opening of new properties and during property business reviews and deep dives.
Ability to travel with short notice is required for this position.
degree of impact across the business.
budget| and as expected by the sponsor.
group discussions to achieve efficient program pilots and launches.
Services (CSS) and GOS Professional Services to design an effective pilot.
picture impact to the Market.
of agreed upon project scope.
• Drive change management in the Market.
• Leverages standards and tools for Marriott's program and project management.
• Manages and implements work and projects as assigned.
• Provides timely| accurate| and detailed status reports as requested.
• Analysis of monthly ESS performance reviews and property communication.
(implementation programs and EM| highly skilled in MS Office).
form| e-mail| or in person in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates self-confidence| energy and enthusiasm.
others| and support team to reach common goals.
Planning Executive and to the Banqueting & Events Team.
Set up appointments for the sales team| telemarketing and insider tours to prospected accounts.
Maintains trackers and records updated online| offline and in Opera.
Responsible for drafting and distributing BEOs.
Attends Groups & banquets BOB meetings and is responsible for the minutes.
Demonstrate high energy levels and focus on providing consistently high levels of customer service.
Follow up on sent out proposals within 24 hours (1 working day) to ensure the client has received the information and to clarify possible questions and issues.
Follow up of tentative bookings in the assigned markets.
Follow up on lost business and bring information about them to the knowledge of the department superior.
Manages the completion of all RFPs/FIT contracts solicitations ensuring they are completed accurately and in line with budgeted guidelines. Ensuring accurate follow up and communication both internally to reservations and accounting departments and confirmation to client.
Keep sales department informed of all changes in the customer profile.
To arrange and manage familiarization trips and educational to properties in line with business needs.
To be able to action any group and banqueting requests for space prior to communicating with the Events Team.
To provide training and support to other members of the sales team in these applications as required.
To continually enhance and improve the efficiency and organisation of the department| by design and implementing administrative systems.
Proof reading of marketing/advertising material as required. Action or distribute any enquiries or correspondence.
Responsible for ordering all stationary and administrative supplies for the Sales and Events Department.
To manage the photo library and Hotel Video collection| ensuring minimum par levels are maintained and stocks reordered on timely basis. Distribute slides as required on the request of the sales team.
Detailed knowledge of all services provided by the Hotel and all relevant facts and figures of hotel.
Maintain Company Brand Standards within the hotel.
Adhere to the Corporate HID's.
Attend daily departmental briefing providing accurate updates on details of bookings and enquiries of the previous day.
Ensuring to utilise systems (Opera| Outlook| Bridge| Team Hot etc.) to the full capacity.
Document all sales actions in Opera.
Update OPERA contact database at all times.
Responsible for sales team account statistics. Completion of reports.
On weekly basis| compile an activity report which will cover sales call reports| insider tours| fam trips| new agencies| meetings| entertainment and other functions for the sales team during the week.
Understand and strictly adhere to the Rules & Regulations established in the Talents Handbook and the Hotel's policy on Fire| Hygiene| and Health & Safety.
To maintain the strictest confidentiality on all matters relating to Marriott International and the Property plus all other sales and personnel related matters.
the needs of the business and of the hotel.
of Guests and vendor relations.
provide support to other departments as requested.
Marriott and the Property plus all other sales and personnel related matters.
deadlines are met by the Account Director – Groups & Events.
department| by design and implementing administrative systems.
· Are detail oriented and hands on.
Manages revenue through increased bookings across all segments of the hotel.
banqueting products which meet customer needs.
Convert business through proposal| negotiation and contractual agreement to ensure all revenue potential and targets are achieved.
Liaise closely with clients to establish needs and expectations and maintain records to develop sales opportunities.
Responds to telephone inquires/ requests for group business in the defined timeline.
Create and maintain accurate customer meeting/event records in Marsha/Opera capture feedback and make suggestions for adapting offering.
Suggests positive alternatives through cross-referrals| and ensures that business booked is within hotel parameters. Processes all correspondence within acceptable agreed time lines.
Monitor developments| innovations and best practice across the estate and competitor organizations and implement any process that will improve sales performance.
Ensure follow up takes place with clients and opportunities are sought for repeat bookings.
Support other hotel associates on their development of sales awareness and selling skills.
Ensure that all sales opportunities are effectively cross-referred where possible using the appropriate cross-sell protocol.
Produces contracts| proposals and other related booking documentation.
Ensure strong knowledge of Conference & Events products and selling strategies.
Utilizes selling skills to book all aspects of meeting in one phone call.
Understanding of contract management and legalities.
Communicate the vision in the way that generates excitement| enthusiasm and commitment.
Identify and manage the best resources to effectively deliver project plans.
accidents and injuries| and complete safety training and certifications.
accurately and completely| and answer telephones using appropriate etiquette.
satisfy the customer|s service needs and to maximize the hotel|s profits.
Managing Customer Service: Create an environment where everyone in the departmentis focused on creating that special experience to deliver exceptionalcustomer service. Actively seekverbal feedback from customers and staff at each function. Agree and implement actions to make improvements to customerservice . Positively deal with andlearning from customer complaints and comments with follow up and feedback to theFood and Beverage Director. Make sure all customer requests and queries areresponded to promptly and effectively while assisting on the floor during mealperiods each day. Be available to assist on duty in the Restaurant & Barsduring any busy days or special events. Be Pro-Active towards guests| assistingthem with any reasonable requests| and training all staff to see these thingsbefore the guests ask.
Managing the delivery of Service Standards: Ensure all standards for Service Delivery asidentified in the Guest Satisfaction Manual and the Standard Operating andProcedures Manual are consistently delivered throughout the department . Have detailed knowledge ofDepartmental Standards . Be able toexplain the Standards to the team . Assessstaff performance against Standards . MonitorStandards through regular Standards Review checks . Develop action plans to address shortfalls in Standards andidentifying shortfalls before they affect customer service . Implement and follow though improvements identified.
Managing the operation: Plan| prioritize| organize and control the day-to-day operation. Preparing rosters and job schedules for staff to meet business needs (taking into consideration internal activities and occupancy and external events| promotions etc). Communicate effectively with Front Office and Groups & Tours about any in-house groups holding Catering events| ensuring direct liaison with Group Leaders upon arrival. Describe| assign and delegate duties and authority for the operation of the Catering Department at all times. Understanding what|s going on in other departments and implications for your own department. Planning ahead and ensuring adequate resources are available. Manage the departmental operation and taking action where necessary to ensure smooth running and participating in service duties during functions| where necessary. Co-ordinate with Engineering and Housekeeping Departments to ensure maintenance and cleanliness. Ensure follow-up procedures are maintained. Ensure the shift is reviewed and handovers and briefings are carried out. Maintain in-depth technical knowledge and skills required for the job. Maintain event and function histories to assist with returning events. To establish good communication with the Kitchen team. Participate in future menu changes with the F&B Service Manager and the Executive Chef taking into consideration new F&B trends| market demands and sales achievements. Attend & participate in regular F&B| operational & roster meetings.
Managing the Team: Provide and communicate clear direction to the team.Understand the aims of the hotel and the department|s role in achieving it.Communicate aims to the team. Set and agree to departmental objectives for selfand team. Represent the needs of the team to others in the hotel. Get membersof the team to work cooperatively with others. Keep the team up-to-date aboutdepartmental| hotel and company activities through regular communicationmeetings & memos. This includes special events and promotions in therestaurant.
to achieve the set goals.
Participate in special activities such as secretaries of cocktails| welcome tour groups| etc.
event arrangements to ensure compliance.
Responsible for events management on an assigned contracted business| ensuring revenue maximization| achievement of personal targets and increasing fair market share versus competitor set.
Responsible for achieving upselling targets.
Review contracts| event orders| proposals| and checking space availability for meetings booked before sharing.
Review and supervise banquet coordinator work on Banquet Events Orders| resumes and daily event postings.
Liaising with the B&F team and the operations team in order to deliver high standards of service.
Liaising with all the involved departments in order to deliver high standards of service.
Communicating client requirements in a timely and accurate manner to all internal departments as required| ensuring delivery of superior guest service.
Assist the Sales Coordinator Groups & banqueting where required| to ensure the efficient day to day operations of the Sales Department.
Responsible for assigned account base statistics. Supervise completion of reports.
turnovers from sales up to 300 guests and 300 rooms.
As an expert being able to partner with a customer and craft individual events.
Focus on pop-up events and being the contact person for the Marriott Regional Office.
Focus on future planning potential problems and/or conflicts from a service/planning point of view and solutions towards them to improve guest satisfaction and planning efficiency.
Being proactive in offering solutions.
Guidance and support throughout the event.
Being knowledgeable about product and services.
Handle the billing process; billing reviews with the guest and finalize billing accuracy with accounting.
Takes total ownership and responsibilities for the successful production of group events assigned.
Continuous communication with the operational team.
Guidance of client throughout the event. As the expert partner with the guest and be a consultant.
Attend the daily service communication tool; BEO meeting.
Up-sell last minute items accurate.
Show around in connection with in-house functions.
Coordinate all activities involving the pre- and post-event process.
Communicate challenging situations accurate to responsible departments.
Handle guest complaints in a professional manner and come up with solutions.
ensure accurate hand over and follow up to Events Teams.
portrayed| and that every opportunity is taken to promote the Hotel.
assist them to carry out their roles effectively.
internal departments as required| ensuring delivery of superior guest service.
confirmation to client. Ensure property rate sheets are accurate at all times.
– This job requires operating computers and computerized equipment.
Member experience while ensuring department targets are met.
achieve financial goals for all participating hotels.
and customer satisfaction core measures.
investment to the various ownerships.
Provides sales functional expertise and leadership to participating hotels.
Provides critical input to market leaders for development of property and overall market sales strategy.
Participates in weekly sales strategy meetings.
Works collaboratively with property/cluster Revenue Management and Event Management personnel to effectively manage the placement and execution of sales opportunities.
Works with market and/or regional team to develop| implement and maintain Sales office standards.
Provides ongoing feedback and recommendations to improve effectiveness of overall sales office processes.
Analyzes period end and other available systems data to identify trends| future need periods and obstacles to achieving goals.
Provides targeted and timely communication of results and other achievements and challenges to the MP-DOSM.
Reviews turnover to the Event Services team for consistency and completion.
Ensures that sales strategies are communicated| implemented and updated as market conditions fluctuate.
Utilizes property diagnostic process (PDP) in order to maximize revenue and profits.
Monitors local| regional and International business outlook and provides updates to Revenue Management.
Provides positive and aggressive leadership to ensure maximum revenue potential; sets example with personal booking goals.
Works with Hotel GM and MP-DOSM to ensure understanding of sales strategy and effective implementation of this strategy for each segment.
Recommends multi-property booking goals for sales team members.
Proactively develops and manages relationships with key stakeholders| both internal and external.
Analyses market information by using sales systems and implements strategy to achieve hotel|s financial room and catering goals.
Assists Revenue Management with completing accurate projections.
Partners with revenue leader on approval of space release policy for catering to maximize revenue.
Develops implements and sustains aggressive solicitation program focused on increasing business.
Works with team to create and implement a sales intensity plan addressing revenue| customers and the market for each.
Assists with the development and implementation of promotions| both internal and external.
Works collaboratively with off-property sales channels (e.g.| Event Booking Centre| UAE Market Organization| GSO) to ensure the property needs are being achieved and the sales efforts are complementary| not duplicative.
Works with Human Resources| Engineering and Loss Prevention to ensure compliance with regulations.
Displays leadership in guest hospitality| exemplifies customer service and creates a positive example for guest relations.
Observes service behaviors of associates and provides feedback to individuals and/or managers.
Reviews all guest satisfaction results to identify areas of improvement.
Incorporates guest satisfaction as a component of department meetings with a focus on continuous improvement.
Interviews and hires management and hourly associates with the appropriate skills to meet the business needs of the operation.
Executes and supports hotel appropriate Customer Service and Brand Standards.
Develops| implements and maintains a departmental orientation program for associates to receive the appropriate new hire training to successfully perform their job.
Executes and supports the operational aspects of business booked (e.g.| generating proposal| writing contract| customer correspondence).
Executes exemplary customer service to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty by assisting the customer and ensuring their satisfaction before and during their program/event.
Gains understanding of the hotel|s primary target customer and service expectations; serves the customer with understanding their business.
corporate transient| catering and group business.
knowledge of corporate market and business trends.
executing sales & client action plans.
presentation ability and a second language would be an advantage.
you will be employed by a franchisee and not by Hilton.
Recommends multi property booking goals for sales team members.
and externally. Process requests for redeeming Marriott Rewards points.
support Sales & Marketing (e.g.| filing| sending emails| typing| faxing).
driving sales leads and increasing conversions.
Ensure that all administration is processed quickly and efficiently.
Good command of the English| must be well spoken and with a strong presentation skills.
Based in Dubai at Mina Rashid office, the Marketing & Customer Service Manager is responsible to plan, manage the events, communication, branding & CSR events for P&O Marinas, seeking to increase brand awareness towards our clients, community & stakeholders to meet business objectives and goals through delivery of innovative, efficient & cost-effective solutions. And to lead and manage the customer care team to achieve department objectives in all aspects of customer care management.
Develop and implement an Events, Communication and Brand strategy, that clearly demonstrates the values and objectives of the company and support the Company strategy.
Responsible to undertake the development and production of all marketing collateral in both print & electronic forms.
Develop and manage tactical marketing and PR campaigns to support the exhibitions strategies and achieve specific business objectives.
Responsible for Direct Marketing campaigns.
Develop the annual marketing plan in conjunction with management and manage execution of the plan with the resources available in the team and within allocated budgets.
To assist with the company branding activities – including signage and assisting all Departments with events & activities.
To develop & lead the company CSR efforts by coordinating with social and humanitarian associations, government and non-government organizations.
To lead vendor negotiations ensuring cost and quality play a key component in our partnerships.
Manage the customer care Department daily operations and ensure main responsibilities accomplished within agreed KPI and within agreed time frames.
To overlook customer's grievances and to ensure that similar mistakes do not occur in the future by setting up procedure for better customer satisfaction.
Develop strategies for Complaint management and handling of repetitive Complaints in order to maintain high customer satisfaction.
Ensure customer service department follows company's policies and requirements by monitoring corporate standards.
To Liaison with Government Relation team to resolve complex issues addressed.
To ensure all department policies and procedures are updated and are in compliance with the company standards.
To assist in planning, implementing and controlling budget by ensuring all decisions are taken within the allocated budget.
To handle various projects and missions assigned by Managements.
To review and enhance Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to incorporate all commercial processes and systems as part of overall commercial strategy to attract and retain customers.
Define and prioritize new processes that adds value to CRM by providing faster and efficient customer services.
Ensure detailed customer profiles are established and up to date business plans for each customer is maintained through appropriate database management.
Clearly define the role of customer help desk by identifying and emphasizing on key functionalities that provides value added services and meets the requirements of customers and clients as well as day to day management of helpdesk activities.
Responsible for the preparation of the annual property budgets for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service.
Monitors market conditions regularly and communicates to appropriate staff and board any market changes that need to be addressed. Monitors market rents as they pertain to setting organization's property rents.
10-15 years of Marketing/Communications experience preferably with industry experience. Experience at a media/events agency would be desirable. Exposure to logistics, shipping, maritime industries would be a plus.
Effective organisational skills with a strong ability to Multi – task is a must.
We are currently looking for young, dynamic, self motivated Catering Sales professionals who want to move their careers forward.
Promote efficiency, confidence, courtesy and an extremely high standard of social skills.
Ensures that all lead requests are handled as per the policy and not exceeding the lead handing timeframe policy.
Ensures active follow up on sent offers.
Preparation of offer letters according to the guest requirements. Ensuring company standards are in place.
Proactive and expected to do sales calls or joint sales calls with corporate sales colleagues to maintain client relationships and to develop new accounts.
Responsible for planning, retaining and developing existing business as well as acquiring new business and growing our market share by promoting Hotel.
Attends weekly department head meetings, works closely with Director of C & E/ Director of sales on future business planning and provides input and information during weekly revenue meetings.
Introduces ideas to leadership team to enable property to remain competitive.
Responsible for coordinating and anticipating all needs of the event.
Develop active communication and close rapport with Sales Offices and other sources of sales/Events information & support.
Ensures that Sales and Catering System is well managed, maintained and updated as per company policy & standards.
Intimately know our competitive set with pricing and SWOT.
Responsible for a monetary goal to be mutually agreed upon by the Director of Catering/ DOS.
Regretting business should be cross sold to other sister property where applicable.
Supervision and communication with Banquet Operations during events and assuring guest satisfaction throughout the event.
Ensures the preparation of Event Order as per departmental standard and assuring proper distribution of the same.
You should ideally have a degree in hospitality with previous experiences in catering sales within a hotel. Excellent written and verbal English communication skills and strong interpersonal and negotiations skills are essentials. Computer literate and previous experiences with Opera are an advantage.


G & T for the weary travellers) by rally Orgs & Herr Naan and told that we are NOT in this hotel.
No problemo whatsoever with that BUT why cant they let us know in the morning?
After the end of your rally day even in a hire truck! You still want to follow the 'tulips' into whatever town your day ends in and 'down tools' in that hotel.
Nobody really wants to be handed another set of instructions and be told sorry ya NOT at this hotel guys..
So please bear this in mind and sort your act out..
I did grizzle from the back seat at Mrs Wenman saying that the Orgs by now are fully aware that we are travelling in the same vehicle so obviously it would make logistical sense to place the crews in same Hotel wherever that may be?
Of course we are now in the Welsh Region of Patagonia - The Chubet Region!! So the Welsh brought their mountains with them..


Portland, Or. Over 425 guests attended the 23rd JDRF Hope Gala at the Sentinel Hotel on May 5th. The event was Chaired by Larry & Suzanne Mackin and raised over $500,000 to fund diabetes research. Each year at the Hope Gala, the JDRF Oregon/SW Washington Chapter presents the "Living and Giving Award" to individuals or a company who are outstanding philanthropists, not only to JDRF, but to our community at large. This honor recognizes those who stand out as exemplary leaders and who have, for a long time, set the standard for "giving back" in many ways. Honorees receiving the 2018 Hope Gala Living & Giving Award were Jay & Renee Haladay. They took time for a photo with Judy Summers, Executive Director, JDRF Oregon/SW Washington Chapter and Gary Haines, Board President, JDRF Oregon/SW Washington Chapter.
JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 (T1D) diabetes research. In the last twelve years, JDRF has funded over $6.7 million dollars in grants covering research taking place in Oregon.
The Oregon/SW Washington Chapter provides support and resources to those newly diagnosed and their families as well as children and adults living with type 1 diabetes. These include Parent Coffee Groups, Children's Art Group, T1D Adult Group, a TypeOne Nation Educational Summit, Connections Support Program, Adult and Teen Care Kits and the Bag of Hope Program for newly diagnosed children.


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Zwitserland nam deel aan het  Eurovisiesongfestival 2012 in Bakoe, Azerbeidzjan. Het was de 53ste deelname van het land op het Eurovisiesongfestival. SRG SSR was verantwoordelijk voor de Zwitserse bijdrage voor de editie van 2012.

Selectieprocedure
De Zwitsers maakten tijdens de finaleweek van het Eurovisiesongfestival 2011 in Düsseldorf hun plannen voor 2012 al bekend. De datum van de finale (10 december) en de methode (selectie via internet, gevolgd door een tv-uitzending) stonden al vast. De Zwitserse omroepen maakten ook bekend dat er 14 finalisten zouden worden gekozen voor de nationale finale.

Zes daarvan werden via een internetselectie gekozen. Daarnaast kwamen er drie kandidaten van radiozender DRS3, drie van de Franstalige omroep RTS en twee van de Italiaanstalige omroep RSI.

De inschrijvingen voor de internetselectie begonnen op 1 september en duurden een maand. In de tweede helft van oktober kon er vervolgens worden gestemd. Ook een vakjury stemde mee voor 50% van de punten. Nummers mochten niet korter zijn dan 2 minuut 55 en niet langer dan 3 minuten. Tijdens de finale zouden de 14 finalisten echter niet deze 3 minutenversie zingen, maar een ingekorte versie van 2 minuten. Via televoting werd de winnaar gekozen.

SF-selectie
De zender SF selecteerde zes finalisten. Kandidaten konden hun inzendingen inzenden van 1 tot 30 september 2011. Op 30 september maakte de omroep bekend dat er 221 inzendingen waren ontvangen. Onder de inzenders waren onder andere Lys Assia, winnares van het eerste Eurovisiesongfestival in 1956, de Deense travestietenact DQ die in 2007 voor Denemarken aan het songfestival deelnam, Zazou Mall en Ultra Naté. Een mix van internetstemming en een professionele jury kozen de zes acts die doorgingen naar de nationale finale op 10 december.

DRS 3-selectie
De zender DRS 3 koos drie inzendingen via een interne selectie. Op 13 oktober maakte DRS 3 de drie winnaars bekend die namens de zender deel zouden nemen aan de nationale finale. Oorspronkelijk was ook Sara McLoud met het nummer Lost geselecteerd. Ze werd echter gediskwalificeerd aangezien ze al een akoestische versie had uitgebracht in 2009. Zij werd vervangen door Atomic Angels.

RSI-selectie
De omroep RSI hield een eigen regionale finale op 8 november die ook live op tv en radio werd uitgezonden. Uit de 22 inzendingen had de omroep er alvast vijf geselecteerd. De overige 16 waren overgeleverd aan de internetstemmers. Twee van hen mochten ook door naar de finale. Op 8 november werden vervolgens de twee met de meeste stemmen doorgestuurd naar de nationale finale op 10 december.  Onder de kandidaten zat Barbara Berta, die in 1997 Zwitserland vertegenwoordigde in Dublin.

RTS-selectie
RTS koos drie finalisten. Inzendingen konden tot 30 september 2011 worden ingezonden. De omroep ontving uiteindelijk 27 nummers. Een jury koos 10 nummers. Deze 10 nummers waren op tv en radio te horen van 20 tot 30 oktober 2011. De drie finalisten werden uiteindelijk gekozen via een mix van jury- en internetstemming. Opvallend is dat de uiteindelijke winnaars van de nationale finale Sinplus zowel mededen aan de RTS-selectie en de RSI-selectie maar in de RTS-selectie waren ze geen eens gekwalificeerd voor de nationale finale.

Die grosse Entscheidungs Show 2011

De nationale finale werd gehouden 10 december 2011 in de Bodensee Arena, in Kreuzlingen. Het duo Sinplus won en zal Zwitserland vertegenwoordigen op het Eurovisiesongfestival 2012. Ze wonnen de nationale finale met het nummer Unbreakable. Chiara Dubey en Ivo maakten het podium compleet.

In Bakoe
In Bakoe trad Zwitserland aan in de eerste halve finale, op dinsdag 22 mei. Het werd daar elfde.

Externe link
 Officiële website SRG SSR

Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow
Land op het Eurovisiesongfestival 2012
2012

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The world is full of good curry. A marvelous idea if I ever saw one, perfectly welcoming to meat eaters and vegetarians alike. Most of the time, welcoming as well to those avoiding gluten, as cream is a fab thickener.
Cooking some version of curry at home is a labour of love (of sorts), where time and patience (and sometimes multiple pots) is necessary for a good end product.
Well, on a day with some time and some inclination, this recipe is what emerged. And it made me happy. For dishes that bring nourishment and contentment are always worth the effort.
What is your favourite comforting dish?
3 cups of water added to the cup of rice with 1 teaspoon of salt, set on medium heat to simmer for 40 minutes usually does the trick!
Chop the small onions finely, and fry in 1 tablespoon of olive oil till soft and translucent. Remove from the pot, and set aside in a bowl for the moment.
Chop the potatoes and carrots into even dice. Add 2 tsp of salt to the pot and enough water to cover the ingredients. Boil till soft (this will depend on how big the chunks of potato and carrot are...anywhere from 15 to 30 mins).
Drain about a half of the liquid away, and then put the pot back on the stove top. Add to the potatoes the cooked onions, 3 cups of frozen peas, a chopped chilli, the curry powder, herbs, cardamom pods, cumin and cinnamon. Boil until the peas are done (about 5 - 7 minutes).
Remove from the heat and season to taste with salt.
Stir through 2 tsp of coconut oil and sprinkle with freshly cut chives.
P.S. The inspiration for my curry recipe and post title came from drooling over this site, written by the truly inspired curry maker, Ramona.
Delicious curry for comfort!! Thanks for sharing!
Potatoes are a good thickener too :-).
And thanks to everyone else for your comments as well.


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Medicine Oncology & Hematology
Cancer: The Enemy from Within
A Comprehensive Textbook of Cancer's Causes, Complexities and Consequences
Authors: Compton, Carolyn
The first comprehensive book for undergraduates and the interested general public outlining cancer as a complex, multifaceted disease
Authored by a renowned expert in the field
Covers not only the clinical and basic science aspects of cancer, but the key historical features and modern sociological, political, and economic perspectives as well
This comprehensive, ground-breaking title presents, in simplifying style, the driving and organizing principles of cancer, making this multidimensional, highly complex disease easily understandable for readers. Developed out of the renowned author's many years of teaching a widely popular, several-hundred-student college course, this 12-chapter book begins with an account of the history of cancer as a medical and public health problem, as well as the major milestones and setbacks in the ongoing quest to understand the wide variety of cancers that continue to impact the world. Subsequent chapters then address pathogenesis, incidence and mortality statistics, risk factors, causal factors, screening challenges and victories, treatment strategies, and disease prevention approaches. This wealth of clinical information is further supplemented with socioeconomic discussions on the financial, social, ethical, technological, regulatory, political, and logistical challenges that limit progress in cancer research. A soon to be gold-standard text that thoroughly and expertly describes cancer as a composite, adaptive system, Cancer: The Enemy from Within equips and empowers all undergraduate students and graduate students to better understand this continually perplexing disease. Clinicians across all disciplines may also find this work of great interest.
Carolyn Compton, MD, PhD, FCAP
Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Barrett Honors Faculty, Arizona State University
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
CMO, National Biomarker Development Alliance
The Nature and Origins of Cancer
Compton, Carolyn, MD, PhD
Cancer Initiation, Promotion, and Progression and the Acquisition of Key Behavioral Traits
Understanding the Hallmark Characteristics of Cancer
A Short History of Cancer: How Did We Get Here?
Who Gets Cancer and Why? What Are the Consequences for Human Life and Longevity? How Can We Intervene? How Can We Track Progress?
Screening for Cancer: Find It Early; Treat It Early; Save Lives
Fundamentals of Cancer Diagnosis and Assessment
Local Therapy for Cancer
Systemic Therapy for Cancer
Palliative Care, Hospice, and End of Life
Development of New Cancer Therapies
Cancer and Society
Correction to: The Nature and Origins of Cancer
Carolyn Compton
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8 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour

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Jeep whips the covers back from its overdue replacement for the Compass.
Jeep's long-awaited successor to the Compass small SUV has been revealed in Brazil, with the American brand's all-new entry model scheduled to take over from the nine year-old current-gen Compass – and its Patriot sibling – in Australia in the latter part of 2017.
By the time it's replaced, the current Compass will have been on sale for a solid decade – long enough to give it pensioner status in the car world.
Looking a lot like a mashup of the Cherokee and Grand Cherokee, the 2018 Compass features a distinctive chrome trim line that separates the windshield, roof and rear glass from the rest of the car, with Jeep's signature seven-slot grille spanning the gap between its headlamps.
Other Jeep hallmarks are present too, such as a quartet of trapezoidal wheel wells framed in black plastic, and, on the range-topping Trailhawk grade, a set of red tow hooks and an anti-glare bonnet panel.
The interior ditches the old Compass' outdated cabin furniture for seats and plastics that bear more resemblance to the rest of Jeep's modern lineup, with a high-mounted infotainment screen and button-heavy steering wheel.
Fiat-Chrysler Australia has confirmed that the new Compass will arrive in local showrooms in "late 2017", however precise launch timing and specifications are still top-secret for now.
Globally, the Compass will be offered with a total of 17 powertrain configurations, and will be sold across 100 markets.
Some of those markets will be receiving a diesel powerplant, however it's unclear whether an oil-burner will be available on Australian-delivered models.
Will the Compass spawn a new Patriot as well? Don't count on it. With the Renegade already in position as Jeep's new entry point, the need for a differently-styled twin for the new Compass is removed. Instead, the Compass will fly solo as Jeep's not-quite-small, not-quite-medium SUV.
The Compass nameplate finally finds its bearings with the all-new 2018 model, but how does it measure up to one of the SUV segment's top dogs?


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Spain Holidays, Events, Climate and Sightseeing
Spain: worth knowing
The Fallas, a festival week at the end of winter from 12.3. until Midsummer Night on March 19th, there is a parade with huge colorful figures made of paper mache (ninóts), which are burned in a large fire (the créma) at the end. The stronghold of the Fallas is Valencia.
Another well-known event is the festival of San Fermin (also called Sanfermines) in Pamplona, which begins on July 6th and which annually impresses TV viewers all over the world. The fighting bulls are driven through the closed streets of the city to the arena, where the bullfights take place in the evening. Hundreds of young men, mostly in traditional white clothing with red belts, prove their courage and run before the bulls. During the following days, the whole city celebrates.
6th January Epiphany (Epiphany)
19th March Saint Joseph
March April the holy week
15th of August Assumption Day
Feast day of Saint John the Baptist
November 1 All Saints Day
December 8 Immaculate conception
Source: Countryaah – Spain Holidays
In addition, the patron saints are particularly venerated in the respective areas on certain days.
An important expression of Spanish piety are the processions and popular pilgrimages (Romerias).
October 22 National Day (Day when Columbus discovered America)
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race The Vuelta a España cycling race is one of the three major cycling events in Spain and, after the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the most important stage race in the world. For the first time in 1935 and annually since 1955, the Vuelta leads within three weeks in alternating routes across Spain and partly neighboring countries. The next Vuelta will take place from August 27th. to September 18, 2005.
The Tour of the Basque Country is a stage cycle race in the Spanish Basque Country. It was first held in 1924 and has taken place regularly since 1952. The profile of the race is very demanding as a large part of the route is in the mountains.
The Tour of Catalonia is a stage race in Catalonia, Spain. The Tour of Catalonia, held annually in May/June, took place for the first time in 1911 and is also one of the most important regional stage races in Spain.
The bullfight is an old deep-rooted tradition in Spain, originally from Andalusia. The bullfighting season opens at Easter, with performances starting at 6 p.m. in summer and 5 p.m. in autumn. The most beautiful and famous bullring is in Seville.
The country of origin of flamenco is also Andalusia. This is where the Gitanos settled in the 15th century. At first, flamenco only meant a type of singing (cante), later dance (baile) and guitar music were added.
In July every year on a series of days in Pamplona 6 fighting bulls and 6 tame oxen are herded through the streets of the village. In these "encierros" young men (mozos) run in front of the bulls. From 1924 to 2006, the spectacle cost a total of 14 lives, and numerous participants are injured every year. The spectacle is the highlight of the festival in honor of Pamplona's patron saint, San Fermín, and became world famous through the novel "Fiesta" from 1926 by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961).
Abbreviationfinder.org: Presents the way that ES stands for the nation of Spain as a two-letter acronym.
Spain has a share in several climate zones.
In the northern areas there is a rainy maritime climate with relatively cool summers and mild winters. The daily and annual fluctuations in temperature are relatively small there. In contrast, the climate in the greater part of Spain is subtropical-Mediterranean with a continental character. The temperature differences are very high during the year, especially in the Meseta. The main rainy seasons in central Spain are spring and autumn. The area in the coastal lowlands in the southeast is one of the driest in Europe. In the Balearic Islands the winters are relatively mild and the summers very hot. The Canary Islands have pleasantly higher temperatures all year round due to their southern location.
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Summer and autumn are generally well suited for a beach holiday in Spain, although summer on the mainland and the Balearic Islands can be very hot. The bathing season in the Canary Islands runs from spring to autumn.
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Autumn and spring are suitable for a cultural holiday in Spain. For the northern part of Spain, the best time to travel is summer. The Canary Islands are great for hiking in winter.
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Embassy of Denmark in Hanoi, Vietnam
Embassy of Denmark in Hanoi, Vietnam, located at 7th Floor, BIDV Tower, 194 Tran Quang Khai Street. View a location map, get driving directions to the Embassy of Denmark, or view the information about the address, phone, fax, office hours, official website, Facebook page, consular services, visa list, and head of mission (HOM).
7th Floor, BIDV Tower, 194 Tran Quang Khai Street
Monday to Thursday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Friday: 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
The following is a brief listing of services offered at the Embassy of Denmark in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Mr. Kim Højlund Christensen, Ambassador
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Andrew Laird: A new Conservative Government can show that fairness is the route to productivity
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The Conservative manifesto will undoubtedly have fairness at its heart. The quest for a fairer society will be the driving force behind the Government's social agenda if the Conservative Party wins a majority on June 8th. But i "fairness" will drive the social agenda, then "productivity" will be the watch word for the economy. I won't go into the stats, but we are still lagging behind on productivity. For whatever reason (and there are a range of theories) when we in the UK spend an hour on something we end up with less to show for it than our rivals do. I find that pretty shocking, and a bit shameful.
When thinking about government policy, you might think the paths of fairness and productivity are unlikely to cross – but there are already areas where these two driving forces are very much pushing in the same direction.
For example, the Prime Minister has frequently stated her desire to see fairness in corporate governance through better empowerment and engagement of employees. There are plenty of studies which show more engaged staff take more responsibility, show greater commitment and take fewer sick days. As a result they are more productive as well as being treated more fairly. Theresa May has also applied this principle to the public sector calling for more public service mutuals (essentially staff-owned businesses which "spin out" of the public sector).
Good business leaders get this. Many think that applying commercial business principles to government is morally wrong – but we are doing a serious disservice to taxpayers if we do not. The majority of people in the UK work in some sort of business, and the really good ones are wonderful places to be and provide great services. Effective leadership in business involves setting a clear direction for your team, and then empowering and supporting them to use their professional judgement to get on with the job. People don't want to be micro-managed either by an overbearing manager or by an over-bureaucratic system. They feel fairly treated if they are trusted to get on with a job they are qualified to do – and are more productive as a result.
Government at all levels should apply this principle. Whilst there are some really good examples, such as the growth of public service mutuals, this fairness-driven business-like approach is still the exception rather than the rule.
You can hardly blame public servants both in Whitehall and in local areas for struggling to respond to this. They have gone from the micromanagement that we saw under the government of Tony Blair (where pretty much every initiative was driven from the very top down) to the government of David Cameron where the approach was much more laissez-faire, with local areas empowered to develop their own solutions.
In my view, this more hands-off approach is the side to err on. But it has led to quite a bit of disparity, largely based on how entrepreneurial key individuals in local areas are. There are examples where some areas are making great progress on a particular policy areas (such as devolution of infrastructure responsibilities or health and social care integration), while others have yet to reach the starting blocks. It's almost as though some believe that government will eventually revert to type, and tell them what to do – so there is not point putting in the effort.
The answer lies somewhere in the middle. Government does need to continue to empower local areas to develop their own solutions to their problems – but it also needs to provide a very clear set of expectations as well as the right support at the right time, so people do not just sit on their hands waiting for the next change of policy. This is a fair and balanced approach.
One place where there is unlikely to be any dithering is the West Midlands. The prospect of someone like Andy Street becoming mayor is hugely exciting. Here we have the former head of John Lewis (where staff are all part owners) who really get the link between fairness and productivity.
To show it means business on fairness and productivity, a future Conservative Government should start by addressing how Whitehall works. We need consistency across government, with Ministers setting the tone. Whitehall is often referred to by the "blob", but I know plenty of civil servants who feel restrained by the micromanagement of Ministers. Whilst the government has been busy empowering local areas to go off and develop their ideas, Ministers sometimes micro-manage their own departments, insisting on seeing every paper, rubber stamping every decision.
This is understandable, and shows that the Minister is getting a grip on things – but often that grip is so tight that more junior minister and civil servants are left waiting months for decisions which are often time-sensitive. This is neither fair nor productive. We desperately need some entrepreneurialism in the Whitehall to set the standard for the rest of Government.
A new Conservative Government has a chance to show that the world is not all about Brexit, and that there is a positive and attractive agenda for change in the public sector with fairness and productivity at its heart.
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The Environment Agency (EA) has suspended the environmental permit of Shaws Waste Recycling in Rotherham because its waste transfer site is said to pose a high risk of fire.
From noon on Monday (9 March), the skip hire company will no longer be able to accept any mateiral at its facility in Wath West Industrial Estate, Wath-Upon-Dearne, until it introduces more safety measures.
Inspections by the EA and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue identified a significant fire risk at the site. Waste is reported to be stored in large piles with inadequate fire breaks or other safety controls.
The company had been advised that it must improve site management systems to reduce fire risk, but a lack of action has led to its permit being suspended. When MRW contacted the company it did not want to comment.


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Q: How are dimensions converted in multiplication and division? In the TeXbook it is said (page 118):

Multiplication and division are possible too, but only by integers. ... Dimension values are integer multiples of sp (scaled points).

Example 1. Result is 25pt minus -150pt. Why is the multiplicand converted to the same dimension as the multiplier?
\dimen1=25pt
\skip2=1sp minus -6sp
\multiply\skip2 by \dimen1
\showthe\skip2

> 25.0pt minus -150.0pt

Example 2. The result is 25sp minus -150sp. Everything looks good.
\dimen1=25sp
\skip2=1sp minus -6sp
\multiply\skip2 by \dimen1
\showthe\skip2

> 0.00038pt minus -0.00229pt

Example 3. The result is 25sp minus -150sp. Why is the multiplier converted to the same dimension as the multiplicand?
\count1=25
\skip2=1sp minus -6sp
\multiply\skip2 by \count1
\showthe\skip2

> 0.00038pt minus -0.00229pt

A: There is a convention that even register (except count) numbers smaller than ten are free registers for local assignments, whereas odd numbers should only be used for global assignments. Mixing local and global assignments can cause memory trouble. Therefore I have multiplied the register numbers by two to get register numbers for local assignments. The first ten count registers have a special meaning (page number, ...). A free count register for local assignments is count register 255 (\dimen@).
TeX stores length values as integer numbers with implicit unit sp. 216 sp are 1 pt. When TeX expects a number and gets a length value, then this integer number is used.
Commented examples:
Example 1:
\dimen2=25pt
% 25pt = 25 * 65536sp = 1638400sp
\showthe\numexpr\dimen2\relax % \edef\x{\number\dimen2}\show\x
> 1638400

\skip4=1sp minus -6sp
\multiply\skip4 by \dimen2
% (1sp minus -6sp) * 1638400 = 1638400sp minus -9830400sp
% = 25pt minus -150pt
\showthe\skip4

> 25.0pt minus -150.0pt

Example 2:
\dimen2=25sp
\skip4=1sp minus -6sp
\multiply\skip4 by \dimen2
% (1sp minus -6sp) * 25 = 25sp minus -150sp
\showthe\skip4

> 0.00038pt minus -0.00229pt

Example 3:
\count255=25
\skip4=1sp minus -6sp
\multiply\skip4 by \count255
% (1sp minus -6sp) * 25 = 25sp minus -150sp
\showthe\skip4

> 0.00038pt minus -0.00229pt

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Q: Missing grant_type parameter in postman I am using  Brightspace API.
I am using the post method and the URL is https://auth.brightspace.com/core/connect/token
Reference link here
I have all the below details
Auth URL,
Access Token URL,
Client Id,
Client Secret,
Scope,

Grant Type, I have selected the Authorization code option.
In header, Content-Type is also application/json

Now, When I clicked on send button then I am getting an error
{
    "error": "invalid_request",
    "error_description": "Missing \"grant_type\" parameter"
}

Any idea I am getting this error?

A: You can't directly call POST method for  response type "Code"
due to after POST call, Keycloak (IdP Server) redirect to registered URL (redirect_uri) for Login activity.
Luckily, In the Postman can do it by "Get New Token" in OAuto 2.0 mode.
I have no D2L Brightspace account's client ID /secret so I can't demo how to that but I captured image from It's video tutorial.
You can do it with your client ID /secret.
Steps

*

*Set environment variable set in Postman (click right the top area's icon)
clientid, clientsecret with your values and oauth2scope(content:.)

*Start "Get New Token"
select "Authorization" tab, select "OAuth 2.0" type, "Request Headers" and click the "Get New Access Token" in Request ( in Collection also possible)

*Set the fields for each parameter
Enter 3 URLS from 1~3
Enter 3 environment variable with {{ variable name here }} from 4~6
Click the "Request Token" it will get access token.

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Aaron Evans Breaks 800m Indoor Record
Bermudian 800 meter specialist Aaron Evans [#AaronEvans] has shattered yet another record – his third record breaking run in under a year.
Mr Evans shot past his previous indoor 800 meter career-best time in the event by more than two seconds after clocking a 1:48.07 to finish ninth place overall. Mr Evans takes both his Georgia school and Bermuda records, after breaking the 1:48.34 record he set in 1984 by fellow Bermudian Steve Burgess.
Mr Evans now holds both the indoor and outdoor records at UGA. Back in May 2010, he broke the 800 metre outdoor record, clocking in at 1:47.00, breaking the old record of 1:47:64 – which had also been set by Steve Burgess who had held the Bermuda record for 25 years. At the time Mr Burgess said it was an honour to step aside for the "new king", and praised Mr Evans efforts.
"Evans wasn't able to train much over the last two weeks since he was sick so I though he competed very well in those circumstances," said Georgia's distance coach Jeff Pigg. "We know there's more there and now I think he has the confidence and will be able to get back to work to prepare for the (Southeastern Conference) Championships. He made the best out of this opportunity thanks to his talent and desire today."
The son of educators Dr. Freddie Evans and Gina Evans, he attended Warwick Academy till he was 16, then left to attend Cushing Academy in Massachusetts. He was previously a semifinalist in the 800 at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, won a silver medal in the 800m at the 2009 Carifta Games and a bronze medal at the 2008 Carifta Games.
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Well done Aaron!
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Great job Mr Evans keep it up.
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Well done!!! Keep it up!! If you were able to accomplish this after just being ill, imagine what you can do when your at 100%!!!
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It is wonderful to see a young black man smashing records… KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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Unibail CEO teeters on exit after activists seize board control
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent
Nov 17, 2020 – 11.17pm
London | Senior executives at French shopping mall giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield are under pressure to walk the plank, after the embattled company's new activist shareholders seized control of the board chairmanship on Friday.
French media has speculated that CEO Chris Cuvillier and possibly chief financial officer Jaap Tonckens may quit as soon as this week, after former CEO Leon Bressler snaffled the post of chairman and fellow rebel activist Xavier Niel, a telecoms billionaire, took over the remuneration committee.
On the way down? Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield CEO Chris Cuvillier. Peter Braig
The pair, who own about 5 per cent of the company's stock, last week torpedoed a €3.5 billion ($5.7 billion) equity raising, persuading just enough investors to vote against it at a virtual shareholder meeting.
This was a defeat for Mr Cuvillier, who had championed the raising as a way to cut back the €24 billion debt pile that URW amassed during its $32 billion 2017 takeover of Westfield's international assets.
Shareholders then rubbed salt into the wound by voting Mr Bressler, Mr Niel and a third activist onto an expanded 12-member board. The trio pledged to push for URW to unload US assets rather than issue dilutive equity capital.
At the new board's first meeting on Friday, Mr Bressler replaced Colin Dyer, the former CEO of JLL who had chaired the company for 3½ years. Mr Dyer opted to stay on the 12-member board but four other directors quit, including deputy chairman Jacques Stern.
Mr Cuvillier told shareholders last week he wanted to work constructively with the new board, and that the issue was the company's future not his own. But his position looks tenuous, and some French media reports suggest his resignation is imminent.
Still, the beleaguered CEO got some backing from two ratings agencies on Friday, who questioned the potential new strategy: both argued a US asset sale was uncertain and risky.
S&P downgraded URW's senior debt to BBB+ from A- and also lowered its assessment of the mall landlord's corporate governance. Moody's Investors Service said it would also cut its rating unless the board came up with a credible plan.
Mr Cuvillier himself had been planning to sell assets as well, as part of his €9 billion 'RESET' strategy to shore up the company's finances. The fire sale would have raised €4 billion, alongside €1 billion from paying dividends in shares instead of cash and €800 million from cutting capital expenditure.
The company's already debt-burdened balance sheet has come under pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic's tough operating conditions, which forced URW to defer or reduce rents during Europe's long first lockdown.
Mr Bressler and Mr Niel have said the company is not facing a liquidity crisis. Its share price has been buoyed by the announcements from Pfizer and Moderna that their vaccines may be ready for rollout early in 2021.
After closing at €49.94 on Friday – already a 45 per cent surge in the week since Pfizer's announcement – the shares jumped another 17.3 per cent to €58.58 on Monday amid Moderna's announcement plus news of the board changes.
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Woolly mammoth diet mystery solved by DNA analysis
How did huge mammals like woolly mammoths sustain themselves when they roamed the Arctic during the last ice age? A DNA analysis has solved that mystery and helps explain the rise and fall of giant mammals.
Nutritious veggies, not just grass, covered ice age Arctic, study finds
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Huge mammals including mammoth, horse, reindeer, bison and musk ox roamed the Arctic during the Ice Age. (Mauricio Anton)
What did giant mammals like woolly mammoths eat when they roamed the Arctic during the last ice age? A DNA analysis has solved that mystery and helps explain the rise and fall of giant mammals.
Up until now, the diet of mammoths and other large herbivores that grazed in the Arctic 15,000 to 50,000 years ago has been a bit of a puzzle, according to Grant Zazula, a paleontologist with the Yukon government who co-authored the study published Wednesday online in the journal Nature.
That's because scientists had previously analyzed ancient pollen and concluded that there wasn't much vegetation in the Arctic during the ice age, just a small amount of grass.
Meanwhile, paleontologists were uncovering the bones of ice age woolly rhinos, horses, and bison that would have needed generous amounts of food to keep their massive bodies fuelled up.
"The paleontologists at the time asked, 'well, if we have all these animals around, what are they eating?'" Zazula recalled.
"And the fossil pollen researchers were saying, 'Well, there's really very little for them to eat.'"
Now, an international team led by Eske Willerslev, director of the Centre for Geogenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, has come up with a vastly different picture of what the ice age Arctic looked like – and what kind of food was available.
By analyzing the DNA of plants preserved in the permafrost during the ice age, the team concluded that the Arctic landscape was not a bleak, grassy prairie at all, but had a lush cover of small, nutritious plants called forbs – "things like poppies and buttercups and anemones, little flowering plants," said Zazula.
"And those might have been more high in proteins and other nutrients that were very important to sustaining the populations of large mammals."
Forbs include many plants that humans eat, including dandelion, sunflower, alfalfa, watercress, parsley and carrot.
The ice age Arctic was very cold and dry and probably dusty – extremely different from today's swampy tundra, Zazula said. It was far more like mountaintop environments where small flowering plants thrive today.
Zazula and Duane Froese at the University of Alberta helped drill permafrost samples in the Yukon and Alaska, while other scientists collected samples in other parts of the Arctic – over 200 in all.
Hear an interview with Duane Froese on Quirks & Quarks
Radiocarbon dating was used to determine how old different parts of the samples were. The DNA found inside was then compared to the DNA of known plants.
"Even if there are plants that aren't around today, there's close enough living relatives that you can figure out what family it's from," Zazula said.
Ancient stomach contents analyzed
The researchers also analyzed the stomach contents of well preserved carcasses of mammoths, woolly rhinos and ancient horses, as well as preserved feces. Those contained a similar variety of plants to the ones in the permafrost – mostly forbs.
Woolly mammoth discovery raises exciting possibilities
Froese said those had been barely detected before because those plants don't produce much pollen.
The DNA analysis also showed that the vegetation changed dramatically around 10,000 years ago, when the Arctic grew warmer and wetter, giving rise to the tundra we know today, dominated by grasses and woody plants.
"Most of the evidence we've been able to see is these large mammals disappear almost at the same time these vegetation changes were taking place," Froese said.
Meanwhile, there was a population explosion of animals that adapted to eating woody plants, such as moose, elk and caribou. Froese thinks they likely out-competed mammoths, rhinos and horses.
He added that the dramatic changes in climate, vegetation and the dominant large mammals in the Arctic at that time only took a few hundred years.
Dramatic changes in the climate of the Arctic are also happening today, and the findings of the new research may foreshadow changes that today's climate change could bring about, Froese suggests.
"It's just more evidence for just how sensitive environment is and how quickly these changes can happen."
Woolly mammoth discovery yields blood sample
Duane Froese talks to Quirks & Quarks Feb. 8 on CBC Radio One
'De-extinction' of woolly mammoth possible in 30 to 50 years
Woolly mammoth blood protein on display in Manitoba
Mini-mammoth roamed Mediterranean island
Summary of article in Nature


Many Democrats are furious with members of their party for agreeing to a deal with Republican senators to reopen the government.
These Democrats don't think Republicans will fulfill their promise to hold a vote on replacement legislation for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, set to expire on March 5.
"Democrats are still not willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country legally," Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez said Monday.
Many Democrats are incensed about the deal Senate Democrats reached with Republicans on Monday to reopen the government on the third day of the federal shutdown.
On Monday, a bipartisan group of senators, including 33 Democrats, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, reached an agreement to fund the government until February 8 in exchange for a promise from the GOP to hold a vote on legislation to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects about 700,000 undocumented immigrants from deportation.
But many Democratic lawmakers and activists, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and California Sen. Kamala Harris, a likely 2020 presidential contender, denounced the deal, arguing that Democrats can't trust GOP leadership to fulfill their promises on immigration, the issue at the heart of the disagreement between the parties.
Harris, who voted against the deal, said McConnell's promise on DACA "fell far short of the ironclad guarantee" she "needed to support a stopgap spending bill."
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.
She continued, "I refuse to put the lives of nearly 700,000 young people in the hands of someone who has repeatedly gone back on his word. I will do everything in my power to continue to protect Dreamers from deportation."
Several of the Senate Democrats who supported the agreement are facing competitive re-election battles in 2018 in states that President Donald Trump carried in 2016, and others, including Virginia's senators, who represent large numbers of federal employees. Meanwhile, likely Democratic presidential contenders, including Sens. Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kirsten Gillibrand, voted against ending debate on the deal.
Pelosi also broke with Schumer, saying she won't support any deal until House Speaker Paul Ryan promises to bring DACA legislation to the floor.
"I don't see that there's any reason — I'm speaking personally and hearing from my members — to support what was put forth," Pelosi said during a Monday press conference.
Progressive groups, including labor unions and civil rights advocacy groups, simultaneously pressured Democrats to reject the compromise and stand united against the GOP.
"Mitch McConnell's empty promises are not to be believed," Vanita Gupta, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, told McClatchy. "The progressive movement is unified and … [I] feel intensely strongly that Democrats must continue to stand strong now."
Some Democrats voiced particularly strong dissent, including Alida Garcia, a strategist and immigrants rights advocate at FWD.us who announced she's cutting ties with the party following the Senate deal.
"I'm leaving the Democratic Party today," Garcia wrote, calling Democrats "liars." "They're complicit w/ every single young person living in fear. Every pain Latino & immigrant families feel from here out is 100% due to @TheDemocrats not fully embracing us as American. Implicit racism is equally as harmful. I'm done."
Other Latinos voiced similar concern that the Democratic establishment is abandoning immigrant communities.
"This shows me that when it comes to immigrants, Latinos and their families, Democrats are still not willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country legally," Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez said in a statement.


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On Auriol
Editing Auriol
Editions and Translations
The Electronic Scriptum
Exornaciones verborum
Primary Texts
Manuscripts of Auriol's works
Links and Acknowledgements
Auriol News
Links & Acknowledgements
The immediate source of inspiration for The Peter Auriol Homepage was David Burr's Olivi Homepage: give it a visit! See also Sylvain Piron's Oliviana, a related venture.
Bert Roest and Marten van der Heijden are in the process of compiling what is already an immense electronic catalogue covering
Franciscan Authors 13th-18th Centuries. It is extremely useful for information on particular Franciscan authors, their works and what's been written about them, and is already the best place to start when investigating these figures.
The award winning medieval homepage of Paul Vincent Spade is always worth a visit, not least for the extensive list of medievalists' e-mail addresses and links to further interesting sites found there.
One of Auriol's modern relatives, Dr. Bernard Auriol, has created a page devoted to the history of family 'Auriol'. Peter Auriol is of course included.
Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) has taken an interest in Auriol and especially in the background to and context of Auriol's theory of cognition; see his Homepage. As an extension of the Appendix B of the new Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy (CUP, 2010), see Robert Pasnau's Provisionalia: Index Librorum Scholasticorum for an expanding electronic repository, including, of course, Peter Auriol (Rome edition of his Sentences commentaries and more).
Early Modern Scholastics and Scholasticism (1500-1800) is the focus of Jacob Schmutz' very impressive Scholasticon, which includes an enormous number of bio-bibliographies.
An excellent electronic resource is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which, over and above one on Auriol himself, includes entries on several of the thinkers who most influenced Auriol, like Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus, as well as some who were influenced by Auriol, like Francis of Marchia and Gregory of Rimini.
The thinker from the later thirteenth century who had the greatest impact on Auriol was certainly Henry of Ghent. See the Homepage devoted to Henry and run by Gordon Wilson of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The site includes texts (but not apparatus) from the modern critical edition of Henry's Summa quaestionum ordinariarum and Quodlibeta.
Tobias Hoffmann of the Catholic University of America is maintaining a huge bibliography of studies on Scotus. Scotus was, of course, probably the single most important influence on Auriol, in both positive and negative ways.
Auriol seems to have tried hard to slam as often as possible the "maverick" Dominican theologian Durand of St. Pourcain. There is now a project underway at the Thomas Institute of the University of Cologne to edit the first (of three) version of Durand's Sentences commentary, and as part of the project, the editorial team has put on the web an annotated version of the 1571 Venice printing of Durand's I Sentences (third version) as well as a Durand bibliography.
In his hometown of Appignano del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno, Italy), a Center has been established dedicated to propagating information about the theologian Francis of Marchia, who was one of the Franciscan bachelors who read the Sentences at Paris soon after Auriol did so (probably in 1319-20) and who criticized Auriol often in his own theological works. See the Center's homepage.
A collaboration between the University of Cyprus and Boston College, The Peter of Candia Homepage is devoted to this Greek Franciscan theologian who was elected Pope (Alexander V) at the Council of Pisa in 1409. The page contains bio-bibliographical information and texts. Candia was a reader of Auriol, and the later theologian's Sentences commentary played an important role in transmitting Auriol to the fifteenth century.
Jean-Luc Solère (Boston College, Boston) has established a great Site of Electronic Ressources for Medieval Philosophy Studies in connection with the SIEPM.
The international Adam Wodeham Critical Edition Project works with its own Wodeham Homepage, accessible to everybody, and maintained by John Slotemaker and Jeff Whitt (both at Boston College, Boston).
The Peter Auriol Homepage was created with the kind assistance of William Duba, Fritz S. Pedersen, Chris Schabel, and especially Pernille Harsting. It is made possible with the financial assistance of the Research Council (Onderzoeksraad) of the Catholic University of Leuven.
Copyright © 2023 The Peter Auriol Homepage - All Rights Reserved


KING CITY — King City Lady Mustang volleyball is 3-7 in the Gabilan Division of the Pacific Coast Athletic League as they lost 3-1 last Tuesday to the visiting Notre Dame and 3-0 on the road on Thursday to the Salinas High Cowboys.
The Spirits defeated host King City 17-25, 26-24, 16-25 and 19-25. Salinas High swept King City at home 14-25, 16-25 and 13-25.
Grace Shepherd had 18 kills and seven digs in the game with Notre Dame and Nancy Andrade contributed with five kills, 15 digs and three service aces. Ivy Hearne and Kayla Silva combined for four kills, 10 digs and 23 assists. Alexia Hood had six digs and Jalen Mendez had one block, one kill and two digs.
In the loss to Salinas High, Shepherd had 15 kills, six digs and one ace. Andrade finished with two kills, ten digs and one ace. Hearne and Silva combined for 12 digs and 14 assists. Elena Vasquez, Kathy Acero and Alexia combined for eight digs.
King City played yesterday at home with Santa Catalina and will travel to Gilroy tomorrow to play the Cougars.
SOLEDAD — Gilroy Mustangs beat the Soledad Aztecs in three games to win their Cypress Divisional showdown in Gilroy. After squeaking out a 28-26 victory in the opening game, the host Mustangs defeated Soledad 25-20 and 25-10 in the final two games. Standouts in the game were Jazmine Aguilera and Olivia Fale.
Last Thursday in Soledad the Lady Aztecs down the visiting Anzar Hawks in three games, 25-20, 25-17 and 25-9. Jamileth Madgaleno had a good game as a middle blocker. Soledad is 8-2 in divisional play, good for second place behind Gilroy and 10-8 overall. The Lady Aztecs were on the road yesterday in Watsonville and will travel to Pebble Beach tomorrow for a game with the Stevenson Pirates.
GONZALES — For the first time this season, the Gonzales High varsity volleyball team won back-to-back games, avenging an earlier loss to Pajaro Valley and beating the North Monterey County Condors for the second time in divisional play. The Spartans rallied to beat the Grizzlies 20-25, 25-15, 25-20, 21-25 and 15-13. Last Thursday Gonzales traveled to Castroville to beat the Condors in four games.
Madisyn Schweitzer had 15 kills and five blocks in the Pajaro Valley game. Genesis Guerreros added eight kills and 10 digs and Jackie Leon had a total of 28 assists. In the North County game, Schweitzer had 18 kills, seven aces and 10 digs. Guerrero had a game high 26 digs and Bryanna Perez added eight kills and five aces, while Leon had 24 assists.
GREENFIELD — Greenfield High volleyball team is 0-6 in the Santa Lucia Division as they were beaten in four games at home against the Trinity Christian Warriors of Monterey last Thursday. The Lady Bruins hosted Kirby yesterday and play in Santa Cruz against Pacific Collegiate tomorrow afternoon.
King City Lady Mustang volleyball is 3-7 in the Gabilan Division of the Pacific Coast Athletic League as they lost 3-1 last Tuesday to the visiting Notre Dame and 3-0 on the road on Thursday to the Salinas High Cowboys.


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Heads Up! Meteor Shower Tonight
Look up in the sky tonight! See that streak? Is it Santa and his eight little reindeer? Nope. It's the Geminid meteor shower –...
Look up in the sky tonight! See that streak? Is it Santa and his eight little reindeer? Nope. It's the Geminid meteor shower – the most sensational celestial show of the year. If the clouds cooperate, you should be able to see up to 100 meteor showers per hour. The show starts at about 5 p.m., but will be most visible after 9 p.m. as it peaks after midnight and in the early morning hours of December 14. The waning crescent moon plans to do its part in keeping the sky dark. It doesn't rise until about 4:30 a.m.
The Geminid meteor shower makes for exciting action because the meteors travel at slower speeds, which means the streaks last longer. Moving through our atmosphere at around 20 miles a second, they produce beautiful long arcs that stay visible for up to two seconds. And the colors can be dazzling depending on what kind of gases the meteors pass through, how large they are, and how fast they're moving. In general, the red-hued meteors tend to be slower, and the blue meteors are faster.
Meteor showers occur when the Earth crashes through a cloud of debris. Most meteor showers are created by passing comets, which shed dust and debris as they get close to the sun and their ice vaporizes. These bits of dust get incinerated as they enter our planet's upper atmosphere, creating blazing streaks of light. Most of the light you see from meteors, though, is not from combustion but from from the temporary destabilization of the column of air they plow though. That's why you see meteors as streaks, and some of the sparks remain visible as the atoms and molecules reorganize and restabilize.
The Geminids are unusual because the debris trail was left behind, not by a comet, but by the asteroid 3200 Phaethon discovered by astronomers in 1983. Scientists believe it has a diameter of about three miles and an elliptical orbit that facilitates it stopping by our neighborhood in the solar system every year and a half. Each time it passes, it unloads new interplanetary debris. Much like a giant astral dump truck!
This shower is called the Geminid meteor shower because all of the meteors appear to be originating from the constellation Gemini the Twins. The Twins start the evening in the eastern sky, and by dawn are stretched across the low western heavens. Living in a rural area away from any light pollution is a definite advantage, and Earthlings above the equator will have the best seats in the house (uh backyard), because Gemini will rise highest in the northern hemisphere. But that also means cold temperatures. Luckily, everyone already knows how to dress in layers. If you plan to stay out a while, why not grab some cozy blankets, a mug of hot cocoa, and lie back on a reclining lawn chair?
This is one show you won't want to fall asleep during, though. And if you're still stargazing – say at 5 a.m.- that super bright object in the low eastern sky is Jupiter, and it's about 577 million miles from Earth now. The next brightest star just visible above Jupiter – the one with a reddish glow – that's Mars, and it's about 195 million miles away. (Even farther than the North Pole.) By next July, Mars and Earth will journey to within 36 million miles of each other, the closest they've been since 2003.
If tonight's extravaganza piques your intergalactic interest, you'll be happy to know the fun isn't over yet. The orbit of 3200 Phaethon takes it closer to the sun than any other known asteroid. On December 16, star-gazers with backyard telescopes will get another stellar treat -a rare glimpse of 3200 Phaethon. Responsible for creating tonight's shower as it zips and trips across the sky, it makes an historically close flyby of Earth, coming within 6.4 million miles of the planet. (Now doesn't your holiday trip seem a lot shorter?) 3200 Phaethon hasn't gotten this close since 1974; it won't get this close again until 2093. Better catch it this time around! While the asteroid regularly crosses Earth's orbital path, astronomers predict that it poses no threat for at least a thousand years.
Regardless, if it's naughty or nice, Santa says you won't want to miss it. If clouds get in the way, or the temperatures dip too low, you can still see the show online at the Virtual Telescope Project. They host live webcasts for the Geminid meteor shower on December 13 and 14 and for 3200 Phaethon on December 15 and 16.


At McGraw-Hill, Donya Dickerson has been promoted to associate publisher of the business group, and Amy Li has been promoted to associate editor of the business group.
Kate Meltzer has joined Roaring Brook Press as editor. She was formerly an editor at Penguin Children's. Kirk Benshoff has joined First Second Books as art director. Previously, he was art director at Scholastic.
Mary Duke has joined Chronicle Books as a marketing manager for children's. Previously, she was marketing associate at Harper One.
Pat Conte has joined Bear Manor Media as foreign rights agent. Conte was formerly publisher for Kaplan Early Learning Company.
In the UK, Jake Lingwood's new imprint for Octopus will be called Monoray. Though you won't find it in the dictionary, "For me, Monoray sums up the simplicity and clarity of message that you get from all the best publishing. Books that know exactly what they are. There is a clear, straight-ahead direction about Monoray which we love – and hopefully, like the books, it's distinctive and fresh too. Plus, I definitely think it sounds cool."It launches in July with John Carney's Operation Jihadi Bride: The Deadly Mission to Save Young Women from ISIS.
Speaking of new words and coinages, do you remember the position formerly known as "book buyer"? The Amazon Books retail store is looking for something they call a "nonfiction curator" to select the books carried in their stores, and help merchandise them.
R.J. Palacio's novel Wonder, already adapted into a successful film, will become a Broadway play. Tony award-winning Hamilton producer Jill Furman will serve as lead producer.


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Q: Validating a zip file coming from stdin After some frustration with unzip(1L), I've been trying to create a script that will unzip and print out raw data from all of the files inside a zip archive that is coming from stdin. I currently have the following, which works:
import sys, zipfile, StringIO

stdin = StringIO.StringIO(sys.stdin.read())
zipselect = zipfile.ZipFile(stdin)

filelist = zipselect.namelist()
for filename in filelist:
    print filename, ':'
    print zipselect.read(filename)

When I try to add validation to check if it truly is a zip file, however, it doesn't like it.
...

zipcheck = zipfile.is_zipfile(zipselect)
if zipcheck is not None:
    print 'Input is not a zip file.'
    sys.exit(1)

...

results in
File "/home/chris/simple/zipcat/zipcat.py", line 13, in <module>
  zipcheck = zipfile.is_zipfile(zipselect)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 149, in is_zipfile
  result = _check_zipfile(fp=filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 135, in _check_zipfile
  if _EndRecData(fp):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 203, in _EndRecData
  fpin.seek(0, 2)
AttributeError: ZipFile instance has no attribute 'seek'

I assume it can't seek because it is not a file, as such?
Sorry if this is obvious, this is my first 'go' with Python.

A: You should pass stdin to is_zipfile, not zipselect.  is_zipfile takes a path to a file or a file object, not a ZipFile.
See the zipfile.is_zipfile documentation
You are correct that a ZipFile can't seek because it isn't a file.  It's an archive, so it can contain many files.

A: To do this entirely in memory will take some work.  The AttributeError message means that the is_zipfile method is trying to use the seek method of the file handle you provide.  But standard input is not seekable, and therefore your file object for it has no seek method.
If you really, really can't store the file on disk temporarily, then you could buffer the entire file in memory (you would need to enforce a size limit for security), and then implement some "duck" code that looks and acts like a seekable file object but really just uses the byte-string in memory.
It is possible that you could cheat and buffer only enough of the data for is_zipfile to do its work, but I seem to recall that the table-of-contents for ZIP is at the end of the file.  I could be wrong about that though.

A: Your 2011 python2 fragment was: StringIO.StringIO(sys.stdin.read())
In 2018 a python3 programmer might phrase that as: io.StringIO(...).
What you wanted was the following python3 fragment: io.BytesIO(...).
Certainly that works well for me when using the requests module to download binary ZIP files from webservers:
zf = zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(req.content))


Hi there! I'm having a weird issue when using Sourcetree on a project myself and a partner are working on. We are working on a gameproject, and have added an item called a Blueprint in Unreal Engine 4. If I add a blueprint, save and close the proejct, open sourcetree, stage all, commit, pull, and push, he can then pull and get the new Blueprint no problem. However, on his end, when he adds a new Blueprint and repeats these same steps, I get nothing of the new Blueprint on my end. He tried creating several test ones to see if it was just a weird glitch, but it continues to be a problem. We finally stopped at the staging part and inspected the files to be staged, and found that it is not found there. When I do it, I can find the file there. I thought maybe he somehow managed to create a gitignore that maybe was catching this somehow, but we checked and that is not the case. Any other ideas? I've used bitbucket and Sourcetree pretty extensively for work, but not much for game dev so I'm still learning some of the differences with it for something like this.
The gitignore file is the likely cause. If you have a gitignore file in the repository (based on what you said, it doesn't sound like there is), check that the file extension is not listed.
If you don't have a gitignore file in the repository, there may still be a global ignore file that is causing the file to be ignored.
In SourceTree, go to Tools->Options->Git. At the top of that page is the path to the global ignore file. Clear the path so that a global ignore file is not specified, then click OK to save the options.
I don't use a global ignore file because it tends to lead to exactly these sort of problems.