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vente-privee.com (vente privée, «venta privada» en francés) es una empresa francesa, fundada en 2001, que organiza ventas privadas en línea de productos de marca con descuentos. Las ventas abarcan todo tipo de productos y sectores: prêt-à-porter, accesorios de moda, juguetes, artículos deportivos, relojes, equipamiento para el hogar, alta tecnología, etc. Solo los socios registrados pueden acceder al sitio web. En 2019, vente-privee, cambia su nombre por Veepee con el objetivo de posicionarse como el líder en e-Commerce europeo.

Historia
La empresa vente-privee.com, creada en 2001 por Jacques-Antoine Granjon, actual Presidente - Director General, y sus siete socios, tiene sus orígenes en el sector de la liquidación de excedentes. El año anterior, los fundadores habían tenido la idea de desarrollar un negocio de liquidación de excedentes adaptado a Internet. Este negocio tendría por objetivo liquidar los stocks de las marcas de una manera rápida, sin dañar su imagen.

En julio de 2007, el fondo estadounidense Summit Partners adquirió el 20% del capital de vente-privee.com.

A comienzos de 2013, la empresa anunció la adquisición de los derechos de explotación del Théâtre de Paris.

En el año 2013 vente-privee.com está presente en Francia, España, Alemania, Italia, Reino Unido, Austria, Bélgica, Países Bajos y EE. UU..

Personal e infraestructuras
La empresa vente-privee.com cuenta con 1.800 empleados.
Tres edificios están ubicados en La Plaine Saint Denis (región parisina):

 La sede de vente-privee.com, el Wilson 1, desde 2001, y el Wilson 2, inaugurado recientemente como anexo a la sede. En estos dos edificios se encuentran los diferentes departamentos como recursos humanos, marketing o departamento de TI responsable del desarrollo de la página web…

 El Servicio de Atención al Socio (SAS) con 115 trabajadores que responden a las solicitudes de los socios en los países donde opera la web.

 vente-privee consulting. El servicio de asesoría de ecommerce de vente-privee dirigido por Ilan Benhaim, socio cofundador de la empresa.

La compañía posee 160.000 m² de almacenes repartidos en seis centros en Francia, uno en Madrid, otro en Germersheim (Alemania) y en Turín (Italia). En diciembre de 2010 vente-privee.com inauguró una nueva plataforma logística en Lyon con una capacidad de expedición de hasta 30.000 envíos al día.

Dispone igualmente de un mail center internacional interno y de un call center externo (en Barcelona, para el mercado español).

Funcionamiento
vente-privee.com organiza ventas privadas limitadas en el tiempo (de 3 a 5 días de duración) de productos de marcas internacionales. Las ventas están reservadas para los socios inscritos en el sitio web.

Cuarenta y ocho horas antes de una venta, todos los socios de vente-privee.com reciben un mensaje de correo electrónico de invitación con un tráiler, para anunciar la próxima inauguración de dicha venta. En general, cada venta comienza a las 7 de la mañana entre semana y a las 9 de la mañana los fines de semana.

Premios
Vente Privée ha conseguido los siguientes premios:
 "Palma de la Innovación" por la Asociación Francesa de Atención al Cliente (AFRC) en 2010.
 "Mejor servicio web" por la revista Contact Center en 2011, 2012 y 2013.

Referencias

Sitios web
Tiendas en línea

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Perch Mobility Announces Nationwide Micromobility Charging Partnership With LAZ Parking
Pre-Registration Of Perch Community Charging Portals Now Open To Lime Logistics Partners And Bird Fleet Managers Looking To Maximize Profits
LOS ANGELES — Perch Mobility, the premier provider of portable charging pods that fuel the micromobility industry, announced the launch of a nationwide partnership with LAZ Parking, one of the fastest-growing parking and mobility companies in the United States. Perch will deploy its Community Charging Portals in LAZ locations at the request of local logistics partners who charge vehicles for Bird, Lime and other operators; and fleet managers so that they can charge collected scooters in centrally located micromobility hubs through this partnership.
The multimillion-dollar micromobility industry has made waves in cities worldwide. With low unit economics, everyone from electric scooter operators to gig-economy logistics partners are looking for new methods to improve margins. Perch's on-demand Community Charging Portals are now available to reserve for a monthly fee of $699. To reserve a Perch Community Charging Portal at a LAZ location, visit https://www.perchmobility.com/chargers.
"Electric scooters are a viable form of transportation – with one pitfall: the inefficiency of the current model to charge and release them back for public use," said Perch Mobility CEO and Co-Founder Tom Schreiber. "Our Perch Community Portals are the key to overcome this efficiency barrier. LAZ's national network of surface parking lots in high traffic micromobility markets is unparalleled. Through our LAZ partnership, we will deploy a network of scooter charging centers to allow the nation's scooter operators, community business owners, property managers, and professional chargers looking to maximize the potential of their 'juicing' activity."
Perch Mobility owns and operates a network of proprietary micromobility charging centers ("Portals"), which it leases to professional chargers, scooter operators, and business owners, who use the company's Community Charging Portals to bulk-charge scooters and maximize profit potential. The company is accelerating and operationalizing its plans to build an optimized micromobility charging ecosystem to keep up with the growing demand for shared micromobility transportation in a growing number of cities.
Each 20-foot Perch Community Charging Portal is a customized recycled shipping container modified to deliver up to 250kWh per day. Typical use runs twice the average US household's power consumption. Each Perch Community Charging Portal has four bays (Pods), which each has the capacity to charge 21 scooters, with a total unit capacity of 84 scooters at a time. Each Portal can support about 300 deployed scooters in a community.
"At LAZ, we see the intersection of transportation, electrification, and last mile logistics converging at the parking lot," said Alan Lazowski, Chairman and CEO of LAZ Parking. "Partnering with Perch Mobility presents an incredible opportunity to support an eco-friendlier way of mobility and to help maximize the profits of individuals quite literally paving the success of electric scooter travel. We are enthusiastic about this partnership and our future endeavors together."
In addition to the Perch Community Charging Portal, Perch manufactures an Enterprise Portal, that is capable of charging 105 scooters simultaneously.
About Perch Mobility Inc.
Perch Mobility provides large-scale charging logistics solutions to scooter operators, local municipalities, and the rapidly growing electric scooter charging community. Founded in Los Angeles in 2018, Perch's suite of portable, rentable charging pods, made from repurposed shipping containers, enables the electric scooter charging community to maximize earnings while supporting the adoption of the eco-friendly micromobility industry. For more information, visit https://www.perchmobility.com/.
About LAZ Parking
LAZ Parking is the largest and fastest-growing privately owned parking operator in the United States and a pioneer in digital parking technology. Founded in Hartford, CT, in 1981, with four decades of experience providing best-in-class parking management and transportation services, LAZ operates over 1.2 million parking spaces across the country in over 3,200 locations in 35 states and 444 cities. Over the past decade, LAZ has led the industry with business intelligence, remote monitoring, eCommerce solutions, and most recently launched its Proximity On-Demand Services – "LAZ PODS". Leveraging our national real estate parking network through connected tech enabled solutions, LAZ PODS includes EV charging, micro warehousing, last mile logistics, and ghost kitchens. LAZ works across various industries, including hospitality, commercial, healthcare, airports, transportation, universities, government, retail, events, residentials, and shuttle services. LAZ is a people first, conscious capitalist company that believes in elevating humanity through business. Additional information can be found at www.lazparking.com.

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Jack is a video storyteller with two decades of experience in television and communications. He produces, writes and narrates everything from short web videos to hour-long TV documentaries. His expertise is in videography, screenwriting, editing and communications. Jack's skills help our clients tell stories that stand out in today's cluttered media world.
Prior to joining STF, Jack created and produced the award-winning Tulsa History Series, which aired locally and statewide across Oklahoma. He helped uncover long forgotten film clips from the state's past and used those film fragments to create compelling TV segments and shows. He produced more than a dozen TV documentaries including Tulsa Deco, Tulsa A to Z and The Glenn Pool Story.
In addition to his associate role at STF, he also has his own video firm, Jack Frank Productions, and has produced projects for international clients as well as local nonprofit agencies. Jack was also an assignments manager at KJRH-Tulsa and station manager for OETA (PBS)-Tulsa. With a vast news background, Jack is a key part of STF's media training and crisis communications programs.
Education: bachelor's degree in telecommunications and minor in advertising/public relations from the University of Tulsa
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2 held with 244-kg ganja in Jhajjar
Jhajjar, January 2
The district police seized 244-kg ganja (cannabis) valued at Rs 25 lakh from a vehicle in Beri town here on Friday night and arrested two persons in this connection.
The consignment was being taken to Rajasthan from a place located on the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana border. The arrested persons have been identified as Ajit of Balkara village in Charkhi Dadri and Basant of Uttar Pradesh.
Jhajjar Superintendent of Police Rajesh Duggal said the ganja was packed in six bags so that no one could suspect them.
"On a tip-off about smuggling of narcotics, a team of Beri police jointly led by Inspector Manoj Kumar and ASI Amit Kumar put up a naka on the Jhajjar road in Beri town and started checking vehicles. The vehicle was intercepted and on checking, the police seized the ganja," said Duggal, adding that the duo was rounded up and a case under the NDPS Act was registered against them.
ASP Vikrant Bhushan claimed it was the biggest consignment of narcotics seized by the Jhajjar police over the past some time.
"The accused will be produced in the court today to take them on police remand. Some vital information about the racket and those involved is likely to come out," said Bhushan.


Antony has been in private practice for over 22 years and is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable Nutritional Therapists in the country, and one of the first to implement the principles of Functional Medicine in the UK. Having attended many IFM events including the AFMCP and APM he is a Functional Medicine Practitioner. He is known as the practitioners' practitioner. He employs his clinical experience in managing the nutritional needs of his patients, which number in excess of 13,500, at his clinic in Harley Street, London.
Antony is also Head of Technical Services at Nutri-Link, responsible for the technical & practitioner support team, as well as providing technical support directly to practitioners. For over 16 years, he has been presenting clinically focused workshops, lectures and seminars that practitioners find invaluable, inspiring and motivating.
He is also a successful, award-winning author of two books on nutrition, The Insulin Factor and The Food Intolerance Bible, and has appeared on television and radio.
In March 2011 Antony was awarded the prestigious CAM Magazine "Outstanding Practice Award" for his many years of educating, inspiring, motivating and helping practitioners and patients.
Antony has learned that everything in the body occurs by design, not by random chance, and appreciating this has unalterably changed the way he practices.


North Carolina's Piedmont region covers much of the central part of the state. The Piedmont Triad features Winston-Salem and Greensboro, along with the furniture capital of High Point; just to east through Burlington, another trio of cities have become known as the "Research Triangle," chock full of universities and companies that advance research and technology, as well as the State Capitol in Raleigh. From there, we head east to the beach, catching Rocky Mount, Tarboro, and more along the way to Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk, home to the Wright Brothers' first airplane flight. Each city has a character all its own; let's check out "NC-NC"…North Central North Carolina!
Let's start in Winston-Salem, which lies right along I-40 in the Piedmont region. The new Best Western PLUS Hanes Mall Hotel is an ideal spot for the pre-tour pit stop, just off I-40 on the southwest side of town. Winston-Salem has about 237,000 residents, making it one of the five largest cities in North Carolina.
Winston-Salem has been a heavy-hitter in the tobacco industry for many years, being the headquarters for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company – helping to give it the nickname "Camel City." The city is part of the Winston-Salem-Greensboro-High Point triad, and we'll check out all of these places and more.
Winston-Salem is laid out with downtown being at the junction of "Business I-40" – what used to be the I-40 main route until a new alignment was built along the city's south side – and U.S. 52, which is a north-south freeway through the city. Downtown features a sizeable skyline, including the bulbous top of 100 North Main Street, which thrusts 460 feet into the sky.
Winston-Salem was originally two separate towns (guess their names). Yes, one of them was Salem… and the historic Old Salem Museum & Gardens preserves the area that was settled by Moravians in the 18th and 19th centuries. This district, just south of downtown, includes original and restored shops, homes, and churches amidst old streets lined with towering trees and populated with skilled interpreters who can showcase blacksmithing, cobbling, tinsmithing, gunsmithing, traditional baking, carpentry, and more.
Like many North Carolina cities, Winston-Salem is a university town: Wake Forest University's 7,500 students are congregated on the campus north of downtown, while Winston-Salem State University adds another 6,400 students near downtown. There are also some smaller schools, such as Piedmont International University, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Salem Academy & College just south of downtown.
Along with racing and college football, Winston-Salem enjoys pro baseball with the Winston-Salem Dash, a Class-High A Team playing in the Carolina League. They are part of the Chicago White Sox farm system and play their games at BB&T Field, which opened in 2010 and offers a nice view of the downtown skyline along with baseball action.
Bowman Gray Stadium lies just outside of the city's downtown and hosts racing and football. It's known as "NASCAR's longest-running weekly track," having hosted its first NASCAR-sanctioned event in 1949 (Fonty Flick was the winner, in case you were wondering). The .25-mile asphalt oval – with almost no banking, by the way – still hosts weekly races from April through August as part of the Whelen All-American Series. Races are still in held in four divisions: Modifieds (the main feature at Bowman Gray), Sportsman, Street Stock, and Stadium Stock. Bowman Gray – constructed in 1937 and named for the former RJ Reynolds Tobacco chairman – hosts football games, too. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons played here until 1968, and the Winston-Salem State Rams still have Bowman Gray Stadium as their home field.
From Winston-Salem, let's head east on I-40 toward Greensboro, North Carolina's third largest city (about 277,000). The Piedmont Triad International Airport (locally referred to as "PTI" even though its airport code is GSO) is right off I-40 near the junction with the new I-73; the Best Western PLUS Greensboro Airport Hotel is located at I-40 and NC Highway 68.
Greensboro is an active city with a bustling downtown area; over 500 restaurants are in the city and there is plenty of nightlife and shopping. The "Green" in Greensboro shows up not only with the tree-filled neighborhoods and hills, but with civic gardens and arboretums. If you enter the central part of the city on Lee Street just off Business I-40/85, prepare for Gateway Gardens, a colorful entryway into town. Gateway features its Children's Garden, Heritage Garden, Rain Garden, the Gateway Plaza, and the "Great Lawn." Butterfly gardens, water sculptures, mazes, and more make this a great stop. The Greensboro Arboretum on Ashland Drive features 17 acres of woody plant collections, special display gardens (butterfly, roses, and more), and distinct structures. Meanwhile on the northwest side, The Bog Garden at Benjamin Park features a living wetland ecosystem traversed by an elevated boardwalk that meanders through seven acres of natural wetlands. Serenity Falls in the park is the only waterfall in Greensboro (and it's man-made, but so what?) A wide variety of plants, birds, and other wildlife can be seen in the park. All three of these "green" gems have free admission and are open year-round from sunrise to sunset.
Greensboro has been plenty of history; historic sites and museums document activities from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, as well as the Civil Rights movement. You may remember (if you're older) or learned about in history class (if you're younger) about a major milestone in the civil rights movement in the U.S.: on February 1, 1960, four young African-American students sat at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter and wouldn't leave until they got service; eventually, hundreds of others joined them in what became the nation's most famous "sit-in," helping to spark desegregation across the South. That event took place on Elm Street in downtown Greensboro, and the International Civil Rights Center & Museum is located right inside that original Woolworth's. Check out displays and exhibits about not only that event, but similar events for civil rights issues and struggles across the world. Most of the original lunch counter now resides in the Smithsonian in Washington DC, but some of it remains the museum. Additional plaques and monuments are along Elm Street outside the museum.
Greensboro's history is vigorously explored and displayed in a one-time Confederate military hospital; the quite impressive Greensboro Historical Museum showcases everything from Civil War rifles and carbines and Greensboro's days as the "Denim Capital" to the invention of Vicks VapoRub; from early pioneer days to the 1960s Civil Rights movement, with an actual portion of the lunch counter from Woolworth's where the "sit-ins" began on display. You easily spend a few hours here; kids will enjoy the interactive displays as much as adults. We highly recommend it!
For more stuff kids will enjoy, head across Church Street to the Greensboro Children's Museum, which features everything from learning and play areas to interactive exhibits and an "edible schoolyard," the Old Town Players stage with stadium seating and special effects, and several full-size vehicles like fire trucks, airplane cockpits, and an ambulance for them to climb around on – and in.
Just a few blocks away along Lindsey Street and back to Elm, you'll find three statues saluting a famous native son, writer William Sydney Porter. Better known by his nom de plume O. Henry, he not only has countless popular short stories (many with a twist) to his name, but he managed to pull off something few others have done: get a candy bar named after him.
In the center of downtown amidst the tall office buildings, Center City Park provides nearly two acres of gathering space and plenty of adornments, including statues and sculptures from area artists. Outdoor lunches and mini-concerts are popular in Center City Park, especially near the fountains on a hot day.
On the western edge of downtown, NewBridge Bank Park is where Triad residents can enjoy some pro baseball; the Greensboro Grasshoppers are a Class "A" affiliate of the Miami Marlins, playing in the South Atlantic League. The ballpark has a capacity of 7,500 and offers plenty of new amenities, including a "kid-safe" play park and an outdoor sports bar.
Typical of mid-size North Carolina cities, Greensboro hosts many, many college students, sporting two universities and a nationally-recognized college. North Carolina A&T (Agricultural & Technical) State University was established in 1891 and today educates a diverse student body of over 10,000. It is the largest "historically black university" in the nation. Similar to Texas A&M, their school moniker is the "Aggies." Their football, basketball, and other teams compete on the NCAA Division I level in the Mid-Eastern Conference. The campus can be found east of downtown along Market Street, close to U.S. 70.
The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has a student body of over 18,000, one of the largest in the UNC system. The school is a major research university and their Spartans play 17 sports in the NCAA Division I Southern Conference. UNC-Greensboro hosts the Weatherspoon Art Museum at Spring Garden and Tate Streets, featuring one of the largest selections of modern American art in the country. The university's lovely campus is just west of downtown and features several historic structures that date back to the school's inception as a women's college back in 1891; women still account for about 2/3 of the student body. Between UNC-Greensboro and downtown lies the campus of Greensboro College is a four-year liberal arts college with about 1,250 students.
For more history and museums, the northwest side of the city – near the Bog Garden, has more to offer. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park commemorates the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, which took place on March 15, 1781. It was one of the most hotly contested battles of the Revolutionary War. The commander of the American forces was Nathaniel Greene, for whom Greensboro was named. The Park features the Battlefield Visitor Center, which includes a live-action theater film, animated Battle Map program, and bookstore; a narrated auto tour replete with wayside exhibits; 2.5 miles of walking trails; and 28 monuments.
Nearby you'll find the Greensboro Science Center, a complex that includes a museum featuring models of prehistoric dinosaurs, a exhibit allow you to tour the main systems of the body (the "gross" potential here is fairly high), the Herpetarium that explores reptiles, snakes, and amphibians, an extreme weather gallery and more; the Carolina SciQuarium, a 22,000 square foot aquarium that opened in 2013 and features sharks, penguins, stingrays, otters, and more; and Animal Discovery Zoological Park featuring everything from monkeys to marsupials and crocs to meerkats.
Just south of NewBridge Park on the southwestern edge of downtown, the Blandwood Mansion and Gardens (which is far from "bland")1 is the oldest building still on its original foundation in Greensboro; it went up 1795 and has stayed put ever since. As far back as 1844 it was recognized as the "earliest Tuscan villa in the United States." Its architectural significance as an antebellum home is known nationwide. A museum opened inside the mansion in 1976; the mansion and gardens are open for tours and events throughout the year.
Also along Business I-40 on the south side, the Best Western PLUS Windsor Suites has convenient access to all of the city, plus three other nearby attractions: the Four Seasons Town Centre, located across the street along Business I-40, includes a three-story mall and the Koury Convention Center, the largest convention complex between Atlanta and Washington, DC. About a mile up High Point Road is the Greensboro Coliseum, a major event, convention, and sports arena. The ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) Hall of Champions is located in the arena (as is ACC headquarters), along with an $18 million aquatics center and amphitheater. For a little water fun, Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe is just a few miles east along Business I-40, sporting 36 rides including one of the tallest water slides in America. It's the largest waterpark in the Carolinas.
Well, there's quite a bit in Greensboro, isn't there?
From Greensboro, let's continue east along I-40/85, which combine for the ride from the "Piedmont Triad" to the "Research Triangle." Along the way is Burlington, a city of 50,000 sitting in between the two trios of cities. Burlington is just under 20 miles east of Greensboro and is the seat of Alamance County. The Biscuitville restaurant franchise is headquartered in Burlington, as is LabCorp (one of the largest biomedical testing firms in the U.S)., and Gold Toe Socks – so there's definitely variety in the economy. Right off I-40/85, Burlington has the Best Western PLUS Burlington, which features not only great accommodations but Grill 584, a restaurant and martini bar.
Just four miles south along SC Highway 62 is plenty of Revolutionary and Civil War history, with the Alamance Battleground State Historic Site offering a small museum and the grounds upon which some vigorous battles took place. The first battle took place in 1771, when a local group calling themselves the "Regulators" (no relation to the Warren G. song) battled with the Royal Militia. The Allen House on the site is a log dwelling vividly illustrating life on the frontier when this area was a colony. Also nearby along Highway 62 is the site of the Battle of Clapp's Mill (1781), the Oak Grove Plantation, which lasted from 1790 to 1910, remnants of the Alamance Cotton Mill, which was built in 1837, and the Alamance County Historical Museum. The Museum is located in a beautiful country home built in 1790, with expansions in 1800 and 1875. Tours of the home and museum, which includes original furniture, are available every day except Monday and Federal holidays.
North of I-40/85 and the Best Western PLUS Burlington is downtown Burlington, where a mix of young companies and old historic buildings harmoniously blend. The Conservators' Center is a popular draw, providing a home for nearly 90 exotic animals across more than 20 species from bobcats and dingos to tigers, foxes, wolves, and lemurs. They offer tours where you can get up close and interact with many of these animals.
Just west of Burlington, Elon University educates a little over 6,000 students. Established as a college in 1889 and a university in 2001, Elon is a liberal arts university with highly-acclaimed programs. Their sports teams play in NCAA Division I in the Colonial Athletic Association as the Phoenix (although for years they were known as the "Fightin' Christians" in a nod to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and Duke Blue Devils, who lurk nearby). Just east of Burlington in Mebane, you can add to the local economy at the Tanger Outlets if you'd like to get some shopping in.
Continuing east in I-40/85, the two interstate split just west of Durham. We're entering the "Research Triangle" area here, and you can follow I-40 for direct connections to Chapel Hill, home to the flagship University of North Carolina, or I-85 to directly access downtown Durham and Duke University. We recommend both, why not?
Chapel Hill is named after a chapel built on a hilltop in 1752. Destined to be a college town (and one of the three corners of the "Research Triangle"), Chapel Hill is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a.k.a. UNC. It was chartered as the flagship university for North Carolina in 1789 and started admitting students six years later (it was pretty boring with no students, after all), making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States. Today – as well as historically – UNC-Chapel Hill is considered an "Ivy League" level public university, as are some neighboring universities with whom they share rivalries. The campus itself is fairly compact, covering 729 acres; it includes the Morehead Planetarium was the first planetarium in the U.S. to be built on a college campus (in 1949).
Of course, the university is huge for sports: the Tar Heels play football at Kenan Memorial Stadium, which holds 63,000 rabid fans and has hosted games here since 1927. Their storied basketball team plays at the Smith Center, named of course for 36-season coach Dean Smith (it's also called the "Dean Dome" quite a bit). Their "home field advantage" is legendary. Basketball is huge across North Carolina, and UNC happens to have the Carolina Basketball Museum next door to the Smith Center. Classic symbols of the university include the Old Well, a rotunda completed in 1897 that once served as the sole water supply for the university, and the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, a beautiful 172-foot tower completed in 1931 that chimes on the quarter hour to help students realize they're up to 15 minutes late for classes. Tours of the lovely campus are available that will take you to all of these sights and more, including the Old East Residence Hall, built in 1793 and the first state university building in the United States.
The campus hosts a number of museums, including the Ackland Art Museum, which since 1958 has been one of North Carolina's primary cultural resources; over 17,000 works of art, including a sizeable collection of Asian and African art as well as pottery. The North Carolina Botanical Garden is a free attraction with a beautiful and bucolic collection of native North Carolina plants and trees; nature trails take you through series of gardens with plaques identifying the variety of flora.
Downtown Chapel Hill is loaded with restaurants, shops, bars, and more that cater to the college crowd and the extensive business and industry communities. Famed musician James Taylor spent his formative years near Chapel Hill and wrote "Carolina in My Mind" while in England as a salute to his home state; it's now the "unofficial" song at UNC, and for the Carolinas in general. For the not-quite-college-age set, the Kidzu Children's Museum offers plenty of fun exhibits; their new "Launch Pad" opens in spring 2015. Gimghoul Castle was built in 1924 as Hippol castle; its construction includes 1,300 tons of rough stone, supposedly from French artisans. The Castle and surrounding land is owned by the Order of the Gimghoul, a non-profit "secret society" membership group of male college students and alumni. There many legends and stories, some of which you can hear about at their magnificent headquarters in this castle. Hey, why not check it out?
When you're done with Chapel Hill and the UNC portion of the Research Triangle, head up U.S. 15/501 into Durham, a city of a quarter million, bathing in the history of tobacco and academia.
Durham, most famously, is home to Duke University, an Ivy League school of 15,000 students, over one billion dollars in research, and major sports – especially in basketball – in the form of the Duke Blue Devils. Duke, established in 1838 as "Brown's Schoolhouse," consistently ranks among the world's best universities. There are two campus locations for Duke in Durham: East Campus, which was the original location near downtown, and Main (West) Campus about one mile west, which was built in the 1920s and 1930s. Iconic buildings include the Duke Chapel. Completed in 1935, Duke Chapel evokes the classic Ivy League – or old European – feel: grey stone, stained glass, vaulted arches, the works. You can check out the Chapel (which is more like a Cathedral), perhaps hear the organ playing, and catch a lunch at the Divinity Café nearby.
Trivia: Duke competed in the only Rose Bowl ever played outside of California by hosting the game at Wallace Wade Stadium in 1942. The game was moved to Durham that year in part due to fears of a Japanese attack on the West Coast in the wake of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor.
Duke's campus is one of the most beautiful in the country; Gothic architecture is everywhere and forested hills dominate. On campus, Sarah Duke Gardens is considered one of the premier public gardens in the country; over 300,000 visitors annually enjoy the gardens, which are open 365 days a year – and it's free! The Nasher Museum of Art features terrific exhibits of paintings and sculpture, much of it modern and contemporary.
Duke is named after the benevolent Duke family, which made its fortune from factories, farms, and The American Tobacco Company, the world's largest. A big chunk of the profits went to Duke University; resulting in the school being named after them. The Duke Homestead encompasses their early home, factories, and tobacco farms; it is available for tours and is essentially a living museum to the era and Durham's history. Nearby, the Duke Lemur Center is a research facility that offer tours focusing on these fascinating creatures. The Museum of Life & Science features hands-on exploratory exhibits including a Magic Wings Butterfly House, an Insectarium, wetlands, dinosaurs, and more.
Baseball has a long history in Durham. The Durham Bulls are a "AAA"-affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays and have a more than 70-year history playing in town. From 1926 (when it opened as "El Toro Park") until 1995 the team played in what is now Historic Durham Athletic Park downtown… and yes, this is where a chunk of the movie Bull Durham was filmed. Today, the team plays about a mile to the south in Durham Bulls Athletic Park, a terrific ballpark that hosted the "AAA" All-Star Game in 2014 and is one of the centerpieces of the American Tobacco Historic District, a complex of nightclubs, restaurants, bars, and other accoutrement that make up an entertainment district in former tobacco factory buildings.
That's not the only complex of its kind in Durham, either; just west of the main downtown district you'll find Brightleaf Square, which uses another complex of historic tobacco warehouses to feature shops, restaurants, and bars. Downtown Durham itself, centered on Main Street, includes the Central Park district that has more shops, cafes, restaurants, and gathering spots for Durham residents and Duke students. Traditional signs, including some old-school tobacco company murals you don't get to see much of anymore, adorn some of the buildings.
Elsewhere around Durham, history abounds. The Bennett Place State Historic Site commemorates the largest surrender of the Civil War. Stagville State Historic Site is a former plantation offering tours illustrating life in the antebellum era. Also on the north side near I-85 not far from Creedmoor (home of the Best Western Butner Creedmoor Inn) is the Museum of Life & Science, which focuses on indoor and outdoor learning environments. The main building includes the Butterfly House, a farmyard, a café, a nature park, dinosaur trails, and a train. Its Aerospace exhibit is highly touted and includes many artifacts from the Apollo space missions; also of note is Catch the Wind, a set of exhibits illustrating how wind affects our environment.
From Durham, hit the Durham Expressway/NC Highway 147 and head east; it will take you right through Research Triangle Park, one of the world's largest. Research Triangle Park was established way back 1959, when the concept of an office park complex was fairly new; it was built to try and stem the "brain drain" happening from the area's universities, as many students upon graduation left for jobs elsewhere in the country. That certainly happened, as the Triangle Region is considered one of the most highly-educated metropolitan areas in the United States and has grown to over two million people.
From the Research Park area, connect to I-40 east and make your way into the capital city and third leg of the "Research Triangle" area, Raleigh. A fast-growing and dynamic city of over 400,000, Raleigh is the center of government and, like so many cities in this area, home to a major university: NC State (North Carolina State University), along with Duke and UNC, is the third corner of the "Research Triangle." The university began as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1887; the "NC State" change officially came in 1963 and today, the student body numbers around 34,000. Like the other universities in the area, the school is a major research university and is ranked worldwide, not just nationwide, in many academic programs.
The NC State Wolfpack share big rivalries with these schools and others in the ACC. Their football team plays at Carter-Finley Stadium, which opened a few miles west of campus in 1966 and holds nearly 58,000 spectators. Basketball is just as huge with NC State as with Duke and UNC; the team plays in Raleigh's PNC Arena, which also hosts the only major league pro team in the area, the NHL Carolina Hurricanes. The Hurricanes, originally the New England and Hartford Whalers, came to North Carolina in 1997 and snagged the Stanley Cup in the 2005-06 season. They are the only pro sports team in one of the four major sports in the state outside of Charlotte. Along with basketball and hockey, PNC Arena also hosts major events from concerts to monster truck shows, from the circus to ice skating shows and rodeos. Other professional sports in Raleigh include the NASL Carolina RailHawks, who play at WakeMed Soccer Park in suburban Cary (the NC State Wolfpack play soccer there, too); and an "A"-advanced affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, the Carolina Mudcats. The Mudcats play at Five County Stadium in suburban Zebulon (that's a nearby town, not a distant galaxy).
The centerpiece of the city is the North Carolina State Capitol, a lovely Greek Revival structure that opened in 1840. One might look at it in the center of Union Square and think it's not very big to serve as the capitol of such a large state, and that's true. But North Carolina was a wee bit smaller back then; the expansions have gone into many surrounding buildings. The Office of the Governor and Office of the Lieutenant Governor are still located there, and statues showcasing the history of the state and some of its famous politicians adorn the grounds; tours of the Capitol are offered every half hour. Meanwhile, the legislature meets one block north in the North Carolina State Legislative Building.
Amidst these government buildings are a complex of museums, including the North Carolina Museum of History, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (the oldest museum – and largest museum of its kind – in the state), the Raleigh City Museum, and the Marbles Kids Museum, where there's a lot more than just marbles to play with. A few blocks away, the Executive Mansion is an architectural gem built in 1891 surrounded by beautiful gardens. Limited tours are available of the Mansion, which connects the Capitol area to the historic Oakwood neighborhood, which is a great place for a walking tour.
A centerpiece of this area is Mordecai Historic Park, which preserves the Mordecai House. The House was built in 1795, is the oldest house in Raleigh still standing in its original location, and was the birthplace of our 17th President, Andrew Jackson. The park was the center of what was the largest plantation in Wake County. Other historic and lovely buildings are within a few blocks; the nearby Visitor Information Center has maps and other details.
In the Raleigh area, four Best Western hotels offer terrific accommodations – which is good, since the area is worth spending at least a couple of days! In Raleigh proper, you'll find the Best Western Raleigh Inn & Suites on the east side and the Best Western Raleigh North-Downtown on the (surprise) north side; both of these hotels are right off I-440. To the southeast in suburban Garner, check out the Best Western PLUS Edison Inn; just to the southwest in Cary by NC State, you'll find the Best Western PLUS Cary Inn – NC State.
From Raleigh, it's a short drive to eastern North Carolina cities like Battleboro, Tarboro, Smithfield, and even Roanoke Rapid – featuring plenty more to see and do.
Plenty of options for a city and metro with plenty to see and do. Stay a while and then check out some of our other North Carolina tours!


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Both confusing messaging and technical complexity present real problems, but while messaging can be (relatively) easily corrected, the technical complexity is a lot more difficult to untangle. Let's examine.
The most major complexity of Blackboard's flagship Learn LMS is the sheer combination of supported configurations that it supports, even in its latest release. It can be run on different versions of Windows, or Linux, or Solaris. It can be run with databases including multiple versions of Oracle or SQL Server (PostgreSQL support was also rumored at one point, but I still don't see it). Each of these can be run with different combinations of OS and database updates, hotfixes, and patch sets. The software runs on a version of Java which reached its end-of-life several months ago (and will no longer receive any updates, security or otherwise, else the Java version would be still another variable). It can run on virtualized environments or bare metal. It can be hosted by Blackboard or self-hosted. And these combinations don't even consider the additional combinations that Michael's post references – adding even more dependencies on software hosted or delivered by Amazon and though others.
The application that runs on top of all of these components is a well-intentioned but clunky amalgamation of many different pieces. It has flavors of the historical Blackboard and of the WebCT architects. There's a little bit of ANGEL mixed in. Some of the design came from seasoned software architects with decades of experience while other bits came from media studies majors (especially one really smart one in particular). Some was built when the company was still a startup, others the artifacts of various rearchitecting efforts. Some pieces were jammed in or bolted on though various acquisitions.
Today, it's not just the pieces that Blackboard itself owns that are important. In-line document rendering is provided by a third-party called Crocodoc. Parts of the video recording and embedding capabilities are provided by Google and YouTube, a fact that became painfully clear when all embedded course videos in all Blackboard environments across the world recently, apparently stopped working. Unlike companies like Instructure that can update every single one of their customers instantly and simultaneously when something breaks or D2L who only needs to focus on the Windows technology stack and is making steady progress towards periodic automatic updates for both hosted and self-hosted institutions, Blackboard still faces every combination of variables imaginable (and arguably still more after this year's BbWorld).
Blackboard for many, many years has had this wonderful plugin framework called Building Blocks. It's seriously cool (and I'm not just saying this because I spent a decade of my life building them). Building Blocks were "apps" 10 years before the concept became mainstream. And when Blackboard announced that they were (finally) modularizing the Learn product into their own Building Block plugin framework to make updates easier, I was really excited. The approach was rushed into use as a way to increase the pace and decrease the time to availability of bug fixes. This was a good goal, but it fast-tracked some thinking-through of important details. And as a result, when you had a bug, not only did the Blackboard Support team have to ask what version of Blackboard you were running, but also which specific versions of each plugin you were running.
Updating these plugins sometimes required restarting Blackboard services (ie: downtime); other updates did not. Some updates had to be performed in a certain sequence, or else they would not work. Or one time I remember the official documentation specified an order, but it was the wrong one. Or once the specified order was technically impossible to achieve. There was also no real way to roll back once the install button was clicked. And so the risks to keeping the software up-to-date seemed to actually become even greater. Oh, and there were still releases/service packs and hot fixes to keep track of despite this welcome improvement. Sometimes those "upgrades" actually blew away the Building Block updates made between the release of the official updater/installer and the last batch of Building Block updates. And of course, there's that pesky detail that every institution still gets to decide at its own pace and on its own timeline when to update.
Needless to say, it's not only confusing for external third-party developers but likely to Blackboard's own in-house developers which ones are the right ones, or best ones, or most-appropriate ones to use.
As was the case in 2013 when this blog started tracking LMS data, Blackboard still has the largest variance of installed versions of all the major flavors of LMSs (though to their credit, it is getting better). But the challenges are still far from over. I suspect foregoing the Spring 2015 release was one part of Blackboard's strategy towards bringing all of their customers closer together and narrowing the version spread.
But my bottom line remains. Technical problems are much harder to solve than marketing ones, and the complexities we see here make every Blackboard installation unique in some nuanced way or another. Staying this course is not sustainable. If I were Blackboard, I'd focus on decreasing software complexity as an important goal rather than replaying the "rebundling the licenses" shell game. A good product may sell itself, but a complex one hastens its own morbidity.


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Q: SQL statement in getting available equipment from stock I have a table equipment with columns name, description, status
This is how my table looks like when I display all rows:
id  name      description   status
1   shovel    shiny shovel     1
2   shovel    shiny shovel     1
3   shovel    shiny shovel     0
4   hammer    big hammer       1
5   hammer    big hammer       0

This is the SQL statement I have right now:
SELECT equipment.name, equipment.description, COUNT(*) AS stock
FROM equipment
GROUP BY equipment.name

and it shows the following:
name    description   stock
shovel  shiny shovel    3
hammer  big hammer      2

What I want is to display another column showing the number of equipment that has a status of 1
name    description   stock  available
shovel  shiny shovel    3       2
hammer  big hammer      2       1

A: You are almost there: all you need is to sum up the status fields, like this:
SELECT
    equipment.name,
    equipment.description,
    COUNT(*) AS stock,
    SUM(status) as available
FROM equipment
GROUP BY
    equipment.name,
    equipment.description

A: The trick here (that will work in SQL Server and MySQL) is to use conditional SUM() instead of COUNT()
    SELECT ..., SUM(WHEN CASE status = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as available

If status can be only 1 or 0 then you can just total it:
    SELECT ..., SUM(status) as available

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 Abraham Placzek (1799–1884), Rabbiner
 Adolf K. Placzek (1913–2000), austroamerikanischer Bibliothekar, Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller
 Baruch Placzek (1835–1922), Rabbiner
 Otto Placzek (1884–1968), deutscher Bildhauer und Modelleur
 Dietmar Placzek (* 1951), deutscher Bauingenieur für Geotechnik
 George Placzek (1905–1955), tschechoslowakischer Physiker
 Siegfried Placzek (1866–1946), deutscher Neurologe

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Happy Monday! I'm sharing a guest post from Britt Skrabanek that was published on Kristen Lamb's blog today. Britt is a savvy author and marketer who has some good points to make about our publishing expectations. As much as I wish I could click my ruby slippers together, press the "easy" button, and be an Amazon bestseller (how's that for mixing some metaphors?) it ain't gonna happen without work, patience, and sometimes, a little bit of luck.


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Most of you people must be aware of the recent launch of Project Eve store in Pheonix market-city Chennai. I was one of the few lucky people who had a chance to attend their preview. This is their third store in India and is a Unique experience store for women. The store's USP is that it has everything that a woman wants. Right from accessories, clothing to beauty products and much more. The store is an epitome of grandeur and also has a spa for you to take some time off and relax for a bit. The brand also provides you with an in-house stylist as well to suits your needs.
The store has different sections according to different themes. They had rose themed prints, florals, party wear and lots more. I was instantly drawn towards their festive collection. The store has everything that you just need for the upcoming festivals. I also found few uber comfortable printed cotton garments which are just perfect for the season. I put together three of my favourite looks from the collection.
For the first look, I layered a simple cotton asymmetrical maxi dress with a printed blue overcoat. The maxi is so versatile that it can be paired with a lot of things. I wanted to keep the second look simple yet classic so I chose this beautiful floral printed box dress. The dress has box sleeves which are extremely comfortable and i finished the look with a bright coloured box clutch. For the last look, i decided to pick something from their festive collection because diwali is right around the corner. I had to choose this bright coloured red kurtha which had gold detailing in the neck part. I paired the kurtha with gold culottees to add an oomph factor. I finished the look with a gold sling bag and gold shoes.
I had an awesome time at the Project Eve store checking out their collection and putting togther looks. You guys should defenitely check it out because Project Eve is one of it's kind and their collection is fab.


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I used it be a climate change denier back when Gore ran for president and a few years after. I'm no longer a denier.
Yeah but climate change actually is bogus.
With his signature, Washington became the first state in the nation to pass a law to protect net neutrality.
Not huge news, but thought this was relevant to many of us.
They should have joined years ago.
I still laugh at the end of this thread's title. If only swearing was allowed and you added As*** Pie to it.
It was always a little puzzling to me that they weren't in on it at the start. I think they finally woke up and are realizing that the idiocy going on is really going to impact them severely.
Lucky for me, I'm not able to play online. I win.
I remember seeing something about this regarding Twitch.tv as well. Didn't know how deep it went but if it's because of Amazon, then I can imagine a lot of stuff being inaccessible without AWS.
In a monumental decision that will resonate through election season, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 52-47 to reinstate the net neutrality protections the Federal Communications Commission decided to repeal last December.
But it's doa no matter what. f*** the Republican Party.
Yeah unfortunately it has to get past the House, then if it makes it that far has to get past Trump.
Best thing you can do? Look at this list, find your representatives in the senate. If they voted to restore net neutrality (for) (the good one), make sure to get out and vote for them this fall. If they voted the other way, go vote for whoever is their opponent.
Pass this along to everyone you can find, and get everyone you know out to vote this fall.
To put this in video game terms, you're paying your ISP and either MS or PS for online play. You don't want to have to pay yet again for a fast lane.
No surprise both of the Iowa dips***s voted against. Unfortunately it's not an election year here.
Last week, AT&T apologized for for its "serious misjudgment" in hiring US President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen to provide "insights" into how the new administration would handle issues like net neutrality and AT&T's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. Ultimately, the $600,000 AT&T paid Cohen for said insights became such a scandal, the company was forced to fire its top policy and lobbying man Bob Quinn, despite the fact that such behavior is arguably routine at the Dallas-based telecom giant.
While AT&T would obviously like to move on from the scandal, watchdogs and several lawmakers would like to see the issue explored in more detail.
New scheduling documents obtained through FOIA by corruption watchdog American Oversight show the Chairman met with with top AT&T executives at a private dinner in Barcelona a month after the company began paying Cohen.
One of the AT&T executives at that meeting was top AT&T policy and lobbying exec Bob Quinn, who orchestrated the payments to Cohen and was fired by AT&T for what the company now acknowledges was "a mistake."
"A private dinner between Chairman Pai and an AT&T executive who hired Michael Cohen to influence the president doesn't reflect well on the impartiality of the FCC," said American Oversight Director Austin Evers in a statement. "Pai should disclose exactly what was discussed at the dinner and who organized the meeting. Did Michael Cohen set up a dinner where AT&T executives tried to sway a member of the president's administration on policy that affects the company?"
"We can't know for sure until Pai tells the whole story," the group proclaimed. "The FCC has some serious explaining to do."
Given that Pai is arguably ultra-cozy with the industry he's supposed to be holding accountable, it's entirely possible that meeting would have happened anyway. But the group still believes that the company and Ajit Pai should be more transparent about the meeting, especially given the laundry list of favors (from gutting net neutrality to killing consumer privacy protections) that have rained down upon AT&T since Trump picked Pai to head the agency.
Where's the poop reaction, optionally and ideally with orange tint and blonde toupée?
Wouldn't there be a chance for a provider to advertise as Net Neutral or something? Or does a provider own the lines to the homes/regions and you're stuck with that ISP?
Pretty much the latter. At least here in the US, many of us have one and only one choice for high speed internet. I can either pay Spectrum, or tether from my phone. That's it. If Spectrum raises my bill $10 tomorrow, what can I do?
Other people here at least have two choices (Verizon runs fiber to some areas but not all), but that's still two huge companies who still have massive market power.
What's worse is that many of these ISPs are also television providers, and they are seeing that market shrink with everyone cutting the cord on their TVs. So, now they are really looking for new streams of revenue since they can't just charge everyone hundreds of dollars a month for terrible cable TV.
Before that, when ADSL was the best option, a company started rolling out fibre, and they still own those cables, but most councils in the city are forcing them to remove them since they're so ugly.
Now we have NBN fibre rollout on a national scale, and it's a slow mess... But at least you can choose which slow mess you're associated with.
We, the taxpayers, paid for these company's infrastructures. They were allowed to build these wide spanning networks due to government subsidies. This is why all ISPs should be classified as common carriers.


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AstraZeneca pauses coronavirus vaccine trial
Discussions about early authorizations and reports about White House pressure to speed along a coronavirus vaccine have worried the public.
The latest reports that Drug giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday it had paused global trials of its coronavirus vaccine because of unexplained illness in one of the volunteers is a real spanner in the works for risk appetite.
"As part of the ongoing randomized, controlled global trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine, our standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow the review of safety data," the company said in a statement sent to CNN.
"This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials, while it is investigated, ensuring we maintain the integrity of the trials," the statement added.
"In large trials, illnesses will happen by chance but must be independently reviewed to check this carefully. We are working to expedite the review of the single event to minimize any potential impact on the trial timeline. We are committed to the safety of our participants and the highest standards of conduct in our trials."
Market implications
The company is testing its vaccine, called the Oxford vaccine which markets had high hopes for.
However, the hold up vs the concerns about moving too fast is a cocktail of contradictions which is concerning on both sides of the coin.
Earlier Tuesday, AstraZeneca joined eight other companies in signing a pledge promising they would not seek premature government approval for any coronavirus vaccine which could help to alleviate concerns to an extent.
"We, the undersigned biopharmaceutical companies, want to make clear our on-going commitment to developing and testing potential vaccines for COVID-19 in accordance with high ethical standards and sound scientific principles," a statement read that was signed by the CEOs of AstraZeneca, BioNTech GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer and Sanofi.
"We believe this pledge will help ensure public confidence in the rigorous scientific and regulatory process by which COVID-19 vaccines are evaluated and may ultimately be approved," they added.
Nevertheless, with the stock market in a rout and risk assets struggling, this vaccine news is another problematic area for markets to recover from.
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Discussions about early authorizations and reports about White House pressure to speed along a coronavirus vaccine have worried the public. The latest reports that Drug giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday it had paused global trials of its coronavirus vaccine because of unexplained illness in one of the volunteers is a real spanner in the works for risk appetite. "As part of the ongoing randomized, controlled global trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine, our standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow the review of safety data," the company said in a statement sent to CNN. "This is a routine action…
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In this course you will learn the basics of "speaking truth to power," an eight-step approach to policy analysis that is professionally rigorous and politically relevant. Study how to translate good policy analysis into better policy by deeply understanding policy problems, carefully formulating solutions, and strategically engaging in dialogue with key decision makers.
Through selected readings, lectures, discussion, and hands-on assignments, you will assimilate this approach and tailor it to your own purposes. You will gain an appreciation for the difficulties of designing policy interventions that can survive not only mistaken assumptions about cause and effect, but also flawed implementation processes.
Professor Karen Baehler, a Scholar in Residence at American University, developed this course. Professor Baehler has extensive experience in policy analysis that has included more than a decade of work for government agencies and think tanks in the Washington DC area, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Maryland Department of Human Resources, and the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. She has published three books, 12 refereed journal articles, and three book chapters on policy-analysis topics.
Demonstrate mastery of the eight steps of policy analysis, including theories and methods associated with each
Demonstrate ingenuity in solving problems, openness to competing perspectives, skepticism toward conventional wisdom, political awareness, and care for people affected by policies
Learn to write policy memos and provide oral policy recommendations
Record a short video response to a case study and provide feedback to other student videos
Craft policy advice that is professionally rigorous and relevant, and to articulate your own vision of good policy analysis and its role in the policy process.
The course will cover major topic areas that include:
Speaking truth to power by relying on evidence to make a case for change
Verifying and detailing problems
Building an outcomes matrix to assess solutions, while thinking outside the box
Moving from outcomes matrix to recommendations
Testing policy options using logic models as well as common sense
Learning from master policy analysts
Applying policy evaluation and politics
Learn more today. Call us at 855-725-7614 to speak to an admissions representative, or request more information here.


"मुझे कुछ नहीं करना है।"
Translation:I do not have to do anything.
How about "I have nothing to do"?
"Mere pas kuchch karne ke liye nahi hai" OR "Mere pas karne ke liye kuchch nahi hai" One is proper way, the other is slang, however I forget which is which... sorry.
I do not want to so anything.
How would you express 'I have to do nothing'?
When would you use that instead of "I do not have to do anything"?
When it's imperative that I do nothing as opposed to when there is no need for me to do anything.


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E-commerce minister urges British business to look across the Atlantic for inspiration.
It's official: the government would like us all to become Americans, or at least to act more like Americans as far as innovation and business start-ups are concerned.
"We would like an entrepreneurial culture that's a lot more like the US," said e-commerce minister Stephen Timms, speaking at the UK Technology Partnership and Investment Forum in London.
Challenged from the floor that US business culture is rather different from ours, and that British entrepreneurs might do better to take lessons from other Europeans, Timms acknowledged that but said he stood by his earlier comments.
"I have visited France, Germany and elsewhere, and I have seen some great things there, but in terms of the lessons that are easiest to apply here, they are usually in the US rather than Europe," he said.
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Symbian executive VP David Wood singled out for criticism "the requirement on companies to keep pushing out the financial results," saying that Psion's decision to sell its stake in Symbian was a classic example.
"It's striking how the most successful companies are those with long-term plans," he added. "The technology companies which said 'We must get this to market fast' failed, while the ones which had a clear view five years ahead are the ones that grew."


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Rebelse Madonna toont in clubshow Parijs haar krengerigheid **** (Dutch review on Paris show, scroll down for English)
Madonna. Gezien: 22/2 Grand Rex, Parijs. Herhaling: t/m 11/3. ●●●● Madonna die om twaalf uur 's nachts op het podium verschijnt en tot bijna half drie ochtends doorgaat. Madonna die grappen maakt over haar eigen 'invaliditeit'. Madonna die ontspannen van het podium afstapt en tussen het publiek gaat zitten kletsen. Wie had gedacht dat ze…
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Madonna – Madame X Tour – Le Grand Rex (Reportage FRANCE 2) [HD+]
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Madonna at the Grand Rex: the singer goes up on stage 3 h 30 late
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Madame X is a saint…..but is also very very VERY late
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MadonnaUnderground meets Tracy Young for upcoming exclusive interview!
Today Tracy Young was present at the famous Lucky Records store in the heart of Paris for a meet & greet. The turnout was exceptional and everyone there was able to have a chat with her, get a signature and take a photo. Tracy Young was recently awarded with a Grammy for 'I Rise' and…
Madonna in today's Le Parisien
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Matthew Hemley: Madonna's no-phone zone was heavenly, is it time for theatres to follow suit?
Something unusual happened at the London Palladium last Sunday, when I caught the closing show in Madonna's three-week residency: there wasn't a single phone to be seen in the auditorium. Not one. There was no filming her on stage, no horrid glare from the screens as people checked for messages and – perhaps most importantly…
Currently at Le Grand Rex…
Madame X at Le Grand Rex (video report on setting everything up)
Madonna débarque samedi au Grand Rex à Paris mais attention il sera interdit de filmer le concert et son équipe pic.twitter.com/A6QduWKlY2
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) February 21, 2020
Le Grand Rex is getting ready…..
While they're still unloading (technical) equipment and setting up the queuing area outside, they still found time to put up these fantastic posters of the show
Madonna: the "Madame X Tour" arrives at the Grand Rex in Paris this weekend
The big day has arrived ! The "Madame X Tour" arrives in Paris for 11 performances scheduled from this Saturday, February 22, 2020. This series of concerts will close the tour that started in September in New York and then passed through Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, Lisbon and London for the promotion of the album "Madame…
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Pokrajina Caltanissetta (v italijanskem izvirniku Provincia di Caltanissetta [provìnča di kaltanisèta]), je ena od devetih pokrajin, ki sestavljajo italijansko deželo Sicilija. Meji na severu s pokrajino Palermo, na vzhodu s pokrajinama Enna in Catania, na jugu s pokrajino Ragusa in s Sredozemskim morjem (Sicilska ožina) ter na zahodu s pokrajino Agrigento.

Večje občine

Glavno mesto je Caltanissetta, ostale večje občine so (podatki 31.12.2006):

Naravne zanimivosti

Pokrajina, ki ima približno obliko številke 8, se zelo razlikuje med eno polovico in drugo, bodisi v površinskih oblikah, kot tudi v podnebju. Čeprav je vsa pretežno gričevnata in brez visokih vzpetin, je severozahodna polovica bolj gorata in prepredena z globokimi skalnatimi dolinami, ki jih omejujejo manjše težko dostopne planote. V jugovzhodni polovici se gričevje postopno spušča v rodovitne doline vse do morske obale. Podnebje je v severni polovici hladno, saj je povprečna zimska temperatura med 0° in 3 °C, poletna med 15° in 18 °C: izjemoma se zgodi, da se dvigne za dan ali dva do 45 °C, vendar brez vlage in z vetrom. Južna polovica pokrajine pa ima temperature, ki so bolj razumljive za to zemljepisno širino, zime okoli 10 °C in poletja okoli 25 °C. Tudi padavin je tu samo do 400 mm letno, medtem ko v severnem predelu dežuje skoraj dvakrat toliko.

Seznam zaščitenih področij v pokrajini:
 Naravni rezervat Contrada Scaleri (Riserva naturale orientata geologica di Contrada Scaleri)
 Naravni rezervat Lago Sfondato (Riserva naturale integrale Lago Sfondato)
 Naravni rezervat Lago Soprano (Riserva naturale Lago Soprano)
 Naravni rezervat Monte Capodarso e Valle dell'Imera Meridionale (Riserva naturale orientata Monte Capodarso e Valle dell'Imera Meridionale)
 Naravni rezervat Sughereta di Niscemi (Riserva naturale orientata Sughereta di Niscemi)

Zgodovinske zanimivosti

V pokrajini je bilo leta 1834 popisanih 88 rudnikov žvepla od okoli skupnih 200 na otoku. Delovne razmere rudarjev so bile strašne, a ne samo zaradi telesnega napora. Kovina se je namreč pridobivala s taljenjem rude, kar je sproščalo ogromne količine žveplovega dioksida, ki je strupen. Šele leta 1952 je bil uveden postopek flotacije, a že leta 1975 so bili vsi rudniki žvepla zaprti. Ostali so v bridkem spominu predvsem otroci, imenovani carusi [karùzi], ki so v preteklih časih bili nekakšni sužnji rudarjev. Ti dečki, ki so jih revne družine "odstopile" za nekaj denarja, so hodili v najgloblje rove po vreče žveplene rude in so jih na hrbtu prinašali na površje. Niso dobivali plače razen prehrane, ki je bila večkrat le kruh in voda. V rudniku so delali do nabora, a niso bili sprejeti v vojsko, in sicer zaradi zvite hrbtenice ali slepote, zato so ostajali na milost in nemilost rudarjev do smrti.

Viri
 Istituto Nazionale di Statistica
 Parchi e aree protette in Italia, Touring Club Italiano, 2003
 Lessico Universale Italiano Treccani 1968-1986

Pokrajine Italije


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Q: Native C++ extension for electron.atom.io I would like to build a C++ native extension for electron.I started with the hello sample: I built the node libraries, the sample and tested successfully with node (v4.5.0).To use with electron I have to build against the electron V8 version. I followed this guide to build the node library: I generated the msvc VS2015 projects, but when I build I get this error:
\cares.vcxproj(360,5): error MSB3073: The command "call ninja.exe -C ..\..\..\..\out\Debug_x64\ cares" exited with code 1.

And this happens for all projects. How can I solve it?

A: You don't need to build Electron from source to build a native Node module, you should follow the same advice I gave over here.