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Q: How would I align circles horizontally using loops? I have managed to get the circles on top of each other but I have no clue how to make a line of circles that do not overlap.
This is what I have gotten so far.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <canvas id="myCanvas" width="800" height="600"></canvas>
    <script src="js/main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

for(var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    ctx.fillStyle="rgba(0,0,0,0.5)";
    fillCircle(200,200,i*20)
}

var width = window.innerWidth;
var height = 100;

function fillCircle(x, y, radius) {
    ctx.beginPath();
    ctx.arc(x, y, radius, 0, Math.PI * 2);
    ctx.closePath();
    ctx.fill();
}

A:
The x-value of any next circle must be at least be the sum of the current and next circle radii beyond the current circle's x-value.
So if:
var currentCircleX=20
var currentCircleRadius=15
var nextCircleRadius=25

Then:
var nextCircleX = currentCircleX + currentCircleRadius + nextCircleRadius

But if you are also stroking the circles:
Since a context stroke will extend half-outside the defined path, you must also add half the lineWidth for each circle to avoid the circles touching:
// account for the lineWidth that extends beyond the arc's path
var nextCircleX =
    currentCircleX + currentCircleRadius + nextCircleRadius + context.lineWidth

Example code and a Demo:

var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");
var cw=canvas.width;
var ch=canvas.height;

ctx.fillStyle="rgba(0,0,0,0.5)";
var currentCircleX=0;
var currentCircleRadius=0;

for(var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  var nextCircleRadius=i*20;
  var nextCircleX=currentCircleX+currentCircleRadius+nextCircleRadius;
  fillCircle(nextCircleX,200,nextCircleRadius);
  currentCircleX=nextCircleX;
  currentCircleRadius=nextCircleRadius;
}

function fillCircle(x, y, radius) {
  ctx.beginPath();
  ctx.arc(x, y, radius, 0, Math.PI * 2);
  ctx.closePath();
  ctx.fill();
}
body{ background-color: ivory; padding:10px; }
#canvas{border:1px solid red;}
<canvas id="canvas" width=300 height=300></canvas>

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KINGWOOD, Texas, January 15, 2018	(Newswire.com) - Today, Rick Walker, candidate for Texas' 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. Congress, announced an innovative plan to use federal funding strings to help the City of Houston to win the fight against flooding. Rick Walker for Congress is the campaign releasing this plan.
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The goal of this association is to work towards improved maternal and newborn health in the state of Gujrat. The main objectives are to organize dais and provide them a forum to communicate their collective voices.
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Q: How to generate table from HTML? So, I have to generate multiple tables from the HTML code. I can be generating multiple tables using pure javascript code but its too difficult to assign ids and getting its value. as I wrote javascript function generate_table
so I have created one sample HTML table from that HTML TAble how to generate the same Table again(multiple times). I have written too much javascript code for tables TD and TR. How to reduce that code.
I have many tables I want to regenerate the specific table so I cant use
 tag. Any hint ? code sample ?

function generate_table() {
  // get the reference for the body
  var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];

  // creates a
 element and a
 element
  var tbl = document.createElement('table');
  var tblBody = document.createElement('tbody');

  // creating all cells
  for (var i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
    var seqnumber = 1;
    var seq = +1;
    // creates a table row

    var row2 = document.createElement('tr');

    //====== table first row data =======//
    var seq = document.createElement('td');
    var seqText = document.createTextNode('Seq');
    var l = document.createElement('td');
    var seqText1 = document.createElement('input');

    //===== seq generator =====//
    seq.appendChild(seqText);
    row2.appendChild(seq);
    l.appendChild(seqText1);
    row2.appendChild(l);

    // add the row to the end of the table body
    tblBody.appendChild(row2);

  }

  // put the
 in the

  tbl.appendChild(tblBody);
  // appends
 into
  body.appendChild(tbl);
  // sets the border attribute of tbl to 2;
  tbl.setAttribute('border', '2');
}
td,
th {
  border: 1px solid #dddddd;
  text-align: left;
  padding: 8px;
}

 TABLE FROM JAVA SCRIPT

<input type="button" value="Generate a table." onclick="generate_table()" />

 TABLE FROM HTML

    Aggregator

     Column Name
     Function

     <input>
     <input>

<input type="button" value="Generate same table from HTML." />

JSfiddle Link : - >https://jsfiddle.net/shreekantbatale2/evqsuxm8/5/

A: What I understand is that you want to add a template table. Here is a simple way to do it with jQuery

var id = 0;

function generate_table() {
  var table = `

      Aggregator

       Column Name
       Function

       <input>
       <input>

`
  $('#table-template').append(table)
  id++
}

 TABLE FROM JAVA SCRIPT

<input type="button" value="Generate a table." onclick="generate_table()" />

 TABLE FROM HTML

<input type="button" value="Generate same table from HTML." />

I think this is what you are lookign for.

function generate_table() {
  var table = $('#table6').clone()
  table.find('input').val('')
  $('#table-template').append(table)
}

 TABLE FROM JAVA SCRIPT

<input type="button" value="Generate a table." onclick="generate_table()" />

 TABLE FROM HTML

      Aggregator

       Column Name
       Function

       <input>
       <input>

<input type="button" value="Generate same table from HTML." />

A: You could use a <template> element to generate new HTML each time you want a new

const button = document.querySelector('.js-create-table');
const template = document.createElement('template');
template.innerHTML = `

      Aggregator

       Column Name
       Function

       <input>
       <input>

`;

function generateTable() {
  const table = template.content.cloneNode(true);
  document.body.append(table);
}

button.addEventListener('click', generateTable);
<button class="js-create-table">Create table</button>

And if you just want to clone the original table and create a duplicate from it one.

const button = document.querySelector('.js-clone-table');
const table = document.querySelector('.js-table');

function cloneTable() {
  const clone = table.cloneNode(true);
  document.body.append(clone);
}

button.addEventListener('click', cloneTable);
<button class="js-clone-table">Clone table</button>

    Aggregator

     Column Name
     Function

     <input>
     <input>

A: to duplicater a table with everyting inside (or any html element)

const btTableCopy = document.getElementById('bt-table-copy')
  ,   originTable = document.getElementById('table6')
  ,   baseRowTbl  = originTable.querySelector('tbody tr')
  ;
var tableNum = 0
  ;
btTableCopy.onclick=()=>
  {
  let newTable = originTable.cloneNode(true)
    , newTbody = newTable.querySelector('tbody')
    ;
  newTable.id = `table-copy-${++tableNum}`  // there cannot be two identical id values on an HTML page

  for(let i=0;i<5;i++) // add 5 new rows
    {
    newTbody.appendChild(baseRowTbl.cloneNode(true))
    }
  newTable.querySelectorAll('input').forEach(inp=>inp.value='') // clear all table inputs
  document.body.appendChild(newTable)
  }
table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  margin: 1em;
  }
thead {
  background-color: lightblue;
  }
td, th {
  border: solid grey 1px;
  padding: 1em;
  text-align : center;
  }

      Aggregator

       Column Name
       Function

       <input>
       <input>

<button id="bt-table-copy">copy table with 5 new rows</button>


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Gold Coast defeated by Fremantle
Round 11, Metricon Stadium, Attendance: 8911
Saturday, 13th June 2015, 1:40 PM AEST
Gold Coast Betting Odds: Win 10.00, Line +45.5 @ 1.95
Fremantle Betting Odds: Win 1.06, Line -45.5 @ 1.85
Brownlow Votes: 3: N Fyfe, 2: A Saad, 1: A Sandilands
Gold Coast 2.0 3.1 5.2 7.4 46
Fremantle 1.3 3.7 5.11 6.17 53
Gold Coast Player Stats | Fremantle Player Stats | Match Head to Head Stats | Scoring Breakdown | Highlights
Gold Coast Match Statistics (Sorted by Kicks) Coach: Rodney Eade
Michael Rischitelli 17 6 23 4 1 0 9 0 0 3 4 3 4 2 0 119 106
Andrew Boston 17 5 22 6 0 0 6 0 1 2 5 4 1 2 1 102 91
Jarrod Harbrow 16 7 23 6 0 0 6 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 105 113
Kade Kolodjashnij 16 9 25 7 1 0 3 0 0 1 1 3 4 0 0 105 120
Luke Russell 15 6 21 6 0 0 4 0 1 4 3 5 2 1 2 86 66
Mitchell Hallahan 14 5 19 3 0 0 4 0 0 2 5 2 0 2 1 76 62
Brandon Matera 12 2 14 5 0 0 7 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 80 62
Adam Saad 12 13 25 2 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 5 6 0 1 85 96
Henry Schade 11 5 16 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 5 1 1 57 67
Andrew Raines 10 4 14 2 2 0 6 0 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 79 87
Nick Malceski 9 5 14 6 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 64 67
Tom Lynch 8 5 13 5 1 1 2 4 0 5 0 3 2 0 1 65 67
Trent McKenzie 6 1 7 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 36 60
Jesse Lonergan 5 7 12 2 0 0 5 0 1 1 1 5 2 0 0 55 57
Sean Lemmens 5 5 10 1 1 1 7 0 1 3 0 2 1 0 1 60 64
Touk Miller 5 13 18 2 1 0 4 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 69 82
Tom Nicholls 4 9 13 2 0 0 2 18 0 0 5 2 0 1 1 60 76
Clay Cameron 4 3 7 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 47 62
Peter Wright 4 3 7 3 0 0 2 4 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 40 30
Charlie Dixon 2 3 5 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 22 20
Danny Stanley 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 5
Jack Leslie 0 7 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 19 45
Fremantle Match Statistics (Sorted by Kicks) Coach: Ross Lyon
Nathan Fyfe 18 13 31 3 2 0 5 2 0 4 11 2 3 2 2 119 151
Lee Spurr 18 6 24 11 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 0 1 0 100 76
Lachie Neale 17 6 23 2 1 2 8 0 0 5 9 1 4 3 1 109 117
Garrick Ibbotson 16 7 23 11 0 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 104 122
Stephen Hill 14 9 23 4 0 1 6 0 0 3 5 4 3 0 0 97 92
Clancee Pearce 14 6 20 8 0 0 6 0 0 6 5 1 2 0 0 102 114
Cameron Sutcliffe 14 11 25 6 0 0 6 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 103 107
Luke McPharlin 11 9 20 7 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 77 91
Hayden Ballantyne 11 2 13 3 0 3 4 0 0 1 0 4 0 2 0 67 48
Tendai Mzungu 9 12 21 3 0 0 5 0 0 2 3 5 1 0 2 74 64
Alex Pearce 8 8 16 9 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 75 67
Michael Barlow 6 8 14 2 0 1 4 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 54 56
Jack Hannath 6 4 10 2 1 1 1 7 1 1 3 2 0 1 1 48 55
Matthew Taberner 4 2 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 23 28
Nicholas Suban 3 0 3 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 3 2 0 1 1 29 28
Aaron Sandilands 2 8 10 2 0 0 2 70 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 104 121
Gold Coast Statistic Fremantle
73 Marks 94
7 Goals Kicked 6
2 Behinds Kicked 13
Gold Coast Attribute Fremantle
56.6 Games 111.8
Gold Coast Games Fremantle
12 Less than 50 5
Gold Coast First Quarter Fremantle
100.0% Conversion 25.0%
Won quarter by 3 Result Lost quarter by 3
Leading by 3 End of Quarter Trailing by 3
Gold Coast Second Quarter Fremantle
Trailing by 6 Halftime Leading by 6
Gold Coast Third Quarter Fremantle
Trailing by 9 End of Quarter Leading by 9
Gold Coast Final Quarter Fremantle
Lost game by 7 End of Game Won game by 7
Gold Coast First Half Fremantle
Lost half by 6 Result Won half by 6
Gold Coast Second Half Fremantle
4.3 27 Score 3.10 28


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Messner: The dream house by noa* – network of architecture
At the foot of the Sciliar, in the picturesque area of Alpe di Siusi (Bolzano), the spirit of a barn is reborn as a home. The project, realised by noa* (network of architecture), has at its core, the South Tyrolean tradition combined with surprising features internally, resulting from design of visionary and unexpected spaces. An almost magical ambience is created, inspired by childhood memories.
Designed by noa* – network of architecture
Keep tradition in mind, but at the same time move away so as to create an original identity, a new way of living, a different structuring of the domestic space, and to searchinspiration from a childhood passed in the mountains. This, in summary, was the challenge faced by noa* in the project to construct a new home at Siusi in Sciliar, a construction to take the place of a deserted house in the centre of the village, with the original structure dating back to 1850.
The job, completed in 2017, needs to be understood in its complex and delicate context. We are talking about South Tyrol, and a project executed at a height of 1100 a.s.l. at the foot of Alpe di Siusi, a part of the Dolomites recognised as a Unesco World Heritage due to its outstanding natural beauty. It was therefore extremely important to respect the parameters of the original structure and the urban planning requirements and regulations of the village. For Stefan Rier, founder, together with Lukas Rungger of the noa* studio, and in this instance 'his own client', the project was an opportunity to give a personal footprint to his own property. In this sense there was a move away from the traditional principles of spatial distribution, this being achieved in part by recalling memories of a childhood spent in the mountains.
"We wanted the project to respect the aesthetics and the urban aspects of the village, a village where wooden barns alternate with plaster-fronted houses destined for farmers and the keeping of cattle.", explains architect Rier. "With this in mind, we finished the exterior structure with a 'coating' in keeping with tradition: a wooden grid on all 4 sides, just as is used for alpine barns. However, as far as the interior is concerned, I decided to leave tradition behind me, and thereby free the design from any preconceived limitations. In this way I was able to look forward...but also a little back in time to the beautiful years of my childhood".
The outcome of the project is a dwelling, having two aspects which confront each other in their style. The exterior represents the traditional alpine location, splendidly immersed in the local topography, whilst the interior boasts the visionary impulse, the surprise of a space freed from the general scheme of things, almost permeable, osmotic, and certainly innovative.


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Home › About CIRM › Our Publications › Grantee publications › Critical roles of a small conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel (SK3) in the repolarization process of atrial myocytes.
Critical roles of a small conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel (SK3) in the repolarization process of atrial myocytes.
Small conductance calcium-activated potassium (SK) channels are found to preferentially in the human heart muscle cells in the atrial chamber. These channels play an important role in the return of electrical impulses associated with heartbeats to the resting baseline. In particular, presence of SK3, a member of the SK channels, can significantly accelerate the observed return to baseline.
AIMS: Small conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels (KCa2 or SK channels) have been reported in excitable cells, where they aid in integrating changes in intracellular Ca(2+) ( ) with membrane potentials. We have recently reported the functional expression of SK channels in human and mouse cardiac myocytes. Additionally, we have found that the channel is highly expressed in atria compared with the ventricular myocytes. We demonstrated that human cardiac myocytes expressed all three members of SK channels (SK1, 2, and 3); moreover, the different members are capable of forming heteromultimers. Here, we directly tested the contribution of SK3 to the overall repolarization of atrial action potentials. METHODS AND RESULTS: We took advantage of a mouse model with site-specific insertion of a tetracycline-based genetic switch in the 5' untranslated region of the KCNN3 (SK3 channel) gene (SK3(T/T)). The gene-targeted animals overexpress the SK3 channel without interfering with the normal profile of SK3 expression. Whole-cell, patch-clamp techniques show a significant shortening of the action potential duration mainly at 90% repolarization (APD90) in atrial myocytes from the homozygous SK3(T/T) animals. Conversely, treatment with dietary doxycycline results in a significant prolongation of APD90 in atrial myocytes from SK3(T/T) animals. We further demonstrate that the shortening of APDs in SK3 overexpression mice predisposes the animals to inducible atrial arrhythmias. CONCLUSION: SK3 channel contributes importantly towards atrial action potential repolarization. Our data suggest the important role of the SK3 isoform in atrial myocytes.


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PROPOSAL NUMBER: 05 O1.02-9013
SUBTOPIC TITLE: Precision Navigation and Tracking
PROPOSAL TITLE: X-Ray Pulsar Based Navigation and Time Determination
Microcosm, Inc.
401 Coral Circle
El Segundo ,CA 90245 - 4622
Paul Graven
pgraven@smad.com
El Segundo, CA 90245 -4622
DARPA recently initiated the XNAV program to undertake development of GPS independent, precision navigation and time determination based on observations of certain extremely stable millisecond X-ray pulsars for near Earth military applications. The groundwork for this effort comes from more than a decade of high-energy astrophysics research at NRL and data from space-based surveys of galactic X-ray sources (e.g., ARGOS/USA, Chandra). These signals can be exploited as a "natural GPS" to provide position information and an extremely stable time reference.
Anticipated NASA Applications:
1. Accurate clock synchronization (solar system wide)
2. Fully autonomous, precision navigation (solar system wide)
3. DSN Augmentation
4. Planetary GPS enabler
5. LEO GPS backup
Microcosm has worked with NRL on exploitation of this technology for 2.5 years, and we anticipate continued access to their work during Phase I which will examine the utility, and feasibility of developing X-ray pulsar based navigation and time determination technology for candidate NASA applications. Requirements will be determined, approaches developed, and performance potential projected.
The Phase II study will develop the most promising applications. Detailed designs will be created, performance simulations developed, utility assessed, a technology roadmap developed, and a mission planning guide developed.
This technology is principally applicable to NASA lunar and interplanetary missions ?regions beyond the range of GPS which rely on the DSN for navigation. It can provide autonomous navigation throughout the solar system, greatly reducing demands on the DSN. It can also augment the DSN by providing accurate time synchronization, and position and velocity components normal to the line-of-sight to Earth, both of which will enable faster and more accurate navigation solutions. There are typically one or two missions each year that will benefit from the technology.
It could enable accurate, autonomous "GPS" for surface and spacecraft navigation at Mars or other planets. Additionally, it can enable spatially and temporally coordinated measurements over solar system scale distances. This could enable or enhance future space interferometer missions.
The reduced demands on the DSN combined with the potential for improved navigation accuracy would yield both cost savings and mission enhancements to NASA.
The primary non-NASA applications are likely to be for DoD missions. The DARPA XNAV program is focused on development of the technology for military purposes. Specific applications include navigation outside of GPS range, back-up navigation in the event of GPS denial, GPS reconstitution, and development of a super-synchronous navigation and time distribution service. Details on the DARPA XNAV program can be found on the DARPA website at: http://www.darpa.mil/ucar/programs/xnav.html
There do not appear to be any near-term non-government applications; however, it is possible that the technology will prove viable for autonomous navigation and station-keeping for geosynchronous communication satellites.
Another potential market would be with ESA. It is likely that ESA applications would be developed cooperatively with NASA.
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Historical Development and Future Significance of G20 Following The Meeting in Hangzhou, China
G-number club is a natural creation as the world is advancing in economy and size. There was obvious needs for the biggest world economy to have a forum to dialog on issues related to economic development. Hence at the 200th anniversary year of the establishment of the United States, 1976, the U.S., Japan, the U.K. France, Germany, Italy and Canada formed the G7 with each nation's Chief Minister of Finance, and/or Economics Affairs or Treasurer or Head of National Central Bank participating. Being a club member is a honor representing the country's economic accomplishment and its implied obligation for helping maintaining the world's economy. G7 was functioning for 21 years until 1997 when the economic crisis occurred in Asia, collapsing its finances which drastically affected the world economy.
By the suggestions of the finance ministers and central bankers of G7, the Ministers forum was increased to 20 nations in December 1999, adding Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, (South) Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey and EU (included the significant 5 Gold Bricks, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Nine years later, just before the 2008 global finance crisis occurred, the finance ministers, to their collective wisdom and credit, decided that their national leaders should be invited to the G20 meeting as well. Each country would take turn to host the meeting, last year the G20 was held in Belek, Serik, Antalya, Turkey.
This year 2016, China is hosting the G20 from September 4-5 in Hangzhou City, a city famous for its picturesque West Lake and rich Chinese literature and cultural heritage. Instead of selecting her biggest top four cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, famous for hosting international events, China has deliberately selected Hangzhou as the host for G20. Judging from the preparation that Hangzhou has put in for G20 and B20, a summit of business leaders of G20 nations with focus on industrial innovation, one can naturally appreciate why Hangzhou as a top ranking civilian industrial city full of enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit is selected as the G20 host. The world biggest online enterprise, Alibaba, is headquartered in Hangzhou, which is a testimony to Hangzhou's industrial power and innovation capability. Sure enough Hangzhou has not disappointed the G20 and B20 attendees.
Before the meeting begun on Monday, 9/4, there were already news-highlights hitting the world press. The arrival of G20 leaders and their meeting with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping were prominently featured not only on Chinese television but certainly on their own national TV. It is definitely a busy and tiring week for the host H.E. Xi Jinping, who attended a marathon of receptions and meetings with the leaders of the G20 nations and their business and industrial leaders. The host was addressed as H.E. Xi Jinping on his nameplate, many Chinese have wondered whether H.E. means anything other than His Excellency, an unusual title used in China.
By being physically in China visiting Beijing and Shanghai in the first half of September, the author had the opportunity of witnessing the continuous coverage of the G20 event by the visual media as well as hearing the sideline discussions off the mainstream media. Firstly, the TV coverage of the G20 event is extremely educational for the Chinese general public, especially for the young people who received a heavy dosage of international affairs. Rightly so, the news and discussions were more related to the bi-lateral encounters between the leaders of China and another country but there was also a significant focus on security issue in the world. For example, the placement of THAD anti ballistic missiles was bright on the media's radar screen. The exchanges of dialogs between Presidents Xi and Obama and Xi and Park would certainly make impacts on the future course of the event even though the parties stuck with their pre-meeting official positions. Perhaps, this is the significance of G20 and the value of having annual G20 meetings where courses of international events and relations could be modified by physical encounters of G20 leaders. The news media of course had a exciting field day at the G20, while they were anxious to grab the headlines resulting from G20's major resolution, plenty of gossiping report such as the missing red carpet for President Obama or hitter verbal exchange between security staff between the visiting party and the host.
Other than the political significance of the G20, exemplified above, other significance is in the impact on world economy and a side benefit of cultural interaction exhibited in its art performances. The impact on business and industrial development can be seen and projected into the future from the meeting agenda of the G20's companion B20 meeting. The continuity of B20 as an annual event will sure make positive influence on business and industrial cooperation across national boundaries.
Of course, the main focus of G20 is on economy with twin emphasis on trade and investment which are the two main locomotives for propelling economic growth. 2016 G20 meeting have concluded the following solutions:
The G20 shall provide clear direction and planning steps for world economy; Inject new energy into and create innovative method for economic growth; improve financial management and raise ability to resist financial crisis; reenergize international trade and investment and expand their impact to construct an open world economy; and promote inclusive and interactive economic development and let the fruits of G20 benefitting the entire world.
Under the above broad principles, the specific benefits to the global citizens expected are jobs creation, more pocket money, better and cheaper goods, economic growth for everyone and cooperative efforts for dealing with climate change.
One other significant impact brought on by 2016 G20, perhaps not deliberately intended in its initial intent, is culture. Although culture was not specifically included in the agenda of the G20 meeting, but through the G20 entertaining event, culture had always been prominently highlighted. The water theatric show presented on the famous West Lake in Hangzhou for entertaining the visiting dignitaries of G20 and B20 was a spectacular performance. The show was created and conducted by the world-known movie and theater director, Zhang Yi-mou, with hundreds of talented Chinese artists participated presenting a variety of art shows full of western and eastern culture elements. The daring, rich and impressive innovation of arts, music and technology shown through the theatric presentation on water set a great milestone in art performance and integration of Eastern and Western culture. Such an event not only highlighted the intended focus on the theme to push new economic growth through innovation and creativity but also sets example exhibiting mutual cultural impact from multiple nationalities. No doubt this impressive Hangzhow G20 show inherited and inspired from previous G20 cultural shows and expanded by incorporating more creativity, innovation and cultural elements will have lasting impact to future G20 cultural performances and making a significant contribution to creating a boundary less world culture.
Similar to other international fora such as APEC, G20 Hangzhow offers a great platform for dialog among world leaders to gain understanding of global issues and to reach consensus for solving problems and promoting international cooperation. For the 2016 G20, one can cite a number of meaningful initiatives: First, the development issue has been prominently placed under the global policy framework. Second, concrete action plan has been put in place to realize the UN 2030 sustainable economic development. And third, a new growth has been articulated as an important agenda to define a new growth blue print and specific action plans for achieving new world economic growth through innovation. These new emphases were remarked by the host leader Xi Jinping in the closing session of G20. Indeed, this new focus on innovation is expected to be the key for new economic growth.


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Torsten Frings biography
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Are you searching to know about the German former professional footballer and football manager Torsten Frings biography? Do you want to know his childhood, early life, parents, siblings, personal, physical, career, and wedding life info, height, weight, age, or his wife's name? If you want to know about him, this post is for you. You can know from here about Torsten Frings's biography, childhood, early life, parents, siblings, personal, physical, career, and wedding life info, age, height, weight, net worth, jersey number, father, mother, wife, children, best friends, marital status, religion, hobbies, favorites, and more about him.
Who is Torsten Frings
Full name Torsten Klaus Frings but commonly known as Torsten Frings. He was a German professional footballer and football manager. He played as a central midfielder for the Germany national football team.
In his club career, he also played several professional football clubs such as Alemannia Aachen, Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, and Toronto FC. This footballer is known for his powerful shot from distance, leadership on the pitch, as well as his explosive, and hardworking.
This German central midfielder made his professional career debut for the German professional football club Alemannia Aachen in 1994 before joining the Bundesliga club Werder Bremen.
In addition, Frings made his international career debut for the Germany national team in 2001. This brilliant footballer scored his first international goal for his team in a friendly match on 27 March 2002 against the United States national.
In addition, he scored his second international goal in a friendly match against the Kuwait national team on 9 May 2002. He began his managerial career for SV Darmstadt 98 in 2016
This German football star was born into a middle-class family on 22 November 1976 in Wurselen, Germany. His father's name is Dieter Frings and his mother's name is Adelheid Frings. There is no information available about his father and mother's professional information.
He has two brothers Michael Frings and Christian Frings. This football player began his youth career for Rot-Weiß Alsdorf in 1982 when he was only six years old.
Torsten Frings personal, physical, career, and wedding life info
Full Name Torsten Klaus Frings
Celebrated name Torsten Frings
Nickname (s) Frings, Lollipop
Birth Date 22 November 1976
Birth Place Wurselen, Germany
Nationality German
Father Dieter Frings
Mother Adelheid Frings
Brother (s) Michael Frings and Christian Frings
Playing Position Midfielder
Current Club Team Retired in 2012
Current National Team Retired in 2009
Jersey Number #22 / Toronto FC / Midfielder
22 / Werder Bremen / Midfielder
Youth Career Debut (Club) In 1982 for Rot-Weiß Alsdorf
Professional Career debut (Club) In 1994 for Alemannia Aachen
U-21 Team Debut In 1997 for Germany U21
International Debut / Senior Team Debut In 2001 for Germany senior team
Girlfriend (s) / Affairs Petra Frings
Wife / Spouse Petra Frings
Children (s) Lena Alina Frings (Daughter)
Lisa-Katharina Frings (Daughter)
Best Friend (s) Miroslav Klose
Favorite Footballer (s) Gerd Muller
Social Media Not Available
Wikipedia Torsten Frings Wikipedia
Torsten Frings Salary and Net Worth
Salary 2 Million USD (2012)
Net Worth $1 – $5 Million
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One thing about this ongoing project is that we get to listen to music from all over the world. In this review, since there are literally thousands of artists to peruse through, we decided to take the approach of reviewing a song or a music video. In this case, we are reviewing the song and video from international pop star Afgan.
Afgan, out of Indonesia, is known for the song "Be Alright", which was featured on the 2018 Asian Games: Energy of Asia compilation album, and has also been a judge on the 2015 Indonesian version of the hit show "X Factor". He is quite popular in Indonesia due to his songwriting abilities and how he carries his vocals.
Obviously, I don't speak any language associated with Indonesia. However, I can tell you that Afgan sings "Sudah" very, very well. He seems to showcase multiple octaves and the music sounds like a 90's pop/easy listening song, kind of like an Indonesian version of someone like Michael Bolton or Jon Secada. Although I don't understand what he's singing about, I can tell from the senses of the song, whether its the piano arrangement or the way he evokes emotion in his singing, that it's a sad song about missing a loved one or lamenting about that special someone moving on to someone new.
It's plain to see why Afgan is an international pop star and very popular in Indonesia and Asia. He is supremely talented, and the arrangements in "Sudah" are quite lush. Afgan is living proof that music transcends cultures and languages. I want to encourage my readers to step out of their comfort zone and try to listen to some music from a different language. Discovering artists like Afgan makes this a really fun project!
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Rudolf Weiss, the German herbalist, has some interesting ideas on the blood pressure. He describes it as merely one aspect of a deeper problem. It also believes that people, when low blood pressure, but have no symptoms, do not require treatment. I am not saying that this Council is to replace your doctor if! But I find it interesting that as a possible method of further processing, in his view, the view that blood pressure is the product of a small movement. Therefore, fresh herbs that support the movement can be a useful adjunct to other treatments, what is proposed.
He stressed that the key parameter of a regulatory imbalance. This shows that herbs such as rosemary, is a tonic effect, will be invaluable.
Rosemary is an entirely different herbs. It is actually used for headaches, especially migraine. The herbalist Michael Tierra says that many headaches are caused by problems in the stomach, and rosemary essential oils have a very positive and soothing to the stomach. Rosemary also contains salicylic acid, the precursor of aspirin. Although his work, as no long-term effects later.
Rosemary is excellent for circulation, and often dictated by botanists for circulatory disorders (Fisher & Painter). The active ingredients called flavonoids cardiovascular tonic. Just as hypotension, proposed rosemary for poor circulation, headache and hypertension and arrhythmias.
Externally, rosemary is used for rheumatic complaints Spirit (White). It can also be massaged into the heart.
Another key aspect of rosemary is rosemarinic acid, which is a phenol. Rosemarinic acid has anti-inflammatory action. One study showed that rosemarinic preparation for the treatment of allergic asthma was effective. It was also found to suppress synovitis in mice. Synovitis is an inflammation of the lining of the joints, swelling, which is very painful. It is in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rosemarinic acid may also prevent the activation of prostacyclin and supplements lead to hypotension (Fisher & Painter).
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European markets traded in a tight range much of the day. The English FTSE 100 was up 0.06% to 5,904, the French CAC 40 was up 0.12% to 3,977 and the German DAX lost 0.11% to 6,939.
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"I am having…"
People say "I'm having a baby." "I'm having a good time," or "I'm having friends over for dinner." but normally don't say "I'm having a car," "I'm having a cold." or "I'm having a solution."
The typical "reasons" found in grammar books for this is that simple present is used for facts, and present progressive is used for temporary situations or when we don't know the exact start time of an activity. Or, the speaker will make a "choice" about what they want to say, so that the reason they said "The bus is leaving at 08:00" and not "The bus leaves at 08:00." is because they want to stress the temporary nature of the bus' departure time. This kind of duality often happens in ESL textbooks, for example in the travel chapters where the focus is not on simple present / present progressive usage but on vocabulary or collocations, so the authors are not as vigilant about being "consistent" with their usage.
So, the reasons I have heard for why we don't say "I'm owning a car." is because owning a car is a fact. I can see that "logic" but what about "I have a headache."? I have never heard a native speaker say "I am having a headache," or "I was having a headache when you asked me about the files." Do you own a headache? Surely, it is temporary and merits the progressive tense. What about "I have brown eyes."? Colored contact lenses aside, I think everyone, native and non-native speakers would agree that "I am having brown eyes." is not something English speakers would say.
Is the choice between using present progressive and simple present idiomatic? For the case of "I have a headache / cold / toothache, etc." I have never heard my dad use the present progressive. I grew up hearing "Mommy has a headache so leave her alone." or "I have a cold, so I'm not going to the office today." So, I just learned those expressions and after 46 years it is set in stone as the "right" way to speak.
Are there deeper reasons for these differences in usage or is it just a matter of "that's the way it's expressed and it's stupid to question it."? Is there a difference because English has a progressive tense, thereby making these kinds of problems more apparent? Was there a time in the history of English when speakers said "I am having a headache / cold / toothache."?
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Who told you "we can" and "we can't"? Please include your reference/research in the question. Otherwise, it would be "primarily opinion-based". – user140086 Nov 1 '15 at 17:11
You edited your question. What people? American? British? Canadian? Irish? Or Californian? – user140086 Nov 1 '15 at 17:25
@Mari-LouA You don't own "cold". It is closer to "experiencing/suffering". – user140086 Nov 1 '15 at 17:27
You don't know? The second series of examples is using "have" as in owning something: I possess a car/cold/solution = "I have got a car/cold/solution." E.g I have measles/chickenpox/back pain etc. Whereas the previous line, have means experience (I will be a mother; I am enjoying myself), or invite (I have invited friends for dinner) – Mari-Lou A Nov 1 '15 at 17:29
Why are you asking? Was this a student's question? Look it up in a dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/have and here: macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/have lots of different uses for have – Mari-Lou A Nov 1 '15 at 17:32
Two facts interacting here
The Progressive construction is not used with stative predicates. Another way to put this is that if a predicate is used in the Progressive, it will be interpreted as an Active predicate, if possible. If this is not possible, you get an ungrammatical sentence.
The verb have is a widely-used auxiliary verb, and participates in many idioms and constructions; some of these are active and some are stative. There is also the 'Possess' sense of have, which is normally stative.
Basically, you can't say I'm having a car or I'm having the answer because those predicates are stative. I'm having a headache, on the other hand, like She's having a baby, can be considered active; it is interpretable as an event with a beginning, middle, and end.
Some examples of active idioms with have (that are therefore OK in the Progressive)
She's having a baby in November.
He's having lunch right now.
She was having a cigar when he came in.
He's having to do it all over again.
She's having her ring resized.
.. as well as the ones mentioned in the question.
If they're active predicates, Progressive is allowed. But not statives.
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So, if I understand this issue and your answer, there is an internal logic to English which doesn't support certain uses of verbs. If we did accept these uses then the other uses would have to change. So grammatically it is possible to say certain things but semantically it would be inconsistent with the other uses in the system. – michael_timofeev Nov 2 '15 at 2:28
Yes. The internal logic is English syntax; it's what we have for grammar instead of lots of endings and paradigms, the way Russian or German have. There are hundreds (probably thousands) of syntactic rules in English, and they interact, like this. I'm not sure what you mean by your last two sentences, however. – John Lawler Nov 2 '15 at 3:21
Well, what I mean is that is possible to say the sentence "I am having a car." but the use of "having" doesn't match other uses in the system so it is inconsistent and causes native speakers to say "That doesn't sound right." I'm trying to find a way to explain why what students think is right doesn't work in English without using words like "inchoative" "stative" or "atelic." My students are intelligent people but their listening skills are often weak so explanations need to be clear and not use grammar-speak. – michael_timofeev Nov 2 '15 at 3:41
A good learner's Dictionary should distinguish active from stative verbs, just like mass from count nouns; you have to deal with both eventually. It's mostly semantic, but there are plenty of odd cases; for instance, rent (in both senses) is active, but own is stative. Hence, I am renting a house to/from him, but not *I am owning a house on this street. – John Lawler Nov 2 '15 at 16:17
I think your "I'm having a headache" is wrong. Read this (dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/common-verbs/…) article which mentions same sentence as wrong. – hagrawal Mar 7 at 20:40
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While a lot of things were going well for the Hawks in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, there were some key struggles across the ice that kept coming back to haunt them.
Defense: The Hawks had a 2-0 lead to start the game. The Hawks held the lead three times in Game 7 alone. Each time the Kings scored, the Hawks offense came back. You can't count on your offense to continually score four or more goals. You also can't put everything in your goalie's hands. The defense needs to be there to make the stop. They fell short several times throughout Game 7. First goal the Kings had should have been stopped by the defense and never even made it to Corey Crawford. Credit the Kings for a strong offense, but they were also there to capitalize on any small mistake by the Hawks defense.
Offense: Chance after chance after chance. The Hawks again spent a lot of time near the Kings net. They had 41 shots on goal which was nine more then the Kings, and only scored on four of those attempts. It's not to say that the offense hasn't scored well in this series, but watching the games there were many more opportunities that the Hawks didn't capitalize on.
Goaltending: It's clear that Crawford could have performed better in this series. He performed better in last years Stanley Cup final. There were obviously mistakes across the ice, but there were a few key misses from Crawford in Game 7. On the four shots on goal in the second period, Crawford allowed one goal. There were only three shots on goal in overtime, and Crawford allowed one goal. He came up short when the Kings had less opportunities and shots on goals. Those were big misses.
Crawford said battling through traffic was a strength of his during the season, but he didn't play well enough in that area vs. the Kings.
Overall, it was still a hard-fought game and series on both sides of the puck.
"Well, we were pretty close to getting to the big dance," Coach Joel Quenneville said. "You look at how close we were, how competitive it was. It's a tough league. It's a tough thing to do, to win the Cup. I couldn't be prouder of our guys the way we competed in some tough situations, down 3-1. One shot away from going to try to do it again.
To quote Cubs fans, there's always next year.


In today'sToronto Star, columnist James Travers claims the PMO is trying to silence the PBO because... sorry, lapsed into Acronyese there. He says the Prime Minister is refusing funding and otherwise making life difficult for the new Parliamentary Budget Officer because, Travers asserts, "In short order, and with gold standard analysis, the budget officer first embarrassed Conservatives by revealing the soaring costs of the Afghanistan war during the fall election. Then he cast deficit shadows over sunny economic forecasts. Retribution in Ottawa is swift and summary." This assessment does not merely reflect but contributes to a fairly serious problem. The Parliamentary Budget Office, as I noted recently in a column, was established to strengthen the voice of MPs not compete with, supplement or supplant it and some former MPs are concerned that it's exceeding its mandate. The PBO claims it's not, arguing among other things that it automatically makes all its reports public to avoid getting caught up in spin and manipulation. Which I believe is the right approach, also followed by the Congressional Budget Office down in the U.S., which has established itself as professional and non-partisan.
The thing is, it's very hard to avoid being seized, spun around and used to whack one's adversaries in the current climate in Canadian politics. It's especially hard when you're doing budget analysis given the rather obvious tendency of members of all parties to exaggerate, misrepresent and fantasize about fiscal matters and when journalists as well as politicians have not just a pervasive habit of enflaming controversies, but a material interest in doing so.
I wish I had some really good piece of advice to offer the PBO but I don't, not least because much of it is out of their hands. For instance the very first Parliamentary Budget Office study, of the costs of the Afghan conflict, was seized upon by politicians who misrepresented the findings without effective challenge from the media. But the PBO, and especially its head and public voice Kevin Page, must be very careful not to appear to quarrel with the government especially when PBO numbers do not sustain the more partisan contentions coming out of the PMO and government caucus.
Meanwhile all the rest of us who care about good governance have a responsibility to grasp what the proper role of various organizations is, to defend them when they do it well and rap their knuckles when they do not. Including, I have to say, journalists who depict everything in government as a cat fight because those are easy to cover and exciting to read about.


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"All we can" is the new name for what was previously known as MRDF (Methodist Relief and Development Fund). The change took place on 8 April 2014.
It was felt that MRDF had a compelling story to tell about the difference its partners were making in some of the world's poorest communities, and ambitious plans to increase its impact, but the former name was not helping to do that. It no longer accurately reflected the work that was being done as MRDF had been much more than simply a fund for many years.
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"Investing in ministers is investing in community…"
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Todd, Erin, Dr. Richard Steele and his wife, Rev. Marilyn Hair, and Dr. Stephen Newby of SPU
The terms of the endowment: "This endowment provides scholarships for American-born African American Seattle Pacific Seminary students, who demonstrate confidence in their call to pastoral ministry, and who are called to minister to largely African American or multicultural settings, and who are recommended by the Dean of the School of Theology with the aim of helping encourage and grow African American leadership in the church."
The Endowment Honors Richard B. Steele: For more about Professor Steele, see his bio on the SPU website. What the website won't tell you about is the extraordinary, selfless care he has faithfully extended to all of his students over a distinguished teaching career and that this career has its roots at the Milwaukee Theological Institute, which was founded in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement to provide ministerial training for inner city folks. As he describes it, at this institute, "a high-powered academic "class" could turn into a "prayer meeting" at the drop of a hat…and turn back into an academic class again just as quickly." Dr. Steele's research focuses on ministering to people with disabilities and also on civil rights, what he terms "prisoners of conscience" who have changed society with their vision and passion.
Dr. Steele's instructional and mentorly practice destabilizes the industrial model of higher education, – in fact SPU at its best does this as a whole through a Christian focus that respects all identities and religions and strives for grace and harmony amidst diversity.
Dr. Steele's ministry in caring for his daughter, Sarah (1984-2017), alongside his wife, Marilyn (pictured above), perfected his compassionate ministerial abilities. To read more about Sarah and to donate to an organization that helps people with her illness, click here. †
SPU's School of Theology – deeply invested in racial justice: Click here for the SPU School of Theology's statement on their commitment to racial justice.
How do I donate? (Online – Please read all directions carefully):
Donations can be made online through the SPU website by clicking on the following link to the SPU Giving Page: https://give.spu.edu/sslpage.aspx. Once on the page you will be asked to specify that for which you are donating.
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To amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to provide for procurement set-aside targets for rural areas.
05/25/1989 Referred to the Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security.
05/18/1989 Referred to the House Committee on Government Operations.
No related bill information was received for H.R.2413.
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to provide leadership and coordination with respect to policies affecting procurement programs for rural areas. Directs the Administrator to: (1) coordinate with and advise State and local officials with regard to Federal efforts to encourage procurement in rural areas with the aim of fostering economic development in such areas; (2) establish specific rural area procurement targets for executive agencies consistent with awards or contracts for small business concerns; and (3) encourage the use of set asides or other appropriate methods for meeting procurement targets for rural areas.
Requires executive agencies to provide assistance in carrying out the Administrator's responsibilities for rural area programs.


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Digital business transformation – Take control
As your organization focuses on operational improvements and business transformation, you will benefit greatly from paying attention to collaboration automation and data analytics. Enterprise communications services – also known as unified communications (UC) and collaboration – are a key area for business and operational improvements. Integrating the management of all these collaboration services manually can be complex and resource intensive, but are well-suited for automation and analytics. In fact, collaboration automation and analytics hold the keys to delivering true business transformation across your organization.
A business transformation journey is never over. Your organization will constantly evolve, and so too must your collaboration tools, to serve the ever-changing business environment. There are specific stages in a business transformation that can be supported and underpinned by our award-winning automation technology:
Discovery and migration – Deep understanding of your transformation challenges and goals
Onboarding – Highly automated , frictionless on-ramp of end users
Customization – Tailor your management processes to suit specific business objectives
Integration – Central point of control with north and southbound integrations
Automation and orchestration – Highly automated day-to-day administration and zero-touch workflows save time, remove risk of manual error, and ensure quality and performance
Performance management and analytics – Visualize, gain insights and actively manage the licencing, assets, performance and quality of your UC suite, across its lifecycle
Self-healing – Apply AI to increase intelligence and insight and provide recommendations and automate remedial processes
Employee and customer experience – Guarantee a positive end user experience to fuel user adoption and productivity in critical parts of the business
Upgrade and scaling – Grow your business and manage change as your business needs evolve
At VOSS, it is our mission to introduce high levels of automation and intelligence to empower you to solve these challenges above. With VOSS, you can improve employee productivity, unlock savings, and fuel business growth. VOSS gives you a central point of control and insight into your UC, collaboration, and contact center processes. Your digital business transformation journey will be supported every step of the way, and underpinned by our award-winning technology.
VOSS Insights allows you to quickly retrieve information about users, devices, services, licenses and transactions, through an easy-to-use web-based portal. Administrators can access this single portal to view critical information about their collaboration services, drill down to the details, or export the data for external use with third party billing and analysis tools. VOSS Insights pulls data from multiple applications into a single dashboard allowing you to understand UC services usage in the wider context of impact to the business. This analysis helps you see trends in user and service adoption, understand which services are favored among others, and make better decisions on which services should be invested in, in the future.
VOSS Insights also allows an analysis of UC service consumption, to measure which services are being adopted or not. Administrators can then take action to increase adoption. Administrators can compare service usage versus purchased service licenses, to evaluate whether the business is getting the best value for the already purchased UC licenses.
VOSS Migrate is a highly sophisticated, big data transformation suite that has been designed to carry out communications platform audits and digital workplace migration projects. We use a revolutionary methodology to discover, extract, transform, validate, and load large volumes of users and data to automate a collaboration migration, enabling you to quickly and efficiently onboard users and devices, avoiding lengthy, high-budget, high-risk, manual migrations.
VOSS Self-Healing
We make UC self-healing a reality
VOSS Self-Healing is a ground-breaking solution that harnesses VOSS Insights to extract data, analyze and troubleshoot faults, and then apply corrective rules in the provisioning workflows of VOSS Automate, to identify issues that can be automatically corrected. Corrections are automatically confirmed by VOSS Insights.
The key feature of the VOSS Self-Healing solution is zero-touch, fault rectification in an organization's collaboration platform. This significantly reduces downtime, increases service availability, and improves overall business continuity for critical business operations that involve communications.
VOSS automation management brings immense value
Highly agile – Respond to change, fast, increase user adoption
Comprehensive management – Improve staff productivity, fuel growth
Magnificently easy – Lower the skill admin requirement and reduce costs
Astonishingly accurate – Zero-touch processes eradicate error, speed processes
VOSS was founded to address the need for a unified communications management solution that would help our customer unify the multiple, individual components that make up the full UC experience. Our first product version was born, and early customers included BT and Dubai Internet City.
Cisco recognised the huge value that an integrated service delivery focussed management could deliver to their suite of UC products. This resulted in a long, dynamic and highly successful partnership with Cisco.
In 2006, Mike Frayne was appointed the CEO of VisionOSS, taking leadership of the board of directors, organizing the first round of funding, and supporting our aggressive growth plans, and opening two offices in North America.
2008 was a busy year. A second round of funding was announced, and we opened a center of excellence in Cape Town that would become – and remains to be – our product development hub. The second generation of our product was released; designed to support the UC management needs of large enterprises and managed service providers. It was at this time that VisionOSS started to receive accolades for its technology, including an Internet Telephony Excellence Award and UC Magazine Product of the Year.
In 2009 VOSS was named a Gartner Cool Vendor, and we were proud to become a Cisco SolutionsPlus partner. Our customer list continued to grow, winning new contracts in the USA, Canada, and the UK.
2010 saw the growth of the VOSS Asia Pacific team and VOSS deepened and extended our relationship with Cisco. Cisco performed an extensive evaluation of all the UC management solutions (including their own Prime Collaboration Provisioning capability) and selected VOSS to become their OEM strategic partner. The VOSS HQ was relocated from the UK to Richardson, Texas to work more closely and collaboratively with Cisco's UC operations team. This proved to be great timing, as Cisco announced Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) with VOSS as a go-to-market partner.
VOSS continued to hit the headlines; in 2010, we featured in the Nemertes' first research into VoIP management, and early in 2011, Stratecast listed us in the OSS/BSS Ratpack, and we were voted Best Support System at the 2011 World Vendor Awards. 2011 was also the year that Cisco took the major decision to exclusively incorporate the VOSS technology – rebranded as Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager (CUCDM) – in every Cisco HCS account. It was at this point that demand for VOSS sky-rocketed, with service providers all over the world installing the VOSS UC management technology to overarch their exciting new Cisco HCS platforms. UCaaS was born, and boy, was it hot!
No surprise that in 2012, VOSS broke the 2 million EUD barrier, as new service provider customers flooded to VOSS. Transaction volumes exceeded 70 million, jumping to over 100 million the following year.
In January 2013, VOSS signed its first contract for over 1 million seats with a global service provider. It was at this time that the third generation of technology was announced: VOSS-4-UC – now known as VOSS Automate.
In 2014, VOSS extended its reach across China with a number of significant customer acquisitions, and signed a partnership with WWT. Meanwhile, we were starting to really showcase the power of our technology with a 35,000 seat migration project for Telstra and a 17-country rollout for CSC. Our agile and intuitive self-service portal was unveiled; still highly popular today.
In 2015, we were proud to announce the onboarding of our 100th service provider customer, while gaining more and more traction in the large enterprise market. This was the year we brought our second product to market; a UC migration solution that is now known as VOSS Migrate.
In 2016, VOSS responded to the growing need for multi-vendor UC management and began offering support for multiple technologies, such as Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, and Broadsoft. This allowed best of breed technologies to co-exist in a UC platform, and for IT administrators to manage these disparate tools from a single point of control.
In 2017, VOSS signed an OEM agreement with LayerX which enabled VOSS to deliver our third product, VOSS Assurance and Analytics, to the market; addressing the growing market need for insight into and understanding of UC platform performance. This product continued to go from strength to strength and is today known as VOSS Insights.
In 2018, Cisco announced the decision to open up the HCS architecture, freeing service providers to choose the best of breed technologies they wished to include in their HCS platform. This was a pivotal moment for VOSS. Previously constrained by the limitations of our OEM'd product CUCDM, we were now free to work directly with the HCS customers – major service providers and large enterprises around the world – to offer a much broader and deeper UC management suite of products.
Through 2018 and 2019 VOSS worked alongside the hundreds of Cisco HCS service provider partners and enterprise customers to seamlessly transition them away from CUCDM and onto VOSS-4-UC. From this point forward, the conversation was no longer limited to UC management, but the full lifecycle of UC, with VOSS able to help with the migration, onboarding, fulfillment and provisioning, orchestration and automation, assurance, analytics and reporting, through to upgrade, scaling and optimization. Major blue chip companies were now relying on VOSS as the trusted provider – and the global leader – for their UC automation management solutions.
In 2019, the global pandemic changed the face of the unified communications industry forever. Suddenly, with 90% of the global workforce based at home, "nice to have" cloud collaboration tools became essential business tools. VOSS was in the perfect place to respond, enabling our customers to be agile in making changes to their UC infrastructure to support remote workers and any radical new business processes and practises.
Through 2020 and 2021, we saw our enterprise and service provider customers embrace the concept of digital business transformation by adapting our solutions to provide effective support for the Digital Workplace. Due to our strong, direct relationships with our customers we were able to help them evolve their UC and collaboration platforms to suit the highly dynamic and ever-changing nature of their business – and to be better prepared should another global event take place.
In September 2021, we announced the acquisition of LayerX Technologies, a leading provider of advanced data analytics and monitoring software for networking and unified communications operators. Our decision to acquire LayerX formed an important part of our growth strategy supporting the accelerated business transformation journeys that our customers were undertaking, driven by the seismic shift in employee working practises over the previous 24 months.
At the same time, VOSS raised $15m from existing investors and shareholders to both complete the LayerX transaction and position our company for ongoing growth and expansion. The growth funding round was led by Verdane, the Northern European specialist growth equity investor, expanding the investment firm's shareholding in the company, with new investment capital from Claret Capital Partners who participated with both equity and debt. Existing investors, Vodafone Ventures and Foncière Georges Mignon NV, also supported the funding round.
VOSS is now firmly positioned as the leading provider of digital workplace management technology, and we continue to work alongside our customers to provide cutting edge automation technology to suit their evolving communications needs.


In today's climate it is essential that young people have the means to speak their mind through diverse modes of communication. I have witnessed the sense of empowerment that students experience when they have a performative space, a stage, studio or podium, on which to discover, write, rehearse, perform and speak their truth. When dance and writing are partnered, students integrate these modes of communication in unique processes of inquiry, exploration and sense-making.
On January 15th, Katrina Deans and I led a Practitioner Exchange at Luna Dance where we discussed the intersections between dance and writing. We were joined virtually by Amanda Chiado, a dance teaching artist from Hollister, CA and by Luna staff, Deborah Karp and Aiano Nakagawa.
Throughout the hour and a half discussion, our conversation meandered from abstract discussion of why writing and dance to concrete discussion of strategies and ideas for our classrooms.
Through our conversation we realized that a partnership between writing and dance offers collaborative opportunities for students and processes of mutual sense-making. We discussed how a student might move to a poem written by another student, or witness a student's movement and draft a written interpretation of meaning. Such processes create rich source material for students to pull from when they are "stuck" in either the writing or the choreographic process. They also provide opportunities for students to realize that the meaning we make of movement or writing is subjective, and that meaning can change when viewed through a different lens, whether choreographic or literary.
Writing and dance also offer potential for integrating curricular and thematic material. We discussed our own experiences integrating writing, curricular content and dance. When Katrina learned that all of the students in one of her studio classes were studying the solar system, she used this content as source material for a dance piece that incorporated students' written work. She encourages her older students to speak their truth by writing and then incorporating the writing in movement compositions. Amanda is exploring weather with her Kindergarteners through poetic compositions and movement. I am contemplating how my third graders can explore our Graduate Profile learning traits though movement and writing.
The Practitioner Exchange was an informative and inspiring platform to connect with colleagues who have similar pedagogical interests but work in different environments. As we each shared our ideas and expertise, we were able to collaborate, brainstorm and learn from one another's diverse experiences. As a classroom teacher, sharing ideas with dance teaching artists helped me see new opportunities for writing and dance that I would not have discovered from my perspective in the classroom. I feel invigorated and ready with plans for exploring embodied writing and movement with my third graders.
Natalie Ashby teaches third grade at Peralta Elementary in Oakland. She is passionate about arts integration and creative inquiry through movement.


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String lights over white snow at Motorco.
American Tobacco water tower dressed in lights.
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Woodworking as warm and rich as the coffee you're about to order at Joe Van Gogh.
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