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Anna Zaytseva
Vietnam in XXI Century: Institutional Development of S&T and Innovation Policy
2012. Vol. 6. No. 2. P. 44–55 [issue contents]
Anna Zaytseva — Junior Research Fellow, Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics. E-mail: azaytseva@hse.ru
Address: National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation.
Since the beginning of 1990s the Vietnamese economy has been undergone structural changes that until recently have resulted in fast modernization and GDP growth. Recognizing the need to point economic development towards innovation, the government has undertaken institutional reform. This paper assesses the evolution of science, technology and innovation policy for the last decade in Vietnam, with emphasis on the coherence and efficiency of policy instruments. The study shows that despite major steps forward in the formation of a legislative and institutional framework for the national innovation system, there are factors working against it. The mixed character of the Vietnamese economy (combining market institutions with tight public regulation and a significant share of public property) fostered by inconsistent and ineffective policies, discourages the innovation environment and synergy of reforms. There is also a huge gap between policy and implementation. Another factor is difficulties with setting strategic goals and defining policy priorities: policy tasks are overwhelming in number, but also there is overlap. There is no interdepartmental agency able to provide horizontal and vertical co-ordination of governmental initiatives. The bias towards fostering «technology push» as well as preserving dominance of state actors in science and industry is the most important inconsistency; «market pull» based tools remain underdeveloped. A new set of measures envisaged by the Strategy of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Development for 2011-2020 provides some opportunity for new policies. The government will need to revise the framework conditions restricting the development of competition, introduce demand-driven and inclusive development oriented tools as well as develop targeted and complementary regulation. Qualitative improvement of institutions requires introducin competitiveness where now economic elites dominate, and this, again, forces into the open the tension between economic pluralism and political monopoly.
Citation: Zaytseva A. (2012) V'etnam v XXI veke: razvitie institutov nauchno - tekhnicheskoy i innovatsionnoy politiki [Vietnam in XXI Century: Institutional Development of S&T and Innovation Policy]. Foresight-Russia, vol. 6, no 2, pp. 44-55 (in Russian)
Keywords: national innovation system; Vietnam; S&T and innovation policy institutes; transitional economy; policy mix


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Bronchiolitis Obliterans is a rare and life-threatening lung disease that can be caused by the inhalation of diacetyl or 2,3 pentanedione, chemicals used for flavoring food products. These flavoring chemicals are also used in snack food plants, dairy plants, confection plants, coffee roasting plants, pet food plants and refrigerated dough plants. Contact The Carlson Law Firm to discuss your legal options with an experienced toxic exposure attorney.
Symptoms of Bronchiolitis Obliterans
Also known as obliterative bronchiolitis or constrictive bronchiolitis, the lung disease can cause a number of serious symptoms. People affected by the toxicity of this chemical have developed shortness of breath, hardening of the lung tissue, and other serious respiratory symptoms. The damage cannot be reversed. The most serious cases of bronchiolitis obliterans are life-threatening and require individuals to undergo a lung transplant. The first symptoms typically noticed by a person suffering from bronchiolitis obliterans are chronic shortness of breath with exertion, coughing and wheezing
Scarring and hardening of lung tissue
Cough (usually without phlegm)
Eye, nose, throat and skin irritation
What Is Diacetyl?
Diacetyl is both a man-made chemical compound and something that occurs naturally in certain foods or food processes.
Diacetyl is a highly toxic chemical compound that is very dangerous to not only people who work with it but also to consumers. Diacetyl exposure can cause permanent, severe, and potentially lethal lung disease in workers and consumers. Despite this, many people continue to work with diacetyl and are not told of the steps they need to take to protect themselves. Also, consumers could be breathing diacetyl vapors and risking their health by using products containing diacetyl.
Diacetyl vapors enter the lungs, setting off an autoimmune chain reaction in the lung tissue of the small airways. If you picture your windpipe as a tree trunk the small airways, or bronchioles, are the smallest end of the smallest branches, furthest away from the trunk. This is where oxygen goes into your bloodstream, and CO2 comes out. The tissue in the bronchioles becomes fibrotic, essentially turning to scar tissue. The tissue stops working like it should, and less and less oxygen is able to get from the lungs into the bloodstream where the body can use it. Once this scarring process has happened it is irreversible – the tissue never returns to normal.
Diacetyl exposure has lead to this disease being found in people working in coffee roasting plants; animal feed plants; bakeries; candy factories; flavoring manufacturing plants; and in everyday consumers. In the medical community, the disease is referred to as bronchiolitis obliterans, obliterative bronchiolitis or diacetyl-induced bronchiolitis obliterans.
Most people do not know that they are exposing themselves to diacetyl. Because it is often times actively hidden by the industry, consumers are deprived of the ability to make an informed decision about the products they are using, and our health and the health of workers is left to profit-motivated corporations.
Misdiagnosis Alert – Asthma, Bronchitis, Pneumonia & Emphysema
Unfortunately, bronchiolitis obliterans is frequently misdiagnosed by physicians as asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia or emphysema. If you smoke e-cigarettes or vapes and have been diagnosed with asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia or emphysema, you may still have a case.
Lung disease can be hard to diagnose even for experienced pulmonologists. And, even doctors experienced in treating occupational diseases can miss bronchiolitis obliterans. If you believe you have been exposed to diacetyl in your work place, or at home, be sure to let your doctor know so that your lung function can be tested. Early detection is critical.
Diacetyl Exposure Health Hazard Warning
The National Institute for Occupational and Safety and Health (NIOSH) has published a Recommended Exposure Limit (REL) for diacetyl and 2,3 pentanedione of 5ppb (parts per billion) expressed as a time-weighted average over an eight-hour workday and 40-hour workweek. NIOSH has also recommended a STEL or "Short Term Exposure Limit" of 25ppb for 15 minutes based on the concern that peak exposures may have greater toxicity. These recommendations have not yet been adopted and currently, no federal regulations are in place to protect workers from dangerous exposures to diacetyl or 2,3 pentanedione.
Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Diacetyl and 2,3 Pentanedione. – NIOSH
Do I have A Bronchiolitis Obliterans Lawsuit?
Diacetyl exposure related to food flavoring has spawned hundreds of lawsuits by plant workers. The widespread use of diacetyl in the food industry as an ingredient in snacks, beverages, baked goods, and a variety of other edibles, and the chemical's association with bronchiolitis obliterans has led some commentators to suggest that diacetyl could be the "new asbestos."
A breathing test known as spirometry, combined with a history of exposure to food flavoring, is used gage diacetyl exposure and to diagnose bronchiolitis obliterans. A high-resolution CT scan of the lungs can sometimes reveal characteristic changes of bronchiolitis obliterans, however, the scan can also appear normal in persons suffering from the disease.
How The Carlson Law Firm Can Help You
The Bronchiolitis Obliterans attorneys at The Carlson Law Firm are reviewing potential lawsuits for factory workers who have been diagnosed with this life-threatening lung disease all across the United States.
Previous lawsuits filed by factory workers have resulted in several multi-million dollar jury awards against manufacturers who failed to warn about the risk of exposure.
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Summer of '69 (Hardcover)
By Todd Strasser
Drawing from his teenage years, Todd Strasser's novel revisits a tumultuous era and takes readers on a psychedelically tinged trip of a lifetime.
With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam. If that isn't heavy enough, there's also the free-loving (and undeniably alluring) Tinsley, who seems determined to test Lucas's resolve to stay faithful to Robin; a frighteningly bad trip at a Led Zeppelin concert; a run-in with an angry motorcycle gang; parents who appear headed for a divorce; and a friend on the front lines in 'Nam who's in mortal danger of not making it back. As the pressures grow, it's not long before Lucas finds himself knocked so far down, it's starting to look like up to him. When tuning in, turning on, and dropping out is no longer enough, what else is there?
Todd Strasser is the internationally best-selling author of more than one hundred books for children and teens, including Fallout and The Beast of Cretacea, as well as the classics The Wave and Give a Boy a Gun, which are taught in classrooms around the world. He lives in Westchester County, New York.
Strasser perfectly captures the golden haze of youth and life on the cusp of adulthood. Readers fascinated with this time period will find much to enjoy. All main characters are white, but Lucas' African-American conscientious objector counselor, Charles, offers his perspective on the war and the treatment of African-American soldiers. Vietnam, Woodstock, road trips, and acid trips: a sweetly bittersweet, surprising, even melancholy bildungsroman set against a world in flux. Groovy, man.
Strasser's protagonist is a riveting character—funny, yet also pitiful; foolish, yet justifiably frightened; self destructive, yet at his core self aware. The seedy glamor of the counterculture is on display, but so is the looming question, "What if that were me?"
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
The picture painted of the Woodstock music festival shows the dark side of peace and love, and the prevalence of drugs is on almost every page, though at times the use of psychedelics seems excessive. The best part of the book, however, is the one that transcends eras: Lucas' introspection as he contemplates his place in the world.
—Booklist Online
Strasser convincingly depicts the experience of the war and the opposition to it, the hippie culture of Woodstock, and the reality of using drugs. Much of the book is based on his personal experience as he explains in the author's note. Strasser realistically portrays Lucas coming of age in the tumultuous free love defined by Woodstock.
—ALAN (blog)
Letters from Robin and a friend serving in Vietnam, newspaper headlines, and notices from the draft board provide ballast to Lucas's self-centered perspective, as do his meetings with Charles, a Black draft counselor who gets Lucas to step outside of his own experience and see Vietnam as a "working-class war" that rich white kids evade by going to college while Black and blue-collar white kids get killed. An author's note discusses the personal roots of Strasser's tale.
Publisher: Candlewick
Publication Date: April 9th, 2019
Minimum Grade Level: 11
Young Adult Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century
Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse


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Vietnam HR Awards 2016: The rise of outstanding HR strategies
Released at: 11:27, 04/10/2016 BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
As well as recognizing superior performers in HR in Vietnam, the Vietnam HR Awards also shared successful strategies via a panel discussion.
by Ha An
MWG's working environment the best in Vietnam
BAT Vietnam wins 2016 Vietnam HR Award
With dedication and commitment to lift up the local human resources (HR) community, the Vietnam HR Awards 2016 shares strategic HR insights from top business leaders and HR managers to help shape a new future for the HR industry. The question of developing and retaining talent was the focus on a lively discussion at this year's Awards ceremony at the end of September.
"Talent is built, not bought"
The idea, though no longer a totally new concept, caught attention and agreement from those in attendance. "More than ever before, the labor market is dynamic and the competition for talent more severe, especially for high skilled workers and specific professionals," said Mr. Lennard Boogaard, Vice President in charge of HR at Unilever Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, who was part of the panel discussion.
A transformation from traditional staffing to talent management and acquisition has taken place within leading organizations all around the globe, driving long-term progress and success. More and more companies in Vietnam have invested in building a talent pipeline through a variety of initiatives such as regional employee exchange programs and holistic packages to balance work, family and life.
Phu Nhuan Jewelry (PNJ) is one of Vietnam's most outstanding corporations and has successfully shaped its growth and reputation through a long-term vision of internal talent development. "For us, the concept of a 'Dream Team' is not seeking the best people from outside but igniting the potential of existing employees, giving them opportunities to learn and shine together with our long-term business strategy," said Ms. Cao Thi Ngoc Dung, CEO and Chairwoman of PNJ. "Only when your staff see themselves as a connected part of the business will they grow and make the company's goals theirs."
However, what still triggers a great degree of concern is how to make existing talent ready for more senior roles, especially when there is rising competition from both inflows and outflows of talent thanks to the TPP and the AEC.
It is time for "the well-known pool of hard-working, smart, fast-learning and ambitious people in Vietnam to change the ground rules, focusing on the big picture of the business and not just short-term wins," said Mr. Peter Henriques, General Manager of BAT East Asia.
New HR perceptions that work
When it comes to developing and retaining talent, what counts most is the role of the HR Department. HR should be at the center of every company, taking care of people, going beyond the traditional administrative sphere and becoming the leading function to deliver a people development agenda. The advent of e-commerce also changes talent supply and demand ecosystems. For businesses to stay ahead in the long run, HR needs to turn into a strategic business partner, a more proactive team player among key company leaders, rather than just doing what it is told. Vu Minh Tri, CEO of Microsoft Vietnam and Dinh Kim Nhung, Deputy CEO of Masan Consumer Holdings, agreed during the panel discussion that there is no one-size-fits-all concept of a proper HR strategy, but an effective one requires a close partnership and strong cooperation between the CEO and the head of HR so that both sides have a better understanding about the workforce, which is a core asset in business development. Only when these two are on the same page can the business move forward sustainably.
This new practice of HR has been applied by most of the winners of the Vietnam HR Awards in the last two years and continues to be seen as the backbone of business in the years to come. Recognizing that companies will vie for talent in the coming years, some HR practitioners have proactively become a strategic partner of their business to manage talent within the company, while some have become employee advocates and others learned to be a change mentor, which allows them to get along with rapidly-changing markets.
According to Ms. Tieu Yen Trinh, General Director of Talentnet and member of the Judging Panel at the Awards, "by keeping the above in mind and confidently putting them into practice and reshaping them into more creative and innovative initiatives, HR people can create added value for the company as well as Vietnam's workforce."
The Vietnam HR Awards are endorsed by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and uses international methodology from the Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI), along with a professional and transparent judging process, to recognize the most outstanding enterprises in five human resources categories. The Vietnam HR Awards 2016, organized by Talentnet and the Labor and Social Affairs newspaper, recognized ten companies for their superior HR practices and policies: BAT Vietnam, CSC Vietnam, FPT, HSBC Vietnam, IBM Vietnam, Mobile World, Nestlé Vietnam, Novaland, Techcombank, and Unilever Vietnam.
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Second shooting victim dies, 4th person charged in Bellefontaine homicide
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UPDATE @ 5:16 p.m. Nov. 30:
Shooting victim, Anthony Scartz, has died as a result of his injuries Wednesday night when gunfire opened in a Bellefontaine home.
Police arrested a fourth person in connection to an exchange of gunfire during a robbery Wednesday night at a Bellefontaine house that wounded one man and killed another.
Austin Allen, 20, was arrested Friday for his involvement in the homicide and is charged with complicity to aggravated robbery, Bellefontaine Police Chief Brandon Standley said Friday night.
The chief said Allen, who is being held in the Logan County Jail, was with the three teens who previously were arrested in the double shooting.
Austin Jacob Allen
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Meanwhile, a 24-year-old man is still fighting for his life after he was wounded when Standley said three Urbana teens opened gunfire in a Bellefontaine home.
Anthony Scartz was shot multiple times and is in a Columbus hospital.
The boys arrested, ages 15, 16 and 17, are all in the Logan County Juvenile Detention Center.
EARLIER REPORT: (Nov. 28)
One of two men who survived a shooting in a Bellefontaine home late Wednesday night is in critical condition, Bellefontaine Police Chief Brandon Standley said Thanksgiving Day evening.
One of three juveniles accused in the homicide was wounded in an exchange of gunfire in the home, the chief said. That boy was taken to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, where he is under police guard. His condition was not known tonight.
All three juveniles — ages 17, 16 and 15 — are in custody in the shooting in a home in the 600 block of West Columbus Avenue.
Caleb Chamberlin, 22, was killed and Anthony Scartz, 24, was wounded. Both were hit multiple times in the shooting that occurred about 11:35 p.m., the chief said in a statement released late Thursday afternoon.
Scartz is in critical condition at a Columbus hospital.
According to Bellefontaine police, here is what happened:
The three boys had been to the home before. One of them is believed to have known Chamberlin or Scartz. Witnesses told police a "violent encounter led to the discovery of the three's identities."
>> Shooting victim arrives at Urbana hospital; police investigate
Two women at the house, presumably among the witnesses, were not hit in the gunfire but were treated for injuries.
The 15-year-old was shot several times during the encounter, police said, and the other two boys took him to Urbana, where they left him at Mercy Health Urbana. Hospital officials there called Urbana police to report the gunshot wound victim, as hospitals are legally bound to do.
The other two boys continued on to Madison County, where they were tracked down at a house by Madison County Sheriff's deputies based on a tip to Urbana police.
The three boys eventually will be housed in the Logan County Juvenile Detention Center, Chief Standley said.
"The tragic and senseless shooting that occurred in our city last night was the result of three armed suspects that apparently were solely focused on committing violence when they entered 601 West Columbus Avenue," Standley said in the statement.
"Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Caleb Chamberlin who lost his life. We continue to hope for the quick recovery of Anthony Scartz who was shot multiple times during this incident but remains at a Columbus hospital," the chief said.
The Bureau of Criminal Investigations is working with Bellefontaine police as the investigation continues.
News Center 7 will continue following this story and will provide updates as new development occur.
If you have a news tip, call our 24-hour line at 937-259-2237 or send it to newsdesk@cmgohio.com


God has everything that He needs for both Himself and for us contained within His very being. He describes Himself as: "I AM WHO I AM" (Exodus 3:14). God is, which even goes beyond Him having everything. He lacks for nothing. God says in Psalm 50:10–12, "'For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.'"
God has everything already, so He does not need anything, but we need Him. "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything" (Acts 17:24–25). In His goodness, God generously gives us everything that we need. "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" (Romans 8:32). Not only does God provide us with life and breath, He loves us: "We love Him because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19, NKJV).
After the fall of mankind, man was separated from God (Genesis 3:23; Romans 3:23; 6:23). This separation was an irreparable barrier between man and God that only Jesus, God's son, could remove. God knew that His love and desire for relationship with us would end up costing Him everything. He sent Jesus to earth to become the perfect sacrifice, the atonement for our sins and our bridge back to God: "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
Jesus Christ came to earth, lived a perfect life, and was brutally crucified—bearing the weight of the world's sins on Himself. God turned away from Jesus while He was on the cross, rejecting humanity's evil that Jesus had taken on Himself (2 Corinthians 5:21). While He was on the cross, Jesus experienced separation from God and cried out: "'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'" (Matthew 27:46).
When Jesus died, He took the penalty for the sins of the world on Himself, which includes our sins. He was resurrected from the dead after three days and ever since then, the way to God has been free and open for all willing to take it. "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit" (1 Peter 3:18). Jesus brought the opportunity to have a relationship with God; in Him we can have eternal life: "'And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent'" (John 17:3).
So, God does not need us, but He loves us and desires us to have eternal life (John 1:9–18; 3:16–18). He has made a way for us to have eternal salvation and a relationship with Him through Jesus. We cannot do anything to deserve His love, but he gives it to us freely. "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8).
If you are uncertain of your relationship with God, please see our article "How can I accept Jesus as my personal savior?"


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The Road to the NBA Playoffs 2020
August 8, 2020 cbholganza Sports 5 comments
The NBA restarted the season last July 30 with a bang! Thirteen teams in the Western Conference and another 9 teams in the Eastern Conference suited up to pursue the coveted seats for the playoffs. And having reached the midpoint of the abbreviated restart, it looks like a mad sprint to the finish for a couple of teams.
In the East, the Brooklyn Nets (32-36) and the Orlando Magic (32-37) have clinched the last 2 slots for the playoffs over the Washington Wizards (24-44). Even in the unlikely event of the Nets and the Magic both losing their last 4 games, and the Wizards winning their last 4 games, there is still no chance for the Wizards to catch the last bus at season's end. The only thing that matters now for the Nets and the Magic is to get the 7th slot to avoid a first round draw against the conference-leading Milwaukee Bucks. Getting a 7th seed at the end of this short sprint of 4 games will reward them with a relatively lighter, yet equally daunting assignment: the defending champs, Toronto Raptors.
The Giannis Antetokounmpo-led Bucks (55-14) and the over-achieving Raptors (49-18) will occupy the top 2 slots in the East. The Bucks have steadily progressed in the last 3 years, moving up a notch in every playoff season. This could be their time finally. With Giannis, Kris Middleton and a stingy defense, the Bucks are poised to clinch the Eastern crown.
But one can never underestimate the heart of a champion, so they say. The Raptors had been a pleasant surprise, hanging tough as a strong contender despite losing franchise main man Kawhi Leonard at the end of last season. Their playoff maturity – acquired from last year's championship run, plus the elevation of Paskal Siakam to all-star rank, and the massive improvement of OG Anunoby make them a tough nut to crack.
Over in the West, it will be a wild dash to the finish line as 6 teams struggle to get the 8th seed. The winner's prize? A first round match-up against the crown favorites, the Los Angeles Lakers. The Memphis Grizzlies (32-37) started off on the wrong foot, losing 4 straight games to see their sizable lead cut drastically. The Portland Trail Blazers (31-38), the Phoenix Suns (30-39), the San Antonio Spurs (29-38), the Sacramento Kings (29-39) and the New Orleans Pelicans (29-39) all have varied chances of taking the ticket for 8th spot, depending on how the ball bounces.
Based on their performance in the first 4 games of the shortened restart, I believe it is the Portland Trail Blazers that looks poised to take the 8th. With Carmelo Anthony slowly getting back his all-star form, the Blazers have a solid veteran complimenting Dame Lillard and CJ McCollum. The Suns may have impressed by winning their first 4 games, but I expect the vets to take over in this second half.
The LA Lakers (51-17) clinched the top spot in the West early. That said, the team has been playing on cruise-control in their last few games, giving more playing time for the second team. They want their main men, Lebron James and Anthony Davis, to be healthy and in tiptop condition for the playoffs.
The battle for the the second seed will be an interesting one. On the one hand, there's the star-studded LA Clippers, and on the other, the young and irreverent Denver Nuggets. The Clippers not only have heavyweight stars, they have the deepest bench among the teams. With Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, they have 2 of the best 2-way players in the market. But the Nuggets are tinkering with a new 'Tall Ball' concept that could be the future of basketball. With Michael Porter Jr and Bol Bol showing so much potential, and Nikola Jokic capable of handling the point guard role, they could strut out the tallest competitive starting line-up ever.
This year's NBA playoffs will be very demanding and very unpredictable. At the start of the season, we saw new line-ups with new star alignments. Then we saw the season shaken hard by the corona crisis. Coming back, the season was shortened, and the restart games confined to a single site, taking away the traditional homecourt advantage for the regular season race leaders. The playoffs were quickened as well, which brings forth a new dynamic to the game.
To my mind, there are 3 factors that will greatly affect who the next NBA champs will be.
First is health. With game schedules bunched up, there is a greater risk of injuries. And lesser time to recuperate. If a superstar were to suffer a serious injury (remember Kevin Durant last year?), then it's goodbye to the team's chances for the crown. Lucky is the team who gets to play free of injuries under these grueling conditions. This health issue will be a big factor come the playoffs. For now, it is both a boon and a bane to the Denver Nuggets. A bane because it has 3 of its starting 5 on the injury list; and a boon because the injuries are seemingly light, hence their availability soon; and it seems to have provided an opportunity for guys like Michael Porter Jr and Bol Bol to show how good they can be. If the 3 starters heal in time for the playoffs, and the 2 reserves get to jell well with the rest, you have a dangerous team in Denver.
Second is bench depth. Related to the first factor, bench depth will play a big role in the hectic playoff sked. A deeper bench will give the team a wider leeway to rest their superstars, keeping them away from injuries, and getting them better fit for the next battles to come. Among the teams, it is the LA Clippers which seem to have the upperhand insofar as a regular rotation and bench depth is concerned. With 2 6th-Man of the Year candidates in Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell, plus guys like Marcus Morris and Joakim Noah ready to play, the Clippers have reserves who can come in without drastically diminishing the talent on the court.
And finally, cohesion. Sometimes a deep bench could also be a bane if it fosters the wrong vibes among teammates. We have witnessed this time and again when stars couldn't find the right chemistry and spoiled a team's chances instead. Much like the saying: too many cooks will spoil the broth, too many stars or too many role players could also diminish teamwork and cohesion. Players will have to accept the fact that in a stacked line-up, there will be lesser minutes, lesser ball touches and scoring opportunities. Players will have to make some sacrifices for the sake of better cohesion. In the Clippers' case, what is important now is to get the players to familiarize with a regular rotation and to jell in time for the big wars ahead.
The road to the NBA championship will be full of breaks and bends and boners. The team that can weather that path with the least issues will be crowned the new king. Who shall it be? Give me your thoughts at charly@cbholganza.com.
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it's rigidbody.drag not .linearDrag Make sure to check the Unity scripting manual when you're stuck.


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namespace Jobs\ServiceBundle\Controller;

use Jobs\ServiceBundle\Controller\MainController;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

use Jobs\ServiceBundle\Entity\Resumes;
use Jobs\ServiceBundle\Entity\ResumesRepository;
use Jobs\ServiceBundle\Models\ErrorCode;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\UploadedFile;

class ResumeController extends MainController
{
    const CODE_MISSING_ID = 1010;
    const CODE_INVALID_DATA = 1011;

    public function postAction(Request $request)
    {
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        try {
            $this->init($request);
            $resumeId = guid();
            $created = tstobts(time());
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            $resumes->setUserId($this->userId);
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            $resumes->setResumeContact($request->request->get('contactNumber'));
            $resumes->setResumeAvail($request->request->get('startDate'));
            $resumes->setResumeWork($request->request->get('workAuthorization'));
            $resumes->setResumeEdu($request->request->get('education'));
            $resumes->setResumeSchool($request->request->get('school'));
            $resumes->setResumeMajor($request->request->get('major'));
            $resumes->setResumeWorkexp($request->request->get('workExperience'));
            $resumes->setResumeSkills($request->request->get('skillSet'));
            $resumes->setResumePrefloc($request->request->get('location'));
            $resumes->setResumeCreatedDt($created);
            $resumes->setResumeDeleted(0);
            $resumes->setResumeDeletedTd(0);
            $resumes->setResumeModifiedDt($created);
            $resumes->setResumeStatus(1);
            // change this with symfony file later
            if (isset($_FILES['file']['name'])) {
                $folder = substr($this->userId, 0, 2);
                $dir = __DIR__.'/../../../../web/uploads/'.$folder.'/';
                $path = 'uploads/'.$folder.'/';
                $dir2 = $dir.$this->userId.'/';
                $path = $path.$this->userId;
                if (!is_dir($dir)) {
                    mkdir($dir, 0777);
                    chmod($dir, 0777);
                }
                if (!is_dir($dir2)) {
                    mkdir($dir2, 0777);
                    chmod($dir2, 0777);
                }
                $filename = realpath($dir2).'/'.$resumeId.'_'.$_FILES['file']['name'];
                $filesavepath = $path.'/'.$resumeId.'_'.$_FILES['file']['name'];
                move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $filename);
                $resumes->setResumeFilename($filesavepath);
            }
            $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $em->persist($resumes);
            $em->flush();
            $msg = 'Success';
            $result = 1;
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $msg = $e->getMessage();
            $result = 0;
            $code = $e->getCode();
        }
        $arr = array('success' => $result, 'message' => $msg, 'code' => $code, 'id' => $resumeId, 'post' => $_POST, 'files' => $_FILES);
        $json = json_encode($arr);
        return new Response($json);
    }

    public function previewAction(Request $request)
    {
        $result = 0;
        $msg = '';
        $code = 200;
        try {
            $id = $request->query->get('id');
            $id = trim($id);
            if (empty($id)) {
                throw new \Exception(ErrorCode::getError(self::CODE_MISSING_ID), self::CODE_MISSING_ID);
            }
            $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $repository = $em->getRepository('JobsServiceBundle:Resumes');
            $data = $repository->findOneByResumeId($id);
            if (empty($data)) {
                throw new \Exception(ErrorCode::getError(self::CODE_INVALID_DATA), self::CODE_INVALID_DATA);
            }
            $return = array();
            $site_name = $this->container->getParameter('site_name');
            $host_url = $this->container->getParameter('host_url');
            //$data = new Resumes();
            $return['resumeId'] = $data->getResumeId();
            $return['userId'] = $data->getUserId();
            $return['resumeTitle'] = $data->getResumeTitle();
            $return['skillSet'] = $data->getResumeSkills();
            $return['startDate'] = $data->getResumeAvail();
            $return['workAuthorization'] = $data->getResumeWork();
            $return['education'] = $data->getResumeEdu();
            $return['school'] = $data->getResumeSchool();
            $return['major'] = $data->getResumeMajor();
            $return['location'] = $data->getResumePrefloc();
            $return['file'] = $data->getResumeFilename();
            $return['contactNumber'] = $data->getResumeContact();
            $return['url'] = !empty($return['file']) ? $host_url.'/'.$data->getResumeFilename() : null;
            $return['embedded_url'] = !empty($return['file']) ? 'https://docs.google.com/viewer?url='.urlencode($return['url']).'&embedded=true' : null;
            $return['workExperience'] = $data->getResumeWorkexp();
            $site_name_url = $this->container->getParameter('site_name_url');
            $msg = 'Success';
            $result = 1;
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $msg = $e->getMessage();
            $result = 0;
            $code = $e->getCode();
        }
        $arr = array('success' => $result, 'message' => $msg, 'code' => $code, 'data' => $return);
        $json = json_encode($arr);
        return new Response($json);
    }

    public function manageAction(Request $request)
    {
        $result = 0;
        $msg = '';
        $code = 200;
        $data = array();
        $res = array();
        $cached = true;
        try {
            $this->init($request);
            //$key = 'countries';
            //$cache = $this->get('jobs_service.cachev1')->init();
            //$res = $cache->load($key);
            //if (empty($res)) {
                $res = array();
                $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
                $query = $em->createQuery(
                    'SELECT r from JobsServiceBundle:Resumes as r WHERE r.userId = ?1'
                );
                $query->setParameter(1, $this->userId);

                $dataResult = $query->getResult();
				$site_name = $this->container->getParameter('site_name');
            	$host_url = $this->container->getParameter('host_url');
                if (!empty($dataResult)) {
                    foreach ($dataResult as $k => $data) {
						$return = array();
						$return['resumeId'] = $data->getResumeId();
						$return['userId'] = $data->getUserId();
						$return['resumeTitle'] = $data->getResumeTitle();
						$return['skillset'] = $data->getResumeSkills();
						$return['startDate'] = $data->getResumeAvail();
						$return['workAuthorization'] = $data->getResumeWork();
						$return['education'] = $data->getResumeEdu();
						$return['school'] = $data->getResumeSchool();
						$return['major'] = $data->getResumeMajor();
						$return['location'] = $data->getResumePrefloc();
						$return['file'] = $data->getResumeFilename();
						$return['url'] = !empty($return['file']) ? $host_url.'/'.$data->getResumeFilename() : null;
						$return['embedded_url'] = !empty($return['file']) ? 'https://docs.google.com/viewer?url='.urlencode($return['url']).'&embedded=true' : null;
						$return['workExperience'] = $data->getResumeWorkexp();
                        //$res[$v->getName()] = $v->getConId();
                        $res[$k] = $return;
                    }
                }
                //$cache->save($res, $key);
                //$cached = false;
            //}
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $msg = $e->getMessage();
            $result = 0;
            $code = $e->getCode();
        }
        $arr = array('success' => $result, 'message' => $msg, 'code' => $code, 'data' => $res);
        $json = json_encode($arr);
        return new Response($json);

    }
}

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WHSmith is to launch a new store format that will offer personalised greetings cards and an upmarket stationery offer.
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The bookseller and stationer will open three Funky Pigeon stores in high footfall railway stations in and around London in the second half of the year. Funky Pigeon is its online greetings card store that offers personalisation, pitched against rival etailer Moonpig.
WHSmith managing director of high street retail Stephen Clarke likened Funky Pigeon's fashionable and design-led stationery to Paperchase.
Customers will be able to personalise greetings cards using in-store tablets, and to print from the stores, whose locations WHSmith said had not been finalised.
Cards giant Clinton Cards is also about to launch a high-tech store format that will include personalising cards.
Last week WHSmith revealed group pre-tax profit rose 3% to £64m in the six months to February 28. Group total sales declined 4% to £686m with like-for-likes down 5%. Travel operating profit jumped 9% to £25m while profit at its 581 high street stores remained flat at £47m.
Stationery like-for-likes were down 2% while books fell 3%. WHSmith said the books market "continues to be soft with performance varying by sub-category".
News and impulse like-for-likes declined 4%.
Clarke said it was a "good performance" but that the second half was likely to be "every bit as tough, if not tougher" than the first. WHSmith said although its travel arm performed well despite continued soft passenger numbers, air and rail were hit by the weather before Christmas "and the economic climate more generally".
The retailer said it continued to "identify opportunities for growth in the UK", opening 11 new units in the period, including two in airports, one in a railway station, three in hospitals and five workplace units. During the second half of the year it expects to open 22 shops, including the three Funky Pigeon stores.
Internationally, WHSmith has started to look outside of airport locations, including its first overseas shopping centre store that will open in India.
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From the anniversary of an enigmatic French poet to a new megalithic monument – what's new for The French Ardennes in 2016
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the death of one of the world's most influential and enigmatic poets, Arthur Rimbaud.
As part of the celebrations, The Rimbaud Museum re-opened its doors to the public in Charleville-Mézières in The French Ardennes last autumn, following a major refurbishment scheme. The Museum is housed within a striking building on a small island on the River Meuse, which not simply tells the story of the life and times of Arthur Rimbaud, but also features an 'island garden' where visitors can soak up a reflective atmosphere.
In the past, The New York Times has noted that "The hallucinatory prose-poems of Arthur Rimbaud rank among the glories of 19th century French literature". And visitors to The French Ardennes – which draws most of its fame in France for its association with the enigmatic poet – can now follow in his footsteps in many different ways, from staying hotels that are named in honour of him (Hotel Dormeur du Val in Charleville), to driving through the surrounding countryside on a well-marked car trail (La Route Rimbaud-Verlaine).
A similar scheme to completely transform another of the region's major attractions has also gained pace to the point where it is hoped it will re-open to the public in 2016. Dedicated to the battles of The Franco-Prussian war, the First World War, and The Second World War – all of which had such a devastating effect on The French Ardennes – The War and Peace Museum features a collection of 14,000 artefects which is now being rehoused in a huge new building. The new look museum will contain an interpretation of the impact of all three conflicts on the region, as well as show the effects on day-to-day life for civilians and soldiers alike.
Elsewhere, a new Wellness Village – Kotas Nordic Spirit (http://www.kotas-espritnordique.fr/en/) – has opened in time for the 2016 season in an unspoilt valley within The French Ardennes, close to the village of Ferme de Flamanville. Featuring four comfortable and well-appointed log cabins of Nordic origin, the village is located next to a small lake and will now host wellness breaks for anyone visiting this secluded part of northern France. Each one of the four Finnish kotas also has its own pontoon by the lake for fishing and relaxation. Llama, donkeys and other animals add to the charm of the place. Open all year, prices start from €95 for 2 people per night, including breakfast.
Another newcomer for 2016 helps to tell a very important part of the French Ardennes heritage. Slate is the "black gold" of The French Ardennes, and has been shipped and used in all corners of the globe. A new, interactive trail (also in English) will be launched in 2016 at the Slate Museum in Rimogne, where family groups can visit a slate village and the hugely impressive winding tower.
Last, but by no means least, look out too for the arrival in The French Ardennes of a new megalithic monument, located at an altitude of 400m, in the heart of a forest setting which will make the most of the region's special places, local legends and preserved sites. Overlooking La Croix Scaille, the highest point in The French Ardennes, the monument created using upright stones by Philippe Boudart form a chariot facing the sunrise. It will be a part of a new fantasy world which Boudart intends to open up to visitors in 2016.
For full details about The French Ardennes, visit http://gb.ardennes.com.
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FDR on Disinformation and Foreign Influence
The invasion of Ukraine summons echoes of the invasion of France.
Fireside Chat, May 26, 1940:
There are many among us who in the past closed their eyes to events abroad –because they believed in utter good faith what some of their fellow Americans told them — that what was taking place in Europe was none of our business; that no matter what happened over there, the United States could always pursue its peaceful and unique course in the world.
There are many among us who closed their eyes, from lack of interest or lack of knowledge; honestly and sincerely thinking that the many hundreds of miles of salt water made the American Hemisphere so remote that the people of North and Central and South America could go on living in the midst of their vast resources without reference to, or danger from, other Continents of the world.
And, finally, there are a few among us who have deliberately and consciously closed their eyes because they were determined to be opposed to their government, its foreign policy and every other policy, to be partisan, and to believe that anything that the Government did was wholly wrong.
To those who have closed their eyes for any of these many reasons, to those who would not admit the possibility of the approaching storm — to all of them the past two weeks have meant the shattering of many illusions.
The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs and traitors are the actors in this new strategy. With all of these we must and will deal vigorously.
But there is an added technique for weakening a nation at its very roots, for disrupting the entire pattern of life of a people. And it is important that we understand it. The method is simple. It is, first, discord, a dissemination of discord. A group –not too large — a group that may be sectional or racial or political — is encouraged to exploit (their) its prejudices through false slogans and emotional appeals. The aim of those who deliberately egg on these groups is to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis and eventually, a state of panic. Sound national policies come to be viewed with a new and unreasoning skepticism, not through the wholesome (political) debates of honest and free men, but through the clever schemes of foreign agents.
As a result of these new techniques, armament programs may be dangerously delayed. Singleness of national purpose may be undermined. Men can lose confidence in each other, and therefore lose confidence in the efficacy of their own united action. Faith and courage can yield to doubt and fear. The unity of the state (is) can be so sapped that its strength is destroyed.
All this is no idle dream. It has happened time after time, in nation after nation, (during) here in the last two years. Fortunately, American men and women are not easy dupes. Campaigns of group hatred or class struggle have never made much headway among us, and are not making headway now. But new forces are being unleashed, deliberately planned propaganda to divide and weaken us in the face of danger as other nations have been weakened before.
These dividing forces (are) I do not hesitate to call undiluted poison. They must not be allowed to spread in the New World as they have in the Old. Our moral, (and) our mental defenses must be raised up as never before against those who would cast a smoke-screen across our vision.
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Continue to focus on God.
Hunger is still an issue, by stay focused.
What has God revealed to you personally?
Reflect on what it means to present your body as a living sacrifice through your time of fasting.
People can be used in our lives as blessings of God or as tools of the enemy. You have to be able to "discern" the difference between the two. There are "flesh people" who tear you down, but there are "faith people" who build you up and help you unlock your potential. "Flesh people" feed your fear and cause you go feel like you've lost your dream. The "right relationships" begin to instill in you a can-do attitude. You being to stretch your thinking: "Well, maybe I can do that." You can be "catapulted" by the relationships that God puts in your life. So, as you continue to fast and press in to Him today, seek His counsel on the relationships in your life. Which ones are draining? Which ones are supporting you? Which do you represent to others?


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Megan Morrone (born Megan Wells Olesky on March 15, 1973) is an American actress, technology podcaster and writer. She was the co-host of TWiT online programs Tech News Weekly, iOS Today, and Triangulation, and former host of Tech News Today, Tech News 2Night, iFive for the iPhone, Inside The Net, and Jumping Monkeys.

Career
Morrone was on-air talent, a producer, and a web producer for Tech TV, appearing on technology-related television show The Screen Savers until 2003. Reportedly, Morrone quit The Screen Savers to raise a family and write for one of Microsoft's consumer websites. She made occasional guest appearances after departing.

With Microsoft, Morrone was a writer and editor for 11 years, developing and writing for Microsoft Safety and Security Center, writing for the Security Tips & Talk blog, writing for one newsletter, and managing content for another.

She previously ran the Jumping Monkeys website devoted to her three children and to child-raising issues. She announced in February 2009 that the podcast, at one point on hiatus, would not be returning.

Following the 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV, Screen Savers host Leo Laporte created a podcast and video network called TWiT.tv. Morrone guest co-hosted Inside the Net in late 2006. From 2007 to 2008, Morrone co-hosted the Jumping Monkeys: Parenting in the Digital Age program with Laporte.

She returned to TWiT in 2015, hosting the final year of both iFive for the iPhone and Tech News 2Night, co-hosting iOS Today with Leo Laporte (2015 on), and co-hosting a relaunched Tech News Today with Jason Howell, starting in 2016.  The program was reformatted in October 2017 as Tech News Weekly.

On June 28, 2019 Morrone announced she was leaving TWiT to pursue other opportunities.  She worked for Medium until 2021 when she announced she would be joining Protocol, a news website owned by Capitol News Company.

Personal life
Morrone earned a BA from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently lives in Northern California with her husband, Marco, and their three children, Annabella, Milo, and Huck.

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Hayes Kent is situated in the London Borough of Bromley. It has 2 main areas of activity, the ancient village and suburban Hayes. Both William Pitt the elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708 - 1778) and William Pitt the younger (1759 - 1806) lived at Hayes Place. Hayes Place was owned by the Hambro Family (of banking fame) and a couple of roads bear the family names.
Since 1927, it is home of the world famous Athletic Club Blackheath Harriers (now Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC).


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Teachers around the U.S. are confronting classrooms where as many as half of students are absent because they have been exposed to COVID-19 or their families kept them at home out of concern about the surging coronavirus.
The widespread absences have only added to the difficulty of keeping students on track in yet another pandemic-disrupted school year. In the nation's largest district, attendance has been so low that New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday reversed an earlier pledge to keep children in schools and said he would consider allowing a return to some form of virtual instruction.
"This is really taking a toll on the learning. If you have three kids in your class one day and you're supposed to have 12, you have to reteach everything two weeks later when those kids come back," said Tabatha Rosproy, a teacher in Olathe, Kansas, and the 2020 national Teacher of the Year.
Some of the country's biggest school systems report absentee rates around 20% or slightly more, with some individual schools seeing far higher percentages of missing students.
The schools in Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, typically have 90% attendance, but that figure has dropped to 83%. In Seattle, attendance has averaged 81 percent since the return from winter break. Los Angeles public schools marked about 30% of the district's 600,000-plus students absent on Tuesday, the first day back after the break.
In New York, about 76% of the city's roughly 1 million public school students were in class Wednesday, with some schools reporting well over half of their students out.
Adnan Bhuiyan, 17, has at times been one of seven or eight students in classes that normally have 30 at the Brooklyn Latin School. He spent much of the first week back from break in free periods, wondering why he was there.
Students given take-home COVID-19 tests have been taking them and testing positive at school, he said, and many are nervous about being exposed.
"Part of me was like, why are we sitting here doing nothing the whole day. Why can't we just stay home" and learn remotely, he said. "The other part of me knows that the mayor wants to keep the school open for certain reasons, and I can understand that. But the more and more we went through it, I just kept thinking at this point it's a waste of time for everyone because we're not learning anything."
As the highly contagious omicron variant causes teacher shortages, some schools have shifted temporarily to remote learning. Out of the roughly 100,000 public schools in the U.S., nearly 4,200 were closed to in-person learning by midweek, according to the data-tracking site Burbio.
President Joe Biden has stressed the importance of keeping schools open for in-person learning. The White House on Wednesday announced a monthly supply of 5 million rapid tests and 5 million lab-based PCR tests that schools can use for test-to-stay programs intended to lessen disruptions.
The absences leave teachers wrestling with whether to forge ahead with lessons and how to help students left behind.
Daniel Santos, a history teacher, said about half his students were absent when classes resumed after the winter break. Lately, about a third have been missing from his classes at Houston's Navarro Middle School, where over 90% of students are Hispanic. Mindful of required standardized tests coming up in the spring, he has been creating video lessons for the missing students to review at home.
"It's like an avalanche. It just doesn't stop. Some students return. Then a new set of students are absent," he said.
The districtwide attendance rate in Houston has been around 90% this week.
Alejandro Diasgranados, a second-grade teacher in Washington, D.C., said his class has gone from perfect attendance most days to half empty some days since winter break. The absences add to pressure to help students who already were behind because of the pandemic, he said.
The challenge then falls to teachers "to almost individually prescribe each student with an academic learning plan," he said.
The student absences have been cited by some teachers unions in pleas for more flexibility to switch to remote learning when conditions merit.
Kathryn Medendorp, an elementary school teacher at Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, said the social and emotional benefits of staying in school offset some of the academic difficulties caused by missing students and staff. But she favors a clear metric that would signal a return to remote lessons.
Her school in the mask-optional district was missing 21 third-grade students on a single day this week, the equivalent of a class, she said. At the same time, only one student was absent from her own second-grade classroom.
A closing metric "at least would help me feel better about having some sort of handle on this situation," said Medendorp, who is secretary for the Northside American Federation of Teachers. "Our numbers already have shown some classes are sitting great, it's not a problem. Other classes, it's spreading like wildfire so it is a problem there, and we have to stop that spread."
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I am not locked in to Fridays. If you wish to arrange a meeting, feel free to choose another night in the week, but if it is in the same week as these dates it will help maintain the spacing between meetings and avoid holidays. If you want my involvement, Wednesdays would also work for me. Numbers do fall off when we have competing meetings within a week or two.
I try to set the date for the difficult airway workshop first, usually in June or July, as it involves the largest number of industry reps, gives them a good lead time and being in winter, may help to coax reps from the smaller companies who may travel from down south. As regards the DAWS, Sharon handled the arrangements at Pindara, which worked well and I think it is better still using a Pindara staff member, as it does involve lines of communication within the hospital.
I am hoping that some of the dates will be claimed by reps on the theatre committees for review of clinical indicators / M&M meetings and the safety committee meetings are important as well. Those who are prepared to run workshops, are welcome to any dates except Feb and the yet to be designated DAWS.
If you have any topics you would like to address or have addressed, please let me know and the earlier the better. I am running out of ideas and enthusiasm but still feel that to not have them at all would be a blot on our professionalism. Any takers?
The next clinical meeting and our final one for 2015 is on 'goal-directed fluid therapy'. A recent article in A&IC has shone light on the topic again. However, not all studies on GDFT have shown improved survival figures. Nathan Hand from Edwards will be profiling one of the latest non-invasive devices and sponsoring the meeting. We can discuss the article in A&IC. Adrian Skidmore and Hugh Stephens are unable to attend – it is that time of the year! Please come along and join the discussion.
The venue is the boardroom, Pindara Hospital, situated between the old and new wings of the building. 5.30 for 6. Food and drink supplied. RSVP for catering.
All the best for the festive season and 2016.
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Q: One large SVG or many small SVG containers I am appending 30-50 SVG shapes and paths to a map. The position of these shapes and paths will change based on map zoom. I have identified two ways of adding these shapes to the map:

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College Beach Weekend, a yearly event with a history of run-ins with the law, is prompting an increase in law enforcement.
It may only be June, but Ocean City officials are giving advanced warning of an "unsanctioned event" in July that has a history.
"College Beach Weekend" is trending on Twitter under the hashtag #CBW2k17 and coming to the town from July 21-23, according to social media and the event's website.
Last year's weekend was linked to 12 arrests from July 23-24. In the first incident, crowds numbering up to 200 people on the Boardwalk threw bottles, yelled profanities and eventually assaulted police officers, according to reports.
Ocean City Police Chief Ross Buzzuro said in a June 13 release that business owners should staff in preparation for a busy weekend and reminded residents to report any ordinance violations.
He said police will also be present in greater numbers for the weekend event.
"With the expectation that this event will bring an influx of young adults, residents and visitors can anticipate increased enforcement and high visibility," he said.
Ocean City Police spokeswoman Lindsay Richard said police are preparing for the weekend as they would any other event, sanctioned or otherwise.
A Eventbrite page is selling tickets to various "VIP" parties to be held in Ocean City during the event, the locations of which are not being publicly shared. Instead, ticket holders alone will be notified of the various locations as the weekend approaches.
Richard said while she can't discuss specifics, police are making an effort to discover these locations ahead of time.
She also said as it's an unsanctioned event occurring in unknown areas of the town, the police would be powerless to shut down the event in advance were they to decide to.
Ocean City is not the only town that has dealt with "College Beach Weekend" issues in the past.
Virginia Beach has been home to its own College Beach Weekend since 2013, and incidents of violence typically follow in its wake.
This year's April 29-30 event there left four young people shot, one stabbed, numerous fights reported and a traffic gridlock around the Oceanfront area, according to a 13NewsNow report.
A change.org petition was created within an hour of the April 30 shooting suggesting that the economic boost brought by the event wasn't worth the risk, and currently has nearly 11,000 signatures.


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Q: How to store retrieved data from mysql and display as a result for user's search in java try{
    Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
    String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/customer";
    String uName = "root";
    String password = ""; // unsafe sharing password
    Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, uName, password);
    String query = "select * from mansions";
    PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(query);
    //ps.executeUpdate(); it wont accept query with select keyword
    ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
    String str = "";
    while(rs.next())
        System.out.println(rs.getInt(1)+"  "+rs.getString(2)+"    "+rs.getLong(3)+rs.getString(4)+" "+rs.getString(5)+" "+rs.getString(6)+" "+rs.getString(7)+" "+rs.getInt(8)+" "+rs.getString(9)+" "+rs.getString(10));
    str = rs.getString(2);
    System.out.println(str);
    con.close();
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    System.out.println(e);
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I am able to retrieve 10 columns from mansions table in mysql and this project is to find available mansions in particular area. I am done with creating table data and retrieve but I have to store and display as search results for the user to get available rooms . To achieve this how can I store mysql data and display as a result? I am not sure which one would help to get expected output. though I am beginner this is core java project I am using console to get user input
ex input from user is
gender : male, members : 1 or 2 , airconditioner : yes or no, food : yes or no
output : Rooms available please check below
mansion_names   contact_numbers gender  food    persons_allowed airconditioned  rent    area    available_rooms
Lahir   9003218193  male    no  1 or 2  no  3000    Kodampakkam 4 non ac for single or doubles
please suggest me few so that I can try on my own. thanks friends...!!

A: You should annotate your method with @ResponseBody and @PostMapping and return the search results. Then you can do an AJAX post request each time the search is performed and get the return value of the method in your javascript (done by the @ResponseBody annotation).


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From the left menu, click Jetpack Settings (at the center left).
Click Frequency (Channel) 2.4 GHZ.
Adjust the broadcast channel as desired then click Save Changes (at the bottom right).
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