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Ryan Holmesis a Canadian computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Hootsuite, a social media management tool for businesses. Holmes began developing Hootsuite in 2008 through his agency Invoke Media... (wikipedia)
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Bank Quotes
During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.
Needs Quotes
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.
Apart Quotes
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.
Beyond Quotes
Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
Card Quotes
Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.
I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work.
Awful Quotes
Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience.
One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests.
Anyone Quotes
Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam.
Break Quotes
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club.
Adopted Quotes
No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.
Alligator Quotes
Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day.
Brick Quotes
The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.
Grown Quotes
As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.
Office Quotes
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
For some people, staying grounded means doing yoga. For others, it's spending time with family. Social media, too, can be a lifesaver.
Companies Quotes
Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.
Advertising Quotes
Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.
Almost Quotes
Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy.
Brainstorm Quotes
Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas.
Businesses Quotes
As social is where consumers' eyeballs are, businesses must take ownership of their online company profiles. By providing their customers with a place to share content, social media managers can monitor and track content which directly relates to their brand.
Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.
Alumni Quotes
Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.
Older Quotes
For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.
Left Quotes
We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.
When you think of technology that gets people excited - long lines at stores, enthusiastic reviews in the blogosphere, passionate evangelists - the first thing to come to mind probably isn't thermostats. Then, along came Nest.
Dictate Quotes
Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.
Chances Quotes
The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.
Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.
Among Quotes
Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.
Company Quotes
My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.
Drop Quotes
One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.
Above Quotes
One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with people are surprisingly old-school. Social media tools can improve the odds of a serendipitous encounter at SXSW, but old-fashioned hustle, palm-pressing and - above all - creativity go a long way.
Large Quotes
I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.
Chatting Quotes
Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.
Dorm Quotes
From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.
Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control.
Payment Quotes
Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.
LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.
While consumer social like Facebook and Twitter gets the headlines, perhaps the greatest untapped potential for social networking lies in business applications.
Buy Quotes
Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.
Bottom Quotes
Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
Founded Quotes
The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.
Becoming Quotes
While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.
When my company was first getting off the ground, we were completely lost in the shuffle, despite our best efforts. In 2012, however, we had a 28-foot-long, 15,000-pound secret weapon. To stand out amid the gala parties and blow-out bashes hosted by much bigger tech companies, HootSuite decided to take to the streets.
Boats Quotes
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.
Facebook, Twitter and Google have all opened offices in Brazil, recognizing the importance of localizing their products and customer service efforts.
Creates Quotes
Everybody getting a significant exit creates a legacy and creates something that you can pay forward and bootstrap an industry in a substantial way.
Basic Quotes
At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.
Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.
Affords Quotes
Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on.
Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.
Build Quotes
Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.
Blogs Quotes
Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.
Ask Quotes
A critical question to ask when bringing in a new CEO to take the reins of a company you started is: Do you want someone who will maintain company culture or reinvent it?
South Quotes
South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.
Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.
An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.
As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.
Although Quotes
Although the tech industry is very open to change, many people still have a closed-off mentality where, in the interest of protecting their ideas, they keep them hidden in dark caves.
Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
Boost Quotes
A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.
Defined Quotes
Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.
The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far better tools for collaboration.
Campaigns Quotes
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.
Brand Quotes
Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team.
Access Quotes
Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.
Engineered Quotes
Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.
Continue Quotes
I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.
If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place.
It helps to look at branding as a challenge that entrepreneurs spend years perfecting.
Bounce Quotes
I don't know how many times I've turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office.
Blossoming Quotes
Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows.
Allowing Quotes
By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs.
Activity Quotes
By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives.
I'd love to build a brand, a legacy.
The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.
Amongst Quotes
Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow.
Less Quotes
The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.
Hard Work Quotes
I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.
Challenges Quotes
I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.
Obstacles Quotes
What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.
Office Space Quotes
HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.
Thinking Quotes
I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.
Phones Quotes
Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.
When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.
Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.
Each Day Quotes
Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.
Running Quotes
You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.
Lasts Quotes
Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
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Archive for December 29th, 2017
Tales from The Far Side
Note: I'm taking a few days off for the holidays, so I'll be republishing some of my favorite pieces from earlier in this blog's run. This post originally appeared, in a slightly different form, on September 27, 2016.
Last year, when I finally saw The Revenant—it wasn't a movie that my wife particularly wanted to see, so I had to wait for one of the rare weekends when she was out of town—it struck me as an exquisitely crafted film that was very hard to take seriously. Alejandro G. Iñárittu, despite his obvious visual gifts, may be the most pretentious and least self-aware director at work today—which is one reason why Birdman fell so flat in my eyes—and I would have liked The Revenant a lot more if it had allowed itself to smile a little at how absurd its story was. (Even the films of someone like Werner Herzog include flashes of dark humor, and I suspect that Herzog, who doesn't lack for pretension, also actively seeks out such moments, even if he maintains his poker face throughout.) About five minutes after the movie began, I realized that I was fundamentally out of sync with it. It happened during the scene in which the fur trappers find themselves under attack by an Arikara war party, which announces itself, in classic fashion, with an unexpected arrow through a supporting character's throat. A few seconds later, the camera pans up to show more arrows, now on fire, arcing through the trees overhead. It's an eerie sight, and it's given the usual glow by Emmanuel Lubezki's luminous cinematography. But I'll confess that when I first saw it, I said to myself: "Hey! They're lighting their arrows! Can they do that?"
It's a caption from a Far Side cartoon, of course, and it started me thinking about the ways in which the work of Gary Larson has imperceptibly shaped my inner life. I've spoken here before about how quotations from The Simpsons provide a complete metaphorical language for fans, like the one that Captain Picard learns in "Darmok." You could do much the same thing with Larson's captions, and there are a lot of fluent speakers out there. Peanuts is still the comic strip that has meant the most to me, and I count myself lucky that I grew up at a time when I could read most of Calvin and Hobbes in its original run. Yet both of these strips, like Bloom County, lived most vividly for me in the form of collections, and in the case of Peanuts, its best years were long behind it. The Far Side, by contrast, obsessed me on a daily basis, more than any other comic strip of its era. When I was eight years old, I spent a few months diligently cutting out all the panels from my local paper and pasting them into a scrapbook, which is an impulse that I haven't felt since. Two decades later, I got a copy of The Complete Far Side for Christmas, which might still be my favorite present ever. Every three years so, I get bitten by the bug again, and I spend an evening or two with one of those huge volumes on my lap, going through the strip systematically from beginning to end. Its early years are a little rough, but they're still wonderful, and it went out at its peak. And when I'm reading it in the right mood, there's nothing else in the world that I'd rather be doing.
A gag panel might seem like the lowest form of comic, but The Far Side also had a weirdly novelistic quality that I've always admired as a writer. Larson's style seemed easy to imitate—I think that every high school newspaper had a strip that verged on outright plagiarism—but his real gift was harder to pin down. It was the ability to take what seemed like an ongoing story, pause it, and offer it up to readers at a moment of defining absurdity. (Larson himself observes in The Prehistory of The Far Side: "Cartoons are, after all, little stories themselves, frozen at an interesting point in time.") His ideas stick in the brain because we can't help but wonder what happened before or afterward. Part of this because he cleverly employed all the usual tropes of the gag cartoon, which are fun precisely because of the imaginative fertility of the clichés they depict: the cowboys singing around a campfire, the explorers in pith helmets hacking their way through the jungle, the castaway on the desert island. But the snapshots in time that Larson captures are simultaneously so insane and so logical that the reader has no choice but to make up a story. The panel is never the inciting incident or the climax, but a ticklish moment somewhere in the middle. It can be the gigantic mailman knocking over buildings while a dog exhorts a crowd of his fellows: "Listen! The authorities are helpless! If the city's to be saved, I'm afraid it's up to us! This is our hour!" Or the duck hunter with a shotgun confronted by a row of apparitions in a hall of mirrors: "Ah, yes, Mr. Frischberg, I thought you'd come…but which of us is the real duck, Mr. Frischberg, and not just an illusion?"
In fact, you could easily go through a Far Side collection and use it as a series of writing prompts, like some demented version of The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. I've occasionally thought about writing a story revolving around the sudden appearance of Professor DeArmond, "the epitome of evil among butterfly collectors," or expanding on the incomparable caption: "Dwayne paused. As usual, the forest was full of happy little animals—but this time something seemed awry." It's hard to pick just one favorite, but the panel I've thought about the most is probably the one with the elephant in the trench coat, speaking in a low voice out of the darkness of the stairwell:
Remember me, Mr. Schneider? Kenya. 1947. If you're going to shoot at an elephant, Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.
Years later, I spent an ungodly amount of time working on a novel, still unpublished, about an elephant hunt, and while I wouldn't go so far as to say that it was inspired by this cartoon, I'm also not prepared to say that it wasn't. I should also note Larson's mastery of perfect proper names, which are harder to come up with than you might think: "Mr. Frischberg" and "Mr. Schneider" were both so nice that he said them twice. And it's that inimitable mixture of the ridiculous and the specific that makes Larson such a model for storytellers. He made it to the far side thirty years ago, and we're just catching up to him now.
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A Queensland inquiry has offered the greyhound industry a last gasp chance to survive after accusations of "animal cruelty on a scale never seen before". But there's reason to be sceptical things will change, writes Michael Hutak.
Some time around 1015AD King Canute was such a greyhound fan he introduced laws in ye olde England that rendered the breed exclusive to nobility, banning his celtic subjects, serfs and commoners from using them for hunting and gaming. Thus the "sport" of coursing emerged, whereby gentlemen owners of two greyhounds would wager on whose dog could best chase and catch a live hare. Apparently, this is a noble and pleasurable pursuit.


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Q: Drag and Drop not working on one div I have a drag and drop feature where you can drag some images on 5 div boxes. The drag and drop works on 4 of the divs but for some reason the 5th div box doesn't work, whenever i try to drag an image into that box it just refuses to work. The other boxes function correctly and when i drop images onto these divs it works fine..its just the last box that does not work.
I think it might be to do with the align:left css i've put in (not sure).
If anyone could help that would be great
html:

js:
function allowDrop(ev) {
    ev.preventDefault();
}

function drag(ev) {
    ev.dataTransfer.setData("text/html", ev.target.id);
}

function drop(ev) {
    ev.preventDefault();
    var data=ev.dataTransfer.getData("Text/html");

    var clone = document.getElementById(data).cloneNode(true);
    clone.id = clone.id + (new Date()).getMilliseconds();
    ev.target.appendChild(clone);

    if (ev.target == document.getElementById("delete")) {
        var img = document.getElementById(data);
        img.parentNode.removeChild(img);
    }
}

css:
#PlayerDrop {
  position: relative;
  left: 245px;
  top: 5px;
  z-index:1;
  width: 369px;
  height: 121px;
  background-image:url(images/sequence2.png) ;
}

#Drop1 {
  position: relative;
  left: 16px;
  top: 30px;
  width:40px;
  height:49px;
  padding:10px;
  z-index:3;
  float: left;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #66cff2;
}

#Drop2 {
  position: relative;
  left: 17px;
  top: 30px;
  width:40px;
  height:49px;
  padding:10px;
  z-index:3;
  float: left;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #66cff2;
}

#Drop3 {
  position: relative;
  left: 23px;
  top: 30px;
  width:40px;
  height:49px;
  padding:10px;
  z-index:3;
  float: left;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #66cff2;
}

#Drop4 {
  position: relative;
  left: 26px;
  top: 30px;
  width:40px;
  height:49px;
  padding:10px;
  z-index:3;
  float: left;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #66cff2;
}

#Drop5 {
  position: relative;
  left: 296px;
  top: 30px;
  width:40px;
  height:49px;
  padding:10px;
  z-index:3;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #66cff2;
}

A: just edit the css a little bit for Div 5.
Here is the css:
#Drop5 {
  float: left;
  position: relative;
  left: 26px;
  top: 30px;
  width:40px;
  height:49px;
  padding:10px;
  z-index:3;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #66cff2;
}

It worked for me, so it should work for you :)

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News Turkey's judicial board reshuffles 3,320 judges and prosecutors
Turkey's judicial board reshuffles 3,320 judges and prosecutors
The Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has reshuffled the districts of 3,320 judges and prosecutors, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday.
The reassignments were announced by the HSK's First Chamber, which has completed its primary decrees for the new judicial year. Some 3,019 judges and prosecutors have been reassigned in criminal courts, while 301 were reshuffled in administrative courts.
The chief public prosecutors in several cities, including İzmir, Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Konya, Gaziantep, Erzurum and Şanlıurfa, have been replaced.
Turkey's judiciary is being criticized for acting on orders from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and not basing their rulings on the law. Judges in Turkey who make decisions that anger Erdoğan are either replaced or jailed. Turkey has fallen to the 101st position out of 113 countries in the World Justice Project's (WJP) 2017-18 Rule of Law Index, a comprehensive measure of the rule of law.
The Turkish government has arrested a total of 2,431 judges and prosecutors and dismissed 4,424 others since a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016, a Constitutional Court general assembly ruling revealed on early August 2017.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Turkey have been the subject of legal proceedings in the last two years on charges of membership in the Gülen movement since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, a Turkish Justice Ministry official told a symposium on July 19, 2018.
"Legal proceedings have been carried out against 445,000 members of this organisation," Turkey's pro-government Islamist news agency İLKHA quoted Turkish Justice Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Ömer Faruk Aydıner as saying.
Turkey survived a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement.
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The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Toronto, in partnership with Canada Circular Hotspot, is organizing a webinar series called "Making the Circular Economy Real". These webinars will continue throughout 2020 and 2021, with the fourth one being organized on December 8, themed "Food processing & the Circular Economy".
In this webinar, Cher Mereweather from Provision Coalition and Andrew McCue from Metabolic will share their insights and experiences around the food processing sector in the Guelph-Wellington County region and in the Netherlands.
Guelph and Wellington County were awarded a Smart Cities Challenge prize in 2019, to implement their vision of 'Our Food Future'. Outcomes of this work include new circular food businesses, increasing economic revenues by reducing and re-imagining food waste and increasing access to affordable, nutritious food.
This webinar will present an update on this work, with a focus of how circular economy principles are being infused into food processing systems and how the Netherlands' well-developed knowledge in this space, is being deployed to complement made-in-Canada expertise.
The session will be moderated by Paul van der Werf, PhD., Senior Consultant at AET Group Inc.
Cher Mereweather, Provision Coalition
Cher Mereweather is one of Canada's leaders in food and beverage industry sustainability. She has dedicated her 20-year career to enabling food and beverage companies to embrace sustainability, purpose and circularity in order to create a more resilient food system, one company at a time.
Before founding Provision in 2012, Cher had established and directed the Sustainability Consulting Business Unit at NSF International and held executive positions with the Canadian agri-food think tank, the George Morris Centre. She was awarded the Canadian Grocer Generation Next award for leadership in sustainability and sits on the Board of Directors for the National Zero Waste Council and Birds Canada.
Andrew McCue, Metabolic
Andrew McCue has been involved in food and food systems for many years. Aiming to bring quality, varied, and sustainable food to larger populations, he pursued work on sustainable agriculture with both soil-based and hydroponic farms. Towards the end of this period Andrew worked as a key account manager helping nascent hydroponic farms to build their businesses. Frustrated with the scale of environmental and social issues he saw in the food system, Andrew took to the teachings of Donella Meadows and began to pursue systems thinking as a way to understand the roadblocks continually encountered in the industry. From this perspective, it became clear that redesigning the relationship between urban regions and the food they consume was going to be key in unlocking the change needed to build a sustainable and just food system.
The reputation of the Netherlands as a hub of sustainable cities and high tech agriculture, drew Andrew to Amsterdam where he joined Metabolic as a sustainability consultant and business developer for projects in Agrifood and Circular Cities. Andrew is passionate about food and cities, and even more so about making the connections needed to build a fundamentally sustainable, just, and enjoyable future.
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Paul is a senior consultant with AET Group Inc. He was educated at the University of Guelph and Western University's Department of Geography, where in 2018 he completed a PhD, with research focused on improving food waste measurement and developing a successful intervention to reduce household food waste.
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Jun 28, 2012 Sanjeev Singhai2 CommentsDigital AgeAdvertising, Agencies, Brands, Business, consumer, customer, Engage, facebook, Google, Linkedin, Promote, Response, sanjeev, Social Media, Top
Why businesses remains in experimental mode on Facebook and though those are hopeful but are not happy with the outcome they are being able to generate using the Facebook so far? Or why large number of brands, which practically are first to experiment and try out every opportunity a new medium provides, are preferring "wait and watch" policy, when it come to be on Facebook?
I guess while we all try using Facebook reach and strengths, most of us forget about the most critical link – "HUMAN FACTOR". People like to deal with people and not with dead. And this is a very important point which need to be kept in mind while promoting business page on Facebook.
For users (consumers), Facebook is all about fun of life, it's about sharing with friends and relatives, it's about getting update on what's happening in others life and it's about telling what's happening in my life.
So until businesses can't transform their brands in a person, who communicates and engages with people, success will remain a challenge for them on Facebook. No matter how much money one pumps in promoting FB page, result will never be satisfying.
Therefore marketers should carefully select the advertising agency or team which is assigned to work for their brand/ business's on Facebook Page. Team working on Facebook business pages must have deep understanding of brands or business they represent and must communicate on Facebook "in person" and not as "third person," so that they have a LIVE and LIVING personality and not materialistic business or brand persona.
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Sanjeev, social media is "personal" media. Commercial messages is posted on a bill board will be offensive. Commercial messages have to become part of part of communication/sharing. It's like, me telling you, "I prefer thums up in my glass of rum". Brands have to become part of normal conversations and that's what social media can greatly achieve.
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Well said and abosolutly valid point.
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See also
 Urstromtal

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ABSTRACT THE REFORMED AND CELIBATE PASTOR: RICHARD BAXTER'S ARGUMENT FOR CLERICAL CELIBACY Seth DeShields Osborne, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Chair: Dr. David L. Puckett This dissertation explores Richard Baxter's (1615-1691) argument for clerical celibacy. It argues that his teaching on clerical celibacy was a very controversial way of resolving tensions in English Protestant marriage doctrine. His argument was a product of a very stringent model of pastoral care developed in response to England's ecclesiastical situation, was deeply influenced by his personal qualities and life experiences, and was rooted in his overarching ethical principles for Christian living. Baxter remained remarkably consistent, even when appearing to violate his convictions by marrying later in life. Chapter 1 details the importance of the study for scholarship, the state of research, and finally the methodology and sources to be used. Chapter 2 examines English Protestant attitudes toward marriage and celibacy in Elizabethan and Stuart England in order to demonstrate their struggle to reconcile the Bible's praise of marriage in Genesis 1-2 with its teaching on celibacy's expediency in 1 Corinthians 7. Chapter 3 analyzes Baxter's theology of soul care in the church and the family; it argues that Baxter did not possess a negative attitude toward marriage and family life, but rather he realized that clerical marriage strained the ability of ministers to fully implement his burdensome pastoral model of soul care. Chapter 4 explores several internal and external factors in Baxter's life that shaped "particularities" that would come to define him as a theologian and minister of the gospel. Chapter 5 studies Baxter's practical divinity in order to show that his argument for clerical celibacy logically arose from themes repeated in his teaching on Christian ethics. The next two chapters explore Baxter's seemingly contradictory marriage to Margaret Charlton. Chapter 6 argues that he did not violate his convictions, because the 1662 Act of Uniformity appeared to have closed off all opportunities for public ministry. Chapter 7 proposes a solution to the question of why Baxter continued to advocate for clerical celibacy, despite the great help Margaret was to him and his pastoral work during their marriage; it argues that even though Baxter received many blessings through Margaret, his experience of marriage also reconfirmed many of his arguments for why pastors should remain single. Chapter eight summarizes the conclusions of the study and its contribution to understanding both English Protestant Marriage doctrine as well as Richard Baxter as a pastor and theologian.


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La basilica di San Crisogono è un luogo di culto cattolico del centro storico di Roma, situato nel rione Trastevere, in Piazza Sidney Sonnino, 44, lungo Viale di Trastevere.

La chiesa, dedicata a san Crisogono di Aquileia, è originaria del IV secolo e, nel corso dei secoli, ha subito una serie di rifacimenti. Ha la dignità di basilica minore ed è sede dell'omonimo titolo cardinalizio, dal 22 febbraio 2014 attribuito al cardinale sudcoreano Andrew Yeom Soo-jung.

Storia
San Crisogono è una delle più antiche chiese di Roma, essendo il Titulus Chrysogoni incluso nell'elenco dei tituli già nell'elenco del 499. La prima chiesa venne costruita nel IV secolo, sotto papa Silvestro I (314-335), ma venne ricostruita prima nel XII secolo e poi ancora nel 1626, su progetto di Giovanni Battista Soria, per volere del cardinale Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese, il cui nome campeggia sul fronte e i cui emblemi araldici (aquila e drago alato) si ripetono ovunque. Sotto l'attuale chiesa sono visibili i resti della prima, scoperti nelle indagini archeologiche del 1907 e nei successivi scavi. La basilica è stata per secoli chiesa nazionale dei Sardi e dei Còrsi residenti a Roma: ivi sono sepolti diversi corsi già al servizio del papa nella Guardia corsa papale.

Descrizione

Esterno
L'esterno della basilica di San Crisogono è caratterizzato dalla facciata principale, che dà su viale Trastevere, ricostruita in stile barocco per volere del cardinale Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese nel 1626. Essa è preceduta da un pronao che si apre all'esterno con quattro colonne tuscaniche che sorreggono un cornicione sormontato da sculture di aquile e canestre di fiori. Ai lati, vi sono due ingressi minori al portico, ciascuno dei quali è costituito da un'arcata a tutto sesto. La parte superiore della facciata termina in alto con un frontone triangolare idealmente sorretto da quattro lesene ioniche; al centro della facciata si apre un finestrone.

Alla destra della chiesa, si innalza il campanile romanico del XII secolo, sormontato da una cuspide piramidale a pianta quadrata. Esso, con paramento murario in mattoni, è diviso in più ordini da cornicioni e si apre sull'esterno con monofore e bifore.

Interno

L'interno della basilica è a pianta basilicale semplice con tre navate separate da due file di colonne ioniche lisce; risale alla ricostruzione del XVII secolo, sebbene molti elementi risalgano alle precedenti chiese. Le ventidue colonne sono spolia di antiche costruzioni. È presente un pavimento cosmatesco e l'altare principale è pure dell'epoca (1127).

La cappella del SS. Sacramento, a destra dell'abside, è opera (1627 o 1641) di Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Il soffitto ligneo a cassettoni in stile barocco ospita la copia di un dipinto del Guercino, la Gloria di san Crisogono; l'originale, venduto ad un compratore inglese nel XIX secolo, oggi si trova a Londra, a Lancaster House. A sinistra dell'ingresso è il monumento del cardinale Giovanni Giacomo Millo, di Carlo Marchionni e Pietro Bracci. Altre opere presenti sono Tre arcangeli di Giovanni da San Giovanni, la Crocifissione di Paolo Guidotti, Trinità e angeli di Giacinto Gimignani, Angelo custode di Ludovico Gimignani.

Il ciborio dell'altar maggiore, sorretto da quattro colonne di alabastro, è opera dello stesso Giovan Battista Soria.

Vi è conservata anche una lapide posta dal cardinale sardo Benedetto Cao nel 1068 in memoria degli avi. Successivamente nel 1333 i discendenti Quintilio ed Annibale Cao posero nella Basilica un monumento con lo stemma della famiglia. Ancora successivamente, nel 1501 un altro discendente della famiglia, Francesco Cao, cameriere segreto del papa Alessandro VI appose in basilica un'ulteriore lapide in memoria dei suoi predecessori.

Organo a canne
Sulla cantoria a ridosso della parete fondale del braccio destro (guardando il presbiterio) del transetto, si trova l'organo a canne, costruito nel 1938 da Giuseppe Migliorini.

Lo strumento è a trasmissione elettrica, con consolle situata nel lato destro del presbiterio ed avente due tastiere di 58 note ciascuna e pedaliera concavo-radiale di 32 note.

Resti della prima chiesa

I resti della chiesa di epoca costantiniana sono accessibili dalla sacrestia, e si trovano sopra precedenti case romane di epoca tardo repubblicana. L'abside conteneva le reliquie di san Crisogono di Aquileia, e si trovava in testa all'unica navata della basilica, che terminava nelle pastophoria, stanze di servizio comuni nelle chiese orientali; quella a destra potrebbe essere stata un diakonikon, una sorta di sacrestia, mentre l'altra avrebbe svolto funzioni di protesis, il luogo in cui erano tenute le reliquie.

La forma particolare della chiesa, con una sola navata invece di tre, e la presenza di diverse vasche fa supporre la possibile riconversione a luogo di culto di un precedente locale commerciale, forse una fullonica destinata alla tintura dei tessuti, non fuori contesto in un'area corrispondente a un distretto commerciale dell'epoca.

Sono stati ritrovati affreschi dell'VIII e XI secolo, che includono un Papa Silvestro che cattura il drago, San Pantaleone che guarisce il cieco, San Benedetto che guarisce il lebbroso e Salvataggio di san Placido.

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Bibliografia

 Graziano Fronzuto, Organi di Roma. Guida pratica orientativa agli organi storici e moderni, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2007. ISBN 978-88-222-5674-4

Voci correlate
 Crisogono di Aquileia
 San Crisogono (titolo cardinalizio)
 Chiese di Roma

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Сорокаба () — місто і муніципалітет у бразильському штаті Сан-Паулу. В 19 столітті місто було центром текстильної промисловості, а через нього проходила головна залізниця штату — Залізниця Сорокабана, за що місто отримало назву «Паулістського Манчестера». Зараз місто є одним з найважливіших центрів металургії, інженерних та інших промислових підприємств.

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OBJECTIVES. To assess the degree of fungal contamination in hospital environments and to evaluate the ability of air conditioning systems to reduce such contamination. METHODS. We monitored airborne microbial concentrations in various environments in 10 hospitals equipped with air conditioning. Sampling was performed with a portable Surface Air System impactor with replicate organism detection and counting plates containing a fungus-selective medium. The total fungal concentration was determined 72-120 hours after sampling. The genera most involved in infection were identified by macroscopic and microscopic observation. RESULTS. The mean concentration of airborne fungi in the set of environments examined was 19 ± 19 colony-forming units (cfu) per cubic meter. Analysis of the fungal concentration in the different types of environments revealed different levels of contamination: the lowest mean values (12 ± 14 cfu/m3) were recorded in operating theaters, and the highest (45 ± 37 cfu/m3) were recorded in kitchens. Analyses revealed statistically significant differences between median values for the various environments. The fungal genus most commonly encountered was Penicillium, which, in kitchens, displayed the highest mean airborne concentration (8 ± 2.4 cfu/m3). The percentage (35%) of Aspergillus documented in the wards was higher than that in any of the other environments monitored. CONCLUSIONS. The fungal concentrations recorded in the present study are comparable to those recorded in other studies conducted in hospital environments and are considerably lower than those seen in other indoor environments that are not air conditioned. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of air-handling systems in reducing fungal contamination. © 2006 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. ,.
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Dear fellow Punekar,
I find it utterly pleasing that you hold such paramount passion for this city. The conviction with which you speak for and about Pune makes me smile; I am extremely proud of you.
However, there still remain a lot of things which can be changed, about the city and us, as Punekars, but please understand that this letter is a suggestion rather than a set of instructions. A true Punekar would ultimately do as he deems fit, but I would like you to be patient with what I'm about to tell you.
This city is a beautiful affair of culture and modernisation. With each passing day, Pune, along with us, experiences something which rivals the way we live and think. It is pivotal to realise that these things are changes which occur in every city, every resident of the respective city undergoes it. How we let it affect us however, is within our own hands. Embracing a change is easier said than done, I know, but we must stop being critical of the fact that the city is changing. Understanding how and why the changes are happening will help us in the larger picture; I believe it will be integral in retaining the sweet soul of our city in a positive way.
Let me tell you- I, too, once detested the fact that Pune has a horde of outsiders. It is but natural, living and growing up in the city gave me a certain perspective about my home place. Seeing the city from the view point of a person who has shifted here is a magnanimous task, but it is essential. Not every person who has moved here wants to change the city according to the scenario they have been comfortable with; I know that this is your biggest fear about the change. It was mine too, once. Most of the people who have moved here are in love with our city and the way it is, they are in no way inclined towards changing it. You really need to understand and accept this fact; our city is the way it has always been, at its roots. Our lifestyle demands change in the world we live in and that is why we feel that the city is undergoing severe changes, but it is not.
The extreme discomfort a non-Punekar might experience is something we really need to take into consideration. We are the city. We are the hosts and it is our responsibility to make their lives comfortable in any way we can. I'm not asking you to bend your beliefs and change the person you are. But simple compromises go a long way; understand that living in harmony with everyone is beneficial for being and feeling happy. We cannot expect people who haven't grown up here to constantly understand or follow our traditions; it is impractical to expect so. Judging them, ridiculing them and alienating them will hamper our city's image. Be patient with them, they are citizens of this city as well now. They have equal rights to form their own opinions about the city and express them. Don't be so harsh with them; our city has a history to be proud of. Let's make it unequivocal by embracing opinions and implementing them if we see them fit, there is nothing to lose by accepting the fact that some things, no matter how dear they are to us, need to change.
As to those who have shifted here and can now call themselves Punekars; please understand the city you have moved into. Understand its people so you get to know why a certain individual behaves in a specific manner, this city is an unbelievably layered city. Things will not be easy, as I'm sure you already know this, but it'll be worth it if you attempted to get along with local residents. Pune has a lot to offer, but like any other city, it will take its time with you. Not every local resident holds ill will against you, so please do not stereotype us. Making fun of our accents and our names, even though you mean it in a jovial manner, will not be taken positively by a lot of people. Cultural differences play a huge part in our country itself; please know that even you need to be patient with us.
Punekars are a proud lot, it's just the way it is, and if you respect us, we will shower you with every ounce of respect as well. Get to know us; our hearts are indeed big if you give us a chance to prove it to you. Let's live and experience and grow with the city together, there is enough space and love for each one of us here.
Your fellow Punekar.
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Department store chain Debenhams announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to extend its credit facilities and a sourcing partnership with Li & Fung. Shares in the company soared 39% during trading on Tuesday morning.
It has agreed to an additional 12-month senior secured credit facility. The additional facility provides £40 million on increased liquidity headroom, which will be available to draw as required.
Additionally, the new facility agreement will be a bridge to facilitate a broader refinancing and recapitalisation. Against this backdrop, the company has said it will continue to engage constructively with with its stakeholders. It intends to conclude a "comprehensive refinancing" by the end of the period.
Earlier this January, Moody's Investors Service downgraded Debenhams' outlook from stable to negative.
Debenhams has also entered into an agreement with Li & Fung. Li & Fung is a Hong Kong based leading supply chain solutions partner for consumer brands and retailers. The agreement aims to develop a strategic sourcing partnership and is expected to eventually cover a material part of its own-brand sourcing, delivering benefits for both of its customers and stakeholders.
Debenhams recently announced that it is planning to close 90 stores. Likewise, it may axe 10,000 jobs as it battles against plummeting profit and sales.
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Gap Inc. had performed an internal gender compensation analysis. Based on their findings, Gap Inc. concluded that they had equal pay for equal work. To validate their internal findings, Gap Inc. requested Exponential Talent perform its own gender compensation equity analysis using statistical testing.
Testing the data and analysis globally
Exponential Talent set out to test the "equal pay for equal work" hypothesis - that is, finding out whether there were significant differences in the average pay of women and men within a similar level and job function controlling for tenure, FTE status, and span of control, an "apples to apples" comparison. Exponential Talent tested the hypothesis globally and within each of the major retail geographical areas of Gap Inc. (US, UK, Canada, Japan, and China).
Validation of Gap Inc.'s initial methodology of using averages to perform wage gap analysis, the method used by the US Census Bureau. This consists of averaging female and male salaries in a given job or level, and dividing them to estimate a ratio of difference between female and male salaries (e.g. 99%, 101%, etc.). Gap Inc. had also checked all of its results against medians to ensure that outliers did not affect mean findings. The initial Exponential Talent analysis was performed to validate the approach taken by Gap Inc. In addition to validating the method, Exponential Talent proposed performing systematic significance testing and incorporating control variables.
Significance testing comparing average female and male salary by level. These tests are used to quantify meaningful differences of salaries by gender.
Regression analysis of average salary by gender controlling for all other factors for all levels with 500 employees or more. This test was performed to further examine and estimate any differences of salary by gender when factors like FTE status, tenure, and span of control were held constant for each level.
Regression analysis of average salary by gender, controlling for FTE, region, for all major job codes. Similarly, this test was performed to understand the relationship of salaries by gender within specific job codes.
Analysis by region for each major retail geography (US, UK, Canada, Japan and China): significance testing by level and job code and with controls for tenure and span of control. This test was performed to see if the results of equal pay for equal work held true for each region.
Effect size analysis for any finding with a statistically significant difference in either direction at the p<.05 level. These tests were run to understand if any differences found were meaningful. We found no meaningful effect sizes for any of the analyses..
Validated and award-winning gender equality commitment
The Exponential Talent analysis found that, controlling for relevant factors there is no significant gender wage difference between women and men at Gap Inc. within job codes globally and in any of the major retail geographies providing an "apples to apples" comparison of wages by gender. The hypothesis of "equal pay for equal work" at Gap Inc. was confirmed. This conclusion was found to be true at Gap Inc. globally, as well as for each of its five largest retail regions (US, UK, Canada, Japan, and China).
As a result of Exponential Talent's confirmation of Gap Inc.'s initial findings, the company was able to communicate its sustained commitment to gender equality globally to its employees.
Also: Read a preview of the Haas Business School 2018 Best Case Award case study, Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap: Gap Inc. Leads the Way


EAST RUTHERFORD — Somehow, a game that ultimately meant very little felt like it meant everything.
Even though the Jets and Green Bay Packers are both hopelessly out of playoff contention, neither team played like it; MetLife Stadium was as loud as its been all season thanks to an extraordinary quarterback duel between Aaron Rodgers and Sam Darnold in Gang Green's home finale that needed more than 60 minutes to decide.
In the end, the veteran used his experience to get the job done over the rookie.
Rodgers' 16-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams with 6:25 remaining in overtime gave the Packers a dramatic, 44-38, win.
It was, of course, a disastrous loss for the Jets, one in which they blew a 35-20 lead heading into the fourth quarter. As Gang Green tells it, though, it wasn't just Green Bay who beat them.
"Taking no credit from them, but we can't play two teams," said Jets head coach Todd Bowles, referring to an officiating crew that called his team for a whopping 162 yards worth of penalties on 16 separate infractions, including some late in both regulation and overtime.
Truth be told, while there were certainly some questionable calls, the Jets had every opportunity to put the Packers away early. Eli McGuire wrote the opening chapter on a two-score game with a four-yard touchdown run with 2:15 left in the first quarter to give Gang Green a 7-0 lead, followed by a Darnold scoring strike to Robby Anderson from 33 yards out that doubled their advantage with 9:02 remaining in the first quarter.
A Rodgers touchdown pass to Jake Kumerow, the 337th of his career, cut the Packers deficit to 14-7 one drive later, but Andre Roberts quickly erased that with a 99-yard kickoff return just 12 seconds later to make it a 21-7 contest.
Things slowly started to fall apart after that, however. Leonard Williams' ejection for throwing a punch seemed to shift the momentum — and certainly the field position — decidedly in Green Bay's favor. Jamaal Williams ran the ball into the end zone from seven yards out one play later, and a Mason Crosby field goal in the waning seconds of the first half sent the teams into their respective locker rooms with the score 21-17 in favor of the Jets.
Darnold, who threw for a career-high 341 yards in nearly matching Rodgers pass-for-pass, came out firing in the second half, however; his five-yard touchdown pass to Chris Herndon, seemingly his new favorite target on the first possession of the third quarter. After Anthony Wint forced a J'Mon Moore fumble and turnover on the ensuing kickoff, Darnold struck again with a 20-yard pass to McGuire to give Gang Green a seemingly insurmountable 35-20 advantage with 2:50 left to play in the third quarter.
Of course, no deficit is insurmountable with the Jets defense. And certainly not insurmountable to Rodgers, who is no stranger to clutch comebacks in games far more important than this one.
After another Crosby field goal made it 35-23, a penalty-filled drive for the Jets defense aided an eight-play, 94-yard march that took just three minutes and two seconds off the clock culminated in a Rodgers one-yard touchdown run that created a far more manageable 35-30 deficit with 6:32 left in regulation.
Perhaps the ensuing Jets possession is where the difference in experience level of the two signal-callers in late-game situations showed itself. Even after an shocking, well-executed fake punt in which Rontez Miles ran for a first down on fourth and one, the Jets gifted Rodgers and the Packers extra time to complete the comeback when Darnold inexplicably threw the ball at Herndon's feet on third down, which stopped the clock, preserving both time and the Packers' final timeout.
After the ensuing punt was downed on the 17-yard-line, Rodgers had 3:12, one timeout and 83 yards to play with. He needed exactly two minutes — with the help of more Jets penalties — to drive his team the length of the field and again run the ball in from one yard out to give the Packers a 36-35 lead with 1:12 left.
Green Bay's initial attempt at the two-point conversion was intercepted by Darryl Roberts and returned for what would have been two points for the Jets, but, you guessed it, a penalty on Roberts negated the score and allowed Rodgers a second chance; he yet again ran the ball in from a yard out to make it a 38-35 game.
Remarkably, the Jets fought back. Roberts showed why he's headed to the Pro Bowl with a huge, 51-yard kickoff return to the Packers' 38-yard-line, and Jason Myers did the same by connecting on a 33-yard field goal with 17 seconds left to send the game to overtime.
Green Bay won the coin toss, and Rodgers used his legs, arm and two more Jets penalties — including a very questionable pass interference call on Buster Skrine — to put his team in position for the game-winning score. Ironically, a Packers penalty negated their first "walk-off" touchdown, another Rodgers touchdown run, but they got the job done one play later to cap off one of the most dramatic regular season games that MetLife Stadium has ever hosted.
And all it'll mean in the end is just a few spots up or down in the draft for both teams. Just don't tell Rodgers that.


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By Jeet	 On Sep 15, 2020
Apple today launched its new eighth-generation 10.2-inch iPad at the Time Flies event but that isn't the only tablet device introduced by the company. Apple also launched its new iPad Air, which looks quite similar to the iPad Pro.
It comes with a 10.9-inch display with narrow bezels. There's a 12 MP rear camera with improved video stabilization and a 7 MP FaceTime HD camera along with support for smart HDR and 1080p 60fps video recording.
The device is powered by the Apple A14 chipset and this is the first time the processor is being used by the company. Apple claims 40 percent performance improvement over the last iPad Air as well as improved graphics support. It will come powered by the iPadOS 14 announced a few weeks ago.
It also has a USB-C port, replacing the company's proprietary Lightning port. There's also support for a magnetic Smart Connector that can magnetically attach accessories, including the Magic Keyboard.
The new Apple iPad Air comes in five different color options, which include Silver, Black, Rose Gold, Blue, and Green. The device is priced at $599 for the Wi-F only model and $799 for the LTE variant. It will be available for purchase in the United States from next month but a specific date is not known.
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Мускатный плодоядный голубь (Ducula aenea) — птица семейства голубиных.

Описание
Мускатный плодоядный голубь достигает длины от 38 до 45 см и весит от 450 до 545 г. Голова плоская и вытянутая. Половой диморфизм выражен незначительно. Самки отличаются от самцов менее интенсивным переливом оперения.

Голова, шея и нижняя сторона тела голубя от светло-серого до светло-серо-розового цвета. Спина и кроющие крыльев зелёные с бронзовым отливом. Подхвостье тёмно-коричневое. Клюв голубовато-серый, радужины и окологлазное кольцо красные.

Распространение
Мускатный плодоядный голубь обитает в Индии, Таиланде, Камбодже, Лаосе, Вьетнаме, Бирме, на Андаманских, Никобарских островах и на различных индонезийских и филиппинских островах, таких как Ява, Флорес, Пантар, Алор, архипелаг Сулу, Палаван, Думаран, Балабак, Сулавеси, Сула, Энгано и острова Талауд. Птица предпочитает вечнозелёные низменные леса, а также опушки леса и мангровые болота.

Образ жизни
Как большинство плодоядных голубей мускатный плодоядный голубь селится преимущественно на деревьях. Он питается различными плодами и ягодами, такими крупными, как дикий инжир или дикие мускатные орехи. Гнездо строится бегло и состоит из нескольких веточек. Токование голубя напоминает токование вяхиря. Самец взлетает с ветки и, сильно взмахивая крыльями, взвивается сначала вверх, а затем снова возвращается к исходной точке. В кладке одно яйцо. Период высиживания составляет 18 дней. Птенцы покидают гнездо в возрасте примерно 20 дней.

Примечания

Литература
 David Burnie (Hrsg): Vögel, München 2008, Dorling Kindersley, ISBN 978-3-8310-1272-5
 David Gibbs, Eustace Barnes und John Cox: Pigeons and Doves – A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World. Pica Press, Sussex 2001, ISBN 90-74345-26-3
 Alois Münst und Josef Wolters: Tauben – Die Arten der Wildtauben, 2. erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage, Verlag Karin Wolters, Bottrop 1999, ISBN 3-9801504-9-6
 Gerhard Rösler: Die Wildtauben der Erde – Freileben, Haltung und Zucht. Verlag M. & H. Schaper, Alfeld-Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7944-0184-0

Плодоядные голуби
Птицы Азии
Животные, описанные в 1766 году


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Kangding Ray North American Tour & Lecture to Benefit the ACLU at Mokedo Gallery: March 10 - 18
Next week Kremwerk, Lust Strength and MOTOR host the Seattle date in Kangding Ray's North American tour. Earlier that day, David Letellier will also be presenting a lecture at Mokedo Gallery, with all profits to benefit the ACLU. It's been a inspired arc since the inception of Raster-Noton, Letellier's home label, some 20 years ago. Over the course of the past two decades the label and publisher has defied the accelerated marginalized and fadishness of electronic music's short "half life", all the while transcending reductive genre codifications. On this side of the Atlantic they've made sporadic showcase appearances in major cities across the continent, from San Francisco and Los Angeles, to Mutek Montreal and beyond. Each time the occasion marked by an evolutionary leap present in each artists performance, as well as the larger audio/visual expression of the label's continuance. The second decade of the 21st Century has yielded some of the finest work to be heard from it's roster. The collaborative Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto albums are a high point, as is Carsten Nicolai's ongoing serial solo work, the Xerrox series. It's two most recent installations characterized by the enveloping vocabulary of distortion on "Xerrox Vol.2" and melodic beauty of this year's rapturous "Xerrox Vol.3". A project which when completed, will likely stand as the opus of Nicolai's recorded career. The year was also distinguished by the dou's release of the collaborative soundtrack to Alejandro Iñárritu's award winning film, "The Revenant". Frank Bretschneider's "EXP" was another high water mark for the label, this boundary pushing multi-media set of abstract audiovisual sculptural objects has not seen another peer in his discography. The label's core trio is rounded out by Olaf Bender and his Byetone project, from which 2008's "Death of a Typographer" was an unexpected meeting of energized motoric Krautrock and 80's synth-pop inspired explorations.
Outside of the core ensemble that initiated the imprint, Raster-Noton has enfolded a global body of work. Ranging from Japan's urban experimental dancefloor duo Kouhei Matsunaga and Toshio Munehiro, as NHK to the DeStijl inspired dynamic austerity of Emptyset to the pure datamatic audio-visual sensory environments of Ryoji Ikeda and Vladislav Delay's improvisation and jazz-informed rhythmic wanderings. The parameters of the label's scope have expanded with the inclusion of the humor and retro-futurism of Uwe Schmidt's live sets as Atom TM, most recently seen on the media package, "HD+" and the melodic dream-ambulations of the abstract pop in Dasha Rush's excellent, "Sleepstep" of 2015. Other recent additions to the label's cast include the pointilist digital rhythms and disintegrated melodic textures of David Letellier's Kangding Ray project and the complex theoretical investigations of Grischa Lichtenberger's "LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure", the first of his proposed five-part explorations on the subject of isolation and privacy. David Letellier's Kangding Ray project has been one of the most prolific of these new artists expanding the form of Raster's conception. His recent rapid-fire trilogy of albums, "Cory Arcane", "Solens Arc" and the stylisticly divergent "Pentaki Slopes" EP that initiated his current sound. These albums marking a shift toward a more aggressive, dynamic sound comprised of pointilist digital patterns and disintegrated melodic textures that morph into suggestive rave anthems and abrasive club rhythms. The juxtaposition of these contrary elements are refitted into uneven patterns not unlike a sonic deconstructivist architecture, where industrial techno stompers dissolve into granular sound design and filtered synth pads. When it all comes together in a live setting, it's dynamic endless-detouring of the parameters of techno is something to witness.
Labels: Kangding Ray, Kremwerk, Mokedo Gallery, Motor, Raster-Noton


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Central delivery suite consists of the New Beginnings low risk birth unit, six labour rooms for women with a high risk pregnancy and a five bedded ward for women requiring induction of labour or specialist care in the post natal period.
The team includes midwives, health care assistants, maternity support workers, and clerical staff along with other members of the multi-disciplinary team such as obstetricians, safeguarding, diabetes specialist midwives and physiotherapy.
Total number of beds is 15.
To be arranged with CDS Coordinator.
Children other than siblings are not permitted to visit in the post natal period.
Children are not permitted to stay throughout the intra partum period.


The City Council held a public hearing on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 to review the first reading of the revised Gas Franchise Ordinance and the new Gas Franchise Fee Ordinance. The City Council was given a written report and a presentation by Michael Thompson. The council voted to approve the first reading of the ordinances. The second reading of the ordinances was held on June 8, 2015 and approved by the full council. This fee will help fund the repairs to local streets beginning in 2016 and forward.
The collection of the monthly franchise fee through your Xcel Energy gas utility bill starts in October of 2015. Please refer to the table below for rates.
The City Attorney coordinated with the Xcel Energy representation to gather the comparative data regarding similar suburban cities and associated franchise fee structure on the gas utility. The results (PDF) show a number of cities collect a franchise fee to help pay for city related programs and costs. Cities in this area that have already implemented what Maplewood is now considering are Forest Lake, Cottage Grove, Bayport, Afton, Newport, Saint Paul, North St Paul, Oakdale and South St Paul. The League of MN Cities magazine recently had an article (PDF) about franchise fees.
To solicit additional feedback, a notice was posted in the December newsletter regarding the potential fee, how to contact the city to provide feedback, and also to notify of a neighborhood meeting scheduled for December 16, 2014 at the Maplewood Community Center.
Nine residents attended the open house meeting on December 16 to provide input and to ask questions. A summary (PDF) of that interaction has been compiled. Of the 9 attendees, 7 took a position on the proposed fee with 4 opposed (PDF) and 3 in favor (PDF) as shown on the 2 city maps.
Can the franchise be on Cable TV and not the gas utility bill?
Supports the idea because all pay including those who don't pay regular property taxes. Everyone needs to pay. Asked if it could be paid once per year instead of monthly on the utility bill.
Does not like the fee on the utility bill.
Agrees with it and asked if it would replace assessments.
Does not want the fee and the City must live within its means.
This proposal is headed in the right direction and is a no-brainer.


Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order - My Catholic Life!
There are many reasons to join a group. To quilt, play soccer, learn chess, travel, or meet new friends. We accomplish personal goals in a group that we would never accomplish alone. Groups create positive peer pressure for their members to show up on time, read the book, do the exercise, or complete the task assigned. When we join a group we are freely creating obligations for ourselves, because we know, deep down, that accountability to others encourages fidelity to our own obligations.
The groups of the medieval world were called guilds. Craftsmen of similar skills and professions organized in guilds to learn, promote, and protect their trade. Guilds offered mutual assistance to their members that no individual could replicate. There was power in numbers. Today's feast commemorates seven young men who belonged to a merchant guild in Florence, Italy, in the 1200s. These seven men were serious Christians. They loved God and the Church. And in addition to protecting their commercial interests by joining a guild, they also protected their souls by joining a local spiritual guild called the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin, where their spiritual exercises were guided by a wise and educated priest who encouraged their devotion.
After the members of the Confraternity experienced mystical visions of the Virgin Mary, there was nothing left to do except abandon their worldly concerns, set aside money for their families to live without their help, and flee the busy city for a solitary life in the nearby mountains. The Seven fasted, prayed, and lived lives of such extreme austerity that a visiting cardinal admonished them to stop living like dogs. Over time they adopted a rule, accepted new recruits, elected leaders, and spread throughout Italy and beyond. They eventually took the name of the Order of Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the Servants of Mary, or Servites.
The Seven Holy Founders were especially devoted to the Seven Sorrows of Mary, and the Servites were instrumental in the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows becoming part of the Church's calendar on September 15. The Sorrows of Mary, the sword that pierced her heart, the tears she shed when witnessing Our Lord's passion and death, motivated the Seven Holy Founders to promote devotion to Mary under this title. Mary was strong and stood at the foot of the cross. But she was also a mom who loved her boy. So she had a heavy heart that continually pondered what His suffering meant. We unite in joy at Christ's resurrection on Easter and join with Mary's sorrow just days before. The emotions of Scripture become the emotions of those who read it and those who live it in the liturgy and devotions of the Church.
The names of the Seven Holy Founders are known. But the Church celebrates them as a group, with their individuality ceding to their group identity. Together they accomplished more than seven men working separately could ever have accomplished. Their confraternity became an Order, and that Order still exists for the mutual spiritual benefit of all, a theological guild holding its members to high standards of spiritual perfection. Servite priests and brothers are still active in various countries around the world, hundreds of years after the Order's founding. This is a testament to the immovable, rock solid, foundation on which its Seven Holy Founders constructed their spiritual and theological home.
On your feast day, our thoughts and prayers turn to you, the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order. Help us to find mutual support and assistance in loving God and Mary through a holy alliance with like-minded Christians. Through your intercession and example of group love of God, may our love for Him burn hotter and longer than a single flame.