Consensia, Inc., an Enovia DS partner, markets world-leading software solutions that enable rapid, collaborative product development for the high-tech and medical device industry. Our solutions address the complete product development lifecycle from ideation to product launch.
What did Consensia try to accomplish?
We work with customers to streamline their product development process by enabling all stakeholders in the product definition, design, and manufacturing to collaborate on a single application platform eliminating silos of information. This leads to reduced product development costs and faster time to market.
It is critical for Consensia to onboard a new customer on our solutions rapidly. A lot of our customers to not have the IT support infrastructure to support an enterprise application. They want a hosted environment with cloud delivery so that the user community can access the application from any location around the world. That was a critical need which we could not address in a traditional on-premise model. With rapid acceptance of cloud delivery models, companies expect their software partners to give them infrastructure options.
What is your business model and how does that impact your infrastructure choice?
Our business model is to offer our customers a choice of on-premise or hosted infrastructure. We need to partner with an infrastructure service provider that understands Dassault Systemes solutions and provision applications within a couple of days of implementation start data. With expectations for a quick deployment, we needed a partner that could react fast to our business needs at cost effective price points.
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A candidate in the Glenfaba and Peel constituency at the forthcoming general election will be hoping it's third time lucky for him.
Dentist Leslie Hanson has declared he will once again be standing.
The 61-year-old's previous attempts were at last year's Peel by-election and the 2011 general election.
He says he's worried the government isn't balancing the books effectively, and has been stripping assets in its attempts to do so.


Although the name Melampyrum sylvaticum L. is uncontroversial (Stace 1997), in the past its identification in Britain has been much confused with that of M. pratense (Rumsey in Stewart et al. 1994; Rich et al. 1998). A key feature is the downturned end to the lower lip of the corolla (flower), as seen in the photograph here. The size of the plant and the flower colour are not reliable diagnostic features (Rich & Jermy 1998).
Chromosome No.: 2n = 18 (Stace 2010).
Small Cow-wheat is endemic to Europe, occurring in the Alps and mountainous regions in southern Europe, but mainly in Scandinavia and the Baltic States eastwards into Russia (Rich et al. 1998).
In the British Isles it is found in the mountains of Scotland and Northern Ireland and was formerly present in Yorkshire, Co. Durham and North Wales, but is believed to be extinct there now.
Rarity: Nationally Scarce in Britain, but all known populations are in Scotland. It is extinct in England and Wales, and rare in Ireland.
Threat: in 1994 (in Stewart et al.) Rumsey described M. sylvaticum as over-recorded. Rich & Sydes (2000) resurveyed known sites and also concluded that there was a severe decline and considerable over-recording. However, Rumsey (in Preston et al. 2002) now describes it as almost certainly under-recorded, a view that is echoed by Cheffings & Farrell (2005), who classified it as Endangered. Dalrymple (2007) argues that it should be listed as Vulnerable.
Despite all of the study of this species, surprisingly little is known about its reproductive ecology. It was believed to be pollinated by bees (e.g. Rumsey in Stewart et al. 1994) and for the seeds to be dispersed by ants (e.g. Rich & Sydes 2000) but Dalrymple (2007) asserts that neither of these have been observed in Britain. It can be self-fertile.
Melampyrum sylvaticum is considered a woodland plant that occurs in light shade (up to 50%) and high humidity, always close to water (ibid.). It is often found on rock ledges in mountain valleys, but some of the largest populations occur in woodland by lakes (e.g. at Loch Ossian). Rich et al. (2000) state that it occurs in herb-rich places in W11 woodland, and Dalrymple (op. cit.) adds H17, H18, W17 and U16 communities.
The assertion that it is under-recorded is based on a few recent discoveries of new sites. Speculative surveys of potentially promising areas, especially in the mountains of western Scotland, might help to confirm that. Sites might typically be rock ledges in high valleys. All new records need to be properly documented - a good photograph is sufficient to confirm the identification, but it is not a protected species (except in Northern Ireland) and specimens may be taken if the population is sufficiently large. There is no obvious need for secrecy.
When introductions and other conservation work is carried out, it should be fully documented even if it is unsuccessful. A practical mechanism for this is www.conservationevidence.com.
Dalrymple, S.E. 2007. Biological Flora of the British Isles: Melampyrum sylvaticum L. Journal of Ecology 95, 583-597.
Rich, T.C.G., Fitzgerald, R. & Sydes, C. 1998. Distribution and ecology of Small Cow-wheat (Melampyrum sylvaticum L.; Scrophulariaceae) in the British Isles. Botanical Journal of Scotland 50, 29-46.
Rich, T.C.G. & Sydes, C. 2000. Recording and the declines of the Nationally Scarce plants Ajuga pyramidalis L. and Melampyrum sylvaticum L. Watsonia 23, 293-197.
Lockton, A.J. (date accessed). Species account: Melampyrum sylvaticum. Botanical Society of the British Isles, www.bsbi.org.uk.


If you desire unforgettably gorgeous tropical settings, inviting luxurious spaces, peace and privacy then indulge yourself at Villa Kya, a holiday residence sure to captivate and enchant. This hillside retreat is like no other in Koh Samui, exuding utter wow factor in its spacious design and unparalleled location on one of the islands most sought after hillside retreats in Bophut.
Set amongst sprawling lawns and exotic tropical gardens, with a stunning pool oasis, this four-bedroom villa has been designed to encourage guests to relax, unwind and dissolve the stresses of everyday life in a beautiful tropical island setting with captivating views of Bophut, Big Buddha and Samui's sister isle, Koh Phangan.
The utter uniqueness of this residence draws on contemporary and traditional influences with a true understanding of living in the tropics and the desire for a cool alfresco lifestyle fused with comfort, blurring the divisions of indoor and outdoor living, creating the ultimate holiday home in spectacular surroundings. This expansive villa, combines modern luxury with tropical elegance to deliver a sophisticated sanctuary perfect for groups of friends, special events or a peaceful family retreat.
Resting on an impressive 1,000 sqm in the idyllic palm tree hills of Bophut, guests are privileged to an incredible amount of space. The stunning infinity pool and pool deck, is a standout feature in Villa Kya, with its soft organic shapes and endless views. A small shaded shallow pool is encompassed in the design, ideal for young children, with parents close by on the sundeck, chill lounge or dining sala for peace of mind and ease. This shallow pool cascades into the large infinity edged pool, drenched in beautiful panoramic island vistas, perfect for laps or just simply for having a much-needed cooling refreshing swim. The gorgeous swim up bar is a welcome addition to any pool area and becomes a real hub of activity in this incredibly well thought out design. Sunset drinks are a huge focal point of the pool bar and with a delicious cocktail in hand the third pool with reclining terrazzo bench seats in this beautiful setting is the perfect spot to watch the kaleidoscopic patterned skies as the sun bids farewell to another tropical island day.
Large open-air living spaces are integral to the design of Villa Kya. Close to the pool deck is the exquisitely designed Chill Lounge offering a unique space for guests to kick back and relax on the sumptuous sofas listening to chill out tunes under the cooling fans enabling guests to freely enjoy the tropical Thai climate, inhale the fragrant smells of the garden and marvel at the breathtaking views in utter peace and privacy. The Dining Sala, also located by the pool deck, is the ultimate dining venue. Refreshing sea breezes keep this area cool and it makes an ideal spot for breakfast, the perfect beginning to any holiday. The Moon Terrace, located close to the living room is an outstanding feature of the villa. The desire to sit under the star lit skies surrounded by what feels to be a personal show of beautiful fireworks from the beaches of Bophut and Koh Phangan, in the luxurious custom designed circular sofa seating, with music of your choice filling the air, there really is no better evening venue for holiday fun.
The stunning living room with vaulted ceilings, concertina doors onto the large dining terrace and exquisite bespoke furnishings create a graceful interior offering an abundance of space, natural light and another separate place to relax. Guests can enjoy a surround sound movie or surf the Internet on the 50″ flat screen Smart TV whilst reclining on the gorgeous sumptuous bespoke sofa seating.
The well appointed high end kitchen with outside sofa seating terrace drenched in unfolding views, is as always the heart of the home. Guests can enjoy cooking or if they prefer staff are on hand to create some delicious culinary Thai delights to tickle the taste buds.
Each of the 4 bedrooms have been lovingly furnished, accented with colour and mosaic's and completed with delightful attention to detail to create gorgeous bedroom sanctuaries with breathtaking panoramic vistas as your backdrop. The master bedroom also features an outdoor circular terrazzo bath with candle lit chandelier lighting for that truly romantic ambiance.
Enjoy the beauty and tranquility of Villa Kya with the easy-living convenience of the in-villa staff there to ensure your stay is as it should be, stress free and effortless. The Villa Manager and her team will meet and greet you on arrival and present the many lavish amenities and stylish features of the residence, for that home away from home feel.
Guests can request special meals, onsite at the villa, the talented private Chef Kiat is a Thai culinary wizard creating mouthwatering masterpieces, tailored to your every request, should you desire. Guests may also request a Five Star French Chef for the evening, creating outstanding feasts or perhaps a gourmet BBQ for the ultimate in alfresco dining or a celebration dinner prepared as per your specifications.
If relaxing at the villa is what you desire, the Villa Manager can assist in organizing for the masseuses to come and pamper you at the villa with a menu of spa delights. Guests can enjoy a massage, a scrub, a wrap or perhaps even the obligatory manicure and pedicure. Perhaps exercise and motivation is also on the holiday agenda, then staff can organize private Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi, all to be conducted at the villa.
Be welcomed and enjoy the warm and friendly hospitality of the dedicated Villa Kya team.


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We operate nationwide in association with experienced third party distributors of agricultural inputs. Our internal transport and logistics division provides consistently reliable stock levels to large commercial and corporate farming enterprises nationwide, as well as retail outlets ensuring our retail partners are able to provide easily accessible and competitively priced fertilizers to all rural and small scale farmers.
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We provide fertilizers for a large number of demonstration plots in affiliation with various Seed Houses to promote the best input package for various sectors and agricultural regions. Superfert also work with Government Agencies such as Agritex and other technical institutions supporting field days and learning programs and have various interactions with the Federation of Young Farmers Clubs of Zimbabwe.


Classic winner Shackleford, whose first crop are yearlings of 2015, sold a total of three juveniles at the Aug. 10-11 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings sale for an average price of $216,667, more than ten times his stud fee.
The top winning bid came for hip No. 109, a colt consigned by Gainesway, agent for Graves et al, which went for $340,000 to Mark Hennig, agent. The colt is a half-brother to stakes winner Mr Palmer and comes from the same female family as millionaires Behrens, Commentator and Cowboy Cal.
Hip No. 200, consigned by Taylor Made, went to Gary Broad for $190,000. The chestnut colt is the first foal out of the Flatter mare Spanish Post.
Hip No. 189, a filly offered by Machmer Hall, brought a winning bid of $120,000 from Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds. The filly comes from the same family as graded winner and sire Trappe Shot and FrontRunner S. (G1) winner Power Broker.
Shackleford, who stood this year at Darby Dan Farm for $20,000, will be represented by 5 lots at the Aug. 15-16 Saratoga New York Bred Preferred Yearlings sale and 53 lots in the upcoming Keeneland September Yearling sale.


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Q: For each ID get the first record where Product is not null (Postgresql) I have customer data with information when the appointment took place, what type of appointment it was and wheather a Product was selected.
I am trying to get the earliest appointment for every id where Product is not null. Basically reduce the table where id only appears once with appointment date and type where product is not missing.
This doesn't seem to give me what I need. It selects the min date for all entries:
select id, min("appointment date"), "appointment type", Product
from product
order by 1,2;

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A: In Postgres this can be done using distinct on ()
select distinct on (p.id) p.id, p.appointment_date, p.appointment_type, p.product
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Today, I'm going to try to answer two questions with one blog post. (something about birds and stones comes to mind, but I don't kill birds...) Many of you are reluctant to buy shoes that aren't in neutral colors - maybe it's a question of having to buy very expensive shoes because of foot conditions, or a reluctance to draw attention to lower body and/or legs, or perhaps you have Audrey Hepburn feet (aka disproportionately large)... But for whatever reason, it's perfectly justifiable, as if you have to explain or defend your preferences!
And of course, we wanted to marry navy and turquoise, because it's one of the great color combinations!
Since the available linen white shoes are limited in January, I decided to grab some shoes that match or tone with the accessories - always a fun option! And for the elusive celadon, I chose some gold sandals; metallic are always worth remembering when you're struggling with a shoe color choices.
Next week, I'm going to use a variety of neutral colors (navy, brown, beige, olive - what others would you like?) with accessories that I have already shown last week or this week. I'm not doing this to be lazy, but rather to show the great versatility that a happy family of accessories can have when paired with the enormous flexibility of a core of neutral clothes.
A few of you have expressed that you couldn't wear unrelieved black, and that you're quite grateful that this isn't your dress code! You can easily see that it's a challenge to look like "yourself" in a way that's distinct from all of your coworkers if you're all wearing black. That's why I was happy to hear that many people in this uniform are at least allowed to wear whatever accessories strike their fancy.
As I spend hours each day getting the big color combination document ready, I notice that there are a handful of colors that turn up in almost every color palette. They are colors that you might not like, or that might not look good on you, but they are colors that you might want to consider for a late-season capsule wardrobe refresh, or for an experiment in accent colors.
Here, I'm showing a tee shirt and two pieces of jewelry; you could certainly go with only one piece of jewelry, or include a pair of sandals or casual shoes instead. But here, by adding just two or three pieces, you can see how each of the Starting From Scratch wardrobes can be updated.
Someone specifically requested a Starting From Scratch capsule wardrobe in these colors, and many of you have expressed concerns about how to implement this plan if you're dealing with scorching hot summer weather. I really felt like I wanted to go through an entire wardrobe in one post, just to clarify and illustrate one more time how I see this project working. So here you have it!
I broke everything out into two pages; I might have been able to fit everything on one page, but we wouldn't have been able to see anything - the earrings would have been teeny little dots on the page!
Many of you have written to me to ask how this capsule wardrobe compares with my earlier 24-piece wardrobe - excellent question!
Just as in the 24-piece wardrobe, this Starting From Scratch includes to two core "Four by Four" assortments in your neutrals, it works with two accent colors and a light neutral, and it includes the concept of the "bridge" garment, which is something that incorporates both of your neutral colors and allows you to wear piece from both neutrals seamlessly.
It's a question that's as old as The Vivienne Files - if you're starting a capsule wardrobe from scratch, how do you start?
What an ambitious question! But after thinking about it for three years, I'm going to give it a try - a step by step approach to rebuilding your wardrobe from the ground up.


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Shillong Lajong's Samuel Lalmuanpuia is youngest goalscorer in I-League history!
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Shillong Lajong FC have confirmed that their young striker Samuel Lalmuanpuia, who made his debut in the recently-concluded I-League season, is the youngest ever goalscorer in the history of the I-League.
At Lajong FC, Samuela has won the Shillong Premier League Super Division in 2014, U-19 Shillong Premier League in July 2015 and the Shillong Premier League Super Division in November 2015.
The young, cheerful striker from Mizoram made 11 appearances in Lajong's Shillong Premier League triumph last year and scored 10 goals with 3 further assists. On seeing his potential, excellent football skills and confidence in front of goal, he was then given the opportunity to play in the Club's senior team.
Samuel, who regards his father as his inspiration in life, made his first I-League appearance against DSK Shivajians FC in Pune and played 11 out of a total of 14 I-League matches. He scored his first top flight goal in the North East Derby against his former team Aizawl FC on March 1, 2016 in Shillong. Lajong won the Derby 3-1.
With this goal, the 17-year-old striker became the youngest ever goalscorer in I-League history. The club is proud to have Samuela Lalmuanpuia set a record for himself in the I-League as well as set an example to many other young football aspirants across the region and the country.
Samuel speaking on achieving such a big feat at a very young age said, "I am very thankful to my club for giving me the chance to grow as a player and the opportunity to be part of the senior team."
"It's every young footballers dream to play in a big stage at a senior national level and without the support and believe that the club has in me it wouldn't have been possible to reach where I have today."
"It felt great to score my first I-League goal in my third match appearance against Aizawl FC. I kept pushing myself very hard in training as I was really determined to score for my club and help the team be in a good position."
"But this doesn't stop here and I am only getting started. I want to grow more with Lajong, play more matches and learn new things every day. I wish to make improvements in departments where I lack, gain more confidence and hopefully I get a chance to don the National Team colours as well," Samuel concluded.
Samuel wasn't the only young Red to get his name on the score sheet this season, with Chinglensana Singh and Isaac Vanmalsawma recording similar success.
Chinglensana, who joined the Lajong Youth Academy from Tata Football Academy in the summer of 2015, won the Shillong Premier League with Lajong FC in his debut season itself. He then made his I-League debut on January 10 against Mumbai FC in Shillong.
The central defender from Manipur scored his first I-League goal against Mohun Bagan in Lajong's 2-2 draw in Kolkata and netted his second in the Federation Cup first-leg match at home against East Bengal Club.
Meanwhile, Isaac, a midfielder from Mizoram, also made his I-League debut this season and scored a most crucial goal, which also happened to be the winner, against East Bengal in Lajong FC's final home game of the I-League season on April 24.
Lajong young guns, namely Nim Dorjee Tamang, Rupert Nongrum, Vishal Kaith, Pritam Kumar Singh, Samuel Shadap, Redeem Tlang, Zodingliana, Bipin Singh, Jacob Lalrawngbawla, Lalramuana and Joseph Lalfakzuala, have already made their I-League debuts in the previous seasons and they continue to play a big role in the club's senior team.
In the 2015-16 season many other youngsters got the opportunity to make their senior team debut, namely Milan Basumatary, Hardy Cliff Nongbri, Aibanbhakupar Dohling and Alen Deory.
The national football season has come to an end for Shillong Lajong FC this year, who ended the I-League in sixth place and reached the Federation Cup semifinal stage, but the junior team, drawn from the Academy, are getting into the full swing of things and are currently playing in the U-18 Shillong Premier League.
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With concerns over back problems that limited him to only three games at Missouri last season, Porter ended up falling all the way to Denver at No. 14, the last lottery position.
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Ear to Ear: 10 jazz artists to watch in 2020
Every day we hear many new releases, in the hope of finding a few songs with that indefinable "magic" that will allow you to listen to Excellence In Jazz on CapRadio. By evaluating recent releases, our jazz team found ten artists that we recommend you keep a close ear for in 2020!
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Singer Catherine Russell's CD "Alone Together" topped the JazzWeek 2019 national broadcast table, bringing together 5,465 station rotations across the country (including many on CapRadio!). What sets Russell apart from his peers is his energy, clear diction, and ability to touch your soul with his candid interpretation of standards. Watch for Cat Russell's more energetic excitement in 2020.
Remarkable track: "Early in the morning"
Work for me
Posi-Tone Records producer Marc Free regularly brings together unique groups of young emerging musicians. Works for Me is essentially a modern bop quintet with a guitarist instead of a trumpet. On a brilliant overhaul of Joe Henderson's "Jinrikisha", guitarist Tony Davis and saxophonist Alexa Tarantino both shine with effortless solos. Watch for Davis and Tarantino in 2020, both as members of this collective and as leaders of their own groups.
Remarkable track: "Jinrikisha"
Christian McBride is everywhere! Host of NPR's Jazz Night in America and Sirius XM's The Lowdown: Conversations with Christian, McBride is also arguably the most sought-after bassist in modern music. McBride demonstrates his skills as a songwriter, arranger and lyricist on "The Movement Revisited," a five-part sequel saluting four key figures in the civil rights movement. Expect Christian McBride to add to his incredible body of work in 2020.
Remarkable track: "Soldiers (I have a dream)"
Rachel & Vilay
Rachael Price has a distinctly recognizable voice. Although obviously influenced by Billie Holiday, she is also delightfully original as she performs new songs composed by Vilray that sound like they could have been standards in the 1940s or 1950s. Guitarist Vilray writes some refreshing new material which is stylistically linked to a bygone era. Check out the witty lyrics on "At Your Mother's House".
Remarkable track: "At your mother's house"
Andrew Mills
This predominantly female group from the United Kingdom produced, according to this writer, the best jazz album of 2019 with "Blume". Their fresh, revolutionary sound and unique compositions blend the sounds of classic Blue Note recordings from the mid-1960s with modern styles, such as hip-hop and afrobeat. Jazz fans around the world should be excited to see what they have in store for us in 2020.
Remarkable track: " Birth "
Sahra gure
Another UK-based artist, 22-year-old singer Sahra Gure is already making waves on London's exciting and highly competitive jazz scene. In 2019, she graduated from the Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance, won the Musicians' Company Young Jazz Musician Award and released her debut EP, "Love Me with Me". She began her career as a classical violinist, but the sound of this record, which Gure wrote and produced, is unmistakably neo-soul. His is definitely a career to watch.
Remarkable track: "Better dream"
Joel ross
Joel Ross is a phenomenon. The young vibraphonist plays with such fluidity and creativity that one cannot help but concentrate on each note produced by his mallets. I'm told he's even better live. Her debut album, "Kingmaker", was released in May 2019 and was a great success. Ross didn't stop there, however, as he's already made his mark as a featured artist in 2020 on saxophonist Jure Pukl's upcoming release, "Broken Circles". With a busy performance schedule and new recordings in the works, Joel Ross deserves to be watched this year.
Remarkable track: "Sustained optimism"
Avery jeffry
Jose james
Known for his role in blending modern jazz and soul with hip-hop, baritone singer José James has been releasing solid albums and collaborations for over 10 years. It's no surprise then that he is causing a sensation in 2020. James' new album, "No Beginning No End 2", will be released on March 6 and is a sequel to his 2013 Blue Note debut, which featured big hits. contemporary hitters like Robert Glasper and Pino Palladino. This time around, he's working alongside Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and Laura Mvula. If the first single is any indication, I would say this album will be a success.
Exceptional track: "I need your love"
Jazzmeia horn
They always say that the second album is the most important for a new artist to prove himself. If so, then Dallas, Texas-born singer Jazzmeia Horn raised the bar pretty high with a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album of 2019. Released last year on Concord, " Love & Liberation "is full of blues, R&B and lots of wonderful post-bop swing. Horn proves his ability to compose and rejuvenate old classics alongside pianist Victor Gould, bassist Ben Williams and drummer / singer Jamison Ross. Pay attention to her in 2020, as she will surely continue to prove herself throughout the New Year.
Remarkable track: "Free your mind"
If there's one artist showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon, it's pianist, composer and conductor Jon Batiste. He has become quite well known on television since becoming the Music Director and house group leader of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert". in 2015 and released two albums last year, both recorded live at Village Vanguard in New York City. The two sessions, titled "Anatomy of Angels" and "Chronology of a Dream," capture Batiste and his group, Stay Human, in their perhaps most comfortable and engaging atmosphere. Be sure to watch out for this rising star as he continues to honor and innovate black American music in 2020.
Remarkable track: "Soul"
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Finding maternity insurance when you are already pregnant can be difficult. Insurance companies that cover maternity will often deny coverage to women who are pregnant when they apply.
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If you are able to find coverage through a group health insurance policy, you may be able to get private health insurance. This can dramatically lower the amount of money you will have to pay for the birth of your child.
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Podcast: Transforming Government Operations Using IT, With Bill Eggers
Robert D. Atkinson Jackie Whisman June 29, 2020
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COVID-19 has forced governments at all levels to implement changes in their operating structures that probably should have happened a decade ago. A worldwide shift toward remote work and a more distant lifestyle now means governments will need to find different methods of delivering public services long term. Rob and Jackie discuss e-government opportunities and how flipping orthodoxies can (and should) reinvent government operating models with Bill Eggers, executive director of Deloitte's Center for Government Insights.
Daniel Castro, Galia Nurko, and Alan McQuinn, "Benchmarking U.S. Government Websites" (ITIF, November 2017).
Daniel Castro and Michael McLaughlin, "Benchmarking State Government Websites" (ITIF, August 2018).
William D. Eggers, Pankaj Kishnani, and Shruthi Krishnamoorthy, "Transforming Government Post–COVID-19: How Flipping Orthodoxies Can Reinvent Government Operating Models," Deloitte Insights, June 15, 2020.
William D. Eggers, Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government (RosettaBooks, 2016).
William D. Eggers, Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education, Cut Red Tape, Reduce Gridlock, and Enhance Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Michael Hammer, The Reengineering Revolution: A Handbook (HarperBusiness, 1995).
Robert D. Atkinson, et al., "Digital Policy for Physical Distancing: 28 Stimulus Proposals That Will Pay Long-Term Dividends" (ITIF, April 2020).
Daniel Castro, "Time to Toss Social Security Numbers," Washington Post, April 27, 2018.
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Rob Atkinson: Welcome to Innovation Files. I'm Rob Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. We are a DC based think tank that works on technology policy.
Jackie Whisman: And I'm Jackie Whisman. I handle outreach at ITIF, which I'm proud to say is the top ranked think tank for science and technology policy.
Rob Atkinson: And this podcast is about the kinds of issues we cover at ITIF from the broad economics of innovation to specific policy and regulatory questions about new technologies. In this episode, we're talking about e-government and how to improve government services all the way from the federal level, all the way to the local level, through information technology. Office closure, social distancing, and health concerns have forced governments all around the country and the world to accelerate a digitization process that might otherwise have taken years to test out. And so now we're seeing how that's all going to play out and where we need to go forward.
Jackie Whisman: It was only a couple of years ago that our ITIF report on benchmarking US government websites found that more than nine out of 10 of the most popular federal government websites fell short of government and industry standards for design and development.
Rob Atkinson: Right. And in another study that we focused on state government websites, which are some of the most heavily used on the internet, we also found many of them failing to meet best practices. Today's guest has been thinking about and writing about this for years all the way back before the year 2000. So I'm really excited to talk to him about his ideas for a path forward.
Jackie Whisman: Bill Eggers is the executive director of Deloitte's Center for Government Insights, where he is responsible for the firm's public sector thought leadership. His most recent book is, Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government. Welcome, Bill.
Bill Eggers: It's so great to be with you here today. I've been reading your work since the very inception, and then I've been reading Rob of course, for even longer than that back when he was at Progressive Policy Institute. So it's a real honor to be here today.
Rob Atkinson: Well, thanks Bill. One of the things, I think we got to know each other when you were advising the Bush campaign and the in 2000. And you were instrumental in getting the campaign to adopt a very forward looking e-government agenda, including creation of the federal CIO and an e-government fund that actually ended up getting put in place and we still have it today. So that was great work.
Bill Eggers: Originally coming from you. So you are the [inaudible 00:02:49]-
Jackie Whisman: Well, that's why he thinks it's so great.
Bill Eggers: ... the father of the CIO and the e-government.
Rob Atkinson: Thanks, Bill. So you and a couple of colleagues recently released a really intriguing white paper called, "Transforming Government Post COVID-19." And I thought of the most interesting things in the paper, you write about what you call "flipping orthodoxies" when it comes to the way governments operate. Can you talk a little bit about that?
Bill Eggers: Sure. So right now, governments all over the world they're beginning to reopen not just the economies, but also their own offices and operations. And because of social distancing or some variety of things, they really can't go back to business as usual. They have to change their operating models to adapt to this very new operating environment. And in many respects, that's a good thing because the response to the pandemic I think is highlighting many of government's orthodoxies, which are these deeply held beliefs about how things really should be done. Oftentimes they're unstated, they're unquestioned, and by flipping them could lead to significant improvements in government and they should use COVID-19 as a forcing function to transform operations and service delivery regulation, procurement. And we're starting to already see major transformations of government working in almost real time from the instant move to telework, to the digitization of scores at physically provided services.
I like to think of it as a lot of these things would have taken maybe years and years of pilot to do and to scale is always very, very difficult. But now we're seeing these things having to scale, and we're seeing some really ... a lot of innovative things happening. In India, they're piloting AI app driven driving exams because they can't have instructors. The UK has seen digital court cases heard by video or teleconference rise by 800 percent since the pandemic. And I think about this ... when you think about the disastrous launch of healthcare.gov a number of years ago, it actually ended up being the best thing that ever happened to digital government in the United States, because it forced the president, his top advisors, cabinet heads and members of Congress to all directly consider how a website should function, how digital services should be delivered.
And they ended up making some major, major fundamental changes that led to the introduction of the US digital service, and 18F and a variety of other things. And I actually think the pandemic is going to have that same sort of an impact if not greater actually in dramatically accelerating introduction of digital transformation, both in the US and also all over the world.
Rob Atkinson: So one thing, Bill, I hope it accelerates this other thing, which is ... you made a really good point, which is, in the old days, pre-COVID days, you might have somebody who is bold enough to do an experiment, but it'd be a very small experiment. It would take a long time and five out of 10 times maybe more, it doesn't get replicated, it doesn't get scaled. And I think we've shown that you don't have to do it that way anymore. You you can be bold. You can scale things up. You can take big risk and transform very quickly and it can work quite well.
Bill Eggers: Absolutely. And people keep asking me whether they believe that things will go back to the way that they were, will these sort of changes stick? And so forth. And I think the fact is we actually have all this data now. We have a lot of data that you can actually telework, that millions and millions of workers can telework without it massively decreasing productivity. In fact, productivity is increased in a way we've shown that you can do a lot of these physical services, you can kind of provide them digitally, dematerialization of these services. And I think that those proof points are going to prove really, really important. A senior executive at the VA has told us that two months and three months essentially, they were able to accelerate by five years the adoption of telehealth in the VA. And so we've seen a lot of examples like that. And so I think when we look back historically, in digital government and AI and so forth that this will have been a real key defining moment.
Jackie Whisman: What are some examples of orthodoxies that still need to be flipped?
Bill Eggers: Well, one of them is just as I mentioned, that most government services must be delivered in person. Think about driving tests, court proceedings, inspections, social worker visits, they've always been conducted in person. And in fact, despite two decades now of digital, we still have a lot of government transactions are not through digital means. And I think what we've shown now is the pandemic is kind of forcing governments to shift on array of these online. And so many countries have moved to virtual courts, to motor vehicle departments have accelerated the availability of digital services. California can now do 95 percent of them digitally. We've had offices, USDA, Social Security, Motor Vehicle, all of these field offices have been closed now since March. And so they've kind of forced these sort of things. And I think we're going to see a lot more innovation in there.
And another one is that physical presence is needed to authenticate identity. For decades, governments have insisted on a physical presence to identify, verify and authenticate people. And what we've seen now is the flipped orthodoxies, the digital ID is the new passport really. And many governments have found that these digital identity programs have been immensely beneficial during COVID-19. They've come solving the last-mile problem when individuals have needed them the most. The biggest one in the world is in India, where basically every citizen in India has a digital identification. It was I think probably the biggest digital project we've seen in history. And it links bank accounts to citizens' mobile numbers and digital identity credentials. And it's being used to disperse COVID-19 cash relief. And we're seeing a variety of other countries really accelerate their movement to digital identification like South Korea and others.
And this is an area where the US is really falling pretty far behind right now. And it's because of kind of jurisdictional issues, who owns the identity? And so forth. But you can't have seamless 360 degrees sort of citizen online services without digital ID. So I'm hoping this will accelerate that movement here in the US which has been slower than other parts of the world.
Rob Atkinson: You mentioned that ... I remember back when I was at PPI, we came out with a report after 9/11 tragedy, and we called for the creation of a voluntary digital ID that you could get with your driver's license. And we actually had a ... it was a bill introduced by, at the time Congressman Jim Moran and Congressman Tom Davis, a Republican and a Democrat, both great members when it came to thinking about technology.
Bill Eggers: Tom Davis is a former colleague and a very good friend and one of the, I think the leading members of Congress in the last couple of decades in terms of government IT issues.
Rob Atkinson: Absolutely right. And so this bill unfortunately it was demagogued by groups like the ACLU—"the national ID." It had nothing to do with the national ID. It simply gave States the support and incentives to create state level voluntary digital IDs. That didn't go anywhere. 2009 my colleague Daniel Castro wrote a big report on what countries are doing the best on digital identities, Estonia at the time being the best, as you mentioned India now, and we were doing nothing. But a year and a half ago, we proposed an initiative where, again, voluntarily you should be able to get your passport and pay an extra $20 and get a digital ID through that. Partly just to sort of get the market going and then other people would demand it. Do you think maybe we've turned a corner and maybe we'll start to see some movement, even in certain states ... I think we saw Iowa was playing around with this?
Bill Eggers: Yes. There are actually five states right now that are working on this right now. And Colorado is another one. We also at the federal level, GSA has a big initiative around digital identification. I know it's really, really a very high priority for them right now. I think the biggest problem is kind of who's going to lead in this? Because at the federal level, you've got GSA, you've got Social Security Administration, which you could say that they could play a role. You've even got US Postal Service wanting to be involved in this in some respect in terms of having the retail outlets, but then there's the state DMVs. And I think that's been one of the big barriers in the US compared to other countries. I'm guessing in the end that this will probably lie with the state DMVs, but almost every country in Europe has a pretty aggressive program around not only digital ID, but mirroring a Estonia in terms of once only, which is wonderful.
It means that you only have to give your information government once. And then it's shared among other government agencies and other levels of government with of course, a different kind of precautions and so forth and standards. And that would make a very, very big difference. And I think we're a little further away in that area also.
Jackie Whisman: I think anyone who's had to apply for a driver's license, or a passport or get a new Social Security paper card would applaud these suggestions, but what are the most important things to consider in implementing these digital applications for government services and digital IDs?
Bill Eggers: Yeah. There's a variety of things. I wrote a whole book on this called, Delivering on Digital, which looked at the government's digital transformation, which is the second book I've written on that I've written one 10 years earlier or so, Government 2.0, where I looked at the e-gov movement. And this was really to see, this book, I look back and I said, "Why did a lot of the things that Rob, myself and others who had been big cheerleaders for digital transformation, why hadn't a lot of this happened before and so forth? And why is it more likely now?" One of the things I talked about in this book was that most people think of, it is about the need to hack bureaucracy. And what I mean by that is most people think of hacking in a more pejorative sense, breaking into computer systems.
We can have the gun companies, but in the digital world, hacking has a different meaning, it's to use ingenuity, digital prowess to fix a problem. And that's really the sort of mindset they need. We need to hackers in this positive sense, productively disrupting and curious and so forth. So the argument is that for most established government processes, you've got hiring or training, project delivery, procurement, security, what have you, they're mostly incompatible with the digital way of working and they need to be transformed and redesigned or hacked in the best sense of the word to achieve digital transformation. And that's what's really key is that you need to find ways to creatively perform and modernize these longstanding, bureaucratic process because they don't work right in the digital world. And then what governments need to do is kind of look at how can they use these digital technologies and other emerging technologies to completely rethink how they deliver services and achieve their missions.
And that's around just re-imagining and redesign of these. An example, moving from prisons to electronic monitoring for nonviolent offenders, for example. That's a re-imagining of how you deliver a service and I think that's where we're at this stage, where we're starting to see some of these things are happening. And that's the really exciting point. And it just, goes well, well beyond government websites.
Rob Atkinson: Bill, your point about me reminded me way back when that famous book by Michael Hammer on reengineering the corporation, which, it was a little bit of fluff, but it had a fundamental core point, which is what you just said is, you can't pave over the cow path. You've got to do something different.
I was on a NASCIO call a while back, National Association of State CIOs. And before the call, we were talking about this challenge and one of them was DMVs. And one of the things that struck me was you don't see many states, at least I haven't, who go in and they say, "Okay, what are we actually ... what are the functions we're actually doing here? And how could we turn all of those functions or 95 to 99 percent of them into digital? It's more happenstance. And I think what you are saying is, you need a more systematic approach that really looks at the functions rather than starts with the technologies, is that right?
Bill Eggers: Absolutely. And then we do talk about that in the "Challenging Orthodoxy" piece, and actually we point to, Clay Christiansen talked about in his work on disruptive innovation as looking at, what's the job to be done? And you fundamentally look at what is the actual job to be done? What do you want to accomplish in the end? And then you come up with a new way of actually getting that job done rather than starting from where things are today. And an example of that is, something like what Netflix said, the job to be done is not just to have people go to a video store and so forth, they just want to see a movie. How can we stream that directly into their house? Or getting a flu shot used to be going into a doctor's office and so forth and doing that. But all we cared about was really just getting the vaccine. And so now we can do that at a CVS.
And so really focusing on the job to be done then allows you to do a lot of these things very, very differently than we've done them before. And that's where you get the sort of much more transformational approaches.
Jackie Whisman: What are some of the most exciting things you're seeing in government these days using IT?
Bill Eggers: Well, just in the pandemic, we've seen some really interesting things. Robots and drones and other technologies have been used for thermal screening and disinfection, remote patient monitoring. We've seen in China robots monitoring patient health, delivering meals and even disinfecting services and so forth. I do think-
Jackie Whisman: I need that in my house.
Bill Eggers: I am going to be first on the list when they have multipurpose a robot. But I think that what ... I really do think of one of the certainly technologies that's going to have the biggest impact on government over the next decade is artificial intelligence. And you guys have written some wonderful, wonderful papers on this and especially around the regulatory issues and ethical issues of AI, but one of the reason why AI can work well for government is that it needs huge volumes of data.
Governments have lots, plenty of volume and the US federal government has already digitized hundreds of millions of pages of government records. And when you do all of that, you can have an enormous sort of impact. So we did the first ever analysis of how federal employees spend their time using a variety of data sets. And we found that they spent 4.3 billion hours doing a whole variety of tasks and activities. And it turns out no big surprise that a lot of those tasks and activities were paperwork-oriented. For instance, 450 million hours spent just recording and documenting information, and very little time actually spent on things like training, and coaching others and developing others. So we found that you can free up 1.3 billion hours, 1.3 billion hours just by using digital automation, technologies or robotic process automation that are available today.
And that's a day a week from almost every federal employee. So it really pretty incredible sort of things you can do with AI in all its forms, it could generate new abilities in national security, food safety regulation and healthcare. There's really no area it's not going to have an impact, but the problem is, and this gets to what we're talking about with digital, you need a strategy, you need a strategy or else it's going to be just done in fits and starts and it's not going to be done in a significant way. And this is what we saw early on with e-government. It basically was paving the cow paths as Rob said. So you can't graft AI onto existing organizations and processes. You have to have kind of an integrated set of decisions and actions, a strategy, complex choices are involved with applications to be prioritized.
Which technologies do we use? How do we articulate its value to the workforce? How do we manage AI projects? And without this sort of overarching strategy, I'm worried that it would ... these complex technology initiatives they often drift. They can fix easy problems in silo departments or sometimes they just automate inefficiencies, putting lipstick on a bulldog. And so that's I think the key thing, and we found that with digital transformation very, very clearly. And I think we're going to find the same thing with AI today.
Rob Atkinson: So Bill, and maybe my last question, your point about strategy reminds me of great Yogi Berra quote, where he said, "If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up someplace else." And here, to me, one of the things about ... one of the core questions is where should government go? And I've written on this and I know you've written on this. And one of our core points is, especially now in this period where we're going to face government fiscal austerity for a long, long time, because of the COVID crisis, to us, one of the places where you want to go is efficiency, is cost savings, is higher productivity. This is what corporations have done. They've driven out costs by using digital. And yet government seems ambiguous about that at best. Where do you see government going with that? And that's also goes to this other point of government can never get enough money to modernize because well, it costs money, the legislature says.
But if you could make a case, yeah, it costs money, but your ROI over a period is going to be a lot bigger because you're cutting costs and improving quality. How do you see that all playing out now?
Bill Eggers: Well, first of all, you're absolutely right. I'm writing a piece right now looking at how state and local governments are going to address the massive, massive budget deficits that they're going to be facing. And digitization is going to be one of the most important ways of doing so. Because sometimes you can see cost takeouts of up not 10 percent, but up to 70, 80 percent. So it's going to be absolutely critical. Now, as to the getting the money part, I hear that all the time and want to kind of address it. So first of all, governments need to spend what they have better. And this means shifting the spending from legacy operating systems. Right now on these legacy systems, they're holding agencies back from using these new technologies from creating these modern experiences. The US government will spend about $90 billion on IT just in the civilian sector this fiscal year.
And that's more than many fortune 50 companies earning revenue in a year, but about 75 percent of all that is spent on non-major investments. So it's basically just operating these legacy systems. And what you've seen, what we see in the private sector is they've been shifting data applications to the cloud, they've been hosting services on the cloud environment, which allows a lot more flexibility. They're using agile and DevOps to design, build and maintain these services and solutions. And so they're able to take a lot of the money out of that kind of the core sort of dis-operating systems and put it more into productivity-enhancing solutions, the sort of thing that you guys have written a lot about.
So that's I think one of the key things. Secondly, many of these productivity enhancing digital and AI applications are not necessarily budget busters, they can be produced in agile sprints. Third, I think much of the AI capabilities governments needs will be able to be accessed through software-as-a-service. AI intelligence is already being built into all the next generation of countless software that governments are already using. The last thing I would say for state and local governments is they get a lot of money for technology systems and so forth from the federal government. And they can use those to bring a lot of sort of the modern IT to bear. And I think we're going to start to see that in areas like Medicaid systems and others.
Jackie Whisman: Well, thanks so much for being here, Bill. I feel like we could talk for another few hours, but we have a limited time. So can you tell our listeners where they can find you and follow your work?
Bill Eggers: Sure. On Twitter, I'm @WDEggers. I'm on LinkedIn and you can also find me on-
Jackie Whisman: Buy all your books.
Bill Eggers: ... either Amazon ... yeah, go on Amazon, buy the books and we will be launching a podcast series in a couple months on the future of government.
Jackie Whisman: We will link to your books in the show notes. And Rob looks forward to being a guest on your podcast.
Bill Eggers: Absolutely.
Jackie Whisman: Thanks again. And that's it for this week. If you liked it, please be sure to rate us and subscribe. You can find the show notes and sign up for our weekly email newsletter on itif.org. Feel free to email show ideas or questions to [email protected] and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—@ITFdc.
Rob Atkinson: That's it for now. We have more episodes and great guests lined up, and new episodes will drop every Monday morning. So we hope you'll tune in next week.
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Stud dogs are selected for the female and then research is done to see how well each stud dog has produced. Arrangements are made well in advance to set up the breeding. Payment is provided in full to the stud dog owner – well over $1,200 for the stud dog service alone, plus $300 for shipping, etc.
As soon as the female comes into heat, we begin testing her hormone levels to determine the optimum time for breeding. Along with our local reproduction veterinarians, we identify the appropriate progesterone level for breeding and ask the stud dog to ship his collection. The collection is shipped overnight in special boxes to keep it cool. When the box arrives at the vet, we take the female to get artificially inseminated. We usually do this process twice to improve the chances of pregnancy.
After the breeding takes place, we anxiously await for the required amount of time to pass. Females are pregnant for 63 days. We may do x-rays around day 58-60 in hopes of getting a more accurate puppy count. This way, we know approximately how many puppies to expect when the female goes into labor or we may choose to do an elective c-section.
Once the puppies are born (and we've caught up on our sleep!) we will contact you to let you know if we have a puppy available for you. This depends on how many puppies are born and the number of males/females in the litter. At this point, we would ask that you send a non-refundable deposit for the puppy. The deposit will be applied to the total purchase price of the puppy.
The worst part of this period is the amount of clean up needed as the mother no longer tidies up after them. Besides the cleanup effort, the puppies now need much more space. A 4 week old litter can do well in the 4 x 4 whelping box. A 5 week old litter needs a space at least 12 x 12 to sleep in and an area of about 40 x 40 to free range during the day.
By the sixth week, individual personalities start to emerge and great puppy games begin to be played. They play fight, pull ears, bite tails and wrestle. You name it – they do it! We take them through the yard and herd them as if they were a pack of dogs in the wild. They have to follow me as the leader of the pack about two or three times per day which really helps when it comes time to train them.
Puppies come with AKC registration papers, a three generation pedigree, microchip, first puppy shot series, deworming of the puppy at 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks of age, veterinary health certificate, written and signed guarantees, and more.


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Just completed luxury waterfront home in Naples by Big Island Builders
A new report says sellers still reaped bigger gains than they did a year ago. Attom Data Solutions (formerly RealtyTrac), an Irvine, California-based research firm, said Thursday that sellers of all types of homes in Collier County walked away with an average of $65,050 in equity when they sold in June. In the year-earlier month, they gained $48,500.
Part of the reason profits have blossomed in Southwest Florida is that the region has largely recovered from the recession, though area home prices are still are about a quarter below their pre-recession peak, said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president of Attom.
"Because banks are no longer readily agreeing to short sales, for the most part the homeowners who are selling now are those who have regained equity," he said. "Those who have not regained equity, or are marginally above water, are waiting it out." The rapid gains of the past year are a big change from the depths of the recession, which wiped out equity across the region and spurred tsunamis of short-sales and foreclosures. Negative equity was the norm then, reaching its height in the Naples area in February 2009, when the average seller lost $110,000 at the closing table. Times were equally bleak in Lee County, when sellers lost an average of $109,600 in equity in its worst month, January 2009. Like many vacation-home markets, where sellers tend to dump properties as soon as they feel their net worth erode, Southwest Florida saw its worst pain much earlier than the rest of the country.
Nationally, negative equity hit hardest two years later than it did in Southwest Florida. The worst month in the U.S. was February 2011, when sellers lost an average of $50,000.This slow-and-steady appreciation is a good sign that the overall market is not overheating again Nationally, home prices ticked up at a faster pace than they did a year earlier: 8.5 percent, compared with 7.5 percent in June 2015. June was the 52nd consecutive month where median home prices increased on a year-over-year basis, the report said.
Big Island Builders is building luxury custom homes in Naples' and Marco Island's finest neighborhoods for the discerning buyer. For more information about Big Island Builders call 239.262.6867, or visit www.bigislandbuilders.com
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Umar smiled at him saying, "You seem to hasten my death so that you can let your tongue loose." Abu Hurairah said, "May God grant you long life, Ameerul Mumineen. But if I survive you, then it is up to your successor to let my tongue loose or to keep it tied." The people around laughed at this.
He then asked him, "What would you say to the governor of Bahrain?" Abu Hurairah was surprised. He said, "I, governor of Bahrain?" "Are you surprised or disapproving?" asked Umar.
Umar then asked somebody to take record of his assets. Abu Hurairah was surprised at this. So, he said to Umar, "What is that, Ameerul Mumineen?" Umar answered him, "That is my policy with my governors. We keep record of their property when we appoint them, and again at the end of their term." "Do you suspect us and still go ahead and appoint us?" Abu Hurairah asked astonished.
Umar answered him,"had I suspected any of you, I would not even appoint him. But, then, doing this will remove any doubts. I noticed that the wealth of some of my governors increased immensely during their term in office, though it was through no wrongdoing on their path. They went into business." Abu Hurairah asked, "Isn't that permissible?" "Yes. It is permissible business"answered Umar. "But we do not send governors as businessmen. We only send them to judge among people with fairness. When they go into business, we fear that people will give them presents because of their high position, so they would give priority to their business over that of others, even if it is permissible. Thus, their earnings accumulate because of their position, which is the state's work.
Therefore, if someone's wealth increases much during his term of office, we estimate what belongs to him in fairness and take what is in excess to the state's treasury. This is what I do with all my governors and officials. Whoever agrees with this goes on and assumes his office. And whoever disapproves with it, let him stay put. You have the choice to make." Abu Hurairah took a deep breath and thought deeply for a moment, then said, "It is a sound view, Ameerul Mumineen. We accept what pleases God." So, Abu Hurairah was made the governor of Bahrain.


The Executive Committee of the DaVinci Institute Board of Directors met on Friday, April 12, 2002 from 2:40 - 3:15 pm at OETA.
The DaVinci Institute, "Minutes Executive Committee Meeting: April 12, 2002" (2002). Minutes and Agendas. 26.


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Q: Adding listener to Cucumber I need to add listener in Cucumber (v7.2) to write a log (log4j) to a file, something like ItestListener in TestNG I use Java (v17) and JUnit 5.Thanks a lot.
My scenario

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    Given User opens  homePage page
    When User clicks on 'login' link
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    And User enter '<password>' into password field
    And User click on 'login' button
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Plantar fasciitis is a painful inflammatory process of the plantar fascia, the connective tissue on the sole of the foot. It is often caused by overuse of the plantar fascia. If it exists over a long period of time it can become degenerative and not inflamed anymore.
The pain occurs most intense with the first steps of the day or after a longer rest.


The Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcement of the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering has just made Cloud Computing more attractive to the enterprise.
Most companies I talk with are interested in the "Cloud", but beyond a few SaaS apps and perhaps some dev/test they are not ready for any big change to their corporate IT infrastructure. On the other hand many of those same companies are currently or projected to be capacity limited in their own data center based on space or power limitations.
Many companies will opt to move or expand into a Co-lo (Co-location) facility which provides dedicated space, power and bandwidth. This solves the space and power problem but most of the same costs of computing are just moved to a remote facility. The expensive data center facility cost is shared among other companies but the Server, Storage and Networking are all dedicated. The promise of the Cloud and particularly IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) like Amazon EC2 is sharing computing and facility costs, having capacity available on demand, and only paying for what is used.
The obstacles to IaaS offerings that I hear most often include security concerns and the desire keep the corporate data and or legacy infrastructure in place. Making a massive move from premise to Cloud is not desired or warranted. On the other hand enabling a Premise Plus Cloud solution in a secure fashion and using it only for expansion or overflow capacity could be appealing for many companies. Essentially this is what Amazon is offering with VPC, a dedicated secure network extending from a company data center into the Amazon Cloud with isolated VM's available on demand.
For Citrix Customers this could be particularly attractive for expanding XenApp farms or centralizing new applications on XenApp without the prerequisite facility and capital costs. Customers can bring their own XenApp licensees to VPC or point back to existing license server on premise. We have been collaborating with Amazon AWS to build and test XenApp servers in VPC to validate and number of scenarios and use cases. In addition we have made dedicated Amazon Machine Image ( AMI ) templates available with XenApp 5 preinstalled and ready to launch. Citrix C3 Blueprints are also now available to assist companies that want to start to evaluate the new offering.
For Citrix this announcement represents another progressive move as a leader and enabler of Cloud Computing. Amazon EC2 based on the Xen Hypervisor has already made EC2 ubiquitous with start-ups and the undisputed leader in Public Clouds, VPC with XenApp now represents a significant opportunity for Enterprise IT. The Citrix Cloud Center ( C3 ) portfolio will continue to enable IT and Cloud providers to exploit the promise of the Cloud, stay tuned..


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The 2019 competition schedule has been announced for the Worcester State University men's and women's cross country teams.
The 2019 schedule has been released for the Worcester State University men's soccer team.
Recent Worcester State University field hockey graduate Michaila Parent has earned her second consecutive Google Cloud Academic All-America selection, as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
A date for the 2019 Worcester State University Fall Prospect Clinic has been officially announced.
2019 Field Hockey Schedule Released
The Worcester State University 2019 field hockey was officially released on Friday afternoon.
Five Lancers Earn MASCAC All-Sportsmanship Recognition
Five Worcester State University spring student-athletes have received spots on the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Spring All-Sportsmanship team, as announced by the conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Dave Wigren Tabbed NEIBA Assistant Coach of the Year
Worcester State University baseball's Dave Wigren has been named the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association Kevin Burr Assistant Coach of the Year.
Football Announces 2019 Schedule
Head coach Brien Cullen officially announced the 2019 schedule for his Worcester State University football team on Friday afternoon.
Michaila Parent Named MASCAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Worcester State University field hockey senior Michaila Parent (Westborough, Mass.) added another award to her already jam-packed trophy case, as she has been named the MASCAC's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Bernice Mensah Claims Worcester State's Final MASCAC Weekly Award of Season
Bernice Mensah (Worcester, Mass.), a sophomore on the Worcester State University women's track & field team, has been named the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Field Athlete of the Week, brought to you by GEICO.


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A speech by The Queen to the Welsh Guards
No hundredth birthday greeting will give greater pleasure to deliver than the one I give to you, along with these New Colours today.
Major General Talbot Rice, Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Guardsmen of the Welsh Guards,
This year I will send messages of congratulation to some eight thousand centenarians - born in the year 1915. Every such message is special, but for me this year, no hundredth birthday greeting will give greater pleasure to deliver than the one I give to you, along with these New Colours today.
It has been nine years since I presented you with the Colours that have just been marched off parade. Guardsmen who have served with the Regiment during those years, some of whom are no doubt here today, will have seen operational tours to Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, interspersed with fire-fighting, state ceremonial and other public duties.
And I am speaking to those Guardsmen and indeed to each and every one of you assembled here today, when I say that I am proud of what you have achieved together. It is the indomitable family spirit of the Welsh Guards that has been your hallmark. I know too that the support and devotion of the Regimental family remains as strong as ever, including the many branches of the Regimental Association in Wales and elsewhere who work tirelessly to give care to those who need it.
And so, in this historic year for the Regiment, we celebrate your many achievements and remember with sad reflection the fallen and wounded of the world wars and of more recent conflicts. I feel sure that these new Colours, which I look forward to seeing trooped on my Official Birthday in June, will inspire you and your successors to emulate the deeds of Welsh Guardsmen of the past hundred years, as you continue to serve our nation -- whether in conflict or in peace, at home and abroad.
The thoughts and prayers of my own family, which has close and proud connections with the Welsh Guards, will be with you as you set about this most important task.
The Queen opens The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries with The Prince of Wales
The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2018
The Queen visits the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018
The Queen hosts a reception for The Victoria Cross and George Cross Association
The Royal Wedding Cakes of History
Having on so many occasions been welcomed to opening ceremonies around the Commonwealth, it is a pleasure this time to welcome you to my own home
A Speech given by Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, at the Formal Opening of CHOGM
The Queen's message following the recent attack in Toronto
Appointments to the Order of the Garter
The Queen and The Commonwealth
The Royal Family's visits around the Commonwealth
The Queen visits the King George VI Day Centre on its 60th anniversary
A centenary message from Her Majesty The Queen to the Royal Air Force
The Queen attends the decommissioning ceremony of HMS Ocean
The Queen visits the Royal Academy
Commonwealth Day 2018
A message from The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, ahead of Commonwealth Day 2018
The Queen marks the 70th anniversary of the International Maritime Organization
The Netherlands State Visit 2018
The Queen attends London Fashion Week
The Queen helps celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Royal College of Physicians of London
The Queen hosts a Commonwealth Diaspora Reception at Buckingham Palace
A Message from Her Majesty The Queen on the 70th Anniversary of Sri Lanka's Independence
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018 details announced
We think of our homes as places of warmth, familiarity and love; of shared stories and memories, which is perhaps why at this time of year so many return to where they grew up. There is a timeless simplicity to the pull of home
The Queen and members of The Royal Family attend church on Christmas Day 2017
The Winners: The Queen's Awards for Enterprise 2016
Find out more about some of the 2016 Queen's Awards for Enterprise winners...
The Queen celebrates Scripture Union's 150th Anniversary
The Commissioning Ceremony of HMS Queen Elizabeth
The Queen spends the day in West Sussex
Celebrating The Queen's Official 90th Birthday
A snapshot of celebrations which happened all over the UK on the weekend of 10-12 June
The Queen visits Hull – England's first city of culture
The Queen visits the British Museum
The Queen & The Prince of Wales visit The Household Cavalry in Hyde Park
The Queen reviews The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Hyde Park
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The Queen in Windsor: 90th birthday
Find out more about how The Queen will mark her 90th birthday...
The Queen in Aberdeen
A message from The Queen to the President of Mexico following the recent earthquake
The role of the Monarchy
Monarchy is the oldest form of government in the United Kingdom
The Queen opens the new Queensferry Crossing
A message from The Queen following the recent attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils
A message from The Queen following the landslides in Sierra Leone
A Message from The Queen at the opening of the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium
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Our visit will reflect, and I hope reinforce, the strong and wide-ranging ties between Britain and Germany.
A speech by The Duke of Cambridge at The Queen's Birthday Garden Party in Berlin


NEW DELHI: India and Iran have stepped up cooperation in the energy sector, with New Delhi planning to import five million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and take a stake in Iranian oil and gas fields.
The two sides plan to firm up the LNG import and cooperation in oil exploration within six months and sign a Gas Sale and Purchase Agreement within nine months, said a statement issued by the petroleum ministry here Sunday.
Projects will be completed within four years of the signing of the agreement, the statement said.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik has formed a high-level steering committee to review progress in cooperation in the hydrocarbon sector, particularly LNG imports and obtaining interests in discovered as well as semi-discovered oil and gas fields for India's state-owned companies like ONGC Videsh Limited.
The committee, headed by the petroleum secretary, will include representatives from the department of economic affairs and the external affairs ministry and the chiefs of state-owned oil and gas companies. It will meet every month.
The Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) will also provide consultancy services for the development of a compressed natural gas (CNG) network in Tehran. Iran is expected to benefit from GAIL's experience in developing the world's largest CNG-dispensing system in New Delhi.
The Indian capital has about 70,000 vehicles, including 10,000 buses, running on CNG, compared to about 2,000 buses powered by the green fuel in other cities across the world.
The two sides will also work to identify specific projects in the Iranian petrochemical sector suitable for Indian participation and in upgrading Iran's refineries, the statement said.
The first meeting of the Indo-Iran joint working group on the hydrocarbon sector was held in Tehran May 11-13 following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two sides in January.


Hindsight suffuses our working life, perhaps none more so than in research. Being as it is a process of discovery and learning of things we didn't know. As such in many ways there will always be things we wish we'd known earlier. Today we would like to discuss whether the investigative process brings with it complexities and uncertainties that are universal, and can therefore be shared with others as a means to avoid similar pitfalls – as our panel explore 'Things they wish they had known sooner'.
In the chair we have Dr Amy Monaghan from the Alzheimer's Research Drug Discovery Unit at University College London. Amy is joined by Dr Deborah Oliviera from the University of Nottingham, Hanna Isotalus from University of Bristol and Dr Mark Dallas a Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Reading.


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Authorities in Montreux hacked: Another cyber-attack strikes Switzerland
17 October 2021, by Emily Proctor
The Swiss town of Montreux has confirmed that it was recently a victim of a cyber-attack that breached databases belonging to the local council. It is one of several attacks on various Swiss cantons and businesses in the last year.
It remains unclear whether data was stolen
On October 10, the spokesperson for the Riviera Security Association (ASR), Dounya Schürmann-Kabouya, said in an interview with Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA, "The attack may be one to two weeks old at the most." The municipality has not been able to ascertain whether the attack resulted in the theft of data.
The emergency services have set up a special "crisis cell" to help the municipality deal with the breach and specialists from across Switzerland have been brought in to assist in order to understand what data has been affected and crucially, who was behind the attack.
Switzerland has been the victim of multiple attacks this year
Montreux is not the first municipality to suffer a cyber-attack this year. A similar attack targeted the town of Rolle in May 2021, where the attackers were able to obtain information including email accounts, passwords and login details.
The hackers then sold thousands of the login details and files associated with the hack on the internet and threatened to hack other Swiss institutions such as hospitals and international companies based in Switzerland.
More than 2.700 Swiss businesses have been targeted by ransomware in the past year, according to a recent report by Beobachter. Some of the firms hit include the large Swiss companies Comparis and Stadler Rail.
Emily Proctor
Emily studied International Relations and Chinese, and is now undertaking Master's degree in International Security. She enjoys writing, cooking, and playing piano.
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