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Championship Saturday kicks off with a clash of the titans as third-placed Sheffield United welcome leaders Burnley to Bramall Lane.
Sheffield United and Burnley were among the big pre-season fancies and now head the title betting with the Clarets at 6/4 to win the Championship, the Blades 10/3.
Burnley are now five points clear after their late, late show against Rotherham on Wednesday and United will be desperate to haul them back in the first of 11 tier-two matches on Saturday.
United aiming to keep company with Clarets
What Sheff Utd v Burnley, Championship
Where Bramall Lane, Sheffield
When 12:30, Saturday 5th November, 2022
How to watch Sky Sports
Odds Sheff Utd 6/4, Burnley 19/10, Draw 23/10
Bramall Lane is set to stage something special between two very recent Premier League powers who are in great form.
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The Clarets have now scored 20 second-half goals and it's 6/5 that the leaders score the last goal on Saturday.
New Tigers' boss heads into the Lions' Den
What Millwall v Hull, Championship
Where The Den, London
How to watch N/A
Odds Millwall 5/6, Hull 7/2, Draw 13/5
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What Blackburn v Huddersfield, Championship
Where Ewood Park, Blackburn
Odds Blackburn 5/6, Huddersfield 7/2, Draw 5/2
Blackburn suffered a rare blip on Tuesday night, losing 1-0 at Coventry to lose ground on bitter rivals and neighbours Burnley, the one team ahead of them in the Championship.
Before that Rovers had won four in a row and the fact that they have turned Ewood Park into such a fortress might persuade punters to think Jon Dahl Tomasson's men are a weekend banker at 5/6.
They've won five in a row at home and against a Town side who have managed to glean just two points out of a possible 21 on the road, that looks a sizeable advantage.
Indeed, the fact that Huddersfield have only played seven games away – they've already chalked off ten hone matches – is maybe another reason why they are 1/2 to be relegated and they'll be shortened up again if they crash at Ewood Park.
Bilic blossoming in Mission Impossible
What Watford v Coventry, Championship
Where Vicarage Road, Watford
Odds Watford 10/11, Coventry 16/5, Draw 5/2
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They are 10/11 to make it four in a row against Coventry, a club in degrees of crisis off the pitch but not so much on it given a run of just one loss in six.
For a side who failed to win any of their first seven games and were temporarily without a home, being up to 20th in the table has to be seen as progress, and Tuesday's 1-0 defeat of Blackburn will have given them a huge lift.
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Commentary On "A Word About Man"
The introductory cycle in The Stone Sleeper consists of five poems under the common title of "A Word About Man," but since each of these poems treats the same motifs in the same way, we can also read them as a single poem in five sections.
The key to these lines [in "First"] is to be found in the play of passive participles that also runs throughout the next four "Words" as a basic literary procedure of this cycle/poem. Dizdar is trying to "de-stone" the Bosnian "krstjanin," heretic, or Bogumil—call him what you will—to revive him, to bring to life the creative forces in the texts he left us (the word "text" here has the meaning given it by modern semiotics, so it includes the stećak motifs as well). Language play in The Stone Sleeper, including "A Word About Man," is therefore an important poetic tool: the dancing lexemes recall or call into being an entire view of the world and man's place in it.
The pairs of passive participles, "satvoren"-"zatvoren" in the third stanza give the poem a powerful sound and a precise analysis to its structure, but they also provide the poem with a unity because each succeeding stanza begins with an echo of the preceding one; although not all readers, naturally, will experience their chain-like composition in the same way, the suggestion of a sindžir [chain] comprising different links of non-freedom seems inevitable. For it is one thing to be "zatvoren u koži" (encased in skin), which recalls the turn of speech "iz ove se kože nikud ne može" (you cannot get out of your skin), and another is to be "zatvoren u mozak" (enclosed in the brain), that is, in one's own way of thinking, which is our solitary-confinement cell, something found in T. S. Eliot. And it is not the same to be "zarobljen u srce" (imprisoned in the heart) and "zarobljen u meso" (imprisoned in flesh): the former speaks about being enslaved by passions (to put it in an old-fashioned way), and the latter about the heavenly element which dwells darkly in earthly existence, the immortal soul in mortal flesh, which constitutes the religious conviction of the Bosnian krstjanin.
The fallen angel is, in addition to everything else, "zdrobljen u te kosti" (crushed in those bones) because his earthly venture amounts to a handful of bones. Faced with them the totality of a man's being, which during his life seemed to be self-evident, turns out to be illusory. That is not all. Many peoples believe that the soul dwells in bones, and a hint of that belief is preserved in an oath in our language: "May not the spirit in my bones be turned into stone." This means that man, as a fallen angel, came into being when God, as punishment, crushed up the whole and immortal soul into mortal bones. Death reveals our "crushedness"; the essence of our being is in that fragmentation.
The pairs of passive participles, which also form internal rhymes, close in a set of rings, and we cannot but experience them—to change the metaphor—as iron circles around man's existence; they, on the philosophical plane, define the passive, suffering form of existence. This is to say that man is not a subject of existence, but existence is performed upon him, as on an object. That kind of man dreams "that heaven returns and multiplies." Here, we see immediately, the poet switches the perspective around: man, as a fallen angel, should return to heaven and not heaven to him, but clearly, man, who is defined as a passive and suffering being upon whom life is performed, cannot initiate any action, even in his dream. That is why heaven has become the mountain that comes to Mohammed, not Mohammed to the mountain, to turn around the old saying.
Now, what does it mean that heaven "multiplies"? Here we are aided by the expression from everyday language: "He is in ninth heaven." Dizdar resurrects the medieval idea of nine heavens: the fallen angel, who remembers his first world, dreams for the return of the original model of that world. In short, man as a being that suffers life, a being whose existence is ringed by non-freedoms arising from his corporeality, cannot even dream to return to his former state of bliss, to his home, really, but only of his home, in its primary form, returning to him.
Dizdar's hero "in this dark pit ever dreams of the sun." What "pit"? Clearly, it is the material world into which man has been thrown as punishment. But the "dark pit" can also be his body that the poem talks so much about. The power of this line rests on an ambiguity: "dark pit" is a metaphor that at the same time captures both the world and the body. This is about a dual dream: our dream of the sun from the pit of the world is different from our dream of the sun from the pit of the body.
The first two stanzas consist of claims, while the question within the main point opens the poem toward infinity, which gives the true measure of a human being. That is not the only change. In the first two stanzas, the second person is used repetitively ("you dream"), which can be read as addressed to man in general as well as the poet's address to himself. In the third stanza, third-person singular appears ("premosti"–be bridged), caused perhaps by rhyming: the poet wanted to avoid the "impure" rhyme of "kosti"—"premostiš," but it is clear that, for a master, literary conventions are not obstacles to overcome but assistance toward fuller expression.
Third-person singular means a change in the point of view, seeing man from a new angle: in the first two stanzas, the poet addresses him intimately, looks at him from close up, peers into his brain, heart, flesh, bones, into his dreams, while in the final stanza that same man is looked at from a distance and is placed in the cosmos with an interrogative sentence: "How can this space to heaven / Be bridged"?
These verses, opening up toward the immeasurable, abolish man's enslavement, crossing out all forms of his non-freedom. The human aspiration to "bridge that space to heaven" means reaching for the impossible. You are in chains, but you are reaching for an unattainable infinity. And it is there that man's essence lies. Comparable to the poem "Dark Blue River": "And that river we must cross"! Across that river that is "broad one hundred years" and whose depth is "a thousand summers," the river that also runs "beyond mind and beyond God"—we still must cross it, there is no way around it. Dizdar's question expresses an impossibility (how can it be bridged?—no way!) and resists that impossibility, refusing to accept it: the third-person voice, by which that resistance and non-acceptance is stated, points to the poet's gaze above man's head, over his real possibilities and his enslavement—toward infinity . . . .
[Regarding the "Third"]: In the note explaining the phrase "wrenched from heaven," Dizdar says: "Man [is] thrown from heaven to earth; man as a fallen angel, imprisoned in human body ('inclusi in corpore'), permanently aspiring to free himself from shackles imposed by the body." Then, in parentheses, he cites works that should be "seen and consulted"; these are Bogumil Legends, Religious Teachings of the Bosnian Church, Dualism in the History of Philosophy and Religion, and Credibility of Latin Sources on Bosnian Krstjans. The signals given to us by that note are important for our understanding of "A Word About Man" because this cycle/poem was written as a palimpsest over the religious teachings of Bosnian krstjans, without which we cannot properly understand the essence of Dizdar's vision. The fact that "A Word About Man" is placed at the beginning of The Stone Sleeper tells us a number of things, but first of all, perhaps, that at the core of this book lies the encounter, intersection, and dialogue between the modern and the medieval consciousness.
The first distich is based on the turn of speech "to be made of flesh and blood," which in everyday language defines the corporeal basis of the human being. The drama of human existence is not only in the friction between spirit and flesh, because in the latter there is also a struggle that is expressed by a strange future tense: "will soon gore." What does it mean? When Adam and Eve, as victims of the serpent's advertisement, sinned in Paradise, God formulated His sanctions in the future tense: "I will greatly multiply Your pain. . . in pain you will bring forth children," He says to Eve. "In toil shall you eat its [the ground's] yield all the days of your life"; "thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, as you eat of the plants of the field"; "by the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat," He says to Adam. That is why Dizdar's future tense is so suggestive. As if the Creator had said to the fallen angel: I am clothing you in flesh and blood, so "these bones your flesh will gore"—so that you would not forget you are in a prisoner's uniform.
Bread and wine do not refer only to man's earthly hunger and thirst: since he is a being "wrenched from heaven," it is clear that it is through bread and wine that a connection with that heaven is established. But, instead of bread, there is only stone, and instead of wine—only smoke. That stone, perhaps it is Herzegovinian a little (maybe it is the stone one lies down under—that is why "there is enough of it for everybody"), makes for barren ground that does not bring forth bread, and it is paired with smoke. For man is only smoke: everything that is his is smoke and everything in the world is smoke, which is a comfortless vision of existence—stone everywhere, permanently barren, and smoke, still "more permanently" transient.
The final distich is based on these words from the Bible: "Do not let your right hand know what your left is doing." In Dizdar, however, the left and the right hands are in a blood feud; one of them (we don't know which one) is not even man's, and it brings mystery into him: both are competing for the title of someone else's hand! The verb "pobije" (kill up/kill all) is also interesting: in everyday speech, a hand can kill a hand; it can't kill it all. The poet violates a language rule against combining by putting together the verb "pobiti," which goes only with plural, thereby creating a new nuance of meaning: the conflict has been taken to a higher level. Adjusting to the context, the word "pobije" has shifted the meaning of the poem: the struggle becomes spiritual as well, a kind of philosophical duel in which opponents refute [another sense of pobiti] each one's claims.
Translated by Omer Hadžiselimović – © 2007 Omer Hadžiselimović
The preceding text is copyright of the author and/or translator and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
ISSN: 1931-4957 // © 2006-2020 Spirit of Bosnia


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PRECISO rolls on TENTE wheels!
Something that is deeply rooted in our DNA? Well: make the daily use of our trolleys the most comfortable possible.
The partner chosen for PRECISO's wheels is TENTE (www.tente.com).
PRECISO mounts twin wheel castors, with a diameter of 125 mm (5 inches), made in polyamide. They glide like a charm thanks to sealed bearings.
... a twin bearing. On top of that the use of twin wheels dramatically reduces inertia.
This means the trolley always starts as if the wheels were already in the rolling direction.
Just to give you some data… A typical PRECISO has a carrying capacity that exceeds 300 kg (660 lbs.). With a full load the total mass can well be more than 100 kg (220 lbs.).
Thanks to its wheels the thrust needed to push a standstill PRECISO is just 1.3 kg (less than 2.8 lbs.)… and this no matter the direction the wheels are facing.
Wheel brake: both the wheel and the castor are locked; this means both movements are totally blocked. It also has the "kick pedal", for a quick and easy release of the block.
Directional lock function: also has the "kick pedal" which locks the wheel in the travel direction, improving steering in curves and making travel in a straight line easier.
Brake and lock function: has both systems described above and has thus 2 "kick pedals". One red and one green.
Conductive wheel: the wheel is guaranteed up to 10,000 ohm and tested to discharges of up to 500 volt.
… and this brings us to whisper-quiet drawers on a whisper-quiet trolley!


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Rapper GloRilla Urges Women To 'Stay Woke' As She Warns Against Dating Men Met While Clubbing: B*tch, He Looking For Hoes
November 28, 2022 by S. G. in Music with 0 Comments
GloRilla (real name Gloria Hallelujah Woods) wants you to stay woke, ladies!
The "F*ck Ni**a Free" rapper took to social media on Monday (Nov. 28) to, in so many words, warn women that looking for love in the club only worked for Usher and Beyonce. GloRilla said,
"If you trust a ni**a that you met at the club, you's a hot a*s mess and a godd*mn fool, and you don't got no motherf*ckin' home training because b*tch, why the f*ck is you sitting up here falling in love with a ni**a that you know you met at a place where he looking for hoes at."
She added,
"B*tch he looking for hoes, he finna treat you like a motherf*ckin' hoe b*tch. Why the f*ck is you sitting your dumb a** right here falling in love? Stay woke, stay the f*ck woke."
Morning inspo pic.twitter.com/T6XFThsGMf
— GloRilla ? (@GloTheofficial) November 28, 2022
Having recently released her debut EP on Yo Gotti's label, GloRilla is up for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Her newfound stardom is not without controversy, however, as Hitkidd (real name Anthony Holmes), the artist's debut track's producer, has accused the Memphis rapper of going behind his back to sell the hit song. Additionally, he claimed that GloRilla attempted to include "F.N.F." in her record agreement without notifying him.
Hitkidd said,
"So basically, these folks are trying to take me to court over 'F.N.F.' because they want to OWN the song, BUT they want to own the song to put it on this E.P. which both parties knew."
He added,
"So, tell me how you gone P.U.T.' F.N.F.' in your contract without telling me, AFTER I told you & your MANAGER [every day] that we [were] in L.A. with Saweetie, that labels are going to try to sign you because of 'F.N.F.' so watch out. I also told you to let me know when labels reach out so we can be on the same page, but you still went and signed my song without telling me."
The producer spoke of how all he ever did was try to "protect" the "Tomorrow" rapper and "the girls." He was seemingly referring to fellow rising Memphis talent Slimeroni, K-Carbon, Aleza, and Quality Control artist Gloss Up. In the years before "F.N.F.," Hitkidd made a name for himself regionally through his collaborations with GloRilla and the ladies on songs including "Hot Potato."
Do you agree with GloRilla's message? What are your thoughts on the entire situation? Let us know in the comments!
Tags: beyonce, GloRilla, recommend
Authored by: S. G.
Pusha T & Wife Are Having A Baby!
Yung Miami Is An Actress, Booked Her First Role In A Movie!
Summer Walker, Who Is Pregnant By London On Da Track, Alludes To Him Not Being A Good Father: He's Lame & I Tried To Get Him To Spend More Time With His Other Kids
Tory Lanez Says "I Use To Be Homeless & Hated Thanksgiving" As He Spent 15k Helping Feed Families [VIDEO]
50 Cent Trolls Lil Kim's Appearance, She Responds: You're So Obsessed W/ Me, This Is Getting Creepy
Bobby Brown & Kim Ward React To Their Son Bobby Brown, Jr.'s Death Being Ruled An Accidental Overdose: He Was Not Into Drugs, Those Who Contributed Should Be Held Accountable
Drake Makes History! Is Now The First Artist to Debut Tracks at No. 1, 2 and 3 on Billboard Hot 100
Naya Rivera's Fans Use Eminem Song Lyrics To Look Deeper Into Her Disappearance


Feeling chills in the air? Winter is coming. Now is the best time to assess your heating system and replace any aging or malfunctioning components. The very first thing to look at is your boiler—the most common heating source in any water or steam-based system. Boilers use natural gas, oil, water, electricity, propane or wood to create hot water or steam that heat up your home through radiators, baseboard convectors, radiant floors or fan-forced coils. Boilers are an essential way to stay warm in the cold months of the year.
There are central-heating boilers that produce hot water or steam for radiators, baseboard heaters and underfloor heating systems. The boilers eliminate the dry, forced air of traditional furnaces, replacing it with moist heat that won't dry out your home and skin. Buying a boiler represents a major investment and requires careful consideration to ensure the system will operate as intended. Consider the solid brand names that we offer: leaders such as Burnham, Weil McLain and Buderus.
Size your boiler to replace the heat lost from your home through walls, ceilings, windows and other surfaces, using the Air Conditioning Contractors of America's "Manual J" guidelines. For example, a small home with 60 square feet of double-pane windows could lose 2,500 BTUs of heat per hour just through the windows, plus another 13,000 through walls and ceilings. Add in the capacity to cover heat lost through air leakage, and the home could require a boiler rated at 25,000 BTUs or greater.
The gas boiler is able to spread the heat throughout your home – through tubes installed within your walls – and evenly distribute it in every room, with just one flick of a match. Though it does need the help of a flame to start heating your surroundings, it comes in a very easy to use system. By simply pushing a red button (for one minute) and lighting the pilot light, your home will be heated in no time.
If you need additional help or advice, do consider calling Climate Partners, where we will be more than happy to assist you. We want to help you save on costs and provide you with premium service. If you're in Hartford, Connecticut or in the surrounding areas, don't hesitate to call 860-325-4143 or visit our contact Climate Partners page.


We thank Carifi et al for their interest in our recent study describing cataract surgery in patients with nanophthalmos. We fully agree that anterior chamber depth is important in planning cataract surgery in nanophthalmos and anterior chamber depth values would provide important additional information for interpreting our results. Unfortunately, we were not able to provide these values for most of our patients because of the retrospective study design. Hence, we did not report on these.


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Q: Xubuntu 16.04: Monitor going to standby then back on again at start-up After selecting my Xubuntu 16.04 partition from the Grub menu, my monitor goes into standby, stating "No signal", then shortly after comes back on again and Xubuntu loads as normal. It does not seem to take any extra time, taking about the same time to load as older releases took, but it is certainly very odd and I would like to know what is causing it. My GPU is an AMD HD7750 using the radeon driver and I'm using an AOC monitor.
I recorded a short video of this with my phone, you can see the monitor light go orange and the "No Signal" message: https://vid.me/YOqO

A: This is nothing unusual. Most, if not all computers have this. The computer or OS just stops putting out a signal temporarily. I think it's what happens when the bootloader loads the OS, but I'm not sure.
However, it's completely normal.
It's happened in every computer I've used. Don't worry about it.

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Members of the Finding the Best Fit research team are presenting at the NZ Association of Gerontology's Making Active Ageing a Reality conference this week.
Dr Bev James – Making Good Housing Choices: information needs and access.
Dr Kay Saville-Smith – NZ's Tenure Revolution and its Impacts on Ageing in Place and Being Connected.
Both presentation will be available for download from the publications page of this website after the conference.


If you received your first credit card around the time you started college, or when your credit score wasn't that great, you probably didn't have a high spending limit. Over time, you may have realized that your spending limits did not cover certain purchases you needed to make. If so, it may be time to ask your credit card issuer for a credit line increase. However, this comes with its ups and downs. First, you need to determine why you need an increase in the first place. If it's only to buy yourself things that you can't afford to pay with cash, stop right there. You will only get yourself into trouble with debt that will take you years to pay off. Second, make sure that you've been a good customer for at least 6 months with on-time payments and that your cards aren't maxed out. Otherwise, your chances of getting approved will be very low. Let's learn more about the pros and cons of credit limit increases.
Having a high credit limit will help you have financial flexibility, and it may help your score as well.
If you're trying to use one card for all of your bills and expenses, your limit may not be enough. You may also be trying to make a big purchase on your card, and just a little more spending limit will allow the transaction to go through. If you have a higher spending limit, you can enjoy your card's benefits, such as cash back, on all of your purchases.
A higher credit limit also means that you will have a lower credit utilization ratio. This will definitely help improve your credit score. FICO looks at your credit utilization in two ways. The first is your per-card utilization, which is how much you owe on an individual card, compared to the credit line available on that card.
The second is your aggregate utilization, which is the amount you owe on all your cards, compared to the sum of all credit lines.
This is how FICO determines "amounts owed" in its scoring, which makes up 30% of your credit score. Your credit utilization will go down, and your score should increase if you maintain the amount of credit in use and ask for a credit line increase.
There are some potential disadvantages, though. So, you should consider these before you go on a credit limit increase frenzy.
Credit issuers may pull your credit report to evaluate your existing credit. These credit inquiries can either be hard pulls, which will affect your credit, or they can be soft pulls, which will not affect your credit. Too many inquiries in a short amount of time will knock some points off your credit report. If you've had a hard pull on your credit report recently, it may be best to wait a while. You can always call your credit issuer to confirm if they make a hard inquiry on your credit report when considering a credit line increase.
Increasing your credit limit can also increase your debt. Even though you'll have the power to make bigger purchases with an increased credit limit, it can put you at risk of buying things you can't really afford. You'll end up racking a ton of interest charges if you can't pay your balance off. Make sure that you never spend more than you can pay off in a month.
A credit limit increase can be a great way to reduce your credit card utilization and improve your score. However, it can also work against you if you don't know how to budget yourself and stay organized. So, make sure that before you ask for a credit limit increase, you take all of this into consideration. If you know how to spend responsibly and have good credit, you shouldn't have an issue increasing your credit limits, and in return, you'll have more financial flexibility.


I hope you've had a wonderful week so far.
I recently partnered with American Express Platinum to attend the Aspen Food and Wine Classic held the weekend of June 16th-18th. In today's blog post, I'm sharing a brief recap of my unbelievable 2 day experience.
Izard (Top Chef Season 4 Winner!), and I simply couldn't get enough.
to attend the Food and Wine Classic, it is truly worth it!
Thank American Express for partnering on this post.


Bridgestone Tour team member and LPGA legend Karrie Webb treated golf fans to one of the most heartwarming victories on tour this year, outside Atlantic City, this weekend. Webb used grit and determination in coming from 5-shots back to win the ShopRite Classic in honor of her grandmother who is seriously ill back in Australia.
Webb utilized Bridgestone's patented seamless cover technology to negotiate extremely windy conditions in carding a final round 68 to win by two strokes. The win is Webb's first LPGA Tour victory in two years and the 39th of her illustrious career.
Webb relied on the Bridgestone TOUR B330-RX golf ball in her dramatic victory, giving the ball victories in 2 of the last 3 weeks on the LPGA Tour.
"Between Jennifer Johnson and Karrie Webb the B330-RX has had a great last few weeks on the LPGA TOUR," said Dan Murphy, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing - Bridgestone Golf, Inc. "We're excited to see Karrie enter the winner's circle with the TOUR B330-RX, but first and foremost, our thoughts are with her family at this time."
Visit www.bridgestonegolf.com to see Bridgestone Golf's entire 2013 Tour Team and to view the complete lineup of new products.


Families receive a monthly newsletter that provides information on up-coming events, such as field trips, parties, and birthdays. Curriculum and themes for the month are anounced so that parents can remain informed and in-touch with what we are studying. Also, it is a reminder of up coming days that we will be closed, and much more.
The following links will download our newsletter in a Word document.


The Gothic Angel adult size Halloween costume contains a halo, wings, choker and dress. Other accessories in the picture are sold separately. This costume is designed for women with a bust size of 34 inches to 38 inches and a waist size from 26 inches to 32 inches.
The costume contains a Hooded Dress.
This costume comes with a dress and belt.


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Playa Grande is one of the most important beaches in the world for the nesting of the leatherback turtle.
The leatherback turtle is the largest in the world, reaches 2 feet long and weighing more than 700 kg, dark is the only tortoiseshell instead has a tough skin, an appearance similar to leather. It is very easy to identify with their large front flippers. It is nomadic and his favorite food is poisonous jellyfish. Do not miss this incredible opportunity to see the turtles.
The season to see leatherback turtles begins October 20th until February 15th, being a natural tour is not guaranteed to see them every night, but to see the black turtle is guaranteed 90% see them.This tour has a maximum duration of 4 hours waiting and on occasions has to walk up to 2 miles Important is prohibited to use cameras and video cameras, cell phones and other electronic devices with light.
Round trip transportation with a/c, guide, drinks and entrance fee to the park.
Bugs repellent, tennis or hike shoes and camera without flash.
Fees for any other additional attraction, liquor, tips for driver and guides.
Tamarindo Diria, Barcelo Playa Langosta, Cala Luna, Jardin del Eden, Flamingo Beach Resort, Westin Playa Conchal, Jw Marriott.
Coco beach, Riu Palace, Riu Guanacaste, Hilton Papagayo, Gran Papagayo, Allegro Papagayo and Four Season.


On Your Way from Enfield, CT? Use Our Directions to Get to Bolles Motors.
Are interested in buying a new/used car or seeking out vehicle service? Bolles Motors is proud to be a top destination for drivers in search of a range of popular products and services. When you come to our dealership, we'll make sure you get everything you need to drive home happy.
Not that that does you much good if you can't find us. Luckily for our customers in Enfield, we've assembled a set of easy-to-use directions that should be helpful in guiding your way to our dealership.
Drive south on Enfield St/US-5 South heading toward Mitchell Dr. Take the left onto Post Office Road and follow it until it becomes Town Farm Road.
Take a slight right onto Wallop School Rd and then turn right onto Abbe Rd. Abbe Rd. will become Kreysigg Rd.
Turn left onto Sadds Mill Rd/CT-140 and follow it until you can turn right and then left onto Main St/CT-286.
You should then take a right onto Somers Road/CT-83. Follow CT-83 and you'll eventually come to West Road. You'll find our dealership on the right.
If you have any difficulty on the way, don't hesitate to get in touch with our staff. The friendly team at our location in Ellington, CT can provide additional directions if you need them. We want your journey here to be as smooth as possible, and we'll do what we can to help.
You can count on that commitment to helpfulness continuing when you arrive at our dealership too. We'll listen to your needs and direct you to the team members best equipped to offer the help you're looking for. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us today.


In the Middle East we've worked with major construction companies, civil engineers and specialist contractors for almost 40 years. We hire out the pumps and accessories, provide dewatering installation services, and work closely with our customers to advise on the most efficient dewatering methods based on our long term knowledge of operating within the Gulf. We have a reputation for removing ground water and any water related problems quickly and cost-effectively.
With the broad range of Sykes hire pumps fleet together with years of dewatering experience means we offer you comprehensive solutions for both planned and emergency water removal.
We deliver: Deep well pumping for drying foundations, general over pumping, specialist and general well pointing dewatering, rehydration of excessively dry sites, dust suppression, mains boosting, mains testing and mains cleaning, sewage by-pass. We also offer Bentonite pumping services.


Physical therapy has been around, in one form or another, for centuries.
Modern physical therapy started in around 1812.
There are many specialties in this field.
One may go to a doctor's office for an injury or a post-surgical visit and be referred to a physical therapist so that they will be able to move and function as they did before. It would help them greatly if they were able to understand exactly what it entails.
Here are some answers to people's pressing questions about physical therapy.
Physical therapy can be done in a variety of ways. Some involve manual therapy, exercise, and can also include hot or cold treatments, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, among others. There is a wide range of specialists here who can treat anything from sports injuries to providing palliative care.
Before anything, though, the physical therapist, whatever specialty they belong to, will do a complete medical history and injury/surgery history. They will possibly use MRIs or CAT scans to help them decide on the proper course of action, along with seeing what sort of physical condition the patient is in.
What could loosely be considered physical therapy dates back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Hippocrates (yes, the fellow behind medicine's Hippocratic Oath) and Galen believed in massage as a healing method. It wasn't until centuries later when modern physical therapy began, with Henrik Ling, a Swedish gymnastics backer, started the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics in 1812.
The field has continued to evolve over time and the equipment has gotten more and more technologically advanced, where machines can even do things like decompress one's spine. Yes, basic weights and stretches are still used, but there is so much available at a physical therapist's fingertips.
What Are Its Education Requirements?
Every state has its own requirements for having sufficient education credits to be able to practice as a physical therapist. It used to be that physical therapists could work with either a Master's or a Bachelor's degree in that area. Currently, the governing body of Physical Therapy is known as the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), would like people to have Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees and many schools now offer only that as an entryway to the field, discontinuing the other degrees. New York, for example, does allow for those with a Master's. Those with Master's or Bachelor's are encouraged to further their education.
What Are Some Physical Therapy Jobs?
The first thing one has to do is be approved by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) by satisfying the education requirements in the state they wish to practice in from a school whose program is either in that state or meets that state's requirements. People from other countries need to get vetted by either the Foreign Credentialing Commission on Physical Therapy (FCCPT) or the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS).
Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physiotherapy: People who have had things like coronary bypass surgery would go to this physical therapist.
Clinical Electrophysiology – Wound management is one of the targeted areas.
Geriatric: The older generations would get help from these physical therapists.
Intertugementary (skin): These help people recover from severe burns and wounds.
Neurological: People who have things like strokes would seek help here.
Orthopedic: These specialists help people who have had orthopedic surgery or have had injuries like ankle sprains.
Pediatric: Children can get hurt, despite their fearlessness telling them otherwise. Pediatric physical therapists can help them recover.. and also help catch early health problems.
Sports: Athletes get injured – it's an occupational hazard. Physical therapists will work with them to get them back on the field.
Oncology: This is the newest one and is issuing certifications in 2019. They will work with cancer patients.
Other areas can include community physical therapy, women's health, and even palliative care.
There have been studies that show how physical therapy can help people with lower back pain recover and aid people with arthritis, possibly extending the time before possible surgery or even replacement of a certain area, like the knee or hip.
This is one of the most important parts of physical therapy. When a patient starts working with a physical therapist, they enter a partnership of sorts. The physical therapist, being the expert in their field, must be able to explain what they want to do in a way that the patient, whatever their level of education, can easily understand. The patient must attempt to do everything the physical therapist wants – but not at the expense of pain. There may be some discomfort and fatigue, but trying to "be tough" can have disastrous results.
Dr. Steven Moalemi and his staff at Empire Physical Medicine and Pain Management are among the very best at physical therapy and helping patients manage their pain.


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Rust-Oleum Rocket Gives Zizzo Career-Fastest Pass in St. Louis
MADISON, Ill.—A race that was a last-minute decision when his season was supposed to end after the US Nationals turned into a career weekend for TJ Zizzo. The Chicagoland native laid down a pass of 3.769 seconds at 329.75 mph, that speed being a personal best, in the first round of eliminations in Sunday's AAA NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway.
Unfortunately, No. 3 qualifier Austin Prock was .02 seconds quicker than the Rust-Oleum Rocket and put Zizzo Racing on the truck after a solid weekend despite the loss.
"If you're going to lose, you should lose that way," said Zizzo after the round. "The round of first round, I believe. Tight racing, good drivers, both with good reaction times, both having a good side-by-side run. Even Austin Prock said at the top end 'That'll be the one they'll talk about!' It was close."
Losing isn't fun, especially when it's the last race of the season. However, Zizzo recognizes the team took a large step forward this weekend, making the unexpected trip to St. Louis worth it.
"Unfortunately, we were on the losing side of that, but to go out with a career-best run, everything looks good," he said. "Everything we wanted to accomplish, well, you never accomplish everything you want to at a race, but we accomplished most of what we wanted to accomplish here. That's important for our team. That's important for our team to sit idle in the winter time feeling good about themselves.
"Anytime we leave with a career-best run or career-best speed, the winter goes well and we come out swinging again."
By The Numbers:
Q1: 5.540 seconds at 119.33 mph
E1: 3.769 seconds at 329.75 mph (loss to Austin Prock)
Fan Duel! TJ raced Scott Keller Saturday prior to Q4 of Top Fuel qualifying in identically-prepared Chevrolet Camaros. Scott won the opportunity to face Zizzo after participating in the Budweiser Gateway Challenge. Keller treed Zizzo and took the victory. Congratulations, Scott!
TJ In The Media: TJ Zizzo was featured in an article at RacingJunk.com, a comprehensive look at the team's 2019 season & what led Zizzo Racing to compete this weekend!
Fans of TJ Zizzo and Zizzo Racing can find updates and photos of the Rust-Oleum Top Fuel team by checking out ZizzoRacing.com, Twitter at @ZizzoRacing, Instagram at @TJZizzo, and Facebook.com/TJZizzo.


Selecting and working in the wrong local market is a costly mistake that many real estate professionals make. But with some background knowledge, it's an error that you can avoid.
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As warm mix asphalt (WMA) pavements afford compaction at temperatures several dozen degrees lower than hot mix asphalt (HMA), the rate of cooling drops dramatically allowing paving to continue into colder weather. For this study, field samples from the Valley City project were collected after being in service (aged) for three years. The historical weather data during study period, 2011-2014, indicates that the temperature in Valley City dropped up to −34°C in winter. Prior studies have noted the importance of studying the performance of asphalt in different environmental conditions, and with different additives. Therefore, this study was set forward to study rutting resistant of field WMA in one of the coldest regions in the US, which used Evotherm 3G as an additive. The research aimed to compare aged WMA rutting resistance, including Evotherm 3G, to that when the specimens were newly constructed. The Asphalt Pavement Analyzer (APA) was used to compare the rutting resistances of WMA and the control HMA. The results indicated that aged samples were more rut resistant than nonaged samples under wet and dry testing conditions. Also under wet and dry testing conditions, aged WMA samples exhibited lower rutting resistance than aged HMA samples. No interaction effects of aging and Evotherm 3G were found on the rutting resistance of asphalt. Addressing the issue of binder aging and its effects on the overall rut performance of pavements gives further insight into the utility of WMA overlays in cold weather regions such as North Dakota.
Warm mix asphalt (WMA) is a technology that allows manufacturers of asphalt to lower the production and compaction temperature of asphalt mixtures by up to 100°F. Recently, stringent environmental regulations have resulted in using WMA technologies. Reducing mixing and compaction temperatures induced reduction in fuel costs and emissions . Apart from those benefits, WMA can facilitate longer haul distances and cool weather pavement .
Depending on the type of binder used, North American Hot Mix Asphalts (HMA) are generally heated to 300°F. WMA technologies give the process and production the capability of reducing temperature without compromising the performance of the pavement . However, a lower compaction temperature results in lower rutting resistance of asphalt mixes . Reduced oxidation of the WMA binder is one of the reasons of reduced moisture and rutting resistance of WMA . Rutting is one of the main causes of failure in pavement structures. Rutting is another term used for unrecoverable deformation caused by traffic loading which leads to lateral movement of pavement materials. As a result of this deformation or rutting distress, vehicles tend to be pulled to the rut depth.
A number of WMA formulae have been accepted by the asphalt industry such as Sasobit, Evotherm, and REVIX. Using a lower temperature during production and placement of WMA has important advantages. In the original type of Evotherm, the emulsion is produced using a chemical package designed to enhance adhesion, coating, and workability. Most of the water flashes off as steam when the additive is mixed with the aggregate . Evotherm 3rd Generation (3G) is a water-free WMA which is easy and ready-to-use formula that allows application of asphalt at a temperature 60°-90°F lower than traditional HMA.
However, rutting distress is the major concern in using WMA technology [7, 8]. A considerable amount of literature has been published on WMA rutting with different Evotherm technologies, but they have shown mixed results. A number of studies have reported decreased rutting of WMA with Evotherm. Hurley and Prowell measured rutting resistance of WMA with Evotherm using an asphalt paver analyzer (APA) . They found that the addition of Evotherm did not statistically affect the rutting resistance of asphalt. Ghabchi et al. compared rutting resistance of WMA with Evotherm and HMA using the Hamburg wheel tracking (HWT) test . The results revealed that the performance of WMA depends on the technology and the type of additive used, and WMA had lower and, in some cases, equal rutting resistance compared to HMA. Similarly, the effects of three types of WMA additives were investigated by Du and Li . The test results indicated that Evotherm DAT improved rutting resistance of Hot Mix Asphalt. Prowell et al. investigated field performance of WMA by incorporating Evotherm. The rutting resistance carried out by the APA indicated that WMA had similar rutting resistance compared to HMA. Behl et al. conducted a study to evaluate aging characteristics of WMA binders . The results indicated that Evotherm based WMA aged at lower temperature showed higher resistance to rutting to that of the control aged HMA. Syed et al. investigated the rutting performance of WMA with Evotherm and compared it with HMA . The results indicated that WMA showed lower rut depth compared with HMA.
On the other hand, research by Sargand et al. indicated that mixtures with WMA have lower rutting resistance than HMA . All types of WMA, with Evotherm, Sasobit, and Aspha-Min, had more rutting under rolling wheel loads than traditional HMA, with Evotherm having the highest rutting. A study was conducted by Wu et al. to investigate the performance of field aged WMA . The results indicated that Evotherm binder was comparable with HMA binder after field aging. However, file aged HMA exhibits higher rutting resistance than Evotherm WMA. The importance of environmental conditions on the performance of WMA was investigated in the literature . It was shown that the mechanical properties of WMA would be affected by climatic factors.
The first objective is to evaluate and compare rut values of aged and unaged WMA specimens to HMA specimen for dry and wet conditions.
The second objective is to statistically analyze the effects of aging and additive (WMA and HMA) on rutting resistance.
The samples were collected from overlays on the section near Valley City using Evotherm 3G as an additive on the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) asphalt paving project. The historical weather data indicates that weather in Valley City dropped to −34°C (-30°F), between 2011 and 2014. About 5 miles of this project was paved with WMA for the experimental section and about 5 miles of the project was the control section using binder type PG 58-28 for both sections. The location of the experimental part is from reference point (RP) 56.480 to RP 61.233 and the control part, HMA, is from RP 51.000 to RP 56.000. To fulfill the objectives of this study, the methods depicted in Figure 1 are taken.
Figure 1: Flow chart for testing and analyzing the specimens.
In 2011, samples (Unaged) were collected by Suleiman and Mandal with the objective of evaluating rut resistance of NDDOT WMA overlays with respective HMA . The purpose of that study was to compare rutting resistance of WMA with HMA under dry and wet conditions using the asphalt pavement analyzer (APA).
The samples used in this research for rutting comparison between WMA and HMA were provided by NDDOT. The WMA and HMA samples had the same traffic and environmental conditions. Similar binders and aggregates were also used in making the samples. The locations of core specimen are presented in Table 1.
Table 1: Field core specimen identification.
Thirty-two specimens were chosen for APA rut testing, 16 of them for dry testing and 16 of them for wet testing. Sixteen HMA specimens were chosen in a similar manner to the WMA. The dimension of the specimen used in APA was 6 inches in diameter and 3 inches high (15 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm high). A concrete saw was used to cut and prepare the specimens from the top to the depth of three inches, which is the required depth for APA rut testing.
For rutting evaluation under the wet condition, specimens were heated to 58°C for about 6 hours, which is in accordance with the PG grade of the binder used in the asphalt. For wet condition, specimens were immersed in the tank filled with water at the temperature of 58°C. Similarly, for dry conditions, 58°C was chosen for the APA dry condition.
Prior to running the APA test, the specimens for dry conditioning were heated for 6 hours to 58°C, which matched the high temperature of the PG grade 58-28 used in the project by NDDOT. This temperature would be maintained during the actual APA dry test. For wet conditioning, the specimens were placed in a 58°C water bath for 24 hours prior to the test. The same test preparation procedure was maintained for both HMA and WMA cases.
The Asphalt Pavement Analyzer (APA) was used to compare the rutting resistance of WMA with correspondent HMA. APA testing is based on AASHTO TP 63-03, which is the standard test method for determining rutting susceptibility of asphalt paving mixture using the APA. Testing time for rutting was about 2 hours which consisted of 8000 cycles. The wheel load applied in APA is 100 psi (45Kg) which was uniformly applied on the specimens . The utilization of APA has been cost-effective, fast, and practical to use. A 3/4-inch (9.0 mm) rutting was considered as failure criteria for this test.
The temperatures of pavement for both HMA and WMA at windrow, behind the paver, and behind different rollers in North Dakota are presented in Table 3. For the comparison, the temperature behind the roller was used as compacting temperatures for WMA and HMA. As can be seen from Table 2, the temperature difference in windrow was 34 while this difference behind 3rd roller was only 3 degrees. This could be an indication that the rate of cooling drops dramatically, which allows paving to continue into colder weather.
Table 2: Average WMA and HMA temperature during different pavement process operations in ND.
Table 3: Sample means and sample standard deviations of samples according to combinations of age, moisture, and temperature.
A total of 8 different types of asphalt mixes were considered in this study (See Table 3). These types include age (aged; unaged), temperature (warm; hot), and moisture (wet; dry). For each type of asphalt mixes, there were 8 samples. Some samples were lost in testing for the unaged category. As can be seen from the table, unaged dry warm mix asphalt (UDWMA) had the highest sample mean rut depth (8.90mm) while aged dry hot mix asphalt (ADHMA) had the lowest sample mean (4.45mm).
The analysis of the model was done using the glm procedure in SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute, 2014).
Table 4 presents the two-way ANOVA results for examining the effects of age and temperature on rut depth. The ANOVA test was conducted separately for wet and dry conditions. The effects were declared to be non-zero when the p value was less than the specified significance level of 0.05. Since there were an unequal number of samples across age, the sum of squares was based upon weighted squares of means or Type III Sums of Squares in SAS GLM .
Table 4: ANOVA table for rut depth under wet conditions and dry conditions.
For the dry mix conditions, the interaction effects were all declared to be 0 (p value = 0.1409). However, there were non-zero effects due to temperature (p value = 0.0025) and age (p value <0.0001).
Similar conclusions for the effects on rut depth were found for rutting depth with wet testing conditions. The interaction effects were declared to be zero (p value = 0.2388). The main effects of temperature (p value <0.0001) and age (p value <0.0001) were declared to be non-zero.
Since there are no interaction effects involving temperature and age, the associated marginal means are of particular interest. The least squares means, standard errors, and test of equality of the marginal means are presented in Table 5 for both the dry mix and wet mix conditions. The p values associated with the test of equal marginal means are the same as the test of non-zero main effects in Table 4 since there are only two levels of these factors. Under both conditions, the marginal mean rutting depth is smaller for the hot mix (HMA) than for the warm mix (WMA). The marginal mean rutting depth is also smaller for aged asphalt compared to unaged asphalt for both conditions.
Table 5: Least squares means and standard errors for age and temperature levels for the dry mix condition and for the wet mix condition.
The previous test results were based upon assumptions on the model errors (eijk). These assumptions include independence, normality, and equal variance. The assumptions can be evaluated using studentized residuals.
First, the residuals were plotted in Figure 2 from the model fit for wet mix. The plot of studentized residuals versus predicted values illustrated random scatter of the residuals about 0 with fairly equal spread. A Levene test of equal variance across the predicted values did not indicate a violation of the homogeneity of variance assumption on the model errors (F3,24 = 1.56; p value = 0.2245). The normality plot of the studentized residuals showed the residuals lying close to the theoretical normal line. A Wilk-Shapiro test of normality on the model errors did not indicate problems with the normality assumptions (W = 0.9530; p value = 0.2349).
Figure 2: Plots of studentized residuals versus predicted values and versus normal quantiles for wet mix.
The residuals were also plotted in Figure 3 from the model fit for dry mix. The plot of studentized residuals versus predicted values illustrated random scatter of the residuals about 0, but with unequal spread. This appeared to be due to the studentized residuals near a predicted value of 7. A Levene test of equal variance across the predicted values confirmed this observation (F3,24 = 3.96; p value = 0.0199). The normality plot of the studentized residuals showed the residuals lying close to the theoretical normal line, except for the largest two studentized residuals. A Wilk-Shapiro test of normality on the model errors did suggest problems with the assumptions of normality due to these residuals (W = 0.9261; p value = 0.0492). Thus, the assumptions on the model errors appear to not be met due to the first two samples which consist of the largest observed rut depth (10.57, 10.24). In fact, these were the only observations in the dataset that exceeded 10.
Figure 3: Plots of studentized residuals versus predicted values and versus normal quantiles for dry mix.
If these samples were removed from the analysis, then the assumptions on the model errors appeared to be met. The Levene test of equal variance across the predicted values did not indicate a violation of the homogeneity of variance assumption on the model errors (F3,22 = 1.24; p value = 0.3175). The Wilk-Shapiro test of normality on the model errors also did not indicate problems with the normality assumptions (W = 0.9781; p value = 0.8320). The two-way ANOVA was refit without samples 1 and 2 and the results are shown in Table 6. The total and residual sum of squares decreased as a result of removing these extreme observations. Otherwise, the results and conclusions do not change. The interaction effects would be declared to be zero, and the main effects due to temperature and due to age would be declared to be non-zero.
Table 6: ANOVA table for rut depth for dry mix without samples 1 and 2.
It is a fact that the properties of binder and WMA additive can impact the properties of asphalt mixture. So, a better understanding of the performance of WMA with different asphalt and additives can help to implement this technology more successfully. Moreover, most of the studies so far are based on the either short-term field performance of WMA pavement or lab testing. The literature lacks rutting filed performance of WMA with Evotherm 3G in climate conditions such as North Dakota. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to obtain a better understanding of the rutting resistance of WMA with Evotherm 3G in this state.
APA testing machine on PG 58-28 Evotherm 3G was carried out to investigate the rutting resistance of asphalt samples collected in cold weather climates such as North Dakota. Comparisons were made across pavement mix temperature (WMA and HMA) under both dry and wet testing conditions. The age of the samples (unaged and aged) was also compared. Unaged rut data from a previous study involving the same paving project, Suleiman and Mandal, were compared with the aged rut results of this study .
Two-way ANOVA was used to statistically assess the effects of temperature and age. This study reached the following conclusions:(1)Regardless of moisture conditions, there were no non-zero interaction effects involving age and temperature.(2)Under both dry and wet conditions, aged samples (3 years after construction) had lower mean rut resistance than unaged samples (those immediately after construction).(3)Under dry conditions and after 3 years, the estimated mean reduction in rut depth was 31.7%.(4)Under wet conditions and after 3 years, the estimated mean reduction in rut depth was 24.6%.(5)The rut depth comparisons between aged WMA and HMA under dry and wet conditions revealed that WMA rut resistance is inferior to HMA.(6)Under dry conditions, the estimated mean difference in rut depth, between aged and unaged samples, was 22.4%.(7)Under wet conditions, the estimated mean difference in rut depth, between aged and unaged samples, was 21.2%.
The results of this study can be applied to the rutting resistance of WMA with Evotherm in similar weather climates. Furthermore, more studies are needed to confirm the results obtained by this study.
More research is needed to investigate and address the low rutting resistance of WMA with Evotherm 3G.
The future research could assess the longer term resistance of WMA with Evotherm.
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As Deloitte sought to understand how companies are investing in Industry 4.0 to enable digital transformation, we fielded a global survey of 361 executives across 11 countries. While its definition has expanded, Industry 4.0 has its roots in manufacturing. As such, our global survey focused on manufacturing, power, oil and gas, and mining companies and examined how and where they are investing—or planning to invest—in digital transformation; some of the key challenges they face in making such investments; and how they are forming their technical and organizational strategy around digital transformation.
The survey revealed a mix of enthusiasm and ambitious plans for future investment—as well as a series of disconnects between companies' plans and actions, which we explore in the following chapters. While digital transformation is taking shape in nearly every organization, paradoxes can be observed around strategy, supply chain transformation, talent readiness, and drivers for investment. This suggests that the will for digital transformation remains strong, but organizations are largely still finding a path that balances improving current operations with the opportunities afforded by Industry 4.0 technologies for innovation and business model transformation.
The strategy paradox. Nearly all respondents (94 percent) indicated that digital transformation is a top strategic objective for their organization. Just because respondents appear to understand its strategic importance, however, doesn't necessarily mean they are fully exploring the realm of strategic possibilities made possible by digital transformation. In fact, many fewer (68 percent) see it as an avenue for profitability.
The supply chain paradox. Executives identified the supply chain as a top area for both current and prospective digital transformation investments, indicating that supply chain initiatives are a top priority. However, supply chain executives and those outside of the C-suite who direct the actual day-to-day business operations—i.e., those with presumably the most "touch and feel" involvement with the implementation of digital technologies—do not appear to have a seat at the table when it comes to decisions about digital transformation investments.
The talent paradox. In keeping with Deloitte's previous research on Industry 4.0,3 executives report feeling quite confident that they have the right talent in place to support digital transformations—but also seem to admit that talent poses a vexing challenge. Indeed, only 15 percent of respondents indicated they need to dramatically alter the composition and skill sets. At the same time, however, executives point to finding, training, and retaining the right talent as their top organizational and cultural challenge.
The innovation paradox. Executives report their digital transformation initiatives are driven largely by productivity improvement and operational goals—essentially, leveraging advanced technologies primarily to do the same things better. This finding has been borne out in previous Deloitte studies, suggesting a wider pattern around using advanced technologies for near-term business operations—at least initially—rather than truly transformative opportunities.4 Yet innovative opportunities abound—and should not be discounted. Organizations driven by other factors, such as an increased desire for innovation and internal strategy focus, reported an equally positive return on investment.
Around the physical-digital-physical loop. The ability to fully harness information from connected assets and use it to drive informed decisions is important to the full realization of Industry 4.0, and one which many organizations may not yet fully be able to execute in practice.
Our research suggests that executives in manufacturing, oil and gas, power and utilities, and mining are aware of the opportunities the Fourth Industrial Revolution creates—and that they prize digital transformation as a way to harness that growth. At the same time, however, disconnects in different areas suggest that executives aren't quite sure how to get there—even as they plan more significant investments in the future. As they seek to transform their organizations into interconnected enterprises capable of operating in an increasingly digital age, executives have many opportunities to build more connected, responsive, and intelligent operations—and find a path that truly embodies the promise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
To understand how companies are investing in Industry 4.0 to enable digital transformation, Deloitte fielded a global survey of 361 executives in 11 countries in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The survey was fielded in association with GE Digital in the spring of 2018 by Forbes Insights, and captured insights from respondents in aerospace and defense, automotive, chemicals and specialty materials, industrial manufacturing, metals and mining, oil and gas, and power and utilities. All survey respondents were director level or higher, including CEOs (4 percent), CFOs (13 percent), COOs (9 percent), CDOs (5 percent), CIOs (7 percent), CTOs (5 percent), CSCOs (4 percent), business unit presidents (5 percent), EVPs/SVPs (7 percent), vice presidents (11 percent), executive directors/senior directors (9 percent), and directors (21 percent). All executives represented organizations with revenue of US$500 million or more, with more than half (57 percent) coming from organizations with more than US$1 billion in revenue.
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Jessops close was 'bolt from blue' for Huddersfield staff among 1,370 who have lost their jobs
THE Jessops camera shop in Huddersfield suddenly shut down last night.
Jessops in Queen Street, Huddersfield
The move came as it was announced that all the Jessops stores were closing countrywide – including 15 in Yorkshire and the North East leading to 106 redundancies in the region.
A member of the staff at the Huddersfield shop on Queen Street said one staff member had worked there for 35 years.
He added: "We knew nothing at all about this until this week. It has come completely out of the blue."
PwC were appointed joint administrators of Jessops on January 9.
Joint administrator Rob Hunt from PwC said yesterday: "Since my appointment we have reviewed the position of the business and held extensive discussions with suppliers around their support for ongoing trading.
"It is apparent that we cannot continue to trade and as a result we have had to make the difficult decision to begin the closure of all 187 Jessops stores at the close of business today.
"Regrettably, this will result in around 1,370 job losses across the stores with further job losses likely, in due course, at the head office in Leicester.
"The stock will be collected over the coming days and returned to a central warehouse.
"It will be returned to suppliers if they are entitled to it.
"As a consequence of the closure, Jessops is no longer able to accept returned products from customers.
"This is an extremely sad day for Jessops and its employees."
Jessops was forced to call in the administrators this week after talks between the company and its lender and suppliers broke down after a poor Christmas of trading.
Jessops had struggled since 2007 when it underwent a major overhaul with a swathe of store closures.
It came close to collapse two years later before being rescued by its main lender, HSBC, in a controversial debt-for-equity swap that saw it taken off the stock market.
The camera giant's final collapse comes after consumer electricals chain Comet hit the wall last year, sparking more than 6,000 job losses.
There was speculation that suppliers such as Canon were considering injecting cash into Jessops last year to help prop the business up, but no deal materialised.
The group last year also suffered the loss of its chief executive Trevor Moore, who left to head up HMV, as well as its chairman David Adams.
Martyn Everett was then appointed as chairman and Neil Old was promoted to lead the business as chief operating officer.
The firm began life in 1935 when Frank Jessop opened his first shop in Leicester.
Updates for customers will be available through the Jessops and PwC websites shortly at www.pwc.co.uk/jessops