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Don't let a disability stop you from using your smartphone
Apple and Google have baked strong accessibility tools into the iOS and Android ecosystem, respectively
Don't let a disability stop you from using your smartphone Apple and Google have baked strong accessibility tools into the iOS and Android ecosystem, respectively Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1SJUpM4
Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY Published 4:18 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2015 | Updated 12:58 p.m. ET Aug. 5, 2015
Ed Baig of USA TODAY walks you through a variety of accessibility settings baked directly into your iPhone and Android devices.
Win Whittaker controls his hearing aid through an iPhone(Photo: ReSound)
NEW YORK — As an expert mountain climber who guides clients at night up Mount Rainier in Washington state, Win Whittaker knows how critical it is to be able to listen for falling rock.
Only Whittaker is hard of hearing, having gradually lost his hearing through the years because of the time he spent in a rock 'n' roll band and around fireworks.
So Whittaker now climbs while wearing ReSound LiNX2 hearing aids, which he controls via apps on his iPhone 5s and Apple Watch.
"I'm not sure how I got by without having the hearing aids because it's a crucial part of my job in keeping us all safe on the mountain," he says.
A quarter of a century ago, when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, the idea that we'd all be carrying smartphones (and some of us wearing smartwatches), much less scaling mountains with them, would have seemed unfathomable. It would have been even more remarkable to think back then that people with a variety of physical impairments — poor vision, motor disabilities, hearing loss — would be getting the same rich experiences from such devices.
The United Nations' World Health Organization says more than 1 billion people, 15% of the global population, have some form of disability. And whether you identify with a particular disability or not, as you age you likely don't hear or see quite like you used to.
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently tweeted, "Accessibility rights are human rights. Celebrating 25yrs of the ADA we're humbled to improve lives with our products. #ADA25."
Apple and Google have baked strong accessibility tools into the iOS and Android ecosystems, respectively. While some tools are meant to complement third-party devices, from hearing aids to Braille keyboards, many just make the phones themselves easier to use. Some features we all enjoy — think Google Now, Siri, and auto-correction — weren't designed with accessibility in mind, though they can lend an assist just the same.
Here's an overview of accessibility features found in both platforms.
To start: On iPhone, tap Settings on the home screen, then General, thenAccessibility; on Android, go to Settings, scroll down to System Settings and tap Accessibility.
Keep in mind that though a core accessibility framework is built into Android, the open nature of the software platform means that features will vary from device to device, and you may have to work a little harder to find tools that are already part of iOS. The positive: Android accessibility is open to developers.
I've been examining accessibility features on a Google Nexus 6 phone running Android Lollipop and an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 8.
Obviously, if you or a loved one have a specific accessibility need, go beyond the tools I'll mention here, and search Apple's App Store or the Google Play Store for apps designed specially to help with given disabilities or diseases. Pay attention to tutorials because not every accessibility feature is intuitive.
Here are some useful tools:
For users who are blind or visually-impaired: On the iPhone, you can summon a VoiceOver feature that speaks aloud the items on the screen. You can drag a slider to alter the speaking speed, and even change the accent or language of the screen reader voice (U.S. English, Australian English, Irish English, South African English). In all, VoiceOver is available in more than 30 languages.
The rough equivalent on the Nexus 6 Android is called TalkBack. Under TalkBack, you'll have to master certain gestures to navigate the device.
On Android and the iPhone, you can turn on a Zoom feature to magnify the screen via various gestures, double-tapping with three fingers on the iPhone, triple-tapping the screen with the Nexus.
Other switches let you invert the colors on the display almost like a film negative — on Android this color inversion feature is labeled "experimental" since it can affect the phone's performance. Another experimental feature on Android can compensate for color blindness. On the iPhone, you choose a grayscale setting that eliminates colors altogether.
You can also take advantage of larger and/or bolder text.
For the hard of hearing: Apple has partnered with manufacturers on so-called Made for iPhone Hearing Aids with no "intermediary" remote control or additional accessory required. The ReSound LiNX2 used by Whittaker is one of them. Still, the ReSound and just about all the Bluetooth-powered hearing aids out there work on Android as well.
Even if you don't wear a hearing aid, there are tools that may lend a hand (or ear).
On the iPhone, for example, the LED can flash when an alert comes in, a feature that kicks in when the phone is locked or asleep. If you've lost your hearing in one ear, you can flip on a mono audio setting that combines the left and right channels, so that both can be heard through headphones.
On both platforms, you can turn on close-captioning or subtitles.
iPhone settings for a hearing aid. (Photo: Apple)
Other tools: A Guide Access tool on the iPhone can limit use to a single app or restrict touch aspects to certain parts of the screen. This might help parents of an autistic child who has difficulty maintaining focus.
Another iOS setting, called Switch Control, allows you to use the phone by sequentially highlighting items on the screen that can be activated through an adaptive accessory such as an external Bluetooth-controlled switch, used by people with severe paralysis or manual dexterity issues. Sometime you can use the device screen or FaceTime camera to trigger a switch. The Android alternative is called Switch Access. Depending on the level of the disability, single switches or multiple switches might be used.
Despite all the major progress that has been made in accessibility there's more that needs to be done. Eve Anderson, Google's manager of accessibility engineering, says the exploration into "cognitive impairment is behind everything else." That covers everything from ADHD to dementia.
For now, Chicago-area firefighter Steve DeLuca, who also wears a ReSound hearing aid with an iPhone 5s — he experienced hearing loss after a brain tumor — uses his phone a lot.
"I listen to music, when I run I use it, when I watch YouTube videos on my phone, it's all going through my hearing aid," he says. "Everything you do on your phone, I do the same thing, except that I'm hearing it through my hearing aid."
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Nest X Yale Lock with Nest Connect
byJohn R. Delaney Jun 22, 2018
Stylish design. Easy to install. Works with Nest Secure. Very quiet.
Doesn't work with IFTTT. No voice activation support.
The Nest X Yale Lock with Nest Connect is a sharp-looking smart door lock that combines Yale reliability with Nest IoT home connectivity.
The latest addition to the Nest family of smart home devices, the Nest X Yale Lock with Nest Connect ($279) is a sleek-looking smart door lock that you can control from anywhere using Nest's intuitive mobile app or web console. As with most smart locks, it's fairly easy to install, and it offers some nice features including Auto-Lock, One-Touch Locking, and a timeline that tells you who has locked and unlocked the door and when. It's a great choice if you already use other Nest devices, but it doesn't offer quite the same level of interoperability that you get with our Editors' Choice, the August SmartLock Pro + Connect.
The Nest X Yale Lock is a beautifully crafted product. The exterior escutcheon sports the same black glass capacitive touch screen and white backlit keypad as the Yale Assure Lock SL (YRD256) and comes in the same colors (Oil Rubbed Bronze, Polished Brass, or Satin Nickel), but at 4.5 by 2.5 by 0.8 inches (HWD), it's a bit narrower and longer.
There's a small speaker on the right side and two terminals on the bottom that you can use as a fail-safe if the lock's batteries die. Simply place a 9-volt battery up against the terminals to supply power to the lock. The keypad remains dark until you touch the Yale logo, then it displays a numeric keypad, a back button, a check button, and a settings button. The check and back buttons are used during setup, and pressing the settings button initiates a voice command to go to the Nest app to adjust settings.
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The color-matched interior escutcheon looks identical to the YRD256's escutcheon: It measures 7.0 by 2.7 by 2.0 inches and has a black plastic battery cover (the lock runs on four AA batteries), a blue backlit button that enables and disables privacy mode, and a thumbscrew for manual locking and unlocking. Privacy mode disables access to the keypad, which means the door can only be unlocked from the inside.
The lock does not contain a Wi-Fi radio. Instead, it connects to the included Nest Connect hub, which connects to your home Wi-Fi to allow access from anywhere. The white hub is relatively small (3.1 by 2.2 by 1.8 inches) and plugs into a wall outlet in a location between your router and the lock. If you already own a Nest Connect hub or the Nest Secure home security system, you can buy the lock on its own for $249.
The lock interacts with other Nest devices and works with Nest's mobile and web-based apps. For example, if you have a Nest Cam Outdoor or a Nest Hello Doorbell that lets you see who is outside, you can lock or unlock the door using the same app, though you can't have the lock trigger a camera when it is locked or unlocked. However, you can use Nest's Home/Away Assist feature to turn compatible smart lights on and off, and automatically arm and disarm the Nest Secure security system when the lock is locked and unlocked. Home/Away Assist can also be used to activate the Auto-Lock feature, which automatically locks the door after a specified period time when you've left home (10 seconds, one minute, or five minutes).
Missing is support for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant voice commands, although Nest promises more integrations are coming. Moreover, the lock doesn't support interaction with IFTTT devices or Z-Wave home automation devices like the August SmartLock Pro + Connect does.
Once installed, the lock is listed as a device on the Nest app's home screen. Tap the icon to open the Lock screen, which has a large circle that shows the lock's current status (locked, unlocked, offline). Pressing and holding the circle for a second or two locks and unlocks the door and changes the status. A line of text below the circle shows the last time the lock was used and by whom.
At the bottom of the screen is a button that enables and disables privacy mode, a Family and Guest button that takes you to a screen where you can add users and assign permanent or temporary access with specific access days and times, and a History button that takes you to a screen that shows a timeline of events. Tap any day to see when the lock was opened and closed and by whom. Here you can also see when privacy mode has been enabled and disabled, when the Auto-Lock feature has been used, and when/if the lock has gone offline and come back online.
A gear icon in the upper right corner of the Lock screen takes you to a screen where you can enable the Home/Away Assist and Auto-Lock features, enable/disable lock and unlock notifications, enable/disable One-Touch Locking, which lets you tap the Yale logo to automatically lock the door, and enable/disable Privacy mode.
Installation and Performance
Whereas locks such as the August SmartLock Pro, the Friday Lock, and the Danalock V3 BTZU all use your existing deadbolt latch and cylinder hardware, the Nest X Yale lock replaces everything and takes a bit longer to install. That said, it's fairly easy to install and comes with comprehensive instructions, though if you're not handy or would rather have it done professionally, you can call a local locksmith or use the Nest Pro service to find an authorized installer. And if this is your first Nest device, you'll have to download the app and create an account.
To start, I completely removed my old deadbolt lock and installed the Nest deadbolt latch assembly. I attached the outer keypad to the interior mounting plate using the included hardware, making sure to carefully thread the data cable through the appropriate hole, attached the cable to the interior escutcheon, and screwed the escutcheon to the mounting plate. After ensuring that the manual thumbscrew turned easily, I inserted the four AA batteries and was greeted with a, "Hi from Yale and Nest," voice command, and was prompted to press the Yale logo to begin.
Following the voice prompts I created a master code (using four to eight digits) and closed the door. I pressed the check icon when prompted to check the mechanical lock and unlock operation, and was ready to add the lock to my Nest account. I opened the app, tapped the settings gear in the upper right corner, and selected Add Product. I scanned the barcode on the Nest Connect, plugged it in, and waited a few seconds while Nest Assist grabbed my network settings from a Nest Cam Indoor that was previously installed. I tapped Add Another Device, scanned the barcode on the inside of the lock's interior escutcheon, and gave the lock a location. This launched a video tutorial. I was then prompted to press and hold the button on the interior assembly until the light flashed blue and the lock said, "ready." I tapped Next and waited several seconds while the lock was added to my Nest account, and the installation was complete. I then moved on to the Passcode screen, where I created unique codes for myself and my family members.
With the exception of the Schlage Century Touchscreen Deadbolt Lock that we reviewed several years ago, nearly all of the smart locks we've come across are relatively quiet, but the Nest X Yale lock might be the quietest yet. It's also a solid performer, never failing to lock or unlock when I pressed the app button.
The Home/Away Assist Auto Lock feature also worked without a hitch, automatically locking the door one minute after I left home. Push notifications arrived quickly after each lock and unlock event, and the One-Touch Locking feature never failed to lock the door when the Yale logo was pressed. Additionally, the lock always followed my Family and Guests rules, allowing and denying access to certain users during specific times and days in accordance with my schedule.
The Nest X Yale Lock with Nest Connect is a solid choice for a smart door lock, especially if you've already outfitted your home with other Nest devices such as the Nest Secure security solution, the Nest Hello Doorbell, and one or more Nest Cam security cameras. It's easy to install and configure, and the Nest Connect hub lets you open and close the lock and grant access to friends and family from anywhere. The lock not only performed flawlessly in our tests, but was one of the quietest locks we've tested. For now, though, it lacks the support for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice control that you get with our Editors' Choice, the August SmartLock Pro + Connect, and it doesn't support IFTTT applets or work with Z-Wave devices. But according to Nest, more integrations are on the way, and we'll update this review when they arrive.
Bottom Line: The Nest X Yale Lock with Nest Connect is a sharp-looking smart door lock that combines Yale reliability with Nest IoT home connectivity.
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I have been having a really bad day today. I'm not really sure why i woke up and felt the way I do, but right away I was planning what i was going to binge and purge and how I was going to hide it from my boyfriend. I got out of treatment a month gao and I was doing really well, but now everything is falling apart. I can't go back to the hospital because that means that I have failed in my recovery. I sometimes feel like there is never going to be an end to this maddness. I just want to be "normal" again. I wish that people knew that I wasn't doing well, so that I would have some kind of support and I wouldn't have to keep hiding this. I'm so sad!
i am glad u are talking on here....but u also need to try telling someone on your treatment team,or boyfriend. u are NOT failing. this is a lifelong disease,u need daily support. i had to tell my dr. today i b/ped last night and though i was scared it went surprisingly well. hugs to u and i hope u are hangin' in there!


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At Hardie Caldwell we can advise businesses in the Glasgow area on the possible tax advantages of employing your spouse in the firm. Here is an overview of the issues.
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Public offers, options and buy-backs
There are many ways for shares to be increased or reduced in a company. This can vary from a share buy-back, stock split, reverse stock split, initial or additional public offerings or a stock option plan. Today's article will go through these various methods and how they benefit investors in more ways than one.
An initial public offering (IPO) is when a private company's shares become available to the general public for the first time. This may involve the company issuing new shares as part of the offering or an existing owner selling shares for the transaction. The issuance of new shares increases the number of shares in circulation and allows for the company to use that new capital (money) to further its business operations. In the case of an offer for sale, the existing investor benefits by being able to partially or fully exit his/her investment. If the investors owns any shares after the IPO, he/she can benefit from the price discovery of the investment which will now be publicly traded on a stock exchange.
An example of a company going this route is Future Energy Source Company Limited (Fesco). In April, the company was able to raise $240 million to develop its business while the existing owners were able to collect $160 million through this sale. Although Fesco hasn't paid a dividend, the company's price has increased by 243 per cent to $2.74 since listing at $0.80. This not only increased the wealth of those who bought at the IPO, but for the original owners whose equity stake has a market established value.
An additional public offering (APO) is where a publicly listed company will raise additional capital to expand the business and recalibrate its balance sheet. Unlike a rights issue which is exclusively to shareholders at a record date with some exceptions, an APO allows members of the public to buy into a company at a price which might be below the price it trades at on a stock exchange. This results in additional shares being issued which dilutes shareholders ownership, but generally results in investors benefiting in the future from a larger company. Barita Investments Limited's stock price is up by 15 per cent relative to the APO price of $80.
A stock split is where the number of shares is increased by a factor with the stock price decreasing by that factor. This is usually done when there is possibly a low supply of shares in the market or the price has become 'expensive' to investors which might see reducing trading for that stock where there is limited trading activity. An example of this is with Caribbean Flavours and Fragrances Limited (CFF) last year where there were days of no trading with the stock. When the board announced a consideration to do a 10 to 1 stock split in August, the stock increased by 58 per cent in the following week. If someone owned 1,000 shares of CFF at $19.39 by the split date, they'd now own 10,000 shares with the market price being $1.94 after the split. Apart from there being more shares available, shareholders benefit as the stock price tends to move upwards much easier on improving results.
A reverse stock split is simply the reduction of shares in the company with the price increasing. Thus, if you owned 100,000 shares at $10 before a 1 to 10 split, you'd now own 10,000 shares at $100. Although this doesn't happen in Jamaica, it is something that does occur in overseas markets.
A share buy-back is simply where the company buys back the shares from the market and cancels them after the transaction. This reduces the number of shares in circulation and improves the existing ownership of shareholders. Kingston Properties Limited has a share buy-back plan where they bought back 51,244 shares in 2020 and cancelled them. JMMB Group Limited's ownership in Sagicor Financial Company Limited (SFC) has improved from 22.50 per cent to 23.22 per cent over two years due to SFC's buy-back programme.
A stock option plan is simply where the company can set aside a specific portion of authorised unissued shares to be bought or issued to staff or directors as part of a compensation package. Some companies establish trusts where the shares are bought on the open market and allocated to employees later. Though this will dilute general shareholders, it works as a great tool for companies to retain great talent through equity over cash. It also provides the company with cash it can use where staff pay for the shares.
Jamaican Teas Limited is one company which has a stock option plan. One director was able to purchase 12 million shares in May at a reduced price of $0.58 compared to the market price of $4.02. For staff, they can purchase the shares at a 10 per cent discount to the market price of when they exercise the plan. They also have the option to get interest free loans for up to three years to purchase these shares. As a staff member of a company with a share option plan, it creates an opportunity for shares to be purchased at a discount and compound wealth as time progresses.
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Feminism can be understood both as an ideology focusing on equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities for all people regardless of gender, and as a political and activist movement that strives to achieve this aim. Feminism is based on the understanding of reality that women as a group are treated as inferior to men as a group and that this is a structure that needs to change. Although many people who define themselves as feminists may agree with this description or parts thereof, it is important to point out that the exact meaning(s) of feminism and feminist practice can vary greatly depending on where, when and by whom the issue is discussed.
As there are a number of different feminist orientations, feminisms may be a more proper term than feminism. Examples of different types of feminism include lesbian feminism, liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, black feminism and transfeminism. The relatively large number of feminisms that have emerged gives an indication of a highly complex field where different people have different perceptions of what the problem in society really is and how it should be solved.
In the academic domain, there is feminist theory and a feminist theory of science. Central elements in both cases include analyses of power that question and challenge notions about truth, knowledge and what is natural (see also power, situated knowledge).


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Dr. Tar-pin Chen
Dr. Tar-pin Chen's research involves nanometer devices and materials. His group is working on characterizing and making insulator for high transition temperature superconductor-insulator-superconductor Josephson junction (SIS junction). The thickness of the SIS junction should be thinner than 4 nanometers, yet provide sufficient potential barrier for the junction. In recent years, his group had discovered new insulator materials, which even as thin as 1.2 nanometer, is capable of providing high enough potential barrier for making SIS junctions with high enough critical current for making nanometer devices.
Using this insulator material Dr. Chen's group is working on making SIS Josephson Junction which will be used to make SQUID, the most sensitive devices for measuring magnetic flux and magnetic cardiology graph, a device more sensitive than EKG and can dictate heart disease at an earlier sate than EKG. It can also be used to make terahertz dictators to detect terahertz signals. It can also be used to make the key elements for quantum computers.
Other research interest of Dr. Chen's group is to make nanometer thickness organic solar cell materials, quantum bit devices and terahertz dictators.
In 2005 UALR is awarded $6,000,000 to establish a nanotechnology research center. Physics is one of the most important fields in nanotechnology. The physics and astronomy department of UALR recruit a chairperson to lead in nanotechnology research. For this reason I accept the challenge and came to UALR.
Nanotechnology is still a pretty new research field in science. New discovers has been coming from physics, biology, and chemistry research. Industries begin to make use of the technology and fabricate useful products. I am expecting new discovers in nanotechnology will continue and knowledge in understanding the properties of nano-materials will improve and industrial products using the techniques will increase. Our project in study nano-solar cell material will have a good progress in the next five years.
Dr. Chen's collaborators
Dr.Wei-Kan Chu: Distinguished Professor of the University of Houston and Associate Director of the Center for Superconductivity Research.
Dr Qi Li: Professor of Penn State University.
Dr. Quark Chen: Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
Professor Shouzheng Wang: Professor of Peking University, People of the Republic of China.
Professor K. Wu: Professor of Peking University, People of the Republic of China.
Additional Collaborators
Hong Duen Yang (Professor and President of Sun Yet Sen University, Taiwan)
Z. X. Zhao (Professor, Head of the Division of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijin, China, and Fellow of the Chinese Academy, China)
07/2010-present, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
07/2005 – 6/2010, Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
07/1999 – 06/2005, Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics, University of North Dakota
07/1998 – 06/1999, Professor, Department of Physics, University of North Dakota
07/1994 – 06/1998, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of North Dakota
07/1986 – 07/1994, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Villanova University
07/1980 – 07/1986, Scientist and Associate Group Leader, Solid State Division of Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University
Publications In last 3 years (more than 70 publications in my career)
1. T-P. Chen, K. Wu, Q Li, Z. Li, S. Z. Wang, B. Chen, Q. Y. Chen, W-K Chu, J.J-C Chen, U. Tipparach, Y. C. Soo "Structure and Transport Studies on Nanometer YBCO/PBCAO Multilayers", Physica C 460-462, 403(2007).
2.	J. B. Cui, Y. C. Soo, A. Thomas, H. Kandel, T. P. Chen, and C. P. Daghlian, "Variable temperature photoluminescence of ZnO thin films deposited by reactive laser ablation", Journal of Applied Physics 104, 043521 (2008).
3. J.B. Cui, Y. C. Soo, T.P. Chen, and U. Gibson, "Low temperature growth and characterization of Cl-doped ZnO nanostructures", Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112, 4475-4470 (2008).
4.	J. B. Cui, Y. C. Soo, H. Kandel, M. A. Thomas, T. P. Chen, and C. P. Daghlian, "Investigations of ZnO thin films deposited by a reactive pulsed laser ablation", Science in China E: Technological Science, in press (2009).
5. J. B. Cui, M. A. Thomas, H. Kandel, Y. C. Soo, T. P. Chen, "Low temperature doping of ZnO nanostructures", Science in China E: Technological Science, in press (2009).
6. Chen Tar-Pin, Wu Ke, Li Qi, Chen Ben, Wang ShonZeng, Kandel Hom, Soo YuChong, Tipparach Udom, Cui JingBiao, Seo HyeWon & Chen ChiJen, " Structure and transport studies on nanometer YBCO/PBCGO multilayers", Chinese Science Bulletin, 2009, Science in China Press, Springer
Synergistic Activities
Committee Member for International Conference: 3SC-3, 2000 and 3SC-1, 1998 Co-Chairman: Session 4A-Exotic Superconductor 3SC-2, 1999 International Conference.
Organized a research consortium including the University of California-San Diego, University of Washington-Seattle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, South Dakota State University, North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota.
Chair of the Organization Committee of the 48th Midwest Solid State Conference and Solid State Theory Joint Symposium (October 13 –15, 2000 at University of North Dakota, over 100 participants and 58 papers presented).
Supervised Postdoctoral fellows and Visiting Professors/Scientists
Professor Shouzheng Wang (2004-2007, Peking University, China);
Professor Yumin Ho (2003-2004, Peking University, China),
Professor Ke Wu (1999-2001, Peking University).
Graduate Advisees
Hom Kandel, (Ph.D. graduated in May 2010), University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
YuChong Soo, Ph.D candidate, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, current.
Anqi Zhou (Ph.D. graduated in August 2005)
Udom Tipparach (Ph.D. graduated in August 2002)
Xiaochu Yang (Ph.D. graduated in May 2001)
Zhenhua Lee (M.S. graduated in August 2005)
Siying Wang (M. S. graduated August 2004)
Kazuaki Kamimura (M.S. graduated in 1997)
Chung Yuan University, Taiwan, Republic of China Physics B.S. 1970
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada	Physics M.S. 1972
Buffalo University, Amherst, New York, USA	Physics Ph.D. 1978
Physics Building, Room 108E
Little Rock AR 72204-1099
Email: txchen@ualr.edu
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan of USD 100 million to improve water and sanitation in the city of Zaria in northern Nigeria through the African Development Fund, its concessional or 'soft loan' arm.
The project will include the rehabilitation, expansion and construction of water and sanitation facilities in the city. Some 1.4 million people will gain improved access to clean water and sanitation. In addition, the project will provide extra benefits for women and girls.
The Zaria water supply expansion and sanitation project will help solve persistent water shortages and inadequate sanitation caused by a fast-growing population and poor infrastructure.
So far only 260,000 people have access to water and safe sanitation and only 150,000 have sanitation. Those figures are forecast to rise to almost 1 million and 450,000 respectively.


Do you sell plants to the public?
Yes, while we are a wholesale grower, and we sell plants directly to landscapers and retail nurseries. The public can buy our plants at Growing Grounds Downtown. "GGD," as we call our store, is located at 956 Chorro Street between Palm and Monterey, and is open every day. For store hours, call (805) 544-4967. The Farm is open to the public on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Regular retail prices apply.
You can find our plants at several nurseries around San Luis Obispo County. Our plants all have a bright yellow tag in the pot with our flower logo. For a complete list of nurseries who buy plants from us, click here.
Can landscapers or nurseries buy direct from GGF?
Absolutely! Landscapers and nurseries are always welcome to order off our availability list or come directly to the farm. When you come out to the farm, you will see everything we have instead of relying strictly on the Weekly Availability. We offer free delivery county wide with a low minimum order. Our size and infrastructure also permit us to do Contract Growing. Contact us for details.
Growing Grounds Farm is Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
How can I get a copy of your availability list?
You can click on the link at the top of the page. This will take you directly to our current availability which is not priced. If you are in the trade and you would like to be included in the weekly distribution of the priced availability list please call or email us with your request.
What is Growing Grounds Farm?
GGF, a program within Transitions-Mental Health Association, is functioning non-profit wholesale nursery that provides horticultural therapy, socialization opportunities and soft job skills training for adults with severe and persistent mental illness.
At the Farm we balance a traditional business model providing employment opportunities n a near competitive environment with the delivery of critically needed social services. Our goal is to grow a large selection of quality plants while providing an empowering environment where our employees progress on their path towards recovery.
The nursery is located on about 7.6 acres just outside of San Luis Obispo. Nursery stock (potted plants) covers between 2 and 3 acres of the farm. We have about 1000 varieties of plants, and a total of about 70,000 individual 4", gallon and 5 gallon plants.
How can I volunteer at GGF?
Volunteers play a critical role at the Farm and come from a many facets of our community. Please click on the Volunteers tab to learn more about volunteer opportunities at Growing Grounds Farm.
Do you pay your employees?
Yes we do. Any of our employees who have an open case with SLO County Mental Health or with TMHA's Supported Employment Program are eligible for paid positions. Our employees earn minimum wage and work between 1.5 and 4 hour shifts.
What do employees and volunteers do on the farm?
It is outdoor nursery work. Being in reasonable physical condition is a requirement. We work year 'round growing plants and preparing them for sale. Work involves weeding, pruning, transplanting, moving plants within the nursery, and more. Conditions can be hot, cold, rainy, or muddy. It is beautiful here on the Farm, and the work is rewarding.
What makes you a non-profit?
We are part of Transitions Mental Health Association, a registered 501 C3 non-profit organization. We provide a wide variety of services for people with mental illness. The money we earn selling plants goes back into our program to provide additional opportunities for the employees we serve.
Horticultural therapy is based on the idea that working in a garden or other natural setting has intrinsic beneficial therapeutic effects. According to the American Horticultural Therapy Association, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, "reported that garden settings held curative effects for people with mental illness." For more information on horticultural therapy, you can visit this site: www.ahta.org American Horticultural Therapy Association.
I have a family member with a mental illness. How can s/he work at GGF?
Anyone can volunteer here. In order to be a paid employee, you need to have an open case with San Luis Obispo County Mental Health, and then be referred to the farm for an interview. You can get more information by calling us at (805) 543-6071, or calling the Transitions main office at (805) 540-6500.


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Back in March we told you about the beta registration for Wincars Racer, the new cartoony arcade-esque multiplayer racing game from DragonJam Studios. Well, it has been a long time coming but the Wincars Racer beta is about to begin! The beta test will launch in a couple of days on Wednesday, November 18. If you signed up for the beta and got a key then you will be good to go. If you didn't get a key then you won't need to worry because we will be giving away a huge wack of Wincars Racer beta keys on launch day!
Wincars Racer is all about hectic and over-the-top fun multiplayer racing that will allow you to compete in tournaments with players across the world. You can choose from a bunch of different cars that all have different stats, and a bunch of drivers that also have different stats. In addition, the drivers each have a special ability that you can use during the match in order to hopefully tip the scales in your favour. I recommend reading over the Wincars Racer game guides in order to learn more about the game because it sounds like a lot of fun. Or watch the beta trailer video below for a glimpse of the action.
As I said, we will be giving away a huge number of Wincars Racer beta keys when the beta test launches on November 18, so start your engines and get ready out the game!
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India mobile subs continue to climb as fixed falls
Written by Jamie Davies
Mobile subscriptions are continuing to rise in India, though the fixed market is increasingly looking prime for disruption as the number of users falls once again.
According to the latest data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), mobile subscriptions across the country increased by 0.31% over the three-month period ending in June. Although this might not sound that impressive, 0.31% is the equivalent of 3.65 million subscriptions. The total now stands at 1.165 billion.
The impact of Jio should not be underestimated here. This is a company which revolutionised accessibility to connectivity in the country, and momentum is continuing through 2019. At some point the ceiling will be reached, though in many countries around the world, mobile penetration exceeds 100%.
With a population of roughly 1.33 billion, smartphone penetration across the country stands at approximately 87%. There are of course factors in play which distinguish India from other markets, though there is certainly still more room for growth in the market.
Interestingly enough, while mobile is surging, demand for fixed broadband services is declining. The number of 'wireline' subscriptions across the market decreased by 5.47% to 21.17 million. There are roughly 250 million households in India demonstrating the vast room for growth in the country.
Country Number of households Broadband subscribers Penetration
India 249.5 million 21.17 million 8.4%
China 455.9 million 378.5 million 83%
US 138.5 million 109.8 million 79.2%
UK 31.8 million 26 million 81.7%
Japan 49 million 40.4 million 82.4%
As you can see from the table above, the number of broadband subscriptions does not tend to exceed the number of households, but 80% penetration seems to be a fair estimate in the more developed markets.
Due to the vast size of the country and the environmental challenges which are presented, there is perhaps good reason this market penetration is so low. Another factor to take into account is ARPU compared to the heightened expense of deploying a fixed network compared to mobile. These are all factors to consider, but for a company which can balance the equation, the opportunity is clear.
Jio is one of those which is attempting to crack the fixed market.
Having secured the attention of the Indian consumer, it will surprise few the ambitious Jio is seeking to compound this success with a venture into broadband. Last October, the firm announced it had acquired stakes in Den Networks and Hathway Cable to put one foot through the door, though it has not made the blockbuster move some are anticipating.
India has been one of the most interesting markets for telecommunications over the last few years, but there is plenty left to discuss if someone can figure out how to crack the broadband conundrum.
Tags: 4G, broadband, India, subscriptions, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI
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Dolina Międzyścienna, dawniej zwana także Doliną między Ścieny (słow. Medzistenná dolina, dolina Medzisteny, niem. Tal zwischen den Wänden, węg. Falak-völgye) – dolina na północnych stokach Tatr Bielskich, pierwsza od zachodniej strony. Władysław Cywiński podaje inną jej nazwę – Dolina między Ściany.

Ma łukowaty kształt. Opada w południowo-zachodnim kierunku spod Międzyściennej Przełęczy (1124 m), pomiędzy stokami Kiczory i północną granią Murania (tzw. Zakrywą), następnie pod Małym Muraniem zakręca w kierunku północno-zachodnim i pomiędzy zalesionymi stokami Kiczory i Rogowej uchodzi w Jaworzynie Tatrzańskiej. Jej wylot znajduje się około 500 m na wschód od najniżej położonych domów tej miejscowości. Dnem płynie Międzyścienny Potok, a w środkowej części znajduje się Niżnia i Wyżnia Międzyścienna Polana. Na zboczach Rogowej, a szczególnie Kiczory dobrze zachowały się pierwotne lasy bukowe – są to największe bukowe lasy w całych słowackich Tatrach. Dnem doliny prowadzi dobra droga gruntowa (wjazd dozwolony tylko dla pojazdów uprawnionych).

Nazwa doliny pochodzi od otaczających ją skalistych ścian. Cała dolina znajduje się na obszarze ochrony ścisłej. Na objęcie tego obszaru ochroną miało wpływ wybudowanie na Maćkowej Polanie ośrodka wypoczynkowego rządu Czechosłowacji (obecnie hotel "Kolowrat"), potrzebującego spokojnego zaplecza.

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Public value describes the value that an organization or activity contributes to society. The term was originally coined by Harvard professor Mark H. Moore who saw it as the equivalent of shareholder value in public management. Public value is supposed to provide managers with a notion of how entrepreneurial activity can contribute to the common good. Nowadays, public value is no longer limited to the public sector, but is used by all types of organization, including non-governmental organizations and private sector firms. Therefore, the public value researcher Timo Meynhardt from the University of St. Gallen and HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management uses the term to generally raise the question about organizations' contribution to the common good. He believes that current management concepts, such as shareholder value, stakeholder value, customer value, sustainability or corporate social responsibility, should legitimize themselves in regard to their impact on the common good. In his (social-)psychological-based concept, public value emerges for individuals from the experiences made in social structures and relationships. Hence, it can be seen as a prerequisite and a resource for successful living.

Definitions

Public value is value for the public. It equates managerial success in the public sector with initiating and reshaping public sector enterprises in ways that increase their value to the public in both the short and the long run. Moore, 1995 According to a recent systematic review of empirical public value research, public value has four key dimensions: outcome achievement (i.e. the extent to which a public body is improving publicly valued outcomes across a wide variety of areas), trust and legitimacy (i.e. the extent to which an organisation and its activities are trusted and perceived to be legitimate by the public and by key stakeholders), service delivery quality (i.e the extent to which services are experienced as being delivered in high‐quality manner that is considerate of users' needs), and efficiency (i.e. the extent to which an organisation is achieving maximal benefits with minimal resources).

Public values are those providing normative consensus about (1) the rights, benefits, and prerogatives to which citizens should (and should not) be entitled; (2) the obligations of citizens to society, the state and one another; and (3) the principles on which governments and policies should be based. Public Value is the combined view of the public about what they regard as valuable. Talbot, 2006. Value for the public is therefore situated in relationships between the individual and society, founded in individuals, constituted by subjective evaluations against basic needs, activated by and realized in emotional-motivational states, and produced and reproduced in experience-intense practices. Meynhardt, 2009

In the public sector

The research program on public value was kicked off by Professor Mark H. Moore of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, who published a book on the subject, Creating Public Value. Strategic Management in Government, in 1995. In this sense, public value can be instituted as an organising principle in a public sector organisation, providing a focus in the context of which individual employees are free to pursue and propose new ideas about how to improve the working of the organisation, in terms of efficiency or services. Public organisations seeking to use public value as a principle need to create a corporate culture in which the pursuit of public values by employees is rewarded just as pursuing shareholder value is rewarded in private corporations.

The concept has been taken up initially by academics, think tanks and NGOs, and later by a number of public sector organisations in the United Kingdom and other countries.

In 2004 it was used by the BBC as the cornerstone of its manifesto for the renewal of its charter.

In 2006 Accenture launched the Institute for Public Service Value (IPSV), to explore how public value is created in government organizations. Greg Parston, co-founder and former Chief Executive of the Office for Public Management, and a collaborator with Professor Moore, was appointed Director. Among many other studies, IPSV conducted the Global Cities Forum in 2007-2009, which facilitated  citizens' deliberations on their experiences and expectations of public value in 17 cities around the world.

In 2006, the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) in partnership with SAP AG, conducted research on the topic of public value in the context of governments' investments in information technology (IT). The results of this research found that governments' ability to realize the full value of IT investments is not completely measurable in terms of financial results. More specifically, the five U.S. and international governments studied, looked for the full value of government IT investments in both the internal value to government operations and the broader political and social returns to the public at large.

From this point of view, there are two sources of public value:
 value that results from improving the government itself as an asset to society and
 value that results from the delivery of specific benefits directly to persons or groups.
In November 2006, UK-based The Work Foundation published a report on their project, titled Deliberative democracy and the role of public managers, followed in October 2008 by Public Value: The Next Steps in Public Service Reform

The German Federal Employment Agency uses the public value concept to better understand its contribution to society that goes beyond simple task fulfillment and make it a yardstick for management decisions. An empirical study has shown that a particular value of this organization is seen in its contribution to social peace in Germany.

In the private sector
Public value is also taken up by private sector companies that want to maintain a license to operate and understand what implications new strategies and projects might have in terms of public value creation/ destruction. Such analyses can be done using a Public Value Scorecard as proposed by Timo Meynhardt and Peter Gomez. Public value acknowledges that established business paradigms such as customer value or stakeholder value risk overemphasizing certain aspects of business' value contribution to society at the expense of other important dimensions. It pledges for a redefinition of the entire notion of value creation as it takes utilitarian and hedonistic as well as political and moral aspects of value creation into account.

A number of firms use public value to obtain management information helping to take strategic decisions. Examples include:

Fresenius Medical Care, a German producer of medical supplies and operator of dialysis clinics, complements its balanced scorecard with the Public Value Scorecard. Through the inclusion of an external perspective the firm wants to gain a better understanding of the public value of healthcare service that are supplied by private firms. In a first project, the firm has systematically measured the public value of its dialysis centers in Great Britain. The management wants to use the insights gained in this study for positioning towards the firms' stakeholders.
The football club FC Bayern Munich uses a public value approach to systematically assess the challenges pertaining to its societal role that come along with its growth from a regionally embedded football club to a global entertainment brand. For a football club that enjoys permanent public attention and is seen as a role model by many people, such questions are especially relevant. Different public values such as "Mia san mia" (Bavarian for "us is us") and "global brand image" are partly in tension with each other. The structured compilation of the club's societal value can be used as management information for strategic decision-making.

Demarcation from related concepts
Public services – a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens
Public good – a good whose availability is not reduced (non-rival) due to consumption by others, and which no one can be effectively excluded (non-excludable) from using

References

External links
 http://publicvalue.org/
 Kate Oakley, Richard Naylor and David Lee (2006), Giving them what they want: the construction of the public in 'public value', paper presented at "Media and Social Change" conference organised by the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, September 2006.
 Barry Bozeman (2002), "Public-Value Failure: When Efficient Markets May Not Do", Public Administration Review 62(2), March/April 2002
   Mark Moore's Harvard profile
 DEMOS – The Public Value of Science (2005)
 DEMOS – Capturing Cultural Value (2005)
 Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (2002) – Creating Public Value
 The Center for Technology in Government
 SAP
 Bibliography on Public Value (English and German Literature)
 Website of the Center for Leadership and Values in Society at the University St. Gallen
 Public Value: Common Good and the Society. Movie by the University of St. Gallen.
 Faulkner, N., & Kaufman, S. (2018). Avoiding theoretical stagnation: a systematic review and framework for measuring public value. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 77(1), 69-86.

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During Berlin Food Week September 17-23, the Foreign Agricultural Service is introducing German consumers and culinary professionals to an array of premium U.S. foods. FAS Berlin is teaming up with multiple U.S. industry organizations to showcase American beef, seafood, sweet potatoes, wine, and dried fruits and nuts at events across the city. The week's highlights include workshops with celebrity chefs, public food markets, and exclusive dinners, as well as the marquee event, called "Stadt Menu," where 50 local restaurants are creatively incorporating U.S. beef and California wine into their special offerings.


Ischemia: Tight muscle tissue with reduced blood flow.
Myofascial trigger points: Hypersensitive points in muscles that lead to referred phenomena, including pain and reduced mobility.
Neural entrapment: Compression of nerves bundles between muscles and other soft tissues.
Nerve compression Pressure on nerves bundles by bone-like tissues, such as bones, cartilage, or discs, and muscle tissue.
Postural assessment: Assessment of the position of the body as a whole using a background grid chart.
Dysfunctional gait patterns: Body mechanics when walking, working, etc.
Other perpetuating factors: Hydration, nutrition, breathing and sleeping patterns, work ergonomics, stimulant and medication consumption, and psychological stress.
Many patients have used NMT effectively with chronic pain syndromes like Fibromyalgia, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, to reduce or eliminate even longstanding conditions. Many of the techniques used for NMT are staples for sports massage therapists in treating acute sports injuries and to prevent injuries due to these activities. Occasionally wooden or rubber tools may be used to facilitate the application of static pressure over long periods of time so that the therapist can feel minute changes in the muscle tissue without becoming overly fatigued.


'Nalleru' is also known as 'Adamant creeper' in English and 'Pirandai' in Tamil and it has a Botonical name – Cissus quandrangularis.This creeper is usually grown on fence or in between plantations in the fields.It has good medicinal properties and is used as a healer for bone fractures and also is good for digestive troubles.
I don't find these creepers in Mumbai ,but my mom prepares this chutney for me whenever I visit her as she has these creepers in her little garden in Bangalore.I got the opportunity to click the pics of this chutney when she prepared for me sometime back.This chutney is very tasty and makes a nice combination with hot rice and ghee.
Remove the leaves from the nalleru stems and cut them at each nodes and scrape the sharp thin edges using a knife.Smear oil on your palms and tear the nalleru stems into small pieces by removing the fibre from the sides.If the stems are tender you would not need to remove the fibre part.
Heat 1 tsp oil in a kadai/pan and add urad dal and red chillies and fry until they turn slight red in color.Add dry coconut pieces and fry for a minute.Add tamarind to it and remove it to a plate.
In the same pan add remaining oil and add chopped stem pieces and fry the pieces until they turn slightly crisp.You should fry it really well with almost no moisture content left in the pieces.
Grind the roasted dal-red chilli mixture into a powder and then add fried nalleru pieces and salt and add enough water and grind to a slightly coarse chutney,remove it to a bowl.You can alternatively fry all together and grind them together to a coarse paste.
In a small tempering pan heat oil and crackle the mustard seeds and add urad dal,curry leaves and crushed garlic cloves and fry until they turn slightly red in color,add the tempering to the chutney.
Serve it with hot steamed rice,ghee and fryums.
NEVER TRIED .I HOPE THE PACHHADI WILL BE TASTY AND GOOD FOR HEALTH AS IT IS BLESSED WITH MEDICINAL QUALITIES. YHANKS FOR THE NICE EXPLANATION WITH QUALITY PICTURES .
very nice blog and specially about "nalleru pachhadi "so many people they dont know about this.


No need to mention that hair loss is one of the greatest problems of modern men. Everyone wants to look great and be attractive, and, certainly, healthy and strong hair plays one of the key roles in our image. But at a given time, every men starts noticing that his hair is thinning and falling out. Every third guy after 30 suffers from hair loss, and it is almost impossible to find a man at the age of 50, who has never experienced this problem. Fortunately, now there is a safe and effective solution for this problem. Provillus Men's Formula is one of the most effective natural hair loss treatments, which assists in nourishing and supporting you hair, as well as stimulating hair re-growth.
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North Norfolk News > News > Business
Business forum to scrap membership fee
A forum for north Norfolk's businesspeople is dropping its membership fee to allow it to reach out to more people.North Norfolk business Forum (NNBF), which was set up in 2005 to support and help promote small and medium sized companies, will scrapped its yearly, �25 fee from April 1.
A forum for north Norfolk's businesspeople is dropping its membership fee to allow it to reach out to more people.
North Norfolk business Forum (NNBF), which was set up in 2005 to support and help promote small and medium sized companies, will scrapped its yearly, �25 fee from April 1.
In its place, the forum will charge people who chose to take a more active involvement in the group each time they attend an NNBF event.
Businessmen and women who regularly go to the talks and meetings held by the forum will be able to pay a one-off �25 fee before March 31 to allow them free entry into all events in 2009.
Chairman Ian Doughty said: 'I hope everyone feels that this is a fairer way of contributing to the support and benefits offered by the North Norfolk Business Forum.'
NNBF, which receives funding from the district council and the North Norfolk Community Partnership, acts as a voice for the district's businesses and lobbies politicians on issues affecting employers and employees.
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7 Sport and TV stars heading to Norfolk for new festival
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Founded in 2005 by a well-known allergist in the Pacific Northwest, Xtract Solutions today offers a robust, end-to-end solution for the physical and data management of immunotherapy clinics.
At Xtract Solutions, we believe in the proven medical science of immunotherapy. We are passionate in our vision: to develop easy to use systems that extend every clinic's ability to make a measurable and documented qualitative difference in the life of each patient who comes through the clinic doors.
No matter how your clinic works or what your internal processes are, our mission is to help you refine and elevate your immunotherapy workflow so that it is intuitive and adaptable for your caregivers, and always traceable. No matter how you measure success, whether it's improved patient outcomes or better profitability, Xtract Solutions is there to support you and your team.
Xtract Solutions was founded in 2005 by James W. Baker, M.D., a highly regarded physician with over 30 years experience treating patients with allergies, asthma, and immunological disorders. Dr. Baker was concerned with the lack of quality and effectiveness in preparing patient vials for immunotherapy, and recognized a unique opportunity to design a product that would address these issues. Xtract Solutions transformed Dr. Baker's initial design concept into a product line that has achieved significant results in his own practice, as well as many others.
James has a unique relationship with the world of allergy thanks to being the son of an allergist who has been practicing for over 40 years. Growing up around the allergy clinic, James has seen how things run and even began working at the clinic during summers in high school and college taking histories of patients before Dr. Baker would meet with them.
Fast forward to 2006 when James began working with Dr. Baker again as a coordinator for clinical research trials. He managed two grass tablet SLIT studies and several nasal spray studies as well. In 2010, Xtract Solutions was maturing as a company and a need for leadership was apparent. It was obvious that the best choice was to have James take the lead and channel the vision that Dr. Baker founded the company on: to create systems that truly bettered the field of allergen immunotherapy, and make a sustainable business out of that vision.
James is excited to be working with the great team at Xtract, and continue to help improve the world of allergen immunotherapy for both the providers and their patients.
In his spare time, James coaches high school basketball and is an avid football and basketball fan. In the summer, he enjoys family fly fishing vacations on the Deschutes River—a tradition for over 25 years.


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I'm in day 2 of Chest Cold from Hell. Doing the Mucinex thing but it doesn't seem to be helping much. Feels as if someone has stuffed my chest with steel wool.
For starters, where did it all go? This virtual-money thing (stock market, 401K, etc.) makes me nervous. How can we save something without ever seeing it? Yet we believe that it's there because a piece of paper tell us it's there....and then, suddenly, one day it just disappears completely ... or a lot of it does, anyway. How does that work? Can something disappear and cease to exist when I've never actually seen it? Apparently we had all this money at one time, and now we don't. It just doesn't make sense to me.
NEW ITEM: Mitchell, our tuxedo cat, continues to treat me as staff: I want in, I want out, I want in, I want out. Seriously, this cat thinks I am here to serve him, especially in the loving/attention department. It doesn't matter where I'm sitting; he'll come bounding through the house and leap onto me as if I'm a boat pulling away from the dock and he's about to miss his last chance for a ride. This usually scares the bejesus out of me. The other night I had to yell, "I AM NOT A PIECE OF FURNITURE, MITCHELL!!!!"
Potential niche for making money: a school for feline obedience.
Oh, yeah, dream on, buddy ... that's as likely to happen as, well ... a cure for a nasty chest cold.
Read page 12 in Sunday's PARADE (Ganette carries PARADE doesn't it?) Anyway ASK MARILYN explains where the money went.
Mitchell is running in and out because it's just that time of year in FLorida when it is so flippin' gorgeous outside, their instincts force the crazy (back & forth) "can't-make-up-my-mind" behavior from them.
I forgot to tell you 2 weeks ago that my painting of the tuxedo cat I did based on the picture of yours (on your website) sold.
Last - try hot Dr. Pepper in a cup poured over a fresh lemon slice - you will feel better.
Well I have a well-behaved cat...and he was feral for God's sake!
Sorry you are sick - I read about a new Chinese remedy miracle drug/herb. Will look it up for you.
Wowser on Haley - Yay!
Linda: Congrats on the tuxedo cat selling....did you sell the boots one yet? How much are you asking for that?
Leah: Yes, I OVERINDULGE that cat because he's so freakin' cute. When I'm gone from the house he sneaks away to Cute School, and they have taught him the most persuasive maneuvers. Can you guys make it to Haley's graduation first week of June?
So many topics! Must be the fever. Feel better. I'm an advocate of the face-over-the-hot-pot-towel-over-head-and-pot cure. Steam the crud out of the enemy!
Can't help you with the virtual money thing. I'm still trying to figure out the regular money thing. Where does it all go?
How amazingly blessed you are that universities might go to war for your child's attention. And Haley, good work, woman!
Next, you ARE staff to a cat. If you don't want to be staff, get a dog, and then you'll realize the intended value of wagging tails. And you'll really piss off the self-imposed "Man of the House," Mitchell.
Go, Haley. Get well, Ad.
The final chapter: Toilet seat is saved!!


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Shell partners with AI company for enhanced trade compliance
Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited is to integrate Windward's proprietary AI-powered Predictive Intelligence solution to further streamline its trade compliance processes, Windward announced today.
05/08/2021, 12:00 pm Updated: 06/08/2021, 7:25 am
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Shell news
Increased regulatory requirements introduced over the last few years have led energy companies to turn to best-in-class technology solutions that provide a clear KYV (Know Your Vessel) due diligence process that will streamline business operations.
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The agreement with Shell follows Windward's announcement of its partnership with CP Shipping as well as partnership agreements signed with OQ Trading and Freepoint Commodities.
With these new partnerships, Windward's energy customers now account for approximately 40% of the world's oil trading. In addition, Windward's customers also insure nearly 65% of the world's shipping fleet by tonnage.
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Q: Store jQuery objects in an array/object I want to create a JS array that contains jQuery objects like this:
var oFormFields = new Object;
oFormFields.label = $(document.createElement('label'));
oFormFields.input = $(document.createElement('input'));

Since this crashes my code, i expect this is not possible. Any alternatives? This is my simplified version, I want to include some other properties so I'm able to re-use this in my code when building dynamic forms.
EDIT: Seemed this did work after all... what I wanted to do, was something like this:
var oFormFields = new Object;
oFormFields.name_field.label = $(document.createElement('label')).addClass('nam_field');
oFormFields.name_field.input = $(document.createElement('input')).addClass('nam_field');

This does break my code. I'm pretty new to jQuery, coming from a PHP background I'm having some troubles adjusting to the correct way to work with arrays / objects.

A: Just use it like this:
var oFormFields = {
  label: $('<label />'),
  input: $('<input />')
};

You can create the element directly using jQuery. Furthermore, as mentioned in the comments, you should prefer the object literal notation over the new syntax.

A: var arr = [];
var oFormFields = {};
oFormFields.label = $('<label/>');
oFormFields.input = $('<input/>');

arr.push(oFormFields);
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Adrián es un nombre propio masculino y es una versión hispana del nombre latino Adrianus a veces escrito Hadrianus. Era el cognomen de una familia aristocrática, de rango pretoriano, perteneciente a la gens Elia. El primer miembro conocido de la misma fue Publio Elio Adriano Marulino, procedente de Itálica (Hispania) y uno de los pocos provinciales admitidos por Augusto en el Senado. El descendiente más famoso fue el emperador Adriano.

El origen de la familia era italiano y se relaciona con la ciudad de Atri, en el Picenum (hoy Abruzzos) desde la cual, durante la Segunda Guerra Púnica, algunos de sus miembros emigraron a la Bética, donde se establecieron.

Etimología

Atri
La actual ciudad italiana de Atri en los Abruzzos y sobre la costa adriática, era llamada Hatria o Hadria en la Antigüedad (griego: Ἀτρία o Ἀδρία ; latín: Hadria, Hatria o Adria) es el lugar de procedencia ancestral de la familia Adriana y de la cual tomaron su nombre.  Atri fue una colonia de los eginetas, restablecida en el siglo IV a. C. por el tirano Dionisio de Siracusa. Su etimología no es clara; se ha relacionado con una divinidad iliria, sícula o itálica de nombre Hatrano o Adrano, pero también con la ciudad de Adrias situada en la desembocadura del río Po, con la cual a menudo ha sido confundida.

Adrias
El río Adrias era, hasta el  y según Hecateo, la boca principal del Po en el mar Adriático; el cual tomó su nombre del mencionado río. Sin embargo, este curso de agua desapareció antes del primer siglo antes de nuestra era. En su desembocadura se erigió la ciudad de Adrias o Adria.

El topónimo Adrias puede provenir de una palabra de origen véneto o ilírico, adur, que significa "agua" o bien, "mar". Otra versión considera que el nombre de la ciudad deriva del etrusco atrium, "luz", en alusión al oriente; Adria sería, pues, el lugar ubicado "al este" de Etruria.

Difusión del nombre
El cognomen romano Adrianus fue popularizado por el emperador Adriano, del cual lo tomaron tanto sus descendientes (su sucesor recibió el nombre de Tito Elio Adriano Antonino) como numerosos libertos de su casa y aquellos extranjeros que obtuvieron la ciudadanía bajo su mandato.

La difusión en Europa vino, sin embargo, de varios santos homónimos, el más notable san Adriano de Cesárea, mártir.

En Inglaterra no apareció hasta el , cuando, bajo la forma Adrian, es mencionado en relación con el único papa de esa nacionalidad; Nicolás Breakspeare quien tomó el nombre de Adriano IV.

Variantes

Masculino: Adriano.

Femenino: Adriana.

Personajes

Religión

Papas
Hasta el momento seis papas han llevado este nombre:

 Adriano I (c. 700–795)
 Adriano II (792–872)
 Adriano III (murió en 885)
 Adriano IV (c. 1100–1159), el único papa inglés
 Adriano V (c. 1205–1276)
 Adriano VI (1459 – 1523), también conocido como Adriano de Utrecht.

Santos

 Adriano de Cesarea (m. 308), mártir.
 Adriano de Canterbury (m. 710), abad de San Agustín, Canterbury
 Adriano de Escocia (m. 875), mártir escocés.
 Adriano de Nicomedia (m. 306), oficial de la guardia del emperador Galerio y mártir.
 Adriano de Ondrusov (m. 1549), santo ortodoxo ruso, taumaturgo.
 Adriano de  Poshekhonye (m. 1550), santo ortodoxo ruso.
 Adriano Fortescue  (1476–1539), miembro de la corte de Enrique VIII, mártir católico.

Eclesiásticos

 Adriano de Castello (1460–1521), cardenal y escritor italiano.

 Adrian Gouffier de Boissy (1479–1523), obispo y cardenal francés.
 Adriano de Moscú (1627–1700), último Patriarca de Moscú y de Todas las Rusias, antes de la supresión del cargo por Pedro el Grande

Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu (1923–2009), obispo católico ugandés.
 Adrian Leo Doyle (n. 1936) prelado católico australiano, arzobispo de Hobart.

Política y fuerzas armadas
 Adrian Amstutz (n. 1953), político suizo.
 Adrian Bailey (n. 1945), político británico.
 Adrian Baillie (1898–1947), político británico.
 Adrian von Bubenberg (1434–1479), caballero de Berna, comandante militar, héroe de la batalla de Murten.
 Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880–1963), oficial británico de origen belga.
Adrià Carrasco (n. 1992) activista español de origen catalán.
 Adrian Cole (1895–1966), as de la aviación australiano en la Primera Guerra Mundial.
 Adrian Delia (n. 1969), político maltés.
 Adrian Fenty (n. 1970), alcalde de Washington D.C. entre 2007y 2011.
 Adrian Flook (n. 1963),  político británico.
 Adrian Hasler (n. 1964),  político de Liechtenstein.
 Adrian Johns (n. 1951), gobernador de Gibraltar entre 2009 y 2013.
 Adrian Năstase (n. 1950),  político rumano.
 Adrian von Renteln (1897–1946), comandante Nazi en Lituania.
 Adrian M. Smith (n. 1970),  político estadounidense del estado de Nebraska.
 Adrian Sanders (n. 1959),  político británico.
 Adrian Severin (n. 1954), político rumano, miembro del Parlamento europeo.
 Adrian Stokes (1519–1586), político inglés.
 Adrian Stoughton (1556–1614),  político inglés.
 Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), comandante militar alemán.
 Adrian Warburton (1918–1944), piloto británico de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
 Adrián Woll (1795–1875), general mexicano de origen francés.

Académicos

 Adrian Albert (1905–1972), matemático estadounidense.
 Adrian Bejan (n. 1948), profesor de la Universidad de Duke.
 Adrian Beverland (1650–1716), filósofo y jurista neerlandés, residente en Inglaterra.
 Adrian Bird (n. 1947), genetista británico
 Adrian Bowyer (n.  1952), ingeniero británico.
 Adrian Curaj (n.  1958), ingeniero rumano.
 Adrian Darby (n.  1937), académico británico.
Adrián Fernández Bremauntz (n. 1961), biólogo y ecólogo mexicano.
 Adrian Goldsworthy (n.  1969), historiador británico especializado en la Antigua Roma.
 Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833), botánico inglés.
 Adrian Ioana (n.  1981), matemático rumano.
 Adrian Jacobsen (1853–1947), etnólogo y explorador noruego.
Adrian John Richards (n. 1943)  botánico inglés.
Adrian John Pieters (1866 - 1940)  botánico y micólogo estadounidense.
 Adrián Recinos (1886–1962), historiador, mayista y diplomático guatemalteco.
 Adrian Zenz (n.  1974), antropólogo alemán.
Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578 - 1625) anatomista flamenco.
Adrian Snodgrass (n.1931), estudioso del budismo y el arte budista.

Deportistas

 Adrián (n. 1987), futbolista español.
 Adrian Adonis (1954–1988), luchador estadounidense.
 Adrián Aldrete (n.  1988),  futbolista mexicano,
 Adrian Aliaj (n.  1976), futbolista albanés.
 Adrian Alston (n.  1949), futbolista australiano.
 Adrian Amos (n.  1993), jugador de fútbol americano.
 Adrian Anca (n.  1976), futbolista rumano.
 Adrian Constantine Anson conocido como «Cap Anson» (1852–1922), beisbolista estadounidense,
 Adrián Argachá (n.  1986), futbolista uruguayo.
 Adrian Autry (n.  1972), baloncestista estadounidense.
 Adrian Avrămia (n.  1992), futbolista rumano.
 Adrian Aymes (n.  1964), jugador británico de críquet.
 Adrian Banks (n. 1986), jugador de beisbol estadounidense en la Liga de Israel.
 Adrian Barath (n. 1990), jugador de críquet.
 Adrián Bastía (n.  1978),  futbolista argentino
 Adrián Beltré (n.  1979), jugador dominicano de béisbol.
 Adrián Berbia (n.  1977),  futbolista uruguayo.
 Adrián Bone (n. 1988), futbolista ecuatoriano.
 Adrian Boothroyd (n.  1971),  futbolista inglés.
 Adrian Bumbescu (n.  1960),  futbolista rumano.
 Adrián Calello (n.  1987), futbolista argentino.
 Adrián Campos (1960-2021), corredor español de Fórmula 1.
 Adrián Centurión (n.  1993),  futbolista argentino.
 Adrián Chávez (n.  1962), futbolista mexicano.
 Adrián Colunga (n.  1984), futbolista español.
Adrián García Conde (1886 – 1943) maestro de ajedrez mexicano-británico .
Adriano de Oliveira Santos (n. 1987) futbolista brasileño
 Adrian Diaconu (n.  1978), boxeador rumano.
 Adrian Elrick (n.  1949), futbolista neozelandés.
 Adrián Escudero (1927–2011), futbolista español.
 Adrián Fernández (n.  1965), piloto de carreras mexicano.
 Adrián Hernán González (n.  1976), futbolista argentino.
 Adrián González Morales (n.  1988), futbolista español.
 Adrián Gunino (n.  1989),  futbolista uruguayo.
 Adrian Heath (n.  1961), futbolista inglés.
 Adrián Hernández (n. 1986), boxeador mexicano.
Adrián Hernández Alonso (n. 1987) nadador español.
Adrián Hernández Montoro (n.1995)  futbolista español.
Adrián José Iglesias (n. 1987) futbolista argentino.
 Adrian Iencsi (n.  1975), futbolista rumano.
 Adrian Ilie (n.  1974), futbolista rumano.
 Adrian Knup (n.  1968), futbolista suizo.
 Adrian Kurek (n.  1988), ciclista polaco.
 Adrian Leijer (n.  1986),  futbolista australiano
 Adrián López (n. 1988), futbolista español.
 Adrián Luna (n.  1992), futbolista uruguayo.
 Adrian Madaschi (born 1982),  futbolista australiano.
 Adrian Mannarino (n.  1988), tenista francés.
 Adrian Mariappa (n.  1986), futbolista inglés.
 Adrián Martínez (n.  1970), futbolista mexicano.
 Adrian Mierzejewski (n.  1986), futbolista polaco
 Adrian Mihalcea (n.  1976), futbolista rumano.
 Adrian Mikhalchishin (n.  1954), gran maestro ajedrecista ucraniano.
 Adrian Morley (n.  1977), jugador de rugby inglés.
 Adrian Mutu (n.  1979),  futbolista rumano.
 Adrian Neaga (n.  1979),  futbolista rumano.
Adriano Pereira da Silva (n. 1982), más conocido como Adriano, futbolista brasileño.
 Adrián Ramos (n. 1986),  futbolista colombiano.
 Adrián Ricchiuti (n.  1978), futbolista argentino.
 Adrián Romero (n. 1977), futbolista uruguayo.
 Adrian Sutil (n.  1983), piloto alemán de Fórmula 1.
 Adrián Vallés (n. 1986), piloto de carreras español

Artes y cine

 Adrian (diseñador de vestuario) (1903–1959).
Adriaen Jansz Kraen ( c. 1619- 1679)  pintor neerlandés.
Adriaen de Grijef
Adrián de Prado (), poeta barroco español.
Adriaan Schade van Westrum
 Adrian Adlam (n.  1963), violinista británico.
Adriano Celentano (n.1938), actor y cantante italiano.

Personajes de ficción
 Adriano, personaje en Coriolano de Shakespeare.
 Adrian Leverkühn, protagonista de Doktor Faustus de Thomas Mann.
 Adrián Corbo, alias Flex, superhéroe de Marvel.

Apellido
Adrian es un apellido derivado del nombre Adrián. Entre quienes lo llevan, se destacan:

 Barbara Adrian (1931–2014), artista estadounidense.
 Chris Adrian (n. 1970), escritor estadounidense.
 Edgar Adrian, (1889–1977), fisiólogo británico, premio Nobel de Medicina en 1932.
 Iris Adrian (1912–1994), actriz estadounidense.
Louis Adrian (1859 -1933), ingeniero militar francés, inventor del casco que lleva su nombre.
Max Adrian (1903–1973), actor y cantante norirlandés.
 Nathan Adrian (n. 1988),  nadador olímpico estadounidense.
 Natan Adrian (n. 1995),baloncestista estadounidense.
 Rhys Adrian (1928–1990), dramaturgo británico.
 Richard Adrian (1927–1995), fisiólogo británico, hijo único de Edgar Adrian.

Lugares
En Rumania y en los Estados Unidos, existen algunas localidades que se denominan Adrian.

Rumania

 Adrian, un pueblo en el área de Livada, en el distrito de Satu Mare.
 Adrian, un pueblo en la comuna de Gurghiu, en el distrito de Mureș.

Estados Unidos

 Adrian, ciudad en el estado de Georgia.
 Municipio de Adrian, en el estado de Kansas.
 Adrian, ciudad en Míchigan, cabecera del condado de Lenawee.
 Adrian, ciudad en el estado de Minnesota.
 Adrian, municipio en el condado de Watonwan, Minnesota.
 Adrian, ciudad en el estado de Misuri.
 Adrian, municipio en el condado de LaMoure, Dakota del Norte.
 Adrian, ciudad en el estado de Oregón.
 Adrian, municipio en el condado de Edmunds, Dakota del Sur.
 Adrian, ciudad en el estado de Texas.
 Adrian, un asentamiento en las islas Vírgenes estadounidenses.
 Adrian, pueblo en el condado de Monroe, estado de Wisconsin.

Educación
Algunas instituciones de enseñanza llevan este nombre en los Estados Unidos

 Adrian College, colegio de enseñanza superior, afiliado a la iglesia Metodista, ubicado en la ciudad de Adrian, Michigan.

 Escuela Secundaria Adrian (Adrian High School), existen varias en algunas de las localidades mencionadas.

Otros usos

 Huracán Adrián. Varios huracanes y tormentas tropicales recibieron este nombre, entre ellos el Huracán Adrián de 2005 y el Huracán Adrián de 2011.
 El casco Adrian, primer casco estándar del Ejército francés en uso durante la Primera y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
 Adrian, segundo álbum de la cantante francesa Buzy, lanzado en 1983.
 Adrian, serie de televisión italiana de animación, concebida y escrita por Adriano Celentano.

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