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What The New York Times gets wrong about the abortion debate
The recent extensive New York Times series in support of legal abortion unfolds as if the last 46 years of the abortion debate following Roe v. Wade never happened and did not need to. Reading it, it was all I could do not to get out my legwarmers and Elton John albums to relive the full 1970s experience.
"A Woman's Rights," a series of eight editorials published over the last month, almost completely ignores the nuanced and often intelligent debates between opposing sides that have taken place for nearly five decades about every topic raised by the editorial board of The Times. It rather suggests that the calculus is just so obvious: Respecting unborn human life enough to discourage or restrict abortion is manifestly anti-woman. Consequently, notwithstanding its film-noir photos, dramatic headlines and portentous title, the series is pretty much a nothingburger. The best way to unpack this is to consider first what the series does and then what it fails to do.
Regarding what it does, the series focuses in on cases it occasionally admits are "rare," in order to stoke fear about laws that would protect prenatal human life. It considers, for example, women who are kept alive on machinery until their child is born ("Can a Corpse Give Birth?"), a woman charged with abusing corpses when she put her stillborn twins into a suitcase and threw them beside a road ("When Prosecutors Jail a Mother for a Miscarriage") and women charged with crimes for exposing their unborn children to illegal drugs or for trying to kill themselves and their unborn child simultaneously ("The Feticide Playbook, Explained").
The New York Times series in support of legal abortion unfolds as if the last 46 years of the abortion debate never happened and did not need to.
Not only are these tragic cases far removed from the circumstances that commonly characterize the thousands of abortions per day in the United States that centrally concern pro-life activists, but they have also been the subject of nuanced medical and moral debates about how to respect both the mother and child simultaneously. None of these debates are treated in The Times. Some pro-lifers, for example, have proposed that treatment, as opposed to punishment, should be the first response to drug-addicted mothers.
Advocates on either side of the abortion debate have also dialogued about when a human being has "enough" value or "personhood" such that he or she cannot be killed and what factors should come into play to evaluate the case of a desperate and depressed suicidal pregnant woman. They have engaged in worthy debates about disability and the meaning of a "life worth living." A lengthy and sophisticated literature on these subjects cannot be reprised here in its entirety. It is enough to point out that in The New York Times' rush to characterize the pro-life movement and its supposedly woman-hating allies in government, none of these serious debates are reflected. And no piece in the series considers the possibility of solutions eschewing killing while simultaneously respecting distressed mothers.
Instead, The Times paints the abortion debate as a zero-sum game wherein giving the "fetus" any recognition or respect in the law is equivalent to the worst kind of patriarchy and punishment of women.
The series refuses to breathe a word about the women who experience genuine distress from their abortion.
I also fault The New York Times for what it does not do in its abortion series. While stridently asserting its feminist credentials—even titling the piece "A Woman's Rights"—and predicting doom for women in a world without Roe, it completely overlooks the vast numbers of women who oppose legal abortion in some or all circumstances and who have done so steadily and for rational reasons for nearly half a century. It ignores the inconvenient fact that it is the supposedly "anti-women" movement that has set up thousands of homes and other centers to take care of pregnant women in distress.
The series also refuses to breathe a word about the women who experience genuine distress from their abortion. It is no longer possible to overlook their existence, not only in the United States but wherever abortions happen. And The Times fails to grapple at all with the incongruity of its championing female human beings while turning human "fetuses" and their allies into loathsome enemies. Whatever happened to the genius brevity of that old bumper sticker: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings"?
Forty-six years after Roe, there is no denying that I am a veteran of the U.S. abortion wars. I am getting old enough, in fact, that I am beginning to actually see that whole "arc of history" thing people are always talking about. But while I am a partisan in this debate, I am not so blind that I cannot acknowledge the serious and well-argued literature of my intellectual opponents.
I have also known enough abortion-minded pregnant women, post-aborted women and convinced advocates for legal abortion to understand "how they got there." Maybe they were fired for being pregnant. Maybe their boyfriend or husband left while they were expecting. Maybe they were poor and desperate. Abortion advocates would be right to argue that these women's circumstances, alongside the body of thoughtful literature in favor of legal abortion, merit our attention and serious reflection, at this possibly pivotal time in the abortion debate. The New York Times series merits neither.
Helen, I believe you are well intended but did you ever look into the evidence of how restricting abortions effects rates of abortion. There is no evidence indicating these laws lower rates in any country - they always raise abortion rates and maternal deaths - That constitutes a Lose - Lose scenario. Please see actual evidence below:
From Guttmacher: Abortion and Birth Control Stats.
(Notes from my other research on this topic - bottom)
• The highest annual rate of abortion in 2010–2014 was in the Caribbean, estimated at 59 per 1,000 women of childbearing age, followed by South America, at 48.
The lowest rates were in Northern America, at 17, and Western and Northern Europe—at 16 and 18, respectively.
• Across regions, Eastern Europe experienced the largest decline in the abortion rate, from 88 in 1990–1994 to 42 in 2010–2014. Despite this decline, there is a persistent gap in rates between Eastern and Western Europe (42 vs. 16) likely reflecting lower use of effective, modern contraceptive methods in Eastern Europe.
• The overall abortion rate in Africa was 34 per 1,000 women in 2010–2014. Subregional rates ranged from 31 in Western Africa to 38 in Northern Africa. There has been little if any change in abortion rates in these subregions since 1990–1994.
• For Latin America, subregional abortion rates range from 33 in Central America to 48 in South America. Rates have increased slightly since 1990–1994, but not by statistically significant amounts.
• Abortion rates in Asia have also fallen since 1990–1994, although not significantly. Asia's subregions all have rates close to the regional average of 36 per 1,000 women.
• Highly restrictive abortion laws are not associated with lower abortion rates. When countries are grouped according to the grounds under which the procedure is legal, the rate is 37 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age where it is prohibited altogether or allowed only to save a woman's life, compared with 34 per 1,000 where it is available on request, a nonsignificant difference.
• High levels of unmet need for contraception help explain the prevalence of abortion in countries with restrictive abortion laws.
What I have researched from other appropriate sources agrees with Guttmacher but also indicates the below information on this subject:
The World Health Organization Research agrees with the Guttmacher Research. Their results are almost identical.
However, neither the W.H.O. or Guttmacher can give us a solid conclusion, due to lack of evidence, as to what happens when countries offer easy access to quality birth control but make their abortion laws stricter. This is due to the fact that most countries either are lenient on both issues or they are strict on access to both abortion and birth control.
We could make some confident speculation, based on the global evidence that does exist, that in countries, currently, where laws are strict for both abortion and birth control or where both are criminalized, that were these countries to loosen up laws on birth control access alone and not on abortion, the abortion rates would come down more, and likely closer to where the Western and developed nations are at. However, these countries are not necessarily or likely to get quite as low as the western, industrialized, countries since there does exist evidence that the mere difficulty of access to abortion alone lends, especially in certain cases, to higher abortion rates by itself.
Unfortunately, in the countries where the laws for abortion become much stricter than in the past, such as may exist in the U.S. for the future, the amount of abortions could increase quite a bit even if birth control access remains easy and free. One of the reasons this is true is due to the fact that, in these countries, many women who get pregnant in their later years, 40s or older, often now seek to get an amnio to see if their fetus is healthy. They can only get this during the late part of the 3rd month or beginning of the fourth month of their pregnancy. With stricter laws, some of these women may decide they don't want to take the chance the fetus is unhealthy or has downs syndrome, and instead may opt to get an early abortion thru more easily, anonymously obtained, although perhaps illegally obtained, abortion pills. These pills become not an option in later months, and testing would put women in a position to not be able to deny they are pregnant, publicly, if they wait, so this puts the women at risk they could be charged with a crime if abortion becomes illegal. (Please note: I am not suggesting this is right or moral or Christian behavior but only that the reality exist and I personally know quite a few women who would fit this category, today, in the U.S. despite anyone's opinions or beliefs)
A horrible side effect of the above situation is this: 50% of all downs fetuses naturally miscarry in the first trimester, and 40% that make it to the 2nd trimester miscarry then. Fetuses that have other severe health issues often miscarry, naturally, within the first three - four months of pregnancy as well. The amount of downs fetuses that become born infants are very small amounts even for older women. This illness is still quite rare overall. This means many women could end up aborting perfectly healthy fetuses, by the thousands, each year, or more, to avoid the possibility of having an unhealthy baby, and this number increases if women already have other children. One way some western countries avoid this issue is that they keep early abortions legal and allow later abortions into the 4th and 5th month if the fetus has tested unhealthy or the woman's life is in real danger if she remains pregnant. Many married older women think they aren't fertile when they still are and stop taking birth control.
Lastly, there is no existing evidence that easy access to abortions, even throughout pregnancy, equates to more abortions, in any country, that has free and easy access to birth control. In fact, countries with easy access to abortion and also free easy access to birth control have the lowest rates in the world, and these rates lower even more when those countries offer mandated longer paid maternity/paternity leaves, free quality universal health care, and free, quality, public daycare. (The only exception to this seems to be Sweden. Despite Sweden's similarly ease of access to both abortion and birth control and it's offering many of the benefits listed above that other Western European Countries offer, it still has quite a high abortion rate. However, there is no evidence suggesting that tightening Sweden's existing laws would lower its rate for abortion and doing so would likely only raise it even higher.)
The evidence we do have seems to indicate, on a global scale, that despite what seems reasonable in theory, i.e., harsh abortion laws will lower abortion rates, is completely false when put to the test in reality. It just may be that easy access to abortion, and lenient abortion laws, help more to reduce abortion rates than having strict laws against abortion, in any country. Perhaps some morality issues simply cannot be solved by force or threat but must instead be dealt with by respecting the situation of the people involved and helping them out of their place of fear or desperation, with physical and material protections and emotional and spiritual support. We could do much more perhaps by encouraging a choice for good, and for life, without attempting to control women. We could choose to help women in real ways, instead of trying to corner them into doing the Christian thing.
What the religions have got wrong is minding their own business.
If you want to follow the rules of your religion - fine - feel free - BUT - Mind your own business.
What a woman does with her body is NOT your business!!
This is not a matter of what a woman does with her body, but what she does with somebody else's body. A fetus' body belongs to the fetus, not to the mother. And when someone chooses to harm or kill another innocent human being's body, it's our business as a society to prevent that, protect those at risk of being harmed, and provide justice for those harmed or killed. And opposition to killing innocent human beings is not just some religious view comparable to a preference for fish on Fridays. The view that a human fetus is a living human being with a body of his or her own is not religious, but scientific. And the view that abuse or murder of vulnerable human being, whether children at any stage of development, those with disabilities, or the aged is particularly heinous isn't just a religious view, either, but an ethical one shared by people of all religions and secular philosophies. Indeed, here in the US, if someone is aware that a child is being abused or is otherwise endangered by those supposed to care for said child, it's a crime to "mind our own business" and do nothing.
Wow, so well said Valerie!!!
When religious men urge their parishioners to vote for a "pro-life" candidate who ADMITTED to harassing/assaulting women ( not to mention has cheated on ALL of his wives) , yes.. the movement is more about anti-woman. When PRIESTS can go on Twitter and call a woman who they don't know, a "liar" when she made assault allegations against a then SCJ nominee, just because they want R v W overturned at any cost, and she jeopardized their agenda....then YES "pro-life" becomes Anti-woman. When "pregnancy crisis centers " that masquerade as clinics, give women ultrasounds and then tell these women that they aren't as far along in the pregnancy than they think they are with the hope that they will then feel free to take more time to make a decision and by the time they do, it's too late, yes, , it IS an Anti-woman movement. ( and BTW, that is just ONE deceptive practice at these places, which are ALL over the country. 6,000 of them.)
I wish the pro-choice crowd would stop pushing their religion of when human personhood begins. Science can only tell us when a new distinct human life begins. This is at conception. Pro-choices should mind their own business and stop treading on the unborn human. Leave them alone already so that they can grow, mature and flourish!
First off Joe, thank you for using the term. "pro-choice" because that is what many of us are. NOT "pro-abortion" which is a ridiculous term and does NOT at all help bring both sides of the debate together. And, I believe we are closer than most think. I am against abortion. But, I don't believe in making it illegal because it will ALSO endanger the lives of women. This is why many feel that "pro-life" is anti-woman. There are ways of decreasing the rate of abortion w/out making it illegal. To begin with, men can show a little more respect for women, in general, and actually be ok with waiting until marriage. In this day and age, those men are far and few between. So, yeah, you don't want a woman to have an abortion, keep it in your pants until marriage. That's just one way, there are many others. But, what you do have wrong is the fact that pro-choicers need to mind our business. We actually are. The pro-lifers are the ones trying to get law changes so maybe that's where people can mind their business.
Oh here's another way to maybe decrease the rate of abortions. Doctors can maybe not prescribe Viagra without a sworn statement from the patient stating that " in the event that this medication results in the accidental pregnancy of woman, I swear to bear responsibility and not walk away." Now, this is meant of course, to be funny and it's extreme, but it takes two to get a woman pregnant and when the pro-lifers start to also hold men responsible, then maybe some of us will stop viewing it as anti-woman.
Sexual equality is a big lie that needs to be stemmed.. Women are the only ones who can get pregnant and they should remember that men, quite naturally , are not in the same boat.
Good point. Men cause unwanted pregnancies. If we return to outlawing abortion, the man should be regarded as an accomplice, especially if he is one of those pressuring her to have an abortion. The discussion should not be just about pregnant woman and fetus. We are all accomplices to some degree, especially if we are for cutting services to pregnant women. These programs--such as TANF, WIC, SNAP and Medicaid--also provide for intrauterine nourishment and medical checkups and care for the unborn. Yet many who are "pro-life" are for such cuts; most Republicans are, especially our president.
Here we go again, Jim.........so the answer is to kill someone? Your sacrificial offering to the goddess of cognitive dissonance?
Helen, the New York Times series was an account of injustices that arise when the legal system is bent to serve an aroused public opinion focused on the life of the unborn. It was just such a politics that the Supreme Court attempted to circumvent in the 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion. Justice Blackmun -- former general counsel to the Mayo Clinic -- wrote an opinion designed to assure that medical science was given due weight. The political battle in the years since Roe has essentially ignored Roe's wisdom in re-calibrating the logic of abortion so that sound medical judgment would bridge the gap between early pregnancy and later fetal viability. The problem is our politics, not Roe.
I hope -- and trust -- that the Supreme Court will survive the raw politics that misses Roe's point. I also hope that the dignity of women in such circumstances does not get lost in the struggle of partisans to use -- and abuse -- the law. The Times series raises doubt about that hope. I would credit the series for providing real life stories that raise this doubt and challenge the injustice to which overzealous pursuit of the law is prone.
Nonetheless, I found your article helpful and provocative.
I agree that to talk is not enough.I agree that we need to build consensus to really get anywhere on the issue of abortion.But in the last part of your article I think you shortcircuit a little.To presume that others have good faith is not so difficult .I believe that Hillary Clinton and Obama if they had their way would have no abortions in America or elsewhere.I also believe that Dick Cheney and George Bush would prefer Peace all over the world.There is neither Peace nor a lack of Abortions.The question is how far are you prepared to go to protect life?To avoid War?I would say that Republicans dont lose enough sleep over what happens on the streets of Baghdad or Palestine for that matter.Equally I would say that Democrats dont lose enough sleep over what happens in abortion clinics or in millions of American wombs .They can both live with these realities.A fully formed conscience can live with neither and so would never enthuse over a Bush or an Obama.The Lord spoke about the two sons with a different approach.One says he will do it and does not.The other says he wont do it but does it.Lip Sevice is what the Lord is speaking of.Catholics should be wary of it.People dont and nor do they muddy the water over the evils of War but are more than happy to with abortion.But this question will ring through history and God will judge as he has always done.I hope all catholics approach Him with a good conscience on this question.
Personhood? What nonsense! A cell mass is not a person. Leave women to make choices about their own bodies.
Frank, that might have worked back in the 1970s, but a simple ultrasound proves to the contrary.
Your article is full of misrepresentations ...
- The US is not becoming more pro-life, it is becoming more pro-choice ... As of 2018, public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in two decades of polling.
- Pro-life people do *not* respect life. The pro-life movement has been responsible for assaults, bombings, and murders in the name of the "unborn".
- The vast majority of women, more than 95%, do *not* feel distress or regret about their abortions.
Wrong. We are becoming more Hispanic and Hispanics are largely Catholic and have deep respect for family and human life.
Hispanics: Not so Catholic anymore - National Catholic Reporter
The Pro-Life Movement has gone to such extremes in getting numerous political figures including a president elected primarily because they were anti-abortion.
The NY Times Opinion series seem unfair and one-sided to Catholic magazine AMERICA author of "What The New York Times gets wrong about the abortion debate".
Perhaps the Pro-Life movement's political actions over the past decades have provoked the NY Times into its "one-sided" counter-reaction Opinion series out of realistic fear for future generations of children, their countries, and democracy everywhere.
If the Holocaust could have been stopped by voting for a misogynistic womanizer would you have been virtuous in refusing to vote for him? I am grateful I learned from a nun whom I used to think was mean, in the 8th grade, that priests and nuns could go to hell just as easily and perhaps easier than anybody else, given their precious responsibility. That warning has served me well.
Pro-life Catholics and other Christians elected a truly despicable person as president all for the sake of an issue not even mentioned in the bible. Trump has caused enormous damage to individuals, to minority groups, to our rule of law, to the very planet. And "pro-life" people still support him.
The abortion rate is an indicator of how much a society values people more than money. Countries with strong family values, where a couple gets financial support for 18 months after a birth, all for one parent or 9 for each parent, where there is free or low cost medical care, and free education for children and college students, and food programs where needed, these countries have lower abortion rates. And in these countries abortion is legal. We do little and many or most pro-lifers favor doing even less for parents, pregnant women, children and students, and they want to legally force women to give birth regardless of her circumstances. They are concerned about spending tax dollars to help women and couples to feel able to bring a child into the world.
Helen Alvare certainly points out flaws in the New York Times' series in support of legal abortion. And she does so without the polarizing language that has characterized this debate for years. The RIght to LIfe movement, namely those who sponsor the March for Life and others, unfortunately have gotten in bed with the right leaning politicians and evangelicals for whom this is war, not debate. And consequently they have lost any of the leverage or authority they might wish they enjoyed when they trot out the latest elected official whom they think is their answer to prayer about this issue. Once again, the issue becomes the centerpiece at the exclusion of so much else.
A woman's choice in this matter occurs when she chooses to engage in the sexual activity that may result in pregnancy. Just like capital punishment, abortion is playing God, and we aresimply not very good at that game. I am afraid that what the Times does is often replicated by veterans of "the U. S. abortion wars." Namely, they reduce the issue at hand to an us vs. them ultimatum, leaving little or no room for serious reflection and change in practice. Some of the mindless pap that echoes from ecclesial authorities does not help the situation. We have to be much more careful of where we align our priorities, or we will be reduced to being bystanders in effecting meaningful change for the better in the behavior of our society.
I appreciate that there is a difference of opinion between pro-life and pro-choice, however, there should be some STRONG dialog among women of those two views - and please exclude men. Why, because I became pro-life in a conservative small town where the doctor shamed so many women into abortions so they would not be seen as the "whores they were" - with no reference to the paternal contributor. That small town doctor made his living shaming women into abortions. But shaming women into pro-life is NOT OK! we need to dialog. This is not black and white issue either, as a woman who was raped at the age of 2, I was informed after my second child was born with complications, that no child I had later would probably live, and neither would I. To choose life for my family meant to choose surgical sterilization. Pro Life also needs to extend to war, to police excessive force, to drug misuse....we have a long way to go, and so much listening to do. We must listen before we judge one another.
. We're starved of guidance and need a holy voice. Our hearts go to poor women constantly being told it's irresponsible and nearly hopeless to give birth to their babies , that it's better to be dead than poor, etc. The din from the Planned Parenthood Party must be nearly overwhelming.… We must also acknowledge that the use of abortion and abortifacients are a popular means of birth control in the US. Compare pro-choice names here and check the same throughout this site. One can recognize where the comments come from and dismiss them with a shudder,....... Anti-Catholic impostors screech to an incessant drumbeat on this site that tacitly celebrates abortion, concupiscence, and heresy of all kinds including the trashing of Cannon law, the ordination of women, and a myriad of other ugly contortions that fly in the face of God.................................................................... What is particularly distressing is the Jesuit's ' lack of moral guidance. and a subtle encouragement of vendors of evil.. I believe the ' references' to altruistic missions pertaining to immigration, capital punishment, racism, concern for homosexuals, poverty, etc. to be mostly vehicles of distraction, serving to fraudulently ascribe the most abhorrent of traits to, and conflate a lack of compassion with, the pro-life movement. Even a so-called pro-life article by the editor and chief of this site is decidedly poetic. rambling and confusing with an obvious nod to the pro-choice camp. He says many women he loves, admires and respects are pro-choice and also says, in so many words, that, as a man, he' recognizes the limitations of his experience', apparently as it pertains to his speaking on the subject. One pro-choice commentator states she admires his ability to straddle the issue, says she's not sure what his position is & thinks she saw the same article last year.
…………………………………... Feminists have rendered half the population impotent to speak on this issue on the basis of gender. Voices like yours have much to confront. Half the population is afraid to speak up and our priests can't minister to the other half. Some Catholics need to be hit over the head with the Truth.,……………………………………………………………………:
………………This is the most imminent and critical issue of our time for the mortality rate alone. We have no choice but to support and vote for Trump this time around. It's our last hope for generations to come to get Justices appointed who will begin to draw parameters around the abortion industry and our forced participation in it. And that' the plain truth.


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When asked to describe her role at Calian, Jacqueline Gauthier replies with a chuckle: "Jack of all trades."
And as Gauthier's peers will tell you, she's mastered many of them as well. In a career at Calian that's spanned nearly two decades, the Gatineau native has served with distinction in a variety of capacities – most notably as chief financial officer.
Gauthier spent 17 years as the Kanata-based services firm's CFO, stepping aside last March to move into a new role as senior vice-president of corporate development. In her long and eventful tenure as chief number-cruncher, Gauthier was one of the principal architects of Calian's aggressive M&A strategy that has seen the firm acquire nine companies in the past nine years.
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Analysts grew accustomed to hearing good news on a lot of fronts during their quarterly conference calls with the former CFO. With Gauthier in charge of the books, Calian posted an impressive run of 69 consecutive profitable quarters – a streak that's since stretched to 71. The company cracked the $300-million mark in annual revenues in her final full year on the job and has secured a place as one of Ottawa's premier publicly traded companies.
In recognition of her myriad of contributions to Calian's success, Gauthier is OBJ and the Ottawa Board of Trade's 2019 CFO of the Year.
Pretty heady stuff for someone who concedes she "kind of fell into accounting" after switching from her original course of study at CEGEP, computer science.
"For me, it's been a lot of fun," the 54-year-old says. "I grew up at Calian. The first part of my career was about learning the job, learning what a CFO does, learning the business. Through the years, I've become more of an expert. It's like, 'OK, now I can really help. I can really be strategic and be part of that vision to move things forward.' It's been a very nice evolution for me."
Gauthier's road to the C-suite began after she graduated from the Université du Québec in Hull with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1987. She followed up a five-year stint at KPMG with an eight-year run as a corporate comptroller at pulp and paper giant E.B. Eddy, where her work caught the attention of CFO Brian Aitken. When Aitken moved into the same role at Calian in 2000, Gauthier was among his first hires.
It didn't take long for her to make an impression at Calian, which was then primarily known as an IT staffing firm. Within a year, Gauthier was promoted to vice-president of finance, and when Aitken departed for a job at NAV Canada in early 2002, his former protégé was named his successor.
Guiding Calian's growth
As Gauthier grew into her role, Calian matured as a company.
Kevin Ford's arrival in 2010 signalled a new era. Ford, a former executive at IBM, quickly launched an aggressive plan to grow Calian's product and service lines through acquisitions. He also embarked on a tireless effort to spread the gospel of Calian, hitting the road with Gauthier to speak with "every investor who wanted to talk with us," as he put it in 2017.
The role of corporate evangelist did not come naturally to the CFO, but she embraced it with characteristic enthusiasm.
"I like challenges," says Gauthier. "I've always put myself forward to do new things. I don't shy away from looking at something I've never done before or that is totally foreign to me."
For the past decade, she and Ford have been a dynamic duo, mapping out the firm's M&A playbook and charting a course that's seen the company add more than a thousand employees to its payroll.
"I really love working with Kevin," Gauthier says of Ford, who was promoted to chief executive in 2015 and was named Ottawa's CEO of the Year two years later. "I think that's a great thing that Kevin has done in terms of raising our profile, especially in Ottawa, but also in our investor community. We're known by so many more investors now, and that's reflected in our share price as well."
Ford says his low-key colleague's time in the spotlight is "long overdue," and he credits Gauthier with much of Calian's rise during his tenure as CEO.
"I have had the privilege of working with Jacqueline for more than eight years and, since day one, she has been an invaluable resource and partner who has helped grow Calian and educate the investor community about the great strides made by this company," he says.
"She has been an example of a CFO who can handle the complexities of a diverse, publicly traded company while serving as a key contributor to our transformation and growth agenda."
Spearheading M&A strategy
Since handing over the CFO duties to Patrick Houston last spring, Gauthier has taken on the challenge of orchestrating Calian's next wave of acquisitions. It's a complex job that requires a mix of financial savvy, strategic vision and good old-fashioned intuition, and Gauthier is loving it.
"It's a team effort," she explains. "We make sure that everyone is on the same page in terms of where we're at, where we're going and what we want to accomplish out of the acquisition.
"We are picky. We take a lot of time to know the owner and the management team before we get too serious. We make sure that what we're seeing is actually what's there."
Her old office is in very good hands with Houston, she says happily, while her new job gives her more time to devote to community causes. For the past four years, Gauthier has chaired the local board of Dress for Success, a charity aimed at assisting women business professionals, and she recently joined the University of Ottawa Heart Institute's board of directors.
A former figure skater, Gauthier also heads up Skate Canada's finance committee and last year became a certified skating judge.
But Gauthier won't hesitate to tell you her most important role is being a proud mom of three to Hugo, 25, Chloé, 22, and Jacob, 19.
"You're always torn between your kids and working," says Gauthier, who lives in Gatineau with her husband, local businessman Alain Louis Seize. "But for me, my family's been the priority. Every time I make decisions about my time and where I spend it, it's always been about them first."
Gauthier will be honoured as the 2019 CFO of the Year at the Best Ottawa Business Awards, held Nov. 22.

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Happy holidays; homework video; other info
The second beginners' course is finished and well done to all
Above is the video I promised of the basics of footwork and suburi that I would like everyone to practice during the break.
Here is a sample exercise routine that I recommend:
- Rei and sonkyo: this is an important part of the practice. Focus on: bend from the hips—don't stick your chin out!; straight back at all times; always take a half step forwards into kamae position, never backwards.
- Okuriashi pattern (3 forwards, 3 back) repeated 10 times. Focus on: snapping the back foot up into place; keeping shinai tip pointed at enemy's throat; left heel off the ground both forwards and backwards
- Single-time sho-men: 10 times. Focus on: start slowly and speed up; stop the shinai by squeezing the grip (tenouchi); swing straight through the middle of your body; finish with arms outstretched horizontal
- Double-time sho-men: 10 times, doubling the number each week (10, 20, 40, 80). Focus on: tenouchi; finishing position with arms as above; doing the swing in one movement, "upanddown" not "up... and down"
- Katate men suburi: 5 times at first, then 10 times when you can do 5 perfectly. Focus on: straight swings same as above; finishing with shinai in same position as with two hands; squeeze both hands as same time, even though right hand is just on your hip.
Saturday 13 October will be the first training back for term 4. All former beginners will wear do and tare from now on.
Don't forget to download the free equipment manual here: http://www6.big.or.jp/~budogu/manu/topm.html
It has all the knots, folds and procedures you need to know, now you're no longer a noob.


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Kudos to John for staying after Eric Lipton's fast one, which is a classic in the genre of what I call "ventriloquist journalism"–the highly refined technique by which "news" reporters seek out a source to confirm their preconceived story line with a specific quote. I didn't think of that term myself; I learned it from my first mentor out of college, the great M. Stanton Evans, who was one of the nation's youngest major newspaper editors decades ago at the Indianapolis Star. (I think he was something like 26 years old when he became editor.)
Reporters for mainstream media publications like the Times are extremely skilled at this dark art, and have numerous techniques for getting a source to utter a pre-written quote. Basically they just ask the same question over and over again in different form, and them culminate with, "In other words, would it be fair to say that. . ." until you give in. It takes a lot of patience and determination to resist their well-polished blandishments. The best of them have the whole "good-cop, bad-cop" schtick down cold.
My single most memorable experience of this technique came back in 2002 when President George W. Bush refused to attend the UN's Earth Summit in South Africa, where, like the UN Human Rights meetings, the chief item on the agenda was the abuse of the United States. Environmentalists and other right-thinking people everywhere were outraged. Somehow I got a ton of calls from reporters, many of them with overseas news organizations, that kept trying to get me to say something along the lines that President Bush was making a mistake, that things would go so much better if he turned up even if only to argue a different point of view, and so forth. They'd ask the same question over and over again, and I'd refuse to give them the quote or characterization they were looking for, no doubt something like "Even some conservatives think President Bush is making a mistake," etc. Sometimes these interviews would go on a long time, and I'd make a lot of colorful comments criticizing the whole circus. And somehow I never got quoted in any of the stories that resulted. Didn't fit the pre-written story line.
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I don't know about you, but I've always dug tablets. My friend who was a health inspector for the city used to brandish the one he had for work, and I'd turn green with envy. Then he had a gun pulled on him in a South Philly deli and decided to move on to a cushier job (albeit one without […]Continue reading »


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Fern 'Silver Lace'
- Botanical Name: Pteris ensiformis
Common Name(s): Silver Lace
- Description: Native to Asia and the Pacific, the Silver Lace fern is the most common variant of the Pteris ensiformis species, with its delicate, silvery green leaves and compact growth habit. Outdoors, the Silver Lace fern can survive year round in subtropical climates such as California. Care is similar, if not easier, than other ferns, requiring indirect sunlight, humidity, and pruning. It can grow up to 1-2.5 feet.


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Creamy, decadent vegan matcha ice cream flecked with bits of sweetened red bean.
Any matcha lover knows that sweet red (azuki) bean paste is an essential side to matcha ice cream. But what if the red bean was mixed in the ice cream itself? Yep, the result is the frozen dessert in my dreams.
As with the black sesame ice cream, I'm again whipping coconut cream as the bulk of my ice cream base. The can of coconut cream is chilled in the fridge overnight for the best separation between water & cream (you only want the cream). The same procedure, as follows: whip cold coconut cream until stiff peaks form, then add in all the flavorings and sweeteners.
Now the hand-churning part: situate your ice cream mixture in a bowl filled with ice, and begin whisking by hand (or a hand mixer). The key to this is adding a healthy amount of salt to the ice, which dramatically brings the temperature of the ice down and makes the hand-churning process much easier. If you've done so correctly, you will only need to hand-churn the cream for a grand total of 15 minutes — 10 minutes first and then 5 more minutes after 1 hour of chilling.


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Name: Dale Fite
Leadership Charlotte (LC) Class: 36
Title/Company: President & CEO, Tyler 2 Construction, Inc.
Hometown: Shelby, NC
Education: B.S. Textiles, NC State; MBA, Duke
Current personal or leadership goals: My leadership goals are to empower and encourage the people I work with to grow in confidence every day. I like to humbly "lead from the back" by providing others the opportunity for recognition and advancement. Leadership to me is about being willing to be less so that others can be more.
What advice that you would you give to current Leadership Charlotte participants?
My advice to current Leadership Charlotte participants is to approach every program day as if you are a dry sponge. Then take every opportunity to soak up the experience of each program day. This will help you truly receive the message and intent of each program day.
What program day stands out in your memory and why?
Community Trusteeship day stands out the most. I loved it because it reinforced the fact that our community needs everyone to contribute and there are so many different ways in which we can make differences in our world.
Favorite nonprofit or community organization in Charlotte and why:
My favorite non-profit in Charlotte is Dreamon3. Dream on 3 provides "dream experiences" in the world of sports for children with chronic illnesses, developmental disabilities, or life-altering conditions. Dream on 3 allows these children to experience once-in-a lifetime experiences with their sports heroes. Every year the organization has expanded its reach and it has provided Dream experiences for so many children in our area.
What are you doing in the community these days?
I currently volunteer with my family at Bags of Hope in Lake Norman. Their mission is to supply free weekend food provisions to school children who experience food insecurity. In the Lake Norman alone, Bags of Hope provides weekend (and holiday) food for over 300 children. The need is great and unfortunately it is in our own neighborhoods.
How has your life after Leadership Charlotte surprised you and why?
I have become more aware of the needs of other people in our community. Charlotte is such a prosperous city. However, within our community, there are so many in need for basic necessities that we often take for granted (food, shelter, clothing). We live in the world's richest country, yet we often ignore those in need.


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The case of Justin Sun's lunch with Warren Buffett is becoming curiouser and curiouser.
First, Sun sent out a tweet canceling his lunch. A tweet from the TRON foundation, which governs the Tron cryptocurrency peddled by Sun, followed soon after, stating that the lunch had been postponed by mutual consent.
Then a Chinese publication reported that Sun could not leave the country because he was facing legal problems in China. The publication alleges that Sun's Tron network was involved in money laundering and gambling. His other company – Peiwo – that developed mobile apps has been charged of spreading pornography through its apps by Xinhua, China's national news agency.
Sun denied that he was facing problems and posted a Periscope video showing himself in San Francisco. Sources for The Block have told the publication that Sun is indeed in San Francisco but is subject to border control restrictions back home, meaning he will not be able to leave China if he returns there. According to the publication, Sun has decided to "stay low-key by not attending the lunch with Buffett."
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Modera Mineola sold in May of 2017 and was a 275-home Class A, market-rate apartment community which consisted of one five-story podium building on a two-acre in-fill site located in downtown Mineola, a Village in central Nassau County, Long Island. The building had five residential levels (in wood construction) over two and a half levels of garage parking. The community when developed had a state-of-the-art clubhouse with extensive fitness center, cyber café, business center, social/game room and landscaped courtyards with resort-style swimming pool, outdoor kitchens and fireplace. The apartments had 9 ft. ceilings, fully-equipped kitchens with chef islands, wood-style plank flooring, full-size washer and dryers, and walk-in closets.
Modera Mineola's transit-oriented and Main and Main (A+) location is within walking distance to the Mineola Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) transit hub and situated across the street from the Nassau County Seat (municipal and government office buildings) and the northern end of prestigious Garden City. The Mineola LIRR offers frequent and express trains into Pennsylvania Station in New York City within 35 minutes, making this transit-oriented community attractive to commuters and working professionals.
- Expansive, technology-laden clubroom and social space that features numerous flat screen TVs, fireside lounge and café area
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Alice for the iPad is an interactive version of "Alice in Wonderland" for the iPad that uses tilt controls to create various effects as you work your way through the book.
Tilt your iPad to make Alice grow big as a house, or shrink to just six inches tall. This is Alice in Wonderland digitally remastered for the iPad. Play with the White Rabbit's pocket watch – it realistically swings and bounces. Help Alice swim through a Pool of Tears. Or hand out sweets that bounce and collide with the magical talking Dodo. This wonderful lite edition is the first instalment of Alice's journey and includes an amazing selection of animated scenes. Watch as full screen physics modelling bring the classic illustrations to life.
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Allamanda cathartica L. var. schottii L.H.Bailey & Raffill.
For a description of the species see Allamanda cathartica L. Schottii has yellow trumpets with a dark striped throat. Tends to be bushier than the species. [RHSD].
Horticultural & Botanical History
Recorded as first flowering in England in September 1847, at Henderson's Nursery. [RHSD]. 'This fine species has been introduced from Brazil. Seeds of it were sent by Mr. Graham to Messrs. Barton of Manchester, where the plant bloomed last Autumn.' [FC p.73/1848]. 'Much confusion exists with respect to the different species of Allamanda, of which seven are enumerated in the Prodromus of De Candolle. The A. cathartica of Linnaeus, which we consider to be the one represented at t.338 of the present work, is called A. Linnaei by Pohl, and it is distinguished as a species from the Allamanda of Aublet (A. Aubletii, Pohl). These are again united by Alphonse De Candolle: both have scandent stems. A. cathartica alone, so far as we know, had been introduced to our collections, till September, 1847, when I had the pleasure of receiving a splendid specimen of a perfectly upright growing species from Mr. J. Stanton, Gardener to R. W. Barton, Esq., Springwood, Manchester. They were raised from seeds, sent by Mr. Graham from Brazil to Miss Barton. Besides the size, beauty, and copiousness of the blossoms, this species has the merit of flowering when little more than two feet high and in eight-inch pots. I think I am right in referring it to A. Schottii, Pohl; though, the contracted portion of the tube of the corolla being longer than in the species, it seems better to constitute a variety of it. [BM t.4351/1848].
History at Camden Park
Listed in the 1857 catalogue only [T.43/1857].
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For Pakistanis, chai is not just a drink you drink every morning. It is an obsession. An addiction. Right after Pakistanis' love for cricket, chai is the second most-loved thing! Be it any type of tea. For Pakistanis, it's like you can never go wrong with it. Speaking of which, be it a strong cup of doodh patti to wake your senses up or get rid of your headache or just plain green tea to digest all the food; Tea is indeed a savior!
Chai has become the national beverage of Pakistan because it also plays a major role in uniting the people together! Have an important discussion? Discuss it over tea. Want to chill with your friends? Chai dhaba is the place. Caught a cold? Chai is the ultimate medicine. Pyara weather? Enjoy it with a cup of tea! Matlab, chai for every reason!
The different variants of tea are indeed astonishing. It's amazing how the procedure of its making and taste changes from city to city! From Karachi to Kashmir, the transition of flavors is absolutely mind-blowing!
And to prove this all, you need to check out how Tapal celebrated #NationaliTea on Independence Day!
If there is one thread that binds us unequivocally as a nation, if there is one ritual that truly symbolizes 'unity in diversity', it is our love of TEA.#Tapal #HamariNationalitea #IndependenceDay #Chai #Tea #14thAugust #Pakistan
Gepostet von Tapal am Samstag, 10. August 2019
Pakistanis were seen enjoying their tea during Pakistan's independence day and it was a sight to see! Have a look at this!
— Syed Taha Aijaz (@RoccoTDon) August 14, 2019
Chai makes everything better!
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This year, my Independence Day was filled with celebrations ? it started off with going to frere hall in the morning and ended up with an azadi get-together at my friends munching on bunkababs and pakoras ? but there was one thing which was common and that was chai! ☕ it's one thing that unites us all Pakistanis for sure ? #HamariNationaliTea #Tapal @tapalofficial
How can we forget our nationali-tea?
I also love to have green tea with a good book. ❤ The best quality time you can spend with yourself. #HamariNationaliTea #tapal pic.twitter.com/oXSwqRzRzh
— Komal Shahid (@ArmedWithWords) August 14, 2019
Well, what does chai mean to you?
What does chai means to you?
To me, it's a boost of energy and motivation. I can function sanely with a cup of tea! How about you?#HamariNationaliTea pic.twitter.com/5ixhGEL65b
— Duaa (@asif_duaa) August 14, 2019
Azaadi with chai!
Did you have your tea yet? 😉
14 August tomorrow! Come live on twitter/ig/Facebook and show how Independence Day is celebrated in your city! ?? ? #HamariNationaliTea #Tapal
Picture credits: @Samessii ?? pic.twitter.com/6z4J9FAMkt
— Vérité Seulement.⚜ (@Khaaksaar__k) August 13, 2019
Din ho ya raat, rakho chai ko apne saath! <3
We are Pakistani. Our culture makes us unique from others. how can we forget tea while talking about culture. Chai tou sb ko pasand hay bai. Tea is the most significant element of every conversation and something that everyone simply loves ❤#hamarinationalitea pic.twitter.com/rBSZmIDX3d
— Capt. Arham ?? (@ArhamSayss) August 14, 2019
Some of them even went live from their Facebook pages!
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Haye, haye, so much love for chai!
Celebrating this unifying and homegrown tea drinking culture with #Tapal kiunke ye hai #HamariNationaliTea ??❤ Tapal
Gepostet von Syeda Samrah Hasan Rizvi am Dienstag, 13. August 2019
Matlab who can say NO to our chai? Even the IAF pilots think our tea is fantastic! LOL.
If you love chai, let us know why you love it and how many cups a day do you consume every day in the comments below!


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Embracing and grinning broadly as they pose for a photo, Meghan Markle and her half-sister Samantha look like the closest of siblings. But fast-forward three decades and the picture is very different.
Samantha, 53, admits she has no idea if she will be invited when US actress Meghan marries Prince Harry in May.
Speaking movingly of her wish to be reunited with 36-year-old Meghan, she reveals they have not talked to each other for three years.
She tells the Mirror: "The last time we spoke – when I heard her voice – was 2014, almost 2015.
"Her last words were, 'I love you, babe. I'm really glad we had this conversation. Keep in touch'.
"And she couldn't – she got busy. I tried. But I think she just got really busy."
Breaking down in tears, Samantha adds: "I hope now that she knows I was there. I should've really reached out more... but I'm proud of her."
Samantha also denies the title of her forthcoming memoir – The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister – is an insult, saying she chose it to make a mockery of "social perceptions and labels".
She adds: "I wanted to show in the book that she [is the] opposite."
Samantha also addressed negative comments she made on Twitter about a charity mission Meghan made to India.
Speaking from her home in the US state of Florida, Samantha says: "I can only say to Meg, 'Forgive me'."
When asked if she thinks she will get an invitation to the royal wedding, she says: "I don't know... I don't know if she's going to feel that my book is good. There's a lot of misperception out there.
Ann Widdecombe says she thinks Meghan Markle is "trouble" on celebrity big brother
"I'd be lying to say that I wouldn't be hurt if I didn't get an invite but that's really up to her.
"That's her day. It's her special moment. And I would love to be a part of it. But, I think, possibly she might also understand that it's not easy for all of us to get there. But if we can, we will."
She adds: "It would be pleasing for us to be there and be invited. But it's entirely her decision."
Former actress Samantha, who has used a wheelchair since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008, adds that she urged Meghan to help their dad Thomas Markle financially.
She says: "There was just a time when – and it's funny – we were on the phone. It was probably not my place to say but I was just saying, 'Hey, help Dad with some of that money for school now you're making a lot of money'.
"I think at that time she wasn't that pleased about what I had to say.
"And she said, 'There are too many cooks in the kitchen, babe'.
"Wow! I guess big sister is being told to step off. That's not her place to say...
"It wasn't a handout. Nobody was asking for money. It's like, 'You're doing really well, help Dad with some of that money back... I love her but she should help Dad."
Retired lighting director Thomas is living a reclusive life in Mexico.
He left the US two years ago after declaring himself bankrupt.
This week Samantha referred to Meghan wearing a £56,000 dress for her engagement photos with 33-year-old Harry, saying: "If you can spend $75,000 on a dress, you can spend $75,000 on your dad."
It has not been announced if Thomas will walk Meghan down the aisle at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, Berks. When asked about giving his daughter away, he told the Mirror recently: "I'd love to."
Samantha says neither she nor her dad were offended by Harry's comments about the royals being the family Meghan "never had" after their Christmas at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
Samantha seemed to lash out shortly after by tweeting: "She has a large family who were there for her. No one was estranged, she was just too busy."
She tells the Mirror: "My father's not hurt by anything Harry said. I'm not hurt by anything Harry said.
"I was just clarifying it wasn't family she never had, it was the family gathering with kids running around at a holiday all together she never experienced, because we were all working and spread out.
"Socio-economics in America demand that family members work. I guess because they're royal they can have that and that's incredible."
The mum adds: "The Markles are not a rubbishy sort. There's no Dukes of Hazzard. There's no Simpsons. That was all a joke my brother spewed. A pretty normal, artistic family. We've always been there for her."
She says she speaks to her dad every day, and adds he supports Meghan and Harry's relationship. Samantha says: "He loves her and he's happy for them."
She describes the prince as "quirky and cute, and perfect for her".
"They are very charming together. He has a noble heart."
She adds: "My father would never show up at anybody's door without flowers and a bottle of wine. He had a beautiful, gentlemanly air about him. And I think Meghan came to appreciate that. I feel Harry resembles the best qualities in my father."
She thinks the couple will have children, adding: "They'll be elf-like, cute, funny kids that always look like they have a secret – giggling and charming.
"Little pointy noses. I think they'll be adorable and funny and intelligent. I can't wait to see them."


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Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll spoke with the media Monday during his weekly press briefing and the message was clear. The Seahawks have to improve their physical and mental output. In two short word: " PLAY BETTER". As in stop making costly mistakes. Yes, positive Pete was his usual positive Peter persona on Monday along with an added tone of a father who was unexpectedly disappointed.
Opening statement
"OK, everything is moving fast. We got to get going. Got a lot to do here. Really disappointing game just to give you a quick wrap up on it. Just in a number of ways, we didn't perform like we are capable. So we continue to have work to do. We made some progress in some areas and played a really good game on defense and had a really good fourth quarter finish and rolling there for the offense. Then we gave it away, so good win for them. We got some real serious stuff that we got to get better at. With that, we have a game coming up Thursday and division team that we know well. We have battled with these guys for years and always have big ball games with these guys. Going there for Thursday night is going to be a quick turnaround for us. We've got our formula for doing this and that's why we have to keep moving and hope that your questions are succinct and to the point as always and we can keep moving."
(On what can you do about the penalties)
"We are going to keep working at it. We've got a number of things that we are going to do. We will get after that again today and step it up. We think it is a group thing obviously when you have a bunch like this, but it comes down to individual choices and making good decisions and doing things right. So we are going to jump all over it with another emphasis today."
(On did anything stand out as troubling with the penalties you did get)
"There was five at the line of scrimmage. Those always irk me the most because those are the ones that are totally self-inflected. But they were kind of across the board, you know. There were a couple holds on scrambles and things that we know that we worked to learn in the nature of our play. Russell [Wilson] is running around and those offensive linemen have to know when to release and feel that and we didn't make that choice a couple times, properly. So there is just stuff that continues that needs focus."
(On Germain Ifedi's penalties)
"Yeah, well he's got some line of scrimmage stuff and he has been sloppy with his hands and that's basically what it is. He is one that has not really nailed the sense of when Russell is getting out on his side, he's got to release. But he has had his share and it's definitely a point of emphasis that has been there for some time now. It's disappointing that we aren't fixing this faster."


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The combination of water drop-shaped colored crystals and cement full of rough and primitive texture perfectly presents a natural symbiosis of furnishings.Colored crystalSimilar to amethyst, it is a type of vision crystal with rarer production and dreamy and beautiful color. It develops wisdom and insight, heals, purifies other minerals, and reactivates original energy. It has the function of gathering energy. Placing it at home or in a shop can attract noble people and bring wealth. It is especially helpful for work. Placing it on the desk can relieve fatigue, improve work efficiency, relieve stress, etc.
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Most of the people do not know what is the price of Microsoft windows 7, so here is some details about windows 7 price which help you to decide which version of windows you need to buy. The price is given after analyse the online stores in India only, the price of physical store may differ.
Minimum System Requirements for Windows 7
Processor:1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
Memory: 1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit)
Hard disk: 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
Video card: DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or later driver
|Windows 7 Operating System Price in India
Microsoft Windows 7 Starter OEM Rs. 2499 /-
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Basic (32 Bit) Rs. 4499 /-
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Rs. 6449 /-
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional OEM (32 Bit) Rs. 7999 /-


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O-ring compatibility is a key factor in o-ring performance. Choosing the right material based on chemical and temperature exposure minimizes costly o-ring failures. This chart was developed as a quick reference guide for o-ring compatibility, with all information based on isolated material testing in optimal conditions at room temperature and pressure.
Find the right o-ring material for your application to maximize performance and reliability. If you need further assistance, contact an application engineer to find the best combination of o-ring compatibility, performance and price.


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About B1The Basis B1 is a wearable activity monitor that measures every quantifiable aspect of your life. With one of the largest arrays of sensors on a wrist band, the B1's technology measures REM, light and deep sleep as well as activity duration (e.g.: walking, running, biking) and calories burned. Overall the objective of this computing device is to reduce stress and increase performance. The battery lasts up to 4 days before needing to be recharged, and the operating temperature range is between 0°C and 40°C.
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Weather 'Certainly Will Impact' Eagles Game
We have everything covered for you here at Birds 24/7, including your game-day weather forecast — at least when a hurricane is pushing up the coast.
What effect will Hurricane Sandy have on Sunday's 1 o'clock game between the Eagles and Falcons? We asked Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz of NBC 10.
"It certainly will impact the game, at the very least with wind," said Schwartz. "It will be an increasingly windy day. There will probably be rain, and it may be heavy at times. There will be a "Hurricane Watch" at the very least for our coast and there may be people evacuating from the shore, which would make traffic worse.
"It won't necessarily be the peak time of the storm. It will gradually go downhill Sunday."
The peak time, according to Schwartz, will likely be Sunday night into Monday morning. The anticipation is that the heaviest rain will be south of Philadelphia during the Eagles game. There will be bands of heavy rain in the area, however.
"I wouldn't necessarily refer to it as dangerous conditions the way it is now," said Schwartz.
The weatherman's advice? Plan some extra time for the commute, bring some rain gear and "get ready for a windy rainstorm."


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Take dry and cold, add tart and sweet, and voila! The Soltini. This gin-based cocktail starts out like a dry martini, then adds sunny fresh lemon and grenadine to smooth the ingredients into harmony. Refreshing zesty flavors overlay the traditional martini base. Like our Twitter handle, this cocktail is both shaken and stirred.
1 1/2 ounces gin
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon grenadine
1 thinly sliced lemon wheel
Chill a martini glass in the freezer. Pour gin, vermouth and lemon juice into a shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously until mixture is very cold. Strain the ice cold liquid into the chilled glass. Add the grenadine with two or three gentle swirls of a bar spoon. Float the lemon wheel, and enjoy responsibly.
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The first steps to building an effective compensation system
written job descriptions and on target salary ranges are the starting point for a compensation system
Here's the first step with building a compensation system. Let's assume you're starting from scratch. You want to benchmark your jobs and create a salary structure to start your compensation system. What does that mean? You look at every job and describe it in market type terms.
For a corporate compensation system, the jobs need to be written up in a way not only to describe what you're doing internally but also in a way that can then be linked up to the marketplace. This job is quarter administrative assistant, a quarter copywriter, and half account analysis
Job descriptions in a compensation system
Start by describing the job in terms that reflect the market. Then you look at the market and you take half of the one job plus a quarter of the other and a quarter of the other. You match it to the market in those terms. This allows you to figure out what people are being paid in companies of your size, in your industry, in your geographic areas, pay as a minimum or maximum, midpoint for each job.
Now, by the way, you may have to buy some of this data. Very seldom can you get it for free. But if you're part of an industry association, you may get it for being a member. And a lot of these numbers are more generic. So, they may come from other local organizations or you can get them from big national firms or websites.
Salary ranges in a compensation system
You bunch these people into groups that share similar salary ranges. So you can actually have an accountant 3 being in the same pay range as an engineering 1. Certain kind of engineers right now may be real hot. And they could be paid as much as a third year accountant or a fifth grade analyst.
Create 5 to 15 distinct salary levels. See even really, really large companies don't have an infinite number of salary ranges. They got a lot of different jobs. The biggest companies I've seen don't go beyond 20 levels in terms of pay. I'd say most of you are going to be in 8 to 12, 13 range. Some could be more. Some could be less. Realize that these salary ranges overlap.
And once you get this set up and you say, "This is what these people in these jobs ought to be paid", realize that you want to recalibrate salary range for your compensation system about every three years. In three years, all that information is out the window.
But in the meantime, unless the market is really on fire for your particular area, each year we kind of adjust the compensation system a little bit. And in the past, we've kind of been moving it up 3%, 2%, whatever you think the market's doing and bearing in mind that if you underestimate the market, you can start losing people. If you overestimate the market, you'll have problems bidding on work and being competitive with your peers.
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This is one of the things that I pointed out to Mark Blumenthal had been odd-seeming about Research 2000's polling:
Likewise, take a look at their Presidential tracking numbers
from 2008 (http://www.dailykos.com/dailypoll/2008/11/4).
They published their daily results in addition to their
three-day rolling average ... and the daily results were
remarkably consistent from day to day. At no point, for
instance, in the two months that they published daily results
did Obama's vote share fluctuate by more than a net of 2
points from day to day (to reiterate, this is for the daily
results (n=~360) and not the rolling average). That just
seems extremely unlikely -- there should be more noise than
Let's put some flesh on them bones.
In 2008, Research 2000 published the results of its daily samples in its Presidential tracking poll. To clarify, this means that if they had a tracking poll that ran from Wednesday through Friday, they'd tell you what the individual results were for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday respectively, in addition to the aggregated numbers. I for one appreciated this and actually used the daily numbers rather than the multi-day tracking averages in our forecasting models.
A lot of pollsters would have been reluctant to do this because the sample sizes were quite small — on average, about 360 persons for each daily sample — and presumably would have revealed rather striking variation from day to day simply due to sampling error. The margin of error on a sample size of 360 is +/- 5.2 points, so it would be fairly normal for Barack Obama's numbers to careen (for example) from 54 points one day, to 48 points the next, to 52 the day afterward.
But in fact, this didn't happen. In fact, their daily samples showed barely any movement at all. In the 55 days of their tracking poll, Barack Obama's figure never increased by more than 2 points, nor declined by more than 2 points.
In contrast, we can run a simulation to see how much movement there "should" have been in the daily samples based on the following assumptions:
* Since the average performance of Barack Obama over the course of Research 2000's tracking poll was 50 percent, we assume that a voter has a 50 percent chance of choosing Obama and a 50 percent chance of not choosing Obama (i.e. either McCain or undecided; it doesn't matter which). Note that we assume the true, underlying level of Obama support is constant at 50 percent over the course of the tracking period. In fact, it of course would have varied some, owing to events on the campaign trail. But this should have resulted in more day-to-day variation rather than (as we see in Research 2000's polling) less. So, this assumption is actually favorable to them.
* We assume that the sample size for Research 2000's daily sample was some random number between 350 and 370 persons.
* We take the number of Obama "voters" from our random sample and divide by the sample size, and then round to the nearest whole number, to produce that day's result.
* We then then measure the change in Obama's performance from one day to the next, repeating this process about 30,000 times to create a robust sample.
The simulation found that Obama's daily numbers should have moved by at least 3 points from one day to the next about half of the time, given the sample sizes that Research 2000 was using. In fact, they never moved by as many as 3 points, not even once. This behavior is exceptionally nonrandom. Indeed, we should also have seen a fluctuation of 5 or more points about once every four or five days, and a change of 7 or more points about once every two weeks — this obviously never happened, either.
We can run the same experiment on John McCain's numbers, the only difference being that we assume his true level of support is 42 percent (the average that he polled at during this period) rather than 50 percent. Research 2000 did show McCain's numbers change by more than 2 points on two occasions: he improved to 44 percent from 41 percent on 10/26, and to 46 percent from 43 percent on 11/1. Those were the only instances, however, and overall the results were just as nonrandom:
Even Bob Barr's numbers were unusually behaved. Research 2000 had Barr at exactly 2 percent for 50 consecutive days from 9/10 to 10/29; he then fluctuated for a few days before eventually settling in at 1 percent:
You only get results like these if something is orders of magnitude upon orders of magnitude divergent from random. Now, just because Research 2000's polling is extremely nonrandom, does that necessarily indicate that it is fraudulent? I suppose there are alternate hypothesis, although the jury is out (or soon will be) on how compelling they might be.
They might cite their weighting procedures, but the weighting techniques that pollsters ordinarily use would not cause this kind of underdispersion. In fact, the normal weighting methods have the effect of essentially reducing the sample size (since you're effectively double-counting some voters while throwing out others), so they would increase, rather than decrease, the amount of variance relative to the sample. (** see note) But perhaps Research 2000 is using some really avant-garde techniques that have the effect of stripping a lot of variance out of the sample, e.g. a statistical model which uses polling as one of its inputs, along with making certain other fairly strong assumptions. This could also be a bug of some kind rather than a feature. Either way, it would take a lot of explaining on their part — but it's possible.
As a slight variation of this, it's possible that Research 2000 actually did the polling, but that Del Ali puts his finger on the scale to an usually large degree, i.e. he decides what he thinks the numbers "should" be, and then works backward (such as through his assumptions about likely voters) in order to achieve it.
And it's possible that Research 2000 actually did the polling, but for some reason were too lazy to do the cross-tabs and decided to reverse-engineer them, including the daily figures that were printed alongside the tracking averages.
None of these alternate hypothesis exactly speaks well for Research 2000, as all would imply significant departures from what we ordinarily think of as sound and scientific polling practice. Nor, even if they were plausible explanations for this particular anomaly, would they necessarily account for others. But this is another oddity that begs an explanation from them, and none has been forthcoming.
** Actually, having thought about this more (and read a few comments), this won't necessarily be true, since while it's true that you're reducing the effective sample size, you're also introducing additional a priori information, i.e., that you know the true distribution of party weights in your sample. In different circumstances, this could either increase or decrease the degree of dispersion.
Based on some additional simulations that I've done, the average absolute change in Obama's day-to-day numbers with a party ID weighting scheme should be about 2.3 or 2.4 points, rather than 3.0 points, and a shift of 3 or more points in either direction should occur about 40 percent of the time, rather than 50 percent of the time. Still, this would not explain why Obama's numbers moved by an average of only 1.0 point each day in Research 2000's daily samples, or why they never moved by more than 3 points.


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Poor Qantas. In recent times the airline has suffered many a social media mishap. Back in 2011 their Twitter hashtag #qantasluxury was hijacked by unhappy customers who delivered an unprecedented number of cuttingly sarcastic and highly critical responses. In 2012 the airline battled to remove a snarky parody PR account from Twitter. The most recent incident occurred in July this year when a hardcore pornographic image was displayed for about 7 hours on the Qantas Facebook page, much to the shock of an 8 year old boy and his father.
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Of course Qantas is only one of many brands to suffer at the hands of social media. Australia's Next Top Model recently had their promotional hashtag #antmselfie hijacked by feminist group Collective Shout, who claimed the competition was superficial and encouraged sexualised behaviour. The group's actions drew attention to photo entries from girls as young as 9.
So what can you do to minimise the legal risks and avoid being featured in one of the many online articles gleefully titled 'Companies that have made Huge Social Media Mistakes'?
Australian Law and Guidelines
In Australia, social media moderation is a hotly contested subject. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and a number of industry bodies have released somewhat conflicting guidelines, as summarised below.
The ACCC has made it clear that it considers content on social media sites to be advertising and/or marketing communications. Importantly, this means that competition law applies to such content.
Accordingly, brands have a responsibility to ensure content on their social media pages is accurate, irrespective of who put the content there. Brands will be held responsible for user posts or public comments made on social media pages which are false, misleading or deceptive if the brand knows about them and decides not to remove them.
In regards to moderation generally, the ACCC says that the amount of time a company needs to spend monitoring its social media pages depends on the size of the company and the number of fans or followers they have.
Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA)
The AANA has stated that its self-regulatory codes apply equally to digital and traditional media.
For brands that are interacting and participating actively on a digital platform, the AANA Best Practice Guideline 'Responsible Marketing Communications in the Digital Space' recommends brands moderate at least once every business day. Brands should also moderate immediately after posting or engaging online and for at least 2 hours following a post.
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
Unlike the ACCC and the AANA, the IAB believes that user comments directed towards a social media platform do not constitute advertising. However, user comments can be converted into promotional statements through an organisation's direct endorsement or expression of agreement. Further, the risk of an organisation becoming responsible for a user comment on its social media platforms increases once it has been made aware of the comment and it has had the opportunity to review it and take appropriate action.
In its new publication 'Best Practice for User Comment Moderation', the IAB suggests that companies moderate comments to the extent their resources allow. At a minimum, this should involve reviewing and moderating recently published comments at the same time as posting a new comment. The IAB notes that brands should increase their moderation if they are engaging in online interaction that is provocative, and designed to illicit controversial responses.
So what should you do?
When it comes to social media moderation, a common sense approach is best. Brands should moderate their pages regularly, taking into account the extent and activeness of their social media presence. For large international companies such as Qantas, this may mean consistent monitoring 24 hours, 7 days a week. For smaller brands, this may be once a business day. All brands should remove posts that are, or are likely to be, false, misleading or deceptive, defamatory, offensive or which breach intellectual property laws as soon as the brand becomes aware of them.
Most importantly, all companies should have in place:
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Remarkable Energy.
"A powerful tool, Ideal for use by vibrational healers, Reiki therapists and other energy workers"
Twelve-Sided Vogel: ability to create a casual reality with others with a focused consciousness, effective in receiving information or create spaces of thought.
They are loco motivators; the little engine that could multiply infinity to the infinite power, that covers every spectrum of every reality. It can be used as a powerful cleanup crew, and excellent and efficient manifestor tools.
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Tennessee St. 52, SIU-Edwardsville 49
Robert Covington scored 17 points and Patrick Miller 14 as Tennessee State came back from a 14-point second-half deficit and beat Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 52-49 Saturday night.
SIU-Edwardsville led throughout the second half until Miller's three-point play with 35 seconds remaining gave the Tigers (10-9, 3-3 Ohio Valley Conference) a 51-49 lead.
After Kris Davis missed a 3-point attempt for the Cougars (5-10, 3-3), Covington added a free throw with 8 seconds left.
SIU-Edwardsville had led by 14 points, 43-29, with 12:56 remaining. The Cougars were still ahead 47-37 at the 6:58 mark but missed 8 of 9 shots the rest of the way.
Tennessee State, which trailed 24-17 at halftime, shot 52 percent (13 of 25) in the second half to 36 percent (9 of 25) for SIU-Edwardsville.
M.J. Rhett added 11 rebounds and six points for Tennessee State.
Jerome Jones had 14 points and Davis 12 for the Cougars.


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Probability-Based Structural Fire Load
Author: Leo Razdolsky | Size: 7 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Unspecified | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2014 | pages: 375 | ISBN: 110703874X, 9781107038745
In the structural design of airframes and buildings, probability-based procedures are used to mitigate the risk of failure as well as produce cost-effective designs. This book introduces the subject of probabilistic analysis to structural and fire protection engineers and can also be used as a reference to guide those applying this technology.
In addition to providing an understanding of how fire affects structures and how to optimize the performance of structural framing systems, Probability-Based Structural Fire Load provides guidance for design professionals and is a resource for educators. The goal of this book is to bridge the gap between prescriptive and probability-based performance design methods and to simplify very complex and comprehensive computer analyses to the point that stochastic structural fire loads have a simple, approximate analytical expression that can be used in structural analysis and design on a day-to-day basis. Numerous practical examples are presented in step-by-step computational form.
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