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	 *
	 * O primeiro argumento deve ser a id do combobox inical da cadeia de
	 * seletores, seguido da url onde deve ser recuperado os dados para
	 * popular o combobox seguinte chamado de target.
	 *
	 * O valor do combobox selecionado e enviado automaticamente como parametros
	 * do metodo GET bem como pode ser enviado outros parametros alem atraves do
	 * metodo data(}.
	 *
	 * Se nao deseja envir nenhum parametro extra nao e necessario utilizar o metodo
	 * data.
	 *
	 * Pode ser enviar como data uma acao que deve ser disparada apos o retorna
	 * do evento ajax ser executado.
	 *
	 * EXEMPLO:
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			.url('select-search.php')
			.data( { "type": "true", "estado":"SP" , meuEvento: "nomeDaFuncaoSemApas" } )
			.target('#elementSelect')

			.url('select-search.php')
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			.target('#attributeSelect');
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	 * @param {id} Nome do parametro de entrada
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	 * @author Gabriel Reid
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	 *
	 * Popula combobox(select) utilizando ajax
	 *
	 * O primeiro argumento deve ser a id do combobox inical da cadeia de
	 * seletores, seguido da url onde deve ser recuperado os dados para
	 * popular o combobox seguinte chamado de target.
	 *
	 * O valor do combobox selecionado e enviado automaticamente como parametros
	 * do metodo GET bem como pode ser enviado outros parametros alem atraves do
	 * metodo data(}.
	 *
	 * Se nao deseja envir nenhum parametro extra nao e necessario utilizar o metodo
	 * data.
	 *
	 * Pode ser enviar como data uma acao que deve ser disparada apos o retorna
	 * do evento ajax ser executado.
	 *
	 * EXEMPLO:
	   useComboBox('#categorySelect')
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			.data( { "type": "true", "estado":"SP" , meuEvento: "nomeDaFuncaoSemApas" } )
			.target('#elementSelect')

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	 * @constructor
	 * @param {id} Nome do parametro de entrada
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		url: function(url){
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HANGHAI, Sept. 10 - As a critically acclaimed writer of dense, doorstop-size novels, Qian Fuzhang said he had finally developed a guilty conscience.
Moreover, as a writer in a country that tends not to pay its authors very well, he faced a challenge immediately familiar to writers everywhere: how to make a living cranking out prose.
Now, at 42, the author, whose real name is He Xingnian, and whose highly inventive, imagery-laden work has earned him comparisons here to Gabriel García Márquez, thinks he has found a solution to both problems.
The author's answer, titled "Out of the Fortress," showed up on tens of thousands of mobile telephone screens on Friday. It is the text-message novel, a new literary genre for the harried masses in a society that seems to be redefining what it means to be harried.
"When I worked in advertising, I learned to think for the customers, and as a writer, I have learned to think for the readers," Mr. He said in a telephone interview on Friday. "In this age, with a flood of information, I thought it was cruel to force readers to wrestle with a 200,000-word book."
"Out of the Fortress" made its debut at 10 o'clock this morning. The first words paraphrased a famous literary passage from another author, Zhang Ailing, a coded message between two lovers arranging their secret rendezvous: "Meet the one you met for thousands of years, in the borderless wilderness of the time, neither a step before nor a step behind. Be there right on time."
The idea of publishing his book by telephone evolved naturally, said Mr. He, a native of Inner Mongolia who now resides in the southern city of Guangzhou. "My last book, 'Red Horse,' was published on Sina.com in installments, and I found it very comfortable to read it online," he said. "I thought with the change of technology there could be new ways of reading, and then I thought of my cellphone, because I am a huge cellphone fan. It has become an indispensable electronic organ for me."
His mobile telephone will become an important source of income, too. With the publication of "Out of the Fortress," Mr. He has become a media star, with more than 100 journalists interviewing him recently. Mr. He said he had received an advance of 180,000 Chinese yuan, or more than $20,000, for the book from hurray.com.cn. Another company in Taiwan has offered him an even larger sum for the publishing rights there.
Asked to describe the novel in 70 words or less, Mr. He failed woefully, speaking for several minutes before being informed he had exceeded his word limit. "The word fortress is a metaphor for marriage in Chinese," Mr. He said, among many other things. "People on the inside want to get out. People on the outside want to get in, meaning having extramarital affairs.
"My book is about two people who have a passionate affair, which is not supported by morality or law, but is very understandable."
If Mr. He's explanation of his book's theme ran on a bit, his timing is impeccable, when e-mail has replaced old-fashioned letters only to be replaced in turn by text messages in much of the world.
With its phenomenal economic growth and huge ambitions, China is in the throes of change. Many of the urban landscapes here were not even blueprints a decade ago, and the zeitgeist seems to be, "Why bother with itsy-bitsy evolutionary steps when you can build something new altogether?"
Though others will dispute whether he truly invented the short-message novel form, Mr. He had an understanding of how fast cellphones are changing life here, and a keen grasp of marketing.
Besides the usual functions, like e-mail, Web surfing, restaurant reservations, dating and global positioning-aided directions and maps for the lost that are already commonplace in East Asia, China's mobile phone world has become the latest frontier of individual enterprise.
Self-styled comedians sell jokes to the humor-challenged. Others sell pickup lines and romantic advice to the bashful or socially awkward, like this pearl: "Stop always asking your boyfriend to accompany you shopping. Men seldom like shopping, and forcing it can trigger rebellion." There is even a cellphone service offering advice to those who are clueless about contraception, or perhaps too embarrassed to see a doctor in person.
Indeed, another author, a Beijing television and radio personality, Dai Pengfei, claims to have published a text-message novel a few weeks before Mr. He, after having started out as a text-message columnist. "Perhaps I am boasting, but I am said to be No. 1 among China's short message writers," said Mr. Pengfei, who is 30. "Qian Fuzhang is more successful at turning this into money, though, and I respect him for that."
So far, critics have been divided on the value of the new form, with some issuing scathing reviews, calling it a cheapening of literature. "As a linguistic art, a novel is to be read, and through reading, you savor the characters and appreciate the atmosphere," wrote one critic, Ye Yu, in the People's Daily. "If it's only information you're after, reading news would be better. The speed of communication shouldn't overwhelm the feeling that one gets from reading novels."
Another critic in the same newspaper, though, called the novels, "a miraculous combination of Chinese characters, which use a lot of metaphor, puns and palindromes."
For his part, Mr. He dismissed any suggestion that he is writing banalities. "Of course the storytelling is totally different from the traditional novel, because the technology only allows 70 words per message, and limiting yourself to that length is very challenging," the author said. "One might ask can you attain the same literary depth? But I don't think literary merit is decided by the number of characters.
"Poems in the Song Dynasty had very few words, but they were very deep."


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RIP DVD to save emissions
Laptops and tablets are more efficient than DVD players, and the demise of the DVD is a positive for emission and energy savings.
Researchers, from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory and Northwestern University have estimated that if all DVD viewing in the US was shifted to streaming services in 2011, around 2billion kg of CO2 emissions could have been avoided and around 30 petajoules (PJ) of energy saved—the equivalent of the amount of electricity needed to meet the demands of 200,000 US households.
A significant proportion of the energy consumption and carbon emissions for streaming comes from the transmission of data, although this increases when more complex, high-definition content is streamed.
Researchers calculated that one hour of video streaming requires 7.9Mjoules (MJ) of energy (compared to up to 12 MJ for traditional DVD viewing) and emits 0.4kg of CO2, compared to up to 0.71kg of CO2 for DVD viewing.
The group compared video streaming with four different types of DVD consumerism: DVDs that are rented from online mailers; DVDs that are rented from a store; DVDs that are purchased online; and DVDs that are bought from a store.
Video streaming was limited to TV and movies and did not include shorter videos that are streamed online through channels such as YouTube.
They found that video streaming and the online rental of DVDs required similar amounts of energy; however, the renting and purchasing of DVDs from a store were much more energy intensive, due to the impact of driving.
Lead author of the research Arman Shehabi, from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, urges equipment designers and policy makers to focus on improving the efficiency of end-user devices and network transmission energy for the inevitable increase in video streaming.
"Such efficiency improvements will be particularly important in the near future, when society is expected to consume far greater quantities of streaming video content compared to today."
The study is published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters.
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stated on March 26, 2017 in a post on a campaign web site:
Dr. Lowell Holtz announces his candidacy for state superintendent in Hales Corners near the Veteran's Memorial, one out of four stops he made July 12 to formally begin his campaign. Photo by Tiffany Stoiber
By Dave Umhoefer March 30, 2017
Candidate says Wisconsin deserved a D+ grade on preparing students for college
Lowell Holtz says voters should revolt on April 4 and dismiss Tony Evers from the head of the class -- his position as Wisconsin's state superintendent of public instruction.
In a recent attack on learning outcomes in the Evers era, the conservative challenger noted that Evers' declared mission is "Every Child a Graduate, College and Career Ready."
But among high schools in Wisconsin, "roughly a third are missing the mark of graduating young adults who are college ready," Holtz wrote in a March 26, 2017 posting on his campaign web page.
"That's a pass rate of 66.6 percent, which equates to a D+ on my grading scale," he wrote.
To back his claim, Holtz cited data on how many graduating high school students need remedial help when they enter the University of Wisconsin System. Typically that involves assistance with math, but sometimes with English.
Under a 2015 state law, high schools have to provide that information to the state Legislature.
Holtz correctly says in his post that 175 schools were identified in the 2015 version of the report. That's 34% of the 510 public high schools in the state -- apparently the "roughly a third" he spoke of.
There are private schools in that 175, however, so the proper denominator (using both public and private schools) is 575. That means 30 percent of schools made the list.
So Holtz is slightly off.
More significantly, there's a false precision problem that hurts his claim.
In reality, it's impossible for the public to see exactly how many schools had students who needed help. That's because, as Holtz noted, only schools where 7 or more students need such help must be publicly identified by the university system. It's a privacy measure meant to protect the identify of individual students.
So it's very likely more schools would be on the list if the privacy provision did not exist.
Is making the list proof that these schools are "missing the mark" and not worthy of a passing grade on graduating "college-ready" students, as Holtz says?
Holtz argues it is, citing Evers' "Every Child a Graduate, College and Career Ready" mission statement. Even if just a few students need extra help, Holtz categorizes that as a failure.
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By Laura Schulte • January 25, 2023
Tom McCarthy, a spokesman at the Evers-led Department of Public Instruction, says the slogan means the goal is college or a career for each student.
Given the phrasing, it's easy to see how one might interpret it as college for "every child," so Holtz's rhetoric doesn't strike us as out of bounds.
More importantly, though, there is a major problem in characterizing the list. The report doesn't rank the schools or characterize their outcomes as passing or failing -- yet Holtz lumps all the schools on the list into one failing category.
The list includes every school that had at least 7 students who needed help, regardless of the size of the senior class and no consideration of how many -- or few -- of its graduates are in the state university system.
So the list includes many schools where you can count on two hands the number of students who needed remedial assistance.
For instance, Brookfield East had 10 students who needed math help, landing it on Holt's failure list, despite the fact the number represents just 7.7 percent of the school's 130 UW-bound pupils.
At the same time, the list includes a few schools where the rate is over 70 percent. (On average, it was 40 percent for math across all the listed schools).
Many of the schools with higher rates have very few students going to the UW system. For example, Johnson Creek High School was listed as 80 percent needing math help -- or 8 of 10.
Who is ready?
Another factor in checking Holtz's claim is how to define "college ready."
Holtz says the need for remedial help is enough to show the students were not ready.
But the students already were accepted into college. The need for any remedial help is established in placement tests after their acceptance.
The rating
About a third of Wisconsin's high schools "are missing the mark of graduating young adults who are college ready," Lowell Holtz claimed, a "pass rate of 66.6 percent."
Holtz cites legitimate data and makes fair use of Evers' own words to judge the incumbent's record.
But the limits of the data, and Holtz's blanket characterization of 175 schools as failing on preparing students for college, create significant misperceptions.
For a statement that contains some element of truth but ignores critical facts, our rating is Mostly False.
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In a campaign website post
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It was interesting to hear the range of pundits talking about Gov. Phil Scott's State of the State address Wednesday. It was scattershot.
In the news release issued by his staff Wednesday, it was noted that Scott "cited the unique opportunity state government has to make transformative investments that build a stronger future for Vermonters. He once again highlighted the critical need to work together to support Vermont's workers and grow the workforce by investing in training, education, housing and recruitment, while working to make Vermont more affordable for those already here."
In addition, the release notes, the governor "also emphasized the need to invest in safe and healthy communities, committing to fund additional support for mental health systems and to further address the overdose epidemic, while supporting public safety and helping communities grow with significant investments in our downtowns, infrastructure and focus on smart regulatory reform."
Initially, we were concerned Scott's connecting of the dots was going to reveal a picture of doom and gloom. But the governor did his best to embrace the opportunity facing the state with a federal windfall. He created an image of optimism and hope. Mostly, his focus was on job creation. In fact, his speech used "workforce" 11 times.
That message is not lost. Vermont needs jobs, and it needs families to fill jobs, support communities, fill schools and be part of the economic engine. No doubt, it is important.
But after months of hours-long news conferences about the pandemic and the state's response, what struck us was what was not said. It was just as telling. Scott mentioned COVID twice. And when he did, he talked about it as if was in the rear-view mirror. He never mentioned the 482 Vermonters who have died as a result of the virus. Not once.
"I can report to you today that the State of the State is strong," he said.
But is that what Vermonters are really feeling?
We don't believe that an hour-long speech allayed the concerns they have about the problems facing our communities. First and foremost, the governor did not make any sort of "Mission Accomplished" declaration. The biggest worry is still present, and shaking the state like a rag dog in the jaws of a dog.
Sure, he said what needed to be said to his fellow Republicans.
The Republican National Committee sent its praise before the majority had issued its response, or the state's top Republicans had a chance to send out their statement..
"Phil Scott's commonsense, Republican policies have given Vermont one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation while also touting the country's highest full vaccination rate. With a strong foundation to start 2022, it's no wonder why Scott's brand of leadership is overwhelmingly supported across the state," said RNC representative Rachel Lee.
Vermont Senate Minority Leader Randy Brock, R-Franklin, noted, "Gov. Scott's remarks signaled not only a desire to attract new workers to Vermont, but also to foster our existing workforce with increased job training, affordable housing, a strong education system, and healthy and safe communities."
But what about the average Vermonter, sitting in their vehicle, waiting to be tested for COVID?
Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, who announced she is running for Congressman Peter Welch's seat, stood on more Democratic ideals, praising the governor about his push for workforce development, affordable housing, accessible and affordable child care, adequate mental health and support services and universal access to broadband.
And Senate President Pro Tem, Becca Balint, who is also running for Welch's seat, noted, "We have to continue working together to fight the pandemic and support a strong recovery. We must prioritize Vermonters' health and well-being and support all the working families who are having such a tough time right now."
Yes, ARPA money is going to make us feel better to some degree. If done right, it does position the state for a strong future. But there is already posturing over what those priorities should be. So the plea for "pulling in the same direction" by the governor was a real one. Otherwise, it's politics as usual in Montpelier. And COVID is still running rampant through our state.
This is the line in Scott's speech we are holding everyone to: "It's not about how many votes we get, how many followers and likes we have on social media or how many times our name is in the news. It's not about checking things off a national political agenda, or proposing policies to raise money, earn endorsements, or to have better answers for all those special interest questionnaires. … It's just not about us."
It's about the rest of us.
— Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus


So, I'm still reading, and rereading, and rereading the cover story in the May 28th issue of New York Magazine, The Affairs of Men. This article is Philip Weiss' journey into why men have affairs. The drive. The desire. The fear. Is it a need sexual variety? Conquest? Evolution? Male ego? Or just stupidity?
Look, I'm not naive about affairs and why they happen. I don't even think they need to destroy marriages in some cases. But it does beg the question about what is going on when men literally fly in the face of fidelity, often with total denial of being caught in the most obvious of circumstances.
Though I am fascinated by this article and will begin to digest pieces of it, this was written like one long excuse which I found a bit indulgent on Wiess' part. Needless to say, if I was Mrs. Weiss, I'd be keeping a sharp eye. I'd also not let his reassurances of "don't worry, it was written to get readers" be taken with a grain (or 100 ) of salt. He did a little too much research, and was a little too innocent in his approach.
But all that aside, I think my brother Jonathan summed it up best for all your married folk: Think, don't act. I say, reflect on what you need to do to fulfill your fantasies with your partner. Stop thinking about what's wrong with your marriage and what you need to fix. Rather, get in a agreement with where you are and make it better. That speaks far more to your manhood (or womanhood) than being Client #9. I mean really, how humiliating.


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Austin Gilman could not see himself going to college and loved to make things and work with his hands, so he attended Pathfinder Vocational Technical High School in Palmer.
After graduation, he went to work as a machinist and continues to be passionate about his job.
"You're taking this block of steel or aluminum or whatever you have, and you're transforming it into a part or component to build [something] even larger," said Gilman.
Starting out as a computer numerical control (CNC) machinist, he moved more toward the manual side of things because being a CNC was not as hands-on as he wanted. As a manual machinist, he gets to work with a material to form it into whatever part is needed.
"I love taking that block of nothing and making it into something," said Gilman.
It's a precise process and takes a lot of work, but he takes satisfaction out of the process and pride in his work.
For Gilman, the most satisfying part is working with a part or on a project and seeing it through completion.
"I get to say, 'Hey, I did that, and I get to see it put together into that giant final product,'" said Gilman.
At CIRCOR, many of the parts he creates go into U.S. submarines or are parts of large pumps.
His passion bleeds into his life outside of work. Gilman owns some of his own machines and a 3D printer he uses for other projects and to freelance.
"There's a lot of kids who haven't even tried industry or getting into a trade," said Gilman.
But the opportunities he has had through his industry job have led to a lot of success. He's a homeowner with a 401(k) at 22.
"I never thought I would be in this position," said Gilman, "All my life I've been told you can't succeed in life unless you have a college degree … but there's so many other ways."
In the future, he looks forward to growing his skill set and moving up at CIRCOR.
"I would love to stay at what I'm doing and get better at it," said Gilman. "In the shop we have so much going on … it's a great atmosphere."
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It's an exciting time for Vermont's bioscience leaders. There is a resurging statewide interest in bringing biopharmaceutical jobs, clinical trials and improved patient access to Vermont, and as America's trade association representing innovative pharmaceutical companies, PhRMA is proud to join hands in this effort.
The biopharmaceutical industry's statewide impact is impressive: there are more than 1,100 Vermont jobs that come directly from bioscience firms and research, and another 3,000 indirect jobs arise from the industry. Nearly 500 clinical trials conducted in the state study new treatments with 50 clinical trials still recruiting in locations such as Bennington, Colchester, Rutland, Burlington and White River Junction. Those trials and the local researchers conducting them couldn't be done without the cooperation of Vermont research organizations like the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Vermont Cancer Center, among many others. Our collective and collaborative impact—on patients, local economy, and national innovation goals—is strong and growing.
Leaders like Vermont's Senator Leahy have made it clear—the time for protecting innovation and life science patents is now. Vermont is in a unique collaborative position to work with other New England states to improve patient access and create new treatments, and PhRMA has long been a supporter of these goals. We applaud VBSA in their efforts to highlight new opportunities for action and research, and look forward to hearing their contribution to Vermont's message of innovation.


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Intern at CNN / Communications, Citizen Media and Journalism Major Outgoing, unstoppable communications, mass media and journalism major. Known as a quick learner with the proven ability to size up people and situations quickly. Determined to be a broadcaster, journalist, reporter and radio host. Love sharing stories – and being a part of the story – with people from around the world. Active in the Kennesaw State University student media. Recognized as a class leader. Served as a reporter for the weekly student newspaper last year and will continue working this year. Broad multicultural experience. International travels include Canada, Spain, Italy and France. Fluent in Spanish as well as English – lived nine years in Mexico. B.S., Citizen Media and Journalism | Kennesaw State University | Expected graduation 2016 – Rising sophomore; freshman curriculum included Human Communication and Public Speaking. – One of twelve students, out of 200 eligible, to receive a certificate for leadership in the Human Communications class. – Serving as a reporter on the student newspaper, the KSU Sentinel: www.ksusentinel.com. – Member of the Thrive community – a club for leaders who want to help others. – Throughout the year we went around helping with the community, such as going to the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home in Atlanta and mentoring kids (K-12) who needed role models. – One project at the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home included the production of a video about the history of the home. It included on-camera interviews with the manager of the home. – Participated in Sowers of Knowledge, an outreach effort to Africa. One project included hand-made books with illustrations; they were written in French: www.facebook.com/sowersofknowledgeksu – Co-host of a live radio broadcast every Saturday called "Community Talk with Ezell and Fernanda." We talk about education, news, and other important matters for refugees that come from countries such as Ethiopia and Somalia. – Also works as a reporter for Sagal Radio. Reported in a mayoral election of the City of Clarkston and got to ask the candidates questions as well as report on their answers. – Was the host and moderator for the 2013 Clarkston mayoral debate. – In the process of shooting a documentary for Sagal Radio that will require for me to research, write, edit, shoot, and interview different people. – Worked for The Sentinel (Newspaper of Kennesaw State) last year, and will be working for the newspaper again this year, writing an article a week. – Interviewed many different people from singers that wrote their own music to the director of marketing at CNN en Español. – served as a reporter for the lecture given by the president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama,and had the opportunity in asking the president a question at the press conference. – helped write an article about the president's visit to KSU; it made the front cover of The Sentinel. – As an Intern at CNN, working behind-the-scenes to put the news on the air. Met many anchors working here such as Brooke Baldwin, Isha Sesay, Gabriela Frias, Carlos Montero, and Sanjay Gupta. – Assisted with short videos of the anchors talking about what to expect on their show. – Translated stories and helped develop ads for the company. – Had the opportunity in writing, editing, and shooting a short video about my Intern story. – Shadowed in Brooke Baldwin's Show.


In the days leading up to the opening of his new show Figuring the Self at Desotorow Gallery, Savannah artist Adam Winnie sat down with SAI Editor-in-chief Kayla Goggin in his home studio for a conversation about process, method, identity, the nature of violence, and the importance of experimentation.
Adam Winnie: My fiance Stacy has been teaching me a little bit of encaustic.
Kayla Goggin: Could you see yourself incorporating encaustic into your works?
AW: Maybe. I'm such a slow drawer and painter – that's why I work in oils when I do paint – encaustic just dries so quickly. The initial drawing or painting of things – I'm just really.. I don't know if detailed is the word – I guess part of it is just really trying to hone in on the craft of it. I don't leave a lot to chance. I make sure there's a lot that's controlled in my work, as opposed to some artists whose works are all about leaving things to chance. I'm putting so much of my efforts into making these pieces that it's one of the few things that can be controlled. If I'm going to try to convey something specific then I think I need that control.
KG: Is this something you've always done? I've read some previous articles about you: I found an article from 2003 where you described your process a bit. Obviously that was a decade ago so there must have been some sort of transition for you. Have you always been so controlled or is that something that started to come out as your work matured?
AW: No, it's something that has come out the longer I've been working. Early on, before I really started working on technique, I was exploring more photography and sculpture works and things like that and those kind of transformed into these assemblage pieces. There was definitely a sense of craftsmanship to them but they were pretty rough around the edges. I wasn't as concerned with the craft as I was with the message. Now I'm focused on balancing the two.
KG: I think that's something a lot of artists struggle with, especially over time. I know the title of this show is Figuring the Self. Where did that title come from?
AW: Over the past 4 years I've been doing more – I wouldn't say self-portraiture – but I've been using my own figure a lot more in my works. It's something that's constantly recurring. I think I chose to do it like that for several reasons. In the beginning with photography, it was just that I was the one that was available and I was comfortable with doing the sort of things that it would be a hard time getting others to do. I was doing some really weird stuff.
KG: So it gave you the freedom to experiment.
AW: Yeah, yeah. So as I started creating bodies of work that would sustain for a long time, everything just started to fall into place with using myself in my works. I'm speaking about my experiences, a distillation of my life. I think I wrote in my statement, "I can't speak for somebody else, I can only speak for myself." Just because I'm in the work, doesn't necessarily mean the work is about me. I'm simply the carrier of the allegory.
KG: You're the conduit that this message is coming through.
AW: Yeah, I think there's a lot of universals in the human experience. Something I'm experiencing can be experienced by another person but not necessarily the experience itself – insight, fantasies, sensations, feelings can be transmitted through the work.
KG: Do you do much performance art? It seems like you've dabbled in everything.
AW: Not since coming down to Savannah. I was doing a lot more up in Michigan because there was more of an environment for it – there were more places that were open to more subversive, very raw, uninhibited performance. Some friends of mine owned a puppet theater and they loved my work so any time I wanted to do something they were game. I had a couple of performances in the basement studio I had in downtown Ann Arbor too. I was doing 5-6 performances a year at one point.
KG: Which, even for a performance artist, seems like it would be a lot.
AW: It was. It was a lot. Some stuff was planned out, some stuff wasn't. But since moving down to Savannah four and a half years ago I don't think I've done anything. It's crazy.
KG: You've just been focusing more on drawing and painting then?
AW: Yeah. It's tentative but I may be doing a performance during the Art March. If it's going to happen, it'll happen spontaneously, like without anybody knowing beforehand.
KG: Do you have any idea what you might do? Or is this totally organic?
AW: No, I need to spend some time in the space first. If I do decide to do something, I'll figure it out while I'm hanging the show. That's how I usually like to do it. I spend enough time in a space and things just come together. You'll see the videos I'm going to be showing all took place in the same 10×10 room.
KG: Where was that room?
AW: It was one of the unused grad studios in [SCAD's] Alexander Hall. The only things in the room when I went in were two pedestals. So that was all I used – a white pedestal and a black pedestal. It was a definite nod to Bruce Nauman. I love his work. It's absurd and it's nonsensical but it still has a lot that can be read into even if it's really simple.
KG: Yeah, I think his works have a lot of depth, despite the simplicity. Very sensual, some of them. Is he one of your main influences?
AW: I wouldn't say main influence, but he's somebody I've been watching for a long time and I admire his work and what he's bringing to the art world. There was another video artist – he's just started getting into video – Michaël Borremans. He's a figurative painter, but his paintings are very cinematic and his videos are very painterly. It's almost like a moving painting. There's usually not a lot of action happening, it's mostly just holding still so you can see those subtle movements and it just plays on a long loop. It's a video piece so it's not static but it's not really moving. What I liked about it is that it's a work that can exist both passively and actively on the wall. So I was kind of shooting for something like that. Something that you could watch but you don't have to watch because there's not a whole lot happening. You can watch for a moment or spend some time with it and discover some little differences and those are the little rewards.
KG: Do you find that idea translates to your two dimensional works as well?
AW: I think so. I try to give the paintings and drawings this aesthetic punch so-to-speak that can bring you into the piece and create an instant memory. But if you spend more time with the work you can be rewarded with other complexities within it, whether it's conceptual rigor or technique or what-have-you, I tried to put more into it than just that initial bang so to speak. I'm very suspect, unfortunately, of a lot of abstract artwork. While I've done a little in the past (semi-abstract but still a bit figurative) I couldn't ever see myself going in that direction. I'm drawn to the figure too much. There's much more that can be related with the figure and narratives than with an abstract artwork.
Adam Winnie in his home studio.
KG: I know you've said in the past that a lot of your works are about examining self identity, especially within – I think you phrased it "the current sociopolitical climate". Do you feel that an abstract work can't examine that in the same way that a figurative work can? How do you inject that idea into your figurative works?
AW: I think through the gestures and the interactions that the figure is involved within the images. That can carry those messages. But I think it's more relatable because you have a person in them. Now that I'm working with these charcoal drawings and in life size or larger than life size, I hope that that strengthens the relate-ability a bit more because you're seeing a person the same size as you, even if it's in these poses that you may not see yourself in. Even though it's become harder for me to draw on a large scale due to injuries I sustained from a motorcycle accident a few years ago, I seem to be making bigger and bigger works as time goes on. The piece [I'm currently working on] is going to be something like 15, 16 feet tall when it's done. I use a lot of negative space so there'll be a lot of negative space when it's done. With these large drawings the negative space plays a very big role. With something of this scale I'm giving the figure some breathing room. I'm drawn to the cinematic, I'm drawn to works that you can step into. It's about paring things down to the essentials.
KG: I definitely feel that with these works. From what I've seen of your previous works it seems like that negative space is ever increasing.
AW: Yeah, part of it is just paring things down to the essentials – so you can get right to the point but still be ambiguous at the same time. I think there's a lot of power behind mystery and I know it seems strange that I'm trying to be to-the-point but ambiguous, but it makes sense to me.
KG: It makes sense to me. Especially when you're talking about giving a figure room to breathe, and room for people to actually enter into and sit with the work.
AW: Yeah, and you can definitely see a narrative within the work. It's like the end of a second act or the beginning of the third act when things start to really happen. It's kind of like – it's right there and you don't know what led up to it and you don't know what's going to happen next. There's a sense of danger, there's a sense of losing control..
KG: Do you have a specific narrative laid out in your head as you work?
AW: I do. There's a lot of planning that goes into it, but I sometimes don't like to say a whole lot about a specific work until a show or until I get some decent feedback on it. I want to see if it's successful first.
KG: So does anything change for you after or during a show? When you actually see the piece in a space does that change the internal narrative that you have or is that completely set?
AW: By the time everything is up and hung, stuff is solidified. I stand back and I look at my works for just as much time as I do when I'm physically drawing. There's a lot of self reflection so I think by the time of the reception everything is ready to go. For some reason after a show there's always some depression that sets in because you work so hard towards this goal and then it happens and you have to have something else lined up or continue on with what you're doing.. I really like having goals to work towards. I like to have a show set up once or twice a year and work towards those – especially now that there's so much riding on it since this is what I'm doing full-time. Taking that step to being a full-time artist is really scary, there's a lot of uncertainty. But there's a time when you just have to take risks and I wouldn't be able to do what I do without [my fiance] Stacy.
AW: You'd think with the film school you'd see more but they're working more towards commercial stuff and not so much experimental stuff. I had done a little bit of video before coming to SCAD but it was more for documenting performances I was doing in public or there was one video piece of just me walking in a loop and I'd project that at shows.
KG: So you tend towards the minimal?
AW: With the video stuff, yeah. It wasn't until I had this Alt Media class with Todd Schroeder that I started looking at it as a means to an end. At first I was fumbling with it a little bit because I went into it not knowing what I was going to do with it yet and it took a little exploration before I decided I was going to continue on with my performance work and shoot the video as the finished piece. There's something a little more freeing about that, but there's an awkwardness to get over initially doing a performance by yourself. It's – I've done a lot of weird stuff and having an audience doesn't stop me. There's actually this feeling of seeing yourself from above while you're doing these things which allows you to do a lot more.. There's a lot more you can do than you think you can with an audience.
KG: This reminds me of Marina Abramović and how she feeds off the crowd. She says it's not possible for her to achieve what she wants to achieve without an audience watching.
AW: I'm really drawn to her earlier stuff, a lot of the more violent works about using the body as the medium.. There's another group of artists the Viennese Actionists.. they go into the depths of depravity so you don't have to. It's a catharsis kind of thing. I was more drawn to the ideas behind [their works] than the works themselves, the conceptualization of what they were doing.
KG: I feel like to some degree violence figures into your work. Maybe not any explicit violence, but blood and themes of external threats to the human body come up a lot.
AW: Yeah, that's definitely there. Violence is inescapable and it's a lot of times the result of fear. Lord of the Flies refers to fear as "mankind's essential illness", so that's a recurrent theme in a lot of my works. Whether it's fear itself or violence or violent.. There is so much beauty out there and so much greatness to experience, but it seems like there's always going to be one person trying to take advantage of another person using whatever means they can. Whether that's something we're stuck with or something we grow out of as we evolve is beyond me but my work is a reflection of that. I'm definitely influenced by that.
KG: I think this goes back to what we were talking about earlier – issues of identity in the current sociopolitical climate.. [Violence] can become a part of your identity – how you react to it or how you perpetrate it depending on who you are.
AW: And you don't have to show extreme violence for the sake of extreme violence or for the sake of shock, I think that's another cop out too. It says something about the human psyche that movies like Saw are so popular. You don't have to go to those extremes.
KG: Is there anything you want people to consider in particular when they're attending the show Friday?
AW: I guess to take time digesting individual works. Try to spend time with them. I know openings can be crazy, but feel free to ask questions. I like talking about my work, I like when people are interested in my work, I like talking to other artists.
Figuring the Self will be up at Desotorow Gallery from December 3 – December 14. The opening reception will be during the First Friday Art March on December 6, 6-9PM.


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Atlantic 10 continues to remain relevant even with the opportunity gap for the NCAA Tournament widening
Commissioner Bernadette McGlade's message to her coaches: Take chances and schedule aggressively
by Gary Parrish
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Oct 19, 2018 at 11:10 am ET • 5 min read
BROOKLYN -- The Atlantic 10 has experienced real change in recent years -- first when established men's basketball programs like Xavier, Butler and Temple left the league in 2013, then when established coaches like Shaka Smart, Archie Miller and Will Wade subsequently did the same in pursuit of Big 12, Big Ten and SEC jobs. Such losses are rarely easy for a league like this to overcome; they can cause real dips in prestige and accomplishments. And yet, for the A-10, it's been mostly business as usual -- evidence being how the conference placed at least three schools in the NCAA Tournament last March for the 11th consecutive season.
Will that streak extend to 12?
Perhaps -- although we probably won't know for certain until Selection Sunday. But one thing nearly everybody was willing to acknowledge at Thursday's Atlantic 10 Media Day here inside Barclays Center -- which is where the A-10 Tournament will again be held this season -- is that securing at-large bids from outside of the traditional power structure is getting more difficult by the year. The gap between the haves and have-nots, when it comes to opportunity, seems to be widening.
"There's an attempt to widen it by the Power 5 conferences," Davidson coach Bob McKillop said matter-of-factly. "That's their game plan. They don't like the fact that Loyola-Chicago was in the tournament [when it made the Final Four]. They don't like the fact that Virginia Commonwealth and Butler were in the tournament [when they made the Final Four]. They don't like that because that knocks one of their league teams out of a potential spot in the tournament -- but also maybe [out of] a spot in the Final Four.
"The Power 5 is trying to protect the Power 5."
And they're doing it in a variety of ways -- primarily by refusing, in many cases, to play quality A-10 programs (and programs like them) in level-playing field situations, which, by extension, limits the number of possible resume-building wins available to quality A-10 programs (and programs like them). The fact that some Power 5 leagues are moving to 20-game conference schedules also doesn't help because Power 5 schools now need to play fewer non-league games. And though all of this might not be the biggest deal if the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee seriously considered it, and adjusted the selection process for it, the truth is that it hasn't. So the selection process remains unfairly tilted.
Take last season, for example.
Oklahoma, a Big 12 institution, entered Selection Sunday with an RPI of 48 and 6-9 record in Quadrant 1 opportunities while St. Bonaventure, an A-10 institution, had an RPI of 24 and 3-3 record in Quadrant 1 opportunities. In other words, the Sooners won 40 percent of their Quadrant 1 opportunities while the Bonnies won 50 percent of their Quadrant 1 opportunities -- and finished 24 spots higher than OU in the RPI. And yet, on Selection Sunday, the selection committee valued Oklahoma's quantity of Quadrant 1 wins over the quality of St. Bonaventure's record in Quadrant 1 opportunities.
OU was given a 10 seed and placed in the main bracket.
The Bonnies were sent to the First Four.
"Peter Roby, a former [selection] committee member [and] the former athletic director at Northeastern, he was in an open forum, I guess two years ago, that I was in with [NCAA president] Mark Emmert," said A-10 commissioner Bernadette McGlade. "And he actually made the statement, he said, 'You know, I'm concerned because our criteria that we use when we're evaluating and selecting teams is based on non-conference scheduling, and if there are challenges and hindrances to everyone being able to get challenging schedules, then it kind of works against them.'"
Indeed, it does.
Simply put, the power conferences have this thing figured out. What they know is that if they limit the Quadrant 1 opportunities for quality programs outside of the traditional power structure, they can reduce the likelihood that quality programs outside of the traditional power structure will be in positions to receive at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament. So what they do is refuse to play somebody like, say, Loyola-Chicago, then spend all March screaming about how Loyola-Chicago doesn't deserve to be in the NCAA Tournament unless it wins the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic bid because "LOYOLA-CHICAGO DIDN'T PLAY ANYBODY!"
It's a cold game.
"It's something, in the A-10, that we think about," McGlade said. "And it's why we emphasize so much to our coaches, and to our ADs and presidents, that you have to take chances [in non-league scheduling], and that you have to schedule games even if they're games that are completely out of your region. If that's the only high-powered, highly ranked team [you can schedule], you have to take [the game]."
This is a point I made in a column last month.
It no longer matters what's fair because the system isn't changing. Only three of the 36 at-large bids available to last season's NCAA Tournament went to schools that do not play in either the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC, Big East or AAC. That's obviously a less-than-ideal scenario for everybody not in one of those leagues. But that one of the at-large bids went to St. Bonaventure is worth noting, if only because Bonnies coach Mark Schmidt did exactly what McGlade advises and benefitted. When he couldn't get anybody of note to play him at the Reilly Center or in a one-off neutral court game, Schmidt accepted an opportunity to take a check and play Syracuse at the Carrier Dome. It was designed to be a scheduled-win and resume-booster for the Orange, which is why Syracuse was willing to do it. But it turned into a 60-57 Quadrant 1 road win for the Bonnies. And it's the only reason the Selection Committee had no reasonable option but to put reward St. Bonaventure with an at-large bid.
Yes, it stinks that a team with a top-25 RPI -- and that won 12 straight contests to close the regular season -- had to win a road game at Syracuse three days before Christmas to secure even a spot in the First Four. But such is life on this side of the so-called fence.
Nobody likes it.
But everybody knows it.
"What we have to do is keep scheduling big games," said Saint Louis AD Chris May. "Then we have to go and win them."
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Home > Mississippi > Bethel ATV Trail Scroll down for trail contact information and regulations. Select a photo to enlarge.
This area has about 37 miles of mostly tight and smooth ATV trails. The terrain is mostly flat, hard packed and smooth and winds through tall grass and a mixed pine tree forest. There are no challenging sections but this is a good place to take the family or beginner rider.
The staging area offers some basic amenities that include a self pay station, picnic tables, and a vault toilet. Primitive camping is permitted and there are plenty of flat and shaded sites to choose from.
The trails are open year-round but may close temporarily on short notice due to wet weather conditions, so check the hotline before heading out. Riding is discouraged during hunting season which is between the months of October through January.
For a detailed trail map see the last two pages.
Elevation 100 to 125 ft.


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Dollar Strengthens, Yuan Breaks Through Key Threshold on Recession Fears
Investing.com – The U.S. dollar strengthened in early European trade Friday, while the Chinese yuan broke through a crucial threshold as concerns over rising interest rates and a potential recession dented risk appetite.
At 03:10 ET (07:10 GMT), the , which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded 0.1% higher to 109.545, not far removed from its two-decade peak of 110.79.
Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund warned late Thursday of an impending global economic slowdown, with Indermit Gill, the World Bank's chief economist, saying he was concerned about "generalized stagflation," a period of low growth and high inflation.
Fears of a global recession are growing with many central banks aggressively tightening monetary policy to combat inflation at historic levels.
The is widely expected to hike by 75 basis points next week, and the Bank of England is seen as likely to increase its for the seventh meeting in a row.
This downbeat economic assessment has weighed on the currencies that are perceived to be more risky, with the dollar the main beneficiary.
The Chinese yuan traded past the critical threshold of 7 per dollar for the first time in more than two years, with up 0.3% to 7.0121 despite data showing surprising resilience in China's economy as grew faster-than-expected and grew at the quickest in six months.
fell 0.1% to 0.9990, trading below parity ahead of the release of the data for August. This is expected to show that inflation remained resilient in the bloc, up 0.5% on the month and up 9.1% on the year as the region struggles to cope with soaring energy prices.
fell 0.3% to 1.1424 after U.K. posted their sharpest fall of the year so far in August, dropping 1.6% on the month and 5.4% on the year as the cost-of-living crisis more than offset some modest relief from fuel prices in the month.
rose 0.1% to 143.59, with the yen struggling as the yield hit a fresh peak of 3.901% on Friday, the highest since 2007.
The is also set to meet this week, but is extremely unlikely to authorize a rate hike, meaning the Japanese currency will suffer more from the growing interest rate differentials.
rose 0.1% to 0.6706, rebounding after hitting a two-month low of 0.6685 earlier in the session.
Additionally, rose 0.4% to 60.0288 ahead of the latest policy meeting of the Russian central bank. Most economists surveyed by Bloomberg predict a decrease of half a percentage point to 7.5%, which would be the smallest interest-rate cut since the central bank started easing monetary policy after the invasion of Ukraine.


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Q: Autoinstallation of Centos7 (PXE) ends up in booting to the live-DVD login EDIT: 2015-03-29 16:14 UTC+1: After downloading the images, the VM throws the error "Failed to mount RPC Pipe Filesystem"
I am trying to do automatic installation of CentOS 7 via PXE.
My PXE server defaults everything to the CentOS 7 install, since this is testing:
My /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default:
#prompt 1
timeout 600

default centos7
label centos7
    menu label ^Install CentOS 7
    kernel centos/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
    append vga=normal initrd=centos/images/pxeboot/initrd.img ks=http://**.***.**.***/kickstart7.cfg priority=critical IPAPPEND 2

The files in my /srv/tftp/centos/images/pxeboot seem to be OK:
root@dvxtest:/srv/tftp/centos/images/pxeboot# md5sum *
b643733cacd1a8b6715f00ba669e69ed  initrd.img
064652e5c5e03bdc96f7b7b10d1c5c61  TRANS.TBL
b76341074e5d68b4e315d00b29fb11fb  upgrade.img
1f8a3bc847320572e531251fbf7e546b  vmlinuz

I've readen on the official CentOS forums that it might be the wrong file booting, so I just downloaded the complete CentOS install dvd iso-file and mounted using this instead of unpacked files.
When I start my VM it seems to be OK:
Trying to load: /pxelinux.cfg/default    ok
Loading centos/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz.......
Loading centos/images/pxeboot/initrd.img....................................

After that it downloads all needed files from the given repository with the warning that "update.img" and "product.img" does not exist. According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722409 this should be OK because "product.img" is RHEL related and "update.img" is only needed in "certain cases"
After this my VM throws the error "Failed to mount RPC Pipe File System" while booting, then starts the live-login
My kickstart.cfg:
# System authorization information
auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
# Use network installation
repo --name=base --baseurl=http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/centos/7/os/x86_64/
url --url="http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/centos/7/os/x86_64/"
# Run the Setup Agent on first boot
firstboot --enable
ignoredisk --only-use=sda
# Keyboard layouts
keyboard --vckeymap=sg --xlayouts='ch'
# System language
lang de_CH.UTF-8

# Network information
network  --bootproto=static --device=enp4s0 --gateway=192.168.100.1 --ip=192.168.0.130 --nameserver=192.168.100.1 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --ipv6=auto --activate --hostname=roflcopter.lh
# Root password
rootpw --plaintext test123
# System timezone
timezone Europe/Zurich --isUtc
# System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda
autopart --type=lvm
# Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda

%packages
@core

%end

What I tried until now:

*

*Use different mirrors

*Tried using a different kickstart file: https://www.centosblog.com/centos-7-minimal-kickstart-file/

*Be sure my kickstart file is used by deleting it and trying to start

*use pxeboot files from different public mirrors

*use pxeboot files from live-DVD

Until now, I'm completely clueless of what the problem could be and I'm not even sure on how to debug it.
I'm sorry if I might have forgotten any useful information, please just tell me and I will provide it.
Any help is appreciated
Thank you for your time.

A: I found the answer, but I can't explain the "why" since it doesn't make any sense and/or I am not understanding the documentation. I'm still going to post it as the answer so if anyone else has the same problem he will have another thing to try out on his "try & error"-trip.
Documentation: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#APPEND_-
Removing the IPAPPEND 2 from the end of the default file in the centos installation label actually solved the issue.
I can reproduce the error, adding back IPAPPEND 2 makes it stop working again.

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Investors are returning to Italy, however the picture is not as rosy as one would hope. Investment in Europe is nowhere near the level of its international competitors, and when it comes to Italy it's even worse. too bad for a country with so much potential.


De Beers is a group of companies that dominate the diamond mining, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea. Mining takes place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada.
The company was founded in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes, who was financed by South African diamond magnate Alfred Beit and the London-based N M Rothschild & Sons bank. In 1927, Ernest Oppenheimer, a German immigrant to Britain who had earlier founded mining giant Anglo American plc with American financier J.P. Morgan, took over De Beers. He built and consolidated the company's global monopoly over the diamond industry until his retirement.
Integration with Anglo American. This primarily covers HR, Supply Chain, Finance (and related support functions of Tax, Legal etc) as well as IM (IT) integration from a strategy, sourcing, governance and operating model point of view.
Complete change to how De Beers does business, now part of a LSE listed organisation, previously private. From an IT point of view bringing together 10+ different IM organisations under a single leader (me) for the first time in 6 years. First time the organisation has operated as a single Global entity.
Still under negotiation so we cannot disclose until mid 2014 - however we are working with three potential providers for services in (1) Networks and Communciations, (2) Service Desk, Data Centres and Workplace Computing and (3) Application Support (initially Global SAP). Should this go ahead we will have an integreted sourcing model with Anglo American.
$80m ($60m operating expense, $20m capex) - This includes managed businesses and joint ventures (approximately 60/40 split respectively).
1% - differs slightly when you look at the manufacturing business (Element 6 - 2%). 1% average for a mining company using Gartner benchmarks.
(2) Increase value delivered by IM through (a) remodelling core diamond trading systems and (b) asset optimisaiton activities in mining.
(3) Drive out cost in IM through integration with Anglo American - primarily through strategic sourcing activities.
(4) Improve talent in the organisation through stronger recruitment and retention planning.
Not quite yet - we are turning a corner, prior to my appointment IT (as it was known then - we changed this to IM - Information Management) was primarily a back-office infrastructure and applications team. 2014 will be the year where we push to the front office with some key initiatives.
Year 1 of the role was really about building the Global IM function and getting organised around global sourcing initiatives. Overall these will deliver around a 5% saving off an already low baseline (1% of revenue - remember De Beers is not only a mining company but has trading, marketing and manufacturing).
That said however we were instrumental in the move of the diamond trading organisation to Gaborone from London, this is underpinned by the core diamond system technology and the overall initaitive was delivered 2 months ahead of schedule, on budget and without any major systems issues.
2014 will be a year we we start to drive this in earnest with business expansion activity in mining and operations, transformational activity in diamond trading (major underpinning diamond trading systems) and also with business process transformation underpinned with a new global analytics platform.
Contribute to the diamond trading business process redesign (a direct report is a steercom member) as well as the global business process framework (I'm a steercom member).
In diamond trading we are looking to redesign a solution that is currently operating on a 25 year old AS400 platform. We are yet to make any technology choices. The business process framework will leverage a Microsoft BI stack interfacing through to various data historians and ultimately process control and scada systems.
We have a programme where we enable personal devices (phones, tablets etc.) to access email and intranet (via Good). Also personal PC access to business applications is facilitated through a Citrix solution. We have harmonised this soluton globally over the last twelve months and the feedback has been extremely positive. We have acheived a 90% customer satisfaction rating for all IM services in 2014, up from 76% in 2013 (when I joined). We are behind with social media right now (internally and externally) but are evaluating a Jive implementation based on Anglo Americans platform.
Shadow IT has been a huge focus in 2013 and we have succesfully integrated Exploration, Information Security and various 'Business Analyst' roles in other functions into IM. The biggest challenge remains in mining where there is still a divide around operational technology vs. information technology and in 2014 we are planning to drive clarity around this boundary and deal with the governance and operational issues associated with it.
My 10 years of experience working in Procter and Gamble are still a great influence in terms of taking mining companies forward, mining well behind in their thinking and operating models. In addition I continue to leverage peer networks, Gartner events, vendor events to understand (1) where we are in relation to the rest of the industry and (2) where we can improve.
No - we are working on the definition of Digital De Beers right now and this is being worked between myself, the CMO and the Head of Communications and Corporate Affairs.
100% of what is defined as IT budget. The brand based website budgets are with the CMO and the external websites are shared with IT and the Head of Communications.
Total team including Joint Ventures 330. Made up from 220 permanent and 110 contractors. Direct responsibility (excluding JVs) for around 150 permanent and 75 contract.
Four Business Unit Leaders - Business Relationship Managers (SA and Canadian Mining Business, Trading and Marketing and Element 6 Manufacturing). 1 Corporate Functions leader - Business Relationship Management facing Global HR, Supply Chain, Finance and Communications - he also leads the Strategy and Assurance function. 1 Global Head of Infrastructure, 1 Head of Information Security, and 2 Strategic Change Programme Directors (Sourcing and Infrastructure Transformation). The 3 Heads of IT for the Joiunt Ventures whilst not directly reporting to me also sit on my leadership team and we are fully aligned on overall strategy, governance and major project decisions.


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Spelfogel: Stanford football only a 'regional' powerhouse
Stanford has shown glimmers of hope with players like Bryce Love, but the team must find consistency to truly be great. (DAVID BERNAL/isiphotos.com)
Take me back to 2007, please! ESPN, last week, aired enough highlight reel film of Jim Harbaugh and Richard Sherman jumping up and down in pure elation, pulling off the greatest upset in college football history, a forty-one-point underdog, at the Coliseum, to the number two team in the country, yada yada yada, that I almost forgot that this Cardinal team was part of a different reality. In the build-up to the clash at the Coliseum, watching ESPN pundit Desmond Howard declare Stanford is bound for the national title game, possibly to vanquish mighty Alabama, almost made me forget that this Cardinal team was part of a different reality. Remembering that Stanford had defeated USC in three consecutive matchups, and that night two Decembers ago where Christian McCaffrey ran rampant through the SC secondary, almost made me forget that this Cardinal team was part of a different reality. Yet reality crept back quickly in the 2nd half of Saturday's game, resulting in a 42-24 drubbing at the hands of our Southern California rivals.
Einstein once said that in theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. The same is true with Stanford; in abstract, Stanford is solid. The parts should fit together, and make a fairly cohesive team. Yet in actuality, the secondary is rather a mush, pass protection is porous and the rushing defense could barely touch the opposing quarterback if it had a twelve-foot pole. To set the record straight, Stanford is a good team, it might even deserve to be ranked 14th in the country, but it is in no way, shape or form a great team. The Cardinal have too many questions, from a quarterback who may still be recovering from a major injury several months ago, to weak pass protection and pass rush. And the unabatingly conservative play call does not help the situation at all.
The truth is that the dismantling at the hands of USC reveals Stanford's worst kept secret. It is merely a "regional" powerhouse, for now at least. It occasionally recruits Heisman caliber talent – Andrew Luck, Christian McCaffrey and NFL first rounder's – Solomon Thomas and Andrus Peat who collectively drive the Cardinal to BCS Bowl games – The Orange Bowl or Rose Bowl, but the consistent inconsistencies in depth at any given position, precludes Stanford from breaking out into that next elite bucket of schools.
Worse yet, Stanford football shows a degree of complacency and attrition. Complacency in play calls – David Shaw is notoriously conservative, and this week's clash with the Trojans was no exception, with plenty of head scratching calls. If Stanford is to succeed in challenging environments, given its current roster and talent realities, playing the yardage game against Sam Darnold at the Coliseum is just not going to work. And attrition in a loss of talent – from graduations and transfers, but more so a failure to develop talent adequately at a given position. Stanford does recruit top tier players each season, but Shaw's model has been to cultivate players over multiple years rather than the months that most other programs do. Stanford's best QB may be sitting on the bench in the form of K.J. Costello.
Make no mistake — Stanford strives for greatness. Its athletic facilities are top notch, and the West Coast offense mimics that of many NFL teams. Yet it seems that here again, in situations where Stanford could break out as a preeminent competitor, not in the Pac-12, but in the national title race, The Cardinal flounders. This year it was at the hands of USC, but there is a familiar pattern. Last year, Stanford collapsed completely against Washington in a high stakes match up. The season before, the Cardinal didn't show up in the season opener against Northwestern. Having emerged victorious would have undoubtedly laid the foundation for a title run.
Yet seasons past have shown that legacies are not determined in a single loss, but rather by a pattern of reoccurrence. Last year, Stanford would have made it to the Rose Bowl if it had beaten Colorado at home (it lost 10-5). The season prior, Stanford would have gone to the college football playoff if it had beaten Oregon (it lost on a failed two-point conversion). So let this drubbing by USC be a lesson of history, but also one of conviction. Stanford is by no means eliminated from contention to any bowl game, but it does need a significant course correction – one that should start at the helm – if it hopes to advance this season.
In a conference dominated by professional caliber talent at the QB position, Stanford needs to figure out its defensive strategy, and fast. While Sam Darnold did pass for more yards than the speed of most commercial jets, the Cardinal did pick off the USC quarterback twice. Hidden in the jaws of defeat is a glimmer of hope — hope that Stanford soon finds the item it has needed more so than any position, player or coach. It's the same item that will allow it to finally be more than just a "regional" competitor, rather one that performs on a national stage. That's consistency.
Contact Michael Spelfogel at mspel 'at' stanford.edu.
Tags:Andrew LuckAndrus PeatChristian McCaffreyJim Harbaughkj costelloRichard ShermanSolomon ThomasStanford footballUSC


School's out for summer…but the National Security Law Podcast keeps trucking along. In Episode 19, we find that the suddenly-student-less professors have used their newfound free time to…wait for it…add music to their intro. And just in case that brief riff is not enough, Chesney and Vladeck do go on to discuss some actual law and policy matters. They start with the appointment of Bob Mueller as a "special counsel," and go into considerable detail on the nature and origins of that particular office (contrasting it with the more-familiar "Independent Counsel" of Whitewater fame). This leads, inevitably, to a discussion of Mike Flynn invoking the Fifth Amendment in relation to a congressional subpoena for documents (from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence). Among other things, they survey SSCI's options for enforcement of its subpoena, noting along the way that the "inherent contempt" power is less fun without ye' old Capitol Jail (converted into a dining hall, alas, back in the 1850s). Then it's a brief review of the recent airstrike U.S. forces conducted against an Iran-backed pre-regime force in Syria as those forces persisted in approaching an airbase used by U.S. forces there, distinguishing the legal from the policy questions that strike raised. And finally, there are digressions galore, including a (very favorable) review of All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai and celebration of the fact that Kawhi Leonard made the cut for the NBA MVP Final 3 (well, only Bobby celebrated because, as you may recall, they bet dinner on it). Oh, the also *totally* forgot to follow-through on announcing the winner of last week's trivia contest, so watch the Twitter feed (@nslpodcast) for that, and stay tuned for it to be addressed on the show next week!


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Shayne Ward is the debut studio album by English singer Shayne Ward. The release of the album came five months after he won the second series of the British talent show The X Factor, with the recording process taking place between 2005 and 2006.

Background and release
The album was released on 17 April 2006 and debuted at number one on both the Irish Albums Chart and the UK Albums Chart. Since its release, the album has been certified Platinum in the UK, selling 538,918 copies as of November 2015. Worldwide, the album has sold over 1,120,000 copies. The album spawned the singles "That's My Goal", "No Promises" and "Stand by Me". The album was later re-released on 18 December 2006, with the addition of a bonus DVD. The album was not issued in Japan until 2007, and the lead single in the region consisted of a double A-side of "That's My Goal" and "No Promises". A new video for "That's My Goal" was filmed for the release.

In November 2022, the album was released on vinyl record for the first time.

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Shayne Ward albums
2006 debut albums
Syco Music albums
Albums produced by Cutfather

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Winter brings colder weather, snow days, and bundled up nights. Winter also brings illness.
Recognizing the common seasonal illnesses, knowing when to see a doctor, and following a few simple steps to avoid illness can help get your year off to a healthy start.
See your children's primary care physician for an annual checkup at the start of the year.
Work with your children's doctor to determine what seasonal vaccinations, such as the flu vaccine, are appropriate for your children.
Wash your hands and ask others to do the same.
Avoid crowds and other young children during RSV season.
Today we're sharing this info, along with additional tips and a very personal story, so that parents can better understand RSV. We're lucky to have William P. Hitchcock, M.D. and parent advocate Kari Judson here to talk to us about this illness. We want to let you know that Kari's story is a tough one to hear – but it is one we're very grateful to her for sharing.
Dr. William Hitchcock is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Hitchcock has an interest in Allergy and Asthma as well as Infectious Disease and Vaccines. He has been involved in clinical research in asthma and allergy and clinical trials involving antimicrobials and vaccines. His publications in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Western Journal of Medicine, Clinical Research, Journal of Respiratory Disease, Contemporary Pediatrics, Clinical Pediatrics, Consultant for Pediatricians, and Advances in Therapy include subject areas such as Meningococcal Disease, Parainfluenza Infections, Adolescent Pertussis, Immunization Schedules, Rotavirus Infections, Inhaled Corticosteroids, and Asthma Management in Children.
Dr. Hitchcock is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the A.A.P. Sections on Community Pediatrics, School Health, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, and Sports Medicine. He is the coordinator of the San Diego chapter of the A.A.P. Pediatric Research in Office Setting (PROS) Committee, a member of Community Health Improvement Partners-Immunize San Diego, and a member of the Society for Clinical Pediatrics.
Dr. Hitchcock has presented nationally at the American Association of Respiratory Care, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology as well as the New Jersey and Pennsylvania chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics and given grand rounds at Children's Hospital Fort Worth, Scripps Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Mercy Hospital, Kaiser Permanente San Diego, the Public Health Departments throughout Oregon, Texas, and California He has appeared on numerous newscasts and in newspapers and was voted "Top Doc" by his peers in San Diego in 2002 and 2007.
Dr. Hitchcock is the proud father of four boys and one girl and a granddaughter who lives in Italy. He loves the outdoors, travel, reading and music.
Alexander and Dominic Judson were born to parents Kari and Lyle on January 4, 2008 at 36 weeks and 2 days gestational age. As their birth weights were on the healthy side (4.7lbs and 4.13 lbs), they were considered full term for twins. They thrived in their first few days and their lung functioning proved to be normal. Since the Alexander and Dominic were doing well and healthy, they were sent home, even before their mother was released.
The first 11 months of their lives were illness-free, until Alexander became lethargic and felt slightly feverish. He was brought to the E.R., and shortly after crashed three times from bronchial spasms. He was airlifted to Egleston Children's Hospital with a severe case of RSV. His brain function was normal throughout the flight but upon landing, his brain function ceased and he was put on life support. Unfortunately, Kari and Lyle had to face a parent's worst nightmare, and decided to remove him from life support and donate his organs.
Meanwhile, as Alexander was being airlifted, Dominic was also facing RSV, with his infection growing in severity. He required intense treatment and hospitalization for 11 days. After discharge, Dominic began receiving monthly Synagis shots, and was approved for five doses of Synagis throughout the RSV season.
After the passing of Alexander, Kari and Lyle gave birth to a healthy baby boy in 2010 and Kari is currently pregnant with her fourth child.
The Serious Virus Affecting Children – How Much Do You Know?
It's scary how close my story is to this one. So sorry for Kari and her family. My daughter was born on January 29 a little over 3 weeks early. She was 5lbs and 9 oz and perfectly healthy. We went home 24 hours after her birth. About 5 days after going home I noticed a cough. I called the doctor and they asked if she had a fever and she didn't. They said not to worry. Well I called every day for the next 5 days and got the same answer. On the fifth day my mother who is a nurse and has been for 25+ years held her and said that we needed to go to the ER immediately. Upon arrival her oxygen levels were extremely low and decreasing rapidly oxygen was barely helping. We were transported to St. Johns childrens hospital in Springfield IL. We were put in the NICU for the next 9 days. She was strong and we were able to move to regular room until discharge. I had no clue what RSV was or how dangerous, but I will never underestimate it again. I thought ours was an extreme case. I'm saddened to see how horribly wrong it can go.
Glad everything went well for your baby. True, it's a heartbreaking story aiming to provide important information.