I want to propose a relatively "new" position in the UX space.
As a UX Designer, I design applications, campaigns, design systems, and consumer-facing experiences. I take research, do my best to interpret it, gather every meaningful insight possible, and work.
Oftentimes in projects, content is treated like liquid in cups, and oftentimes I'm there to design those cups.
While that technically "works," this traditional (arguably, antiquated) content model is a missed opportunity to provide greater experiential value for the audience.
There's been repeated conversations around the treatment/strategy of content in dynamic digital experiences, and until even a few years ago, most of the conversations were fairly nebulous. One blue sky interpretation: the digital experience follows them (with permission, obviously) and works to serve their needs, fulfill their tasks, and solves their problems. It's about nothing less than ensuring their satisfaction (with permission, obviously) and ensuring their continued engagement with the brand.
That kind of blue-sky outcome requires — outright demands — dynamic content creation to fitfully engage the customer. And that creation requires the content "creators" to understand all of the necessary conditions that the customer may run into. That requires exposure to UX, information architecture, development, so on. And many content analysts may or may not be trained (yet) for that kind of exposure.
Usually, content analysts are working within the confines of an existing content management system, an existing strategy, existing touchpoints. We need content analysts to have elevated authority, a role to play in not justcontent strategy, but business strategy. These analysts would have far greater jurisdiction over the digital experience of their customers. They wouldn't just be writing copy. They would architect how a customer is communicated to.
The Solution: we need Content Architects.
A Content Architect would "architect" and implement content strategy, coordinating with the revolving disciplines of product development to ensure the best possible user experience.
The word "architect" is stressed, here, obviously. CA's are hired to swim inside the head-spaces of everyone on the UX team; to connect the dots of each player involved; to cut through the seeming demands of every product manager, marketer and stakeholder; to navigate the sitemaps, UI, bootstraps, calls to action, et al; and to have a seat at the same table as anyone else strategizing and managing the experience. They have an essential role on how to thread the design to the content in ways that are smart, scalable, targeted and fits the user's scenario at any given point.
A cursory search of "content architect" in Indeed gave me a few positions that have this title, but from what I had seen, it wasn't in the specific context of User Experience. Most were fancy titles for copywriters, or had some sort of process management positions in an IT capacity.
The big difference, with what I'm proposing, is this: a Content Architect knows content is the lifeblood of the modern digital space, and pumps it through every artery of the experience.
Their deliverables would be similar to an Information Architect and a UX Research: flowcharts, user scenarios, personas and documentation that solve for tone and treatment.
Copy and content aren't afterthoughts, but they'rebaseline to the product ecology.
CA's would work directly with UXAs and developers on how to ensure there's true content dynamism; and if there isn't, they know how to fill in the gap. They're smart, economical, and waste nothing. They understand how interactions, front end design patterns, and calls to action can influence the impressions of an end-user. And they leverage that.
In the same way a web design utilizes standards, templates, atomic design principles, so on, Content Architects incorporates intelligent content treatment. They get how content may (or may not) work in a given device based on context and treatment.
A Content Architect is inquisitively challenging how an organization writes, promotes and, simply, "does content." Suppose someone in the company wants to do a blog. For what purpose? The CA would have direct access to the UX Manager, who in turn has access to the business roadmap. The CA would understand the opportunities to reach out their audience, and thenengage accordingly.
A Content Architect would have their ear to the rumblings of the customer base via access to the research, metrics, analytics and qualitative testing of the organization's products/services.
Content Architects synthesize what the rest of the team learns, and finds a way to deliver the content in the best way possible.
A Content Architect doesn't have to code. They're not involved in marketingdirectly. But they understand how to treat content in dynamic digital experiences, and understand how to optimize content for marketing purposes.
A Content Architect would strategize, and implement, for every condition. Working with Information Architects (at large, their sister position), and with developers, a CA would assess how best to communicate directly with a user, and provide advisement when needed.
A Content Architect also educates other writers in the company on how to become more intelligent practictioners of their field in the digital space, in the same way a Visual Designer educates a print designer on how to design a webpage. Many of these writers would be coming from other spaces, much like a Visual/UX Designer comes from, say, print/brand. (Myself included.) Magazine writers would come to mind. These writers may have decades of experience writing. That's perfect. They would only really need a few weeks to understand how to thread their work into the near-limitless liquidity of the online experience.
Any organization of any scale, size, or UX maturity would be served exceptionally well with this position.
Their training would be in a mix of human factors, marketing, with some basic understandings of logic and interactive design sprinkled in. It would be (should be) well compensated.
Best of all, they would provide what, in my experience, has been an immense organizational gap. Filling that gap would provide essential advocacy for the immense potential of a fully actualized, UX-centric organization; and, as a result, provide growth and job security.
It would also help make my job as a UX designer easier, by amplifying the experience to which I design. I would have a field day with a Content Architect — every day I work.
Connect the "silos" in your UX organization. Then destroy them.
If you're in an organization that's considered large by any kind of standard, you're very likely in a team that's working within a certain discipline, in parallel (hopefully) with other like-minded, like-disciplined teams. If you're in UX, it could be marketing, development, IT, other UX teams, etc.
The problem with this approach, especially in UX, is that the user is only concerned with their own journey, with zero presumed awareness of the orthodoxy of the organization, or the limitations that take root when there's little to no overarching authority and governance. You might work in one team that designs for the beginning of their journey, and for whatever reason/s, it's a different experience from another point in their journey.
This means you're in a silo to some degree. If it's to any degree, there exists that proportional degree of risk that the user's experience will be disjointed, feel like it's coming from a different company, so on.
Ultimately, these silos need to be at least connected in some way. Ideally, there shouldn't be any at all.
Let a person rotate from group to group for a little while.
The best way for a UX Designer to design is to get to know who you're designing for, across their experience journey. Get the necessary permissions to work on a project (or, silo) on another team. It's the perfect opportunity to understand their internal struggles, the challenges they're facing, their workflow, and any meaningful differences that need to be understood. Consider it espionage, but with permission!
Bonus points if you get this designer (or you) to do this with every silo. Then, when they're done, get another designer do the same thing. Then have the other silos do the same thing. Make sure they have enough bandwidth to handle the burden. If they're in another city, have them drive/fly to that location at first, let them spend a day or three there, then let them work remotely the rest of the time.
Note: I'm not talking about a UX Designer working on a development team doing coding. I'm talking about a UX Designer working on another UX Design team. If you don't have multiple silos of the same discipline, this article isn't as applicable.
Critique globally as much as possible.
This is going to force everyone to abandon (ideally) their sense of ego/bias. It's going to be painful and you're likely to face some resistance from, well, somebody, be it a leader or any number of individuals. But everyone needs to at least have the opportunity to see the work. Everyone needs an opportunity to speak on it. And the designer/s involved need an opportunity to fix the issues.
In a larger organization, meetings are probably required at a certain point to get everyone aligned, to assign direction, to update in real time. Fair enough. But don't force the critique workflow into some kind of orthodoxy. Work within the confines of what people are comfortable with, within reason.
Meet with everyone, get everyone to talk.
Get everyone to take ownership of something.
This fosters care and desire in the minds of your designers. Whatever it may be, enable each person and give them enough space to, without ego, have a sense of place and purpose. This is going to be great when your UX culture matures and you add headcount: it gives them high position to advance. Give them a superpower of some kind. Get them to learn one if they don't have one already. More than likely, this is already happening. If it isn't, it needs to. If you're a manager or design lead, this is a given.
Get some real collaboration going.
As a natural progression with meeting/talking, they're going to want to eventually work together. Good. This is how the silos start really connecting. Find ways to collaborate and work in the ether of the larger organization. Could be a set of internal standards, of a product, of anything. Just get people to start working together now that you have them talking.
Create an assignment before the workshop. Get everyone aware of the problem.
Get a critique of the concept, and objectively/collectively assess the gap between the concept and the final aim/requirements.
Start the workshop. Split up, or don't. Whatever makes the most sense.
Present solution/s that aim to close that gap.
Step away. Get dinner, have a beer, talk out, vent about your organization, etc. (This may also give the members time to back to their homes/hotel rooms and maybe work out some revisions.
Go back the day/morning after and represent the solutions to stakeholders. Get their (hopeful) nod of approval.
Depending on the talent/capacities in the room, it may be as simple as pencil sketches, or as complex as an actual app. As long as something actionable comes out of the workshop, and as long as what were otherwise siloed teams were unsiloed in the process of the workshop, you're uniting those silos and solving problems you otherwise wouldn't have before.
Get some wins with other silos.
Find ways to collaborate and work in the ether of the larger organization. Could be a set of internal standards, of a product, of anything. Just get it out there and sell it (using internal PR), and get people as high up in the organization aware of the win, of its results, of the fact that more than one team went in on this problem and solved it. Use the word "synergy" a lot. They'll eat that up.
Don't have proper governance? Assume some, then assign it.
In the absence of an executive/high level UX director, this is not going to be a pretty situation. But you have to get a working version of some kind. Spread the awareness of this collaborative work, and find someone that's best at governance, and give them the title. Even if it's not a perfect system, or if they don't have enough time to really perform that standardization work perfectly, at least get some mutual agreement that they're the authority to informally govern standards. And get other silos to sign off on it.
Or, if each silo has their own governance, at least get those "governors" to talk to each other in the same way the designers do. Every single organization has a different problem with this, but every single organization needs to find a way to make it work if the UX culture isn't there to hire someone to manage in full.
Get a sponsor from as high up in the organization as possible.
Win enough times, save the company enough money, collaborate enough, and it's going to eventually result in organizational resonance. Ideally, this would result in increased head count, an executive mandate and some cultural progression. More than likely, the process for this growth is going to be a lot more cumbersome. At the least, get someone as high up in the organization to champion the work. Hopefully they have close ties with budget and HR. Why?
Hire a Global UX Director.
The only way to see the total view is to see it from the summit. You need representation for the entire discipline, independent of any silos. Your end-game is strong governance, high-level business function, organizational clout and close connection to the company's roadmap. The user only cares about the end experience, not how it was done.
This "Global UX Director" would oversee the teams, liaison with the executive board, report, govern, enforce, and most importantly, advocate for the cause and the culture.
Don't hold any illusion that 100% of your job on your team is to work with the other teams. You have your respective skills within your organization for a reason, and you need to properly utilize them in the right way. But you also need the high-level view of the customer's overall journey within the overall business model. The work you do should have a respect for that view. Ideally, the "silo" you once had is, instead, open aired and viewable for the rest of the organization (and "former" silos) to see the good work you're doing—and, ideally, get rewarded for it.
UX has a positive effect on the bottom line. This is what I've learned in my own professional effort for UX to take root in big companies.
Couldn't be happier to get a re-design of my portfolio finally up. Expect some more love, finesse, and (crucially) work up here in the coming days. A redesign has been around five years in the making.
This is currently "version 3," but I still consider it a 0.1. Expect more soon.
Want to talk opportunities? Contact me.


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Q: how to make active button in foundation zurb I have tried the following code to create an active button in F5, but its NOT giving active class effect, please let me know why?

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A: Zurb foundation does not have any active classes for button groups. You can see here http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/button_groups.html
If you want add an active class create one class add to your active buttons,
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A: Elaborating on @chinmayahd's answer, for the convenience of anyone looking:
button.active, .button.active { background-color: /*primary active color*/ }
button.secondary.active, .button.secondary.active { background-color: /*secondary active color*/ }
button.success.active, .button.success.active { background-color: /*success active color*/ }
button.alert.active, .button.alert.active { background-color: /*alert active color*/ }
button.warning.active, .button.warning.active { background-color: /*warning active color*/ }
button.info.active, .button.info.active { background-color: /*info active color*/ }

Add your respective active colors, and you're good to go! (I recommend grabbing the hover/focus colors from your foundation.css file.)

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Home Tech News App Google Unveils Cloud Gaming Service Stadia
Google Unveils Cloud Gaming Service Stadia
Google has unveiled its cloud gaming service Stadia at the ongoing Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. CEO Sundar Pichai introduced Stadia at a special keynote, at Google's maiden appearance at GDC.
Google Stadia will let you play high-end games without the need to purchase expensive gaming consoles or make high end gaming PCs. According to Google, Stadia will be a gaming platform for everyone. All of the rendering of the games will be done in Google Cloud using specialised AMD graphics. The platform will store a game-playing session in the cloud and lets players jump across devices operating on Google's Chrome browser and Chrome OS, such as Pixel phones and Chromebooks.
Google claims that Stadia can run on any type of screen — mobile phone, tablet, laptop, TV. It will work on Chrome OS on Chromebooks as well. For TVs, you will need Chromecast Ultra. It does not involve purchasing any extra console, but all the gaming will happen via cloud streaming.
Google's data centre will essentially be your platform. AMD is going to help Google power Stadia's graphics rendering on Google Cloud using its custom GPU for the Google data centres. According to Google, this chip will offer 10.7 teraflops of power. For perspective, PS4 Pro offers 4.2 teraflops of power and Microsoft Xbox One X offers 6 teraflops of power. Each Stadia instance will be powered by a custom 2.7 GHz x86 processor with 16 GB of RAM. Google has partnered with Unreal to support the Stadia platform.
Google didn't say how much its new service will cost, whether it will offer subscriptions or other options, or what games will be available at launch —all key elements to the success of a new video-game platform. It said only that Stadia will be available in late 2019. Some industry watchers were expecting a streaming console, but Google's platform centers squarely on the company's cloud infrastructure.
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Milkman Delivers By Bike
Fred Musunda has never visited our nation's capital, he's not holding a ticket to see Hamilton, nor has he ever heard of the Kennedy Center. But Fred owes his livelihood to the living memorial perched on the banks of the Potomac River. How's that you ask? Yes, it seems like an odd connection, but it's a small world, after all.
Fred lives near Kampala the capital city of Uganda. Fred may know very little about the capital city of our nation, or even that there's a hit musical called Hamilton currently showing at the Kennedy Center, but what he does know is how to transport milk. Fred makes a living delivering milk from the rural farms in Matugga where it's produced, to the urban families who need it to keep their babies healthy and growing.
Delivering milk in Africa is an important, yet dangerous job that Fred knows all too well. Milk plays an important role in food security and the fight against malnutrition, however transporting it from the rural farms to the urban markets and individual households keeps the African milkmen busy. The distance between Matugga and Kampala is nearly 10 miles over sometimes impassable roads. In the area where Fred collects and sells milk, there are 35 collectors who sell the locally produced raw milk and dairy products like ghee and butter.
The bike plays an important role in this business. Transporting perishable dairy products over 10 miles in the heat of Uganda is something you need to do quickly; there are no air conditioned trucks making the journey. Not only that, Fred pointed to the rainy season when explaining the importance of owning a bicycle in this business.
"Bicycles play a big role in the milk collection industry since most roads out of town are not easily accessible by motor-vehicles. During rainy season, milk production is high and yet the roads in Matugga are impassible and only bicycle riders can access farmers."
Fred Musunda
Fred transports two cans of milk every day, one in the morning and another in the afternoon. Each can holds 10 gallons of milk and weighs over 80 pounds. While Fred's old bike was rusty and falling apart he was hesitant to replace it with another one because he needed a reliable bike with a strong, heavy rack to haul those heavy milk containers between farms and markets.
When Fred found this brand new Atlas bike (seen in the right side photo above and also below) for sale in his community he couldn't believe his luck. This bike looked almost identical to his old bike, with hand brakes to control the bike while walking, fenders to keep him dry in the rainy season, and most importantly a nice sturdy, heavy rack that could absolutely handle a full container of milk. When the other milk collectors saw Fred's bike they immediately wanted to know where they could get one just like it.
Bikes for the World delivered the new Atlas bikes to our partner program in Uganda after receiving them from the Kennedy Center. Back in 2012, Nao Tsurumaki, of the International Programming Office at the Kennedy Center, contacted Bikes for the World looking for a way to make a greater impact with the 28 bicycles they had on display as part of the special exhibit on India that year. The bikes were fully functional although they had never been used on the road. The Kennedy Center acquired them for the international program and needed to remove them quickly after the exhibit was broken down.
Bikes for the World swooped in and rescued the bikes which would be included in a container heading to Uganda later that year. One of those Atlas bikes ended up in Fred's hands. Fred nearly doubled the income he made selling milk from his bicycle by increasing the number of stops he could make in one day. With the bicycle, Fred is also able to help the rural farmers deliver milk year round, even during periods of low production, which helps the dairy farmers budget regular income for their families.
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Greg Correll on Friday, 27 July 2018 13:11
What a great story
It takes a bike to raise a village
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Bikes rule


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Canada drops sponsorship of UN anti-death-penalty resolution
Jennifer Ditchburn (The Canadian Press)
TORONTO: Canada said that it will not co-sponsor a United Nations resolution calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty, breaking a nearly decade-old tradition by a country that has long prided itself on its opposition to capital punishment.
The decision Wednesday comes only a week after the Conservative government said the country would no longer fight to commute the death sentences of Canadians facing execution in foreign democracies. That announcement drew ire from the Liberal opposition, which called the policy shift an example of the government's tacit approval of the death penalty.
Canada will vote in favor of the U.N....


A Millie Bobby Brown x 'Forever Chuck' appreciation post.
Today Converse has unveiled 'Forever Chuck', a social media and digital series following three different cultural scenes - the first of which being film and TV. It makes sense then, that Millie Bobby Brown is the host of this first part, where she explores characters in films that have worn Chucks over the years.
#1. Her character Eleven, from 'Stranger Things' wears [very well worn] Chucks in the show.
#5. The campaign video features Millie interviewing film stylist Stephanie Collie about how Chucks are used in film, intercut with famous scenes of characters wearing Chucks - including the likes of 'Back To The Future', 'The Breakfast Club', and more.
TV'Stranger Things' Season 3 production has begun.
TVWatch Millie Bobby Brown recap 'Stranger Things' Season 1 with a rap.


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Munyan aces test, leads Newark baseball past Groveport
Kurt Snyder
NEWARK - Groveport tested Nate Munyan's right arm Monday, and the Wildcats' senior catcher passed the exam with flying colors.
Munyan proved he can swing a mighty powerful bat, too. Munyan, who threw out four Groveport runners on the bases, homered and capped a seventh-inning rally with a walk-off hit to give Newark a 6-5 victory in Ohio Capital Conference-Ohio Division play at Don Edwards Park.
The Wildcats (5-7, 1-6) snapped a seven-game losing streak Saturday with an extra-inning victory against Westerville South, and they rallied for the second consecutive game Monday. Doren Barrett scored from first on a throwing error to tie game, and Munyan then hit a fly ball over the left fielder's head to easily score Tyler Osborne.
"The wins from Saturday carried into this," Munyan said. "Two good team wins, coming back in the seventh inning. I think that can get some motivation going and a win streak going."
Newark gave Barrett leads of 1-0 and 4-2, but Groveport (5-7, 2-5) scored three in the top of the fourth inning against the senior right-hander to take a 5-4 lead. Reliever Derek Downard made it stand up until Newark's last at-bat.
Barrett worked a walk to lead off the inning. Osborne attempted to sacrifice him to second, but Barrett ran all the way around after the ball was thrown down the right-field line. Munyan won it two batters later.
"(Munyan) has put a lot of work in during the offseason and is an outstanding baseball player," Newark coach Kyle Walters said. "I just think it's a case of him trying too hard. We finally got him to relax a little bit, and you saw what happened."
Newark kept left fielder Connor Seipel busy. Josh Gant doubled off the wall to score Newark's first run in the first inning. Munyan then homered with two outs in the third, and Brandon Linger nearly matched him, doubling in two runs later in the inning.
Michael Pound had two hits as Newark finished with eight. Five of the first six hitters in the order scored a run.
"We've always had scattered hits, but we have a good lineup," Munyan said. "(Monday) was a good night to get a few hits in a row and get a good inning going."
Munyan enjoyed accepting the challenge from the Groveport base runners.
Barrett struck out back-to-back hitters to strand a runner at third in the first inning, and he also received plenty of help from Munyan. Munyan threw out a runner attempting to take an extra base on a double, caught runners stealing in three innings and received a throw from Ryan Metcalf to cut down a runner at the plate on the back end of a double steal.
"Honestly, by the third time, yeah, I was a little surprised," he said.
The Wildcats ran the OCC-Ohio gauntlet the past two weeks, losing six consecutive games to central Ohio powers Pickerington North, Gahanna and Grove City. However, they came out the other side in one piece and appear ready to climb back up the standings during the second half of the season.
"We've cleared that hurdle a little bit, mentally fighting through when things aren't going our way," Walters said. "In the field, I thought we did a decent job minimizing the damage. (Groveport) really hit the baseball. Anytime you get 11 hits, you should be winning, but we made some plays defensively we haven't made."
ksnyder@newarkadvocate.com
Twitter: @newarkurt


We reiterate our Add call on Best World (BWL), with the 13% share price decline from its recent peak of S$1.56 on 8 Jun offering an attractive entry price.
Its sales in China grew by strong 103% yoy in 1Q17. China is now the group's largest market. Our on-the-ground checks give us conviction the growth can be sustained.
Further upside could come from full conversion from export sales to direct sales in 4Q17F/1Q18F, which is not yet fully reflected in our estimates.
We lift our Target Price, now based on 18x CY18F P/E (global peers' average) vs. previous 16x.
China currently accounts for 48% of group sales (as per 1Q17), having just overtaken Taiwan as the group's largest market. While the group's phenomenal earnings growth of more than 100% p.a. in FY15 and FY16 was led by Taiwan, we expect China to provide the next phase of expansion, driven by increased product acceptance and distributor penetration.
China's 1Q17 sales grew by a robust 103% yoy and we believe China can continue to deliver that magnitude of growth for at least the next 1-2 years.
We were impressed by the scale and breadth of Best World's distributor network (close to 1,000 from all over China) we observed during our site visit.
Based on management's target to be one of the top 15 direct-selling companies in China by 2021F, this implies a 5-year sales CAGR of 33% for China. However, we think this timeline may be conservative, given 1Q17's strong sales growth (+103% yoy).
There is also additional upside potential from full conversion of export sales in China to direct sales. Recall that the majority of current sales in China are recognised as export sales and export prices are significantly lower than distributor prices.
We project full conversion by 4Q17F/1Q18F. Our current earnings forecasts do not yet fully account for the additional revenue that the company could recognise once it starts selling products at the higher distributor price.
Management highlighted M&A as another potential growth strategy, with direct-selling companies that offer access to new markets being especially attractive.
2Japan is geographically closer to Best World's current markets than the US or Germany (two of the five largest direct-selling markets globally in 2016).
The group has net cash of c.S$50m (as at end-1Q17) to seize any M&A opportunities.
We reiterate our Add call on Best World, with a higher target price of S$1.70, based on 18x CY18F P/E. Our target CY18F P/E multiple is pegged to the average of its global peers', which we think is fair even though its peers are larger as Best World's earnings growth is expected to be higher (27% 2-year EPS CAGR vs. peers' 14%).
In our view, Best World's earnings growth momentum in FY17-19F could beat our forecasts on the back of higher growth from China. This is a potential key share price driver for Best World. A potential secondary catalyst for the stock is inorganic growth.
Given that Best World is now one of the top ten direct-selling companies (by sales) in Taiwan, we believe the company has a stable and strong base of earnings. On top of this, we expect the next phase of growth to come from further penetration into China.
In our view, the full conversion of China sales from an export sales model to a direct-selling could provide a big boost to earnings in FY18-19F. We think our target CY18F P/E of 18x is justified, although it is more than 1s.d. above the historical average, because Best World is in a strong position in terms of earnings performance, with solid prospects. Furthermore, our target P/E is in line with the higher end of the stock's P/E trading range during its last earnings upcycle in 2007-08.
Best World is poised to release its 2Q17 results on 7 Aug 2017.


The Seaford Chamber of Commerce is a business networking group and represents the local business community. Seaford Chamber Of Commerce welcome all local businesses and organizations to join the Chamber. Our aim is to help support local businesses and organizations helping them to develop and grow. The cost of membership is kept intentionally competitive, and we've made joining very easy.
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Jeannette Rankin Peace Center and the Missoula Peace Quilters invite you to celebrate our 2017 Peacemaker Mary Poole, founder and director of Soft Landing Missoula. The celebration is Saturday, May 20th from 3 to 5 pm at Har Shalom, 3035 S. Russell St. The program includes music by the Montana Women's Chorus Missoula and the Missoula Gay Men's Chorus. Reception follows the presentation. Everyone is welcome!


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2022 Presidential Diversity & Inclusion Awards and Scholarships
To acknowledge and honor the exemplary efforts of a student, faculty, or staff member who:
Increases the appreciation for, and the awareness of the benefits, importance, and relevance of diversity and inclusion.
Works to advance the efforts of the university to be more diverse and inclusive, identifies and challenges obstacles, and identifies and builds assets and strengths.
Nominations are closed for the 2022 award cycle. Typically, members of the campus community are invited to submit nominations during the fall semester through early spring semester. 2022 nomination information: submit nominations online by completing this simple form (nominations closed). The original deadline to submit was 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. Nomination deadline extended to Noon, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. The Commission will notify all nominees by 5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, and nominees will have until 5 p.m. on Thursday, February 17, 2022 to submit a complete candidate packet.
One (1) faculty member will receive a $2,500 award.
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I will let people pledging this amount pick which game I start off in Saturday nights(alternating who picks for the week!), as long as I own the game! BUT!!! You don't have to pick a game, if you are not wanting to!! I appreciate anything that is donated monthly! Thank you for all you do!
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2017 KTM Super Duke 1290R
Debuting at this year's EICMA show in Milan, Italy, KTM pulled the curtain back on their 2017 Super Duke 1290R. It's a modification based on its precursor, the earlier 1290R otherwise known as The Beast. However, this thing takes that nickname a step further looking more like a superbike from your worst nightmare.
What stands out the most upon first glance is certainly the new split LED headlight that brings out the bike's sinister appearance. Couple this with the upped horsepower to 177 thanks to an LC8 V-twin engine, a performance pack including Motor Slip Regulation, Quickshifter, and KTM My Ride that links with your smartphone, and you have a powerful performance machine that's cut out for 21st-century riding. Additional features on the devilish two-wheeler consist of a new WP shock absorber, a set of Metzeler M7RR supersport tires, cruise control for speeds up to 120 mph, and new resonator chambers on the cylinder head. It's a scary cool bike that proves the Austria-based brand is not only here to stay but prepared to start leading the way in the world of motorcycle innovation.


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The Regional Council of Champagne-Ardenne was the deliberative assembly of the former region of Champagne-Ardenne incorporated in the Grand Est region on 1 January 2016. It was headquartered in Châlons-en-Champagne, at 5 rue de Jéricho at Hôtel de region de Champagne-Ardenne, from 1982 to 2015.

Presidents of the Regional Council

Composition of the Regional Council (2010-2015)

The regional council has 49 regional advisers:

 French Communist Party: 6 elected
 Socialist Party: 18 elected
 Europe Ecology: 5 elected
 Union for a Popular Movement - New Center : 14 elected
 National Front: 6 elected

Headquarters
The Regional Council occupied the old enclosure which consisted of the major and minor seminary of Châlons. The renovation took place in two stages, the first aimed at rehabilitating the major seminary where the council sat for the plenary session and the Economic and Social Council. The garden and the minor seminary were rehabilitated for the beginning of 2015.

References

Champagne-Ardenne
Champagne-Ardenne

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package org.apache.cassandra.tools.nodetool;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import io.airlift.command.Arguments;
import io.airlift.command.Command;
import org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeProbe;
import org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;

@Command(name = "enablehintsfordc", description = "Enable hints for a data center that was previsouly disabled")
public class EnableHintsForDC extends NodeTool.NodeToolCmd
{
    @Arguments(usage = "<datacenter>", description = "The data center to enable")
    private List<String> args = new ArrayList<>();

    public void execute(NodeProbe probe)
    {
        checkArgument(args.size() == 1, "enablehintsfordc requires exactly one data center");

        probe.enableHintsForDC(args.get(0));
    }
}


NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, today announced that Xcel Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ:XELB), the media and consumer products company, selected BlueCherry® Enterprise Suite of cloud-based solutions, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Business Intelligence (BI) and EDI. The BlueCherry suite provides end-to-end capabilities for apparel, footwear and consumer lifestyle brands.
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The issue of transportation within the cities is on the spotlight for a big amount of the reflections focused on the urban space.
The car culture that emerged after the Industrial Revolution has shaped many places of the city, due to the space that occupies both in movement and parked. Is it time for a change, not just in the transportation, but also the space that is generated around it?
Coming to Spain from a country like the Netherlands is very easy to be surprised by the differences in the ways of moving around the city.
Last week I spent a day in Madrid. A weekday during the morning, car traffic was heavy and; after observing for a while, I could verify that most of the cars were occupied by one person: the same number of occupants, six times the space of a bike, and of course the difference in environmental terms that the fact entails.
To me, it's an issue that goes beyond the number of bikes or cyclists in a city. It is clear that this is the starting point, and that many cities are seeing the number of people moving by bike in the city increasing significantly (following examples like Denmark or Holland itself), but the effect in the city could become more important.
Changing cars by bikes as transportation within the city would release a large amount of space that could be used by citizens. The fact that the transport system becomes smaller, lighter and easier to store could mean the occupation of the streets by a lot of different programs.
For example, having spaces without cars would help to develop permanently many of the proposals explained when I talked about Tactical Urbanism. Even more, taking into account the reduction in size and weight of the object, a way of transport on different layers would be possible, and the coexistence between different systems, individual in the case of bicycles, or collective for the public transport.
The change must be gradual, as the car of course will not disappear, but it would focus its use for long distances. There are projects working in this direction, proposing sharing the space of the car with other uses, as the interesting project for the Sant Antoni Sunday Market by Ravetllat-Rivas Arquitectes.
I have chosen the bike as example because it fits perfectly with what I want to explain, but for me the way of transport is as important as the effect that it would have on the city, as the streets can achieve a much more intense and participatory life (especially important for those cities with lack of public space).
As Jeffrey Inaba said in the conference he gave at the NAi, "if the car shaped the city during the last 50 years, is now time for the city to shape the car "(or the new way of transport).
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It all begins with one step.
It's an honor to announce filmmaker Director Rodney Rascona has been working for the US State Department on the UN initiative STEAM: A poignant story of Hope & Transformation -echoing the voices and dreams of young women.
The documentary shot in Malawi over this past summer, takes viewers on the journey of 98 young women from the United States and five Sub-Saharan African countries, as they partake in the 2017 WiSci (Women in Science) Girls STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) Camp in Malawi.
He'll have a private screening of this new film "I AM: A WISCI STORY" a few days from now! January 12th in Washington DC.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion on the impact of WiSci, and how public-private partnerships like WiSci can be used as a tool for diplomacy and development.
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Don't miss the trailer and following events from this one– we're sure this seed will present a bright future for many generations to come.


Are you wanting to work on the character of your children? The word of the week in our character development series is "diligence." We explored this concept with the old Aesop fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper." The first thing I did was find a good version of this fable online. Here is the link to the story. I read the story to the kids, and we had a short discussion about it. It is a really good story to discuss some really tough questions. What is the morally correct thing to do? Should the ants have shared with the grasshopper? On a deeper level, it can all tie into a discussion about our welfare system. Does it work? How do we truly help people? Those questions are a bit heavier than I really wanted to address with my kids today, but we did have an interesting time exploring it a bit. After our story and lesson, we pursued a craft where we made ants out of our fingerprints. Side not: if you are wondering where Kenzie is during this lesson, she's pitching a fit upstairs. She didn't get to participate because of her behavior right before this activity. Bummer.
The first thing Abby did was draw out her own hill and cut on the line she had drawn. She then glued her hill onto the blue paper.
The next step is was make little fingerprint ants with a black stamp pad. We used her thumb for the abdomen, the tip of her pinkie for the thorax and her pointer finger for the head.
After we washed off her hands, she was able to draw in the legs and antennas. She was looking at an image of real ants on my computer so she could get it right.
It was a fun little project that she really enjoyed. Maybe I'll do it another day with Kenzie when she has a better attitude.
An excellent lesson. Thank you for sharing! I love your ant artwork.


"Still in his mid-twenties, David Bednall is announced as an important and individual voice. Watch this space."
Please see lower down the page for David Bednall's personal account.
The World Premiere of David Bednall's Requiem took place on Friday 14th November in the splendid setting and wonderful acoustic of St James's Church, Spanish Place, close to Oxford Street in London. The recital was given by Schola Cantorum of Calne, the highly acclaimed Chamber Choir of St Mary's School, Calne.
Since the critical success of the 2006 recording of his Choral Works by Wells Cathedral Choir, David's stock as a composer has risen rapidly, and this 11 movement work for upper voices, viola and organ was very exciting indeed. David himself played the organ and the viola part was played by the distinguished international soloist, Philip Dukes.
The Requiem reunited Conductor, Edward Whiting and David Bednall, who first met as organ scholars at The Queen's College, Oxford. They have collaborated on various new commissions and choral ventures and were excited to be working together again.
The Chamber Choir of St Mary's Calne has a repertoire that crosses many musical eras and boundaries from pre-Renaissance to the present day. As well as singing Cathedral services and giving concerts to raise money for charities, the choir regularly tours in the UK and abroad, with recent highlights including Austria, Italy, Sweden, Iceland, France and the USA.
Since winning the title BBC Church Minstrels of the Year 1999, the Choir has made regular radio broadcasts for the BBC. In addition to enjoying further success in Radio 3, Sainsburys and HTV competitions, the girls have also sung on television, recorded four CDs, appeared on the Radio 3 programme Choirworks and sung for the Queen and Prince Philip in Malmesbury Abbey.
In January 2008, the choir gave the World Premiere of the Missa Brevis by David Bednall to the acclaim of a capacity congregation in Notre-Dame de Paris. The work was subsequently enlarged into a 45-minute Requiem for upper-voice choir, viola and organ recorded on the Regent label. The Requiem received its American premiere on the Choir's East coast tour in March 2009 and was performed again on the Choir's tour of Italy in March 2010.
Future plans include a recording of German music, and the first performances of several specially commissioned works including a piece by the celebrated Film Music composer - Joby Talbot.
In 2007, Edward Whiting approached me to ask if I would be interested in writing a Requiem for the Chamber Choir of St Mary's Calne. The idea was immediately appealing and having heard the choir sing, I knew that it had the potential to be a very exciting project indeed.
Edward and I have worked together on many musical ventures over the years but this was to be by far the largest to date. The idea started to become reality with the performance of the 'proper' movements of the Requiem mass as a Missa Brevis in Notre-Dame de Paris in January 2008. However, the intention was always to write a full Requiem for upper voices alone, making this piece unique as far as we are aware.
Following the Missa Brevis performance, we decided it could be very effective to include a solo instrument along with the organ. The viola has long been a favourite of mine for its haunting and melancholy tone and it would also work well in combination with the girls' voices to provide an instrumental part that could sit equally well below and above them. Once Philip Dukes agreed to be involved in the project, the instrumental part grew in scale to include two instrumental movements to provide some respite for the singers and to provide suitable cover were the piece to be done liturgically. The writing of the remaining movements was done during the spring and summer of 2008.
The writing of a Requiem is a considerable challenge to a composer – there are a number of great precedents and there is huge variety of mood in the text which must be reflected in the music. The texts used are from the Latin Requiem Mass and are the same as those used by both Duruflé and Fauré. I wanted to write a work that would prove satisfying for listeners and performers in both liturgical and concert contexts. In addition, I wanted it to be highly positive and full of light so that it might bring comfort. I very much hope that this has been achieved, and that it may be as satisfying and enjoyable to sing and hear as it has been to write.


Two of my favorite magazines, the London Review of Books and Vanity Fair, have two must read articles on Russia in their recent additions. Vanity Fair's annual "Green Issue" is full of amazing articles, particularly Phillippe Sands' well researched article "The Green Light," which exposes how White House lawyers "legalized" the use of torture.
In regard to Russia, Alex Shoumatoff's "The Arctic Oil Rush" delves into the logic behind Russia's scramble for the North Pole. This time, however, the rush back to the Pole isn't solely driven by the exploratory urges of Frederick Cook or Robert Perry. The Cold Rush, as Shoumatoff calls the Arctic Great Game, is spurred by, you guested it, oil. Scientists estimate that 25 percent of the world's remaining fossil-fuel reserves sit under the Arctic floor. Russia, the United States, Canada, and Denmark are now in a renewed effort to claim possession over the the globe's ice cap.
But the main contribution of Shoumatoff's article is not so much the Cold Rush, as it is how global warming is affecting the million residents of Yakutia. The capital, Yakurtsk, is a boom town, mostly because of diamond mining. In good Putinist fashion, Alrosa, the diamond company which dominates the region, is jointly state owned by the Russian and Yakutia governments. Vyacheslav Shtyrov, the president of the Republic of Sakha, is a former president of Alrosa.
Life for Yakutia's native population is far removed from the the political and corporate machinations of Russia's political elites. The three main ethnic groups, Eveny, Evenki, and Yukaghir, like many indigenous peoples around the world are more victims of the double pronged assault of modernity. The first is cultural. Much of their nomadic life, language and religion has been destroyed by a two century old effort of Russification and modernization. One of the oldest groups, the Yakaghir, only number 1,509 people, and only 23 of them still speak their language with fluency.
I recommend reading the whole article, if not the whole issue.
And such is the analytical challenge for understanding Stalinism. To sidestep its horrors is an injustice not just to its victims, but to humanity. But to reduce all life under Stalin to terror fails to understand the often contradictory complexity the human condition. A balance must be struck if we are ever able to understand Stalinism as a period where happiness and horror often existed as concomitant experiences within the individual.


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PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- Brendon de Jonge rolled in a pair of long putts on his way to a 2-under 69 and the 36-hole lead Friday in the Valspar Championship. Based on the holes remaining, he is halfway home to his first PGA Tour title.
Considering how many players are still in the mix -- essentially everyone who made the cut -- the weekend might feel even longer.
Only seven shots separated de Jonge from the players who made the cut on the number, the first time the first-to-worst gap has been that small since the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St. George's.
"Obviously, gives you a good chance for the weekend," de Jonge said. He was at 6-under 136, the highest score to lead after 36 holes at Innisbrook in six years.
De Jonge said that after he finished his round in the morning, uncertain how hard the wind would blow and who might get hot with the putter. The wind died, no one could sustain a great round without a few mistakes and he had the 36-hole lead for the fourth time in his career.
Jordan Spieth made a birdie putt from the fringe on the 18th for a 4-under 67 to match the best score of the round. Henrik Stenson, playing the Copperhead course for the first time and apparently enjoying it, made eagle on his first hole and wound up with a 70.
They were one shot behind, along with Ryan Moore (68), Kevin Streelman (69) and Derek Ernst (70).
Ernst, who had only one round in the 60s this year, ran off five straight birdies around the turn to reach 8-under par until he started missing greens, missing putts and making bogeys to fall one shot behind de Jonge.
"Starting the day if you told me I would have shot 1 under I would have been very happy with it," Ernst said.
Lucas Glover had a 69 and joined Moore and Streelman as the only players to break 70s for both rounds. He was two shots behind, along with Sean O'Hair (72), Ricky Barnes (72) and Ian Poulter (70). Poulter hasn't been to Innisbrook since 2010, and he was asked what had kept him away.
"Because I'm a buffoon," Poulter said. "I mean, stupid. This golf course I can compete on because it's fiddly, it's position off the tee, small greens, need to chip it well, good pace putting when you're above the hole. All those things I do well."
Poulter recalls the greens being sloppy the last time he played, and so he instructed his caddie to never allow him to return. Seven holes into his pro-am round, he said he told his caddie, "What the ... was I doing not being here?"
Justin Thomas (72) and Vijay Singh (70) were in the group at 3-under 139, with Luke Donald (68), Matt Kuchar (70) and Patrick Reed (68) among those four behind.
Adam Scott is about the only guy who doesn't have a chance because he didn't make the cut. Scott missed four putts from inside 5 feet on his way to a 75 and missed the cut by three shots. It's the first time he had the weekend off at a golf tournament since the 2012 Byron Nelson Championship.
What makes Innisbrook so mysterious is that players are irritated by the shots they left out on the course, only to realize they're not in bad shape. Such was the case of Stenson, who made a 25-foot eagle on his opening hole, a 20-foot birdie putt on his final hole and nothing but pars and two bogeys in between.
"I didn't get it close enough to give myself too many birdies," Stenson said. "All in all, pretty pleased."
Spieth rammed in a 20-foot birdie on the third hole that he said left a ball mark on the back of the cup. So that was a good break. He made a 30-foot birdie on No. 6 and rolled it in from 18 feet on the final hole. That was enough to put him in the final group, even if he's not sure how he got there.
"This is one of those random places where you feel like you should have shot better than you did, but you're not out of it," he said. "You can make birdies. The problem is there is trouble around every corner."
There was even trouble in the fairway. Early in the round, Charley Hoffman stopped when he saw a 10-foot alligator walking across the third fairway.
"We weren't going anywhere fast," Hoffman said. "And neither were we."
DIVOTS: Jonathan Byrd made a hole-in-one on the par-3 15th hole, but he ended up missing the cut for the time in 12 trips to Innisbrook. ... Ernie Els snapped an iron across a pine tree trying to play a shot on the 16th hole. He recovered fine, except for a three-putt from 6 feet for double bogey. He missed the cut.


John McCain is usually the candidate getting heckled and interrupted on the trail, a product of his open town halls but also the more controversial aspects of his foreign policy.
But on Friday it was Barack Obama who found himself being yelled at -- several times -- by African-American attendees who argued that he ignores "black" issues.
In an appearance in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Illinois Democrat's address was interrupted when several young black males stood up, hoisted a banner that read, "What about the black community, Obama?" and began peppering the Senator for not focusing on their concerns.
Obama told them they would have time to ask questions after the speech was over, and they did. They asked why he was not focusing on issues like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Jena Six, Sean Bell and "the numerous attacks that are made against the African-American community." Obama responded twofold: telling the hecklers that he had, in fact, been focused on these issues and explaining that there would never be 100% continuity between his agenda and that of the voters.
"Listen, I was a civil rights lawyer," Obama said. "I passed the first racial profiling legislation in Illinois. I passed some of the toughest death penalty reform legislation in Illinois. That doesn't mean I am always going to satisfy the way you want these issues framed... which gives you the option of voting for somebody else, it gives you the option of running for office yourself, those are all options. But the one thing I think is important is, that we are respectful towards each other."
It is rare for Obama to be heckled in a political forum, but it's not terribly surprising that the protest came from a fellow African-American. Moments after he took the man's question, a nearby African-American woman yelled at Obama again. The Senator has trod a thin line on the racial components of this campaign. Witness the uproar over accusations -- made by John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis -- that he played the race card. And his posture as a post-racial candidate has struck some as discourteous (see: Jesse Jackson). Still, the idea that Obama will get anything short of an overwhelming portion of the black vote seems far-fetched.
"Don't start shouting back, I'm just answering your question. On each of these issues I have spoken out. I may not have spoken out the way you have wanted me to speak out. Which is fine. I understand. On each of these issues you have mentioned I have spoken out and I have spoken out forcefully. Listen, I was a civil rights lawyer. I passed the first racial profiling legislation in Illinois. I passed some of the toughest death penalty reform legislation in Illinois.
"That doesn't mean I am always going to satisfy the way you want these issues framed... which gives you the option of voting for somebody else, it gives you the option of running for office yourself, those are all options. But the one thing I think is important is, that we are respectful towards each other. And what is true is that the only way we are going to solve our problems in this country is if all of us come together, black white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, young, old, disabled, gay, straight... that has got to be our agenda."


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The Life of Captain Marvel (2018) #2
Margaret Stohl
Marguerite Sauvage, Carlos Pacheco
Julian Tedesco
THE DEFINITIVE ORIGIN OF CAPTAIN MARVEL! Carol Danvers was just a girl from the Boston suburbs who loved science and the Red Sox until a chance encounter with a Kree hero gave her incredible super-powers. Now, she's a leader in the Avengers and the commander of Alpha Flight. But what if there were more to the story? When crippling anxiety attacks put her on the sidelines in the middle of a fight, Carol finds herself reliving memories of a life she thought was far behind her. You can't outrun where you're from - and sometimes, you HAVE to go home again. But there are skeletons in Captain Marvel's closet - and what she discovers will change her entire world. Written by best-selling author Margaret Stohl and drawn by fan-favorite comics veteran Carlos Pacheco, this is the true origin of Captain Marvel.
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The Australian Regulatory Framework is the fastest in the world for undertaking early phase clinical trials.
Site Initiation Visit (SIV) and Study Start can be achieved in 5 - 6 Weeks.
Working within this robust and efficient framework expedites the process of running a clinical trial.
This means that a Site Initiation Visit (SIV) and Study Start can be achieved in 5 - 6 Weeks and allows Sponsors to gain critical Go/No Go information on their product before allocating resources to these activities.
The Australian regulatory body for clinical trials, the Therapeutic Goods Administration ('TGA'), offers two schemes for conducting clinical trials in Australia; the CTN Scheme and the CTX Scheme.


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Q: NFT Marketplaces and Storage I am new to blockchain and NFT space, but with decentralization at the heart of it. How are NFT marketplaces providing capabilities like Stats and Searching, do we also have any decentralized storage for storing those types of data? I see that the NFT assets can be stored in IPFS, but what about other data to display the stats related to NFT on the marketplace.

A: They duplicate some of the raw blockchain data and aggregations of this data in their own searchable databases.
Example:

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*Each token mint emits a Transfer() event log with params of the token sender (0x0 in case of a token mint), receiver, and the token ID.

*There is a standardized function that each NFT collection can implement to return the token metadata - name, description, and image URL - in a standardized output format.

*A marketplace subscribes to events of newly minted tokens (usually only on their users' collections), then queries the metadata of the newly minted token (by its ID available from the event log), and stores the metadata in their own searchable database (e.g. ElasticSearch).


What part of Italy is this? (I want to go there!!) Such an evocative image & makes me remember my times in Italy very clearly!
Just a little North of Cinque Terra.
where their seem to be more people with more money.


Gold prices went down by Rs 240 to 31,780 per ten grams at the bullion market today owing to slackened demand from local jewellers along with subdued global cues.
However, silver recovered by Rs 100 to Rs 40,750 per kg on scattered enquiries from industrial units and coin makers.
Traders said, besides fall in demand from local jewellers and retailers at the domestic spot market, a weak trend overseas, kept pressure on the prices of gold.
Gold prices fell 0.16 per cent to USD 1,288.10 an ounce and silver by 0.09 per cent to USD 16.34 an ounce in Singapore.
In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity plunged by Rs 240 each to Rs 31,780 and Rs 31,630 per ten grams, respectively. It had lost Rs 430 in yesterday's trade.
Sovereign gold, however, remained unaltered at Rs 24,800 per piece of eight grams.
On the other hand, silver ready recovered by Rs 100 to Rs 40,750 per kg and weekly-based delivery by Rs 20 to Rs 39,870 per kg.
Silver coins, however, continued to be traded at previous levels of Rs 75,000 for buying and Rs 76,000 for selling of 100 pieces in limited deals.


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Job offers for third of region's Carillion apprentices
Of the 146 who were working on Carillion projects in Greater Manchester 52 have found new positions, according to the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
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One in three former Carillion apprentices in Greater Manchester have received job offers since the construction giant collapsed, according to new figures.
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) said 553 of the 1,400 apprentices affected by the crisis had been offered a role with another employer.
These include 52 of the 146 who were working on Carillion projects in Greater Manchester which include rail and highways projects, Airport City, apartment and office schemes and university halls.
The board said it had contacted more than 40,000 construction employers since Carillion went into liquidation last month, encouraging them to take on apprentices, with the help of a £1.5 million cash incentive programme.
More than 850 employers have responded with job offers, including 75 from the Greater Manchester region.
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Gillian Cain, head of apprenticeships at the CITB, said: "I'm delighted that we've been able to help so many former Carillion apprentices.
"So many small firms have been critical in finding these roles but the job is not done. I want to reassure those who have not yet received job offers that the team at CITB will continue to do everything they can to help apprentices find new employers and get on with their training.
"We are confident that with industry support we can get all apprentices back on track very soon."
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Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail said: "The CITB has done a sterling job, and their work on placements is testament to the importance of a centralised Industrial Training Board for the industry.
"Likewise those contractors who have offered displaced apprentices places are to be commended, and we would hope more come forward so that all apprentices are found a suitable placement."
Meanwhile, executives at defunct construction giant Carillion have been branded "delusional" and accused of playing the blame game by MPs, as a damning report revealed how company bosses presided over a string of failures that led to its collapse.
A raft of former board members faced MPs from the Business and Pensions Committees, who pushed bosses to take responsibility over the company's rapid decline.
MPs Rachel Reeves and Frank Field - who are co-chairs of the joint committee inquiry - said the executives were "a series of delusional characters" who "maintained that everything was hunky dory until it all went suddenly and unforeseeably wrong".
"We heard variously that this was the fault of the Bank of England, the foreign exchange markets, advisers, Brexit, the snap election, investors, suppliers, the construction industry, the business culture of the Middle East and professional designers of concrete beams."
Ms Reeves and Mr Field said everything they had seen "points the finger in another direction - to the people who built a giant company on sand in a desperate dash for cash."
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A freshly released report compiled by Carillion just days before its collapse in January showed the company was well aware of a growing pile of problems at the doomed firm.
"The group had become too complex with an overly short-term focus, weak operational risk management and too many distractions outside of our 'core'," the presentation said.
It also highlighted "poor planning of effective contract controls and monitoring", "insufficient understanding of and adherence to contract requirements", and a "lack of ownership of issues".
During the committee hearing, former chief executive Keith Cochrane admitted he should have acted sooner before the company's collapse, but claimed that all the decisions he took were in Carillion's best interest, while former finance director Zafar Khan defended his track record over his nine months at the firm.
He said: "I don't believe I was asleep at the wheel because as soon as I came into the role, we were looking to tackle the issues and the key focus of my time in the role was to bring net debt down."
He added: "I believe I did everything that I could have done, essentially."
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Comfort, convenience, aesthetics. The presence of these three components in interior require any room in the apartment or house. His special orientation they find in the kitchen setting. Indeed, it has long ceased to be a place used for cooking. Here the whole family at breakfast or dinner in the output, when all returned home. There are intimate conversations over a cup of coffee. And here spend their time and kids while mom is busy cooking. Because it is important that the situation in the kitchen was positioned and functional. All this under the force to carry out together with IKEA.
In favor of the Swedish manufacturer also says the acceptable amount for which you have the opportunity to build the kitchen of your dreams. Now the field for "kitchen" creativity will increase significantly. Until 2015 the company IKEA will replace the system FAKTUM on the method. By the way, in Europe has already begun the start of sales. Series Method is radically different configuration of facades, boxes, scaffolds. It manufacturer has provided the presence of shelves for children's things: books, coloring, toys. The new system, due to the presence in it of various sizes, provides a unique chance to gather, their cuisine.
METHOD is a modular kitchen that allows you to play with space and create an incredible amount of combinations. All of this can be seen in a short, but very dynamic and creative video. He shot in a campaign, combined under the slogan Wonderful Everyday. The kitchen is divided into several ground wheels that rotate independently of each other. These and convey to the audience the whole variation method that creates comfort for the whole family. The idea belongs to the London creative agency Mother, and he roller campaign is broadcast to the British.
It is noteworthy that IKEA, for example, the Israeli market has focused on the price factor. In the video, which demonstrates the Israeli public, designer in most rich colors describes the kitchen interior. Once in sight falls on the price set, out of the mouth of the designer fly swear words ... and it goes away. But with such irony IKEA says that the quality is quite accessible.


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Table of Contents Characters Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2 Act 1, Scene 2, Page 2 Act 1, Scene 2, Page 3 Act 1, Scene 2, Page 4 Act 1, Scene 2, Page 5 Act 2, Scene 1 Act 2, Scene 2 Act 3, Scene 1 Act 3, Scene 2 Act 4, Scene 1 Act 4, Scene 2 Act 5, Scene 1 How to Cite
Enter QUINCE the carpenter, and SNUG the joiner, and BOTTOM the weaver, and FLUTE the bellows-mender, and SNOUT the tinker, and STARVELING the tailor
QUINCE, the carpenter, enters with SNUG, the cabinetmaker; BOTTOM, the weaver; FLUTE, the bellows-repairman; SNOUT, the handyman; and STARVELING, the tailor.
Is all our company here?
Is everyone here?
You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.
You should call their names
generally,
Bottom means "individually," not "generally. Bottom frequently makes mistakes with words.
generally, one person at a time, in the order in which their names appear on this piece of paper.
Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his wedding day at night.
This is a list of the names of all the men in Athens who are good enough to act in the play we're going to perform for the duke and duchess on their wedding night.
First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow to a point.
First, Peter Quince, tell us what the play is about, then read the names of the actors, and then shut up.
5Marry, our play is The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe.
All right. Our play is called A Very Tragic Comedy About the Horrible Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe.
A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry.—Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your actors by the scroll.—Masters, spread yourselves.
Let me tell you, it's a great piece of work, and very—funny.—Now, Peter Quince, call the names of the actors on the list. Men, gather around him.
Answer as I call you.—Nick Bottom, the weaver?
Answer when I call your name.—Nick Bottom, the weaver?
Ready. Name what part I am for and proceed.
Here. Tell me which part I'm going to play, then go on.
You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
You, Nick Bottom, have been cast as Pyramus.
Read the Summary of Act I, scene ii


JAKARTA Campaigning kicked off in Indonesia on Feb. 15 for local elections that will have a significant bearing on President Joko Widodo's bid to retain the presidency next year.
Gubernatorial elections will be held in half of Indonesia's 34 provinces on June 27, as will polls in 39 cities and 115 regencies.
Some parties will only select their candidate for the April 2019 presidential race once they have seen how they fare at the local level this year.
The polls will also be a chance for parties to map out a strategy and consider coalition partners for the national elections, according to Djayadi Hanan, executive director of pollster Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting.
As a result, June's local elections are likely to see the kind of large campaigns that would be run at the national level.
Within the ruling coalition, the Golkar party has already come out and backed Widodo for the presidency. His own Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, headed by former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, on the other hand, has yet to officially pick a candidate.
Prabowo Subianto is expected to lead the opposition group. The former son-in-law of the late President Suharto ran against Widodo in the last presidential election in 2014.
The two are currently seen as the only candidates who can realistically win enough support in parliament to have a shot at the presidency. Under Indonesia's political system, presidential candidates require support from groups that command a minimum of 20% of parliamentary seats.
More importantly, the governors who emerge victorious in June will be pivotal in mobilizing votes in the presidential race. In 2014, the governors of West Java, West Sumatra and West Nusa Tenggara managed to sway the electorate in favor of Subianto, Hanan pointed out.
Of particular interest will be the gubernatorial elections in the country's four most populous provinces of West Java, East Java, Central Java and North Sumatra.
A number of candidates launched their campaigns at religious centers. West Java hopeful Ridwan Kamil visited an Islamic boarding school in Purwakarta regency on Feb. 15.
"I come here to listen to the hopes of students and the ulemas [Islamic scholars], as well as to ask for the ulemas to pray for me in my nomination," said Kamil, who is the mayor of the provincial capital Bandung.
Saifullah Yusuf, the incumbent deputy governor of East Java now running for the top job, visited clerics in the province, a stronghold of the Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Muslim organization.
Yusuf himself is an NU member. His rival, former Minister of Social Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa, is a prominent figure in the organization's women's wing.
Parawansa began her campaign with a visit to a fishing village, where she promised to improve family welfare by empowering working women there.
Having carried out extensive reforms and anti-corruption campaigns as mayor of the ancient city of Surakarta and later as governor of Jakarta, Widodo was elected president by voters who saw him as a hands-on leader who gets things done.
With the public wary of widespread corruption, similarly no-nonsense local government chiefs have gained extensive support.
A serious concern for the coming elections is the threat of renewed religious and ethnic discord.
The 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election, in which Anies Baswedan defeated the incumbent ethnic-Chinese, Christian Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, was accompanied by large anti-Basuki rallies that had been organized by conservative Islamic groups.
"Religion was the key factor that explains the victory of Anies and Sandi," said Burhanuddin Muhtadi of pollster Indikator Politik Indonesia, referring to Anies' running mate Sandiaga Uno.
"Given the success of identity politics, it would be unsurprising if candidates use the strategy as a winning template in other regions."
There are concerns that the growing influence of hardline Muslims could affect foreign companies' investment decisions.
Southeast Asia's largest economy has seen considerable advances in democratization since the collapse of the long-running Suharto dictatorship in 1998.
In particular, national and local elections in recent years have strengthened democratic institutions and political stability. The resulting economic benefits, such as increased foreign investment, have seen Indonesia join the Group of 20 economies. But the country still has a long way to go in terms of transparent campaign spending.
Parties use colossal sums during election season, often staging events such as pop concerts to win over voters.
One influential person gave up running for governor in East Java, revealing it would cost about 40 billion rupiah ($2.95 million) to run a successful campaign.
Meanwhile, the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, has already revealed a case allegedly involving a candidate. "The KPK deeply regrets that bribery of regional leaders keeps happening. The KPK found in one of our raids in 2018 ... that a bribe had been used to fund an incumbent's re-election campaign," the anti-graft body said in a statement.
"Everything is as usual in Indonesia as elections are held almost every year," said Widodo in an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review in December. Now that campaigning is underway, the government will have to mitigate any adverse effects they have on the country's economy.


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Keshikan (, also Romanized as Keshīkān; also known as Keshīgān) is a village in Kahnuk Rural District, Irandegan District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 35, in 6 families.

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Populated places in Khash County


Although the skin is our largest organ and, implicitly, our business card, we sometimes grant it too little attention. We wake up in a rush and often skip the necessary steps of taking care of our face. During the day, our skin is fighting with several factors, such as radiation, toxins, dust and pollution.
This happens on and on, until one day, when we notice that our skin has become tired, flaccid and we even have some wrinkles. Even if there are countless expensive creams and at-home treatments, it's tough knowing exactly what suits our skin type best and the correct ways of using certain products.
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