Introducing the "fresh meat" into his new cubicles can be a big challenge, depending on the new guy you've hired. No sooner has that high-paid hire moved into his new Herman Miller digs when he shows his true colors: no easy-to-get-along, hard-working office bee, but a gossipy, lazy waste of space and resources. Yeah, integrating the new guy into his new cubicles can be a bit hit-and-miss.
Lay out a decent welcome. Before his new cubicles get broken in, make sure your new colleague feels welcome in your office.
"It doesn't take a consultant or a think tank to understand the value of effectively integrating new employees into the workplace," explains BureauPat at OhMyGov.com. "This integration should boost employee performance and possibly even minimize staff turnover, as employees are less likely to leave a welcoming environment." Question is – are his new cubicles going to be perceived as a welcoming environment?
HowtoDoThings.com offers a few tips that can help your new colleague ease into his new cubicles and office environment – a formal announcement in office channels like office memos or bulletin boards; a personal welcome by one of the receptionists, and a tour of the office surrounding his new cubicles; and face-time with the CEO. This way, when he enters his new cubicles, your new guy will know he's been welcomed properly into your organization!
Set the bar high. Before his new cubicles can be broken in, make sure your new employee knows the standards you set. In the first few days, you can't allow your new hire to set his own standards within the walls of his own new cubicles.
Let him know his place. We humans are an awkward bunch – what to your new employee are his new cubicles, the old-timers see as territory that's been fought over and won. Like it or not, the new guy will be part of a pecking order – one that you're duty-bound to ease him into without blood spilled in his new cubicles.
Now imagine the 'new guy' entering the new work environment. The people within the organization already have their arrangements in place. They know their roles, who is in charge, their general standing in the scheme of things and written and unwritten protocols of the organization. The new person upsets this balance and the balance has to be restored, albeit in a different way than before.
Article first published as New Guy, New Cubicle, New Challenges on Technorati.
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"I will never give up. I never have, even when times have been terrible."
As a young woman, Michelle Mone was always told that she was beautiful. And like many young people, when the chance of a lifetime came calling, she jumped at it. Mone grew up in Scotland in the early 1970s. At the age of only 15, she left school to dive into a full-time modelling career. Determined to strive for more, Mone notched a job with beer brewer Labatt Brewing Company. She had faked some details on her resume in order to land the job, but clearly it was nothing she felt she couldn't back up with her innate knowledge and professional prowess. Shortly after her time at Labatt ended, Mone became intrigued by a new women's brassiere design. After several years of subsequent development on the design, science and marketing aspects, Mone founded MJM International Ltd, from which she would launch the first Ultimo bra. The Ultimo brand launch proved to be so successful that Mone rapidly sold out of all of her initial supply. The Ultimo brand is now one of the most popular women's apparel lines in the world, and Michelle Mone has proven that early trials don't always lead to future tribulations. After becoming pregnant with her first child at 18, Mone seemed to be just another statistic in a high-risk profession. She would prove, however, that what one sees on the surface can often be deceiving.
"The last few decades have seen a revolution when it comes to female sexuality, and the reincarnation of women's undergarments is a by-product of that. Well done to Mone for seeing the opportunity." – Bernardo Moya
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Coevolution of generalist feeding ecologies and gyrencephalic mushroom bodies in insects
Sarah M. Farris, Nathan S. Roberts
Here we demonstrate the independent acquisition of strikingly similar brain architectures across divergent insect taxa and even across phyla under similar adaptive pressures. Convoluted cortical gyri-like structures characterize the mushroom body calyces in the brains of certain species of insects; we have investigated in detail the cellular and ecological correlates of this morphology in the Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles). "Gyrencephalic" mushroom bodies with increased surface area and volume of calycal synaptic neuropils and increased intrinsic neuron number characterize only those species belonging to generalist plant-feeding subfamilies, whereas significantly smaller "lissencephalic" mushroom bodies are found in more specialist dung-feeding scarab beetles. Such changes are not unique to scarabs or herbivores, because the mushroom bodies of predatory beetles display similar morphological disparities in generalists vs. specialists. We also show that gyrencephalic mushroom bodies in generalist scarabs are not associated with an increase in the size of their primary input neuropil, the antennal lobe, or in the number of antennal lobe glomeruli but rather with an apparent increase in the density of calycal microglomeruli and the acquisition of calycal subpartitions. These differences suggest changes in calyx circuitry facilitating the increased demands on processing capability and flexibility imposed by the evolution of a generalist feeding ecology.
Published - 29 Nov 2005
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Neuropil
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Afferent
Farris, S. M., & Roberts, N. S. (2005). Coevolution of generalist feeding ecologies and gyrencephalic mushroom bodies in insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(48), 17394-17399. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0508430102
Farris, Sarah M. ; Roberts, Nathan S. / Coevolution of generalist feeding ecologies and gyrencephalic mushroom bodies in insects. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005 ; Vol. 102, No. 48. pp. 17394-17399.
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"The Lord looks down from heaven and sees all mankind.
If God is almighty then there is nothing to wrestle with in accepting that God is in control and directs everything that appertains to life. What he wills constitutes the compass of our existence. Everything that happens, happens because God is the cause and the origin of it. There is no room for accidents or bad luck in God's creation.
The knowledge that we are created by God comes from God's Word and the fact that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. We see in ourselves the creator's work. King David said, 'In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.' God's prescience was behind all that he made, matter and mind, body and soul; not just foreknowledge but predestination.
God gave man free will. Like God, man, male and female, had choice. Because of that freedom to choose, everything became what it is, a fallen world. This fall was from the creation of everything good to the creation of everything bad. The good world was eternal, perfect and beautiful; the fallen world temporary, dying and without hope. The fall from God's grace was the biggest catastrophe ever because not only was it God's judgement on sin but Adam and Eve's choice. They knew that a perfect world was God's creation yet they chose to doubt his Word at the cost of losing their eternal life. The loss of their fidelity to God was what resulted in their loss of Paradise. The world we live in, judged as it is by God, was the world our ancestors predetermined by their own choice. Yet overruling their choice and their sin, God foresaw a new world not determined by man's choice or sinfulness but his mercy and grace to be revealed when the time was right. And whilst in man's eyes the world is of his own making, the flood reminds us that God is never out of control and that whilst he allows sin to exist he does not allow it to rule over our lives or his own creation.
Everything was made to be what it is. Before the world was founded, before life existed on earth God had predestined what was to be and what was not to be. Man's sin is the price of free will and this God knew before ever the world was founded. The alternative would have been to create an automation, a machine without any self determination. But the consequences of choice are real and irrevocable. Sin, for instance, is a crime against God and incurs God judgment. Hence death came into the world due to our parent's choice to be wise in their own eyes. God's judgment on sin was death, both biological and spiritual. That is how it was and that is how it is. Mankind is predestined to eternal damnation. No one can justify their own existence or their own right to eternal life. The right to walk with God, to be acceptable to God, does not exist. Mankind has been damned from ever being acceptable to God. No one can escape death. And no one can escape the second death or separation from God forever. These are the facts of Scripture. That is why it is important to understand that God has predestined all men, male and female) to be judged according to what they have done and to face the consequence in the life to come.
God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ is there for every one, not the good or faithful; it is there to be received for what it is, God's munificent gift of life eternal. It requires no penances or good works. It is a gift from above not a reward for work done below. God has predestined this grace for all mankind. He has not predestined some to eternal life and some to eternal damnation by an arbitrary destiny due to his foreknowledge of whether men are good or bad. That is a false belief. But he knows who are willing to believe and those who are not and so he has predestined them by their own belief or unbelief. God is not a tyrant. He offers salvation to all mankind. (1Timothy 2:4) He wants all men to be saved. He would be contradicting his own grace if he determined some and not others. Grace is the unconditional love of God for mankind which cost the sacrifice of his own Son on the cross to be our sin bearer. Jesus died for the world, not for an elite that were elected because God decided to elect some and not others.
God's Word, the school of the Holy Spirit, does explain how and why grace is effectual for some but not for others.
The good news is obviously universal and whoever believes in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will receive the forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
I am in complete agreement with Paul that if salvation is by grace it cannot be by worth or merit. Nevertheless, for grace to be effectual it must be received by faith. For just as Abraham's faith was counted to him as righteousness and merit, apart from works, so faith in Christ is similarly counted as righteousness even though no merit or work has been performed to earn it.
Grace is God's gift to be received not through good deeds or merit but simple faith in God's Son whose blood was shed for our salvation. If some then are predestined to eternal life it is because grace proved effectual for them through their faith, whereas for others it did not prove effectual lacking the faith whereby grace is received. Faith, though of no merit, is nevertheless counted as righteousness and when exercised brings salvation through the blood of Christ. All to whom the gospel is preached receive prevenient grace which predisposes the heart of man to seek after God. There is then every reason to believe that God desires all men and women to be saved and participate in his election to eternal life. Lack of faith is the reason why some are predestined to eternal damnation. God foresees their unbelief in spite of his wish that they repent and believe the gospel.
Although God knows who will and who will not believe the good news of Christ's redemption, we do not. From our point of view, the future is not known and the details of predestination are not foretold. I would like to venture a further comment at this point: predestination, the eternal decree by which some are elected to eternal life and others to eternal damnation, is not the gospel but God's hidden decree and foreknowledge. The gospel, the good news of Christ's salvation, is that Christ died for the ungodly, and as St. Paul says, 'that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. How be it for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.' All this is achieved by grace through faith, not by works lest anyone should boast.


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I have heard Your instruction on confidential spiritual matters which You have so kindly delivered unto me, and my illusion is now dispelled.
This chapter reveals Krishna as the cause of all causes. He is even the cause of the Maha-Visnu, and from Him the material universes emanate. Krishna is not an incarnation; He is the source of all incarnations. That has been completely explained in the last chapter.
Now, as far as Arjuna is concerned, he says that his illusion is over. This means that Arjuna no longer thinks of Krishna as a mere human being, as a friend of his, but as the source of everything. Arjuna is very enlightened and is glad that he has a great friend like Krishna, but now he is thinking that although he may accept Krishna as the source of everything, others may not. So in order to establish Krishna's divinity for all, he is requesting Krishna in this chapter to show His universal form. Actually when one sees the universal form of Krishna one becomes frightened, like Arjuna, but Krishna is so kind that after showing it He converts Himself again into His original form. Arjuna agrees to what Krishna says several times. Krishna is speaking to him just for his benefit, and Arjuna acknowledges that all this is happening to him by Krishna's grace. He is now convinced that Krishna is the cause of all causes and is present in everyone's heart as the Supersoul.


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Sewer siblings: Why digital twins could solve wastewater's biggest challenge
Digital Twin aspirations could help speed up the development of "smart sewers" and help overcome the looming challenge of a soon to be retiring, ageing workforce. Tom Freyberg speaks to Aris Witteborg following the publication of a new white paper.
A holistic approach is needed
The implementation of digital twins (DTs) for wastewater infrastructure could help with one of the biggest challenges looming over the industry: an ageing, skilled workforce retiring.
Some water utilities are expecting to lose up to 50 per cent of their operations staff in the coming 15 years.
More than a technological exercise, creating a DT and its associated functionalities may impact how employees work and the way the business is structured.
A new white paper entitled 'Digital Twins for Wastewater Infrastructure' from Royal HaskoningDHV Digital addresses how digital twin technology can help to overcome these challenges and others, including increasing demands, climate change and sustainability targets.
Speaking to Aquatech Online, Aris Witteborg, white paper author and leading professional digital water, Royal HaskoningDHV Digital, said: "The main reason for adopting the digital twin concept is the fact that water utilities will lose a serious amount of cumulative experience through retirement in the coming years.
"The loss of experience involved is a serious threat to the current triple-A quality of the water services provided," he said.
"Chief information officers understand that you can't fix this with a patchwork of digital point solutions: you need a holistic approach."
"And the chief information officers understand that you can't fix this with a patchwork of digital point solutions: you need a holistic approach (the holistic digital twin concept) to keep the highly complex landscape of digitization manageable. And given the complexity, you need to start sooner rather than later, to be able to compensate for the loss of operations experience in time."
Avoiding a "big bang" with DT development
Defined as a "holistic digital representation of the physical system", or a "digital mirror of a real-world asset", digital twins integrate emerging technologies, such as AI and the Internet of Things (IoT).
This allows companies to monitor the way infrastructures work now, test the impacts of changes before they're made. They have the ability to help replace reactive maintenance schedules with predictive prevention and uncover opportunities that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.
Rather than a single piece of hardware or software, a DT comprises a layered approach.
This starts at the component level (such as a pump), at the process level (such as an aeration tank) and at the system level – in this case, the entire treatment works.
As a result, Witteborg said an "incremental development approach is much more sensible", rather than developing a digital twin with a 'big bang' approach.
"Human element is key"
The report also covered the often neglected element required for digital transformation, including DTs: the culture.
"It is important to realise that implementing a digital twin concept is not just the technological exercise of designing and developing advanced new software applications," it said.
A critical success factor in "operationalising the digital twin concept" and ensuring the workplace accepts changes, the human element is key, it said.
"Practice shows that a careful approach is required, and setting up and managing these change processes is a challenge in itself," added Witteborg.
"All in all, successfully implementing the digital twin concept requires a gradual, long-term growth path. And as each utility has its own starting point and its own challenges and priorities, there is no such thing as a standard roadmap."
"Smart sewers" will have their day
Digital twin progress in the sector can largely be witnessed in the drinking water side of the business.
The Spanish port city of Valencia is a well-known example, with the installation of 700,000 smart meters kickstarting its digital twin journey in 2007.
Meanwhile, an exact digital version of the Al Khobar 1 desalination plant in Saudi Arabia is being created, before its construction has been completed.
So will wastewater networks eventually play catch up, especially with the solutions readily available?
In a recent interview with Aquatech Online, Southern Water's head of water asset strategy, Chris Lumb said that "smart sewers" will see significant development over the coming years.
"I expect that the digital twin way of thinking might lead to speeding up the development of specific smart sewer solutions."
Witteborg believes the long-term aim of holistic digital twins will help speed up the development of smarter wastewater infrastructure.
"I expect that the digital twin way of thinking might lead to speeding up the development of specific smart sewer solutions – when there is a real business need for developing this smartness," he added.
Admitting that "digital twin thinking in general is in it's very early stages in the Dutch water sector", he said many proof of concept projects are being explored. This includes advanced control based on machine learning, BIM/3D in combination with virtual and augmented reality.
The consultant said it is helping to bring together different stakeholders.
"We already see that happening in The Netherlands, where the owners of the treatment infrastructure (water authorities) are working closely together with the owners of the sewer system (municipalities).
"They are co-developing digital solutions to optimize the operations and the maintenance of the wastewater infrastructure as a whole. This includes optimizing pumping regimes to optimize the hydraulic loading of the plants, while minimizing energy consumption."
More information on the digital twin white paper can be found here.
No-collar workforce: waters digital transformation
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Desalination gets digital twin makeover
Digital twins in water: What have we learned?


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Anorak News | Dr Karen Woo Was Murdered For Being A Christian: Photos And News Round-Up
Dr Karen Woo Was Murdered For Being A Christian: Photos And News Round-Up
by Anorak | 8th, August 2010
KAREN Woo was murdered by the Taliban in Afghanistan in a placed called Badakhshan. The 36-year-old surgeon had been working in Nuristan.
She is on the front page the Express, Mirror, Mail, Independent, Times, Telegraph and the Observer. Only Robbie Williams' wedding prevents Woo's face appearing on all the papers' front pages. She is British and photogenic.
She is the NoTW's "beautiful British surgeon".
She died with nine others, including six Americans, two Afghans and a German. Their bodies were found stripped of valuables.
The gunmen spared an Afghan driver, who recited verses from the Islamic holy book Quran as he begged for his life.
Dr Woo had been working with Christian charity called the International Assistance Mission (IAM). The charity offers eye care to people living in remote villages. Her Christianity is relevant to her death.
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What do we know about AM. Its website says:
IAM is an international charitable, non-profit, Christian organisation, serving the people of Afghanistan, through capacity building in the sectors of Health and Economic Development.
IAM's core values are:
Dependency on God
Love for All
IAM's executive director Dirk Frans tells us:
"We are Christians but we work under the laws of Afghanistan and those laws do not allow us to proselytise. The chief of police said it was basically robbery because nothing of value was left on the bodies."
A robbery. So says the policeman. But can it be true?
Says the Taliban:
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the aid workers' deaths, saying those killed were spies and preachers of Christianity. The details provided in statements by spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid suggested that the killers were insurgents and not bandits, who also roam freely in the area.
Says Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed:
"One of our patrols confronted a group of foreigners. They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all."
No. It was robbery. So say the police:
General Agha Noor Kemtuz, the local police chief, told the Observer that the group had stopped for lunch in a heavily forested area at around 2pm when they were robbed.
In October 2008, British Christian aid worker Gayle Williams was murdered in Kabul.
John Dempsey, who works in Kabul for the U.S. Institute of Peace says:
"I don't think they necessarily need to withdraw but I certainly think after what's happened earlier this year, and of course today's attack, they have to reassess what it means to be a Christian organisation in a country where they often are the ones singled out and targeted, and there may be measures they could take to improve their security for themselves.
"So I think there is still room for Christian organisations to operate in many parts of the country, but they'll have to be careful in terms of selecting where those might be."
Dr Karen Woo was due to marry Mark "Paddy" Smith this month. Says he:
"Karen grabbed life by the horns. She went to one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan just to help people. That was the sort of girl she was. She was focused and professional.
"It was one of those crazy relationships. Nothing is normal in Afghanistan, but when we met it just made sense. You know when something is right and this was just right."
She was prepared to work hard:
"I KNOW it's going to hurt but I just can't imagine it right now," wrote Karen Woo in her final blog entry on 20 July before her trip to the remote Afghan province of Nuristan. Read now, following her murder last week by the Taleban, her words seem especially poignant.
The Express has more background:
Raised in Stevenage by her Asian father and British mother, Karen had dreamed of being a dancer or a stunt woman in films and had even mastered the skill of wire-walking.
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Domainer Comics is an open series designed to poke fun at facts, figures and other aspects of domain investing.
If you missed the previous installments of the DomainGang Domainer Comics, check out "A penny saved is a penny earned", or head over to the central repository.
Faithful to our promise to create a new domain-related comic "whenever" we feel like it, today's subject is focusing on our friends over at Network Solutions.
The original domain registrar has some very odd guidelines with regards to obtaining the authentication code, in order to transfer domains away.
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The half-life of the average domainer is equal to one NetSol transfer.
It's only funny because I hear complaints about how long they take all the time. Sometimes daily. You would think that with all the complaints they get (and have gotten over the years) that they would beef up that department and provide a solution. But then,. they may already be working on a solution as I type.
NetSol is the most secure registrar. Why? Because they never give you the EPP/Auth code!


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048: *  for a detailed description of the algorithm.
055: *          = 'L':  B is lower bidiagonal.
058: *          The order of the matrix B.  N >= 0.
061: *          The number of columns of the matrix VT. NCVT >= 0.
064: *          The number of rows of the matrix U. NRU >= 0.
067: *          The number of columns of the matrix C. NCC >= 0.
070: *          On entry, the n diagonal elements of the bidiagonal matrix B.
083: *          On entry, an N-by-NCVT matrix VT.
084: *          On exit, VT is overwritten by P**H * VT.
085: *          Not referenced if NCVT = 0.
088: *          The leading dimension of the array VT.
089: *          LDVT >= max(1,N) if NCVT > 0; LDVT >= 1 if NCVT = 0.
092: *          On entry, an NRU-by-N matrix U.
093: *          On exit, U is overwritten by U * Q.
094: *          Not referenced if NRU = 0.
097: *          The leading dimension of the array U.  LDU >= max(1,NRU).
100: *          On entry, an N-by-NCC matrix C.
101: *          On exit, C is overwritten by Q**H * C.
102: *          Not referenced if NCC = 0.
105: *          The leading dimension of the array C.
106: *          LDC >= max(1,N) if NCC > 0; LDC >=1 if NCC = 0.
117: *                elements of E have not converged to zero.
123: *          TOLMUL controls the convergence criterion of the QR loop.
125: *             precision in the computed singular values.
129: *             abs(TOLMUL*EPS) in the largest singular value.
132: *             (for there to be some accuracy in the results).
135: *             (whichever is smaller).
141: *          through the inner loop exceeds MAXITR*N**2.
172: *     .. External Functions ..
181: *     .. Intrinsic Functions ..
186: *     Test the input parameters.
200:       ELSE IF( ( NCVT.EQ.0 .AND. LDVT.LT.1 ) .OR.
205:       ELSE IF( ( NCC.EQ.0 .AND. LDC.LT.1 ) .OR.
411:          IF( ABS( E( M-1 ) ).LE.ABS( TOL )*ABS( D( M ) ) .OR.
439:          IF( ABS( E( LL ) ).LE.ABS( TOL )*ABS( D( LL ) ) .OR.
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History?
History is the bits of what happened that make it into the history books. Example:
Livy: 'Can't I? Indeed I can,' said Livy. 'Do you mean to say that I mustn't write a history with an epic theme because that's a prerogative of poetry, or put worthy eve-of-battle speeches in the mouths of my generals because to compose such speeches is the prerogative of oratory?'
Pollio: 'That is precisely what I do mean. History is a true record of what happened, how people lived and died, what they did and said; an epic theme merely distorts the record. As for your generals' speeches they are admirable as oratory but damnably unhistorical: not only is there no particle of evidence for any one of them, but they are inappropriate. I have heard more eve-of-battle speeches than most men and though the generals that made them, Caesar and Antony especially, were remarkably fine platform orators, they were all too good soldiers to try any platform business on the troops. They spoke to them in a conversational way, they did not orate. What sort of speech did Caesar make before the Battle of Pharsalia? Did he beg us to remember our wives and children and the sacred temples of Rome and the glories of our past campaigns? By God, he didn't! He climbed up on the stump of a pine-tree with one of those monster-radishes in one hand and a lump of hard soldiers' bread in the other, and joked, between mouthfuls. Not dainty jokes but the real stuff told with the straightest face: about how chaste Pompey's life was compared with his own reprobate one. The things he did with that radish would have made an ox laugh. I remember one broad anecdote about how Pompey won his surname The Great – oh, that radish! – and another still worse one about how he himself had lost his hair in the Bazaar at Alexandria. I'd tell you them both now but for this boy here, and but for your being certain to miss the point, not having been educated in Caesar's camp. Not a word about the approaching battle except just at the close: "Poor old Pompey! Up against Julius Caesar and his men! What a chance he has"!'
Livy: 'You didn't put any of this in your history,' said Livy.
Pollio: 'Not in the public editions,' said Pollio. 'I'm not a fool. Still, if you like to borrow the private Supplement which I have just finished writing, you'll find it there. But perhaps you'll never bother. I'll tell you the rest: Caesar was a wonderful mimic, you know, and he gave them Pompey's dying speech, preparatory to falling on his sword (the radish again – with the end bitten off). He railed, in Pompey's name, at the Immortal Gods for always allowing vice to triumph over virtue. How they laughed! Then he bellowed: "And isn't it true, though Pompey says it? Deny it if you can, you damned fornicating dogs, you!" And he flung the half-radish at them. The roar that went up! Never were there soldiers like Caesar's. Do you remember the song they sang at his French triumph?
"Home we bring the bald whoremonger,
Romans, lock your wives away." '
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FCC chairman recommends OK of $48.5B AT&T-DirecTV deal
Jul 22, 2015 at 12:01 AM Jul 22, 2015 at 1:00 PM
NEW YORK (AP) � The head of the Federal Communications Commission has recommended approving AT&T�s $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV. The deal would create the country�s largest provider of cable or satellite TV.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement Tuesday that he approved of the deal with certain conditions. The other four commissioners still have to vote on the proposal.
The Department of Justice also has approved the deal, saying Tuesday that it doesn�t �pose a significant risk to competition.�
The company would have 26.4 million cable and satellite TV subscribers in the U.S., topping Comcast as well as a possible new giant, Charter, which wants to buy Time Warner Cable. It would also include AT&T�s nationwide network of tens of millions of wireless customers, its Internet and landline phone services and DirecTV�s millions of customers in Latin America, where AT&T wants to grow.
Consolidation has swept the industry as people increasingly turn to the Internet for video and content costs rise for cable and satellite TV companies. A bigger AT&T would have more leverage in negotiations with big media companies over the price paid for popular channels. It also would combine a nationwide satellite TV service with a nationwide wireless network, giving it the ability to sell new kinds of video packages as people increasingly watch on their mobile devices.
But regulators have not given the green light to all deals in the TV and Internet space. Comcast earlier this year walked away from a $45 billion attempt to buy cable rival Time Warner Cable after regulatory pushback.
The AT&T-DirecTV combination did not generate the same level of concern as the Comcast deal from consumer advocates and regulators.
That�s because regulators were concerned that a bigger Comcast would have had too big a chunk of the country�s high-speed Internet customers, which are seen as the future of the industry. That would give it the ability to undermine online video rivals.
The bigger AT&T wouldn�t have a significant entertainment arm like Comcast�s NBCUniversal, and buying DirecTV does not add to AT&T�s U.S. wired Internet subscriber count of just over 16 million. It still trails Comcast�s roughly 22 million Internet customers, and would lag a larger Charter as well.
Even so, there are conditions attached to Wheeler�s approval. He wants to bar AT&T from excluding any of its own video services from a data cap for home Internet customers. If AT&T were allowed to do that, it could undermine an online video company like Netflix. Streaming lots of Netflix video could potentially tip a user over an AT&T Internet data cap and trigger additional charges, while streaming video from a service from AT&T wouldn�t.
AT&T�s website says its U-verse high speed Internet service includes 250 gigabytes of data each month.
Wheeler also proposed that AT&T must submit to the FCC commercial Web traffic arrangements it makes with companies like Netflix or Internet backbone companies like Cogent �to bring greater transparency� to such deals.


Parts for "Simple Machine" book by Isogawa-san?
I would like to make some models from The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machine by Yoshihito Isogawa.
It seems the author is using parts of different "Technic" sets.
Could you advise where can I get parts (or ideally a set) to make the models for the book?
There was a lot there, but the very last sentence from your Amazon link mentions to visit the No Starch Press website for a list of the special parts used in the book.
The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Wheeled Wonders.
The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Fantastic Contraptions.
All with a few set recommendations directly from the author, where he suggests sets that have a wide range of parts in single set purchases.
For parts left over, he offers a reference list with colored pictures of each part, and purchasing links to Bricklink.com.
As far as I know Isogawa uses a large range of colored bricks to show the mechanisms. There is no single real set you can buy that contains all the parts. If you really need to have the exact same colored bricks you would need to look into buying them separately. However this might get a little tedious or expensive. Any other bricks in common colors would work nicely as well.
There are many ways of buying the needed bricks separately. You may wish to check Bricklink, Brickowl or LEGO Pick-a-Brick selection.
www.bricklink.com is a great place to find parts!
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Got drawn for the 1st week, had til wait til Friday to get out.
Anybody have any go to turkey breast recipes ?
Excellent KB. I did the 4 Turkeys I shot over the years in different ways each time. I smoked my first two in my propane smoker, using apple juice instead of water in the pan. Turned out delicious. I also breasted one, filleted it into thinner strips, breaded and fried it like I did all my pheasants. That was awesome as well. Roasted the last one and it wasn't bad either. I hope your not throwing the legs away. They are smaller and a little tougher then a domesticated birds legs, but good just the same.


Mortgage rates improved somewhat today, on average, but the gains were modest. Some lenders were unchanged from Friday afternoon's latest levels. That leaves us essentially in line with the highest rates since early April, after having been at 8-month lows just 2 weeks ago. From 8-month lows to 3-month highs is an abrupt move taken at face value, but it's made possible due to a narrow range persisting during that time (relative to other stretches of 8 months of time).
In terms of today's finer detail, it may as well have been a 3rd day of the weekend as far as bond markets (which underlie rates) were concerned. Trading levels haven't moved out of their recently higher, narrower range since last Thursday morning. That will likely change--if not tomorrow, then shortly thereafter. The second half of the week has several bigger-ticket events that have the potential to create volatility for rates. These include economic reports, bond auctions, congressional testimony from Fed Chair Yellen, and the constantly lurking risk of headlines out of Europe (the initial reason rates began moving quickly higher 2 weeks ago).


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How spies can use your cellphone to find you — and eavesdrop on your calls and texts
By Craig Timberg
Surveillance systems that track the locations of cellphone users and spy on their calls, texts and data streams are being turned against Americans as they roam the country and the world, security experts and U.S. officials say.
Federal officials acknowledged the privacy risk to Americans in a previously undisclosed letter from the Department of Homeland Security to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) last week, saying they had received reports that "nefarious actors may have exploited" global cellular networks "to target the communications of American citizens."
The letter, dated May 22 and obtained by the Washington Post, described surveillance systems that tap into a global messaging system that enables cellular customers to move from network to network as they travel. The decades-old messaging system, called SS7, has little security, allowing intelligence agencies and some criminal gangs to spy on unwitting targets — based on nothing more than their cellphone numbers.
"I don't think most Americans realize how insecure U.S. telephone networks are," Wyden said in a statement. "If more consumers knew how easy it is for bad guys to track or hack their mobile phones, they would demand the FCC and wireless companies do something about it. These aren't just hypotheticals."
Wyden also revealed in a separate letter Tuesday that a major American cellular carrier has referred an "SS7 breach" involving customer data to federal law enforcement officials for investigation. He chastised the Federal Communications Commission in the letter, saying the agency had "failed to address this ongoing threat to national security."
The FCC declined to comment on the letter, which was addressed to Chairman Ajit Pai.
SS7, which stands for Signaling System 7, was created in the 1970s as a way for telecommunications carriers to exchange information as they routed calls. Over the years, SS7 expanded to serve a sprawling global cellular system that enabled users to move from network to network — within their own nations and across international borders — without missing calls, losing service or having to make payments to each carrier that routed a signal to their phones.
But as the number of companies with access to SS7 grew from a handful to many thousands, the lack of built-in security became a growing problem. It was easy for anyone with access to the network to pretend to be a carrier making legitimate requests for information about customers.
Early research of SS7 surveillance focused on its use in tracking user locations through cellphones. But in recent years, a more serious issue has emerged around its ability to intercept calls, texts and data.
Researchers say SS7 tracking systems around the world now create millions of "malicious queries" — meaning messages seeking unauthorized access to user information — each month.
One Israeli surveillance vendor, Ability, said in an online marketing video posted last year that its ULIN interception system can eavesdrop on cellphone calls on targets in Los Angeles or New York while agents are "sitting at your desk ... anywhere in the world." A 2016 brochure for the company depicted phones being tracked in Massachusetts.
Ability declined to comment about SS7 interception or where the company conducts surveillance, but a person familiar with its operations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private corporate details, said the ULIN system is not used in the United States. The video, this person said, is used "for demonstration purposes."
The company says on its website that it has had 50 government clients around the world and does not have private-sector clients. Public financial documents listed Ability's major areas of operation as Latin America, Asia and Africa, but it does not name nations. Forbes has previously reported on Ability's capabilities and sales, including to a client in Mexico.
The company — which according to news reports has struggled financially in recent years — has several competitors, including in Israel, in Eastern Europe and in other parts of the world, say experts in SS7 surveillance.
Wyden said the risks posed by SS7 surveillance go beyond privacy to affect national security. American, Chinese, Israeli and Russian intelligence agencies are the most active users of SS7 surveillance, experts say, and private-sector vendors have put systems within the reach of dozens of other governments worldwide. Sophisticated criminals and private providers of business intelligence also use the surveillance technology.
"America is the No. 1 target, far and away. Everyone wants to know what's happening in America," said Brian Collins, chief executive of AdaptiveMobile Security, a cellular security firm based in Dublin, Ireland. "You will always be a target, whether at home or away."
Other experts said SS7 surveillance techniques are widely used worldwide, especially in less developed regions where cellular networks are less sophisticated and may not have any protection against tracking and interception. But the experts agreed that Americans are significant targets, especially of rival governments eager to collect intelligence in the United States and other nations where Americans use their cellphones.
Collins said his firm detected a surge in SS7 queries in U.S. networks in late 2014 that it thinks was related to the Office of Personnel Management hack in which intruders — widely reported to be Chinese — gained access to the files of millions of federal workers, including in some cases their phone numbers. (Although publicly reported in 2015, the hack began at least a year earlier.)
AdaptiveMobile Security also detected an uptick in malicious SS7 queries this month in the Middle East, in the days after President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, Collins said. This surveillance probably was the work of intelligence agencies studying how the U.S. move would affect oil prices and production, Collins said.
CTIA, a wireless industry group based in Washington, said carriers have worked to implement recommendations from federal officials to protect against SS7 surveillance. "The wireless industry is committed to safeguarding consumer security and privacy and collaborates closely with [Department of Homeland Security], the FCC and other stakeholders to combat evolving threats that could impact communications networks," CTIA said in a statement.
Firewalls installed by carriers in recent years block many of the malicious queries, but many others succeed in eliciting unauthorized information from cellular carriers worldwide.
"It does happen, and it does happen thousands of times a month," said Karsten Nohl, a telecommunications security expert with Security Research Labs in Berlin.
The most advanced SS7 surveillance systems can monitor the movements of dozens of people for hours at a time, sending alerts if they get close to select areas or to one another, experts say.
German telecommunications researcher Tobias Engel first warned of the potential for SS7 surveillance at a security conference in 2008, during which he demonstrated how to locate a cellphone provided by a volunteer from the audience. Engel also located the cellphone of a Washington Post reporter in 2014, at the Post's request, for an article about the growing availability and effectiveness of such systems.
Researchers have continued to detail SS7 vulnerabilities in recent years, including call, data and text interception. A site reachable on Tor, an encrypted Internet browsing tool, offers SS7 tracking and interception of cellphones for a few hundred dollars a month.
Criminals last year used SS7 to intercept security codes that a bank texted to its customers in Germany, allowing the criminals to steal money from accounts, according to news reports.
Carriers worldwide have gradually added better security, but SS7 does not have any way to verify that carriers sending data requests are who they claim to be. The firewalls increasingly installed by carriers, meanwhile, protect their own customers but typically not people who are roaming on the network, said Engel, the German researcher who first reported the security and privacy risks of SS7.
"It's much simpler to protect your own subscribers," said Engel, now a researcher for GSMK, a mobile communications security company based in Berlin. "It could be that you're vulnerable as soon as you enter somebody else's network, domestic or foreign."
Calls for an aggressive federal response grew after the Post's 2014 article and a "60 Minutes" report in 2016 in which Nohl, one of the German researchers, demonstrated SS7 surveillance risks by intercepting a call to the cellphone of Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), with his permission.
Department of Homeland Security, which declined to comment for this article, issued a report on SS7 cellphone security in April 2017 that noted the risk to federal personnel: "SS7 attack types can be used to target key U.S. Federal Government personnel both in the United States and traveling or working overseas."
The report recommended that carriers adopt new protections. An FCC group, the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperabilty Council, issued recommendations for improving SS7 security in March 2017 that U.S. carriers have largely adopted.
But Wyden and some other officials say the government must do more to protect American cellphone users by documenting SS7 breaches and commissioning independent testing of the vulnerabilities in national cellular networks — a step that Britain and some other nations have taken.
"The FCC has been studying SS7 vulnerabilities for nearly two years. Enough," said FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat. "It's time for the agency to get serious and come up with a real plan to make sure that our networks are safe and secure."
Timberg writes for the Washington Post.
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Meet Your Advisors
Meet with an advisor each semester to plan ahead and make informed decisions.
Central Academic Advising (CAA)
Provides priority advising for freshmen, sophomores, transfer students, students on probation, and pre-Social Work majors.
Students who are deciding their program of study should research majors and Declare a Major by their sophomore year.
Sophomore, junior, and senior students who are in the process of deciding a major should contact CAA to schedule an advising appointment.
Academic students take action and formally declare their major to be assigned a departmental/faculty advisor.
It is possible for students to have multiple advisors assigned to them.
Students pursuing a technology degree or certificate should contact the College of Technology (COT) for advising.
Contact CAA in one of the following locations to schedule an advising appointment:
Pocatello Advisors
Idaho Falls Advisors
Meridian Advisors
Twin Falls Advisors
Email: AskanAdvisor@isu.edu
Museum building, 3rd Floor, Room 307
Office Hours Fall/Spring: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday - Summer 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Walk-in Hours Fall/Spring: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday - Summer 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Meet Pocatello Advisors
Bennion Student Union Building
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Evening Hours 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Wednesday
Meet Idaho Falls Advisors
1311 E. Central Drive, Meridian, ID
Walk-in Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Meet Meridian Advisors
CSI Higher Education Center, Hepworth Building, Suite 144
Office Hours Fall/Spring: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Meet Twin Falls Advisors
Department and Faculty Advisors
Department Mentors and Faculty Advisors
Students who have formally declared a major are assigned a departmental or faculty advisor.
Specialized Advisors
International Programs Advisor
Native American Student Services
Veteran Student Services
Advisors and their advisees have a shared responsibility when it comes to the advising relationship.
An advisor will:
Provide a safe, respectful, and confidential space for students to ask questions, discuss interests, and express concerns.
Understand and effectively communicate ISU degree requirements.
Support students in making decisions about their major and assist in planning their program of study.
Make effective referrals that allow students to navigate the university successfully.
An advisor expects that students will:
Take notes during advising meetings and keep an advising folder for important information in their advising sessions.
Schedule an appointment with their major advisor or Central Academic Advising once each semester.
Come to appointments prepared with their degree audit report and a list of questions or topics to discuss.
Research programs, policies, procedures, and opportunities as appropriate.
Central Academic Advising
Advising A to Z Index
Discover & Declare Majors
Faculty & Advisor Toolkit+
Faculty Advisor Manual
ISU Events Calendar
Make Tracks
Online Advising
Undergraduate Advising+
International StudentsNative American Students (NASS)
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Diesel vs. Gas: Which Is the Better Fuel -- and Vehicle -- for Your Money?
The comparison between diesel and gas has evolved with the automotive industry, and there are many variables for consumers to consider. Let's dig in.
As long as better fuel economy retains its high value for consumers it will remain a focus for automakers. Because of the mpg advantage diesel vehicles enjoy over their gasoline counterparts, along with a reduction in noise, vibration, and harshness (also known as NVH), sales of diesel vehicles have enjoyed a rebound since all but disappearing in the U.S. in the late 1980s and 1990s. Last year sales of diesel vehicles increased more than 13% over 2013 sales, more than twice the 6% increase of U.S. new-vehicle sales in general.
However, much like the United States' automotive industry, the diesel vs gasoline comparison has evolved over the last decade. Many variables have changed significantly, and some pros and cons of the two fuels have begun to converge, meaning diesels may not provide as much of an advantage as in years past.
Let's dig in and better understand the comparison in terms of vehicle prices, residual values, break-even points, and where diesel and gasoline trends will take us down the road.
The first thing consumers need to consider is that diesel vehicles will cost consumers more upfront. The higher initial cost of a diesel vehicle is because they don't sell in volumes as high as those of their gasoline counterparts in the United States, in part because the U.S. has more strict emissions standards than, say, Europe, where diesel vehicles are more popular. Here are a few examples of the difference in diesel MSRP and their gasoline counterparts.
Another thing consumers must consider is the cost difference between the diesel and gasoline fuel itself, which has changed substantially over the years.
A little more than 10 years ago the price of diesel fuel was typically less than regular gasoline, which made savings at the pump more significant and enabled consumers to more quickly offset the higher upfront costs of a diesel vehicle. Since then, however, the cost of diesel fuel has risen, for a handful of reasons: worldwide diesel demand has been rising consistently, the United States transitioned to ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) which increased costs, the federal excise tax on diesel fuel is $0.06 higher per gallon than on regular gasoline, and marketing and distributions costs are higher.
Graphic source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.
With diesel fuel costs currently grabbing more bills out of your wallet at the pump, as well as diesel vehicles commanding a higher price tag upfront, how significant is the mpg advantage diesel offers -- and is it worth it? To better answer that question, let's look at the mpg advantage itself, as well as how different driving tendencies affect the outcome for different consumers and situations.
How much will a diesel save you?
Averaging those three examples, the diesel vehicles hold a 24% advantage over their gasoline counterparts in the city, and a 29% advantage on the highway.
Those results are solid, albeit from a small sample size, but for a more accurate representation of whether a diesel or gasoline vehicle is better for your money and situation, you'll need to estimate how many miles are driven in the city and on the highway. Set up a spreadsheet with a formula like this: miles / (city mpg * % of city driving miles + highway mpg *% of highway driving miles) * $per gallon = cost of fuel per year. That formula will give you a sound estimate for fuel cost per year; let's use 15,000 miles annually with 55% of miles driven in the city and 45% on the highway.
You can see that while the annual savings a diesel provides, due to lower cost of fuel per mile, is substantial, it would take many years to offset the premium price tag paid for diesel vehicles. However, those breakeven points appear inflated when you consider the excel model only accounts for the upfront premium -- the pattern holds for the opposite end of the spectrum as well, and diesel vehicles hold resale value better than gasoline counterparts. It's fair to assume your diesel will recoup much of the upfront premium you pay, and more emphasis should be put on how much the diesel vehicle will save on fuel costs annually, rather than the years it would take to break even.
As a rule of thumb, consumers should keep in mind that breakeven points could change significantly in favor of diesels if you do more highway driving than the excel model (that is, 45% of your miles), or drive significantly more miles overall (15,000).
But that's not all! There are a couple additional things to note about these examples as well.
While the Volkswagen Jetta is a fair example overall, as it's one of the best-selling diesel vehicles around the world and in the U.S., the other two serve as good examples of particular factors consumers should consider. Audi's A3, for example, has a much higher annual savings because many luxury vehicles require premium gasoline, which is more expensive than diesel -- something many consumers forget to take into account.
For a glance into the future, Chevrolet's Cruze is a good example of what consumers looking down the road can expect from diesel and gasoline differences in the U.S. market. As you can see, the diesel version of the Cruze held a meager one mpg advantage in the city, largely due to the gasoline's 1.8-liter Ecotec engine. The Cruze even offers a 1.4-liter Ecotec turbo, which wasn't used in the diesel comparison excel model, which can get up to 28 mpg in the city and 42 on the highway. And General Motors isn't the only automaker significantly improving gas mileage: many automakers are using turbocharged engines -- such as Ford's popular EcoBoost -- and reducing overall vehicle weight. As these trends continue, look for the mpg advantage owned by diesel vehicles over their gasoline counterparts to slim down. Don't take it from me -- here's a projection from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Chart by author. Information source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In addition to the mpg advantage narrowing over time, consumers also have to consider that as vehicles continue to become more efficient, the incremental savings on fuel costs diminishes; as the graph below points out, the savings on fuel switching from a vehicle that gets 12 mpg to another that gets 15 mpg is the same as improving from 30 mpg to 60 mpg.
Graphic source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2014. Note: Calculations in graphic assume a fuel price of $3.50 per gallon and annual travel of 12,000 miles per vehicle.
With a better idea of how to calculate diesel savings on fuel costs, and where trends are taking the diesel vs gasoline battle, here are a couple of things worth noting that won't show up on paper when contemplating between diesel or gasoline vehicles.
Consumers may think that because of the improved fuel efficiency a diesel provides, it's a better choice for the environment. That's not entirely true: diesel vehicles produce dirty emissions, and our nation's more strict emissions regulations are among the reasons the vehicles aren't as common in the U.S. as they are in Europe. While today's diesel cars are much cleaner than in decades past, some of the emissions include carcinogens, soot, and nitrous oxide -- if you drive significantly more miles in the city and believe in taking care of the environment, a diesel may not be for you.
One pro for diesel engines is that they don't use spark plugs or distributors, which means there is no need for ignition tune-ups. On the flip side, diesels need to be regularly maintained or they can require extensive repairs, and diesel mechanics work at a much more expensive rate.
Also, as briefly mentioned earlier, diesels will hold their residual value better than gasoline counterparts. In fact, in a study by the University of Michigan, nine out of 10 diesel cars and trucks had higher five-year residual value than their gasoline counterparts -- half of those vehicles held an advantage of 10 percentage points, or 1,000 basis points.
In an attempt to mash together everything covered in this article, the University of Michigan also provided a model for Total Cost of Ownership between diesel and gasoline vehicles. The equation used is: Depreciation (Original MSRP – Resale Value) + Fuel Costs + repairs + Insurance + Maintenance. The following two graphs show the advantage that the diesel vehicles provided consumers after five years.
Graphic source. the University of Michigan.
Diesel vehicles have been stereotyped as cars that are slow, smelly, and loud, but would at least get you better gas mileage. That's almost entirely changed; diesel vehicles have made significant improvements on all those aspects, which has helped fuel a rebound in diesel vehicle sales in the U.S. recently.
However, gasoline vehicles have also made significant strides, with automakers focusing on reducing vehicle weight and using turbocharged engines, cylinder deactivation, and other technologies to improve fuel economy. As more of these turbocharged gasoline engines hit the roads, the mpg advantage diesels have enjoyed will narrow over time.
Ultimately, if you're driving between 7,500 and 10,000 miles annually it'll be difficult to save enough on fuel costs to justify a diesel purchase. If you drive significantly more miles than average, have a lopsided amount of miles driven on the highway rather than in the city, or are looking into a vehicle that requires premium gasoline, a diesel option is certainly a good one to consider further.
Either way, it's clear the difference between diesel and gasoline vehicles is constantly evolving, and if trends hold true the difference in costs and performance is only going to narrow in the years ahead.


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Kolymbia beach Rhodes: Kolymbia beach is a quiet resort, one of the most beautiful of the island. It is a small natural bay located in the eastern coast of the island, about 26 km south of Rhodes Town. It is one of the many organized pebbled beaches of Rhodes, with umbrellas, sundecks and a great variety in water sports.The crystal clear waters combined with the green background are a huge appeal to the visitors and a great theme for their photos.
The best way to enter the settlement is by the Efkalipto Street, a verderous road with high eucalyptus. Today it is a popular spot for a lot of families and it is easily accessed by the Seven Sources, a dreamy location located 6km away. Although the beach has a rapid tourist development during the last years, it remains a calm and peaceful beach without the bustling crowd of the other known beaches in Rhodes. If you drive only 6 km north to the settlement, you may visit the Monastery of Paramithia.


AINI, Mufida Nur and RAHARJA, Surya (2012) STUDI PERBANDINGAN MODEL REVENUE DAN MODEL ACCRUAL DALAM MENDETEKSI MANAJEMEN LABA (Studi pada Perusahaan Manufaktur yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia Tahun 2006-2010). Undergraduate thesis, Fakultas Ekonomika dan Bisnis.
Earning management is the choice by a manager to manipulating the financila report by manage the company's earnging figures to achieve some specific objective. Earning management can decrease the credibility of financial report that be used as base of decision making. The purpose of this research is to examine the efectiveness conditional revenue model to detect earning management when compared by modified Jones model. This research is a replication of research has been done by Stubben (2010). Sample in this study uses data from manufacture company that listed in the IDX (Indonesia Stock Exchange) during period 2006-2010. Sampling method that use is purposive sampling and the result are 98 firm as samples. Software SPSS version 17 is used to test in this research. This study is important because there was just a few research that can prove that conditional revenue model can be use to detect earning management. The result from this research finding evidance that conditional revenue model provide a better estimation to detect earning management than modified Jones model. This finding is support the research that has done by Stubben (2010) before. Therefore, these findings provide support for using measure of conditional revenue model to detect earning management.
earning management, conditional revenue, modified jones.


Our planet is currently in the midst of its sixth mass extinction crisis, the worst species die off since the loss of the dinosaurs. This time, it is not a natural phenomenon causing the crisis: it's humans. More specifically, it's human carbon emissions and their effect on the global climate. We are losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural background rate. At least 10,000 species will go extinct this year and will never return. And now, we might lose species even faster. Since the Endangered Species Act was passed 45 years ago, it has protected some of the animals in danger of going extinct due to human activity, namely by habitat destruction and climate change. Animals protected by the act include tigers, blue whales, and orangutans. In July, the Trump administration proposed sweeping rollbacks of the act, allowing species to be removed from the list more easily, and making it difficult to protect the habitat of these animals.
The Trump administration is not looking to change the law itself, but instead, the regulations surrounding it. Republicans and industry groups say that the act hurts economic growth. This is because they believe that the protections place many unnecessary regulations that hurt industry groups financially. One of the proposed changes getting the most push back is to stop treating threatened species in the same way as endangered species. The threatened species would still be able to obtain crucial protection, however, it would be decided on a case by case basis. Another change getting a lot of push back is that the cost of protecting the threatened species will be considered and weighed when considering whether to give the species protection. The changes could make it difficult for species to obtain important protection. One in three wildlife species in America are in danger of extinction in the coming century. These proposed rollbacks could impact how many species survive this current mass extinction.
Here's why the proposed rollbacks matter: Implemented correctly, with environmental concerns in mind, the changes to the act wouldn't be very detrimental to the endangered species. But the new changes would make it easier for the current and future administration as well as industry groups to ignore the threatened and endangered species, making it detrimental to the survival of many beloved animals, including the iconic bald eagle, grizzly bear, sea otter, green sea turtle, and the gray wolf. I for one don't want our beautiful world to lose some of its most magnificent animals. And let's not forget: plants are endangered too. Much of our fragile ecosystem depends on plants, and this mass die off includes them. How can we condone rollbacks that would sacrifice wonderful members of our earth for the economic gain of huge industry groups? I know that I cannot.


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Home » News » Another year has flown by, a year impacted by external events. I would like to share our highlights from 2022.
We were very positive at the beginning of the year, looking forward to a return to relative normality in the world, with the economy growing again after the end of many pandemic related restrictions. Sadly, normal is not a word anyone will ever use to describe 2022.
Conflict in Europe led to a significant reset in international relations, economic upheaval, and turmoil on the energy markets. That, coupled with other ongoing international Covid and economic issues, have highlighted the fragility of international supply chains. Turbulence in the UK has not helped either. All in all we have seen energy prices soaring, interest rates increasing to levels not seen for a generation and general market instability. All of which has impacted us here on the Island, from a personal and corporate perspective.
Turning to our activity in 2022, Finance Isle of Man has three principal roles – working with stakeholders to support new projects and new initiatives; promotion of our diverse sector; and ensuring that we feed into all relevant areas of IoM Government policy. Despite the tensions in the world we have been pleased to deliver significant successes in each of these areas.
In terms of new projects our principal focus has been on Fintech, and more specifically Insurtech. The Insurance sector is the largest component of the Manx economy, so it made sense for us to base our first Fintech project in that sector.
While this project commenced in 2021, 2022 saw significant steps forward, most visibly in the launch of the Insurtech Accelerator Programme in September. This has brought a cohort of seven international scale up businesses to the Island to work with our Insurance community. We are already seeing really positive business ideas coming out of the programme, and business solutions which could easily extend far beyond just insurance. 2023 will see the conclusion of the accelerator programme, but we are already looking at options for the future and the possibility of a second cohort later in the year.
Our next priority is to successfully launch the Fintech Innovation Challenge – a collaboration between Digital Isle of Man, Finance Isle of Man, the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority and supported by Deloitte. Global participants are invited to enter the competition by providing solutions to specific problems in order to support the growth and application of Fintech across the Isle of Man. This is a unique opportunity for participating teams to work with government, the regulator and businesses in a leading digital hub, and scale up solutions, ready for the global market.
Another project we are developing is around Employee Benefits, building on the Island's fantastic reputation in the International Pension industry. The Isle of Man is home to leading providers of International Pension Plans and insurance related group protection products, employee share plans, international payroll and employee wellbeing specialists. Additionally, there are companies from all economic sectors with international HR and employee benefits concerns across the globe.
In August 2022 a new branch of the International Employee Benefits Association has been formed in the Isle of Man reflecting the importance of international employee benefits in the jurisdiction. The official launch event was held on the 20th of October with IEBA Chairperson Issiah Sakhabuth attending to officially launch the local branch.
In addition to the IEBA branch we have also established the Employee Benefits Isle of Man Cluster; this includes a wide-ranging group of companies operating in this sector. The main objective of the Cluster is to promote the Isle of Man as a centre of excellence for all aspects of employee benefits.
2022 promotional activities were largely focused on UK and international visits and events. Our programme included London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Singapore, Bahrain, Switzerland, South Africa and Dubai. All of our events have been planned and delivered with the input and co-operation of industry stakeholders and we are looking forward to a wider programme in 2023.
Looking at South Africa in a little more detail. Over the past 18 months we have been working with a group of local businesses with significant interest in South Africa, they have collectively built a regular programme of events known locally as the Indaba. As this group grows so does the scope of activity in South Africa, and in October Chief Minister Alfred Cannan accompanied the Indaba delegation and was a keynote speaker at several events highlighting the many reasons to do business in the Island. It was great to be able to support in this way and we look forward to two more Indaba roadshows in 2023.
In terms of supporting development of Government policy and priorities relevant to our sector, possibly the most challenging aspect of 2022 domestically has been the significant increase in job vacancies within our sector. We are pleased that Tynwald has supported a new economic strategy that will have as a focus efforts to grow the working population. We have fed into multiple aspects of the proposed workforce and skills strategy, and will continue to support our sector in this important area.
Other activity on the policy front has included co-ordinating an industry working party to support a Treasury project to update the Island's Insolvency legislation and regulations. Key policy aspects were recently subject of public consultation, and we look forward to significant progress in 2023.
Looking at the latest data we can see that our Financial and Professional services sector has been able, largely, to weather recent storms and I'm pleased to see that Financial and Professional Services now accounts for 48% of GDP.
So, as one year comes to an end, another begins. We are an Island of innovation and I am confident that our sector will continue to evolve and grow. Finance Isle of Man remains committed to supporting our sector and promoting the Isle of Man on the international stage. I look forward to new projects, new opportunities and new partnerships in 2023.


Tira Ann Affatato is a Peer Mentor for the office of Student Academic Success Programs. She is majoring in Law and Society and minoring in Philosophy with the hopes of becoming a lawyer one day. She is half Japanese and half Italian so she gets the opportunity to indulge in two very different cultures. She has three brothers with whom she is very close. They play all kinds of sports together whenever they get the chance. When she's not doing school work or working, she loves to rollerblade, practice the piano, hang out with friends and find new things to do. She can't stand being bored or doing the same thing over again so going on spontaneous adventures is a must. She's very passionate about her education and working. She believes that education is the ultimate route to success and that finding a job through education is a key component to a stable future.
Daniel Auld is the Academic Program Director in the Office of Undergraduate Studies and is responsi-ble for all student learning centers including the Foreign Language Lab. Daniel worked at Fordham University as an administrator and is completing a doctorate in educational psychology. Daniel's most recent publication examined students' motivational approaches to learning and preferences for traditional or online learning environments, which he presented at the June, 2010 American Association of University Professors Conference in Washington, DC. Contact him at: dauld@jjay.cuny.edu.
Christopher Davis is the Director of the Center for English Support. Prior to his directorship, he was the ESL Editor and Materials Developer for the Research Foundation at CUNY. With a Master degree in TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Dr. Davis and his team have presented at many ESL conferences and created resources for students, lecturers and tutors. We were glad he could share his thoughts. Contact him at: cdavis@jjay.cuny.edu.
Professor Johnson-Dias has dedicated her life to bridging the gap between the so-called thinkers and the do-ers. She has dedicated her life to examining and ameliorating the economic, political and social factors that influence the health behaviors, outcomes and opportunities of impoverished mothers and children. In addition to her academic work, she has spent the past two decades working with, evaluating and building collaborations among social service and community organizations. Her most recent work in Long Island with Stony Brook University and community stakeholders on issues of black girls' mental, sexual and physical health earned the collaborative special Congressional honor. Her experiences in the community so profoundly influenced her that she developed a national organization to respond to the health crises in low income communities. She is the co-founder and President of GrassROOTS Community Foundation (www.grass-rootsfoundation.org), a national health advocacy organization that supports, develops, and scales community-driven solutions to the health challenges facing women and girls living in poverty. Along with Chairman of the Board, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter lead MC of the Grammy Award winning band, The Roots, and a host of doctoral level researchers and practitioners, they have developed a 10-city health initiative directed at improving the mental, physical and sexual health of low income women and girls. Currently, GrassROOTS has five programs in three major cities: Philadelphia, PA; Newark, NJ and Greensboro, NC. Contact her at jjohnson-dias@jjay.cuny.edu.
Carmen Kynard is an associate professor of English. She looks race, rhetoric, and the politics of writing and literacy instruction in secondary and post-secondary settings. She is a former high school teacher with the New York City public schools/Coalition of Essential Schools and has led numerous projects focused on language, literacy, and learning with agencies like the Community Learning Centers Grant Project in Harlem, African Diaspora Institute/Caribbean Cultural Center of New York, Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, and the New York City Writing Project. She has published in Harvard Educational Review, Changing English, College Composition and Communication, College English, Computers and Composition, Reading Research Quarterly and more. Her first book, Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies (SUNY Press, 2013) makes Black Freedom a 21st century literacy movement. She is currently working on a new book that focuses on Black female college students' writing as sites of recursive memory as well as new research that continues to look at the racism that schools produce. She traces her research and teaching at her website, "Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions" (http://carmenkynard.org).
Professor Jodie G. Roure graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University with a Bachelor's of Arts in English and a minor in Spanish. She is a former United States Supreme Court intern. She obtained her Juris Doctor from Western New England College School of Law in Massachusetts. She also studied International Human Rights Law Protection in San Jose, Costa Rica at the University of Costa Rica Law School. In Costa Rica, she spent time among the Bri Bri Indigenous tribe. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University at Buffalo-SUNY in American Studies with a major in Intercultural Studies and International Human Rights and is an Arturo A. Schomburg Fellow. She has conducted extensive research in the area of human rights including violence against women in Brasil, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States. She is also an expert witness in this area. She conducts research on pipeline education, race, class ethnicity and gender in the United States.
Nancy Yang is a student success coach passionate about helping students succeed. Listen to how a John Jay student describes her: "My entire life line, my motivation, is our student success coach, Nancy Yang. Nancy is an extraordinary person to get to know. Nancy is like my own personalized cheerleader. She is always there to listen to me talk about the challenging professors that I run across. She gives me advice on how to tackle certain situations and how to deal with not being completely motivated in school. Nancy is that one person that I am always looking up too. Without her, I would be completely lost and I probably would have quit school already. Every Friday I come into the office and leave her a long and nice note near her desk so when she comes in she can read it. Those notes are always about things that I have accomplished, things that I anticipate, and, more importantly, I am always thanking her for being there for me." Contact her at: nyang@jjay.cuny.edu.


Legal Fellow Peter Simmons focuses on election law and policy at the state, local and national levels. He has worked in the federal government's executive and legislative branches on campaign finance, political campaigns, voting rights, and civil rights.
Simmons graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy from Georgia State University in May 2015 and a J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 2018. During law school, he served as a law clerk in the U.S. Senate, a legal intern in the Federal Election Commission, Federal Aviation Administration, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law. Simmons has also served as a political consultant and as a board member for both nonprofit and benefit corporations.
He is currently seeking admission to practice law in the District of Columbia.