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The Rugged ACG1250 Power Inverter is uniquely suited for use in demanding shipboard and mobile applications, for customers who require power conditioning only, no backup.
80 VAC to 265 VAC / 47 Hz to 440 Hz or 22 VDC to 32 VDC. True Worldwide Input™ enables users to harness power from field generators, vehicles and any international power standard. This durable and versatile power conditioning system contains advanced double on-line conversion to provide highly reliable power conditioning for the most sensitive electronic devices. DC input makes this system ideal for use aboard tracked and wheeled tactical vehicles.
The Rugged-Inverter accepts a wide range of voltage and frequency inputs while providing seamless active power-factor correction and clean, reliable AC power.
This true on-line, double conversion uninterruptible power supply continually creates a pure sine wave AC output from a DC bus, thus protecting sensitive equipment from surges, spikes, brownouts, blackouts, and noise.
Our innovative design allows the UPS to automatically select AC or DC power input. In the event of an AC power failure the external DC input takes over.
The Rugged-Aluminum Chassis is housed in a compact, lightweight chassis. All aluminum, welded construction allows overall weight of the unit to be minimized while still maintaining high durability.
Our gasket sealed enclosure and filtered air intake protects internal components from the damaging effects of airborne contaminates in the operating environment.
A rated operating temperature range of -18°C to +50°C (0°F – 122°F) makes this UPS the product of choice for extreme environments.
The microprocessor-controlled Rugged-AC is equipped with a 9-pin communication port for user interface and remote monitoring.
Optional 250 watt, 24 VDC output available for specialized military applications.
The Rugged-ACG1250 inverter is available with optional double-pole circuit breaker for use with shipboard Delta power. The 1250 series has been tested and approved by the US Navy NSWCCD-SSES for use with Type I shipboard power per Section 300A, MIL-STD 1399.


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A step by step instruction on how to create a Group for your contacts in the Prompt Editor.
1. Click the Relationships icon in the main toolbar on left side of the screen.
2. Search for the contacts you want in the new group and select them with a check mark on the left side of the screen.
3. Click on Add to Group.
4. At the top of the next box, click on Create New.
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Please note: When you are importing contacts, you can add a column called Group and the system will create the group automatically.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires burned out of control Saturday in mountains north of Los Angeles and near Big Sur on California's scenic Central Coast, posing a threat to 2,000 homes and a sanctuary for exotic animals which was being evacuated, authorities said.
Southern California firefighters toiled in another day of triple-digit heat from a dome of high pressure over the region, and while Central Coast temperatures were more moderate, conditions included winds and low humidity.
The fire in northern Los Angeles County grew to more than 17 square miles, spreading smoke across the city and suburbs, reducing the sun to an orange disk at times. Containment was estimated at just 10 percent.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District warned that at times air would reach unhealthy levels. Suburban Pasadena and Glendale closed their municipal pools due to smoke and falling ash.
The fire erupted Friday afternoon in the Sand Canyon area of suburban Santa Clarita near State Route 14 as the region was gripped by high heat and very low humidity. Winds pushed it into the adjacent Angeles National Forest.
The fire was a threat to 1,000 homes by Saturday afternoon and those communities were advised to pay attention to news, said Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp.
"But if we were to get very extreme fire behavior we're up to 45,000 homes ... mainly down in the San Fernando Valley," Tripp said.
Neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles lie along the so-called urban-wildland interface at the northeast edge of the valley. Tripp said the Los Angeles fire chief was ready to join the incident command and 15 strike teams were put on alert in case flames made a push in that direction.
Hundreds of county and Angeles National Forest firefighters battled the blaze, aided by three dozen water-dropping helicopters and retardant-dropping airplanes. Forest Fire Chief Robert Garcia said early in the day smoke kept aircraft waiting for the air to clear.
More than 220 horses, dozens of goats and other animals were taken from the fire area, animal control officials said.
Metrolink train service in the area was halted Friday and on Saturday was subject to delays.
The blaze 5 miles south of Garrapata State Park posed a threat to 1,000 homes and the community of Palo Colorado was ordered evacuated, Cal Fire said. A middle school in Carmel-by-the-Sea was readied as an evacuation center.
"We felt threatened this morning and decided we needed to go," Masten-Hansen told KSBW-TV (http://bit.ly/2a67k7i).

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We have all heard a lot about how various fee arrangements, especially flat fees, are going to overtake the legal industry. In recent years, several sophisticated legal departments have largely committed to using alternative fees with their law firms. Yet flat fees are not close to unseating the ingrained law firm practice of hourly billing. If flat fees are clearly better—as we’ve been hearing from advocates for 15 years or more—then why is hourly billing so alive and well?
Sure, law firm economics are a part of it—under flat fees, firms bear the cost of any inefficiency. Another reason is that old habits die hard. Within the legal industry, and beyond, even the best ideas can take a shockingly long time to catch on. (For more on this point, we recommend Bill Henderson’s writings on the diffusion of innovations and Casey Flaherty’s colorful pieces on the slow adoption of superior technologies.) That said, perhaps an even bigger reason for the plodding rise of flat fees is that no one has answered the most important question of all: do flat fees actually work?
So, does quality of work suffer when law firms work on a flat fee? It seems like we should know this already, as the industry has been talking about flat fees for so long, but all we know is either anecdotal or from opinion surveys. The GC Thought Leaders Experiment looks at in-house satisfaction (with cost, quality, responsiveness, expertise, etc.) on actual legal work performed—so it is designed to teach us more than an opinion survey ever could. The research analyzes the differences between matters that earn high scores and those with low scores, using regression analysis. The goal is to better understand one big question: Which law firm and client practices actually result in great legal work?
In this article, we address whether flat fees generate better or worse law firm performance on legal matters than do hourly fees. We learned some surprising and exciting things.
Inquiry 1: What is the Effect of Flat Fees on Cost and Quality?
We’ll start with the punchline. Based on our examination of 1,400 legal matters, across 400 law firms and 28 of our clients (e.g., Mastercard, Keurig, Nike, Molson Coors, Panasonic—the full list of clients participating in The Experiment is here) we found that flat fees do in fact reduce client cost, and they don’t hurt or help quality. In a word, flat fees work.
Across this large group of legal matters, flat fees consistently delivered better cost-effectiveness than hourly rates. The mean scores were 4.34 and 4.21 (of 5), respectively. While these differences appear small, they are statistically significant to a 95 percent confidence level, controlling for other variables. Driving a good portion of these performance gaps is the much higher likelihood that a matter handled on an hourly rate will greatly disappoint on cost. For example, clients rated 5 percent of all hourly matters poorly for cost effectiveness (i.e., 2 or lower), compared with just 1 percent of flat-fee matters. Put another way, only one out of 100 flat-fee matters performed poorly on cost-effectiveness, versus one in 20 for hourly fees.
Interestingly, fixed fees for portfolios of work earn even higher scores on cost effectiveness. However, this is not statistically significant, as we are working off a smaller data set; only 1.5 percent of the 1,400 legal matters were on a fixed fee for a portfolio of work.
An interesting and related piece of analysis: we wanted to see whether GCs who think that flat fees are working well in their departments (i.e., their opinion of flat fees is high) are actually correct. Are their in-house lawyers more satisfied with cost effectiveness (for work on a flat fee) than other departments where GCs don’t believe in flat fees? Not only is the answer no, in-house lawyers whose GCs think highly of flat fees actually have slightly lower satisfaction on flat fees than in-house lawyers on other teams (though this difference is not statistically significant). All of this underscores just how unreliable opinion survey data is. Another way to say this—GCs don’t even know whether flat fees work in their own law departments.
Getting back to the main point, in the aggregate flat fees do in fact outperform hourly fees on cost-effectiveness. This was not a given, as many clients suspect law firms price flat fees with a cushion. But of course, the really big fear about flat fees relates to quality of service. To get at this, we measured in-house counsel’s perception of law firm responsiveness, quality of work, legal expertise, solutions focus, and several other variables that speak to service quality across our data set of 1,400 legal matters. As noted above, legal matters on a flat fee do not necessarily score higher or lower on these service quality metrics than hourly fees. We did not find any statistically significant relationship. So, on average, across our data set, service quality is the same under flat fees, and clients are happier with their bills.
Inquiry 2: What Makes Flat Fees Work?
There is a widely held sentiment that flat fees work only within the confines of a trusting, long-term client-firm relationship. This sounds sensible and is pretty hard to argue against. Our data suggest otherwise—we did not find that the length of the client-firm relationship (or the amount of trust a GC has in a firm, or the amount of spend with a firm) improved the efficacy of flat fees. This, we think, is very important as we think about flat fee adoption, because clients and law firms often point to the need for a perfect, trusting relationship as an obstacle to trying out flat fees in the first place.
We should note that this comports with our overall experience at AdvanceLaw. When we look across our GCs’ matters and portfolios in our core business (where the GCs are largely moving work to new law firms), a meaningful proportion of the work is on a flat fee. And, on balance, we have witnessed especially strong client satisfaction on cost and quality alike.
That said, and looking at the data set again, we find one factor matters much more than the rest: in-house experience using flat fees. Departments that use flat fees with greater frequency do achieve better results (on both cost and quality). We feel this is an important finding because some in-house lawyers who try flat fees are likely to be abandoning them prematurely, as the greatest returns come from practice and experimentation. This knowledge may encourage more clients to make a more concerted effort to embrace and experiment with flat fees.
More specifically, when we look at clients using flat fees for matters (or fixed fees for portfolios) for 30 percent or more of their legal work versus clients using them for less than 30 percent of their legal work, the more experienced group does meaningfully better with flat fees. They achieve greater cost-effectiveness on their flat fees (though not statistically significant), and better service quality metrics, especially responsiveness (4.61 vs. 4.39 out of 5) and likelihood to recommend the lawyer (8.53 vs. 7.99 out of 10), both statistically significant. Clients with more flat fee experience also see improvements in law firm solutions focus and in outcome of legal matters under a flat fee.
All this relates to another finding: flat fees are not used nearly as much as one might think.
Inquiry 3: How Much And For What Are Flat Fees Used?
In our cross-section of 1,400 legal matters, just 18.4% were billed on non-hourly (principally flat) fee structures. This is a bit lower than one might expect given their efficacy and all we read about flat fees. Perhaps this low rate of use relates to the fact that, as an industry, we have lacked meaningful data on whether they actually work. And, to the point just above, in-house lawyers may be giving up on them too early because of poor performance—when in fact the return on investment for flat fees increases with practice.
It may also be helpful for clients and law firms to know in which legal areas clients are most likely to retain law firms under a flat fee. The top three legal areas, in descending order, are: intellectual property (22.5 percent of flat fees), labor and employment (13.3 percent), and M&A (10.2 percent). Across all flat fee matters, 17 percent are litigation (and 83 percent are non-litigation). When we publish our final study—the Thought Leaders Experiment is in progress and we are collecting more data—we will provide tables with more detailed and granular data in this and other areas.
To summarize the above findings: flat fees reduce cost, they don’t affect quality, and they don’t require long or trusting relationships. Perhaps most importantly, those who use flat fees regularly get better at using them. The flat fee is a tool that becomes more effective with deeper and broader adoption.
This suggests that flat fees should be used more than they are—not just because of their performance, but because of their potential. Is the flat fee innovation here to stay? We think so: flat fees, like other alternatives to hourly billing, are good—and getting better.

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text: As one of the top-ranked antique billiard tables and accessories sites, this website redesign caters to increasing mobile usage, keeping up with Google’s mobile-friendly site initiative. By moving to a Content Management System, the amount of time required to update the site has improved and the added search feature enables visitors to peruse the collection of hundreds of tables and accessories. In addition, the web-to-email form now includes anti-spam CAPTCHA protection and the ability to handle attachments.

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Looking for a tropical paradise minus the big crowds? Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you the Anambas archipelago!
The wonderful nation of Indonesia, which is made up of approximately 18,000 beautiful islands, offers innumerable paradise getaways. The likes of Bali, Lombok, Raja Ampat and Flores make constant appearances on travel websites’ lists of Indonesian dreamy islands, each with its own allure. Compared to the other already popular islands, the Anambas Islands Regency (Anambas for short), which consists of 255 islands blessed with unspoiled coral reefs, warm pristine waters and abundant marine life, has remained relatively unknown, until today.
Spread across the expanse of the South China Sea, Anambas attracts avid scuba divers, snorkellers and sun-worshippers who simply wish to unplug from the hectic urbanised world and be lullabied by the relaxing tropical island vibe. The islands within the Anambas archipelago are remarkably beautiful and unblemished, suitable for romantic honeymooners and outdoor-loving families, including budget-conscious backpackers.
Out of the said 255 islands, only 26 of them are inhabited with the largest ones being Jemaja, Palmatak and Siantan. The Anambas Islands Regency capital, Tarempa, is located on the island of Siantan, where travellers can find most of the affordable hotels and homestays, including auto-teller machines. Agriculture and fishing are the main industries here; the region also contains a large reserve of natural gas exported to Singapore and Malaysia, among other countries.
For fearless divers, the Anambas archipelago has many spectacular dive sites with good visibility, especially those around the islands of Kiabu, Temiang, Semut, Mandau, Pahat, Durai and Renggek. Meanwhile, sun chasers who prefer to lounge blissfully under coconut trees and partake in light swimming should head to the uninhabited Penjalin island with its gorgeous luminescent blue lagoon and stretch of powdery soft sandy beach. Travellers should culminate their Anambas adventure by making a trip to Temburun Waterfall on Siantan island that greets them with beautiful and forceful cascades overlooking the stunning view of the ocean.
Bawah Reserve is notably the archipelago’s most acclaimed resort and has been a constant favourite among the well-heeled across the globe. This resort makes a great first impression by striking a balance between Indonesian rusticity and contemporary sustainability-centric décor. Bawah Reserve seduces romantic types with its three glistening lagoons and 13 private beaches, including its all-inclusive packages comprising transport via seaplane, spa treatments, and slew of activities. Anambas Resort (approximately IDR270,000 per night), Anambas Dive Resort (approximately IDR2,000,000 per night including meals) and Kusuma Resort (IDR10,000,000 for four persons including meals) also offer more affordable yet no-less-remarkable bases.
From Johor Bahru International Ferry Terminal, travellers need to take a ferry to either Batam Centre (Batam) or Tanjung Pinang (Bintan). For more information on ferry schedules and rates, refer to www.berjayawaterfront.com.my/info/schedule. Wings Air (part of Lion Air group – browse for more information) flies three times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) from Batam to Letung (Anambas) starting on 10 August 2018, while Xpress Air connects Tanjung Pinang to Matak (Anambas) with daily flights on weekdays. There are cars for hire available at Letung and Matak airports that charges approximately IDR50,000 per person to bring travellers to the jetty where they will then take the boat to the desired islands within the Anambas archipelago.
Should travellers make Tanjung Pinang, Bintan as their first port of embarkation, be sure to allocate extra days to visit some of the nearby attractions. The family-friendly glamping sanctuary, The Canopi, features 100 stylish tents with a huge 6.3 hectares of man-made lagoon filled with crystal clear salt water, where the young and the young at heart can indulge in a wide range of outdoor activities including ATV rides, cable ski, rodeo bull, water slide and airsoft gun games.
The history and cultural buffs, on the other hand, should visit Penyengat Island, which once was a cultural capital of the Malay world, ruled by the Riau sultanate of Bugis descent. Expect to witness traces of the island’s glorious past, ranging from poetic signages to historical monuments such as the Grand Mosque of the Riau Sultanate, Balai Adat Indera Sakti (cultural hall) and Engku Putri Raja Hamidah Tombs Complex where revered historical figures such as Engku Putri Raja Hamidah (the wife of Sultan Mahmudsyah III) and Raja Ali Haji (Malay-Riau’s greatest scholar and poet who was famous for his Malay poetry Gurindam Dua Belas) are laid to rest.
To reach the island, travellers need to board a pompong boat from Tanjung Pinang jetty that costs IDR7,000 per person each way. There are auto rickshaws for hire on the island at IDR30,000 for two persons to bring travellers to the attractions – feel free to ask questions to the riders about the island because they could double up as entertaining guides.
Gaya Travel Magazine extends our heartfelt gratitude to the Consulate General of Indonesia in Johor Bahru and Dinas Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan Kabupaten Kepulauan Anambas for making the writer’s trip to the Anambas islands smooth sailing.
It is a good place to see under a sea.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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The Event was held courtesy of Ethical Leadership Network (ELNET) with the main speaker being Dr. Julius M. Muia, Ph.D., EBS-Principal Secretary, State Department for Planning – The National Treasury and Planning. He engaged both Business and organization leaders on ethics and the Big 4 Agenda. The role of Ethical Leaders in the big 4 Agenda according to article 231D is public participation in policy formulation, enactment of laws and regulation, serve the government forces, boards, committees. The Big Question is are we participating?
Value Addition & Manufacturing-Our goal is to move from 9% to 15% of GDP BY 2022 & Kenya to become a major export player.
Food & Nutrition Security-Coming up with measures to improve large-scale production & boost small-scale production.
Health-Use of NHIF, private health insurance, hospitals & Equipment.
Affordable Housing-individual to invest in real estate development & Capacity building.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), 1 out of every 72 people are victims of a dog bite. After being bitten many become infected which could lead to multiple other detrimental problems and potentially a fatality.
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In the spirit of agency over self-image, it seemed like time to update the photo on my website.
Piloting entering plane to departing pilot: This a good one?
NP: Well, crooked is better than broken!
@kimberlyhirsh Thank you for this. I’ve been wondering for a while how to better capture what are currently ephemeral thoughts on articles that I read, and have been pondering how I might try to create a research wiki. This looks worth trying for that purpose.

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Inspired by children's picture book Love is Love, written by Michael Genhart, Ph.D. and illustrated by Ken Min, which gently talks about discrimination with kids + celebrates all different kinds of families.
Short sleeve, white, size 2T, 4T and 6. NOTE: Size 6 should also fit most 7 year olds.

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text: Rocketry - The Nambi Effect 2019 is a Hindi bollywood Action, Social, Drama Movie directed by R Madhavan, Ananth Narayan Mahadevan. The Film Stars are R Madhavan which is leading Main Role. and all are composed by , the Movie is released on 26 July, 2019.

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Thursday April 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Join us for the last installment of this season’s Winter Film Series, even though is technically now spring–but hey! how can we tell–we are watching movies in the Elk’s Basement. The movement behind this series is to show film as a expressive artistic medium. With host Diana Forgione we will go into the depths of directors’ intentions, genre advantages, foreign films, visual purpose, art direction and narrative throughout the series. Provoking shared experiences with a discussion after shown film.
Summary: Salvatore “Sal” Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin’ Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin’ Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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I am passionate about cats and have dedicated the latter part of my career to learning about and providing the best quality medical care to the feline species. My studies and experience over the years have taught me that cats respond better when cared for in an environment designed and built around their specific needs. The London Cat Clinic is the realisation, after years of planning and hard work, of my ultimate dream to open a cat-only veterinary clinic in London.
Qualifying in New Zealand over 20 years ago, I moved to the UK in 2000 working in a number of general practices before running a small animal practice in London. In 2009, I relocated to Hong Kong where I began to pursue my interest in feline medicine in earnest. Whilst working for the Hong Kong SPCA, I continued my studies and built up extensive skills in ultrasonography, cardiology and internal medicine before moving back to the UK in 2011.
In 2012, by examination I attained membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Feline Medicine. In 2015, I became a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Advanced Practitioner in Feline Medicine and I am a founder member of the International Society of Feline Medicine - Academy of Feline Practitioners. Eager to share my love of medicine I volunteered for 5 years as an Associate Editor on the Feline Internal Medicine folder of the Veterinary Information Network, a global on-line information resource for all veterinary staff. In December 2017 I joined CatDogFish an online first and only port of call for everything you need and want to know about how to be a better pet parent, as a Feline Medicine Expert.
My areas of special interest and experience cover all aspects of internal medicine, particularly cardiology and diagnostic imaging including cardiac and abdominal ultrasonography. I love geriatric medicine and live to see old cats get a new ‘lease of life'.
At home, I am a willing servant to Humphrey, the Streatham street cat who with a penchant for regular battles and treatment has reinforced my great empathy for all cat owners and the problems they face medicating of cats over the long term!
I am proud to welcome you and your cats to The London Cat Clinic. You can rest assured that you are in safe, caring hands.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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This post is the third in a three-part series by Common Indicators System Network participants, who are sharing their experiences with the Network and how it’s supporting their efforts to improve through evidence. Read the first two posts in the series here and here.
In August 2017, I headed to Austin, Texas, with four of my colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to help launch the Common Indicators System (CIS) Network, a national effort to gather credible evidence of candidate knowledge and skill and program performance using common measures and data collection protocols.
There, we joined more than 40 data and program leads from 12 teacher-preparation programs across the nation. We covered a lot of ground during the launch event, but one of the most powerful activities we did started before we even got to Austin when we were asked, as pre-work, to meet as an institution team to complete a data diagnostic tool developed by Deans for Impact.
We each rated our institution on the tool’s four criteria: developing shared understanding; collecting, organizing, and analyzing data; organizing people to learn; and using data for program improvement. It was very interesting to see how, as a team, we differed on our responses, and this work provided us the opportunity to discuss our thinking, arrive at consensus on how we rated each of the four criteria, and identify our rationale.
Once in Austin, each team displayed the results of our pre-work. It was really interesting to see how the different institutions rated themselves, and the discussion that emerged was amazing. It was interesting to hear rationale behind ratings and how they were based on program structure. For those institutions that rated themselves high on various criteria, it was nice to learn about specific things they are doing that put them at that top ranking. As a team, we began to consider how we could take this exercise back to our institution to assist in program improvement. And we did just that!
Back at UNC Charlotte, we began with our leadership team: deans, department chairs, and directors. Next, we moved to program coordinators, who completed the diagnostic with program faculty. We wanted every faculty member in the college to participate in this work.
We shared the results at our college-wide faculty meeting, with each program posting its results. In groups, faculty did a gallery walk, discussing with their group what they noticed. We also asked them to brainstorm how the college could get to “sustaining,” the diagnostic’s top level. Faculty were very receptive to this activity. They found it powerful to see how programs outside of their own were thinking and the notion that programs within the same college rated themselves very differently in many cases.
From this exercise, we identified two areas — “organizing people to learn” and “using data for continuous improvement” – as growth opportunities, in particular identifying time to discuss our assessment data and involving our school partners in this discussion. Based on these results, we decided to host a “School Partners Data Day,” with faculty from our teacher- and principal-preparation programs, and principals and teachers from 14 partner PreK-12 schools.
During this day, we accomplished several things. We learned valuable information from our school partners to help guide our redesign efforts – while strengthening relationships with our school partners. Participants told us they found it helpful to have time to talk about data, to get perspectives on the data from faculty and school partners, and then to collaborate on trends they saw in the data. The “Data Day” helped move the redesign forward, and we have invited school partners to help with this work. We are also planning our next School Partners Data Day.
Ultimately, our involvement in the CIS Network has stretched our thinking and helped us make improvements in how we discuss our data, gain feedback from stakeholders, and use what we have learned for program improvement.
Dr. Teresa Petty is a professor and associate dean at UNC Charlotte’s Cato College of Education, and a member of UNC Charlotte’s Common Indicators System Network team.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Creative, optimist, dreamer...Inspired by this and that.


text: Tuscan Grill The Morsø Tuscan Grill is an enamelled grill grate. Its diameter of 33 cm gives it an effective grilling area of over 800 cm2. The Tuscan Grill can be used in the Morsø Outdoor Oven and allows you to produce steaks and vegetables with sharp, well-defined grilling lines. The concept of the Tuscan Grill originally comes from Tuscany in Italy, where there is a tradition of cooking juicy steaks with a fantastic smoked taste  e.g. Bistecca alla Fiorentina. Do you fancy that? We thought so!

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Don't say very easy, say effortless. —— 128 Words to Use Instead of "Very"
Included consumer ProGuard rules missing in EasyPermissions which fixes your release build.
Just use EffortlessPermission wherever you would use EasyPermissions (documentation), and explore the improvements listed above!
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Without EffortlessPermissions, you would have to make your activity implement PermissionCallbacks, check request code and call permission denied callback manually. You would also need to remember writing the ProGuard rules for every project or you'll end up debugging your release build to find it out. But now, only the truly necessary code is written. Cheers!
The AAR of this library has already included a consumer ProGuard file to retain the annotations and annotated methods.


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Fox’s 24: Legacy this week drew 5.1 million total viewers and a 1.2 demo rating (per finals), down 18 and 20 percent from its first Monday outing. Leading out of that, APB (4.5 mil/1.0) dropped 26 and 33 percent from its premiere.
For reference, time slot predecessors Gotham and already-renewed Lucifer this season have respectively averaged 3.5 mil/1.1 and 3.8 mil/1.1.
THE CW | Supergirl (2.5 mil/0.8) and Jane the Virgin (1.1 mil/0.4) both ticked up.
NBC | Leading out of a Wall rerun, The Celebrity Apprentice held steady at 3.4 mil/0.9 — down 30 percent from its premiere and barely half of what the series’ previous finale did (6.1 mil/1.7). Bubble drama Timeless (3 mil/0.7) is currently up a tenth, ahead of next week’s finale.
ABC | The Bachelor (7.6 mil/2.4) was flat. Quantico (2.4 mil/0.6) dipped, tying its demo low.
CBS | Kevin (7.9 mil/1.5), Man (7.1 mil/1.4), Donuts (7.2 mil/1.4) and Scorpion (7.2 mil/1.2) were all steady, while 2 Broke Girls (6 mil/1.2) dipped a tenth.


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So here I am awake.
It’s normal; for me at least. It’s normal for me to find myself completely unable to shut my brain down. So I think over the day; the week; the month; the year and sometimes even over events from decades ago.
My problem is that instead of thinking on the good things; the positive; I fixate on the stupid and the bad. I rehash the words I said and kick myself for the stupidity that comes out of my mouth. How could I have said that? Why couldn’t I just keep my mouth shut? What was I thinking; was I thinking???
I can’t seem to let it go. And as I think over the day; weeks; month; years I see that wisdom does not seem to be present. I feel terrible for the hurtful things I’ve said; for the soapbox or rant I’ve gone on. And even though in some cases years have passed when that memory surfaces I just want the earth to open and swallow me whole. I can’t seem to find a way to forgive myself and move on. I succeed for a little while but when the memories come flooding back… well a dark hole is where I’d like to be.
Why is it so difficult for me to let things go? Why do I beat myself to a pulp for years?
Tonight is another late night.
The memories are rushing back.
If you were to ask my kids they would probably tell you I hover. I am always checking on them, asking if they need anything and if anyone hurts them…look out! Mama bear will be lurking in the shadows just waiting to take out the culprit(s). If that makes me a helicopter-mom then so be it; although I do think I’m getting better about letting the older two handle things on their own.
Today I’ve coined a new phrase “helicopter-wife.” My dear husband chuckled (yes out loud, which is very rare) at the new term. I feel the need to hover and check on him constantly! I worry about every second he isn’t with me. I am very much aware that I will need to get over my fear(s) and allow him room to breathe.
This is a new reality for us – epilepsy means a new way of doing things. It means learning to live a “new normal”. It means for now he doesn’t drive… so I take him everywhere. It means when he says things like “my face is vibraty” I find a chair and make him sit. Or when he gets quiet for too long I ask if he is ok.
See not every seizure is like what you see on TV or YouTube. Some are virtually unnoticeable; that’s why it has taken so long to find out what is going on. Because each seizure is different I never know what to expect. So for now I hover… always at the ready. I guess you could say my “new normal” includes the title “helicopter-wife”; maybe now my kids will get a break from helicopter-mom.
A week ago today the phone call came. We knew deep down what she was going to say but still we hoped. We hope we were wrong while knowing there was no other answer. So the news wasn’t a shock; it was more of a heavy blanket of acceptance that settled over us. Well, over me at least.
I let out a breath I didn’t know I was holding; epilepsy.
Now it has a name; now I can research and move into action. Now I can figure out what the heck I am supposed to do instead of sitting helplessly watching him suffer. Research says… take his keys; don’t let him drive; and sit and watch helplessly; oh and try to protect his head.
So I sit and watch making sure he is in a safe place; making sure his head is protected. But here’s where it gets really hard… his head is not protected! No matter what I do I can’t protect him. The battle is inside his brain; a space I can’t enter.
Epilepsy- this is good news, I thought… We can handle this, I said… and after a day of seizures; yes they were minor compared to other people with epilepsy; my heart broke. And when they were over and he could finally speak he whispered..
My baby is just about all grown up; making grown up decisions and it hit me… I’m not ready!
What if she isn’t ready? Have I taught her what she needs to know??? Can she handle this thing called life? Can she handle “adulting”?
I’m laying here awake at 4:34 a.m. and I am playing out every every negative, scary or just plain bad scenario to see if she could handle it.
I have tried to teach my children that this world is flawed and messed up while at the same time teaching them that it is beautiful and amazing. I’ve tried to show them that there are bad people and good people. I tried to teach them that they do not need to live in fear of the world outside of our home but that they should be aware and alert of their surroundings. I hope I have accomplished those things.
My almost grown up daughter came home from work and told me about her day. She told me about a co-worker saying something very ugly and inappropriate. She laughed as though it was funny and I wanted to cry! I told her I was sorry he had said those things to her…what else could I say?
In that moment my heart broke for her. I never wanted her to hear words like that. Why? Because I want her to know she has more value than those words say she has. I want her to feel safe at work. (I want to know that she is safe at work!) I want her to enjoy going to work; not worry about who she might be working with. I want her to look forward to being an adult and not be afraid of this next chapter in life.
I wish I could protect her and keep her all to myself but that wouldn’t be fair. It wouldn’t be fair to rob the world of the love of Jesus that radiates from her.
So… I won’t bubble wrap her or lock her in a tower. Instead I will walk beside her on this journey and I will help her; encourage her; offer her advice (not just when she asks afterall I’m still her mom 😊) and when she falls I will help her up; “kiss ouchies” and send her back out to try again. And as these last days speed by I’ll cover her with more prayers than ever before!
So my 4:34 a.m. moments will be spent not just pondering all the bad things that could happen but praying for her. Praying that she would have the wisdom to make good choices for herself; wisdom to see danger ahead; wisdom to avoid those dangerous moments. I will pray for her safety and for her heart. I pray that she will live fearlessly! And then I will close my eyes hours later and attempt to rest because for now; she is still my baby and she is sleeping soundly in her bed. And that gives me peace.
I’ve learned many things being a mom. Most of what I have learned has come from my kids. I’ve learned that the killer whale is not a whale but the largest dolphin in the dolphin family. I’ve learned there is a difference between dolphins and porpoises. I’ve learned that pulling nails from fence posts is fun and that ladybugs will bleed on you when you pick them up (the yellow tuff the leave on your hand is actually their blood)! I’ve learned a wide range of things from my kids. However it’s the personal lessons that have stuck the most.
So it way past bedtime and I let them all know that the time for bed has arrived. My youngest who just seconds before was laughing throws herself face first onto the couch and with the most pathetic voice moans “oh I’m so tired; I just want to sleep on the couch.” For some reason this just irritated me. I had let them stay up late; we had ice cream; we had fun; and now she wants to pull the mopey, whiney card.
Fast forward fifteen minutes and she is still standing in the living room. By now I have been quite clear in my words that she was to go get in bed. Seeing as this stalling is a nightly habit her claims to needing water fell on my deaf ears and she immediately received a swat on her hiny. This of course broke her heart and the two of us walked hand in hand to her room.
Oh how my heart broke. I wanted her to know so badly that it was over; that she was forgiven; that there was no lingering punishment; that there was nothing to feel guilty about because that’s what forgiveness is. It is being released from the wrong action committed and being granted freedom. I explained over and over that she was forgiven and it was over and done with. With her arms still around my neck and her tears still flowing she said I’m sorry again and again.
My daughter showed me a picture of myself and how I have been saying 2000 sorries not fully grasping the truth. Romans 8:1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” For those of us who are his children we have a beautiful freedom to live life and enjoy every second guilt free!
Really? Do you really know that my time is valuable???? I don’t think so!
No fear of being ridiculed.
No fear of trying something new.
No fear of the future.
What are Brain Squirrels and Brain Farts?
A brain squirrel is when you are in the middle of a conversation and you or the other person has a random thought, completely unrelated to the topic at hand and drops it into the middle of the conversation derailing said conversation and changing it’s course.
A brain fart is when you are in the middle of a conversation and you suddenly have some amazing input to share that has you exploding with excitement over your new found amazing discovery.
But no seriously I do plan to tackle some deep heavy topics. I won’t lie, most of this will be stuff that God is showing me, things that will be painful to admit to a public audience. And since I normally have many squirrels run through my mind at any given point I do reserve the right to hit pause on my topic and chase the squirrel! And some topics will be explosive, that’s where the farts come in ;) Those will be the ones that blow your mind! I promise there won’t be many of those, my brain can’t handle to many more explosions! So please feel free to chase squirrels with me or run away, it really doesn’t make much difference to me. I’m writing these for me :D I’m just giving you permission to take a peak into my brain!


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The Little Dipper (lower left) and the Big Dipper as seen this time of year from mid-northern latitudes, high in the northeast a couple hours after sunset.
The seven stars from which we derive the Little Bear, or Ursa Minor in the night sky are also known as the Little Dipper.
Polaris, the North Star lies at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, whose stars are rather faint. Its four faintest stars can be blotted out with very little moonlight or street lighting.
The best way to find your way to Polaris is to use the so-called pointer stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper, Dubhe and Merak. Just draw a line, between these two stars and prolong it about 5 times, and you eventually will arrive in the vicinity of Polaris.
Exactly where you see Polaris in your northern sky depends on your latitude. From New York City it's almost halfway from the horizon to the overhead point (called the zenith). At the North Pole, you would find it directly overhead. At the equator, Polaris would appear to sit right on the horizon. So if you travel to the north, the North Star climbs progressively higher the farther north you go. When you head south, the star drops lower and ultimately disappears once you cross the equator and head into the Southern Hemisphere.
Aside from the North Star the two stars at the front of the Little Dipper's bowl are the only ones readily seen. These two are often referred to as the "Guardians of the Pole" because they appear to march around Polaris like sentries; the nearest of the bright stars to the celestial pole except for Polaris itself. Columbus mentioned these stars in the log of his famous journey across the ocean and many other navigators have found them useful in measuring the hour of the night and their place upon the sea.
The two other stars that complete the pattern of the bowl of the Little Dipper are of fourth and fifth magnitude, which means you may struggle to see them from a city or suburban setting.
Thus, the bowl of the Little Dipper, which is visible at any hour on any night of the year from most localities in the Northern Hemisphere, can serve as an indicator for rating just how dark and clear your night sky really is. If, for example, you can readily see all four stars in the bowl, you've got yourself a good-to-excellent sky. Unfortunately, thanks to the spread of light pollution in recent years, only the Guardians are usually visible from most city and suburban sites, meaning the quality of the sky would rank fair-to-poor.
Finally, there is a popular misconception in that many believe that the North Star is the brightest star in the sky.
I still remember when I was a very young boy how an uncle of mine pointed to a brilliant bluish star high in the midsummer sky and told me that it was the North Star (it was actually Vega, in the constellation Lyra). Yet Polaris actually ranks only 49th in brightness. It remains in very nearly the same spot in the sky year-round while the other stars circle around it. Only the apparent width of about one and a half full Moons separates Polaris from the pivot point directly in the north around which the stars go daily.
However, on account of the wobble of the Earth's axis (called precession), the celestial pole shifts as the centuries go by.
Polaris is actually still drawing closer to the pole and on March 24, 2100, it will be as close to it as it ever will come, just 27.15 arc-minutes or slightly less than the Moon's apparent diameter. Since it takes just under 26,000-years for the Earth's axis to complete a single wobble, different stars have become the North Star at different times. In fact, the brightest Guardian, Kochab, was the North Star at the time of Plato, around 400 BC.


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This Thursday, at some point in the festivities we’ll be remembering the Pilgrims and their Indian guests on that first Thanksgiving Day in the New World. After all, that gathering was the genesis of today’s St. Cloud Thanksgiving Day celebration.
Pagan festivals and dollies? Does this put the accuracy of all St. Cloud elementary school bulletin boards with their Pilgrim hats and turkey displays in jeopardy? Fortunately, there’s a problem with the Pilgrim-less version.
I think we can safely bypass other Thanksgiving legends and just stick to our own story. St. Cloud’s Thanksgiving can continue to be the once-a-year occasion to remember its true spirit—a day we celebrate our gratitude for all we have and love.


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Thermometers most commonly consist of a closed, glass tube containing mercury which moves up or down the tube with increasing or decreasing temperature. Clinical thermometers can be used for oral, rectal, or axillary temperature measurement and some designs can be attached to the forehead. A range of mercury-free digital thermometers with easy to read displays and tones to indicate final temperature are also available.
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Lyft is growing beyond its home market of the U.S., with a launch planned next month in Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Residents in the greater Toronto area (and nearby Hamilton will be able to hail vehicles from five of its service options starting in December.
Riders in the cities will be able to hail Lyft Plus, Lyft Premiere, Lyft Lux and Lyft Lux SUV rides, as well as normal Lyft’s with cars that can take up to four passengers. The company is also beginning to sign up potential drivers now in advance of its rollout of its service. Rates and payouts to drivers are not yet available.
Lyft will face competition in Toronto, as Uber already has a presence, and has been operating in the city for five years now. Previously, Uber operated alongside rival Hailo in the market, but Hailo subsequently exited North America altogether, shutting down operations in Toronto.
Lyft will likely have a good chance of becoming a strong competitor relatively quickly – Lyft co-founder John Zimmer points out to the Toronto Star that 50,000 Torontonians have the Lyft app on their phone already, despite there being no service available in the country. Residents will likely be curious about trying out the new alternative.
This is a significant expansion not just for Canadians and residents of Toronto, however; Lyft moving into a market outside the U.S. signals it might now be ready for more ambitious international growth. The company has long talked about having ambitions outside its home country in past, and its primary rival Uber has a strong international presence, but thus far, it has focused on expanding its coverage with the U.S. and upgrading its service offerings.
In 2017, Lyft expanded to cover around 94 percent of U.S. residents, up from around 60 percent at the start of the year, with multiple new markets added across the country.

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Unusually, Parc le Broes Cym long barrow lies adjacent to a small stream in the bottom of a steep-sided valley. The stream has caused some erosion to the south-west horn, but the remainder is very well preserved and worth the journey to find this rather hidden site. Fully excavated and restored in 1960-1, the mound is small, 22m long by a maximum of 12m wide, strongly trapezoidal in shape and edged with a well-built dry-stone revetment wall.
Aligned almost exactly north-south, the wider southern end has a deeply recessed bell-shaped forecourt between two rather pronounced horns. At the back of the forecourt is the entrance to a central passage with a pair of side chambers opening off to either side. There is no end-chamber beyond the second pair of chambers.
The upper part of the cairn and the roofing of the chambers and passage are all missing, presumably robbed long ago, but this has the effect of providing the visitor with a neatly sliced-off structure whose internal arrangement can be examined. Early excavations in 1869 and the recent work in 1960-1 have together brought to light the remains of more than 40 people buried in the chambers and passageway. Radiocarbon dating suggests that they were deposited about 3500 BC.
The key things to look for at Pare le Breos Cwm are: the position and size of the barrow; the construction of the chambers and especially the deployment of jambs and sill slabs to constrict movement within the chamber and to structure the definition of spaces; the rubble construction of the mound; and the wavy effect created by the way the stones of the outer revetment wall in the forecourt are set.
SS 5372 8983. 1 km Northwest of Park Mill, N of the A4118, on the Gower, between Swansea and Port-Eynon. Signposted access via a narrow lam leading N from the A4118. Cadw.
Further reading: Daniel 1937b; Whittle and Wysocki 1998.


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Uma Thurman’s former fiancé Arpad Busson has filed an emergency court order seeking custody of their 2-year-old daughter.
The “Kill Bill” star began dating French financier Busson in 2007 and gave birth to the couple’s only child, little Rosalind, aka Luna, in July, 2012, months after reconciling with her boyfriend following a 2009 split.
The pair parted ways again earlier this year, calling off its engagement for a second time, and now multi-millionaire Busson is fighting for physical custody of his child.
His lawyer filed papers in Manhattan Supreme Court in New York on Tuesday.
The case has been sealed and representatives for both Busson and Thurman have yet to comment on the lawsuit.
Busson, who is reportedly now dating British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, is also father to two sons with supermodel Elle Macpherson, while Thurman shares a boy and a girl with her ex-husband, actor Ethan Hawke.


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Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick: Will his "leave" make a difference?
Yes, it’s true that Travis Kalanick, the Uber co-founder and CEO who is widely regarded as the sun from whom radiates the company’s bullying ethos, is taking an indefinite leave of absence. The company has fired more than 20 employees in connection with its investigation of sexual harassment claims. That process was launched in February after a former engineer, Susan Fowler, published a horrifying account of life in an organization in which sexual discrimination and harassment were accepted, even glorified, as part of the landscape.
Yet the report by Holder and his law partner Tammy Albarran is merely a roster of 47 recommendations for fixing Uber’s dysfunctional management and employee culture. It doesn’t come close to addressing the company’s real problems.
People with a serious interest in seeing that happen are unimpressed. Fowler’s tweeted response was, “It’s all optics.” She added, “I’ve gotten nothing but aggressive hostility from them” since her account was published.
These are more fundamental than the atmosphere in the conference rooms and hallways, and raise real questions about its putative, and dubious, $70-billion valuation as a private company. They involve, first, essential questions about the economics of a company that still hasn’t demonstrated a path to profitability (see the analysis by transportation expert Hubert Horan here), but lives on the sufferance of its venture capital financiers. Uber, still a private company, has been giving the public a peek at its financials, which are swathed in red; last month it reported a loss in the first quarter of $708 million on revenue of $2.4 billion, which were both better than the previous quarter. But the company hasn’t released year-over-year comparisons, which would be more revealing.
Then there’s its relationship with its drivers who actually make its business go. There are an estimated 200,000 of them worldwide, compared with the approximately 12,000 engineers and support staff who work in Uber offices.
One almost wants to pity poor Uber. Almost.
None of this is encouraging, especially the Holder report’s focus on Uber’s internal policies, when the company also needs to rework its external relationships, says Catherine Bracy, executive director of the Bay Area’s TechEquity Collaborative. That includes “rethinking how it treats its drivers, taking a more collaborative approach to working with government, developing deep and trusted partnerships with communities, or developing other better business practices,” Bracy told me by email.
It’s hard to know where to start in examining the ways that Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick blew it during his painfully documented confrontation with an Uber driver on Feb. 5 over falling fares. But let’s try.
The Holder report’s recommendations are mostly cosmetic changes to hiring and human resources procedures, board structures, “cultural values,” etc., etc. “Increase the profile of Uber’s head of diversity,” “create an oversight committee” of the board (isn’t “oversight” the board’s whole job?), “devote adequate staff and resources to Human Resources” — these are ideas that come right off the “20 ways to make yourself a better manager” bookshelf. Except for five recommendations that involve hiring consultants, these are the sort of recommendations that come free — they cost the board almost nothing to implement, some should have been done years ago and the process of enforcement is deliberately left vague.
Holder’s “full report” on Uber, which is how this document is billed, compares unfavorably to the last internal investigation released by a major corporation, the report on Wells Fargo’s retail banking scandal. We labeled the April 10 report a “whitewash” because its authors at the law firm Shearman & Sterling gave their clients, the board of directors, a pass. But in all other respects it left the Uber paper in the dust. Running 113 pages, compared with Uber’s 13, it laid out in painstaking detail the misdeeds of employees and the supervisors and explained how CEO John Stumpf and his management team created the conditions leading to the scandal.
The independent investigation report into the Wells Fargo fraudulent account scandal, released early Monday, already is being described as “scathing,” and properly so. On the whole, however, the report deserves a different description: It’s a whitewash.
The report placed blame where it belonged. Stumpf “rightfully acknowledged that he made significant mistakes and helped create the culture that resulted in sales practice abuses,” it said, specifying penalties that would cost the ex-CEO some $69 million in compensation.
That investigation gave Wells Fargo’s board and management significant information they needed to fix the bank’s problems and to do better in the future. Not the Uber report. It mentions Kalanick on only one page, in connection with a vague recommendation that the board “review and reallocate” his responsibilities. It doesn’t delve into Kalanick’s voting power over the board, which has been reported to be unassailable; the failure to acknowledge that makes its recommendations for board restructuring pointless. Even separating the CEO and chairman’s positions, a common proposal among corporate good-governance advocates, is proposed as something the board “should consider.” You can’t get much more mealy-mouthed than that.
Holder’s failure to lay out exactly what has been happening at Uber leaves the unmistakable impression of an effort to sweep the facts under the rug. Fowler’s post indicated that managers countenanced and engaged in overt sexual harassment, HR personnel were complicit, and the company threatened to fire Fowler for complaining, which is retaliation and illegal. It’s doubtful that any of this could happen without the approval, implicit or otherwise, of Kalanick and his management team.
That’s not significantly different from what Kalanick often says when he and his management bros are caught doing something obnoxious or potentially illegal, a role that includes invading passengers’ privacy, deceiving driver recruits, verbally abusing an Uber driver, secretly undermining rivals and allegedly lying in a federal court proceeding. He pledges to do better, next time.
But what signs are there that Uber really is capable of change? Huffington’s statement that Uber is embarking on a “journey to being a company that always puts you, our driver partners, and our riders first” is, just yet, indistinguishable from PR. The company has been coasting on that $70-billion valuation, as though it should answer all questions about its methods and its executives’ behavior.
But Uber is worth $70 billion only as long as its venture investors are willing to pay up to be part of its club. That willingness could vanish in an instant. Unless the company grows up, fast, its value, and its future, both could be as evanescent as the tobacco cloud in a men-only cigar bar.


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Kmart Corporation is in the bankruptcy courts. At least 600 stores are being closed and tens of thousands of workers' jobs have been cut.
But what does bankruptcy mean for the top executives and for 7800 store managers, regional managers and pharmacy managers? Bonuses!
Yes, the bankruptcy courts allow the president and the chief restructuring officer to receive a million each as a bonus for the last year of work. And the chief of all the executives, chairman Jim Adamson, comes away with a 3.6 million dollar bonus for the year.
Bankruptcy is clearly the way to go – when you are a boss.


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The more complex the society, the more numerous the legal problems where individuals need professional assistance. It is often necessary to retain the services of counsel for court proceedings, for settlement negotiations and for the drafting of documents. Legal aid is there to give individuals the possibility to obtain assistance for legal matters fully or partially at the expense of the state. In Finland legal aid covers all sorts of legal matters.
However, legal aid is usually not granted if the applicant has legal expenses insurance that covers the matter at hand.
In criminal proceedings, the defendant is under certain circumstances provided with a public defender at the expense of the state, regardless of his or her financial status. The victim of serious violent crime or sexual crime may be provided with a trial counsel at the expense of the state, regardless of his or her financial status.
Legal aid is not available to companies or corporations.
In matters pending abroad, legal aid covers the costs of legal advice.
In court proceedings, legal aid is offered by Public Legal Aid Attorneys, Advocates and other lawyer licensed to assist clients in trials for legal assistance; in other matters, legal aid is offered by Public Legal Aid Attorneys. These work in State Legal Aid Offices. The offices are normally located in the same municipalities as the District Courts.
A pertinent Ministry of Justice brochure Information on legal aid is available also in English.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Sun Life Malaysia recently announced its collaborative partnership with BookDoc to create a more health-conscious society through its wellness reward mobile application — SunActiv.
Mr Raymond Lew, CEO & President / Country Head of Sun Life Malaysia (right) working hand-in-hand with Datoa�� Chevy Beh, Founder of BookDoc, to help Malaysians #LiveHealthierLives with SunActiv.
SunActiv is a program developed by BookDoc that offers great rewards for active users where all they need to do is to just walk and stay active. Introduced under its Live Healthier Lives strategy, Sun Life Malaysia aims to empower its Clients to embrace an active and healthy lifestyle for a brighter life.
To officially signify the collaboration, a symbolic event was held on 21 April 2018 during Sun Life Malaysia’s Brighter Lives Roadshow at The Curve Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya. Present at the event were Raymond Lew, CEO & President / Country Head of Sun Life Malaysia, Dato’ Chevy Beh, Founder of BookDoc, and over 50 management members and representatives of both organisations.
Raymond Lew said, "Sun Life Malaysia is very pleased to partner with BookDoc to enhance our Client value proposition through SunActiv. We are a caring and responsible insurer that not only takes care of our Clients protection and financial needs, but also their health and wellbeing. Designed for simplicity and ease of use, SunActiv will encourage our Clients to stay active and live healthy because every step they take will count towards redeeming great lifestyle rewards."
"Besides Clients, we have also made SunActiv available to our employees. We hope it will help both our Clients and employees improve their overall quality of life and prevent diseases like diabetes because according to the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2015, almost one in five Malaysian adults has diabetes, and one of the contributing factors is the sedentary lifestyle," he added.
Dato’ Chevy said, "BookDoc is pleased to partner with Sun Life Malaysia to help gamify people’s behavior to take of their health. A lot of people understand that prevention is better than cure but people unfortunately do not take a proactive actions to live a healthy life until something happens to their love ones or themselves only they start changing which sometimes is too late. We hope will this partnership with Sun Life Malaysia we can help drive positive changes in people’s life."
During the event, Sun Life Malaysia also introduced its Live Healthier Lives Ambassador, Abdul Rahman Lee, who is the Malaysia’s SEA Games 2017 Discus Bronze Medallist.
"We chose Abdul Rahman Lee to be our health ambassador because being a sportsman, he lives an active and healthy lifestyle and he is in the position to inspire others to do the same. Our aim is to provide avenues for our Clients especially and Malaysians in general to proactively take ownership of their health," said Raymond.
Search & Book — Find and book healthcare professionals.
Activ — Track every step one took and the average monthly steps will determine the Reward level (Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum) to access lifestyle deals from over 50 rewards partners.
Health Info — Stay connected with the latest news on medical and technology locally and globally.
Marketplace — Get the best value from a one-stop shop for health, wellness and fitness offerings.
SunActiv is currently available for download on Google Play Store and Apple App Store by invitation only.
Sun Life Malaysia (Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad and Sun Life Malaysia Takaful Berhad) is a joint venture by Sun Life Financial Inc. and Avicennia Capital Sdn. Bhd., a fully owned Khazanah Nasional Berhad investment holding company, specialising in Insurance and Takaful.
Sun Life Malaysia offers a comprehensive range of life insurance and Takaful products and services to Malaysians across the country and is focused on helping Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Sun Life Malaysia distributes its products through a range of distribution channels including bancassurance, direct marketing, telemarketing, agency, telcoassurance and government and corporate business.
Sun Life Financial is a leading international financial services organisation providing insurance, wealth and asset management solutions to individual and corporate Clients. Sun Life Financial has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of 31 December 2017, Sun Life Financial had total assets under management (AUM) of CAD$975 billion.
For more information, please visit www.sunlifemalaysia.com.
BookDoc, with presence in 5 Countries and 20 cities (Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia), is an online platform that operates across the healthcare continuum connecting patients to healthcare professionals anytime and anywhere, while incentivising all to stay active.
BookDoc has established an integrated online ecosystem for local and overseas health travellers. The ecosystem allows users to search and book healthcare professionals anytime and anywhere, and integrates seamlessly with navigation (Google Map, Waze), transport (Grab, Uber, AirAsia), accommodation (Agoda and Airbnb) and recommended restaurants & attractions (TripAdvisor) for a hassle-free and enjoyable experience to healthcare appointments. In addition, through BookDoc Activ, it rewards users for maintaining high level of activity by partnering major retailers and service providers that offer users discounts for achieving reward tiers based on activity level. Among the reward partners are Zalora, Fave (Groupon), Guardian, Secret Recipe, Oldtown White Coffee, Coffee Bean and many more.


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Canadian singer/composer Loreena McKennitt is self-managed, self-produced, and the head of her own internationally successful record label, Quinlan Road.
In a recording career spanning nearly two decades, McKennitt's “eclectic Celtic” music has won critical acclaim worldwide and gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales awards in fifteen countries across four continents.
Born in the province of Manitoba, Canada, Loreena moved to Stratford, Ontario, Canada in 1981, where she still resides. She has acted and sung in, and composed music for Stratford Festival of Canada productions ranging from The Tempest (1982) to The Merchant Of Venice (2001).


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Home » FAQ » How Can One Measure ROI in Social Media?
The first step in finding out if your social media effort is paying off is to have your goals defined. These metrics will help you get a clear idea of what exactly is happening. Checking your conversion rate, engagement, and level of lead generation will also help you determine the success of your social media techniques.


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Last year I read 176 books and I Hunt Killers was my number one pick. Game is even better! A quick comparison: when I finished IHK it felt like base jumping. I was falling but excited about where things were going. The end of Game was like being thrown off a mountain, while screaming on the way down, no idea where or how we're going to stop. An amazing book! Barry Lyga has a skill and craft in his writing that gets better with each offering. And Game is a thriller that races from start to finish. It some ways it reminded me of Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger because there are so many different story lines and so many different tangents that you wonder how it will all come together. But as we discover each new piece of the puzzle, we find that new pieces are being put on the board and played with skill. But we should have known that once he escaped from jail, Billy Dent, aka The Artist, Green Jack, Gentle Killer, Hand-in-Glove or the world’s most notorious serial killer was going to play and this time the stakes are higher.
Jasper 'Jazz' Francis Dent is the son of serial killer Billy Dent. He is fresh off the case of the Impressionist and helped catch the serial killer who was imitating his father. But now dad is out of jail. There is a serial killer in New York and Jazz gets called in to consult, at first unofficially but later directly requested. The pieces just do not add up and Jazz is trying hard to help solve the case. There are so many pieces in play, how could we expect Jazz to pull it all together and can he in time. But the biggest problem Jazz has is people he loves. Connie and Howie are being pulled into the game and they are trying to protect him and soon they may all be caught up in a game only one person really understands.
This was an incredible read! I could not put the book down. I raced through the 500 plus pages in two sittings, and literally screamed at the end because I want the next chapter in the story of Billy and Jasper Dent. I have recommended I Hunt Killers to dozens of people and all have loved it. I really cannot state how much better this one is. You will need to read it and see.


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Yesterday I attended the Wild Health Summit, and heard from excellent speakers on their quest for interoperability in the Australian healthcare sector. Healthcare connectivity is not just an Australian issue but a global issue for all healthcare providers. Where a patient’s medical information should be able to move seamlessly across organisational, state and national boundaries.
Unfortunately, a patient’s medical record is most often captured in unreachable data storage systems. If a patient visits their GP, they document notes about the appointment into their own Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). For the most part this information remains in the EMR, unless a partial piece of medical information is included in a referral and sent to a specialist.
What happens when a patient is in a serious car crash or has a life-threatening medical emergency? And they are taken to the emergency department of the local hospital. What medical information is readily available for the emergency clinicians? The care team require an understanding of the patients underlying medical conditions and family history.
Healthcare is lacking behind other industries, there is the ability to send text messages to any mobile network and use applications to service multiple needs on our smart phones. But it is difficult to provide an emergency clinician with a complete patient medical record. Healthcare organisations globally want to achieve plug-and-play interoperability, by unifying all healthcare organisations to bring about change. The current lack of interoperability compromises patient safety, impacts care quality and patient outcomes.
Providing a complete patient medical record is difficult. A clinical record can contain over 100,000 different data fields which include numeric data, structured text, unstructured text, and scanned files and images. The key is to get these different systems to be able to talk to each other and exchange data. Currently most data sharing is based on sharing data fields with contextual integration or sharing view-only document summaries. Industry standards have been developed to make data sharing less arduous and provide a non-uniform approach to the application of these standards, this remains a hurdle for interoperability. There is a myriad of standards, including HL7â, FHIRâ, DICOM, and IHE. HL7 is constantly updating and releasing new iterations of its standards, which has increased standards heterogeneity. But standards must continue to evolve as the practice of medicine evolves – so there is a tension between driving adoption of standards and ensuring they are constantly up to date.
Interoperability is imperative to deliver the capabilities that are needed in healthcare – such as an electronic shared care record, automatic alerts and notifications, seamlessly transferring information between and within care settings, delivering remote care, analysing data for population health management, and resource optimisation.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow software applications to share data, invoke business logic or perform an action (such as send a notification, map data and start a workflow). They are everywhere in most aspects of modern day life. Large consumer brands Amazon, Twitter, Facebook and Google all have substantial APIs that enable developers to access information, so they can build new applications. They enable the access of data, without giving away how that data is released – thereby protecting the source code of the application.
APIs provide reusable and well understood connectivity protocols, authentication frameworks, data models and the design patterns, historically developers had to reinvent the wheel and repeat work for each new integration to achieve this connectivity. The knowledge, time and effort required to do this, created obstacles, so healthcare integration became a specialist and expensive field. This meant complexities and costs were involved in any upgrades, so legacy systems remained well past their best.
The preferred way to standardise the way applications can access data is through APIs. This has been steered by EMR vendors pushing the ability to connect standalone EMRs and by associations such as HL7 FHIR. The time and cost involved in sharing data through APIs is substantially less than traditional systems, this will benefit the healthcare sector and empower services, by enabling connectivity and expansion.
APIs open up a healthcare platform to external applications, allowing data to be shared across different care settings. Orion Health Amadeus is not only a platform with a global footprint, but it also comes with Open APIs that are based on industry leading open standards such as OAuth2, FHIR, and OpenID Connect. This makes it easier for developers to build their app once and deploy it against a large number of vendor platforms that also support those open standards.
The Developer Portal will provide all the information that a developer would need to integrate their existing app, or build a new app using the open standards that we support. The documentation in the Developer Portal is loaded with examples that can be run against our sandbox, allowing anyone interested in the APIs to see how they work and what they can do.
With these resources, developers have access to everything they need to improve interoperability in the healthcare sector, break down health information silos, and build valuable solutions that truly serve the delivery of excellent healthcare for every individual. And in doing so, the Holy Grail of one patient, one record; primary to tertiary interoperability could be realised. Where a patient’s medical record can move seamlessly across organisational, state and national boundaries.
To learn more about Open APIs, click on the button below.


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A frightening moment was caught on camera near Denver.
A 12-year-old boy survived an avalanche in the French Alps after he was buried for 40 minutes.
He was dragged at least 110 yards by the force of the avalanche.
I "kind of ran out of oxygen and passed out" under the snow, says Evan Huck.
Two were injured by the wall of snow. A snowboarder was found dead earlier as a blizzard and fierce winds struck the region.
The avalanche was human-triggered, officials said.
The avalanche happened after a sheet of snow broke off above the slope following several days of heavy snowfall.
An avalanche in April killed 19 mountaineers.
Garrett Madison has already checked "climb Earth's tallest mountain" off of his bucket list not once, but six times. Still, there's nothing quite like getting caught atop Everest as the ground shakes beneath you. Madison recounts April 25, 2015, the day Nepal was struck by a 7.8M earthquake.
The helicopter buries its skids into a knife ridge no wider than a snowboard is long. This first attempt marks the landing zone high up in Alaska's Chilkat Range, north of Haines, Alaska, and not far from the Canadian border.
On April 10th, after an unsuccessful attempt at climbing Mt. Everest last year, I was back at base camp to try again. I was excited, determined, and hopeful that I would finally fulfill my dream of standing on the top of the world.
However, safety on the mountain goes beyond the basics of the Responsibility Code. There are as many aspects to safety while skiing and snowboarding as there are types of snow. Here are a few ways to be safe on the slopes this winter.
When young people lose their lives in sports, it is a bracing slap in the face about why we are involved in sports and a reminder about what is really important (and it's not the results!).
Looking back on it now, Hopper said Monday with a sigh, the two men -- who had both taken avalanche training courses -- missed a key warning sign about the avalanche danger.
I don't know if you call it a "ski-brary" or a "librare-ski," but here are three books that we'd recommend adding to that dusty old stack of tattered ski literature sitting on your corner shelf.
Movie Review: Force Majeure Who Are You, Exactly?
Everyone, at some point, wonders how they would react to a split-second emergency. Fight or flight? Leap into action or race for the exit? Or simply crumble?
I was surprised, in both reading the book and speaking with Ken, how many parallels there were with his experience in the mountains and my coming home from war and the role mountains have played in my welcoming home.
Nearly six months after the deadly avalanche on Mount Everest, 12 people were found dead while more are still missing following a blizzard and avalanche in Nepal’s mountainous north.

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I have a sqlite3 database that is accessed by a few threads (3-4). I am aware of the general limitations of sqlite3 with regards to concurrency as stated http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q6 , but I am convinced that is not the problem.
On some runs, I won't even hit this block, but when I do, it never comes out of it (keeps retrying, but I keep getting the 'database is locked' error from exc_info. If I understand the reader/writer lock usage correctly, some amount of waiting should help with the contention. What this sounds like is deadlock, but I do not use any transactions in my code, and every SELECT or INSERT is simply a one off. Some threads, however, keep the same connection when they do their operation (which includes a mix of SELECTS and INSERTS and other modifiers).
Sqlite locks the entire database every time you try to write to the database. Is there any chance one of your threads is constantly writing? Is only one thread hitting the Database lock or all buy one of them?
Here is a not-so-elegant temporary fix: using an external exclusive lock around the writes rather than depend on internal sqlite locking. The above block in the question is basically wrapped with a system wide lock that every thread has to acquire before writing. Since sqlite3 locks the entire DB when writing anyways, I am hoping this doesn't add a lot more overhead.
On the other hand, reads can proceed without acquiring the lock, which I think might work ok with the less-restrictive reader lock sqlite3 needs.
I also suffered from this, on a website that had ~200 users per day (which transalted to maybe 1000 page views). Retries just didn't help (and I finally increased their number up to 100, with short sleeps in between). I don't remember which version of SQLite it was, but I learned the lesson that if you want to have reliable concurrent writes to SQLite database, then you better use some other database like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
This holds up even if you solve your problem with OperationalError-s, because eventually concurrent writes to SQLite file will kill performance for good.
Django: can a 'database is locked' error be caused by wrong IntegrityError handling?


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All State Insulation Contractors is located in Glendale, Arizona and specializes in the installation of residential insulation. Home insulation is the most cost effective way to lower your energy costs. We specialize in spray in fiberglass insulation, cellulose insulation and green insulation installation services.
We are committed to providing our Arizona customers with exceptional Home Insulation services. We are locally owned and have been since 1976. We maintain an A+ rating with the BBB and have been an accredited business since 1999.
Lower your energy costs by adding insulation to your home. We specialize in blown in fiberglass and cellulose insulation.
All State Insulation specializes in fiber glass and cellulose insulation. These home insulation products are designed for attics and hard-to-reach locations like corners, nooks and crannies. Cellulose insulation is a green products that is environmentally safe and can reduce your energy bills considerably. Please contact us to find out which residential insulation product is best for your home.

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Monroe County employees participated in the fifth annual Green Commute Challenge led by the City of Key West. The challenge takes a percentage of carbon dioxide saved from the participants who walked, rode their bikes, took public transportation, or carpooled to work during the week of April 1-7 in a friendly competition between other agencies in the Keys.
As of Friday’s unofficial results, the commuters saved a total of 2,280 pounds of CO2 from going into the environment. Monroe County’s 14 participants included: Allison Rich, Alicia Betancourt, Liz Yongue, Judy Clarke, Matt Howard, Breanne Erickson, Patricia Eables, Dina Gambuzza, Janene Sclafani, Cheryl Cioffari, Rhonda Haag, Arlene Haessler, Shelly Krueger and Clint Arsenault.
Allison Rich, Senior Library Assistant at Key West library, took public transportation or carpooled to and from work from her Big Pine Key home every day. She was the leader for Monroe County’s team for the Green Commute Challenge. “It’s a great way to catch up on my reading,” she said.
Pictured: Dina Gambuzza, Office Manager for Monroe County Land Authority, rides her bike to her Key West office during the challenge.