Use this step by step explanation to craft a good employee performance feedback review for a project engineer. Find the right words with quality phrases.
A project engineer is responsible for managing technical and engineering projects. Hence, they apply their engineering skills to ensure that the project meets the specifications and also utilizes their management skills, to ensure resources and human capital, are allocated appropriately.
Other specific duties include ensuring that the projects are completed in time and with the best quality. He/she manages the personnel working on the project, examines the needs of the project and allocates the right people for various activities. The engineer also plans the project budget and makes sure that all the activities carried out match the available financial resources of the company.
Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.
The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.
Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.
The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.
ORGANIZED WORKPLACE: Organized Workplace is a vital characteristic that helps the business to thrive for long term due to the sense of structure and order which efficiently promotes the team spirit.
Continually reviews what is working and what is not working in the workplace to minimize wastage.
NEGOTIATION SKILLS: Negotiation Skills are a deliberative process by which people settle their differences through an acceptable agreement to both parties to co-exist without argument and dispute in the workplace.
Shows commitment to the negotiation process and ensures that a deal is brokered in the end.
Keeps an open mindset during a negotiation process so ensure that an acceptable solution is arrived at.
TEAMWORK SKILLS: Teamwork is the process of collaboratively working with a group of people with an aim to achieve a set goal within a business ensuring that the staff and management cooperate using their skills and provide constructive feedback.
Has a good way of solving team conflicts and ensures that peace and harmony are upheld.
Encourages other team members to continue to improve themselves and to do well at all time.
KNOWLEDGE OF COMPANY PROCESSES: Knowledge of Company Processes is the in-depth understanding of a collection of related, structured activities that serve a particular goal for a group of customers or clients who are valuable to the enterprise.
KNOWLEDGE OF JOB: Knowledge of Job is essential to every employee who needs to have a clear understanding of how their jobs fit into the overall organization to eliminate carelessness and laxity.
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR: Ethical Behavior is acting in policies that are consistent with what the society and individuals typically think are good morals or values.
FLEXIBILITY: Flexibility is an important skill that allows employers and employees to make an arrangement about working on maintaining a work/life balance to help organizations improve the productivity and efficiency of their balance.
COMMITMENT TO THE JOB: Commitment to the Job is the feeling of responsibility that a person has towards a mission and goals of an organization.
PRACTICAL THINKING: Practical Thinking is the skill to think creatively about projects or work that requires your full attention to be completed and to bring great results.
PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Product Knowledge is an essential sales skill to understand the features of your product allowing you to present the benefits compellingly and accurately to the customer.
Are you are reliable workmate? If yes, what have you done to show that?
What areas do you feel you need improvements when it comes to being organized at work?
Have you ever compromised to help reach an acceptable solution?
Explain an instance that you hit a dead-end in a negotiation process. What did you do to reach a conclusion?
How well do you work while you are on a team or a group?
Do you show leadership skills while you are in a team and how will you rate your leadership skills?
How do you manage a project plan, set timelines and milestones, and involve team members in order to deliver on time?
How would you respond to a new employee who shows an unwillingness to learn the company process? What would you do to help them?
Can you describe two instances when you have demonstrated knowledge of job at work?
How do you make sure you have all that is needed to perform a certain task or accomplish different goals?
Can you be trusted in all you do and say to be honest?
Are you most likely to bend the truth to protect yourself?
Are you a fast learner willing to research and learn new tricks quickly?
Are you consistent in following the descriptions given to finish tasks?
Are there times you have come in early or stayed late in order to meet a deadline?
Can you describe a situation where you had to be very persistent or dedicated in order to achieve goals?
Describe a project that went wrong due to poor practical thinking strategies. How did the problem occur and how did you solve it?
Describe a time when you have had to analyze a problem and come up with possible solutions. How did you go about it?
What efforts are you making to improve your understanding of different product specifications?
How often do you adhere to procedures and policies that guide products and services?
I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.


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Geoff Freeman resigned as the CEO of AGA (American Gaming Association) late last month. The company has selected an acting CEO to steer the ship for now, until a suitable person takes the position permanently. Stacy Papadopoulos who was known as the general counsel and Senior Vice President of the AGA has been elected to be the acting CEO of the company while they consider other candidates.
Mr. Freeman's Reason for Resigning at AGA
The 43-year-old executive resigned at the beginning of June 2018 when no one was expecting it. Freeman decided to take a better offer of a similar position at the GMA (Grocery Manufacturers Association). More so, Freeman had only been steering the ship for about two months.
The CEO for Penn Gaming, Tim Wilmott will be leading the selection committee for the new CEO for AGA. More members of the committee include CEO of Rush Street Gaming – Greg Carlin and Bill Lance, who will be representing the North American gambling sector.
Other online gambling executives are partaking in the search include Mark Frissora, the president of Caesars Entertainment, Trevor Croker – the CEO of Aristocrat Leisure and Jim Murren – the chairman of MGM Resorts International.
All of these online gambling casinos also operate in the Macau gambling industry. More so, they are also looking forward to expanding into Japan, once the country legalises online gambling.
When Freeman started as AGA's CEO, he mentioned that he was honoured for being given the chance to be able to build on the company's upcoming successes. When he was made the CEO, Freeman's knowledge and experiences were the primary assets that AGA was hoping to take advantage of and his fast resignation left many in disbelief. Always keep it locked at Kiwi Casinos for all the latest online gaming news in New Zealand.


A new rock Broadway musical that explores the lasting connection forged between a group of travelers whose planes were diverted to a small Newfoundland town by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Three-time Tony winner Glenn Close stars as faded film star Norma Desmond who recruits a young writer to help relaunch her career in a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation.
A new musical adaptation of author Chazz Palminteri's solo play, set against the backdrop of racial strife and organized crime in the 1960s.
Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway for a limited engagement to perform a concert of her favorite musical theatre songs.
The Lincoln Center Theater production of the Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos officially opened to Broadway audiences last week. Critic reviews were mostly positive, with the New York Times declaring it as "exhilarating, devastating…this singular show has been restored to life with such vitality that it feels as fresh and startling as it did back in 1992." Time Out New York was also impressed, describing the production as "intimate, obstinate, heart-shattering…[composer William] Finn pushes musical theater to the limits of what we can ask of it." Read more review excerpts and purchase discount tickets.
The Broadway production of Donmar Warehouse's Les Liaisons Dangereuses celebrated their official opening Sunday night. Reviews from critics were mixed: The Associated Press called the revival "brilliant…this revival simply crackles as a witty comedy descends into horrific satire." The NY Daily news was not as kind, describing the experience as "all the thrill of watching paint dry." Read more critic reviews and purchase discount tickets.
NBC-TV has announced that its 2017 holiday live Broadway musical broadcast will be Bye Bye Birdie, and its star will be pop icon Jennifer Lopez. The musical satirizes an Elvis Presley-like pop star who tries to make one last splash before being drafted into the army. Harvey Fierstein will adapt Michael Stewart's libretto for the 2017 broadcast. Multiple Tony winner Fierstein also adapted and will co-star in NBC's upcoming 2016 holiday live musical, Hairspray Live!, set for broadcast 12/7. No date for the broadcast was announced, though previous NBC live shows The Sound of Music Live!, Peter Pan Live!, and The Wiz Live! were broadcast in early December. For more on this announcement, click here.
Theatre fans will get the chance to see 2 recent Broadway musicals on the big screen this December. The Broadway revival of She Loves Me will be presented in U.S. cinemas on 12/1. This one-night cinema event includes interviews with the show's stars, Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski, and Zachary Levi, as well as members of the creative team. George Takei's Allegiance: The Broadway Musical On The Big Screen, a film of the 2015 Broadway musical, will be shown in cinemas across the U.S. on 12/13. For more information on the screenings, click here for Alligiance and here for She Loves Me. To purchase tickets for the screenings, click here.


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After many years as a privacy advocate and author of privacy books, I now reluctantly believe that there's one citizen of the United States who is not entitled to any privacy or solitude, but should be subjected to a relentless campaign of intimidation, harassment, and knavery. In other words, patriotic Americans who believe in fair play should -- within the bounds of the law -- make this person's life a living hell.
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Germany, after being called on the carpet for supplying Iraq with poison gas intended to be used against the nearly 6 million Jews who live in Israel, gave three undectable German-built submarines capable of launching nuclear missiles to Israel for free as an apology of sorts.
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ANARCHISTS AND OTHER LEFT-WING ANTIWAR PROTESTERS CLASHED WITH THE POLICE IN AN ATTEMPT TO REACH THE SUMMIT
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Notice in particular 1743. This is basically an admission that the war has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein or Weapons of Mass Destruction® (The White House 2001).
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Lawmakers are reporting their phones ringing off the hooks with calls overwhelmingly against George W. Bush's plans for a war on Iraq. Bush's war resolution, sent to Capitol Hill last week, is a sweeping measure that would permit him to "use all means he determines to be appropriate, including force" against Iraq.
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JOHANNESBURG – Delegates to the third Earth Summit reached a minimal agreement on policies aimed at lifting four billion people from poverty and curbing threats to the global environment.
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He told a news conference, "We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and -- in contrast with Islamic countries -- respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its values understandings of diversity and tolerance." hah! like he cares about human rights or freedom. dirty facist.


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SAGE Campaign to Stop Permit Sonoma Evictions Results in Historic Vote for Alternative Housing 12 months after Sonoma Independent exposé & petition, Supervisors vote 5-0 to become first CA county to legalize trailers, tiny homes & composting toilets
Posted on December 27, 2022 by Jonathan Greenberg
Thousands of Sonoma County residents living in trailers and tiny homes will feel safer in the new year, thanks to a December 6, 2022 vote by Sonoma County Supervisors to end a code enforcement process that has caused the eviction of 200 residents per year from alternative affordable safe housing.
Supervisors voted 5-to-0 to approve two major revisions to county zoning code.
For the first time, the ecologically low-impact tiny homes and trailers that today house thousands of low income renters will be legally permitted.
As of April 1, 2023, more than 60,000 property owners living in Sonoma County's unincorporated area will have the legal right to to rent out one trailer, RV, or tiny home. The zoning code revision is technically an expansion of the county's emergency Temporary Housing Program. No vacation rentals will be allowed.
A second revision will make Sonoma County the first county in California State history to legalize composting toilets, which use little or no water.
Trailers and tiny homes will be required to have a "haul and carry" plan for gray water. But for the first time, they will no longer need to be required by law to be connected to septic systems, a very expensive and often unattainable obstacle to many property owners.
The vote, which was championed by County Supervisor and organic farmer Lynda Hopkins, came as the result of the grassroots SAGE campaign ("Stop All Government Evictions") that was launched on this website on November 4, 2022.
An eight part investigative series here at the Sonoma Independent exposed the shameful fact that our seemingly progressive county government had become one of the largest evictors of low income tenants in the entire state of California.
A month long review of thousands of citations by Permit Sonoma showed that in the midst of the largest housing crisis in history, the county's code enforcement agency was evicting nearly 200 tenants, many of them seniors, from safe, affordable tiny homes and trailers. This was double the number of unhoused people that Sonoma County acquires emergency housing for; at a cost, to taxpayers, of $20 million each year.
To build widespread local public awareness of this inhumane system, the Sonoma Independent launched this Change.org petition. Signed by more than 3,700 people, it quickly became the largest housing rights petition in Sonoma County history.
More than 135 petition signers also made micro donations to Change.org to promote the petition, which called for a new ordinance that would align county policy with our government's frequently proclaimed commitment to retaining and expanding affordable housing.
In a nutshell, our petition urged county supervisors to revise zoning codes to permit thousands of people to live simply so that they can simply afford to live in California.
But it was not the petition that transformed the position of the four supervisors who initially opposed our campaign.
It was this two minute public interest advocacy video that we created of a housing rights protest song written and performed by my friend Copperwoman Saso, the 70-year old grandmother whose composting toilet had made her tiny home un-permit-able.
Last winter, after a phone call by by an anonymous neighbor, Permit Sonoma ordered Copperwoman's close friend and property owner to remove her pastoral tiny home or face fines of more than $10,000.
With the help of dozens of donors, our SAGE campaign used "evolutionary media advocacy" to advertise this video on YouTube to residents of Sonoma County. More than 50,000 voting age adults chose to watch it.
Because this video put a human face, and images of a sweet community-connected tiny home, to a dysfunctional code enforcement system, thousands of informed voters influenced our elected supervisors to vote to change zoning policy to reflect a sensible keep people in their affordable homes approach.
From the very start of the Stop All Government Evictions from Safe Affordable Trailers and Tiny Homes Campaign, County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins, championed the cause of zoning reform and the legalization of composting toilets. When our coalition first brought the issue to public comment at the board of Supervisors a year ago, Hopkins, was the only one of five supervisors to support our position. After numerous public comments, Sonoma Independent exposés shared over Facebook, as well as private conversations, and letters to local media, all five supervisors came to support this historic legislation.
"I really appreciate all of the fantastic advocacy from the community…to be at this place of being poised to take what I believe is truly radical change to legalize and to actually improve the way folks are already living," Supervisor Lynda Hopkins said at the December 6 meeting."
As seen in the video below, Hopkins also explained that the changes would ensure that occupants of trailers and tiny homes, "are not considered sort of illegal, that they have a pathway to living in this County and not being sort of subject to being kicked out at any moment. It's a huge deal and I'm really excited…for the step that we're taking today."
During the December 6 Supervisor meeting, this reporter, on behalf of the Sonoma Independent.org, joined Copperwoman Saso and three other housing advocates to ask county government to allow the permitting of two trailers, instead of just one, for properties larger than one acre.
We also asked supervisors to revise the proposed ordinance to allow county farms struggling to supply workforce housing be allow three trailers per farm.
Although the Supervisors did not vote for our suggestion, it was clear that this limitation might be reconsidered by the County Planning Commission at a later date.
Meanwhile, Margaret DeMatteo, the Housing Policy Attorney at Legal Aid of Sonoma County, told the Sonoma Independent that her organization is available to advise anyone living in a tiny home who is facing eviction as a result of Permit Sonoma enforcement. They can be reached at at (707) 542-1290 or info@legalaidsc.com.
The Sonoma Independent created the SAGE Campaign so that property owners renting trailers, tiny home for safe, alternative housing could be legislatively supported by our government, instead of criminalized.
This historic legislation achieves that, and, in a welcome change, aligns Sonoma County policies with its citizen's intention to retain and encourage affordable housing.
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Jonathan Greenberg is editor and owner of the award winning Sonoma Independent website, which serves the public interest with insight, solutions and advocacy. Jonathan is an investigative financial journalist with 40 years of experience with national publications, including Forbes, The Washington Post, The New York Times, New York, Town & Country. Mother Jones and The New Republic. During the past few years, Jonathan wrote four of the most widely-read exposes about Donald Trump's career published in the Washington Post. Jonathan was the notorious Forbes 400 reporter who taped two long calls in 1984 in which Trump pretended to be John Barron. Jonathan's Washington Post expose about this was the subject of monologues on Colbert, the Daily Show and Seth Meyers. Jonathan has appeared live on a dozen major news shows, including on CNN with Chris Cuomo, Erin Burnett and Don Lemon, on MSNBC with Ari Berber and Ali Velshi, and NPR's On the Media. A fuller bio and links to Jonathan's work can be found at JonathanGreenberg.com. Jonathan is a new media entrepreneur and was the founder of Gist.com, an acclaimed Web 1.0 company that won the first annual Webby Awards in 1997. In 2006, Jonathan founded Progressive Source Communications, the parent company of The Sonoma Independent. Progressive Source is a public interest communications company that creates multimedia websites, videos and digital advocacy campaigns that build public awareness of solutions that serve the common good.
In Bypassing Warren As VP, Clinton Raises Risk Of Losing To Trump Commentary: Bernie Sanders' young and independent supporters are the last voters in the world who should be taken for granted.
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Homeless Action! Joins Effort to Stop Sonoma County Government Evictions Organization calls county vacate orders for nearly 200 low income renters from trailers and modest dwellings "shameful"
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Proposed Urgency Ordinance to Protect People Living in Unpermitted Safe Alternative Housing from Government Eviction Grassroots affordable housing rights campaign pressures supervisors to take responsibility for shameful eviction of hundreds of low income renters
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We don't launch too many new survey topics in our Business Choice and Readers' Choice series every year, but sometimes there are topics too good, so perfect for the office, we can't put them off any longer. That's the case with project management tools that keep teams on task, and the exploding world of online collaboration services that keep those teams in constant communication.
Collaboration apps and services are a little different. They're all about communication, keeping the lines open in the office so individuals and teams can stop with all the voicemails, emails, and worst of all, the meetings (so. many. meetings!). We think of them as productivity apps for teamwork.
That said, from the looks of our survey results, it doesn't appear that PCMag readers—the people taking our surveys—are necessarily madly in love with this category of software. The project management side received only enough response to include five products (two from the same vendor) and only three collaboration tools made the cut. None managed an overall score above 7.5. That's a solid C grade—passing—but just barely. That said, it was enough for us to gauge exactly which products are the winners in these areas.
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With over 30 years of experience, this was Microsoft Project's category to lose. But it didn't. Because of Project, Microsoft is taking home the Business Choice award. Albeit not with a super-high score—it only managed to earn an 7.1 (out of 10) overall, which is on the low side for winners of any of our surveys.
The winner on the collaboration side is the hot "new" kid on the block. Slack has only been around for a few years. It started life as a chat system in a failed game, but the company pivoted into work communication and has done nothing but collect investor money and new customers ever since. It's the winner for collaboration tools with a 7.5, the highest overall score of any product in this survey.
We combined the list of project management and online collaboration tools above, because there's significant overlap in a lot of the products. Many offer a combination of services. Asana is a perfect example, with plenty of management and communications, but that didn't help Asana much, as it only got a 6.8 overall score.
Microsoft is in a weird state with this survey. It not only has the traditional Project product for tracking teamwork, but it also has a direct Slack collaboration competitor called Microsoft Teams (which scored about as well as Project did). Plus, it has a second project management tool, Microsoft Planner, which comes with some Office 365 Enterprise subscriptions.
Atlassian's Jira is another collaboration tool that scored okay, just behind Slack in most areas, although it was ahead of Slack in satisfaction with tech support, earning an 8.3 compared to Slack's 7.4. With its focus on software developers, Jira's probably not for every office, but obviously it would behoove those making apps and programs to give it a shot.
Note that Slack and Jira were the only products in this survey to get positive NPS ratings, at 16 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
Bringing up the rear, but ahead of Microsoft Planner at least, are a trio of tools. Asana, which scored responses for both collaboration and project management, didn't manage to impress much with either. Trello's claim to fame (survey-wise) is that it managed the highest likelihood to recommend score at 7.4, but still had enough detractors to get a negative NPS. Smartsheet was middle of the road in every category—but that kept it ahead of Microsoft Planner, at least.
See all of our survey results for Project Management & Online Collaboration Tools.
When you're a software title with 30+ years of service to the business world, you're probably very good, and also likely, you're from Microsoft. Project is the part of MS Office that keeps teams on track, and from the ratings it earned, it's also the clear leader with users and managers in the project management world.
It may seem like you've been using Slack forever, but it's a relative newcomer. It doesn't matter. Slack still earns accolades other collaboration services can only dream of. It scores equally or better in every category against other collaboration tools, making it the best pick to keep your teams in touch.
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Respondents were asked to rate their project management and online collaboration tools using multiple questions about their overall satisfaction with the solution, as well as experiences with technical support within the past 12 months.
Because the goal of the survey is to understand how the email marketing solutions compare to one another and not how one respondent's experience compares to another's, we use the average of the email marketing solutions' rating, not the average of every respondent's rating. In all cases, the overall ratings are not based on averages of other scores in the table; they are based on answers to the question, "Overall, how satisfied are you with your project management tools (or online collaboration provider)?"
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Internet and Telephone Banking – Check with your financial institution for details. Please be sure to use the eight digit municipal account number as shown in the box with your property description. Please ensure that zeros at the beginning of your number are used. If you have multiple accounts, you must do this for all property accounts you have within our municipality.
Bank Payments – Tax payments are accepted at any chartered bank or financial institution, provided you bring your payment stub.
Credit Card Payments – Can be made on our website through a third party provider "Paymentus", or by calling 1-866-810-2882 within North America or 1-905-288-3371 outside North America. They do charge a fee based on the amount of the payment. If you own multiple properties in the municipality and you choose this method of payment, you must do each account separately.
Mortgage Company – This method of paying property taxes must be set up by your Mortgage Company.
Mail – When paying by mail (do not submit cash), the taxpayer assumes the responsibility for late arrival. The post-mark date will be honoured in the event of payments being received after the due date. Interest will be charged for payments post-marked after the due date.
Postdated Cheques - You can submit a series of postdated cheques and when they are processed a receipt with the outstanding balance will be mailed out to you.
In Person – Your payment can be dropped off at the Municipality of Chester administration office at 151 King Street, Chester, between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday. After hours you can put it in the secure drop off box to the right side of the building. If paying by cheque please make your cheque payable to The Municipality of Chester. Credit card payments are not accepted in person, however, we do accept credit card cheques.
How are my payments applied if my account is in arrears?
Step 2 – Fill out personal information (you are only required to fill out the boxes with an * beside them).
Step 4 – Choose your username and password.
Step 5 – Next click on "Add a NEW Bill or Statement". Enter Chester in the "By Name" search window and the Municipality of Chester – taxes will pop up. Select and click on next.
Step 6 – You will be transferred to our setup window so have your last property tax bill on hand. Enter your municipal tax account number (all eight digits including zeros at the beginning) and enter your epost ID (in capitals) which is your customer id dash and the word "PRIMARY" (ie: FLINT001_PRIMARY).
Step 7 – IF you have more than one property then you must go thru Steps 5 & 6 again until you have created a mailer for every property you own.
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PYRILAMINE-PHENYLEPHRINE- pyrilamine maleate and phenylephrine hydrochloride liquid
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Active Ingredients (in each 5 mL)
Purpose

Pyrilamine Maleate 16 mg
Antihistamine

Phenylephrine HCl 5 mg
Nasal Decongestant

Uses

temporary relief of

sneezing

itchy nose or throat

runny nose

itchy, watery eyes due to hay fever or upper respiratory allergies

nasal and sinus congestion due to the common cold.

Warnings

may cause excitability, especially in children

do not use if you are taking a prescription monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (certain drugs for depression, psychiatric or emotional conditions or Parkinson's disease), or for 2 weeks after stopping the MAOI drug. If you do not know if our prescription drug contains an MAOI, ask a doctor or pharmacist before you take this product.

Ask a doctor before use if you have

heart disease

high blood pressure

thyroid disease

diabetes

glaucoma

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trouble urinating due to an enlarged prostate gland

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When using this product

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drowsiness may occur

alcohol, sedatives and tranquilizers may increase drowsiness

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symptoms do not improve within 7 days or occur with a fever

If pregnant or breastfeeding, ask a health professional before use.

Keep out of reach of children. In case of overdose, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away. 1-800-222-1222

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Adults and children 12 years of age and older
1 to 2 teaspoonfuls

Children 6 to under 12 years of age
1 teaspoonful

Children under 6 years of age
As directed by a physician

Other information

store at 20 - 25ºC (68 - 77ºF), excursions permitted between 15 - 30ºC (between 59 - 86ºF)

Tamper Evident: Do not use if seal is broken or missing.

Inactive ingredients

Artificial Grape Flavor, Citric Acid, FD&C Blue #1, FD&C Red #40, Glycerin, Hydrochloric Acid, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Methylparaben, Potassium Sorbate, Purified Water, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Citrate Dihydrate,Sodium Saccharin, Sucrose and Xanthan Gum.

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Republic Parking System operates all municipal parking, on-street and off in the City of Lincoln. We are looking for energetic, fun people to help us with event parking part time.
Schedules are flexible with mandatory shifts on special events-including Home Football Games and some Pinnacle Bank Arena Events. $10.06 to start with a $.50 raise after a 90 day review. We provide free parking for all of our employees.
* Assisting parking customers in and out of our facilities with friendly and efficient service.
* Assisting flagging parkers into parking spots.
* Resolving issues with customers to a satisfactory conclusion with manager assistance.
* Revenue control and proper cash handling.
You must be dependable with a strong work ethic, possess excellent communication and customer service skills to succeed! You must have good driving record and pass a back ground check.
Please apply in person at 850 "Q" St. Lincoln, NE 68508.
The main aspect of this position is to ensure that the appropriate charge is collected from all customers. The attendant is also responsible for completing paperwork matching tickets and cash at the end of their shift. Special event staff need to be flexible as their shifts are during events such as the Haymarket Farmer's Market, Arena events, football & basketball games, Lied Center events, etc. In addition, the attendant will also need to demonstrate accuracy and good customer service skills. Parking Attendants are responsible for maintaining the appearance of their booth and areas surrounding it.


As we readied Fisher for his first kindergarten Show and Tell this week, I thought I might report on my own recent Show and Tell adventures.
When people get cancer, it's often in a place you can't see or feel from the outside of the body ie: lung, liver, bones. But with breast cancer, the location of disease is right out there. Even though it's supposedly a "private area," from the moment I was diagnosed, I had no hesitation to invite my family and friends to really poke around and feel the lumps. And then after my mastectomies, every visitor I had was subjected to viewing my scars and newly flat chest. I'd lead everyone I knew by the hand to the nearest bathroom to lift my shirt and see the freak show. When I started receiving saline to fill my tissue expanders, it gave me yet another reason to share. "Look! I'm getting bigger!". My diagnosis has been a modesty buster, a Get Out of Jail card of sorts. I never considered myself to be such a exhibitionist, but that's exactly what I've become.
Strangely enough, it's not only me. My friend Krista had no hesitation to show me her mastectomy results just days after my diagnosis. And just this week I was feeling up another gal pal's lovely new reconstructed breasts in the bathroom at Chelsea's Kitchen. Two nights ago I was at it again in the Humble Pie bathroom (ironic name, huh?) with two girlfriends who graciously held back tears at the sight of my overly firm expanded chest. And yet again this morning I found myself in the bathroom of Vincent's on Camelback, tank top lifted to show another friend who is facing surgery in just three weeks. I'm sure making my rounds around town.
So the question I ask myself is "Why am I so willing to share this intimate experience with every one I know?" I've said this before, but I feel a strange duty to be an ambassador for my disease. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer throughout their lifetimes. If it's not you, and I pray it's not, someone you know will be diagnosed. I truly believe that if I can help demystify what a breast cancer patient endures and feels and looks like under her shirt, then I'm helping future patients be more understood and better cared for emotionally by those who love them. We fear the unknown and if you really don't know what a friend or family member is going through, I think you might be afraid to put yourself out there to help them. Hence, I've become the neighborhood restaurant flasher.
So yes, please expect to be invited into the nearest bathroom with me once again for Show and Tell after my surgery in September. At least the "Show" is getting better!
so love this post...I do this too! i am rocking along with only 2 chemos to go! i met a women last week who is also half way done with Chemo...but was not sure about what surgery options. I shared my story with her and drug her to the bathroom so she could be better prepared! You inspired me to share with everyone as well...Thanks!


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Sierra Officially Announces Double Fine's Brutal Legend
Sierra has officially unveiled Brutal Legend for PS3 and Xbox 360, a Double Fine (Psychonauts) developed action game featuring roadie Eddie Riggs on a quest to bring heavy metal to the ancient world, where "exhaust pipes were cut from trees
Sierra has unveiled Brutal Legend, Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Psychonauts) and Double Fine's comically sincere homage to the Age of Metal in the form of an action title for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, slated for release in 2008. Brutal Legend features metal band roadie Eddie Riggs (the voice and likeness of actor Jack Black), who is transported back in time and tasked with commanding a "barbaric mob of demons, dragsters, amp stacks, leather, and chrome," with the aim of bringing metal -- presumably the musical kind -- to the ancient world. Double Fine also revealed details of the game world, where "big-block V8 engines were dug out of the ground like minerals. Exhaust pipes were cut from trees made of chrome and a luminous sky was lit up with heavenly lighters held up by the gods." "Holy crap!" exclaimed Schafer, "I have been dreaming about this day for fifteen years. And now it is finally here. We have gathered small clues over the years about the Age of Metal, in songs, t-shirts, and album covers. But now we have uncovered the metal mother lode, the full legend of what actually happened in that loud and heavy era, and we are the lucky ones who get to tell the tale." Said Sierra Worldwide Studios president Martin Tremblay, "Our existence as humans will forever be reconceived. Definitive answers to the discovery of dry ice, invention of the wheel, Jurassic era, religious convention and many other testaments and myths are going to be revealed to the world."


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Q: Object oriented programming concepts
Specifically, programming without inheritance is distinctly not
  object-oriented; we call it programming with abstract data types.

I found this great line from Grady Booch's "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With Applications" book. So in order for a program to be an OO one, are inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, and polymorphism(?) must-to-be things?
Could anybody please explain me?

A: Abstraction and Encapsulation are really the only things required for something to be object- oriented.
Inheritance and polymorphism are strategies to take advantage of NOT "reinventing the wheel" which is a benefit to using OO designs.
The base idea behind OO design is to get a large amount of programmers to work together on project X without incurring massive communication overhead, and breaking a project down into objects with defined communication between them is an elegant solution.

A: Quick Short Answer
The answer is that is very subjective to the Software Analyst or Software Modeler.
Extended Boring Answer
There are several concepts that related or part of the Object Oriented Paradigm.
You already mention most of them.
For example, one concept you didn't mention, is message-passing, that is missing in most current O.O. programming languages, and was available, together with encapsulation and inheritance in the early O.O. programming languages ("Simula").
I worked sometimes with several variants or "idioms" of Object Oriented Pascal,
that had several of those features, and there was a variant that allowed to use "messages",
as part of the programming language (keyword "message"), similar to "try catch" exceptions, but, without interrupting execution.
While, other variants, and other programming languages provided as optional libraries (functions not keywords).
Summary
You may find that sometimes a programming language may skip some of them, and still be considered by some people O.O., while other not. Its very subjective.
Are you asking for plain intellectual curiosity ?
Do you wonder if the programming language you are using, is fully O.O. ?
Are you working with a collegue / university homework custom O.O. programming language ?
Are you working with a hobbyst, pet project, custom O.O. programming language ?
These questions, is my own curiosity, but, also to know how to make my answer more clear ;-)
There are some programming language & programming paradigms comparison courses at collegues and universities, that deal with this subject.
Cheers.

A: You could model any domain without inheritance. Inheritance helps to sometimes be more clear about classes, but it is not a mandatory thing in object orientation, despite Booch's quote.

A: Useful quotes from the C++ Faq Lite (don't be annoyed by its relation with C++, the concepts are the same in any OOP language):
"Inheritance is what separates abstract data type (ADT) programming from OO programming."
"Programming with classes but without dynamic binding is called object based, but not object oriented." Note that dynamic binding is another term for polymorphism. Also AFAIK inheritance is necessary to implement polymorphic classes.
So to answer your main question, yes, all the things that you are mentioning are "a must" for writing good OOP code.

A: Programming with abstract data types means that when you write:
struct A { int i; float k; };

You can use A a; as abstraction of some bits like [00000000][00000000] (with proper number of bits).
Inheritance adds the following feature:
class A { public: virtual void f()=0; };
class B1 : public A { public: void f() { ... } int a; int b; };
class B2 : public A { public: void f() { ... } int i; float k; };
void algo(A &a) { a.f(); a.f(); }
int main() { B1 b; algo(b); B2 b2; algo(b2); }

i.e. When there are several classes like B1,B2,B3 the algorithms like algo() can work with all of them, even if the format of the bits is changing between B1 and B2, like the { int a; int b; } is different from { int i; float k; }. Only f() needs to be rewritten, not the whole algo().

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Florida Zakee Fur'qan (fka Leon Edward Nelson) M Multiple D 2015-08 Ineligible felon voting Registration fraud 3 6 Zakee Fur'qan illegally voted multiple times after his civil rights had been revoked because of a past felony conviction. Fur'qan, who changed his name from Leon Edward Nelson, was convicted of second-degree murder in Duval County in 1991. Fur'qan's voting history indicated that he registered as a Democrat on Sept. 2, 2004 and had voted six times since then, even though his civil rights had not been restored. He was charged with three counts ofillegally voting in 2014 and 2015. The first trial, in February 2016, ended in a hung jury. http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/07/state-refers-voter-fraud-co... http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2015-08-31/story/jacksonville-convicted-kille... http://3o15h033zmpwracwx2i00rqx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/... http://floridapolitics.com/archives/202791-hung-jury-in-zakee-furqan-voter-trial...
Texas Zaida Cantu Bueno F 2008 Primary Absentee/Mail 4 4 Zaida Cantua Bueno pleaded* guilty to one count of absentee ballot fraud after being charged with four counts of illegally returning marked ballots (TEC 86.006) in the 2008 primary election. *Plea deal: 180 days in jail (suspended), 12 months probation, 40 hours community service, $200 fine http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/404105-texas-ag-response.html Jim Wells/Live Oak: 20068
North Carolina Zahida Sultan Laghari (wife of city council candidate) Ahmed Sultan Laghari (former city council candidate) F 2011-09 2012-03 Ineligible district voting Registration fraud - ineligible district 1 Zahida Sultan Laghari was charged with using a false address as her official residence when voting for her husband, Ahmed Sultan Laghari, who was running for Statesville City Council. Her husband reportedly said they lived in an apartment inside Ward 4 city limits, but they also owned a home outside of Mooresville's town limits. She was charged with illegally voting. http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/370371-north-carolina-iredell-county.html http://www.statesville.com/news/crime-watch-march/article_e1665b07-325a-5a3b-860...
Ohio Zachary McIntyre ResponsibleOhio 2015-07 Issue 3 referendum 2016-05 Registration fraud 1 0 Zachary McIntire was charged by the Crawford County Prosecutor's Office with false voter registration, a fifth-degree felony, in connection with a larger scheme by legal marijuana petitioners to encourage petition signers and voter registrants to give fraudulent addresses. An investigation by the Secretary of State's office found that ResponsibleOhio and the Strategy Network's petitions contained signatures of dead people, that they attempted to register people under fake addresses, and that there were voter registration forms that were forged and completed by someone other than the registrant. McIntyre faces up to one year in prison and a $2,500 fine. http://www.richlandsource.com/crawford_source/prosecutor-legalized-marijuana-pus...
Utah Zachary B. Millett M 2006-11 Daggett County Sheriff 2008-03 Registration Fraud 1 Zachary B. Millett was accused along with 50 other people in Utah's Daggett County, in connection with a 2006 election for sheriff. All 51 were accused of fraudulent registration, and many were accused of living outside the county but registering to vote within the county. Millett pleaded guilty to a reduced to charge of class B misdemeanor attempt to fraudulently register to vote. 30 days in jail (suspended) and $500 fine http://archive.sltrib.com/printfriendly.php?id=9208173&itype=NGPSID http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/2008/08/11/utah-voter-registration-fraud-case...
Indiana Yolanda Ramirez F 2003 Democratic primary D 2005-10 Ineligible district voting 1 Yolanda Ramirez pleaded* guilty to illegally voting in another precinct in the 2003 Democratic primary. *Plea deal: http://www.indianabarrister.com/archives/2005/10/lake_county_vote_fraud_sting_g.... http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2214
Ohio Yolanda Hippensteele Amy Little Daniel "Tate" Hausman F 2008 General D Ineligible district voting Absentee/Mail 1 1 Yolanda Hippensteele (California native, staff member for Vote Today Ohio, and out-of-state campaigner for Barak Obama) was one of several people who came to Franklin County, Ohio, registered to vote after 30 days and voted, eventhough she did not intend to remain a resident of the county and state. She and her co-defendants chose to vote in Ohio over their home states, because Ohio is a swing state and Obama was expected to easily win in their home states. Charged with a violation under Title 35 of Ohio Code, casting an absentee ballot despite not meeting residency requirement. Pleaded guilty. (Case #09-CR-04-2467, Franklin County) 60-day suspended jail sentence, 1 year of probation and a $1000 fine http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2009/04/29/three_voters.ART_ART_04... http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/396677-ohio-franklin-county-yolanda-hippe...
Pennsylvania Yesino Bravo (election official) M 2010-03 Yesino Bravo was charged with frauds by election officer. Dismissed. Dismissed http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/394708-pennsylvania-lackawanna-county-res...
Wisconsin Yadira Colon F 2008 2009 D 2009-11 Absentee/mail Ineligible district voting Petition fraud 4 1 Yadira Colón pleaded* no contest to two counts of election fraud for forging signatures on nomination papers for Pedro Colón, then a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Assembly from Milwaukee, in 2009. Colón, a Voces De La Frontera volunteer, was also charged with illegally registering to vote and casting an absentee ballot in Milwaukee in 2008, listing an address in the city when she in fact resided in Oshkosh at the time. Prosecutors agreed to drop two charges, and Colón pleaded no contest to two others. Circuit Judge Dennis Moroney sentenced Colón to the 16 days she already spent in jail for one count, and to six months - suspended - on the second, with the condition of a year's probation, which he allowed to be transferred to Florida. *Pea deal: 16 days in jail (time served), plus 6 months (suspended) and 1 year probation (transferred to Florida) http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/174211971.html
Tennessee Brenda Woods (former city council member and candidate for mayor) F 2009 Municipal Voter intimidation/coercion Illegal assistance Witnesses at trial were granted immunity and testified that Woods took them to the polls at separate times to vote for her even though she knew they were felons. Convicted in 2010, but was granted a new trial and again convicted in 2014. Two years of community corrections. Prohibited from voting or running for political office. http://wreg.com/2014/03/20/felons-allowed-to-vote-former-bolivar-official-convic... http://wreg.com/2014/05/20/former-boliver-city-councilwoman-sentenced-for-voter-...


My reading has slowed down a bit, as it does from time to time, so this past couple of weeks I only read two books.
First, SEE HOW THEY RUN by Ally Carter. This is a sequel to Carter's ALL FALL DOWN, and part of her Embassy Row series. Ally Carter is one of my fave YA authors. Her Gallagher Girls series is so fun, and I also enjoyed the Heist Society trilogy. Ally Carter writes suspense/thrillers. GG is about girl spies, HS is about thieves. The ER books have the same feel in that way, but I feel they're a lot more serious than her other books. For that reason, they're probably my least favourite out of everything she's written, but the books are still good. Always fast paced, with well-drawn characters and settings, and exciting plots. I wasn't disappointed by this sequel at all.
Then I read THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE by Heidi Heilig. The premise to this book is so cool: about a girl living on a ship that can travel anywhere, anytime, even mythical places, as long as they have a map. I did wonder, about a quarter of the way through, where the book was going, and actually wished they might have travelled a bit more rather than staying most of the book in Hawaii. But otherwise, there wasn't anything wrong with this book. It was a solid read, I loved the Hawaii setting and time period, and I'll definitely pick up a sequel.


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Mañanita protests on Independence Day continue despite police interference
by Ruben Belmonte, Jr.
Flagging blind obedience to assumed power and authority, flocks of men-in-uniform dispersed at several locations in the country, tensioning the protestors' mananita party yesterday, June 12.
The Philippines celebrated the marking of its 122nd Independence Day, with protesters congregated to some places to conduct a Mañanita parties and demonstrations to voice the country's plight against the controversial Anti-Terrorism Bill that is one step away from becoming a law.
The Mañanita theme celebration of Independence Day stemmed fromNational Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Debold Sinas and his renowned breaching of quarantine protocols enkindled the thematic display exhibiting the birthday-inspired concept by the protestors yesterday.
Diliman's Grand Mañanita
In spite of that, the protestors had to experience first the presence of several police officers who attempted to block the participants from entering through unofficial checkpoints, even interrogating them, like that in University of the Philippines Diliman – where one of the biggest gatherings took place.
UP Law student Meg Sandoval shared her experience with regards to this. She detailed how she and her colleagues were blocked by policemen on the university entry point by questioning their entrance in the campus.
However, when asked on what ground they were being denied entry and why the officers were there, they did not receive a definitive answer. The police even went as far as following them inside the campus, physically standing in their way with arms outstretched. Fearing for their safety, they decided to go home carrying displeasure that they were effectively denied their right to assemble.
On top of that, the police and the military are not even allowed to enter any UP campus without authorization from the UP administration pursuant to the UP-DND Accord.
Arrests in Iligan
Even worse, in Iligan City, Lanao Del Norte, sixteen student protesters from Mindanao State University (MSU) were arrested after raising calls on the junking of anti-terrorism bill and mass testing for COVID-19.
The Iligan police claimed that during the protest, health protocols on physical distancing were not observed. The protesters asserted that health protocols were observed, adding that the arrest was illegal. Hours later, they were released from police custody.
A 'batallion' flocks La Salle
Aside from UP Diliman, there was also a police disturbance that occurred at the main campus of De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila. Carrying truncheons, a large group of around 40 to 50 police personnel appeared and was seen roaming in the area outside the Taft-based campus even before the protest started. The police outnumbered less than 20 protestors inside the campus premises.
It was first reported by lawyer Erin Tañada after he visited the campus to join the protest. He tweeted, "Happy #122IndependenceDay here at DLSU Taft. When the program started, there were 40 PNP in fatigues that appeared at the gates. Thank you DLSU for fighting for what is right."
Regardless of this, La Sallian protesters continued raising their placards and calls on their right to free speech and against the Anti-Terror bill.
Assurance from lawyers
The National Union of People's Lawyers (NUPL) assured that it is legal to join a peaceful protest despite the implementation of community quarantine. The union said that R.A. No. 11469 (Bayanihan Act) and R.A. 11332 (Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases) do not prohibit rallies. They do not have provisions allowing arrests simply on alleged violation of "mass gathering or quarantine rules. [P]
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Ordering the Mob: London's Public Punishments, c. 1783-1868
White, Matthew Trevor
This thesis explores the crowds that attended London"s executions, pillories and public whippings during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It aims to reappraise a literature describing the carnivalesque and voyeuristic nature of popular behaviour, and to trace a continuum in the public's active engagement with the criminal justice system between 1783 and 1868. By employing a range of little used sources to examine the biographical, geographical and social texture of punishment audiences, it details the lives and motivations of the men, women and children who assembled to watch these often brutal events. In the process, this thesis significantly revises our received understanding of the troublesome punishment 'mob', the unruliness and low character of which has been frequently assumed on the basis of uncritical reading of contemporary sources inveighing against plebeian behaviour. It reveals a more stable picture of public participation, and argues that this experience was characterized by the remarkable social diversity and relative good order of the crowd. This study in consequence problematizes teleological narratives of social 'improvement' and a putative 'civilizing process', which have traditionally described the fall of public punishments as a product of changing urban sensitivities. In analysing the crowd's structure and responses to public punishments over time, the thesis demonstrates how popular expectations surrounding older forms of public justice remained essentially unchanged, and continued to speak forcefully to the metropolitan conscience. To explain the undoubted changes in punishment policy in the period, in the absence of a clear teleological narrative of attitudes towards public punishment, the thesis in turn argues that the decline of the pillory, whippings and public executions in London was driven by elite fears regarding mass behaviour, particularly in the wake of the Gordon Riots of 1780, and suggests that public punishments disappeared not because of their dwindling moral relevance or failing penal utility, but as a result of the middle class's increasingly nervous perceptions of urban mass phenomena. The thesis argues that the decline of public punishment did not result from 'squeamishness' about judicial murder and corporal punishment, but from anxiety about the authority and power of the crowd.


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Bright red awnings stretched across each window of the Plaza Athenee hotel beckon visitors inside to this spa in the eighth arrondissement. The luxe Dior Institut is decorated in a white-on-white motif with grey and mauve accents, arched hallways, and sleek leather chaises. A comprehensive menu of specialized therapies, which showcase Dior's products, is expertly executed in five treatment rooms with starry ceilings and heated marble floors, a relaxation lounge, and a fitness center, all of which provide ample space for pampering of the mind and body.


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Mistrz nowicjatu (mistrzyni nowicjatu, magister nowicjatu) — w katolickich zgromadzeniach zakonnych osoba prowadząca nowicjat, czyli wprowadzająca kandydatów w życie zakonne i przygotowująca ich do złożenia profesji. Podstawowym zadaniem mistrza jest sprawdzenie powołania i rzeczywistych intencji kandydatów.

Mistrzem nowicjatu może być wyłącznie członek zgromadzenia, który związany jest ze zgromadzeniem ślubem wieczystym, i któremu tę funkcję przydzielił właściwy mu przełożony. Mistrz jest jedynym i bezpośrednim przełożonym nowicjuszy, i nie powinien sprawować innych funkcji w zgromadzeniu poza kierowaniem nowicjatem.

Podstawowe zadania mistrza reguluje Kodeks prawa kanonicznego w kan. 650—652.

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I love chorus because of our amazing community of musicians.
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October 29th marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast. Sandy was the worst natural disaster in New York City's recorded history. It killed 44 people; flooded more than 15 percent of the city's land mass, an area with more than 90,000 buildings; left nearly two million people without power; and massively disrupted such essential services as education, transportation, and health care. Sandy's hardest blows fell on coastal communities, including low-income and working-class neighborhoods where, three years later, many residents are still rebuilding their homes and lives.
"Hurricane Sandy + 3," an Oct. 20th forum hosted by the Center for New York City Affairs, The New School's Tishman Center for Environment and Design, and Feet in 2 Worlds, sought answers from City and philanthropic leaders, research scientists, grassroots organizers, and community residents to two key questions: Are the city's neighborhoods better able to withstand storms like Sandy today than they were three years ago? And have we adequately addressed the underlying economic and social inequities in at-risk communities that Sandy laid bare?
In opening remarks, Joel Towers, executive dean of Parsons, The New School of Design, answered the first of those questions bluntly: "We have failed," said Towers. "We consistently underfund this challenge. We do so at our own peril. We know things are happening and we choose to allow certain areas of the city and communities to live in greater peril than others.
Dan Zarrilli, director of the Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency, argued that the City's response to Sandy has been strong, though the job is not yet completed, "There is no victory lap anytime soon, we have a lot to do." He spoke about how the City's recent One New York plan makes an explicit connection between sustainability and equity. The administration was recognized by several panelists for engaging with community groups, while also encouraged to incorporate local leadership earlier in planning and decision-making processes.
Similarly, Onleilove Alston, executive director of Faith in New York, an organization deeply involved in both immediate post-Sandy relief and long-term recovery, said that Sandy exposed years of economic and social injustice, "The shame about climate change is that low-income people contribute the least to climate issues but they are the greatest impacted by climate change."
Hugh Hogan, executive director of North Star Fund, described the City as having been "woefully unprepared" for Sandy's social and economic effects on low-income communities. Since Sandy, he said, there's been "an attempt on the part of government to really do this differently." Nevertheless, he added, there's a sense among the grassroots groups he works with that some of the administrative problems they encountered immediately after Sandy still persist. "We still don't know who's in charge when the next one hits," he said.
Shermane Stewart-Lester, whose home in the coastal community of the Far Rockaways sustained severe damage from Sandy's storm surge, recalled her experiences, and talked about the community's need to be better prepared for future storms. She described predatory builders, lengthy delays in insurance payments, and decisions, such as whether to elevate her semi-attached home, constrained by her neighbors and her family's basic need not to live in a construction site. She too described inequities, "I'm sure many have heard about the 'Tale of Two Cities.' It seems as though the west end [of the Rockaways] is getting as much help as is needed and the east end is forgotten. We don't even know our evacuation plan."
Research scientist Klaus Jacob argued that, "We have to, at a minimum, look 50 years into the future... to have a vision, what would New York City look like with six to eight feet of sea level rise? If we don't do that, the measures we now take could become liabilities. We have no roadmap for how we will deal with that in the year 2100 or 2150, so what we are doing right now is muddling around in the sand." In response, Zarrilli cautioned that too great an emphasis on the long-term can be "a recipe for paralysis....The things we're doing now don't preclude further options. This is the start of a very long conversation."
The Sandy + 3 forum covered a wide range of both short- and longer-term topics, including a discussion about whether "strategic relocation" from at-risk areas is feasible or may become necessary. Click here for the full video of the forum.


If you're looking for a woman who loves cars just as much as you do, then you may be in luck. It could turn out that your favorite celebrity lady happens to be a car lover, too. In fact, there are a lot of them out there–the rich and famous can go after any car they want, and it seems like a lot of them do. Some have some seriously nice collections—the kind of collections that would be enough of a reason to marry them even if they weren't rich, successful, talented, and beautiful.
In a way, it almost makes you sick. These girls have absolutely everything, and they have to have great taste in cars, too? Where's the fairness in it all? They need to leave a little something on the table for the rest of us.
Anyway, this list will give you even more of a reason to love the women you see singing, acting, dancing, or doing whatever else it is they're famous for on a daily basis. There's at least one famous family that you won't be surprised at all to find has infiltrated even this list–though you might have a newfound respect for them once you see what they drive.
Tuck in–these 20 celebrity women love their cars, and they aren't afraid to show them off.
Nicki Minaj has been pictured many times draped variously over or inside her matte-pink-wrapped Lamborghini Aventador Roadster. It's not surprising that she loves a car so much when it's not only completely custom-fitted but also created to fit perfectly with her own brand. She also has aftermarket Forgiato wheels on the car, and it's often displayed at car shows or outside events where she's appearing.
The $400,000 car isn't alone in her collection: she also has a pink Bentley Continental and a pink Range Rover.
One thing's for sure–she loves her cars, but she has very specific requirements for those that join her fleet. Whether she genuinely loves them or sees them as more of a marketing tool remains to be seen.
"Some people get addicted to tattoos; I'm addicted to cars," Kendall Jenner has said. "If I love it, I love it. If I walk in and it really gets to me, I'm like 'okay, I need that car.'"
She owns this red 1965 Mustang along with a lot of other vintage cars, a love for which seems to run in the family.
She was also given multiple new cars, including a Rolls-Royce, as gifts for her birthdays. If she wants a car, she can basically have it. Some of her other notable vehicles include a Corvette Stingray convertible from 1957 in aqua, a Range Rover with a custom black wrap, a Camaro GTO, and more than we could ever dream of owning. She also tends to rent vehicles when traveling around other parts of the country or internationally.
Kylie also has the car bug, and she has it just as bad as her sister. They have matching Ferrari Spiders as seen here–though with different paint jobs to tell them apart. She bought herself a $200k Land Rover for her own 19th birthday, and that must be nice. She was also given a Mercedes Maybach from Tyga on the same date, and as it happens, she also has matching Ferraris with him–one red and one white. The white Ferrari is what she describes as her dream car, and she has a lot of fun with it, even dressing it up as a reindeer with the help of some stick-on accessories for Christmas. On top of this, she also has a black Rolls-Royce, which is something of a traditional car for the Kardashian-Jenner clan.
Iggy Azalea happens to ride in the same kind of circles as the Jenner sisters and Nicki Minaj, so it's probably no surprise that she also favors a flashy car as the kind of status symbol that you can't ignore.
She drives a Ferrari 458 Italia, which has an estimated value of $225,000.
She says it's her favorite out of the rest of her fleet of cars. If you have enough cars of that standard that you actually have to think before you pick one, that's when you know you've made it. Since she's worth more than $10 million, thanks to her rapping career, she can probably safely say she's there. Interestingly, though, she doesn't go in for the customization as much as the other women in her circles tend to.
Beyoncé is a real car lover, and she has some gorgeous rides to prove it. This is her classic 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, and since there are only a few of these left out there in the wild, it's worth about $1 million. Together with her husband, Jay-Z, she also owns a fleet of Ferraris, Porsches, and Lamborghinis, many of which are often updated to the latest models. It seems that she likes to ride in style, as well as with impeccable taste, depending on whether she goes for a newer motor or one of her classics on any given day out. Actually, we'd be kind of terrified to drive this on public roads, just in case an accident happened to ruin its perfection.
Gigi Hadid probably gets all the cars she wants for free since she was named as the official face of BMW. The supermodel isn't exactly a stranger to driving flashy cars since her father, Mohamed Hadid, was already a real estate mogul of some worth before she started posing.
She was given a brand-new BMW M2 as a reward for taking part in this campaign–that was in addition to the money she was paid, of course.
You aren't likely to see her out and about driving too many other cars while she's under contract, though you know she has a whole fleet parked up somewhere just waiting to be shown a little love again. That's how it works when you're so rich, you don't even need to pay for anything!
Actress Mischa Barton, whom you may remember from The O.C., has always famously been in love with her baby-blue vintage Cadillac. It's seriously unreliable and has left her stranded on more than one occasion. She doesn't seem to mind, though, and keeps hold of the car all the same. It's a pretty nice car, and we have to say it's unusual for a celebrity to keep hold of a car this long–especially if it keeps breaking down. That means it really must be love. Either that or the acting money dried up so quickly that she's left with no other choice than to stick with it. If the rumors are true, a lot of that money went to partying hard, so we wouldn't be surprised.
Queen Latifah is so many things: rapper, actress, TV host, entrepreneur–and now, we can add "car lover" to that list. She's a real fan of her cars and is often photographed out and about in the same rides that she stays loyal to. She used to drive a Mercedes-Benz S63 until it was stolen in 2016. To get over the pain, she picked up a Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé with a value of more than three times what the Mercedes was worth when new—now that's an insurance policy. Her Mercedes used to sport Obama/Biden plates to keep her political heart on her sleeve. She's known to prefer bigger, more masculine cars that really take up space on the road. This is the kind of car you wouldn't play chicken with.
Another member of the clan with a love for cars? You bet. Kim seems to be really interested in cars for how much she can play around with them and get them customized to fit with her current brand. Of course, that changes from year to year, so she's been through a fair few cars, like this Range Rover, which was customized to match with the infamous pink velour tracksuit she was often seen around in back in the early days of her fame. Of course, now, she probably wouldn't be seen dead in it. She's more likely to be driving a black Lamborghini–she got daughter North West a baby version of Kanye's car so that they could all match up as a family.
When Rihanna and Chris Brown got into a very public spat, resulting in her getting out of the car with a bruised face, he made it up to her with a gift.
He gave her a bright-orange Lamborghini Aventador worth $750,000.
Of course, when they broke up shortly afterward, she kept the car. Good girl! She also has a fair few other luxury cars in her stable, such as this Porsche 911 Turbo S, though when you consider that it's worth a mere $160,000, she probably thinks of the Porsche as her cheap little runaround. This car is probably pretty special to her, though, as it as a gift from Jay-Z from back when she signed with his label as a young starlet.
Did you wonder at all by now whether the rest of the Kardashian family are as into their cars as their young siblings? The answer is yes–as shown here, in this photo of Kourtney and Khloe on top of their matching Mercedeses. It's particularly revealing that they're happy to just get up on top of their luxury vehicles for the sake of a blurry Instagram shot. Khloe also owns an extremely impractical Range Rover wrapped in black velvet, which can only possibly be the purchase of someone with so much money she's hoping it rains just so she can replace the wrap and spend a bit more. This car wouldn't even make it out of the garage for us–we'd just have to settle for sitting inside it and occasionally stroking the bodywork.
Here's Lady Gaga driving around in her black Lamborghini, which is really starting to emerge as the car of choice for female celebrities. If you're looking for something a little bit different in her collection, how about the silver Audi R8?
It's worth only a mere $165,000 and is outfitted in contrasting silver and black paneling.
It's positively demure in terms of the kind of choice you would expect her to make. Where's the bejewelling? How about the feathers or–even worse–the slices of meat? Most people wouldn't even think to look for Lady Gaga behind the wheel of this car, which is perhaps one of the reasons why she chose it. Her collection also includes a Ford Bronco, a classic Mercedes, and plenty more.
Since she's known for her lavish lifestyle, it probably doesn't surprise you to learn that Mariah owns a fair number of luxury vehicles. Notable examples include her Mercedes Benz SLK with an embroidered 'M' in pink on the driver's headrest, a Maybach 62S, a Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe, and a pink Porsche Cayenne SUV, which also has the embroidered headrests. That one is actually fully customized on the inside with pink detailing everywhere. Oh, and then, there's her private jet, too, which we should probably add to the mix. She definitely likes to go big with her cars, and she's all about those little touches that make them really hers. You wouldn't be able to purchase one of her cars used because they're completely customized.
Janet Jackson has a whole lot of luxury cars. And we mean a whole lot.
She owns a Bentley Continental GTC, an Aston Martin Vanquish, a Lamborghini Murcielago, and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, amongst others.
Those are some big names we're throwing out. It's thought that her fleet is worth more than $1.5 million in total, which is a lot of money to have in the first place, never mind a lot of money to spend on cars. Although she's often driven around by employees and friends, it's not clear whether she also loves to drive–or just likes owning a collection of beautiful cars that people can't stop staring at. We would take any one of the cars on her list any day, especially if she just decided that she didn't need them anymore and dropped them off with us.
Being the most popular Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model of our age must pay well because Kate Upton has a very nice fleet indeed. She's often seen driving around in a white Tesla Model S, which seems to be her day-to-day car. Then, when there's an important event to go to and she feels like showing off, she has this very nice Mercedes-Benz SLS 6.3 AMG with gull-wing doors in a light grey. It comes to something when you see one of the most beautiful women in the world, but you barely notice her because you're too busy staring at the car she's sitting in. Even if you only owned one of those cars, you'd be pretty happy to drive around all day for the rest of your life.
From one supermodel to another... Miranda Kerr starred in ads for Buick, ads which aired during the most talked-about ad spot all year round (you know which one). She's also definitely a car lover herself, making it no coincidence that they chose to hire her for the story. She already owns a Jaguar XJL, an Audi Q7, an Audi A8, and a Range Rover Westminster. That doesn't seem to give any indication that she likes the Buick brand at all, but hey, at least she knows the difference between a nice car and a not-so-nice one. That makes her more of an expert than plenty of the other women they could've chosen for their ad. She obviously likes to spend her money on cars, clothes, and houses–and we can't disagree.
While she might often hand over the driving duties to either a bodyguard or her long-term on-again/off-again beau Liam Hemsworth, Miley definitely has a thing for a nice car. Ready to hear about her fleet? You're going to have to take a nice deep breath if you're reading this out loud. Here we go: she owns a Mercedes-Benz ML 450 Hybrid, an Infiniti G35, a Range Rover Sport, a Mercedes SL500 convertible, a McLaren MP4 12C, a Porsche Cayenne, and a $140,000 Maserati Quattroporte. And that's probably not all. Then, there are the cars her family, Hemsworth, and friends own, most of which she'll get to drive or ride in at some point. Wow. That's a lot of car power we're talking about here.
Paris Hilton is fairly well known for having a pink Bentley Continental. She's not the first person or the last to own one in this shade, and it pretty much sparked a trend for the car. But that's not at all where her fleet stops. No, she also owns a Bentley Continental GT Convertible in blue, a Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Ferrari California, a Lexus LFA, a Mercedes SLR (scene of a DUI), a Yukon Hybrid, and a Cadillac Escalade. She's probably buying another luxury vehicle as we speak; she seems to collect them like handbags. While she may have a two-dimensional personality from what we see of her in the media, this is at least one interest we can get behind. Perhaps she's worth more of a look—you know... just for curiosity's sake.
There are some women who you just hope are into cars because you know that you'd love to have at least one common link between you. And, guess what? Carmen Electra is enough of a car fan that she's actually been spotted out and about washing her car with her own hands. Yep–and some celebrities can't even be bothered to drive themselves. She owns a very nice Dodge Challenger, which is evidently her favorite car, as well as a Mercedes-Benz SL, which was a little more on the pricey side of things. She's been spotted driving them both, but the Challenger really appears to be her baby. She keeps it in good shape and probably doesn't trust anyone else to look after it for her.
Ellen's wife may be named "Portia," but it's a different spelling of a very similar name that rules her life most of the time. She's dedicated to the Porsche brand–one might even say she's obsessed since she seems to buy every single car that they put out. She owns a GTS, a 993, a Carrera S, a Carrera 4S, a Turbo S, and a Cayenne, amongst others. She buys a new one almost every year. She's also been spotted behind the wheel of a Ferrari California, though it isn't clear whether this belongs to her or to Portia. The Beverly Hills Porsche dealership must think of her as their favorite customer. They probably send her birthday cards by this point. She may even have a frequent buyer's card.


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Role of argatroban during neurointerventional procedures in patients with heparin induced thrombocytopenia
Ali Alaraj,
Matthew Tobin,
Daniel Birk,
Victor Aletich
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Correspondence to Dr A Alaraj, Department of Neurosurgery (MC799), Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, 912 S Wood St, Chicago, IL 60612-7329, USA; alaraj{at}uic.edu
Background Currently, heparin is used routinely for anticoagulation during cerebral angiography and neurointerventional procedures. In patients with heparin sensitivity, however, heparin cannot be used. Therefore, an alternative method of anticoagulation is necessary to prevent clot formation during such procedures.
Methods Argatroban, a direct thrombin inhibitor, is used as an alternate to heparin for anticoagulation. It is indicated for treatment of heparin induced thrombocytopenia as well as for prophylaxis during percutaneous coronary intervention. There are no reports describing the protocols for its use during neurointerventional procedures. We report on a series of three patients where argatroban was used in a series of three patients who underwent endovascular interventional procedures.
Results Argatroban was given in a loading dosage of 4 μg/kg/min for 10 min followed by an infusion of 1.0 μg/kg/min. During the procedure, no procedural complications were reported. Activated thrombin time was used to monitor anticoagulation.
Conclusions We describe here the use of argatroban as an alternate anticoagulant during such procedures, as well as outline our protocol for its administration.


The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has recently received a newer version of the "Staatstrojaner", a government spyware. The comparison with the older version, already analyzed by the CCC with the actual Sniffer-code from December 2010, revealed new evidence. Despite the claims of the responsible parties, the Trojan can still be remote-controlled, loaded with any code and also the allegedly "revision-proof logging" can be manipulated. The CCC is calling for a complete waiver of Trojans in pre-trial investigations.


The training group's working memory capacity was increased after training.
The HF-HRV in emotion regulation condition was enhanced by training.
Working memory training improves emotion regulation ability.
Emotion regulation during social situations plays a pivotal role in health and interpersonal functioning. In this study, we propose a working memory training approach to improve emotion regulation ability. This training promotes an updating function that is a crucial modulated process for emotion regulation. In the present study, the participants in the training group completed a running memory task over 20 days of training. Their working memory capability and high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) data on pretest and posttest were assessed and analyzed. Compared with the control group, the training group's reaction time in the 2-back working memory task was reduced significantly. In addition, the HF-HRV in the emotion regulation condition was increased after the 20-day training, which indicates that the working memory training effect could transfer to emotion regulation. In other words, working memory training improved emotion regulation ability.


We know that teams and individuals who take ownership of their work outperform—often by 50 percent—those who don't. And in agile, team ownership is a key principle. However, leaders often struggle with letting their teams own their work. Leaders are afraid that if they trust, their teams will fail. So leaders must create a culture of trust and help their teams take ownership. But what if the team builds the wrong product? Teams must align with the strategy and purpose of the business as well as with value to the customer. Finally, the organization must deal honestly with ambiguity. Pollyanna Pixton provides you with the tools to create a culture of trust by dealing with fear of collaboration, helping teams take ownership, aligning with the business by using decision filters based on a business values, and helping teams show real progress while not committing until all risks are within an acceptable range.


Does 9 include RIB - Renderman - export options?
Apart from nodes and so on I don't think there are any new export options.
There are several Renderman Exporters already for LW..
There is also another called LtoR which the link seems to of died.
Polytrans, is also able to export from LW to RIB.
I'll check out Polytrans as it seems to the only one compatable with OS X.
The FBX importer/exporter is what I like!


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Prosthetic arms inspired by 'Deus Ex' are coming next year
Open Bionics is developing two designs with Eidos-Montréal.
Nick Summers, @nisummers
Remember that prosthetic arm, inspired by Metal Gear Solid, that Konami developed for a British amputee? Well, it seems the company has started a trend. Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal have now teamed up with Open Bionics, a specialist in low-cost prosthetics, to develop some designs based on the world of Deus Ex. The franchise delves deep into a possible future where human augmentation is commonplace, changing society and warfare in equal measure. Two arms -- one based on Adam Jensen, the hero of Mankind Divided, another on the wider Deus Ex universe -- will be released next year as royalty-free designs that anyone can use.
Open Bionics has already made prosthetic arms inspired by Iron Man, Frozen and Star Wars. The new designs look more impressive, however; the Adam Jensen arm (below) is full of detail, from its flexing fingers to the rotating wrist. The Titan arm (above), meanwhile, is more stylized with sharp, geometric shapes and angles. Both are colored in gunmetal grey and gold, reflecting the series and its augmented superhero.
Eidos-Montreal and Open Bionics will be showing the arms at multiple game shows including E3 and Gamescom, with a little help from Razer. The company, most known for its gaming keyboards and mice, will be using its Stargazer webcam to track people's movements and show them what it would be like to control an artificial limb. They might not be as lethal as those used by Adam Jensen, but they look the part -- if they perform half as well, they could be attractive to amputees with a passion for the franchise.
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