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This article discusses features of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that aim to help small engineering firms in managing their businesses. With the proliferation of ERP systems and vendors in the past decade, the big vendors as well as a series of small and niche players are now marketing their offerings for the small-to-midsize company and for specialized companies. Small companies often find that ERP systems give them better control of inventory and production scheduling. The engineer-to-order operation has unique needs that can be met by a specialized ERP system. Jobscope, a company in Greenville, South Carolina, makes ERP software especially for small-to-midsize engineer-to-order companies. In order to serve engineer-to-order type of engineering companies, the Jobscope system stores business information on a per project rather than a company-wide basis. It is because engineer-to-order companies batch and track jobs on a project basis. The experts agree that bringing in an ERP system might seem daunting to the smaller engineering operation. However, they also agree on another thing: it can help small companies manage the complexities of growing business.
Ten years ago, the Schumacher Elevator Co. had entered into a kind of stagnancy, according to Jeff Schumacher, chief financial officer of the company.
The business wasn't growing, mainly because of the small rifts experienced when business systems aren't operating in synch or living up to their potential.
"We were extremely busy, with a lot of work, but couldn't get to the next level," Schumacher said. "We had issues with inventory control and production scheduling and those types of things, and we felt we needed an ERP solution to allow our company to grow to the next level."
ERP, or enterprise resource planning, systems link manufacturing with business processes like new orders, purchasing, credit, accounting, supply chain management, and planning. They stretch from headquarters across factories, warehouses, engineering centers, and sales offices. By linking these operations with profitability, ERP helps executives understand and forecast all the factors-from sales and purchases to asset utilization and hiring-that might affect profits.
A family-owned company in Denver, Iowa, Schumacher Elevator makes passenger and freight elevators and components. It specializes in nonstandard , large installations such as freight and hospital elevators. It's officially a small business, with 200 employees. Until fairly recently, it couldn't have found an ERP system to fit its needs, mostly because vendors didn't make products targeted to the small or medium-size business. Nor did vendors cater to specialized engineering organizations,- such as the engineer-to-order and custom engineering companies that are often, by their very nature, small companies with unique needs.
But with the proliferation of ERP systems and vendors in the past decade, the big vendors as well as a series of small and niche players are now marketing their offerings for the small-to-midsize company and for specialized companies, said Eric Kimberling, president of the Panorama Consulting Group in Denver. The group helps companies clarify ERP goals before they sign on for a system.
Small companies, like Schumacher Elevator Co., often find that their ERP systems give them better control of inventory, production schedules, and engineering projects than they'd previously had, Kimberling said.
"When ERP is done right, the number one benefit is streamlining your processes and making them more efficient than doing data entry and keeping track of stuff in spreadsheets and digging for data," he said. "ERP makes those things more flexible and accessible to employees."
According to an industry analyst, Dan Miklovic, these systems best aid the small engineering and manufacturing organization that juggles suppliers, products, and customers. Miklovic, research vice president for the manufacturing industry at Gartner Group in Stamford, Conn., said that, because the application offers a bird's eye view into all business systems, it allows organizations to best ensure that they're making the right product at the right time and that they're doing it profitably.
"If you're a dedicated manufacturer and take a few raw material items and preassemble them, then you really don't need an ERP system," Miklovic said. "But if you have multiple suppliers and customers, if you're really making a product with some degree of complexity, with multiple SKUs, and multiple variants of a product, then you can benefit greatly from an ERP system."
Small companies often find that ERP systems give them better control of inventory and production scheduling.
Real-Time Information
Schumacher Elevator brought in an ERP system eight years ago from SAP, a German company with U.S. headquarters in Newtown Square, Pa. Since then, Schumacher Elevator has started back on a steady growth plan. The system has helped the company get a better handle on its overall operation.
"It's helped in the sense that we're better able to manage projects. Our information is more current. We're able to control inventories better without cost going through the roof," Schumacher said. "We have better access to real-time information.
"We used to not be able to tell where a project was at any stage, like the job of building an elevator for a customer. We couldn't track that in any system," Schumacher said. "Now we can."
Small businesses that don't choose an ERP system often have their own way of marrying business and engineering systems, said Jeff OS01'io, the chief financial officer at Solaicx of Santa Clara, Cali f., which makes ingots and wafers for the solar power industry. But often those cobbled- together business software programs can't work in the streamlined manner of a dedicated system.
"They usually buy a whole bunch of packages and write custom interfaces, which I've never been a fan of," Osorio said. " I've seen large companies try to do that and not do a good job of it. Plus, it uses a ton of resources."
In his past work, Osorio was a consultant who helped companies implement ERP systems to improve their financial performance.
Of late, Solaicx has been moving from wafer research and development to manufacturing. To that end, it recently opened a plant in Portland, Ore. In July, it implemented an ERP system from Syspro of Costa Mesa, Calif.
"We were running QuickBooks and some miscellaneous packages. In the research and development stage, that works fine," Osorio said. "But in commercial applications, with the volume of transactions that would be going through manufacturing, we needed more."
Solaicx now houses its financial and manufacturing data within the new application. That kind of integration makes for greater visibility into all aspects of the company, Osorio said.
"Everyone across the company can see the status of orders, customer shipments, inventory, and those types of things," he said. "That makes it a lot easier for us to work cross-functionally in the business."
The engineering change control module Solaicx will soon add to its ERP system should be particularly helpful. It will update the bill of materials when an engineer issues a change order.
"So if you want to substitute one part for another or change the part structure, you use that process within the ERP system," Osorio said. "Because that's tied to everything, it enables an appropriate level of transfer between product engineering, manufacturing and procurement, and the supply chain."
All relevant business operations are notified immediately and their systems automatically are updated to account for the different costs and manufacturing requirements of the change order.
Made to Order
The engineer-to-order operation has unique needs that can be met by a specialized ERP system.
Jobscope was founded in 1981 by necessity, said Hank Sanders, the firm's president. The company in Greenville, S.C., makes ERP software especially for small-to-midsize engineer-to-order companies. Executives at an engineer to order company founded Jobcope after having trouble finding ERP software appropriate to their needs.
To serve these types of engineering organizations, the Jobscope system stores business information on a per project, rather than on a companywide basis. That's because engineer-to-order companies batch and track jobs on a project basis, Sanders said.
"Each job is costed on its own, so you can be focused on each separate job," he said. "You can always be checking, how much did we expect this job to cost us against how much did it actually cost us, for each particular job."
Of course, executives can zoom out to view company operations as a whole.
One early-and continuing Jobscope customer is PaR Systems Inc. The engineer-to-order company in suburban Minneapolis makes equipment for a r;ll1ge of industries, practically everything from industrial food-processors to nuclear labs. Part of its business is to supply aircraft and ammunition elevators for aircraft carriers and naval ships.
Each PaR Systems customer contract is unique-a separate job-with its own labor and materials changes, said Steve Sutton, the manager of information systems.
His company has written its own specialized applications for the Jobscope system through the years. For instance, PaR managers have learned that it's best to track and budget for parts at the assembly, rather than the part level.
Because the Jobscope software tracks to the part level, Sutton's department wrote an ERP application that tracks to the assembly level.
"We needed that mid-level granularity because we discovered that in our business it takes a lot of energy to check every single part," he said. "You don't have enough time to have every detail in front of you when you have a thousand-part project.
"If you discover a problem, then you can dig in at the part level," he said.
Another PaR-written tool pushes the bill of materials and master part descriptions from the company's SolidWorks CAD program into the Jobscope system so the information doesn't have to be entered twice.
"We write those kinds of things as the need comes up," Sutton said. "As we work on process improvement, we come upon more solutions."
The Shopping List
Implementing an ERP system is usually not a simple affair, according to Miklovic. Osorio and Kimberling agree. Systems, including those meant for small businesses, are quite robust, can be costly, and often entail an extensive change in a company's business processes, they said.
The factors to consider when shopping for a system are significant in themselves. Does a customer want a hosted application, with the software maintained on the vendor's servers? Will a company tie the system to its manufacturing execution planning system in order to consolidate manufacturing and enterprise information?
So where should a small-to-midsize business start with this type of implementation?
Putting on his consultant's hat, Osorio said that executives first need to be clear on what they want to accomplish by bringing in ERP. What do they want the system to look like when it is fully implemented? Will it reach the factory floor? Will the hardware and software reside in-house?
They must look to ERP packages appropriate to the size of the company, both now and where they expect to be in the near-term future, as based on business plans and budget. This type of planning can be difficult for smaller businesses because they're poised to grow, he said. Executives may have a hard time knowing what the business itself much less its software needs-will be in 10 years' time.
"You have to say to yourself, 'This type of business system will work for us if I'm a $10 million company, but will it when I'm at $200 million?' " Osorio said. "Or, 'Okay, it can handle a few transactions, but can it handle 100 transactions?' "
Osorio recommends that companies choose a system that's proved itself in a business field or industry. One reason Solaicx chose a Syspro package, for example, is that its manufacturing operations-the way wafers are produced, handled, and packaged on a line-are similar to food-processing operations. Syspro makes systems specialized to the food handling industry, Osorio said.
Even small businesses might consider bringing in a consultant to help choose an ERP vendor and to oversee implementation, he added.
The experts agree: Bringing in an ERP system might seem daunting to the smaller engineering operation. But they also agree on another thing: It can help small companies manage the complexities of growing business.


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The Miami (FL) Herald let lose with another propagandistic broadside against the 2nd Amendment on Thursday featuring some more moaning and false statements about how horrible it is for America that the misnamed "assault weapons ban" has lapsed. There is much wringing of hands, waterworks, histrionics and over dramatics by the aptly named Fred Grimm here. In "What's a few dead cops to the gun lobby?" Grimm's final pronouncement is that the 2nd Amendment is a "mythical right" but in between there are many misstatements and out right lies.
Grimm starts out putting on some faux "shock" that a modern "semiautomatic assault rifle" he had the occasion to handle was so light. "The shock was in the weight of the thing. Less than six pounds," Grimm writes. And, what exactly does this mean? A butcher knife weighs less then a pound and can kill, too. What does weight have to do with anything?
Then the scare tactics:
I thought how easy it would be for some kid, some 110-pound wild-dog street punk, to heft an AR-6520 and wield it to hellish effect.
OK, so the gun is not heavy. This makes the gun somehow less than safe? Guess what, Mr. Grimm. Cars weigh in the tons and teenagers kill themselves by the thousands each year with them. In fact, they kill themselves FAR more with cars than they do guns. Yes, thousands die a year, Mr. Grimm, even though cars are really, really heavy.
Shocking, eh?
Then Grimm goes off lamenting that police forces are spending money on "assault rifles" because of the lapse of the so-called "assault weapons ban."
No wonder Fort Lauderdale is spending $82,000 for guns designed to kill enemy soldiers. Police know that since the expiration of the federal assault weapon ban, young criminals have ginned up the arms race.
So, Grimm seems to make the claim that "assault weapons" are suddenly everywhere? Naturally, Grimm doesn't bother to give us any facts and figures to buttress this wild claim. He just states it as fact and moves on. He also makes the absurd claim that small time criminals can easily come up with the "three grand" that he says the street price for one has reached, saying that illegal gun dealers...
...Sell them out of car trunks at twice the price to gangbangers, drug dealers and armed robbers who want to upgrade to cop killers. Sell them to felons. Sell them to kids. Sell them to certifiably crazy people as long as crazy people can ante up a cold three grand.
Nice scare tactics and propaganda. Lacking in truth, but nice propaganda.
Then Grimm makes with what he must think are "facts."
In 2004, Congress allowed the ban on assault weapons to expire. The federal law suffered major loopholes, but it still had the effect of tamping down the firepower cops faced on the streets. Since the ban was jettisoned, police groups like the International Association of Chiefs of Police have lamented that the bad guys have the cops outgunned.
But, there is no evidence whatsoever that this gun ban really did have the "effect of tamping down firepower." Even those in the Senate that support this gun banning law said that the rate of so-called "assault weapons" used in gun crime was only at 3.5 percent of gun crimes before the ban went into effect. And that is using their own numbers which are probably suspect because they are being used for their own propaganda.
Three percent of anything is statistically insignificant. In 1999 a study was done by Jeffery A. Roth and Christopher S. Koper of the National Institute of Justice and paid for by the Clinton Administration. The study of 15 states found that there might have been a 6.7% decline in murder rates where the Federal gun ban "could have" made a difference. But, in the end, even this Clinton paid for study admitted that assault weapons had been used in such a tiny number of crimes before the ban that it wasn't really provable that the assault weapons ban had any significant effect at all. Saying, "it is highly improbable that the assault weapons ban produced an effect this large," the report didn't do much to help Clinton prove the ban worked in 1999 and things have not changed that much since.
It should also be noted that the claims of "cop killer bullets" linked with the word "assault weapon" is meaningless rhetoric. The same, high power, so-called "cop killing" bullets that some military weapons fire can also be fired by some hunting rifles. So, to link these high powered bullets only with "assault weapons" as if only those sorts of weapons can use them is disingenuous to say the least.
Our Grimm one ends his propaganda with some suitably dramatic nonsense.
Congress demonstrated in 2004 how much value was placed on the mythical right of private citizens to own semiautomatic military assault rifles.
How much? More than a few dead cops.
I see. So the Second Amendment is a "mythical right," eh? Sorry, but the Founders just don't agree with you, Mr. Grimm.

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What are your favourite strategies to unwind and relax if you were having a really stressful day?
Modern life is full of stress and agitations that can result in feelings of frustration and overwhelm. What strategies do you use that you find work best when you find yourself in chaos and ready to lose it?
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Hi Brenda
You are absolutely right modern life is full of stress and agitations and it's very easy to find yourself feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.
When I feel like this I might use one (or more) of the following tactics to help ...
1. I change my perspective on the particular situation that is causing me anxiety, I might do this by thinking about how someone else might see the problem which often helps solve it or perhaps by taking a long walk somewhere beautiful, ideally somewhere green.
2. I use breathing techniques to regain my control - try breathing in for a count of four and then out for a count of six and as you breath in imagine that you are breathing in calm relaxation and as you breath out imagine you are breathing out stress or tension. A 20minute yoga session can help to still the mind as well.
3. I write a list of all the things I am grateful for in my life, the big things (I have a home and a wonderful family) to the small things (the smile from the lady in Sainsbury's)
4. I break down the cause of my stress into increasingly smaller 'chunks' until it feels managable
5. I do some self hypnosis because this really works in bringing a sense of calm, deep relaxation to my life. It may be worth seeing a hypnotherapist who can teach you this wonderful life skill, and if that's not an option for you it's worth trying a CD/download. (please feel free to download this one from my website
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Hi , I am Julia rhodes of West London Colonics.
Many of my clients find colonics a tremendous stress reliever, albeit this isn't usually their primary reason having a session.
Once clients have had a session or two , they do look forward to the stress- busting effects of colonics.
Sleep it off. I know it is difficult sometimes to totally relax, but try it. Get on the couch and stay there and you will relax. Sleep for 1 or 2 hours during the day, sleep off fear and depression and stress. Eat something, drink water. This works for me, then music, I listen to music a lot and then comes yoga. There are free yoga seessions from some internet sites.
I personally find that yoga really helps, although sometimes I really have to make myself do it if I'm not in the mood! Pranayama breathing techniques are great, too.
Thank you all for your answers. I think it's great to get so many points of view and advice on this matter. I'd like to add in my own:
Here are a few strategies you can use to rejuvenate and relax:
1. Take time each day - a few times a day to be still. What this means is that you free yourself from distractions both internally and externally. Modern life is busy. We are reviewing, analyzing, planning and doing all whilst trying to get tea ready! So, to give yourself more energy and less frazzled nature to do those things take a few minutes to sit, with feel side by side on the floor, breathe. Don't try to control the breath, just allow the breath to breathe itself. Focus on your breathing - be present with it. Notice your body, the sensations, again not controlling - just letting it be what it is. Now notice your thoughts and without judgement just notice all the thoughts that whizz around in your mind... let them come and go - BREATHE.
This is an excellent way to ground yourself in the present moment and slow down the mind and body. You can download a free MP3 'Mindfulness Made Easy' by signing up on my website:
2. Create affirmations that support what you want to do. Recite them and create compelling movies of how this plays out in your mind and do this often. What you think about expands, so think about what you want to achieve and you'll give your mind powerful instructions to move you towards what you want. Remember, affirmations work best when you frame them as they are already true: "Harmony and joy surround me today. I am balanced and peaceful."
3. Each morning before you get out of bed, set an intention for the day for what you expect it to be like - be thankful and acknowledge the present as a gift (see what I did there?!). For example: "As I wake from this rest, I am thankful for my comfy bed and the opportunity to thrive today. I will (achieve what you desire) and learn and grown from my action." Each night before bed, again giving thanks for the day you had the opportunity to learn and grow with the intention set for what you will achieve by taking action tomorrow. Problems are only problems because you think them to be. The best way to a good night's sleep is loving thoughts towards yourself, others and your life.
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Hi Brenda,
You are quite right, the pace of modern day life is fast! I'm a single mum, running a home, a business and my 2 boys are aged 6 & 7. I do have moments of 'overwhelm' which I will address for you. However, isn't it always the case that prevention is better than cure? I live and work in an organised and methodical way (so there's usually time to spare for the unexpected). I have found the balance in life for me that keeps me in a peaceful state. At the start of my day I place inspirational quotations on my business facebook page and Twitter. Taking 20 mins to source those, is 20 minutes of filling myself with positivity and excitement for my day ahead. And I believe in the power of having goals, personal development and I think the most powerful of all, is gratitude. And children!...if you don't have your own, borrow your friends! The opportunity to play, sing, dance, and be generally silly is amazing. I have found that having created a blissful life, there are far fewer times I am aware of a sense of overwhelm.
Turning to the occasional times of 'overwhelm' I initially acknowledge that feeling. I allow it to be, for within that feeling there is an important message for me, letting me know I'm slightly out of balance. The overwhelm will be anxiety based (future based fear). So reminding myself to be very present in the moment, and let go is a great start. Then it's about chunking down, prioritising and setting smaller tasks to reach the outcomes. The art of delegation is important at this stage. Often others are so happy to be asked to help out and to feel they're of use, and yet we can sometimes feel that we have to do it all. I find asking the children to do even simple tasks around the house, makes them feel important and builds upon their self esteem. Funnily enough, this pulling together, and working through busier times as a team then makes you focus on what's really important, and you end up wondering how you became so overwhelmed by things that aren't that important after all.
A very quick fix is to ask yourself whether what you're frustrated or overwhelmed about will be important tomorrow, or in a week, a month etc. If it really is, that's what you give your attention to, and if not, you feel more inclined to relax again.
Best Wishes
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i do some deep breathing exercises and meditation and big hug from some one
Depends what the issue is - generally a gin and tonic, a good rant and maybe a cry are good places for me to start. Becoming friendly with the punch bag at the gym has also helped.
Personally, when I am stressed out I can't focus/get organised - the best strategy is to step back and focus on something completely different.
Getting fresh air always clears your mind, unless you keep ruminating over negative thoughts.
One of my massage clients suggested an effective Cognitive Behavioural Therapy technique: look at the bigger picture, focus on the landscape, change your attention to something bigger than you to put your existing problem into perspective.
10 minutes ago I lost a file with my accounts and I almost lost my rag! But I thought I just have to be more careful when saving a document, rolled up my sleeves and started writing the file from scratch again. There's worse things in life!
Thanks for an excellent question.
I guess 'practice what you preach'. Teaching and installing anchors to create useful states isn't just for clients. I fire my anchors and get into the state I want to be in!. Oh and a bit of tai chi helps too
If you feel frustration and overwhelmed then that is what you feel, its real. It doesnt help to pretend you feel something else because the real feelings will still be there underneath waiting for you to deal with them.
Allow your feelings of frustration to come in, allow them to express what they have to tell you, look at the cause of these feelings, acknowledge how this affects you right now. Spend a little time feeling all of this and when you are ready, let the feelings go and distract yourself with something you enjoy and would like to do.
Look after yourself especially well after going through this process as it may mean looking at something quite difficult, which is not always comfortable, but you will feel better for having done it!
If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact me - I am always happy to reply.
We believe the key to dealing with stress is recognising much sooner when pressure is starting to build. Too often we leave it until we are at breaking point before we stop. By then we really are ready to 'lose it' and the smallest thing can tip us over the edge into sleeplessness, frustration, anger or even mental ill health. Ask yourself throughout the day 'how am I feeling?' then take a break if you need it. If you're at work, take 10 minutes to step outside, stretch out your arms, regroup and breath in some fresh air before returning. If at home find something that you can get absorbed in, have a bath, do a jigsaw or crossword, surf the net - whatever works for you. If you find that 'stuff' is spilling over and you just can't stop thinking about things or worrying allow yourself some 'worrying time' - possibly 10 - 15 minutes and then don't allow those thoughts to creep back in after that. Write a worry list if you have to and then leave it. Sometimes things are beyond our control. However, the one thing we CAN control is how we react to situations and whether we choose to look after ourselves. I hope this helps. Airevalley Counselling & Therapy
Hi Brenda
When I get stressed, yes, even therapists can get agitated...I do the opposite of the headless chicken. I take stock in a few moments of stillness using the breath to calm the physiological triggers generated by those little adrenaline spikes. By breathing deeply and slowly for a few moments and holding acu-points on the body I restore calm and clarity to my body and mind in minutes.
It's the same simple stress management techniques I teach clients when they come to me with their stress and anxiety issues.
If you have any questions give me a call: 01933-439655 or 07751 485204
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Pneumothorax is commonly called collapsed lung. Each lung is covered by a membrane, called the pleura, that folds back to make a lining for the chest cavity. If air collects in the pleural space between the rib cage and a lung, the air causes part or all of the lung to collapse. Pneumothorax can occur for no apparent reason, called a spontaneous pneumothorax, or can be caused by injury. The most serious type is a tension pneumothorax, where the chest cavity fills with air and the extreme pressure causes the lung to collapse completely. Air can collect between the lung and chest wall can occur for different reasons. The main concern is that this abnormal air can compress the lung and cause breathing problems. In severe cases, a pneumothorax can cause death if it is not treated quickly.
Men who are tall, thin, and under the age of 40 are more likely to experience a simple spontaneous pneumothorax. A complicated spontaneous pneumothorax is more likely to occur in people with lung disease, such as emphysema, or lung conditions like asthma, cystic fibrosis, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, and certain types of pneumonia. Adults and infants who have severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and need the help of a mechanical ventilator to breathe are also more likely to develop pneumothorax.
A larger pneumothorax and a pneumothorax associated with underlying lung disease often require aspiration of the free air and/or placement of a chest tube to evacuate the air. Possible complications of chest tube insertion include pain, infection of the space between the lung and chest wall (the pleural space), hemorrhage (bleeding), fluid accumulation in the lung, and low blood pressure (hypotension). The high pressure oxygen pumped in by the ventilator can damage the lungs. People who suffer a serious chest injury in a motor vehicle accident or violent crime, undergo certain medical procedures that allow air into the chest cavity, or are middle-aged and have had long-term asthma, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema are more likely to have a tension pneumothorax.


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Community managers should leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize content for their communities and foster relevant and engaging dialogue.
That point was hammered home by Amith Nagarajan, CEO of Aptify, who spoke yesterday during webinar in honor of Community Manager Appreciation Day.
Nagarajan, whose company provides enterprise software to membership organizations, was one of the interviewees in a livestream featuring discussions on the state of community management.
"Typical community member have to find their own content and information they're interested in," Nagarajan said in an interview with KiKi L'Italien, digital strategist. "It's presented in chronological order and users have to search what interests them. Those days are over."
AI disrupts those tactics. As CMSWire contributor Jonathan Moran wrote in an article on AI, it changes the workplace through:
Don't let your community members search for content that matters to them, Nagarajan said. Community managers have the power through machine learning and AI to take advantage of a vast amount of data available in the cloud or in proprietary systems and deliver relevant content to visitors, he said.
"People are not going to have patience anymore to dig in and search," Nagarajan said. "They want the best conversations and topics to come to them automatically. You can now personalize the content for each user in real time."
While the technology augments the community manager's role, he or she can take that personalized content to a deeper level. They can help connect people to peers.
"Our community members rely on us for trusted content, for new ideas and connection with peers," Nagarajan said. "Technology can constantly bring us to new content, and our communities and community manager should cultivate those relationships.
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The transformation of global gambling markets has been inevitable over the last few years, with new forms of gambling having emerged to expand the customers' option. Ireland has also been affected by the trend, with gambling becoming a common pastime for local residents.
However, for some time now the country has been stuck on making the necessary steps for its new gambling legislation to be rolled out. As Casino Guardian has previously reported, Fianna Fáil which is the Irish Republian Party, has accused the local Government for the new gambling legislation's deliberate delay, saying that it has forged its own gambling legislation based on the Fine Gael bill.
Considering the quickly-developing market, gambling has been considered a threat for more vulnerable individuals and has been blamed for often escalating into compulsive and addictive behaviour. The new gambling and betting landscape has been allegedly threatening to extend its destructive effect on local players' lives.
For some time now, the local Government has been blamed by members of the Irish Republican Party for its lack of action on imposing adequate gambling laws. Fianna Fáil has been also insisting that the amendments brought to the existing gambling legislation and regulatory framework needs to provide proper protection measures for players who deal with problem gambling.
Stricter Rules Need to Regulate Gambling in Ireland
Customer protection has become a widely-discussed topic lately, with more gambling options constantly emerging. Increased and continuous advertising, as well as unrestricted messages have been considered some of the most dangerous displays of the addictiveness of gambling. The increasing popularity of the gambling industry has been long blamed for the increasing number of gambling addicts in Ireland, with continuous advertising being considered an integral part of problem gambling.
According to some organisations and authorities, aggressive advertising has been making betting look like a normal everyday activity, especially among younger people who are usually more susceptible to such influence.
Of course, the gambling industry of Ireland should not be described as unregulated sector that only cause trouble. However, some effective legislative measures need to be imposed in order for the country to make sure that its residents are well-protected from possible gambling-related harm.
As mentioned above, a gambling control bill has not been making any progress for more than half a decade now, even with some bookmaker groups publicly insisting for better regulation. Still, if the Irish Government does not take the necessary measures to impose stricter regime, the new generation of players is expected to constantly receive unrestricted gambling promotions messages, which could unfortunately end up causing even greater problems associated with gambling addiction.
Of course, even the strictest regulatory framework could not guarantee that there would not be any casualties, but more transparent rules are necessary in order for better protection to be ensured for local players.
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Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Efficiency Companies Raise $472 Million in VC Funding in Q1 2018
Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency sectors for the first quarter of 2018.
AUSTIN, Texas - April 23, 2018 - Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency sectors for the first quarter of 2018.
To get a copy of the report, visit: http://bit.ly/MercomSGQ12018
Battery Storage
Corporate funding in Battery Storage came to $299 million in 12 deals compared to $154 million in six deals in Q4 2017. In a year-over-year (YoY) comparison, $80 million was raised in 10 deals in Q1 2017.
Venture capital (VC) funding (including private equity and corporate venture capital) raised by Battery Storage companies in Q1 2018 jumped to $299 million in 12 deals from $151 million in five deals in Q4 2017 due to some large deals in the quarter. Year-over-year, funding was significantly higher compared to the $58 million raised in eight deals in Q1 2017.
The top five VC funded Battery Storage companies this quarter were: Stem, which raised $80 million from Activate Capital; Ionic Materials secured $65 million from Dyson, Samsung, A123, Hitachi, Renualt, Nissan, and Mitsubishi; Durapower secured an investment of $40.18 million from Banpu Infinergy Company and K-IX Ace; Battery Energy Storage Solutions (BESS) received ~$38.5 million in funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial; and $34 million was raised by Solid Energy.
[Image] Battery Storage, Smart Grid and Efficiency Top 5 VC Funded Deals in Q1 2018
Fifteen investors participated in Battery Storage funding this quarter with Energy Storage Systems companies raising the most.
There were four M&A transactions involving Battery Storage companies in Q1 2018 and the financial details of the transactions were not disclosed. In Q4 2017 and Q1 2017, there was one M&A transaction each that did not disclose a transaction amount.
Smart Grid
Corporate funding in Smart Grid came to $1.3 billion in nine deals compared to $796 million in 12 deals in Q4 2017. In a YoY comparison, $164 million was raised in 14 deals in Q1 2017.
VC funding for Smart Grid companies increased 79 percent in Q1 2018 with $75 million in seven deals compared to $42 million in nine deals in Q4 2017. In a YoY comparison, in Q1 2017 $164 million was raised in 14 deals.
The top VC funded Smart Grid companies included: Bidgely, which secured $27 million from Georgian Partners, Khosla Ventures, E.ON, innogy, and Constellation Technology Ventures; Husk Power Systems received an equity investment of $20 million from Shell Technology Ventures, Swedfund International, and ENGIE Rassembleurs dEnergies; and Mnubo raised $16.5 million from HSB Group.
[Image] Smart Grid Top VC Funded Deals 2018
Fifteen investors participated in Smart Grid VC funding rounds this quarter with SG Communications companies raising the most. A combined $1.3 billion was raised in two debt financing deals in Q1 2018, compared to $754 million raised in three deals in Q4 2017.
One M&A transaction was announced in Q1 2018 and it did not disclose a transaction amount, compared to eight transactions (two disclosed) in Q4 2017. In a YoY comparison, there were seven M&A transactions in Q1 2017.
Corporate funding in Energy Efficiency came to $104 million in five deals compared to $916 million in 14 deals in Q4 2017. In a YoY comparison, $514 million was raised in 17 deals in Q1 2017.
VC funding raised by Energy Efficiency companies in Q1 2018 remained steady at $98 million in four deals compared to $95 million in 10 deals in Q4 2017. In a YoY comparison, $213 million was raised in 14 deals in Q1 2017.
The Top Efficiency deals included: $61 million raised by ecobee from Energy Impact Partners and eight institutional investors including Thomvest, Relay Ventures, and the Amazon Alexa Fund; the $27 million raised by Carbon Lighthouse from GRC SinoGreen Fund, JCI Ventures, SV Tech Ventures, EBay founder Pierre Omidyars Ulupono Initiative, Ekistic Ventures, Tom Steyers Radicle Impact Partners, former General Motors Vice Chairman Steve Girsky, and Tesla Chief Technology Officer Jeffrey B. Straubel; and the $10 million received by Petros PACE Finance from former Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez and his investment firm A-ROD.
[Image] Efficiency Top VC Funded Deals in Q1 2018
Fifteen investors participated in VC funding this quarter. Within the sector, Temperature Control companies brought in the most funding. Debt and public market financing for Efficiency companies fell to $6 million in one deal this quarter compared to $621 million in three deals in Q4 2017.
In Q1 2018, there was one M&A transaction (transaction details not disclosed) while in Q4 2017, there were three M&A transactions (all undisclosed). In Q1 2017, there were four M&A transactions in the Energy Efficiency sector, two of which disclosed transaction details.
To get a copy of the report, visit: http://bit.ly/MercomSGQ12018
About Mercom Capital Group
Mercom Capital Group, llc, is a global communications and research and consulting firm focused on cleantech. Mercom delivers market intelligence and funding and M&A reports covering Battery Storage, Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency, and Solar, and advises companies on new market entry, custom market intelligence and strategic decision-making. Mercom's communications division helps companies and financial institutions build powerful relationships with media, analysts, local communities, and strategic partners. About Mercom: http://www.mercomcapital.com. Mercom's clean energy reports: http://store.mercom.mercomcapital.com/page/.
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text: (Bloomberg) -- For countries, not having a lot of debt is generally a good thing. For bond traders, it's another story..In Sweden, a government surplus and central-bank bond purchases have depleted the nation's supply of tradable bonds. That's why a high-speed railway project is now being looked upon as a potential boon for the nation's bond market..The project to build a high-speed rail link connecting Sweden's three major cities could cost 230 billion kronor ($29 billion), according to a proposal by a government committee. While no formal decision is likely to be made in this election year, a number of factors suggest that politicians could be ready to take the spending plunge, according to Nordea Bank AB.."The need to catch up in infrastructure investments is now a consensus view in the public opinion and it's difficult to quickly find large infrastructure projects," Mats Hyden, a strategist at Nordea, said in an interview..Such a public investment, and the borrowing that would fund it, could provide a needed liquidity injection for Sweden's government bond market. Liquidity has worsened significantly as the Riksbank has soaked up close to 40 percent of the market through a quantitative easing program that began in early 2015. At the same time, an economic boom has caused tax revenue to soar, resulting in big budget surpluses..The budget surplus for 2017 reached 61.8 billion kronor, blowing away the 28.3 billion forecast the debt office had predicted in October. The agency expects a surplus of 47 billion kronor this year and a bigger one in 2019. It also anticipated it will issue about 40 billion kronor in nominal bonds this year, an estimate that will likely need to be lowered..Hans Lindblad, the director general of the Swedish debt office, on Thursday indicated that the agency is looking at potentially changing its forecast. ."Of course there's a risk that the borrowing need will have to be revised lower when much more money is pouring in compared with what we had forecast," he said to reporters after an open hearing in parliament..Sweden's debt ratio has dropped to levels not seen since the 1970s, and is anticipated by the government to fall as low as 32.5 percent by the end of the decade..But whatever the issuance, it will likely be gobbled up by the central bank, which has said it will buy 40 billion kronor in bonds this year and 25 billion kronor next year.."Assessing the liquidity situation today is deceptive," Hyden said. "The market is well-functioning, but the calm is deceiving. A long time of low interest rates and falling risk premiums means that the market's functioning is untested for periods of rising interest rates and rising uncertainty.".So back to the speed trains. As presented by the committee, support for the project is divided. The governing Social Democrats have yet to decide, while their partner, the Greens, are in favor. The biggest opposition party, the Moderates, is opposed, but the smaller Center Party is willing to back the plans..Those in favor argue that, with negative real interest rates, the timing could hardly be better as the government effectively would be paid for taking the loans. Borrowing in the bond markets would also speed up the project.."Sweden should borrow to finance the construction so that it's ready by 2035," Anders Akesson, the infrastructure policy spokesman for the Center Party, said in a statement. Financing the traditional way over the budget each year, would mean that the project won't be finished until the 2090s, he said..The government is expected to present a proposal on the matter this spring..To contact the reporter on this story: Love Liman in Stockholm at firstname.lastname@example.com. .To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ven Ram at firstname.lastname@example.com, Jonas Bergman, Tasneem Hanfi Brögger .©2018 Bloomberg L.P.


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Trump promoting tax cuts, campaigning for GOP in Missouri
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Trying to turn attention back to tax cuts and away from the staffing turmoil in his administration, President Donald Trump promised Wednesday that more relief was on the way.
Speaking at a Boeing factory in St. Louis with two fighter jets as his backdrop, Trump celebrated the impact of the tax cuts he signed into law last year and said he was working with Congress on a second package that would deliver new benefits for companies and the middle class.
"We're now going for a phase two," he said. "It's going to be something very special. Kevin Brady's working on it with me."
It's unclear what Trump was talking about. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for more details, but Brady, the chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, told Fox Business Network he was indeed working on something with the president and "we think even more can be done."
"We want to make sure that we're encouraging innovation in America. We want to help families save for the long term," Brady said. "Also, while the tax cuts for families were long-term, they're not yet permanent. So we're going to address issues like that."
The Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday he has no interest in tax cleanup bill. "The way this tax bill was done, rushed through partisan in the dark of night, we don't have much of an inclination ... to just help them clean up the mess they made," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "Because they created it. What they did was very, very bad for the country."
Schumer said he'd be open to broader rewrite of tax bill. "We welcome the opportunity to have a bipartisan agreement on changing some of the bad parts of that tax bill."
The trip to Missouri came a day after Trump announced he had fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, with questions swirling about who is next to go. It also came as a closely watched special election in Pennsylvania — a district Trump won in a landslide in 2016 — remained too close to call, providing another wakeup call to Republicans about Democratic enthusiasm heading into November's midterm elections.
The trip served as a victory lap of sorts for a president who has struggled to rack up legislative wins. Trump launched his campaign for an overhaul of the nation's tax code at a Springfield, Missouri, manufacturing plant last August, and returned to the state to tout the benefits of the law, which slashed taxes for corporations while providing more modest breaks for middle-class families.
"Six months ago I promised that we would cut taxes to bring Main Street roaring all the way back and we did," Trump said. "We helped Wall Street, we helped Main Street, we helped everybody,"
Boeing, which employs about 14,000 people in the St. Louis area, announced it would make $300 million in new investments as a result of the overhaul. Increased military spending under Trump has also benefited the company, particularly its St. Louis operation, which produces the Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and Air Force F-15s.
During his visit, Trump eagerly inspected the cockpit of an EA-18 Growler, climbing a set of metal stairs to chat with Steve Schmidt, Boeing's lead test pilot.
He also heard from business leaders and workers from companies that have passed on their tax savings in the form of bonuses or higher wages.
At one point Trump noted he had asked Congress to provide funding for two dozen new F-18 jets — "To me, it's a work of art," he said — and joked with the head of Boeing that he's "working on price."
"Otherwise we're going to buy 'em from somebody else. But it will all be in the United States, right? ... What do you think, Dennis, are we going to make a deal?"
Dennis Muilenburg, the CEO of Boeing CEO told Trump, "We'll find a way."
Trump headlined a fundraiser for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. Hawley is running for the seat held by Democrat Claire McCaskill. Trump publicly endorsed him during a trip to the state in November.
Several mid-Missourians traveled to St. Louis to await the President's arrival on the tarmac. Matt Lutzy said he was ecstatic he had the opportunity to meet the President.
"Well it was amazing," he said. "I mean I'm 34 years old and I've never shaken the hands of any president, so to me, regardless of which political party you support or like, to be able to shake the hand of the president was a really neat moment."


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Web hosting provider 123-reg has been hit by a 30Gbps+ DDoS attack between 10.10am and 10.40am yesterday morning.
Its servers managed to stay online thanks to the company's DDoS protection, however critical applications such as email, control panels and websites (including 123-reg's own website) were down for a large number of customers.
The company said in a statement: "An attack of this size is very large, about 10 percent of DDoS attacks are in the 30Gbps range, and most of those are targeted at larger infrastructure providers rather than web hosts such as 123 Reg."
It went on to explain: "For those not knowing what a DDoS is, it can be viewed in many ways. An easy visualisation is motorway of traffic; if everyone decides to travel the M20 at the same time, traffic builds up. A DDoS in this example would be bringing millions of cars on to the motorway, causing a lot of traffic. Think of the recent hold-ups en-route to Dover a few weeks ago."
Wieland Alge, VP and GM EMEA at Barracuda Networks told SCMagazineUK.com: "30 minutes may seem like an effective response time against such a powerful DDoS attack, however a survey from IDC last year found that the average cost of critical application failure was between £375,000 to £750,000 per hour, so every second counts when critical systems like email are down.


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A Senior Manager with the Bank of Maharashtra, Ms. Ratna Ganpathi has also been responsible for rural development projects of the bank in five districts. She took the initiative to set up a legal aid centre for the rural women in Taluka Indapur. She has been involved with the empowerment if women through economic independence for many, many years.


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The Craze Behind Rooibos Red Tea3832202
What is it? Red Tea, which is also called Rooibos (in reference to the plant that it comes from), is a common South African tea. It is made from the oxidized and dried leaves of the "Aspalathis linearis" plant. The rooibos plant is grown in a area of South Africa, and in the summer time, the leaves are gathered, lightly beaten, and given a opportunity to oxidize. This procedure produces the red colour. Numerous Africans have utilized this tea for everything from inducing sleep in adults, to comforting upset guests, to cure babies with colic. This tea is known to have plenty of antioxidants, which assists the body combat disease-causing free-radicals.
Well being Advantages of Rooibos/Red Tea
o High flavonoid content o Low tannin content which is great for persons with digestive problems. This can be substantial for those with marginal iron intake o Caffeine-free o Protects against cardiovascular illness o Stopping diabetic vascular complications o Higher level of polyphenolic antioxidants o Soothes intestinal/colon & digestive issues
Rooibos Grades
Rooibos tea has a selection of grades. The grades are associated with how much of the leaf is in the tea compared to the quantity of the stem. With this tea, the much more leaves, the merrier! A higher leaf content material produces a darker, richer, tea.
How to Prepare Red Tea
You can prepare this tea in the same way as you would black tea. And the great component about this tea is the reality that it has no caffeine. Another fantastic characteristic of this tea is the fact that it doesn't turn out to be bitter when it's steeped for a lengthy time. The flavor of the tea is mildly sweet and earthy. It can be sweetened to taste with out affecting the benefits of the tea. You can even prepare iced tea, if you're searching for an option to sodas or sugary drinks. Please note nevertheless, that Red Tea is not the kind of tea that you are in a position to steep more than & over again. Now that you know a bit about this African favorite, why not attempt some these days?


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Religion and spirituality...WW1. Were the 'Black Hand' atheists. When Gabriel Byrne shot dead the Archduke of Edinburgh on the steps of?
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The plot of the upcoming film "Assassination" is thrilling enough in and of itself to be a box office success, but according to director Choi Dong-hoon, the aim of the movie is to tell the story of those who fought for justice in Korea's darkest era.
"I read a lot of books while preparing this movie," Choi said at a press conference at CGV Apgujeong on Monday. "When I was looking through photos of the independence fighters, I came across a lot of people that have gone down in history, but also photos of people whose names we would never know. It gave me a strange feeling. I began to wonder how they lived, where their courage came from. I wanted to make a film remembering those who should never be forgotten."
In order to bring those people to life, Choi, who helmed past hits like "Tazza: The High Rollers" (2006) and "The Thieves" (2012) brought together an all-star cast. Jun Ji-hyun (also known abroad as Gianna Jun) played the female shooter leading the assassination plot, while other key characters were played by A-listers such as Lee Jung-jae in the part of the mysterious mastermind, Ha Jung-woo in the part of the mercenary assassin, as well as Cho Jin-woong, Choi Duk-moon and Oh Dal-soo.
|The lead actors of upcoming film "Assassination" at a press conference at CGV Apgujeong, Monday. From left: Lee Jung-jae, Cho Jin-woong, Jun Ji-hyun, Choi Duk-moon and Ha Jung-woo. (Yonhap)
The film was long in the making. Choi first had the idea for the scenario while shooting "Tazza," and scrapped an earlier version of the script in order to create a movie with more depth.
"We actually spoke about the movie quite a bit when we were promoting 'The Thieves,'" said Jun. "When he told me about the film, I knew that it would be a truly unique story. I suggested a lot of different ideas to him, but when the final script came out I was so surprised. The characters were so diverse, and the plot was riveting. I was amazed that the story we had talked about could end up like this."
"Assassination" was filmed over five months in Shanghai and Seoul, with elaborate action scenes taking place on sprawling, lavish sets recreating the ambience of 1930s Gyeongseong (Seoul's name at the time) and the Provisional Government of Korea in Shanghai.
"I felt that the best environment for the actors to bring out their characters required accurate recreations of the clothing and spaces of the 1930s," Choi said.
All together, the film cost an impressive 18 billion won ($16 million) to make, bringing together Korea's top names in costuming, set design, lighting and production.
"The Korean independence movement was a long fight, with heroes that are unimaginable for ordinary people like me," Choi said. "I wanted to make this an entertaining film and a meaningful film. I tried my very best to express the rough, agonizing and lonely emotion of those years."
"Assassination" opens in local theaters on July 22.
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R graphical user interface (GUI) for people from beginners to professionals
You may consider R as a big calculator running on different operating systems (Windows, Apple, Unix...). The original interface for R is too simple, so many interfaces are developed for different needs. I will introduce three interfaces of R for people from beginners to professionals.
R commander- Running R like SPSSSPSS is probably the most popular point-and-click statistical software. R commander has similar function like SPSS and is very suitable for SPSS users or R beginners. Some examples could be found in the book, Discovering Statistics Using R and the book, Using the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R.
RExcel- Running R within ExcelIf you still feel uncomfortable about using the unfamiliar interface, why not trying using R within Excel? RExcel is just the add-in of Excel and you can use R to run more complex models just using Rexcel without seeing R. It also works seamlessly with R commander. Check the book, R through Excel , for more details.
RStudio- Running R like a proOnce you are more familiar with R codes, Rstudio is a great interface for debugging and integrating all the materials together.
Tinn-ROf course, some professionals prefer more functions like using colors to discriminate different codes. Another interesting function of Tinn-R is that it provides the function that let you copy the format of the code (including the color) for MS-Word like the following figure.
Recently, BlueSky Statistics offers an open source version of GUI for R. Might worth trying as well. http://www.blueskystatistics.com/category-s/118.htm
You can also try to use Sublime text.
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Monthly Archives: April 2018
God's Intent
A question that I have been pondering during this last year was prompted by the story in 2 Samuel 14, about the widow from Tekoa who is sent to David by Joab to facilitate Absalom's return to Jerusalem. Her statement … Continue reading
Greater, More Important Commands
There raged a debate in Jesus' day among those who enjoyed discussing Scripture. One day, as we might have guessed, someone asked the question of him. His answer is something that should school and inform our understanding of God. Teacher, … Continue reading
Things God Rejects
There have been times when God gets fed up with the worship of those who claim to be his people. Historically, it has had less to do with procedure than it has been with the behavior of those who worship. … Continue reading
The God Who Draws Us In
He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always accuse, neither will he keep his anger forever. He … Continue reading
What Do You Remember?
Along about the middle of July, I start thinking about my family. My father died the 16th of July and his father died on the 20th. In the middle of December my mind reflects on another loss. It seems that annual … Continue reading


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2019 Honda Pilot Vies For Top Honors In Full - Size Suv Class
Honda currently offers one of the strongest competitors in the three-row mid-size SUV segment with the Pilot; it may not be as exciting to look at or to drive as, say, a Mazda CX-9, but it offers plenty of space and practicality to big families.
For the 2019MY, the Pilot got a styling update, making it look a bit more distinctive thanks to a new fascia with redesigned LED headlights and fog lights and a restyled grille. The rear end follows suit with new taillights, a refreshed bumper and chrome accents.Power still comes from a 3.5-liter V6 that kicks out 280hp and 262lb-ft of torque. More expensive trim levels get an updated nine-speed automatic transmission, while the cheaper ones stick to a six-speed auto.The interior can seat eight adults in comfort, featuring all kinds of features that will help parents in keeping their kids calm and occupied, including a 4G LTE in-car Wi-Fi and a rear entertainment system with Blu-Ray and streaming video capability. Honda also offers the CabinTalk in-car PA system which helps the front passengers communicate more easily with those in the back.The instrument cluster features a seven-inch configurable display and there's a new infotainment system with Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, over-the-air updates and a physical volume knob. Is the 2019 Honda Pilot the ultimate family hauler for those who don't want a minivan? Let's see what Edmunds has to say about it.


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WIN Azari & III Tickets For White Heat Tonight
John Doran
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Quietus favourites Azari & III are playing a secret (well, not so secret any more) gig at White Heat in Soho tonight.
The full bill is minimal UK Funky duo 14th on stage at 8pm and then a full set from Azari & III at 9.30pm.
Their debut is a strong contender for one of our albums of the year. Read our interview with them here. And if you need a quick introduction, try this Soundcloud album sampler below:
Here is a taster for 14th in case you haven't heard them before:
14th - Hide Yourself EP by 14th
More details of the night are up at the White Heat Facebook page but if you want to win a couple of tickets all you have to do is answer the question below:
Which of the following songs is a track off Azari & III's excellent self-titled debut album?
A)Detached Retina
B)Tunnel Vision
C)Pink Eye
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An air-cooled Porsche 911 with a proper off-road suspension is a rather undeniably cool combo as it not only looks great -especially to rally fans- but also adds another layer to the character of the popular German sports car.
Safari-spec 911s are not a new idea of course as they draw inspiration from the numerous 911 rally cars of the past, like the Rothman 911 SC RS from the 1980s.
Matt Farah's new car is a 1987 Porsche 911 that has been converted to Safari specification by the Keen Project. The car features a four-inch lift on Elephant Racing suspension, a lighting pod on the bonnet, rally-style door mirrors, a roll bar, a rebuilt 3.2-liter motor paired to the G50 tranmission and more.
Matt wanted his Safari 911 for daily driving in the streets of LA so he opted for a pair of comfy bucket seats, a good audio system and of course kept all the amenities that you usually want from a daily driver.
Having so much more suspension travel can do wonders to a car's ride comfort, as Farah found out when he was driving his personal first-gen Ford Raptor a few years back. The Raptor's huge size however isn't what you would call friendly for urban driving duties. The 911 on the other hand has the right size and now with the Safari-spec mods, it also has that soft ride that irons bumps and imperfections while retaining the Porsche magic.
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I was up at 7.30am on a Sunday to make my way to Sentosa [that's on a whole different island, for those who don't know] for Tyra Banks' press con. The woman hosting the press conference was weird, but she was not why I woke up too early on a weekend.
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A sermon for St. Luke's and St. Francis House Episcopal Student Center on the 15th anniversary of 9/11. The readings for the day are these: Exodus 32:7-14; Psalm 51:1-11; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-10.
War should feel different from not being at war. You should know war when you're in it. But for the last thirteen years, at least, this country has been at war (by various congressional definitions), which means there's a good chance you and I have forgotten what it feels like not to be at war. It's like when the electricity goes out in your home, and the buzzing of all the electric appliances stops and you hear a silence more silent than what you had grown to call silence - and you discover you'd forgotten that a silence like this one was possible. For thirteen years, though, the buzzing hasn't stopped.
Truthfully, it has felt like war for longer. At least since 9/11. Fifteen years ago today. A friend reminded me the other day that this year's freshmen were three when it happened. So much for exchanging "Where were you when?" stories. Of course, 9/11 was murder, not war. But one Christian thinker suggests that we called it "war" to normalize the chaos. Because Americans are good at war. We can do war. War gives us confidence.
My children were born into war. They have never not known it. They have no memories of landing at the airport and exiting the plane while craning their necks to find loved ones come early to meet them at the gate. The letters "TSA" dominated our family's first travel experiences. Bedlam over stuffed animals forcibly relinquished and run through the requisite scanners. I am not one of those who thinks the added security steps are unnecessary. I appreciate the visible interest in our security. Still, when I was traveling through a crowded Chicago airport a couple of years ago and the security guard yelled out, "Keep your shoes on! Your government trust you! Your country trusts you! I don't trust you, but your government trusts you. Keep your shoes on!" I felt uncontrollable tears fill my eyes. You can be shaped by war even when the wars are fought far away.
I believe we can say we want the buzzing to stop without dishonoring this country's military, many of whom pray the prayer for lasting peace with an intensity I'll never know. In fact, I think defending war with appeals to this country's military personnel is worse than dishonest because it obscures the conflicts our servicemen and women carry. My grandfather served as a lieutenant colonel in the United States army. He fought in World War II and Korea. He would have fought in Vietnam, but my Granny said she'd leave him. He retired, reluctantly, and sold used cars, frequently to members of the great Dallas Cowboys teams of the 1970s, scoring occasional autographed souvenirs for my dad. My grandfather never talked about war. He drank about war. And carried the stories alone. He died of liver disease two years before I was born.
Today, the global movement "22Kill" is raising awareness toward the twenty-two veterans who take their own lives every day, suffering from PTSD and other mental health issues. Nevertheless, war remains the last, great bipartisan commitment.
But we are not here today to be partisan, or even bi-partisan. We are here to be a part of the kingdom of God. Shortly after 9/11, Christian theologian Stanley Hauerwas wrote,
…if there is anything to this Christian "stuff," it must surely involve the conviction that the Son would rather die on the cross than for the world to be redeemed by violence. Moreover, the defeat of death through resurrection makes possible as well as necessary that Christians live nonviolently in a world of violence. Christian nonviolence is not a strategy to rid the world of violence, but rather the way Christians must live in a world of violence. In short Christians are not nonviolent because we believe our nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but rather because faithful followers of Christ in a world of war cannot imagine being anything else than nonviolent.
Hauerwas thinks that peace is not just the absence of war but, for Christians, the presence of friendships that God, in Christ, has made possible. It's not a bad summary for the whole salvation story: God in Christ makes us friends of God and one another. That's short enough to tweet!
I'm willing to wager that each of us, in our lives, has at some point felt provoked to battle - literal or metaphorical; has felt flushed with emotion and triggered in the way of all creatures toward either fight or flight. And maybe it was comforting to call it war, to see no other way. The betrayal of a friend. The colleague or student who advances faster than we do, the resentments and obsessions that follow. The loss of a loved one. The allure of power. The prospect of failure. A break up. Impending uncertainty. Insecurity of all kinds. Financial distress. Even prosperity. And whatever it is, here, at this juncture, is our opportunity to choose the alternative to desperation and violence: to walk with Jesus Christ.
In his letter to the Philippians, Paul writes "Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near." And those sentences aren't together by accident. For Paul, where war and violence forget the nearness of God, gentleness and vulnerable engagement with the powers profess that Christ is at hand. Patience becomes the confession that God is present and can be trusted to act, even in the midst of disappointment and things we do not control. Finally then, for Paul, worship and prayer become the most truthful things Christians can do.
Which leads us at last to our gospel. In Luke's gospel today, Jesus describes God's faithfulness to God's promise. It's the same promise Moses holds up to God in our reading from Exodus, which is the same promise God made to Abraham: y'all are gonna be my children, are gonna flourish and shine like a light that's gonna keep your neighbors up at night. Y'all are gonna be like the stars and shine in the sky and people will see things they didn't see before you came along by your light. Beautiful things that will bless them. "God," Moses interrupts, generations later, "We, no, they, um, your children, how do I say this? They built a cow out of grandma's wedding band and some other stuff and said that was just as good as your promise of stars, just as shiny, but, um, before you smash us all to pieces, let me humbly remind you that, even so, you made a promise to bless, keep, and flourish them." And so, more centuries later, Jesus describes God as a widow with a broom in her hand, scouring the floor for the one that got away; as a shepherd who, just as he's about to call it a night, counts the sheep one more time. One's missing. In an instant, he's back in the hills.
The biggest thing about faithfulness in Luke's gospel is that it doesn't primarily refer to the faithfulness of Jesus' followers. Faithfulness describes God's commitment to God's people, no matter what else they do or don't do. God is the shepherd. God is a widow with a broom in her hand. You are a coin. Me, too! And it's assumed we sometimes get spun on our heads; that we need help; that repentance and forgiveness and new life and mercy and the pursuit of these things are vital to what the life of the kingdom, with God, will mean.
And maybe you've already felt it. I'm almost sure you have. One day, some day, recently or long ago, you looked up, and heard a strange sound, a sound you would later call broom bristles against the tile. Maybe you felt the surprising and initially uncomfortable push of the straw on your back, only to find yourself, moments later, swept up in awe. Into the hands of the One who sought you and loves you, whose love makes you lovely. Who came after you. Who found you. Maybe you've felt the pull, the gravity, of God's reconciling work in your life: you, even you, swept up and gathered into the purposes of God. Maybe you have tasted the forgiveness that comes from the prayer when the psalmist sings, "Purge me from my sin, and I shall be pure; wash me, and I shall be clean indeed. Make me hear of joy and gladness, that the body you have broken may rejoice."
God in Christ makes us friends of God and one another. Friends are those people who are learning to care about the things the people they care about care about. We are friends of God! He's found us. Thanks be to God.
Lord, trusting your friendship, make us gentle toward ourselves, gentle toward one another, and gentle toward you. Show us where we do not yet trust you as we could, and then show us your joy, that we may share it generously for your sake and be surprised. Finally, give us your peace, still the buzzing in our hearts, that we may be your peace in this world. We ask these things in Jesus' Name.


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Moniek Tromp wins NWO Athena Prize 2017
Chemist Moniek Tromp will receive the Athena Prize 2017 from NWO on 6 December 2017 during the chemistry congress CHAINS. The prize rewards excellent female chemists who act as a role model for other researchers. Dr Tromp receives the Athena Prize for her originality and creativity in her line of research as well as for her prolonged and bold efforts for gender equality in both the academic world and primary schools.
NWO advocates permanent funding for national digital infrastructure
In a report entitled 'Excellent research requires excellent infrastructure', the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) advises the new government to make an extra €27 million per year available for the Netherlands' national digital infrastructure. According to the NWO Committee who produced the report, this is essential if the country is to remain among the best in the world in this area and if it is to meet Dutch researchers' growing need for digital infrastructures.
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Topological insulators: one glimpse is enough
The Nobel Prize for physics in 2016 was awarded for the theory of topological matter. Topological insulators are new materials with special electronic properties and are of great fundamental and applications-oriented interest. Nevertheless, physicists have wrestled with a ten-year-old puzzle in which the results from the two best methods to probe their electronic states disagree. Researchers from Amsterdam, including two FOM-funded PhD candidates, with collaborators in France, Switzerland and Germany now know exactly why.
32 million euro for top-level technological research
In the coming years almost a hundred researchers are going to develop innovative technologies together with industry and social organisations. That will happen in six new Perspectief programmes, which have been given the green light by NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The programmes should lead to a new 3D printer for large metal components, more efficient deep-learning systems, extreme microscopy, new bacteria for the chemical industry, injury-free exercise and wearable robotics for people suffering from muscular disorders.
NWO institutes ASTRON, CWI, NIOZ, NSCR, SRON and NWO-I to merge with effect from 1 January 2018
In October and November 2017, the boards of ASTRON, CWI, NIOZ, NSCR, SRON and NWO-I decided to merge. With this step, the decision-making process concerning the legal merger has been successfully completed. On 31 December 2017, the solicitor will execute the merger deed, upon which the merger will be a fact on 1 January 2018.
A cellular traffic jam
To keep a cell alive, molecular motor proteins constantly transport building blocks and waste across the cell, along its biopolymer network. Because of the high density of these proteins, jamming effects are believed to affect this transport, just like traffic jams affect street traffic. However, not much is known about such crowding effects in cellular traffic. Researchers in the groups of Erwin Peterman and Peter Schall at the LaserLaB (VU) and the Institute of Physics (UvA) have now found a way to directly visualize and measure these jamming effects in cellular traffic. Their results, which have been published in Physical Review X this week, yield new insight into motor interactions in the crowded molecular motor transport. This project is receiving funding from NWO's Complexity programme.
Innovations in art research can aid forensic science
In a special collaboration within NICAS the TU Delft, the Rijksmuseum, the UvA en the NFI have introduced a new method for detecting 'hard to find' and concealed forensic traces using a technique designed for cultural heritage research. The results have now been officially published in Nature's open access journal Scientific Reports. The Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science (NICAS) was among others initiated in collaboration with NWO.
GrapheneX starts experiments with graphene as a material for light sails
This week, GrapheneX, a team of four young researchers from TU Delft, is doing a series of experiments in a weightless environment. The aim is to test graphene as a material for a so-called light sail, which may be used to propel spacecrafts in the future. The researchers hope to show that the ultra-thin material is suitable for this purpose.
Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry awards PhD project to David Klein
The Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has honored a proposal for PhD research written by chemistry student David Klein of Leiden University. It is the result of his participation in the HRSMC Excellence Master's programme. David will start his PhD research in December, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO.


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