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Social mobility is capitalism's cover story
We shouldn't try to ensure that a few people can escape poverty. We should be eliminating poverty for everyone. By Connor Devine.
January 31, 2018 · 10 min read
Social mobility in Britain is in the pits. This is no great secret. The picture is brought into particularly bleak relief by the Social Mobility Commission's 'State of the Nation' report for 2017. And what a state it is.
According to the report, Britain is a "deeply divided nation" with divisions running along lines of "class, income, gender, race". The latest report chooses to focus explicitly on the gross geographical inequalities within Britain, outlining how an individuals' region of birth impacts on their life chances in much the same way as their class, race or gender. But whatever their focus, the Commission's annual reports are always variations on the same theme: Britain is a country where a person's life chances are largely dictated by the circumstances into which she is born.
The evidence for this is everywhere. According to the Commission's 2016 report, only 1 in 8 children born into a low-income family will become high-income earners later in life. The Commission also found that one in four British workers are trapped in low paid jobs with little chance of escape. A 2016 paper from the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that graduates with wealthier parents earn significantly more than those without. Further, a 2017 Sutton Trust report shows that the UK is one of the worst countries in the OECD for income mobility and that social mobility has not improved since the 1980s.
Social mobility is the great promise on which capitalism was sold to us. Ever since the French revolutionaries first cast off the shackles of feudalism, their cries of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" were amplified by the hope that their place in society would no longer be dictated by their position of birth. The idea that hard work will be rewarded with success has long been the justification for a capitalist model that can often seem ruthless and uncaring. Be it celebrated as a national creation myth, as in the 'American Dream', or in the more restrained sensibilities of 'on-yer-bike' British conservatism, a central tenet of capitalism is that merit, not pedigree, is what allows people to get ahead.
But this idea is, increasingly, being exposed for what it is: capitalism's cover story. So dead is the concept of social mobility that economist Thomas Piketty, in his seminal book Capital in the 21st Century, declared that western society is returning to what he terms the 'patrimonial capitalism' of the 19th century, where an entrenched class of wealth-owners, rentiers and high-income labourers enjoy an unassailable position at the top of society.
This lack of mobility between classes is not for want of trying. Successive UK governments have made social mobility a priority, but to no avail. It seems that, for once, this is an issue that cannot simply be blamed on austerity cuts.
From 1997 to 2010 the New Labour government massively increased spending in education, focusing efforts particularly on schools in disadvantaged areas in a bid to improve the life-chances of individuals from impoverished backgrounds. The plethora of funds, programmes and initiatives introduced during the New Labour years is staggering: Sure Start, Fresh Start, National Challenge, Education Action Zones, Excellence in Cities, the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant, the New Deal for Communities, the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. The list is by no means exhaustive.
All are examples of noble – and costly – efforts to improve prospects for the least fortunate members of British society. While these initiatives were successful in narrowing (though not closing) the notorious educational 'achievement gap' between disadvantaged students and their better-off peers, this did not translate into a higher degree of social mobility later in life. A 2007 Sutton Trust paper found that a child born in the year 2000 has roughly the same life chances as a child born in 1970.
Moving into the Coalition years, while the money had gone, the desire to prioritise social mobility had not completely disappeared. In 2014, then-Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg claimed that the issue was one of his 'biggest priorities in government'. But force of will alone was not enough to resolve this most intractable of problems and, with the added burden of austerity, the situation has worsened.
In fact, the state of affairs is so dire that the entire board of the Social Mobility Commission quit in dramatic fashion in December 2017. Its chair, ex-Labour minister Alan Milburn, claimed there was "little hope" of Theresa May translating her rhetoric on social justice into real, meaningful change.
There may be many possible explanations for this lack of social mobility. Milburn himself blamed the problem on "entrenched elitism", and a lack of effort on the part of any government to address this.
The prominent sociologist Michael Young claimed that fixed social strata were the regrettable consequence of a meritocratic society, as those who had secured higher positions through merit would use their advantage to ensure their offspring were able to secure similarly superior positions for themselves.
But is there any point to all this hand wringing around the issue of social mobility? Or are we approaching the issue from the wrong angle?
The idea of being "socially mobile" immediately suggests that, in a society, those born at the bottom, or even in the middle, should be primarily motivated by the desire to "move up", to improve their social standing and, by extension, their quality of life. This mind set provides a wonderful alibi to those who seek to diminish, for their own gain, the life-quality of those who do not enjoy a privileged place in society.
As the UK suffers a monumental squeeze on living standards, and wages for British workers continue to flat line, the promise of a better tomorrow may be the tonic that helps many get through the day. But it is a false hope, the inconvenient and often unmentioned caveat of which is that, in order for a few to climb the ladder, most must remain on the bottom rung, living in increasingly desperate conditions. The final kick in the teeth is, of course, that climbing the ladder is still hopelessly unlikely, even for the few.
Furthermore, the rhetoric around social mobility is not only delusory; it is dangerous. Propagating the myth that there is a 'way out' for those at the bottom of society alleviates the pressure to improve things. It also implicitly feeds into a harmful narrative that suggests that those at the bottom only have themselves to blame: if they worked harder they could improve their lot. As we have seen, this is simply a fantasy.
So what is to be done?
Politicians have for too long been trying, and failing, to provide equality of opportunity for all. But this is clearly an impossible task. The only satisfactory way forward is to abandon the paradigm of 'social climbing' entirely. Instead we must work to create a society that is fairer and more equal at every level. To create a society where everyone, not just the lucky few, can prosper and be happy, regardless of their heritage.
Naturally, this involves working to improve the state of education. But it also requires drastic improvements healthcare, welfare and wage equality. It means working to build an economy that doesn't just force people into whatever precarious, poor quality work is available, but instead cultivates stable, meaningful employment for ordinary people. It means paying people fairly. It means ensuring they have a place to live and thrive.
Tragically, however, it seems that, on all of these measures, we are falling far short. And it is getting worse, not better. The benefits of a more equal society are indisputable, and yet we are increasingly moving in the opposite direction.
We can no longer allow social mobility to serve as capitalism's cover story. There are just too many plot holes. Rather than chasing this impossible dream, it is essential that we tackle the increasing inequalities in our society, and work to provide true equality for all.
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Member's Help Page
Return to Member Logon Page
Help Topics:
Message: This is a "PPIO Member Only" page. You do not appear to be properly logged on as a member
Successful Logon and Later "Not logged on Message"
Cookies and Session Variables
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Database
Problems Searching the FAQ Database
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The Logon Page is where you go when you want to start using any of the "Members Only" features on the Porcelain Painters web site.
When you join the Porcelain Painters International Online (PPIO) organization, you are given a temporary username and password. These are designated as "temporary" because, once you log on for the first time, there is a selection on the menu where you can go to a page to change either one or both your username and/or password.
If you have joined PPIO as a paid member, and you have not received a username and password, email Marci Blattenberger at marci@ppio.com and she will email your username and password to you.
If you joined online, through the secure credit card transaction facility and the application completed to the point where you were permanently added to the PPIO database, then your temporary username and password should have been displayed to you at the end of the application process. If this did not happen, there may have been a problem with you being added as a member to the database. In this case, notify Marci Blattenberger at the above mentioned email address and she will find out what happened with your application and see that you are added to the database and given a username and password. (Marci receives an email receipt for each member who joins via the secure credit card transaction facility).
If you joined by mailing in your check or money order, you should receive an email from Marci with information about your username and password and how to log on. If you have sent an application in by mail and haven't heard from Marci within a reasonable time, email her asking about your application. She may have missed notifying you about your membership. You will eventually receive a membership card and badge, but since these are mailed in batches, it may take some time.
When you have your username and password, be careful entering them, and recheck your entry before you click on the send button. Neither the username nor the password are case-sensitive, so you can use either lower case or capital letters. There are no spaces in the username or password, so make sure there are no spaces in either entry.
Once you enter the Username and Password, click on the "Send" Button and your entry will be verified. If it is correct, a new page will display. This is the Member welcome page, which displays: "Welcome (your name) You are successfully logged on to PPIO for this session."
If you get to this Welcome page, your logon was successful and you can go to the available Member pages during your time on the PPIO site without having to logon again.
Note: If you should stay on a page for longer than one hour, the system will timeout the information that you are logged on. In that case, should you try to go to another Members Only page after the hour has passed, you will get a message that "You do not appear to be properly logged on as a member". There will be a link to go to the Member Logon page. Just click this link and you can log on as a member again.
This "Time Out" occurance should only occur if you stay on the same page for more than an hour. You should not run into this problem as long as you are moving around the different pages of the PPIO site.
If you get an error message, or you do not get the Member Welcome page, there may be a problem with your entry. If the Username and Password were entered correctly, then it may be that your browser either does not support "Cookies" or has that capability turned off.
To find out more about "Cookies" and why the Members Only features of PPIO require that they be supported and turned on, read the section on this page titled "Cookies" (see the Listing of Subjects at the top of this page).
You will receive this message if you try to display any of the "Members Only" pages without logging on as a member (on the Member Logon page). There is a link below this message which lets you go to the Member Logon page to log on.
If you successfully log on as a member and then later, after you have been online for awhile, you try to go to a Members Only page, you may get a message similar to this:
This is a "PPIO Member Only" page. You do not appear to be properly logged on as a member
or something similar, you may be experiencing a "Timeout". The program is set to automatically log you off if you have not done any "surfing" among the pages of the PPIO site for more than one hour. If this happens, and you get the above message, just select the link to go back to the Member Logon page and log back on.
In some instances, you may receive this message even if your session has not "timed out". If your Internet browser does not support "Cookies" or if it is not set to accept "Cookies", the PPIO site will not be able to store the username and password you entered for later verification and you may get this message when it cannot retrieve the username and password on a subsequent page. To learn more about "Cookies" and how they affect your member logon session, read the paragraphs below.
In order for Several of the special pages on the PPIO site to work correctly (and in most instances, for you to even be able to view these pages), it is required that your browser be set so that your computer will accept "cookies". This is explained further below:
One Important Note of Information, before we go on:
The PPIO web site uses two domain names, www.porcelainpainters.com and the shorter www.ppio.com. Both domanin names display the same home page. Its just two different links to reach our web site. When you set your "cookie acceptance" mode in your browser, you usually will have the choice of setting it to accept all cookies or to put in the URL (internet address) of the web sites for which you will accept cookies. If you chose to restrict your acceptance of Cookies in this way, be sure to set it so that cookies are accepted from both http://www.porcelainpainters.com and http://www.ppio.com, the two web site domains that the PPIO files are on. Otherwise, you may have problems viewing some of the Members Only pages.
Now, to continue with the explanation about "cookies":
What are "cookies"?
A cookie is a text file that a web site you visit may write to your hard drive or, as in the case with cookies generated by PPIO, the information is not written to your hard drive, but is stored temporarily in your computer memory. It is not an executable file which will run on your computer. It contains information which the web site writing to it uses in displaying pages on your computer screen.
Cookie files are generally temporary, with an expiration date, the date when they will be removed from your computer. Some cookie files only exist during the "browser session" (the time during which you are using your browser to view pages online) and are never stored on your hard drive - the "Cookies" created by your PPIO member logon session are this type of Cookie..
Why Would a Site Put Cookies on My Computer? Most of the time, a site uses cookies either in the way the PPIO Membership Logon and other Member Only pages do, which writes information to a temporary file on your computer or to your computer memory, which is removed when the session is over, or they write cookie files to your computer which remain on your computer for some pre-set period of time and are used by that site the next time you access it to determine some specific type of information.
Examples of information stored in a cookie file:
When you last visited their site
What type of browser you have
What pages you visited on their site (maybe so they know your interests?)
(Some sites require you to register for visiting some pages of their site, but do not require a paid membership. They store registration information on your computer for the next time you visit. )
These are only a few examples of reasons a site may want to store cookie files on your computer.
Although harmless, some may see the storing of these "cookie" files on their hard drive as an intrusion.
Why Does PPIO Need to Put Cookies on My Computer?
The "Membership Logon" facility of the PPIO site uses what are called "Session Variables".
A Session is the period of time you are online through your browser. "Session Variables" are just "entities" (for want of a better word), which hold values which may be needed by a program. It is kind of like Algebra where you learned A = b + c. Think of A, b and c as "Variables", and if you knew what b and c were, you could figure out A. So a "Variable" is just a place to store a value.
Most HTML pages (web pages) are static. This means that when you type in an internet address, your browser sends the information to get the page from the server where it resides and the server delivers it to you through your browser (be it Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL or any other Internet browser), storing all the files for the page in a temporary folder on your computer. (That's why some pages load faster when you visit them subsequent to the first time. If the page is not newer on the server, your browser will get the copy of the page that was stored in an earlier visit to the site, from your own computer.)
After the page displays, the server's work (as far as you are concerned), is done until you click on a link on the displayed page or type in another internet address. Although you are connected to your Internet Service Provider, you are not connected continuously to the site of the page you are viewing. A copy of the page has been downloaded to your local computer and you are viewing that copy. When you click a link on that copy of the page you are viewing, the browser again sends information to the server to get the new page for the link you have selected or the new address you have entered.
In between these two connections, there is no active connection between the first page and the new page your browser just downloaded. Each page is just "statically" displayed on your computer. So the only way for one page to let another page know what went on is to use the "Session Variables", which are stored in the temporary cookie file in your computer memory.
The cookie files and the Session Variables contained in them provide a place to put values used by the different pages on the site which need to interact with each other. Each page can "read" the values in the Session Variables (which may have been stored by a previous page) to get information they might need to perform some operation.
The Members Only feature of PPIO uses Session Variables to keep the value of the username and password you enter so that it can be passed on to the next page for verification that you are okay to see this next page too. In the case of some pages used in the FAQ Search, there are also other Session Variables which store the selections made on the page where you put the criteria in for the search of the database so the page that it is passed on to knows what to search for. The Charter Member page uses a Session Variable to send the name of the picture file to display on the page which pops up when you click on the "Painting" link next to a member's name who has a painting on display from the Charter Members' page.
It is up to you whether you want to allow a site to store cookies on your computer. (Providing that your browser supports this feature, and some of the much older browsers don't.) At the end of this document, there is a list of browser versions known NOT to support cookies at all. Generally, most of these versions are no longer in use.
The "Members Only" (Classroom, FAQ) pages and the pages displaying a member's painting will not work for you, if your browser does not support cookies or if you have cookies "turned off", because there will be no place to store the values needed for the pages to work.
If your browser supports cookies, you may have them turned off. There are a couple of options which you may or may not want to do to allow you to accept cookies. Information is provided below on how to change your "cookie" acceptance option in Internet Explorer (versions 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0) and Netscape Navigator (version 4.0) As mentioned below, concerning Internet Explorer 3.0, it appears to default to accepting cookies. We're not sure if this applies to the Internet Explorer version which comes with AOL. Other browsers and bowser versions, which support cookies, may different somewhat from the procedures listed below.
Here is how to choose what you want to do about "cookie" acceptance in Internet Explorer 4.0:
Go to View, and select Internet Options from the list.
This will bring up the Internet Options window.
Click on the "Advanced" tab.
There is a list of options in the window of this tab which can be turned on (checked) or off (checkbox left blank).
About 2/3 of the way down there is a little yellow triangle with an exclamation sign (!) in it, and the word "Cookies" beside it. Under this are three "option" circles. If you have cookies disabled, the circle beside "Disable all cookie use" will have a dot in it.
To enable cookies from all sites, you click in the circle beside "Always accept cookies".
This will mean that you will get cookies from every site, no questions asked.
To be given the choice to accept cookies or not from a site, click in the circle beside "Prompt before accepting cookies".
If you select this "Prompt", then whenever a site is going to put "cookies" on your computer, a "Security Alert" gray box will pop up which will say, "
In order to provide a more personalized browsing experience, will you allow this Web site to put information on your computer?"
"If you click Yes, the website will save a file on your computer. If you click No, the current web page may not display correctly."
There are three buttons displayed, "Yes", "No" and "More Info".
You can click the "More Info" button, and the gray window will display more information below it, which will have the address of Porcelain Painters domain (www.porcelainpainters.com) and several "garbage" letters (which may be the coded text that the "cookie" file will contain) and the information that the cookie expires at the End of Session.
Choosing the "Prompt" alternative is one way you can control who you accept cookies from, but it may become annoying for some people after some time, having the "Prompt" window popup for you to make a choice every time a site tries to send a cookie to your computer.
You may find that, if you select this setting and later try to access the FAQ Search Database, when you click "Yes" to accept the cookie from the site, it may re-display the same confirmation box. Its not clear why it does this, but clicking on the "Yes" button again will usually get rid of the confirmation box and take you to the Search.
To Disable cookies from all sites, click in the circle beside "Disable all cookie use". If the reason you are unable to get the Members Only Logon to work is because of "cookies", then it is likely that this is the option which is set on your computer.
Each of the three options for Cookies can be reset by opening the Internet Options window and clicking one of the cookie options and then clicking the "Ok" button. This will immediately change your cookie acceptance option. You can change the option anytime you wish.
From the menu across the top of your browser page, go to Tools, and select Internet Options from the list.
Click on the "Security" tab.
Then click on the "Custom Level" button.
This will bring up another window with list of options which can be set.
Scroll down the list until you come to the section titled "Cookies". Under this are three "option" circles (Disable, Enable and Prompt). If you have cookies disabled, the circle beside "Disable" will have a dot in it.
To enable cookies from all sites, you click in the circle beside "Enable".
To be given the choice to accept cookies or not from a site, click in the circle beside "Prompt".
If you select this "Prompt", then whenever a site is going to put "cookies" on your computer, a "Security Alert" gray box will pop up which will say something like, "
If you click Yes, the website will save a cookie file to your computer hard drive or store cookie information in your computer memory (depending on how the site uses cookies). If you click No, the current web page may not display correctly.
To Disable cookies from all sites, click in the circle beside "Disable". If the reason you are unable to get the Members Only Logon to work is because of "cookies", then it is likely that this is the option which is set on your computer.
Each of the three options for Cookies can be reset by opening the Internet Options window and going through the steps outlined above. This will immediately change your cookie acceptance option. You can change the option anytime you wish.
Here is how to set your browser to accept "cookies" in Internet Explorer 6.0:
In your browser, click on "Tools" from the menu at the top of the page.
From the Tools menu, click to select "Internet Options". This will bring up the "Internet Options" box.
Click on the tab labeled "Privacy". Then click on the "Advanced" button. If the "Override automatic cookie handling" is not checked, check it.
Then select the option "Accept", under both "First-party Cookies" and Third-party Cookies.
Click on the "OK" button in the Advanced popup.
Then click on the "OK" button again on the Privacy Tab.
This should set your Internet Explorer, Version 6 to accept cookies from the PPIO web site. If you wish, you can try just selecting "Accept" only under the "First-party Cookies" and leave the "Third-party Cookies" unchecked. If you still have problems viewing the Members Only section pages, you may have to go back and check the "Accept" option under "Third-party Cookies" too.
Here is how to choose what you want to do about "cookie" acceptance in Netscape (Communicator) Version 4.0:
From the Netscape Menu, select Edit, and then Preferences.
On the Preferences popup form, click on Advanced from the listing in the white panel on the left.
You should see, (on the right side - gray area), a section titled "Cookies"
In this area, there are three choices:
Make this selection to enable the transmission of cookie information.
Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server
Make this selection to disable the transmission of cookie information to servers other than the server that originally transmitted the web page.
This selection will turn off the transmission of all cookie informtion by all sites you access.
Warn me before accepting a cookie
This is an additional selection you can make after you have selected to "Accept all cookies". If you make this selection, then you will receive a notification dialog box when Netscape Communicator accepts a cookie. It will tell you that Porcelainpainters.com wishes to write a cookie file to your computer and it will display a long line of unintelligiable "coded" letters that the cookie will contain. If you agree to accept the cookie, then the dialog box will close and the Members Only page transmission will continue.
Select one of the three choices and the warning choice, if applicable, and then click on the "OK" button to set the preference.
From the Netscape Menu, select select Edit, and then Preferences.
On the Preferences popup form, find "Privacy Security" in the white panel on the left. If there is nothing listed under "Privacy & Security", double click the words "Privacy & Security" to see the choices under this category
This should display a list which includes "Cookies". Click once on the word "Cookies". This should display a gray area on the right
Make this selection to disable the transmission of all cookie information.
Enable cookies based on privacy settings
This selection allows you to make custom settings for acceptance of cookies.
This will enable cookies from all web sites you visit
You will need to select either choice 2, 3 or 4 in order for the Members Only and Charter Members pages to work. Probably the safest for you to choose is number 2.
There are two additional settings in the gray section which further control the way cookies work for your browser:
Ask me before storing a cookie (checking this box will mean that your browser will display a popup box asking you if you want to allow a sight to store a cookie on your computer. The popup may or may not happen as far as PPIO cookies since our cookies are stored in your computer's memory, not on your hard drive
Limit maximum lifetime of cookies (this choice allows you to set cookies to last either only during your current browser session or for a set number of days)
Cookies in Internet Explorer 3.0:
It looks like Internet Explorer will accept cookies by default.
There is a way you can opt to have Internet Explorer warn you before accepting cookies. To set this warning:
Go to View, and select Options from the list.
In the "Warnings" section, click on the checkbox for "Warn before accepting cookies" This will accept cookies, but will pop up a warning message before it does the download of cookies to your computer and give you the chance to say YES or NO about accepting the download. If you say NO, the pages of PPIO which use cookies will not work.
If you have a browser other than those mentioned in the above instructions, and they are not listed in the list of Browsers which do not support cookies (below), you may be able to find the area on the menu of your browser (or try the Help section of your browser) where you can make a choice as to how you want to handle cookies. If you are using AOL, you may be able to find out from their tech support about setting the options for cookies on the version of AOL which you are using.
Below are some Browser/Browser Versions Which Do Not Support Storing Cookies on Your Computer:
Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 1.0
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer Version 1.0
Some versions of AOL16 Version. 1.2
Some versions of Netscape 1.0 for 16bit Windows Environment (not Windows 95 Environment)
Lynx 2.6-Version 2.14, version 2.7.1, Version 5.03, Version 5.06, version 5.07, and probably all earlier versions of Lynx.
NCSA Mosaic Version 2.1, Version 3.0
Prodigy Classic (Version 3.2)
WebView Version 2.0
The above list is by no means the only browsers which do not support cookies. There may be others. Possibly, some of the other older browsers do not support cookies. The newer versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and above) do support cookies.
Likewise, the newer versions of Netscape Navigator and Communicator (Netscape 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and above) support cookies. See the sections above for how to set your browser to accept cookies or set your browser to prompt you about accepting cookies (only for browsers which support cookies in the first place).
Note: Not all information from the mailing list is contained at present in the database table. Records are constantly being added.
The FAQ Searchable Database table is composed of three "Fields": Category, Subject and Comments.
The entry page of the FAQ Seachable Database facility has three options for searching. Which option you select will depend on how you want to conduct the search of the database table. It is important to note here though, you must select an option for your search. If you don't select an option and just select one of the Categories in the Drop-down box or enter criteria for a search into one of the textboxes, without clicking one of the little Option buttons, your search will yield NO RESULTS! and you will probably get an error that you have not selected an option. The program needs to know how you want the search conducted.
The first option is by Category.
All records in the database table have a category. All available categories are listed in the Drop-down box on the entry page. If you want to search for information based on one of these categories, click the little round "Option" button above the Category Drop-down listing box and then click on the down arrow on the Drop-down Categories box. (The option button is to the left of the words "Select a Category")When you find the category you want to search by, click on it so that it is displayed in the Category Drop-down box. Click on the "Send" button and you will be taken to a page which (if everything goes as planned) will display the information from the records in the database which meet the Category criteria you have selected.
Some Categories, like Gold, have an enormous number of records. Selecting these categories will produce a very long page. You can print the information displayed on the results page of your search. Just use the print feature of your browser.
The second option is by Keyword(s) for Exact Match in Subject.
The second grouping of the records in the database table is by Subject. If you know the EXACT words in the subject, you can be more precise in your search by using this option. Keep in mind though, the entry you make, although not case sensitive, does require that the subject in the records selected EXACTLY match what you enter in the box for this search. To use this option for your search, click the little round "Option" button above the box for entry of the Keyword(s) for Exact Match in Subject. (The option button is to the left of the words "Keywords for Exact Match in Subject"). Then enter the exact match phrase for your subject into the text box below this title. Click on the "Send" button and you will be taken to a page which will display the information from the records in the database which meet the "Exact Match" criteria you entered.
The third and last option is by Keyword(s) for Wildcard match in Comments.
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Huawei mobile department head Richard Yu said on Thursday the company expects to become the world's largest smartphone brand by 2020, surpassing both Samsung and Apple, even if the Chinese brand is unlikely to conquer the US and South Korean markets.
The tech giant hopes to challenge for the pole position in global smartphone sales by end of this year, but the company is confident to hit the top by 2020 eventually, even if without entering into the US, South Korea, and Brazil, Yu said during an interview in China on Thursday.
Huawei was the third largest smartphone brand globally in 2018, slightly behind Apple in overall shipments while lagging notably behind Samsung, agency data showed.
Yu spoke with media after the company launched its P30 smartphone models for the Chinese market on Thursday. The starting price for the P30 is 3,988 yuan ($594) for the Chinese market, which is about 35% cheaper than the €799 ($900) price point for the European market.
Huawei has invested about $6 billion on smartphone R&D every year, far exceeding other Chinese brands, according to Yu. Earlier reports have said Huawei's consumer business is eyeing $100 billion in smartphone sales in three years' time, and $150 billion in five years' time.
Huawei and its sub-brand Honor, combined, are likely to have the world's largest smartphone sales this year, Yu said in a Sina Weibo post earlier this month, with the two brands expected to continue to lead the smartphone market for the foreseeable future.


Facebook has recently updated its News Feed ranking algorithm with the goal of showing users more relevant content in their News Feeds. According to Facebook's newsroom post, this change will mean you will see more content in your News Feed that others have read, liked, and commented on as well as "high quality" content published by authoritative websites. So, what are the specifics of all these changes, and what do they mean for your business?
Since August, Facebook has changed its News Feed algorithm so it is now "bumping" stories to the top of the News Feed that have had an activity such as a comment posted to them. The explanation for this is to resurface content to users that they may not have seen the first time it was posted. Users on the desktop have already seen this feature roll out, but Facebook recently enabled it for mobile users. While this feature can be useful, the down side is that users may also see bumped stories in their feed that are no longer timely or relevant.
In addition, the Facebook News Feed algorithm is highlighting articles that are related to other articles you or others in your network read, in order to help you find more content you might find interesting. Now, after you click on a link to an article, you may see up to three related articles in your News Feed. Facebook has recently updated its News Feed ranking algorithm with the goal of showing users more relevant content in their News Feeds. According to Facebook's newsroom post, this change will mean you will see more content in your News Feed that others have read, liked, and commented on as well as "high quality" content published by authoritative websites. So, what are the specifics of all these changes, and what do they mean for your business?
In the past few weeks, these changes to the Facebook News Feed algorithm appear to be favoring content from publications while hampering the organic visibility of posts from brands and businesses who use Facebook to share content with their fans. Although the update is meant to highlight quality content and downplay meme-related content, especially for mobile users, publishers like as Buzzfeed and Upworthy have actually seen increases in their site traffic since the update, while brands and businesses have seen a huge decrease in traffic from their native posts on the site. A Facebook study conducted by social media marketing agency Ignite reported a 44% decline in reach, on average, from branded News Feed posts on Facebook.
Businesses that use Facebook as a marketing tool may no longer be able to get by using only the "free" part of Facebook — News Feed posts — to promote their content. Instead, they need to start investing in creating engaging, relevant content much like publishers produce, promoted posts, and targeted Facebook ads to reach their audience, in light of these new changes.
These changes mean that highly-engaging, relevant content is more important than ever before. According to an article on Forbes, Facebook's News Feed algorithm will focus on content that "keeps people coming back to Facebook to discover something new and then share it with their friends." And, since News Feed bumping means users will start seeing content their connections have engaged with, it benefits your business to create content that compels people to like, comment, and share your posts. These changes emphasize an important content marketing reality: your posts are literally competing for attention with every other piece of content, news story, post, or picture on Facebook. If you think like a publisher and create content that truly compels your audience to action, these changes can actually help increase the visibility of your posts.
So, what kind of content does Facebook favor in the new News Feed ? According to Facebook for Business, the new algorithm favors content that is timely and relevant, and from a credible and trustworthy source. Since the new algorithm highlights or bumps content that is liked and shared, publishers of "viral" content, like the aforementioned Buzzfeed and Upworthy, have seen an uptick in traffic since the update. So, take a page from their marketing style and try creating content for Facebook that contains headlines that are timely, targeted, entertaining, or even controversial. It's also important to build authority with your audience by sharing content that is useful and informative that your audience is likely to read and share.
As a result of story bumping, it's even more important than ever to ask fans to engage with the content you post on Facebook. So, in addition to creating content that is inherently engaging, but you should ask people to like or comment on your posts or share them with their friends. Types of content that can generate a lot of engagement are: questions, requests for user-generated content (such as photos, captions, or predictions), contests, local events, community involvement, and promotions. Posts that receive a great deal of engagement can then be bumped up in people's News Feeds, giving users another chance to see and take action on your content, helping boost the organic reach of your posts. Another tip for helping boost your engagement is to review your Facebook insights to see which types of content are driving the most engagement, so you can create more like them.
Also known as promoted posts, boosted posts are essentially News Feed updates that you can pay to enhance their visibly in the News Feed, so more people are likely to see them and engage. While you can boost anything from a basic update to a photo or video, a good rule of thumb is to boost a post that already has a high amount of organic views and engagement or a post that generates a meaningful result, like traffic to your site through links. For instance, you could boost a post that will receive a lot of likes and shares, such as an offer, or one that will drive comments and fan engagement, like a contest or a special event. You can boost a post for as little as $5, and the amount you spend will determine the approximate number of impressions your post will receive.
It's also important to know that you can boost your content through the "Create an ad" link under your settings tool, which gives you more options and targeting capabilities than a generic boosted post. Simply select "page post engagement" as your ad type, select the page and post you want to promote, and follow the prompts from there!
Facebook Ads: Display on Facebook is probably what most people think of when it comes to advertising on the site. These image-and-text ads are typically shown on the right-hand side of the News Feed on the desktop version of the site.
Sponsored Stories: Sponsored stories look like messages that come from people in a user's network about their engagement with your brand. For instance, if you sponsor a story for your nail salon, a user may see a post in their News Feed that says their connection Sally Smith likes Nancy's Nail Salon. Sponsored stories can look similar to a status update, but they are labeled "sponsored" and can appear both in the News Feed or on the right hand side of the homepage.
Facebook Offers: If you want to share a coupon or discount with your audience, you can create a Facebook Offer. When someone claims the offer, they can use it at your place of business to receive a discount.
If you are advertising directly through Facebook, you can target your ads to specific audiences based on a number of factors, such as their location, age, gender, and interests. The more you narrow your ads, the more targeted the audience that sees your ads will be.
Have you seen a change in how many people your News Feed updates are reaching? What are you doing to increase engagement with your business?


When life hands you lemons……eat them! No need to turn lemons into lemonade; use fresh lemon juice ! If this tart citrus fruit isn't yet a dietary staple, here are the 6 health benefits of lemons you may not be aware of.
Loaded with vitamin C, lemons are an excellent source of immune boosting antioxidants and vitamins.
Lemon juice contains pectin, a soluble fiber that has been shown to aid in weight-loss struggles.
Chock full of vitamin C, lemons help boost collagen, encourage cell turnover and slow the aging process with its high concentration of anti-oxidants.
Stimulate your digestive track and help the body metabolize fat by squeezing the juice of 1 fresh lemon into a cup of warm water each morning.
Drinking one half-cup of lemon juice every day raises citrate levels in the urine. Studies have shown that this could protect against calcium stones in the kidney.
Bananas aren't the only way to get a big helping of potassium in your system. In addition to vitamin C, lemons offer 80 milligrams of this mineral that helps your body stay strong and nimble.
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If you like to experiment with food and flavors, chances are fennel has made it into your kitchen. Or perhaps you've only tasted it via restaurant meals. Very popular in Italian and Mediterranean cuisine, fennel is great for soups, salads and sautes, with it's crunchy texture and appealing, almost celery-like appearance. But did you know that fennel also offers an array of health benefits?
Blood Pressure: Loaded with potassium, fennel helps reduce high blood pressure. This strong boost of potassium and electrolytes also encourages strong brain function.
Constipation: High in fiber, fennel helps move food through the bowel while also stimulating bile and gastric juices, working as a natural, effective laxative for those who suffer from constipation.
Immune System: Just one serving of fennel offers a huge shot of vitamin C, which boosts the immune system, helps fortify skin cells and protects you from free radicals that can damage and weaken the body.
Heart Disease: Managing a healthy cholesterol level is essential to healthy bodies and the prevention of heart disease. Fennel assists the body in doing exactly that.
Indigestion: Fennel helps stimulate the digestive tract, which helps the body break down food and assimilate the nutrients. It also helps reduce inflammation within the stomach and intestines, leading to a healthier digestion.
For recipes ideas as well as personalized support and information related to clean eating, balanced nutrition, and healthy lifestyle, visit Eat Clean Health and don't forget to sign up for the Eat Clean Health monthly newsletter.
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Welcome to the New Year and the final week of the Rainbow Series! To wrap up the series, Week 5 is all about oranges and yellows.
Orange and yellow food is the absolute best source of vitamin C, which boosts the immune system, protects skin cells, and fights free radicals. In addition to this, orange and yellow foods are also a wonderful source of fiber, which help lower cholesterol, balance blood sugar, and regulate blood pressure.
Eating yellow and orange food is as easy as waking up, squeezing fresh lemon into warm water and eating a breakfast bowl of fresh oranges and peaches. High in antioxidants, especially carotenoids, foods like butternut squash and carrots help slow arthritis and reduce the risk of certain cancers, such as lung, stomach, bladder and breast. Simply roast the orange vegetables in the oven for 45 minutes for a comforting, filling meal that helps you look and feel absolutely fabulous.
Ready to kick-start your New Years Resolutions?! Registration is now officially open for Eat Clean Health's 'New Year, New You' 7 Day Detox.
The New Year, New You 7 Day Detox is designed to flush toxins from the body, lose unwanted weight, reboot the digestive system, reduce inflammation, and jump-start your health goals. This program is an easy-to-follow, easy-to-complete detox that produces cleaner eating habits and glowing skin; plus, it's custom designed to help you look and feel your best with deprivation or dieting.
To register, visit Eat Clean Health's 7 Day Detox, hit the 'Registration' button, fill out the health form and submit payment through our safe, convenient and easy online system. Eat Clean Health will send you a confirmation email within 24 hours and Jodi will follow up with the program materials. And don't forget to sign up for the monthly Eat Clean Health newsletter to stay updated, informed, and inspired.
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One of the best parts of summer is the fresh array of juicy, delicious fruits and vegetables. Watermelons, leafy greens, strawberries, and kiwi are just a few favorites, and as an added bonus, their high content of Vitamin C helps fortify skin cells from the inside-out, leaving you with a gorgeous glow!
In addition to boosting the immune system, decreasing LDL cholesterol, and preventing heart disease, Vitamin C also combats the signs of aging. Foods high in vitamin C boost collagen production, which is essential for firm, smooth skin, and the high antioxidant content of fresh fruits helps fight skin damage caused by free radicals and oxidative stress.
Vitamin C can be found in numerous beauty and skin care products, but here at Eat Clean Health we're big fans of eating our way to optimal health and gorgeous skin, so here's a list of our favorite nutrient dense, vitamin C loaded whole foods.
Fresh lemon juice is, of course, another fantastic source of Vitamin C, and one of the first things I recommend to each and every client is to start the day by drinking a cup of warm water with fresh squeezed lemon juice.
Infuse the skin with a high concentration of Vitamin C.
Incorporate these foods into your daily diet and watch your complexion transform into its healthiest, most radiant and glowing self!
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Joseph Maxwell (12) carefully dissects the sheep heart. This lab was done to make sure the students comprehended the concept of the heart and how it works.
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The last thing most people want to think about before lunch is dissecting a sheep's heart, but Mrs. Roberta Harnish's, Science, 7th hour Anatomy and Physiology class did just that on Feb. 21.
"The point of the sheep dissection, the heart, was to look at the structure in terms of how it was similar to the atria, the ventricles, the valves, your chordae tendineae, all that stuff. That's basically what we were looking at as we were dissecting," LynNora Trosper (11) said.
The lab was supposed to create a hands-on experience to what the class is studying currently. Across the board, there were some mixed reactions initially when the lab started.
"At first, I really thought the lab was gross. I didn't want to touch anything; I kinda shied away from it, but the moment you make your first actual cut into whatever you are dissecting, it gets easier. Your fear kind of goes away and you're like, 'hey this isn't so bad' and that's pretty much it," Trosper said.
The students made an effort to be perceptive during the lab, and each group had their own dynamic that allowed them to get the job done.
"I felt the lab went well; it's one thing to look at diagrams and read about a structure. It's a totally different thing to look deeply at the actual structure. Nothing beats having the actual item in front of you and being able to handle it. Diagrams are the best representation of a perfect situation. In anatomy, nothing is ever exactly perfect," Mrs. Harnish said.
Although this is Mrs. Harnish's first year teaching anatomy at Lake Central, she has taught the class and this lab at other schools over the years, but there is always room for improvement.
"In the future, the only thing I wish I could do differently is to have smaller lab groups so that students have to take a very active role in the dissection, rather than only doing some parts," Mrs. Harnish said.
The next dissection in Mrs. Harnish's class will take place sometime in the spring.
Mackenzie Garibay (12), Alexis Martinez (11) and Emily Mueller (12) discuss the components of the sheep heart. The three girls worked carefully on this lab to make sure they did everything correctly.
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A while ago, I was watching Once Upon a Time for something to focus on while I worked on art commissions. Drawing can be an absorbing thing, but it can also be tedious for me if I have nothing for my brain to chew on, at least peripherally. I'd seen the first season and a half when the show first came out, but I'd fallen away from it when it lost most of my interest. However, I picked back up – and when season three hit, I was floored. I had to stop drawing while I watched so I could pay attention to the one character on the show (besides Rumple) that had caught my interest – Pan. Here was a magnificent and sinister twist on a timeless story. Plus, Pan was portrayed by then-seventeen-year-old Robbie Kay, who held his own against veteran actors like Robert Carlyle. In fact, I still hold that they're the two best actors to ever grace the show. It happened very quickly – I had a character crush in about 0.6 seconds. (Not a cougar thing, I promise. The kid was seventeen.) Pan stole the show for the entire half-season he was in it, and when he left the show felt so lackluster that I quit watching it – again. Pan was the best villain Once Upon a Time ever had – and here's why.
• The build-up. Hearing about Pan and Neverland from others – like Hook and Rumple – was brilliant. It was like hearing rumors about something and wondering if they're really as bad as everyone says. It gave us a beautiful platform for Pan before he was actually introduced – and he lived up to the expectations.
• 'He may look like a boy, but he's a bloody demon.' Pan is a childhood playmate. He's a happy dream. He's the face of an angel – with the heart of a selfish and sinister villain. Having someone who looks like a boy toy with and terrorize older characters on the show added to the eeriness of it all.
• There are times when we actually sympathize with Pan – even though we know that pretty much everything he's done has been for purely selfish reasons. Why do we sympathize? WE DON'T BLOODY KNOW, we just do.
• The family ties. They lent a strand of familiarity to him, which also increased his 'villain' factor – after all, he's Rumple's father, Neal's grandfather, Henry's great-grandfather, Belle's practical father-in-law – and he looks like a kid. I thoroughly enjoyed the twisted complications – it's true when they say in-laws can be a real mess.
• He's clever. He's so clever that most of the time, we have no idea what he's up to. He was ready for this back when Henry was an infant. He manipulates and schemes and he's good at it.
• He's strangely likable. He's infuriating, annoying, bad – but his twisted sense of 'fairness,' as well as his cocky, arrogant humor and cavalier attitude made him impossible for me to hate, or even dislike.
• He views everything as a very serious (very deadly) game. You never know whether he's going to let you off the hook or if he's going to take this move seriously.
• The ayyyebrows. Don't know what I'm talking about? Let me show you. It's important.
• I'm super excited for the Heroes reboot, in which Robbie Kay will star as an undetermined character, but I can't help wishing Pan could come back to Storybrooke. He brought quality and excitement to the show after it had begun to dull, and if he ever comes back you can bet everything you own that I'll be watching it again.
What about you? Who's your favorite Once Upon a Time villain? Did you love Pan, or did you hate him (or both)?
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SW May 27, 2015 at 5:43 PM
Pan was definitely my favorite villain too, the whole time when he was on Once was my favorite part of the show. He was so clever and twisted into so many characters' stories. And yeah, the eyebrows. ;) Nice post!
The Fangirl Initiative May 28, 2015 at 9:05 AM
I miss him so hard.
I stopped watching OUAT midway through the first season, but after seeing a bunch of spoilers from the third season, I've been considering picking it up again. Now I'm really curious about Pan- I had NO idea he was a villain, and the thought intrigues me.
Seriously - even if it's just for Season 3A, watch it. Watch it, because Pan is bloody brilliant.
Hannah Mary May 28, 2015 at 8:29 AM
I have a mega huge villain crush (that's a thing, I hope) on Pan. He's so cool. And adorable. And also very evil, oops.
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Manchester United are reportedly considering January move for Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozil.
The Red Devils head-coach Jose Mourinho is believed to have wanted to sign German midfielder last term, however, the 29-year-old playmakers ultimately signed a new £350,000-a-week deal at the Emirates Stadium.
The creative winger has denied that he has a poor relationship with the New Gunners head-coach Unai Emery, although it is believed that there is a slight issue between the pair behind the scenes.
According to the Daily Express, Jose Mourinho are still closely monitoring proceedings at the Emirates Stadium and will move for Ozil at the start of 2019 if the attacker will be free to leave.
Ozil was on the scoresheet as the Gunners recorded a 2-1 victory over Newcastle United on Saturday afternoon.
The 29-year-old has previously played under Mourinho at Real Madrid.
The Portugues head-coach fought hard to convince Belgian star to sign a new deal with the Red Devils, and Fellaini has played a vital role in the Reds beating Burnley and Watford in their last two games in the Premier League.


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Ensured identification of critical business issues, prioritization of improvement projects, and reporting of selected KPIs.
Directed quality-focused projects to strengthen compliance, quality, cost-effectiveness and customer satisfaction.
Provided routine Quality Management support and guidance to R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales.
Interacted with global regulatory authorities, notified bodies and registrars.
Supported transfer of reagent component and finished product manufacturing activities for specific product lines to alternate US and ex-US locations, including product revalidation, risk assessments, regulatory registrations, product labeling revision, training, quality control and quality system expansion.
Supported qualification of suppliers of key components and finished products, including quality plans, validation, verification, regulatory assessment and reporting, and documentation.
Supported transition to SAP in key reagent/instrument manufacturing sites and distribution centers, including quality plans, system and process validation, training, and documentation.
Supported development and implementation of packaging and global shipping temperature control requirements for IVD reagent products.
Led cross-functional team (R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Quality) analysis of key IVD product quality issues for root cause identification. Resolution included specification revisions, raw material modification, supplier changes, and process control improvements. Concurrent 24% reduction of product quality issues during two-year timeframe.
Led multifunctional team (R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Quality) to develop/implement customer-focused metrics, consistent policy and process changes to improve customer satisfaction and trust. Improved customer on-line access to > 10,000 product documents.
Promoted employee quality awareness and focus through introduction of World Quality Day activities, Quarterly Quality Excellence Award, key customer interactions and implementation of strengthened quality system training for all employees.
Facilitated development and implementation of continuous improvement activities, including utilization of Lean/Kaizen events for Reagent & Instrument Manufacturing, Quality Management, Post-Market Surveillance, and Supplier Management processes.
Led consolidation of three independent acquired businesses into single global quality management system.
Implemented global processes and procedures for key business activities, including Quality Management, Reagent and Instrument Manufacturing, R&D, and Product Support.
Implemented business process changes to achieve compliance with new/revised quality/regulatory standards, including: FDA 21 CFR Part 11, Process and Software Validation, Risk Management and Regulatory Reporting.
Directed timely China registration of IVD products to maintain compliance with revised requirements.
Coordinated submission of R&D and Manufacturing documentation, China clinical evaluations, testing, interaction with China regulatory authorities, and product manufacturing/distribution strategy.


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Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 1/31/2019 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 1/31/2019
Title: Honoring and remembering the late David B. Glancey, former Democratic Party chairman and liaison to the City for the University of Pennsylvania, who passed away Monday, January 28, 2019 at the age of 74.
Sponsors: Councilmember Domb, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Green, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Gym, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Parker, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Taubenberger, Councilmember Oh, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Reynolds Brown
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Honoring and remembering the late David B. Glancey, former Democratic Party chairman and liaison to the City for the University of Pennsylvania, who passed away Monday, January 28, 2019 at the age of 74.
WHEREAS, Born and raised in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, David Glancey eventually settled in Old City where he remained until his passing. He loved his City and his involvement in the Philadelphia's government became his life blood; and
WHEREAS, David Glancey graduated from Northeast Catholic High School and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from St. Joseph's University in 1966. He went on to Villanova University School of Law where he graduated with a Juris Doctorate degree; and
WHEREAS, Following his graduation from law school, David Glancey worked as an Attorney at Dilworth Paxson before setting his sights on politics. David Glancey became the chairman of the City's Democratic Party, under Mayor William J. Green III, who led the City from 1980-1984; and
WHEREAS, David Glancey served at the City's Board of Revision and Taxes in 1983 and became its chairman 5 years later. Mr. Glancey served as chair for 18 out of his 24 years with the Board; and
WHEREAS, In 2008, David Glancey joined the University of Pennsylvania's Office of Government and Community Relations where he served as Director, Special Projects working to promote policies and legislation at a local level; and
WHEREAS, Over the course of his career, David Glancey developed a reputation as someone who was utterly devoted to his work. Accordingly, he never truly retired, even through the onset of his pulmonary issues, David Glancey continued to serve; and
WHEREAS, For nearly 50 years David Glancey successfully navigated Philadelphia politics. He acted as an aide, an advisor, and a mentor to generations of politicians. Colleagues attribute his success to his affable disposition, his passionate approach, and his selfless nature; and
WHEREAS, In addition to hi...
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Mississippi lawmakers approve $38M in bonds for civil rights, history museum
By: Magnolia Tribune - April 5, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. – Lawmakers on Monday approved a bill authorizing the multimillion-dollar construction of two new Mississippi museums — one devoted to the civil rights struggle and another focused on the state's overall history.
The legislation, which had the backing of Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, passed after being stalled in a debate over whether private money had to be collected before state funds would be released.
"The Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History will serve as outstanding projects to teach the lessons of our past and honour those who shaped our great state. Both will be positive for our state's image," Barbour said in a statement.
Barbour, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, renewed calls for a civil rights museum early this year, weeks after coming under fire for comments in a magazine article in which critics said he downplayed the dangers of the civil rights era in Mississippi. The state was at the centre of the struggle in the U.S. South to end racial segregation and guarantee voting rights for blacks.
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BOSTON, Nov. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Closing the books at the quarter end, managing invoices and categorizing expenses involve a wide array of complex tasks that are both laborious and prone to human error. Botkeeper is automating bookkeeping workflows through their human-assisted AI platform, and today announced an $18M series A round, one of the largest A rounds for a Boston tech company.
The round was notable not only for its size but also for the names of some paramount participants: Greycroft and Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund. Existing investors, including Ignition Partners and Halfcourt Ventures, also participated for the second time in the highly sought after round. Other notable participants in the round include Sorenson Capital, Julian Brodsky, CPA Founder and CFO of Comcast and later Comcast Ventures, Stephen Messer, AI founder of Linkshare and Collective[i], Mike Volpe, former CMO of Hubspot and current CEO at Lola, Boston VC Jeff Fagnan, partner at Accomplice, and professional basketball player Matthew Dellavedova. Today's investment brings the total raised to $22.5M.
In step with the exciting growth, Botkeeper adds Chris Mahl as Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President. Chris joins botkeeper with an impressive track record of heading sales and strategy for companies resulting in the following: Two public exits, (Informatica and Salesforce), two M&A exit (RightMedia, LevelUp), as well as several other companies he had taken to 10X in growth (Oracle and JW Player). "The industry-leading combination of human, artificial intelligence and scale botkeeper delivers is reinventing the accounting experience. Botkeeper system drives the reactive and inaccurate to proactive, precise and predictive… at any scale," Mahl said.
Botkeeper has its roots in Founder Enrico Palmerino's experiences running an accounting business, where he saw firsthand the pain points business owners face in managing the books. "At Botkeeper we're focused on bringing simplicity and dependability to the bookkeeping process, so business owners can focus on running their business," says Enrico.
Botkeeper's AI-driven platform helps automate common bookkeeping workflows, provides answers to client questions, and can request more info when necessary much the same way a regular bookkeeper would. The platform easily integrates with a client's banks, credit cards, HR system, and POS system, and makes appropriate entries and adjustments to their Quickbooks or Xero accounts. "Botkeeper's system provides businesses with a 24/7 AI-driven botkeeper, coupled with human bookkeepers who can jump in and help when necessary," Enrico said.
"Botkeeper has built a solution capable of supporting companies of all shapes and sizes- startups through Fortune 5000 companies. After hearing raving reviews from clients at both ends of the spectrum, it was obvious that botkeeper had pulled it off," said Mark Terbeek, Partner at Greycroft. "We quickly decided that we needed Botkeeper ourselves, and needless to say, we saw the value overnight. Every company needs great bookkeeping, but all too often we see companies who still struggle to get it done right. We are thrilled to partner with a world-class company like botkeeeper that can get it right- every time."
"Machine learning is transforming key workflows across accounting, and Botkeeper represents the future of AI-assisted bookkeeping. We're excited to work with Botkeeper in helping make this process easier, efficient, and more accurate for accounting professionals," said Gradient Ventures Partner Muzzammil "MZ" Zaveri. "In the coming years, we expect AI to play an increasingly larger role in automating accounting and compliance functions."
Botkeeper is developing AI to help automate bookkeeping and broader accounting functions for businesses. The platform easily integrates with a client's banks, credit cards, HR system, and POS system, and makes appropriate entries and adjustments to their Quickbooks or Xero accounts, providing businesses with a 24/7 AI-driven botkeeper. The new-age software platform coupled with skilled accountants helps to automate common bookkeeping workflows for accounting professionals through the use of machine learning and AI. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA. For more information, visit botkeeper.com.
Gradient Ventures is Google's AI-focused venture fund - investing in and connecting early-stage startups with Google's resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence. The fund focuses on helping founders navigate the challenges in developing AI-based products, from leveraging training datasets to helping companies take advantage of the latest techniques, so that great ideas can come to life. Gradient was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit Gradient.com.


JONAS: You think I'm having symptoms related to my prior exposure to naquadria, like the others on my planet.
I'm not aware of any "symptoms" related to Naquadria exposure.
What symptoms on Langara is Jonas Quinn referring to?
He's referring to the events of the Season 6 episode 7 "Shadow Play", in which three of the fellow scientists who worked with him (Dr. Kieran, Jonas' former professor, also being one of the main antagonists of this story) end up with a form of Naquadria poisoning from frequent exposure. The effects of the Naquadria poisoning cause a schizophrenic-type lesion in the brain that results in hallucinations and full on delusions - like one might think apply to seeing alien creatures that nobody else can.
What happened to Anubis's host?
What happened between Carter and Martouf?
What would happen if a human took Tretonin?


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Mr. Tracy became a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 2012. He is an AAML-trained Matrimonial Arbitrator and Mediator. David is listed in the 2017 edition of Best Lawyers in America for family law.
David has served in leadership roles for the Oklahoma Bar Association Family Law Section, Tulsa County Bar Association Family Law Section, and the Oklahoma Academy of Collaborative Professionals. He is also a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. David is a prolific teacher to fellow professionals and law students on family law topics, with more than 60 presentations to his credit, on topics ranging from prenuptial agreements to post-decree enforcement issues. He is the author of "Long-Arm Jurisdiction In Oklahoma Divorce Actions" published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal in 1996, and "Collaborative Law – Beyond Winning" published in the Tulsa Lawyer in 2004. David currently serves on the Board of Editors for the Oklahoma Bar Association Family Law Section Practice Manual.
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By David Cowlishaw
How Local Sports Journalism Remains Relevant In 2017
With football news now ubiquitous, local coverage has had to adapt to remain relevant. The well documented pressures on local newspapers have taken their toll on the sports desks, with fewer roles available for budding football journalists to make their name in the industry.
That being said, sports coverage, particularly in football, generates more than its fair share of online clicks and the back pages are often just as important as the front when it comes to shifting print editions. For local reporters, the challenge is to meet the demands of an evolving industry.
"Live blogging is the big thing at the moment, a completely new skill set in terms of tools and writing styles," says Pete Smith from The Sentinel in Stoke-on-Trent. "Reporters need to be heard and seen as well as read and two-way dialogue with readers is encouraged.
"Some changes have been driven by more available stats about what kind of articles are more popular. A case in point being that an on-the-whistle match report has morphed into a quick read with bullet points."
Further pressures on local journalism come from the clubs themselves. Stories of a club's hierarchy taking exception to the local press are commonplace and, unlike mainstream outlets, it seems they are a lot more likely to be denied access. Last year the Coventry Telegraph was banned from pre-match press conferences after urging the club's directors to 'sell up and go' following years of decline.
This summer a Gazette reporter in Middlesbrough was denied access to new Boro manager Garry Monk without explanation. For clubs under pressure, it's easier to bar smaller publications that don't have national readership and are prepared to put the teams they cover under scrutiny. That is, after all, one of the main roles of local news.
Ben Wills works for Total Sport Swindon and covers Swindon Town, a club with a history of frosty relations with the local press. "The Swindon advertiser has been banned from asking questions to the club's staff on a few occasions in recent years so there's a sense, with Swindon Town especially perhaps, that you are always one article or one dodgy post-match question away from a ban," he explains.
Contending with the opinions of supporters, who often feel reporting is either too harsh or too lenient, can also cause problems. But as the Independent's Merseyside reporter Simon Hughes told The Set Pieces last year: "If you've got to do something on a professional level you can't let partisanship bias what you do, because people will see through it straight away. Football fans are smart, contrary to the traditional perception of them. Quite quickly the worship of the club and the players goes away."
Local journalists have tread even more of a fine line when it comes to covering clubs with famously unpopular owners. William Watt, formerly of the Blackpool Gazzette and now Head of Communications at Fleetwood Town, has spoken about the challenges of covering Blackpool during a turbulent period in their history: "So far we haven't been the victim of any legal problems, and I think that's because we've been ultra-cautious."
While being denied access can be disastrous for some publications, experienced journalists can get by with a thick skin.
"My colleague has reported on every Stoke game since 1999 and I think he has been banned or shunned by every manager at some point or another," Pete Smith adds. "He takes it far less personally than I would and in the end, usually, they see sense."
Finding an audience can also be a difficult challenge when covering clubs in the Premier League, given the abundance of online news and opinion. But in areas like Stoke-on-Trent, local coverage remains an essential part of fans' media diet. "It's no secret there are daily and monthly targets," says Smith, "but it has been other sports which have probably been more vulnerable due to the pressure to produce more football content with fewer staff on the sports desk."
Social media has diverted eyes away from the back pages, but mastering Twitter and Facebook can be a significant advantage for newspapers ever-more reliant on website hits.
"For a website, social media is crucial," says Ben Wills. "Papers might be able to carry on their business without social media as people just buy the paper through loyalty and habit and, especially at a club like Swindon, the paper is one of very few outlets that actually covers them."
The media landscape may have changed irrevocably, but newspapers and journalists are adapting to the challenges of covering football in 2017. For many that means re-invention and becoming more digitally savvy, but the central aim is to remain the authoritative voice on football in the local area.
Though the major publishers monopolise the way we consume football, local papers – often staffed by fans of the club they cover – still compete to offer more insight and analysis than national outlets.
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I remember seeing some bed over engine layouts in the past but can't visualise how they work. Did they use a flap up seat back to extend the bed out or did it slide out?
Flying by the seat of my pants ....still!!!!!
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WGI Repave Earns National Asphalt Pavement Association 'Quality in Construction' Award
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:00 AM by Watkins Glen International
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (March 21, 2017) – The repaved racing surface at Watkins Glen International has been the recipient of many compliments since its unveiling at a pre-season ceremony nearly one year ago.
Another endorsement recently came from the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) in the form of a "Quality in Construction Award", recognizing "excellence in asphalt pavements for 2016."
NAPA's Awards Program presents special opportunities for recognizing and encouraging excellence. The program continues to expand new categories. Recipients are recognized for their contributions to a job well done.
"We'd like to thank the National Asphalt Pavement Association for the distinction," said Watkins Glen International President Michael Printup. "The praise for this repaving project has been overwhelmingly positive since our ribbon-cutting last April. Teams, drivers, and of course, the fans, have been thrilled with the results, just as we have at The Glen and International Speedway Corporation."
WGI's first repave since 1998 kicked into high gear one day after Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race winner Joey Logano broke ground during his post-race festivities. Some 25,000 tons of asphalt and 10,000-plus labor hours later, The Glen had a surface that would soon become the fastest road course in North America.
Governor Andrew Cuomo and the State of New York awarded Watkins Glen International $2.25 million to assist in modernization effort and repaving the historic facility in December 2014.
Watkins Glen International received the award after being named a Priority Project by the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council (STREDC) earlier that year.
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International Speedway Corporation is a leading promoter of motorsports activities, currently promoting more than 100 racing events annually as well as numerous other motorsports-related activities. The Company owns and/or operates 13 of the nation's major motorsports entertainment facilities, including Daytona International Speedway® in Florida (home of the DAYTONA 500®); Talladega Superspeedway® in Alabama; Michigan International Speedway® located outside Detroit; Richmond International Raceway® in Virginia; Auto Club Speedway of Southern CaliforniaSM near Los Angeles; Kansas Speedway® in Kansas City, Kansas; Phoenix International Raceway® in Arizona; Chicagoland Speedway® and Route 66 RacewaySM near Chicago, Illinois; Homestead-
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The Company also owns and operates Motor Racing NetworkSM, the nation's largest independent sports radio network and Americrown Service CorporationSM, a subsidiary that provides catering services, and food and beverage concessions. In addition, the Company owns ONE DAYTONA, the retail, dining and entertainment development across from Daytona International Speedway, and has a 50 percent interest in the Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.internationalspeedwaycorporation.com.
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For the 16th year running, tens of thousands of Hong Kong people turned out on Sunday, July 1, for the annual '7.1' anti-government demonstration. The main slogan of the day was "End one-party dictatorship!" – a slogan the dictatorship is trying to ban.
'Long Hair', Leung Kwok-hung, has long been a thorn in the side of Hong Kong's pro-Beijing establishment. Since the authoritarian offensive began in earnest in 2016, 'Long Hair' and his League of Social Democrats (LSD) have been regarded as "public enemy number one" by the government.


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Sleep Help: Reorganizing Your Brain to Treat Insomnia
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It seems that everyone in American culture has to deal with varying degrees of mental fatigue due to a lack of sleep. It's estimated that 100 million people in this country now go without adequate sleep on a nightly basis. The average sleep duration for these people is between 4 and 6 hours. Over time, this leads to increased risks for heart disease, stoke, impaired driving and a whole host of other deadly ailments which are silently ignored by doctor and patient alike.
The fine folks in the pharmaceutical industry see this as an endless market of desperate, hopeless people who are willing to turn a blind eye to the side effects, memory loss and out and out risk of death from long term use of sleeping pills for insomnia. At last count, the sleeping pill market reached 4.5 billion dollars per year in domestic sales.
A recent study, impeccably carried out, concluded that there is an almost four-fold increase in premature death from taking as little as 18 sleeping pills, not a month, but a year.
So as Americans desperately try to find solutions and answers to their insomnia, there is a little known treatment gaining ground that uses a non-drug, non-invasive brainwave biofeedback treatment called neurofeedback. The treatment reorganizes and balances the bio-electrical aspects of the human brain to "re-set" the sleep architecture in such a way that calms the brain of stress and anxiety, which in turn allows the brain to achieve restorative rest. The beauty of neurofeedback, as opposed to sleeping pills, it that there is an end-game. On average, after 20 sessions, the brain is rebalanced and will maintain the gains after the cessation of treatment.
Several clinics around the country specialize in applying neurofeedback for insomnia. Ed O'Malley, PhD practices in the greater Connecticut area. The other is a national practice lead by David Dubin, MD.
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