Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants developed by the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA).
PAFA's resolution reflects strong support for IFAC's Statements of Membership Obligations (SMOs), which form the basis of the IFAC Member Body Compliance Program. SMOs serve as a framework for credible and high-quality professional accountancy organizations focused on serving the public interest. PAFA's resolution underscores the SMO requirements for IFAC members and associates to adopt and support implementation of international standards and maintain adequate enforcement mechanisms to ensure the professional behavior of their individual members.


A powhiri was held at Mt St Joseph on 29 November 2005 to welcome Mr Niko Tangaroa as a new member of the Management Charitable Company of the Sisters of Joseph. This appointment of Niko, Maori Representative on the MCC, furthers the new structure of governance and management begun formally in 2004.
Niko, his wife Tammy and daughter Nina, were welcomed by the Congregational Trust Board, other members of the MCC, and the Sisters. Part of the opening prayer was for a "strengthening of te mohiotanga, our knowing of each other, and te maramatanga, our understanding of each other"…. "as we remain faithful to the kaupapa set before us".
Members of the Management Charitable Company are from left Niko Tangaroa, Richard Moore, Lynette Roberts-King, Noelene Landrigan rsj, Anne Burke rsj, Matthew Doyle.


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News Round-Up: August 22, 2011
In Main, News Round-Up
Today's Essential Reads
FRACKING:
Little Comfort in Coal Seam Gas Pledge
Wollongong's northern suburbs will not be subject to hydraulic fracturing if a company wins the right to drill new wells for coal seam gas, a community forum at Thirroul has heard.
The Politics of Rules Over Toxins
The oil and natural gas industry's drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing of substrate shale formations to free oil and gas deposits is not new. But the method, commonly referred to as fracking, has become intensely controversial as toxic, carcinogenic and radioactive chemicals used under pressure in new gas industry wells have been found increasingly in adjacent aquifers and watersheds that provide drinking water for millions of people from Pennsylvania and New York to Texas.
Gas-Drilling Leases in W. Pa. Cemeteries Raising Concern
Pennsylvania groups opposed to Marcellus Shale drilling have been spreading the word about a particular set of leases: those signed with cemeteries.
South Africa Extends Moratorium on Fracking
The South African Minister for Mining Susan Shabangu announced on Thursday that no decision was to be made on the shale gas prospecting issue until next year. The existing moratorium had been extended by the government for an additional six months. The government needs more time to investigate the controversial hydraulic fracturing process, known in the industry as "fracking".
BP OIL SPILL:
Gulf of Mexico Oil Crew Ignored Warnings: Probe
The crew of an oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year causing one of the worst oil spills in US history ignored warning signs a disaster was imminent, an investigator said Friday.
Oil Spill Investigation Begins As Shell Plugs North Sea Leak
The oil sheen on the surface of the North Sea that followed the UK's worst oil spill for a decade has finally disappeared, according to Shell, after the company managed to plug its leaking pipeline on Friday. Government officials are now launching an investigation into the leak as part of an effort to discover how the spill came about and how to prevent such damage recurring.
Department Of Justice Investigates BP For Faulty Oil Spill Estimates (VIDEO)
On April 25, 2010, BP assured the Gulf Coast that a disaster wasn't unfolding. Five days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon, a BP-leased rig in the Gulf of Mexico, had suffered a massive blowout, killing 11 men and seriously injuring 17 others. The floating platform burned for two days, then sank in 5,000 feet of water. Less than 48 hours later, BP discovered a leak from its deep-sea well.
Is Oil Still Leaking From BP's Gulf Disaster Site?
There is growing concern on the Gulf Coast that oil is rising again from BP's Macondo well, site of last year's catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill, with reports of oil sightings in the area confirmed last week during aerial surveillance by a team from Louisiana's Gulf Restoration Network.
RADIATION:
Nuclear experts face drill call
International Atomic Energy Agency experts are likely to be invited to monitor a nuclear safety drill to be held early next year, Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong said.
BP Lawsuit Fracking Fukushima Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills Gulf Spill Hydraulic Fracturing Hydrofracking Nuclear radiation Oil Spill Bp Oil Spill Gulf Pollution Radiation Radiation Exposure Radioactive Material Response Stuart Smith Cleanup Efforts
Seven years after Deepwater Horizon, and we haven't learned much
Louisiana's wetlands do not need this

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When ribosomes—the cell's protein makers—slow down, the aging process slows too.
What causes ribosome production to slow down in the first place? At least for mice: reduced calorie consumption.
Control of protein homeostasis is fundamental to the health and longevity of all organisms. Because the rate of protein synthesis by ribosomes is a central control point in this process, regulation, and maintenance of ribosome function could have amplified importance in the overall regulatory circuit. Indeed, ribosomal defects are commonly associated with loss of protein homeostasis, aging, and disease (1⇓⇓–4), whereas improved protein homeostasis, implying optimal ribosomal function, is associated with disease resistance and increased lifespan (5⇓–7). To maintain a high-quality ribosome population within the cell, dysfunctional ribosomes are targeted for autophagic degradation. It is not known if complete degradation is the only mechanism for eukaryotic ribosome maintenance or if they might also be repaired by replacement of defective components. We used stable-isotope feeding and protein mass spectrometry to measure the kinetics of turnover of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and 71 ribosomal proteins (r-proteins) in mice. The results indicate that exchange of individual proteins and whole ribosome degradation both contribute to ribosome maintenance in vivo. In general, peripheral r-proteins and those with more direct roles in peptide-bond formation are replaced multiple times during the lifespan of the assembled structure, presumably by exchange with a free cytoplasmic pool, whereas the majority of r-proteins are stably incorporated for the lifetime of the ribosome. Dietary signals impact the rates of both new ribosome assembly and component exchange. Signal-specific modulation of ribosomal repair and degradation could provide a mechanistic link in the frequently observed associations among diminished rates of protein synthesis, increased autophagy, and greater longevity (5, 6, 8, 9).


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Liebherr 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Romania Win Epic to Make World Championships Quarter-Finals
The teams that will contest the knockout phase of the Liebherr 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships have been determined and we are a step closer to finding out who will be the best table tennis team on earth here in Halmstad, Sweden.
After three days of intense battle in the round robin phase, China, Japan and Korea Republic all secured all five victories to top their respective Groups (A, B & D) to qualify directly to the quarter-finals.
Romania was able to come in first in Group C, but not without difficulties. The European Champions who had lost to Netherlands earlier on the first day due to their coach Viorel FILIMON being late for the coin toss, resulting in the team having to play with their default team according to alphabetical order. This meant their top two players Bernadette SZOCS and Elizabeta SAMARA had to miss out on the action and Romania eventually lost 1-3 to Netherlands.
Determined to finish first in the group to advance directly to the quarter-finals, a pumped up Romanian trio of SZOCS, SAMARA and Daniela DODEAN MONTEIRO were in top form to secure both victories today against third seed Chinese Taipei 3-0 and the talented DPR Korea 3-1 against all the odds.
After an emotional victory against DPR Korea, SAMARA stated "After what happened against the Netherlands, it took us awhile to regain our focus. Once we did we were determined to fight, and not let this setback send us home early. We play our best when the pressure is on and our backs are against the wall. This is what us Romanians do."
The final round of the Men's Team group stage will be played tomorrow, 2 May 2018, to determine the final standings in each group and the top 12 teams who will make it to the Men's Team main draw.
Top seeded Germany, China and Korea Republic, as well as England who caused one of the biggest upsets in World Championships history beating Japan, remained unbeaten to guarantee they all finish first in their group and have a direct passage to the quarter-finals.
11 teams are still in the running for the 8 spots that play off for the quarter-final positions, so all is to play for tomorrow.
The 72 teams here in Halmstad are split into three divisions, with the top 24 teams in the Championship Division battling to become World Champion. The first stage of the event consists of the 24 teams being split into four groups of six teams. The top two team in the group progresses straight the quarter-finals, while the second and third placed team having to play a knockout in the last 16 to make their way into the quarter-finals.
Results and group standings
Day 3 Factsheet
Photos for Editorial Use
Flash Quotes
Media Bulletin
Live Streaming & Videos on Demand
Press Releases 2018 World Team Championships Bernadette Szocs Elizabeta Samara Daniela Monteiro Dodean
CEO Update: 2019 Progress
Official Flooring
Official Timekeeper & Watch


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Shared Office Space: How to Protect Confidential Information
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October 18, 2016 (Updated on December 20, 2019)
Most early stage businesses lack financial resources to secure their own premises and consequently, opt for shared office spaces. Here, multiple businesses share a common space (typically open plan), working side-by-side on their computers and collaborating with one another. Shared office spaces are, however, a perfect breeding ground for accidental disclosure of confidential information. This article will explain what constitutes confidential information, how to prove that someone has disclosed your confidential information, and what steps you can take to mitigate the risk of a breach in shared office spaces.
What is Confidential Information?
The definition of confidential information is broad and may include:
Ideas;
Source code;
Designs;
Business models;
Business plans;
Concepts;
Know-how;
Technology;
Operating procedures;
Financials; and
Customer and supplier lists.
This information is confidential regardless of whether or not you reduce such information to a tangible form.
From a legal perspective, the law may deem any information confidential if it has the necessary quality of confidence. That means that information must be private in nature and must not be capable of being described as common knowledge.
Proving That There Has Been a Breach of Confidence
A party alleging a breach of confidence must demonstrate the following:
There existed an obligation to keep the information confidential;
The information was confidential in nature in the sense that it was private and not common knowledge;
The disclosure of the confidential information was unauthorised; and
The disclosure of the confidential information resulted in damages.
Enforcing a breach of confidence is a costly and time-consuming exercise. However, there are practical measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of disclosure (whether it be intentional or inadvertent) in a shared office space. For example:
Taking calls and having meetings in private spaces;
Ensuring computers are password protected;
Storing hardcopy documents in a locked draw or facility;
Formalising disclosure rights and obligations by way of a confidentiality agreement (known as a non-disclosure agreement).
A confidentiality agreement is a legal contract between two or more parties that outlines the confidential material, knowledge or information that the parties share with each other or may receive as a result of their working arrangements. Its purpose is to restrict the disclosure of confidential information and codify the parties' rights and obligations.
When drafting a confidentiality agreement for parties using shared office spaces, it's essential that you draft the agreement in expansive terms. An expansive agreement will make sure that you adequately capture all instances of disclosure and receipt. It is of little to no use to have a confidentiality agreement that is not capable of capturing the relevant modes of informational exchange.
If you would like to have a confidential agreement drafted or reviewed, or if you would like to know more about confidential information itself, get in touch with our commercial lawyers on 1300 544 755.
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Cover art: Rousseau, Henri. "The Sleeping Gypsy." 1897. Oil on canvas, 51" x 6' 7" (129.5 x 200.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim. Photograph © 1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
As hurried as hoofbeats across a plain.
Roaming the Bois de Boulogne with one hundred eyes.
Always happiest out of doors, without shoes.
A cut bleeds, the eyes allow us to see.
"Keep going!" I shouted, again without forethought.
Pushing on through a life out of control.
Serving as much as a plea and apology as a goodbye.
And we were not going anywhere. We were inside.


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Skullduggery: Is the Identity of the Piltdown Forger and His Methods Close to Full Exposure?
CATEGORIES: Guest Post
By Dr. Jerry Drawhorn
This year, and 60 years since the last extensive analysis of the remains led to the discovery that the Piltdown skull was a fraud, a team of over 15 analysts – including experts in ancient DNA, radiocarbon dating and isotope studies – have been assembled by Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London to re-examine the Piltdown collections using modern analytical methods. The goal is to both to establish the precise methods used to fabricate the remains, and also to determine the original sources for the specimens and clarify the motives of the forger(s). The new studies, scheduled to be published next year, place in context the advances that have been made in analysis and scientific cooperation since the Piltdown finds were unearthed a century ago. No forgery of any significant fossil hominin could today escape disclosure simply because they would face a similar gauntlet of tests prior to peer-reviewed publication. As well, the new studies will reveal the greater detail that has been obtained since the original analysis of the chemical contents of the remains led to the exposure of the fraud almost exactly sixty years ago (Weiner, Oakley, and Le Gros Clark, 1953).
The "Years of Colonial Empire" prior to First World War were quite different from the modern spirit of international cooperation and joint scientific expeditions. The scientific prestige of nations and museums was based on whether they acquired and exhibited new fossil remains. Belgium, France, Germany, and even the Austro-Hungarian Empire had discovered remains of Neanderthals in the soil of their homelands, and in some cases sent covert teams to excavate materials on foreign soil. German collectors had also discovered a form, Homo heidelbergensis they believed distinct and earlier than Neanderthals. And a Dutch scientist, Eugene Dubois, had recently discovered what appeared to be an even more primitive hominin, Pithecanthropus erectus, in the tropical colony of the East Indies. Embarrassingly, Great Britain lacked any ancient human remains. As well, analyses of fossils were performed by one or two individuals responsible for evaluating the geology of the site, archaeological materials and anatomy of the specimens. It was in this context that the now infamous Piltdown remains were first revealed to the public in Burlington House in December 1913.
Dubbed Eoanthropus dawsoni, the skull was supposedly first discovered by workmen digging out gravel along a country road in Sussex in 1908, the cranial bones were identified by a local attorney and landlord's agent, Charles Dawson. After a mysterious delay of several years he brought the thick fragments to the attention of his friend, Arthur Smith Woodward, the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum in London. Dawson and Woodward had a long relationship of nearly thirty years, having been inducted into the Geological Society of London on the same evening in 1885, and Dawson regularly supplied Woodward, an ambitious palaeontologist in the Natural History Museum, with fossil fish, dinosaur bones, and the teeth of ancient mammals. Woodward and Dawson (1913) eventually collected more specimens, including faunal specimens (hippo, elephant, rhinoceros, horse, and beaver), and "eolithic" artifacts, which suggested that the cranium was older than the Neanderthal remains of Europe and at least as old as Dubois' Pithecanthropus specimen. In addition, an ape-like mandible was discovered, and the following year (1914) a large canine matching Woodward's reconstruction was found in previously sieved gravel by French Jesuit cleric and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, who had been invited to join in the dig. All these remains were covered in a rich chocolate brown patina that mirrored the iron-stained gravels of the Piltdown pit.
Despite their apparent antiquity, the human specimens were, however, distinct from Pithecanthropus. Thus only one of these potential hominins could be directly ancestral to modern humans. The cranium of Eoanthropus had significantly smaller brow ridges, a higher forehead, and smaller occipital torus than the Javanese skull. These traits suggested modern affinities, but critical to the assessment was the cranial capacity. The parietal bones of the Piltdown skull were incomplete and broken, and oddly lacked any trace of a sagittal suture to indicate a midline. This allowed some latitude for reconstructing the brain size. Woodward had initially suggested that the cranial volume of the skull was only slightly larger than Pithecanthropus, but anatomist Arthur Keith, by brilliantly measuring the surface areas of the bones from more subtle landmarks demonstrated that the brain size of the skull was actually well with the range of modern human populations. However, the associated mandible and the canine indicated a much more apelike face than the dental remains that Dubois had associated with Pithecanthropus. Because the round cranium lacked the brows and tori of Neanderthals and Pithecanthropus and had a modern brain size, Eoanthropus ascended to the status of the singular ancestor to Homo sapiens, with all hitherto hominins competitors pushed to side branches fated with extinction. This interpretation fitted well with Smith Woodward's orthogenetic view that organisms acquired odd accretions, crests and spines as the phyletic lineage aged.
A phylogeny with so many side-branches was irksome to many human paleontologists, particularly the Ales Hrdlicka, who supported a more lineal sequence to human evolution with less requisite parallelism. Hrdlicka raised questions about the association of the mandible and cranium, pointing out that the absence of an occipital condyle on the mandible prevented a direct anatomical connection. Immediately afterwards, Dawson reported a new locality had been discovered, with both a fragment of thick cranium and a molar tooth from the opposite side of a mandible, but otherwise identical with the original finds. This seemed to foreclose any argument that the mandible and skull could be unassociated.
Because of some noticeable coloration differences of some of the specimens, there had been requests to analytically test the possibility of admixture of remains from different stratigraphic levels, by contrasting the mineral content of the cranium, mandible and the faunal remains. Smith Woodward suggested that the coloration differences were simply because Dawson had applied different levels of preservative on the specimens. Only some inconclusive examinations on the skull by a local chemist in Dawson's village were performed. This is puzzling because the Fluorine test had been utilized in 1879 by Thomas Wilson to test the antiquity and association of the spurious Calaveras cranium. And Woodward himself had used the Fluorine test to assess the antiquity of bones of the South American Glyptodon associated with human remains (Moreno and Woodward, 1889).
In the period between World War I and II hominin discoveries accumulated, with many broadly confirming the existence throughout the Old World of hominins that broadly resembled Neanderthals or Pithecanthropus (now called H.erectus). In South Africa, curiously small-brained, bipedal forms (Australopithecus) with far more human-like dentitions than Eoanthropus were being recovered. And in what is now Zambia, a skull of H. heidelbergensis was discovered, and Woodward himself described it. He curiously made no mention of his Piltdown discovery at all. Except for Woodward's book The Earliest Englishmen, (1948) based on his notes at the time, for most reviewers of human evolution at this time, the Piltdown discovery seemed to become an extended footnote, a peculiar specimen without a confirming match in the geological record.
That very same year, Kenneth Oakley (1848), who had revived the application of the Fluorine Dating technique, applied the analysis to the Piltdown remains. The results, showing oddly low levels of Fluorine adsorption in the skull and jaw compared to the faunal remains aroused the attention of Joseph Weiner of Oxford University. He contacted Kenneth Oakley with his concerns of a possible fraud and they assembled a team of specialists from London's Natural History Museum and Oxford University to careful reexamine the remains. In 1953, in the same Burlington Hall theater were Eoanthropus was originally announced they showed the find was a cleverly assembled fake, combining a Medieval-era human skull with the jaw of an orangutan, and planted with appropriately aged fauna- all artificially stained to resemble the Piltdown gravels. Oakley noted that the chemical composition of many of the specimens appeared not to derive from English collection sites and a radiocarbon dating of the orangutan jaw suggested a sub-fossil specimen that pre-dated collections of materials of zoological collections.
Weiner was more curious than Oakley as to "who-dunnit" and eventually established that Charles Dawson was likely the primary "man-on-the-spot" and perpetrated the fraud. Weiner showed that Dawson was associated with all three sites where collections of stained human remains had been found (a third site with more "modern" crania was never published by Woodward), as well as some stained "eoliths". Smith Woodward was regarded as an uncritical dupe. But over the last decades a long list of "suspects" (almost all those mentioned in Weiner's book) have been proposed as possibly involved. Other long-dead suspects identified by researchers include Arthur Smith Woodward, the museum's keeper of geology, who championed Dawson's discoveries and gave them vital scientific credibility. Many of the Piltdown remains appear to have potential sources in collections that Smith Woodward curated, studied or directly excavated (Drawhorn, 1994). The finger has also been pointed at de Chardin (Gould 1979), Arthur Keith (Spencer 1990); and even "Sherlock Holmes" author Arthur Conan Doyle (Winslow & Meyer 1983), who lived in Crowborough about 11 km away. Recent suspicion has also fallen on museum zoologist Martin Hinton (Gardiner and Currant, 1996; Gardiner 2003). A trunk with Hinton's monogram was found in 1971, a decade after his death, which contained animal bones and human teeth claimed to be in stained the same way as the Piltdown fossils.
The new barrage of studies will hopefully clarify whether the fraud involved a knowledgeable break-up of the skull and jaw to lead anatomists astray. As well they may reveal the precise sequence the stains were applied, and distinguish between the endogenous mineral composition of the faunal materials and the applied chemicals. Are the applied stains actually identical to the methods used by Hinton on his faunal and human specimens? And do the trace isotopes of the Piltdown specimens allow them to be associated with known fossil collections and expose the manner in which the hoaxer obtained them? All who have been fascinated by what has been called "the greatest scientific fraud in history" anxiously await a final resolution of the case.
Drawhorn, G. M. (1994) Piltdown: Evidence of Smith-Woodward's Complicity. American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 1, 1994 (The abstract of this paper appears in the February 1994 issue of the AJPA) http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/piltdown/drawhorn.html
Gardiner BG The Piltdown forgery: a re-statement of the case against Hinton. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2003, 139, 315–335. With 12 figures
Gardiner BG, Currant A. 1996. The Piltdown Hoax who done it. Linnean Society of London, Burlington House.
Gould SJ. 1980. The Piltdown conspiracy. Natural History (New York) 89: 8–28.
Moreno, F.P. and A.S. Woodward. 1989.
On a portion of mammalian skin, named 'Neomylodon listai', from a cavern near Consuelo Cove, Last Hope Inlet, Patagonia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1:144-156.
Oakley KP. 1948. Fluorine and the relative dating of bones. Advancement of Science 4 (16): 336–337.
Spencer, F. 1990. Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery "Beyond A Reasonable Doubt?" pp. 188-208 London: Natural History Museum Publications.
Weiner, J. S., Oakley, K. P, and Le Gros Clark, W. E., (1953) The Solution of the Piltdown Problem. Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist), Geol.,2, No. 3, 139-46
Winslow J, Meyer A. 1983. The perpetrator of Piltdown. Science 83 (4): 32–43.
Dawson, C. and A.S. Woodward. 1913.
On the discovery of a Paleolithic human skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 69:117-151.
Dr. Jerry Drawhorn is a Biological Anthropologist at Sacramento State University. A graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Davis, he has studied the evolution of fossil orangutans in Indonesia and Malaysia. He is also involved in research on the interactions between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and their influence on others involved in Victorian-era zoological research in Southeast Asia.
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Boxgrove: how we found Europe's oldest bone tools – and what we learned about their makers
Journal Article, Guest Post
Boxgrove in Sussex, England, is an iconic, old stone age site. This is where the oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered – fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Part of an exceptionally preserved 26km-wide ancient landscape of stone, it provides a virtually untouched record of early humans almost half a million years ago.
Archaeological Discoveries Are Happening Faster Than Ever Before
New discoveries and new methods in paleoanthropology are helping to refine the human story. Just 20 years ago, no one could have imagined what scientists now know about humanity's deep past, let alone how much knowledge could be extracted from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
Monkeys Smashing Nuts Hint at How Human Tool Use Evolved
Human beings used to be defined as "the tool-maker" species. But the uniqueness of this description was challenged in the 1960s when Dr. Jane Goodall discovered that chimpanzees will pick and modify grass stems to use to collect termites. Her observations called into question homo sapiens' very place in the world. Since then scientists' knowledge of animal tool use has expanded exponentially.
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Social-project Photocontact , Marseille, 2015/2016, aimed to involve and introduce youngsters from the Belsunce area to technical and artistic aspects of photography and its practical applications.
The project Photocontact is permanently exhibited at Contact Club Velten, Marseille, since June 2016.
The project Photocontact was partly shown at the Metenkov's House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia in Fall 2016 and wil be shown in United Stated of America during Spring 2017 at the University of Stockton, New Jersey and in Detroit.


Can you believe it's that time of year again? I love looking through other blogger's gift guides when I'm shopping for the holidays, so I decided to put together a few of my own this year which I'll post every Thursday for five weeks starting with the Under £50 list!
1. A pretty bee plate. 2. One of my London prints. 3. One of my favourite London books. 4. Almond hand cream for the cold weather. 5. A sherry and tapas tasting experience in London. 6. A cosy scarf. 7. A rustic bowl for serving fruit or nuts or just holding keys and lipstick by the door. 8. A birdfeeder from my dad's shop. 9. A pair of funky socks for the guys. 10. Some of my favourite tea to relax during the holidays.
What's on your list for under £50?
I am so excited for the holidays! Absolutely love that little rustic bowl. I might have to put that on my wish list. 🙂 The sherry and tapas tasting sounds so fun and fantastic! I love gifts that get me to go out and experience something new.
Me too! I love the little bowl as well. It looks especially good with the cherries in it. And I totally agree about experience gifts – much more memorable than stuff!!


This fall, parts of our country took direct hits from hurricanes. One of those areas happened to be a state that is featured in this Regional Focus – Texas. And while it's true that only parts of the state were affected, the devastation in those areas was profound.
The sports destinations industry has always been resilient, and we have no doubt that while Hurricane Harvey was an unexpected opponent, those areas of Texas are far from beaten. So we urge you to consider those areas – along with others mentioned here – in your search for new facilities.
And let's face it: the Southwest and Pacific Coast regions of the U.S. have much to offer, including a pleasant mix of seasons and year-round sunshine, with opportunities for just about every competitive sporting event you can imagine — from rowing to rodeo.
Here's a brief rundown of what's happening in nine destinations that stretch from central Oklahoma all the way to Honolulu, Hawai'i.
This suburb of Oklahoma City is renowned for golf championships, soccer and softball tournaments, equestrian events and sports for athletes with disabilities. Oak Tree National is a private 18-hole golf course designed by the legendary Pete Dye, and the Edmond Soccer Complex boasts 16 full-size fields. The University of Central Oklahoma, meanwhile, recently upgraded its softball facility with expanded seating for 1,000, plus new turf and new lights to attract larger events.
A city of about 20,000 residents on the Gulf of Mexico, Portland is just a short drive across the bay from Corpus Christi, and it's ready to play, having broken ground on two new facilities, Municipal Park and the Sports Complex.
The 21-acre Municipal Park includes five baseball fields, which also will be suitable for softball and soccer as well as other field sports. The 38-acre Sports Complex has four softball fields that are also suitable for baseball, soccer and other field sports. Both venues will have multiple amenities for guests, including picnic shelters, grills, concessions, rest rooms and more.
The opportunities in this destination near Austin, Texas, increased significantly when the Round Rock Multipurpose Complex opened earlier this year. It's a 60-acre, $27 million addition to Old Settlers Park, a sprawling 645-acre site that features spaces dedicated to disc golf, soccer, football, tennis, sand volleyball, plus cross-country courses. The Champion Fields portion of the park includes multiple baseball and softball fields, batting cages and a large shaded spectator space. A soccer field expansion is scheduled for completion in 2018.
"The Round Rock Multipurpose Complex has been such a big hit that we have tournaments booked out into next year," says Nancy Yawn, director of the Round Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Meanwhile, the Round Rock Sports Center boasts 82,800 square feet of indoor space, with more than half of it flexible for basketball, volleyball, badminton or pickleball.
Midland, located in west Texas, is home of the Bush Tennis Center, an epic facility that opened in 2016 and offers 19 lighted courts, including a stadium court. A second phase will add stadium seating, and the facility eventually will be the second-largest tennis center in the world, with more than 60 courts (including indoor clay courts). The center already has hosted multiple tournaments.
Also in 2016, the city opened the FMH Foundation Natatorium, which boasts a 50-meter pool, a 25-yard pool, a diving facility and a large courtyard for swimmers and their teams.
For the past five years, the sister cities of Bullhead City, Arizona, and Laughlin, Nevada, located about six miles apart, have collectively become a joint sports destination. Participants play in Arizona and stay in Nevada (for as little as $19 per night). Bullhead City offers its fair share of hotel rooms, too. "We're a stone's throw away from each other, if you've got a good arm," says Toby Cotter, Bullhead City's city manager.
With three multi-field softball facilities, Bullhead City welcomes several softball tournaments, including the Mojave Tournament of Champions, co-hosted with the local school district. The team that wins is "pretty much guaranteed to be ranked No. 1 by MaxPreps and USA TODAY," Cotter says.
The recent addition of four pickleball courts helped lead to the formation of the 13-event Bullhead City/Laughlin Senior Games, which Cotter thinks has the potential to become one of the largest such events in the country. A new $35 million indoor stadium is expected to open in late 2018 or early 2019, too.
Indeed, the Wenatchee Valley offers a winter wonderland of opportunities, anchored by Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort, and the Toyota Town Center is a 4,300-seat multi-purpose arena that accommodates hockey, figure skating and curling.
When temperatures warm up, multiple facilities around the valley host the Triple Crown Youth Baseball Season Opening Tournament, with more than 120 teams participating. The area also welcomes the National Softball Association's Girls Fast Pitch World Series.
With a slogan of "We really can do it all," the Deschutes County Fair and Expo Center in Redmond, Oregon, offers buildings for wrestling and basketball tournaments, BMX championships, rodeo and equestrian events and more. The 132-acre site is home to Oregon's largest annual county fair and features nearly 200,000 square feet of flexible indoor space, a 95,000-square-foot barn complex, three arenas and more than 75 acres of lawns. Facility officials also are in the process of conducting a feasibility study to expand with a 140-acre indoor/outdoor sports complex.
An RV park with 106 sites and parking for 8,000 motor homes encourages extended-stay events, and planned upgrades for 2018 include new outdoor lighting and surfaces in some of the complex's buildings.
Located in the heart of Northern California, Redding is an outdoor recreation hub. In fact, it's the second-sunniest city in the United States, with 300 days of sunshine annually.
Highlights include the 22-acre Redding Soccer Park with four lighted synthetic turf fields, elevated spectator seating and misting stations, and the 30-acre Big League Dreams Sports Park offers scaled-down replicas of Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium and Wrigley Field suitable for baseball or softball. The park also includes stadium seating, batting cages, sand volleyball courts and a 20,000-square-foot field house.
The 19-year-old Hawai'i Convention Center in Honolulu entered the sports event business last year by investing $1.1 million in portable flooring, and basketball and volleyball standards. Since then, the 200,000-square-foot exhibit space has attracted youth volleyball tournaments and an AAU basketball tournament. AEG Facilities took over management of the convention center in 2014 and encouraged the new direction.


Hi Folks, I'm introducing myself. I've been a puzzle and ARG fan for a few years, but only started getting really actively involved in the last two years. For the last year, I've been over at Unfiction working mainly on Flynn Lives. I understand that there is some animosity between the two boards, but I hope you'll give me the chance to show that I can make a good contribution. Despite my joking username, I'm in Manhattan, New York, and love meeting up with fellow players to sit over a coffee or a beer and whip out our pens and notebooks and laptops and hash out a puzzle.


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Q: Associated entities with onDelete: CASCADE option and both soft-deleteable not working everyone!
i have two associated entities(User,Picture) with cascade="remove" option and both soft-deleteable
When I use softdelete to delete a user, should put the pictures were deleted.and now it's not working.
without softdelete everything works perfect.
can anyone help me to solve this problem?
my code:
Picture.orm.yml
Leo\TestBundle\Entity\Picture:
type: entity
repositoryClass: Leo\TestBundle\Entity\PictureRepository
table: null
manyToOne:
   user:
       targetEntity: User
       inversedBy: pictures
       joinColumn:
           name: user_id
           referencedColumnName: id
           onDelete: CASCADE
gedmo:
    soft_deleteable:
      field_name: deletedAt
fields:
    id:
        type: integer
        id: true
        generator:
            strategy: AUTO
    name:
        type: string
        length: 255
    path:
        type: string
        length: 255
    deletedAt:
        type: datetime
        nullable: true

User.orm.yml:
Leo\TestBundle\Entity\User:
type: entity
table: null
repositoryClass: Leo\TestBundle\Entity\UserRepository
oneToMany:
    pictures:
        targetEntity: Picture
        mappedBy: user
gedmo:
    soft_deleteable:
      field_name: deletedAt
fields:
    id:
        type: integer
        id: true
        generator:
            strategy: AUTO
    username:
        type: string
        length: 255
    email:
        type: string
        length: 255
    password:
        type: string
        length: 255
    sex:
        type: integer
    bloodtype:
        type: string
        length: 10
    birthday:
        type: date
    pr:
        type: text
    salt:
        type: string
        length: 255
    deletedAt:
        type: datetime
        nullable: true
lifecycleCallbacks: {  }

app/config/config.yml
doctrine:
    orm:
        auto_generate_proxy_classes: %kernel.debug%
        auto_mapping: true
        filters:
            softdeleteable:
                class: Gedmo\SoftDeleteable\Filter\SoftDeleteableFilter
                enabled: true

action
public function deleteAction()
{
    $token = $this->getRequest()->get('token');
    if (! $this->get('form.csrf_provider')->isCsrfTokenValid('user_list', $token)) {
        //TODO use setFlashBag
        $this->get('session')->setFlash('notice', 'Woops! Token invalid!');
        return $this->redirect('user_list');
    }
    //$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
    $user = $this->getUser();
    $pictures = $user->getPictures();
    $em->remove($user);
    /* foreach( $pictures as $p ){
        unlink($p->getAbsolutePath());
    } */
    $em->flush();
    $this->get('security.context')->setToken(null);
    $this->getRequest()
         ->getSession()
         ->invalidate();
    return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('leo_test_homepage'));
}

`

A: OK, The problem was finally found out.Is my carelessness.
Leo\TestBundle\Entity\Picture:
type: entity
repositoryClass: Leo\TestBundle\Entity\PictureRepository
table: null
manyToOne:
   user:
       targetEntity: User
       inversedBy: pictures
       joinColumn:
           name: user_id
           referencedColumnName: id
           #**Comment out the line of code**
           #onDelete: CASCADE
gedmo:
    soft_deleteable:
      field_name: deletedAt

User entity
Leo\TestBundle\Entity\User:
type: entity
table: null
repositoryClass: Leo\TestBundle\Entity\UserRepository
oneToMany:
    pictures:
        targetEntity: Picture
        mappedBy: user
        # add cascade option here
        cascade: [persist, remove]
gedmo:
    soft_deleteable:
      field_name: deletedAt

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Sony is finally ready to enter the mobile gaming scene and the company recently revealed that its first title for the mobile market will be an Everybody's Golf game. For the moment the title seems to be planned for an exclusive release in Japan where it will be available on the Android and iOS platforms. The game will be free to download, however, it will be supported by in-app micro-transactions.
Sony's Everybody's Golf series is just over one month away from its 20th anniversary, having debuted on the original PlayStation in July 1997. For the most part, the series existed on the PlayStation platform with multiple titles being launched on various Sony consoles, including the PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation 3. The final game to be released was Everybody's Golf 6 on the PlayStation 3 and Vita, and for the past few years, the company has been working on a sequel for the PlayStation 4, which is now set to be released in August of 2017. Having said that, Sony is also planning on bringing a new Everybody's Golf game to the mobile platform for the first time, and whether or not coincidental, it appears that Sony may plan on launching both a mobile game and a console version for the PlayStation 4 within the same rough time frame. Whatever the case may be, Everybody's Golf for mobile will apparently be launched in Japan first where it will enjoy some form of exclusivity. Reportedly the company has decided to launch the game in Japan first as the market performance of its PlayStation 4 console isn't as positive as it is in the western hemisphere. Instead, it would seem that the mobile gaming scene is growing in Japan and this prompted Sony to take action and join the segment following Nintendo's foray last year with the release of Miitomo.
At the time of writing little is known about Sony's plans for Everybody's Golf outside of Japan; however it's interesting to note that Sony intends on bringing a few other PlayStation titles to the mobile scene. Having said that, if golf isn't your cup of tea then you may want to look forward to these other upcoming releases confirmed by Sony, including Wild Arms, Arc the Lad, and Disgaea. Until then, feel free to check Sony's teaser video below for Everybody's Golf on mobile.


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The little rabbit is loved by his family, even though whenever they ask him a question, he answers very rudely. In the morning his mother would say, 'Time to get up, my little rabbit ' He'd reply: 'Poo bum '. One day the little rabbit meets a hungry wolf. Will he learn his lesson once and for all?
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Music Therapy major thriving as international student community leader
Posted on February 14, 2019 by Andrew Bruso
Jue "Niki" Zhang '19g (Music Therapy) knew that her passion for music therapy would likely lead her to leave her hometown in Luzhou, China, but it wasn't until she started researching university graduate programs that she began considering New York as an option.
"I began planning to study abroad because there are only a few universities that provide music therapy programs in China," she said. "I got offers from universities in Australia and New Zealand, but I decided to come to New Paltz because the professors have high reputations around the world. I also like that New Paltz is close to Manhattan, and there are a lot of really good music therapy facilities there."
Niki, who plays piano and guitar, is now on the cusp of earning a Master of Science degree from SUNY New Paltz's #1 ranked music therapy program. She says her time at New Paltz has been full of both professional and personal growth, as she's taken advantage of educational, employment and service opportunities as a valued member of the College's international student community.
Arrival and Settling In
A vast majority of New Paltz's international students come to the College via one of the major New York City airports. New Paltz is about 90-120 minutes from Manhattan by bus, and the town's bus depot is within walking distance of campus.
Niki, who is accustomed to the warmer climate in southern China, says the temperature difference is one of the first things she noticed when stepped off the bus in New Paltz in January 2016.
"New Paltz is very different to where I'm from," she said. "I remember arriving at around 5 p.m., and it was already evening, and very cold."
Despite the differences, Niki quickly warmed up to life in New Paltz. The College works with international students to design first semester experiences that ease the transition and equip them with the language and expression skills they will need to succeed academically and socially.
"The first semester I took mostly ESL classes – I had taken English at home for many years and my speaking was pretty good, but these classes were very helpful for taking tests," Niki said. "That first semester of studying ESL not only gave me a chance to practice and improve, it also gave me a time of transition, when I could participate in clubs like International Student Union, and experience the culture of the United States and the culture of this campus."
Developing Skills and Building a Résumé
The graduate program in music therapy at SUNY New Paltz is constructed around a series of clinical and fieldwork experiences, allowing students to apply theory in a variety of practical settings.
As Niki progressed through the program, she made connections at agencies in the nearby cities of Albany, Poughkeepsie and Kingston. In 2018, with assistance from the music therapy faculty, Niki secured an internship at Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University in Manhattan.
"I did my fieldwork in a school and my practicum in a nursing home," Niki said. "Now, I'm doing my internship Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy. I primarily work with children with autism and adults with special needs. I face different challenges every day and I'm getting real practice in the field."
Niki has also found opportunities on the SUNY New Paltz campus. She has been working at the International Student Programs as a full-time GA since 2016, and also successfully applied for two academic scholarships.
"Erica Wagner at the Career Resource Center helped proofread my applications," she said. "I ended up getting them both, and I think I could never have gotten scholarships without her help. That and my job have really helped release some of my financial stress, which has been very important for me."
Looking Ahead, and Finding Balance
Niki is on track to complete all her degree and fieldwork requirements in May 2019. She's weighing her options and leaning toward returning to her home nation to pursue opportunities as a certified music therapist.
She says she has already received some job offers, and looks forward to beginning her career, while also making sure to enjoy all aspects of her life.
"I'm the type of person who likes to make small steps every day, and do the things I enjoy," Niki said. "Music therapy is important to me, but it is just one part of my life. I'm looking forward to spending time doing other things I like as well."
Visit the Center for International Programs at SUNY New Paltz to learn more about opportunities for international students.
More information about Music Therapy programs at SUNY New Paltz is available online.
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I'm working on a quirky little project at the moment. Not a major work. . .just a small little niche book that's been sitting in the back of my brain for, oh, about 30 years.
Not sure why the topic draws me, either. . .or why my brain works the way it does. Maybe the editor in me blossomed all those decades ago as I read, and re-read, and re-read the Little House series endlessly. After all, when you get so familiar with a work that you can quote, verbatim, just about the whole series, I guess it's natural that you begin to notice tiny flaws here and there.
Five Things I Thought as a Kid. . .and was SO WRONG About!
I have an interesting age range of children. From almost 19 down to newly 8. Equal numbers of boys and girls, too. . .so I have a little bit of everything at the moment: Young adults just heading into the world down to a little guy who plans to live with me forever 'n ever 'n ever.
It gives an interesting perspective.
On the one hand, my younger kids are still so disconnected with what "being grown up" really entails that they endlessly make "when I'm grown up, I'm gonna. . ." statements that leave my husband and me rolling our eyes and giggling uncontrollably at the absurdity of it all.


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About Global University
Impacting Eternity - winning the lost and training the found - everywhere!
Global University is a fully accredited non profit Christian University, in the Pentecostal tradition, based out of Springfield, Missouri. As a worldwide distance learning pioneer, the university integrates education and service through a network in 150 countries, including the United States. Its three main languages of instruction are English, Spanish and French for undergraduate programs. Four schools comprise Global University; School for Evangelism and Discipleship, Berean School of the Bible, Undergraduate School of Bible and Theology and Graduate School of Theology. The vision of Global University is to impact eternity by reaching the lost and training the found, everywhere.
Global University is a Christian university in the Pentecostal tradition that:
integrates education and service through a worldwide network for student support.
provides access to ministerial training from adult continuing education to the graduate level.
produces curricular materials in multiple languages.
serves the local church and Christian community through evangelism, discipleship, and leadership training through nonresidential distributed learning methods.
The Evangel Theological seminary is a partner of Global University. In the ETC integrated on-line bachelor's program from Global University. Today, work is being carried the program doctor of ministry from the University of Global and ETS.
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EDRLab is working actively with European publishers, ebook distributors, public libraries and application developers for the success of an open publishing ecosystem based on EPUB 3.
One of the use cases we have to deal with in the publishing world is public library lending. "Lending" means that after some time, a library patron "returns" his book. In a digital world, it means that he can't read the book anymore, this is called chrono-degradability. This requires the use of an interoperable and lightweight rights management solution, and we are now releasing such a solution, called Readium LCP.
However, Readium LCP usage is not limited to library lending; it is usable in many situations, including rental, retail and subscription.
One of the main advantages of Readium LCP is that its users avoid any vendor lock-in. But what is vendor lock-in?
Vendor lock-in is the total control by one vendor of all aspects in a value chain.
Catalog: publishers need to be on the vendor platform because it represents a large part of their digital revenue.
Format: the vendor has created a proprietary format. Vendor's devices don't read EPUB ebooks.
Copyright protection: the vendor has developed a proprietary DRM. Vendor's devices don't handle other DRMs.
Distribution: the vendor has an efficient e-commerce website, with an opaque recommendation engine.
Devices: the vendor sells proprietary devices, which accept only the proprietary formatted ebooks sold on the vendor's e-commerce website.
This is a perfect vertical business, with lots of happy customers buying and reading ebooks exclusively marketed by this vendor.
Lack of diversity: the vendor may refuse to sell a given ebook, for any reason … or, because of a business fight with a publisher, the publisher may refuse to sell ebooks to the vendor.
Lack of features: the vendor may decide that a given feature – for instance, text to speech – is not needed on its devices. Without TTS, people with print disabilities won't be able to use the vendor's solution, they must have an alternative.
Lack of innovation: the vendor may decide not to support a new type of authoring (e.g. some new way to provide mobile optimized comics with clever page transitions).
For all these reasons, letting one vendor getting a monopolistic position in the publishing industry is dangerous.
We prefer promoting interoperable alternatives, where any catalog can be exposed in any format, protected with any copyright protection, sold on any distribution platform, and read by any device.
Watermarking, a.k.a. « social DRM », i.e. addition of hidden information in text, picture, audio and video resources.
DRM (Digital Rights Management) solutions, i.e. encryption of the content.
The respective efficiency of watermarking vs DRM is still to be scientifically evaluated, and we won't discuss this matter here. Let's say that many watermaking solutions exist, some open-source, that watermarking is transparent for the EPUB format and Readium software, therefore EDRLab cannot offer much in this area.
But some business models, like library lending, cannot rely on watermarking: if after the loan end date, the book is still accessible, this is not a loan, this is a gift.
A well know DRM solution forces the user to create a DRM vendor account before he can access an ebook he lends in a public library.
He can't read the book on more than 6 devices, for his entire life. He has to contact a support he doesn't know about and prove his case if he wants to extend this device limit.
He can't lend the ebook to a friend, or he has to give his DRM vendor user authentication info to this friend.
If he's blind, he cannot listen to the ebook on a specialized TTS enabled device, because the content is displayed as images, not text.
They are good chances that he won't be able to get a new license for reading his ebook on a new device after some years, because the bookseller may close, or he won't remember where he has bought his book.
He can't expect keeping the ebook for decades, because the proprietary DRM will, one day, be obsolete and he won't find any new device accepting it.
The net result is that some smart buyers "unlock" their ebooks as soon as they have bought them. Which is forbidden by law in EU member states, the USA, and several other countries.
Millions and millions of euros have been spent in developing DRM solutions for ebooks.
DRM technologies for published content have been on the market for at least 20 years.
And each time hackers developed new cracking solutions.
In the ebook domain, you can easily crack the Adobe, Kindle or Barnes & Noble DRMs with a one click solution, as a simple Google search suggests.
Should we go-on creating always more complex solutions, either non interoperable because developed for e-commerce vertical silos, or difficult to use for readers?
A group of Readium members, the Readium DRM Steering Committee, has chosen an alternative way.
Readium LCP relies on well known protection techniques (AES 256 encryption, SHA 256 hash, X.509 certificates, code obfuscation …) and does not try to invent something smarter than necessary. It is therefore an efficient but lightweight implementation of a DRM solution.
See also: Readium LCP principles.
The seminal paper on Readium LCP was written in 2012 by Bill Rosenblatt – a recognized expert on technology issues pertaining to intellectual property in the digital age. This document is still available on the IDPF website as "EPUB Lightweight Content Protection: Use Cases and Requirements".
The project was then moved from the IDPF to the Readium Foundation, and a draft of specification was authored by collaborators from De Marque, Feedbooks and Learning Ally. A complementary specification named « License Status Document » was then specified with the help of the New York Public Library (NYPL); this specification adds dynamic features to Readium LCP, specifically useful for a public library lending use case.
In December 2015, the newly created European Digital Reading Lab (EDRLab) decided to lead the implementation of Readium LCP as as a sub-module of Readium SDK. Several Readium members – namely Mantano, TEA, DRM Inside, ePagine – joined the project, providing expertise, source code and test scripts.
Despite the fact that Readium will propose a new DRM technology to the EPUB ecosystem, the Readium SDK will support multiple DRM technologies.
Any DRM provider willing to get support from the Readium SDK can develop such a plug-in and provide it to his customers, and any Reading System based on the Readium SDK may embed such plug-in, so that diverse EPUB publications protected by different DRMs can be opened seamlessly.


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PEPSI'S EATERIES GO IT ALONE TRICON: LOUSY NAME, EXCELLENT MANAGEMENT
By PATRICIA SELLERS
(FORTUNE Magazine) – There are three reasons to suspect that running PepsiCo's restaurant empire--due to be spun off as a stand-alone company this fall--is one of the most daunting jobs in corporate America. The first is that Pepsi floundered so badly as an owner of eateries these past few years that CEO Roger Enrico decided to call it quits. The second is that this isn't a very good time for the restaurant industry: Fast-food competition in the U.S. is so intense these days that even McDonald's can't figure out how to get more customers in front of the cash registers. Finally, the spinoff--comprising KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell--is a sprawling and unwieldy operation, with revenues of $10 billion, more stores than McDonald's, and almost 20 million customer contacts each day. So you've got to wonder: Will the new, independent Pepsi restaurant company have any sizzle?
Knowing David Novak, it will. Novak is the kinetic, charismatic manager handpicked by Enrico to be president of the spinoff company, which will be known by the infelicitous name of Tricon. ("We have three icons, get it?" Novak says.) He seems to be the ideal man for the job because he recently turned around KFC, defying almost everyone's expectations. Kentucky Fried's profits rose 22% to nearly $200 million last year, and per-store sales have increased for ten consecutive quarters. Novak did it by enlarging the menu to include things like pot pie and marinated chicken, and by dramatically lifting the morale of the people who matter most in a service business--the in-store employees and franchisees who interact with customers.
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A marketer trained at Pizza Hut and Pepsi-Cola, Novak, 44, spends at least three days a week visiting restaurants, sometimes sleeping in the homes of franchisees. "They have bedrooms too," he says. "You can learn so much more from franchisees on their home turf." The first thing you notice in his office is some 160 framed photographs of him handing out prizes to outstanding KFC store managers. "We're shooting for a Wal-Mart kind of field focus and a Mary Kay-style recognition culture," he says.
To meet the new challenge of reviving Tricon's other two icons--Taco Bell and Pizza Hut--Novak is getting help from a sort of human icon from PepsiCo history: Andrall Pearson, who was president of the company for 13 years until 1984. Since Novak has almost 30,000 restaurants to oversee and since he lacks experience schmoozing Wall Street, Enrico asked Pearson, 72, to become Tricon's interim CEO; Novak should take his place in a couple of years.
"I'll be trying to keep us from making mistakes, at least national mistakes," says Pearson, who originally steered PepsiCo into restaurants by acquiring Pizza Hut in 1977. One of FORTUNE's "Ten Toughest Bosses" in 1980, Pearson today seems as iron-willed and irreverent as ever--but he insists he's a bit "more sensitive about people." To make Tricon the world's premier restaurant company (as of now, McDonald's reputation is superior, the Tricon guys admit), Pearson says he and Novak have to spread the gung-ho KFC culture companywide. The rest of Pearson's prescription is pretty simple. Pizza Hut needs to sell better food. (We agree.) Also, Pizza Hut's international expansion has been haphazard; Pearson, who will focus his attention on restaurants outside the U.S., intends to target virgin territories, such as Asia, and highly developed ones like Canada, where Pizza Hut already earns decent profits.
As for Taco Bell, while it's in better financial shape than Pizza Hut, it needs to become something more than a cheap Mexican alternative to McDonald's. The strategy is to reposition the chain as a vendor of hip, contemporary, portable food, based on the notion that that you can put almost anything inside a taco shell.
Which means you can bet on two things: Tempura tacos in Tokyo. And ever fiercer fighting in the fast-food wars. --Patricia Sellers
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The Senate sends its condolences to the victims, those who were injured, and their families and loved ones. We also reaffirm our gratitude to our Nation's first responders.


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Q: Get any user by SessionID (cookie) from Devise authentication system A JavaScript piece of code sends UserId when initializing WebSockets connection. This requires to pass UserId from Rails view to JavaScript source.
I do not like this solution for two reasons:

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*I want JS code to be entirely in *.js file without having to include it as partial into layouts

*UserId is easy to counterfeit and listen messages addressed to other user

The better solution is obvious: in any case each WebSocket connection from an authenticated user is accompanied by Devise's SessionID in cookie. I already found how to extract this cookie from handshake data and now there is one problem:
The WebSockets listener is running constantly in a background thread whether some user is authenticated or not. So, it does not have an access to user's session.
The question:
How to get an user or UserId by SessionID if I am not authenticated. Does Devise have some SessionID storage in memory which I could access (probably with some nasty hack).

A: Devise stores stuff by warden within the user session. So if you have no access to the session, there is also none to the user_id within this separate thread.
Since your are exposing the user_id anyway in the script, you can just set it into an additional cookie.
You could also implement an api enpoint returning the id.
You can render it into the page within some invisible 'data-' attribute
<body data-user-id='asfasdfeefifpf'> ... </body>.

Or at least you could just keep the code in the js partial, which sets the id and extract the lib code into separate file.
 <%= javascript_tag do %>
   window.user_id = '<%= j current_user.id %>';
 <% end %>

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> pronounced "ArMURchee" by the locals.
thought-experiment stage, in any case. I haven't written a single word.
> obscene meanings, sounds like "kahm" to the untutored Northern ear.
> "bullcalm" does. And r-insertion is nih 'bout as common as r-deletion.
> the '40's) mean? It mean "kiss me murch."
>> The American Thesaurus of Slang in 1942 (amazingly!).
>>> Poster: "Douglas G. Wilson"
>>> perhaps ("a real copathetic place"), for example.
>> talk." I first heard a usage close to the "standard" one in St. Louis.
>> A. And you know what was in it?
>> B. Naw. What was in it?
>> A. All this bull I'm shittin' you! Har! Har! Har!
>>> IMHO this "copathetic" is likely to be the same word as "copasetic".


This species is accepted, and its native range is SW. Mexico to S. Tropical America.
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 160 - 1800 m.; Andes, Valle del Cauca, Valle del Magdalena.
Tree to 10 m or more.
Branchlets smooth, dark brown, puberulous to tomentellous, glabrescent.
Leaves paripinnate; stipules 7–9 [4–10] mm long, linear, caducous; petiole 3.5–4 [1–3.5] cm long, pubescent, eglandular;>i> rachis 13–28 [12–36] cm long, pubescent, eglandular;>i> leaflets in 10–12 pairs, [(8)11–19(20)]>i> 5.5–8 × 1.8–2.5 [3–9.5 × 1.1–2.7] cm, the lowest pairs somewhat smaller, ovate,>i> acute, base symmetrical, cuneate, appressed-hairy beneath, sparsely appressed-puberulous above.
Sepals 5, dimorphic, the outer two 5–6 × 4 mm, broadly ovate-elliptic, the inner three larger, 8–9 mm in diameter, suborbicular, almost glabrous.
Petals dimorphic, golden-yellow, dark-veined when dry; four 17–19 × 14–16 mm, broadly obovate; one obovate, turned at right angles above the claw, larger than the rest.>i> Stamens 10; seven fertile with anthers c.5 mm long, and three apparently sterile with reduced flattened bilobed anthers.>i> Ovary 12–15 mm long, glabrous; style glabrous.
Pod black, 16–30 × 0.9–1.2 cm, terete or subquadrate, straight, glabrous, pendulous, very tardily dehiscent along one suture, many-seeded.
Seeds brown, 5–7 × 3.5–5 mm, broadly obovate in outline, with elliptic areoles on each broad face.
Cassia totonaca Sessé & Moc.
Cassia trinitatis Rchb. ex DC.


This article is part of a series of useful tips to help you find success in your career and the totality of your life experience. While technical skillsFinancial Modeling SkillsLearn what the 10 most important financial modeling skills are and what's required to be good at financial modeling in Excel. he most important skills are 1 accounting, 2 Excel, 3 linking the financial statements, 4 forecasting, 5 problem-solving, 6 attention to detail, 7 simplicity, 8 esthetics, 9 presentations, 10 get us hired for our preferred post, soft skills help us communicate and collaborate effectively in the workplace. Soft skills such as knowing how to get along with other people play a major role not just in our careers, but also in our ability to navigate through our daily lives.
Note: This is a three-part series, be sure to read part oneNetworking and Building Relationships (Part 1)This article is part of a series of useful tips to help you find success in networking within your company. Networking plays an important part in our professional lives, starting from our job search, contiuing to joining and working in a company, and finally, advancing our careers. and part threeNetworking and Building Relationships (Part 3)This article is part of a series of useful tips to help you find success in networking and building relationships within your company. If we want to move forward in our career, building relationships is the first step towards the journey to success..
Focus more on being genuinely interested in other people rather than trying really hard to get other people interested in you. It makes a huge difference when people actually enjoy being around you, especially if it's your first few days in the office. A team operates best when everyone involved on the team knows each other well. Developing soft skills such as learning the strengths and weaknessesPublic Speaking WeaknessThe "public speaking weakness" answer is a great way to get around the question, "what is your biggest weakness?". If public speaking is not required for the job, then it's a safe answer because it will not really impact your job performance, and yet it's a very common and relatable weakness for most people. This guide of your co-workers can make the whole team work more effectively and efficiently since the team can take advantage of each member's unique abilities. Knowing who to speak to for guidance and assistance in certain aspects of your job will help you get through your tasks smoothly. Get to know as many people in your company as you can and start building genuine, professional relationships with them.
Showing interest and taking the time to get to know other people leads to making new friends and building camaraderie in the workplace. The outcome is a team that works well and with all members communicating in an open, honest, and respectful manner. Moreover, team members will feel a strong sense of belonging to the group, which further leads to a deep commitment to the group's actions and decisions.
Every day is an opportunity to get to meet new people, so always greet your co-workers with vigor and enthusiasm.
Personal appearance matters when you interact with your new colleagues. It's the first thing that they notice about you. How you carry yourself, including your attitude, posture, and body language, is very important because it's the first point of contact. Remember that actions speak louder than words.
Before you greet others, remind yourself to smile. Avoid negative thinking that may affect your attitude when talking with others. People can detect a bad attitude just by looking at a person's facial expression or hearing the tone of their voice. If this is the case, you can negatively affect their mood, which can ruin their day and possibly yours as well. That is why smiling when conversing is very important when you're trying to make a good impression on someone in the company.
Smiling communicates that you are glad to see the person. Action and feelings go together, so even if you're not in the mood to smile, doing so anyway will tend to make you feel happy. Others will thank you for that, as a simple smile can be contagious. It makes other people feel happy and gives them a pleasant time meeting and talking with you.
One of the most important soft skills to bring to the workplace is the ability to listen. Often, we become so concerned about what we want to say next that we don't take the time to truly listen to the speaker. A bad listener will find it difficult to build relationships with his or her colleagues. So be a good listener, particularly when you are a new recruit to the company. You will spend a lot of time learning things about your role from others.
Along the way, you will be introduced to many employees working in various departments of the firm. If you are new to virtually all processes and procedures, one of the best ways to learn is to listen to and watch your senior colleagues. They likely have years of experience, so it's best to listen intently and carefully. Your first few weeks will include many new instructions and information. The last thing you want to happen is to miss any crucial details which can potentially sabotage your performance in the company.
When you show sincere interest in what the other person is saying, they will tend to likewise find you interesting. Encourage them to talk about themselves, especially their accomplishments, and they will find you a great conversationalist. Everyone has much to say about themselves, but often, there aren't too many people out there who are patient and sympathetic listeners. So be the person who makes the other person feel heard and they will surely thank you for it.
Active listening requires your full attention to the speaker. It involves genuine and obvious signs like making eye contact, nodding your head in agreement with someone, and asking questions for further clarification. Concentrate on, engage in, and absorb what the other person is saying to you. Developing this valuable skill will help you reap numerous benefits.
You earn the respect and trust of your colleagues when you show that you are supportive and understanding. If there are personal or work-related issues, they will be mitigated as each member becomes self-assured and comfortable in working out solutions with each other.
With a better understanding of the issues in the company or of your peers, you can more easily formulate an accurate and optimal solution. In a meeting, it's easy for anyone to miss out on information when they let their mind wander. When you're asked to come up with a solution, if your answer reveals that you haven't been paying attention. A situation like this can endanger your professional image and ability. You won't come across as someone who works efficiently or who has a sharp intellect.
One of the best ways to develop healthy professional relationships within the company is by making others feel that they belong to the group. Specifically, make them feel important by giving them approval and recognition for their work.
Always find something nice to say about a person. You are essentially highlighting their best qualities. There are plenty of good things to say about a person, but sadly, we don't do it quite enough. Saying good things about a person helps motivate them to continue doing what they're good at. It will even encourage them to work on their weaknesses. This is because they know that good work and sincere effort are being recognized.
Our colleagues sometimes can experience a bad day when they think that the boss is not aware of their hard work. But someone who works beside them every day clearly knows how much effort and time are being invested into a given task or project. You can be that person to instantly cheer up your co-worker with low morale by showing him appreciation.
Everyone you work with can affect your career. They can help make you more knowledgeable and skillful in your job and help you advance in your career. Just being surrounded by intelligent and diligent people is both inspiring and influential. They will surely influence the way you act and think. Your company believes in you – that's why they gave you the opportunity to work with them. So be thankful, and when the right time comes, let the people around you know how important they are to you. Many employees often forget other relevant soft skills such as meeting your mentors regularly and seeking constructive feedback.
Companies may make the mistake of undervaluing the importance of soft skills and failing to improve them. They need to realize that developing a more productive workforce and achieving success in the workplace result from strengthening both technical skills and soft skills.
Part 1: networking and building relationshipsNetworking and Building Relationships (Part 1)This article is part of a series of useful tips to help you find success in networking within your company. Networking plays an important part in our professional lives, starting from our job search, contiuing to joining and working in a company, and finally, advancing our careers.
Part 3: networking and building relationshipsNetworking and Building Relationships (Part 3)This article is part of a series of useful tips to help you find success in networking and building relationships within your company. If we want to move forward in our career, building relationships is the first step towards the journey to success.


The scenery in Idomeni is devastating: Empty tents lying around with the belongings of the people who stayed there. The cleaning of the area has already started. There were constructions going on in Camp A, new containers and other infrastructure being put up.
Regular buses from Athens are arriving with people who can pass and with some who are rejected at the Macedonian border. The ones who are rejected have no option but to enter the buses that go back to Athen and cost 20 euros again. We observed a group that didn't have any money: after a long discussion, they were able to enter the bus nevertheless. In one hour alone two full buses left to Athens. The procedure is very fast now, people leave the buses, get a food packet provided by NGOs and then queue at the border for half an hour.
However, before buses come to Idomeni they spend several hours waiting at a petrol station on the highway, around 40km away from the border. When we were there in the late afternoon, there were around 15 buses. Buses leave one at a time to the border from there, in order to avoid a crowd at the border in Idomeni. We tried to set up our infopoint at the gas station but were sent away by the police.


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Bachelet strongly condemns mass executions in Saudi Arabia
GENEVA (24 April 2019) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday strongly condemned the beheading of 37 men in spite of repeated appeals by the UN human rights system about the lack of due process and fair trial guarantees, allegations that confessions were obtained through torture – and the ages of some of those executed. One of the men's bodies was subsequently put on public display.
According to available information, at least three of those executed were minors at the time they were sentenced to death in relation to their involvement in anti-Government protests. Most of the 37 men belonged to the Shi'a Muslim minority, and some had also been involved in protests. In several of the cases, various UN human rights experts had raised serious concerns with the authorities.
"I strongly condemn these shocking mass executions across six cities in Saudi Arabia yesterday in spite of grave concerns raised about these cases by numerous UN Special Rapporteurs, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and others," High Commissioner Bachelet said.
"It is particularly abhorrent that at least three of those killed were minors at the time of their sentencing. I urge the Government of Saudi Arabia to immediately launch a review of its counter-terrorism legislation and amend the law to expressly prohibit the imposition of the death penalty against minors."
Bachelet also expressed deep concern for the fate of those who remain on death row, including Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdulla al-Zaher, whose cases have also been taken up by the UN human rights system.
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A Will is an important legal document that explains what you want to happen to your family, money, property and belongings when you die.
Over the last 50 years, we have helped thousands of people living in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne to prepare their Will - and keep it updated to reflect major life changes (like marriage or divorce) that might affect their wishes.
own possessions that you want to pass on like a car, jewellery or art.
Preparing a legally-valid Will is the best way to protect your family and ensure your wishes are clear and can be carried out. Without a Will, these decisions are left to a court appointed administrator, who will be working without any guidance from you.
Our experienced lawyers will guide you through the process of creating a legally-valid Will that reflects your wishes and what is best for your family.
As part of this process, we also recommend you set up Powers of Attorney to appoint a trusted family member or friend to act on your behalf (for example, to access your bank accounts, give directions about your medical treamtment and, if necessary, sell assets on your behalf) if you are unable to do so through illness or accident.
It is important to understand that your Will only deals with the distribution of assets that you personally own. The distributution of joint assets (like real-estate), superannuation and insurance payouts and any assets in a family trust are not covered by your Will. Careful estate planning will ensure these assets are distributed according to your wishes.
Estate planning is all about making sure your all of your assets are passed on to your chosen beneficiaries in the best, most tax-effective way possible.
At Tonkin Legal, we firmly believe there is no such thing as a 'simple' Will.
That's because everyone's situation and family dynamics are different. We are also not big fans of 'off-the-shelf' Wills that you can buy from the newsagent for the same reason. "Off-the-shelf" Wills are open to being contested and are often rejected by the Supreme Court.
We start this process by organising a meeting with one of the lawyers from our Wills and Estate Planning team. If you have a partner, it is a good idea for both of you to attend this meeting so we can prepare both of your Wills and Powers Of Attorney at the same time.
This meeting is all about getting to know you and your personal situation.
We will gather information about your partner, children and family. We will talk about who you would want to look after your children and plan for a variety of future scenarios. We will discuss who you would like to appoint as the Executor of your Will. This person is responsible for following the instructions in your Will after you die. We also talk about who you want to make personal, financial and medical decisions on your behalf if you are incapable of making them due to illness or accident.
list of your assets and liabilities.
list of who you want to benefit from your estate.
Based on the discussions about your personal situation and information gathered at our first meeting, we will then prepare a cost estimate which clearly explains the cost of preparing your Will and Powers of Attorney (if required).
If you are happy to proceed, we will then draft your Will, taking into consideration everything we discussed, and send it to you for review. If you have any changes, we incorporate these. We also create your Powers of Attorney.
We then organise a final meeting, where you sign your Will and Powers of Attorney. We will securely store these documents safely for you. We provide you with a copy of these important documents for your files. It is a good idea to also give a copy to your Executor and your appointed decision-maker(s).


It's broccoli, it's spicy, it's easy, it's really really delicious. Make it. Eat it. Love it.
Cook your broccoli in an oven safe dish in the microwave (on high) for 5 minutes. Alternatively you could steam it until bright green and still slightly firm.
Meanwhile, combine the mayo, sriracha, soy sauce and lime juice – stir well. Toss the broccoli in the sauce to coat.
Put under the broiler for 3-4 minutes until starting to brown and the sauce turns translucent. Remove, stir, and broil for another 2 minutes or so until lightly browned.


I should have had one years ago, before it was popular. I was building them for clients. I temporarily had a blog before the term 'blog' was even conceived. I even built a site for other people to have blogs (along with other stuff) while they studied abroad. When the word became popular, I hated it. Blog. It sounds like something from a sewer. Blog blog blog blog blog.
I didn't have a blog even after I decided I needed one. I'm just too busy. Plenty of work. I barely have any personal time, so how could I give up precious hours to blogging?
The other reason I didn't have a blog is because I'm picky. I'm a perfectionist, especially when it comes to design. I'm not a designer, but I have high standards for design. So my own attempts fell short and I was unwilling to move forward.
But over the last few months I've been so determined to get a blog that I got a Backpack account simply to keep track of all my blog post ideas. I have things to say and I don't have anywhere to say them. The need is so overwhelming that I am willing to launch the site without a real design until such time that I can have my designer help me.
I'll also admit to a bit of peer pressure. Almost all of my close colleagues have their own blogs and I'm certainly the only developer without one. "Grow a beard and get a blog," they'd say. Well I've tried the beard thing and am happy with the smooth look for now.
Check out my About grundyhome.com page for more on what I hope this blog will become.


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Welcome to Dottypink Designs at Not on the High Street! I'm Amy Seager, a designer based in sunny Lancashire UK and I create bright and beautiful stationery items for daily life and true love! With a Graphic Design degree and lots of exciting experience, I love working on logo and web design, wedding stationery and creating cute, typographical and illustrative social stationery to brighten up the grey days! All Dottypink Designs items are designed by and are copyright Amy Seager, and are professionally printed and made in the UK.