Workflow re-run criteria – If you head to Business > Settings > Workflow, you can now choose the criteria for when a Purchase Order or Invoice approval will re-start after an edit of the document. This helps you control your processes and be more efficient. If you have this currently set to On, everything is set. You can untick the boxes against the things that you don't want to re trigger a restart of the approval – such as changing the nominal code.
Session Refresh – You will now be warned if your session is Zahara is about to expire. This is useful if you are raising a long purchase order.
Workflow engine – The workflow engine has been speeded up so approval emails should arrive faster (allowing for peak load etc).
Invoice List – If a user has the Finance Role for all Divisions, the invoice list does less permission checking so should display faster. Make sure your Finance users have the Finance role for each Division so they get the best / fastest experience.


I hope you have enjoyed all the lovely cardis you have seen so far on the Catherine cardigan pattern tour! Remember, throughout the tour, you can receive a 15% discount on the pattern with the code CATHERINE15. You can find the pattern here. And you can now also purchase the pattern in Dutch.
Today Daisy, Anke and Nelleke are sharing their lovely cardigans! Daisy is a new friend of mine and blogs and IGs at Molemieke. She lives in Belgium with her husband and two children. She loves to sew for her kids and occasionally for herself. She sewed two gorgeous Catherine cardigans for her daughter Femke. This lovely bright yellow one and also a pretty grey one, both of which you can see in the Dutch listing in the sewpony shop. Daisy is a member of the sewpony team and I am looking forward to seeing her contributions! Her sewing is fantastic! Head over to Molemieke to see more.
Anke is my wonderful Dutch translator. She blogs at Amore and has sewn up most sewpony patterns. She also helped me with testing the Catherine cardigan pattern and sewed up this pretty blue one for her daughter. Anke is also a super star knitter! She has only been knitting for a couple of years and certainly puts me to shame! Anke is a member of the sewpony team and it is always a pleasure to work with Anke! Check out Amore for more!
Nelleke blogs at Gaaf machine from the Netherlands. She also has a daughter Isabella who she loves to sew for!! Nelleke has helped with testing a couple of my patterns and she made this gorgeous navy Catherine cardigan for her Isabella! Nelleke is a self confessed sewing addict and all round lovely lady. Check out Gaaf machine to see more!
Thank you Daisy, Anke and Nelleke!


War of the Chosen is in the beta reading stage as I have finished the draft! I worked on seven problem spots and I'm really happy with the way it turned out, so much so that if I published it today, I'd be content with the draft. I'm sick right now with a cold, which … More Finish book: Check!
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I was sitting the other day overthinking, as I always do. And I thought to myself, Lizzie. Why did you use a book cover where the model looks nothing like your main character? Well, Lizzie, I liked the cover and I was too stressed out to care. Cool story, bro. So, are you still stressed? … More Changes abound!
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PASADENA, CA – January 4, 2012 – Today, PBS KIDS announced from the Television Critics Association's Winter Press Tour that it is serving more of America's children with more free content across all platforms than any other children's media company.
In its current season-to-date, PBS has reached 61 percent of kids ages 2-8 years old, and 22.6 million children ages 2-11 (NPower full-day reach for all PBS stations, September 19 – December 20, 2011). Moms supported tune-in as well; PBS KIDS was number one in November among moms ages 18-49 with children under the age of 3, with PBS KIDS programs holding the top five spots among their most-watched children's series.
Widely popular literacy and science curriculum-based series – CURIOUS GEORGE, THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! and SUPER WHY– were consistently rated as top-10 kids programs for children (ages 2-5) throughout 2011, according to Nielsen NPower national program ratings.
Programming specials also drove record viewership. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, 4.5 million children (ages 2-11) tuned into the CURIOUS GEORGE Holiday Spectacular. The PBS KIDS special A Very Monkey Christmas netted an 11.7 rating among kids (ages 2-5), making it the highest rated children's television special in the U.S. among kids (ages 2-5) and with moms of young children. Earlier in the year, over 1.7 million kids (ages 2-11) tuned in for the premiere of the DINOSAUR TRAIN movie Dinosaur Big City, one of the most-watched kids' shows in August, based on Nielsen data (NPower, Live+7 AA).
Online, PBS KIDS continues to be the go-to location for kids and parents. With over 11.7 million unique visitors in November, PBSKIDS.org had a 20 percent increase over a year ago (Google Analytics, November 2010 – November 2011). The site also continues to be the number one source of free online video, serving an average of 98 million video streams per month.
Apps are also growing in popularity. PBS KIDS has launched 14 educational mobile apps to date, downloaded over 1.5 million times. A free PBS KIDS Video App launched on the iPad in May 2011 and was expanded to the iPhone and iPod touch in December. The app has led to an increase in video streams; in November PBS KIDS served 158 million combined streams on the app and online.
PBS KIDS also continues to be recognized with industry awards. In 2011, PBS KIDS won 12 Daytime Emmy Awards, earning more Daytime Emmy Awards for its children's programming than any other broadcast or cable network for the 14th consecutive year.
As high ratings, online and mobile content usage, and awards demonstrate, PBS KIDS is increasingly serving children wherever they live, learn, and play – on TV, online, through mobile devices, in the classroom, and with a new line of educational toys.


Are you allowing excuses to sabotage your dreams and aspirations?
I have always heard that excuses are monuments of nothing. And I agree to a certain extent, but I also believe that excuses are a representation of something. Excuses are dream killers. One of the easiest ways to sabotage your success is by justifying why you can't or why you won't.
I had the distinct honor of attending a leadership-networking event this past Friday. I was able to network with so many high capacity leaders that have already developed into some great relationships. In addition, I was able to hear a dynamic speaker in Mike Schlappi.
Four-time Paralympic medalist and two-time world champion in wheelchair basketball Mike Schlappi took all of us on journey from him preparing for the high school football championship as the quarterback to being accidentally shot to living in fear, uncertainty, and doubt to him taking personal responsibility. In his talk, he made many substantial points that I would like to share with you.
1. The secret to getting through pain is attaching a purpose to it. Pain can cause confusion and distress, but attaching a purpose can help you focus and get clarity to move forward with your plans.
2. Take personal responsibility. Mike Schlappi said, "The three most important words in life are - Take Personal Responsibility." As leaders, we have to be careful of blaming others and trying to find a scapegoat. Just as Mike Schlappi, success and significance starts with us taking personal responsibility.
3. Any and every thing we do affects everyone we are associated with. No matter who you are and what you do, your actions impacts more than just you. Many times leaders don't think about how they affect various circles of influence. Our decisions whether good or bad can impact thousands and possibly millions of people depending on your level of influence.
4. Face your fears. Mike spoke about how people avoid the very thing they fear. He mentioned that we must wake up every morning ready for the challenges of the day. If you want to enjoy success, sometimes you must face the very thing that frightens you the most. What business decisions are you afraid to make? What relationships do you need to develop? It's time to face your fears.
If you would like to hear more about his story, pick up a copy of his latest book Shot Happens—I Got Shot, What's Your Problem.
What challenge do you need to overcome? What's stopping you from achieving your dreams? Please leave a comment below, send me a tweet on Twitter, or leave a comment on Facebook.


Each of us carry the wounds that we have experienced in life. The hurts, the disappointments, the rejections. The pain is real and you have every right to feel hurt and to hold onto your pain, but it won't do you any good to hold on to your woundedness. We all carry wounds, but how we choose to respond to them makes a huge difference in levels of freedom, joy, and healing we are able to experience. Our lives do not have to be defined by our woundedness.
The question is not if we will get wounded, but what we will do with those wounds. The choice to pursue healing is not enough though; in our attempts to heal our woundedness we can actually fall into the trap of going after our healing in a way that brings more of the same wounding.
As Blake shares in this sermon, (seriously so good, go listen to it now) there are four common ways we try to heal, or at least protect our wounds, that actually bring more hurt.
Enneagram 8's know this false source of healing better than most. While justice is a good and righteous thing, in our quest to make sure no one else experiences the wounds we have, we make anyone who does that bad thing out to be a villain and box them into being stuck in that place of being the bad guy.
When you take your woundedness as an identity it very quickly can turn into entitlement. And when you are entitled you stop seeking healing. When everyone owes you something because of this wounded identity, you are never able to enter into relationships of equals where real healing can happen. Identity has to be built on the love of God for true healing to ever take place.
A real encounter with God's love, hearing what He actually has to say about our pain, is the most powerful source of healing. This is a source of healing you can access totally on your own, but if you are feeling stuck with hearing God's voice this is also a source where inner healing can help provide breakthrough. Often times we need to heal misconceptions we have about God before we are really able to hear Him clearly.
If you are feeling stuck in healing from your woundedness, inner healing and counseling services can help, but only when you first encounter the true love of God. You can hear the truth about your hurts from other people. They can affirm how wrong what happened to you was. But nothing sinks as deep into healing those wounds as hearing from God for yourself how He feels about what happened.
Blakes new book, Profound Good, takes you on a journey of seeing God through the lens of his love and learning that his goodness is actually even better than you may think.


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SPR has conducted many projects to inform or develop government policies, including policy studies, literature reviews, international reviews, Delphi studies and related analyses.
Policy Analysis: Renewing Ontario's Recreation-Nature Trails Strategy (for the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport); Assessing the Capacity of Sport and Recreation in the Not-for-Profit Sector in Ontario (for the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport); Review of Policy Issues in Child Development (for Human Resources Development Canada); Study of the Costs and Benefits of For-profit Versus Not-for-profit Child Care (for The House of Commons Special Committee on Child Care); and Study of Shelter Allowances as an approach to housing low-income families (for the Ontario Ministry of Housing).
Literature Reviews: Review of Shared Equity Housing Finance Models in Canada and the US (for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation); review of literature for the Year Three Evaluation of the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS (for Health Canada); retirement issues for an Evaluation of Public and Private Incentives for Retirement (for Human Resources Development Canada); Review of Literature on Inter-City Transportation (for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation); and Review of the Literature on Sports Injuries (for the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation).
International Reviews: examination of international experiences in youth exchanges for a Strategic Review of Youth Exchanges (for Canadian Heritage); Study of Public Disability Pensions in Six Countries (for Human Resources Development Canada); Study of Homeownership Policies in Six Countries (for the Ontario Ministry of Housing); and Review of the Future Prospects of International Trade Fairs (for External Affairs Canada).
Delphi Studies: Study to forecast future directions for international expositions for an Evaluation of Canada's Participation at EXPO 2000 (for Canadian Heritage); and a Delphi study to assess future directions for the National Longitudinal Survey of Children (for Human Resources Development Canada).
Computer Simulations and Models: research to estimate quality of decisions to award pensions for the Canada Pension Plan (Disability Component); research to estimate an "actualization line" (inverted poverty line) for persons with disabilities; and examination of patterns of Federal-Provincial cost-sharing, in relation to the Ontario Work Incentives Program.

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The great news is that I -- maybe more than anyone -- know that it doesn't have to be that way.
You may not be able to get out on the course in January, but that doesn't mean that you can't be working to improve your golf game. In fact, the off-season is actually THE BEST time to improve your golf.
I know that if your window for playing is only six, seven, or eight months of the year, you want to be out there getting in as many rounds as possible. Given the choice between playing 18 holes on a beautiful summer day…or assessing and treating limited shoulder rotation, it doesn't take a genius to know what you're going to pick. Many golfers, though, find that their game breaks down as they play later into the season. While they might be hitting a groove with their timing and technique, the weaknesses and imbalances in their body become larger and more glaring as the season wears on and -- ultimately -- their games suffers. If that sounds familiar, then the first blizzard of the year may just end up being the best thing to happen to your golf game in a long time.
I've made a career out of helping players improve their game…and most of the time, the work we do occurs nowhere near the golf course. When the weather gets too nasty to play outside, it gives you the opportunity to work on the most important piece of equipment that you have -- your own body. Having the time to be able to take an honest look at your body and -- more specifically -- where it may be negatively impacting the way you play gives you a sort of bizarre advantage over players from warmer climates. You're able to drastically improve your golf game because you're not dealing with the distraction of, well, actually playing golf.
Think about it this way: the best players on the planet spend their off-seasons working on their bodies. They may be living right down here in southern Florida -- which many of them do -- but they still understand the need to get away from the game at a highly competitive level and focus their attention on what their body can and cannot do when it comes to the golf swing.
This is when you can determine whether your hips are too tight or not powerful enough for you to swing optimally. It's when you can assess your posture and decide if you need to be doing more strength and range-of-motion work to allow you to maintain perfect spine angle throughout your swing and throughout 18 holes.
If Mother Nature is doing her best these days to keep you off the course, don't worry. The next few months can be what makes or breaks your game for next year. You can either spend it sitting on the couch watching the Golf Channel or you can be assessing and optimizing your body for the spring. It's your choice.


We've heard, "Winners never quit, and quitters never win!" Winners win because they've learned to not confuse activity with accomplishment. Winners continually assess their options and take the best route to their dreams. The don't quit their dreams, they just change vehicles when necessary. Their ultimate loyalty is to their dream and not the vehicle.
It's not illogical to jump a little ship stuck in the harbor to get on a yacht sailing around the world, if your goal is to see and change the world.
Just like every car has a spare tire, every ship has a life boat. The life boats are there for a reason.


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Holy Moments
Josh Rosenblatt Dec 7, 2009, 12:00 am CST
Every art form has pieces that seem to encompass and dismantle everything that came before them. Generally speaking, these pieces are large and demanding and loud—the shifting of tectonic plates doesn't generally happen quietly. In the world of film, for example, The Birth of a Nation and The Ten Commandments were great clanging epics, with casts as large as small cities. The Godfather spanned generations in an effort to tell the story of America. And both Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch proved with visceral force that blood and violence were indispensable parts of the American cinematic experience.
And then there's Slacker. Outside of John Cage's 4'33", Rembrandt's The Night Watch and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, maybe no art form has ever had as subtle a revolutionary moment as cinema did with the arrival of Richard Linklater's breakout film. Released in 1991, this unassuming portrait of life in Austin, shot and performed by amateurs for less than $25,000, was a wake-up call to Hollywood that felt more like a wake-up whisper: It wouldn't have minded if you hit the snooze button and went back to sleep.
With its pop-philosophical script, shaggy tone and complete absence of anything resembling a plot, Slacker helped usher in a new golden age of American independent cinema. But unlike Do the Right Thing; sex, lies, and videotape; or Stranger Than Paradise, it wasn't incendiary or controversial or cynical or ironic or knowing. Instead, it reveled in speculations and optimistic uncertainty. Like some vagrant anthropologist, Linklater follows dozens of characters through a single day in Austin, eavesdropping on their meandering monologues about life, dreams, art, government conspiracies, extraterrestrial life and, most memorably, the cultural value of a Madonna pap smear.
For Linklater, the observations of unfocused nobodies are worth as much as any king's pronouncement, any star-crossed love affair or any bloody battle. As one of the characters states in his later animated dream journey Waking Life, "There's no story; it's just people, gestures, movements, bits of rapture, fleeting emotions. In short, the greatest story ever told."
Since Slacker, Linklater has blurred the line between his arthouse modesty and Hollywood box-office ambition, dabbling in one world before drifting off to the other, achieving a level of success no one could have predicted back in 1991. I don't know what other directors working today could pull off Before Sunrise, A Scanner Darkly and a remake of The Bad News Bears, but I imagine the list is pretty short.
But even when he's working with big budgets and big names, Linklater keeps coming back to the idea that first motivated him: The product isn't what's important; it's the process that matters, the moment when individuals dare to be creative. Take Jack Black's Dewey Finn in School of Rock. He's a clown whose passion for music far outpaces his talents, but when he belts out one of his ridiculous songs, he's being as emotionally honest and aesthetically daring as any genius who ever lost himself in the ecstasy of what one Linklater character calls "the holy moment."
Linklater's latest is Me and Orson Welles (out on Nov. 25), and it makes a certain perverted sense that the laid-back director who insists on staying in Texas would make a movie about the type-A boy genius of Hollywood, whose own passion for creativity and independence was just as consuming as Linklater's, but who took a far more rigorous and classical approach to his work. Like Linklater, Welles was fascinated by the possibilities of the artistic moment, when desire, imagination and opportunity come together. And though their careers followed different trajectories—Linklater started small and worked his way up to commercial success, and Welles started huge and slowly collapsed into obscurity and experimentalism—movies like F for Fake and The Chimes at Midnight are as odd and willfully idiosyncratic as anything Linklater has shot—both directors value the act of creation above everything else.
Me & Orson Welles imagines the week leading up to the opening of Welles' Mercury Theatre in 1937, when he was preparing to unveil his production of Julius Caesar. Soon The War of the Worlds would follow, then a call from Hollywood and Citizen Kane, perhaps the most seminal work—the holiest of all holy moments—in movie history. Unsurprising, then, that Linklater, who wouldn't know how to act grand or classical if he wanted to, chose to make a movie about the moment before the moment, when Welles' creative genius was just coming into focus, and the world, without knowing it, was about to enter a new era of cinematic possibility.
Josh Rosenblatt writes about film from New York City.
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I LOVE this place! I just wish I had the wallet to eat here more often, though I'd have to hit the gym twice as hard. The sandwiches are wonderful (especially the Brie sandwich), their Princess Cake is to die for as are most of their other pastries and cookies, and even their coffee is yummy!
I love this place. The cakes a bit on the pricey side. One slice is about 5 dollars, but you do get your money's worth. The Princess cake is really moist, and it goes perfect with the cafe au lait. It's a pretty small store. Nice, warm atmosphere, it's dimmed with candles. Romantic place to go with a date. They sell food as well.
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Q: A few errors - trying to convert Roman entry to Decimal Just going to change my question for now - I could just use some guidance as to why I have three compiler errors in my program, not quite sure what I did wrong/am missing - I have added comments into the code just to state where they are. Thanks
   #include <iostream>
   #include <string>

using namespace std;

class romanType
{

public:
    void setRomanNum(string store);
    // this function will store the Roman numeral

    int convertNum(char rNum);
    // this function will convert the Roman numeral to a decimal

    void decimalPrint(int total);
    // this function will print the decimal number

    void romanPrint(char rNum);
    // this function will print the Roman numeral

    int getNum(char letter);
    // this function will get the number input

    romanType(int store);
    //Constructor with parameter

    romanType();

    char roman[7];
    string num;
    int length = 0;
    string dNum;
    int equals;

};

romanType::romanType(int store)
{
    dNum = 1;

}

void romanType::setRomanNum (string store)
{
    dNum = store;
}

void romanType::romanPrint(char rNum)
{
    cout << "The Roman numeral is: " << roman << endl;
}

void romanType::decimalPrint(int total)
{
    cout << "The Decimal number is: " << equals << endl;
}

int romanType::convertNum (char rNum)
{

    int letter;
    int totalNum = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i< dNum.length(); i++)
        // "loop will run at most once (loop increment never executed)"?

    {

        switch (roman[i])
        {
            case 'M':
                totalNum+= 1000;
                break;

            case 'D':
                totalNum += 500;
                break;

            case 'C':
                totalNum += 100;
                break;

            case 'L':
                totalNum += 50;
                break;

            case 'X':
                totalNum += 10;
                break;

            case 'V':
                totalNum += 5;
                break;

            case 'I':
                totalNum += 1;
                break;

        }
        totalNum = totalNum + letter;
        equals = totalNum;

        return equals;
    }
};
// "control may reach end of non-void function"

int main()
{
    romanType output;

    int rNumeral;
    char entry;

    cout << "Please enter a Roman numeral (Capitalized only): " << endl;
    cin >> rNumeral;

    cout << "Print Decimal or Roman Numeral? Type 1 for Decimal, 2 for Roman Numeral: " << endl;
    cin >> entry;

    if (entry == '1')
    {
        cout << "You chose to view the decimal conversion." << endl;
    output.decimalPrint(rNum);
    // How do I output the decimal conversion from the void romanType::decimalPrint(int total) function?
    }
    else if (entry == '2')
    {

        cout << "You chose to view the Roman numeral." << endl;
    output.romanPrint(rNumeral);
    }
    else
        cout << "Error: bad input" << endl;
    return 0;
        exit(1);

}

A: The mistake in the algorithm is that the Roman system is non-positional. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_notation. You can't just add up consequent digits (i.e. letters) but you also have to identify and account for the cases when subtraction takes place.

why am I getting the error "no matching constructor for initialization of "roman type"?

Because the only provided constructor is not the default one, but takes one parameter of type int. Since such a constructor was provided, the  default constructor wasn't generated by the compiler. Define romanType::romanType() or change the existing one to romanType::romanType(int i = 0) (add a default parameter). See Is there an implicit default constructor in C++? and why default constructor is not available by default in some case

expected expression?

Provide braces around the preceding else block. More than one statement -> braces required.
if (entry == '1') {
    cout << "You chose to view the decimal conversion." << endl;
    output.decimalPrint(rNum);
} else if (entry == '2')
    cout << "You chose to view the Roman numeral." << endl;
    output.romanPrint(rNumeral);
}

"control may reach end of non-void function"

This is a warning only, but it will turn into an error if you include the -Werror flag that tells the compiler to treat all warnings as errors.
Ok I was wrong on this one. Actually the trick is that it is (in theory) possible that the romanType::convertNum(int) function follows a route where the for loop will never get executed and thus no return statement will be executed either. That's bad since the function is declared to return int hence there must be present an explicit return statement that (surprise) would return a value. Move the return out of the loop. This error is also closely related to the next one, discussed below.

"loop will run at most once (loop increment never executed)"?

This is because the return statement is placed incorrectly: inside the for loop not outside of it, and inside the function body. Hence the loop runs once and the function returns. Move the return statement. Credit to @ATN_LR_boom for noticing this!
Also, please get in the habit of formatting code properly. It will save you a lot of headache down the way.
Other than that, I'd use a std::map for the conversion function, it's shorter and more clear to the reader compared to the switch statement. Something along the lines of
int romanType::convertNum(int rNum) {
    const static std::map<char, int> conversion = {
        {'M', 1000},
        {'D', 500},
        // more mappings
        {'I', 1}
    };
    if ((auto it = conversion.find(rNum)) != conversion.end())
        return it->second;
    else
        return -1;
}

A: Your logic for the switch is wrong, try something like this:
int totalNum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i< dNum.length(); i++)
// the loop ran once because you were returning values when catching a letter
{
    switch (roman[i])
    {
        case 'M': // roman[i] is a char, the cases should try to catch chars
            totalNum += 1000; // increment your global number
            break;

        case 'D':
             totalNum += 500;
            break;
        ...
    }
return totalNum;

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The New-Age Givers
Modern-day philanthropists comprise not just heirs of legacy businesses but also founders of start-ups. The causes they support are out-of-the-box, too.
By Ajita Shashidhar, Sep 12, 2022
When Marico founder Harsh Mariwala decided to step down from day-to-day operations in 2014, he was already running Marico Innovation Foundation and Ascent to support entrepreneurship. His next goal was involvement in basic education and healthcare. Around this time, his daughter, Raj Mariwala, was also looking to enter philanthropy. She, however, was not interested in healthcare or education but mental health, having dealt with the stigma of learning disability during her student life. "I struggled through school not knowing I had learning disability," says Raj Mariwala, director, Mariwala Health Initiative. Though the idea of supporting mental health causes didn't excite her father much, he was not opposed to it either. "He acknowledged mental health was hardly getting funding and Indians were increasingly facing mental health issues," she says.
But the biggest challenge for those who work in this space is to get people to accept that they are facing a mental health issue. That is why she decided to be hands-on instead of merely signing cheques for NGOs. Not only did she talk to people from various sections of the society (sex workers, farmers, LGBTQ community members, gender-violence victims) and helped them accept their mental health concerns, she also decided to spend time with companies and government bodies to convince them to implement policies around mental well-being. She is also helping NGOs in the space raise funds and providing them technical know-how and marketing support. Mariwala Health Initiative has partnered with 33 NGOs for 37 projects in 20 states over past seven years.
Raj Mariwala represents the new generation of philanthropists who are moving away from traditional cheque-book philanthropy of the earlier generation. For example, it's no longer about building a school but also ensuring that the children learn from latest teaching methods. Not just that. It's also about collaborating with governments and NGOs to ensure that the initiative impacts as many children as possible. "New-age giving is all about making a change as opposed to just giving back to society," says Rishi Agarwal, managing director, FSG, which partners with foundations and companies to make a difference in people's lives.
"Earlier, givers were focused on building schools and hospitals, as access was critical. New-age givers have realised that access is not an issue any more and it's the quality of delivery that has to be improved. They are letting governments take care of access," says Deval Sanghvi, partner and co-founder, Dasra, which partners with family foundations and philanthropists to shape their vision.
These new-age givers are not necessarily part of legacy family foundations. While the group includes the likes of Mariwala or Rumana Hamied of Cipla Foundation, it also has start-up founders such as Zerodha's Nikhil Kamath and Nithin Kamath, Zomato's Deepinder Goyal, Ola's Bhavish Agarwal and Sirona Hygiene's Deep Bajaj. So, while Zerodha brothers' Rainmatter Foundation funds impact-driven start-ups by supporting NGOs and organisations that support climate change initiatives and create livelihoods, Goyal of Zomato intends to educate children of delivery partners through Zomato Foundation. Sirona Hygiene's Deep Bajaj is looking to alleviate 'period poverty' and get rid of gender inequalities. Agarwal's Ola Foundation is focusing on economic empowerment of women and financial literacy.
The Trigger
There has been considerable action in the social sector in the Covid-19 era. One reason is economic inequality created by the pandemic, which pushed close to 200 million Indians into poverty, but at the same time made the rich richer. Number of individuals with wealth of more than ₹1,000 crore rose 20% from 828 in FY20 to 1,000-plus in FY21 as their cumulative net worth rose 50% from ₹60 lakh crore to ₹90 lakh crore. Cumulative wealth of UHNIs in ₹50,000 crore-plus net worth bracket rose 80% compared with 45% and 30% rise in number of people in ₹10,000-50,000 and ₹1,000-10,000 crore brackets, respectively. Number of affluent households rose from 280,000 to 391,000, and number of HNI households from 5,000 to 8,000, between 2015 and 2021.
However, the good news is that a large number of rich want to give back to society. This is behind the popularity of initiatives such as Living My Promise (enables people with income of ₹1 crore and above to contribute to charity) and Young India Philanthropy Pledge (it encourages people with a net worth of over ₹1,000 crore to pledge money for charity). The net result is massive build-up of social capital. India's social sector expenditure has grown at 12% a year over past five years from ₹10 lakh crore to ₹17.5 lakh crore, as per Bain Capital-Dasra India Philanthropy Report 2022. It rose 20% in FY21. Most of this rise is due to government expenditure —public funds (Central and state) account for 93% spending, up from 90% five years ago. Past two years have also seen four times growth in ultra high net-worth individual (UHNI) donations outside the mandated corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitments.
The biggest problem in the world, says Nithin Kamath, CEO, Zerodha, is wealth concentration. "If wealth is concentrated with a few people, it won't be sustainable. We said wherever there is concentration, people have to do a lot more to give back. The society has to feel that wealth creation is for greater good. It's not right for us to keep money in bank in a country like ours where so many earn less than ₹100 a day."
Newer Strategies
But donating money is just a start. What sets new-age givers apart is their desire to make real change. Unlike the legacy givers, who signed cheques for causes (often for communities where they lived), the newcomers are more involved in decision-making. Indian philanthropists have started differentiating between outcomes and outputs, says Gaurav Gupta, partner and Asia head, Dalberg. "Instead of saying I have funded 100 meals, I am looking at nutritional outcomes for 100 children. There is more maturity in giving today." Dalberg is an advisory firm that enhances social impact of companies.
"Most new-age foundations have two-three staff members. They are agile and are, therefore, able to do much more," says Sanghvi. The focus is on creating playbooks for giving and replicating them across geographies. "The new-age funders are looking at smarter and economical solutions as well as new models such as mixing of grants with lending," says Naghma Mulla, CEO, EdelGive Foundation.
They are also taking up causes that are broader in scope. For instance, Kamath brothers' Rainmatter Foundation first started investing in impact-driven start-ups such as Solar Square (solar power), Zero Circle (trying to turn seaweed into plastic), Akshayakalpa (organic farming) and Organic Mandi. Kamath says he has never asked the founders about return on investment. The foundation also supports not-for-profit farming collectives such as Swayam and finds ways to showcase their produce on platforms of investee companies Akshayakalpa and Organic Mandi. The idea is to be cause- and platform-agnostic for supporting livelihoods across geographies. "One of our investments is open-source platform Frappe. Most not-for-profits don't have a tech stack for internal purposes. We customised it in such a way that it can be used free of cost," says Kamath.
Sanghvi of Dasra compares new-age givers with private equity players that invest in multiple businesses. When Amira Shah Chhabra, director, Harish and Beena Shah Foundation, took over her family (former owners of Signet Excipients) foundation some years ago, she preferred investing in Giving Circles (which covers livelihood generation, gender equality, health, education), created by Dasra, as she first wanted to understand how the development sector works. "We were able to work with 50 non-profits. We gave grants from ₹10 lakh to crores," says Shah. The wide range of causes she supported taught her that most issues are connected. "In education, you need toilets in school, and that, in turn, improves both sanitation and menstrual hygiene," she says. The Harish and Beena Foundation, started in '80s to fund education of children of employees, is creating a fund for taking up multiple causes.
Rumana Hamied, managing trustee, Cipla Foundation, says multi-cause approach is the future. "Givers have to overlook scale and measurement to make a real impact. Philanthropic capital is more flexible and subject to less scrutiny," she adds. While Cipla Foundation focuses on palliative care, Hamied also heads her family's foundation through which she supports vulnerable children. Her work includes getting girls back to school, mainstreaming disabilities and protecting children from violence and trafficking.
There are also philanthropists such as Deep Bajaj of Sirona, who focus their giving around their business. The company contributes ₹1 from sale of each unit to its foundation, which focuses on menstrual hygiene and gender equality.
Collaborative Approach
While new-age givers want to have skin in the game, they have no qualms about admitting they don't know much about the development sector and are happy to collaborate with NGOs and industry partners such as Dasra or EdelGive Foundation. "They are willing to look at multiple models such as running own projects or joining an NGO or a collaborative like Giving Circles. There is a lot of discussion around changing the system and more openness to partnering with governments and thinking about where policy can be impacted," says Neera Nundy, partner and co-founder, Dasra.
So, for an issue like mental health, which comes with a lot of societal stigma, Mariwala found it more effective to collaborate with organisations already working in the space. "Our first partner, for instance, was a national helpline, iCall, which was giving counselling in nine different languages. We helped them publicise. We also advised them to change to a toll-free number. We help partners with technical and marketing support. My top priority is to ensure they are well-funded."
EdelGive Foundation has launched a ₹100 crore Grow Fund to support 100 NGOs in 12 different domains. Mulla claims it has already managed to raise more than ₹70 crore from new-age philanthropists. "We told funders to be shareholders and monitor it the way they would track a mutual fund's performance."
However, Bajaj of Sirona says finding the right collaborators is a challenge. "If there are funders who want to support a cause like menstrual hygiene, I don't know where to find them. I go to the big ones already working on education and poverty."
The Big Guns
Larger foundations such as Tata Trusts, Adani Foundation or Reliance Foundation have also adopted an implementation approach as opposed to the traditional cheque-book philanthropy that many of them did earlier. Reliance Foundation, for instance, has contributed close to ₹1,200 crore in FY21-22 towards causes such as rural transformation, healthcare, sports, art and culture. The foundation not just gives grants but is also closely involved in implementation of the projects. The Adani Group has also committed ₹60,000 crore towards its foundation. "Most larger foundations are also trying to build best practices around philanthropy," points out Dalberg's Gupta.
While Reliance Foundation is the conglomerate's CSR arm, Tata Trusts is independent of the Tata Group's various CSR initiatives (every Tata company has its own CSR arm). According to the India Philanthropy Report 2022, family philanthropy is poised to grow 12-14% till 2026. But Indian givers still have a long way to go before they are able to rub shoulders with their counterparts in the US, UK and even China. Contributions (as percentage of wealth) by Indian UHNIs range from 0.1% to 0.15% compared with 1.2-2.5% in US, 0.5-1.8% in UK, and 0.5-1.4% in China.
Still, the rich have started taking giant steps towards systematic giving.
CSR Philanthrophy Indian philanthropists India's richest Cipla Foundation Rainmatter Foundation Zomato Foundation Ola Foundation EdelGive Foundation Mariwala Health Initiative philanthropy in India


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Microsoft Teams gains ground on Slack
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Two years after its launch, Microsoft Teams is outpacing team chat rival Slack – largely thanks to Teams' free availability as part of Office 365 subscriptions. That's according to a survey of 900 IT decision makers in North America and Europe conducted by Spiceworks.
The results indicate that Teams is now the second most popular business chat app and is used by 21% of respondents, up from 3% in a similar Spiceworks survey in 2016. That ranks it ahead of third-place Slack, the popular standalone team chat tool in use by 15% of businesses polled. (That represents a slight increase from 13% in 2016.)
[ Related: Microsoft Teams: Its features, how it compares to Slack and other rivals]
The most popular tool is another Microsoft app, Skype for Business. It's used by 44% of surveyed businesses, up from 36% two years ago. Another rival, Google Hangouts (now Google Hangouts Chat), meanwhile, saw use drop to 11%, from 16% two years ago. Facebook's Workplace remained at 1%, while stats for Cisco's Webex Teams (formerly Cisco Spark) were not provided.
Furthermore, the Spiceworks report claims that Teams is set for the fastest growth of all business chat apps over the next two years. The survey indicates that 41% of respondents expect to use Teams by 2020, compared to 18% for Slack.
Credit for Microsoft Teams' growth lies in its availability within Office 365 subscriptions. The office productivity suite is used by 155 million businesses worldwide, thus putting Teams in the hands of a massive audience.
"The rise in use of Microsoft Teams is likely influenced by the fact that it's available at no additional cost to Office 365 users," Spiceworks wrote in a company blog post. "And considering more than half of businesses use Office 365, it's enticing organizations to give Teams a try."
Teams was unveiled in 2016 as a rival to Slack, and has since been placed at the core of Microsoft's communication and collaboration strategy, replacing Skype for Business Online over time. Microsoft has also launched a free version of Teams in a bid to attract a user base outside of Office 365 subscribers.
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Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations worldwide, Microsoft said during this year's Ignite conference, up from 125,000 a year ago. "That is about twice the rate [of growth] that we see from Slack," said Frank Shaw, Microsoft's corporate vice president of communications ahead of the conference.
That said, the Spiceworks report and Microsoft's statistics show only part of the picture; actual usage rates are less solid.
Microsoft has not provided total daily active user figures for Teams, unlike Slack, which touts 8 million daily active users, including 3 million paid users. Slack declined to comment on the Spiceworks report.
According to Spiceworks, Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams are most frequently used by large and mid-sized businesses, while Slack is commonly deployed by smaller organizations.
It also shows that, while email is still the most popular workplace communication tool (used by 99% of respondents), overall demand for business chat apps continues to grow. Adoption is highest among large organizations (70%, compared to 53% in 2016), followed by mid-size firms (61%, up from 38% two years ago) and finally, small businesses (58%, up from 42%).


The Public House Historic Inn is located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, known for its great shops, beautiful countryside, and being everything but ordinary. A short trip off the beaten path is sure to guarantee an unexpected adventure. For those seeking a road trip, Connecticut, the Berkshires, Worcester, Boston, and Springfield are a short few hours' ride away.
Billed as America's oldest outdoor antiques market, this large flea market is hours of fun.
This family owned and operated business features vast orchards for hayrides, live music, and a brewery to grab a fresh cold one.
Known widely for handmade candles, this factory has great gifts to memorialize the trip.
This working museum of living history and culture is just one mile from the Inn.
A vintage jewelry shop where guests are sure to find unique pieces.
As a historical attraction, St. Anne's Shrine is on 32 acres that overlook the Adirondack Mountains, which visitors use as reflection, peace, and prayer.
This is the only community theater in central Massachusetts that performs year round, with a new production monthly.
This gargantuan expo features the best of each New England state in separate houses, a large flea market, live music from big name performers, and a petting zoo.


Old Bill, organiser of this month's curry-up, has pushed our ever-expanding geographical boundaries to their limits with his choice of the Royal Nepalese (2-14 Station Crescent, SE3 7EQ). Nearest station is Westcombe Park. Don't you know that's a couple of stops from Greenwich, Bill? See you there on Tuesday 9 November.


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Rangefinderforum.com > Cameras / Gear / Photography > Classic Film RangeFinders & Other Classics > Other RF > minolta hi-matic 7sII - :) and ?
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So there i was browsing the biggest dutch e-bay-like sell-your-stuff website (i can't resist...) and found what? a BLACK hi-matic 7sII. Condition: Excellent. Listed at a price of 40 euro.
A question: how about the px675? I've found a website relating how to stick in a schottky diode to make it work with the silver-oxides. Is it really necessary (planning to use it only with print film)?Is there any of you who actually did this? If not, what else?
Any other stuff good-to-know about this little jewel?(I searched the archives; not much said, but it's all praise:) ) i'd appreciate all the pros and cons!
Cheers & have a good light today.
I have an Olympus 35 SP, which I think takes the same battery. I used to use a 1.5v 625 Alkaline and set the ISO to 2/3 less. Worked fine for print, never tried slide.
I currently use a 1.4v 675 zinc-air hearing aid batteries - €6 for 6 I think. They're smaller, but fit and seem to work fine. I think they're the cheapest option. There is also a Dutch place which sells schottky diode adaptors and kits for not much money. (probably the place you mention, it's a Rollei related site if I remember correctly...) I have the PDF brochure if you're interested.
for my oly 35 rc and canonet cameras i use both the hearing aid batteries and alkaline versions for b&w negs- seems to work ok.
I use an MS76 Silver oxide cell (same as SR44, 357) battery as a PX675 substitute. I have not had any problems with the 7SII or Konica S3. I mostly shoot negative film; but I doubt that you will have problems with slide film. You can always adjust your ASA selector down a bit if it is really critical. I like the Silver Oxide cells as very few have leaked over the past 25 years. I have had some alkaline batteries leak. The Zinc-Air batteries only last 3 months or so once exposed to air. If this is an occasional use camera, that gets expensive.
i got an e-mail "sorry the camera is sold". What the heck!i mailed him less than 2 hours after he listed the camera! and there is still no bid on it. Maybe he changed his mind?
Thanks for the above advices, anyway.
It's got a great little 40mm 1.7 sharp lens. You'll really like it. You can go to manual mode with the turn of the dial. Very easy and convenient. I don't know of a lot of Hi_matic 7sII owners. But the one's that do have them, love them. Myself included.
For my Hi-matic 7sII and my great little Vivitar ES, I have just been using those cheap little Duracell zinc-air hearing aid batteries, and getting perfect exposures. One will last for a few months. At $5.00 U.S., for six of them, I can't complain. For the cameras requiring the bigger ones, (Canon GIII QL-17 & Oly RC) go with the "Wein" zinc-airs. They last much longer. Or have your camera recalibrated for the 1.5v Silver Oxide's. Stay away from the alkalines. As they diminish with use, so does the accuracy of your meter.


The elegantly slim design of the new iMac Retina is the result of refining and re-engineering the entire architecture from the inside out. Less reflective, more powerful and strikingly thin, it has 60 per cent faster graphics. Just 5 mm thin at its edge, the new 3.6GHz 21.5 inch iMac is both state of the art and a work of art.


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Revolution in the boat industry
12 March 2019 /in NEWS /by grundin
The revolution that is currently underway in the automotive industry is a clear guide to what will also happen in the boat industry. Perhaps we soon can find this and similar rechargeable "powerbanks" in the archipelago shortly?
At the Geneva Motor Show, which runs until March 17, Volkswagen Group Components showcases a design study of a mobile fast charging station. With a compact design, this "powerbank" can be installed anywhere where demand exists or where charging opportunities for electric cars are missing.
The mobile charging station works just like a power bank, of the type we use for our mobile phones, but is instead designed for electric cars – considerably larger and more powerful. It has a charging capacity of up to 360 kWh, which is sufficient for charging up to 15 electric cars. The batteries in electric cars can be charged quickly and efficiently thanks to DC fast charging technology, with a capacity of 100kW.
If the station is charged with renewable energy from the sun or wind, the charging station can temporarily store the energy, thus offering CO2-neutral driving with the car.
Countries such as Sweden that input a high proportion of renewable energy into the network will for the first time be able to store a percentage of the energy with this charging station. At the same time, interim storage of energy relieves the pressure on the electricity grid during high-load times.
The charging station's technology is based on the Volkswagen Group's electric vehicle platform MEB and is designed to use the platform's battery cell modules. The charging station will give batteries from electric cars a second life because end-of-life batteries can be reconditioned and then reused in these stations, which reduces the use of valuable raw materials in the long term.
Read the full article in Swedish here:
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