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Canada, Netherlands join Gambia's fight for Rohingya Muslims
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Islamic Banking Act passed in the Philippines in accordance to the Shariah Law
On 22 August 2019, Republic Act No. 11439 ("Islamic Banking Act") was signed into law. The Islamic Banking Act provides for the organisation, regulation and powers of Islamic banks to be established in the Philippines as reported by Mondaq. Implications for business in the Philippines While there are millions of Filipinos practicing the Islamic faith […] More
Pakistan PM Imran Khan asks PTV to air famous Turkish drama 'Ertugrul' in Urdu, especially for the younger generation
Pakistan's state television, the PTV, is set to air a famous Turkish historical fiction series "Dirilis: Ertugrul" dubbed in Urdu soon, the state broadcaster told Arab News on Monday. The move follows a special request by Prime Minister Imran Khan, who in October recommended the popular TV opera to all Pakistanis as promoting the true […] More
Muslims and mosques on the rise in Japan amidst misconceptions about Islam
Recent years have seen increasing numbers of students and workers coming to Japan from Islamic nations, and mosques are being established in regions across the country. According to an investigation by Hirofumi Tanada, a professor of Asian social theory at Waseda University's Faculty of Human Sciences, at the end of 2018 there were 105 mosques […] More
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Poverty-stricken Afghanistan donates $1 million to UN agency for Palestinians as a sign of brotherhood
Afghanistan donated $1 million in financial aid for Palestinian refugees at an event in Istanbul, Turkey's commercial capital, on Sunday as reported by MEMO. Afghanistan's ambassador to Turkey Abdul Rahim Sayed presented the aid to Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), at a ceremony also featuring Turkish Foreign […] More
12-year-old Pakistani Muslim student selected for NASA internship programme, making her family and country extremely proud
A 12-year-old Pakistani student, Radeeyah Aamir, has been selected for a one-week internship programme at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as reported by Geo News. The US Embassy in Pakistan shared that Radeeyah has been selected for the programme. "She will be attending the one-week program which includes training for next-generation Astronaut Training […] More
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Inspiring move as a mosque in Malaysia introduces ATM to dispense rice for the poor
A mosque in the Malaysian capital city, Kuala Lumpur, introduced on February 15 a novel way to offer rice to the needy via a specially designed Automated Teller Machine (ATM), Channel News Asia reported on February 17. "The machine, located at the Al-Akram Mosque in Kampung Datuk Keramat, was introduced to render aid to the […] More
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After nearly 30 years studying religions, a 66-year-old Buddhist monk decided to embrace Islam
In 2015, a Buddhist monk from Taiwan decided Islam is the only truth to follow after studying all religions. After nearly 30 years studying religions, a 66-year-old Buddhist monk decided to embrace Islam. After being a monk for 28 years in Taiwan, the monk embarked on a journey to search the truth and finally recognized […] More
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No Hijab protest by Islamophobic Hindutva students in college, taunting Muslim girls
The Muslim women's attire is in the centre of attention again, and this time for the wrong reasons. A bizarre protest was held to exert pressure on the Principal to impose ban on Muslim girls' Hijab inside college in India, about 50 boys have started coming to college with saffron shawl. Interestingly, the Dr K Shivaram […] More
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Visitors from five Muslim countries banned from city hotels in China's city of Guangzhou
Police in China's Guangzhou city have reportedly warned hotels not to accept guests from five Muslim nations. According to three city hotels, the authorities informed them that visitors from Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan should not be given rooms, a claim China's foreign ministry has denied hearing of and it only gives rise to […] More
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After Palestine fiasco, Google is now showing Azad Kashmir and others part of India
The biggest Internet giant, Google is making moves which are creating a bad taste in the mouths of many who support those being oppressed. Yet another finding has revealed that Google — for its Indian version — is showing a major portion of Pakistan as a part of India. Recently, Google removed Palestine from the […] More
in Asia, Inspiring Muslims, Islamic Thought, Revert To Islam
A Letter From A Japanese Muslim Prisoner Who Embraced Islam Last Year
A letter was recently spotted from a Japanese prisoner who embraced Islam last year, whilst inside the prison cell. Subhan Allah, indeed guidance from Allah can reach no matter where one is. The brother stated how he managed to fast the whole month of Ramadan this year, his first time ever, again inside the prison. Here […] More
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Muslims in Hong Kong #SupportZakirNaik against the defamation and vilification from the Indian media
Anyone who has tried any interest in comparative religions will know of Dr Zakir Naik. Recently, he has been falsely accused of advocating terrorism since the Indian media claims the Bangladeshi attackers in Dhaka were inspired by his speeches. This is shambolic and a complete lie. Muslim Council of Hong Kong asked Muslims in Hong […] More
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The first track on Ronski Speed's upcoming artist album "Evolve" is a beautiful collab with man of the moment Ciaran McAuley! With already massive support from Aly & Fila, Solarstone, Iversoon & Alex Daf and Manuel Le Saux, this perfect dreamy and uplifting sound is the perfect soundtrack for the summer! Oh what a beauty!
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The Railway Museum, with a collection of memorabilia, is temporarily closed.
Visit the Winchcombe Museum with a folk and local history collection including police uniforms and finds from Belas Knap Neolithic barrow.
Sudeley Castle, with its Gardens and Exhibitions is superb.
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2020 Chevrolet Equinox vs. 2019 Audi Q5
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For enhanced safety, the Chevrolet Equinox's rear seat shoulder belts have child comfort guides to move the belt to properly fit children. A better fit can prevent injuries and the increased comfort also encourages children to buckle up. The Audi Q5 doesn't offer comfort guides on its rear seat belts.
In the past twenty years hundreds of infants and young children have died after being left in vehicles, usually by accident. When turning the vehicle off, drivers of the Equinox are reminded to check the back seat if they opened the rear door before starting out. The Q5 doesn't offer a back seat reminder.
Both the Equinox and the Q5 have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, side-impact head airbags, four-wheel antilock brakes, traction control, electronic stability systems to prevent skidding, crash mitigating brakes, daytime running lights, rearview cameras, available all wheel drive, blind spot warning systems, around view monitors and rear cross-path warning.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does 35 MPH front crash tests on new vehicles. In this test, results indicate that the Chevrolet Equinox is safer than the Audi Q5:
Neck Injury Risk
Neck Stress
Neck Compression
Chest Compression
.6 inches
New test not comparable to pre-2011 test results. More stars = Better. Lower test results = Better.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does side impact tests on new vehicles. In this test, which crashes the vehicle into a flat barrier at 38.5 MPH and into a post at 20 MPH, results indicate that the Chevrolet Equinox is safer than the Audi Q5:
Hip Force
Into Pole
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Chevrolet's powertrain warranty covers the Equinox 1 year and 10,000 miles longer than Audi covers the Q5. Any repair needed on the engine, transmission, axles, joints or driveshafts is fully covered for 5 years or 60,000 miles. Coverage on the Q5 ends after only 4 years or 50,000 miles.
There are almost 10 times as many Chevrolet dealers as there are Audi dealers, which makes it much easier should you ever need service under the Equinox's warranty.
To reliably start during all conditions and help handle large electrical loads, the Equinox has a standard 700-amp battery. The Q5's 420-amp battery isn't as powerful.
J.D. Power and Associates rated the Equinox first among compact SUVs in their 2019 Initial Quality Study. The Q5 isn't in the top three in its category.
J.D. Power and Associates' 2019 Initial Quality Study of new car owners surveyed provide the statistics that show that Chevrolet vehicles are better in initial quality than Audi vehicles. J.D. Power ranks Chevrolet 6th in initial quality, above the industry average. With 21 more problems per 100 vehicles, Audi is ranked 22nd, below the industry average.
J.D. Power and Associates' 2019 survey of the owners of three-year-old vehicles provides the long-term dependability statistics that show that Chevrolet vehicles are more reliable than Audi vehicles. J.D. Power ranks Chevrolet fourth in reliability, above the industry average. With 9 more problems per 100 vehicles, Audi is ranked 8th.
The Equinox's optional 2.0 turbo 4-cyl. produces 4 more horsepower (252 vs. 248) than the Q5's 2.0 turbo 4-cyl.
On the EPA test cycle the Equinox gets better fuel mileage than the Q5:
1.5 turbo 4-cyl.
The Equinox has a standard cap-less fueling system. The fuel filler is automatically opened when the fuel nozzle is inserted and automatically closed when it's removed. This eliminates the need to unscrew and replace the cap and it reduces fuel evaporation, which causes pollution. The Q5 doesn't offer a cap-less fueling system.
A nine-speed automatic is standard on the Chevrolet Equinox 2.0 turbo 4-cyl., for better acceleration and lower engine speed on the highway. Only a seven-speed automatic is available for the Q5.
The Equinox stops much shorter than the Q5:
The Equinox has a standard easy tire fill system. When inflating the tires, the vehicle's integrated tire pressure sensors keep track of the pressure as the tires fill and tell the driver when the tires are inflated to the proper pressure. The Q5 doesn't offer vehicle monitored tire inflation.
The Equinox Premier AWD handles at .86 G's, while the Q5 Premium Plus pulls only .81 G's of cornering force in a Car and Driver skidpad test.
For better maneuverability, the Equinox's turning circle is 1 foot tighter than the Q5's (37.4 feet vs. 38.4 feet).
The Chevrolet Equinox may be more efficient, handle and accelerate better because it weighs about 400 to 750 pounds less than the Audi Q5.
The front grille of the Equinox uses electronically controlled shutters to close off airflow and reduce drag when less engine cooling is needed. This helps improve highway fuel economy. The Q5 doesn't offer active grille shutters.
The Equinox uses computer-generated active noise cancellation to help remove annoying noise and vibration from the passenger compartment, especially at low frequencies. The Q5 doesn't offer active noise cancellation.
The Equinox has a much larger cargo volume with its rear seat up than the Q5 with its rear seat up (29.9 vs. 25.1 cubic feet). The Equinox has a much larger cargo volume with its rear seat folded than the Q5 with its rear seat folded (63.9 vs. 53.1 cubic feet).
The Equinox offers a remote vehicle starting system, so the vehicle can be started from inside the driver's house. This allows the driver to comfortably warm up the engine before going out to the vehicle. The climate system will also automatically heat or cool the interior. The Q5 doesn't offer a remote starting system.
The Equinox's optional easy entry system glides the driver's seat back when the door is unlocked or the ignition is switched off, making it easier for the driver to get in and out. The Q5 doesn't offer an easy entry system.
The Equinox's instruments include an oil pressure gauge and a temperature gauge - which could save your engine! Often 'idiot lights' don't warn you until damage has been done. The Q5 does not have an oil pressure gauge.
In case you lock your keys in your vehicle, or don't have them with you, you can let yourself in using the Equinox LS/LT/Premier's available exterior keypad. The Q5 doesn't offer an exterior keypad entry system, and its Audi Connect CARE can't unlock the doors if the vehicle doesn't have cell phone reception or the driver can't contact the service.
To improve rear visibility by keeping the rear window clear, the Equinox has a standard rear fixed intermittent wiper with a full on position. The rear wiper standard on the Q5 only has an intermittent setting, so in a hard rain visibility isn't as good.
Consumer Reports rated the Equinox's headlight performance "Good" to "Very Good" (depending on model and options), a higher rating than the Q5's headlights, which were rated "Fair."
The Equinox (except L/LS) offers an optional 115-volt a/c outlet on the center console, allowing you to recharge a laptop or run small household appliances without special adapters that can break or get misplaced. The Q5 doesn't offer a house-current electrical outlet.
The Equinox is available in both front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive configurations. The Q5 doesn't offer a two-wheel drive configuration.
Insurance will cost less for the Equinox owner. The Complete Car Cost Guide estimates that insurance for the Equinox will cost $1020 to $2900 less than the Q5 over a five-year period.
According to The Car Book by Jack Gillis, the Equinox is less expensive to operate than the Q5 because typical repairs cost much less on the Equinox than the Q5, including $234 less for a water pump, $299 less for a starter and $270 less for front struts.
IntelliChoice estimates that five-year ownership costs (depreciation, financing, insurance, fuel, fees, repairs and maintenance) for the Chevrolet Equinox will be $8461 to $15094 less than for the Audi Q5.
J.D. Power and Associates rated the Equinox first among compact SUVs in owner reported satisfaction. This includes how well the vehicle performs and satisfies its owner's expectations. The Q5 isn't in the top three.
The Chevrolet Equinox outsold the Audi Q5 by almost five to one during 2018.

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Pickup from Airport / Rly Stn and drive to Shimla checkin in hotel . Evening free for local leisure night stay at Shimla.
Morning after breakfast checkout and drive to Manali enroute visit Kullu Valley , The dushera ground arrival and checkin in hotel for night stay.
Morning after breakfast visit full day sight seeing to Hadimba Devi Temple, Vasisit Kund, Tibetan Monestry, Marhi, Gulaba evening at Mall road. Night stay at Manali hotel.
Morning after breakfast checkout and drive to Delhi on arrival transfer to your hotel for night stay.
Morning after breakfast checkout and visit half day city tour to Old Delhi Red Fort, Jama Mousque, Chandni chowk , Raj Ghat and drive to Agra on Arrival transfer to your Hotel for night stay.
Morning after breakfast checkout visit Taj mahal, Agra Fort and drive to Jaipur enroute visit Fatehpur sikri. Night stay at Jaipur.
Morning after breakfast visit Jal Mahal, Hawa Mahal, city Palace, Jantar Mantar, birla Temple, and Amber fort ( sound and Light show at Amber fort optional ) Night stay at Jaipur hotel.
Morning after breakfast checkout and drive to Delhi on arrival half day city tour visit Qutab Minar, Lotus Temple , Humayun tomb, India gate, pass througt the president house and drive to Airport / Rlystn for onward journey.


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Valentino Dixon's Next ActMarch 12, 2019
A WRONGED MAN'S NEXT STOP: THE MASTERS
Max Adler
BEN WALTON
This colored-pencil drawing measures 20 by 30 inches, which was the largest size paperboard the artist could steady on his lap, seated in his prison cell, which measured six by eight feet. He guesses he created it in 2015, because he remembers being recently transferred within Attica (N.Y.) Correctional Facility. He'd occupied his previous cell for 13 years, but shortly after two convicts dug a tunnel out of the Clinton facility—events that provided the basis for the Ben Stiller TV mini-series "Escape at Dannemora"—"We started getting rotated more frequently to prevent us from growing too familiar with our surroundings," Valentino Dixon says.
Of course, Dixon (above) was innocent of the murder for which he'd been serving time since 1991. Also distinguishing him from much of the prison population: He'd never decorated his cell. His art, his books, his imagination were his home—never the physical reality of his surroundings. "All those years, my mind was on the outside," he says. "That's how I survived."
Related: You can buy T-shirts showcasing Valentino Dixon's art
In September 2018, the unlikely story of how golf saved a man who'd never played the sport dominated a news cycle. The basic arc: A golf-loving warden brings a photo of Augusta National's 12th hole for the talented inmate to draw as a favor, which begets a letter to Golf Digest and an investigation, and with the help of many supporters ends with an exoneration in a Buffalo courtroom.
More on Valentino Dixon
This drawing, titled Amen Corner, is not an exact representation but a vision pieced together from disparate images. (I used to mail Inmate 91-B-1615 magazines heavy on course photography.) Dixon will see this place in person for the first time in April as a credentialed illustrator for Golf Digest at the Masters. Stay tuned for what he creates next.


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Teen-led workshops kick off today at West Midland Family Center
Published 7:31 am EDT, Friday, October 7, 2011
Young people at the West Midland Family Center will bring their interests and hobbies into play as workshop leaders, teaching other teens about recreation and computerized photo editing.
The kickoff for the new Teen Coalition workshops, which run five weeks, will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today at the center. Teens will cook hot dogs, s'mores and orange cake over a bonfire and play games. The idea for the workshops is that teens teach each other, follow their own interests and create their own program.
The two introductory workshops deal with recreation and with art and technology. The Life's Adventure recreation group will cook, go rock climbing, play video games and more. The art group will learn about photography and film-making and computerized editing of their work. Each of the workshops costs $5 for a five-week session, or $1 per session. Teens may register through Oct. 14.
The effort got moving because of a grant from the Neutral Zone, an Ann Arbor-based teen center that awarded grants to eight agencies for "teen-driven spaces." West Midland is one of the eight. After the Midland center developed its Teen Coalition, with an executive committee of teens and adults, the group received a grant from the Midland Area Community Foundation. That grant provided money for technology equipment. The coalition plans to buy small flip video cameras that can take still photos and movies, said Stacey Urbani, the recreation and school-age program director for West Midland.
"It's so cool," Urbani said of the Ann Arbor center. "It's teen run. They have teens on their board, and they actually develop everything and run everything there — with the guidance of adults. … They wanted to spread this throughout the state."
The Teen Coalition wrote bylaws and instituted membership policies and procedures. Its first activities came in April, May and June, Urbani said. When school started, the group began an after-school drop-in program for high school students. They can come directly from school to the center to play computer games, walk the grounds, do homework and generally hang out until 5:30 p.m.
"They even have their own office space here and their own computer," she said of the teen group.
So far, it's still a learning experience, Urbani said. One question was how to market the coalition's activities. Kids don't read brochures, but they do talk to their friends and they do spread the word on Facebook. The young people also passed out candy and promoted the events during a tailgate party at Bullock Creek High School's homecoming.
The teens wanted to offer workshops that their peers might not be able to find elsewhere, she said.
Shelby Archer, who's helping to lead the workshop centered around photo art, will learn as she goes. Although she likes to draw and use computers, she hasn't yet brought the two disciplines together yet. She plans to have workshop members take photos of themselves, then use them to paint self-portraits. A movie also is in the works.
"We were thinking of doing a music video," said Archer, 17. "I'm going to be learning as I go along."
Both Archer and another workshop leader, 16-year-old Tim Cowles, received leadership training at the center. Cowles said he worked with the center's recreation director during a youth summer program. They planned events based on a theme, such as Beach Week last summer, when they played water games.
"I learned a lot of leadership stuff," Cowles said. "I was very, very shy, and I actually still am, to a point. But during all that, I actually opened up, and I'm a way better leader than I was three years ago" when he started the leadership training.
For the future, Cowles said he'd like to become a mentor to younger teens. Archer said she would like to recruit more teens to the coalition and bring more to the drop-in program, which now has about 12 regular attendees.
Urbani said workshops are led by one adult and at least one teen. The teens write lesson plans for each week and come up with ideas for subject matter, "but we always like to have an adult around."
Visit Teen Coalition on Facebook for more information. For information on the Neutral Zone, visit www.neutralzone.org.
Free-lance reporter Cheryl Wade may be reached at wadecher@msu.edu


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First Replicator-Like Machine Can Make Thousands of Different Drinks
This machine can also lower the amount of water used for growing crops.
Cana, a California-based tech firm, introduces Cana One, the "world's first molecular beverage printer" that allows users to produce " thousands" of distinct beverage drinks right from their countertop. Cana one is a countertop machine that works similarly to a pod-based drink dispenser but does not require pods. It claims to provide one-of-a-kind discovery experiences, innovative brands, and options to suit any lifestyle or inclination. The machine's touchscreen display lets users discover, explore, and make their ideal drink from thousands of beverage varieties and brands.
In a statement released early this month, the company announced the official presale of their forthcoming Cana One. "It is designed to provide each user with convenience, cost-savings, and an experience they didn't realize they needed while also helping to clean up the planet," says CEO Matt Mahar. He further explains that "It's like having a bespoke beverage store in your kitchen — with zero fuss or trash from aluminum, plastic, and glass containers." The announcement stated that interested individuals can begin to pre-order Cana One now, with an estimated shipping date in early 2023.
Cana can save the average family "100 beverage containers per month," according to Mahar, who also hinted that "beverages are just the foundation; with our eyes on food and more beverages, we are taking 'climate failure action' to 10."
Science in every drink sip
According to Cana, it took three (3) years for a team of experts at Cana to analyze popular drinks at a molecular level to separate the trace chemicals behind popular flavors and aromas to generate Cana One's different drink options.
Credit: Cana.com
Cana scientists identified and isolated the specific trace compounds that drive flavor and aroma for thousands of unique commercially available beverages. They produced the world's first universal beverage ingredient set, which recreates thousands of unique drinks using a simplified set of ingredients printed from a long-lasting ingredient cartridge.
According to the company, the drinks printer uses "novel microfluidic liquid dispense technology" that offers people the option to customize the ingredient levels in every pour like alcohol, sugar, caffeine, vitamins, portion size, and other supplements.
The ingredient cartridges can reportedly last about a month and will automatically be replaced by Cana. The system also requires spirits and sugar cartridges — both of which are replaced automatically — and a CO2 cylinder.
The results sound too good to be true.
A single Cana One ingredient cartridge can make hundreds of different beverages by pulling recipes from its "universal ingredient set." The company's beverage page tout juice, iced coffee, soft drinks, iced tea, sparkling tea, energy water, flavored water, immunity water, sports drinks, hard seltzer, sophisticated cocktails – without the trash-generating, carbon-intensive, bottling complex, and industrial beverage. The company also mentioned the capability of the machine to brew wine. However, the wine is viewed with a healthy level of skepticism. Users can also use a pin code to lock caffeinated and alcoholic drinks so that children cannot access these options.
Cana One reduces waste and associated emissions.
Cana claims that the machine can reduce waste and related emissions by assisting users in avoiding canned and bottled beverages. The company also claims that Cana One can lower the amount of water used to grow ingredients for wine and orange juice.
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Cana One pricing model
Cana One will use a one-of-a-kind pricing model to save costs. Users can reserve a Cana One now with an initial $99. This is a refundable credit towards the total price. Cana One will cost US$499 for the first 10,000 orders and US$799 afterward.
Customers will pay on a "per-drink basis", depending on what they ask their Cana One to make. Advertised prices are $2.99 for a craft cocktail, $0.79 for an iced tea, and $0.29 for sparkling water. However, Cana claims the average price will be lower than bottled beverages at retailers.
Can this magical machine make drinks that taste good?
Cana emphasizes the use of high-quality ingredients, claiming that their machine recreates your favorite beverages from the molecule up, using all-natural ingredients you're already familiar with and love. The firm also promises "exclusive beverages from popular brands." Presently, Hella Cocktail Co is the only partner listed on their website. It's still unclear whether they'll ever land a deal with Coca-Cola or Pepsi.
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"Every home in the industrialized world has water," said Dave Friedberg, founder and CEO of the Production Board that built Cana. "We take only 1% of the water that distinguishes it from beer, coffee, juice, tea, wine, and liquor and transport it alone, basically creating a beverage printer. Everyone will find a favorite beverage brand instead of being participants in the lowest common denominator solution that the large companies designed for all of us. Everyone gets a better fit personalized for them."
"Cana One gives users the ability to make any beverage, at any time, using the water from their tap – it is like magic," said Cana CEO Matt Mahar. "The molecular printer allows you to make beverages at home using only the most essential 5% of ingredients in a highly optimized cartridge, which significantly increases the number of drinks you can make."
Clear drinks are expected to be offered first. Other characteristics such as pulp, opacity, and viscosity are much more difficult to achieve until future versions of the device are released.
"The system that allowed us to produce the bottled beverage industry 150 years ago has gotten cheaper, faster, smaller, and better, and now it is in your kitchen," Friedberg continued.
Is Cana One the future of the beverage industry?
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11/07/2014 W 4-1 at Ohio State 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
11/21/2014 L 2-3 Minnesota Duluth 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
11/22/2014 W 4-1 Minnesota Duluth 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0
12/20/2014 W 2-1 Alabama Huntsville 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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12/31/2014 L 2-6 New Hampshire 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0
01/09/2015 W 5-4 Denver 1 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
01/30/2015 W 3-2 North Dakota 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
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02/27/2015 T 1-1 at Minnesota Duluth 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
03/06/2015 T 2-2 Colorado College 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 -1 0
03/13/2015 L 1-2 St. Cloud State 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Announces Recipients of First Annual Impact Grants to Programs That Serve People With CF and Their Families
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has announced the recipients of its first annual Impact Grants.
Jan. 19, 2017 | 3 min read
The program provides funding to support people with cystic fibrosis who are creating unique projects in their communities that serve people with the disease and their families. Cystic fibrosis is a rare, genetic disease that causes chronic lung infections and premature death.
The 2016 grants award $10,000 each to seven diverse programs across the country -- from one that teaches singing as an outlet for creativity and wellness, to others that provide personal fitness and health training to individuals with cystic fibrosis. Recipients were chosen by the CF Adult Advisory Council, an external panel comprised entirely of adults with cystic fibrosis, in partnership with the CF Foundation.
"People with CF have the greatest insights about how to live with this disease," said Drucy Borowitz, M.D., vice president of community partnerships at the CF Foundation. "We are honored to support these organizations that harness the power of the CF community to help people with this disease and their families live better lives every day."
The grant award recipients include:
The Cystic Fibrosis Lifestyle Foundation (CFLF), a nonprofit organization that helps people with CF maintain a healthy lifestyle. The CFLF provides assistance to children and adults with CF who demonstrate a financial need and personal desire to improve their physical wellbeing.
The United States Adult CF Association (USACFA), a nonprofit corporation run by adults with CF, offers the community an opportunity to exchange medical and nonmedical information through its quarterly national newsletter, CF Roundtable.
Project CF Spouse is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting spouses of people with CF. The grant will be used to grow the 150-person group, expand educational resources and facilitate connections between other spouses as they navigate their own CF journeys.
The sINgSPIRE program, through Breathe Bravely, will provide free, private voice lessons with a qualified voice instructor who will work on strengthening participants' respiratory systems and improving self-awareness and confidence.
Program NuYou, part of Attain Health, is an online health coaching and personal training program for individuals with CF. Each participant receives time with an integrative health coach and personal trainer, and the program includes weekly check-ins, video conferences and a workout plan that is tailored to individual participant's needs.
Miles for Cystic Fibrosis supports Project BreatheStrong, which provides grants for children and adults with CF to take part in activities that will improve their mental and physical heath.
Continuing Education for Caregiver/Individuals with CF supports individuals affected by CF through educational workshops that concentrate on various aspects of the disease.
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Artisan haven Merrickville-Wolford teaches old businesses new digital skills
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With its swath of heritage buildings and picturesque location alongside the Rideau river lock system, it's no surprise Merrickville-Wolford has become a haven for artists and craftspeople. The small community and neighbouring villages of just over 3,000 people are home to more than 30 artisans, an element of intrigue that draws throngs of tourists every year. It's also drawn a throng of entrepreneurial retirees looking to get out of the big city and slow down.
"Merrickville-Wolford has an awful lot of retirees that have moved out here from places like Ottawa," says Cheri Kemp-Long, a volunteer at the Merrickville Chamber of Commerce. "(They) don't necessarily want to sit and twiddle their thumbs, so they're busy doing things and a lot of that may mean turning that hobby into a small business."
The influx of tourists keeps those retirees-turned-entrepreneurs busy. But in a time when it's harder for businesses to be found without some sort of online presence, some of these older business owners are in need of a little support. That's why Kemp-Long and her husband Bob Long volunteered to lead regional efforts for the roll-out of Digitial Main Street. The program combines grants and one-to-one support from the Province of Ontario and the Ontario BIA Association to help main street businesses strengthen their online capabilities.
Using the $10,000 Digital Service Squad grant, they hired a local tech-savvy entrepreneur to start working with interested local businesses.
"She managed to hit all 52 of our 55 (businesses) right away to give them an overview – not necessarily get any work done with signups or anything like that – but communicating with them," says Kemp-Long. 14 submitted an application for the Digital Transformation Grant, a $2500 influx of capital to help business owners with their online plan.
Given the demographics, the focus was the basics – things like setting up websites and social media channels, making sure their email was up and running and ensuring their Google My Business had the right hours and photos associated with that business.
Kemp-Long says she was surprised when they started going out to gauge the community's overall digital literacy. "Some people had more of a start than we realized," she says. A handful of businesses had hired teams to create their website or social media but had lost the passwords or never really gotten around to maintaining the websites. Some were just left in the dark by the consultants they initially hired who had "walked away and left them with no access."
"People got into it… they recognized there was a need," says Kemp-Long. And the Digital Service Squad grant allowed them to offer support that the Chamber of Commerce otherwise wouldn't have the resources for. Kemp-Long says it's been vital, especially with the older demographics in the village. "We don't have a lot of younger people working for those older business owners… so there's not really people there to say, okay, well, you're younger, you look after the Facebook page for me because you understand that better," she says. "Maybe in a bigger town where you've got more people, more kids that are looking for after school work, there would be that ability to support the businesses… but we don't have that back-up."
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This case study was completed during a prior expansion of DMS in partnership with the Province of Ontario and Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
In June 2020, a $42.5-million investment from FedDev Ontario and an additional $7.45 million from the Government of Ontario brought together the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas, Communitech, Invest Ottawa and the Ontario Business Improvement Area Association to expand the Digital Main Street Platform in order to support more businesses going digital as a response to the impacts of COVID-19.
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According to a Frontline group survey, around 90% of companies use permanent staffing solutions to fulfill their staffing needs. Despite this a large number of companies prefer going solo in recruitment drives due to prevalent myths about staffing agencies.
Here are the top 5 myths about permanent staffing agencies and the facts that shatter these myths completely.
While these may seem true with some recruitment agencies, there are several staffing agencies that actually reduce hiring costs and help your company save money. There are several hiring costs that include hiring temporary staff to deal with workload, background and reference checks that cost a significant amount of money.
Leading recruitment agencies absorb some of the recruitment costs. These agencies shoulder the responsibility of all major recruitment tasks that includes advertising job positions, scanning and shortlisting resumes, conducting background and reference checks. This translates into savings for your company.
There are many recruitment agencies that only hire for entry-level positions while some specialist recruitment agency are adept at filling management positions, hard-to-fill roles, and C-suite executives. In fact, there are many recruitment agencies that are expert in recruiting for specific industry domains.
There are specialist recruitment agencies hiring for marketing, design, web development, health-care sector, manufacturing companies, hospitality industry and other industry verticals. You can also find recruitment agencies that specialize in supplying admin staff or supply experts in fields of finance, information technology, sales, and marketing.
It is prudent that every company wants the potential hires to have the requisite skills to be successful on the job. Also, the companies also want the new recruits to be congruent with organizational beliefs and culture and goals.
Leading permanent staffing companies understand the importance of cultural fit for the organization. These agencies help the applicants understand the dynamics of the job and assess the candidate for job suitability at early stages of interviews.
Recruiting agencies are known to use advanced tools that prompt job seekers to answer questions about their ideal work environment and screen out incompatible candidates. A right recruitment agency would give equal importance to your company's hiring goals besides skills and experience.
Today, a large number of active applicants or job searchers are registered with one or more recruitment agencies. Recruiting agencies are known to maintain talent pools which are databases having information about potential candidates. When you work with a recruitment agency, you get easy access to talent pools that also has top talent.
Do you know passive candidates are mostly preferred by organizations? However, passive candidates are not easily reachable as they are not actively looking for jobs hence they might not be visiting online job boards and may not know about a job opportunity.
It is almost impossible for internal recruiters to reach passive candidates. Leading recruitment agencies reach passive candidates through their extended network and can engage them and convince them to consider job opportunity in your company. Thus, the myth that recruiting agencies does not recruit top talent is completely busted.
It is true recruitment agencies are concerned about candidate's job satisfaction and personal growth but that does not mean they overlook client's requirements or hiring objectives. In fact, recruiting agencies work as a mediator between the organizations who want to hire employees and candidates actively seeking jobs.
The main motive of the recruitment agency is to source the best candidates for the mandate given by their clients. In addition, leading recruitment agencies also offer money back and guarantees to clients for the new recruits. If the new recruit leaves the organization before the negotiated period, the recruitment agency returns the complete amount back to the organization or offers a free replacement candidate.
You can see the myths about the recruitment agencies are not true and working with a recruiting agency is beneficial for the organization. The ever-changing job market and talent shortage make permanent staffing solutions a necessity to attract the right kind of talent.
Do you know any other myth about working with permanent staffing agencies?


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Q: How is memory allocated for an implicitly defined multidimensional array in C99? I'm trying to write a C99 program and I have an array of strings implicitly defined as such:
char *stuff[] = {"hello","pie","deadbeef"};

Since the array dimensions are not defined, how much memory is allocated for each string? Are all strings allocated the same amount of elements as the largest string in the definition? For example, would this following code be equivalent to the implicit definition above:
char stuff[3][9];
strcpy(stuff[0], "hello");
strcpy(stuff[1], "pie");
strcpy(stuff[2], "deadbeef");

Or is each string allocated just the amount of memory it needs at the time of definition (i.e. stuff[0] holds an array of 6 elements, stuff[1] holds an array of 4 elements, and stuff[2] holds an array of 9 elements)?

A: char *stuff[] = {"hello","pie","deadbeef"};

Is not a multidimensional array! It is simply an array of pointers.

how much memory is allocated for each string?

The number of characters plus a null terminator. Same as any string literal.
I think you want this:
char foo[][10] = {"hello","pie","deadbeef"};

Here, 10 is the amount of space per string and all the strings are in contiguous memory. Thus, there will be padding for strings less than size 10.

A: In the first example, it is a jagged array I suppose.
It declares an array of const pointers to a char. So the string literal can be as long as you like.  The length of the string is independent of the array columns.
In the second one.. the number of characters per row (string)  lengths must be 9 as specified by your column size, or less.

A: Pictures can help — ASCII Art is fun (but laborious).
char *stuff[] = {"hello","pie","deadbeef"};

+----------+          +---------+
| stuff[0] |--------->| hello\0 |
+----------+          +---------+      +-------+
| stuff[1] |-------------------------->| pie\0 |
+----------+          +------------+   +-------+
| stuff[2] |--------->| deadbeef\0 |
+----------+          +------------+

The memory allocated for the 1D array of pointers is contiguous, but there is no guarantee that the pointers held in the array point to contiguous sections of memory (which is why the pointer lines are different lengths).
char stuff[3][9];
strcpy(stuff[0], "hello");
strcpy(stuff[1], "pie");
strcpy(stuff[2], "deadbeef");

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| h | e | l | l | o | \0| x | x | x |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| p | i | e | \0| x | x | x | x | x |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| d | e | a | d | b | e | e | f | \0|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

The memory allocated for the 2D array is contiguous. The x's denote uninitialized bytes.  Note that stuff[0] is a pointer to the 'h' of 'hello', stuff[1] is a pointer to the 'p' of 'pie', and stuff[2] is a pointer to the first 'd' of 'deadbeef' (and stuff[3] is a non-dereferenceable pointer to the byte beyond the null byte after 'deadbeef').
The pictures are quite, quite different.
Note that you could have written either of these:
char stuff[3][9] = { "hello", "pie", "deadbeef" };
char stuff[][9]  = { "hello", "pie", "deadbeef" };

and you would have the same memory layout as shown in the 2D array diagram (except that the x's would be zeroed).

A:
Are all strings allocated the same amount of elements as the largest
  string in the definition?

No, only 3 pointer are allocated and they point to 3 string literals.
char *stuff[] = {"hello","pie","deadbeef"};

and
char stuff[3][9];

are not at all equivalent. First is an array of 3 pointers whereas the second is a 2D array.
For the first only pointer are allocated and the string literals they point to may be stored in the read-only section. The second is allocated on automatic storage (usually stack).

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The first annual Maine high school Hobey Baker Character award winners have been announced.The awards are given annually to one high school senior from each participating boys/girls hockey team in the state. The award recognizes student-athletes for displaying exemplary character and sportsmanship in their schools and communities.
The program is run through the Maine Interscholastic Hockey Coaches Association in conjunction with the Hobey Baker Foundation and winners are selected by the coach of each team. Some of the local winners are listed below.


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Maccabi Games
THE JCC MACCABI GAMES and ArtsFest brings thousands of Jewish teenagers together from around the world for an annual celebration of sportsmanship and culture that unites its young participants into a global Jewish community.
This summer, Maccabi is coming "Back to the Beach," marking the third year that the Merage JCC of Orange County will host the Games, in partnership with the Alpert JCC of Long Beach. The 2018 Maccabi Games and ArtsFest marks an instrumental step in furthering the Merage JCC's mission of fostering Jewish peoplehood.
Despite the primary goal of the Games—to give Jewish teenagers an occasion to bond through friendly sporting competition and artistic expression—local organizers of the 2018 Maccabi Games said they found the Games to have a greater significance for the worldwide Jewish community.
Merage JCC President and CEO Dan Bernstein described the games as "exponentially more" than an ordinary sporting competition or artistic showcase. He said he views Maccabi as "one of the most effective means to connecting Jewish teens to each other and to the Jewish community." Bernstein said he is excited to host the Games again in Orange County and hopes it will give local teenagers and their families the opportunity to connect with Jewish community members from other states or countries through their involvement.
"[Maccabi] is the largest international gathering of Jewish teens for one of the most exciting weeks of competition, culture and friendship," Bernstein said. "It is most special for our teens that Orange County is hosting the Games this year, and we look forward to giving every athlete and artist on Team O.C. the experience of a lifetime."
Local Jewish families have the opportunity to host out-of-town participants of the Games at their homes, allowing those families to develop more personal connections to a few individuals from another Jewish community.
Samantha Cohen, associate executive director of program services at the Merage JCC, said she thinks Maccabi is a unique program because it fosters togetherness and comradery, despite being framed as a competition.
"There's really nothing else like it in the Jewish world where Jews come together from all across the Jewish world and Israel, sharing a common theme and a common bond," Cohen said in an interview. "And really, that's the meaning of Jewish peoplehood—it's about being part of a worldwide, Jewish, connected family. And, through Maccabi, we not only understand it, but we experience Jewish peoplehood."
Cohen said she thinks the Merage JCC is at the forefront of promoting the goal of furthering Jewish peoplehood through its dedication to hosting and participating in the JCC Maccabi Games and other Israel-focused youth programs.
"I think many of our members and community participants come to the JCC not to practice their Judaism through religious practice, but through experiencing a connection to their local Jewish community and the broader Jewish community around the world," Cohen said. "And our JCC makes a phenomenal effort to incorporate that shared, universal Jewish culture, through connecting our programs to Israel—the center of that Jewish peoplehood that binds us all together."
As a participant in the Maccabiah Games in Israel, Cohen said she has experienced the joy of uniting with an international community of Jewish athletes because of their connection to Israel. As one of the main coordinators for the 2018 Maccabi Games, Cohen said she hopes to bring the same feeling of belonging that she felt at the Games in Israel to Orange County this summer.
"It is important to know that we're a part of something bigger—that Judaism is more than just a religion," Cohen said. "It's about being connected through more than just religion but as a family, through shared heritage, shared culture and a shared sense of pride.
Get in the Games!
Over 2,500 Jewish teens from 65 delegations including Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Panama and Mexico, will participate in the JCC Maccabi Games here in Orange County this summer.
It is not just teams, JCC Maccabi includes
800 host families
1,500 volunteers
12,000 spectators
150 teens still need host families… join the fun, get in the games, sign up to host!
www.jccoc.org/maccabi
Hannah Schoenbaum is a freelance journalist and rising sophomore at Boston University, where she studies journalism and political science.
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Interview, December 2015
Interview with the 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics Arthur B. McDonald on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
Arthur B. McDonald discusses what brought him to science; his Nobel Prize-awarded work (1:34); a tough challenge in his life (2:25); what motivates him (4:49); remaining questions in his field (7:11); when he does his best thinking (9:42); Eureka moments (11:33); what advice he would give himself at 20 years (13:51) and intelligence (18:44).
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Nobel Minds 2015
The 2015 Nobel Laureates met at the Grünewald Hall in the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm on 11 December 2015 for the traditional round-table discussion and TV program 'Nobel Minds'. The Nobel Laureates discussed if prizes inspire unnecessary competition, if it's possible to fight inequality; the discoveries for which they've been honored and how these can be applied in a practical way, and what motivates them in their work. The discussion was hosted by Zeinab Badawi of the BBC.
Interview, October 2015
"I gave my wife a hug!"
Telephone interview with Arthur B McDonald immediately following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, 6 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
[Adam Smith] Oh hello, my name's Adam Smith, I'm calling from Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Prize in Stockholm. Congratulations on the award of the Nobel Prize.
[AM] Thank you very much.
[AS] May I first ask, how did you hear the news?
[AM] Well, I received the phone call shortly after 5 O'clock my time, this morning, and was awoken to the wonderful news, and it was very surprising but very gratifying as well.
[AS] How extraordinary. What was your first reaction, what was the first think you did upon hearing the news?
[AM] I gave my wife a hug. [Laughs] She was awakened by the same phone call.
[AS] [Laughs] What is it about neutrinos which has kept you all so engaged all these years, what is it that makes them so very fascinating?
[AM] Well they are, along with electrons and quarks, fundamental particles that we do not know how to subdivide further, and therefore they make up a very fundamental part of the laws of physics at the most microscopic level, and therefore their properties are extremely important in terms of being able to understand our world in great detail. But they're very difficult to detect and therefore their properties, for many years, were difficult to know, even the question of whether they have a mass that is greater than zero. We were presented with an opportunity to make a measurement which, if we were able to accomplish it, if we were able to reduce the radioactivity levels to a lowest level possible and build a detector the size of a ten story building two kilometres underground in a mine, that it was possible to make the measurement. And lo and behold, in 2002 we had an extremely clear result that showed that neutrinos do change from one type to the other.
[AS] What a lovely result, and it also must be enormous fun to play with such kit that you've described.
[AM] It's fun, once you get there.
[AS] Yes.
[AM] Once you have the detector in operation and you're sitting there observing a burst of light represented on your display screen you have the ability to observe particles that come directly from the core of the sun. They're telling you what's happing there right now in terms of the nuclear reactions that are powering it, you are able to make measurements of the fundamental properties of the neutrinos themselves and it's a great experience to look at this data and realise that you are seeing things that are extremely fundamental in their nature.
[AS] That's an extremely vivid and exciting image, yes, that neutrinos allow you to look into the core of the sun, which of course you can't do with photons.
[AM] No that's right, and it's ironic that in order to observe the sun you have to go two kilometres underground. It's not what you would expect, that that's the best place to look into the core of the sun, but lo and behold it is. And the ability to understand how the sun burns is one other aspect of the measurements that is very interesting science as well and that we were able to contribute to in a basic way.
[AS] Wonderful, well, happily we'll have the chance to speak about this more when you come to Stockholm in December to receive your Nobel Prize.
[AM] Thank you.
[AS] It's been a real pleasure to speak to you, thank you, I hope you have a most marvellous day.
[AM] Thank you so much.
[AS] OK, bye bye.
[AM] Goodbye.
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Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.
Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."
In heaven, those who are least are the greatest, those who are humble are the most highly honored, and those who are poor and needy are rich and affluent. . . .
People are called poor and needy in heaven when they believe in their heart, with feeling, that nothing that they have comes from themselves, none their knowledge or wisdom comes from themselves, and none of their power comes from themselves. In heaven, people like this are wealthy and have an abundance. The Lord gives them total wealth because they are wiser and richer than others. They live in magnificent palaces, and dwell among all the treasure troves of heaven's wealth.
One of the most powerful and enduring fictions of human society is the idea that we can own things. A large part of our legal, civil, and social system is based on property ownership and the right to possess what is "ours." And in this society, our sense of self-worth tends to be heavily bound up in how much money we make, and what we can afford to buy and own. What sort of a house (or apartment) do we live in? Do we own it or rent it? What kind of car do we drive? How nice are the clothes we wear? We even have phrases like our "net worth," which is the dollar value of everything we own minus everything we owe.
Of course, legally we can and do own things. The law says that if I hold title to a piece of property, then I own it, and I can generally do with it what I wish. If I decide to sell it, the money is mine, and I can use it to buy something else, which I will then own. So in one sense, it's obvious that we can own things.
And yet, civil law itself is simply an agreement among people that we are going to treat certain things in certain ways. We human beings of this society have written laws saying that if I hold a particular officially sanctioned piece of paper, and it is registered with the county (or perhaps the state), this gives me an exclusive right to use and benefit from the property or other items described on the piece of paper. And since almost everyone in our society agrees to abide by the laws giving me that right, we all maintain together the persuasion that we own this or that piece of property. We all agree on it, therefore it must be true. And as long as we do generally agree on this system, it does provide some framework for sorting things out among ourselves--whether justly or unjustly.
However, it is good to keep in mind that this business of possessions and property ownership is not an ultimate reality of the universe, or a God-given right, but simply a human system that we have agreed upon for our own purposes. In an ultimate sense, we really don't own anything. We simply have a limited level of outward control over certain things that we call our own.
That control is tenuous at best. If our employment situation changes, or the laws change, or disaster strikes, or we ourselves die or become incapacitated, then all our sense of ownership can be very quickly wiped out, and we can suddenly have little or nothing that we can call our own. Things pass into our hands and pass out of our hands, and our control over that is far more limited than we like to think. Ownership is a fleeting thing.
In earlier millennia, when legal systems weren't so well developed, and human civilization was much simpler than it is today, the sense of personal ownership was not such a central aspect of society. (And this is still true in some so-called "primitive societies" today.) In Old Testament times, when the Israelites moved into and conquered the Holy Land, though it was at times referred to as a "possession," it was also carefully pointed out that the land was an "inheritance"--in other words, a gift--from the Lord. The land itself could not be sold; only the use of it could be sold for a certain time period. Every fifty years, any land that had been "sold" was to revert back to the original family whose inheritance it was.
David, the Psalmist, summed up when he wrote, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it" (Psalm 24:1). And this brings us to the reality of the situation, beyond all human laws, agreements, and commonly held fictions. The fact is, none of this is really ours. It is all the Lord's. The Lord God made the entire universe and everything in it--including us. And while we imagine that we own things for a shorter or longer time, God in fact owns everything, rules everything, and even keeps everything in existence moment by moment, from eternity to eternity.
We don't own anything. Everything we have is a gift from God. And the things we have are not the sort of gift that God gives to us, and then it is ours. They are the sort of gift that God is continually giving us, like water running out of a faucet, which would be gone if the flow were cut off at the source. We think material things are so solid, so permanent, so real. We can grasp them; they are solid, stable, dependable. And yet, all these seemingly solid things are made of trillions upon trillions of tiny little atoms that have practically no substance to them, but are mostly infinitesimally small particles--or perhaps just waves--zipping around and creating force fields that we feel as solid matter. If the energy behind them were taken away, if their motion were stopped, they would instantly collapse into nothing--and that seemingly solid pew that you are sitting on would simply vanish.
The energy behind them is God's love. The reason your pew--and my pulpit--are not vanishing right now is that the Lord wants them to be here, and is continually creating and sustaining them for us. They are permanent, not because matter is permanent--for matter is evanescent and fleeting, made mostly of empty space. Your pew and my pulpit are still here because the Lord wants them to be. This church, and the grass and flowers and streets and buildings, the sky and earth, the sun and stars, and everything else in this world have a sense of permanence about them because the Lord's will is permanent and eternal, and the Lord continually creates everything in the world around us as a pure gift of love.
The sooner we realize that we that we own nothing; that we are nothing on our own; that everything we have and everything we are is a pure gift of God, given to us continually, moment by moment, out of pure, tender, infinite, eternal divine love, the sooner we will see our real place in this universe--and the sooner we will gain the happiness, joy, and deep inner peace that the Lord wishes to give us now and forever.
No matter what human law and custom says we own, no matter what we vainly think is "ours," we are all the recipients of fantastic, incredible gifts from the Lord. Forget the house and the car--as nice and even necessary as those may be. Take a look at the world around us. Take a look at the trees, the flowers, the sky, the clouds, the sun, moon, and stars, the wonders of a single tiny insect flying by, and of the entire universe as far as our largest telescopes can reach. All of it is a gift to us from God.
Consider our own bodies, so incredibly intricate and complex that even our most advanced science has barely begun to understand the most basic aspects of its function. We walk around in it all day, and rarely stop to think that we are a walking, talking miracle--a miracle of human form and function designed by a loving God. Our own bodies are an incredible gift from God.
And then there are all the people around us. Just look around here in this church for a moment. This is a church full of miracles. People of all ages. Children, young people, adults, elders. Every one of us is a miracle, and we have been given to each other through the love and grace of God. Consider your own family. Perhaps we don't always get along with everyone in our family. But every member of our family is a miracle given to us by God. The same goes for our community. Then consider that there are billions of these human miracles inhabiting this earth. And every one of them is unique--different from every other.
Yes, the entire world of nature and the entire world of human society has been given to us as a huge, incredible gift from the vast love of God. None of it is our own. Yet all of it is given to us to enjoy, to learn from, to share with, to grow into. Everything around us, both what we think of as good and what we think of as bad, is God's free gift, given to us for our pleasure and enjoyment, for our learning and growth--and if we will appreciate it and use it well, for our eternal good.
Once we understand and accept this (and we resist it with every fiber of our being!), we realize that we have all received far, far more than we have ever given. Everything we have and everything we are, everything we have experienced, learned, or felt has been a gift from God--even those that came through others. As the Apostle John said, "From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another" (John 1:16).
This is what Thanksgiving is all about. It is all about recognizing all of our wonderful gifts; all of our wonderful blessings from the Lord, and being thankful for them. No matter what we have suffered and what we have lost, we have all been given far more than we have ever given in return. Even the beloved things and people we have lost were gifts from God--and the more precious the gift, the harder its loss. Yet these treasured possessions, these dear loved ones, have enriched our lives, and continue to enrich our lives with so many blessings!
We have all received blessing after blessing. And the Lord asks something in return. Just as the Lord has given everything to us, we are to give everything to one another. Wealth and poverty mean nothing in the eternal scheme of things. But what we do with what we have--whether it is much or little--will stay with us eternally. We have freely received a wondrous wealth of gifts, material and spiritual, human and divine. Now it is our turn to give ourselves as a living gift of love and service, of help and support to one another.
We like to think of ourselves as the farmer harvesting the field, and generously leaving the gleanings for those poorer than ourselves. Yet we ourselves are the gleaners, receiving the generosity of God's harvest. And once we realize that we are poor and needy, that we have nothing of our own, then we will finally be prepared to be truly rich. Because true riches are not riches of the world, but riches of the spirit. They are the riches of love and understanding, of joy and inner peace.
The Lord has done all the hard work for us. We have only to go around and reap what he has sown--and do it with humble thanksgiving for God's grace and love. And in return, we are simply asked to show to others the same generosity of love, understanding, and kindness that God has so richly given to us as an eternal blessing. Amen.


University researchers are probably the largest potential source of commercially valuable inventions and yet they are generally not viewed as leaders in entrepreneurial value creation. We will therefore provide some commercialization tips for faculty members as well as some suggestions for investors and entrepreneurs working with faculty members. Joining me for this article is Dr. Lorne Whitehead, a previous CEO who has spent the last 20 years combining the roles of a university professor and administrator with a high rate of patenting and spin-off company creation.
Contrary to what one might expect, most TTOs are not actually particularly good at transferring technology for money. While well intentioned, TTOs rarely have the budget or domain expertise to do effective business development, much less fund commercialization activities such as trade shows. The average Tech Transfer Officer has 20–30 files on her desk, at best organized into broad buckets like "physical sciences," "life sciences," and "IT." The same officer will have no budget to travel or reach out to a particular industry. Unless somebody walks into her office with a check, this just is not going to be enough to commercialize the invention. That is why start-ups are needed. Within the above limitations, the TTO can be of great help to researchers and especially those who are new to the commercialization process.
This applies to technical entrepreneurs and might seem counterintuitive at first glance. But a tech start-up really offers a lot of opportunity to publish papers: core principles, implementation ideas, application studies, etc. Try to attach a paper to every internal activity of your start-up. Not only is this good marketing for your venture, it also ensures that your parallel academic track does not fall behind. With the right planning and dedication, this approach will not only provide you success as an entrepreneur but also serve as a great insurance policy in the form of strong academic credentials. We have all heard the stories of drop-outs who go on to create giant companies but that's just survivor bias. Most start-ups fail. A good foundation of education, publications, and credentials ensures that you get significant value out of your student-entrepreneur years even if your venture does not become the next Facebook.
Most university inventors are not just risk-averse.They do not just assess risk and then decide against taking it – they often genuinely do not understand the concept of risk. This usually pops up during the valuation process. Inventors, and to some degree universities, tend to over-value ideas. On the flip side, they tend to under-value human contributions. De-coupling past from future is your best bet for crossing this chasm.The past is sunk cost. The value of the invention has nothing whatsoever to do with the (government) money spent to get there and everything to do with the commercial opportunity going forward. You should therefore make a distinction between those inventors who will make substantial operational contributions post-founding and those that will not. The latter will be adequately provided for by the university portion of the deal. The former should be treated as founders with additional incentive grants.
During our five-article journey through the world of venture capital, we have covered a number of important topics, including start-up fundamentals, raising capital for technology ventures, key terms and potential pitfalls, exiting with grace and profit, and this last installment focusing on academic researchers. These articles can be found at www.tandemlaunch.com. Together they form a useful guide to help would-be entrepreneurs through many of the important decisions and challenges they will meet on their journey.
4As you might remember from the second article in this series ("Raising Capital for Technology Ventures," September/October 2013), seed stage valuations have little to do with objective value but rather with investment dynamics. Whether a university concept graduates after a year or a decade of research usually does not make any difference in valuation – thus ensuring that even those faculty-run "research ventures" that ultimate achieve escape velocity rarely get any economic credit for staying on campus longer than they should have.


A study in the March issue of Anesthesiology, revealed that anesthesiologists over the age of 65 years had more frequent litigations and were linked to a higher severity of patient injury.
"We observed a modest but significant increase in the rate of litigation against older anesthesiologists. More research is needed to confirm the finding of this study and, if true, identify the cause or causes of the increased rate of litigation so that the quality of clinical practices can be improved."
"Older physicians, including anesthesiologists, have developed a wealth of experiences during their years in practice that regularly benefit patients. The study's findings remind all physicians that they need to understand their practices, the changes that they personally will experience as they age and the value of working with colleagues to gain continuous feedback about their personal performance in patient care."
He also highlights the importance for all physicians to recognize their own attributes required to provide the best possible care to their patients, saying that all physicians should be well rested and alert and should have sufficient time away from their practices to recharge and to be up-to-date with current knowledge and practices.
"All physicians should know their personal limits and adjust their practices as they get older to best serve patients. For example, older physicians may choose to reduce the number of hours they work during the nighttime to ensure that they are well rested and alert when caring for patients."
Dr. Tessler, and his team assessed billing data from British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario for a 10-year period from January 1, 1993 through December 31, 2002 for all procedures performed by specialist anesthesiologists, categorized into age groups for those less than 51 years old, 51-64 years old and those 65 years old and older. They also assessed all lawsuits dealt by the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), in which CMPA experts believed the anesthesiologist to be at least partially responsible for events and outcomes noted in the lawsuits.
"This is the first study to focus on this question. These findings help make anesthesiologists aware of the impact age may have on their work. However, no immediate changes in practice are required until the issue is examined more widely and confirmed in other environments."
Rattue, Petra. "Older Anesthesiologists Face More Litigation." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 27 Feb. 2012. Web.


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Australia's Orora to acquire packaging distribution firm Bronco Packaging
Australian packaging products and services provider Orora has reached a deal to acquire US-based packaging distribution firm Bronco Packaging.
Valued at around $24m, the transaction is part of the company's efforts to expand its Orora Packaging Solutions (OPS) business in North America.
Founded more than 20 years ago, Bronco employs around 30 workers and serves corporate accounts in the fresh food manufacturing industry.
With revenues in excess of $50m, the company provides an on-demand packaging delivery service to its customers.
"The acquisition of Bronco aligns with Orora's stated returns focused approach to allocating capital and will expand OPS' geographic footprint."
Following completion of the deal, Bronco will continue to be managed by existing management for a period of at least three years to ensure a smooth transition.
Orora managing director and CEO Nigel Garrard said: "The acquisition of Bronco aligns with Orora's stated returns focused approach to allocating capital and will expand OPS' geographic footprint and product capability in the targeted, higher growth food sector.
"Bronco also brings to Orora a strong corporate customer base that complements OPS' existing corporate customer list.
"The acquisition continues the strategic focus to leverage the existing national footprint, product breadth and customised packaging solutions offering to further drive sales growth from both corporate accounts and new customer wins."
Through the acquisition, Orora expects to achieve expected synergies in procurement, supply chain and back-office functions over the next two years.
Operating 47 manufacturing plants and 23 distribution sites globally, Orora supplies glass bottles, aluminium cans, closures and caps, boxes and cartons, point-of-purchase displays, and recycled paper, as well as packaging equipment, and rigid and flexible packaging.
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Salem, OR—Governor Kate Brown today announced and discussed her upcoming attendance at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. In advance of the conference, Governor Brown also signed two executive orders in Portland that move the state toward greater energy efficiency, accelerate the adoption of zero emission vehicles, and lead the state further toward fulfilling goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, all while supporting Oregon's economy.
"In Oregon, economic development and environmental stewardship are not mutually exclusive goals," Governor Brown said. "The Paris Agreement is the best chance we have to create jobs, promote trade, spur innovation, and preserve American competitiveness in a 21st century economy. I'll deliver that message when I travel to Bonn and will continue to work with leaders on the West Coast, across the country, and around the world to address the challenge of climate change."
Next week, at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn, Governor Brown will highlight the economic development opportunities and jobs supported by green innovation and affirm Oregon's commitment to fighting climate change. Governor Brown is expected to be the highest-ranking woman elected official representing the United States at the climate change conference. She will be joined by California Governor Jerry Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee.
Governor Brown was also joined by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, representatives of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 48, and several green developers for the signing of the executive orders at the Field Office, which is a green commercial development project still under construction in Northwest Portland. The executive orders take steps to increase the use of clean energy and direct state agencies to develop a strategy to achieve net zero energy ready buildings as standard practice in buildings across the state. Energy efficiency is a critical and growing portion of the Oregon's clean energy economy, and maximizing energy efficiency in buildings is one of the best and least costly ways to achieve emissions reductions in the energy system.


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Because this may be a major reason why men get preferential treatment at work.
Research at Duke University has revealed that we are wired to think of men as being more creative than women — even when that isn't the case.
It's long been known that women have a harder deal in the workplace and new research has pointed to an built-in prejudice that may explain why men are promoted more easily.
A study at Duke University in North Carolina found that the 80 participants associated creativity with taking risks, being adventurous, ambitious and decisive — traits that are stereotypically regarded as more common to men than women. 'Female' characteristics such as empathy and co-operation were seen as less conducive to creative thinking.
A second test saw 169 people read about a fictional architect or fashion designer with some being told the person was male and others female. The participants were then asked to rate the work based on creativity, originality and thinking outside the box. The male architect was seen as more creative, even though there was no difference in the work shown. However, when it came to fashion designers, it was believed that there was no difference in the work.
The same researchers also looked at performance reviews for executives working on MBAs and found that men tended to be seen as more innovate than women with participants seeing a "risky" male strategy as "creative" while judging the same plan for a woman more harshly.
A 2008 Catalyst survey, cited by Harvard Business Review revealed that of 4,000 full-time employed men and women who graduated from top MBA programs between 1996 and 2007, women were paid on average $4,600 less in their first job, were less likely to be promoted to management positions and had much lower career satisfaction than men.
Ask The Big Question: Do we see men as more creative than women?
Disrupt Your Feed: So we're programmed to see men as more creative than women, maybe that's why just seven percent of film directors are women.
Drop This Fact: A 2008 dissertation by then University of Texas at Austin graduate student Kasey Windels found that just 3.6 percent of Creative Directors in advertising agencies were female.


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The staff participate in professional development every second Wednesday afternoon.
Mount Alexander College is located where Flemington National School was established in 1858. The school, which has undergone many changes, has always served the community.