Oil prices retraced this week as oversupply worries once again resurfaced in spite of a bullish U.S. inventory report.
Oil prices continue to show weakness even though there are some bullish pieces of data emerging. The EIA reported a surprisingly strong drawdown in crude oil inventories, a drop off of 6.43 million barrels. However, weekly U.S. oil production continues to climb. Also, Libyan oil production broke new highs for the year. Oil might trade between $45 and $50 per barrel for quite a while, a range that is "the path of least resistance," Bill O'Grady, chief market strategist at Confluence Investment Management, told Bloomberg in an interview. "You stay in that range until you get some kind of clear and convincing evidence." Oil prices also sank on news that the U.S. withdrew from the Paris Climate accord (more below), raising fears of more unbridled drilling.
Exxon shareholders pass climate resolution. Shareholders of ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) passed a monumental resolution this week, calling on the company to assess its vulnerability to climate change. Shareholders passed the resolution with 62 percent support. The resolution is a milestone on the campaign by environmental activists to pressure the oil major into disclosing more details about its financial vulnerabilities. The difference this time compared to failed efforts in the past is that mainstream financial institutions are on board with more climate disclosure, fearing that their long-term investments are at risk. Shareholders also passed a resolution calling on Exxon to provide more details about its plans to reduce methane emissions.
OPEC faces conundrum: prices or market share. Robin Mills, a Middle-East based oil analyst, wrote in Bloomberg View that OPEC must choose between fighting for market share by raising production, or stabilizing prices by maintaining cuts. They can't have both, despite attempts by the cartel to keep U.S. shale out of the market while also rescuing prices from falling. Unless OPEC chooses one course of action, it could face long-term attrition from lost market share and less-than-satisfying revenues.
U.S. withdraws from Paris. President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a move that, on its face, has little impact on the trajectory of U.S. carbon emissions. The move will, however, strain the already tense relationship between the U.S. and its European allies. Meanwhile, the EU and China have vowed to press on with the accord and reaffirmed their commitment to reach their climate targets. Reaction from within the U.S was swift. Conservative organizations and some in the coal industry praised the move, but the broader corporate sector was mostly opposed to a withdrawal. Tesla's (NYSE: TSLA) Elon Musk withdrew from a presidential advisory council in protest. Even many in the oil and gas industry wanted Trump to remain in the pact. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) CEO Darren Woods made expressions of support for the climate accord.
Libya and Nigeria restore supply. OPEC saw its collective output jump in May because of rising supply from Libya and Nigeria, two countries that are exempt from the production cut deal. The uptick in output was the first monthly increase across OPEC for the year. Both countries have already stated their objective of dramatically ramping up production in the second half of this year if they can maintain security.
Exxon and Total interested in drilling off the coast of Crete. Greece, desperate for cash amid a never-ending financial crisis, has sought to promote oil and gas exploration. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Total SA (NYSE: TOT) have submitted an expression of interest to explore near Crete.
Dakota Access Pipeline begins operations. Energy Transfer Partners (NYSE: ETP) said that its Dakota Access Pipeline began operations on Thursday. The inauguration of Dakota Access means that the company's broader Bakken Pipeline system will now be able to ship 520,000 bpd to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The pipeline is a boon for drillers in North Dakota's Bakken, who will now be able to ship more crude via lower-cost pipelines rather than rail. It will also allow Gulf Coast refiners to access more light sweet crude for their operations.
First floating LNG approved for Gulf Coast. The U.S. Department of Energy granted approval for what could be the U.S. Gulf of Mexico's first floating LNG export terminal. The project, backed by Fairway Peninsula Energy Corp., could begin operation in 2020.


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Man walking on track hit, killed by train
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A 30-year-old man has died after being hit by a CSX train in Savannah.
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department's Traffic Investigations Unit responded to the collision that occurred about 11:15 a.m. Friday.
Authorities say the victim was identified as James Turnbow. His body was found in the woods near the train tracks. He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center, where he died.
Police say the train's conductor activated the horn after observing "an unidentifiable movement in the train's path." As the train got closer, police say the conductor realized a person was in the train's path but he was unable to stop and Turnbow was hit.
It is unknown why Turnbow was walking on the tracks.
Anyone with information should contact police at 912-525-3124.

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Q: Tauri - disable menubar So I am trying to disable this menu bar in Tauri

But I couldn't find where to disable it in the configuration. Can anyone please help me?

A: Your tauri builder (inside main.rs) has a .menu parameter as system default. Either remove it, or replace this menu with your custom one.
You have to change
tauri::Builder::default()
    .menu(tauri::Menu::os_default(&context.package_info().name))
    .run(context)
    .expect("error while running tauri application");

To either
  tauri::Builder::default()
    .run(context)
    .expect("error while running tauri application");

or build a custom menu, and replace it with that one.
Menu docs:
https://tauri.app/v1/guides/features/menu/

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gold mining egypt sukari
Workers continue to protest at Sukari gold mine - Egypt ...
LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) – Gold miner Centamin has made a drastic cut to its full-year production guidance and raised its cost expectations because of lower grade ore at its Sukari mine in Egypt. Gold output in 2018 will now be between 505,000 and 515,000 ounces, compared with a previous forecast ...
Centamin jumps on better-than-expected gold ... - MINING…
Sukari Gold Mining Company, a joint venture between Centamin Egypt and the Egyptian Government, operates the mine. The mine will produce 200,000oz of gold in 2010. On 28 March 2010, production at Sukari surpassed 1t of gold.
Mostafa Saber - Underdround Mining Engineer - …
Sukari Gold Mine, Marsa `Alam, Al Bahr Al Ahmar, Egypt. 24 likes. Mining Company. Jump to. Sections of this page. Accessibility Help. Press alt + / to open this menu. ... Mining Company · Marsa `Alam, Egypt. 172 people checked in here. Mo Ha Med Yaser is with Ibrahim Masoud at Sukari Gold Mine.
Sukari | Centamin
The Sukari project, which is owned by Centamin Egypt Ltd, is located in southern Egypt, 770 km south of Cairo but close to the Red Sea. The project is the first new gold development in Egypt The project is the first new gold development in Egypt
Centamin calls for Egyptian mining sector reform …
Centamin PLC (LON:CEY) shares slumped in late-morning trading Monday after it reported a 25% drop in gold production at its flagship Sukari gold mine in Egypt during the second quarter. The FTSE 250-gold miner reported production for the second quarter was 92,803 ounces, down 25% year-on-year (YoY ...
GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF GOLD AND …
A t gold mining company Centamin, they have a motto: "If it was easy, someone else would have done it already." It's apt for a business that has built Sukari, one of the world's biggest gold mines, in a country better known for revolutions and regime change than digging up precious metals.
Gold production down a quarter at Centamin's Sukari ...
Centamin Egypt ((TSX:CEE, ASX:CNT, AIM:CEY) has announced the commencement of mining operations at the Sukari Gold Project in Egypt.Blasting operations have commenced with ore to be stockpiled ahead of the scheduled completion of the Process Plant in the second quarter of 2009.
Sukari mine's production of gold reaches 92.8K ounces ...
Centamin's gold production guidance from its Sukari mine in Egypt is 580,000 ounces, a 6% increase from 2017. Gold production of the company in the fourth quarter of 2017 stood at 154,298 ounces, which was 1.4% lower than its third quarter output, but which still represented a 12.8% increase over the fourth quarter production of 2016.
Mining industry of Egypt - Wikipedia
Centamin began operating in Egypt in 1995, and the Sukari Gold Mine is its chief operation in the country. The mine spans an area of 160 square kilometers. This land was leased to Centamin with an operating license from EMRA for a period of 30 years.
Centamin lowers FY18 production guidance - …
Sukari has a large reserve and resource base and there is further exploration upside in Sukari hill and on the 160km 2 tenement area that surrounds it. Sukari is the only operating gold mine in Egypt and we believe the country has significant mining potential.
Sukari Gold Mine production to increase to 500,000 oz …
Established in 2005, Sukari Gold Mining Company is a joint venture between the Australian Centamin Company and the Mineral Resources Authority, based on an agreement between the company and the government in 1994.
Mining firms see little appeal in Egypt's gold …
Centamin announced preliminary production results for the second quarter ended 30 June from its Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt on Monday, reporting that gold production for the period was 92,803 ounces, a 25% reduction year-on-year.
Operational Overview | Centamin
It had previously expected to produce 580 000 oz of gold for the full year, however, it said in a statement on Friday that low grades from the transitional zone in the openpit, combined with lower development grade from underground production at its flagship Sukari mine, in Egypt, persisted.
Occupational health hazards in the Sukari Gold Mine, Egypt ...
Mining industry of Egypt The Turin mining papyrus depicts mines in the Wadi Hammamat and is the oldest known map of its kind. Mining in Egypt has had a long history that goes back to predynastic times.
Sukari Gold Mine - Mining Technology
Sukari is the name of Centamin's mine, the only commercial gold mine in Egypt. In Egyptian, sukari means "sugar hill," though it pops up as "diabetes" in online translators. The mine is located in the arid, hilly desert 700 kilometres south of Cairo, and 25 kilometres east of the Red Sea, in a geological area known as the Arabian-Nubian Shield.
$250 mln generated in revenues from Egypt's Sukari gold ...
First gold was poured at Sukari in June 2009 and commercial production began on 1 April 2010, making Sukari the first modern gold mine in Egypt, a country which in ancient times was a prolific producer of the precious metal.
Centamin: Q2 Production From Sukari Gold Mine …
Egypt's Sukari mine, the country's sole gold-exporting mine, has contributed a total of $250 million in revenues to the government since it started production in 2009, Petroleum Minister Tarek El-Molla said at a parliament meeting on Tuesday.
The Australian mining company Centamin operates the Sukari Gold Mine in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, located approximately 700km from Cairo. The company announced its first gold pour in June 2009 followed by the commencement of commercial production in …
Centamin Egypt starts gold mining at Sukari in Egypt | …
The Sukari mine or Alsukari mine (Arabic: السكري Al-Sukkari, Egyptian pronunciation: El-Sokkari) is a Gold Mine located in the Nubian Desert/Eastern Desert near the Red Sea in Egypt in the south-east of the country in the Red Sea Governorate, 30 km south of …
Centamin - Wikipedia
CAIRO -12 May 2018: Production from Egypt's Sukari Gold Mine has reached 106.7 tons of gold since the mine started production in 2010 and until April 2018, General Manager of Centamin Egypt and Managing Director of Sukari Gold Mining Company Youssef el-Raghy said.
Centamin boasts solid start to the year with 14% y/y ...
Centamin Plc (LSE: CEY; TSX: CEE), which operates the Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt, has trimmed its production forecast for 2018.The company says open-pit tonnage is ahead of schedule but grades are below budget. Also, underground output is …
Centamin brings industrial-scale gold production back to Egypt
Oct 31, 2010· Pharaoh Gold Mines NL, Centamin's wholly-owned subsidiary, and the Egyptian Minerals and Resource Authority established an operating company, Sukari Gold Mining Company, 50% owned by each party. The Government of Egypt …
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by JohnEightyOne, Aug 12, 2010.
Everything worked as it should have.. with the exception of 1 thing... I no longer seem to have the USB Notification icon appear when i connect to my PC.
Before, this icon would come up.. i could pull down the notification tray, and select either charge (if i want to listen to music) or disk drive, if i wanted to copy stuff to the SD card..
Now, since i get NO such icon, when i connect with USB debugging on.. i get the drive of the actual phone storage.. if i turn it off.. then just charges..
A. get the usb notification icon back?
I saw this was posted by someone else on the Sprint Hero board.. but i thought i'd put it here incase someone else with an incredible had the same issue, and found the fix..


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Olypmics 2020: Alex Megos
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Speed 0PB: 7.570s 0
Boulder 0 0
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2019 World Championships Lead - Silver
2018 World Championships Lead - Bronze
Alex Megos (GER) Age: 26
As one of the world's best rock climbers, Megos generally brings a different skillset and a more relaxed attitude to the competition circuit. Megos was a formidable youth competitor before turning his talents towards hard rock climbs, with two European Youth Lead Championship titles to his name and a clean sweep of a European Youth Lead Cup season in 2009. Whenever his name has cropped up on a senior IFSC startlist since his return to competing in 2017, people have been drawn to turning up or tuning-in to watch.
In 2018, Megos won Bronze in the Innsbruck Lead World Championships and went one better in Hachioji in 2019, winning a silver medal. Although not as consistent as some other competitors, Megos is also highly capable in Boulder, having won silver in the 2017 European Boulder Championships and – most crucially – ranked 1st in the Boulder qualification round at the Combined World Championships in Hachioji last year. Megos is perhaps the climber who will bring the most personality and individuality to the Games; he's a true character who manages to bridge the gap between being a quirky rock-climbing dirtbag and a dedicated athlete, while still being very much the 'part-timer' of the circuit. His sharp wit and dry sense of humour will probably see him cracking jokes between climbs in Tokyo, while putting in a valiant fight on the wall.
Qualification route
Hachioji World Championships: 8th place
A dream Combined qualification round in Hachioji saw Megos top the scoreboard in both Boulder and Lead and qualify for the finals in 1st place, guaranteeing him an Olympic quota place. However, disaster struck in the Boulder final as he injured his finger and retired from the event. Despite affecting his seed placing, this minor injury won't affect his preparation for the Olympics.
Megos is half Greek, eats carrots for power and his favourite colour is yellow.
UKC prediction
Now that his focus will be almost entirely on the Olympics, we expect Megos's Boulder and Speed capabilities to vastly improve. If he can beat Ondra to the #1 against his name in Lead and maintain a high rank in Boulder and a decent position in Speed, Megos is a strong contender for a top-10 position or even a top-8 final finish if he can dominate Boulder and Lead as he did in Hachioji Combined qualification.
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Waking Up Dead hits Amazon Kindle Top 100!
Yesterday was one of the most exciting days of my writing career. I think the "firsts" are the best–first acceptance from a publisher, first book published, first book signing, and so on and so on. Yesterday was the first time one of my books hit a Top 100 list on Amazon.
Waking Up Dead has been on sale for $.99 (and the equivalent) and I've been doing an advertising blitz.
At some point late last night (I couldn't sleep!), Waking Up Dead moved into the 60s in overall Kindle ranking, but apparently I was too tired by then to remember to take a screen shot.
As of this morning, it's still in the Top 100 in the U.S., still holding #1 category spots in the US and UK, and still in the top 5 in some other countries, as well.
So to everyone who shared the graphic, posted about the sale on Facebook and Twitter, helped me promote the sale and the book, read Waking Up Dead, wrote reviews, and/or supported me in all the millions of ways that family and friends and readers and bloggers and social-media contacts have helped, a huge THANK YOU for one of the very best days of my writing career. YOU ROCK!
Margo Bond Collins lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, several spoiled cats, and a ridiculous turtle. She teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters. Waking Up Dead is her first published novel. Her second novel, Legally Undead, is an urban fantasy forthcoming in 2014 from World Weaver Press.


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Q: WPF How to subtract two columns of a data base table bounded to DataGrid I want to subtract two columns of a SQL server DB table, to calculate (Remaining Amount=Totalbill-Paid Amount) bounded to DataGrid as below

<DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding TotalBill}" Header="Total Bill />
<DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding PaidAmount}" Header="Bill Amount Paid"/>

The above query gives required result when executed in SQL server. But when binding with WPF DataGrid using C#, did not give any out put. please help me
con.Open();

string CmdString = "SELECT (si.TotalBill-siph.PaidAmount) from
SupplyInvoicePaymentHistory siph inner join SupplyInvoice si on siph.SupplyInvoiceID=si.SupplyInvoiceID";

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(CmdString, con);
SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
DataTable dt1 = new DataTable("SupplyInvoicePaymentHistory");
sda.Fill(dt1);
dataGridSupplyOrders.ItemsSource = dt1.DefaultView;

con.Close();

A: in your select Query you have subtracted. and you need to use that column name in DataGridTextColumn.
You want to show only Remaining amount means
your query should like this
    SELECT (si.TotalBill-siph.PaidAmount)as RemainingAmount from
    SupplyInvoicePaymentHistory siph inner join SupplyInvoice si on
    siph.SupplyInvoiceID=si.SupplyInvoiceID

And your Grid need to add like this
 <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{RemainingAmount}" Header="RemainingAmount" />

You want to show all details means your query should like this
    SELECT si.TotalBill as TotalBill, siph.PaidAmount as  PaidAmount ,
     (si.TotalBill-siph.PaidAmount)as RemainingAmount from
    SupplyInvoicePaymentHistory siph inner join SupplyInvoice si on
    siph.SupplyInvoiceID=si.SupplyInvoiceID

And your Grid need to add like this
  <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{TotalBill}" Header="Total Bill" />
  <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{PaidAmount }" Header="PaidAmount"  />
  <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{RemainingAmount}" Header="RemainingAmount"/>

I hope its helpful to you.


All rooms are stylish and well-quipped with modern facilities feature with a large screen LCD TV compatible with computer plug-in power source. Internet access is also available.
The restaurants have different style to cater for the different tastes of guests.
This is a high-rise modern building .
The lobby is small in size, but cosy with large window. There's a looby bar adjoining it.
The hotel is located in the heart of the commercial district Futian, next to the central park - an oasis in Shenzhen city. Shenzhen Hi-tech Exhibition is only 1 km away. It's about 5 kms from Luohu Railway Station and 30kms from Bao'an International Airport.


Experience the thrill of waterskiing in Barbados! The calm crystal-clear waters of the west coast are ideal for skimming across the water.
Less adventurous members of the family will still enjoy sitting in the speedboat watching you waterski, and admiring the breathtaking Barbados coastline.
Several Barbados hotels offer waterskiing, especially the all-inclusive resorts where it is often included in the watersports package. Check at your hotel if they recommend a particular watersports operator.


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2014 Gardiner Foundation Classic Recap
by SLAM Staff September 04, 2014
by Nate Derosena
Growing up in New York City isn't easy. In many cases, young children grow up in poverty and are not presented with many opportunities. One man, however, decided to reach out and give the youth in his Bronx neighborhood the opportunities that he did not receive, and opportunities that many children do not even think exist.
Dexter Gardiner was born and raised in the Bronx. He grew up playing basketball at St. James Park, which is where he now holds the annual Gardiner Memorial Basketball Classic. He is also the founder of the Gardiner Foundation, which he started back in 2006. Gardiner launched the foundation after a series of tragic events occurred: he lost his mother in January of that year, and then lost his sister to cancer about five months later. When his twin brother, Derrick, drove up from Mississippi for the memorial, he crashed in the Bronx River Parkway and died, along with his niece and two nephews.
It would have been easy for Gardiner to give up on everything after going through such a tragedy, but he decided to do the exact opposite. Gardiner began to give back to his community, to show the children of the neighborhood that there are options other than just the street life, and that giving up should never be an option. During the first two years of the tournament, Gardiner paid for it himself, but then a man by the name of Jeff Korek, a lawyer from Brooklyn who now resides in Scarsdale, saw what Gardiner was doing and wanted to support the cause.
Korek and Gardiner met while playing in a Westchester County basketball league together, and have been working together for many years now. Every year the event gets bigger and bigger. This year was the 9th annual tournament, and it was obvious that Gardiner and Korek's work has brought this community together in so many ways. Aside from the actual tournament, Gardiner presents opportunities for children throughout the neighborhood to showcase their different talents, which include singing to dancing. He held a segment that allowed local kids to play in a 14-and-under game, while also hosting raffles and giveaways for the children in attendance, and even gave out new book bags and school supplies for the kids in the park. Four teenagers were presented with college scholarships to institutions such as the Borough of Manhattan Community College and University of Bridgeport. "My part is just a little part of teaching them life skills," says Gardiner. Additionally, thanks to a relentless fundraising effort by Dexter and and Korek, there will be a new soccer field installed at St. James Park and all of its basketball courts will be renovated.
The quality of competition in the tournament was also as impressive as the other facets of the event. The games featured an array of talented streetballers who put on a show for the crowd, all while maintaining a high level of competitiveness. The championship game saw the Red Team, led by Korek, his oldest son and a few local neighborhood players, such as Bronx high school prospect Jaquan McKennon. They went up against the Yellow Team, whose squad included AND1 streetball legends "The Pharmacist" and "High Octane." Ultimately, it was the Yellow Team that came away victorious, with "The Pharmacist" taking home tournament MVP honors.
"Building a family, you're building a better community. Build a better community, you build a better city. Build a better city, you build a better state. Build a better state, you build a better country. Build a better country, you build a better world." These words are one of the many sayings that Gardiner's likes to live by. It gives him the drive needed to keep pressing forward and show the neighborhood that life doesn't always have a dead end, and that they should continue persevering regardless of the circumstances. He wants all to understand that "we are our brother's keeper," which is the motto of the foundation and words that read on the backs of all the tournament shirts.
The main vision of Korek and Gardiner is simply to better everyone around them, as well as send a positive message to the children. "Community service. If you're going to high school, college, law school, medical school, whatever you're going to do in life, you have to make community service a part of your life," says Korek. He hopes the youth take note of what Gardiner and his family have done and follow in their path. Gardiner stressed to attendees that anything is possible for someone who has the proper work ethic, an advise he exemplifies every year with his tournament. He wants his Kingsbridge community to understand that basketball does not have to be a kid's only way to success — even advising the youngsters in attendance to watch the Lenny Cooke documentary on multiple occasions during the weekend. When all is said and done, Gardiner simply wants to make sure that he has, "put [his] foot in to try and make this world a better world." And that's exactly what he did that weekend.
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Berlin School of Business and Innovation (BSBI) is a business school run by private, for-profit education company Global University Systems in Berlin, Germany.

History
Berlin School of Business and Innovation was founded in 2018 by Netherlands-based for-profit education company Global University Systems (GUS).

The institution is headed by Sagi Hartov, Israeli cellist and BSBI Executive Chairman, and Aaron Etingen, British-Russian businessman and Global University Systems CEO.

BSBI does  not hold degree-awarding powers in Germany and its programmes are validated by private Italian distance learning institution UniNettuno International Telematic University.

In November 2019, BSBI announced that it had partnered with Concordia University Chicago to deliver programmes at its Berlin campus.

In June 2020, BSBI become an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UN-PRME) initiative.

Patronage
In November 2018, BSBI appointed Prince Paul of Romania and Princess Lia of Romania as the school's Patrons, and Princess Madeleine of Bentheim and Steinfurt as Honorary Patron.

In December 2020, BSBI's patron Prince Paul was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison by the Supreme Court of Romania. He is no longer listed as one of its patrons.

Criticism
In July 2018, an MBA Journal article report claimed that BSBI's admission requirements were "extremely low" and that the institution was cooperating with a university of "very low standards". BSBI parent company Global University Systems' chief academic officer Maurits van Rooijen defended BSBI, saying, "We want to offer different access options (academic and financial) and different learning formats for different target groups."

On 22 May 2019, MBA Journal reported that students had told the publication that they had written to BSBI management accusing the institution of poor "quality of teachers and teaching, learning materials and assignments." In the letter, students said, "Often times, we are left to learn from Google and Youtube because of the lack of resources that BSBI provides us."

In July 2019, BSBI students wrote to Poets & Quants, sharing with the education publication that they had written to the institution's management in March 2019 calling their attention to "substandard classes and coursework". Amongst a variety of complaints that were raised, students told the publication, "For 2 to 3 weeks we didn't even have chairs."

Poets & Quants revealed that the BSBI campus in Berlin was a shared floor with another institution, and the schools shared most of the inventory in the campus. The institution moved out a year after BSBI's launch and took all its inventory with it. "They took things like the coffee machine, the glasses, tables, chairs, everything," students told the publication.

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Q: Data exchange with legacy program One of our laboratories retrieves data from an old particle size analyzer program using, I believe, DDE.  The data is written to an Excel spreadsheet.  For instance, to retrieve the mean value (selmv), one cell's formula is
=mtwin|summarydata!selmv
I have read several posts that I should not try to use DDE (nor the free library NDde) with .NET.
How should I retrieve this and other data from this program using .NET?

A: NDde worked well with this MTWIN program and was simple to implement.  Thanks to Brian Gideon for this excellent library.


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Corporation Service Company, acquired Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services
Like Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services
By Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services
By Corporation Service Company
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Corporation Service Company Competitor`s Deals
synopsis: Corporation Service Company announced that it has acquired the Digital Brand Services (DBS) division of Melbourne IT. Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services Inc. offers online brand monitoring and protection services. It helps companies manage their online presence and maximize the value of their online assets.
buyer: Corporation Service Company
Corporation Service Company provides matter management, corporate compliance, and trustee services; corporate identity protection services to top global brands; and due diligence and transactional services to the world's largest financial institutions. "
target parent: Melbourne IT Ltd.
target: Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services
Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services are leaders in corporate domain name management, online brand protection, promotion and security. They offer specialized expertise and analytical capability to help companies make smarter decisions to manage their online presence.
Minds + Machines merged with Top Level Domain Holdings, Ltd.,
synopsis: Top Level Domain Holdings, Ltd (TLDH) announced that it has completed a merger with Minds + Machines, a leading registry services provider for web-based top-level domains.TLDH is the only public company focused exclusively on acquiring and operating the new top-level domains authorized by ICANN.
buyer: Top Level Domain Holdings, Ltd.
Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. (TLDH) is a publicly-traded holding company on the London AIM. The company is currently focused specifically on the new top level domain space (such as .com, .net and .org), organized and controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). "
target: Minds + Machines (AIM:MMX:$11.95)
Minds + Machines consulting services cover every aspect of the top-level domain (TLD) business. Espresso is Minds + Machines' versatile, powerful, full-featured registry platform for new gTLDs.
Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, LLC, acquired RampWEB, Inc.
synopsis: Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, LLC announced today its acquisition of RampWEB, Inc., a Texas-based firm, which provides Web accessibility consulting services to government agencies and contractors, corporations, universities, and other non-profit organizations.
buyer: Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, LLC
Mindshare Interactive Campaigns helps organizations leverage the communication opportunities created by technology. Since 1997, we have worked around the world with many of the leading corporations, associations, non-profit organizations and governmental entities to accomplish complex objectives. "
target: RampWEB, Inc.
RampWEB, Inc. is a minority-based corporation founded to assist the most forward-thinking organizations retain key revenue streams and tap new markets by ensuring compliance with federal Section 508, state, and other international guidelines such as the W3C WCAG guidelines for accessibility.
Isobar, acquired Molecular, Inc.
synopsis: Isobar, the global full service digital network created by U.K. firm Aegis Group plc, today announced it has acquired Molecular, a leading technology consulting firm in the U.S. This move marks Isobar's second acquisition in the U.S. market, and the 11th for Isobar globally in the past 10 months.
buyer parent: Aegis Group PLC
buyer: Isobar
Isobar provides alignment, integration, coordination and leverage of all digital assets within Aegis on a global, regional and a national basis. Isobar provides clients with a full service digital marketing offering through its global network of 52 offices in 27 markets worldwide. "
target: Molecular, Inc.
Molecular, a technology consulting firm, designs and builds Internet-based solutions to help companies increase revenues and decrease operating costs.
Merkle, Inc., acquired LiveArea
synopsis: PFSweb, Inc., a global commerce services company, announced that it has completed the sale of LiveArea, its global customer experience and commerce agency business unit, to Merkle, Inc., a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company within Dentsu Group's international business, Dentsu International.
buyer parent: Dentsu Inc.
buyer: Merkle, Inc.
Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. Merkle creates customer experiences that drive improved marketing results and shareholder value. "
target parent: PFSweb, Inc.
target: LiveArea
LiveArea is an award-winning global customer experience and commerce agency. They bring the full potential of digital business to life, helping brands create meaningful and lasting customer connections.
closed 8/20/2013 via Wall Street Journal
Ebiquity plc, acquired Stratigent LLC
synopsis: Ebiquity has acquired all of the membership interests in Stratigent LLC, a US-based multi-channel analytics provider that helps its clients to measure and optimise their consumer communications and engagement, predominantly focused on 'owned' channels.
buyer: Ebiquity plc (AIM:EBQ:$90.17)
Ebiquity plc, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of business critical data, analysis, and consultancy services to advertisers, media owners, and public relations professionals in the United Kingdom and internationally. "
target: Stratigent LLC
Stratigent is the global leader in providing multi-channel analytics consulting to enterprise level brands. Stratigent focuses on transforming the way organizations leverage data to make business decisions in the digital analytics space.
Aerwav Integration Services Inc., acquired Mobius Technology Solutions Inc.
synopsis: Aerwav Integration Services Inc. (AIS), a provider of integrated security and critical communications solutions, announced today that it has acquired Mobius Technology Solutions Inc., a developer of custom Content Management Systems, E-commerce applications and secure data-management solutions.
buyer: Aerwav Integration Services Inc.
Aerwav Integration Services, Inc. ("AIS") is a communications services provider currently specializing in integrated security solutions. We combine the latest in cost-efficient technology, an expert staff and seamless system integration to protect and enhance the assets of our customers. Our value "
target: Mobius Technology Solutions Inc.
Mobius Technology Solutions is a leading Web-development, business consulting, technology and marketing services firm that builds digital solutions that work for its customers. Mobius Technology Solutions focuses on Strategic Internet Consulting, Online Branding and Site Development, Custom E- comm
Sprinklr, acquired Dachis Corporation, Inc.
synopsis: Sprinklr, the leading provider of Social Relationship Infrastructure, announced that it has acquired Austin, Texas-based Dachis Group, the leader in social and brand analytics. Sprinklr is how brands manage social experiences across internal business unit silos.
buyer: Sprinklr
Sprinklr is how brands manage social experiences across internal business unit silos. Unlike tools and platforms, Sprinklr is the only native, seamless, fully integrated Social Relationship Infrastructure. "
target: Dachis Corporation, Inc.
Dachis Group is a leader in data-driven social marketing solutions. Utilizing a proprietary big data analytics platform, and an industry leading social solutions services practice, Dachis Group helps marketers master the real-time social conversations of their customers.
Reputation Institute, acquired Mettle Consulting
synopsis: Reputation Institute (RI), a company that helps global companies unlock the power of their reputations for competitive advantage, has acquired London-based big data media analytics company Mettle Consulting Limited. Mettle Consulting measures a brand's trust levels and gives predictive insight into a customers' experience.
buyer: Reputation Institute
Reputation Institute's RepTrak® methodology is the gold standard in the science of reputation measurement and management. Reputation Institute helps global companies unlock the power of their reputations for competitive advantage. "
target: Mettle Consulting
Mettle Consulting measures a brand's trust levels, gives predictive insight into a customers' experience, and so enables clients to grow their market share. Their trust analysis provides breadth and depth.
Be Heard Group plc, will acquire Freemavens
synopsis: Digital marketing services firm Be Heard Group PLC said it has agreed to buy a 75% stake in UK-based Freemavens Ltd, a marketing analytics consultancy, and will back the deal with a GBP2.1 million share placing.
buyer: Be Heard Group plc (AIM:BHRD:$69.14)
Be Heard Group plc is a digital marketing group at the intersection of marketing, technology and e-commerce. Their vision is to build an agile interconnected group focused on helping clients maximize their return on investment from digital marketing. "
target: Freemavens
Freemavens was founded in 2012 by Andrej Moyseowicz and Christopher Palengat, and aims to solve clients' business challenges and develop insights using big data. It has a staff of 20 and has developed several in-house data analytics tools and methodologies.
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Alta Communications, acquired The Yankee Group
synopsis: Yankee Group, the world's largest research and advisory firm focused on communications and networking technologies, announced today that an investment group led by Alta Communications, a private equity firm, and Emily Nagle Green has acquired the firm from previous owner Decision Matrix Group, LLC.
buyer: Alta Communications
Alta Communications is a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in equity investments in media and communications companies. Alta Communications has a very successful track record and is extremely active, having invested in over 100 media and telecommunications companies. "
target parent: The Monitor Group
target: The Yankee Group
The Yankee Group is a global leader in communications and networking research and consulting. Spanning numerous industries, the company provides strategic planning assistance, technology and market forecasting, and cross-industry analysis to support a wide range of clients on a worldwide basis.
UMS Advisory, Inc., acquired IWMSconnect
synopsis: UMS Advisory, Inc., a leading global management consulting firm, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of IWMSconnect, a globally recognized provider of advanced workplace technology research, program toolkits, and consultative services.
buyer: UMS Advisory, Inc.
UMS Advisory, a leading global management consulting firm, focuses on driving measurable performance improvements in Real Estate and Facilities Management (RE/FM) for blue chip companies. "
target: IWMSconnect
IWMSconnect is recognized for its advanced knowledge platform and experienced leadership team that provides the data, tools, and insights. Their sight is set to innovating how organizations solve for integrated workplace management system (IWMS) technology more efficiently.
announced 6/23/2008 via finextra.com
BancTec, Inc., will acquire Inndata
synopsis: Nordic IT services group EDB Business Partner is selling its Swedish subsidiary Inndata to US BPO vendor BancTec. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
target parent: EDB Business Partner ASA
target: Inndata
Inndata is an IT Operation in Sweden.
H.I.G. Capital, acquired Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.
synopsis: Lionbridge Technologies, Inc, the market leader in translation and digital content services, announced the stockholder approval and closing of the previously announced acquisition of Lionbridge by an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, LLC (H.I.G.), a leading private equity firm.
buyer: H.I.G. Capital
H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private equity investment firm with over $20 billion of equity capital under management. The H.I.G. family of funds includes private equity, growth equity, real estate, debt/credit, lending and biohealth. "
target: Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (LIOX:$556.65)
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. provide translation, online marketing, global content management and application testing solutions that ensure global brand consistency, local relevancy and technical usability across all touch points of the customer lifecycle.
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., will acquire Virtual Solutions, Inc.
synopsis: Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Solutions, Inc., a privately-held provider of crowdsourcing solutions to state and local governments. The addition of Virtual Solutions enables Lionbridge to address growing demand for secure, technology-enabled enterprise crowdsourcing solutions.
buyer: Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (LIOX:$556.65)
As the world's largest enterprise crowdsourcing company, Lionbridge enables more than 800 world-leading brands to increase international market share, speed adoption of products and effectively engage their customers in local markets worldwide. "
target: Virtual Solutions, Inc.
Virtual Solutions provides clients with a secure, highly scalable human technology workforce that is available on demand. Their human technology approach combines secure snippet technology with access to over 10,000 data entry specialists to efficiently break down confidential data.
announced 12/5/2019 via GlobeNewswire
TELUS International, will acquire Competence Call Center Group (CCC)
synopsis: TELUS Corporation, through TELUS International, a customer experience innovator that designs, builds and delivers next-generation digital solutions for global brands, has agreed to acquire Competence Call Center (CCC), a leading provider of higher-value-added business services with a focus on customer relationship management and content moderation.
buyer parent: TELUS Corporation
buyer: TELUS International
Based in Canada, TELUS International is a leading global business process and IT services company. TELUS International enables customer experience innovation through spirited teamwork, agile thinking, and a caring culture that puts customers first. The company serves clients in over 35 languages. "
target parent: Ardian
target: Competence Call Center Group (CCC)
Competence Call Center Group (CCC) is one of the leading BPO service providers in Europe. Founded in Austria in 1998, CCC is today headquartered in Berlin. and offers high-quality BPO solutions in 28 languages and serves more than 80 customers in Europe.
Ardian, will acquire Competence Call Center Group (CCC)
synopsis: Ardian, the independent private investment company, has signed an agreement to acquire Competence Call Center Group (CCC), one of the leading BPO service providers in Europe.
buyer: Ardian
Ardian is a private investment house with assets of US$66bn managed or advised in Europe, North America and Asia. The company is majority-owned by its employees. It keeps entrepreneurship at its heart and focuses on delivering excellent investment performance to its global investor base. "
target parent: Silverfleet Capital
Webhelp, acquired Netino
synopsis: Leading global customer experience company, Webhelp, has announced the acquisition of top social content moderation company, Netino. Headquartered in Paris, France, Netino specializes in monitoring social conversations and ensuring appropriate responses on a round the clock basis.
buyer: Webhelp
Webhelp is a global business process outsourcer (BPO), specialising in customer experience and payment management in addition to sales and marketing services across voice, social and digital channels. "
target: Netino
Netino is a top social content moderation company. Headquartered in Paris, France, Netino specializes in monitoring social conversations and ensuring appropriate responses on a round the clock basis.
Ricoh Co Ltd, acquired Pamafe IT
synopsis: Ricoh, a global provider of document management solutions, has acquired Pamafe IT, a leading provider of IT services in Portugal. Pamafe IT helps their clients to find the best solution for their needs and add value to their business. The company specializes in managed services, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, data centers, networking, and more.
buyer: Ricoh Co Ltd (TSE:7752:$15,490.83)
Ricoh is a global provider of document management solutions, IT services, commercial and industrial printing, digital cameras, and industrial systems. Ricoh is empowering digital workplaces using innovative technologies and services enabling individuals to work smarter. "
target: Pamafe IT
Pamafe IT is a leading provider of IT services in Portugal. Pamafe IT helps their clients to find the best solution for their needs and add value to their business. The company specializes in managed services, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, data centers, networking, and more.
ConvergeOne, LLC, acquired Integration Partners
synopsis: ConvergeOne, a customer centric, services-led cloud technology solution provider, announced that it has acquired Integration Partners Corporation, an award-winning team that designs and implements collaboration and digital infrastructure solutions.
buyer parent: CVC Capital Partners
buyer: ConvergeOne, LLC (CVON:$1,401.33)
ConvergeOne is a leading global IT services provider of cloud collaboration customer experience and technology solutions for large and medium enterprises with 27 years of experience assisting customers to transform their digital infrastructure and realize a return on investment. "
target: Integration Partners
Integration Partners Corporation is an award-winning team that designs and implements collaboration and digital infrastructure solutions. They specialize in the complete spectrum of data center, networking, cyber security and collaboration solutions.
Corporation Service Company, acquired NetNames
synopsis: HgCapital has announced that it has agreed the sale of NetNames, a leading provider of global brand protection and internet domain name management services, to CSC, a US-based, leading provider of business administration services to corporations.
target parent: HgCapital
target: NetNames
NetNames is a leader in online brand protection protecting the digital presence of brands across the globe. NetNames offers leading end-to-end brand protection solutions, corporate domain name management, and online security solutions.
Corporation Service Company, purchased eRecording Submitter Business from PropertyInfo Corporation
synopsis: Corporation Service Company® (CSC®), a leading provider of electronic document recording (eRecording) services nationwide, announced that it has acquired the eRecording submitter business of PropertyInfo Corporation®. PropertyInfo was one of the first companies to offer eRecording services and is looking forward to CSC building upon its success.
seller parent: Stewart Information Services Corp
seller: PropertyInfo Corporation
PropertyInfo's eRecording submitter business was one of the first to offer electronic document recording (eRecording) services. These services are offered to the real estate, closing, and mortgage industry.
Corporation Service Company, acquired IP Mirror
synopsis: CSC® Digital Brand Services announced that it has acquired IP Mirror, a Singapore-based provider of corporate domain name registration and online brand protection services. IP Mirror was formed in 2000 and has grown into a regional leader on the strength of its corporate domain management and brand protection services.
target: IP Mirror
IP Mirror was incorporated in 2000 as an Intellectual Assets Management company to manage the online assets of clients. They are known and trusted for the provision of Domain Name Registration Services, and ensure the online protection of their client's brand against trademark infringement.
Corporation Service Company, acquired Ingeo Systems Inc.
synopsis: Corporation Service Company, a leading provider of business, legal and financial solutions, announced its acquisition of Ingeo Systems Inc., the nation's top provider of electronic real estate document recording (eRecording) services.
target: Ingeo Systems Inc.
Ingeo Systems Inc. is the nation's top provider of electronic real estate document recording (eRecording) services. The company offers eRecording software solutions for both real estate document submitters and recorders.
closed 12/12/2011 via Yahoo, Inc.
Corporation Service Company, acquired MLM Information Services LLC
synopsis: Corporation Service Company®, a leading provider of global business, legal and financial solutions, announced that it has completed its acquisition of MLM Information Services, the industry's foremost corporate tax management services provider.
target parent: Warburg Pincus
target: MLM Information Services LLC
MLM Information Services LLC is a leading provider of corporate tax software solutions through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Corptax Inc. and Tax Compliance Inc., which provide software, information and services to corporate tax departments and professional services firms.
Corporation Service Company, acquired NameProtect Inc.
synopsis: Corporation Service Company, a privately-held company and leading provider of legal and financial services to corporations and law firms, has acquired NameProtect, a privately-held leader of digital brand management solutions for the Global 2000.
Corporation Service Company, a privately-held company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, is a leading provider of legal and financial services for many of the world's largest companies and law firms. "
target parent: Mason Wells
target: NameProtect Inc.
NameProtect, a digital brand management company, provides a comprehensive suite of trademark clearance and advanced monitoring services that support the entire life cycle of a brand in today's digital economy.
CSC, purchased Corporate Services Division from Register.com
synopsis: Register.com, a leading provider of domain name registration and Internet services, today announced the sale of its Corporate Services Division to Corporation Service Company, a privately-held firm and leading provider of financial and legal services to corporations and law firms.
buyer: CSC
seller parent: Vector Capital
seller: Register.com
Register.com, Inc. is a leading provider of global domain name registration and Internet services for businesses and consumers that wish to have a unique address and branded identity on the Internet.
announced 2/8/2012 via PE Hub
Welocalize, will acquire Park IP Translations
synopsis: Riverside Partners, a Boston based private equity firm, announced that it has come to agreement to make a significant investment in Park IP Translations, the market leader in the highly technical field of patent translation. The investment will be made through Riverside Partners' portfolio company, Welocalize.
buyer parent: Riverside Partners, LLC.
buyer: Welocalize
Welocalize offers integrated globalization services and products for the fluid and rapid deployment of enterprise content and applications to international markets. It provides globalization consulting, translation, localization, testing solutions and enterprise translation management tools. "
target: Park IP Translations
Park IP Translations is a language services company that serves the legal intellectual property services community through translation, interpretation, and consultancy services. Park is headquartered in New York City and possesses a network of offices and supplier relationships worldwide.
BV Investment Partners, acquired Intelliteach
synopsis: BV Investment Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on the business services, software and IT services sectors, announced that it has partnered with management to acquire Intelliteach, a leading, global provider of tech enabled, business process outsourcing solutions for law and accounting firms.
buyer: BV Investment Partners
BV Investment Partners is currently investing its ninth private equity fund. The firm is one of the oldest and most experienced sector-focused private equity firms in North America. The company actively targets investments in the business services and information technology services industries. "
target parent: Dominus Capital, L.P.
target: Intelliteach
Intelliteach is a leading global provider of intelligent outsourcing solutions to more than 300 firms in the legal and accounting markets. They provide secure, scalable solutions by best in class technology platforms and their multi service solutions help to position law firms for financial success.
Frontline Managed Services, acquired InvoicePrep
synopsis: Frontline Managed Services has acquired InvoicePrep, an outsourced eBilling and invoice service for law firms. In addition to law firm financial expertise, InvoicePrep also brings its proprietary workflow solution and Invoice Compliance & Revenue Management software that proficiently manages invoice compliancy to Outside Counsel Guidelines.
buyer parent: BV Investment Partners
buyer: Frontline Managed Services
Frontline Managed Services is the leading global provider of outsourcing solutions in the legal industry, including administrative managed services, financial managed services, and IT managed services. "
target: InvoicePrep
InvoicePrep helps law firms prepare more compliant, more effective e-billed invoices with less internal resources. InvoicePrep's system leverages a combination of cutting-edge technology and professionals with extensive legal invoice compliance and e-billing software experience.
Xact Data Discovery, acquired Paralaw UK Limited
synopsis: Xact Data Discovery (XDD), a leading international provider of eDiscovery, data management and managed review services for law firms and corporations, acquired Paralaw, a UK-based legal outsourcing company providing managed review staffing, eDiscovery and contracts management services to law firms and corporations.
buyer parent: JLL Partners
buyer: Xact Data Discovery
Xact Data Discovery (XDD) is a leading international provider of eDiscovery, data management and managed review services for law firms and corporations. XDD helps clients optimize their eDiscovery matters by orchestrating precision communication between people, processes, technology and data. "
target: Paralaw UK Limited
Paralaw is a UK-based legal outsourcing company providing managed review staffing, eDiscovery and contracts management services to law firms and corporations.
Elevate Services, Inc., acquired Sumati Group
synopsis: Law company Elevate Services announced the acquisition of Sumati Group, a leading provider of contract lifecycle management (CLM) managed services. Sumati Group is the leading global provider of contract analysis, review and migration and CLM technology managed services.
buyer: Elevate Services, Inc.
Elevate Services is a global law company, providing consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms. The company's team of lawyers, engineers, consultants and business experts extend and enable the resources and capabilities of customers worldwide. "
target: Sumati Group
Sumati Group is the leading global provider of contract analysis, review and migration and CLM technology managed services. Providing support across all industries, contract types and CLM platforms, Sumati has substantively analyzed and reviewed over six million contract documents.
Ticker: LGHL
Logica Holdings, Inc.
The Logica Holdings Group is a group of companies whose primary focus is in the e-commerce and IT sector. Each company has a specific purpose and is managed by highly experienced, professional and motivated individuals whose performance is rewarded on the basis of the success of the company.
Ticker: BRGP
BearingPoint, Inc.
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach. The company operates in three units: Consulting, Solutions and Ventures.
Ticker: RAX
Rackspace Technology
Rackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company. They can design, build and operate their customers' cloud environments across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model.
Ticker: TSXV:CTS
Converge Technology Partners Inc.
Converge Technology Solutions Corp. combines innovation accelerators and foundational infrastructure solutions to deliver best-of-breed solutions and services to customers.
Ticker: ASX:OTW
Over the Wire Holdings Limited
Over the Wire is a Telecommunications and IT solution provider in Australia. Over the Wire specializes in converged voice and data networks, data centres, and hosted infrastructure solutions for corporate clients. Their core offerings include data networks, voice, managed cloud, and colocation.
Ticker: ICLD
InterCloud Systems, Inc.
InterCloud Systems is a global single-source provider of value-added services for both corporate enterprises and service providers, offering cloud and managed services, professional consulting services and voice, data and optical solutions.
Ticker: AIM:SYS
SysGroup plc
SysGroup PLC is a leading provider of managed IT services, cloud hosting and technical consultancy. The Group delivers solutions that ensure clients understand and benefit from industry-leading technologies and advanced hosting capabilities.
Ticker: APCX
AppTech Corp
AppTech Corp is an information technology company providing cloud services and merchant processing solutions with a focus in mobile payments. Their mission is to provide industry-leading cloud services and payment processing technologies to businesses.
Ticker: ACN
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance.
Ticker: CTSH
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.
transcosmos inc.
transcosmos currently offers Cost Reduction Services (Contact Center, HR/Financial/Sales Back Office, Order Management/SCM, System Development) and Sales Expansion Services (Big Data Analysis, Internet Advertising, Website Construction/Management, Smartphone/SNS Utilization, Telemarketing etc.).
Datamatics Global Services Ltd
Datamatics is a global Information Technology (IT) and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) organization focused on delivering smart, next-generation business solutions that help enterprises across the world overcome their business challenges.
Ticker: AU:PWR
Powerlan Ltd.
Powerlan is publicly listed company that provides specialist information technology products and services, business process outsourcing and infrastructure support through a group of specialist companies.
Ticker: ASX:TNT
Tesserent Limited
Tesserent is dedicated to providing enterprise Network Security via a managed service for organisations across Asia Pacific. Tesserent delivers network security as a managed service to high value organisations - monitoring, updating and protecting client networks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Check, Please! host Catherine De Orio welcomes guest reviewers Kam Buckner, Erica Abdnour, and Aaron Adams who weigh in on Chicago area eateries Angry Crab, Oak + Char, and Preservation Bread & Wine.
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Adoption is a wonderful alternative for many kids. An adoption is the legal procedure through which a child's biological parents are eliminated of their civil liberties and often obligations to the child as well as brand-new moms and dads are selected to be the child's moms and dads from that point ahead. Adopting a child has the very same legal consequence as actually giving birth to the child The adopted child is lawfully the same as a child of your flesh.
There are a lot of feasible scenarios in which somebody may wish to adopt a child to listing here however some typical situations consist of: Grandparents take on when the moms and dads are incapable or reluctant to take care of the child.
Foster moms and dads embrace youngsters that they have actually taken care of in the foster system. Often these youngsters are put with the foster parent by child protective solutions. Company funded adoptions. These are adoptions in which the birth parents of the child make use of a firm to put the child with new parents. International fosterings and also Adoption of a step-child by a step-parent.
The adoption process requires that you initially fulfill a checklist of demands before you can be considered for adoption If you meet these needs you can move on. If you do not there is no factor in filing the paperwork since the court can not or will certainly not approve the adoption.
A few of these needs are simple to see, such as age. Others require more investigation. As explained listed below the court will certainly do the investigation required to figure out if you qualify. You have to be at the very least 21 years old and a fully grown grownup. You need to be solvent. This does not mean rich, yet does indicate that you have to have the ability to provide the fundamental requirements for the child. Have to also pass an adoption house research study. These will be gone over in even more detail listed below.
If you really feel that you satisfy the needs noted over you can move forward with the adoption.
You ought to not attempt to represent yourself in an adoption. There are some lawful issues where it is fine and also ideal to represent yourself. This is not one of them. You require a certified lawyer representing you. The only exemption to this is if you are collaborating with CPS. Because case the State has a group of legal representatives servicing the case and they will take care of whatever.
Your lawyer will certainly file an application seeking adoption of the child. This is a relatively straightforward file that asks the court to go into an order calling you as the parents of the child. Depending upon your scenarios your legal representative might also submit a motion seeking the termination of the biological parent's civil liberties. This should take place as legitimately the child can only have one collection of moms and dads.
An order ending an individual's parental legal rights is typically referred to as the death sentence of family legislation. Once the order ending has actually been gotten in as well as the time for appeal expires it will legally be as if the moms and dad of the child is a stranger to the child. They will certainly have definitely no legal rights and also if they approach the child the new, adoptive parents can call the cops just as if a stranger were tracking their child.
Orders terminating adult civil liberties typically terminate the biological parents obligations to give support for the child but do not need to. They can additionally consist of an order that the birth parent provide a medical history for the child's advantage.
Judges do not just permit any individual to embrace. They intend to see to it they are positioning the child in the most effective feasible place. To accomplish this the state legislature has actually passed laws requiring specific points be achieved prior to an adoption is provided. These include: history look for both possible adoptive moms and dads (or simply the step-parent when it comes to a step-parent adoption), residence research, meetings with an attorney advertisement litem for the child.
The criminal history check is executed by the FBI. It requires that you complete a kind giving them all kinds of determining details as well as have on your own finger printed by somebody from your neighborhood police.
The legislation doesn't need that you have an absolutely tidy record but if you have any type of costs or sentences for crimes entailing youngsters you will not be accepted. Anything else will be handled on an instance by situation basis.
The residence research study is done by CPS and is used to identify whether or not the possible adoptive family has the funds, space for the child which the home is proper and also risk-free.
The emphasis is less on the physical assessment of the residence, although that is necessary, however extra about how the family associates with one another and also their history, connections and also sensations on certain issues such as discipline and similar problems. The residence study takes into account: Marriage security, Family and friends as a resource network, Factor for the adoption.
Standard parenting skills with a focus on self-control and building brother or sister partnerships, Physical as well as mental health and wellness of the possible adoptive parent or moms and dads, Capability to take care of sensitive problems faced by adopted youngsters such as: abuse, the biological mother, maturing in a various ethnic or social atmosphere as well as dealing with various Basically the Lawyer Ad Litem is a lawyer designated by the court to represent the child.
Their job is to identify and share the child's rate of interests while at the exact same time making certain that the child is not being made the most of or disadvantaged in any way by the adoption. The court will ask them to report on their searchings for as well as if they protest the adoption the possibilities that the court will certainly disagree are slim.
Eventually you will certainly appear prior to the judge as well as ask that she or he get the termination and also provide the adoption. Some courts call for that these two occasions take place at various hearings. The reason being that the terminated parent could practically appeal as well as have the discontinuation rescinded which would then reverse the adoption. To prevent this the judge ends the birth parent and afterwards makes you wait until their allure date has actually passed before providing the adoption.
Usually the judges desire the kids to be there for the adoption section and also like to take photos with the brand-new family. Fosterings are just one of the few good ideas that family law courts get to take part in so they appreciate them as much as feasible.
In typically adoptive moms and dads are wed. Statistics pertaining to separation may be undependable however the basic reality of the issue is that any type of marital relationship can end in divorce. Taken on children are dealt with in precisely the very same fashion as biological kids by the separation courts. That means that whether it is an action moms and dad adoption or a foster adoption if the moms and dads divorce the final decree of divorce will set out protection as well as visitation for the child and also child support payments for one or both partners to pay.


Instant information reveals a wide diversity of new patterns of change; which entice everybody to anticipate changes to come. Ordinary people are thus inspired with the mania which is born of perception, not of the connection, but of the interval between the now and the rapidly approaching new situation. This becomes a way of living "as if every moment were your next." The instant and simultaneous have no sequence or connections, but are characterized by resonant intervals and discontinuity. In the new world environment of instant information there is need to pay attention to the neglected factor of the gap or interval as crux in creating inflation. As long as there is an interval of play between the wheel and the axle, there is a rotary action. It is the interval of play that keeps the wheel and axle in touch. And the gap or interval is "where the action is." This fact has gained special attention from the new physics; and it is in the very opening of "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" that Linus Pauling explains there are "no connections" in matter. The development of the theory of quantum mechanics has also introduced into chemical theory a new concept, that of resonance ... and it is our resonant interval ..." What is most relevant here to the nature of inflation may perhaps be seen from the way in which the gap or interval in things creates the mentality of the gambler: He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who fears to put it to the touch To win or lose it all. It is precisely "touch that is the resonating world of the gap or interval. Touch is literally created by a resonant interval, between, say the hand and the thing. If there were any connection between the hand and the thing, there would be no hand. The gambler is above all the man who must stay in touch, and in the new "physics of the instantaneous electric environment it is precisely the resonant interval or "touch" that characterizes the information that constitutes the universal accessibility of instant information.
In my introduction I will explain what is meant when I have said, "the book is obsolete." Obsolescent does not mean extinction. Quite the contrary. For example, handwriting has been "obsolete" since Gutenberg, and certainly since Remington, but there is more handwriting today than there ever has been. The world "obsolete" therefore is a figure-ground term and the situation of obsolescence is the result of some spectacular shift in the nature of ground which alters the status of figure. Thus, Gutenberg scrapped manuscript culture and elevated it, as it were, to a kind of art form. In the same way, the motor car has been obsolesced by jet plane and is increasingly getting acceptance as an art form. The planet and Nature were obsolesced but Sputnik in October, 1957, and have become art form also. Sputnik saw the birth of ecology, and Art replacing Nature. In the same way, the book, more prolific now than ever, has been pushed up into art form by the electronic surround of information. The book has been ground, but has now been flipped into figure against the new electronic ground. In the same way, the entire hardware of Western industrialism has been obsolesced and, as Toynbee says, "etherealized" by the new surround of electronic information services.
The traditional role of our own alphabet is now getting new status as art form in a variety of ways. For example, the I.T.A. (Initial Teaching Aids. Pitman) has revealed that old manuscript forms of the written character serve children better than the printed alphabet . Ernest Fenelossa has shown us the importance of the Chinese written character as the means of a new figure-ground relation for the West. Ezra Pound and the imagists were keenly aware that Western writing had entered a new phase with the electronic age, while, on the other hand, the Japanese are currently mounting a six billion dollar program for introducing our phonetic alphabet into their own world. Should the Japanese and the Chinese Westernize their written character they would acquire our intense visual bias of specialism and aggressive goal-seeking, and they would at the same time obliterate most of their audile-tactile culture with its iconic bias of tribal role playing rather than private goal-seeking.
My book Take Today: The Executive as Dropout (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovith, 1972) is an account of the cultural and managerial changes taking place in the Western world with the obsolescing of our industrial hardware and the new dominance of simultaneous and instantaneous information environments. Visual culture, based on the alphabet, not only produced individual civilized Graeco-Roman man but it also led, via Gutenberg, to the development of world-wide commodity markets and pricing systems which were based on the printed word and the assembly-line techniques of using movable types.
For a good while to come, the printed word will play a big role both in the Eastern and Western hemispheres of the planet. Paradoxically, however, the role of software in the East will be antithetical and complementary to its role in the West. For many centuries the East has been dominated by oral culture, a fact which gives the East a special advantage in relating to the electronic age. On the other hand, the West, for many centuries based on the visual culture of the phonetic alphabet and later the printed word, has steadily reverted to oral culture during the past century of increasing electric technology. As we seem to be acquiring the Eastern "software," the Orient would seem to be taking over our Western hardware along with our Western alphabet. What has been formed is a completely new "ball park" of global dimensions with completely unfamiliar ground rules. In any event, the printed and written word will have a salient function.
In these verses Yeats is quite explicit about the sculptural forms of the goldsmiths as being a means of bringing the spiritual and the material into immediate rapport and also of involving the audience in deep participation through the art of the audio-tactile sculpture. When asked to explain why sculpture was not a visual form, the candidate explained the special character of the bounding lines and surfaces of sculpture as involving all of the senses in interplay. He cited the work of Linus Pauling on The Nature of the Chemical Bond in which the studies of Heisenberg and others have stressed the character of the "resonant interval." In a new plant opened in January, 1972, seven assembly groups have replaced the continuous production lines;... In effect, the seven groups follow along a spectrum of decreasing specialization. At one end is a group of workers with little or no experience in group assembly, at the other end is a group of workers with total experience. It is hoped that ultimately both groups will have the opportunity to assemble the entire engine. For a more complete description of this plant, see Jan-Peter Norsdet's Work Organization and Job Design at Saab-Scandia in Sodertalje (Stockholm Technical Department, Swedish Employee's Confederation, December 1970).
There was something close to consternation among the faculty examiners when it was proposed that they should consider sculpture not as a primarily visual form but as an audili-tactile experience of resonance and involvement. The candidate cited the work of Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light, in which the effects of blindness include the enormous enhancement of the audio-tactile awareness of people and things. The candidate cited the statement of Yates himself that he had spent his major life striving to eliminate every vestige of the visual from his poetry. For Yates the visual sense appeared as one of extreme specialism and deprivation for the artist and poetry alike. Perhaps it would be simpler to draw attention to the work of Eric Havelock in Preface to Plato where he explains the relation of Homer to the "tribal encyclopedia." In presenting the bard as the traditional educator of Greeks, Havelock indicates that poetic performance was a kind of group ritual that involved the public as any jazz or rock festival. As Perry and Lord have indicated in The Singer of Tales, in an oral culture performance is also composition. Havelock devotes much of his book to explaining the effect of the phonetic alphabet on the Greek sensibilities and culture, pointing to the rise of self awareness and identity as an immediate result of this unique form of codifying experience. What especially needs to be noted about the phonetic alphabet in our time is its power to impose its assumptions on wide fields of operation and experience. I have tried to explain this matter somewhat in The Gutenberg Galaxy but I now know a few basic things that I did not know at the time I wrote that book.
The phonetic alphabet is the only one in which the letters are semantically neutral, lacking verbal structure or force. Since the visual image presented in this letters is acoustically and semantically neutral, they have had the extraordinary effect upon their users of supporting the visual faculty in large degrees, from the other senses of touch and hearing, and so on. The power to isolate the visual faculty with resulting high intensity fostered the rise of Euclidean geometry as well as images of separate individual and private identity. So isolated the spaces and forms congenial to vision acquired an almost separate character which has been much identified with both rationality and civilization. Visual space as manifested in Euclidean forms is the basic character of uniformity, continuity and stasis. Visual space, unlike the spaces which relate to or emanate from touch and taste and hearing has a stable and enduring character. Visual space is not characteristic of the child's world nor of the pre-literate or post-literate worlds. The little boy on the first plane ride who asked: "Daddy, when do we start to get smaller?" was actually highlighting this problem When a plane lives the ground it quickly diminishes in size and the little boy was justified in asking his question. If the plane gets smaller from the outside, why shouldn't it get smaller from the inside? Perhaps the answer is in the fact that the enclosed space of the cabin is visual and static. In fact, visual space is a figure without a ground, having abstracted itself from the ground of the other senses. Acoustic space, for example has quite different properties from visual space. Acoustic sphere is discontinuous and non uniform and dynamic. Tactile space is the world of the interval or gap of experience, and may be brought to mind by the relation to wheel and axle, where the character of "play" is the all-important structural factor without which there would be neither whell nor axle. It will repay prolonged meditation to consider that "play" is not characteristic of visual space. In the classic study of play in Homo Ludens, J. Huizinga reveals the indispensable quality of a mobile relation between figure and ground which creates patterns of deep involvement and participation for the user.
The little boy's question about when would the space change would not have occurred to him had he been in the open cockpit of a small plane, and perhaps would not occur to an astronaut. On a visit to Nassau, I asked Al Sheppard whether there was any upside-down in outer space. He replied, after some moments of reflection: "Where your feet are, that's down." This seems to have some bearing on other matters, since for most small children there is no upside-down in a picture book. This relationship is discovered later by our children, but seems not to be part of the Eskimo experience. For the adult Eskimo there is no upside-down for pictures such as he puts on the walls of his igloo from magazines, and nothing entertains him more than to watch the anthropologist visitor straining his neck to get pictures in focus, right-side-up. In the same way, the cave painters did much of their work completely out of sight, under rock ledges. In any event, there seems to be some relation between right-side-up and literacy.
Although it has not been specially studied, there is still the mystery of the Stratton glasses which draw attention to the human habit of turning the world right-side-up, although, in fact, we receive it on the retina upside-down. When first put on, the Stratton glasses turn the world upside down for the wearer. However, after a few hours the wearer finds that the world flips right-side-up again. Then, when he removes the glasses, the world goes upside down again and remains so for a few hours. It was this factor that prompted my question to Al Sheppard, but it appears that sensory psychologists have not studied the Stratton glasses effect in outer space where a state of weightlessness makes right-side-up meaningless.
I want to draw attention at one to a similarly drastic reversal of figure-ground conditions for all of us at the present time. Electronically, we live in a world of simultaneous information in which we share images that arrive instantly from all quarters at once. If acoustic space is a sphere whose centra is everywhere and whose margin is nowhere, this character of acoustic space now extends to all information structures experienced in environments constituted by electric technology. That is, Western and civilized man long accustomed to private and individual outlook and similar legal and political structures, now finds himself acoustically environed. It is as if the little boy in the aeroplane cabin were suddenly to experience himself situated in a boundless and silent surround, "wishing upon a star," as it were. The orientation of the visual man, with his private outlook and individual point of view and personal goals, would all seem to be somewhat irrelevant in the electronic environment. There is another feature of this simultaneous environment with its instant access to all pasts and all futures alike, communication takes place not by mere transportation of data from point to point. It is, in effect, the sender who is sent, and it is the sender who becomes the message, as it were.
The electric and simultaneous world began to manifest its patterns and influences on our awareness by the middle of the 19th century. There is a strange property about innovation and change that can be stated by saying that effects tend to precede the causes. Another way of putting it is to say that the ground tends to come before the figure. In a recent issue of Scientific American (March 1973) the piece on "Bicycle Technology" explains how "the bicycle quite literally paved the way for the automobile."