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It's probably the hardest thing I've ever done," admits Paul Atkinson, referring to the founding of Edinburgh-based venture capital firm Par Equity in 2008.
"Unbeknown to us when we started the business, the banking crisis was about to hit," he says ruefully. "So literally by the time we had got our licence to run funds from the FSA - as it was at the time - it was more or less the same time as the banking crisis started.
"Our ambition was to build an institutional fund but all the institution doors slammed shut because of the banking crisis so we built the business from the ground up with private investors. That's why it's the shape it is today."
And that is a pretty impressive shape: since its launch Par Equity has invested more than £80m in over 40 companies, it has completed five exits, two of which were in medtech. Of that £80m, Paul Atkinson estimates that more than 70 per cent has gone into Scottish companies and says that Par has some really good companies in its portfolio.
Compared to launching Par Equity in the teeth of the international banking storm that blew down some famous investment houses, Atkinson's latest business venture is being done in much more benign conditions.
He is putting together what he aims to be a "recruitment supergroup". He added Change Recruitment, which he bought in a deal announced in May for an undisclosed sum, to his existing businesses of Head Resourcing and Head Medical and he has since added Atkinson McLeod, a business he formed with well-known headhunting veteran Ian McLeod.
The combined group has an expected consolidated turnover of about £65m. Atkinson believes that they can grow the current combined business organically to a turnover of about £70-80m with further acquisitions required to "add the last 20 per cent" to take them to around the £100m turnover mark.
"We're deliberately designing it so that it doesn't need so much hands-on help from the likes of me," he explains. "I'm a long, long way away from the recruitment tools these days and the guys who are running the businesses under Taranata are a lot more capable than I am in terms of what's actually happening in the recruitment sector today. Part of my role is to make sure that we keep our eyes looking up and looking forward and that we can see we're not going to run into a tree, we can see the forest," he laughs.
"The impact of technology on all sectors is going to be huge. And part of my role is to make sure that my recruitment business actually takes advantage of the new technology and is not caught out by it."
Each of the businesses covers different specialisms with Head Resourcing handling information technology and software and business change. It is, he says a very UK-centred business. Head Medical deals with placing medical practitioners both at home and abroad and is a very international business. Change Recruitment is principally involved in accounting and finance but also with teams that do investment and risk management to which has been added a new construction business with a new hire from one of their competitors.
There is a clear strategy to the development of Taranata, Atkinson says. "The intention is to add more brands with other specialisms, particularly if they bring more international context. In my view the more international the business is the more valuable it will be and the less prone to disruption in the market it will be."
About 30 per cent of revenue line just now is international and Atkinson says: "I would see that increasing; certainly the companies that we're looking at as potential acquisitions, at least a quarter of them have got very significant international exposure."
He believes that this will give Taranata a real competitive edge because he says that there few UK recruitment companies that are truly international.
"I want to get it to a scale where we can potentially list the business or do something that creates some liquidity because we have got a number of shareholders in the business just now and that number will increase."
The group as a whole will benefit from the different strands within it because, as he says, recruitment is a very cyclical business.
He has a clear picture of the way the ambitions for the group will be realised: "Identify markets where they can differentiate themselves, apply technology smarts to it and give the teams that work in it a competitive advantage."
The economic conditions look so very different from those in which Par Equity was created with the shortages in the labour market caused by EU nationals who are leaving, are threatening to leave or who are looking elsewhere rather than the UK because of Brexit.
Atkinson says: "There is no doubt. We're at record high employment and the skill shortage in some sectors is really acute, particularly IT and particularly medical. But there are skill shortages right across industry.
"The mood music is making the UK less attractive as a destination for international workers. Our mood music outwardly looking is the wrong mood music to attract people in. I see that as part of our role in the recruitment business – the more international we are the more we can help with that."
He goes on: "Brexit is having an impact for a couple of reasons – number one exchange rate. A big part of the reason that Polish construction workers are going back to Poland is because the pound in their pocket is worth 20 per cent less than it was before.
"At some point the rules around immigration and skilled workers shortages will become clear and there will be a mechanism to bring in international workers I'm sure. What it will be we don't know yet. In the meantime skill shortages are generally good for recruitment companies. So we have no shortage of demand to find people we've just got to be creative about how we go about finding them."
And he believes that Taranata is well placed to do that because of its existing international footprint. The group is already operating in 20 countries in accountancy, finance and medial recruitment. Head Medical is supplying into Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, China, Singapore, the Maldives and the Caribbean. But it also places people across the UK particularly in some of the remoter regions. "Being international gives us that edge interms of winning UK business," he says.
Atkinson's move into recruitment was not a planned one. He had been working in an IT company as an engineer and moving into sales working in "have car will travel a lot" job in a territory that covered the west of England and Scotland from Manchester. In that role he sold computer hardware and software and then moved sideways into the IT industry.
"Almost by accident I fell into recruitment in a role with Computer People in Manchester," he says with the job coming about after he met them at a computer exhibition. When Computer People opened their Scottish office in 1987 Atkinson moved to head it up and has lived and worked here ever since.
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Paul Atkinson is the founding partner of boutique investment business Par Equity, which backs technology-based businesses.
Prior to founding Par, Paul co-founded recruitment businesses Direct Resources which was sold to Nasdaq-listed iGATE Corporation in 1999 and RecruitmentScotland.com, which was acquired by another Nasdaq-listed business TMP Worldwide in 2000. He is now executive chairman of Taranata Group, a recruitment business with ambitions to grow, to scale and seek a market listing. Paul grew up on a farm and has a BSc in Physics from Manchester University.
He was headhunted to set up what is now called Parity in Scotland as regional director. Then he and a couple of colleagues decided to go into business for themselves. Atkinson says now: "It didn't work out but I had quite an interesting tour of the Middle East selling IT consultants into Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain."
He then spent a year headhunting for the IT division of the Royal Bank of Scotland and then a further year working for what is now IBM Global Services.
Atkinson met Gordon Adam, who became his business partner, and the pair set up Direct Resources in 1995. "Four years into that we were approached by an Nasdaq-listed IT services company MasTec Systems Corporation to buy our business with a view to building a strong footprint on the UK for them. We were offered what was in hindsight a very good deal.
"I stayed on to do the integration with the parent company and Gordon stepped out to build a second company that we had formed called RecruitmentScotland.com, which was Scotland's first jobs website business before S1 Jobs.
"About six to seven months after we sold Direct Resources we decided to see if there was a market to sell the online business largely driven by the hyped state of the market – it was dotcom boom time. We started to hear stories of how much TMP Worldwide were buying online recruitment sites for and thought maybe we should take a look at that. That was competitive, we hired advisors to take the company to market, we had four offers for the business and the offer we took was with TMP Worldwide, which owned Monster.com.
"At the time of the deal TMP Worldwide was trading at 200 times earnings on Nasdaq and we effectively sold our business then for half that: 100 times earnings. We were in the fortunate position of having built and sold two businesses within a year of each other.
"That was when I first started investing in other people's companies, the first being Learning IT, an IT training business in Stirling run by an ex-client of mine Duncan Macleod. I invested in that business in 1998, went onto the board as non-executive director and later sold it to a management buyout backed by Baxi Partnership."
Between 1998 and starting Par Equity in 2008, Atkinson invested in 16 companies. He founded Head Resourcing in 2001 after the dotcom bubble had burst and, he says: "I didn't feel like doing too much investing in technology businesses at that point."
In 2008 Atkinson stepped out of the executive suite at Head Resourcing to set up Par Equity. "I wanted to professionalise the investment I had been doing as an angel prior to that. Par Equity was really a business set up to back new technology entrepreneurs with both money and expertise. That's been the model ever since really; we've got a very strong professional investor base that sit on boards, do the diligence and help these companies develop and succeed."
Par Equity's recent investments include Snap40, a wearable health monitoring device business; Union Blazes, a laser technology spinout from Heriot-Watt University; Particle Analytics, a spinout from Edinburgh university; Par were one of the founding investors in 'light to Wi-Fi' business PureLiFi; Money Dashboard, the personal finance app and QikServe, the dine-in food ordering and payment app.
But while some might have settled for this life as a professional investor, Atkinson is also working at a strategic level building his recruitment business. Asked why he doesn't stick to one or other, he says: "I'm actually not quite sure; maybe I've got a low boredom threshold." This is probably why if you add up the companies he has invested in prior to Par Equity and since its inception it comes to about 60 companies alongside the five businesses he has started.
"I enjoy business, I enjoy the people I work with in business and I get a real kick out of it. I like seeing the people I back being successful. One of the reasons I back other people's businesses is that I like to help other people get to a good place as well; it's not all about financial returns."
Par Equity has created hundreds of jobs, he says, and that alongside the other angel networks like Archangel and Pentech they make a big difference to the Scottish economy. He says that Scotland is unusual in being under-served by venture capital firms but is well served by active angel investors.
Atkinson explains what type of business Par Equity invests in: "From the get go we were looking for businesses that have innovation at their core. Innovation is quite a catchall phrase: it could be technology; it could be business model but something that differentiates them in the market, a new way of doing things. But it was also important that all the companies we invest in have some kind of international context because most likely the exit for these business will be an international trade sale.
"We wanted to work with people we could work with in terms of style, characteristics, personality and approach.
"The actual areas of technology that we invest in are very broad and I guess the other aspect is that we'll only invest in businesses where we've got deep expertise in the sector in our direct investor base. If we don't have deep expertise in the space we won't invest."
A member of the Par Equity syndicate will work with the company, sometimes acting as investor director, sometimes as chair or sometimes in an advisory capacity. There are about 140 members of the Par Equity syndicate, about a third of whom are interested in being hands-on with businesses. They include people who have built successful businesses or people from the advisory community, partners from law firms, accountancy firms or senior executives from banking, finance and industry with quite a number of people still active in business.
Paul Atkinson was one of four founding partners along with Robert Higginson, Paul Munn and Andrew Castell, all of who come from different backgrounds.
"We've got great ambitions for the Par business. We recently opened an office in San Francisco and we've got new partners joining us with that," Atkinson says. "The ambition there is to build a transatlantic health tech fund which will be our first institutional fund, a bit of a game changer for us. We've already had quite a lot of success investing in medtech business: Aircraft Medical sold a couple of years ago was one of our investments and we also invested in a business called PathXL, a patent recognition software business for detecting cancer on digitised pathology slides.
"When we started in Par Equity we were probably investing earlier in the cycle. These days we are investing in things that have already got some commercial traction."
Par Equity has always looked UK-wide for its investments but, as Atkinson says, "Because we are based here in Edinburgh, all the local deal flow lands on our doorstep, we don't have to try too hard for that. I think because of that a significant percentage of our deals are in Scotland. But although we're based in Edinburgh we don't see ourselves as a Scottish firm per se.
"So far we've exited five companies and we've lost four. So our hit rate is rather better than the norm. Before tax we've generated an internal rate of return of about 22 per cent overall."
That, as Atkinson says means they are in the top quartile in terms of performance in their asset class.
A key to all of this is timing the market right. He says that you can have a great technology but if you don't hit the market at the right time it can come to nothing.
"If we hadn't decided to sell RecruitmentScotland.com before the dotcom burst then it probably would have been bust. Or probably not bust but we wouldn't have been able to sell the company for 100 times earnings for the next ten years.
"You get a good deal when the time is right. In the case of the ones we've sold already you generally get three times money out. In two years that's a decent return. We try and do the right thing for investors and managers. If we keep all that in mind we'll probably have a decent investment business."
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Business groups bemoan Scottish lockdown extension
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Scottish airportsThe a £3.7m, 18 month project will test a variety of low-carbon aircraft and the infrastructure necessary to support them
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7.5x9.5 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1916 Packard 1-25 two-toned. Inscribed on photo back: 12-cylinder, 88-horsepower, 125-inch wheelbase, first series twin six, 5-person phaeton, left elevation, top raised.
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7.5x9.5 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1912 Packard 30 Model UE four-fifths front view, right side. Inscribed on photo back: 4-cylinder, 26-horsepower, 112-inch wheelbase, 5-person open car, top folded.
8x10 black and white copied from a glass negative of a 1910 Packard 18 Model NBS. Inscribed on photo back: 4-cylinder, 18-horsepower, 102-inch wheelbase, 2/3-person runabout, right side view.
8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1928 Packard parked on residential street. Inscribed on photo back: Packard 443, individual custom eight (produced 7/1/1927-8/1/1928), fourth series eight, 8-cylinder, 106-horsepower, 143-inch wheelbase, 7-person inside drive limousine (body style #901), body by Holbrook, left seven-eights side front.
8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1927 Packard dual cowl phaeton, left side view, top raised. Inscribed on photo back: Packard model 343, body by Kellner.
8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1928 Packard. Inscribed on photo back: Packard 443 (produced 7/1/1927-8/1/1928), fourth series eight, 8-cylinder, 106-horsepower, 143-inch wheelbase, 5-person clear vision sedan, body by Murphy, left nine-tenths side front.
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8x10 black and white photograph of a 1921-1922 Packard parked in drive, right side view, doors open to reveal interior. Inscribed on photo back: Packard 116 first series single six (produced 9/1/1920-4/20/1922) 6-cylinder, 52-horsepower at 2400-rpm, 116-inch wheelbase, 5-person sedan (body type #192), note seats are upholstered in leather.
8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1924 Packard seven-eights left front view, top raised, front end raised up on blocks, male driver, two male passengers. Inscribed on photo back: Packard 143, first series single eight (produced 6/14/1923-2/2/1925), 8-cylinder, 85-horsepower, 143-inch wheelbase, 7-person touring car, body type #245, later type double bar bumper, photographed at Packard East Grand Blvd. Works, Detroit, Mich.


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NEW DELHI: A special court today convicted Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd (JIPL) and its two directors R S Rungta and R C Rungta in a case pertaining to irregularities in allotment of a coal block in the state to the firm, the first judgement in the coal scam.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar held the company and its two directors guilty of the offences under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of IPC.
This is the first coal block allocation scam case in which the special court, which was set up to exclusively deal with all the coal scam matters, has delivered its judgement.
The court ordered that R S Rungta and R C Rungta, who were out on bail, be taken into custody and fixed the matter for March 31 for hearing arguments on the quantum of sentence.
The case pertains to irregularities in allocation of North Dhadu coal block by the 27th and 30th screening committees jointly to JIPL and three other firms M/s Electro Steel Casting Ltd, M/s Adhunik Alloys and Power Ltd and M/s Pawanjay Steel and Power Ltd.
While pronouncing the judgement, the court said that R S Rungta is acquitted of the charges under sections 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and 471 (using a forged document as genuine) of IPC while R C Rungta is acquitted of the alleged offences of 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 and 471 of IPC.
"I am convicting you (Rungtas) for the offences under sections 120B and 420 of IPC and the company is convicted under sections 120B read with 420 of IPC," the judge said.
An offence under section 420 (cheating) of IPC entails a jail term of upto seven years.
JIPL and its two directors were charged with acquiring the coal block on the basis of false and forged documents.
The court had in March last year framed charges against them for the offences punishable under sections 120B read with 420, 467, 468 and 471 of IPC.
They had pleaded not guilty and claimed trial, while refuting the submissions made against them by CBI.
On December 23, last year, the court had dismissed R S Rungta's plea to summon former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao as defence witnesses in the case.
The court had enlarged Rungtas on bail on January 14, last year on a personal bond of Rs one lakh each and with one surety of the like amount.
In its charge sheet, CBI had said that during the probe, it was found that JIPL had "grossly misrepresented" a number of aspects before Ministry of Steel (MoS) and Ministry of Coal (MoC) to inflate their claim and thereby induced the MoC officers and the screening committees to allocate the coal block to them.
It had said no efforts were made by the screening committees to verify the claims made by the applicant firm and that MoS also did not develop any methodology for assessment of the applicant companies.
It had contended that some records of MoC relating to the case were stated to be missing and a separate preliminary enquiry has been registered by CBI.
CBI had said that no involvement of any of the public servant was found in the entire process during its probe.
The court had summoned the Rungtas on December 18, 2014. CBI had filed the FIR in the case in 2013.


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Flights from Warsaw, Poland to Zaragoza, Spain
Cheap one-way flights departing from the city of Warsaw for the city of Zaragoza cost 35.00 EUR in January
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A one-way flight from the city of Warsaw to the city of Zaragoza starts from approximately 35.00 EUR. The departure flight leaves on January 24 from Warsaw-Modlin Mazovia Airport and lands at Zaragoza Airport.
Which airline has the cheapest flight from the city of Warsaw to the city of Zaragoza?
The airline Ryanair has the cheapest flights from the city of Warsaw to the city of Zaragoza. The flight starts from approximately 35.00 EUR. This flight departs from Warsaw-Modlin Mazovia Airport and lands at Zaragoza Airport.
What is the best airline that flies from the city of Warsaw to the city of Zaragoza?
The best airline flying from the city of Warsaw to the city of Zaragoza is Wizz Air. This airline is rated an average of 3.6 out of 5 stars by 2,664 passengers. The cheapest flight starts from approximately 45.00 EUR. This flight departs from Warsaw Chopin Airport and lands at Zaragoza Airport.
What is the cheapest day of the week to book round-trip flights from the city of Warsaw to the city of Zaragoza?
Wednesday is usually the cheapest day of the week to book round-trip flights from the city of Warsaw to the city of Zaragoza. The flight starts from approximately 45.00 EUR. This flight departs from Warsaw Chopin Airport and lands at Zaragoza Airport.
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National Award-winning makeup, hair and prosthetic designer Preetisheel Singh won tremendous acclaim when she designed Ranveer Singh's look as Alauddin Khilji in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat.
This week, she has recreated that look for actor Ravi Dubey for Sabse Smart Kaun; a game show on Star Plus, which aims to test people's common sense. Ravi is donning various looks for the show's promotions, one of them being Alauddin Khilji and another one of yesteryears' villain Ajit.
The Jamai Raja actor recently shared his Khilji look on Instagram with a caption, "the magician behind the look is the awesome Preetisheel."
The transformations Preetisheel carried out with Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor and Deepika Padukone's looks in Padmaavat had the industry and media hailing her as the undisputed No.1 makeup, hair and prosthetic designer.
However, it can be noted that this was not the first time she worked on a historical. Her work in the pre-Mughal epic Nanak Shah Fakir bagged her the coveted National Film Award for Best Makeup. Re-released amidst controversy this year, the film has once again created ripples.
The lady's work also received abundant praise for the recently released Amitabh Bachchan-Rishi Kapoor starrer 102 Not Out. Her talent will soon be showcased in films like the Harshvardhan Kapoor-starrer Bhavesh Joshi Superhero and also in Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Thackeray, where Siddiqui plays the role of Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray.


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School mask mandates compel Tennessee Gov. Lee to walk a tightrope as election year approaches
By Marta W. Aldrich
Letting families opt out of school mask mandates may be bad public health policy, but it could be good politics for Gov. Bill Lee.
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Letting families opt out of school mask mandates may be bad public health policy, but it could be good politics for Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee.
As his 2022 re-election bid approaches, the first-term Republican governor is walking a political tightrope to maintain a strong voter base in his GOP-dominant state, where debate is escalating over whether students should have to wear a piece of cloth to protect against the coronavirus.
Lee's mixed public messaging reflects his political quandary.
The governor says a mask is an effective tool to keep students learning in person, but he also insists that parents know best whether to send their child to school in one. He recently extended his executive order allowing families to opt out of local school mask mandates.
Even so, a vocal right-wing faction of Republicans are angry the governor hasn't taken action against about a dozen districts that are defying his order. They're also upset that the governor is putting off their calls for a special session to let the GOP-controlled legislature pass an outright ban of such mandates.
"The governor is between a rock and a hard place," said John Geer, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. "Even though he understands the science, a lot of people who support him don't, and many of them still think COVID is a myth."
Bad COVID statistics, but good poll numbers
Tennessee's COVID numbers have dropped recently, but the state still nearly leads the nation in cases per capita — and COVID-related school closures since kicking off the academic year in August. Only 47.5% of Tennesseans are fully vaccinated, compared with about 57% nationally, while more than 15,000 Tennesseans have died of the virus since the pandemic began.
Meanwhile, anti-masking protesters have disrupted numerous school board meetings, including threats to medical professionals arguing in favor of face coverings in Williamson County, south of Nashville. In the Knoxville area, some people against masks have taunted masked students entering their schools and held up signs calling them "SHEEP" for complying with district rules.
A recent national study shows that enforcing school mask mandates help reduce the spread of COVID, but the governor hasn't publicly shamed anti-mask bulliers. Vanderbilt's Geer says that's because he and other Tennessee Republicans are accommodating extreme factions to maintain the party's dominance.
"I think Bill Lee's fundamental instinct is to be civil, but it's hard because he's got a lot of people who support him who are in a fighting mood right now," Geer said. "They don't want to be civil."
Rep. Mark White, a Memphis Republican who chairs a House education committee, believes the governor's measured responses aim to de-escalate hostility.
"Anything that any of us says can throw gas on the fire to one group," White said.
Even as Lee gets blasted by extreme conservatives, they share common ground in their criticism of courts that have blocked the governor's mask opt-out order in three of the state's most populated counties.
In separate cases, three federal judges agreed with some parents that letting some students ditch their masks violates federal law by creating unsafe learning environments for students with disabilities who are more at risk of severe illness from COVID. Attorney General Herbert Slatery Lee is appealing two of those cases.
In addition, Tennessee is one of six states under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education over whether efforts to restrict school mask requirements constitutes a civil rights violation for students with disabilities.
Kent Syler, a political science professor at Middle Tennessee State University, believes both developments may actually help Lee at the polls.
"Being attacked by Joe Biden or having your policies overturned by federal judges — who many conservatives view as activists legislating from the bench — probably only helps Gov. Lee with his base," Syler said. "It makes those voters more willing to support Bill Lee."
Since Lee took office in 2019, he's remained popular with his base, according to a statewide poll of mostly conservative voters.
He'll just need to keep up that momentum until the primary election in August.
"He would like to be the only Republican name on the ballot without someone challenging him from his own party," said Syler, adding that a primary win in deep red Tennessee essentially ensures victory in the general election since Democrats have struggled to mount a formidable statewide challenge in the last decade.
Politics of appeasement?
Lee's decisions undercutting school mask mandates flies in the face of the traditional conservative principle of local control, but that hasn't seemed to hurt him in the wake of a Donald Trump presidency that eschewed long-held Republican doctrines. In August, Trump endorsed Lee, which has helped the governor quell critics spreading false claims that Lee is opening "quarantine camps" and having the National Guard force vaccines on citizens.
On the left, Lee continues to be criticized as a weak leader who favors political advice over science and capitulates to those who shout the loudest, whether it's over mitigation of the pandemic or banning anything that resembles critical race theory in classrooms.
"It's clear that the governor and way too many other leaders are appeasing the politics of the moment and placating anger that's being ginned up in conspiracy theories found on Facebook," said Senate Minority Leader Jeff Yarbro, a Democrat from Nashville.
"I feel genuinely terrible for our students because, after the last 18 months, the last thing that schools needed was to become just another political battleground. But that's exactly what has happened," he said.
To push back, families of students with disabilities have effectively used the courts to challenge Lee's waffling on school mask mandates. Their vehicle? Federal laws dating to 1973 that require the government to provide reasonable accommodations for children with disabilities.
"It seems like a reasonable accommodation to require masking when the negative sides of masking are so minimal and the potential benefits are undeniable," said Nicole Tuchinda, a University of Memphis law professor who specializes in health law.
"I'm happy that the judges are applying the law to protect all children, not just those with disabilities, because reasonable accommodations require universal masking and they're ultimately protecting the public health," she continued.
"These judges are getting it right," added Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, a pediatrician and health law expert at Vanderbilt.
"We do have substantial freedoms in our country, but we do not have the right to hurt other people. Our laws don't give people the right to put others at risk," Clayton said.
Having his policies struck down by the courts doesn't appear to be making Lee second guess himself.
"He's trying to strike a balance of both leading and listening," said Vanderbilt's Geer, "because any politician who doesn't pay attention to public opinion will end up not being a politician for very long."
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Democrats call the proposal 'a step in the wrong direction'


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Wal-Mart bullies its way into Petoskey
December 1, 1997 |
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A few years ago an out of town developer announced plans to construct a 372,000 square foot mega mall, anchored by a Wal-Mart, in a residential district on the outskirts of Petoskey. The development would have more retail space than exists in all of downtown. In fact, the local real estate market already was saturated with 150,000 square feet of vacant commercial space.
Petoskey is a small town on the shore of Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay. It is famed for its handcrafted architecture, which was assembled more than 100 years ago with timbers hauled from the surrounding hills by horse-drawn sleighs. Outside the town, prime agricultural lands support a thriving farm industry. For many residents, the prospect of a mega mall compromising the distinctive character of the community was too much to take.
Shortly after the developer's arrival, a broad-based, well-organized, and well-funded grassroots civic group named the Urban Sprawl Alliance was organized. USA representatives appeared at all township and county meetings. We met with the media, wrote letters to the editor, paid for newspaper ads, and sent out thousands of action alerts. Generous financial support poured in from all corners of the community, enough to hire a team of lawyers and file suit.
USA's message: The mall wasn't needed. It would disfigure the countryside and contribute to sprawl. And it violated the township zoning ordinance.
In the end, despite a deep community resolve, USA did not prevail. The mega mall is going up on a once rural hillside. Here are some hard-won lessons that help explain why this happened:
1). Sprawl Addiction. In Michigan, 10 acres of agricultural land are converted to urban use every hour of every day. This intense level of urbanization has been with us for years. But it cannot continue for even another generation without serious consequences to the farm economy and the environment, according to a recent state study. Nevertheless, local leaders and many citizens display allegiance to this type of growth as though it were a deity.
2). The Lure of Mass Merchandising. Our susceptibility to the influence of national advertisers should not be underestimated. Americans are besieged with thousands of commercial messages every day. The central theme is constantly reinforced: Happiness is derived from high volume shopping and immediate self- indulgence. Community groups face an enormous challenge to contend with the big money advertising campaigns that fuel this desire.
3). Message Framing. USA never was able to frame the debate as a land use planning issue. Instead, it became a question of whether there was a need for more shopping prospects. The radio station asked listeners if they wanted a Wal-Mart. Newspaper headlines appeared under a brilliant pink Wal-Mart banner. People asked why we opposed Wal-Mart. They didn't ask why we opposed a mega mall in a residential district.
So we lost. Were the volunteer hours worthwhile? Were the financial donations warranted? Was the time away from family justified?
If we measure success by this one battle, then it was a waste of time and money. If, on the other hand, success is measured by cultivating enduring friendships among others interested in preserving a place worthy of our affection, then this was a good beginning.
Defeat, though, is not softened by knowing that part of our endangered history will now be tucked away in the developer's bank account. Some of the rest will be whisked to Wal-Mart headquarters in Arkansas. How can we preserve the soul of cherished places if saving a nickel on a new plastic lawn chair is now at the heart of the American spirit?u
John Rohe is an attorney and new Institute member who lives in Petoskey.
Governor Urged to Veto Urban Sprawl Bill
When farmers, environmentalists, and local governments teamed up last year to curb sprawl by reforming Michigan's land use laws, there were high hopes that the alliance would persuade lawmakers in Lansing. But the reform effort was heavily opposed by the home-building and real estate industries, which, perceiving it as an economic threat, lobbied successfully to re-write the bill.
At issue is a proposal to change the Subdivision Control Act, originally approved in 1967, which is blamed by land use experts for poorly designed subdivisions and low-density residential sprawl.
Now the Michigan Farm Bureau, the Michigan Townships Association, the Michigan Association of Counties, and the Michigan Environmental Council are urging Governor Engler to veto the re-written version of the bill, which was passed at 4 a.m. just before the close of the 1996 legislature. They say the new bill could actually accelerate the pace of sprawl.
"It becomes a free-for-all on the landscape of Michigan with no consideration of where the dollars come from to pay for (streets and services) as we expand outward," said Bill Rustem, a member of the Governor's Farmland Preservation Task Force. "What we ended up with was not even a step sideways. It was a step backwards."
If Governor Engler does not issue a veto, the new law would go into effect in March.
To learn more, contact the Michigan Environmental Council, 115 W. Allegan, Suite 10 B, Lansing, MI. 48933. 517-487-9539. Or contact the Michigan Land Use Institute at P.O. Box 228, Benzonia, MI 49616; Tel. 616-882-4723; mlui@traverse.com.
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Conducting integrated drone surveys at a congested airport
April 1, 2020 - By Tony Murfin
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Airports are extremely congested spaces, both on land and in the air, making it difficult to conduct surveys that provide insights into their continued monitoring and maintenance.
UAVs create the opportunity to survey such sites safer and faster, reducing disturbances to everyday operations while collecting a level of detail unparalleled by conventional surveying techniques to locate and accurately capture areas in need of maintenance and management on airport runways.
Following several drainage and grading issues throughout a 650-acre airport, Texas-based civil engineering company Gessner Engineering was contracted to provide surveying services to identify the most problematic regions.
The team had to conduct the survey with minimal impact on runway operations. By coordinating with the airport's air traffic controllers, the team planned a 6–8-hour flight window, with just a few pauses for ongoing traffic, while the airport operated as usual.
Before the flight, the surveyors used senseFly eMotion flight-planning software to carry out pre-flight risk assessments and plan flights. During the survey, four 20-minute flights were completed with the senseFly eBee fixed-wing drone. With its fully autonomous and easy-to-use aerial mapping capabilities, the eBee was able to capture the high-resolution aerial photos needed to map the entire airport. The data was processed using Pix4D Mapper to generate a topographic model including a point cloud with a ground sample distance of 1.5 inches.
The point cloud was so comprehensive, it brought attention to four more areas with drainage issues, providing a level of detail that would not have been possible using only a ground GNSS base station. The UAV survey took one day, compared to four weeks for traditional surveying. This cut the project time in half and significantly reduced disturbances to airport operations.
"The savings in manpower with the shorter surveying time, accurate data retrieved, and the additional drainage issues identified demonstrate the value of drones, as an enabler of solving complex challenges in congested airspaces, especially where time is limited," said Troy Hittle, general manager, North America, SenseFly. "The success of this project by using UAV equipment has offered new possibilities to both Gessner Engineering and the future of aviation maintenance."
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Do you or your organisation find it difficult to understand how local government and you really need to know? John at Anglian Parks and Wildlife has been working both for and with local government since the 1980's and has seen many changes. As such, he is well placed to advise you on how the system works and how you can easily use it.
All too often community groups or local residents find themselves caught up in the planning process or the bureaucracy of local government. Perhaps, trying to stop some form of development or maybe to actually make something happen like the creation of a play area or to get a piece of land designated as a nature reserve or just looked after.
John at Anglian Parks and Wildlife can help you make some sense out of all of it. From understanding the various parts of the town and country planning system to gaining an insight into how the local democratic process works and how you might best influence it. Advice at an early stage can help community groups and others focus their scarce resources in the most efficient way.


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Software engineer Elise moves to New Zealand
Migrating to New Zealand's high-tech capital. When Elise Wei decided she wanted to try living outside the US, she discovered New Zealand was looking for workers to fuel its fast-growing tech scene.
Elise was working as a software engineer in Philadelphia when she signed up for job notifications on the New Zealand government's immigration website.
She was sent a notification about a global campaign to recruit tech talent in Wellington, which describes itself as the tech and innovation capital of the South Pacific.
Out of more than 48,000 applications from around the world for the LookSee campaign, 94 tech workers were flown to Wellington for free to have job interviews and explore the city.
Elise was one of the chosen 94. She'd never even met a Kiwi before, but shortly after that trip she and her husband found themselves packing up their possessions in preparation for moving to Wellington.
Forward-thinking startups
Elise arrived in New Zealand in August 2017 to work for Xero, which develops cloud-based accounting software.
"I fell in love with the people from Xero right away. Xero has that scrappy, startup mindset, but is also well-established and stable. I thought it would be a great place to work," says Elise.
"Philadelphia's tech scene is more mature than Wellington's, so for me, it was exciting to come in at this phase. Getting into the community when it's in a relatively early stage is an opportunity to really make a difference.
"I've noticed that many New Zealand tech companies tend to have a focus on international markets from the very beginning, which from a technologist's perspective means being very forward-thinking about internationalising the product."
Another advantage of working in such a fast-growing sector is that Wellington already has a network of tech workers from around the world, says Elise.
"Because there are so many migrants, everyone tends to be welcoming and generous with their expertise."
Socially progressive
New Zealand's reputation as one of the safest places in the world to raise children was another important factor for Elise and her husband, Peter Marinari, who also works in the tech industry. The couple has a four-year-old daughter.
"We also liked the fact that New Zealand was socially and politically progressive, with universal healthcare and same-sex marriage," says Elise.
"I'm also very interested in the way that New Zealand seems to embrace its indigenous culture, particularly the language."
Elise has already signed up for a 10-week subsidised Māori language class that Xero is running for its workers.
In the US, Elise was a co-leader of Girl Develop It, which provides opportunities for women to learn web and software development. She hopes to get into mentorship and volunteering in New Zealand, but till then is enjoying a rare opportunity to explore other interests.
More family time
Elise appreciates the strong boundaries between work and home life in New Zealand, which have enabled her to spend more time with her daughter.
She has worked for start-ups in the US that offer unlimited time off but says that in reality workers tend to take less vacation time than if they were given mandated holiday time.
"In New Zealand, everyone gets at least four weeks' paid annual leave. Work/life balance really does mean something here – it's accepted that people will take time off to be with their friends and family."
"Wellington is fantastic. Moving to a new country has been an adjustment, but we really like it here and are planning to stay for the foreseeable future."
It's early days, but New Zealand is already starting to feel like home to Elise.
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And the last closing presentation was given by AFRRI's director, Colonel Mark Melanson, and entitled "The International Science and Politics of Depleted Uranium." I found it an "orthodox" pro-DU argument. So, the presentations by A. Miller and M. Melanson are not compatible with each other, to say the least; I suppose there is a clash between them inside AFRRI. Melanson's PowerPoint presentation is very rough; for one thing, he mentions T. Kuhn's notion of "normal science," but he totally misunderstands its critical implications.


I'll probably be reposting these in whatever sketchbook they're in. Chances are many will be in my Sketchbook Project one because that's due in January and I really need to use up the pages fast!
One tree for my first December Joy, seen with noon shadows on it.
Pitt Artist Pens with Pigma Micron caption in Moleskine Cahier notebook.
Great start. I'm looking forward to 12 versions of Ari.
A dozen Aris? Can you imagine the size of the furr balls from the cat hairs of inspiration?
Hee hee, oh yeah, you'd have enough to knit a whole litter of kittens!
Gee, the way I'm doing these I could almost sing it, y'know?
Pitt Artist Pens (48 brush tip) on Moleskine Cahier journal.
LOL, I can just hear it. . .
The spiral shells are a great twosome.
Yes! Yes! Clapping! I'm looking forward to twelve sketches of Ari.
Boy am I glad I looked at this thread Robert. Oooooo wow! I almost made a huge blunder here! I thought we had to draw one thing throughout the project instead of twelve different items. Wetcanvas almost got punched with one doll!
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Wow that didn't go well. I'm talking about the lyrics. Not your sketches. These are going awesome so far, Robert!
Robert - Great job on the pecan tree and those wonderful spiral shells. I'm thinking of joining in, but first I have to plan a bit so I have something I can do 11 & 12 of. lol Nice start!
Hee hee, like the verses even if they don't scan. Thanks for all your comments! Yes - it's a different subject each of the 12 days, but you need to draw it as many times as the day it is. Starts deceptively easy, doesn't it? Wait till these get up into the higher numbers!
For today's, I used three different photo references that my daughter snapped on her phone camera one week after Eowyn was born. She's several months old now, nowhere near as tiny. She's "gruya" colored, a lovely archaic pattern of light and dark grays.
Pigma Micron and Pitt Artist Pens on Moleskine Cahier sketchbook.
Robert....I really like the shells and the pony. Have a great holidays!
Nicely executed pony. Such a cute little thing.
Thanks! This is easy up at this end, when I start getting to higher numbers it'll get tricky. Challenges ought to be challenging though, right?


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Q: Sending email with large body is failing When sending an email from C# with body being large is resulting in failure in sending email
Mailbox unavailable.

The email is working fine with a smaller body. I am using html body to true property..
Thanks,
Zafar
Code:
using (MailMessage _mailMsg = new MailMessage())
                    {
                        _mailMsg.From = new MailAddress(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["mailFrom"].ToString());
                        _mailMsg.Body = mail.Body;
                        _mailMsg.Subject = mail.Subject;
                        _mailMsg.IsBodyHtml = true;

                        foreach (string strEmailIds in mailTo)
                        {
                            if (strEmailIds != null && strEmailIds != string.Empty && strEmailIds != "")
                            {
                                if (!_mailMsg.To.Contains(new MailAddress(strEmailIds)))
                                    _mailMsg.To.Add(new MailAddress(strEmailIds));
                            }
                        }
                        //_mailMsg.CC.Add(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["mailCC"].ToString());
                        using (SmtpClient _client = new SmtpClient(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Host"].ToString()))
                        {

                            if (_mailMsg.To.Count > 0)
                            {

                                _client.Send(_mailMsg);
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                _mailMsg.Subject = "No emails associated with the portfolio: " + account + " Original Email:" + mail.Subject;
                                _mailMsg.To.Add(new MailAddress(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["mailSuppotTeam"].ToString()));
                                _client.Send(_mailMsg);
                            }

A: Oke, on thing it could be is that the mail server rejects big messages. Let exclude that one... I assume you have a local smtp mail server installed (check for telnet 127.0.0.1 25 that should give a sort of reply) configure the mail server [ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Host"]] for 127.0.0.1, can you send big mails now?
If ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Host"] is already the local SMTP server then:
a) stop that smtp service (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) for a moment (via the command services.msc)
b) send a small email
c) go to c:\inetpub\mailroot\pickup and edit the message via notepad so that it becomes a BIG email
d) start the smtp service again (services.msc)

A: The issue was with sending email to cross domain email id and was resulting in the Generic exception
"Mailbox unavailable." May be this is one of the reason behind the above exception.

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Alphabet St. (ou Alphabet Street) est une chanson de Prince, deuxième piste de l'album Lovesexy. Le titre se classa le  à la  au Billboard Hot 100, à la  au Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs et à la  au Hot Dance Club Songs le . Le single se classa également en France à la  le .

La version studio de la chanson fut enregistrée avec Sheila E. à la batterie, Eric Leeds au saxophone et Atlanta Bliss à la trompette. Alphabet St. fut joué intégralement la première fois le  au palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy lors de la tournée Lovesexy Tour. Le début de la chanson est aussi utilisé pour faire le bruit du buzzer dans La Boîte à Question du Grand Journal.

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Mass Effect 3's Story Leaks Online UPDATE
Luke Plunkett
PublishedNovember 8, 2011
The accidental release of a beta for Mass Effect 3 over the weekend is the least of BioWare's problems at the moment. More worrying is the fact the game's story has leaked online.
Mass Effect 3 Beta Leaks On Xbox Live
Earlier today, a private, closed beta for Mass Effect 3 accidentally turned up on Xbox Live. The…
We're not talking a few clips or scraps of info. We're talking big chunks of the game's plot, packed to the rafters with spoilers.
While BioWare says the leak originated from "internal story files" that are "out of date and [do] not reflect the final story experience", they're obviously cautioning fans to look out in forums and the like "if they want to experience the purest form of the story in Mass Effect 3".
To show how serious BioWare is about this, members of gaming forum NeoGAF claim the site has been issued with cease & desist letters after users posted some of the information.
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Update: NeoGaf head honcho EvilLore confirmed to Kotaku that the site was indeed sent a DMCA violation takedown notice. The notice, he said, came from Microsoft lawyers and was also sent to the ISP hosting NeoGaf, which sort of forced the site's hand.
"ISP gave an ultimatum to comply before taking action on their own to remove the content (most likely by unplugging) so that they wouldn't have a part in distributing the alleged content, so I removed the thread.
Of course, the information did not originate here and it's already completely saturated on the entire internet by now due to the way the internet works, but it's typical corporate behavior."
Mass Effect 3 Story Leaks [BioWare]
You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at plunkett@kotaku.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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Perform a cubic Bezier spline interpolation.
That is, when interpolating at position t, take the three closest data points v0, v1, and v2, fit a cubic Bezier spline through them, and take the interpolated value from this cubic curve.
Perform a quadric Bezier spline interpolation.
That is, when interpolating at position t, take the four closest data points v0, v1, v2, and v3, fit a quadric Bezier spline through them, and take the interpolated value from this quadric curve.
That is, when interpolating at position t, take the four closest data points v0, v1, v2, and v3, fit a cubic curve through them, and take the interpolated value from this cubic curve.
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Schedule, things to know: 2 Section III girls soccer teams play in state semifinals this weekend
Updated: Nov. 11, 2021, 10:30 a.m. | Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
East Syracuse-Minoa vs. New Hartford during the Section 3 Class A Girls soccer finals at SUNY Cortland, Cortland, N.Y., Friday October 29, 2021. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com
By Hank Domin | hdomin@syracuse.com
We've reached the final four of the state girls soccer playoffs, and two Section III teams will be vying for the title this weekend.
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import glob, os
os.chdir("/home/petar-ivanov/HackBulgaria/Programming 101, v3/week11-Advanced-Python/Book")

def book_reader():

    content = ""

    for curr_file in glob.glob("*.txt"):

        with open(curr_file, "r") as myfile:
            for curr_line in myfile:

                if '#' in curr_line:
                    yield content
                    input()
                    content = ""
                    content += curr_line
                else:
                    content += curr_line

book = book_reader()
for x in book:
    print(x)

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A Trustworthy AI already exists and is 100% French!
by Zyed Zalila, on November 4, 2021
Until today, an AI that is at the same time efficient, intelligible, and explainable seems to be hardly conceivable. We would thus still be faced with the dilemma that appeared when AI was founded in 1956:
opt for an intelligible Symbolic AI (white-box expert system), but not very efficient because its manually created decision-making rules are subject to the limitation of human understanding…
or opt for a Connectionist AI, which is efficient because it uses machine learning but is not intelligible (black-box neural networks).
This original schism has been overcome. Since 2003, I have proposed and defended Augmented Fuzzy AI (AFAI). It's a heterodox AI hybridizing continuous fuzzy logic, the theory of Fuzzy Relations of order N [Zalila 1993], and proprietary automatic fuzzy induction algorithms reproducing the human reasoning used in experimental sciences. This AFAI automatically discovers, from reference data, non-linear predictive models defined by IF…THEN rules with continuous logic.
The main advantage of AFAI is that it is both robust and intelligible: the induced models, with high predictive performance, are thus auditable by the business expert and certifiable by the regulator.
AFAI succeeds in achieving what would seem paradoxical: explaining the unexplainable, tacit or implicit knowledge, sensory perceptions or expert decisions taken by instinct or intuition, and even the hidden behavior of black-box models. Direct applications for the design of virtual experts: the sensory evaluation of products, the understanding of the appetite of target customers, the discovery of the optimal formulation of a new product, the early diagnosis of cancers from an epigenetic analysis (25,000 interacting variables), the piloting of autonomous machines, the identification of malicious behavior, etc.
Once validated and certified, you deploy such virtual experts to derive real-time decisions 24/7 in a deterministic and rational manner.
This AFAI, implemented in the xtractis software robots, already validates all the requirements of the 2021 European regulation on Trustworthy AI, which will govern the deployment of critical AI applications. This way, companies & organizations will avoid using black-box models, which would be discriminatory in hiring or granting credit, or whose unstable hidden behavior would damage or injure people or facilities.
In addition, the sovereignty of xtractis would guarantee the digital independence of Europe in a world where the possession of an efficient Trustworthy AI will undoubtedly be a significant strategic asset.
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Tennessee Titans quarterback Zach Mettenberger has been diagnosed with a Grade 1 sprain of the AC joint in his right shoulder, but he is expected to play Sunday against the Giants. Mettenberger, 23, left the Titans' Week 13 loss to the Houston Texans after being hit after throwing by defensive end J.J. Watt.
Tennessee Titans quarterback Zach Mettenberger has been diagnosed with a Grade 1 sprain of the AC joint in his right shoulder, but he is expected to play Sunday against the Giants, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports.
Mettenberger, 23, left the Titans' Week 13 loss to the Texans after being hit by Houston defensive end J.J. Watt. Jake Locker finished the game at quarterback for the Titans.
On Monday, Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt said the rookie's injury shouldn't prevent him from playing this week, The Tennessean's Jim Wyatt reports.
"A lot of it is going to be determined on how much he can throw and how it bothers him," coach Ken Whisenhunt said Monday. "There is obviously going to be some soreness with it and that's a big part of it."
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