bull market.
"The 10-year is potential competition for stocks", said David Kass, a professor of finance at the University of Maryland. It is the current income return you receive when, for instance, you own a bond, as measured by a percentage. It shed 1.4 percent to $67.70 on Tuesday.
The level itself doesn't signal recession.
The yellow metal rose 0.5 per cent on Tuesday to break a three-session losing streak.
WALL STREET: Shares yielded early gains to end almost unchanged.
In Asian trading on Thursday, the 10-year Treasury yield last stood at 3.022 per cent. This one is my favorite tool for gauging the stock market's near-term path of least resistance.
Among smaller banks, Simmons First National rose 3.8 percent to $30.05 and Banner gained 4.4 percent to $58.26. "Equity flows have been roughly flat this month".
"Expectations towards U.S. rate hikes being gradual are enabling equities to take the current yield rise in stride".
"It's not like an automatic trigger for the stock market", Ryan said. It hadn't reached 3 percent since early January of 2014. It's not just the level of the yield, but the speed. Hong Kong's Hang Seng declined 0.5 percent.
As the 10-year is such a benchmark for global debt, it means that the debt repayments for a whole range of companies also rise.
Supply and demand of government bonds.
Bond yields move higher as bond prices move lower.
"The 10-year is very visible", Kass said.
Long-term interest rates affect corporate financing and housing loans, and a sudden rise is considered to have a negative effect on the economy. "There might be some investors who hadn't bought insurance before who think now is a good time to get in". That pushed stocks higher by making bonds less appealing by comparison.
Gold fell on Wednesday as the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields jumped on robust U.S. data and signs of an easing in the U.S.
Let's start with the second question first; people care for a number of important reasons. In addition, large companies such as Caterpillar have warned about increased cost pressures.
It could be an interesting few months for markets. "If the 10-year ticks higher, mortgage costs are going to go higher".
Verdict on Asaram: Security beefed up in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana
Waffle House shooting suspect asks for lawyer as he's arrested
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Economic Environment: Growth and Jobs - Motion to Take Note
Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 1:07 pm on 11th July 2019.
Baroness Kramer Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Treasury and Economy) 1:07 pm, 11th July 2019
My Lords, I begin by picking up the issues raised by the noble Viscount, Lord Chandos, who made it clear that we cannot talk about anything to do with the economy without a real awareness of Brexit. It sets the framework; I know we do not want to focus on it today, but it is worth a comment or two here. Many people are acting as though uncertainty is something that exists until we decide to leave, and at that point uncertainty ends. As the noble Viscount said, we are then locked into five to seven years of future uncertainty. It becomes the fundamental of the British economy, and all we can be sure of in leaving is that British businesses will have less access to EU markets; the complex supply networks that are the foundation of the British economy will gradually erode, because that is the logic of the disengagement and separation; and British businesses will have to build their future from economies of scale in a domestic market of 65 million people, not 500 million. I could go on, but that is the context.
The noble Lord, Lord Popat, the noble Baroness, Lady O'Cathain, and others said that we are looking at a robust and healthy economy. Public services in this country are desperately underfunded. Many, particularly at local government level, are in crisis. This is repeated in almost every sector, including the police, prisons, schools, the health service and social care.
There are more than 14 million people still in poverty, with inequality at its widest since the 1980s. We talk about full employment, but real wages are still 3% below those in 2008. We have now normalised in-work poverty, a serious feature that we have to tackle. For many people, their employment feels precarious as they know that their employers are trying to work out what the future of their business will be.
Growth is geographically unbalanced. In recent years, foreign direct investment in the UK has plummeted. In 2018 it was one-third of what it was in 2016. When people talk about us receiving more foreign investment than any other area, I wonder whether they have looked at the value of the pound. Assets in the UK are at fire-sale value and, even with that, there is a decline in foreign investment.
I share the concerns of the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, about productivity. Our recent growth numbers are, frankly, awful. It is a not a situation in which we can be complacent because we risk being ineffective in driving the economy forward.
The issue raised by the noble Lord, Lord Haskel, goes to the heart of economic growth for the future. Times have changed. Big businesses, good businesses and the smaller entrepreneurial businesses no longer take a traditional view of their role in society. Many recognise that it is now time for a new social contract between business and society; that social justice matters; that their relationship with their customers, workforce and communities must be a positive and different one; and the necessity of tackling climate change. We are entering a different and new world, which has to be redefined and can no longer be classified in terms of profitability. This will lead to a different notion of what is a successful business and how it grows. Fairness becomes a fundamental and underlying principle. I use the word "fairness" because I am shall move on to address some of the issues raised.
Before I do so, however, I must step back and say that businesses also recognise both the opportunities and dangers of the fourth industrial revolution. The noble Lord, Lord St John of Bletso, referred to this. If we are to continue with research and development and science, and if we are to develop the skilled workforce we need, it will mean a revolution in how our businesses operate.
We have in place many of the right things to drive the economy forward, but we have them in miniature. I join others in praising the British Business Bank—it is perfect, but so small when compared with the challenge it is trying to deal with that it cannot make material change. It will take a change in thinking in this country to put into the British Business Bank the scale of resource and finance it will need for the future, especially as it will have to replace both the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund if we decide to leave.
Again, the industrial strategy has good policies, but in limited areas and on a limited scale. We are not undertaking the infrastructure challenge; we are not delivering the broadband we need; and we are not making the necessary changes in the rail and transport infrastructures. These are massive projects and will need substantial amounts of money behind them and a real drive to make them effective. It is the same with skills. Surely we all recognise now that life-long learning will be essential but comes with a heavy bill attached.
When I hear people talking about tax cutting as the key mechanism for driving the economy forward, I realise that we have to put a cross through virtually all the measures that we need to sustain and take forward our economy. I can think of nothing worse than tax cutting at this point in time. I ask those who think that cutting taxes will lead to a huge increase in the tax yield to go back and look in detail at the past few years. The rise in the tax yield has come because business has rebounded from a severe financial crash in 2007-08, not because taxes have been cut.
Unfortunately, part of the money has come in because business has been holding back on investment, as we have discussed. The work done by the IFS in looking at Jeremy Hunt's proposal that we should cut corporation tax to 12.5% makes a nonsense of any suggestion that that kind of tax cut repays itself. If we are to repair public services and drive the economy forward, we certainly cannot afford to do any of that.
I have listened to many noble Lords who talk regularly to businesses. I do not find businesses asking for tax cuts. They ask for all kinds of long-term support, but I have never heard a request for tax cuts from any major business.
(Citation: HL Deb, 11 July 2019, c1908)

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De golem van Antwerpen is het 15e stripalbum in de reeks van albums van Agent 327, getekend door Martin Lodewijk en in 2002 uitgegeven door Uitgeverij M. Het verhaal (dossier) is voor het eerst verschenen in het Algemeen Dagblad in 2001 en 2002 (22 augustus t/m 4 januari).

In De golem van Antwerpen komt duidelijk de antiheld-rol tot uitdrukking van Hendrik IJzerbroot, alias Agent 327.

Verhaal

Hendrik IJzerbroot moet, vermomd in een bionisch gorillapak, naar de Antwerpse Zoo om de gorilla's daar te helpen zorgen voor nageslacht. Eenmaal ter plekke blijken er twee eigenaardigheden aan de hand in Antwerpen. De dieren in de Zoo voeren allemaal acrobatische toeren uit, en er vinden vreemde juwelenroven plaats uit de Joodse Diamanthuizen in de stad. De roven zouden uitgevoerd worden door een golem en 327 wil graag uitzoeken hoe en wat. Omdat IJzerbroot in zijn pak en in de gorillakooi weinig kan doen, komen Olga Lawina en Carl Sorge 327 assisteren. Olga keert in de nacht terug in de Zoo om samen met 327 op onderzoek uit te gaan. Zo ontdekken ze dat een van de dierenopzichters Zamba de grote is. Zamba blijkt de duiven en de gorilla Amedee te hebben afgericht om voor hem 's nachts juwelen te roven.

Olga en Sorge besluiten een valstrik te zetten voor Zamba. Via de de-drie-van-de-acht laat Olga in de kranten publiceren dat er een grote diamant in de stad geslepen zal worden. Hopelijk lokt dit Zamba uit om nogmaals tot een roof over te gaan. Zamba besluit inderdaad om nog een allerlaatste roof uit te voeren voordat hij met zijn juwelen naar Zuid-Amerika vertrekt. Terwijl de roof plaatsvindt, ontdekt Sorge dat Wendy Promiskuva zich ook in Antwerpen ophoudt.

Terwijl Sorge Promiskuva schaduwt, volgen Olga en 327, nog immer in gorillapak, de verrichtingen van de inmiddels op roverspad zijnde gorilla Amedee. Deze blijkt inmiddels de bewuste diamant geroofd te hebben. Terwijl Olga Amedee verleidt, en hem de grote diamant ontfutselt, neemt IJzerbroot de plaats van de gorilla in en gaat terug naar de Zoo. 327 brengt nu Zamba een glazen kopie van de diamant en waarschuwt de Antwerpse politie. Zamba weet echter nog net te ontkomen en vlucht met zijn glazen diamant naar het buitenland. Olga is bij haar poging Amedee te verleiden, plotseling overrompeld door Wendy Promiskuva die ook de echte diamant wil. Op het moment dat Olga overmeesterd wordt, komt Amedee in actie. In een King Kongachtig relaas, waarbij Olga de rol heeft van Ann Darrow, wordt Promiskuva gevangen en komt Amedee weer tot rust.

Amedee gaat terug naar de Zoo, agent 327's taak is volbracht en Olga blijkt nog steeds de diamant te bezitten.

Details van het verhaal
 In strook D1 staat op een glascontainer de slogan "Brood is dood" geschreven, een verwijzing naar zanger Herman Brood die toen recent zelfmoord had gepleegd.
 In strook D5 zegt Barendse dat IJzerbroot net op "de buitenaardse tweeling uit de "Nix-Files" lijkt!". Een verwijzing naar de Amerikaanse SF-serie "The X-Files".
 De chef meldt IJzerbroot in strook D5 dat hij niet meer zal worden ingeschakeld als lijfwacht voor het huwelijk tussen "Juffrouw Culpa en Alexschrander". Een verwijzing naar prins Willem-Alexander der Nederlanden en Maxima Zorreguieta, die toen nog gingen huwen. De benaming "Maxima Culpa" is een allusie op de Latijnse term mea culpa ("mijn schuld"), omdat Maxima toen voor erg veel controverse zorgde gezien ze de dochter was van een Argentijnse politicus tijdens de militaire junta in de jaren 70.
 De chef stelt IJzerbroot in strook D6 voor een "Hannibal-masker te lenen van Paul Bosvelt van Feyenoord. Die heeft er toch twee en hij schijnt ze niet meer nodig te hebben."
 In strook D7 wordt IJzerbroot een gorillapak gegeven, geleend van een kostuummaker van "Planet of the Monkeys", een duidelijke knipoog naar "Planet of The Apes".
 Amedee de gorilla blijkt in strook D12 de eerste oosterse laaglandgorilla sinds gorilla Gust. Gust (gorilla) was een legendarische gorilla die van 1952 tot 1988 in de Antwerpse Zoo verbleef.
 De directeur van de Antwerpse Zoo, "Directeur Eyskeneyn" is een woordspeling op de echte toenmalige Antwerpse Zoo-directeur Rudy van Eysendeyk.
 De mysterieuze dief die vanuit de Antwerpse Zoo in de joodse wijk diamanten steelt wordt de "De golem van Antwerpen" genoemd. De golem is een monster uit de joodse folklore.
 In strook D18 zien we diverse bekende Nederlanders bij elkaar zitten. De man die zegt: "Heeft ieder nu z'n water of z'n weintje?" en gecorrigeerd wordt op zijn spelfout is Adriaan van Dis. Eenzaam in de hoek herkennen we Martin Lodewijk zelf.
 Op de voorpagina van de krant die IJzerbroot in strook D24 leest staat de kop "Geen nieuws over diamantroof" en "Ook geen nieuws over Sabena." Sabena was een Belgische luchtvaartmaatschappij die in 2001 failliet ging.
 Het Fuckin' plein is een woordspeling op het Antwerpse Falconplein.
 Agent Sorge gooit in strook D25 batterijen naar IJzerbroot en zegt trots over zijn worp: "Michael Jordan is er niets bij!"
 Het programma "Terzanikke" dat Detective van Zwam in strook D28-D29 interviewt is een woordspeling op het Vlaamse actualiteitenmagazine Ter Zake.
 Het televisietoestel is van het merk "Filips", woordspeling op Philips.
 De cafébaas zapt in strook D29 naar de "PRT" ("Provinciale Radio en Televisie"). Deze zender is een woordspeling op de BRT.
 De verzorger fluit in strook D30 de triomfmars uit Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aïda".
 IJzerbroot denkt dat Zamba in strook D35 "Gossamme be Laden" zal bellen.
 Hij overweegt in strook D36 te sms-sen met Katja Stuurloos.
 De uitspraken "Da kunde ga nie begraape." en "'T is pertankt officieel de worhaad." zijn afkomstig uit een Nero-album, De Ark van Nero, overigens ook het eerste Nero-album dat Martin Lodewijk ooit las.
 In strook D70 sloop een foutje. Detective Van Zwam gebruikt de uitspraak: "Dat is nog eens straffe duivenpoep!". In Vlaanderen zou men eerder "duivenkak" zeggen.
 In strook D76 loopt Amedee de gorilla langs de Antwerpse stripwinkel "Mekanik Strip".
 In strook D78 komt de politie langs een Antwerpse straat waar een café met de naam "Odom" staat en een Vlaamse vlag aan de gevel hangt. Men merkt op: "Dit is een plaats die in 'n kwade reuk staat." Een allusie op café Odal, een bekende verzamelplaats voor extreem-rechtse Vlaams-nationalisten. De uitbater was destijds Bert Eriksson, leider van de Vlaamse Militante Orde.
 De slotscène waar Amedee de gorilla Olga Lawina meeneemt boven op de Antwerpse Boerentoren is een parodie op de film King Kong.
 In strook D85 zegt IJzerbroot dat hij ooit het dossier "De Dood van Pir Lah Lah" zal uitgeven. Een verwijzing naar Pierlala, een folkloristisch figuur die uit zijn doodskist rees.
 Detective Van Zwam stamelt bij het zien van Olga's borsten: "Kaaik, kaaik! Nen Twiedekker!". Dit is Gents voor "Kijk, kijk: een tweedekker". Deze uitspraak kwam ook in heel wat Nero (strip)albums terug.
 In strook D88 noemt een vrouw IJzerbroots gezicht een "poesjenellenkop" en zegt een man: "Is 't al Sinksenfoor dan?" De Antwerpse poesjenellenkelders zijn bekende poppentheaters en de Sinksenfoor is een populaire jaarlijkse kermis.

Kruisverwijzingen met strips van Marc Sleen
Detective Van Zwam en Agent Gaston uit de Vlaamse stripreeks Nero door Marc Sleen hebben een cameo in dit album. In strook D29 verklaart Van Zwam ironisch genoeg: "Spoken bestaan alleen in beeldverhalen van Marc Sleen!" In strook D88 besluiten ze naar "meneer Marc Sleen te gaan om te vragen of die nog iets voor ons te doen heeft." Agent Gaston merkt op: "Anders d'n Dirk wel!". Dirk Stallaert tekende van 1993 tot 2002 mee aan de Nero-verhalen.
 In strook D20-D21 zien we Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke, personages uit de bekende stripreeks, De Avonturen van Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke van Marc Sleen.
 De sultan van Ritsjapoor in strook D55 is een woordspeling op Rachepour, een Indiase staat die ook in het Nero-album De Kromme Cobra voorkomt.
 De uitspraak "Moet er nog zand zijn?" in strook D88 verwijst naar het Nero-album De Draak van Halfzeven, waarin Nero geteisterd wordt door Tjeef met de Kleppe, een mannetje dat met emmers zand leurt.
 Mogelijk is het toeval, maar gezien dit album een hoop verwijzingen naar de stripreeks Nero bevat, is het toch vermeldenswaardig: in het album "Zwoele Charlotte" (1973-1974) komt Nero ook in gorillapak per abuis in de Antwerpse Zoo terecht.
 Agent 327 had ook een cameo in het Nero-album De kroon van Elisabeth, bladzijde 10, strook 4, waar hij de straat oversteekt niet ver van waar Madam Pheip en Oscar Abraham Tuizentfloot staan.

Stripverhaal van Agent 327

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The first lecture will contain background and definitions: the classical problems in Fourier analysis which led to modern developments in singular integral operators, bilinear operators, Hardy and BMO spaces, and their applications. We will introduce the multi-parameter analog of these operators and their associated function spaces. In the second lecture, we focus on multi-parameter problems involving singular integrals or bilinear operators. In the third lecture, we discuss additional problems in the product theory, including differentiation, and conclude with some open problems.
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We've been selected as an Honoree for this years Coolest Office Space. Orlando Business Journal promoted a great article, found below.
Orlando Business Journal's 2018 Coolest Office Spaces honoree Crawford Thomas Recruiting likes to introduce the company culture as soon as people step into the modern, industrial-style lobby.
The staffing firm's 10,000-square-foot space on Keller Road in northwest Orlando boasts a Kegerator, foosball table and two big-screen TVs right in front, along with a 10-foot, wall-mounted company logo. The firm's 35 employees have plenty of space to work hard, with dual-linked computer screens, digital phone systems with color display and seven areas — not including their desks — where they can speak with candidates or clients in private, noise-free settings.
And then, there's the play-hard side: golf clubs, Nerf guns, hoverboards, mini-drones and medicine ball chairs are plentiful throughout the office, allowing employees areas to decompress. And clients are invited to quarterly happy hour events that start at the high-top bar that seats 10 and spill out onto the office patio, all of which has access to hearing the Sirius XM radio surround sound.
Crawford Thomas, which has been in the space for five years, spent about $150,000 on the buildout and worked with Orlando-based Scott + Cormia Architecture & Interiors LLC, as well as office furniture specialist Workscapes Inc.
Top executive: William Stonehouse, President.
Special Thanks to Orlando Business Journal for their great article about Crawford Thomas Recruiting.


This post will be a more detailed and written version of the 12 Days of XRM-Mass feature i posted on Twitter in December 2016. For each of the items I run through, i'll post the 5-6 minute walk-through I created on YouTube to accompany it. The videos were intended to be very quick run through, giving you a high level overview.
Product Catalog Amendments for Developers – Developers can now programatically create Product Properties, this means that pretty much all of the Product Catalog can be automated, which will be an upcoming XRM Feature, so stay tuned!
A new Process Designer has been introduced for which involves a drag and drop UI. Unfortunately, this is not available for workflows, but it is available for Business Rules, the new App designer and Business Process Flows. The new designer allows you to visualise your business logic and provide a more tactile interface to move components about, as after all, customisers don't get things right first time and this functionality allows you to make changes quickly. In addition to that, you have what I call the 'Action menu' which lets you rapidly create your processes through coping and pasting too.
The screenshot below demonstrates the new Process Designer UI when creating a new Business Rule. This example is going to be a bit different than some of the others, as there isn't a walk-through to this specifically – it is more listing the capabilities of the functionality and an annotated diagram of how to access the majority of those. I will be publishing an infographic of the new designer in a few weeks, so stay tuned for that!
1. To access the new designer, create a new Business Rule via your solution and wait for the new Process UI Designer to load.
Business rules are insanely productive! Why you ask? Check out this post here where I cover their concept in more depth but in short, business rules allow you to implement business logic which can replace a lot extensions that would have previously only been capable with through scripting. By using business rules instead of scripting, it means there is less risk, more likely to be upgrade-able, easily changed through the UI and it means your entire team can take ownership of a business rule and not just be something just a developer is responsible for maintaining.
The new capability introduced in this release allows you to add a 'Recommendation' feature to your forms (or editable grids!) where if a condition is true, a 'recommendation' icon appears next to a field of your choice that when selected, gives the user a recommendation to complete an action, or to ignore it. If the user chooses to apply with the recommendation by selecting 'Apply' then it performs whatever business logic you have set. Whether the user chooses to ignore the recommendation or apply it doesn't prevent the form from saving.
This feature is available for forms or for Business Process Flows.
This example will run through how to implement a 'Recommendation' Business Rule feature on a Form.
1. Open your solution and expand the entity you wish to work with. Select the 'Business Rules' node on the left hand side.
3. Create your condition by selecting on the purple condition block and entering the conditions in the right hand side. What is the condition you wish to be true to allow for the recommendation icon to appear to your user? The example in the screenshot below shows the condition "If 'Subject' is equal to Delivery" on the Case Entity. Once your ready, click 'Apply' on the right hand side to set your condition. You'll see your purple block change to reflect this with your changes.
4. Once your condition is created you are now ready to add the 'Recommendation' feature. Click on the Component tab on the contextual menu on the right hand side, and you can see Recommendation. Click and Drag that option over to where you want your action connected to your condition.
6. Once completed, select the drop down arrow on your blue Recommendation block labelled 'Details' to expand the Action tab (circled in the screenshot below). Click the Action tab so its selected and the details appear in the contextual menu on the right hand side. Your action is what you want the system to do if the user clicks 'Apply'.
7. Add in your Action detail, title the Action and click Apply to confirm your changes.
8. Finally, add in a name and description for your business rule and validate your rule. Anything missed here will appear now in red under where its missing. (Its not overly helpful as even though you can expand the validation errors and it does tell you what they are at the top, you still have to hunt around for it). Activate your new Business Rule once everything has been validated.
Editable Grid functionality was one of the most anticipated releases of this version and for good reason! It extends the standard application to make a massive positive impact on the user experience by allowing users to edit information inline without having to click and load a new form every-time, allowing them to update data rapidly. I'm a big fan of anything that increases user experience and the editable grid functionality was something you had to rely on in a custom solution, implemented by using a framework like SparkleXRM or ready made solutions by ISVs.
Select your entity you wish to activate for Editable Grids.
4. Go back to your View to see the editable grid functionality! (Refresh your page if you have it open in another tab).
4. Add the Control if it doesn't exist already, select Editable Grid and Activate for Web, Save and Publish your changes!
5. Go back to your Sub-grid and check it out!
It achieves this by actually creating a new entity per business process flow.
2. You'll see the 'Name' field appear for you to rename the new entity that is created as part of this if you want to. It defaults as the Process Name you entered.
4. To keep it simple, create a new stage and add your fields using the new designer. In the Component area you can also associate workflows to the stage and when they trigger (Stage entry or exit). Once your finished, save and publish your flow. That is your flow created, you can go check it out on your form.
5. Click 'Process' to be able to switch process for concurrent process or Abandon it.
To be able to report on your Process – In advanced find, select the new entity you made when you created your Process Flow.
6. Select the field 'Active Stage Started On' to be able to report on when the currently active stage started – you can also do some validation for what the active stage is 'Active Stage Id' which will be represented by a text e.g. 'Qualify'.
Microsoft Flow is a new application which is available in the various licencing tiers of Dynamics 365. It may seem like an 'add on' but it really is an amazing stand alone application by empowering your other applications to do more and extends their capabilities profoundly. It does this by being a data transfer engine between applications – and when i say applications, I don't just mean within Dynamics, and I also don't just mean within the Microsoft stack either, it includes even templates for Salesforce, Wunderlist, Twitter and well, the list is endless and is being added to constantly. You don't have to use a template either, and you can make your own from scratch.
The walk-through below helps you get started using one of the standard templates, Twitter to Dynamics.
1. Start out on your homepage via the Flow icon on Office 365. If you don't see this, contact your administrator. This is available on free trials at time of writing.
3. Select the template you wish to use, in the demo below and in the video, I use the search box at the top of the screen to quickly find and select the template I wish to use.
5. Authenticate with the twitter account you wish to use and select the Dynamics account you wish to authenticate with as well. This is how the process will access the data. You need to confirm the terms of agreement here also to continue.
6. An empty template will appear for you to get started. Select the keyword you wish to search on and you can also expand the 'User' details as well which is who the Tweet was 'Tweeted By' by default.
7. Click the downward arrow on the 3rd block to select the instance of Dynamics you wish to create your Lead.
10. You can see your flow in action by clicking the 'i' on the management screen to see each Flow 'Job' (very much like Jobs in Dynamics) and click into the Job to see the actual detail. To edit your Flow, click the flow line itself and click 'Update Flow' to be taken to the designer screen again. Please bear in mind, for this example you do need to wait for the conditions to be met for your tweet, so you won't see instances straight away. If your using this in a pre-sales environment, i'd suggest you set one up with examples prior to the demonstration (and test it before hand to ensure its worked).
Thats it! You have successfully implemented a 'Flow'.
A new way of searching for records has been introduced in this update called Relevance Search. By using the search bar in the top of the screen, we have been using what is referred to 'Categorised' Search which groups up my search results per entity and is very specific on my search term unless i use wildcards etc. Relevance Search allows a more flexible search criteria, filter by entity and customised grouping and highlights my search term within the results.
1. In the system, go to System Settings via Administration and in the General tab (first one) scroll down to select Relevance Settings and set the checkbox to Yes. There are terms you need to confirm that will appear and if you agree, confirm to change the checkbox to Yes.
4. Click on 'Add View Columns' and 'Add Find' Columns' and select the columns you wish to be displayed on the View and those also used in the search itself. Once your finished Publish your changes. Your ready to go!
Its old news that Microsoft purchased ADStudio and have made their own offering 'Microsoft Portals' available off the back of this aquisition. What makes this super exciting is that on certain version of Dynamics 365 licencing plans (Enterprise Plan 1 I believe!) you actually get 1 free Portal to utilise. In short, by utilising portals it gives you access to either an internal or external website that is a pre-built template from a various amount of options, all integrated into your Dynamics environment. Where the power does come in is when you think about it in context with the Common Data Service and using it in line with Flow (covered in this post too!), workflows and other ways of automation to give you amazing insights and new data to inform your business.
This post won't cover how to use the new functionality but the step by step guide, and the video, gives you a quick overview on how to actually set Portals up. At the time of writing and recording the video, trials are setup for this too, so you can go right ahead and follow this just by signing up to a trial.
1. Navigate to your solution screen and select 'Application' tab.
2. Click on the 'Portal Add-On' under Applications and click 'Manage' on the right hand side (with the pen icon). This opens up the configuration for your Portal.
3. Complete your details e.g. URL and which instance of CRM you wish to connect to and once you have done this, it will do some validation. Once completed some more options become available. Based on your Portal Audience, you can select which 'template' to publish.
6. Click on Portal Details to load the URL of your portal and you can go straight to your portal to access your new Portal!
7. If you go back to your Dynamics instance you'll see new areas of the sitemap has been made for you to extend and configure your new Portal.
The new Sort Date field allows you to extend the application to set the 'Sort Date' field based on whatever date is relevant to your business via something as simple as a Workflow (no code!) or even Business Rules. Once this is set, you can the configure your views, dashboards and other reporting methods (including the new Activity Wall Sorting feature which is at the bottom of this post!) and even use it in further extensions based on this field.
There isn't much to do to get started on this, apart from being aware of this new field, which you can see in the new screenshots below, as this feature is giving you empowerment to be able to make this useful for any organisation implementing Dynamics. In the video I discuss a possible workflow option which would set the field based on a standard action when creating Activities.
If your on a form which has the Activities view and have a Custom Entity where you require the Activities of custom child entities to rollup to the Parent, this is now possible with simple relationship configuration. There are some caveats to this, such as it needs to be a 1:N relationship which is related to an Account, Contact or Opportunity as it's Parent and the custom entity must be setup for Activities.
To achieve this, it is fairly straight forward!
2. Publish your changes and go and make some test data to check it out!
Apps were for me a confusing concept which was introduced in the latest version which left me skeptical as to what they actually were. If i felt this way, i'm sure at least some potential or existing customers/users of the Dynamics would feel the same, mainly as you see CRM as an 'Application' so how would more 'Apps' fit into CRM? This is where I found it helped by taking a step back. With the new licencing structure, what is being created is a 'tailor made' out of the box (if thats possible) system which is configurable for your needs. To do this there is some of the existing functionality, such as Sales, Service, encapsulated into their own 'Apps' so they have their own site map area and it means as a user, they only ever need to access their small section of the application, through a specific URL if required, without knowing it is part of a larger application all together.
Customisers also have the ability to create their own App, with their own entities, own site map, and section it off using whatever security role they like. They can do this using the new App designer and the Site Map designer.
2. On this screen, select 'Create App' at the top right hand section of the screen (highlighted in the red circle in the screenshot below) – you will be taken to a blank screen. Complete the form fields based on what application you wish to make. You will notice your URL at the bottom once you have done so which will point to your new 'App'.
3. Once you have finished, click 'Done' and you will be taken to the Process Designer. You will notice the site map has validation error on straight away. My own recommendation will be to click this first which will open up the site map designer which will also do much of your app configuration for you!
4. This has a slightly different interface to the Process Designer but it is still similar in that you have your Components (Area, Group and SubArea) on the right hand side for your sitemap and then the properties tab for you to do more specific configuration on the selected item. For this demo, the Area and Groups section require the 'Name' field to be completed (for real scenarios, complete all available fields as required!) but the Subareas you need to set a configuration type e.g. Entity, Dashboard etc as well and what they actually point to. The video will come in handy here but drag and drop to see how it feels and looks like. If you make a mistake, select the item you wish to delete and click 'Delete' near the top on the Action bar.
5. Once you are happy with your new sitemap and you have selected all the entities etc you wish to link to, save your changes and publish them.
6. Click back to the App Designer by clicking the words at the top of the screen 'App Designer' to be taken back to your App configuration page. You'll notice all your entities have been added that you added via your sitemap with ALL their forms. If you wish to configure this, click the item you wish to change on the process map and select the specific forms you want to include on the right hand side menu. You will see the form icon change from 'ALL' to the number you have selected.
7. If you want to add new entities, you can do this by looking at the components screen and you will see 'Artifacts' sub menu, select 'Entity' and you will be taken to a second menu where you can select the entities you wish to include. You can then configure them accordingly in the same way specified in the previous step. You can also add Dashboards and Business Process Flows.
The 'Custom' application you see on the screen is the 'full' solution. It can be renamed in the Settings area.
This might only make sense to those who have used or use Actions within CRM. They don't get a lot of press but perhaps this new extension to workflows will change that. Actions allow users to create a new 'operation'. So for example, a standard operation would be to ResolveQuote. With an Action, you can combine operations to make your own action which is meaningful to your business and then use them elsewhere within the application.
This feature has extended what Actions are available to you through workflows that are actually based on standard messages you will be familar with already but also allow custom Actions to be used within workflows too.
Some notable Actions which can be extremely useful are ResolveIncident and ResolveQuote – both of these involve normally, if you was do this programatically, to create a new entity and associate it to the item your closing e.g. CaseResolution entity. So this should make these specific actions much simpler and quicker to achieve.
1. Open up your solution and select Processes. Click New and Create a new Process which is a Workflow type.
2. Once opened, select 'Add Step' to bring up a new menu. Scroll down to 'Perform an Action'. Select this.
3. You should now have a new block which is an empty Action statement. Click on the drop-down 'Action' to open a list with a number of different Actions available. If you have any custom Actions, they should also appear here.
The Activity Wall has been enhanced to allow for in line sorting. It is configured on specific Date fields set on the form. This new feature has the potential to give a lot more meaning to the Activity Wall as often it was the bug bear of users when they would need to access activities which were sorted by a date specific to the business.
1. Open up a form which has the Activity Wall and you will be able to see a new arrow which you can select. Selecting the arrow allows for the user to change the sorting between ascending and descending order.
2. To configure this, open up the form and open up the Activities properties menu. You'll see the 'Activity Wall' tab and two options – the first being the field you wish to sort on, and the second which the default sorting criteria is (Acending or Decending).
3. Save and Publish your changes and that is it!


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An argument can be made that the inevitable shift to electric-powered vehicles will be at least as profound a commercial revolution as the rise of mobile applications over the last three years.
Serial entrepreneur Brian Kariger is heavily invested in each as his company created the Recargo iPhone application. Launched about a year ago with a significant update earlier this summer, Recargo showcases where electric vehicle owners can power their cars, and provides other community and content offerings around clean transformation.
In this edition of Meet the Makers, we check-in with Kariger, who in a previous life founded to parent company of Dictionary.com. Kariger explains the social as well as financial returns he is seeking from Recargo, his future Android plans, and how today's tech economy compares to the dot-com boom of the late nineties.
Appolicious: While mobile applications have existed for several years, they didn't really take off with mainstream consumers until Apple opened up the iTunes App Store three years ago. Do you see a similar tipping point on the horizon for electric vehicles?
Brian Kariger: For me we have already passed one tipping point, and that was when Tesla delivered production cars to customers. The owners' reaction to the Roadster was emphatically positive at a time when consumer opinion of automakers, especially American OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), was at an all-time low. That woke up many in the industry who had written off electric vehicles and galvanized those who believed in their potential.
APPO: What motivated you to create Recargo, and what are your commercial expectations for the app over the next year?
BK: After leaving Dictionary.com, I wanted to focus on projects that had meaning to me personally. I was looking for businesses that have social returns as well as financial. I love cars, maps, software and the planet, not necessarily in that order, and it all came together in Recargo.
APPO: How are you driving downloads for an app that is now already a year old?
BK: Beyond increased media outreach, we are focused on being responsive to our users and continuing to develop the app in ways that answer and anticipate their needs. Customers who are satisfied and actively engaged are our best brand evangelists.
APPO: I understand you plan on developing an Android app. What is your timetable, and will that app offer different services for Android users?
BK: We are working on an Android version and we hope to get a version out before the end of this year. We will make the most of Android's unique capabilities.
APPO: As a founder of Dictionary.com, you are well versed in the interactive space. Compare and contrast the mobile media space of the last few years to the early days of the commercial web in the late 1990s.
BK: The tools and support systems available today are much better. You still have to know how to use these things in order to be successful.
APPO: What attributes are investors looking for today in mobile application companies that they may have sped past a dozen years ago during the dot-com frenzy?
BK: I'm not sure that investors are looking for anything different now.
APPO: TechCrunch reported plans of Recargo created a "mobile app development studio." Can you elaborate?
BK: This is our first app and we plan to continue to enhance it while we look at other opportunities to serve our core users – connected automobile drivers – on the most convenient screen for them, be it desktop, the smartphone or on the car's dashboard.
APPO: Name the three biggest things in the mobile media space keeping you up at night and explain why.
2. Accuracy and trustworthiness of information.
3. Nuclear weapons. Have you seen the movie Countdown to Zero?


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Why accountants need to prepare themselves to be finance leaders of the future
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CFOs at the Finance Indaba Conversations discuss why their roles are evolving beyond number crunching.
The fourth industrial revolution has begun and even accountants – people whose core skills were considered indispensable – are being affected. Globalisation and technology are changing how companies operate and CFOs are no longer just required to forecast and reconcile budgets.
This Finance Indaba Conversation was sponsored by The South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA). During his brief introduction, Prof Rashied Small, executive at SAIPA said that the role of future accountants is no longer reactionary but future thinking.
"Critical thinking and foresight are now a requirement. Accountants need to be able to interpret big data to help solve problems and drive sustainability," he explained.
Panellist Zoliswa Mashinini, finance director: Africa and Middle East at G4S said that the accountant of the future needs to have integrity, be an excellent communicator and a problem solver to be effective. "You need to know what you stand for and demonstrate good ethics. You need drive internal stakeholder engagement and understand the business and you need to solve problems. CEOs are looking for CFOs who are problem solvers," she explained.
Rachel Madziwanyika, CFO at Bühler Southern Africa, said, "If we don't upskill and match the fast-changing digital climate we will be obsolete." Rachel said a key role of the future accountant would be making sense of big data. "The future accountant will have to predict the future and create efficiencies. In fact, we will need to become creative because we won't just be reacting to information."
In addition, she explained accountants would also need to know how to merge financial data with non-financial data and communicate with people at all levels of the organisation, including clients.
Zoliswa said she learnt early on in her career that versatility was important because now in her role as CFO she finds herself stepping into sales pitches or standing in for her CEO at meetings.
Some organisations are going as far as rebranding the CFO title, explained Siphiwe Madonsela, chief finance and value management officer at Standard Bank. "The mandate of the CFO is expanding. The core function is still finance; however more commercial skills are required. Organisations are building the skills of financial staff, so they can also operate in the boardroom to help find optimal solutions. Finance teams are increasingly becoming multi-disciplinary teams."
Rachel said accountants can no longer rest on their laurels. "We need to learn to be competitive in what we offer, otherwise we lose value because you are competing with a global market. Process-related jobs are now held by machines not people. Artificial Intelligence is a reality for many international organisations who are replacing people with software and machines. Globalisation is creating a smaller world and things that happen in other countries have impact on us, which is why we need to upskill ourselves so we can compete in the global village that we are living in," she said.
But competing in a global village said Rachel, comes with its challenges. Rachel is based in South Africa, but her team is based in Prague. "Cultural barriers and differences are real, and they are big. It's not an easy transition," she explained.
In conclusion the panellists agreed that the accountant of the future needs to be an all-rounder. "You can't be the jack of all trades and the master of none. You need to master some of the new skills required and accept that you will be stronger in some than in others," said Zoliswa, "You don't have to master everything."
Rachel explained that the role of the CFO was still critical, and that while AI can take over certain roles, it could never replace the role of the CFO. "CFOs add value by thinking in a future-thinking manner. What you can't automate is what you think of the business in the future."
In the chat
Zandile Thwala, Silver Spoon Asset Management – "Budgeting is moving away from just filling in a wish list table for departments. It needs to be aligned to meeting the set KPIs on a rolling forecast throughout the year. Hence business partnership is becoming core for the future accountant."
Farial Fakier, Faes Accounting and Business Solutions – "I run a small accounting practice and engagement with my small business owners/clients is crucial. I engage them all the time."
Jonathan Ramsamy, FranklinCovey South Africa – "The accountant of the future should be able to know how to ask the right questions because of their business understanding and rely on the team to provide the right answers."


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Reality Check: Yes, Trump Could Win
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As I watched coronavirus spread, and the death toll mount, as the federal government under Trump's leadership uselessly flailed about …. as I watched the economy collapse with tens of millions of people out of work …. as I watched, yet again (losing count how many times now), a black man be murdered by a police officer, this time with a knee on his neck, and then saw the convulsive riots, followed by the inspiring nationwide and then worldwide marches and protests, with black, brown, white, red, yellow people shouting in unison Black Lives Matter ….as I watched all of this with a mixture of tears in my eyes over all the tragedy, but energizing hope in my heart at so many people taking to the streets for justice….I thought to myself, well, at least one good thing out of all of this tragedy is that Trump can't possibly win reelection in the midst of this three-pronged apocalypse.
Such is the power of emotion. Emotion blinds us. Now is the time for cold hard reality minus the emotion, minus the hyperbole, minus wishful thinking and assumptions. It is time for facts.
Fact: Trump cannot possibly win the popular vote. But of course, he didn't win the popular vote in 2016 either. He lost the vote to Hillary Clinton, but he won the Electoral College.
Fact: It is well within the realm of possibility Trump could win the Electoral College again.
The Electoral College is a slap in the face to the whole concept of Democracy.
It came about as a compromise between framers of the Constitution who wanted the President to be elected by the people versus those who wanted the President to be elected by Congress. Translate that last part — "elected by Congress "— to what it really meant at the time, that is wanting the President to be selected by intelligent, educated white men, rather than including the unwashed masses of uneducated white men. So let's be clear on what the Electoral College enshrines. It enshrines the notion that the masses cannot be trusted with the decision of who is to be our President. Considering what we have had under a Trump Presidency, I think it is now incontrovertibly clear that it is the Electoral College that cannot be trusted as the decider of who will be President.
And as if it were not bad enough that the Electoral College was founded on the premise that the masses are too stupid, consider the advantageous position it originally gave to slave holding states. States were allowed to count slaves as part of their population total to determine how many votes they had in the Electoral College. No surprise then that 10 of our first 12 Presidents were slaveholders. This illustrates the most insidious and damaging flaw of the Electoral College system beyond the obvious flaw that it renders the popular vote meaningless. It is the fact that it gives extra power to small pockets of voices that in no way deserve that extra power.
It was small pockets of very loud voices — primarily white working class men — who were given that extra power via the Electoral College in 2016. A majority of citizens in this country voted for Clinton, by a margin of 2,868,686 so it was not even close, but small pockets of white men voting in swing states for Trump made Trump our President. How can this be excused? How can this be justified? Why is this still tolerated? If anyone can explain to me the great advantage of the Electoral College system (other than it making compaigning more convenient, since you only need bother with the swing states, but "convenient" does not count in my book as defining a "great advantage") then please do explain it to me. Although I suppose the advantage is perfectly obvious if you are a white male Republican.
Why has the Electoral College, a bastion of anti-democracy and, in practical effect originally and still to this day a bastion of white male privilege, not been abolished? In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution tinkered with the Electoral College, fixing a flaw in the system. But is it not patently obvious that the whole system is flawed? And lest you think 2016 was just an odd and unusual circumstance, it has in fact happened five times in Presidential elections that the winner of the popular vote did not win the Electoral College. We could be looking at 2020 being the sixth time. Five times democracy did not prevail. Five times, the person the citizens of this country wanted to be President did not occupy the White House. Democracy?
The present occupant of the White House has made it clear, both by actions and by rhetoric, that he will engage in unscrupulous tactics to tilt the election in his favor. Whether it is tinkering with the United States Postal Service in order to sabotage vote by mail — or at the very least set up in advance the narrative he plans for election day, that the election is rife with fraud — or whether it is echoing the talking points of Russian trolls advancing disinformation campaigns, or whether it is Republican State Governors (take a look at what happened in Georgia's primary election to see examples of the sort of machinations that will be employed across this country this November where there is Republican control of the election process) doing their best to "accidentally" place voting impediments and obstacles in predominantly Democrat (that is to say black and/or poverty stricken) neighborhoods and districts, we must all see the grim truth: Democracy may not prevail in November 2020, and the man a majority of this country's citizens do not want in the White House will remain in the White House.
Having stated the facts, it is time now for me to express some emotion. Under normal circumstances, all of this would be cause for very great anger. But now, under the circumstances of a pandemic, an economic collapse, and this country finally, at long last, facing a reckoning on its systemic racism, this incompetent self-serving thug President remaining in office for a second term will not just be a source of anger, it will be the fatal, final crushing blow to this country. That is an emotional statement, I admit. But it is not hyperbole. And oh how I wish it were hyperbole.
I would like to end this on a positive note and urge you all to get out and Vote this November, and I do, I most urgently call upon all of you to vote. But the sad factual truth is that millions of you will have your vote erased and canceled by the Electoral College, your voice being overridden by pockets of white male Independents in so-called "swing states." So I will hold my breath on election day, and watch and see if the majority comes out the winner, or if the majority comes out the loser. Again.
A private person, now living mostly "off the grid." I have a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science (and photo is from the 80s, I'm hopelessly nostalgic)
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I'm thinking of trying out Xy/Win, and I have several questions.
Is the format of documents exactly the same as in Xy4 /dos?
Any differences in how it converts to E-mailable ascii?
scratch when I switch to Xy/Win?
Pro /4 for faxing directly from documents?


As intoxicating as the libation it was named after (1 part whiskey and a splash of orange juice and sour mix), Stone Sour is a Molotov cocktail of an album - 1 part pure rock adrenaline with a splash of melody. "We are melodic hard-rock with content and initiative," explains Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor. "Stone Sour allows me to execute the writing style that I love and can't necessarily do with Slipknot." While still embracing the heaviness true to the fundamentals of Taylor and Root's other band, Stone Sour offers a more introspective and intimate take on music, thus the absence of their masks while performing with Stone Sour.
Originally formed in 1992 by Taylor and drummer Joel Ekman, Stone Sour is the product of ten years' worth of determination, patience and creative expression. Longtime friend of Taylor's, bassist Shawn Economaki, joined the fold soon after the band's inception. With no real predetermined sonic direction other than writing good songs, Stone Sour played clubs with a multitude of different guitarists, sometimes having someone fill the spot for just one show. The turning point came in 1995 when guitarist Jim Root – who later joined Slipknot with Corey Taylor - found his way to a practice. This was a defining moment in that it signified the completion of a band as a unit. For five years, Stone Sour generated music for the sheer passion of it not concerning themselves with any particular genre, rather maintaining a sound based upon good hard rock, killer melody and emotional peaks and valleys.
But in 1997, disenchanted and burnt out, Taylor quit Stone Sour to join Slipknot, leaving the others to go their separate ways. Joel started a family, while Jim joined Slipknot a year after Corey. Shawn went on to be stage manager for the 'Knot. The legacy that Stone Sour had created remained a glass half full.
In 2000, guitarist Josh Rand, another old friend/collaborator of Corey's and former Stone Sour alumni, approached Corey with some songs he had been working on. Together they would spend a year and a half writing what would eventually become Stone Sour. Upon completion, the duo determined that what they had crafted was of such high quality and so true to the roots of the original Stone Sour that it was only natural to enlist the members who initially made it happen. Almost a full decade after the band's inception and six years after they had played their last show, all of the original members reconvened in Des Moines. Lineup solidified the band faced the task of picking a name. Eventually after a few different ideas (Project X, Superego, Closure) were scuttled, the decision came quickly. With a band of members that already had the chemistry of years of playing together, one option stood out-- Stone Sour was back.


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Q: ListView and enums I often have to deal with lists in the user interface that translate to an enum value in the 'ViewModel'. I know that I can directly bind ListView.ItemSource to an enum via ObjectDataProvider that provides the enum item names, but often this is not optimal, because the visual representation of a list item should differ from the enum item name.
Also, items from the enum sometimes need to be left out in the visual list representation.
so for example:
    enum WhatIWantIsA        {
        NiceHouse,
        FastCar,
        Nothing // omitted in the view
    }

Should translate to a list with the items:
    A nice house
    A fast car

So my question is: How do you deal with lists, that have a predefined number of entries and translate to an enum in the ViewModel?

A: You can use an IValueConverter on your binding to translate the enum to a readable form:
public class MyEnumValueConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type type, ...)
    {
        var enumVal = (WhatIWantIsA)value;
        switch (enumVal)
        {
            case "NiceHouse": return "A nice house";
            case "FastCar": return "A fast car";
            default: return "Unknown Value"; //or throw exception
        }
    }
    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type type, ...)
    {
        return value; //probably don't need to implement this
    }
}

Use this on your binding:
<Resources>
    <local:MyEnumValueConverter x:Key="myEnumConverter"/>
</Resources>
<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Converter={StaticResource myEnumConverter}}"/>

This way, your ViewModel can keep working with the enum, and the user sees a decent value.
Hope this helps...
Edit: updated the example to use Enum provided in the question :-)

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By Spoon! The Jay Meisel Story is a tale of the fading, comics-selling old guard, warts and all.
Thank you anonymous person who put this on the Internet.
Growing up in central New Jersey in the late '70s and early '80s, I used to go to a place called the U.S. Route 1 Flea Market in New Brunswick, an indoor bazaar that offered a wide array of items, mostly of varying degrees of chintz.
To the left and toward the back of the main part of the building, a guy named Bill had a stall where he sold comics, both new releases and back issues.
For a couple of years, through my freshman year in high school, this was my de facto comics shop. This is where we debated New Teen Titans vs. X-Men and where the older, more knowledgeable kids talked about this hotshot Frank Miller, who was doing all sorts of things with Daredevil.
Bill was cut from that Simpsonsesque, Comic Book Guy cloth, but he had a better nature and he seemed to enjoy playing the den leader.
This is where I spent my Saturdays: Comics talk all day, broken up by a couple or three Cokes and a paper bag full of fresh-cut French fries with salt and vinegar for lunch.
Eventually, I moved away and the flea market closed.
So when Anthony Desiato — who also directed My Comic Shop DocumentARy — told me he had another film about a comics dealer, I was intrigued. Because this one — By Spoon! The Jay Meisel Story — has a lot of parallels to my own memories.
Nevertheless, the film has compelling elements while you squirm because it's still hard to watch someone give up their business before they're ready.
"The decision to make the movie really came from two things: my experience filming Jay for My Comic Shop DocumentARy and the audience reactions to Jay's segment during screenings," Desiato said. "Jay's a true character, in every sense of the word, and that's half the battle right there. The other half was recognizing that there was more story to tell with him and that an audience would be on board.
I expect that Desiato will put this film online at some point, in the same way you can catch My Comic Shop DocumentARy. In the meantime, check it out this weekend if you're nearby.
For more details, hit up Desiato's website at www.flatsquirrelproductions.com.


When we talk about Equitable and All-inclusive Development of Myanmar, it is necessary to take gender equality issue into account. Daw Pansy Tun Thein raised the issue at the Policy Dialogue on Equitable and All-Inclusive Development in Myanmar, held at Yangon's Inya Lake Hotel, on 18 June, jointly organized by ActionAid Myanmar, UMFCCI and Mizzima Media.
She suggested that women participation should be higher since 52% of Myanmar population are women. However, only 38% of the women are working while the rest are just staying at home. Daw Pansy Tun Thein highlighted how women's participation is essential to achieve equitable and all-inclusive development of Myanmar.
She said that women's participation is still a challenge due to traditional beliefs in the country. "Some still consider the main job of a woman is to reproduce and men are nobler than women. Women are still not household leaders and decision makers in many places," said Daw Pansy Tun Thein.
She also stated that just providing jobs to women does not mean that they have have equality unless they can get to a higher position and break through the glass ceiling. Domestic work is still their job because their husbands are not sharing the responsibility. Therefore, women are struggling in their daily life. Moreover, the government is also giving more opportunity to men than women. For example, men are prioritized when it comes to government budget allocations.
The Myanmar government has signed many different gender equality contracts, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA), the National Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Women (NSPAW). "Each organization provides recommendations to improve gender equality in Myanmar, but many of those cannot be implemented due to the government's weak commitment," she said. Moreover, men still dominate state and non-state governance bodies in Myanmar.
" There are more women in the country, and if they are not part of developing programs, there is no way to succeed. They need to stop leaving women behind, and stop keeping them out of decision making processes," she said.


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Meiganga es una comuna camerunesa perteneciente al departamento de Mbéré de la región de Adamawa.

En 2005 tiene 88 745 habitantes, de los que 38 096 viven en la capital comunal homónima.

Se ubica en la esquina suroriental de la región, sobre la carretera N1, unos 100 km al sureste de la capital regional Ngaoundéré. Su territorio es fronterizo con la República Centroafricana.

Localidades
Comprende la ciudad de Meiganga y las siguientes localidades:

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Localidades de Camerún


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Swatting or hitting your pet dog is not a great instruction strategy. When you try to train your pet dog this way, the only thing you are training them will be scared of you. At some point, the dog will quit listening to tone of voice commands, and can only answer you rearing your hand. Obtaining a dog's commitment by way of worry is a oversight on the owner's component.
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Golejewo – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie wielkopolskim, w powiecie rawickim, w gminie Pakosław.

Wieś Goleiewo położona była w 1581 roku w powiecie kościańskim województwa poznańskiego.

W okresie Wielkiego Księstwa Poznańskiego (1815-1848) miejscowość należała do wsi większych w ówczesnym pruskim powiecie Kröben (krobskim) w rejencji poznańskiej. Golejewo należało do okręgu jutroszyńskiego tego powiatu i stanowiło część majątku Golejewko, którego właścicielem był wówczas (1846) von Zastrow. Według spisu urzędowego z 1837 roku wieś liczyła 106 mieszkańców, którzy zamieszkiwali 16 dymów (domostw). W skład majątku Golejewko wchodziły wówczas także wsie: Drogi (10 domów, 136 osób) oraz Olbina (6 domów, 84 osoby).

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa leszczyńskiego.

Zobacz też: Golejewo

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If you rely on Medicare for all or most of your health coverage needs, will Medicare pay the expenses associated with nursing home care? The short answer is, it depends on whether you need long-term care or skilled nursing services.
According to Medicare.gov, Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) covers medically necessary care in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) following an acute illness or injury for which you were admitted to a hospital. But if you are in a nursing home only because you need help with daily activities like dressing and bathing, Medicare will not cover your stay.
Your doctor has determined that you need daily skilled care given by skilled nursing or therapy staff.
You receive these skilled services in a SNF that's certified by Medicare.
How Many SNF Days Will Medicare Cover?
You may be used to thinking of a benefit period as either a calendar year or a contract year depending on your health plan, but Medicare uses a different definition. Medicare will pay for up to 100 SNF days per rolling benefit period.
For days 1-20, Medicare will pay all covered charges associated with your stay.
For days 21-100, you will pay coinsurance of $164.500 per day*. If you have supplemental insurance, it may cover all or part of your coinsurance.
If you reach day 101, you will pay 100 percent. Neither Medicare nor supplemental insurance plans will pay for days beyond 100.
If you are able to start a new benefit period by not receiving inpatient care for 60 days, Medicare will start over paying covered charges as above.
How Do I Know How Many Medicare Days I Have Left?
Medicare keeps track of your days for each benefit period. If you are covered by Medicare Part A and are a hospital inpatient, hospital staff will inform Medicare. Then, when you are ready to be discharged from the hospital to the SNF, someone from the SNF will contact Medicare to find out how many covered days you have available. That employee will also contact your supplemental health plan, if applicable, to coordinate benefits. Medicare will count all calendar days you spend at the SNF except the day you arrive and the day you leave.
What Happens If I Don't Use All My SNF Days at Once?
You do not need to use all your Medicare days at once. If you become acutely ill while receiving SNF care and need to be admitted to a hospital, Medicare will not count the days of that hospital stay as part of your 100 days.
If you are discharged from that hospital to return to a SNF, Medicare will resume counting days from when you left the SNF to be admitted.
If you are discharged home from the hospital but return to the SNF within 30 days of hospital discharge, Medicare will resume counting days left in the same benefit period.


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There is no mistaking Disney's endearing wit and clever theming at Restaurantosaurus, a quick service stop at Animal Kingdom 's DinoLand. From the cute soundtrack spewing such "prehistoric" favorites as "Walk the Dinosaur" and "The End of the World as We Know it" to the seating areas decorated as bunkers for student archaeologists poised for their next dig, there is a lot to unearth here besides your standard Disney fare.
The enormous restaurant has a mammoth seating capacity, which is very welcome as the place can get pretty crowded. You won't have trouble finding a table as both indoor and outdoor seating is beyond plentiful. There are a myriad of rooms filled with humorous puns and subtle jokes as Restaurantosaurus is themed to be a sort of student dormitory for budding paleontologists who use the place to not only prepare for humongous digs but also as an outlet for their boredom since they apparently are on a dig site in the middle of nowhere and have lots of time to kill. Take time for a laugh and peruse their equipment and finds before or after you "dig" into your meal. Of special interest is the "Hip Joint" a sort of rec room for the students which houses the jukebox and mini basketball court. Check out the jukebox selections (Elvis Presley singing "All Dug Up" and the folk favorite "Puff the Magic Dino"). Two of the best tables in the restaurant are housed in the back section of this area inside the Airstream Trailer.
While the Shrimp Po' Boy is gone from the menu, the restaurant offers standard (and not highly inventive) selections like most Disney quick service stops featuring Chicken Nuggets, Angus Burgers, Chicken Sandwiches – many things you've seen and sampled before. Looking over the choices (and it seemed like we had an eon to do this based on the length of the lines), we opted for the Veggie Sub and Chicken BLT salad (two of the more unique items) and one old standard: the Bacon Cheeseburger. There was a wait to order and then another wait to receive our tray (we occupied ourselves looking at the dino heads mounted on the walls), so we were eager to sample our meals.
The vegetable subosaurus looked a bit measly and disappointing when compared to the photo posted on the menu board. Instead of ample layers of cheese and veggies, the sandwich was more of a veggie mixture encased in a provolone pocket. Although there was a bit too much bun and not enough stuffing, the cheese/vegetable medley was delicious and nicely grilled. The chicken blt salad was chilled, crispy and fresh. A nice, light alternative on a warm afternoon. The burger was as expected: juicy with a nice smokey flavor but nothing better or worse than the burgers which abound in countless Disney quick service locales. The toppings bar was dripping with lots of nice extras.
The wildberry lemonade we ordered was a delightfully fruity, wonderfully refreshing way to quench our thirst. A smart combination of tart and sweet, this beverage was a nice surprise.
To end the meal, we sampled the Chocolate Mousse. While I would venture to say this is pudding and not mousse (it lacks the light, whipped consistency of mousse), it was rich and sweet, especially when drenched in a top layer of dark chocolate sauce.
While the food is good and I find no bones of contention with it, it is the atmosphere that eclipses the meals here along with the many themed touches such as the kids' meals being served with a plastic sand pail and shovel.
This counter service spot may be buried beneath more popular selections at Animal Kingdom like Flame Tree Barbecue and Pizzafari, but it is definitely worth a visit. Restaurantosaurus? Yeah, I can dig it.
Food: Standard Disney fare and limited options with a few unique selections and spins (check out the mac n' cheese hot dog). While the food is good and satisfying, it is nothing out of the ordinary.
Atmosphere: May be some of the best theming at a counter service locale. Lots of hidden jokes here and clever theming which shouldn't be missed. As busy as it can get, it never feels crowded because of the enormous seating capacity and spacious rooms.
Tips: The decor is too cute and witty to miss. Take time to explore. It seems like the restaurant can get pretty busy as peak times so an early lunch or mid-afternoon snack may be a better option than a 12 noon dining time.


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