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Erica Y. Williams Sworn in as PCAOB Chair
Washington, Jan. 10, 2022
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced that Erica Y. Williams today was sworn in as Chair. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) conducted the swearing-in ceremony virtually.
"In our dynamic and evolving capital markets, the PCAOB's mission to protect investors and further the public interest is extremely important," said Chair Williams. "I am honored to take up this mission and to lead this organization's dedicated, talented staff. Together, we have an extraordinary opportunity to build trust through robust oversight and engagement."
Appointed by the SEC on November 8, 2021, Chair Williams' initial term will run through October 24, 2024.
Chair Williams joins the PCAOB from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she was a litigation partner. Previously, she was a Special Assistant and Associate Counsel to President Barack Obama, advising the president and his senior advisors on legal and constitutional issues involving economic policy, financial regulation and reform, financial technology, trade, intellectual property, and data protection and privacy.
Before that, Chair Williams spent 11 years at the SEC serving as Deputy Chief of Staff for three chairs. In this role, she oversaw all aspects of the SEC's operations and served as a senior legal advisor to the SEC chair on regulatory policy and rulemakings, enforcement, compliance examinations, agency management and strategy.
Earlier in her career, Chair Williams served as Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the SEC's Division of Enforcement Trial Unit, where she investigated and litigated numerous complex, high-profile matters. Chair Williams earned both a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
"On behalf of all of my PCAOB colleagues, I offer sincere thanks to Board Member DesParte for his steady leadership as Acting Chairperson," added Chair Williams. "I look forward to working with Duane and my other fellow Board members as we continue the critical work of the PCAOB."
About the PCAOB
The PCAOB is a nonprofit corporation established by Congress to oversee the audits of public companies in order to protect investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate, and independent audit reports. The PCAOB also oversees the audits of brokers and dealers, including compliance reports filed pursuant to federal securities laws.
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What it takes to make snow when nature's not cooperating
By Paula Friedrich • Dec 24, 2015
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Artificial snowmaking is a complicated process, but it's one that's important to ski resorts this year as Michigan's weather stays balmy.
While it's possible to go really granular in explaining how snow guns work (everything from humidity to water pressure can change when snow can be made), it boils down to four basic "ingredients."
Click through the slideshow at the top for your snowmaking basics.
Want more detail? Midland-based Snow Machines Incorporated (which helped ready the slopes during the Sochi Olympics) has a solid FAQ section.
Ann Arbor neighborhood group launches new approach to sidewalk snow removal
By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Dec 25, 2014
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An Ann Arbor neighborhood group is kicking off a new way to keep city sidewalks clear.
It's raised enough money, $20,000 so far from about 170 people, to buy a tractor for clearing 12 miles of sidewalks in the Water Hill neighborhood and its connection to the downtown.
Our warm winter means a bumpy start for winter tourism in Michigan
By Rebecca Williams • Dec 24, 2015
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Taylor Ogilvie would really like to make some more snow. He's the general manager at the Mt. Brighton ski area. So far, conditions haven't been quite right very often.
Standing at the bottom of one of the hills, Ogilvie gestures to the mostly green slopes. "We're looking at a bunch of water," he says. "Kind of icy, snowy stuff that we put out of our snow guns last night."
He says they've had a few good days, but for the most part, it's been too warm and too humid for snow-making to work well. So they've just been waiting.


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Ngoma remains the most important Congolese record label, as well as one of the most important labels in all of Africa. It was started by two Greek brothers, Nico and Alexandros Jéronimidis, around 1948. Not only they record about 2000 discs, the first to capture all manner of Congolese musical styles (the rumba, cha-cha, and solo acoustic guitar picking of course), but they encouraged experimentation by their musicians.
Ngoma records were pressed in France and distributed primarily in Central Africa – Congo and Cameroon especially – and as such are, well, impossible to find. Not only that, but all the Ngoma masters were long ago lost in a warehouse fire in 1963. As if that wasn't enough, the company then donated all of its file copies to the Congolese government, only to have those destroyed during political strife.
The label was active until 1968.
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Britta Backlund, née le , est une skieuse de vitesse suédoise.

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En 2019, elle est sacrée Championne du monde de ski de vitesse (S1) à Vars.

Elle remporte 3 fois la Coupe du monde de ski de vitesse (S1) : en 2019, 2020 et 2021.

Elle établit son record personnel avec une vitesse de 221,266 km/h en 2019 à Vars.

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In the growth of a dental practice, a good plan can sometimes make all the difference between amazing success and mediocre performance. However in order for a good, valid plan to prove successful, the stakeholders in a practice's success must support the initiative with unwavering diligence. Seeing a thorough and potentially profitable business plan through to full-fledged implementation often requires major effort in every facet of a practice. But this intense level of effort is well worth it-or at least that's what Dr. Paul Mitsch of Augusta Family Dental tells us.
This entry was posted in Dental Technology on February 2007 by Rose Lanaro.
Dental professionals are entering the waters of a perfect storm. An impending labor shortage, increasing demand for dental services and, in some instances, lagging employee retirement benefits-all could be distressing enough to launch an S.O.S.
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A hygienist's valuable insights into the many benefits from using digital radiography in the dental practice. The clinical and financial advantages speak for themselves.
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Q: Dual booting Linux Mint 19 and Windows 10, W10 not seeing repartioned drive Alright, lemme explain my title so it actually makes sense. I'm dual booting LM 19 and Windows 10 on my laptop, and while everything works fine and boots up, there's a slight problem on the Windows 10 side.
It's not "realizing" that the drive has been repartioned, and is still showing the full hard drive as being available instead of the half of it that actually formatted for Windows use. Should I restart from scratch, maybe with a different distro?
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A: After running chkdsk /f, it seems to have fixed itself, not sure if it was that which fixed it or something else. Thanks anyway guys!

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Q: How do I increment strings in Vim? I can increment integers in Vim using <Ctrl>-a. The docs seem to say that if I set nrformats to "octal,hex,alpha" (which I am trying to do with :set nrformats="octal,hex,alpha") then <Ctrl>-a will increment a to b, 007 to 010, and 0x09 to 0x0f, but those examples are not working for me (I just a get a beep for a, 007 turns into 008, and 0x09 turns into 0x10).

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Alex Bregman is baseball's newest Jewish star
By HILLEL KUTTLER
WEST PALM BEACH, FL. (JTA) – Sitting on a couch near his locker at the Houston Astros' spring training facility here in mid-March, Alex Bregman is reflecting about an encounter his father had at the World Series last fall.
Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros in West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 21, 2018. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
It was in Los Angeles, between innings of the opening game. Sam Bregman was headed for a Dodger Stadium concession stand to grab a nosh wearing his Astros jersey with the No. 2 and his surname stitched on the back – a facsimile of his son's uniform. The young Bregman, a third baseman, had just slugged a home run off Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw.
A fan grabbed Sam Bregman's arm.
"Are you Alex's dad?"
"I am," the elder Bregman replied.
"Is he Jewish?"
The man was a Dodger fan, but still he flashed what Sam Bregman described as "a look of great contentment" at the ballplayer's heritage.
"I got such a kick out of it," Sam Bregman said in a phone interview near his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "It made me feel so proud."
Alex Bregman's take on the encounter: "It's definitely cool to have fans around the world give their support. It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your back."
Bregman can expect to have more fans on his bandwagon, Jewish and otherwise, following a strong 2017 season and the first World Series title for the Astros — to which he contributed mightily. He knocked in a run in each of the first five games, added a second home run, threw out a runner at home plate to preserve a scoreless tie in Game 4 and had the run-scoring single that ended an epic Game 5 in the 10th inning, 13-12.
During the 2017 season, the former No. 2 overall draft pick out of Louisiana State University averaged .284, pounded 39 doubles and 19 home runs, and stole 17 bases.
Alex Bregman makes a play in Game 7 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 2017. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Two days after the Game 7 road victory, Bregman celebrated at the championship parade in Houston. Thousands of fans lined streets in a city still recovering from Hurricane Harvey flooding a couple of months earlier.
"To see their pure joy," Bregman said, "gave me the chills."
The experience capped a memorable year for Bregman that began with his playing for the U.S. team that won the World Baseball Classic title in March.
Israel's squad, which finished sixth overall in the WBC, had sought his services.
In retrospect, he said, "I probably should've" played for Israel "because I got [just] four at-bats" playing as a backup for the American team. Regardless of who comes calling in 2021, Bregman said, he's unlikely to participate.
Last week, Bregman agreed to a six-year, $100 million contract with the Astros — likely the largest deal ever for a professional Jewish athlete.
His Astros will start defending their championship on Thursday in Arlington, Texas, against the Rangers. Bregman will turn 24 the next day.
"There are a lot of things I want to accomplish in this game. Winning is right there at the top," Bregman said. "We have a great team to repeat as champs."
Astros manager A.J. Hinch said he expects Bregman to "build off the momentum he generated in the postseason and throughout the whole season last year."
"While he's established himself as a major league player … he's not even close to what he's going to be," Hinch said.
Alex Bregman swings against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium, Oct. 25, 2017. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
He called Bregman "a true baseball rat," someone who "loves the game, loves practice, loves being around his teammates."
But his mother, Jackie, will tell you that her son is more than about baseball. His foundation, AB for AUDS, provides computer tablets to children with autism and Down syndrome. Brady Columbus, a son of Bregman's former hitting coach and Bregman's godson, is autistic.
Jackie Bregman spoke of her son's kindness.
"Alex is so patient with people, and I'm really, really proud of him for that," she said in a phone interview.
She recalled her son defending elementary school classmates being bullied. And he was also on the other end: A boy made fun of Alex's pending bar mitzvah as he was leaving school to meet with the cantor, and a Chinese-American teammate on Alex's basketball squad stood up for him.
The experiences, she said, "taught him what it was like to be marginalized."
Years ago, the family attended an appearance by several players of the minor league Albuquerque Isotopes. One player was aloof.
"Sam and I said to Alex, 'Don't ever be like that,' " she recalled.
But Jackie Bregman also knows her son is driven to excel on the field.
"He would not mince words. 'I don't just want to play baseball; I want to be the best,'" Jackie Bregman remembered her son saying. "He was determined."
In junior high in Albuquerque, Bregman attended a University of New Mexico baseball camp. The Lobos' baseball coach, Ray Birmingham, preached dedication to greatness.
"Alex took that so literally that he'd hit in the batting cages until he got calluses," recalled Sam Bregman, who had grown up on the field at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, where his late father, Stan, worked as a lawyer for the Washington Senators. It was Stan, "Grandpa Zayde," who gave his grandson a card set of Jewish baseball players.
Someone else who witnessed that commitment was Darvin Ham, who coached the New Mexico Thunderbirds, an NBA Development League team the Bregmans owned.
Alex Bregman signs autographs at the Houston Astros' spring training complex in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Hillel Kuttler)
In postgame conversations and at the Bregman home, Alex Bregman "was like a sponge" of information about the makings of athletic achievement, said Ham, now an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks.
"He was a very good listener. He took mental notes," said Ham, who considers Alex Bregman "a little brother."
Bregman explained his early competitive drive.
"Coach Birmingham said you have to decide," he recalled. "I woke up at 5 a.m. to go to the cage to school to the cage: defense and hitting. I did that every day for years, [beginning at] probably age 12 or 13. I never went to the school dance."
On this day, Bregman departed for a practice field and chatted in Spanish with fellow infielders Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa, natives of Venezuela and Puerto Rico, respectively, at second base during a running drill. Bregman is fluent in the language.
Jerick Paquinto, a 19-year-old from Houston wearing a Bregman jersey, was among hundreds of fans watching.
"I like that he's not the biggest guy and he has a lot of heart," Paquinto said of the 6-foot Bregman, words similarly applicable to the 5-foot-6 Altuve, last year's American League MVP. "I liked him since he was at LSU [where Bregman was a first-team All American at shortstop]. I saw him hit a homer, and I fell in love with him as a player."
The trio jogged toward a batting cage, Bregman stopped to sign autographs after he finished hitting. He'll be signing plenty more when the Astros come home next week for their opener at Minute Maid Park. His parents will be there.
Sam Bregman joked about guarding the championship ring his son will receive.
"I know that the Jewish community around the country is so proud of him," Jackie Bregman said. Referring to the card collection of Jewish players, she added, "I hope that one day he's in that collection."
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Two men were charged with drunk driving, disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer during a highly charged stop at a Pattaya checkpoint.
Thechapat Holabuth (seated) and driver Surasak Damrong (not shown) have been charged with drunk driving, disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer during a highly charged stop at a Pattaya checkpoint.
Pol. Cap. Wuthikorn Prodprong and a team of police officers and volunteers were manning the checkpoint near Makro in North Pattaya when they stopped a Toyota Camry driven by Surasak Damrong, 24, and carrying passenger Thechapat Holabuth, 40.
Both men were highly intoxicated with the driver testing at twice the legal limit for alcohol.
Both men were asked to exit their vehicle, but police said Thechapat threw his arms around the neck of Pol. Cpl. Baworn Hathachote and began assaulting him.
The drunk man was handcuffed, but then began hurling abusive language. He claimed he worked for Channel 9 News and knew many high ranking police officers. He asserted that if the Pattaya officers knew who he was, they would have let him go.
Moments later, Wuthikorn's phone rang and a man on the other end claiming to the commander of Region 2 Police tried to persuade the Pattaya cops to release the men.
The local officers remained undaunted and took the bragging drunks to jail.


We've talked before about bidding on your own brand in Google Ads campaigns, along with the benefits and drawbacks that go with it. This post is about how to manage brand keywords – and therefore brand searches – within a Google Shopping campaign.
With a Google Search campaign, you choose which keywords to bid on and therefore which search queries will match and show your ads.
You make an active choice to bid on your brand, or on brands for products that you sell on your site, and you'll be able to monitor those search queries to see which of them attract traffic and, most importantly, convert in to leads or sales.
With a Google Shopping campaign, we're less in control of those search queries. However, there are opportunities to attract that same brand traffic – but be careful! The brand keywords you think should convert into sales don't always achieve such results.
There's a neat trick in Google Shopping that many advertisers don't know, and that's how to create a brand campaign. Not only will you need the data in your Google Shopping feed or Google Sheet to include the 'brand' attribute, but you need to make sure that that data is consistent.
Also make sure that the brand is included in the product title and description – it will help Google identify that your ad is relevant for the search term. It should go without saying, but double check that your product pages include the brand too.
Next, create an ad group, segmenting products firstly by brand. You might want to focus on a specific brand for each ad group and exclude all other brands – this will make it easier to measure, manage and optimise later.
You can segment further by product type or Google product category, or any custom labels you might have created, but brand needs to be the first segment. This helps Google understand that this is a brand campaign and that it should match brand search queries.
You'll also need a second ad group or campaign, segmented first by another attribute, which should then match non-brand traffic. If you don't do this, your brand campaign is likely to match non-brand searches, making this exercise fairly pointless.
Search intent is critical to success with Google Ads, particularly around Google Search and especially Google Shopping. As an eCommerce store, you're most likely focused on RoAS (Return on Ad Spend) and there's going to be a vast difference in RoAS for different levels of intent behind the search queries matching your products.
Low intent (i.e. 'trousers', 'clothes', 'shoes') – the searcher doesn't yet know what they want, they're definitely 'shopping'. We may want this traffic, but we definitely don't want to be spending much on it.
Medium intent ('men's jeans', 'size 12 dress', 'pink phone case') – we're closer to what they want, but we don't know anything about their budget or the brand they might be considering. This traffic still converts well and there's a huge volume of it.
Low intent brand ('nike', 'argos', 'samsung') – we know what brand they're interested in, but not what product, or even if this is a transactional query at all.
High intent brand ('iphone 6s simpsons phone case', 'mens levi straight leg jeans') – we know exactly what they want to buy, they just want a supplier with it in stock. This type of query converts really well and produces an awesome RoAS, provided you have stock at the right price, of course.
What I want to address in this post is low intent brand keywords in Google Shopping campaigns. In Search, the low intent Brand Keywords can perform well, creating plenty of traffic and a reasonable conversion rate and RoAS. In Google Shopping though, that's much less likely.
Why Do Brand Keywords Convert Less in Google Shopping?
The search intent is still pretty low. We don't yet know if this is a transactional query, or an informational one. Is this searcher looking to buy something, or just forming information on the brand? Maybe they're looking to buy a branded product, but they don't yet know what type of product it is.
The user journey is very different from Search. With a Search campaign, you'd send this click to a brand page, or your home page if you are the brand. The user can navigate from there through to category pages or to product pages – they can choose the journey through the site. With Google Shopping, that user is landing directly on to a product page – if the brand has five different categories of products, with 50 product variations in each, we've only a 20% chance of showing an ad and landing on a page with the right category. The odds of landing that user on the right product are way, way longer.
There are a few things that you could do to increase click through rate (CTR), increase traffic and increase conversion rate for brand keywords in Google Shopping.
Firstly, tag the best selling products in your feed using a custom label. Create a separate ad group, segmenting first by brand, then by the custom label, excluding all other products.
If you can't edit your data or only have a small number of products for the brand, you could do this manually but doing it in the data is definitely the recommended option if you can.
Outcomes: you should achieve a higher CTR for more popular products and more popular products are more likely to convert. Sales should increase as well as the RoAS.
Secondly, add the exact match term for the brand as a negative keyword to any other ad groups or campaigns, forcing Google to only match that term with your new ad group. Conversely, you'll need to monitor this ad group and add negative keywords for all other search terms.
Outcomes: You'll have an ad group of best-selling products which only shows – or at least mostly shows – for the exact search for the brand. You can then adjust bids for individual products which achieve a better CTR or RoAS.
Thirdly, if you can, add audiences to your new ad group – a remarketing audience would be a no-brainer, but also consider uploading an email list of customers that have already bought from your eCommerce store or, if you have enough data, customers that have bought that specific brand before.
You can either choose to add a big bid adjustment for those audiences, or only target those audiences for this low intent, Brand traffic.
Outcomes: Users that already bought from your site or bought that brand before are much more likely to be a transactional search, all of which creates a greater conversion rate and improves RoAS.
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Q: 'Symbol' object has no attribute 'sin' I have defined a function integrate_boole as follows:
def integrate_boole(f,l,r,N):
N = 4 * int(N // 4)
h=((r-l)/N)
xN = np.linspace(l,r,N+1)
fN = f(xN)
return ((2*h)/45)*(7*fN[0]+32*(np.sum(fN[1:-1:2]))+12*. (np.sum(fN[2:-2:4]))+14*(np.sum(fN[4:-4]))+7*fN[-1])

I'm now trying to integrate between 0 and pi for f(x), where f(x) is defined as:
def f(x):
return x*np.sin(x)/(1+np.cos(x)**2)

When I substitute f(x) into the function:
integrate_boole(f(x),0,np.pi,8)

I get the following error message:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------  ----
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call    last)
<ipython-input-23-91f1a95793b5> in <module>()
----> 1 integrate_boole(f(x),0,np.pi,8)

 <ipython-input-20-165d275ae26c> in f(x)
  1 def f(x):
----> 2     return x*np.sin(x)/(1+np.cos(x)**2)
  3 myx = np.linspace(0,np.pi,1000)
  4 plt.plot(myx,f(myx),label=r"$f(x)=\frac{x\sin{x}}{1+\cos^2{x}}$")
  5 plt.ylabel("$f(x)$")

AttributeError: 'Symbol' object has no attribute 'sin'

I imported the following libraries initially at the beginning of the same notebook:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import sympy as sym
from ipywidgets.widgets import interact
sym.init_printing(use_latex="mathjax")
x, y, z, t = sym.symbols('x y z t')

I've checked other articles about roughly the same subject, however I don't believe my numpy and sympy libraries are clashing as they seem to have done for other people. But they might be, and I don't know why. Any help would be much appreciated.

A: The first argument of integrate_boole should be a function.

*

*f is a function

*f(x) is the number returned by the function f for input x.

You need to call
integrate_boole(f,0,np.pi,8)

and not
integrate_boole(f(x),0,np.pi,8)

Here's the complete code, with correct indentation:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import sympy as sym

x, y, z, t = sym.symbols('x y z t')

def integrate_boole(f,l,r,N):
    N = 4 * int(N // 4)
    h=((r-l)/N)
    xN = np.linspace(l,r,N+1)
    fN = f(xN)
    return ((2*h)/45)*(7*fN[0]+32*(np.sum(fN[1:-1:2]))+12*(np.sum(fN[2:-2:4]))+14*(np.sum(fN[4:-4]))+7*fN[-1])

def f(x):
    return x*np.sin(x)/(1+np.cos(x)**2)

integrate_boole(f,0,np.pi,8)
# 2.470207745145361


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Humam Tariq Faraj Naoush (; born 10 February 1996 in Baghdad) is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays for Muaither SC and the Iraq national team as winger. Tariq has long been considered one of Iraq's most talented footballers. He has represented Iraq at Under-19, Under-20, Under-22, Under-23 and full international level, making his debut for the national team at the age of 16, making him the youngest Iraqi in history to represent the senior team. Humam represented Iraq at the Rio Olympics in 2016, playing in all 3 of Iraq's matches against Denmark, Brazil and South Africa. Tariq has also played at the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup, where he was one of Iraq's star players as the underdogs went on a run to the semi-final. At senior level, he has played at the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, where they beat the odds and reached the semi-final.

Club career

Early career
Tariq started playing football at a very young age and often participated in local matches and could regularly be seen playing as a child in public. This eventually caught the attention of Baghdad's biggest clubs. He decided he wanted to pursue a career in football, and from an early age he used to play with older kids at the local shaabiya football pitches near where he grew up before he joined the youth teams in the academy of Iraqi giants Al-Zawraa. He stayed with Al Zawraa for a few months but later decided that he wanted to play for his boyhood club Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, who he joined in 2007 at the age of 11.

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

2009–10
At a young age, Tariq started his football career, by joining Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya's academy, where he kept getting promoted until, in 2010, he joined the senior team at the age of just 14. He started playing for the senior team, in the 2009–10 Iraqi Premier League. He made his debut with Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, on 26 May 2010, in a match against Salahaddin FC, where the match ended in a 2–0 win for Al-Jawiya.

2010–11
He appeared every two or three matches as substitute. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya finished in 2nd place in the groups stage, being qualified to the third place match, where they lost against Al-Sinaa SC 0–1.

2011–12
Tariq scored his first goal in his third season with Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, on 27 April 2012, in a match against Zakho FC, three minutes after the beginning of the match, which ended in a 1–1 draw. Tariq scored his second goal in a match against Al-Sinaa, which ended in a 2–1 loss for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya. Tariq scored his third goal in a match against Arbil FC, which ended in a 1–1 draw. Tariq scored only three goals in this season. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya finished in 3rd place in the league table, at 74 points, while Arbil FC became the champions, at 83 points.

2012–13
In the 2012–13 Iraqi Premier League, Tariq scored only a single goal against Kirkuk FC. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya finished in 3rd place, at 69 points, while Al Shorta SC became the champions, at 72 points, with Tariq not finishing the league season. In the 2012–13 UAFA Club Cup, Tariq scored a goal, in the first leg of the match, against Shabab Al-Dhahiriya SC from Palestine, which ended in a 3–0 victory for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya. Tariq did not stay with Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya until the end of the tournament. Eventually, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya was eliminated, in the quarterfinals, by Raja Casablanca from Morocco. In Tariq's last days in the club, on 24 May 2014, he was fined with $10,000 by the club's management because Tariq missed his team's training camp in Sulaymaniyah.

Al Ahli
On 29 January 2013, at the age of 16, Tariq signed a contract worth $9,582 per week with Al-Ahli, who bought him for €600,000, to play for them for 5 years, with bonuses and good efforts income added. Al Ahli also provided an apartment for Tariq in Dubai, a personal car and free transportation between Baghdad and Dubai for Tariq and his family. Although Tariq signed the contract in January 2013, he had to wait over a year to join the squad, because he wasn't going to be 18 years old until 10 February 2014, at which point he wasn't allowed to join up with his new club. He was loaned to Al Dhafra after playing only two friendly matches with Al Ahli.

Failed Transfers to Turkey
On 14 June 2015, Al-Ahli received an official offer from an unnamed Turkish team to either buy or loan Tariq. After five days, Tariq's agent, Najm Mohammed, stated that the negotiations between the unnamed Turkish side and Al-Ahli broke down after Al-Ahli demanded $400,000 for Humam but the team wasn't willing to pay more than $200,000. Al-Ahli received an offer from another team in the Süper Lig and it was Bursaspor. Al-Ahli initially accepted the offer. But, again, on 30 June, Tariq's agent announced that the deal failed, in the last moments, because Bursaspor offered a low amount of money and the offer was rejected by Al-Ahli. In July 2015, two teams from the Iraqi Premier League showed interest in signing Tariq, his last team, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, and Al Shorta.

Al Dhafra (loan)
On 1 October 2014, Tariq was loaned to Al Dhafra, without playing a single official game for Al-Ahli. His loan contract stated that Tariq will play for Al Dhafra for the 2014–15 season, which can be extended.

Tariq played his debut match, in the 2014–15 season, on 5 October, against Emirates Club. He played for 77 minutes and got subbed off for Ali Al-Hammadi. Tariq scored his first goal with Al Dhafra on 29 November, against Al-Ittihad Kalba, in the 19th minute, rocketing the ball from outside the penalty box into the right corner of the goal, from a pass by Makhete Diop. His second goal with Al Dhafra was one of the fastest goals in the UAE Arabian Gulf League, on 10 May 2015, in the 4th minute, against Al-Shabab. Tariq finished the league season with Al Dhafra in 12th place at 26 points, only one place away from relegation.

In the UAE President's Cup, Tariq played Al Dhafra's match in the Round of 16, on 15 May 2015. He had an assist in a goal for Bilal Najjarine from a free kick, crossed by Tariq to Bilal's head. Tariq was injured, in that match, with a muscle strain. Al Dhafra won 7–6 on penalties after a 1–1 draw. In the quarterfinals, Tariq started the match against Ajman, where he had another assist in the first goal, by crossing the ball to Makhete Diop's head and into the goal, in the 62nd minute. The match ended in a 2–0 win for Al Dhafra. In the semi-finals, against Al-Ahli, Tariq wasn't allowed to play because of the friendly agreement between Al Dhafra and Al Ahli that doesn't allow him to play in a match against Al Ahli. Al Dhafra lost the match 0–2. Tariq finished his season with his team that he was loaned to with a total of 22 appearances, that included 2 goals and 2 assists. After the end of the season, Al Dhafra didn't show interest in extending Tariq's contract. Therefore, he returned to Al-Ahli.

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
In 2015, Tariq returned to Jawiya in a loan deal for the season and played in the league and FA Cup, where he scored in the FA Cup final which Jawiya won by two goals to win the cup. After a successful loan spell at Jawiya, Humam returned permanently in 2016 where he has consistently impressed for the Iraqi outfit, regaining him a call up to the national team and new rumours of a move abroad.

Esteghlal

After failing to join Elazığspor in the TFF First League, Tariq officially joined Esteghlal on a three-year contract on 1 August 2018. He was assigned the number 17 shirt in Esteghlal.

On 16 August 2018, Tariq made his competitive debut for Esteghlal as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 away defeat against Pars Jonoubi Jam. On 29 November 2018, he scored his first goal for the club in a 3–0 victory over Sanat Naft Abadan.

Ismaily SC
On 2 August 2019, Ismaily officially signed Iraqi winger Humam Tariq as a free agent.
He played his first match with Ismaily on 13 September 2019 in a match in the first leg of round of 32 of Arab Club Champions Cup against Al-Ahly SC (Benghazi) after being subbed on in the second half of the game.
The game ended 4–2 win for Ismaily

On 26 November 2019, Humam scored his first goal with Ismaily against Al Jazira Club in the Arab Club Champions Cup in the 87th minute of the game, which led to a 2–0 win for Ismaily and advance to the quarter finals

International career
On 30 December 2012, Tariq made his international debut for the Iraqi senior team, against Tunisia, in a friendly match that ended in a 2–1 loss for Iraq. Tariq, on that day, became the youngest player in the history of the Iraq national football team to wear the Iraqi shirt at the age of 16.

2013 Gulf Cup
The 2013 Gulf Cup was the tournament that led Tariq to success and made him shine. He started the first match of Iraq, as a left winger, against Saudi Arabia, that ended in a 2–0 win for Iraq. Tariq went on to start the second match of Iraq, against Kuwait, that ended in a 1–0 win for Iraq. In Iraq's third match, against Yemen, Tariq stayed on the bench, being replaced with Nabeel Sabah as the left winger. The match ended in a 2–0 win for Iraq. Tariq started the semi-final match against Bahrain. The match went to extra time and then penalties, after a 1–1 draw. Iraq won 4–2 on penalties. In the final, Tariq started as a left midfielder, against UAE, in the match that ended in a 2–1 loss for Iraq. Therefore, Iraq became the runners-up of the 2013 edition.

2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification
Tariq contributed in 4 matches out of the total 6 for Iraq in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification. The matches' results were a 1–0 win against Indonesia on 6 February 2013, 0–1 loss against China on 22 March, 1–2 loss against Saudi Arabia on 15 November, and a 2–0 win against Indonesia on 19 November. Eventually, Iraq qualified to the 2015 AFC Asian Cup by winning 3–1 against China, where Tariq wasn't included.

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
Tariq played only two matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC), in the fourth round. The first, against Oman, on 4 June 2013, where he got subbed off in the 55th minute after failing to clear the ball. The match ended in a 1–0 win for Oman. On the other match, against Australia, on 18 June, Tariq got subbed off again in the 75th minute. The match was also lost by Iraq and won 1–0 by Australia. After this match, Iraq was at the bottom of Group B, having 5 points from 8 matches played, resulting in not qualifying to the World Cup.

2013 FIFA U20 World Cup
Tariq was included in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup squad. He started in all of Iraq's matches. In the first match of Iraq under-20 team, they came up against England, where it ended in a hard 2–2 draw for Iraq. In the second match, they were against Egypt, where Tariq had his first yellow card with an international team in the 57th minute and it ended in a 2–1 win for Iraq. In the third match, against Chile, it ended also in a 2–1 win for Iraq. In the Round of 16, Iraq won over Paraguay, after the match went to extra time, 1–0. In the quarterfinal, Iraq won over Korea Republic. After the match ended in a 3–3 draw, it went to penalties, where Iraq won 5–4. In the semi-final, Iraq lost against Uruguay. After the match ended in a 1–1 draw, it went to penalties again, but this time, Iraq lost 6–7, with Tariq scoring his penalty.

2014 Asian Games
Tariq was one of the best players that played in the 2014 Asian Games, scoring four goals, being the top scorer for Iraq, along with Younis Mahmoud. Tariq started in all of Iraq's matches. He scored in Iraq's second match, on 17 September 2014, against Japan, in the 12th minute. Tariq was the man of the match in Iraq's third game, against Kuwait, scoring two goals in the 16th and 62nd minutes and playing quite well. Tariq scored his fourth goal in Iraq's round of 16 match, against Tajikistan, in the early 7th minute. Iraq won in the quarterfinal, 3–0 against Saudi Arabia, but lost in the semi-final, against North Korea, 0–1, where Tariq didn't perform that well. In the third place match, Iraq won, gaining the bronze medal.

2014 Gulf Cup
Tariq was a part of the squad that had the worst ever performance for Iraq in the Gulf Cup, since the 2009 edition, in the 2014 Gulf Cup. He started in all of the three matches of Iraq, lost 0–1 against Kuwait, drew 1–1 with Oman, where Tariq got a yellow card, and lost 2–0 against the UAE.

2015 AFC Asian Cup
Tariq was included in Iraq's squad for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, but he only played 57 minutes of the first match of Iraq, against Jordan. Iraq eventually reached the semi-final and lost, ending in 4th place.

2019 AFC Asian cup
Tariq participated in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, hosted by UAE. Tariq was one of Iraq's key players in the tournament, helping them reach the round of 16 where they were knocked out by Qatar in a 1–0 loss.

International goals
Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.

Style of play

Tariq uses his small frame and explosive pace to burst past defenders and find space on the flank and down the middle. His distribution is already excellent for such a young man. The midfielder is an excellent crosser of the ball and he is also known for his good finishing which leads to plenty of goals, and his confident passing can open up any game. Often compared to Raheem Sterling, Tariq plays in an offensive midfield role and has a combination of speed and vision that is not that common. He has an explosive quickness in the first few meters and a good technique. Due to his build and style of play, he has often been compared to Lionel Messi, gaining him the nickname "Iraqi Messi".

Tariq's definitive position could be as a deep-lying forward, behind a central striker, giving him the freedom of movement, to draw opposing players out of position and exploit holes in the opposition's defense. He doesn't look or play anything like an old fashioned attacking wide-man, but is deployed as more of an unorthodox modern-day winger, tucking in when his team is without the ball and often asked to press the opposition to regain back possession. His exceptional crossing, passing, finishing, skills and electric pace, combined with his experience at a young age, make Tariq one of the best Asian talents to look forward to.

Personal life
Humam Tariq was born to the Naoush family from the Adhamiyah district in Baghdad. He is the grandson of Faraj Naoush, the creator of Confectionery of Faraj Naoush and His Sons, which was created in 1954. It was one of the best confectionery shops in Iraq, especially, during the Sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s. Humam helped out in the family business in his spare time making the sweets. Humam is married. His son Tariq was born in July 2017.

Honours

Club
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
AFC Cup: 2016, 2017
Iraq FA Cup: 2015–16 ، 2020–21
Iraqi Premier League: 2016–17 ، 2020–21

Shabab Al Ahli
UAE Pro-League: 2013–14
UAE Super Cup: 2014
UAE League Cup: 2014

International
Iraq U-19
AFC U-19 Championship runner-up: 2012
Iraq U-20
FIFA U-20 World Cup fourth place: 2013
Iraq U-22
AFC U-22 Championship winner: 2013
Iraq U-23
Asian Games bronze medallist: 2014
Iraq
Arabian Gulf Cup runner-up: 2013
AFC Asian Cup fourth-place: 2015
 WAFF Championship runner-up: 2019

Individual
World Military Cup Asian Qualification Zone Best Player: 2013.
Outside of the Boot's 100 Best Young Players to Watch: 2015.
Soccer Iraq Team of the Decade: 2010–2019

References

1996 births
Living people
Association football wingers
Sportspeople from Baghdad
Iraqi footballers
Iraqi expatriate footballers
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya players
Al Ahli Club (Dubai) players
Al Dhafra FC players
Esteghlal F.C. players
Muaither SC players
Iraqi expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Iraqi expatriate sportspeople in Iran
Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate footballers in Iran
Iraq international footballers
Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games
2015 AFC Asian Cup players
2019 AFC Asian Cup players
Asian Games medalists in football
Asian Games bronze medalists for Iraq
Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Iraq
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
UAE Pro League players
AFC Cup winning players


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Misty Mae Varner April Robertson
Two women landed in jail after being caught with drugs and an illegal gun.
On Aug. 9, Sequoyah County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Old U.S. Highway 64 and South 4790 Road in reference to multiple cars on private property and individuals shooting guns.
The deputies and a trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol made contact with the vehicles, which were headed north back out to Old Highway 64. Two women in one of the vehicles were identified as Misty Mae Varner, 27 of Roland, and her passenger, April Robertson. When asked if they were among the group shooting guns Varner said they were.
Both women said there were no firearms in their vehicle, but they discovered that Robertson was sitting on a gun in the passenger's seat and had marijuana on her. The weapon was an unloaded, .22-caliber RG Industries six-shot revolver, which the officers ran through dispatch.
The trooper then alerted the deputies that Robertson also had methamphetamine on her. Varner retrieved a clear plastic baggie containing a green, leafy substance out of the right side of Robertson's bra and a marijuana pipe out of the left side of Robertson's bra.
The deputies then learned from dispatch that both women had previous felony convictions and that Robertson had a valid warrant out of Nowata County and they were placing a hold.
Robertson said the marijuana and meth belonged to her, but both women denied ownership of the gun, claiming they didn't know it was in the vehicle. Robertson told Varner, "Own up, you know that gun is yours! All I had was weed and speed."
Varner and Robertson were placed under arrest and transported to the Sequoyah County Detention Center without further incident.
Varner was charged with possession of a firearm after former felony conviction, court records reveal.
During inventory of the items found on the women, officers discovered seven clear baggies containing a crystal-like substance weighing 5.3 grams, two clear baggies containing a green, leafy substance, a metal container holding a green, leafy substance weighing 30.7 grams, three syringes, two metal smoking devices and a measuring spoon with a crystalline residue on it. The drugs were sent to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for further analysis.
Varner was released on $10,000 bond and her next court appearance is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 27.


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Reisseronia flavociliella is a moth of the Psychidae family. It is found in Turkey.

References

Moths described in 1864
Psychidae
Endemic fauna of Turkey
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package org.kuali.kfs.vnd.businessobject.lookup;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.cxf.common.util.StringUtils;
import org.kuali.kfs.vnd.batch.service.VendorExcludeService;
import org.kuali.kfs.vnd.businessobject.VendorAddress;
import org.kuali.kfs.vnd.businessobject.VendorDetail;
import org.kuali.kfs.vnd.document.service.VendorService;
import org.kuali.rice.kns.lookup.KualiLookupableHelperServiceImpl;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;

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    VendorService vendorService;

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Little Owl's Love (Hardcover)
By Divya Srinivasan, Divya Srinivasan (Illustrator)
(PICTURE BOOKS)
January/February 2023 Kids Indie Next List
"Little Owl loves so much, and there is much to discover in the forest. The illustrations bring those discoveries right to you. I'm not sure I love mushrooms as much as Little Owl, but I do know I love to discover with Little Owl — so will you."
— Carolyn Roys, Anderson's Bookshops, Naperville, IL
The star of Little Owl's Night returns to find love in his beloved nighttime forest.
"What do I love?" Little Owl thought.
There were so many things. . .
Gliding along on a quiet night, Little Owl looks for the things that make him happy--shimmering stars, winking fireflies, listening to the cricket song, and most of all, spending time with his good friends. Lyrical and deeply heartfelt, Little Owl's Love is perfect for Valentine's Day and is a love letter to the natural world on a child's level.
Divya Srinivasan lives in Austin, Texas. Her illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, and she has done work for This American Life, They Might Be Giants, Sundance Channel, Sufjan Stevens, and Weird Al Yankovic, among others. Divya was also an animator on the film Waking Life. She is the author and illustrator of the picture books What I Am, Little Owl's Night, Little Owl's Day, Little Owl's Snow, and Octopus Alone, and she illustrated the picture book Cinnamon, written by Neil Gaiman. More of Divya's work can be seen at pupae.com.
* "The writing is spare and evocative, and the art is striking. Against a night setting, the colors of the animals jump off the page in all their beauty. Children will love the characters and the beautifully illustrated story." --School Library Journal, starred review
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Series: Little Owl
Maximum Grade Level: K
Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance
Juvenile Fiction / Science & Nature


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Fabulous magazine (from this Saturday July 16 in The Saturday Sun) cover star this week is the gorgeous Denise Van Outen.
She has been the centre of split rumours and reveals the real reason behind these stories, "You know what…some of this is my fault, I did a show with Dermot O'Leary where I said Lee and I bickered all the time, that has come back to bite me in the bum."
Every girl has a past but Denise Van Outen reveals she will explain all to her daughter in years to come, "It was fun doing all the lads' mags and just riding the whole wave…I'm definitely going to tell Betsey [her daughter] all about it because I want her to know that women have a voice and should say what they think."
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Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian protestor after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, December 15, 2017 © Ammar Awad © Reuters
Police and protesters have come to blows near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, amid the ongoing turmoil over the decision to move the US embassy to the city which both Israelis and Palestinians consider their rightful capital.
Israeli security officers and a crowd of Arabs confronted each other at the Damascus Gate in the Old City following Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque, leading to a fracas in which a woman was punched in the face. Two protesters were arrested at the scene, police told the Jerusalem Post. A Red Crescent spokesperson said that two people were injured during the incident.
Palestinians shouted, "With blood and spirit, we will liberate Al-Aqsa," and "Jerusalem is an Arab city." Authorities have heightened security measures and put up metal barriers in the Old City, which includes the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock – both considered among the holiest sites in Islam.
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Elsewhere in Israel, at least four Palestinians were killed and dozens more wounded as Israeli security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the West Bank and along the border with Gaza. The Israeli military said in a statement that Palestinian rioters had hurled stones and firebombs at their soldiers, who were forced to respond, but Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said that among the dead was 29-year-old Ibrahim Abu Thraya, a disabled man missing both his legs. Abu Thraya died from a gunshot wound to the head.
READ MORE: Wheelchair-bound man with no legs killed by IDF in Gaza during Jerusalem protest
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Another Palestinian was a militant shot dead as he stabbed and wounded an officer of the Border Police. Also among the Israeli casualties was a 30-year-old man, slightly injured when Palestinians threw rocks at his car at a town in the West Bank.
The unrest in Israel and the occupied territories has been ongoing since last week, when US President Donald Trump announced he would be recognizing Jerusalem as the official capital of Israel and would be moving the American embassy there. The decision has provoked outrage throughout the Muslim world and all the other members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, have condemned the move for undermining the ongoing peace process.
Putin: Jerusalem recognition counterproductive, could spark conflict
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Pet Grooming Safety has become a much discussed topic in the past year. As I speak with groomers all over the globe, one common theme resonates—groomers care about the safety and welfare of the pets we service. Public awareness about our industry has brought a lack of oversight and organization into the spotlight.
However, there is a common misconception, that because we are an industry which has been lacking in legislative oversight, we must be unsafe. And that is the great divide which causes many pet groomers distress; just because we have not been organized as an industry, does not mean that we are operating with unsafe practices. I meet many groomers who are shining examples of pet safety basics and put the health and welfare of their clients' pets at the top of their very long list of concerns.
Since there is an increased awareness of groomers and practitioners in our industry, each groomer should regularly review their safety basics, policies and practices regarding Groomer Safety. Think of giving yourself a regular checkup—more pleasant than a visit to the dentist, but just as necessary for the ongoing health and safety of your clients.
Social climates are changing, and the social value placed on pets is climbing. This may have created a need to update your safety guidelines and your clients will recognize your constant attention to this aspect of your business.
Are your animal holding areas, cages, dryers and all equipment in good working order and designed for the pets you use them on?
Are you able to comfortably provide services for the pets you take in every day without crowding, rushing or improvising?
Do you have cleaning/sanitizing protocol in place to diminish the risk of contagious or infectious diseases from passing between dogs and humans?
Do you have plans in place for emergency events (fire, escape, medical emergency, etc.) and is your staff trained to follow them?
Do you have Animal Advocacy or Animal Welfare plans in place for the pets in your care?
Do you have Safe Animal Handling Guidelines and do you require your staff to practice them?
Do you dialog with your clients openly about any concerns with their pets' health, temperament or condition?
Do you practice safe and humane restraints, and exercise calm self–control when handling all pets for grooming services?
Do you have release forms available as well as client education in place for situations which increase the risk to either groomer or pet (senior, medical issues, behavioral, severe matting, etc.)?
Are you and your staff able to identify common health, skin, medical and behavioral issues, and do you regularly refer those to the appropriate pet professional?
Do you have plans in place to protect pets on tables, in tubs and cages, and during your care, and do you require your staff to practice them?
Do you regularly record service notes including concerns which would affect the safety of the pet during the groom?
Have you or a member of your staff attended Pet Safety classes (CPR, Safety Certification, Disease Awareness, Safe Handling, etc.)? How often do you update your training?
Are your clients aware that you have safety training, procedures and/or policies to protect their pet while in your care?
Do you have written Safe Handling guidelines to share with clients and employees?
There is no substitute for attention and awareness when working with pets. In a service which requires a broad scope of skill such as pet grooming, we sometimes become oblivious to the small details. An old saying, "The devil is in the details", is never more true than when working with pets. Paying close attention to even the smallest details and applying your full attention to every pet in your care is the best practice to ensure that every pet is safe for every groom.
I find that many discussions with pet groomers about pet safety are short and sweet. Groomers are proud of the services we offer and truly care for the pets we handle every day. Since pet grooming is a largely hands–on, learned apprenticeship–style career, many pet groomers have simply "learned by doing". Having completed a practice a certain way for a number of years does not negate the fact that it may not be safe, wise or accepted by today's pet owning public. Careful evaluation of your own safety practices will ensure that you and your salon are truly meeting the needs of your clients' pets.
While not every groomer will have the same specialty—one may possess mad scissor skills, while another may specialize in cats or handstripping—every grooming business can build on the foundation of safety. Every groomer who provides services to a pet can be a superstar safety specialist at the same level. Give yourself a safety check–up—for the pets you service and for the clients who love them.


With that basic introduction out of the way, check out this video where Stephen Mann sums up ITSM and its relationship with the business.
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ITSM is important for a variety of reasons. Implementing ITSM can help regularize processes through structured delivery and documentation. ITSM implementation also helps in saving costs by building a predictable IT org. Implementing ITSM has business benefits by bringing actionable IT insights to the business that help in decision making.
Read more about the Benefits of ITSM.
Looking to get started with ITSM?
If your business has more than a handful of employees, and if even one of you is the designated "IT guy", you're already doing ITSM in a small way. But as your business grows, you might need to bring in more mature processes to get the most benefits out of your ITSM investment.
Let's dive a little deeper into each of these.
Offer technology-enabled process workflow and eliminate manual process, thereby improving collaboration between all teams.
Reduce admin, waiting, and even firefighting to make time for more strategic work.
Prioritize and customize the resolution time based on the business impact caused by IT issues.
Effective problem management and knowledge management help reduce recurring issues, resolution times, and impact on end users and the business as a whole.
Automate the reports generating process and reduce reporting costs.
The adverse effect of severe issues can be mitigated through major incident management and IT service continuity.
Save time, efforts and unnecessary costs by reducing wastage and avoiding duplication of work.
Ensure that any new IT spend is essential through asset, configuration, and capacity management.
Effective asset management can help avoid duplicity of applications, hardware, hosting, and their support.
PCs, other devices, and installed personal productivity software need to be effectively tracked to prevent underutilization.
Avoid the costs of "reworking" mistakes that is ultimately the duplication, or even triplication, of effort.
How to implement ITSM processes?
The way to choose the right ITSM processes is to look at what your business needs, specifically. For instance, if you have a small IT support team that's constantly firefighting similar issues, it makes more sense to find the root cause and resolve it once and for all. A simple example of it would be a storage space issue – you can keep deleting files and applications every time the hard drive maxes out. But simply installing a bigger hard drive is a better longer-term solution.
In ITSM terms, it translates to going from mere Incident Management to Problem Management. In the example above, the computer running out of storage space is the incident and the hard drive capacity being inadequate is the underlying problem. Of course, IT support teams in larger organizations typically handle incidents that are much more complex and send problems over to dedicated problem management teams.
ITSM processes require not just an ITSM tool to implement but a cultural change. The customers (end users) need to see IT as a service provider and not just as another department in their organization.
The maturity of the team - Is your team mature enough to require the adoption of ITSM processes? An organization with a total of 25 people would not benefit from adopting ITSM processes as much as an organization with 150 people that is expanding rapidly.
Problem statement - What is the issue that you're trying to solve? Are you trying to cut down on the IT budget? This can probably be achieved by bringing systematic processes and predictability into the IT organization.
Framework to be adopted - What is the framework you are looking to adopt? This largely depends on the problem statement. While every framework helps you achieve structure and predictability in varying capacity, the processes they employ are different.
Incident management: Incident management is the practice governing the restoration or rectification of any interruptions in service, due to outages or performance issues.
Problem management: Often times, an IT organization may face a problem with multiple incidents reporting similar issues. This comes under problem management, as problem management focusses on conducting a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and put an end to the recurring problem.
Asset management: Every organization needs hardware or software assets to function. The tracking, updating and mapping of assets is achieved through asset management. Configuration management can be practiced with asset management or as a separate process.
Change management: Any change in service(s) offered, that takes place in an organization are managed through change management. Release management is often grouped under change management.
Knowledge management: Knowledge management reaches across domains in ITSM. Knowledge management helps avoid duplication of work by tracking, documenting and updating solutions in a knowledge base.
What is an ITSM Tool?
An ITSM tool is a software used to deliver IT Services. It can be a standalone software or a suite of applications, consisting of multiple apps to perform various functions. An ITSM tool can perform multiple functions, like, incident management, handling service requests, problem management, and change management, to name a few. An ITSM tool will often consist of a CMDB as well.
Under ITIL, a service desk is a primary function in ITSM. A service desk, as an ITSM tool, acts as the Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) between the customers (whether internal or external) and the service provider. A service desk is responsible for constant monitoring of services and providing support in case of downtime. A service desk typically handles incidents, service requests, 3rd party contracts, and software licensing among other things.
How to select an ITSM tool?
Selecting an ITSM tool is not just an IT decision, it affects the entire organization. Since there are multiple stakeholders in the selection of an ITSM tool, it is important that the right ITSM tool is chosen for your organization.
When selecting a new ITSM tool, keep your existing ITSM processes in mind to decide what features and capabilities you'd need. This will help you select an ITSM tool based on its actual value to your organization rather than its price alone.
What's the problem you're trying to solve? Go back to the basics. See what's missing from your existing ITSM processes. What can you do to improve the delivery of your IT services? Where would an ITSM tool fit into this?
What are your organization's ITSM requirements? Are you trying to manage assets? Are you looking to implement a self-service portal? Are you looking to streamline service requests? Answering these questions will help you refine your list of requirements and narrow your search.
What do you expect from your ITSM tool? Expectations of your ITSM tool would largely depend on your organization's current processes. If you're using multiple 3rd party applications, you would expect your ITSM tool to integrate with all of them. If you have many workflows, you'd expect workflow automations.
After you've answered these questions, you'll have narrowed your search enough to select an ITSM tool. You can read more about selecting an ITSM tool on our blog.
Understanding the difference between ITSM and ITIL is important. ITIL is the most commonly used ITSM framework, but it's just one of the ways of doing ITSM.
As Stephen puts it – "The easiest way to describe the difference is to think of goldfish and fish per se: a goldfish is a fish but not all fish are goldfish. So ITIL is ITSM but not all ITSM is ITIL."
Of course they could be using multiple frameworks or standards such as COBIT plus ITIL.
We hope we answered most questions you had about ITSM and ITIL. Here are some resources to help you learn more.
Service strategy – as the name suggests, it's the planning and getting ready that the service provider must do to deliver services that meet business needs.
Service design – it's the design of everything required to deliver a service, from the service through to management.
Service transition – this covers introducing, changing, and retiring services.
Service operation – it's where the service desk, and its activities, sits.
Continual service improvement – which is all about improvement, whether that be keeping up with changing business needs or optimizing operational activities.
The process of managing IT issues (or incident management in ITIL terms) is just one of the processes in one of these stages – Service Operation.
Looking to implement ITSM in your organization?
You can find an ITIL certification center near you on the Axelos website.
The future of ITSM, as with most technologies, lies with AI. Gartner reports that IT organizations spend 66 percent of their resources on day-to-day operations, in "keeping the lights on" activities. AI in ITSM would bring about automation of mundane work with changes like auto ticket resolution, workload optimization, predictive maintenance, to name a few. The future of ITSM will be heavily influenced by AI with effects reaching across departments, from the management to the agents to the customers.
AI-powered knowledge management: would provide a solution from the knowledge base if present, or search the web to suggest relevant solutions. It would create new articles based on the agent's response and provide smart suggestions to the agent while providing resolution.
Sentimental Analysis: would predict the end user's emotion at the time of submitting a ticket, which would, in turn, help the agent respond accordingly and improve the CSAT score.
Predictive Maintenance: AI-powered service desk would continually monitor infrastructure and raise a ticket if anything goes down and inform relevant users.
Intelligent Asset Provisioning: AI-powered service desk would monitor an asset's performance and would raise a ticket for replacement of asset if its performance deteriorates.
Read more about the role of AI in ITSM.


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The Galloway Province curling league is shaping up for a tight finish this season with three games to go.
With Glasserton CC taking all four points against Penninghame on Wednesday evening, they go into third place on six points with one game left against Minnigaff CC tonight.
Penninghame have finished their campaign on eight points and are currently second in the table.
Results: G. Penrose, Glasserton, 11 G. Milroy, Penninghame, 3; P Soriani, Glasserton, 8, D. Paton, Penninghame, 6.
Leaders Wigtown CC, on 10 points, are in control of their own destiny the same evening when they play Kirkmabreck on four points. If Wigtown win both games, they can't be caught. But any slip-up leaves the door open for Kirkmabreck, who can overtake them if they then beat both Wigtown then Minnigaff.


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Albert Einstein's quote states all of it. It is one of the God's best gift to every human being. It is not the way you are interested to be.
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Sheila Baize is a well-known figure in Pima County sports. During her coaching days, she was equally renowned. An alumnus if Catalina High School in Tucson and a graduate (Doctorate of Education) of the University of Arizona, Sheila first picked up her whistle as head volleyball, softball and track coach at SS. Peter and Paul in 1970. Next cam an assignment to Salpointe High School, followed by an incredibly successful 12 years at San Manuel (Arizona) High, where she coached badminton, JV volleyball, basketball and softball. Her softball team had one of the highest winning percentages in America, compiling 185 wins (including 5 State Championships) and only 15 losses. Fifteen of her players received athletic scholarships.


Texas is known for its major role within the beef industry as well as its unique culture that alternatively values individual freedom, modern artistic expression and traditional ways of living. For the seniors who live there, some of the most valuable items available to them are the 2017 Medicare Supplement Plans in Texas.
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With a total of ten supplemental plans to pick from, the coverage range is diverse, and that means the cost can be diverse as well. You will pay more for some plans than you would for others, but you can even pay different prices on the same plan. That's because the prices are set by the insurance companies that sell them, not by Medicare. Medicare decides how much coverage each plan is going to have, but it leaves the rates for the plans up to the insurance companies.
Now with Medicare controlling the coverage, that means the coverage doesn't change, even if you buy the same plan in a different state or buy it from a different insurance company for a higher or lower rate than the average.
If you would like to spend less on the coverage that you need, then you will want to compare prices from different insurance companies on the same plan. You can do exactly that by visiting our website and making use of the free quote generator we provide. This valuable tool will give you a few different quotes, all on the plan of your choice and for your particular area.
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You don't have to explain it to us: hosting your whole family for the holidays can be a real pain. Although we love sneaking in some quality time with our families and catching a few minutes of a holiday movie — or football, depending on your crew — cooking a full holiday meal from scratch can be stressful. Recently however, I came across a way to cut corners in preparation for Christmas dinner, and frankly, it's the most questionable thing I've ever seen.
Meet "Christmas Tinner," a full-on holiday meal that comes in a can. Developed by Chris Godfrey, the nine-layer, three-course "festival feast" isn't a joke — it's actually in existence. According to the product's site, it was created for "gamers who can't tear themselves away from their new games and consoles on Christmas Day." Excuse me while I go puke.
For as gross as the concept is, the canned meal really does contain breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Obviously a scrambled egg and bacon layer sits on top followed by two mince meat pies, turkey and potatoes, gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, Brussels sprouts or broccoli with stuffing, roast carrots and parsnips, and Christmas pudding. Yikes.


So Kev bought a house the night before so we a celebratory drink/beer was in order. Good enough reason as any I'd say eh?!
People watching on Main St. is friggin awesome. Let me just say this and get it out there once again.
We're done at Mexi's and decide to try our luck at the Old Triangle. Great guy on Acoustic guitar playing on the inside. It's happy hour (so we realize after). We get the best table outside. Right on the corner of the entrance but still out of the way. The beer kept comin for the boys. By now, the patio was packed and people were eyeing our table. Heck, we were going to leave but then we realized how everyone was envious of our table we stayed. There were a lot of business men in suits around that night…it was weird…I wonder what was going on. We even saw the premier himself walking past and talking to people on the patio of the Old Triangle. One thing I forgot to mention, everyone in Moncton smokes it seems. Everywhere was second hand smoke blowing in my face. Not cool. I even woke up with a horse voice from it in the morning. I was not impressed with that. However, we stayed out until last call pretty much and then headed home. Needless to say, it turned into a pretty expensive evening. hehe Oh well, it was fun and unexpected.
I believe it was a mutual decision to keep going from bar to bar…..lol…definitely a fun night.


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Mudajõgi är ett vattendrag i Estland.   Det ligger i landskapet Tartumaa, i den centrala delen av landet,  km sydost om huvudstaden Tallinn.

Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är februari, med  °C.

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