Do you work in a silo?
Do you not really know your co-workers?
Are your staff meetings just interminable?
Are you wondering how to get more support in your nonprofit work environment, but unsure of who to ask for help? Or do you feel like even if you ask, no one will help?
Are you dreading going to work on the days you know you have to meet with your boss?
If you answered yes to two or more or these questions, you MIGHT have a toxic work environment.
What can you do to turn things around at work?
You're only one person, right? You're not the boss.
1. Start a reciprocity circle.
Because when we do favors for other people, we tend to like them more, instead of when they do us favors. Why does this work this way? Because you did them a favor, Q.E.D., you must like them. It introduces cognitive dissonance to suggest that you did something nice for someone you didn't like.
So if people at your work don't like each other, if program folks and fundraising folks are off in their silos and think the other isn't pulling their weight, well, this is a way out of that situation.
If you're a nonprofit leader, this is easiest to do, but even if you're a development person looking to craft relationships with other staff, you can try this.
It means you sit down with someone and you ask them what they really like to do. Ask them if they've got any ideas for their job that they have thought about implementing. Ask them what they like about their job. You ask them which tasks they'd rather not do, or which tasks they'd prefer to pass off to someone else. Then you come up with a plan for how they could do more of what they love at their job, and less of what they hate.
Because often we are asked to do tasks that we would really rather not do, or because someone else has left and they haven't hired anyone new, or because they have decided not to hire and so now you're juggling 2, 3 or 4 people's jobs. So we can't be good at everything, and if we've got more work than we can reasonably do in a 40 or 50 hour workweek, we're going to be falling behind all of the time and feel like we just can't keep up with what work expectations are.
and more, and all of this with little to no training. And of course, no training budget, right?
So which tasks are you responsible for? Make a big list.
Which ones do you LIKE to do? Check those off.
Which ones would you like to pass off? Make a new list with those tasks.
Could a volunteer do some of this? Could you get a virtual assistant to help you?
Here's a resource on Job Crafting if you want more about this.
A 5 minute favor is what it sounds like. What could you do in 5 minutes to help someone else? You could give them feedback, you could make an introduction. Reach out to someone you haven't spoken with in years. Ask them what they're working on and ask how you can be helpful.
Try starting this simply by offering honest feedback or giving an introduction. That's an easy way to start the 5 minute favor.
If people at work are not down with you asking for favors, maybe you can look at your LinkedIn connections and get the ball rolling by connecting people there.
To take this further, you could create a group of people that meet once a month or so.
At this meeting, invite people that work in different fields, but who want to work in nonprofits. Also invite people who currently work at nonprofits. The entire meeting could be about socializing and learning from each other. You could exchange ideas and information informally. Each of these people can offer a 5 minute favor to someone else, to connect them with a cause or group that they could take the next step in their career with. Maybe if fundraising people go to this meeting, people who currently work at big companies can introduce them to the volunteering team.
How about you? Have you created a reciprocity circle at work? Have you worked on job crafting? What were the results, if so?
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The Music City Distance Carnival is the most exciting running event in Tennessee. We have a taken it up a notch with an increased prize purse. However, this meet is for all ages and abilities with races for kids, masters, high schoolers, college students, and post-collegiate/pro runners alike.
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As Australia's first voice agency, we set out, quite simply, to bring humanity back to brand writing.
We've encouraged conversations over dictations. Distinct personalities rather than bland imitations. Big banks, insurers, telcos – soon we had some of Australia's biggest brands sounding more like people.
Today, it's not enough to be friendly. That bandwagon's full. So we're finding new ways to make brands stand out.
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Today we released Mahara 18.04. Alongside, we also made minor point releases available for Mahara 16.10, 17.04, and 17.10 to fix a security issue as well as a few other bugs.
Please note that this is the last minor point release for Mahara 16.10. It is now out of support and does not receive any security updates in the future. We encourage you to upgrade to one of the supported versions of Mahara: 18.04, 17.10, or 17.04.


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Euzebiusz "Ebi" Smolarek (; born 9 January 1981) is a Polish former professional footballer who is youth manager at Dutch club Feyenoord.

He played primarily as a striker or winger, representing clubs in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, England, Greece, Poland, and Qatar.

Smolarek played 47 times for the Poland national football team, scoring 19 goals, the joint-tenth most in the nation's history. He was part of the Polish squads at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2008.

Club career
Born in Łódź, Smolarek grew up in the Netherlands, where his father, Włodzimierz Smolarek, played in the Eredivisie and later worked as a coach. Smolarek went through the Feyenoord youth system and made it all the way to the first team.

On 24 August 2007, Smolarek signed with Racing de Santander for a reported €4.8 million.

On 29 August 2008, Racing loaned Smolarek to Bolton Wanderers for the season, with a view to signing him permanently. Smolarek's debut for his new club came as the team lost 3–1 to Arsenal on 20 September 2008.

On 3 January 2009, Smolarek scored his first, and only, goal for Bolton in the FA Cup 3rd Round match away to Sunderland but at the end of the season the club decided not to make his loan permanent. On 10 August 2009 he was released by Racing.

Despite some interest from Bundesliga clubs at the start of the 2009–10 season, Smolarek signed on 14 December 2009 with Kavala until 30 June 2012. On 25 July 2010, he and the club agreed to cancel his contract by mutual consent. He signed a two-year contract with Polonia Warsaw on 27 July 2010. On 29 July 2011, Smolarek agreed to cancel his contract with Polonia due to his financial expectations.

Smolarek also played for Ekstraklasa side Jagiellonia Białystok.

International career

A Polish international since 2002, Smolarek was selected for the 2006 FIFA World Cup but failed to score any goals.

He was Poland's (and group A's) top scorer in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying scoring nine goals, beating Cristiano Ronaldo. Smolarek scored a hat-trick against Kazakhstan in Warsaw. He played all of the nation's matches in Switzerland and Austria, as Poland exited in the group stages.

In a memorable feat, he was the first Pole to score a goal against Portugal in 20 years, the previous one being his father. Impressively, he scored both goals in a 2–1 win in a Euro 2008-qualifying match.

On 1 April 2009, Smolarek scored four goals against San Marino. This made him top goal scorer for group three and tied him with Belgium's Wesley Sonck for second highest goal scorer for the European Zone of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification.

Personal life
Smolarek is the son of another Polish international, Włodzimierz Smolarek. He was named after Portuguese footballer Eusébio. With his Dutch fiancée Thirza van Giessen he has a son (b. 27 April 2010), named Mees.

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 UEFA Cup: 2001–02

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 Polish Footballer of the Year: 2005, 2006, 2007

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15th June 2018. The University will produce and issue certificates within one month of graduation.
To enhance accuracy and speed of the processing of certificates, it is the responsibility of each prospective graduand to confirm his/her EXAMINATION RESULTS, ACCURACY and ORDER OF NAMES from their respective Deans' offices from Monday 14th May 2018.
All prospective graduands are also required to clear ANY FEE ARREARS or CHARGES latest 25th May 2018. Any student who will not have met all the requirements for graduation will have their names removed from the graduation list.
The names of the prospective graduands must be in the order in which they shall appear in the final certificate and should be supported by the FORM IV KCSE certificate.


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Myth-busting retirement
Last week I was working in the country town where my sister lives and stayed overnight with her. As we were both leaving for work the next morning, a discussion of why do we work arose as my sister commented that she had about 10 more years left of work. I asked her, "What then, what happens after the 10 years are over?"
Out poured a list of preferable activities to work, which included all the things she enjoys doing and does not get time for because she is working.
The thing that I noticed most about the conversation was the incongruence with what she was saying and the way she was saying it. I could feel the subtle conflict in her. She had recently completed a 2-year post grad master's degree to set her up for a complete career change and LOVED her new work experience!
And perhaps it was more than that; perhaps I could feel the fact that she did not quite understand why she needed to look forward to retirement to enjoy her life more or live a more fulfilling life?
The belief around work that my sister had been unwittingly seduced by, and one that I too have found myself seduced by in the past, was clear to see. That is, the cultural and commonly held attitude that we 'have to' work – that work is not joyful and, in most cases, it is a burden to be shouldered until it is over.
Work becomes like an inescapable sentence or punishment we have to endure to procure the necessities of life and yet it is seen as totally disconnected from the enjoyment of life, if we are able to enjoy life at all. It becomes a means to an end, and the end is the liberation from the imprisonment of work – retirement!
By the time most people get to retirement age they have discharged their responsibilities in raising a family, paid their fair share of taxes, and have hopefully set themselves up financially. If that is the case (as the story goes), don't we then all deserve a self-focussed last phase of life made up entirely of our own self-interests, basically whatever we want to do – which includes retiring from the workforce?
But is retirement the way to go? What are we missing out on by leaving work, which is potentially a place where we feel needed, useful and like we are contributing to something worthwhile?
My sister is a great team player and, in many ways, an inspiration to work with. She is a very hard worker and knows about the importance of responsibility and commitment. I wonder, if she truly appreciated what she actually brings to her workplace, and if those with whom she works shared this appreciation, would she still be counting down the years until retirement?
When we feel that our work is only about doing what we 'have to do' so that one day we will retire to enjoy life more, we are potentially blind to the true value of our contribution.
If we don't enjoy our work
What makes us seek reward and recognition from the outside world within our workplace and our daily activities? There could be another way to be at work and truly enjoy what we do.
Who we are at work and how we go about our work is valuable beyond measure and matters to our clients, colleagues and our communities. Only when we stop to understand and appreciate the value of what we ourselves, or workmates, bring to our work more fully, will our attitudes and beliefs about the purpose of work and the real difference we make begin to change.
Maybe then we will see the value of our work time differently.
Maybe there is far more to be appreciated now than looking forward to retirement.
Appreciation, Ageing, Money, Retirement
Photography: Clayton Lloyd
Why retire? Does it truly serve the individual who retires, and the workforce they leave?
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Q: How to show filtered items only after adding to cart on home page in django? i am practicing django by making an ecommerce app. I also share the video so that you can also check the problem.
https://youtu.be/crYlZ7Bo8y4
Application is working perfectly but when i filter the product according to selected category and press add to cart button then it will show all products of all categories instead of showing selected products under that category.
Can you please help me out in this.
index.html page:
{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block content %}

{% load cart %}
{% load custom_filter %}

                All Products

                {% for category in categories %}
                {{category.name}}
                {% endfor %}

                {% for product in products %}

{{product.name}}

{{product.price|currency}}

                        {% if product|is_in_cart:request.session.cart %}

                            <form action="/#{{product.id}}" class="col-2 " method="post">
                                {% csrf_token %}
                                <input hidden type="text" name='product' value='{{product.id}}'>
                                <input hidden type="text" name='remove' value='True'>
                                <input type="submit" value=" - " class="btn btn-block btn-light border-right">
                            </form>

{{product|cart_quantity:request.session.cart}} in Cart

                            <form action="/#{{product.id}}" class="col-2 " method="post">
                                {% csrf_token %}
                                <input hidden type="text" name='product' value='{{product.id}}'>
                                <input type="submit" value=" + " class="btn btn-block btn-light border-left">
                            </form>

                        {% else %}
                        <form action="/#{{product.id}}" method="POST" class="btn-block">
                            {% csrf_token %}
                            <input hidden type="text" name='product' value='{{product.id}}'>
                            <input type="submit" class="float-right btn btn-light  form-control"
                                value="Add To Cart">
                        </form>
                        {% endif %}

                {% endfor %}

{% endblock %}

index.py:
from django.shortcuts import render , redirect , HttpResponseRedirect
from user.models.product import Product
from user.models.category import Category
from django.views import View

# Create your views here.
class Index(View):

    def post(self , request):
        product = request.POST.get('product')
        remove = request.POST.get('remove')
        cart = request.session.get('cart')
        if cart:
            quantity = cart.get(product)
            if quantity:
                if remove:
                    if quantity<=1:
                        cart.pop(product)
                    else:
                        cart[product]  = quantity-1
                else:
                    cart[product]  = quantity+1

            else:
                cart[product] = 1
        else:
            cart = {}
            cart[product] = 1

        request.session['cart'] = cart
        print('cart', request.session['cart'])
        return redirect('user:homepage')

    def get(self , request):
        return HttpResponseRedirect(f'/store{request.get_full_path()[1:]}')

def store(request):
    cart = request.session.get('cart')
    if not cart:
        request.session['cart'] = {}
    products = None
    categories = Category.get_all_categories()
    categoryID = request.GET.get('category')
    if categoryID:
        products = Product.get_all_products_by_categoryid(categoryID)
    else:
        products = Product.get_all_products();

    data = {}
    data['products'] = products
    data['categories'] = categories

    print('you are : ', request.session.get('email'))
    return render(request, 'index.html', data)

urls.py:
from django.urls import path
from .views.index import Index,store
from .views.signup import Signup
from .views.login import Login,logout

app_name = 'user'
urlpatterns = [
    path('', Index.as_view(), name='homepage'),
    path('store', store, name='store'),
    path('signup', Signup.as_view(), name='signup'),
    path('login', Login.as_view(), name='login'),
    path('logout', logout, name='logout'),
]

cart.py template tag:
from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(name='is_in_cart')
def is_in_cart(product  , cart):
    keys = cart.keys()
    for id in keys:
        if int(id) == product.id:
            return True
    return False;

@register.filter(name='cart_quantity')
def cart_quantity(product  , cart):
    keys = cart.keys()
    for id in keys:
        if int(id) == product.id:
            return cart.get(id)
    return 0;

@register.filter(name='price_total')
def price_total(product  , cart):
    return product.price * cart_quantity(product , cart)

@register.filter(name='total_cart_price')
def total_cart_price(products , cart):
    sum = 0 ;
    for p in products:
        sum += price_total(p , cart)

    return sum

Custom_filter.py template tag:
from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(name='currency')
def currency(number):
    return "₹ "+str(number)

@register.filter(name='multiply')
def multiply(number , number1):
    return number * number1

A: referer = request.META['HTTP_REFERER']
return redirect(referer)

You can get the referring page of request instead of redirecting a constant link.You can  also check META

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What is the current registration plate system inIreland?
The introduction of the dual registration plate in 2013 was seen as a long-term project for the Motor Industry. The Industry was seeking to shift some activity into the second half of the year to address the serious problem of seasonality in the Motor Industry in Ireland. After many years of campaigning for change a new format was introduced in 2013. The current format means each year the plate reads the current year1-D-123 and the current year2-D-123
eg 181-D-123 and 182-D-123 and so on.
How seasonal is the Motor Industry?
Prior to 2013 80% of new cars are sold in the first half of the year. 53% in the first quarter but only 6% in the last quarter. At its peak, close to 50,000 people worked in the Motor Industry in Ireland, now that has dropped to 37,000, with the downturn in vehicle sales and the overall economy.
Why is seasonality such a problem?
New car sales have a direct impact on employment; the more cars are sold, the more staff are required to prepare them, sell them, service them etc. Car sales have become even more seasonal in recent years and with that, jobs have too. Many dealers take on extra staff for the busy first quarter of the year but are then forced to let the same staff go in the second half of the year because there is so little activity. Also, with such a front-loading of sales, there is huge financial pressure put on car dealers in the first quarter of the year and cash flow is serious problem. 89% of car dealers make a loss in the last quarter of the year. In addition, with most cars registered in January, there is a backlog at NCT centres at the start of the year.
What is the current format?
From January to June, all new cars have the number plate 131-D-123. From July to December all new cars have the plate 132-D-123. The '1' after the year represents the first half of the year, the '2' represents the second half.
Wasn't this all to do with superstition? Fear of the number 13?
No. For 5 years prior the SIMI had been calling on the Government to change the number plate system. It was only in 2013 that the Government decided to bring it in. The number 13 was still on the plate.
What's good about the new number plate?
Jobs are better protected. With sales spread more evenly through the year, it brings more stability to employment. Every lost job costs the Exchequer €23,000 so this will benefit the wider economy.
A car bought in the second half of the year will be valued more than a car bought in the first half of the year as it will be newer.
It gives people, who put off buying a car at the start of the year, a second chance to purchase
There won't be such a shortage of used cars at the end of the year, with dealers taking in a lot of trade ins in January and also July
NCT tests will be spread more evenly throughout the year reducing the backlog at the start of the year
Why has the government brought it in, what benefit is it to them?
The Motor Industry is a significant contributor the Exchequer and for every new car sold the Government benefits in tax collected. An increase in sales means increased revenue for the Government. In addition, with more jobs in the industry protected, the Government saves on social welfare payments, PRSI etc to the tune of €23,000 per person.
Will the change affect the trade-in value of my car?
If you purchase a car between January and July with the registration 131 and trade it in some time later there could be greater value placed on a 131 plate than a 13 plate as there will be fewer sold and there will be greater demand in a few years time. If you purchase a car in the second half of the year, it will obviously be valued greater than the 131 car you may have purchased in the first half of the year, as it is newer.
Will the dual plate increase vehicle sales?
In other countries where a new number plate was introduced, for example the Netherlands, they saw an increase in sales when a new plate was introduced. Research shows a change to a number plate could increase sales by 4% in its first year of introduction.
Has the dual plate worked?
The introduction of the dual registration plate in 2013 was seen as a long-term project for the Motor Industry. The Industry was seeking to shift some activity into the second half of the year and expected it would take a number of years for car buyers to embrace. However in reality since its introduction on the 1st of July 2013 there has been a huge interest from the public in the new number plate each year and this has translated into a very strong level of sales during the month and second half of the year.
The figures speak for themselves prior to the introduction of the second registration plate, sales in July 2012 recorded 4,424 new car registrations and in July 2013 sales almost tripled 11,639. In 2012 sales in the second half of the year accounted for 16% as opposed to 31% in 2016. Since 2013 sales for the month of July have increased year on year.
Monthly Trend in New Car Registrations


Carla Schoonderbeek will be lecturing "How to secure and extend data exclusivity while complying with transparency rules".
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2003: 11 Academy Awards, including Best Movie and Director. 11 Nominations
2003: 4 Golden Globes: Best Movie Drama, Director, OST, Original Song
2003: 4 BAFTA Awards, inc. Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay. 12 Nominations
2003: National Board of Review: Best Cast
2003: Film Critics Circle of New York: Best Film. 2 Nominations
2003: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Director & Production Design
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2003: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Movies of the Year
2003: 4 Critics' Choice Awards: Best Picture, Director, Acting Ensemble and Composer
2003: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Best Picture, Director & Original Score. 7 Nom.
2003: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Director
2003: Producers Guild Awards (PGA): Best Film
2003: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Best Director
2003: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
2003: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
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"No one made a better movie this year [2003] (...) The glory of these three Rings is that they can't be compartmentalized into crafts, or even individual films. They are one grand, serious, mature epic"
Richard Corliss: Time
"The jewel in the crown of the masterful trilogy."
Claudia Puig: USA Today
"'King' is a meticulous and prodigious vision (...) [It] is the product of impressive craft and energy"
Elvis Mitchell: The New York Times
"The best of the lot. With epic conflict, staggering battles, striking landscapes and effects, and resolved character arcs (...) More than nine hours of masterful storytelling"
Todd McCarthy: Variety
"'The Return of the King' combines the simple and the spectacular to bring a towering adventure to a close (...) Some of its most memorable moments are its simplest"
Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"There are no small moments anywhere in it, and maybe there should have been - but it shows a great moviemaker in the full joy of his passion, and it's visionary enough to qualify as a working definition of cinema itself."
Ty Burr: Boston Globe
"At once exhausting and riveting. It's a technological marvel, and for those not with the program, a bit of a bore."
J. Hoberman: Village Voice
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Just as there can be narcissism / insolent pride within an individual, there can also be entire cultures and nations that have narcissist characteristics.
What is a narcissistic culture? A culture where the preponderence of the people are narcissists and act in narcissistic ways. Or a culture (or nation) where the entire group acts toward other groups with the heart and behavior of a narcissist.
Two such cases in the Bible were the nation of Moab and the nation of Edom. Moab was the nation which came from the incestuous relationship between Lot and his older daughter. Edom was the nation which descended from Esau, Jacob's twin brother.


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GUYANA — People's Progressive Party (PPP) member and former Junior Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Ally Baksh, passed away on Thursday after a brief illness, the party announced in a statement on Friday.
According to a statement, from November 2011 to May 2015, Baksh served as the Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture.
"Hailing from Essequibo, Comrade Baksh served loyally in various capacities within the PPP including Party Supervisor and Member of the Central and Executive Committees. He dedicatedly served Region 2 for many years and during his tenure as Regional Chair-man he worked assiduously to help improve the lives of residents through the development of the social and physical infrastructures," the statement said.
The statement added that the Party is grateful that Baksh was part of its structure and for his invaluable contribution to its development in the country.
"He will be profoundly missed. Our party and its General Secretary would like to extend deepest condolences to his immediate family, relatives and friends following his demise," the statement added.
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Russia's new hypersonic weapon U-71 will outdo any missile defense system
Russia » Politics
Mike Billington of the Executive Intelligence Review said that Vladimir Putin was strategically one step ahead of his US counterpart Barack Obama, because the Russians have a hypersonic weapon capable of overcoming any US missile defense system.
Source: Pravda.Ru archive
According to the military expert, it was not a bright move for the United States to deploy missile defenses in Europe. According to Billington, the policy of Barack Obama is real madness that has pushed the world to a nuclear war.
"Obama has openly deployed the necessary forces believing insanely that a preemptive strike against Russia or China could take out the nuclear response capacity of those nations. This is insane but it could in fact lead to a war. The idea that the US could in fact defeat Russia is ludicrous. Putin who unquestionably is the most brilliant strategic strategist of the current era, of the modern era, has kept one step ahead of Obama at every step of this way," Billington told PressTV.
The new Russian weapon, when passed into service, will be able to intercept the US missile defense system. According to The Washington Times, it goes about the hypersonic U-71 flying vehicle that Russia is currently testing. The advantage of the U-71 is about its speed and maneuverability. The vehicle is said to develop the speed ten times the speed of sound.
The vehicle carries nuclear warheads and was designed to overcome the US missile defense system. Twenty-four hypersonic nuclear-capable aircraft will be deployed at Dombarovsky range ground from 2020 to 2025, experts with Jane's Information Group said. By that time, Moscow will have a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying the U-71, the newspaper said. The vehicle will be able to reach the speed of up to 11,000 km/h. The newspaper suggests that Russia will take advantage of the new weapon to promote its position at arms control negotiations.
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We are at the final point in the SWOT process. Everything is basically complete, now you need to put it all together and submit your final paper. Over the last two months you have completed the vast majority of your SWOT analysis, including the basic background information about your organization along with its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. In the last module, you completed the summary portion of the analysis by concluding your paper with recommendations and suggestions for the future.
Write a company history, including a mission statement if available.
Thoroughly explain at least two major strengths and two major weaknesses of the organization. For each strength, discuss why it can be considered a distinctive competence for the organization. For each weakness, discuss what the organization could do to minimize it. You should have a minimum of a full paragraph for the discussion of each strength and weakness.
For each strength and weakness, ensure you use relevant business theories, concepts, and practices that are aligned to support the statements and findings. Note that bullet points are not acceptable.
Thoroughly research and analyze two opportunities and two threats that this organization is facing. Each of these opportunities and threats must come from a force or forces occurring within a dimension of the general environment within the organization's external environment (keep in mind an opportunity or threat can stem from more than one dimension within the general environment). Be sure to include in your discussion the relevant dimension of the general environment from which each of these forces is derived.
Include in your analysis an explanation of how each of the opportunities and threats will likely impact the company and why. Include other companies or industries which may also be affected. Include a TOWS analysis and be ready to make recommendations and suggestions as though you were the manager. A TOWS analysis involves the same basic process of listing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, but with a TOWS analysis, threats and opportunities are examined first and weaknesses and strengths are examined last. After creating a list of threats, opportunities, weaknesses and strengths, managers examine ways the company can take advantage of opportunities and minimize threats by exploiting strengths and overcoming weaknesses. You should have a minimum of a full paragraph for the discussion of each opportunity and threat.
For each opportunity and threat, ensure you use relevant business theories, concepts, and practices that are aligned to support the statements and findings. Note that bullet points are not acceptable.
Has there been recent market growth or other changes in the market that create an opportunity?
Have there been shifts in consumer behavior, the economy, or government regulations that could reduce your sales?
Discuss how the organization can capitalize on the opportunities that are occurring from the dimensions from within the general environment. How can the organization neutralize the threats that are occurring from the dimensions from within the general environment?
Ensure you use relevant business theories, concepts, and practices that are aligned to support the statements and findings. Note that bullets points are not acceptable.
Include correctly formatted parenthetical citations and a reference list, following APA guidelines. You must have a minimum of three external research sources.
Be sure to check for correct spelling, grammar, and organization.
Your paper should be a minimum of 1000 words.
This course has Turnitin® fully integrated into the course dropbox. This means that you should only submit your assignments to the dropbox below. Please do not submit your assignment directly to Turnitin.com.
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Q: how can i login to yii2 based on md5 encryption? I have a table with a large number of users whose passwords are stored as md5,
How can I change my login to the site based on md5 encryption?
I want forgiveness for a weak English language!

A: Take a look here: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-security-authentication.html
Here you can find guidelines on how to create user model to support authentication, the methods who actually login/logout such users; all the burden to fetch a user and compare password is up to you based on your data model and controllers flow.

A: I arrived at the result like the following.
change sitecontroller file and actionlogin to:
public function actionLogin()
{
    if (!Yii::$app->user->isGuest) {
        return $this->goHome();
    }

    $model = new LoginForm();
    if (yii::$app->request->post())
    {
        $model->username    =   $_POST['username'];
        $model->password    =   $_POST['password'];
        if($model->login())
        {
            $this->goBack();
        }
    }
    else
    {
        return $this->renderPartial('login.tpl', [
            'model' => $model,
        ]);
    }
}

and then common/models/LoginForm.php change login method to :
public function login()
{
    if ($this->validate()) {
        return Yii::$app->user->login($this->getUser(), 0); // remember me changed to 0
    }
    return false;
}

and in rules method comment rememberme =====>>
// ['rememberMe', 'boolean'],
Explanation: I know this is not the right way, but it's not a problem to carry out your project!

A: I will suggest following solution
class User extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord implements \yii\web\IdentityInterface {

...........

public function validatePassword($password) {
        return $this->password === md5($password);
    }
.........

}

You just need to modify the  validatePassword() methode as shown above.


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For over 20 years Malcolm Macdonald has been thinking about, studying, and teaching on this subject. Set Me On Fire is aimed at people who really want to go deeper in God, who have a sense of spiritual hunger and desire for revival, but are not sure what this means, or how to get there.
It uses the theme of the fire of God across scripture to paint a picture of what it looks like to be on fire for God. Themes include holiness, revival, mission, God's presence, prayer, intimacy with God and suffering, as Malcolm helps readers grasp the challenges of seeking to be a radical disciple. Along the way Malcolm offers personal reflections from his own journey.


SSC CGL Tier 1 Re exam will be held from 25th July, 2018 to 20th August, 2018.
A Assistant Audit Officer Indian Audit & Accounts Department under CAG Group "B" Gazetted ( Non Ministerial ) 4800 OH (OA, OL, BL) & HH Not exceeding 30 years.
Assistant Accounts Officer Indian Audit & Accounts Department under CAG Group "B" Gazetted ( Non Ministerial ) 4800 OH (OA, OL, BL) & HH Not exceeding 30 years.
Mobility should not be affected.Persons should be assessed with aids and appliances.
Abbreviation Used : Nature of Physical Disabilities: OH – Orthopedically Handicapped, OA – One Arm affected, OL – One Leg affected, OAL – One Arm and one Leg affected, BL – Both Legs affected, B – Blind, LV – Low Vision, PD – Partially Deaf, D – Deaf,PB – Partially Blind, HH – Hearing Handicapped.
Firm number of vacancies will be determined at the time of Document Verification i.e. about one month before the declaration of the final results.
Reservation for Scheduled Castes ( SC ), Scheduled Tribes ( ST ), Other Backward Classes ( OBC ), Ex-Serviceman ( ExS ) and Persons with Disabilities ( PwD ) candidates for all categories of posts / services, wherever applicable and admissible, would be as determined and communicated by the Indenting Ministries / Departments / Offices / Cadres, as per extant Government Orders.
Vacancies for ExS are reserved for only Group "C" posts as per extant Government Order / Instructions.
Hlo sir,i hav done hotel mgmt with 65% marks.
Please advise me all the vacancies of upsc and ssc according to my profile and marks.
Hlo sir,i hav done BSC in hotel mgmt 3 year with 65% marks.
The eligibility is not mentioned here!!
sir i have passed HSC[12th science] with first class[64%]under reservation catagory[ST].please advise me according to my qualifications.
I'm pursuing B.TECH (ELECTRONICS& COMM. FINAL YEAR).
Am I eligible to give the ssc exam(combined graduate level).?
My final result would most probably be declared in mid AUGUST.
but i dont know about the processor of application.please inform me about how to apply in detail.thank you.
in ssc examination how many marks obtain in income tex officer ,in graduate level examination.
i gave admitcard in my email.
i give admitcard in my email.
I am pursuing Bsc-it can i give the Sub Inspector exam that are applied by ssc .
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REFERENCE. HOW TO TAKE PRINTOUT.
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This collection of strange, hilarious and informative anecdotes "of Tennis, Teaching and Tots" was compiled by a writer with both teaching and tennis careers spanning decades. A keen observer of the odd and ridiculous experienced in the everyday, Maud Thorne was encouraged by friends and family to "write a book about it" – which is exactly what she has done! The result is this original and fascinating volume, bound to put a smile on the reader's face. Besides being a treasure trove of tennis history – especially of the Border area of South Africa's Eastern Cape province – this light-hearted book will appeal to all generations of tennis-players, teachers and pupils, as well as to anyone with a sense of humour. Experience of working for a local newspaper led Maud to accumulate gremlins from many sources. Combined with priceless classroom clangers from a long teaching career, "Dropshots" is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud! Illustrations include tennis memorabilia, photographs, and original drawings by Maud's grandchildren, 7-year-old twins, Joel & Hannah Thorne.


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Risk Remains a Fact of Life for Coast Guard Crews
By WALLACE MCKELVEY, The Press of Atlantic City | August 28, 2013
When the call comes in, as it did on a frigid April morning, rescue crews from Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay are expected to be ready and under way within a half-hour.
About 8:30 a.m., a passing vessel reported a sinking off Cape May. Three fishermen were in the water. The low air temperature was 30 degrees, a record for that day.
"It's scary, and you realize you have to know your job 100 percent," Petty Officer James Pappas told The Press of Atlantic City about his eight years with the Coast Guard. "You have people's lives in your hands. You're always aware of that."
While en route, the team received a report that all three fishermen were out of the water. Once there, they realized that was a miscommunication. One person off another boat had jumped in to help, and he was the third person seen leaving the water.
The two fishermen suffered from hypothermia and were vomiting saltwater. Pappas and another crew member hugged them, wrapped in blankets, to try to keep them warm during the ride back.
"They were both so traumatized and in shock that they were falling sleep," he said. "We didn't want them to fall asleep, so we kept talking to them and keeping them awake."
With their friend still in the water, Pappas rattled off a barrage of questions to keep the fishermen lucid and to gather information to help the search: What's your name? What's your birthday? What's your favorite color? What was your buddy wearing?
The two fishermen returned safely. Despite an extensive search, the third was never found.
Radio and GPS technology have greatly increased the information available to rescuers. Faster, sturdier boats can weather nearly any storm. And improved safety equipment has increased survival at sea. But the job is full of inherent dangers, and every call has potential for unexpected turns.
"You have to go out, but you don't have to come back" was and, to some extent, still is the motto of the U.S. Coast Guard. For nearly a century, recruits have known this fact of life for the men and women who respond to disaster at sea.
Attributed to a Cape Hatteras station keeper cajoling his men to launch a wooden rescue boat into rough surf, the sentiment was even codified in the regulations of both the Coast Guard and its predecessor, the U.S. Lifesaving Service.
"(A keeper) will not desist from his efforts until by actual trial the impossibility of effecting a rescue is demonstrated," reads an 1899 regulation book.
"That very much is not the case anymore," said John Copp, a Barnegat Light-based petty officer and student of Coast Guard history. "The big focus is on risk assessment now: determining when risk is acceptable and when it's not."
All of this has improved safety. During the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, 59 guardsmen were killed while performing their duties. None were lost during Hurricane Sandy, despite continuous rescue operations.
A series of fatal accidents in the 1990s, culminating in a 1997 incident in Washington in which three rescue boat crew members died during a call, brought increased attention to the risks.
"Unfortunately, it takes a death to catalyze changes to safety or equipment," Copp said. "The Coast Guard, or really any other agency, learns from its mistakes."
That re-examination led in 1999 to the Green-Amber-Red (GAR) system.
As the watchstander gathers information about the emergency, Pappas and his team members use GAR to assess their risk.
Each member – usually four – assigns a score in categories that include event complexity, planning and supervision. The scores are tallied and, if the total puts the operation into "red" or "high-risk" territory, the team makes changes to reduce the risk.
"I'm very new at my job," said Pappas, 28, who recently passed the engineering exam to serve on the 47-foot Motor Life Boat, or MLB, Cape May Station's newest search-and-rescue vessel. "So maybe I'm not 100 percent confident. We can grab another person, maybe one of the people who gave me my board (exam)."
The more experienced engineer would observe Pappas' performance and, if a problem should arise, step in to help. While such a public vote of confidence could potentially bruise egos, Pappas said, they've worked together so long that doesn't happen.
As cumbersome as the process seems to an outsider, Pappas said, the assessment takes a matter of minutes, often while the crew is running out to the dock and preparing the rescue boat.
Within five minutes of a call, the crew usually knows where they are going and what to expect.
A century ago, lifesaving stations dotted the New Jersey coast at about 8-mile intervals, with crew members standing lookout or walking foot patrols on the beach for distressed vessels. They often ventured out into the surf with minimal information about the situation.
Today, a watchstander monitors banks of computer screens showing GPS, radar and radio activity. When a call comes in, he or she gathers as much information as possible. Where is it? How many people are involved? Are they wearing life vests? Are there injuries? How long since the incident?
The watchstander relays that information to the crew, similar to a 911 dispatcher, as district command in Philadelphia determines what resources to dispatch. In April, crews from Station Cape May, Aids to Navigation Team Cape May and a helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City were all sent to the site of the distress call.
This integrated system, named Rescue 21, was phased into operations around the Delaware Bay starting in 2003 and later expanded to the rest of the country.
Lt. Scott Farr, who commands Station Cape May, said its many features include immediate playback of radio calls and the ability to triangulate those calls among towers, even if the caller's radio cuts out.
"If something comes up on a mic for a couple seconds, the system will say it's in this direction, with this bearing," said Farr, 32, originally of Virginia Beach, Va. "If they move or the boat drifts, it'll create a larger search area, but this allows us to better pinpoint their location."
Pappas said Rescue 21 makes a big difference.
"'He's in the Delaware Bay' is so much better than 'I have no idea where that (call) came from,"' he said.
But despite advances in procedure and technology, the fundamentals haven't changed.
"You can't go shake the hand of a lifesaver in 1880, but in a way you can," said Copp, a 22-year-old from Seattle whose fascination with the Coast Guard led him to enlist. "The way we've been taught has been passed down and built upon."
Today's rescuers undergo training just as rigorous as some of their 19th century counterparts.
After making it through eight weeks of boot camp – basic training takes place in Cape May – Pappas said his team constantly reviews procedure. Refresher courses happen every six months, and officers quiz each other as they pass in the halls:
"What's the compression-breath rate for an adult?"
"Thirty and two."
The fluidity of emergency calls hasn't changed, either. Often crews respond to new information while en route.
In transit, the coxswain directs the boat with the assistance of a navigator, while the engineer monitors the boat systems and responds to any electrical or mechanical problems. A fourth crewman, typically the least experienced, assists the others.
Meanwhile, district office and Cape May station are in constant contact with the rescue vessel and any other assets, such as SeaTow, deployed to the scene. The watchstander talks to those on scene, gathering information and keeping them calm.
"Just telling them we're on our way to get them hopefully makes them sit better until we get on scene," Farr said.
Responders rely on a combination of verbal information over the radio and data from Rescue 21 during the search.
"A lot of times, we don't know what the actual conditions are until we get on scene," Farr said. "Bad information could mean flooding is worse than what we were told, so the guys need to adapt the best they can."
Just as diaries and log books from the 1800s outline to daily routines of lifesavers, from inventorying supplies to repainting the wooden boats, the modern rescue effort often begins long before the first call.
Pappas likens the morning inspection to spending an hour scrutinizing the family car before backing out of the driveway. Every morning. For life.
"When lives are on the line, you need to be sure," he said. "You don't want problems to come up when you're out there, under way."
The new MLB's two in-line diesel engines pack 825 horsepower to cut through hurricane force winds and 20-foot waves. Its cabin is a sea of blinking lights and GPS monitors, fog warnings and engine-room cameras.
That's a far cry from the man-powered lifeboats of the distant past, but Copp said rescuers constantly have the dangers in mind.
"As long as people are going out on the water, there's going to be some variable level of risk," he said. "Technology has curbed that to some degree, but the risk will always be there."
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HomeNewsRenewable energy landmark a step in the right direction
Renewable energy landmark a step in the right direction
Expert commentary, Research
By Jonatan Pinkse, Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Alliance Manchester Business School
Last week a new milestone was reached in the UK when renewable energy generated more electricity than gas and coal for the first time.
National Grid reported that, on Wednesday lunchtime (7 June 2017), power from wind, solar, hydro and bio mass supplied 50.7% of UK electricity.
Symbolically this is important news, as although the proportion generated was only point seven per cent over half, the election has showed us just how influential small margins can be.
It transpired that the reason why this happened was a little bit down to chance – it happened to be a windy and sunny day. Although this landmark has been seen as a positive one and a step in the right direction, we must also be cautious when looking at this. With so much electricity being produced there are technological problems that arise such as where and how the electricity can be stored. Too much energy in the grid can ultimately disrupt the whole system and lead to wastage.
So we know that this is largely good news but again noting the election where green energy was understandably lower on the agenda following recent events, infrastructure comes down to policy and investment. Who will pay for new infrastructure such as smart grids and can those who provide it make any money from it?
Upgrading systems has sped up and slowed down over the years – wind farms were once rare but are now becoming a more common sight. However the UK still trails some other European countries when it comes to utilising wind energy. Again, policy usually dictates this but other factors play a part; consideration must be given to those who live near coasts, valleys, reservoirs and the like; while nuclear power is a whole different topic with global politics, public resistance and stereotypes playing a part, it is now seen as playing a key role in stabilising renewables.
The future of renewable energy is - similar to the future of the UK outside of the European Union – uncertain. Brexit will and is playing a big part in this as the country is already trying to be a low carbon leader but still wants to do more. The UK leaving the EU could be seen as an opportunity to build its own approach to tackling climate change and secure more renewable energy sources, or destabilise the work that has already happened, in part, through EU laws. Only time will tell.
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Plaster model which served for making a larger version.
YOUTH, first version, 1935-1938. This plaster was pointed with a compass in order to make the large stone sculpture which today is conserved in the National Veterinarians' School in Toulouse, 114 x 75 x 60 cm. (44 7⁄8 x 29 ½ x 23 5⁄8 in.) FNAC 6334.


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15th February 2019- FA Cup Fifth Round, Queens Park Rangers 0 Watford 1
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FA Cup Report: QPR 0-1 Watford
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Britos: "It Was A Big Effort"
FA Cup Highlights: QPR 0-1 Watford
Gallery: QPR v Watford
Affleck's Angle: Stick Or Twist
Relive our coverage of Queens Park Rangers vs Watford in the FA Cup fifth round
Queens Park Rangers vs Watford: Etienne Capoue sends Hornets into FA Cup quarter-finals
Queens Park Rangers vs Watford: Javi Gracia staying focused after Hornets reach FA Cup sixth round
How we scored Watford in their FA Cup win at Queens Park Rangers
Javi Graca praises Watford players' professionalism and commitment
Heurelho Gomes calls on Watford to believe they can reach Wembley
A selection of images from Watford's FA Cup win at Queens Park Rangers
Watford reached the FA Cup quarter-finals for the second time in four seasons after a hard-fought win against battling Queens Park Rangers.
As four minutes of added time were shown at the end of the first half, Capoue swept the ball home after a mis-hit from Tom Cleverley and it proved to be the winner.
Queens Park Rangers had to wait for this moment. Their previous appearance in the FA Cup fifth round had come at Wimbledon in 1997 and it is doubtful whether any club has since endured a more dismal record in the competition. The London club had won only four ties – each of them in the third round – before this season.
Watford were quick to applaud their 2,654 travelling supporters, who ended the evening singing of Wembley.
Prior to kick-off there was a minute's applause for Gordon Banks who passed away this week. It has to be said that nobody waited for the referee's whistle to start the tribute.
Watford's road to the FA Cup final: Into the quarter-finals in west London
15th February 2011-Championship, Watford 2 Preston North End 2
Preston threw away a two-goal lead to leave manager Phil Brown still searching for his first win since taking over at the rock-bottom Championship club.
Every series of Masterchef – mmm, topical – has an awful lot of contestants. That being the case, a helping hand is provided in the shape of a short, simple label for us to remember each one by, a three-words-or-less summary of their entire existence prior to having their life changed by cooking scallops with a minted pea puree for Greg and Jeff. (I know it's not Jeff, but I can't be bothered to look it up.)
15th February 2003-FA Cup Fifth Round, Sunderland 0 Watford 1
Watford piled on the agony for Sunderland boss Howard Wilkinson as they dumped the Premiership strugglers out of the FA Cup at The Stadium of Light.
This was always going to be A Good Day. Irrespective of the result, a big cup tie away at a fine stadium against a Premiership club with a big travelling support guaranteed… and this allied with the assurance that this Watford side so very rarely lets you down when it comes to effort and application. All valid arguments in answering the "Why on earth do you do this?" question that many will have faced last week.
100 Greatest Watford wins- No.72: 'Someone was smiling on us that day,' says Ray Lewington. A twice-taken penalty by Tommy Smith was enough to give Watford victory and plunge the Stadium of Light into darkness.
More games from 15th February at https://oldwatford.com/tag/feb15
15th February 1958- Division Three (South), Watford 3 Millwall 0


The objective is to determine the viscosity of common liquids, honey, ocean water, and vegetable oil, by measuring the time it takes the marble to travel through the liquids.
Measure down about 2 cm from the top of each glass with a ruler, and mark it with tape. Fill each glass to the tape with a different liquid. Hold two marbles level with the tops of two glasses.
Say, "Ready, Set, Go!" and start the stopwatch while the helper drops the marbles. Record your observations. Race the marbles a second and third time.
Race another two liquids the same as above. To measure viscosity of the liquids fill the graduated cylinder up with one of the liquids to a level 5 cm below the top of the cylinder.
Measure down at least 2 cm below the surface of the liquid and mark a starting line on the cylinder with the tape. The starting line needs to be lower than the surface of the liquid to allow time for your marble to reach its terminal velocity before you start taking measurements.
Measure up from the bottom of the cylinder, approximately 5 cm, and mark an ending line on the cylinder with the marker. You don't want the ending line to be at the bottom of the cylinder because the marble will slow down as it approaches the bottom of the cylinder.
Measure the distance between the starting point and ending point. This is the distance that you will use to calculate the speed of the marble as it travels through the liquid.
For the marble race, the marble average speed was .32 seconds for ocean water, .46 seconds for vegetable oil, and 73 seconds for honey.
For the viscosity experiment, ocean water viscosity was 129 kg/meters squared, vegetable oil was 167 kg/meters squared, and honey was 46,890 kg/meters squared.
In the end my hypothesis was right! My hypothesis was if the honey, vegetable oil, and ocean water are compared for viscosity, then the marble will travel slower in honey compared to ocean water and vegetable oil.
I discovered that my marble traveled slowly because the viscosity was high in honey.
Newton's second law - the more massive an object is, the more force is required to move it - helped us formulate our hypothesis.
This project tested the viscosity of common liquids.


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Othello Washington: Technology around the world
The World's Most Advanced Technology
The city is the future. According to data from the World Health Organization or WHO, two-thirds of all people in the world will live in major cities in less than 35 years.
Based on the data, there will be approximately 2.5 billion additional residents that will exist in major cities. The city that will be most densely populated is the city with the most advanced technology.
The more advanced the technology in a city, the more prosperous the people who live in it. Examples of green city technology that makes its citizens live healthy.
A research firm called 2thinknow researches and analyzes the world's cities to find out which cities are the most innovative in technology.
The company selects 10 factors to measure the sophistication of technology in a city, including the number of start-ups, the number of investors, innovation, smartphone users, and many more.
You must be curious, right? Get on with it, dad. Here are 7 cities with the most advanced technological developments in the world.
1. San Francisco, United States of America
San Francisco is a city located in the U.S. state of California. A district in San Francisco called Silicon Valley is often called the mecca of technology around the world.
San Francisco, especially Silicon Valley, is home to the world's tech giants, such as Google, Facebook and Apple.
There are many genius programs and famous artists living in San Francisco. Not only sophisticated, San Francisco is also very artsy, gang.
Not only that, a lot of tech start-ups are born and born in San Francisco. Therefore, it is not surprising that technological innovation in San Francisco is the most advanced in the world.
2. New York, U.S.A.
In 2nd place is occupied by the city of New York in the United States. Infrastructure technology in New York, such as subways, continues to grow rapidly every year.
About 7,000 major tech companies set up offices in New York. These companies provided up to 100,000 job opportunities in the third quarter of 2013.
In addition, New York has also launched a technology that is integrated throughout the city, namely LinkNYC. LinkNYC is a free WiFi service located in over 500 spots throughout Manhattan.
3. London, England
Ranked 3rd most advanced city in the world occupied by the city of London. The UK government is currently working on the Crossrail project in London, Europe's largest transport project.
Crossrail is a 118-kilometre underground line connecting London with other nearby cities. The project is expected to be completed in 2020.
Until 2018 there are estimated to be 10 new train lines connecting 30 new stations, starting from 2016.
The City of London is pretty balanced, gang. Despite its technological sophistication, London still preserves history through old buildings that are always maintained.
4. Los Angeles, U.S.A.
The 4th most advanced city in the world is still dominated by the United States, gangs. Los Angeles is a city located on the west coast of the United States.
Los Angeles is famous for the film industry in Hollywood, but it's not just the film industry that's there.
According to the data, Los Angeles has the largest tech jobs sector of all cities in the United States.
The total amount of funds disbursed as capital for tech start-ups in Los Angeles is huge, gangs.
5. Seoul, South Korea
Who would have thought that the capital of South Korea could be the 5th most advanced city in the world and also the number 1 most advanced capital in Asia?
Seoul is often regarded as the city of the future because of its technological sophistication. The transportation system in Seoul is considered better than in the more famous New York.
Seoul is the headquarters of the world's largest smartphone manufacturer today, Samsung. No wonder Seoul has an excellent reputation for technology.
There are also many technology patents registered by companies in Seoul, including LTE signals used by our smartphones.
6. Taipei, Taiwan
In 6th place, the most advanced city in the world was again occupied by the city of the Asian continent, namely Taipei, the gang. Taipei is a leader in industrial design innovation.
Many of the world's giant technology companies are headquartered in the cities of Taipei, Taiwan, such as ASUS, MSI, Acer, and others.
In addition, Taipei is also one of the cities with the fastest internet network in the world up to 1 Gbps.
7. Boston, U.S.A.
Apparently, the title of the most advanced country in the world should be given to the United States, gangs. Naturally, 4 of the 7 most advanced cities in the world are located in the United States.
The city of Boston itself is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Many of the world's top campuses are located in Boston, such as Harvard, MIT, and others.
There are many students in these top campuses majoring in biotechnology and robotics.
Boston has many investors supporting them, such as Battery Ventures, Atlas Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and many more.
All of these investors are pouring funds into research in Boston.
So many people in Boston, Facebook and Amazon set up Research & Development offices to make use of smart people there. Wonderful!
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Toward Independence and the Vision of an ADA - Part 4
Kent Waldrep and the Name "Americans with Disabilities Act"
Prior to the June 13-14 drafting sessions, I had produced a fairly substantial draft of the EOL paper, which was well-received by Council members and other attendees. After that meeting, on June 18, 1985, Council member Kent Waldrep gave me a short memorandum he had written. President Reagan had named Kent to the National Council in 1982. In 1974, he had been the starting tailback for the Texas Christian University football team, and suffered a crushed cervical vertebra, resulting in paralysis, when he was tackled on a running play in a game against the Alabama Crimson Tide. A wheelchair user since his accident, Kent became passionately interested in spinal cord injury research, organized what became the American Paralysis Association, and later founded the Kent Waldrep National Paralysis Foundation. The subject line of his memo to me read "Effective and Comprehensive Equal Opportunity Laws" the title of the EOL paper draft. It began, "Your working draft was excellent and I have only a few suggestions." One of them asked for a chart of all the definitions of disability used by federal agencies. The more significant one was the following: "That all new legislation be packaged under one title such as 'The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1986.' In this way, I feel the recommended legislative changes can be marketed much more effectively." In his simple memorandum, Kent coined the name of the historic federal law that the Council's report would engender. By the time I produced another iteration of the recommendation in July, I had followed up on Kent's idea and inserted that "the new law should be packaged as a single comprehensive bill, perhaps under such a title as 'The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1986.'"
Suggesting a name for a bill the Council hoped the Congress would develop and enact did not resolve a basic question raised in all legislation – should it be amendatory or freestanding? An "amendatory" bill is, as the term suggests, one which amends a law already on the books. A "freestanding" bill is one that does not revise or add to an existing statute, but stands independently on its own. Amendatory pieces of legislation adding new sections to existing laws can be designated with, and referred to by, their own names, so calling the bill the "Americans with Disabilities Act" would not settle the freestanding-or-separate issue. In the July 1985 version of the recommendation, I described what I thought were the most plausible alternatives, as follows:
Such a statute could take one of several forms: It could be drafted as an amendment adding a new title to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It could be a separate new statute, standing alone. Or it might be written as an amendment adding additional, permanent provisions to the Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
At the time, I leaned toward amending the Rehabilitation Act, largely because that was where the existing disability nondiscrimination provisions, Sections 504, 503, and 501, had been placed. I suggested that amending Title V of the Rehabilitation Act "appears to be the most practicable and clearest of the alternatives" – a view I would later reconsider.
By the time of the Council's meeting on August 12-14, 1985, I had prepared a full draft of the EOL topic paper. In 57 pages, it presented 11 legislative recommendations and a rationale as to why each was needed, including major sections discussing problems with existing disability nondiscrimination law in terms of the scope of their coverage and their language, interpretation, and enforcement. At this time, the other topic papers were at various stages of completion, but we sought to have draft recommendations ready for the Council's preliminary review at the August meeting. Lex asked me to edit the other papers, to whatever extent the substance and quality of writing called for it. Apart from light general editing, my main target was to review the legislative recommendations, both from a legal adequacy perspective and to make them structurally and stylistically consistent across the various papers. Ethel Briggs, the Adult Services Specialist, was in charge of the mostly thankless task of coordinating the completion of the various topic papers and assembling them for the Appendix.
Continue on to Part 5: Shaping the Summary 1986 Report; Who Would Write It? and the Themes of Fiscal Restraint and Cost/Benefit Analysis