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Anthropologist and Pulitzer winner, Jared Diamond declared that 'a society's ability to grow/expand and make new conquests is directly linked with its availability of embracing innovative and disruptive technologies.'
The labor market is changing and reshaping at an incredible speed, becoming unpredictable and extremely difficult to forecast how the next ten or twenty years will look like.
Nowadays, at the end of each year, it has become the norm to 'start the race' in predicting future trends in any industry imaginable and HR is no different. However, predictions have never been easy to make. As Philip E. Tetlock stated – Professor of Psychology and Political Sciences at both the University of Pennsylvania and at Wharton School of Business – we are facing an uphill battle in our capacity to forecast future trends of events.
Visionaries (innovators and 'early adopters' alike) are the people who are setting new standards, are changing the status quo and creating new possibilities. Just think about the vision necessary to allow people to fly for the first time at the beginning of the 20th century.
We all love the inventions of the Wright brothers, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Henry Ford, Elon Musk and the list could go on and on. Their work have inspired us and challenged our traditional practices making way for the unknown. In the industry of Human Resources, the rhythm of innovation has amounted a great deal of speed in the last/past few years.
Since 2009, over 16 billion dollars have been invested in HR technologies, 6,5 billion of which have been invested just in the last couple of years.
(Source: CB Insights/cbinsights.com).
At this rate, it has been estimated that investments in the global sector of human resource management (HRM) will reach 30 billion dollars in 2025.
In other words, the creation of innovative HR solutions is in a continuous expansion, whilst the field of human resources is currently experiencing a fantastic influx of innovation.
Uncertainty in the current economic climate, the progresses made in the field of technology and the extensive disruptions in the labor market have put organizations under more pressure than ever before.
Although predicting the future is troublesome, it is also essential to identify and to understand social, economic and technological fundamental trends or 'mega trends' which will affect organizations in the next ten to twenty years in order to anticipate and prepare ourselves for the transformations that will supersede.
The Great People Inside Conference: Visionary HR will span over two days and will generate interesting and provocative conversations regarding how digitalization, artificial intelligence, autonomous learning and current technologies are profoundly changing HR management processes and the way in which we can create a future revolving around people.
Discover new approaches on how to manage the 'multigenerational' workforce which is continuously changing, explore the impact of the emerging gig economy as it continues to reinvent the meaning of hiring, discuss in
regards to building a strong employer brand in the current competing for talents environment, understand the importance of employee engagement from the profitability standpoint of each organization.
Representatives of the Top 1000 Romania's Most Productive Companies: www.romaniasmostproductive.ro
Top and Middle Management: CEO, CFO, Sales Manager, Marketing Executives, HR Managers
Specialists in Recruitment, Development, Assessment, Diagnosis, Training, Talent Managers from all industries
Representatives of central and local authorities and Chambers of Commerce
Psychologists specialized in psychology of work and the industrial-organizational field
Coaching in Reshaping the Organisational Culture
Two approaches of HR: Visionary & Risky vs Successful & Safe
Artificial Intelligence – Can it Eliminate Bias in Hiring?
The impact of employee engagement on the organization's bottom line
The role of Leadership in Redefining Corporate Social Responsibility
The impact of the rising 'gig economy' on the industry of HR
Reinventing the Interview: Identifying and attracting high potential candidates
Skill Mismatch: An ever-growing problem or an undiscovered opportunity?
Gamification and HR management: A Step Back or Long-Time Coming?
HR & Technology: how to turn this relationship into a fruitful one
Learning in The Technology Dominated Era
Last update 01.10.2019 / *The agenda is not final and is subject to modifications.
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16th Edition Keynote Speakers
Wilmar B. Schaufeli
Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology
Wilmar B. Schaufeli is a professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and distinguished research professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
His main research field is occupational health psychology. Initially, he was interested in job stress and burnout but currently he also focuses on positive occupational health, notably work engagement. He is one of the authors of the Job-Demands Resources model, which is currently the most popular model in occupational health psychology.
With over 500 articles, chapters and books, Dr. Schaufeli is a prolific Highly Cited Researcher, ranking among the top 1% in his field. Dr. Schaufeli is a fellow of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, a licensed occupational health psychologist, and also works part-time as an organizational consultant.
Profile page: www.wilmarschaufeli.nl.
William G. Harris
Chief Executive Officer –
Association of Test Publishers (ATP)
William G. Harris serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Test Publishers (ATP), the leading global trade organization for publishers, developers, and users of assessment programs for the purpose of education, certification, and licensure. Dr. Harris (G) holds a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MBA from Duke University, and an Honorary Doctorate from Excelsior College where he is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees.
He is also a licensed psychologist. Dr. Harris is an internationally recognized advocate and expert for the assessment community on data protection, privacy, copyright, and technology-based assessment standards. Dr. Harris's responsibilities include the development and execution of the ATP global strategic plan. Under his leadership ATP is well established in the following regions: Asia, Europe, India, and North America.
Dr. Harris serves as the catalyst for the successful publications of many key ATP initiatives, including the Operational Best Practices for Statewide Large Scale Assessment Programs (OBP), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guidance for the global assessment community, the Journal of Applied Testing Technology (JATT), and a series of world-class test security and data protection documents. Dr. Harris was a doctorate-level assistant professor of measurement and program evaluation at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT; Chicago, Illinois). He played an integral role in creating a highly competitive curriculum for IIT new doctoral program in clinical psychology program and in ensuring the program's accreditation at both the national and regional levels.
Welcome back, Dan Hill!
Dan Hill
Founder & President – Sensory Logic
Dan Hill will be a Key Note Speaker at the Great People Inside Conference 'Visionary HR' 9-10 October 2019 at Kronwell Hotel, Brasov Romania. Dan is an internationally recognized expert on emotions as captured through the facial coding tool made famous by Gladwell's bestseller Blink and Fox's hit series "Lie to Me." Five of the seven universal, core emotions facial coding reveals were also highlighted in Pixar's Inside Out. Dan's work spans applications from market research to legal, behavioral finance, and professional sports as well as to analysis of executives, politicians and cultural icons in serving as a facial expressions biographer of famous, newsworthy individuals.
Dan has appeared on TV on CNN, PBS, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, ESPN, Tennis Channel, NBC's "The Today Show" and ABC's "Good Morning America." Radio appearances include the BBC and NPR's "Marketplace." Besides a front-page profile in The New York Times, other print and web coverage runs the gamut from The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fast Company, Politico, Advertising Age, Kiplinger's, Allure, and China Forbes to Reuters. Dan has been a highly successful speaker before audiences in over 20 countries.
In addition to being the recipient of 10 U.S. patents related to facial coding, the tool Dan brought into market research as a pioneer in the field, Dan is the author of five books: Body of Truth: Leveraging What Consumers Can't or Won't Say (Wiley & Sons 2003), Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success (Kogan Page 2008), Face Time: How the 2008 Presidential Race Reveals the Importance of Being On-Emotion in Politics, Business and Life (Adams 2008), About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising(Kogan Page 2010), and On-Emotion: Salvaging Market Research (Adams 2013).
Lately, Dan's been busy writing books. One appeared last year (Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others) and two others are moving toward publication: Two Cheers for Democracy (a study of both U.S. presidents and notable foreign leaders from the past century) and First Blush (a study of people's quick, intuitive reactions to famous art, using eye tracking and facial coding).
Cicek is the current Board Chair of the Association of Test Publishers, ATP. Aside from her involvement within ATP, she served two terms as the Chair of the European Region of ATP and was the 2015 Chair of the I/O Division. Cicek Svensson is the Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Comms Multilingual and is based in San Diego, CA. She is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and is responsible for international business development.
She is also on the Advisory Board for the Middle East and Africa Region. She is an active member of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, the International Test Commission and the Association of Talent Development. Her experience also covers HR-consulting, Change Management, Succession Planning, Brand Development and Strategic Sales. Prior to joining Comms Multilingual, she worked for a Swedish test publisher company where she gained experience in implementing foreign tests into the Nordic market as well as adapting Swedish tests for the international market. She has comprehensive international experience and is fluent in several languages. She has lived and worked in Sweden, Turkey and the U.S.
Cicek Svensson
Senior Vice President – Comms Multilingual
Stelian Bogza has an experience of over nine years in banking and finances, specifically in the business-to-business, marketing and sales division. In August 2009, he began his collaboration with Citibank as a Business Development & Cards Partnerships Manager, focusing exclusively on the B2B division – marketing and sales strategies for bank cards. During the four years in which he occupied this position, he implemented and managed the biggest sales network in the local banking sector: 450 retailers with over 2000 outlet stores. During that time, he started a partnership with the Ministry of Culture, through which Citibank cardholders had unlimited access to 17 of the most visited museums in Romania (the Peles Castle, the National Village Museum, Brukenthal etc), a benefit which proved to be not only unique, but also one of the most used in the banking system. One of the Citibank benefits that he implemented in Romania entailed adapting the international privilege system to include over 100 hotels, restaurants and spas in Romania. Since 2014, he and Adrian Sarbu have developed a unique system of optional benefits for employees in Romania. Stelian's experience in banking along with Adrian's experience in business development have helped them seize the opportunity brought by the outsourcing of services which are meant to motivate employees who want more flexible packages, adapted to their needs.
Stelian Bogza
Commercial Director & Co-Founder – Benefit
Mr. Mueller has had over 16 years of experience working at Mondelez, where he has occupied various positions including the job of CEO of Mondelez Romania from 2005 to 2008. Later on in his career, he was the director of strategy and development at Mondelez International, director at Mondelez for the Czech Republic and Slovakia and also director over Central Europe. Between 2015 and 2016, Mueller has been the president for the global professional business at Jacobs, and since June 2016 he has founded his very own business in consulting.
Managing Director – Heidi Chocolat
Bogdan Merfea is former CEO of Patria Bank (recently merged with Carpatica Commercial Bank), has a management experience of more than 10 years, previously holding CEO in Patria Credit IFN and Raiffeisen Bank Kossovo. In parallel with the development of a university career for over 18 years, Since 1995, Merfea has coordinated projects and programs to support and promote micro-enterprises and SMEs in Romania. Active Promoter of Financial Inclusion, Mr. Merfea is an active member of the European Microfinance Network and is still the Chairman of CA in Patria Credit. Mister. Merfea has extensive academic experience, is a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a Master in Business Management, and is also attending courses at the prestigious INSEAD School.
Bogdan Merfea
Board Member Patria Bank
Chairman of the Board Patria Credit IFN
Olga is a self-made (social) Entrepreneur and a public figure in Greece with a plethora of life-changing testimonials from people she has mentored, from Senior Employees to young startuppers, with an emphasis on risk groups (refugees, unemployed, edge of poverty). Over the past 20 years, she has designed award winning programs on professional growth, soft skills, pitching skills, goal achievement, human empowerment that have enhanced and advanced the employment, entrepreneurship & lifelong learning of over 4.000+ people. Since 2015 she leads the award-winning Employability Skills Accelerator 'Mellon' (Education Business Award 2016, Bravo! Sustainability Awards 2018 & Best City Awards 2018). She has collaborated with distinguished institutions and key market players, like the Prince's Trust International, International Rescue Committee, European Commission, European Parliament Office in Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Vodafone Greece and Romania, offering groundbreaking consultations with measurable results and significant social impact. National Editor of the European Commission Standard Eurobarometer (since 2001), she was also selected as the National Ambassador for the World Women's Entrepreneurship Day (2014, for Greece), an initiative of WED NY, in cooperation with the US Interior Ministry. Recognized and Certified Mentor and Executive Coach, as well as Strengths practitioner, (MIT Greece Startup Competition, Mellon Angel, Business Mentors, Enterprising Socially, etc.), she also coordinates Vodafone's (Greece + Romania) Lean In circles, for which Vodafone Greece received 2 Golden Awards (HR Awards 2017 & 2018).
Olga Stavropoulou
Founder & Managing Partner – Militos SA
Founding Member and Chief Visionary Officer – Knowl Social Enterprise
Ileana has been working at Mega Image since 2001 accumulating 18 years of experience in retail. She has graduated both Law and Communications and Public Relations universities, she has a Master degree in Public Relations in Marketing from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. She has 9 years of working in the legal field (from 2001 to 2010), 6 years of which (2004 to 2010) she was the manager of the Legal department (2 years of which she was also the HR Director). For 10 years now (august 2008 to present) she has been running the HR department as director, has become a member of the Executive Board and since 2015 she is the Vice-President of HR.
Ileana Alexandru
HR Vice President – Mega Image
Catalin advises Romanian and international clients from a large number of industries (including automotive, chemicals, primary and reinsurance, financial services, generic drugs, real estate, IT, food, media, food production, pharmaceutical) on employment and pensions. He represents clients in front of the Courts of Law and public authorities. He also advises clients on private enforcement and compliance issues and in dawn raid scenarios. In Employment law, Catalin can refer to comprehensive experience and work for the private clients. Also, Catalin is Co-author of the article "The procedural valences of the law principle accesorium sequitur principale", published in December, 2016 in Romanian Jurisprudence Publication, no. 6/2016; Co-author of the article "The order of enforcement, a recurrent theme", published on February 16, 2016 on www.juridice.ro; Co-author of the legislation review and collection of comments: "New Civil Procedure Code. Notes. Correlations. Explanations", C.H. Beck Publishing, Bucharest, 2012 (articles 730 through 817). Furthermore, he is actively involved in numerous socially known issues through the interviews he does on matters such as "Imposed Contributions on doctors" – published in the National Journal: jurnalul.antena3.ro on the 29th of October 2015.
Mircea-Cătălin Roman
Coordinator Employment & Pensions Practice, Senior Associate – Noerr
Training Manager at Autonom, having studies in Philosophical Counseling, Psychology and Theology, Mihail has always searched for different contexts where he could find and connect with as many people as possible. He holds the belief that, while books give you access to information, human interactions are pure magic. At the same time, he thinks that you can learn something from anybody if you wish to do so.
Mihail Pricop
Training Manager – Autonom
Desiree Diaconescu has an experience of over 20 years in Human Resources Management. She has been working at Tuborg Romania for over 22 years and since 2009 she has been the Vice-President of Human Resources. Desiree is a Law graduate, but she continued her studies in the field of HR, studies that were concluded with a Master of Arts in Human Resources Management from the University of Westminster in London.
Desiree Diaconescu
Vice President Human Resources – Tuborg România
Joep is currently the CEO of Aon in the Dutch Caribbean. In the past Joep has led multinational and virtual teams and was heading the Health and Benefits team for over 7 years in CEE. Combining the CCO role and the Business Line Directorship Health and Benefits CEE Joe played the foundation for building the Best Employer Survey and Engagement business in CEE for Aon. In addition, Innovation and new product development (in CEE) in the areas of Employee Benefits and HR Consulting, Benefit Communications, Talent Management, Engagement and other were high on the agenda. All in order to retain and attract the best people for their jobs. This includes the development and implementation of the global employee benefit strategies for multinational companies in CEE. With his experience and many talks to HR and business leaders Joep has his own view on HR in the future.
Joep Vercauteren
CEO – Aon Dutch Caribbean
He has an experience of over 10 years in Product Management and Business Development in industries such as banking and employee benefits. Andrei started his career as a Product Manager at Citibank back in 2006 where he has launched numerous loaning solutions, the first ever card in Romania with the possibility of cashback and a credit card in co-partnership with Vodafone. Following this experience he has continued to develop products and solutions at UniCredit Bank where he has coordinated the credit card team. Given his tremendous appetite for digitalization, innovation and various paying tools has determined him to change his main domain of activity and join a niche which was having a more rapid growth rate. Hence, in the past 3 years he has been part of the managing team of Edenred Romania, as a Development Director, time in which he has initiated and implemented projects together with the local team such as: mobile app MyEdenred, e-contracting, opening a new line of business in the Republic of Moldova, the Edenred gift card, Apple Pay, acquiring Benefit Online and many more. In May 2019, he has accepted a brand new challenge from Sanopass to join their team as co-founder. Sanopass represents an innovative, simple and fast alternative at acquiring medical memberships that offer you the freedom to use the independent clinics and private medical practice.
Andrei Vasile
Co-Founder – SanoPass
Armina is a self-discovery and personal development fanatic, who understands happiness comes from the "withinside", a brutally honest truth-seeker, who believes we should avoid the comfort zone even more than the friend zone, an avid reader with a sense of humor, who thinks the playfulness of life is what makes it worth living and a disruptive professional who helps organizations turn their culture into popular culture for their people. Over the past five years, she has been working on creating the perfect recipe for a successful and happy life, in which limitations become opportunities for growth, fears spur change and regrets inspire gratitude. She is now sharing her breakthrough with the world, empowering people to kick-start their true, authentic selves.
Armina Dobrică
Corporate Wellness Consultant – Aon Romania
Violeta Balint is a University of Letters graduate in Sibiu and she has many specialties in management, human resources, finance, communications and operations, whilst also being certified in SPHR since 2013. She has a 14-year experience in HR, 12 of which in management positions. Violeta Balint's professional activity has taken place in numerous French and German global companies such as: SOMAREST (part of the LVMH group), DRAEXLMAIER and HUTCHINSON. Mrs. Balint has worked exclusively in production companies in manufacturing areas such as: automotive, luxury goods and electronics and believes that her personality best fits with the manufacturing industry. In 2018 she joined the Sennheiser team as the HR & Plant Deputy Director, her main task being to build a team and implement the necessary processes and the Sennheiser organisational culture in the factory in Brasov. Starting with April 2019, she has accepted a new role and challenge in her career by becoming the General Manager for Sennheiser Romania. The company was originally founded in 1945 and has become one the most important manufacturers of headsets, speakers, microphones and wireless transmission systems in the world. In 2017 the company decided to open a production factory in Brasov-Ghimbav. She considers herself a peoples' person and what truly motivates her is the experience and the lessons that she can learn from people on a daily basis. She believes she is an atypical GM coming from a "non-technical" background and her expertise includes creating 'bridges' between people of various professional backgrounds.
Violeta Balint
General Manager – Sennheiser
Irina Dogaru is founding partner and Development Director of EXELO Training & Development. She is also a consultant and a trainer under numerous licenses such as Global Knowledge, Great People Inside, SimTeam and Human Synergetics and has over 20 years of experience in organisational development projects in various industries ranging from strategy, talent management, transformational leadership, customer relationship management to managerial coaching. Irina initiates and develops strategic partnership with universities from Romania, establishing or participating to numerous types of events which have the sole purpose of preparing students for their future careers: interuniversity competitions involving business simulations, developing leadership and entrepreneurial competences, building business plans in order to win start-up financing.
Irina Dogaru
Development Director – EXELO Training & Development
Adrian Măniuțiu is an entrepreneur who is always on the lookout for new opportunities and ideas. He was born in Cluj-Napoca in 1979 and has studied business and marketing in Germany. He has worked in various industries such as investment, real-estate development and medical. In 2013 he founded PhotoMedia Management – a boutique agency in continuous expansion, focused on creative marketing, communications, reputational and crisis management whilst also being involved in financing numerous start-ups. In 2019 he launched the brand, platform and studio EM360 (www.em360.ro) – an integrated media approach with the sheer focus of generating its own video content. Adrian has a vast and interesting experience in mainstream television as a presenter, co-producer and format developer.
Adrian Măniuțiu
TV Producer
Aurelian Chitez is the Sales Manager at Romanian Software having an experience of over 8 years in promoting and selling software solutions dedicated to the optimization of HR processes. Aurelian has a Masters Degree in Communication and lnternational Relations. He has been working at Romanian Software for over 9 years now and in that time he has managed to build sustainable partnerships with the company's clients by offering them flexible solutions, adapted to the needs of the Romanian market place. Romanian Software is one of the leading companies in Romania when it comes to software solutions dedicated to human resources. Through their colorful.hr platform, the company has approximately 600 clients and 140 employees and collaborators that are managing the data of over 120.000 employees in Romania. Some of their most famous clients are: Amrest (Starbucks), Bergenbier, Altex, University of Bucharest, Nuclearelectrica and Alro Slatina.
Aurelian Chitez
Sales Manager – Romanian Software
Having earned a PhD in Business Computer Studies with focus on Artificial Intelligence, and numerous international awards, Andreea has been named one of the most successful young managers in Romania. Now she's taking that success even further as the COO for Druid – a Romanian AI startup that develops a "no-code" enterprise chatbot authoring platform which helps organizations plan, develop, and deploy chatbots which enable natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations.
Andreea Pleșea
COO – Druid
Mihai Găvan, Head of Charisma HCM at TotalSoft, has a rich background in human resources, which he gained through his 13 years of experience in selling HR management software. Mihai graduate the Bucharest University and has a Master's degree in marketing and strategic management at the University Of Economic Studies in Bucharest and is passionate about technology, strategy and HR best practices. Starting from the need to plan careers for all employees, Mihai believes in adoption of healthy talent management principles and their integration in the organizational culture of any company. Mihai joined TotalSoft in 2016, taking over the responsibility of leading the division of the most popular software dedicated to human capital management – Charisma HCM.
Mihai Găvan
HCM Global Sales Director – TotalSoft
Mihaela joined the Romanian Software company in early 2018 and currently manages the individual taxation and labour law consultancy department. She provides labour and tax law interpretation services, with a view to correlating staff administration and payroll processes from a legal and fiscal standpoint. Additionally, Mihaela Colesnic constantly organizes courses on specific topics in the field of labour and payroll law. She began her career at a Romanian consultancy company and subsequently worked for four years and a half at a Big4, right before joining the Romanian Software team. She has a bachelor's degree in Economy and a master's degree in Labour Law.
Mihaela Colesnic
Labour Law Expert – Romanian Software
Klemens Wersonig is the Austrian founder and CEO of TARGET Executive Search. Since 25 years he is focusing on senior recruitment and headhunting across CEE. He has personally interviewed over 20.000 managers in Central Europe and successfully placed over 500. Being from Austria he was one of the first "pioneers to the East". He crossed the "iron curtain" back in 1988 and started to work in Hungary, managing a start-up company in trade and real-estate development. During 5 years he managed a team of 40 people and he also learned Hungarian. From this time he left a landmark in the centre of Budapest: Converting the Southern Vaci utca into a pedestrian zone was his idea and achievement for which he convinced all the city authorities and secured the funding. Today this has become a major tourist attraction. Before coming to Hungary, he received a 1 year Rotary scholarship in Canada and then finished a doctorate in business administration at the WU-Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna. He was AIESEC president in Vienna and had traineeships in USA, Canada and France. Besides his native German he speaks fluent English, French, Hungarian and studies Slovak. In 1994 he founded the TARGET Executive Search Group. Next to his CEO role for the entire Group, he enjoys to take care of his own key clients and find the right managers for them. He also served for many years as a Board Member and Vice President of the global executive search network – INAC, in which TARGET is the partner for CEE.
Klemens Wersonig
Founder and CEO – TARGET Executive Search
Laura is the General Manager at Mindit Consulting, the first Romanian background screening company, its purpose being to change Romania for the better, by increasing the level of honesty in the business environment. In the background screening process, the information in the CV is being verified, having the prior written consent of the candidate, in 6 areas: education, experiences, legal, media&social media, shareholding and CV Overview. Laura is also a Board Member of Professional Background Screening Association (previously NAPBS) and a promoter for this process on a European level.
Laura Roșianu
General Manager – Mindit Consulting
Dan Brumboiu
General Manager – Polipol România
Radu Craciun has over 20 years of experience in the financial market sector, having held key management positions in top companies. He is currently the General Manager and President of the Board of Directors of BCR Pensii and the President of the Romanian Association for Privately Administrated Pensions (APAPR). Previously, he held the position of Chief Economist and Analysis Director of the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) for two years. Radu Craciun is a Founding Member and Vice-President of the Association of Independent Administrators (AAI). Between 2014 and 2016, he was President of the Association of Banking Analysts in Romania, of which he is a Founding Member. Since 2017, he has been an associate professor of ASEBUSS. He writes weekly on economic and geopolitical topics on his blog www.raducraciun.ro.
Radu Crăciun
General Manager & President of the Board of Directors – BCR Pensii
3minutesjob is the latest recruitment platform, to be launched "live" at the Great People Inside: Visionary HR event. The presentation will be atypical and will be accompanied by an artistic performance. The 3minutesjob platform has been created to support the recruitment process both from the employer's and the candidate's standpoint. The selection process is facilitated by visual media such as Video CV and Video Job Description. The platform sets out to support niche applicants such as: people with disabilities, mothers, people with a criminal record and people who are forced to relocate. Jobs and candidates are geographically located and companies can create recruitment ads, directly or through third parties that will also be geolocated. The secret of 3minutesjob.com is basing the recruitment process around the individual and his/her needs.
Andrea Adamo
Founder – 3minutesjob.com
Simona has almost 10 years of experience in the HR and Technology areas. She graduated from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics and has a Master's degree in Databases. Her first interaction with the HR world was in 2010, when she took over a Technical Consultant role for a niche HR Solution, at IBM. She joined Oracle in 2014, starting as a Technical Pre-sales Consultant for HCM solutions and she is now leading a team of passionate Cloud Applications Technologists that support the entire EMEA & JAPAC regions. Her focus is to provide the best HR solutions to the customers by delivering outstanding and innovative experiences with the help of Emerging Technologies (Blockchain, IoT, Chatbots, Augmented Reality, AI and others).
Simona Manoliu
Cloud Applications Technology Manager – Oracle
Filios Papastylianou is responsible for HCM Applications in Central Eastern Europe, Russia and Israel, overseeing HCM Applications including both Cloud and On Premise solutions. Filios has been at Oracle since 2006. Prior to his current role he was supporting South Eastern Europe for Oracle E-Business Suite applications
Filios holds a MS in MIS from the California State University, USA.
Filios Papastylianou
HCM Business Development & Strategy Leader, CEE, Russia and Israel – Oracle
Harry Meintassis is a Senior Partner in Korn Ferry and the General Manager in Korn Ferry Romania. Before that, he was the Managing Director of South East Europe, Hay Group.Before joining Hay Group (2001), Harry worked with Ernst & Young as a Senior Manager, Business Transformation and Performance Management, responsible for leading major organizational and business re-design initiatives (1993-2000). Harry's experience covers Strategy Implementation, Organizational & Leadership Development and Coaching and Change Management. He is a member of the Korn Ferry Organization Strategy and Leadership Development practice and of Korn Ferry's Global Coaching Community of Practice. Harry has led integrated organizational and HR projects in many sectors including Energy, Telecoms, Consumer, Financial and Life Sciences.
Harry Meintassis
Country Managing Partner – Korn Ferry Hay Group
Daiana Stoicescu is an executive coach for leaders, with a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Credential by the International Coach Federation (ICF), a Master Certified Coach Trainer (MCCT), Coach Supervisor and a Registered ICF Mentor Coach. She is also the President, Communication Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the ICF Romania Chapter. As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), she works with leaders-from startup entrepreneurs to C-level executives- who have bold visions and who play for high stakes. As a Master Certified Coach Trainer (MCCT) with the Center for Executive Coaching (CEC) she is Certified to train other executives and managers to become Certified Executive Coaches. She does this through one-on-one or group coaching and under the review and standards of the Center for Executive Coaching. As a Certified Mentor Coach by ICF, she is certified to offer mentor coaching programs for coaches interested in applying or renewing their ACC (Associate Certified Coach) or PCC (Professional Certified Coach) Credential and need the required 10 hours of mentoring. As a Coach Supervisor she works with leaders and entrepreneurs that take their work seriously enough to set up a reflective space where they can review that work, learn from it and apply that learning when they return to it. She also works with coaches who bring their work to another individual or group in order to learn how to do that work better. One way of describing what coaching supervision does is to think of it as a process of Reflection, Insight and Support.
Daiana Stoicescu
President – ICF Romania
Doru Dima Ph.D.
CPO Great People Inside / CEO Great People Inside Romania
Doru Dima is a successful entrepreneur and manager, with an experience of over 20 years in the HR field and a PhD in Work and Organisational Psychology. Founder and CEO of Dima Consulting Group and Profiles International Romania, both positioned as some of the top consulting service providers in the HR and Management fields, he implemented and managed a series of important national and international projects.
Starting with May 2015, he became Co-founder of Great People Inside, an international company that develops customised human resources assessments adapted to the specific of the company and the job, being a unique concept in the HR industry. The assessments are provided through a new technology, a Talent Management Assessments Solutions Platform, cloud-based, configurable and 100% customisable.
The Great People Inside Platform – GR8PI has won the Eurocloud Romania 2016 award for "Best Cloud Startup". During the past year, Great People Inside has evolved from a local Bucharest based Cloud startup up, to an international company headquartered in Singapore with subsidiaries in Europe, United Arab Emirates , Asia and North America.
Doru Dima is the author of several books considered reference works in the Business field, including: "40 de Strategii pentru succesul în afaceri", "Dicționar General de Afaceri", "Managementul Resurselor Umane" and he also collaborated in the writing of many courses, books and science and business papers.
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Travis Holoway Sets Up SoLo Funds In LA, Seeks $15M Series A
SoLo Funds, a payday loan alternative for mobile devices that provides emergency cash loans of $1,000 or less, has moved the company's headquarters from Cincinnati to downtown Los Angeles.
The company is preparing to raise $15 million in a Series A round and made the move to a temporary L.A. office while it searches for a permanent spot, possibly in Culver City.
Listen to GHOGH with Jamarlin Martin | Episode 11: Travis Holoway Jamarlin talks to Travis Holoway, founder and CEO of SoLo Funds, a startup focused on peer-to-peer lending. They discuss Mark Zuckerberg as a liberal tech version of Donald Trump, Jake Tapper's double standards on CNN towards Black leaders, and whether Silicon Valley has "negro helpers" who set the community back.
The move was predicated on attracting talent to the company, SoLo co-founder Travis Holoway said, according to a report in LA Business Journal.
With credit scoring technology built into its platforms, person-to-person lenders like SoLo could potentially undercut the multibillion-dollar payday loans industry, said Rodney Ramcharan, an associate professor of finance and business economics at USC's Marshall School of Business, in an L.A. Business Journal report.
Travis Holoway is the CEO and co-founder of SoLo Funds Inc. a mobile based lending exchange platform created to provide more affordable access to loans under $1,000. | Photo: Anita Sanikop
SoLo funds has raised $3 million in the last year including a $1.2 million venture round led by Richelieu Dennis, owner of Essence Magazine and founder and CEO of Sundial Brands.
Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and almost half couldn't come up with $400 of emergency cash without borrowing from someone or selling something, according to the SoLo website.
Holoway was working as a financial advisor for Northwestern Mutual in New York City when he learned that payday lenders typically charge 400 percent-or-so interest. Customers often end up deeper in debt, and Black communities are especially vulnerable. Fed up with helping wealthy people get wealthier, Holoway did something about the problems faced by the 70 percent of Americans.
He built SoLo Funds around a market that was being ignored.
Since its April 2018 launch, SoLo has completed about 10,000 loans for more than 85,000 registered users, according to LA Business Journal.
Anyone can lend and borrow on the SoLo app. Borrowers don't pay interest. Instead, they agree to terms with the lender to repay within 30 days the principal plus a so-called tip — a premium on top of the loan amount. SoLo can get a cut of the payback in loaned money if the borrower OKs it – called a donation. Tips and donations are voluntary. Tips made by borrowers to the lenders average about 8 percent of the loans. Donations amount to about 3 percent, Holoway said. He declined to say what percentage of borrowers received loans without offering a tip or a donation, accoring to LA Business Journal.
Other fintech startups in the peer-to-peer loan space include Santa Monica-based Tala; Irvine-based microinvestor Acorns Grow Inc.; billionaire Mark Cuban-backed Dave Inc., located in the Miracle Mile; San Francisco-based nonprofit lender Kiva Microfunds; and Hollywood-based ZestFinance Inc.
"These companies operate in a gray zone in the banking world without having to provide much in terms of registration with or licensing by state and federal regulators because they do not technically charge interest or fees for their services," Pat Maio wrote for LA Business Journal.
The business model is so new, it's not clear if they need a license, said Mark Leyes, a spokesman with the California Department of Business Oversight. "Some of these novel lending products do require further investigation," Leyes said.
In addition to Dennis, SoLo Funds has the backing of Culver City-based Cross Culture Ventures; Boulder, Colo.-based Techstars Central, a seed investor in startups; Cleveland-based business mentoring firm JumpStart Inc.; and Joanna Rees, who founded Venture Strategy Partners and VSP Capital in the Bay Area; and Monique Idlett-Mosley, managing partner of Miami-based Reign Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund.
SoLo Funds co-founders include Lisnr co-founder Rodney Williams, htt Jarrel Carter, and Taylor Conophy.
"We understand how difficult it is to get a loan under $1,000 and the trouble of living with financial stress, because we've lived it ourselves," the founders say on their website. "We realized that we weren't alone."
A round with a $15 million target is planned for June, the founders said.

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There is always something on somewhere! I'm going to post about two fab Chelsea shows in the next day or so.


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Many small businesses are founded from the kitchen table, but ours was founded from the sofa. A boring grey sofa that my brother Joe and I were sitting on one day in 2015, wondering if we could afford to put the heating on.
Two years earlier, we'd decided to leave our secure jobs and start our own business. We'd set up an online shop selling a mix of home accessories and it was ticking over ok, but it certainly hadn't been the launch pad into entrepreneurial success we'd hoped. To save on bills and keep our business afloat, we'd pooled resources to rent small house together that could function as home, warehouse and office.
Realising that our first business was growing very slowly, we'd had the idea to launch a second e-commerce shop that we could run alongside. Having already taken the step of leaving our jobs, we might as well fill all our time! Inspired by Hiut Denim and The Cambridge Satchel Company, we wanted to create an iconic British brand that does one product really well. Sitting on our grey sofa and feeling the chill, a bright idea struck. Modern British-made blankets that could add colour and cosiness to a home in an instant. We brainstormed names over lunch, bought the domain name the same afternoon, and The British Blanket Company was born!
Four years later, The British Blanket Company is beginning to look like the brand we dreamed of. We've delivered our blankets to customers as far away as Tasmania and Canada, showcasing the brilliance of British weaving to customers all around the world. Despite all the obvious uncertainties facing small businesses at the moment, we're feeling positive and look forward to introducing new designs, expanding our range and working with more independent weaving mills over the next few years.
While running a small business it can be incredibly difficult to see the woods for the trees sometimes. Getting from day to day, ticking of tasks, helping customers with their questions, co-ordinating couriers, placing orders, finalising designs, taking photos for the website, social media... and on it goes. This is why the recent news we had was such a refreshing and eye-opening surprise!
The British Blanket Company has been chosen as a finalist in the Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2019! We've been shortlisted in two categories for the South West region as Small Business of the Year and Family Business of the Year. We're so proud to have been chosen and can't wait to attend the regional awards ceremony in Exeter in October. It's a wonderful reminder to us of how far we've come and recognition for the fledgling brand we dreamed up on the sofa four years ago.
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Filming is something that I'm never thought I was going to be doing, I always thought I would end up with a career that I would in be happy with but filming is were I can express my Art, I feel that every moment I capture someone in front of my lens is a Memory they leave behind.. Someone told me once in my life what kind of legacy do you want people to remember you by! And I was like Wooooo do I have something to leave behind? That was my question to myself and now I do I think I do. I thank God everyday of my life for this chance and opportunity in what I call a Second chance.. So please take a look at my work and feel free to drop me a message or leave me a Comment.
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Understanding the condition and ultimately finding out 'How to get rid of Skin Tags'.
Skin tags are small brown or flesh-coloured growths that hang from the surface of your skin. They are made of loose collagen fibres and blood vessels surrounded by skin. Although skin tags are common they are completely harmless and are usually only a few millimetres in size. They do not usually cause any pain or discomfort, however, depending on where they are on your body, they can snag on clothing or jewellery and bleed as a result.
Skin tags can affect anyone and most commonly occur where the skin folds or creases. They are more likely to affect people who are overweight for this reason. Skin tags can be hereditary, and people who are diabetic or pregnant are also more prone to them. Some people develop them for no apparent reason.
Skin tags are usually flesh-coloured or may appear brown if you have light skin. They are smooth or wrinkled and range in size from very tiny - 1 mm - to approximately the size of a grape. Although it is usually possible to recognize a stalk that attaches the skin tag to your underlying skin, very small skin tags may appear as raised bumps on your skin.
What happens when you cut off a skin tag?
Before trying to remove your skin tag, you should speak first to your GP. Your General Practitioner may explain how to remove a skin tag by yourself only if your skin tag is small and with a narrow base.
Can a skin tag grow back?
Although the removed skin tag doesn't grow back, new skin tags may form.
There is no strong basis with regards to skin tags being contagious.
At sk:n we use several techniques for skin tag removal. Upon your consultation your doctor will advise you of the best option for your individual case.
The skin tag is carefully cut away using a scalpel. The skin tag will be completely removed and there will only be a small white or pink scar in its place.
The skin tag is frozen by applying liquid Nitrogen, a gas that produces freezing temperatures, to the area. The cold temperature kills the cells within the skin tag, blocking the blood supply to the area, causing it to naturally fall off. (This treatment is also used for wart and verruca removal).
An electrical pulse is passed through the skin tag to damage the cells, causing the skin tag to fall off.
Whichever treatment method you choose, the procedure often will only take a few minutes to complete. An anaesthetic will be applied before removal and treatment will be relatively painless.


Scam emails seem to arrive like buses sometimes, as the saying goes. I don't get any for a while, and then 3 come along at once. And that happened earlier this month when I received a hat-trick of emails claiming to be from the TSB bank. 2 of them were identical, but one was different. And I've not had emails claiming to be from TSB before. But then scammers will try a variety of banks and financial institutions to see who they can catch, so getting scam emails for different banks isn't surprising.
So it's time for another instalment in my scam emails series. As usual, this is going to be rather repetitive in the signs to look out for, if you've seen the previous posts. But the more I can hammer this stuff home to make people aware, the better, as I do get comments from people who are grateful for the info I'm providing, and people do keep stumbling on the posts from web searches. So let's get on to it.


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Zimbabwe says "hostility of the West" putting off renewed investment
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa looks on as he gives a media conference at the State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, August 3, 2018. Chamisa has filed a petition challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's July 30 election victory. PHOTO | REUTERS
Western hostility towards Zimbabwe is deterring investment, the presidency spokesman George Charamba said on Tuesday.
Charamba said delays caused by Chamisa's court challenge to Mnangagwa's election victory were also putting off investors.
Economists say that for Zimbabwe to revive its struggling economy it needs to clear its arrears with Western donors and agree a financing programme with the IMF.
Western hostility towards Zimbabwe is deterring investment, the presidency spokesman said on Tuesday, comments in sharp contrast with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's previous efforts to woo Western governments.
Mnangagwa has made progress in improving Zimbabwe's relations with Western states before and after he won a July 30 presidential election, the first since the removal of long-time leader Robert Mugabe in a de facto coup last November.
But with a violent crackdown on opposition protesters by security forces after the election — a reminder to many of the repressive Mugabe era, the remarks by Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba signalled that his charm offensive towards the West may already be unravelling.
Mnangagwa's victory is being challenged in Zimbabwe's constitutional court this week by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, who says the electoral commission rigged the vote. The commission has defended its independence.
Continued hostility
Economists say that for the southern African country to revive its struggling economy it needs to clear its arrears with Western donors and agree a financing programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Zanu-PF challenges bid to overturn poll results
Zanu-PF to defend Mnangagwa's election
Chamisa files petition challenging Mnangagwa's win
Zimbabwe opposition members in court over poll violence
Charamba said Western states were preventing that.
"Of concern to investors is the continued hostility of the West, principally America which has been influencing IFIs (International Financial Institutions) negatively against Zimbabwe," Charamba said in an emailed response to questions about investor concerns over the election.
"This has delayed a resolution to the debt question, itself the elephant in the room."
"External partners — governmental and entrepreneurial — are irritated by the delay in closure to what in all estimate was a free, fair, democratic and credible electoral process," he said.
"Many investment projects have been waiting in the wings and the frustration of many investors who cannot wait much longer is palpable."
There were hopes a peaceful vote would end Zimbabwe's pariah status and launch an economic recovery, but post-election unrest has raised uncomfortable comparisons with its violent past.
Mnangagwa, the 75-year-old former Mugabe ally, has urged Zimbabweans to unite behind him but questions linger over the death of six people in an army clampdown on protests against the ruling party's victory.
Good relations
Mnangagwa has repeatedly expressed a desire to mend rifts with Western governments and has been pictured in recent weeks smiling with Western ambassadors in Harare.
He announced billions of dollars in investment commitments before the election, including from Western firms.
As Zimbabwe became increasing isolated under Mugabe, it turned to China to help prop up its economy.
Charamba said that despite attempts by some "intrusive foreigners" to derail the country's progress, Zimbabwe had good relations with southern African governments and the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) states.


Swedish furniture brand Hem is presenting its latest products at a retail space in Los Angeles, to coincide with the city's design festival.
The month-long pop-up is located at stationary brand Poketo's space at Row DTLA, which is acting as a hub for LA Design Festival from 7 to 10 June 2018.
"We've had our sights set on opening a physical retail space in Los Angeles for some time, as we knew from our online sales that LA was a key market for us, so it was just a matter of finding the right venue," said Hem founder Petrus Palmer.
Italian studio LucidiPevere's Kendo Soft Chair is also on show, with a fabric-covered seat and arms, and detachable legs for easy shipping.
Also among the new designs is Milan-based fashion designer Arthur Arbesser's Stripe Tufted Rugs, which have a short pile and are fabricated from New Zealand wool.
A variety of Hem's staple pieces feature in the store, all designed to flat-pack and ship easily and economically.
Hem's pop-up is open at 777 South Alameda Street, unit 174, for the remainder of June 2018. The brand was founded in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, but primarily operates online. It often creates temporary retail spaces in cities around the world, most recently in New York last year.


If you're like most business owners, you've probably spent a long time getting your business systems in place, developing the perfect combination of procedures and programs to achieve your business' goals, and training your team on those systems. Sometimes, you happen upon the perfect systemic combination. Other times…you don't. That's called a gap between expectation and reality in your systems' collective performance, hence the expression gap analysis.
Can you recognize when you don't have a perfect combination of programs and systems – and, if so, what to do about it?
The term gap analysis from a business standpoint really just means taking an in-depth look at your business' procedures and systems, examine their purposes, identify any weaknesses – that is, places where their results fall short of your desire – and determine a way (or ways) to fix them.
Undoubtedly, your own processes are much more complex than simply selling toys (without regard to the kind of toy, your stock of toys on hand, your website's performance, and other such variables). This is where our gap analysis experts can come and do the heavy lifting for you.
Call our consultancy line at (888) 207-4111 if this is the type of gap analysis you need for your business, or if you have any questions about how our analysis process works.
Another way to use this kind of analysis is to compare two sets of your own business' processes.
For example, say you have a set of computer systems that perform tasks A, B, C, and D. You've just bought another, more comprehensive system that can perform tasks A, B, and C…but, not D. (And, in reality, there would likely be other tasks the two opposing programs would perform, and in different ways, requiring a sub-analysis to account for those).
Call (888) 207-4111 if this is the type of Gap Analysis you need for your business, or if you have any questions about how our own analysis process works.


Four Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazine by students for students. XRDS is a quarterly print and online publication that reaches tens of thousands of computer science students around the world.
This issue, "The Computer Scientist," features interviews with a variety of computer scientists about their paths to this broad field.
Volunteering for this magazine is a service to the greater computer science community. Gierad Laput, Judeth Oden Choi, Judith Odili Uchidiuno and Cori Faklaris dedicate time to this student magazine in addition to their already rigorous academic responsibilities in the HCI Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University.
Gierad Laput took on the multi-year volunteer commitment of co-editor-in-chief of the XRDS magazine at the beginning of the year. His favorite part of the experience so far is leading a diverse team outside the confines of the lab and University when collaborating with the other student volunteers all around the world. Laput's HCI research area includes sensors, novel interaction techniques, and applied machine learning.
Judeth Oden Choi has been a feature editor for XRDS for the past three years, and was also a guest editor for this issue. In the article "The Making of a Computer Scientist," she noted the importance of diversity and inclusion in the computer science community. "Not only should we consider the diverse culture of users, but also cultural diversity in the workplace. As future computer scientists bring diverse experiences to the work, it will then help to shape the future of the field," said Choi. Her HCI research area includes social justice activism on Twitter.
Judith Odili Uchidiuno wrote a personal feature about her own computer science journey from a boarding school in Nigeria to where she is today. "Writing about my experience gave me the opportunity to voice out the insecurities I feel sometimes as a computer scientist. My research focuses on culturally appropriate education technologies -- it's not the first thing people think of when they think about computer science. Writing about my journey reminded me that I have done a lot of the things people typically think a computer scientist does, and I didn't get much fulfillment from them. It was a solid reminder that I am indeed a computer scientist," said Uchidiuno.
Cori Faklaris is social media editor for the magazine, a two-year-long volunteer appointment. Managing the Twitter and Facebook accounts for XRDS helps Faklaris to keep her social media management skills up to date, a craft she honed during her career in journalism. "This also forces me to stay engaged with what we call the 'ground truth' of our research into the social contexts of information security and user behavior," said Faklaris. "And, I always want to keep up with the current memes!" Her research includes usable privacy and security and in social computing.
HCII assistant professor Lining Yao was also featured in the issue as one of the computer scientists in action. Her work in fabrication is at the intersection of computer science and engineering. "Every student entering my lab has an unique educational background, but they soon learn to be anti-disciplinary. They work on research across the physical and digital boundaries in the field of morphing matter, not only through collaboration but also through the process of developing an independent and multi-disciplinary identity," said Yao.


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Q: Detect keypress off document I'm developing my own timer using electron and I would like to know if is possible to detect a keypress without the app in first plan. For example: I start the app, open another program, like discord and while I'm using discord, I can start the timer.

A: Pulled from Electron's documentation here:
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/global-shortcut

Detect keyboard events when the application does not have keyboard
focus.

The globalShortcut module can register/unregister a global keyboard
shortcut with the operating system so that you can customize the
operations for various shortcuts.
Note: The shortcut is global; it will work even if the app does not
have the keyboard focus. You should not use this module until the
ready event of the app module is emitted.

const { app, globalShortcut } = require('electron')

app.whenReady().then(() => {
  // Register a 'CommandOrControl+X' shortcut listener.
  const ret = globalShortcut.register('CommandOrControl+X', () => {
    console.log('CommandOrControl+X is pressed')
  })

  if (!ret) {
    console.log('registration failed')
  }

  // Check whether a shortcut is registered.
  console.log(globalShortcut.isRegistered('CommandOrControl+X'))
})

app.on('will-quit', () => {
  // Unregister a shortcut.
  globalShortcut.unregister('CommandOrControl+X')

  // Unregister all shortcuts.
  globalShortcut.unregisterAll()
})

A: Ok, I did it.
Thank you Nathan for showing me the way.
I added executeJavaScript and it works fine:
app.whenReady().then(() => {
  const ret = globalShortcut.register('Z', () => {
      win.webContents.executeJavaScript("startContinue();");
  });
});

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Transformers: The Game – gra stworzona na podstawie filmu Michaela Baya "Transformers". Gracz ma możliwość wcielenia się w rolę Autobotów lub dążących do władzy Decepticonów. Scenariusz Autobotów jest oparty na fabule filmu i kończy się tak samo jak on, natomiast scenariusz Deceptikonów jest poprowadzony nieco inaczej, dzięki czemu możemy dowiedzieć się, co by było, gdyby to ciemna strona mocy wygrała.

Wraz z drugą częścią filmu, powstaje także sequel gry, który bazuje na filmie.

Głosu użyczyli
 Autoboty:
 Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime
 Mark Ryan - Ironhide
 Andrew Kishino - Jazz
 Fred Tatasciore - Ratchet / Drone
 Seth Bleiler - Drone
 Erik Passoja (jako Eric Passoja) - Drone
 Decepticony:
 Frank Welker - Megatron
 Keith David - Barricade
 Daniel Ross - Starscream
 Noah Nelson - Blackout / Drone
 David Sobolov - Brawl
 Daniel Riordan - Bonecrusher / Drone
 Keith Szarabajka - Drone
 Ludzie:
 Shia LaBeouf - Sam Witwicky
 Megan Fox - Mikaela Banes

 Pozostałe role:
 Tom Kikot
 Yuri Lowenthal
 Kari Wahlgren
 Andrew Kishino
 Erik Passoja (jako Eric Passoja)
 Noah Nelson
 David Sobolov
 Keith Szarabajka
Walla:
 Stephen Apostolina (jako Steve Apostolina)
 Ranjani Brow (jako Ranjano Brow)
 David Cowgill
 Jackie Gonneau
 Donald Fullilove (jako Don Fullilove)
 Jacqueline Piñol
 Jessica Pennington
 Pepper Sweeney
 Claudette Wells
 W.K. Stratton

Zobacz też
 Transformers (film)
 Transformers: Zemsta upadłych

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona gry

Gry na platformę PlayStation 2
Gry na platformę PlayStation 3
Przygodowe gry akcji
2007 w grach komputerowych
Gry na platformę Windows
Gry z serii Transformers
Gry komputerowe wyprodukowane w Wielkiej Brytanii
Gry komputerowe wyprodukowane w Stanach Zjednoczonych
Egranizacje

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text: Q: Parallel transport perspective of gauge transformation invariance for connections Defining a connection on a principal $G$-bundle $P \to M$ is equivalent to defining a parallel transport on $P$ along curves in $M$.  With this perspective, Ralph Cohen commented in his notes on the topology of fiber bundles (pp.62) that a connection is fixed by a gauge transformation (gauge group acting on the space of connections by pullback) means the parallel transport defined by that connection commutes with the gauge transformation.  Could somebody please clarify for me this interpretation (i.e. gauge transformation invariant means commuting with gauge transformation)?


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Hide your cats! ALF is coming back to TV
Sadly, it doesn't look like he'll be joining the cast of Stranger Things
by Michael Roffman
ALF, NBC
Here's proof that no IP is being left untouched these days: Warner Bros. is currently trying to reboot ALF. Yes, the iconic '80s alien, whose name was also a fitting acronym a la E.T. (ahem, Alien Life Form), may be heading back to television.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, original writers Tom Patchett and Paul Fusco are attached to the reboot, which would reportedly focus on ALF returning to earth, with a new family and new characters. In other words, get ready for Hawaiian shirts, knee-slapping one-liners, and, quite frankly, an out-of-this-world attitude.
The original series, which starred the titular alien clown living the fat life among a middle-class family, ran for four seasons on NBC, from September 22, 1986, to March 24, 1990. He's since found new life in parodies and in pog form.
THR stresses that the project is still in very early development and no network is attached. If WB were smart, they'd work out a deal with Netflix and get this guy on the next season of Stranger Things. Could you imagine him hanging with the Wheelers?
Hey, it could happen.
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When will the biggest poker tournament in the world in 2021 take place?
By: Camile galactikbricks
The WSOP.com website has published a press release announcing that the WSOP Circuit will run throughout 2021. Tournaments will be run in series named after Las Vegas casinos (excluding Winter, Spring and Summer Series). On each of the series, 12 or 18 rings will be played.
Schedule of the WSOP Circuit series in 2021 (the number of "circular" events is indicated in brackets):
from January 14 to 31 – Winter Online Super Circuit (18)
February 17-28 – Planet Hollywood Circuit (12)
March 19-30 – Silver Legacy Circuit (12)
April 10-27 – Spring Online Super Circuit (18)
May 8-25 – Caesars Atlantic City Online Circuit (12)
June 10-27 – Summer Online Super Circuit (18)
July 16 to 27 – Bally's Online Circuit (12)
August 20 – 31 – Rio Online Circuit (12)
September 15-26 – Caesars Las Vegas Online Circuit (12)
from 9 to 26 October – Fall Online Super Circuit (18)
November 10-21 – Paris Las Vegas Online Circuit (12)
December 8-19 – Harrah's Las Vegas Online Circuit (12)
Dec 21 – $ 250K Year End Championship Event (1)
Features of the WSOP Online Circuit Series: Main Events, Freeroll, Leaderboard and Year End Championship Event
The site has published only the schedule of the next WSOP Winter Online Super Circuit. Here are the main tournaments:
main event with a buy-in of $ 525 and a guarantee of $ 250K (3 re-entries)
$ 1K buy-in high roller tournament with a $ 100K guarantee (2 re-entries)
$ 2K $ 100K Guaranteed Super High Roller Tournament (2 re-entries)
It is known from the press release that the schedule of each series includes a $ 25K freeroll , in which all the winners of the ring events (12 or 18 people) and the top 10 players of the series leaderboard will take part. And every month players will be giving away $ 10K on the leaderboard .
There will be a total of 12 stages and one special event with a prize pool of $ 250K and a cap of 256 participants, which will win the WSOP gold bracelet. This event is a private freeroll, which can be entered in one of three ways:
win a ring event,
win a monthly leaderboard,
Win a seat in the winner takes all tournament.
By the way, WSOP.com plans to add another streak as soon as another state legalizes online poker. Probably, we are talking about Michigan, where on December 29, Governor Gretchen Whitmer passed amendments to the Michigan online gaming law, according to which residents of this state can now play in a common pool with players from other states. Online poker in Michigan is expected to launch in late January.
Why was the WSOP Circuit stretched out for the whole year?
There are two main reasons for this:
Reason 1. Since live poker in 2021 remains in limbo due to the epidemiological situation, it was decided to move live poker to the Internet.
Typically, the WSOP Circuit stages take place in a variety of locations. Here's just half of the 2020 WSOP Circuit schedule. There are stages in Brazil, Canada, France, as well as stages in the USA (Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Tunica). Of course, canceling offline events means huge lost profits for organizers.
Reason 2. The WSOP decided to make money on the brand. This reason follows from the first. At least that's exactly what CEO Ty Stewart said in a press release for wsop.com (it's unlikely that the guys from the WSOP just sat at home and at Zoom were "happy" about the huge prize pools in the tournaments):
"Players deserve great tournaments and great value throughout the year, which is why we decided to run the WSOP Circuit Online throughout 2021. We were delighted with the massive prize pools of WSOP.com events in 2020 and look forward to seeing growth in the new year. "
The trick is that the WSOP, as the brand owners, keeps 0.5% as an administrative fee on the prize pool of each tournament. Pay attention to this in the lobby the next time you download the WSOPC tournament at GGPOKEROK .
It's funny that the WSOP Online series was not interesting to the general public in comparison with the live stages of previous years. Here's what the World Series of Poker search dynamics look like. The Spades on the Chart are the WSOP Series that took place in Las Vegas over the summer. There was no such standard peak in 2020.
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Q: How to configure LinuxMint 17 to invoke commands from the mouse? My PC runs LinuxMint 17 in the 64-bit MATE edition. How can I configure X (or MATE?) to invoke these two commands from my mouse (which is a 6-button Logitech M705)?

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*send the clicked window behind all others by holding [ALT] and clicking [mouse button 4]

*minimize the clicked window to the task bar by holding [ALT] and clicking [mouse button 5]

*adjust the master audio volume by holding [ALT] and rolling the scroll wheel

That is, just like you can normally hold [ALT] and click [mouse button 1] to move a window, I would like to hold [ALT] and click [mouse button 5] to minimize the window.
Mouse button 4 and 5 basically correspond to the "Forward" and "Back" buttons.
Background:
I have read (see below) that I can configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf and/or use a small tool to do it for me, but I currently don't even have an xorg.conf file, and I am unsure which of the many tools to use -- and most of all, how to specify those actions.
Since I started using BSD/Linux a long time ago, AltDrag became a fixture on my Windows computers at work. Some time ago, I configured some extra stuff in AltDrag which I now long to reproduce on Linux (I'm sure we can all agree that Windows should not be a better experience than Linux ;-).
Meta:
I asked this question earlier, but it got "unpublished"(?) because it wasn't clear. I reworded it, but then couldn't figure out how to get it re-published. Some days later I discovered that it was closed. This, then, is my re-worded, and hopefully more lucid, version posted as a new question. Apologies for double posting. If this still isn't clear enough, please engage in dialog with me before simply closing my question.
Resources:

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*stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

*https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto

*https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All_Mouse_Buttons_Working


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Ever since the Redskins fired general manager Scot McCloughan on March 9, the conventional wisdom has been that the Redskins would find a replacement from within the organization.
This time, the conventional wisdom appears to have been right, at least as far as the likelihood of anyone from outside of the organization being brought in the replace McCloughan.
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John Wooten of the Fritz Pollard Alliance said that the Redskins have submitted a plan to reorganize the front office without replacing McCloughan, according to Jason Cole of the Bleacher Report.
The Fritz Pollard Alliance is an organization that promotes diversity within the ranks of NFL coaches and front office executives.
They monitor compliance with the Rooney Rule, which requires that minority candidates be interviewed for head coaching and general manager jobs.
Cole said that the alliance doesn't yet know the details of the Redskins' plan. Among the Redskins' current front office members who could be elevated is Doug Williams, who was the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl.
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From this report, it appears that the Redskins may not actually give anyone the title of "general manager."
But with the details of the plan still under examination by the NFL we will have to wait and see how this all shakes out.
Stay up to date on the Redskins! Rich Tandler covers the team 365 days a year. Like his Facebook page Facebook.com/TandlerCSN and follow him on Twitter @Rich_TandlerCSN.


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/**
    This node constructs an array from the indices of the multi-index input.

    ## Attributes

 Attribute Name  Short Name  Attribute Type

 input           i           double[]

            The individual values that will be used to construct the `output` array.
            The logical indices of the input values are preserved - missing indices will be filled in with 0.0.

 size            s          int

            The size of the output array. If there are too few inputs, the remaining indices will be filled in with 0.0.

 output          o          doubleArray

 An array constructed from the `input` values.

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#ifndef n_arrayCtor_H
#define n_arrayCtor_H

#include <maya/MDataBlock.h>
#include <maya/MPlug.h>
#include <maya/MPxNode.h>
#include <maya/MString.h>
#include <maya/MTypeId.h>

class ArrayConstructorNode : public MPxNode
{
public:
    virtual MStatus         compute(const MPlug& plug, MDataBlock& data);
    virtual void            postConstructor();
    static  void*           creator();
    static  MStatus         initialize();

public:
    static MTypeId          kNODE_ID;
    static MString          kNODE_NAME;

    static MObject        aSize;
    static MObject        aInput;
    static MObject        aOutput;
};

#endif

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The morning Tweets tell an all-too familiar tale for Leeds commuters
The tweets will make frustratingly familiar reading for many early morning commuters and other rail users in Leeds and across the rest of Yorkshire.
Updated Thursday, 26th May 2016, 11:13 am
From the Northern operator's official Twitter account yesterday morning, one read: "CANCELLED: Due to a train fault 07:04 #Ilkley to #Leeds due 07:31 will be cancelled."
Another, from the same account, told a similar tale: "CANCELLED: Due to a train fault 07:37 #Ilkley to #Leeds due 08:09 will be cancelled."
Northern, of course, is not the only local rail operator where services do not always run smoothly or according to the timetable. Published in January this year, a report by the Passenger Focus watchdog indicated there was significant room for improvement on First TransPennine Express trains.
Just 61 per cent of those surveyed for the report said they were satisfied they were getting value for money. And only 59 per cent declared themselves satisfied with the room for passengers to sit or stand on First TransPennine Express services.
Since then, however, it has been all change for those in charge of Leeds's trains.
New Northern and TransPennine Express franchises both kicked in at the start of last month, with promises of massive investment in the years to come.
Northern services are now being run by Arriva while FirstGroup has taken sole control of the TransPennine franchise.
And hopes are certainly high in the corridors of political power that both Northern and TransPennine Express will prove to be the real deal.
Coun Keith Wakefield, chair of the transport committee on the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, today told the Yorkshire Evening Post's special week-long focus on transport: "The introduction of the new Northern and TransPennine Express rail franchises is good news for the fast-growing numbers of local rail passengers, who will be pleased that both franchisees are committed to introducing new, faster trains, reducing overcrowding at peak times and serving more places more often in the evenings and on Sundays.
"[Benefits for] West Yorkshire passengers include a 52 per cent increase in the number of seats on the TransPennine Express trains serving Leeds during the morning peak, thanks to longer trains and more frequent services. There will also be a 40 per cent increase in the number of passengers that can be carried on Northern trains.
"Other benefits will include staff at more stations, free Wi-Fi on trains, better customer information on-board and at stations, support for West Yorkshire's MCard travel smartcards tickets and automatic compensation for season ticket holders when things go wrong."
But it is not just the firms responsible for running Leeds's trains that are in the process of ushering in a new era.
Plans were recently revealed for the transformation of a huge part of the city centre into a rail hub for the entire north of England. The proposals would see high-speed HS2 lines running from the south across the River Aire close to the existing Victoria Bridge and stopping at platforms forming a 'T' with the current east-west lines at Leeds City Station. And, albeit on a smaller scale, trains are due to start calling next month at the new Kirkstall Forge station – a step transport bosses say will ease congestion on the busy A65 road route.
There does, then, seem to be some light at the end of the tunnel for rail users in Leeds.
The city-bound passengers left waiting on the platform in Ilkley yesterday morning will be among those hoping that the reality finally lives up to the contents of the brochure.


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« Reply #5 on: Jul 11th, 2006, 10:26am » Quote Modify Remove
What's the result if a portion of the CIP claim is supported? For example, parent supports and claims A+B. CIP supports C and claims A+B+C?
I'm not sure whether I understand your question either....
But like I said, priority is determined on a claim-by-claim basis. That is, a particular claim either gets priority or it doesn't.
on Jul 11th, 2006, 5:38am, Isaac wrote:
I'll just add that, if the inventorship of the parent differs in any way from that of the CIP (which is often the case), then the published parent could potentially serve as 102(a) as well.
I think the real question is why, post-GATT, anyone files CIPs anymore. Any thoughts?
tigerpat
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How about this situation then?
Applicant files a claim to a broad genus. The Examiner 112's the claim as lacking enablement and failing to satisfy the written description. Applicant settles for particular species claims.
Before the parent (above) issues, Applicant files a CIP adding subject matter to hopefully support the broad genus claim and again claims the broad genus.
First, since the Examiner 112's the broad genus claim to begin with, I don't see how he could give the broad genus claim the benefit of the parent application (even though the parent does disclose a number of species of the genus).
Second, since the parent does disclose numerous species of the genus claimed in the CIP, could the parent be used as prior art v. the CIP to anticipate the claimed genus?
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I don't understand how you can fail to support the broad genus but succeed in supporting the specific species. The species would require all the support required of the broader genus and support for the distinctive characteristics of the species, those that differentiate the species from other species of the genus.
As I understand the hypothetical, it's not possible. If the genus is insufficiently supported, the species is similarly insufficiently supported.
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on Jul 11th, 2006, 3:05pm, JimIvey wrote:
Tigerpat's post is a bit confusing, but I think this is what was meant:
1) The parent supports the species but does NOT support the genus; and
2) the CIP supports the genus.
In such a case, and depending on dates and so forth, the species disclosed in the parent could possibly serve as prior art against the genus claims of CIP. And in fact, this is a very common scenario.
I think the hypothetical is certainly possible. There is a whole line of CAFC cases including the recent Lizardtech v. Earth Resources Mapping which we've discussed here before that suggest that a disclosure can fail to support a broad claim by describing only a single embodiment or describing a single way of implementing a given feature.
The question is whether an application that fails to support a broad claim in such a way could serve as prior art against a CIP that added additional describtion to overcome the 112 rejection but did not recite that additional description in the claims. In theory, every feature of the new claim would be found in the parent application.
I don't know the answer. I think it ought to be possible to overcome at least a 102 rejection by arguing the original description was not enabling.


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China will consider setting up new overseas support bases for its military if there are such needs, a senior People"s Liberation Army strategist said on Wednesday.
Lieutenant General He Lei, former vice-president of the PLA Academy of Military Science, said at a Beijing news conference hosted by the State Council Information Office that whether China establishes new overseas military bases will depend on two factors.
"This matter is primarily determined by whether a new base is needed to help China better fulfill missions given by the United Nations," he explained. "Second, it depends on the approval of the nation where a new base should be located."
Given these two preconditions, "it is possible for China to build new overseas support bases", said the officer.
He emphasized that the main role of a Chinese overseas base is to provide logistical support to Chinese units operating overseas, and not to field Chinese military forces in other countries, so people should not overinterpret this matter.
Currently, the Chinese military has one overseas facility-the Djibouti Logistics Support Base, which was put into operation in August 2017.
The base, in Djibouti City, capital of the nation in the Horn of Africa, is tasked with supporting the Chinese military"s naval escort, peacekeeping and humanitarian missions in Africa and western Asia, enabling the nation to better protect the safety of international strategic maritime passages with other countries, said the PLA Navy.
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The United States, France and Japan also have military bases in Djibouti.
Senior Captain Zhang Junshe, a high-ranking researcher at the PLA Naval Research Academy, said at Wednesday"s news conference that the Djibouti base is helpful to the Chinese Navy"s escort mission, which was requested by the UN.
"An overseas base can conveniently resupply ships with fresh food and fuel. It also facilitates logistical work. In the past, when we had no base, our Navy had to transport components from China to replace bad parts on a ship, and it was not easy for our sailors to rest," he said.
Regarding China"s plans for its aircraft carrier force, Zhang said the country needs at least three carriers, and that it will gradually develop its carrier force in accordance with its road map.
The PLA Navy now has one carrier in active service and is testing a second one, which is expected to soon be commissioned. A new carrier, larger than the previous two, is reportedly being built.
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