Conducts research at the request of BioMaxima under the agreement of January 16, 2017.
The subject of the research is the development of an innovative method of E-test manufacture for the determination of antibiotic susceptibility (MIC), for BioMaxima SA.
In mid-September 2017, the construction of the Research and Development Center (CBR) of BioMaxima SA in was launched in the Special Economic Zone in Lublin, on the same plot, where the company's headquarters are located. The net value of the contract for the construction of CBR is PLN 4,060,507.49. The expected date of completion of construction and commissioning of facilities in July 2018.
The Research and Development Center will carry out work related to the development of new products in the field of microbiological diagnostics, determination of antimicrobial susceptibility, rapid imunochromatographic tests and analytical chemistry.


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McDermott Lands Engineering Contract for Qatar's North Field South
Hart Energy Staff
Thu, 01/07/2021 - 09:25 AM
Qatargas has tapped McDermott International to carry out FEED work for Qatar Petroleum's North Field South (NFS) project, the company specializing in EPCI services said in a Jan. 6 news release.
The scope of the contract, which will be executed from McDermott's Doha office, includes replicating five offshore wellhead platforms, the company said. Work was scheduled to start immediately.
The North Field is about 80 km offshore the Ras Laffan Industrial City.
The project, the second phase of field's expansion, is expected to help increase Qatar's LNG production capacity to 126 mtpa by 2027 with the construction of two trains, according to a Reuters report. The first phase, North Field East, involves construction of four trains.
"For more than 30 years, McDermott has executed projects in Qatar's North Field, and we will leverage our experience and local resources to successfully deliver this project," Tareq Kawash, McDermott's senior vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa, said in the release. "As oil and gas field development continues in the region, we are poised to build on this initial work to further support Qatargas as they progress the subsequent phases of the NFS project."
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Kinder Morgan Flags Concerns over US Shale Spending Following Earnings Beat
Pipeline operator Kinder Morgan raised concerns over the pace of ramp-up in spending in top U.S. shale basins following a rebound in oil prices after beating Wall Street estimates for quarterly results.
E&P Lenders' POV: The New Debt Deal
Secured-debt lenders have new terms for oil and gas producers. Some were underway before 2020.
Biden Takes Sweeping Day One Action on Energy, Keystone XL
Soon after his inauguration, U.S. President Joe Biden signed executive actions that included formally revoking the permit needed to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline and rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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The Traffic Division of the Township of Hampton Police Department consists of 3 uniformed officers who keep the streets of the Township of Hampton safe for all motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. These officers are responsible for insuring that all vehicles and pedestrians obey state and local traffic regulations and follow posted speed limits and notices while moving. They also issue citations for vehicles parked or stopped illegally in the Township of Hampton. In addition to these traffic duties, they also assist patrol officers with emergency situations.


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Fed Keeps Interest Rates, Bond-Buying Program Unchanged
To the surprise of virtually no one, the Federal Reserve kept its cheap-money policy in place, but markets interpreted language in the decision to mean that the end may come sooner than expected.
Wall Street had expected the Fed to refrain from tapering its so-called money printing operation. Economic data, particularly in employment and consumer confidence, has weakened over the past two months, giving the U.S. central bank cover to continue unabated.
Language in the October statement mirrored the "moderate pace" of economic improvement that the Fed saw at its last meeting in September.
The statement, though, did omit a reference from last month that fiscal tightening could slow growth in jobs and the broader economy, and it excluded mention of the political battling in Washington.
"There is no explicit mention of the government shutdown or what impact it might have on the economy or the Fed's monetary policy," Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said in a note. "It is possible that Fed officials want to downplay the recent two-week closure and the potential for another shutdown early next year because they still intend to begin tapering the asset purchases at the FOMC meeting in December.
The stock market meandered in the minutes after the statement but later dropped precipitously, with the Dow industrials losing close to 100 points at one juncture before finally closing off 61.59 points, a drop of just 0.4 percent.
Bond yields moved higher as well, with the 10-year Treasury near session highs, though the dollar was higher as well.
Some investors interpreted the remarks as at least slightly more hawkish in terms of economic prospects and Fed policy response.
"The Fed is on hold, but the tone of the statement and the failure to bend on account of the government shutdown is very likely to bring forward the market's timetable of tapering from March where we feel the pendulum has swung too far," Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak, said in a note.
Where once the market had expected a retreat on quantitative easing to begin before the end of 2013, consensus is now that tapering won't begin until at least March 2014, though that may change now.
In another departure from the last statement, central bank officials noted that the pace of housing recovery "has slowed" and they warned again that "fiscal policy is restraining economic growth."
"It's clear the catalyst needed to even discuss tapering again will have to come from significant improvement in the labor market," said Todd Schoenberger, managing partner at LandColt Capital.
Kurt Karl, chief economist at Swiss Re, said the Fed's economic outlook is benign enough to suggest that reductions in asset purchases likely will start early in 2014 and conclude by the third quarter. That in turn likely will send the 10-year note to 3.1 percent by 2014, he said.
The Fed has been using the unemployment rate as a benchmark for guiding monetary policy. The rate has been on a steady decline and now stands at 7.2 percent, but much of the move has come to a shrinking labor force rather than robust job gains,.
Moreover, recent reports have indicated a softer market, with the ADP count of private jobs for October showing just 130,000 new positions.


The Argentines are ingenious grillers. The way they arrange their coals is almost proprietary. Use real wood coals but bank it to the outsides so that your squash is getting indirect heat brush with oil, salt and pepper. I will politely disagree with chef of the future on cooking time, it should be much less than 20 minutes. With wood you are working with a very hot but smoky oven. Serve with chimichurri on the side---it's a condiment not a marinade. You might want to cook some sausages or sweetbreads at the same time.
Slice it coat with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Cook on medium low heat for 20-30 minutes flipping half way through. You could also try some brown sugar and nutmeg ( not too much) on top for a slightly sweeter side.


At Mind the Chap the idea was simple and so good - scour the country for the best quality handcrafted men's lifestyle products Made in the USA. I have always been passionate about bringing manufacturing back to the States for many reasons. 1. There is extremely talented artisans on our own turf, and we should support them. 2. Quality Control - With accessibility to the people who are making the products and overseeing production processes we can guarantee ethical and sustainable design practices 3. Made to Last - a believer in utilitarian living, all of the products were treated as a smart, but fashionable purchase which can last for years on end.
Visiting showrooms, designers studios, and runway events I curated almost 200 brands in a broad and shallow buy. I oversaw all of the Marketing working directly with Ford to scout models, set up casting calls, media staff and product styling.


Robin Wright in a scene from "House Of Cards."
Production has resumed on the sixth and final season of "House of Cards," Netflix announced Wednesday.
Production on the series was originally shut down in October after allegations of sexual assault and harassment were made against series star Kevin Spacey. Shortly after production was suspended, Netflix and producer Media Rights Capital announced that they were severing ties with Spacey, with Netflix also cancelling a planned Gore Vidal biopic in which Spacey was to star.
Season 6 of the political thriller will consist of eight episodes, with Robin Wright starring. Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver will also star. The show is one of Netflix's original breakout hits, having been nominated for 53 Emmys throughout its run.
In addition, Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear have joined the final season. The details of their roles are being kept under wraps, but it is known the two will play siblings.
Lane was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 for her leading role in the film "Unfaithful." She has also been nominated for two Emmys and three Golden Globes. She is known for roles in films like "Under the Tuscan Sun," "Chaplin," and the recent DC universe films as Martha Kent. She will also appear in the upcoming Amazon series "The Romanoffs."
Kinnear is known for roles in films such as "As Good As It Gets," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, "Little Miss Sunshine," and the miniseries "The Kennedys."
Lane is repped by UTA and Weintraub Tobin. Kinnear is repped by WME and attorney Rick Genow.


The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the reinstatement of suspended Court of Appeal President Justice Isa Ayo Salami.
In a statement last night, NBA President Joseph Daudu (SAN) condemned the refusal of the President to approve the reinstatement of Salami.
''NEC considered the recent National Judicial Council recommendation to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to recall the Hon. Justice Isa Ayo Salami back to the office of the President of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria and condemned the refusal of the President FRN so to do on the pretext of pendency of litigation in court.
'' NBA/NEC considered the decision was made in bad faith as there was pending litigation when the original decision to suspend him was taken. NBA/NEC reiterates its decision reached at the 2011 Annual Conference of the NBA at Port Harcourt calling for the reinstatement of the PCA on the ground that the suspension was done whilst there was litigation on the correctness or otherwise of the disciplinary action of the National Judicial Council. NBA/NEC viewed the decision as capable of eroding the confidence reposed in the judiciary by Nigerians.
''NEC took another look at the disturbing image problem of the Judiciary in particular and the Justice sector in general with the resultant effect of public odium and ridicule and advised all stakeholders particularly serving Attorneys- General of the Federation who arrogate to themselves the right of interpreting judicial decisions and legislation in such manner that strictly suits the Government of the day regardless of their oath of office, the truth and the lofty standards expected of occupants of such high office, and further advised such functionaries to desist from doing so in view of the incalculable damage such unprofessional conduct is occasioning on the system.


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Sole Mothers in the Workforce: A Systematic Review and Agenda for Future Work-Family Research
Laura Robinson, University of WollongongFollow
Christopher A. Magee, University of WollongongFollow
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Robinson, L., Magee, C. & Caputi, P. (2018). Sole Mothers in the Workforce: A Systematic Review and Agenda for Future Work-Family Research. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 10 (March), 280-303.
Sole mothers potentially experience greater difficulties in meeting the challenges of combining employment and family than do partnered mothers, although there is remarkably little research on the work-family interface of sole mothers. A systematic review of quantitative literature on employed mothers is presented in this article to provide a case for further research on sole employed mothers, in particular for more comparative studies with partnered mothers. Conservation-of-resources theory is proposed as a theoretical framework for exploring these differences, research propositions are offered, and the implications of future research are discussed. 2018 by the National Council on Family Relations.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12249


Context: The study of gross alpha and beta radiation in environmental components and water bodies in particular is very crucial to the environmental, radiation and medical Physicist as this helps to promote good water quality and environmental hygiene.
Aim: This research work understudied the radiological risk parameters due to gross alpha and beta radiations associated with three selected rivers around crude oil production sites in Abia State, Nigeria.
Materials and Methods: Gross alpha and beta activities were computed for the three rivers based on analytical measurements carried out using a well-calibrated IN-20 model gas-flow proportional counter. Radiological risk parameters were computed from the activity concentrations which included; annual effective dose equivalent of radiation from ingested water (AEDE), annual gonadal dose equivalent (AGDE), and excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR).
Results: The mean of the total AEDE due to the sum of alpha and beta radiations for the three rivers are 0.868 ± 0.221 mSv/y, 1.008 ± 0.156 mSv/y, and 0.917 ± 0.214 mSv/y; and are above the World Health Organization (WHO) permissible limit of 0.1 mSv/y. The mean of the total AGDE is 4.048 ± 1.063 mSv/y, 4.756 ± 0.739 mSv/y, and 4.295 ± 1.026 mSv/y; and are above the world average limit of 0.3 mSv/y. The mean of the total ELCR are (3.038 ± 0.774) × 10−3 , (3.529 ± 0.547) × 10−3 , and (3.210 ± 0.748) × 10−3 , and are above the world average limit of 0.29 × 10−3 .
Conclusion: Most values of ELCR computed in this work are >6.0 × 10−4 estimated to be the risk of fatal and weighted nonfatal health conditions over a lifetime (70 years) derived from the radiation dose of 0.1 mSv/y (WHO permissible limit for drinking water). Drinking water from these surveyed sources could impact negatively on the end users.
Radiological risk assessment is an estimate of an individual's probability of a fatal cancer risk as a result of exposure to low-level doses of radiation. To effectively estimate the radiological risks arising from environmental components such as air, soil and water, certain radiological risk parameters ought to be computed. This research work is anchored on the computation and assessment of some radiological risk parameters associated with some oil producing communities in Abia State, Nigeria to account for the contribution of alpha and beta particles to the probability of exposure of their inhabitants to the risk of developing cancer during their lifetime. This practice will help to promote radiation protection.
The oil wells in the surveyed area belong to the Eastern Division of Shell Petroleum Development Company, and they contribute about 5% of the total barrels of oil per day produced in the division.  Map showing this study area is presented in [Figure 1].
where C(α,β) = the count rate (cpm) of the alpha or beta particle, R(α,β) = raw count of the alpha or beta particle, t = counting time (2700 s).
S v = Sample volume (litre).
where A(α,β) is the activity concentrations of gross alpha and gross beta in Bq/L, WC is the water consumed by a person in a year (We have assumed that standard water consumption for a normal adult is approximately 2 L a day which approximates to 730 L in a year)  and F1D (α,β) is the activity to dose ingestion conversion factor (for gross alpha and beta radiations).
All the data analyses were performed using MINITAB (Release 14) statistical software (manufactured by Minitab Inc. with headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania, USA). We used this software in computing the sample mean (Sm ), standard error of the mean (SEM), standard deviation (σ), and t-test based on equations (9), (10), (11), and (12), respectively.
where t is the t-table value for "n − 1" degrees of freedom.
The results of radiological risk parameters conducted on water samples collected from three rivers around some oil producing communities in Abia State, Nigeria, due to gross alpha, gross beta, and sum of the two radiations have been presented in [Table 1], [Table 2], [Table 3]. Summary of the results of statistical analyses of radiological risk parameters for the surveyed samples has been presented in [Table 4]. Furthermore, bar charts showing the comparisons between the radiological risk parameters (due to the sum of gross alpha and beta) and the standard permissible limits have been presented in [Figure 2], [Figure 3], [Figure 4]. The correlation between risk parameters due to alpha and beta radiations have also been presented in [Figure 5], [Figure 6], [Figure 7].
[Table 1] and [Table 4] show that the combined AEDE due to gross alpha and gross beta radiations (AEDE T[α,β] ) in water samples from Owaza River ranged between 0.015 mSv/y and 1.718 mSv/y with a mean of 0.868 ± 0.221 mSv/y and a range of Sm of 0.327-1.409 mSv/y computed at 95% CI. AEDE T(α,β) in water samples from Imo River ranged between 0.549 mSv/y and 1.5 mSv/y with a mean of 1.008 ± 0.156 mSv/y and a range of Sm of 0.626-1.391 mSv/y computed at 95% CI. AEDE T(α,β) in water samples from Umorie River ranged between 0.058 and 1.652 mSv/y with a mean of 0.917 ± 0.214 mSv/y and a range of Sm of 0.394-1.440 mSv/y computed at 95% CI. These results show that AEDE T(α,β) for most of the sampled points are higher than the permissible limit of 0.1 mSv/y,  with the exceptions of OWR5 and UMR7 whose total AEDE are 0.015 mSv/y and 0.058 mSv/y respectively. However, the mean values of AEDE T(α,β) for each of the three surveyed rivers [presented in [Table 4] are all higher than the permissible limit. These results are comparable with the results which were computed to be 0.291 and 0.728 mSv/y (for the sum of alpha and beta) for borehole and well water in mining areas of Plateau State.  [Figure 2] shows a bar chart comparing the maximum calculated values of AEDE T(α,β) for the surveyed water samples and their mean values with permissible limit of 0.1 mSv/y. From the bar chart, the maximum and mean values are all above permissible limit. People who drink water from these rivers may likely be impacted negatively.
[Table 2] and [Table 4] show that AGDE T(α,β) in water samples from Owaza River ranged between 0.057 and 8.212 mSv/y with a mean of 4.048 ± 1.063 mSv/y and a range of Sm of 1.446-6.650 mSv/y computed at 95% CI. AGDE T(α,β) in water samples from Imo River ranged between 2.716 and 7.112 mSv/y with a mean of 4.756 ± 0.739 mSv/y and a range of Sm of 2.948- 6.564 mSv/y computed at 95% CI. AGDE T(α,β) in water samples from Umorie River ranged between 0.270 and 7.845 mSv/y with a mean of 4.295 ± 1.026 mSv/y and a range of Sm of 1.785-6.805 mSv/y computed at 95% CI. The mean values of AGDE T(α,β) for each of the sampled locations presented in [Table 4] show that apart from OWR5 and UMR7, other points recorded high values of AGDE that exceeded the world average limit of 0.3 mSv/y.  The maximum and mean values of AGDE T(α,β) compared with the standard are presented in the bar chart of [Figure 3]. These values are higher than the world standard of 0.3 mSv/y. These results imply that consumption of water from the surveyed sources could have possible negative impacts on the users.
[Table 3] and [Table 4] show that ELCR T(α,β) in water samples from Owaza River ranged between 0.052 × 10−3 and 6.014 × 10−3 with a mean of (3.038 ± 0.774) × 10−3 and a range of Sm of (1.143-4.933) × 10−3 computed at 95% CI. ELCR T(α,β) in water samples from Imo River ranged between 1.922 × 10−3 and 5.251 × 10−3 with a mean of (3.529 ± 0.547) × 10−3 and a range of Sm of (2.190-4.868) × 10−3 computed at 95% CI. ELCR T(α,β) in water samples from Umorie River ranged between 0.203 × 10−3 and 5.783 × 10−3 with a mean of (3.210 ± 0.748) × 10−3 and a range of Sm of (1.380-5.041) × 10−3 computed at 95% CI. The mean values of ELCR T(α,β) for the three surveyed rivers showed higher values than the world permissible limit of 0.29 × 10−3 for ELCR due to alpha and beta rays. All the sampled points except OWR5 and UMR7 recorded ELCR values that are higher than the world average of 0.29 × 10−3 .  Most values of ELCR computed in this work are greater than 6.0 × 10−4 estimated to be the risk of fatal and weighted nonfatal conditions over a lifetime (70 years) derived from the radiation dose of 0.1 mSv/y (which has been stated earlier as the World Health Organization [WHO] permissible limit for drinking water).  Drinking water from these surveyed sources could enhance one's probability of developing fatal and nonfatal health conditions (cancer and other hereditary effects). However, let us note that studies on radiation-induced cancer at low dose rates through the use of a simple proportional relationship between increments of dose and increased risk is a positive scientific assumption but with its associated uncertainties.  [Figure 4] compares the maximum and mean values of ELCR T(α,β) for the sample locations with the world average. The Figure shows that the maximum values of ELCR T(α,β) which correspond to OWR4, IMR1, and UMR1, and their mean values are higher than the world average.
The ranges of the mean of radiological risk parameters in water samples for the three surveyed rivers computed at 95% CI presented above tell us what the range of the true mean ought to be to reduce the level of uncertainty of the calculated mean which was based on a relatively small sample size (n = 7) for each of the surveyed areas. This range gives us an idea of the margin of error involved in using our small sample size to compute the mean of the sample distribution.
The linear regression models of [Figure 5], [Figure 6], [Figure 7] are used to compare the relationship between the alpha and beta rays computed for the sampled points. The R2 (determination coefficient) values for the three linear regression plots are all <0.5 implying a weak correlation between the two radiating particles. Since there is a weak correlation between the trend of emissions of alpha and beta radiations from the surveyed sources, it is recommended that one computes independently the radiological risk parameters associated with the alpha and beta rays to ascertain their total radiological contributions.
Three radiological risk parameters (due to the sum of gross alpha and beta radiations) have been computed for water samples collected from three rivers around some selected oil producing areas of Abia State. All the computed radiological risk parameters except two sampled points are above the world average limits and the WHO permissible limit for ingested water (0.1 mSv/y).  Drinking water from these surveyed sources could impact negatively on the health status of the end users. It is therefore very important that during radiological studies, apart from the assessment of the gamma rays, the impact of alpha and beta rays should also be understudied because of their relatively high ionization potentials. All water bodies around oil producing areas should be radiologically screened periodically before consumption to ensure that they are not radiologically overburdened due to crude oil pollution.
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30 Nov Location-based Pay Cuts May Discourage Remote Work
Posted in Global Mobility, Remote Work, Talent Management, Work from Home by Dennis
Many companies have accepted remote work as the new normal workplace set up due to the highly transmissible Covid-19 virus. Another term that's thrown a lot during the pandemic is work-from-anywhere. This workplace model allows employees to experience the highest flexibility when it comes to their work location options. This must have contributed to the many reasons for the occurrence of the "Great Resignation" last summer when employers couldn't offer this freedom.
Companies have been noticeably executing different strategies on location-based pay. For instance, Google, which encourages employees to make investments in staying in locations where on-site work is anticipated, reportedly planned to perform pay cuts on employees who decide to move from expensive locations to less expensive ones. This was reported back in August all the way to November last year.
The thought of undergoing pay cuts due to geographic reasons has its employees thinking of looking for other jobs to satisfy their demand for remote work in their desired location. In a Wired article, a senior software engineer from Google was reported to be job hunting. The tradeoff isn't going to cut it according to the employee. However, he placed his hopes on the tech giant's history of back-tracking pay-related decisions.
Others weren't so patient. Another employee opted to leave the company after hearing word that she would get a 25 percent pay cut. Similarly, Facebook and Twitter plan to cut pay for remote workers who choose to relocate to less expensive areas.
Pay cuts
These huge pay cuts have affected how employees view not only remote work but the company they're working for as well. HR and global mobility professionals now have to make sound decisions on how to go about these trends in talent attraction. Is geographic-based pay the way of the future or is it actually a hindrance to attracting and retaining top-quality talent? It also remains to be seen whether these pay cuts transpired at all, as there has been no widespread report about it.
Zillow's Chief People Officer, Dan Spaulding, didn't think the strategy of these tech giants was necessarily the suitable one for the real estate marketplace site. Spaulding believes that regardless of where its employees work, Zillow determines its workers' earning potential on the basis of their performance.
In a LinkedIn post, he mentions that a lot of thought went through in creating their compensation strategies. "As we evaluated our compensation philosophy to align with our new flexible work policy over the past year, we knew it needed to reflect our values and account for competitive realities. With this evolved approach, our nationally competitive compensation packages are primarily tied to an employee's role, responsibilities, and performance, with less emphasis on geography," he states.
There are rewards in implementing this compensation strategy. One benefit is the timeliness of offering performance-based compensation packages against geographic-based ones. It keeps companies competitive in recruitment. Their ability to offer remote work without having to reduce compensation based on location will entice top talent around the world. This competitive edge is timely and relevant in today's recruitment landscape as the war for talent persists.
Reddit, similar to Zillow, reportedly isn't adopting geographic-based compensation packages. Its Chief People Officer Nellie Peshkov explains in an interview with CNN that it discovered that employees' impact isn't affected by their geographic location.
According to Peshkov, employees expressed positive responses to their decision, appreciating the support and acknowledgment of their needs in the pandemic.
Moreover, the company is eyeing to make offices become a place where employees gather and spend time with others to maintain connection and engagement. So even if one chooses to work remotely full time, the company will offer them the option to visit the office throughout the year just to reconnect and build relationships with colleagues.
In Salary.com's survey on compensation, 95% of 753 organizations are opting not to lower pay for fully remote workers with most of them predicting that geography-based compensation strategies affect morale, performance, and retention negatively.
US tax proposals will affect global mobility
Though there seems to be a divide on whether reducing compensation based on location is the best strategy in a health crisis, tax proposals will affect business executives' decisions on the matter.
On September 13, draft tax proposals were released by the House Ways and Means Committee. AIRINC, a workforce consultancy firm, shares some of its insights on the impact of the proposal on global mobility:
Increase in the top individual rate from 37% to 39.6% but the tax bracket would be lowered from existing income thresholds
Increase in the top capital gains to 25%, not to mention the additional impact of the Net Investment Income Tax (3.8%) plus the new 3% surtax
Modification of the foreign tax credit (FTC). FTC limitation will be determined by country-to-country basis and shortening of the carryforward period where there is no carryback and only an amount of 5 years carryforward is allowed)
Having gathered this information, AIRINC suggests global mobility teams accelerate income and consider conducting assignments to avoid costly relocation taxes in 2022. These can definitely help cut down the costs in the event the proposals pass.
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Medicare provides a limited benefit for nursing home coverage for a limited period of time. Nursing homes are referred to in Medicare as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The benefit is available for a short time at best - for up to 100 days during each spell of illness. If Medicare coverage requirements are met, the patient is entitled to full coverage of the first 20 days of SNF care. From the 21st through the 100th day, Medicare pays for all covered services except for a daily coinsurance amount ($109.50 per day in 2004) The SNF patient will not be entitled to any Medicare coverage unless he or she was hospitalized for at least three days prior to the SNF admission and, generally, was admitted to the SNF within 30 days of the hospital discharge.


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Udayakumar custodial death case a false cover up. As court finds two police officers guilty
24 July 2018 5:51 PM GMT
On Tuesday the Special Court for the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI in Thiruvananthapuram found two police officers guilty of torturing Udayakumar, 26, to death
On Tuesday the Special Court for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Thiruvananthapuram found two police officers guilty of torturing Udayakumar, 26, to death. At the Fort police station here in 2005 and three of their immediate supervisors were liable for having attempted to cover up the crime by destroying evidence and fudging station records.
The Case, with an outcome of the hich had meandered through various investigative agencies and courts for years, was viewed as a milestone in Udayakumar ageing single mother Prabhavathi Amma's battle to bring her son's assailants to justice. It also marked a watershed in the history of cases relating to police brutality.
Those found guilty of murder are civil police officers K. Ajith Kumar and S.V. Sreekumar. The CBI's case was that they had apprehended Udayakumar, a scrapyard employee, and his friend Suresh Kumar from Sreekanteswaram Park around 2 p.m. on September 27, 2005,with the suspicion that they were thieves.
Their suspicion was further aroused when they found ₹4,200 on Udayakumar. The CBI said the officers bound Udayakumar to the bench spreadeagled and inflicted crush injuries on his thighs to extract a confession. The injuries proved to be fatal.
CBI Special Judge J. Nazar found the then Assistant Commissioner, Fort, T.K. Haridas, then Circle inspector E.K. Sabu and then Sub-Inspector Ajith Kumar had conspired to register a false case against Udayakumar after he died in custody to legally justify the wrongful detention and absolve themselves of supervisory lapse. He also found that the officers had fudged station records as part of the cover-up operation.
During the trial, Suresh, who was arrested along with Udayakumar, abruptly reversed his sworn statement that he had witnessed the crime. The court has ordered the CBI to initiate proceedings against him on the charge of perjury.
The CBI bolstered its case by flipping six other suspect officers, who were in the station when the crime happened, and subsequent concealment of the offence, in favour of the prosecution.
Special Court
Udayakumar custodial death case


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Ya know how Mommy Dearest feels about wire hangers? I feel the same way about metal artificial tree bases showing. Before I go completely Joan Crawford let's discuss adorable clever and crafty Christmas tree skirt ideas. I've round up a few of my favorites to get you inspired and to ensure that no naked metal tree base is ever left exposed again.
One of my favorite tricks is to buy a ready made felt tree skirt for under $5 and get crafty with the embellishments. This Vintage Inspired No-Sew Felt Christmas Tree Skirt was inspired by my collection of vintage Jewel Brite ornaments. Shiny silver material, sequins and cut felt combine to create the kitschmas skirt of my dreams!
We all know how I feel about pompoms right? I like them, no I mean I REALLY like them. That being said I have strong feelings for this adorable DIY Pom Pom Tree Skirt by Libbie Summers. I may need one of these in my life this year. Luckily I know how to make pompoms in bulk!
My collection of vintage Christmas stockings was getting out of control. I have way more stockings than I do children so I came up with a plan – make a DIY Christmas tree skirt out of my felt stocking collection. Check out more over on Houzz in An Austin Stylist's Technicolor Christmas Home. I didn't actually sew the stockings together I just pinned them so that I could use them in other decorative ways from year to year. This season I have them hung like a window valance.
Did someone say no-sew? That is my favorite kind of sewing craft, the kind where you don't actually sew! How clever is this No-Sew Ribbon Christmas Tree Skirt – The DIY Dreamer? What a clever way to use up all those scraps of ribbons, trims and fringe.
This summer I decorated a Christmas tree with a travel theme complete with DIY Snow Globe Ornaments, Clever Globe and Map Up-cycle Projects and this tree skirt made from a collection of vintage travel souvenir flags. I always love to think of ways to incorporate my various collections into my tree decorations.
Fun fact – I used to write record reviews, interview bands and co-own a record label. That being said I've got a real soft spot for vinyl records. I've decorated an entire Christmas tree for National Record Store Day covered in vinyl records. Where was this DIY Vinyl Record Tree Skirt – Rain On A Tin Roof then? It would have been perfect! Be sure to check out these 10 Seriously Clever DIY Projects Using Vinyl Records.
Not all Christmas sweaters are ugly, some just need to be recycled into something new and improved like say a Christmas tree base wrap. I've got a slew of Recycled Sweater Christmas Crafts to share like ornaments, plant koozies and more. When you are done there be sure to check out my Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Ideas on HGTV.
You had me at pompom fringe, but then throw in those retro vibes and my Christmas loving heart swoons. This Mid Century Inspired Christmas Tree Skirtfrom Melodrama hits all the right notes for me. Check out all of these amazing pink Christmas trees including another one from Melodrama complete with yet another amazing DIY felt mid-century style skirt.
I live in Austin – we take our Mexican food seriously. In fact for most Christmas dinners I make a Feliz Navidad inspired feast of carnitas, tamales, enchiladas and more. Seems only fitting that I would make sure my Feliz Navidad tree had a matching tree skirt. Literally a skirt. This is a vintage souvenir skirt from Mexico doubling as a tree skirt and table cloth.
The only reason I'd ever learn to sew is because there are so many adorable quilting fabric options. I love the colors and patterns in this Giant Dresden Christmas Skirt by Carrie Actually. Over on her site Carrie sells PDF patterns so that you can make your very own with any fabric you want!
I used to have a skirt you could actually wear made from vintage neck ties. Now I wish I still had it so I could wrap it around a Christmas tree! This Skirt From Men's Ties by Aunt Peaches is adorable in all those shades of red! I've been hoarding a bunch of 60's floral ties maybe they have finally found their calling!
Felt appliques in crazy kitschmas colors inspired by vintage Christmas tree skirts of years past – that's my kinda tree skirt. I made this DIY vintage inspired felt tree skirt because like most things I make I could not find a skirt to suit my tree needs. Problem solved with a little creative felt cutting, glue and sequins!
No more wire tree bases – please. With so many DIY tree skirt options why would you! You wouldn't decorate a tree without a topper, why on Earth would you skip the skirt.
Posted November 23, 2018 & filed under Christmas, Holidays, Uncategorized.
So many excellent ideas! The Pompom tree skirt is so colourful and festive. It may be a bit tough to clean after a while, though, but there are no stains a little baking soda or vinegar solution can't tackle.
LOVE, LOVE the cleaver ideas. Especially if you have several Xmas trees. Some fun ideas for a kids rooms. The records are really "out of the box" thinking. Thank you.
lord knows I fall under the "several Christmas trees" category. I agree those records were a favorite for sure!


Skopje, 3 April - PM Miro Cerar will pay an official visit to Macedonia on Tuesday and Wednesday in what his office said was an affirmation of the good and friendly relations. Bilateral ties and Macedonia's EU and NATO aspirations will be in the focus of talks.
PM Miro Cerar (left) to meet his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev (right) in Skopje.
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TheJ is a minimal and creative WordPress portfolio theme for professionals. We integrate Jetpack into TheJ to provide the functionality for the portfolio. Jetpack is a great plugin by Automattic which provides a lot of features not only for themes but also for any WordPress website. We started to use Jetpack in TheM and we're happy to use it in TheJ.
In order to provide users the flexibility to control the website, we use Visual Composer to build the site. We think Visual Composer is one of the greatest page builders for WordPress. It's very flexible, has a lot of options and quite easy to use. The most important thing is so many users on ThemeForest are familiar with the plugin. We hope that can reduce our support effort ?
As we spent a lot of time building and optimizing it, we believe it's one of the most creative WordPress portfolio theme in the market and hope you like it. Please let us know what you think in the comments.


The registration to this course will open in March. Please, bring your own laptop. All the PATC courses at BSC are free of charge.
Objectives: The objective of this course is to learn how Paraver and Dimemas tools can be used to analyze the performance of parallel applications and to familiarize with the tools usage as well as instrumenting applications with Extrae.
Learning Outcomes:The students who finish this course will have a basic knowledge on the usage of the BSC performance tools. They will be able to apply the same methodology to their applications, identifying potential bottlenecks and getting hints on how to improve the applications performance.


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Chiropractic Manipulation
Muscular Rehabilitation
Practioners
Kristin Kolesar Fabris, D.C.
Dr. K has practiced an individualized and holistic approach to patient care in Rhode Island since 2007. She believes true health should not be measured by merely the absence of disease but rather the quality of living. She is passionate about contributing to the growth of integrative healthcare in our community, which promotes determining true causation of a health concern and combining the best therapies for individual needs both for short term relief as well as long term wellbeing. She believes this care should be available to everyone.
Dr. Kristin Kolesar Fabris earned her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from National University of Health Sciences in Chicago in 2007. She received her undergraduate B.S. degree in Psychology and Biology at Loyola University Maryland in 2004. She has extensive training in diagnosis, x-ray evaluation, physical medicine, and nutrition. She has had further extensive training in women's health and nutrition, and is certified in Webster Technique for pregnant women. She currently serves on the board of the Chiropractic Society of Rhode Island. When not practicing the art of adjusting, she is likely goofing around with her daughter Isla, running on the boulevard, or enjoying a beach somewhere in our beautiful state.
Kathryn McCarthy MA Ed, MS OTR/L
Kathryn McCarthy received her Masters in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University and has specialized in pediatrics for 22 years. She has worked in clinic, early intervention and school based settings, as well as having offered her clinical expertise internationally in facilities in Romania and Mexico. Kathryn is also highly trained and certified in evaluating and treating Sensory Processing Disorders in both children and adults.
Kathryn began her training in CranioSacral Therapy in 2000 and currently sees clients privately in Providence, RI where she provides services for infants, children and adults. She also provides services at My Pediatric OT Services in Foxboro, MA, specializing in Sensory Processing Disorders and CranioSacral Therapy. Additionally, Kathryn previously taught a "Manual Therapy For Pediatrics" course nationally in a variety of hospital and clinical settings.
Kathryn has a Masters in Dance Performance from George Washington University, having performed and taught professionally prior to pursuing her career in Occupational Therapy. Kathryn loves working with pregnant mothers, infants, children and adults that present with a wide range of issues and concerns, supporting healthy function throughout the developmental continuum.
For more information and contact: www.kathrynmccarthyotr.com
Eleanor L. Stump, D.C.
Dr. Eleanor L. Stump received her Doctorate of Chiropractic cum laude from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1976. She recently relocated from Delaware to Rhode Island in 2019. Throughout her career on the eastern shore of Delaware, Dr. Stump was elected Chiropractor of the Year in 1985 and was the first woman to be appointed to the Delaware Board of Examiners. She also was the recipient of the Palmer College Mabel Palmer Award "Woman Doctor of the Year" in 2016.
In order to more holistically serve her patients, she received her acupuncture accreditation from Parker College of Chiropractic. She was the first American woman to receive a Blackbelt in Shorinji Kempo and uses these eastern philosophies in guiding her patients to a more integrative health approach. She is also a certified yoga instructor and has been teaching Hatha yoga for over 40 years. She has given many lectures to the community and professionally on wellness, women's health, pain management and complementary therapies.
Dr. Stump has dedicated her career to educating her patients to the benefits of Chiropractic and enabling them to practice better self-care and therefore Be Well.
She is passionately committed to the art, science and philosophy of Chiropractic!
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I Am One21 | Value Three. Create Ways to Mend a Broken World.
This week's video is a must watch as it reminds us of who we are serving, and how we are called to serve.
Live this value by creating ways to meet the spiritual, educational, social, physical, and emotional needs of those around us.
The world is broken. It has been since rebellion entered the world and separated humanity from God. Ultimate reconciliation of this broken world comes through Jesus. The beauty of Jesus is that he meets each of us in our mess, carries our burdens, and redeems our stories. So, what is our role in this "fixing of broken stories?" At One21 we want to help reconcile and heal the brokenness we see around us. That means taking personal responsibility to notice others, to be present in their brightest and darkest moments, to carry their burdens with them, and to share Jesus with them. It also means we look for opportunities to propel others into opportunities to live out their God-given passions.
Do you share God's heart and care about what He cares about?
Make a list of the things you think are broken in this world. How are you participating in the work of the church to bring hope to one of issues on that list?
Name one person around you who is burdened, isolated, broken, or desperate. What's one way you can help carry their burden?


Mazda is commemorating one of, if not, their greatest ever model to date in 2019 with a limited edition 30th anniversary edition. That's right, the best-selling sports car in the world turns 30 years old in 2019. Over 1 million units of the MX5 have been built and sold since it was introduced at the Chicago Motor Show all the way back in 1989, and it is now globally renowned as one of the best handling cars ever built.
The first distinctive feature of this milestone Special Edition is the paintwork. The 30th Anniversary Edition will be sold exclusively in a striking and eye-catching 'Racing Orange' colour which will turn heads wherever it goes. Each model will also come with unique lightweight Rays alloy wheels which will not be made available on any other Mazda models. Buyers will also get brake callipers in Racing Orange and, for the first time in the UK, uprated Brembo brakes will hug the front discs.
The fun continues to the inside, where the interior has been plastered with stylish orange accents. The gear lever, seats, dashboard, door card, air vents, steering wheel and dashboard now all have bright orange piping to match the exterior paintwork. Then, perhaps the most attractive upgrade for the Special Edition is the heavily bolstered leather and Alcantara bucket seats which look simply magical. The Alcantara then continues onto the steering wheel and door trim. All of this is standard specification on the 30th Anniversary edition, so too is Apple Car Play and Android Auto.
Across the whole of the world there will only be 3,000 30th Anniversary Edition models of the Mazda MX-5 but, luckily, Mazda knows just how much we love them in the UK, where they have sold over 130,000 models since 1989. So, we're lucky enough to be receiving a total of 600 of the 3,000 models which is rather generous of Mazda. 400 of these models will be the convertible body shape and the other 200 will be Retractable Fastback models with the folding metal roof.
All models will come fitted with the potent 184 PS 2.0 litre Sky Activ petrol engines which are proving to be hugely popular thanks to their reasonable blend of running costs and fruity performance. Buyers will also be happy to know that all models come with the uprated Bilstein dampers, a limited-slip differential, strut bracing and of course a wonderfully mechanical 6-speed manual gearbox. Top, top spec.
If this Special Edition model ticks your boxes, we'd suggest getting in touch with Mazda as soon as possible, as they will sell out very quickly. You can buy a convertible model from £28,095 or an RF model from £29,985. The order books are open now and the first deliveries will begin by summer time. So what are you waiting for?


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Textbook of Psychiatric Administration and Leadership, Third Edition
Edited by Sy Saeed, M.D., M.S., FACPsych, John Lauriello, M.D., and Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.
The delivery of, and access to, health care—including mental health care—is evolving more rapidly now than ever before. As the current cohort of psychiatric administrators and leaders approach the end of their careers, two options remain: abdicating leadership to nonclinical administrators or nonpsychiatric physicians or equipping a future generation of psychiatric leaders to advocate on behalf of providers and patients.
Arguing that the latter is essential to a strong behavioral health care system, this third edition of the Textbook of Psychiatric Administration and Leadership consolidates the insights of a curated group of experts to both increase the knowledge of young, aspiring leaders and help more established leaders refine their skills.
Written in a clear, practical style accessible to readers at any stage of their careers, chapters include evidence-based insights and best practices on topics that include
Business development and revenue generation
Financing of health care services
Quality and performance improvement
Leading a healthy team, addressing staff burnout, and cultivating well-being
Using health information technology
Throughout the textbook, case vignettes serve to translate information from page to practice. Each subject area is also examined through the lens of the needs and choices of both patients and personnel and considers a multiplicity of perspectives, including culture, gender, and race.
With information on additional resources for furthering knowledge and sources for mentorship, the Textbook of Psychiatric Administration and Leadership is a necessary first step on the path to leadership for mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, advanced practice providers, nurses, and social workers, whether still in training or having been in practice for years.
PART I: Basic Concepts
Chapter 1. Psychiatric Leadership
Chapter 2. Organizational Theory: The Advance of Scientific Management, Behavioral Science, and Social Science in the Workplace
Chapter 3. Behavioral Health Care Landscape: Who Needs It? Who Buys It?
Chapter 4. The Voice of Recovery
PART II: Program Development and Strategies for Dealing With Organizational Challenges
Chapter 5. Organized Psychiatric Health Care Systems: Private Practices, Community-Based Clinics, Hospitals, and Health Systems
Chapter 6. Planning
Chapter 7. Business Development: Revenue Generation, Marketing, and Philanthropy
PART III: Management
Chapter 8. Implementation: Principles and Challenges
Chapter 9. Training: What Do Psychiatrists Need to Learn About Administration?
Chapter 10. Governance: Internal (Institutional) and External (Governmental Legislation and Regulation): Who Runs and Navigates?
Chapter 11. Introduction to Talent Management: Acquiring and Retaining the Talent Essential to Success
Chapter 12. Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
Chapter 13. No More Frostbite and Other Management and Leadership Strategies
Chapter 14. Financing of Health Care Services
Chapter 15. Leading a Healthy Team: Addressing Staff Burnout and Cultivating Well-Being
Chapter 16. Diversity and Leadership
PART IV: Law and Ethics
Chapter 17. Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Psychiatric Practice
Chapter 18. Psychiatric Malpractice
Chapter 19. Ethics in Clinical Leadership
PART V: Evaluation of Psychiatric Services
Chapter 20. Institutional Accreditation and Licensure
Chapter 21. Quality and Performance Improvement
Chapter 22. Outcome Assessment and Measurement-Based Care
PART VI: Information Technology
Chapter 23. Health Information Technology
Chapter 24. Using Technology for Providing Care
Chapter 25. Privacy and Security for Psychiatry Health Information Technology
PART VII: Conclusion
Chapter 26. Leadership: A Personal Perspective
Rashi Aggarwal, M.D.
George Alvarado, M.D.
Daniel J. Balog, M.D.
Victor J. A. Buwalda, M.D., Ph.D., IDFAPA
Steven R. Chan, M.D., M.B.A.
Cassy Christianson, M.A.
Stephanie Cripps, M.D.
Bernadette A. Cullen, M.B., B.Ch., MRCPsych
Christopher Czapla, M.D.
Mark D'Agostino, M.D., M.S., M.Sc.
Charles H. Dukes, M.D., FAPA
Carol S. Garlick, C.F.R.E.
Grace W. Gengoux, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Lawrence Goldberg, M.D., DLFAPA
Brian M. Hepburn, M.D.
Don Hilty, M.D., M.B.A.
Poh Choo How, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert M. Kolodner, M.D., FACMI, LFAPA
Stephen I. Kramer, M.D., DLFAPA
Elisabeth J. S. Kunkel, M.D.
John Lauriello, M.D.
Rupinder Legha, M.D.
Steven Lindley, M.D., Ph.D.
Mehul Mankad, M.D.
Shawn J. Mawhiney
William E. Narrow, M.D., M.P.H.
Stephen G. Noffsinger, M.D.
Uchenna Okoye, M.D., M.P.H.Attending Psychiatrist, Alameda Health System, San Leandro, California
Britta K. Ostermeyer, M.D., M.B.A., DFAPAProfes
Michelle Parish, Ph.D.
Jorge R. Petit, M.D.
Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.
Robert P. Roca, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Sy Atezaz Saeed, M.D., M.S., FACPsych
John Santopietro, M.D., DFAPA
Manish Sapra, M.D., M.M.M.
Erika F. H. Saunders, M.D.
Adrienne Saxton, M.D.
Miriam Schwartz
Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D., M.P.A.
Ruth Shim, M.D., M.P.H.
Jay H. Shore, M.D., M.P.H.
Stuart B. Silver, M.D.
Ines J. Sleeboom-van Raaij, M.D.
Giovanna Lee Sobrinho, M.D.
Wesley E. Sowers, M.D.
Arlene Hahn Stephenson, M.A.S., NHDP-BC
Richard Summers, M.D.
Marvin S. Swartz, M.D.
Kevin Trenney, C.P.S.
Patrick Triplett, M.D.
Mary C. Vance, M.D., M.Sc.
Ashley H. VanDercar, M.D., J.D.
Michael J. Vergare, M.D.
Tobias Wasser, M.D
John Elgin Wilkaitis, M.D., M.B.A., CPE, DFAPA, DFAACAP, FASAM
Craig Williams, Ph.D., SPHR
Peter Yellowlees, M.B.B.S., M.D.
Sy Atezaz Saeed, M.D., M.S., is Professor and Chairman Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina; Founding Director of the ECU Center for Telepsychiatry and e-Behavioral Health; and Founding Executive Director of the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP).
John Lauriello, M.D., is Daniel Lieberman Professor and Chair at Thomas Jefferson University in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., is Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor at Stanford University and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.
American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders Second Edition
Edited by Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., Natalie Rasgon, M.D., Ph.D., and Stephen M. Strakowski, M.D. 2022


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Q: HTML Newsletter - Outlook fix for different versions I am working on a HTML newsletter/email and have a question regarding different versions of Outlook (2007, 2010, 2011, 2013). The layout I want works on all other clients we have tested (using a 'deliverability test' which displays how it would look in clients).
Link to image of the differences:
http://jimharrison.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/outlook.jpg
What I'm aiming for: To have the bottom of the phone sit on the last 'League point' text.
NOTE: image is set to stretch to 100%.
Outlook 2011: image is just under.
Outlook 2007, 2010: image is sitting far from bottom but the top of the image is aligned correctly.
Outlook 2013: image is way off and also there is unwanted spacing between 'League points' on the left.
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                            It's time
to step it up a gear

                            Starting on 1st November and running through to 29th December we've got "Shake It Up Rio" with Samsung offering 34 people the chance to soak up the sun in Rio, Brazil!  As well as having the chance to party to the Samba beat, we also have weekly Best Incentive Points for Stores and Sales Advisors to win!

                            Sell the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone and Galaxy Gear smartwatch, as well as the handsets listed below to earn league points and work your way up the league table!

                        Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear

                        10 League Points

                        Galaxy S4

                        5 League Points

                        Galaxy S4 mini

                        3 League Points

                        Galaxy Ace 3

                        1 League Points

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Difficult for me to test this but it should work . . .
I always find putting images into different cells for emails to be quite effective.

A: To fix this issue:
Simply removed the width property and gave it the necessary height to fit with the text.
Because it's a responsive email this fix isn't perfect/ideal (I've had to play around with the CSS on the image so that it scales properly), but it's a fix nonetheless.

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package com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc;

import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

import java.text.MessageFormat;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

/**
 * Factory for SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256Algorithm
 */
class SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256Factory extends SQLServerEncryptionAlgorithmFactory {
    // In future we can have more
    private byte algorithmVersion = 0x1;
    private ConcurrentHashMap<String, SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256Algorithm> encryptionAlgorithms = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

    @Override
    SQLServerEncryptionAlgorithm create(SQLServerSymmetricKey columnEncryptionKey,
            SQLServerEncryptionType encryptionType, String encryptionAlgorithm) throws SQLServerException {

        assert (columnEncryptionKey != null);
        if (encryptionType != SQLServerEncryptionType.Deterministic
                && encryptionType != SQLServerEncryptionType.Randomized) {
            MessageFormat form = new MessageFormat(SQLServerException.getErrString("R_InvalidEncryptionType"));
            Object[] msgArgs = {encryptionType, encryptionAlgorithm,
                    "'" + SQLServerEncryptionType.Deterministic + "," + SQLServerEncryptionType.Randomized + "'"};
            throw new SQLServerException(this, form.format(msgArgs), null, 0, false);

        }

        StringBuilder factoryKeyBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        factoryKeyBuilder.append(
                Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(new String(columnEncryptionKey.getRootKey(), UTF_8).getBytes()));

        factoryKeyBuilder.append(":");
        factoryKeyBuilder.append(encryptionType);
        factoryKeyBuilder.append(":");
        factoryKeyBuilder.append(algorithmVersion);

        String factoryKey = factoryKeyBuilder.toString();

        SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256Algorithm aesAlgorithm;

        if (!encryptionAlgorithms.containsKey(factoryKey)) {
            SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256EncryptionKey encryptedKey = new SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256EncryptionKey(
                    columnEncryptionKey.getRootKey(), SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256Algorithm.algorithmName);
            aesAlgorithm = new SQLServerAeadAes256CbcHmac256Algorithm(encryptedKey, encryptionType, algorithmVersion);
            encryptionAlgorithms.putIfAbsent(factoryKey, aesAlgorithm);
        }

        return encryptionAlgorithms.get(factoryKey);
    }

}

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After all, it's not every day a novelist has the opportunity—or the guts—to take up the mantle of the queen of crime herself, breathing new life into Agatha Christie's bombastic detective Hercule Poirot. (Did you know? Poirot's "death" in 1975's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case earned him an obituary in the New York Times.) This week, Sophie stopped by the Bluestocking Salon for a chat about tackling an icon and appreciating the genius of Agatha Christie.
Bas Bleu: The Monogram Murders was written with the blessing of Agatha Christie's family. How did the project come about? Were you approached by the Christie estate to revive Hercule Poirot, or did you come to them with the idea?
Sophie Hannah: It was all down to good luck! My agent happened to be meeting with Agatha Christie's publishers about something else, and he said, off the top of his head, "Hey, you know what? You should ask my author Sophie Hannah to write a new Poirot novel—she's a huge Agatha Christie fan!" The publishers spoke to the Christie estate the next day and mentioned it, thinking the answer would be no as it always had been in the past when they'd raised to idea of a new Christie novel—but it turned out that the Christie family was thinking about the possibility of an Agatha Christie continuation novel in any case—at just the right time! So it was a stroke of good timing and good fortune.
BB: What draws you in particular to the Belgian detective? Were you apprehensive about tackling such a beloved and iconic character?
SH: I love Poirot for many reasons. He has the brilliant brain power that equals that of Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes, but he is also in touch with his emotional side. He is warm, romantic, compassionate, loyal. And his flaws are so endearing: his love of good food and wine, his fondness for luxury, his obsessive tidiness. He gets a lot of pleasure from life. He's a more rounded character, I think, than some of his equally clever rivals. And yes, of course writing a Poirot novel was a daunting prospect, but I didn't think of it as being daunted. I thought of it as an exciting challenge—hugely inspiring and refreshing from a creative point of view.
BB: Your previous novels are contemporary thrillers, yet in The Monogram Murders you so vividly evoke 1920s London, in particular the glamorous (fictional) Bloxham Hotel. How did you adapt your research and writing process for The Monogram Murders?
SH: My main research/homework was rereading Agatha's Golden Age Poirot novels. That fixed the right kind of tone in my mind. I did have to spend a fair bit of time searching online to see whether different things (like Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry) existed in 1929! I also re-watched all the David Suchet TV adaptations. And then I sat down and thought, "Right—now I have to start writing in the voice of a 1920s English policeman—will I be able to do that?" But from the moment I wrote the first word, the voice of Edward Catchpool, my narrator, started to flow. I didn't feel as if I had to invent him, really—he was just, fortunately, there in my head when I needed him!
BB: You're obviously a devoted Christie fan. Did you glean any further insight into her literary genius after spending so much time with her most famous detective?
SH: Absolutely! Everyone knows she's brilliant at plot, but there's so much more than that in her work. Her novels are packed with wisdom and psychological insight. She understood that sometimes the best way to illuminate an important truth about reality was to frame it in a startlingly unusual way, using an outlandish, unforgettable story premise that would grab everyone's attention.
And Christie's tangible love of storytelling is not her only unique feature as a crime writer. She also manages to combine light and dark, without either of them ever detracting from the other, in a way that no other writer can. Her stories are in no way cozy or twee, though some of their village settings might be; she understands the depravity, ruthlessness, and dangerous weakness of human beings. She knows all about warped minds, long grudges, agonizing need; in each of her novels, a familiarity with the darkest parts of the human psyche underpins the narrative. Yet at the same time, on the surface of her stories there is fun, lightness, warmth, a puzzle to make readers say, "Ooh, this is a good challenge!" The dark side of Christie's work never undermines the feel-good effect in any way—reading an Agatha Christie novel is, above all else, great fun.
BB: Is there more Poirot in your future? Or perhaps a Miss Marple reboot?
SH: Definitely not Marple, for me! Poirot would be jealous. Possibly another Poirot—we will have to wait and see!
BB: Aside from your own titles, which mysteries/thrillers are you quick to recommend to readers?
BB: What are a few books by other writers that you wish you'd written?
SH: None. I think there's something deeply sinister about wishing you'd written someone else's book! Though I spend my entire life trying to think of solutions as clever as Agatha's Murder on the Orient Express!
BB: Many thanks to Sophie for taking a break from her busy writing schedule to share her thoughts on this terrific novel!
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Q: how would I calculate the L2 or euclidean distance between rows of different 2D vectors I've been given 2 different 2D arrays and I'm asked to calculate the L2 distance between the rows of array x and the rows in array y. The shape of array x is (M, D) and the shape of array y is (N, D). The final answer array should have the shape (M, N).
I'm not very good at python. I'm really just doing random things and seeing what happens.
import numpy as np

def compute_distances(x, y):
    """ Write a function that computes the L2 distance between each row
        in `x` and `y`.

        Parameters
        ----------
        x : numpy.ndarray
            x.shape must be (M, D)
            Each row of `x` is a flattened vector representing the pixel
            values of a single image. Thus `x` represents
            M images, each one described by a length-D vector.

        y : numpy.ndarray
            y.shape must be (N, D)
            Each row of `y` is a flattened vector representing the pixel
            values of a single image. Thus `y` represents
            N images, each one described by a length-D vector.

        Returns
        -------
        distances : numpy.ndarray
            distances.shape = (M, N)
            distances[i, j] = the L2 distance between x[i] and y[j]
    """
    # student code goes here

    M = x.shape[0]
    N = y.shape[0]
    dists = np.array (M, N)
    dists[i, j] = np.sqrt(np.sum(np.square(x.shape[0] - y.shape[0]), axis = 0))

    pass

A: I like this one since it works for 1, 2 and 3D arrays
def e_dist(a, b, metric='euclidean'):
    """Distance calculation for 1D, 2D and 3D points using einsum

    preprocessing :
        use `_view_`, `_new_view_` or `_reshape_` with structured/recarrays

    Parameters
    ----------
    a, b : array like
        Inputs, list, tuple, array in 1, 2 or 3D form
    metric : string
        euclidean ('e', 'eu'...), sqeuclidean ('s', 'sq'...),

    Notes
    -----
    mini e_dist for 2d points array and a single point

    >>> def e_2d(a, p):
            diff = a - p[np.newaxis, :]  # a and p are ndarrays
            return np.sqrt(np.einsum('ij,ij->i', diff, diff))

    See Also
    --------
    cartesian_dist : function
        Produces pairs of x,y coordinates and the distance, without duplicates.
    """
    a = np.asarray(a)
    b = np.atleast_2d(b)
    a_dim = a.ndim
    b_dim = b.ndim
    if a_dim == 1:
        a = a.reshape(1, 1, a.shape[0])
    if a_dim >= 2:
        a = a.reshape(np.prod(a.shape[:-1]), 1, a.shape[-1])
    if b_dim > 2:
        b = b.reshape(np.prod(b.shape[:-1]), b.shape[-1])
    diff = a - b
    dist_arr = np.einsum('ijk,ijk->ij', diff, diff)
    if metric[:1] == 'e':
        dist_arr = np.sqrt(dist_arr)
    dist_arr = np.squeeze(dist_arr)
    return dist_arr

Yielding
a = np.random.rand(3, 2)
b = np.random.rand(5, 2)
e_dist(a, b)
array([[0.62, 0.45, 0.88, 0.7 , 0.33],
       [0.46, 0.57, 0.47, 0.25, 0.4 ],
       [0.94, 0.68, 0.16, 0.35, 0.62]])

and for...
a = np.random.rand(2, 3, 2)
b = np.random.rand(2, 5, 2)
e_dist(a, b)
array([[0.72, 0.39, 0.89, 0.25, 0.29, 0.41, 0.31, 0.6 , 0.8 , 0.39],
       [0.25, 0.26, 0.69, 0.45, 0.45, 0.63, 0.57, 0.39, 0.25, 0.78],
       [0.28, 0.27, 0.74, 0.47, 0.46, 0.69, 0.62, 0.45, 0.25, 0.84],
       [0.43, 0.48, 0.47, 0.52, 0.54, 0.2 , 0.17, 0.21, 0.55, 0.38],
       [0.15, 0.36, 0.54, 0.51, 0.52, 0.52, 0.48, 0.23, 0.23, 0.69],
       [0.87, 0.76, 0.78, 0.67, 0.71, 0.26, 0.28, 0.64, 0.99, 0.06]])

And to compare numpy and scipy variants for 2d
from scipy.spatial import distance_matrix
distance_matrix(a, b)
array([[0.87, 0.89, 0.91, 0.07, 0.68, 0.95, 0.89],
       [0.78, 0.52, 0.28, 0.85, 0.22, 0.65, 0.51],
       [0.75, 0.46, 0.51, 1.08, 0.5 , 0.57, 0.45]])

e_dist(a, b)
array([[0.87, 0.89, 0.91, 0.07, 0.68, 0.95, 0.89],
       [0.78, 0.52, 0.28, 0.85, 0.22, 0.65, 0.51],
       [0.75, 0.46, 0.51, 1.08, 0.5 , 0.57, 0.45]])

So there are lots of options, depending on the size of the arrays you are working with.


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A few days ago in the mail, I received a teeshirt with the classic Bunnicula book cover on it. I'll admit, I got a bit emotional. Bunnicula was written by Deborah and James Howe and published in 1979. It is a humorous, children's mystery novel about a family who finds a black and white bunny at a movie theatre one evening while watching Dracula—and it's all told from the perspective of the family dog.
In the fourth grade, I was attending public school for the first time. I was the new kid, and as some new kids do, I tried to find what could make me fit in with the regulars. It didn't take long for everyone in my homeroom to notice that I was a kid who could draw. Not just draw, but draw well, and on demand, and for a price. I traded art for goods regularly, and there was no shortage of demand for my original art.
It also didn't take long for some kids in the homeroom across the hall to counter my classroom's pride with the announcement that they too had "the kid who could draw" just a few steps away in their class. Without my consent, the two opposing groups of boys pitted my talent against the other kid's talent in a draw-off. And they were serious about it.
I don't recall anything that was drawn by either of us, or what the stakes were. One thing I do remember was that this other kid was good. It was my first time encountering anyone else my age who could draw like me. I had always been the oddity. It was as if I'd met another mutant among the masses of normal kids. However, to the surprise of the warring factions of boys, this other artist and I quickly became good buddies. A friendship that has lasted until this very day. All that to say that drawing pictures played a major role in how I made friends and formed my identity among other kids. As a result, it was how my teachers knew me as well.
One teacher in particular: Mrs. Davis. It was impossible for her not to notice my artistic abilities. While she was teaching us math, I was drawing a haunted house for a kid across the room. While she taught reading, I was drawing a motorcycle for the kid a few seats down the row. One day as she paced the room, she caught me in the final pencil strokes of a portrait of none other than her. It was a real doozie. A classic. There she sat at her desk, monstrous, a jagged scowl scraped across her face, the inspirational book club posters on the front of her desk replaced by stern warnings to "SHUT UP!" and "SIT DOWN!" She calmly reached down and took the piece of fine art and tucked it under her clipboard.
I may have forgotten about the incident and the drawing had Mrs. Davis not pulled it out to share at Parent-Teacher Conference a few weeks later. I don't remember the conversation that took place. I just remember being terrified of the punishment to come only to realize that Mrs. Davis was strangely giggling as she showed the drawing to my parents. It seemed that I was not in trouble after all, but being spoken about with affection.
In the schooldays to come, Mrs. Davis employed a wide range of efforts to corral my mindless doodling into something constructive and beneficial to my education. When the class needed a bulletin board to display the facts we were learning about dinosaurs, she had me draw a giant Stegosaur on butcher paper. She hung it in the hallway outside our classroom.
When we were given the assignment to write a spooky poem for Halloween, she encouraged me to make mine into a book complete with a front and back cover and illustrations. The art was clearly inspired by the rise of Madballs and Garbage Pail Kids. She was so impressed with my poem book, The Glob, that she had our entire class recite the poem at an assembly with parents in attendance. Our entire classroom stood chanting, "The Glob, the Glob, what an ugly slob." I didn't know what "surreal" meant then, but I recall now how surreal the experience was for me.
Despite this and other efforts to include and help focus my creative brain, I continued to merely doodle. One day while she read to us from a book called Bunnicula, as she did several days a week, she noticed that I was not paying attention to the story. My attention was focused somewhere inward and coming out in doodles on the back of a handout. Later that week, before the next reading session, she called me to her desk. Again I expected to be disciplined. However, instead of discipline, Mrs. Davis had one last game plan. As she read to the class from Bunnicula, she instructed me to listen to the scenes being described and to illustrate them on paper as she read.
This resonated with me. At home I had a habit of turning on a story record or cassette and drawing scenes from them. So as Mrs. Davis read scenes of Harold the dog and Chester the cat trying to save their human family from a perceived vampire bunny, I illustrated the scenes on paper at my desk. I remember those moments vividly. I remember the impact it had on my attention in class. I remember even more, the impact it had on me in the school library.
I was not a good reader, due to my lack of focus, so once I became too old to check out picture books, I rarely checked books out anymore. But I began to search in our school library for further books in the Bunnicula series. I found Howliday Inn and The Celery Stalks At Midnight. I loved the campy, spooky cover art. I scoured the pages for the humorous illustrations. I realized the correlation between the written word and the art that accompanied it. I still didn't read well, but was more likely to pick up a children's novel or chapter book now, knowing that there might be art among the pages. The art spoke story to me in a way the written words could not.
Like all school years, that 4th grade year came and went in a flash. I never encountered another teacher (other than art teachers) that recognized my art and its connection to my mind's focus. I didn't even think about Mrs. Davis much in the coming years or truly realize what impact she may have had on me.
But a few weeks ago I stumbled across a beautiful Bunnicula t-shirt while browsing online. All of those memories of 4th grade flooded my mind. Now an illustrator of children's literature myself, I felt such sentiment in wearing that shirt with that campy cover image printed on it. I'm still a slow reader. To this day, when a publisher sends me a manuscript, I rarely read it myself. I tend to highlight a portion of the written work on my Mac, choose "Speech," and click "Start Speaking." And like my 4th grade teacher, my Mac reads it to me as I work on my art. My ever-supportive wife, Gina, has even been known to sit in the studio and read a manuscript to me as I work. And frequently I will have an audio book playing as I illustrate scenes from a separate novel that Im working on. The connection between audible story and visual depiction are forever in my core.
I never read Bunnicula, but Bunnicula left its mark on me.
One of my favorite books from childhood…. via an amazing audio book. I even named my childhood pet rabbit Bunnicula. She looked just like him. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this memory!
I don't remember a lot of books from my childhood (I know… *shame*) but these were some of my favorites. Love this story too. What a wonderful teacher.
Great story Joe! I too had several teachers in elementary school who had similar impacts on me, in encouraging my love for drawing and storytelling. It's a great thing to be able to reflect back on the teachers who help us grow as artists.
Words of Nostalgia 🙂 I'll have to admit as a youth growing up it was just natural and fun to pick up a pencil or pen and try to replicate the work that was readily available. Whether it be a comic book, a close family friend's father's sketches, a football card, or even just imagination. When I first was able to see the work of Mr. Sutphin it was apparent that his passion extended from the tip of his chosen instrument (pen, color pencil, or anything else.) directly onto paper and that it was so rare that all ages marveled at his exceptional skill. I remember seeing some of his early work that was so phenomenal, that I honestly did not think a human could achieve such a level of greatness. The beauty is that as time has continued not only has the exceptional level of art continue to rise but that it provides a legacy for thousands to experience either through his unique pairing of images and words or simplistically that Joe is able to once again capture the imagination of the masses through his unique talents. I'm always intrigued by the level of artistry Mr. Sutphin provides and consistently look forward to his future work. I'm honored to see greatness at work. Congratulations to your future successes!


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