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October 23, 2019 in Aviation, Travel
25 Years Strong
Cathay Pacific celebrates milestone year servicing the Toronto market by introducing the A350-1000 to the HKG/YYZ route
2019 marks the 25th year that Cathay Pacific has flown non-stop between the hub cities of Hong Kong and Toronto, connecting Canadian travellers with over 30 destinations throughout Asia, and the airline's award-winning Service Straight from the Heart philosophy.
On June 9th, 1994 Cathay Pacific was the first airline to offer fastest same-plane service with its 3-times weekly B747-400 flights between Toronto and Hong Kong, with a technical stopover in Anchorage.
Now 25 years later, the airline will celebrate this milestone by introducing the new A350-1000 to the route, starting on Sunday October 27, 2019. Cathay Pacific has one of the youngest fleets in the sky and first took delivery of the A350-1000 in 2018 with its inaugural flight between Toulouse, France and the airline's home Hong Kong.
"We are excited to offer Canadian travellers the latest in aviation technology," says Phillippe Lacamp, Senior Vice-President, Americas for Cathay Pacific. "The -1000 is very similar to the -900 in terms of its operational excellence, impressive range, remarkable fuel efficiency and quiet cabin environment."
The largest variant in the A350 family, Cathay Pacific's A350-1000s will carry a total of 334 passengers across its Business, Premium Economy and Economy Class cabins, 54 more passengers more than the airline's A350-900s.
The addition of the A350-1000 to Cathay Pacific's fleet will encourage Canadians to explore further, opening up new destinations for travellers to discover from the airline's Hong Kong hub. Through the combined network of Cathay Pacific and sister airline Cathay Dragon, Thailand's stunning beaches and vibrant festivals, Bali's picturesque temples and Vietnam's staggering natural beauty are all easily accessible. Connections south to Australia are well timed providing a natural choice to explore the country's thriving cities and countless bucket-list destinations, with Cathay Pacific ensuring the journey is one of comfort and style.
Passenger wellbeing was at the heart of the design process for the new cabin interiors. Featuring a brand-new Economy Class seat with a larger, higher definition personal television; LED mood lighting; enhanced Wi-Fi connectivity; cabins that are 50% quieter in perceived levels of external noise; and a higher cabin pressure that supplies more oxygen to lower the effective cabin cruising altitude to 6000 ft which reduces passenger fatigue. The advanced inflight entertainment system featuring newly announced live coverage of the best sporting events in partnership with channel Sport 24, includes the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and the Hong Kong Sevens next year. This significantly enriched inflight offering epitomises Cathay Pacific's efforts to enhance the customer experience as it continues to fulfil its 'Move Beyond' brand promises.
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Q: How do you make remove_column reversible? I have a migration that removes a column:
def change
  remove_column :foos, :bar, :boolean
end

When I try to rake db:rollback that migration, I get the following error:
remove_column is only reversible if given a type.

The ActiveRecord::Migration documentation says that the following is the signature for remove_column:
remove_column(table_name, column_name, type, options)

So my type in this case should be :boolean, and I expect that migration to be reversible. What am I missing?
I can certainly break this out into an up and down migration to avoid this problem, but I'd like to understand why the change syntax isn't working in this case.

A: Instead of using change, you use up and down methods to your migration:
def up
  remove_column :foos, :bar
end

def down
  add_column :foos, :bar, :boolean
end

A: Simply adding the 3rd argument (the column's :type) to the remove_column method makes that migration reversible. So the OP's original code actually did work, as in:
remove_column :foos, :bar, :boolean

The rest of this answer was an attempt to discover why this method would not have been working, but the OP ended up getting it to work.

I see somewhat contrary info in the documentation for ActiveRecord::Migration:

Some commands like remove_column cannot be reversed. If you care to define how to move up and down in these cases, you should define the up and down methods as before.
For a list of commands that are reversible, please see ActiveRecord::Migration::CommandRecorder.

And this from ActiveRecord::Migration::CommandRecorder:

ActiveRecord::Migration::CommandRecorder records commands done during a migration and knows how to reverse those commands. The CommandRecorder knows how to invert the following commands:
add_column
add_index
add_timestamps
create_table
create_join_table
remove_timestamps
rename_column
rename_index
rename_table

Anyway, it appears that this documentation is out of date... Digging into the source on github:
The method that's giving you grief is:
def invert_remove_column(args)
  raise ActiveRecord::IrreversibleMigration, "remove_column is only reversible if given a type." if args.size <= 2
  super
end

I gave this a shot... setup a migration on my Rails 4.1.2 app and the migration worked both ways -- up and down. Here was my migration:
class TestRemoveColumn < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    remove_column :contacts, :test, :boolean
  end
end

I also tried with the :boolean argument missing and got the same error as you're talking about. Are you sure you're on the final version of Rails 4.1.2 -- not one of the release candidates? If you are, I'd suggest putting a binding.pry into the Rails source for the invert_remove_column method to inspect the arguments list and see what's going on. To do so, just run bundle open activerecord and then explore to: lib/active_record/migration/command_recorder.rb:128.

A: If you're doing a bulk remove of columns, you can make the migration reversible as follows (since rails 6.1)

def change
    change_table :foobar, bulk: true do |t|
      t.remove :foo, type: :float
      t.remove :bar, type: :int
    end
  end

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At 6:45 p.m. Friday, August 10, 2018 Memphis Police Department's Tillman Street precinct received a call about a shooting in the 2400 block of Carnes Avenue, just east of Airways Blvd. Officers arrived to find a victim suffering from a gunshot wound on a house's front porch. He said he had been on nearby Whittington when shooting started and he ran to Carnes to escape the gunfire. There he discovered he had been shot.
Officers proceeded to Whittington and found Christopher Finley lying in the street. He had been shot several times and was pronounced dead on the scene. Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to contact CrimeStoppers. Call 528-CASH (2274) or contact us anonymously via text on a smart phone: crimestopmem.org/tips.


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Foxconn signs deal to jointly develop Wisconsin ginseng
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn has signed an agreement to jointly develop Wisconsin's ginseng industry and grow its newly-established Wisconsin-based brand.
The Taiwan-based company announced the deal Tuesday, Sept. 18. Gov. Scott Walker joined with representatives of Foxconn and others for the signing of the deal in Wausau.
Foxconn Health Technology Business Group signed the agreement with the Ginseng Board of Wisconsin and the largest supplier of American ginseng in the United States.
The deal is to jointly develop Wisconsin's ginseng industry and grow Foxconn's ginseng brand, Hong Seng.
Foxconn says the agreement will bring together its high-end inspection technology and production capabilities to support holistic development of the American ginseng market.
Charlie Alvarez, vice president of the North American hub of Foxconn health technology business group, said the partnership will allow the ginseng products made in Wisconsin to be sold not only in Asia, but the U.S. as well. Foxconn also is partnering with the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center to allow for research into use of the herb in cancer prevention and treatment.
"There are a lot of great medicinal reasons that people use ginseng," Alvarez said at the conference. "And we're partnering and looking at what some of those benefits can be."
Wisconsin dominates U.S. ginseng production, and the state's root is highly valued in Asian markets. The great majority of Wisconsin's crop is grown in Marathon County.
While the state is a major force in ginseng, however, the industry is relatively small. Last year, Wisconsin exports of ginseng — almost the entire crop is exported — brought in $30.4 million. Wisconsin milk production, meanwhile, was worth nearly $5.5 billion.
Foxconn also said it had struck an agreement to establish a joint venture to promote sales of the Hong Seng brand in China. The agreement is with HOPU Investment Management Co., a Chinese private equity firm.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also contributed to this story.

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Nasir Mahmood Khosa is a retired Pakistani civil servant from Dera Ghazi Khan who belonged to the Pakistan Administrative Service and served in BPS-22 grade, the highest attainable rank for a serving officer. He was promoted to the rank of Federal Secretary in 2010.

Khosa has an outstanding civil service record, having held the most coveted bureaucratic assignments in the country. He served as the 22nd Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, as well as the administrative boss of two provinces as Chief Secretary Punjab and Chief Secretary Balochistan. Khosa also served as executive director at the World Bank from 2013-2017.

Khosa is the brother of former Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Tariq Khosa, former director general of the Federal Investigation Agency. He is also the maternal cousin of former Governor Punjab Latif Khosa.

Nomination for chief ministership

On 28 May 2018, Khosa was nominated to become the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab ahead of the 2018 general elections. He was nominated by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to which Shehbaz Sharif agreed but PTI withdrew his name on 30 May 2018, followed by Khosa opting out and excusing himself from assuming the responsibilities of caretaker chief minister.

See also
Pakistan Administrative Service
Nargis Sethi
Jawad Rafique Malik
Rizwan Ahmed
Tariq Bajwa
Rabiya Javeri Agha
Fawad Hassan Fawad
Syed Abu Ahmad Akif
Tasneem Noorani

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Pakistani civil servants
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
People from Dera Ghazi Khan District
Baloch people

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Last Christmas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
George Michael, Wham!
Release Date 08 November 2019
Sony CMG
Sony Music is thrilled to present the soundtrack album to accompany the highly anticipated film, Last Christmas, co scripted by Emma Thompson and inspired by the music of George Michael and Wham! Last Christmas, the soundtrack album, features 3 fabulous Wham! songs including 'Last Christmas', 'Everything She Wants' as well as 12 George Michael solo tracks from throughout his career.
The film began when the acclaimed British film producer David Livingstone (best known for the BAFTA Award winning feature film Pride, and the Renee Zellweger feature, Judy) spoke of his love of Wham!'s iconic hit 'Last Christmas' to the Oscar winning actor, producer and screenwriter, Emma Thompson. That conversation sowed the seed of a winning idea: to make a film inspired by 'Last Christmas', and in Spring 2013, Emma Thompson visited George Michael who gave her his blessing.
After the 2017 film Freedom opened up the musical worlds of George Michael to Paul Feig, the director immersed himself in George's entire catalogue and selected tracks to complement the film's narrative. Highlights include the much loved hits, 'Faith', Fastlove ' and 'Freedom ' alongside such surprises as 'Heal The Pain', 'Waiting For That Day' and the MTV Unplugged version of 'Praying For Time' which George himself adored. As Paul Feig says, the result is "A love letter to George".
1 Last Christmas
2 Too Funky
3 Fantasy
4 Praying For Time
5 Faith
6 Waiting For That Day
7 Heal The Pain
8 One More Try
9 Fastlove Part 1
10 Everything She Wants
11 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
12 Move On
13 Freedom! '90
14 Praying For Time (MTV Unplugged version)
15 This Is How (We Want You To Get High)
More from George Michael
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1: Deluxe Edition
Last Christmas: Limited Edition White 7" Vinyl


Willow branches stripped, graduated in length - short to long/top to bottom- and bound together down center with interwoven sinew in a triangle shape. Sides and top are bound with burgundy velvet cloth approx. 2" W - hand stitched and cotton burlap edging. Very top has triangle shaped hanging tab in blue wool cloth, with red wool V'd accent cloth, outlined in double row of med blue seed beads, with cotton fabric backing edged in beige cotton burlap type cloth. Additional decorative back cover - 22 ½" L in blue wool cloth, backed in plain cotton muslin, edged on entire perimeter in salmon cotton satin cloth, leather fringe on top and bottom, large abstract floral design on wool in glass seed beads.


Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and National Vision Inc. (NVI) officially kicked-off their multi-year partnership at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta's A.W. "Tony" Matthews Club with an eye screening and glasses fitting. The partnership, officially announced in the fall of 2015, will provide vision screenings, access to comprehensive eye exams, and free eyeglasses for qualified members at select Boys & Girls Clubs around the country through NVI's America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses retail locations.
As part of the partnership, in addition to providing free eye care and eyewear to eligible Boys & Girls Clubs, NVI will also contribute $1 million annually over the next three years to support BGCA and its preventive care and wellness initiatives.
Carla D. Anderson, OD, Doctor's Exchange of Georgia Partnering with America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses (a National Vision brand).
Boys & Girls Clubs around the country serve kids and teens aged 6-18. According to the 2016 Vision Council Visionwatch Parent Child Vision Care Report, 50 percent of children have not had an eye exam in the past two years.
National Vision Inc. is one of the largest optical retailers in the U.S., operating over 850 retail locations in 44 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The company. has several retail divisions including America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Vision Centers brought to you by Wal-Mart, Eyeglass World, Vista Optical inside Fred Meyer and Optical Centers on select military bases. America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses is NVI's current retail provider for the partnership with BGCA and Clubs across the country.
To learn more about the partnership, visit bgca.org or www.nationalvision.com/BGCA.


I have one more Mother's Day card I didn't get posted in time.
Hiding in My Craftroom - Scraps used for vines, punched flowers, window frame and senti die.
This is a dbl gatefold card using Crafter's Companion Die'sire Charlotte topper die.
Thanks to the above blogs for lettin' me get my challenge on.
Love the gorgeous, intricate dies! This is such a fun layout and the lace for the curtains is a great detail.
OW WOW! So lovely! This gate card is so amazing all the elements are just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your talent at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge!
WOW! I just saw your winning card as I was checking the Brown Sugar hallenge, and I had to stop by to see details -your placement of the window in the center panel is brilliant - to say nothing of the beautiful paper choices and lacy edge panels. This is definitely in my collection of ideas to try!
A beautiful elegant card. Thanks for playing along with us at PIP Challenges.
Gorgeous! I love the colors you used and that window is awesome! Thank you for joining us at Creative Fingers Challenges.
Oh wow what a stunner, love it.
A beautiful card. I love the dies you have embellished your card edges with and such a pretty shade of pink. Thanks for entering our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers. Sally.x.


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Mordecai and Izak Fischel - Part Two
A few days ago, I explained why I am now convinced that my second great-grandfather, Izak Fischel Pikholz, is the brother of Mordecai Pikholz who was born about 1805. With that, the heads of the Pikholz families from Skalat set up like this, including the names of their known children.:
As I wrote then, "I cannot prove it, but I am quite convinced ... I will not write this in my database, except in the comments, and I will not draw a chart with solid lines. But I think and believe it to be the truth."
I have a lecture called "BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT What We Know vs. What We Can Prove." In it, I advance this rule (on the right):
The idea that Mordecai and Izak Fischel are brothers is not proven and does not even rise to the level of "What I Know." It needs more that just "one more piece of evidence." So what follows here is based on conjecture. But since I think and believe it to be correct, it is worth recording what follows from that conclusion.
So who is the father of Mordecai and Izak Fischel? He cannot be Nachman who would have been only about ten years old when Mordecai was born. He is highly unlikely to be Berl, who was about sixteen when Mordecai was born - but I see no connections between these two families. It could be Izak Josef, who is old enough and the families appear connected, but IZAK Josef would not have had a son IZAK Fischel and in any case Izak Fischel was married to Izak Josef's daughter.
Well, first of all there is this.
Leib Pikholz, a sixty-four year old "shop assistant" died in house 198 in Skalat on 24 February 1844. This is the only mention we have for this man. Born in about 1780, he is an excellent candidate.
However Mordecai's son Aryeh Leib's second child was born about 1856, so that Aryeh Leib would have been too old to have been named for a man who died in 1844.
It is probably a good assumption that the father of Mordecai and Izak Fischel is a brother of Nachman, Berl, Izak Josef and this Leib, so the structure looks like this, with two prominent missing names.
There is another thing to consider. There are additional Pikholz families from Skalat, families we can trace back only as far as 1840-1880. There may be clues among them about those early names.
Four of those families have known living descendants. So going from left to right...
Wolf is not a name we know in the Skalat Pikholz families, so that does not point anywhere. He has a granddaughter here in Israel whom I hear from from time to time, but she knows nothing about her family as her mother died when she was fourteen months old. She has politely declined my repeated requests for DNA.
Yaakov the son of Leib was born about 1870. I have met two of his granddaughters here in Israel. A great-granddaughter in Arizona is a participant in our DNA project, but there are no significant matches with other parts of the family. This Leib may have been born in the 1840s and my guess he is that he is a grandson of Leib 1780-1844.
Israel has living granddaughters (first cousins) here in Israel who are singularly uncooperative. Their DNA would be valuable. Jachiel's three daughters went to the US and I am in contact with grandsons of two of them. They have given me DNA and I fully expected that they would be DNA-compatible with Mordecai's descendants.They are not. Nor do they appear well connected to anyone else.
Esther married Markus Stern and most of that family went to the US before WWI. I am in contact with one great-granddaughter who keeps promising to give me DNA and contact information for some of her cousins. I asked again about ten days ago.
There are also a number of families with no known living descendants.
Kopel has known descendants up to the Shoah but nothing pointing back in time.
There is another Leib here who may be another grandson of Leib 1780-1844 - or he may be the same as above with a different wife. Or neither.
Maybe Fischel comes froim the same source as my Izak Fischel. Or not.
Of this group, David Samuel is the most intriguing. David Samuel is a name which goes back to the first generation of the Rozdol Pikholz family and its appearance in Skalat may hint at the common ancestor connecting the Skalat and Rozdol branches.
Of course, both Moshe Hersch and Aryeh Leib appear multiple times in the early Skalat generations so they are prime candidates for the blank name at the top of the chart. Or his father. Or father-in-law.
And I am not ruling out Jachiel as the father of Mordecai and Izak Fischel.
Or maybe I am hallucinating again. It's been known to happen.
The Relationship between Mordecai and Izak Fischel
Mordecai and Izak Fischel
Mordecai Pikholz has three known daughters and four known sons. Descendants of six have participated in our DNA project. They appear in red on the following chart.
Devorah and Szulim married descendants of Izak Josef Pikholz,
whose relationship to Mordecai is unknown
According to Mordecai's 1864 death record, he was fifty-nine, therefore born about 1805. His Y-67 DNA is identical to mine.
My Y-DNA comes from my second great-grandfather Izak Fischel Pikholz, whose parents and siblings are unknown. His wife Rivka Feige is the daughter of Izak Josef Pikholz (b. ~1784) and based on the ages of her daughters from her first marriage, was probably born about 1815. My guess is that Izak Fischel was born 1810-1815, but he may well be either older or younger.
The analysis
Over the last few days, I had a chromosome-by-chromosome look at how Mordecai's descendants match one another and how they match the descendants of Isak Josef. These are the results for chromosome 3. I restricted the data to segments of twenty cM or more.
The red lines are Mordecai's descendants. Those who tested are shaded - Mordecai's descendants in red, descendants of both Mordecai and Izak Josef are in yellow, descendants of Isak Fischel (and Izak Josef) are in green and descendants of only Isak Josef are in blue.
Several of the testers are composites. For example, Judy and Leonora both match at least one of the eight descendants of Morris (my grandfather) on segments of 35 cM and it doesn't matter which or how many of those descendants are involved. We do know it is the same segment, as Judy and Leonora match each other there and this segment is almost certainly an Izak Josef segment rather than one that reflects a relationship between him and Mordecai.
Eight interesting chromosomes
I present here the eight chromosomes which have significant matches between each of the four descendants of Mordecai who are not descendants of Izak Josef, with the descendants of Izak Fischel, that is the red group and the green group.
On chromosomes 4, 11 and 18, the only "red tester" is Ruth.
Ruth has matching segments as large as 46 cM with the descendants of Izak Fischel's son Hersch.
Ruth has matching segments as large as 32 cM with the descendants of Izak Fischel.
Ruth has a matching segment of 21 cM with the descendants of Izak Fischel's son Hersch.
Barbara matches Isak Fischel's descendants on chromosome 13 and on 14 with Ruth.
Barbara has a matching segment of 20 cM with the descendants of Izak Fischel's son Hersch.
Barbara and Ruth have matching segments as large as 26 cM with the descendants of Hersch.
Lloyd and Dalia match Isak Fischel's descendants on chromosome 7, while Lloyd's cousin Mike matches on chromosome 16.
Lloyd and Dalia have matching segments as large as 43 cM with the descendants of Hersch.
Mike has a matching segment of up to 29 cM with many of the descendants of Izak Fischel's son Hersch.
Finally, Barbara and Dalia match Isak Fischel's descendants on chromosome 20.
Barbara and Dalia have matching segments as large as 32 cM with the descendants of Izak Fischel.
I cannot prove it, but I am quite convinced that Mordecai and Izak Fischel are brothers. I will not write this in my database, except in the comments, and I will not draw a chart with solid lines. But I think and believe it to be the truth.
I still want to test descendants of Tema, Gittel Riwka and Chaim (at the left of the chart at the top). If they have matches similar to Ruth's, I will know that these are legitimate Mordecai Pikholz matches and not, for instance, from the husband of Ruth's great-grandmother Etel.
I will have more to say about this in a few days (I did call this "Part One," after all) but I have other things to do right now.
My granddaughter is getting married this evening.
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No Jews in Skalat
According to Yad Vashem's Pinkas Kehillot, there were 3256 Jews in Skalat in 1890, out of a total population of 5889. Now there are none. The Germans - with the willing, enthusiastic help of the local Ukranians - killed as many as they could. The last of the official killing was on the holiday of Shavuot, seventy-five years ago. Some were left hiding in the forests, but the community was gone. Skalat was declared Judenrein.
The old shul, eighteen years ago.
More recently a warehouse
In some sense, the community lives on among the survivors and their descendants, a group in which I count myself even though no ancestor of mine has lived there for nearly 150 years. I have been attending the annual memorial for Skalat for eighteen years, the day after Shavuot, at the town monument in the cemetery in Holon. Part of a row of monuments which includes other "Pikholz towns" (Zbarazh and Husiatyn) and a couple of my mother's ancestral towns (Pleshchenitsy and Vilieka).
Since the illness and passing of Chaim Braunstein, Zvika Sarid has been running the ceremony, such as it is. Until this year, it has been his mother Yocheved Sarid who has made the phone calls to remind everyone. Her husband Yitzhak died twelve years ago and her older brother Motel Weissman died four years ago at age ninety. And now in her ninety-second year, Yocheved has passed the phone-calling duties to Edna Nakdimon of the second generation.
The last few times I have written about the Skalat, I found it depressing. The number of actual survivors who are well enough to attend has dwindled and participation of the second and third generation has waxed and waned. Mostly waned. We barely reached twenty two-three years ago. I was pleased to see that the numbers were up this year. We were thirty
Yocheved spoke about her own experiences during the dark days. Tova Zehavi - known to everyone as Giza - talked about finding life in the forest, beginning with the Kol Nidre service there. Bronia spoke about the day the Germans came. I do not remember hearing Giza and Bronia speak at such length during previous memorials.
Yocheved with the microphone, Bronia in blue, Giza in between
Yocheved's four children were all there as was her sister's son and grandson, the latter a captain in the army, in uniform. Shammai Segal's family was well-represented, as usual, including grandchildren.
Henia is one who has not attended for several years. A monument to her father's town of Jawarow is in the same row. Her mother was born in Skalat but is no longer well enough to attend the memorial. Henia is finishing a book about her mother Tonia's Kaczor family. I helped her with some of the research eight or ten years ago. Now she is ready to do DNA. I suggested she do her mother's as well, while she still can. Who knows what might turn up.
So this is where we meet. Once a year. We all said kaddish together.
There are no Jews in Skalat. May their memory be for a blessing.
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More Rozdol Solutions
Following my recent post about the critical 1901 Pinchas Pikholz death record, Mark Halpern sent me the Excel file with the full set of newly indexed Rozdol records - 1898-1914 deaths and 1903-1916 marriages.
There are nine marriages which include people named Pickholz, all of them people I know. The new records fill in birth dates and names of the spouses' parents. Some of that is new. Some of the birth dates are not what I have from the actual birth records, but there is always a risk in trusting birth information from death records..
Two of the marriage records are particularly valuable as they identified the parents of the Pickholz grooms. In both cases the men are over fifty years old and reflect the 1915 registrations of Jewish marriages that had no doubt been held years earlier.
One is Dawid Pickholz and his wife Tauba Gitel Muhlrad for whom we have four chldren born 1888-1903. The other is Israel Pickholz and his wife Gitel Bauer for whom we have six children born 1886-1902. These two men are brothers, the children of Abraham Pikholz and Taube Kraut of what I call the IF3 family. I already had their birth records but had nothing to connect those two adult men to those specific births. Until now.
There are thirty-two newly indexed births. Twenty-three are young children, all but three I already knew of. In some cases I already knew they died because there were notes to that effect on the birth records. I have recorded the three new ones and will get them onto the project web site when I have a chance.
The adults are between the ages of thirty and eighty-five. Five of the nine have no new information except death years and ages. A sixth is Pinkas whom I discussed earlier this week.
Then there are the other three.
Sara Rosenzweig is the wife of (Israel) Hersch Leib Pikholz. He was born in 1835 and according to this index entry, she would have been born about 1837, so this should be an easy call - especially as there is no one else it can be.
The birth records of her children show her parents as Israel and Golda, but the parents here are Markus and Rojse. My guess is that the death record is wrong - perhaps in the transcription, perhaps in the original. But until the scan of the original is available, I cannot make a judgement.
Dawid Wolf Pickholz died in 1904 at the age of 64, so he would have been born in about 1840. His parents are Israel Joel (known to have been born in 1807) and Itta Chane. Looks pretty straight-forward. The problem is that I know him to be the son of Israel Joel's eldest son Moshe. But maybe not. It certainly makes more sense for Dawid Wolf to have a thirty-three year old father than a thirty-three year old grandfather. (Until now we had no age for Dawid Wolf, whose eldest son was born in 1862.)
Moses' descendants said he had ten children and we know of nine besides Dawid Wolf, so if he is not Moses' son, there is likely another who has not been identified.
I expect that the death record is correct and I will have to move Dawid Wolf up one generation, but I will have to locate my notes that led to the original decision. (Dawid Wolf has known living descendants in Chicago.)
Sara Pickholz died in 1909 at age 69. Her parents are Isak and Feige.
This is a perfect match for a birth record from 13 October 1840 for Sara Bikholz who was born to Izig and Feyga in house 295, a house where Pikholz births took place over many years.
But it is not simple at all. On 7 July 1840, Sara Rifke Pikholz was born to Izak and Feige, also in house 295.
This is part of the Isak-Feige problem that I alluded to earlier this week. There may be two couples named Isak and Feige Pikholz and these two birth records are for two different children. (To be clear, the existence of these two birth records is not the only thing pointing to two identically-named couples, but it is the one in front of me now.)
The problem is complicated and over many years I have come to believe that it is intractable. But perhaps the death records can tell us something. This one, in the name of Sara, is the only one I have seen so far. I have not seen one for Sara Rivka in the families of her probable descendants. There is one child definitely named for her in 1911, but that is after this 1909 death record. If there were a Sara Rivka from one of the descendant families, born before this 1909 death record, I could say with confidence that Sara and Sara Rivka are two different people.
The odd thing is that there is no reference at all to "Sara" other than the birth and the death. It would be a tough sell to say that a woman known as Sara Rivka in all her documents would be just Sara at birth and death, even if we could explain away the second birth record.
There may be a solution here, but I believe that if I find it, it will be from some place unexpected.
I Have Waited Nearly Twenty Years For This Record
Throughout the life of the Pikholz Project, we have taken as axiomatic that all the Pikholz families from Rozdol are descended from Pinkas and Sara Rivka. Two sons are documented - Israel Joel (1807-1882) with 798 known descendants and Aron (1818-1883) with 81 known descendants.
Anther presumed son is David, the father of Hersch. Hersch was born in 1835 and his mother is Gittel Kraut. And there is evidence of a Samuel, though I have long suspected that Samuel is David's middle name.
There is evidence of a son Berl, about whom we have no information and no known descendants.
And we have four families headed by a couple named Yitzhak and Feige from this first generation. It may be, however that there are two couples - Yitzhak who married Feige and Feige who married Yitzhak, both having children at the same time, all named Pikholz. (For my own convenience, I call these families IF1, IF2, IF3 and IF4.
We also have two families headed by Pinchas, one of whom may have been born to Yitzhak and Feige in 1832 or perhaps to Israel Joel. And a Gittel born about 1840. And another Yitzhak of unknown parentage born in the 1850s.
This has been my best guess of the structure for more than a dozen years.
The four red bars are my conjecture.
Both Hersch and one of the two Pinchas have sons named David Samuel born in 1860 and 1861, and it has been my feeling that Hersch and this Pinchas are brothers. But there was no documentation. Pinchas has a grandson named Pinchas who was born in 1904 and I have long hoped that a death record for Pinchas would identify his parents by name. But we only had access to death records until 1897 - and there is no death record for this Pinchas. So I waited. and waited.
Every time Mark Halpern announced new records from the AGAD archives being released to JRI-Poland, I would ask him about Rozdol deaths. And I waited.
And I worried because even if there were a record, it may not identify his parents.
A couple of months ago, Mark announced a large set of new records and this time it included Rozdol deaths for 1898-1914. This morning, Mark announced that those Rozdol records are now indexed. I went straight to the death record for Pinchas. And here it is.
From the JRI-Poland index. The actual record is not yet available, but this is good enough.
Pinchas died in 1901 at age seventy and his parents are David Samuel and Gittel. Not only is Pinchas definitely the brother of Hersch, but we now have documentary evidence that their father David is in fact David Samuel, as I had suspected.
I can now get to work merging the two families in my database and my web site. The merged family will have eight generations and 271 documented descendants.
The new records include thirty-one other Rozdol deaths with the name Pikholz from this period. There are likely others from married daughters. Plus nine marriages during the period 1909-1916. I will wait with all those until I see the Excel version. Today I celebrate.
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Sometimes We Rethink
For several years now, I have been giving a presentation which includes the statement
Because once I, the family expert,
write it down, will it ever
be seriously re-examined?
If I say something is so, will my research heirs question my decision - if indeed they ever see it as a decision? Will even I myself reconsider it without some new overwhelming piece of evidence?
One of the first things I decided to check out when I began working with this new-fangled DNA thingee was the matter of the four Pikholz descendants who lived in Podolia, outside our usual east Galicia. The four - Necha, Moses, Chaim and Yakov - all appeared to have been born 1868-1878 and I had the feeling they might be siblings.
Moses, from Nemerow, boarded a ship in Hamburg bound for New York via Liverpool. That is the last we see of him. We never even see him arriving in either port. Or any other.
Necha, also from Nemerow, married Ruben Rechister of nearby Braclav and they emigrated to the US where she was known as Nellie Rochester. The Rochesters lived for about twenty years in Kansas City then most of the family moved on to California.
Chaim lived in nearby Tetiev where he and his family were killed in a pogrom in 1919.
Yakov was born in 1878 in Tulcin and has a living grandson who immigrated to Israel from Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. We actually have Yakov's birth record which shows his father as Mikhail the son of Mordecai.
I had two non-competinng theories about who these people were. First the obvious possibility that the four are siblings. Second, we have a known Mordecai Pikholz born about 1805 in Skalat and it appeared to me that Yakov's grandfather is likely this same Mordecai.
Testing the theories
So after my "Immediate and Stunning Success" as outlined in Charper One of my book "ENDOGAMY: One Family, One People", I decided that I could test both theories using DNA. I could not test any descendants of Moses or Chaim, but I was in contact with Yakov's grandson and some of the great-grandchildren of Necha, whom I suspected were second cousins once removed to Yakov's grandson.
Second cousin once removed is eminently testable using autosomal DNA. And of course since we already had Y-DNA for Mordecai from Skalat, Yakov's line would be easy enough to compare.
Yakov's grandson did both tests, the autosomal Family Finder and the male line Y-37.
I was in touch with the families of two of Necha's grandsons - brothers. The elder has two children and the younger, four. The elder brother's daughter promptly agreed to test and I figured we were on the way to proof. They were the sixth and seventh Pikholz descendants to test for our project.
The end of the theories
When the results came in, what looked like a simple confirmation, turned out quite the other way. The Y-DNA of Yakov's grandson did not match Mordecai of Skalat. It was not even close.
Both Family Finder tests showed some matches with the other Pikholz family members, but they did not match each other at all. Whatever they were, it was not second cousins once removed.
I did not get what I had hoped for but I got the truth. "No" is also an answer and this was a DNA success.
The number of Pikholz descendants who tested increased from seven to about eighty and with it, the number of Pikholz matches for both Yakov's grandson and Necha's great-granddaughter..
We began using GEDmatch as our standard for analysis, rather than the less useful tools that Family Tree DNA provides. For instance, a one-to-one comparison of Yakov's grandson and the Rochester great-granddaughter is not exacty non-existent.
There are twenty-two segments totalling some 60 cM with the three largest segments only 6.1, 5.8 and 4.6 cM. Certainly not much more than nothing.
We found a woman named Sheva Pikholz Weinstein from Nemerow, about the same age as Necha Rochester, with a living granddaughter in North Carolina. If Sheva and Necha are sisters, then we can test possible second cousins once removed. In fact, Family Tree DNA shows Sheva's granddaughter and Necha's great-granddaughter as suggested third-fifth cousins with a longest segment of 27 cM and a total of 80 cM.Blaine Bettinger's Shared cM Project says that second cousins once removed share on average 123 cM, with a high of 316 cM and a low of zero. Our match looks low but not outrageously so.
Lara Diamond has some preliminary data for an Ashkenazic Shared DNA Survey which shows second cousins once removed sharing an average of 170 cM, with a high of 446 cM and a low of zero. In this context our match is certainly to small to qualify.
GEDmatch shows Sheva's granddaughter and Yakov's grandson with a longest segment of 14.8 cM with a total of 50.6 cM. This is well below second cousin territory.
A second Rochester test
I have been saying ever since those first tests that perhaps the Rochester great-granddaughter is an outlier and that her cousins might give us better resuts. Eventually one of those cousins tested, a male, with MyHeritage.
He uploaded to GEDmatch and his match with Sheva's granddaughter are even weaker than his cousin's. A total of 65.2 cM with a longest of 15.5 cM. And only one segment that he shares with both his cousin and Sheva's grandaughter, and that shared segment is only 8.3 cM.
So it looks definitive that Sheva and Necha are not sisters. They are likely cousins but could be aunt and niece. The matches we see are reasonable for second cousins twice removed.
An unexpected conclusion
This throws a monkey wrench into one of the more obvious conclusions, one I hadn't even been looking at. I have assumed all along - though I never wrote it as such - that whatever the status of Chaim and Yakov, Necha was the older sister of Moses, both being from Nemerow. That is the kind of conclusion that many researchers would record as fact and never given it another thought.
If however, as it seems, that Sheva and Necha, both from Nemerow, are NOT sisters, then perhaps Moses is Sheva's brother, not Necha's. Or perhaps Moses is the brother of neither Sheva nor Necha. This is an unexpected result of the rethink and another good example of why we must proceed with caution before drawing concusions. Because if I write it down, will anyone ever question it? Will even I revisit it?
And what of Yakov?
When Yakov's grandson tested, we had almost no experience with Pikholz Y-DNA. We have since determined that three known Skalat male lines are precise matches in the "R" haplogroup and that four known Rozdol male lines are also precise matches in a different part of the "R" haplogroup.
Only one other person with the Pikholz surname has done a Y-DNA test and he is also "R." We don't know how he connects to any other Pikholz family.
Yakov's grandson is J-M172. The records call his male line ancestors "Pikholz" (or Pikgolts), so it does not appear that the name Pikholz came from a maternal ancestor, in the Galician way. Yakov's mother's surname is known so it is pretty clearly that there is no such scenario.
I think it is time to bite the bullet and label Yakov's grandson as the product of a non-paternal event - an adoption or some other event that broke the Pikholz male line. Label in my own mind. Label as a "maybe" in the comments. Certainly not to label a certain NPE. But I think that;s what we have.
I still think that Yakov's grandfather Mordecai is likely the Mordecai (b.1805) whom we know and Yakov may well be the brother of Necha. Or Sheva. But I haven't a clue how we might demonstrate that. (Come to think it, I have an idea. We'll see if it goes anywhere.)
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Notes > Startups > Valuable insights for entrepreneurs from Shlomo Dovrat, Co-founder of Viola Group & Viola Ventures
This week, Startup Grind TLV hosted Viola Group and Viola Ventures Co-founder Shlomo Dovrat. Shlomo is a veteran of the Israeli Tech and Venture Capital scene, starting his career over 30 years ago as a bold and driven entrepreneur. He took his first company public in the NASDAQ when he was just 26 years old, and took his second company public (Technomatix, now part of Siemens) when he was 34. His third and fourth company (Mint Technologies and Decalog), in which he was an investor, were both sold to Sungard a few years later, so by the age of 40, Shlomo found himself financially independent, but "jobless", which spurred the creation of Viola Group, Israel's leading technology-focused investment group with over $3 billion assets under management.
Here are some of the highlights from the interview:
What sort of vision do you need to have as an entrepreneur?
According to Shlomo, the first question you need to ask yourself if you decide to become an entrepreneur is "Why?"
For Shlomo, being an entrepreneur is all about wanting to make an impact and change the world, because if your only motivation for being an entrepreneur is to "make a quick buck", there are far more rational ways to do that than to embark on the path of entrepreneurship.
"Being an entrepreneur is hard. It's a tough journey and an emotional roller-coaster, so you have to be resilient, you have to be passionate, and you have to have a vision that's transformational."
"For me entrepreneurship is not about creating another product or another feature or adding incremental value. It's about looking at a market and totally transforming it. When you look at companies like Uber, Airbnb and Facebook – they didn't just create a great product, they transformed an entire industry. I like people who have that kind of vision."
The "vision" is such an important part of entrepreneurship, according to Shlomo, that when he's getting ready to decide whether or not to invest in someone, he challenges them with a scenario: Presuming that they "make it big" one day and achieve a successful IPO, if a leading publication should do a big feature story about them – what would the headline of the story be?
If their answer is around money or "huge returns" etc., then he's not likely to invest in their startup, but if the answer is about making a difference and changing the world, then that's the sort of thing that Shlomo likes, and he usually refers to two founders in Viola Ventures' portfolio to illustrate this point: One is Yaron Galai, Co-founder and CEO of Outbrain, whose answer was "to change the way that content is consumed online" and the second is Tomer Bar-Zeev, Co-founder and CEO of ironSource, who replied "a company that dominates the app economy". Both were strong answers that were indicative of the passion and vision of the entrepreneurs behind them, according to Shlomo, and in hindsight he was right. Both entrepreneurs went on to lead companies that now earn hundreds of millions of dollars, but they gave their visionary answers right at the beginning of their journey, and these are the types of entrepreneurs that Shlomo likes to back.
How do you know if you have a good idea for a startup?
Shlomo admits that he doesn't have a "crystal ball" that can predict which idea will be the next big thing ("otherwise I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now talking to you guys", he jokes) – but he does have some insightful tips. In particular, Shlomo has observed that many great opportunities have presented themselves in the past when there was a significant platform change in the world, like when the PC or the smartphone were invented. And although it is unlikely that the vast majority of entrepreneurs will ever come up with transformational ideas of that magnitude, every time these massive changes occur in our world, they present many secondary opportunities.
"The introduction of smartphones, for example, gave birth to an entire app economy, with 1.5 billion apps online. It created an environment that made over-the-top video possible, as well as tremendous user-productivity in enterprise, and it's still early days for the mobile platform."
Another area that's given rise to an abundance of secondary opportunities is the sharing economy, which Shlomo believes is a platform and a business model that is changing the world. Viola Ventures made a seed investment recently in a startup called Splacer, for example, which is creating "an Airbnb for events". The platform allows event organizers who are tired of using the same old venues, to source new and unique spaces provided by anyone or any business that's happy to make their space available for others to hold events in.
In terms of "what constitutes a great idea for a startup", Shlomo also likes ideas that address mundane areas of our lives, and IoT (Internet of Things) is another area that Shlomo feels is ripe for some great startups ideas.
What does it take to create a successful company?
Shlomo explains his idea of a great company using a mantra that he calls "The Three P's": Passion, People, and Professionalism.
Passion:
Being an entrepreneur is hard, yet if you are successful, it's one of the most wonderful things you can experience, he says. That's why entrepreneurs have to be true believers, and they have to be obsessed with making the dream happen.
"It's not a rational decision to give up so much of your life for a dream that probably won't be successful. So if you're not passionate about it, if you're not willing to go through that sacrifice, you might as well not even start."
And passion isn't just a requirement from the founder, says Shlomo. The whole team needs to be just as passionate. One "tell" about the level of passion in the team is apparent even as early as the pitch presentation to VCs, for example. If during the pitch, while the founder is up there presenting his butt off, the rest of the team members are fiddling on their phones or yawning, that's a good indication that there's a lack of passion in that particular startup.
When it comes to people, Shlomo says that you don't just need "good" people – you need outstanding people.
"You need unbelievable, exceptional people. You need people who are better than you are."
And it's not just about the quality of the people, but the ability of those people to work as a team, to create transparency, to establish values, and to take the time to listen not only to each other but more importantly, to their customers.
"If you listen to your customer, understand where the value lies for them and make sure that you're building your business with that in mind, then you'll be far more likely to succeed."
One of the biggest factors in the success of a startup is the team behind it. "I've seen terrible ideas transform into great companies because they had great teams, and many of the successful companies ended up with a product that was different from what they had in mind at the beginning. Exceptional teams build exceptional companies even if their first ideas suck."
Shlomo feels strongly that in entrepreneurship, no detail is too small to think about. Obviously there's a point where too much attention to detail starts to become unproductive so there's a limit to the level of effort you should go to, but to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be cognizant about what you have to do in order to nail it – whatever "it" might be.
The relentless pursuit of excellence is a core point of differentiation between great companies and "OK" companies.
To illustrate this point, Shlomo gives another example that's related to the startup pitch to VCs. "When entrepreneurs come and presents to us at Viola Ventures; if the fonts in the presentation are not identical, or if the numbers don't fully add up, or if there's a mistake in the bio or in spelling, then they have a huge uphill battle with me, not because it's really important that the fonts are the same, but because if even at this critical stage of raising money for their startup they don't bother checking that their presentation is flawless, then they probably don't have what it takes to be a real entrepreneur. I believe that attention even to the smallest of details is an important part of the company's culture and what drives people to embrace the idea of excellence.
How do you decide whether to invest in something or not?
Most investors would say that they have a sensible, rational set of criteria by which they judge a potential investment, and that they conduct an in-depth analysis and all the due diligence you'd expect, "and we do that here at Viola Ventures too," says Shlomo. "But at the end of the day, the majority of the decision is based on a gut feeling."
As someone who has been visiting Silicon Valley for many years (sometimes up to 10 times a year), Shlomo knows many of the biggest names in the Valley personally, and can attest to the fact that many of them make investments purely based on intuition.
"I've seen great investors, who are very poor analysts, and I've seen great analysts who are very poor investors, and what makes the difference between a good or a bad investment, is that gut feeling," says Shlomo. But going with your gut feeling doesn't give you the freedom (as an investor) not to do the work.
"Go with your gut, but always remain sceptical and always double-check your instinct. Even if you think that someone is a great entrepreneur or that they have a unique product, you should still do the reference checks because you might find that your impression was wrong, and you must also do the competitive analysis because you may discover competitors you didn't know about."
The mark of a truly great venture fund, according to Shlomo, is if there's a collective gut feeling, and a good, strong partnership. At Viola Ventures, for example, which he co-founded with Avi Zeevi, Shlomo readily admits that he doesn't have "all" the wisdom when it comes to every investment, and he's happy to be challenged when the consensus differs from his own opinion, and this collective wisdom is one of Viola Ventures's greatest strengths.
What types of companies does Viola Ventures like to invest in?
Shlomo explains that investors in Venture Capital funds (also known as Limited Partners, or LPs) expect exceptional returns for their investment. "They park their money with us for many years, and for that, they expect a return of at least 3X Net. That means that on a $200 million fund, we have to return at least $750 million."
For this reason, Viola Ventures's strategy is to aim for startups that can potentially become massive, category leading companies for the fund (or as he calls them, "home runs"), and it's a strategy that has seen our fund, which represents around 2% of Israel's venture market, amass in their portfolio about half of the Top 10 companies in Calcalist's list of Top 50 companies.
These types of "home run" companies usually possess the following characteristics:
1. Founders who have grand, transformational visions and who are passionate about their idea.
2. Exceptional "competitive moats" (a term coined by Warren Buffet that refers to an "unfair advantage" that protects the company's long-term profits and market share from potential competitors) and have potential to become category leading companies
3. Low risk from potentially larger competitors not only within their own market but also in adjacent markets whose "giant" players could potentially make a play to take over the adjacent market as well.
4. Scalable business model.
"Most of our successful entrepreneurs are first-time entrepreneurs. We're not necessarily looking for experience (although we also like second-time entrepreneurs who are still passionate, and we have a few of those in our portfolio as well). We're looking for people who know how to execute, which usually manifests as an understanding of the market and of what constitutes the minimum viable product, and we're looking for entrepreneurs who know how to listen."
"When it comes to investing, we prefer to fail rather than not take the risk."
What tips can you give entrepreneurs when pitching their startup to Viola Ventures?
1. Be brief. VCs have a short attention span (because they sit through so many pitches) so what you say in the first 10-15 minutes of the pitch is pivotal. To capture and retain our attention, you should aim to get your main points across right away: What is it that you want to do? What is unique about your technology or your idea? What value will your product bring to customers? How do you intent to measure your product's performance? What is your business model?
2. Some VCs don't like this tip, but I do: Don't be afraid to come with a big vision (it's fine to break it down into a short and long-term vision). Many entrepreneurs are reluctant to describe a vision that's too grand, because they're afraid that the VCs will think they're deluded. But I'm not one of those VCs.
3. Be clear about your go-to-market strategy. People tend to talk too much about the "How" (to build their product), when they should be talking about the "What", about the value to the users, and about how you want to sell it. Skip the "How" part. The only reason we might ask you about the "how" is either because we think it's going to take you ages to develop it, or because we're concerned that it's too easy, which means that anyone else could do it too. But as far as you're concerned, don't spend too much time on the "how".
What factor contributes most to the success of a company?
Aside from the team, which is a crucial ingredient for the success of a startup, Shlomo believes that the most important factor is the value that the product brings to the user. For example in the case of a consumer product, it needs to be addictive, and if it's an enterprise product, it needs to be strategic for the client.
Too many companies develop a "nice to have" product, not a "must have" product. For a company to really succeed, the value proposition needs to be absolutely compelling.
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Here is Nurse Kay Landon in her sporty red convertible talking to Doctor Peter Hayes. He is the dreamiest doctor at Lakefront Hospital. Kay was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and she is burning out after working at a public hospital. She is wondering how she's going to last another day at work. It seems like her biggest challenge, however, is going to be keeping her nurses cap on her head once she hits the accelerator on her speedy little sports car. It's quitting time, and she really wants to go home. Who can blame her, especially after a hellish shift?
"Kay Landon had enrolled for nurses' training and turned her back on her easy luxurious life. Her family and friends were horrified, but she was braced for their disapproval. Now she must tell her fiancé, wealthy Nicky Fairchild.
It sounds like Nicky adores spoiled, rich party girls. He thinks the world needs more rich chicks like Paris Hilton. Maybe he's right. Imagine how things might change if Paris Hilton, like Kay, wanted to become a nurse. I can see it now. Paris attends Celebrity University and graduates top in her nursing class, and after a long night of clubbing, she goes home and gets ready to go to work. She slips on her Gucci scrubs and Jimmy Choo nursing shoes, grabs her Louis Vuitton handbag, hops into her limo, and goes into work with her posse in tow. The Paparazzi snap pictures of her as she enters Hilton Hospital. Young girls yearn to be a nurse just like their role model, Paris.
During morning report, a makeup artist reapplies Paris' lipstick. Paris goes to assess her patients after report, but she quickly becomes overwhelmed with work. Seeing that Paris is about to throw a temper tantrum, her personal secretary starts taking off orders that are piling up at the nurses station while Paris' personal trainer turns her bedridden patients every two hours. Paris is popular with her coworkers because she hires everyone their own personal staff. She's a team player. Other celebrities soon follow in Paris' footsteps and enter into the nursing profession. One day Brittany Spears, Nicole Richie, and Lindsay Lohan will be working as nurses. Of course someone will have to tell Brittany that she can't go "commando" at work.
If you are a hot young doctor like Dr. Hayes, please, step up to the plate and help solve the nursing shortage. Insult a rich chick, or rich dude, and convince them that they, too, want to become a nurse.
So that is what my problem is... I went into nursing BEFORE I was born into a wealthy family... too late on either end. Maybe I can marry into one now? LOL Meh, I think I will remain a grunt in scrubs instead. I have too much attitude to last as a Hollywood elite chic.
Okay. I can't see working in Jimmy Choos. But a personal trainer to do all my 2 hour turns for me? I could definitely get on board with that.
The hospital hires Paris -- one salary.
Paris brings her "people" to do all the unpleasant tasks that might otherwise be a part of her job.
You know... you may be onto something here.... are you going to go into administration when Mr. Grinch ultimately succumbs to the bad karma?
Interresting look at things. Nursing is a big job and I am not sure that a pretty face is all you need to do the job.
I have a lot of respect for nurses - they are good people and I don't think I want a rich girl thinking she is the world, in a hospital.
She slips on her Gucci scrubs and Jimmy Choo nursing shoes, grabs her Louis Vuitton handbag, hops in her limo. This is exactly how I get ready for work every day! Oh the life of a spoiled rich nurse!
That has got to be one of the funniest things I have EVER read in my entire life! Maybe you should send that in to the producers of "A Simple Life" starring Paris and Nicole!


Calmness can be startling. The tranquil Ouse, gently flowing as it usually does, with a boat moored at Marygate Landing, viewed through the arches under Scarborough Bridge. I see this scene a lot, but it seemed remarkable after the recent floods. I can't offer a comparison image, as the path I was walking on was underwater during the floods. I could only stand on the other side of the floodgates and walls and watch the brown water rushing past.
The river brought to York vegetation from miles away, and left piles of twigs and branches at points where its flow met resistance, as at Scarborough Bridge.
Smaller obstacles collected their own less bulky debris. The Ouse doesn't care that these paths have been named "Judi Dench Walk" and "Joseph Rowntree Walk". It leaves its mess in their riverside railings just the same.
Another barrier at the end of Marygate caught tree trunks not captured by the upstream bridges.
A sign of a return to normality: the ice cream van has arrived on the muddy Marygate Landing.
These rudbeckia in the Museum Gardens normally have green leaves. The river left its mark here too.
The mud on the riverside paths is eventually cleaned away after the floods. While it remains, on a sunny October Sunday, the debris from the river's flow has captured the imprint of our human movement. We're down here again running, walking, cycling, as soon as the river retreats.


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Eriberto Arroyo Mío (October 5, 1943 in Olmos, Lambayeque – April 27, 1989 in Chaclacayo, Lima) was a Peruvian politician.

Early life and education
Eriberto Arroyo Mío was the son of José de los Santos Arroyo and Mercedes Mío Timana. He married Crelia Mercedes Burgos. He studied at the Tax School of Tambogrande and the Instituto Nacional Agropecuario of Piura. He studied agronomy at university, graduating in 1967.

Activism and politics
Arroyo Mío had become politically active in 1964. He was a prominent leader of the Piura University Students Federation. He was one of the key founders of the United Left (IU) front in 1980. He served as chairman of IU in Piura until August 1985. In 1984 he co-founded the Mariateguist Unified Party (PUM). He was elected to the Congress of the Republic in the 1985 elections, as IU representative from Piura.

Assassination
Arroyo Mío was assassinated on April 27, 1989, whilst driving his son to school in Chaclacayo (Lima). The murders of Arroyo Mío and Pablo Norberto Li Ormeño, an American Popular Revolutionary Alliance Party parliamentarian assassinated nine days later, caused a public outcry. The scandal led to the resignation of Armando Villanueva del Campo, who served as both Prime Minister and Interior Minister. Following demands from IU the Congress of the Republic set up a fact-finding commission to investigate the murders and activities of pro-government paramilitaries. The identity of the culprits of the assassination remains unknown, there was speculation that either government paramilitaries or the Sendero Luminoso could have been involved. In January 1990 Peruvian police arrested eleven alleged Senderistas for the murder of Arroyo Mío, but Sendero Luminoso rejected the accusations and there were widespread doubts that the movement had carried out the attack. The modus operandi of the killing points to the pro-government paramilitary group Comando Rodrigo Franco.

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The Clinical Committee selected six (6) KPIs for 2018 and 2019, across two domains: Chronic Disease Management and Prevention. How were they selected? The Clinical Transformation Workgroup used these guiding principles to nominate, discuss and refine each of the KPIs mentioned below:
Do they positively influence patient outcomes?
Do they positively influence the Quadruple Aim (improvement in population health, patient experience, per capita cost and provider experience)?
Do they positively influence the quality performance among the Network's value-based arrangement?
Diabetic patients a primary focus
Care for our diabetic patients was chosen as the Network's main focus for 2018. Here's why:
A single focus allows Coordinated Care to explicitly assign resources for optimal outcomes.
Allows the Network to evaluate the direct correlation between improvement efforts implemented and improved patient outcomes.
Diabetes is a high-cost disease, both monetarily and physically.
Diabetes is a chronic condition tracked by all our value-based arrangements (commercial and government payers).
Since diabetes increases in prevalence among older populations—and our Medicare programs are a majority of the lives managed—addressing this chronic condition will positively affect a significant portion of the population.
There is significant improvement to be captured in obtaining ophthalmology/optometry records.
CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT is for conditions where high-quality primary care intervention can potentially prevent the need for hospitalization, or where early intervention can prevent complications or more severe disease.
KPI 1. Diabetes Composite Metric—unique patients ages 18–75 years of age who have type 1 or type 2 diabetes diagnosis on their problem list, have had an A1c > 6.5 percent in the past 24 months, have had two (2) encounters with a diabetes diagnosis in the past 24 months, compared to patients who satisfy the criteria for the four (4) components of the diabetes composite:
HbA1c Control—the percentage of patients 18–75 years of age with diabetes who had A1c > 8 percent or no A1c value in the past 12 months.
Diabetes Blood Pressure Control—unique patients 18–75 years of age who have a diabetes diagnosis on their problem list who have had an encounter within the past 24 months AND whose most recent blood pressure is < 140/90 mmHg.
Diabetes Eye Exam—percentage of patients 18–75 years of age who have a diabetes diagnosis on their problem list who had an eye exam performed to screen for diabetic retinal disease.
Diabetic Nephropathy Prevention and Treatment—the percentage of patients 18–75 years of age who have a diabetes diagnosis who are on an ACE or ARB OR have completed a nephropathy screening within the past 12 months.
KPI 2. Hypertension—percentage of patients 18–85 years of age who had a diagnosis of hypertension and whose blood pressure was < 140/90 mmHg during the reporting period.
PREVENTION and diagnostic interventions detect or monitor health issues to maintain patient well-being or mitigate complications. Here are the four areas of focus:
KPI 3. Breast Cancer Screening—the percentage of patients ages 50–74 who have had a mammogram in the past two years.
KPI 4. Colorectal Cancer Screening—the percentage of patients ages 50–75 who have had the appropriate screening for colorectal cancer.
KPI 5. Pneumococcal Vaccine—the percentage of patients 65 years of age and older who have ever received or have documented historical administration in the administration in the immunization module of a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13, Prevnar13) OR a 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23, Pneumovax23).
KPI 6. Cervical Cancer Screening—the percentage of women ages 21–64 who have completed the appropriate cervical cancer screenings.
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Bindo POS
By Barbara Krasnoff Jun 04, 2018
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Simple and clear user interface. Easily understood pricing plans. Back-office features available directly from register interface.
Activation fee. Integrates with only a few partner services. No 24/7 phone support.
Bindo POS is a simple-to-use point-of-sale system (POS) that should be advantageous for small shops with just one or a few outlets.
Bindo POS was, interestingly, not built to be a point-of-sale (POS) system at first. The original concept for the product, according to company representatives, was to give local retailers something with which they could handle inventory management more efficiently. That way, they could better compete with online shops. After some research, the company decided that the main problem was with the POS systems used by these local shops. So, the company focused on creating a POS system for small businesses with one or two locations. Since then, Bindo POS (which begins at $59 per month for the first register) has developed into a product that can work with stores that have up to 20 locations. Overall, while it's a great POS system, its focus remains noticeably on local retail, which keeps it behind our Editors' Choice winners in this space, Square Point of Sale and Vend POS.
Cost Considerations
Bindo POS offers four pricing plans: Essentials, Basic, Pro, and Enterprise. The Essentials plan costs $59 per month for the first register and $39 per month for each additional register. There's also a $150 activation fee, which is waived if you choose an annual plan. This plan serves up to five users and 500 products, along with an unlimited number of customers. The plan comes with the ability to use gift cards, along with integration with Constant Contact and MailChimp. The ability to use loyalty points costs an additional $20 per month.
The Basic plan costs $89 per month for the first register and $39 per month for each additional register. Again, the $250 activation fee is waved for annual plans. The ability to use a loyalty program is included with this plan as is integration with QuickBooks, Xero, and an e-commerce website. You can add up to 15 users and up to 2,000 products.
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The Pro plan costs $129 per month for the first register and $49 for each additional register. The waivable activation fee is $500. It adds automated reports to the features offered by the Basic plan, along with the ability to enable up to 25 users and up to 25,000 products. Users who need to activate more than 25 employees or over 25,000 products are recommended to call the company for details on Bindo's Enterprise plan.
Bindo POS offers its own credit card processing at 2.49 percent plus 15 cents per swipe (or lower with higher volume). It also can work with third-party credit card processors for a gateway fee of $15 to $20 per month. There are some preferred third-party processors with which the gateway fee is waived. Bindo POS also offers a 14-day free trial period.
Sales Operation
Bindo POS uses an iPad-based system for its POS register software. Users can scan in an item or find it via a Search function. Items are shown as customizable buttons; each can be designed with text, images, and prices. Click a button and it's added to a list of transactions on the right-hand side of the screen. If you need to add color, size, or other factors, then choices appear once you select the item.
An icon in the upper right-hand side of the screen brings up a list of customers. The list includes tracked information about each customer, including order history, the date of the last visit, and whether or not they have any reward points. A new customer can be added by the sales clerk directly from the register screen.
As with other POS systems, you can choose a number of payment methods, including store credit and checks. If the customer has a card already on file, then you can choose that. You can also choose online payment methods such as Apple Pay and PayPal. There is a basic, customer-facing user interface (UI) that can run on a separate iPad.
Because many of Bindo POS's users are smaller retailers who work out of their own shops, the product makes some back-office features available directly from the iPad application via a pull-out menu on the right-hand side of the screen. For example, selecting Inventory lets you do a price change, add a department, or create a new product on the fly. You can also access a list of suppliers so that, if you get a reordering trigger alert, then you can automatically generate a purchase order, which will then be available in the back-office software.
Bindo POS's back-office functions are available via a web-based app called the Bindo Dashboard. It offers an overview page of your current sales and inventory management, including stock transfers from other stores or a warehouse.
There are a variety of prepackaged reports available, including sales by department, tax summaries, top-selling products, etc. Reports can be adjusted by date range and also exported. The Employees function has a time clock that tracks employee hours and can generate an automatic employee report. Employee roles and permissions are also fully customizable.
Bindo POS doesn't have an email marketing feature but it integrates with third parties such as Constant Contact and MailChimp. It also can integrate with QuickBooks accounting and Trustpilot (a product reviews website), and offers its own application programming interface (API). If you need help with a third-party integration, then the company says it will help.
Bindo POS offers its own e-commerce platform, although its offering isn't quite as complex as the one offered by Shopify (and it will work with a Shopify website, if you already have one setup).
Compatible Hardware
Like other POS systems, Bindo POS offers a variety of hardware that works with its software. The "Bindo Hardware Bundle" includes an iPad stand, a cash drawer, mobile barcode scanner, a card reader and a receipt printer. It includes free shipping and support along with a 30-day return policy.
Other available hardware includes label printers, scales, and iPads. For mobile sales, Bindo sells an ID Tech iMag Pro II with Lightening Connector.
Robust Support
Bindo POS has a fair number of support documents (although not quite as many as, say, Lightspeed Retail POS does). There are various ways for customers to get in touch with support, including email and 24/7 chat support. Interestingly, off-hours product support is handled by their Hong Kong office. Phone support is available Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (all Eastern time). According to a company representative, sales personnel often maintain a relationship with their customers for support.
To help evaluate Bindo POS, below we've included a SmartScore and Customer Satisfaction Rating from a website called Finances Online, which evaluates financial solutions. According to the FinancesOnline website, it calculates its SmartScores based on a POS system's main functionalities and features as well as its "collaboration features, customization, integration with other apps, customer support, and mobility. All these factors are taken into account when calculating the final score (on a 1 to 10 scale)."
FinancesOnline draws its Customer Satisfaction Ratings from its proprietary Customer Satisfaction Algorithm that "gathers user reviews, comments, and opinions across a wide range of social media and calculates a satisfaction rating based on what people think about the product."
FinancesOnline gives Bindo POS a SmartScore of 8.6 and a Customer Satisfaction Rating of 95 percent.
Bindo POS is a simple-to-use POS system that should be advantageous for small shops that have one or at least only a few brick-and-mortar outlets. A slick UI will likely offer few problems for most users, even those who aren't used to POS systems, so training isn't much of an issue. Plus, there are enough features, including an e-commerce store, to satisfy smaller vendors from a growth perspective. Unfortunately, new users will have to decide whether they want to invest in the software within two weeks. And the existence of an activation fee for a month-to-month agreement may be a barrier for more cautious small retailers.
Bottom Line: Bindo POS is a simple-to-use point-of-sale system (POS) that should be advantageous for small shops with just one or a few outlets.
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package cu.rst.graph;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import cu.rst.util.Util;

public class ReputationEdge extends TestbedEdge implements Comparable
{

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -6027745106941999388L;
	private double reputation; //not used.
	private ArrayList<Double> m_reputationHistory;

	public ReputationEdge(Agent src, Agent sink, double reputation)
	{
		super.src = src;
		super.sink = sink;
		this.setReputation(reputation);
	}

	public ReputationEdge(Agent src, Agent sink)
	{
		super.src = src;
		super.sink = sink;
		this.reputation = Double.MIN_VALUE;
	}

	public void setReputation(double reputation)
	{
		this.reputation = reputation;
		if(m_reputationHistory == null) m_reputationHistory = new ArrayList<Double>();
		m_reputationHistory.add(reputation);
	}

	public double getReputation()
	{
		return reputation;
	}

	public ArrayList<Double> getReputationHistory()
	{
		return m_reputationHistory;
	}

	@Override
	public int compareTo(Object arg0)
	{
		ReputationEdge otherEdge = (ReputationEdge)arg0;
		if(this.getWeight() < otherEdge.getWeight()) return -1;
		else if(this.getWeight() > otherEdge.getWeight()) return 1;
		else return 0;

	}

	@Override
	public String toString()
	{
//		return "(" + (Agent)src + ", " + (Agent)sink + "," + reputation + ")";
		return new Double(Util.round(reputation, 2)).toString();
	}

	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object o)
	{
		if(!(o instanceof ReputationEdge)) return false;
		ReputationEdge re = (ReputationEdge)o;
		return re.sink.equals(sink) && re.src.equals(src);
	}

}

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