Welcome to Wow Us Wednesdays. I 'm so glad your are here to share your new projects, recipes, room reveals, stories, etc. I have just started a new painting project this week in a room that needs to be lightened up a bit. Can you guess which one? Shirley, you be quiet. I'm sure I will have a reveal for you before long. Until then here is this past week's posts I shared.
Now let's look at some features from last week.
Isn't this nursery pretty? This was decorated by my hair stylist for someone else and she just started a fashion blog called Glam Grace. Yep, she's the one who makes my hair look good and apparently can decorate, too.
Janette at The 2 Seasons shared some super cute photos from her son's wedding.
Judy Hanks Pimperl shared her very cute library. I really want her cow painting.
And speaking of painting just look at this fabulous work by Scribbler Unfocused.
Great industrial coffee table built and painted by Feathers From My Nest.
Dimples and Tangles shared her teen son's fabulous room reveal.
We need to get one of these that It's Overflowing shared.
Oh, how I love snickerdoodles Too bad I can't eat them anymore. If you would like to make some try out this recipe called modern snickerdoodles by Olla- Podrida.
And the most viewed link was this post by Dimples and Tangles, who I also chose to feature her son's room before I saw that she had the most viewed link, about how to use lamps on a mantle with no outlets.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to link up here last week and added a linkback.
Now, let's get on with this week's party!
Thanks Kim for hosting. Have a great week.
Great features Kim,Love that barn wedding wow! If I was getting married today I would do so many things different.Love this idea! Thanks so much for hosting!
Great features, I love that cow painting. Thanks for hosting.
So many great features this week!
I read in your earlier post that today is National Hammock Day. I would love to be relaxing in my hammock, but these 98 degree 95% humidity on the Texas Gulf coast makes hammock lounging pretty sticky ;-) I'll have to delay the celebration until the fall. Thanks so much for hosting Kim!
Thanks for stopping by, Kim and also for hosting each week:-) I enjoyed your previous post with the hammock. I'd love one, but when I walk around my property looking for a place to hang one, nothing seems to work. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.
Thanks for hosting, Kim -- have a great week!
Wonderful features - have to check out those wedding photos !
Hey Kim, thanks so much for having us over to party!
Thanks for hosting and sharing great features.
Love your party, and if you ever want a painting of Wonder Dog...let me know!
I love the photo of the barn dressed up in lights for the wedding! What a magical setting! Thanks for the great features and for hosting once again this week, Kim!
Thanks for hosting, Kim! I look forward to it all week!
Thank you so much for hosting. I love the cow picture.
Barn Love Kim, What a wonderful wedding venue! Thanks for hosting!
Pretty features. I love the artwork! Thank you for hosting dear Kim.
Thank you, Kim for hosting.
Thank you for hosting, Kim. You chose some really cool features this week.
I love Ellen's painting (Scribbler). She really has a talent.
I was going to call you last week when I was in Georgia, but I realized you were going to the conference . . . next time!
Thanks for hosting Kim! I crossed my fingers and held my breath and think maybe just maybe I linked up correctly this week! Yay!!
Kim, Thanks for your deligence! Great party. Thanks for hosting.
Kim, I Love the barn with the heart! Thanks for the party.
Thanks for featuring my painting! It is just a fun little hobby of mine -- and I have been so surprised that people seem to like them. Thanks for hosting the party each week.
I really enjoyed this weeks features.
Thank you for the feature, Kim. We really appreciate it.
I love this party - days of browsing ahead and plenty of inspiration. Thank you!
Really awesome features this week, Kim! That nursery is gorgeous! The cow painting - Love! I'm off to visit them all! Thanks for hosting!
Kim, Thanks for hosting. Dimples and Tangles really has some great stuff going on in her home! And that barn for The 2 Seasons' wedding is awesome! Happy to be here and be able to share some new things.
Thank you for hosting, Kim! Good luck with your paint job!
Thanks so much for hosting the parties. We are so humbled that you featured our industrial coffee table. Thanks so very much!
I haven't figured out how to hang a hammock from our deck just yet. Today's post ... yikes, hammock envy! Giggle.
I recognize those cows! Thanks so much for the feature of my library and the cow painting by Megan Scofield. I bought the painting for my hubby, who grew up with cows on a farm...I figured this would be easier than real cows!...and, I'm now sort of attached to them myself!
Oh my goodness, I got a double dip!!! Thanks so much for featuring Caleb's room, Kim! And, how exciting that my mantle post was chosen as the most viewed, what an honor. I hope that these ideas are helpful to someone! Your other features are so good...that nursery is incredible and I'm going right now to check Aimee's wireless boost option. Have a great evening, Kim, and I'm anxious to see what you're up to now!
Thanks so much for hosting Kim! Looking forward to seeing your latest project!
I wonder if Shirley would spill the beans if I asked her what room you were painting? Hmmm. Enjoyed the features and I see so many links that I'd like to visit!
Love all the features, especially the last one. Thanks for hosting Kim!
Wonderful features, Kim; will go and check out that lamp/mantel post since I've always wanted this effect! Thanks for hosting and have a great week!
Great features Kim! Can't wait to see what you're up to. Thanks so much for hosting.
Great features, Kim! Thank you for the party!
Hi Kimmie! Oh, there you go again making pretty with a paint brush. Can't wait to see what you're up to. Thank you for hosting and hope all is going well with you.
Thanks for hosting! Many great links to look at!
Thanks for always hosting such a classy party. Have a brilliant week.
Hi Kim, great inspiration and always fun to link up.
Love the features Kim, especially the one from Dimples and Tangles. Such talent! Thank you for hosting.
Thank you Kim for hosting! I love your parties and your features are always great.
Thanks for the party Kim!!!


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from . import chart
from warnings import warn

class ChartBar(chart.Chart):
    """
    A class for writing the Excel XLSX Bar charts.

    """

    ###########################################################################
    #
    # Public API.
    #
    ###########################################################################

    def __init__(self, options=None):
        """
        Constructor.

        """
        super(ChartBar, self).__init__()

        if options is None:
            options = {}

        self.subtype = options.get('subtype')

        if not self.subtype:
            self.subtype = 'clustered'

        self.cat_axis_position = 'l'
        self.val_axis_position = 'b'
        self.horiz_val_axis = 0
        self.horiz_cat_axis = 1
        self.show_crosses = 0

        # Override and reset the default axis values.
        self.x_axis['defaults']['major_gridlines'] = {'visible': 1}
        self.y_axis['defaults']['major_gridlines'] = {'visible': 0}

        if self.subtype == 'percent_stacked':
            self.x_axis['defaults']['num_format'] = '0%'

        # Set the available data label positions for this chart type.
        self.label_position_default = 'outside_end'
        self.label_positions = {
            'center': 'ctr',
            'inside_base': 'inBase',
            'inside_end': 'inEnd',
            'outside_end': 'outEnd'}

        self.set_x_axis({})
        self.set_y_axis({})

    def combine(self, chart=None):
        """
        Create a combination chart with a secondary chart.

        Note: Override parent method to add an extra check that is required
        for Bar charts to ensure that their combined chart is on a secondary
        axis.

        Args:
            chart: The secondary chart to combine with the primary chart.

        Returns:
            Nothing.

        """
        if chart is None:
            return

        if not chart.is_secondary:
            warn('Charts combined with Bar charts must be on a secondary axis')

        self.combined = chart

    ###########################################################################
    #
    # Private API.
    #
    ###########################################################################

    def _write_chart_type(self, args):
        # Override the virtual superclass method with a chart specific method.
        if args['primary_axes']:
            # Reverse X and Y axes for Bar charts.
            tmp = self.y_axis
            self.y_axis = self.x_axis
            self.x_axis = tmp

            if self.y2_axis['position'] == 'r':
                self.y2_axis['position'] = 't'

        # Write the c:barChart element.
        self._write_bar_chart(args)

    def _write_bar_chart(self, args):
        # Write the <c:barChart> element.

        if args['primary_axes']:
            series = self._get_primary_axes_series()
        else:
            series = self._get_secondary_axes_series()

        if not len(series):
            return

        subtype = self.subtype
        if subtype == 'percent_stacked':
            subtype = 'percentStacked'

        # Set a default overlap for stacked charts.
        if 'stacked' in self.subtype:
            if self.series_overlap_1 is None:
                self.series_overlap_1 = 100

        self._xml_start_tag('c:barChart')

        # Write the c:barDir element.
        self._write_bar_dir()

        # Write the c:grouping element.
        self._write_grouping(subtype)

        # Write the c:ser elements.
        for data in series:
            self._write_ser(data)

        # Write the c:marker element.
        self._write_marker_value()

        # Write the c:gapWidth element.
        if args['primary_axes']:
            self._write_gap_width(self.series_gap_1)
        else:
            self._write_gap_width(self.series_gap_2)

        # Write the c:overlap element.
        if args['primary_axes']:
            self._write_overlap(self.series_overlap_1)
        else:
            self._write_overlap(self.series_overlap_2)

        # Write the c:axId elements
        self._write_axis_ids(args)

        self._xml_end_tag('c:barChart')

    ###########################################################################
    #
    # XML methods.
    #
    ###########################################################################

    def _write_bar_dir(self):
        # Write the <c:barDir> element.
        val = 'bar'

        attributes = [('val', val)]

        self._xml_empty_tag('c:barDir', attributes)

    def _write_err_dir(self, val):
        # Overridden from Chart class since it is not used in Bar charts.
        pass

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A New Source of Loyal Employees
Refugees have been in the news a lot lately. Did you know that, once resettled and trained up, they make great employees? —At least, that's what the data says. In a market where unemployment is at generational lows, companies need every source of great talent they can possibly find. So, this week's CEO Exclusive show discusses this new opportunity for businesses to hire people who will perform well and stick around for years.
Our guests this week were Cindy Bowden, Executive Director, and Justine Okello, Director of Programs from the Clarkston Community Center. Established in 1994, the Center serves over 56,000 individuals annually, primarily from Clarkston, which is in metro-Atlanta, many of whom are newly-arrived refugees or recent immigrants. They are on the front lines of helping displaced people find new homes and create new lives. This experience has allowed them to see the benefits that employers receive by providing employment to these people who are starting over.
Go by the Numbers
So, let's talk about some stats. The Tent Partnership for Refugees conducted a recent study that gathered data and reached two major conclusions about refugees as employees. First, they are more loyal. They stay with the companies that hire them significantly longer than other employees. The study says specifically, "Nineteen of the 26 employers surveyed—73 percent—reported a higher retention rate for refugees than for other employees. This was consistent across industry sector, and across geography. To put it a different way, the turnover rate for refugees was between a fifth and two thirds lower for refugees than for employees overall." With the significant costs associated with losing an employee, cutting employee turnover by these rates represents a significant savings for most companies.
Second, when refugees are happy, it helps with recruiting other, qualified loyal employees to work for the same employers. So, employers are not just hiring one person, in many cases they are opening up a new market for future employees. The article cites three advantages: increased applications from the same ethnic group, more placements from partner agencies, and higher quality vetting because the refugees have already been screened by the government. In the end, these benefits result in decreased hiring costs for the employer.
Follow Some Good Examples
This isn't an entirely new trend. According to a Time article from Feb 2017, it's likely that tens of thousands of refugees are being hired in the United States each year. One of nine refugee placement agencies, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) placed 4800 refugees at more than 2,300 companies, most of which were small businesses.
One example that's been in the Atlanta area, very close to the Clarkston Community Center is the DeKalb Farmers Market, which has employees from over 50 countries and has been hiring refugees for over 30 years. The payoff in goodwill has been tremendous. The founder, Robert Blazer, quoted in The Dekalb Champion recalls, "There was an ice storm in 1979. We lost a building. It was completely destroyed. Then we learned that our insurance didn't cover ice storms. People from the neighborhood—many of them people I didn't even know—stepped up to help us rebuild," he said. "Customers gave us money and we gave them coupons that they could use once we were operating again. With the help of our neighbors we were able to keep going."
While most of the employers are small businesses, larger companies are also seeing the opportunity and taking advantage of it. For example, in 2017 Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees over 5 years in the 75 countries where it operates—despite a PR backlash. Similarly, Chobani, the yogurt company, has made it company policy to hire refugees, but not for political reasons according to the leadership, but because it improves the company culture. Finally, WeWork, the virtual office company, has also pledged to hire 1500 refugees. As companies come to see the opportunity, the trend is picking up steam.
Deepen Your Family Ties
Improved culture is an additional benefit that companies site when hiring refugees. In many ways, the hiring company becomes like a surrogate family, and everyone draws closer together. As Cindy observes, "The people are more loyal, they'll go and buy houses near where they work. They will bring in other people that could help work if there's a shortage of labor. It's creating a family out of the corporations and the companies, versus [just] hiring… It's an investment in a future." For people who have been displaced, working at the companies that hiring them is a chance to plants new roots and grow.
Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani, reaches a similar conclusion in a recent INC magazine article, "Refugees are dying to provide for their community. I always said that the minute they got the job, that's the minute they stopped being refugees. It's been proved to me that this was a plus to the culture." Many leaders have found that hiring refugees helps makes the entire company culture more accepting, open, and flexible. People are able to work more effectively across difference. Everyone focuses more on their common goals and on what really matters.
Justine shares from his personal experience, "Acceptance is something that really a lot of people struggle with. If you apply for a job and you don't feel accepted because of who you are, where you're from… It affects your performance, as well. So, by just feeling that you're accepted, it makes you work even harder and commit to your work and do what you've got to do."
Helping people, finding long-term employees, increasing retention, and decreasing the cost of hiring—sounds like a great deal to me. Many companies are seeing the advantages and pursuing programs like those at the Clarkston Community Center. While these companies see the social value in these hiring programs, they aren't charities. The reason refugee hiring is becoming more popular is because the programs make business sense. There's a clear financial imperative. Refugees make good employees, and good help is hard to find.
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A singer's blog: Mr Blue You Did it Right!
A singer's blog: Would you credit it?
Try something new in 2017 – join Inspiration!
A singer's blog – What's your line?
A singer's blog – choir practice in Portugal?
It's official! Inspiration Southampton has launched!
Echo Leeds – What a term!
Here's To The Heroes – What a weekend!
So what happens on concert day?
Citizenship Awards – By Royal Appointment!
'Raise Your Voice' in Leeds a sell out – now on to the next one.


Why don't they see things the way I do?
"It answered many questions about why I do not behave like others do in similar situations." – Shelly M.
"The strength in the PSA is its simple premise that by learning and focusing on my natural talents, I can be much more effective in all aspects of my life." – Jeff T.
"OH MY, your assessment – there aren't words to describe how enlightened I am about how I tick and why I do what I do." – Jennie J.
"I know this will help both Ron & I understand each other better and work together better." – Tina L.


Browse and enjoy our hand picked photo and video gallery. Denbigh & District Male Voice Choir has enjoyed many special performances and occasions over the years, and we're lucky to have had some wonderful local photographers on hand to capture the moments and memories.
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Jordan Davis Jonah Radebaugh Marcus Graves Jalen Sanders Chibueze Jacobs Bodie Hume Sports College sports Men's basketball Men's sports Basketball College basketball Men's college basketball
Big Sky Northern Colorado Sacramento State
Davis carries N. Colorado past Sacramento St. 65-59
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Jordan Davis had 24 points as Northern Colorado got past Sacramento State 65-59 on Saturday.
Jonah Radebaugh had 13 points and six rebounds for Northern Colorado (16-8, 10-3 Big Sky Conference). Jalen Sanders added seven rebounds.
Bodie Hume, who was second on the Bears in scoring coming into the matchup with 11 points per game, had only 3 points. He shot 20 percent from behind the arc (1 of 5).
Marcus Graves had 14 points and six rebounds for the Hornets (9-11, 3-8). Chibueze Jacobs added 12 points.
The Bears improve to 2-0 against the Hornets this season. Northern Colorado defeated Sacramento State 70-65 on Dec. 29. Northern Colorado takes on Idaho on the road on Thursday. Sacramento State matches up against Portland State at home on Monday.
This was generated by Automated Insights, http://www.automatedinsights.com/ap, using data from STATS LLC, https://www.stats.com


Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has generated widespread media attention this year. The process, which injects water and chemicals into the ground to release "natural" gas and oil from shale bedrock, has been shown to contribute significantly to air and water pollution and has even been linked to earthquakes. But little has been reported on the ways in which fracking may have unique impacts on women. Chemicals used in fracking have been linked to breast cancer and reproductive health problems and there have been reports of rises in crimes against women in some fracking "boom" towns, which have attracted itinerant workers with few ties to the community.
This post was originally published at Nation of Change.
While the North American shale gas boom continues full-steam ahead, so too does another boom receiving less of the spotlight: the LNG export boom.
LNG, shorthand for liquefied natural gas, is gas that's been condensed into a liquid form by chilling it to approximately −162 °C (−260 °F). That gas is placed in LNG tankers, also known as "trains," then shipped off to lucrative global markets.
Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn't going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it's constitutional, maybe he and a couple of his buddies on the High Court can catch a screening of "The Hunger Games", the movie about children battling each other to the death in a futuristic America, renamed Panem.
"You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?" Scalia asked during arguments on the constitutionality of the law last week. "Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?"
He joked that spending time to read the Affordable Care Act before the Court decides its fate would put him in danger of violating the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. LOL, Judge.


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El Sistema de carreteras y autopistas de Asia, (en inglés la Asian Highway Network (AH)), o también como la Gran Autopista Asiática, es un proyecto de cooperación entre países de Asia y Europa y la Comisión Económica y Social de las Naciones Unidas para Asia y el Pacífico (CESPAP), para mejorar los sistemas de carreteras en Asia. Es uno de los tres pilares del proyecto Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID), respaldado por la comisión de la CESPAP en su 48 ° período de sesiones en 1992, que comprende la autopista asiática, el ferrocarril transasiático (TAR) y la facilitación de proyectos de transporte terrestre.
Se han firmado acuerdos entre 32 países para permitir que la autopista atraviese el continente y también llegue a Europa. Algunos de los países que participan en el proyecto de la carretera son India (proyectos de conectividad Look-East), Sri Lanka, Pakistán, China, Irán, Japón, Corea del Sur, Nepal y Bangladés. La mayor parte del financiamiento proviene de las naciones asiáticas más grandes y avanzadas como Corea del Sur, India, Taiwán, Japón y China, así como de agencias internacionales como el Banco Asiático de Desarrollo.

El proyecto tiene como objetivo aprovechar al máximo las carreteras existentes en el continente para evitar la construcción de otras más nuevas, excepto en los casos en que las rutas faltantes requieran su construcción. El sitio web asiático de noticias sobre infraestructura Project Monitor, ha comentado que "los primeros beneficiarios del proyecto Asian Highway son los planificadores del departamento nacional de transporte terrestre de los países participantes ya que les ayudará a planificar las rutas más rentables y eficientes hacia promover el comercio nacional e internacional. Las zonas no costeras, que a menudo son insignificantes, son los otros beneficiarios ".

Sin embargo, a mediados de la década de 2000, algunos expertos en transporte se mostraron escépticos sobre la viabilidad del proyecto dado el clima económico y político tanto en el sur como en el sudeste de Asia.

Historia
El proyecto fue iniciado por las Naciones Unidas en 1959 con el objetivo de promover el desarrollo del transporte internacional por carretera en la región. Durante la primera fase del proyecto (1960-1970) se logró un progreso considerable, sin embargo, el progreso se ralentizó cuando se suspendió la asistencia financiera en 1975.

La CESPAP ha llevado a cabo varios proyectos en cooperación con los países miembros de AH paso a paso después de la aprobación de ALTID en 1992.

El Acuerdo Intergubernamental sobre la Red de Carreteras de Asia (IGA) fue adoptado el 18 de noviembre de 2003 por la Reunión Intergubernamental; el IGA incluye el Anexo I, que identifica 55 rutas AH entre 32 países miembros que suman aproximadamente 140.000 km (87.500 millas), y el Anexo II "Normas de clasificación y diseño". Durante el 60º período de sesiones de la Comisión de la CESPAP en Shanghai, China, en abril de 2004, 23 países firmaron el tratado IGA. Para 2013, 29 países habían ratificado el acuerdo.

Implicaciones
La red de carreteras avanzada proporcionaría una mayor interacción comercial y social entre los países asiáticos, incluidos los contactos personales, la capitalización de proyectos, las conexiones de las principales terminales de contenedores con los puntos de transporte y la promoción del turismo a través de las nuevas carreteras.

Referencias

Transporte por carretera en Asia
Redes internacionales de carreteras
Consejo Económico y Social de las Naciones Unidas

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If you look around you will definitely find some people who have spent their entire life without using a single credit card and they have done it comfortably. Using just plain cash or debit cards they have managed to carry out all their financial transactions. They can inspire you to think that credit cards are not at all necessary. But wait, what did they miss out? Here are few things.
Credit history is a thing which is becoming an essential part of our life. It's definitely good to spend cash and live on debit cards and thus do not accumulate any credit card debt what so ever, but this will not help in building any real credit history. Imagine a situation when you need an urgent loan or that great mortgage offer, the lenders will immediately ask for your credit history. So, having a credit card, using it wisely and repaying on time will definitely help in building a good credit history. Lenders look for people who are good at repaying debts, and give them their best rates. Keeping a credit cards and repaying it on time gives lenders the necessary confidence and helps you get money when needed.
Credit cards or 'plastic money' as they are known, eliminates the need to carry cash altogether. You can pay all your bills, shop and even get ready cash from ATM's with your credit card. So, if you have a credit card, it can replace the bulk in your wallet and make it light and convenient to carry.
Depending on your credit history and financial situation credit cards have credit limits associated with them. Thus when you have a credit card you essentially have a pre-approved loan up to that credit limit. This is big convenience. Imagine when you fall into a sudden medical emergency and you have huge bills to pay, a credit card with a good credit limit instantly rescues you from this grave situation. How else could you pay that bill without borrowing? And if you went to borrow money in such a situation would you get it so easily? Think over it.
The best deals on many things especially in the shopping season are found on websites which sell online. Credit card is their preferred mode of accepting payment. Without having one you could miss out on the convenience and savings that online shopping offers. Most of the offline vendors also accept credit cards happily. Shopping both online and offline becomes a breeze and you are done with just a swipe.
If you fly frequently there are credit cards which reward you for spending money on your air tickets, the rewards are free air travel, hotel stay, priority bookings etc. Similarly, there are gas reward cards, student reward cards, cashback credit cards, travel reward credit cards, store reward credit cards, health reward credit cards and the list is endless. The idea is to reward a customer who spends wisely and repays promptly.
When you look at it from this angle credit cards are a very lucrative option. The benefits they bring, and convenience they offer are simply too great to overlook.


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World - The Starving Armenians
The Starving Armenians
They were the first victims of one genocide among so many in the 20th century, but it's not diplomatic to say so. The Turkish government might be offended. So the Obama administration pulled out the usual stops the other day, urging the House Foreign Affairs Committee to shelve a resolution taking note of the Armenian massacres during the First World War.
Barack Obama had promised to recognize the Armenian genocide when he was running for president, but he's president now. He's in power, and with great power come great responsibilities, prominent among them not speaking truth. Truth can be impolitic.
The secretary of state dutifully echoed her boss. "Both President Obama and I have made clear, both last year and again this year," said Hillary Clinton, "that we do not believe any action by the Congress is appropriate, and we oppose it." What's fealty to history compared to the demands of Realpolitik?
In the end, the House committee did decide to call genocide genocide. By one vote. The final tally was Truth 23, Silence in the Face of Evil, 22.
The vote may say less about what happened in Turkey a century ago than about what has happened to the American spirit since. For there was a time when America did not hesitate to cry bloody murder. ("500,000 Armenians said to have perished/ Washington asked to stop slaughter of Christians by Turks and Kurds." --New York Times, September 24, 1915.)
It was a time when the mass deportation and annihilation of a whole people could still shock the world, and move even diplomats to protest. Our secretary of state at the time not only had convictions but dared expressed them. William Jennings Bryan protested the massacres "as a matter of humanity." How undiplomatic.
The American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau, did what he could to publicize the genocide even before there was such a word for a crime so immense. He was determined that the whole world would know what was happening in Turkey. To quote one of his public appeals:
"More than 2 million persons were deported. The system was about the same everywhere. The Armenians, men, women and children, would be assembled in the marketplace. Then the able-bodied men would be marched off and killed by being shot or clubbed in cold blood at some spot which did not necessitate the trouble of burial. ... As a last step, those who remained, mothers, grandmothers, children were driven forth on their death pilgrimages across the desert of Aleppo, with no food, no water, no shelter, to be robbed and beaten at every halt."
Ambassador Morgenthau's conclusion: "If America is going to condone these offenses ... she is party to the crime."
The whole country rang with protests. The massacres even entered the American vernacular. When children wouldn't eat their vegetables, they might be told to remember "the starving Armenians." Old-timers may remember the phrase; it remains in the language even if the history behind it has been forgotten.
Now, if the pundits and analysts note this congressional resolution at all, they seem more interested in the politics of it than the historical truth it expresses. Which is how politics loses its moral edge and becomes only a power game.
The Turks responded to the passage of the resolution in committee by calling their ambassador home for "consultations" -- a show of Ankara's displeasure.
For official purposes, the Turkish government still claims the Armenians weren't victims of any organized massacre in the years 1915-1918. It seems they just disappeared one day by the hundreds of thousands.
Or they met with a series of unfortunate accidents in wartime. Or for their own reasons they chose to decamp for the deserts of Syria. Or they were wiped out in a series of spontaneous riots that the beleaguered authorities could do nothing to prevent. Or, to use a phrase from another genocide, they were resettled in the East.
In short, when a single truth must be avoided, falsehoods multiply. And diplomats impose a discreet silence. Why offend?
Over time the Armenian massacres faded from the world's memory, but at least one statesman remembered, and drew the inevitable conclusion: that the world would scarcely notice a little genocide among friends. Or as he put it, speaking to a group of his confidants:
"It's a matter of indifference to me what a weak Western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command -- and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad -- that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness -- for the present only in the East -- with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion men, women and children. ... Only thus shall we gain the living space we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?"
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Дми́трий Влади́мирович Бороди́н (8 октября 1977, Ленинград, СССР) — российский футболист, вратарь, тренер.

Карьера
Известен по выступлениям за «Торпедо» из Москвы. Неоднократно призывался в сборную России, но ни одной игры так и не сыграл. В феврале 2008 года подписал контракт с «Сибирью» по схеме 1+1. В конце июля 2008 руководство «Сибири» по взаимной договорённости расторгло контракт. Спустя неделю Бородин подписал контракт с махачкалинским «Анжи» до конца сезона 2008 года. В феврале 2009 года подписал контракт с петербургским «Зенитом» на 4 года. В сезоне 2009 года тренерский штаб зенитовцев посчитал необходимым предложить Бородину выступать за одну из российских команд на правах аренды. Спустя два дня главный тренер «Зенита» Дик Адвокат заявил, что его весьма удивил этот трансфер. В сезоне 2010 сыграл за основной состав «Зенита» один матч: 20 ноября против экс-чемпиона России казанского «Рубина» (2:2). В сезоне 2011 принял участие в товарищеском матче с «Баварией» и игре чемпионата «Спартаком» из Нальчика, сыграв в них по тайму.

В высшей лиге в составе «Зенита», «Торпедо» и «Химок» сыграл 114 матчей, пропустил 138 мячей.
В июне 2012 года генеральный директор ФК «Зенит» Максим Митрофанов сообщил, что тренерский штаб больше не рассчитывает на Бородина, и ему будут подыскивать новую команду. В декабре 2012 года Бородин объявил о завершении карьеры сразу после истечения действующего контракта.

В сезоне 2013/14 работал тренером в молодёжном составе «Зенита». С 2015 года — тренер вратарей в петербургском «Динамо»; с 2018 года, после переезда команды, входит в тренерский штаб ФК «Сочи».

Личная жизнь
Жена Светлана и два сына: Даниил и Илья.

Достижения
  «Зенит»
 Финалист Кубка Интертото: 2000
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата России: 2001, 2009
 Обладатель Кубка России: 2009/10
 Чемпион России: 2010, 2012
 Обладатель Суперкубка России: 2011

Статистика выступлений

Примечания

Ссылки
 Дмитрий Бородин: «Спаллетти спросил: "Дима что, пивную ванну принимал?"», 26 декабря 2012, sports.ru, интервью Юрию Дудю
 В «Зените» и сборной он отвечал за пиво и атмосферу. Вы любите такие интервью, 28 апреля 2018, sports.ru, интервью Евгению Маркову
 Профиль на сайте «Зенита»
 Профиль на сайте «Зенита» (архив)
 Статистика на сайте zenit-history.ru

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Игроки ФК «Локомотив-д» Санкт-Петербург
Игроки ФК «Локомотив» Санкт-Петербург
Игроки ФК «Зенит» Санкт-Петербург
Игроки ФК «Зенит-2»
Игроки ФК «Торпедо» Москва
Игроки ФК «Сибирь»
Игроки ФК «Анжи»
Игроки ФК «Химки»


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David Johnson Not Thrilled By Massive Steelers Presence During Cardinals' Home Game Sunday
Pittsburgh Steelers fans are known to travel well for the team's away games, and so does the angst the home players feel when they drive up to the stadium and see the sea of black and gold. It gets worse, I'm sure, once the game starts and they actually hear boos from the stadium when they do something good.
The latest team to experience the phenomenon was the Arizona Cardinals, who have long been branded 'Pittsburgh West' since the organization hired former Steelers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt to be their head coach in 2008. He was succeeded by two more former Steelers offensive coordinators in that post, oddly enough, most recently Bruce Arians, who briefly retired after the 2017 season.
Now it's newcomer Kliff Kingsbury's show, but the Steelers still brought Pittsburgh west with them anyway, and it was a palpable presence during Sunday's game. Cardinals players were not thrilled about it, including David Johnson, who made a post on social media addressing it, quoting lyrics that reference being "surrounded by enemies".
Initially viewed as a cryptic stab at the organization because of the fact that he has been reduced to a bit player, he had to clarify that posting later in the week and made it apparent that his real gripe—at least related to that particular instance—was with the overwhelming presence of Steelers fans at the game, saying that it was inspired by a photo he'd seen of Pittsburgh's following.
"Even on the way to the game, there were Steelers fans at the hotel. There were Steelers fans everywhere", he said. "It was odd that it was our home game and there were so many Steelers fans. I have a list of lyrics that I like from Christian rappers. I saw the photo, and that seemed pretty accurate".
The Steelers brought a comparable contingent of fans to their game earlier this season against the Los Angeles Chargers out on the west coast. In fact, that game might have been even more dramatic in terms of the disparity between those who were there to see the Chargers and those representing Steeler Nation.
Pittsburgh has two more road games coming up to end the season, but it's unlikely they can mount a similar presence. In Week 16, Le'Veon Bell's New York Jets will host the Steelers, and then they finish the year in enemy territory in crabcake country against the Baltimore Ravens.
They figure to need to win at least one of those two games, if not both, in order to make it into the postseason. A friendly crowd would not hinder those efforts, certainly.
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Home » Crypto » Despite Tomorrow's Ethereum Upgrade Postponing the Difficulty Bomb, Coinbase Introduces 'ETH2'
Despite Tomorrow's Ethereum Upgrade Postponing the Difficulty Bomb, Coinbase Introduces 'ETH2'
Samuel Adeshina
However, ETH2 is not a new type of cryptocurrency, and the exchange looks to be preparing for Ethereum's Proof-of-Stake changeover.
Exchange of cryptocurrencies Coinbase has introduced a mirrored version of the Ethereum blockchain's native coin Ether (ETH) to its crypto price index, just in time for a critical network upgrade on December 10th, 2021.
The symbol, dubbed "ETH2," shows to be tracking the original Ether market data in real-time. For example, the cost of purchasing ETH2 was the same as that of purchasing ETH. Their market capitalization, volume, circulating supply, and price fluctuations were all the same at the same time.
Despite this, unlike the original, the ETH2 token had no Trading Activity, Popularity Score, or Typical Hold Time, implying that its job is to simply track ETH market data until at least mid-2022. That's because ETH2 appears to be the native token of Ethereum's upcoming upgrade, codenamed Ethereum 2.0, which is expected to be fully operational by June 2022. The index listing on Coinbase, on the other hand, appears to be closer to "Arrow Glacier," a fork that would offer developers more time to prepare for Ethereum 2.0.
Before Ethereum 2.0
The Arrow Glacier upgrade tries to postpone a so-called "difficulty bomb," a hardcoded incentive in the Ethereum blockchain since its introduction in 2015 that would make mining Ether difficult. If triggered, the BOMB would cause the Ethereum network to slow down for as long as it is proof-of-work.
Tim Beiko, one of the Ethereum upgrade's main engineers, speculated that Arrow Glacier could be the final upgrade before Ethereum 2.0 goes live next year. Meanwhile, Coinbase appears to have interpreted the Arrow Glacier fork as confirmation that a new coin named ETH2 would be created following the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade.
In summary, Ethereum 2.0, also known as "Serenity," would allow for significant architectural modifications, such as a full-scale transfer from the energy-intensive Proof-of-Work (PoW) — which is also used by Bitcoin (BTC) — to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).
To keep Ethereum's public ledger running in its current state, nodes must validate every transaction. The Ethereum 2.0 update, on the other hand, would introduce "sharding," which would divide the network into several portions (called shards) and assign nodes to each shard at random.
This would eliminate the need for each node to scan the entire chain, theoretically increasing network speed and lowering costs. Individual shards would then communicate transaction details with a so-called Beacon Chain, which acts as Ethereum 2.0's backbone.
ETH2 is not a new cryptocurrency. The Beacon Chain, which launched in December 2020, will validate transactions on each shard, assisting the Ethereum 2.0 network in reaching consensus. It would also detect dishonest validators and impose sanctions by taking a piece of their stakeout of circulation.
The ETH (or ETH2) token, which primarily serves as a staking token for validators to participate in network consensus and, in turn, get block rewards, would be at the heart of Ethereum 2.0's PoS concept.
Since its inception in December 2020, Beacon Chain's deposit contract has collected over 8.42 million ETH tokens from 55,300 individual depositors (validators).
That noted, ETH2 is not a new coin and will not affect the quantity of ETH in one's wallet. ETH2 may instead wind up becoming a rebranded version of the original Ether, as Coinbase's index listing suggests, without the need for holders to switch from one to the other.
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Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike.
There is little biographical information about Jane Austen's life except the few letters that survive and the biographical notes her family members wrote. During her lifetime, Austen may have written as many as 3,000 letters, but only 161 survived. Many of the letters were written to Austen's older sister Cassandra, who in 1843 burned the greater part of them and cut pieces out of those she kept. Ostensibly, Cassandra destroyed or censored her sister's letters to prevent their falling into the hands of relatives and ensuring that "younger nieces did not read any of Jane Austen's sometimes acid or forthright comments on neighbours or family members". Cassandra believed that in the interest of tact and Jane's penchant for forthrightness, these details should be destroyed. The paucity of record of Austen's life leaves modern biographers little with which to work.
For much of Jane's life, her father, George Austen (1731–1805), served as the rector of the Anglican parishes at Steventon and at nearby Deane. He came from an old, respected, and wealthy family of wool merchants. Over the centuries as each generation of eldest sons received inheritances, their wealth was consolidated, and George's branch of the family fell into poverty. He and his two sisters were orphaned as children and had to be taken in by relatives. His sister Philadelphia went to India to find a husband and George entered St John's College, Oxford on a fellowship, where he most likely met Cassandra Leigh (1739–1827). She came from the prominent Leigh family; her father was rector at All Souls College, Oxford, where she grew up among the gentry. Her eldest brother James inherited a fortune and large estate from his great-aunt Perrot, with the only condition that he change his name to Leigh-Perrot.
According to Honan, the atmosphere of the Austen home was an "open, amused, easy intellectual" one, where the ideas of those with whom the Austens might disagree politically or socially were considered and discussed. The family relied on the patronage of their kin and hosted visits from numerous family members. Cassandra Austen spent the summer of 1770 in London with George's sister, Philadelphia, and her daughter Eliza, accompanied by his other sister, Mrs Walter and her daughter Philly. Philadelphia and Eliza Hancock were, according to Le Faye, "the bright comets flashing into an otherwise placid solar system of clerical life in rural Hampshire, and the news of their foreign travels and fashionable London life, together with their sudden descents upon the Steventon household in between times, all helped to widen Jane's youthful horizon and influence her later life and works."
During this period of her life, Austen attended church regularly, socialised with friends and neighbours, and read novels — often of her own composition — aloud with her family in the evenings. Socialising with the neighbours often meant dancing, either impromptu in someone's home after supper or at the balls held regularly at the assembly rooms in the town hall. Her brother Henry later said that "Jane was fond of dancing, and excelled in it".
In December 1800 George Austen unexpectedly announced his decision to retire from the ministry, leave Steventon, and move the family to 4, Sydney Place in Bath. While retirement and travel were good for the elder Austens, Jane Austen was shocked to be told she was moving from the only home she had ever known. An indication of her state of mind is her lack of productivity as a writer during the time she lived at Bath. She was able to make some revisions to Susan, and she began and then abandoned a new novel, The Watsons, but there was nothing like the productivity of the years 1795–1799. Tomalin suggests this reflects a deep depression disabling her as a writer, but Honan disagrees, arguing Austen wrote or revised her manuscripts throughout her creative life, except for a few months after her father died. It is often claimed that Austen was unhappy in Bath, which caused her to lose interest in writing, but it is just as possible that Austen's social life in Bath prevented her from spending much time writing novels. The critic Robert Irvine argued that if Austen spent more time writing novels when she was in the countryside, it might just have been because she had more spare time as opposed to being more happy in the countryside as is often argued. Furthermore, Austen frequently both moved and travelled over southern England during this period, which was hardly a conducive environment for writing a long novel. Austen sold the rights to publish Susan to a publisher Crosby & Company, who paid her £10. The Crosby & Company advertised Susan, but never published it.
Her father's relatively sudden death left Jane, Cassandra, and their mother in a precarious financial situation. Edward, James, Henry, and Francis Austen (known as Frank) pledged to make annual contributions to support their mother and sisters. For the next four years, the family's living arrangements reflected their financial insecurity. They spent part of the time in rented quarters in Bath before leaving the city in June 1805 for a family visit to Steventon and Godmersham. They moved for the autumn months to the newly fashionable seaside resort of Worthing, on the Sussex coast, where they resided at Stanford Cottage. It was here that Austen is thought to have written her fair copy of Lady Susan and added its "Conclusion". In 1806 the family moved to Southampton, where they shared a house with Frank Austen and his new wife. A large part of this time they spent visiting various branches of the family.
Around early 1809 Austen's brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a more settled life — the use of a large cottage in Chawton village that was part of Edward's nearby estate, Chawton House. Jane, Cassandra and their mother moved into Chawton cottage on 7 July 1809. Life was quieter in Chawton than it had been since the family's move to Bath in 1800. The Austens did not socialise with gentry and entertained only when family visited. Her niece Anna described the family's life in Chawton as "a very quiet life, according to our ideas, but they were great readers, and besides the housekeeping our aunts occupied themselves in working with the poor and in teaching some girl or boy to read or write."
Austen learned that the Prince Regent admired her novels and kept a set at each of his residences. In November 1815, the Prince Regent's librarian James Stanier Clarke invited Austen to visit the Prince's London residence and hinted Austen should dedicate the forthcoming Emma to the Prince. Though Austen disliked the Prince Regent, she could scarcely refuse the request. Austen disapproved of the Prince Regent on the account of his womanising, gambling, drinking, spendthrift ways and generally disreputable behaviour. She later wrote Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters, a satiric outline of the "perfect novel" based on the librarian's many suggestions for a future Austen novel. Austen was greatly annoyed by Clarke's often pompous literary advice, and the Plan of A Novel parodying Clarke was intended as her revenge for all of the unwanted letters she had received from the royal librarian.
In mid-1815 Austen moved her work from Egerton to John Murray, a better known London publisher, who published Emma in December 1815 and a second edition of Mansfield Park in February 1816. Emma sold well, but the new edition of Mansfield Park did poorly, and this failure offset most of the income from Emma. These were the last of Austen's novels to be published during her lifetime.
Austen was feeling unwell by early 1816, but ignored the warning signs. By the middle of that year, her decline was unmistakable, and she began a slow, irregular deterioration. The majority of biographers rely on Dr. Vincent Cope's 1964 retrospective diagnosis and list her cause of death as Addison's disease, although her final illness has also been described as resulting from Hodgkin's lymphoma. When her uncle died and left his entire fortune to his wife, effectively disinheriting his relatives, she suffered a relapse, writing, "I am ashamed to say that the shock of my Uncle's Will brought on a relapse ... but a weak Body must excuse weak Nerves".
She continued to work in spite of her illness. Dissatisfied with the ending of The Elliots, she rewrote the final two chapters, which she finished on 6 August 1816. In January 1817 Austen began The Brothers (titled Sanditon when published in 1925), and completed twelve chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably due to illness. Todd describes Sanditon's heroine, Diana Parker, as an "energetic invalid". In the novel, Austen mocked hypochondriacs and though she describes the heroine as "bilious", five days after abandoning the novel she wrote of herself that she was turning "every wrong colour" and living "chiefly on the sofa". She put down her pen on 18 March 1817, making a note of it.
After Austen's death, Cassandra, Henry Austen and Murray arranged for the publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey as a set. Henry Austen contributed a Biographical Note which for the first time identified his sister as the author of the novels. Tomalin describes it as "a loving and polished eulogy". Sales were good for a year — only 321 copies remained unsold at the end of 1818.
Austen's works critique the sentimental novels of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. The earliest English novelists, Richardson, Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett, were followed by the school of sentimentalists and romantics such as Walter Scott, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, and Oliver Goldsmith, whose style and genre Austen rejected, returning the novel on a "slender thread" to the tradition of Richardson and Fielding for a "realistic study of manners". In the mid-20th century, literary critics F. R. Leavis and Ian Watt placed her in the tradition of Richardson and Fielding; both believe that she used their tradition of "irony, realism and satire to form an author superior to both".


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text:
import os
import shutil

from django.test import TestCase
from django.conf import settings
from imageup.models import UploadedImage

class ImageUpload(TestCase):
	def setUp(self):
		self.TEST_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

		# Change MEDIA_ROOT
		self._old_MEDIA_ROOT = settings.MEDIA_ROOT
		settings.MEDIA_ROOT = self.TEST_ROOT

	def tearDown(self):
		# reset MEDIA_ROOT
		settings.MEDIA_ROOT = self._old_MEDIA_ROOT

	def test_delete_image(self):
		'''
		Test for the removal of actual files when removing
		database references

		'''
		test_image = os.path.join(
			self.TEST_ROOT,
			'test.png'
			)
		test_image_copy = os.path.join(
			self.TEST_ROOT,
			'test_cp.png'
			)
		shutil.copy2(test_image,test_image_copy)

		up = UploadedImage.objects.create(
			title="test",
			image=test_image_copy,
			description="this is a test description"
			)
		up.delete()

		self.assertFalse(os.path.exists(test_image_copy))

	def test_modify_image(self):
		'''
		Test for the replacement of actual files when changing
		database references

		'''
		test_image = os.path.join(
			self.TEST_ROOT,
			'test.png'
			)
		test_image_copy1 = os.path.join(
			self.TEST_ROOT,
			'test_cp.png'
			)
		test_image_copy2 = os.path.join(
			self.TEST_ROOT,
			'test_cp2.png'
			)

		shutil.copy2(test_image,test_image_copy1)
		shutil.copy2(test_image,test_image_copy2)

		up = UploadedImage.objects.create(
			title="test",
			image=test_image_copy1,
			description="this is a test description"
			)

		up.image = test_image_copy2
		up.save()
		self.assertFalse(os.path.exists(test_image_copy1))

		up.delete()
		self.assertFalse(os.path.exists(test_image_copy2))


I have made a model for population calculation using "zonal statistics as table" tool in arcgis desktop 10. The task works fine in arcdesktop 10. Then I published it to arcserver 10. When I use this service in arcmap 10, it works fine and the result is displayed. But when i use this service through a flex application, an error is displayed saying "Please check your parameters".
When I see the server log, an error stating " ERROR 010160: Unable to open raster t_t4811\t_t4811" is displayed.
Does your zonal raster have a "raster attribute table" (aka a .vat file)? The zonal statistics tool requires one, else the tool will bomb. Use the BuildRasterAttributeTable to make one if need be.
no i dont have it. can you please explain further?
However, since the ZonalStatisticsAsTable tool worked in everything except Flex, that's probably where your problem is... Also, t_t4811\t_t4811? Why is the name duplicated. Could there be a bug?
The error on server side is now removed. The geoprocessing service works fine in arcmap and arcexplorer. when used in flex, the task executes at the server according to the logs but shows an error 500, "failed to execute task, check your parameters" on frontend.
do i need to start a new thread in flex section?
Yes - Your question is more related to Flex syntax/usage than Geoprocessing, and I don't know any Flex!
I have been using Zonal Statistics as Table for summarizing average slope by landuse categories. For 10 watersheds that I used, it worked fine. In one watershed, however, I sub-divided the watershed and assigned a number (still an integer) that represented a sub-watershed-landuse combination and tried summarizing and got Error 010160. I used feature data for my zones, not raster, so I'm puzzled why I get an error related to the internal raster conversion. The landuse was originally from a raster dataset that i converted to a shapefile, but it didn't pose any problems with the other watersheds, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. Any ideas? Thanks.


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May 16, 2012 / 11:40 PM / 8 years ago
Viacom, Time Warner Cable reach iPad views settlement
Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - Viacom Inc, the parent of MTV and Comedy Central, has settled lawsuits with Time Warner Cable Inc over whether cable subscribers may watch shows on mobile devices such as Apple Inc's iPad.
The entrance to the Time Warner Center is seen at Columbus Circle in New York August 4, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
The accord means Viacom programs such as "Jersey Shore," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "South Park" will become available over the TWC TV app over the next several weeks.
"All of Viacom's programming will now be available to Time Warner Cable subscribers for in-home viewing via Internet protocol-enabled devices such as iPads," the companies said in a joint statement posted on Viacom's website.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Time Warner Cable will also continue to carry programming from Viacom's Country Music Television, the companies said.
Maureen Huff, a Time Warner Cable spokeswoman, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The settlement resolves lawsuits that Viacom and Time Warner Cable filed against each other in April 2011.
Viacom settled a similar iPad streaming lawsuit with Cablevision Systems Corp last August.
The popularity of iPad tablets and other mobile devices has caused friction between content providers such as Viacom and cable companies over whether various means to distribute programming violate contractual or trademark rights.
Mark Jafar, a Viacom spokesman, on a company blog called the Time Warner Cable settlement "very good news for consumers."
The cases are Time Warner Cable Inc v. Viacom International Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-02376; and Viacom International Inc et al v. Time Warner Cable Inc et al in the same court, No. 11-02387.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Steve Orlofsky


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Entrepreneurship: Open Rank: Endowed Chair
1. Entrepreneurship: Open Rank: Endowed Chair
Timothy Stearns
The Department of Management in the Craig School of Business at California State University, Fresno is accepting applications for a tenure-track position in Entrepreneurship. Rank is open with a start date in Fall 2020. Rank will be considered depending on the candidate's level of experience. The successful candidate will be prepared to teach in the Craig School's undergraduate and MBA programs, conduct scholarly and applied research, and engage in service-related activities. Opportunities to teach in the Executive MBA and Accelerated Bachelor's in Business Administration program are available as well. The successful candidate will also have primary teaching and research interests in Entrepreneurship and one or more of the following areas: Management and Strategy. The successful candidate will also be involved in programs offered by the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Specific assignments are dependent on departmental needs and the background of the individual. Exceptional candidates will be considered for the Reighard Endowed Chair, the first such Chair in the CSU System.
The Craig School of Business (CSB) empowers future business leaders by helping students embark on successful careers in business and economics. With approximately 3,000 majors, we offer bachelor's degrees in Business Administration (with 12 different options) and Economics, and both a traditional and executive MBA. The Craig School of Business is the first CSU business school to receive a naming endowment, a ten-million-dollar pledge from Sid and Jenny Craig, and also the first in the CSU to be accredited by AACSB, International - this in 1959. Our priority for engaged learning experiences is addressed through internships, mentorships, applied projects, service learning, professional events, an international program and a highly involved regional business community. The CSB offers Business Scholar and Honors programs for outstanding students who want to challenge themselves and conduct research with faculty. The CSB is recognized by the Princeton Review as a top business program.
An earned doctorate (Ph.D. or DBA) in Entrepreneurship, Management or a closely-related discipline from an AACSB accredited institution (or equivalent) is required.
1) Successful teaching experience at the undergraduate level; 2) Evidence of publications in scholarly journals, and; 3) Ability to demonstrate a commitment to working effectively with faculty, staff, and students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Appointment to the rank of Associate and Full Professor will require experience and accomplishments commensurate with appointment at our campus.
1) Demonstrated success in teaching excellence at the collegiate level; 2) Demonstrated expertise in Entrepreneurship; 3) Publications in peer-reviewed journals and/or high-quality journals.
Application Procedures:
Review of applications will begin October 31st, 2019, and will continue until the position is filled. Complete an on-line application at jobs.csufresno.edu and attach the following materials: 1) a cover letter specifically addressing required experience and preferred qualifications; 2) a curriculum vitae, and; 3) list of three professional references. Finalists will be required to submit a minimum of three current letters of recommendation and official transcripts. For inquires contact: Dr. Timothy Stearns, Search Committee Chair; Department of Management, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno, 5245 N. Backer M/S PB 7, Fresno CA 93740-8001 Phone: 559.278.2851; E-mail: timothys@csufresno.edu
CSU-Fresno


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