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Amitava Datta received the MTech(1988) and PhD(1992) degrees in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He did his postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, University of Freiburg and University of Hagen, all in Germany. He joined the University of New England, Australia, in 1995 and, subsequently, the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia in 1998. In 2001, he was a visiting professor at the Computer Science Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany, supported by a fellowship from DAAD. His research interests are in parallel processing, reconfigurable computing, optical computing ,computer graphics and multimedia systems. He has served in the program committees for the 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) in 2001 and 9th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing in 2002. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.
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Tips After Your Wisdom Teeth Get Removed
You may have heard people talk about having their wisdom teeth pulled. What are wisdom teeth? Wisdom teeth are a set of molars that usually form in the back of your mouth when you're between 17 and 25. Several people have wisdom teeth taken out for a few different reasons.
The first reason is based on their location. Because wisdom teeth are in the very back of your mouth, they may not form properly. Your jawbone or gums may end up trapping them, causing you great pain. The next reason for having your wisdom teeth pulled is because they may form at an incorrect angle, putting pressure against your other teeth, and your mouth may not have enough room for another group of molars. Finally, checking for cavities is really important. Otherwise, your wisdom teeth may cavities or the area may be infected with gum disease since they are often too far back to reach with a toothbrush or dental floss, so they will have to be pulled (webmd.com, 2017).
If you need your wisdom teeth removed, Foothill Dental Care in Livermore can provide the help you need. Call us at (925) 961-5484 today or visit us online to schedule an appointment for a Livermore dentist today.
It often takes as long as two weeks to recover once a patient's wisdom teeth are removed. The healing process is divided into these stages.
- Blood clots will appear within the first 24 hours.
- In 2 to 3 days, the mouth and cheek's swelling should decrease.
- After 7 days, a dentist can take out any remaining stitches.
- After 2 weeks, any existing facial bruises should heal
Stages of healing provided by (medicalnewstoday.com, 2018).
What do I do after having my wisdom teeth pulled?
In order to keep these clots intact, there are a few important things one should not do during the first 24 hours. Do not brush the teeth beside the extraction site, rinse out your mouth, consume hot beverages, or eat food that forces you to chew. It's best to eat soft foods such as yogurt, soups, puddings, etc. You should also abstain from sucking on straws, smoking, or drinking alcohol for a minimum of 24 hours.
Biting a small gauze pad for roughly 30 minutes may help with extraction. Also, you can use an ice pack for the first few hours after the procedure. If you've been given general anesthetic, you not be able to drive or operate any heavy machinery for about two days. In fact, you may want to take a couple days off work after the procedure.
Keeping the wound clean after surgery is important. Follow these steps to maintain a clean wound:
- Use an antiseptic mouthwash to rinse to avoid infection.
- Salt and warm water are great to rinse with to reduce swelling and soothe the area.
- Be sure to keep your head elevated when you sleep. This will help you sleep.
In certain cases, home remedies may prove useful for decreasing tooth pain. Here are some ideas for home remedies:
- Clove oil can act as a natural numbing agent from the eugenol.
- Saltwater can help with fighting bacterial infections.
- Garlic can help with preventing bacterial growth and infecting the wound. Try tea bags.
- Peppermint tea can also help numb the pain. Try placing cooled tea bags on the painful areas.
If you need your wisdom teeth removed, Foothill Dental Care in Livermore can provide the help you need. Call us at (925) 961-5484 today or visit us online to schedule an appointment today.

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Valtteri Bottas says Mercedes needs an upgrade to solve the handling issues discovered during the first run of its new 2019 Formula 1 challenger in testing at Barcelona last week
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To my medical colleagues, fellow health advocates, and concerned community:
As the recent measles outbreak continues to spread, spurred largely by at-risk, unvaccinated or undervaccinated children and adults, it is time to elevate our voice as physicians, scientists, and health advocates to educate the public on the importance of immunization. Let's counter the misinformation dominating the headlines with the truth about vaccines!
10 Minutes For Truth: Measles
This Friday, Feb 6, 8am PST/11am EST, join the American Academy of Pediatrics, physicians, scientists, and health advocates across the nation in a live Twitter and Facebook storm. For 10 minutes, let's sound off on measles and why vaccines are vital for the health of America!
The Hashtag
Use the hashtag #10Minutes4Truth AND #MeaslesTruth to create a social media storm. Let's get the truth about measles trending!
What Should you Tweet or Facebook?
It is important to share the power of science in communicating this message. But also consider personalizing your content, ie "I immunize myself or my children because…" OR "Ask your pediatrician if they immunized their children on time?"
Consider referencing these informational links in your message:
- AAP statement urging parents to immunize
- Do moms and dads need a MMR? from pediatrician Dr Natasha Burgert
- 7 Tips for parents of infants during an outbreak from pediatrician Dr Wendy Sue Swanson
- CDC MMR vaccine information
- AAP tips on addressing parents' concerns
- AAP information on MMR safety
- AAP curated MMR vaccine talking points
- HealthyChildren.org website, How to Protect Your Children During a Measles Outbreak
- Institute of Medicine's recent report on Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety.
- After 1 dose of MMR 95% of toddlers are protected, after 2 doses over 99% of children are protected from measles for a lifetime
- Getting the measles vaccine is much safer than getting the measles infection.
- The MMR vaccine is one of the most effective vaccines available today.
- The risk of the measles vaccine causing serious harm is extremely small – less than one in a million people who receive the vaccine will experience a severe reaction.
- 1 to 2 in every 1,000 people who get measles will die from it. Children under age 5 are at higher risk for complications like pneumonia
- Measles is one of the most contagious viruses on earth.
- Measles remains infective in the air for up to 2 hours in a room after an infected person has been there.
The time is now. Raise your voice and spread the truth! #10Minutes4Truth #MeaslesTruth
Also, we want our impact to be as big as possible, so please share this with your networks, colleagues, and fellow advocates. Thank you!
Rhea W Boyd, MD
Pediatrician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and UCSF Children's Hospital Oakland
Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE, FAAP
Pediatrician, Seattle Children's Hospital


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In the wake of recent revelations about the way Facebook data has been used, the general public is expressing increased concern over data privacy. This concern will impact radio stations, as listeners will come to expect that any data they provide through their favorite radio station's website will be kept secure. In light of these concerns, it is more important than ever that radio stations secure their websites.
When we talk about "secure websites," we mean that the data passed between the computer that a website originates from and the computer with the browser displaying the site is scrambled. If somebody else accesses the data as it is passed from one computer to the other, they will only be able to see a string of characters, and they will not be able to make any sense of it.
Insecure website URLs begin with "http://," while secure website URLs begin with "https://." The extra letter 's' stands for 'secure,' and signifies that the website is using an SSL Certificate (a special set of files) to encrypt its data. When you visit a secure website, you will see a green padlock displayed in your browser's URL bar to indicate that the site is secure.
If your radio station's website is not currently secured with an SSL certificate, here's why your webmaster should secure it:
1. Your Station is Asking Listeners for Personal Data
Your radio station is probably asking your listeners to provide data through its website, whether it's inviting them to register for the email database or to enter a contest. Ensuring that listeners' data is safe is not only the ethical thing to do, but it's the smart thing to do as well. It reduces your station's risk of everything from lawsuits to PR debacles.
2. Browsers Will Scare Listeners Away from Insecure Websites
Increasingly, web browsers are going to do more to let people know that they are visiting insecure websites. Currently, if you use Google Chrome to visit an insecure site, the browser labels it with a grey "info" icon in the URL bar. In the near future, Chrome will label insecure websites with red warning icons. These new labels will discourage listeners from entering personal information into your station website, and you will likely see a drop off in email signups and contest entries.
3. It Will Impact Your Ranking in Google's Search Results
For years, Google has indicated that it will take a website's security into consideration when deciding which ones to list at the top of its search results. If your website is not secure, you could be losing traffic to similar sites because Google would rather send people to a site that will provide people with a safer experience.
Securing a website is usually not a difficult process. If you haven't secured your radio station's site, now is the time to talk to your web developer about doing it.
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The Cisco® Catalyst® 3850 Series is the next generation of enterprise-class stackable access-layer switches that provide full convergence between wired and wireless on a single platform. Cisco's new Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) powers the switch and enables uniform wired plus wireless policy enforcement, application visibility, and application optimization. This convergence is built on the resilience of the new and improved Cisco StackWise-480. The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches support full IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (UPOE), modular and field-replaceable network modules, redundant fans, and power supplies.
Product Overview
Integrated wireless controller capability with:
Up to 40G of wireless capacity per switch (48 port models)
Up to 50 access points (APs) and 2000 wireless clients support on each switching entity (switch or stack)
24 and 48 10/100/1000 data and Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) models with Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
Cisco StackWise®-480 technology provides scalability and resiliency with 480 Gbps of stack throughput
Cisco StackPower!22 technology provides power stacking among stack members for power redundancy
Three optional uplink modules with 4 x Gigabit Ethernet, 2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
Dual redundant, modular power supplies and three modular fans providing redundancy
Full IEEE 802.3at (PoE+) with 30W power on all ports in 1 rack unit (RU) form factor
Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (UPOE) which delivers up to 60W per port over standard cabling infrastructure
Software support for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, Multicast routing, modular quality of service (QoS), Flexible NetFlow (FnF) Version 9, and enhanced security features
Single Universal IOS image across all license levels, providing an easy upgrade path for software features
Enhanced limited lifetime warranty (E-LLW) with next business day (NBD) advance hardware replacement and 90-day access to Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support
Converged Wired plus Wireless Access
Mobility agent (MA): This is the default mode in which the Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch ships. In this mode the switch is capable of terminating the CAPWAP tunnels from the access points and providing wireless connectivity to wireless clients. Maintaining wireless client databases and configuring and enforcing security and QoS policies for wireless clients and access points can be enforced in this mode. No additional license on top of IP Base is required to operate in the mobility agent mode.
Mobility controller (MC): In this mode, the Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch can perform all the mobility agent tasks in addition to mobility coordination, radio resource management (RRM), and Cisco CleanAir®coordination within a mobility subdomain. The mobility controller mode can be enabled on the switch CLI. IP Base license level is required when the Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch is acting as the mobility controller. A centrally located Cisco 5508 Wireless LAN Controller (WLC 5508), Cisco Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2) (when running AireOS Version 7.3), and Wireless LAN Controller 5760 can also perform this role for larger deployments.
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For Dinner: 10 Courses of Edible Insects, From Chef Logan Ely
Raise your hand if you're grossed out at the prospect of chowing down on an insect. Did you know that two billion people on the planet eat insects on a regular basis? Each of the 1,900 edible insect species has a different flavor and all of them are packed with fiber, protein, good fats and minerals.
And they are actually quite tasty. Cooking with insects is really more akin to cooking with spices — they add flavor and blend in with the main dish.
That was on display Tuesday night at a benefit dinner for the St. Louis Metro Market, An Evening of Edible Insects. Chef Logan Ely and his team of brothers, Eric and Chris Tirone, of Square1 Project served up an adventurous ten-course meal with each course featuring one or more insects in inspired flavor pairings. Says Ely, "What's not to love about insects?"
The meal had been under preparation for months. Even the insects required meticulous sourcing. As edible insects are not generally available in the metro area, the ants and crickets came from Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch. The scorpions? From Savage Scorpions in Blue Springs, Missouri.
The thirteen guests in the evening's first seating were greeted with Logan's playful welcome, "We have some fun things planned for tonight!" Yes, if you're into invertebrates.
For the first four courses, guests were served a dry sparkling wine. Paired with that in the first course? Puffy shrimp chicharrones, flavored with powdered dill and crickets.
The course was presented a bit like a flower arrangement for the table. The crisp, light pieces were akin to fried pork rinds.
For the second course, crispy tofu spheres made with blended scorpions were paired with raw jicama spheres and served with a cucumber jelly (cucumber juice seasoned with lemon) and topped with toasted nori seaweed oil and green tomato juice.
Up next for the third course was a refreshing cold lettuce roll filled with cricket soba noodles made with black garlic oil and weaver ant miso, soaked in fermented crickets and sprayed with a coriander mist.
The fourth course was served elegantly in oyster shells warmed in dairy and fennel oil, with artichokes cooked in grasshopper oil and toasted weaver ant miso.
In the fifth course, paired with sauvignon blanc, beautifully mandolined sweet potatoes were reassembled and cooked in a paste of scorpions and ants with aged beef fat and fennel. They were served in the same yogurt-style sauce for a richly satisfying dish.
In the sixth course, summer squash cooked in a broth of all of the insects was dehydrated and then rehydrated with green garlic top butter and topped with grated cured egg yolks. A summer squash miso was served on the side.
In the seventh course, beet root cooked in pork fat was served with a beet béarnaise made with black Chinese ants and topped with grated beef heart.
The next course was paired with Saison de Lis, a Belgian-style beer from local Perennial Artisan Ales.
In the eighth course, a duroc pork rib was coated in a barbecue sauce made with candied scorpions and malt vinegar and topped with sprouted lentils and a weaver ant garam masala spice.
Then dessert was served. In the first of two dessert courses, a delicate frozen elderberry cream with white chocolate was topped with a dark chocolate crumble and black Chinese ants.
The final, tenth, course of the night consisted of lightly whipped cream infused with herbs topped with a semi-frozen granita made with allspice leaves and powdered fig leaf with cricket powder on top and sprayed with a peppermint leaf mist.
As a parting gift, our last taste included no insects. It was a delightfully crisp digestif of homemade vermouth, ginger beer and lime juice.
Turnip Tuesdays is a dinner series hosted by the St. Louis Metro Market, a non-profit, mobile grocery store that provides access to healthy, affordable food in city and county food deserts. The events feature collaborations with local chefs.


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We love introducing new rides and roads to you and are so happy to have invited Mobile's Gears & Beers: Bayou 100! Support the Delta Bike Project by pedaling 10, 30, 63 or 101 miles (draft route with just over 1300′ of climbing!). Headquarters at Loda Bier Garten and yes, there will be beer, food, support, mechanics, fantastic rest stops (including one we'll tell you about later)!
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How can you perfect animal portraits?
Get in touch with your questions and we might answer yours!
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Create artwork in the style of Andreas Preis, with this tutorial written by the man himself
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French concept artist Florian reveals how perspective and the Brush tool play a big part in creating his cool underwater images
Explore various blend modes, and layer up textures and colours to create a unique double-exposure effect
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Use Photoshop to put together all the wonders of America into a single suitcase for the ultimate travel composition
1. The basic drawing
To begin with, I found a reference image that I wanted to paint in Photoshop. I used the Brush tool and copied it onto my canvas in just basic shades, using a little bit of creative license to interpret the image as a different character.
2. Painting the portrait
The next stage was to begin adding more colour and applying more brushes. I started shading, I gave some colour to the hair and then added a little texture to the background. This is where the subject starts taking shape.
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From Abigail Smith Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 16 May 1800
philadelphia May 16 1800
my dear sister
I have been expecting to get a Letter from you for Several days: I am the more anxious to hear from you as you wrote me in your last, that mr Cranch had got one of his bad Colds. I intended to have left this city to day, but the president having determined to visit Washington I could not think of taking the Coachman who has experience of his horses and is a sober good man. tho the president urged me to, I know he will be exposed to troops & calvacades &c I had therefore a new Coachman to seek, and Such a one as I could rely upon was not to be obtaind in a day. I have now Succeedd and expect to leave here on monday noon, to make my usual Stage of 18 miles to Bristol on that day. I shall travel Slow, and probably be a fortnight upon my journey—I Shall write you, and let you know my progress. We had yesterday very excessive heat till four oclock when we had rain, and this morning a fine clear air which makes me regreet that I cannot get away—
you will see and hear of Some important changes in the Cabinet, which will make a great sensation in many places I expect. but a cabinet should be united & harmonize, or like a house divided against itself it cannot Stand—great and weighty Subjects of vast importance both with England and France are before our Country—and require the best of talents, and <
the> a unity of Sentiment and action to conduct them with Safety
Mrs Johnson got home well I had a Letter from her yesterday. She writes me that mr Cranch and family were well—
I hope the vessel has arrived with the Hearths and that proper care will be taken to get them home Safe—I Shall be obliged to request your care to See that my House is in Some order; and to have some articles provided for me of which I will write you. you may get any help you may want to clean it &c I will be answerable to them. mrs Porter has so much on hand that I cannot ask her to do any thing about it—
adieu my dear sister
affectionatly yours
Abigail Adams
just as I had closed my Letter I received yours of May 18th I am grieved to hear that you have had so Sick a family. colds have been frequent here, but not So bad as with you. we have had great rains also. I will not trouble you with my affairs So do not take any concern about them, as the president does not come with me I can make such arrangements when I get home <
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Green – concerned with or relating to conservation of the world's natural resources and improvement of the environment.
Remodel – to reconstruct, make over. (from dictionary.com)
From these definitions, Green Remodeling could be summed up as a make-over which takes into account conservation of natural resources and improvement of the environment. A pretty good definition. Remodeling, in and of itself, is inherently "green," simply by the virtue of re-using an existing structure. "Remodeling is green by nature. The essence of remodeling means extending the useful life of a structure – in other words, recycling your whole house (or most of it)." (From Practical Green Remodeling, by Barry Katz, p. 49.) With over 128 million housing units, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, green remodeling is on the brink of a revolution. If a house has "good bones" – is architecturally sound, has a workable layout and in a desired location – it may be a good candidate for a green remodel. But then what?
ReGreen (from www.ReGreenProgram.org)
The REGREEN program was created through a partnership between the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Foundation and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). REGREEN offers a set of Remodeling Guidelines which address the major elements of a green renovation or remodeling project – from kitchens and baths to deep energy retrofits.
These elements include "the site of the home, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, material and resources, and indoor environmental quality. The guidelines blend product selection, building systems integration and proven technologies into a seamless compilation of green strategies and case studies for the homeowner, builder and design professional." from the The REGREEN website www.ReGreenProgram.org.
Green Home Remodeling and Renovations with the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS)(tm)
The ICC 700 National Green Building Standard™ (NGBS) provides practices for the design, construction and certification of remodels and renovations (as well as new construction) of single and multi-family homes. It is the only residential green building rating system approved by ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, as an American National Standard.
Any home certified must meet mandatory provisions and include sufficient green building practices in each of the six categories to meet the category minimums for one of the four green certification levels. It also offers home remodelers/builders an affordable process to remodel/renovate green homes that meets their goals, are appropriate for their specific climate, and meet the needs of their particular market and home buyers.
Benefits Of Green Remodeling
Green remodeling is making big headway in the housing market. Because most do not wish to, or cannot afford to build a new, green home from scratch, many are choosing to make improvements to their existing homes with green technologies. This obviously has an impact on both short-term and long-term homeowners and the housing industry as well.
As remodeling contractors are constantly being presented with new, greener, ways to update existing homes, it is important to draw attention to the benefits of green remodeling.
Going green is good for both your health and that of your family. The benefits have been found to be physical and emotional. Making educated design choices can make your home a healthier, more comfortable space, and add to your overall quality of life.
Community is a big part of going green. The impact your home has on your community as a whole, can be greatly reduced by features that are added during remodeling. Some features of a green home can minimize the strain on landfills, water treatment plants, power plants along with other parts of local infrastructure.
Green remodeling reduces the overall impact on our environment and helps to slow depletion. Remember, even the small steps make a big difference.
And to wrap it up…The Financial Payback
It is well documented that energy-efficient home systems can have a very quick impact on your utility bills. This is due to most efficient appliances using up to 50 percent less energy than older, more wasteful models. But it is also important to take into account that efficient and durable materials last longer and cost less to maintain over their lifetimes.
Green remodeling has been shown to increase the resale value of homes. There have been many studies that demonstrate homebuyers are paying attention to the green aspects when shopping for houses. More than 90 percent of home buyers say they are willing to pay more for a home with green components because they realize the extra value they offer.
Also, a big THANKS to our speakers Kay Hagan, Patty Maher, and Brad Roell for the education at the event Green Remodeling and Interiors -A Cure for the Common House.


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Join us for a glass of wine and a fantastic cookery demo by Dan
Toombs The Curry Guy. Dan will also be signing copies of his new
book The Curry Guy Easy. £12.99
Venue. Winstone's Sherborne, 10th May 7pm
The Curry Guy Easy : 100 fuss-free British Indian Restaurant classics
to make at home by Dan Toombs
Dan Toombs (aka The Curry Guy) has perfected the art of replicating British Indian Restaurant (BIR) cooking. After travelling around the UK, sampling dishes, learning the curry house kitchen secrets and refining those recipes at home, Dan has created recipes that taste just like a takeaway from your favourite local but in less time and for less money.
In his highly anticipated new book, Curry Guy Easy, Dan shares the secrets of fuss-free curries, ones that can be made in half the time but still taste as good as the takeaway. Dan has been besieged by requests for more curry house favourites, ones that can be cooked with very little equipment and faff, and without all the need for complex restaurant preparation.
Here he shares long-awaited recipes for the likes of Chicken 65, Black Dhal, Aloo Chaat, Simple Dosas, Prawn Balti, Lamb Keema Saag, and many more. Whether it's getting your curry cooked and on the table speedily, or doing minimal chopping and mixing before popping into a pan to simmer away happily, Dan's dishes mean you spend less time on the washing-up and more on the enjoyment of eating. For BIR food lovers all over the world, this is an essential guide to making their favourite recipes at home.
Dan has spent years researching the methods and secrets of Indian chefs and here he distills that knowledge into a fabulous collection of 100 simple, delectable dishes.


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Texas school board dumps wrong Martin from schoolbook
What do the authors of the children's book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and a 2008 book called Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation have in common?
Both are named Bill Martin and, for now, neither is being added to Texas schoolbooks.
In their haste to sort out the state's social studies curriculum standards last week, the State Board of Education tossed children's author Martin, who died in 2004, from a proposal for the third-grade section. Board member Pat Hardy, who made the motion, cited books he had written for adults that contain "very strong critiques of capitalism and the American system."
Trouble is, the Bill Martin Jr. who wrote the Brown Bear series never wrote anything political, unless you count a book that taught kids how to say the Pledge of Allegiance, his friends said this week. The book on Marxism was written by Bill Martin, a philosophy professor at DePaul University in Chicago.
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text: India says coal reforms to go on after workers end strikeGovernment to form committee for union concernsBy Krishna N. Das / Reuters01/08/2015|labour-reporter.com|Last Updated: 01/08/2015 NEW DELHI (Reuters) — India will stick to its plans to open up the coal industry to private firms and sell a stake in state-run Coal India Ltd, despite the resistance by mine workers, the country's coal and power minister said on Thursday. The five mineworker unions of the world's largest coal miner called off a five-day strike in its second day on Wednesday, after coal and power minister Piyush Goyal assured them a committee would be formed to address their concerns.The strike had been seen as a test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's resolve to push through tough economic reforms.Mineworkers fear the entry of private companies will pressure Coal India to reduce costs, eventually leading to pay and job cuts at the inefficient state behemoth that accounts for about 80 per cent of the country's total output.Coal fuels 60 per cent of India's power production and worker strikes have previously crippled power plants."If they have any concerns they are always open to further discussions and dialogue." Goyal told a news conference."(But) there is absolutely no change in any of our plans."RELATED ARTICLESTalks resume as UAW strike against GM enters second dayGM faces losses of $50 million a day as UAW strikesOntario CUPE members vote 93 per cent in favour of strikeGoyal said increasing competition is key to meeting demand for cheap coal and realising Prime Minister Modi's goal of supplying round-the-clock power to India's 1.2 billion people by 2019.The country still has 280 million people living without power in 56 million homes, Goyal said.In late December, Modi resorted to a rarely-used executive decree to implement coal reforms that would allow an auction of coal mines and lead to private companies commercially mining the fuel for the first time in 42 years.The government is also looking to divest a 10 per cent stake in Coal India in a sell-off drive to meet its budgetary needs.Goyal said he hoped the formation of the committee will help Coal India workers air their views so that they "do not have to go on strike again".S.Q Zama, secretary general of the Indian National Mineworkers Federation, said that though Goyal did not agree to consider reversing the decision on commercial mining, workers were relieved that the government will not fully privatise Coal India as many had feared.The first two days of the strike led to a production loss of about 1 million tonnes for Coal India, which normally produces about 1.4 million tonnes a day during this time of year.Goyal said the unionised miners have promised to help make up for the loss. Add Comment * Title * Name * Email Anonymous * Comment


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A Tramp Abroad
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Mark Twain
Narrated By: Grover Gardner
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: March 2011
Duration: 14 hours 15 minutes
In April 1878, Mark Twain and his family traveled to Europe. Overloaded with creative ideas, Twain had hoped that the sojourn would spark his creativity enough to bring at least one of the books in his head to fruition. Instead, he wrote of his walking tour of Europe, describing his impressions of the Black Forest, the Matterhorn, and other attractions. Neglected for years, A Tramp Abroad sparkles with Twain's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and England, A Tramp Abroad includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mont Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art'a wholly imagined activity Twain 'authenticated' with his own wonderfully primitive pictures. This book reveals Mark Twain as a mature writer and is filled with brilliant prose, insightful wit, and Twain's unerring instinct for the truth.
'[A Tramp Abroad] is delicious, whether you open it at the sojourn in Heidelberg, or the voyage down the Neckar on a raft, or the mountaineering in Switzerland, or the excursion beyond the Alps into Italy.''William Dean Howells


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Cuts to the EPA's Funding Cuts Out the Prioritization of Human Health
The Environmental Protection Agency represents an essential mechanism in the overall health of the United States, its citizens, and the larger planet itself. Through developing and enforcing regulations, funding local and statewide environmental programs, studying and publishing research regarding environmental topics, and educating the public on environmental care and consciousness, the EPA impacts the daily lives of all Americans and their overall health and quality of life.[1] According to the agency, one of its top goals is to ensure that "all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work."[1] However, despite this logical and essential mission, recent developments in the political sphere threaten to disrupt the EPA's ability to operate effectively. In the process, the overall health of our country could be threatened, meaning that changing environmental policy and funding not only poses an issue for proper protection of the environment, but also unearths an ethical issue: choosing political motivations in business and war at the potential expense of citizens' health.
President Trump's administration plans to cut 25% of the EPA's annual budget, dropping it from $8.2 billion to $6.1 billion, and reduce the agency's staff by about one-fifth, from 15,000 to 12,000.[2] Further, under Trump's plan, 38 individual environmental programs would be completely gutted, in effect stalling environmental efforts in many sectors and areas across the nation at a time when environmental awareness and protection efforts are incredibly essential.[2] For instance, grants to restore brownfield sites, 25,000 of which have received funding to clean up toxic waste and contaminants, would disappear despite the existence of an estimated 450,000 brownfields nationwide.[2] Funding to reduce marine pollution would be scrapped, impacting cleanup efforts in waterways including the Great Lakes.[3] In fact, the Chesapeake Bay cleanup, a focus of many environmentalists due to the estuary's size and connection to many smaller bodies of water, is on track to receive a mere $5 million in funding next fiscal year, compared to the current amount of $73 million.[2] All of these changes will prevent the EPA from fully achieving its objectives, despite the growing support within the scientific community of increased environmental regulation to save and restore the planet. Science and politics, it appears, are at odds.
Despite these drastic changes in the EPA's funding, Trump has stated that he wants to promote clean air and water.[4] The responsibility of ensuring clean air and water largely falls on the states, a designation supported by Trump and new EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, both of whom see the issue of environmental protection as best left to the states.[4] However, the proposed adjustments of the EPA's funding would reduce state grants by roughly 30%, meaning that grants to support the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act would be reduced.[4] These laws are crucial tools in controlling US pollution and ensuring citizens' safety both now and in years to come. In cutting funding, the government would thereby threaten the overall health of the US population. Environmental programs such as those created under the Obama Administration are there for a reason: modern technology, factories, big business, transportation, and fuels all threaten the livability of the country and therefore must be a fundamental concern for the government. Cutting the EPA's funding is consequently ethically questionable, as the decreased budget signifies a direct threat to the environment, quality of air and water, and thus human health.
While cutting EPA funding is ethically problematic, the intended use of the money saved through crippling the EPA is also questionable. According to a document summarizing the intended plans, "the administration's 2018 budget blueprint will prioritize rebuilding the military and making critical investments in the nation's security," as Trump's administration hopes to pump an additional $54 billion into the Department of Defense.[2,5] However, US defense already has a budget of nearly $600 billion compared to the EPA's meagre budget of $8.2 million.[3] The Trump Administration noted that its plan regarding the EPA will help "identify the savings and efficiencies needed to keep the nation on a responsible fiscal path."[2] Yet, EPA spending makes up just 0.2% of total mandatory annual spending for the US government, meaning cutting its finding will barely make a dent in economically assisting Trump's military goals, while simultaneously taking away key programs, grants, and outcomes made possible by the EPA.[5] In fact, if the money saved on the EPA were to be used for the Department of Defense, it would provide funding for just over 30 hours of military activity.[5] This small window of time would thus be gained at the sacrifice of the health of a nation and would interfere with cleanup projects, global warming prevention, and pollution reduction efforts. The impacts of the EPA are long-term and benefit generations to come by working towards a healthier planet and population, meaning we must consider: are we making responsible decisions for the livelihood of the US? If funding is being taken from environmental programs, the answer cannot be yes.
While scientists at an international level overwhelmingly view environmental protection as essential, the current US government under Trump threatens scientific reality, and thus public health, in the pursuit of big-business interests and military spending. Under Trump's plan, climate initiatives will see a 70 percent budget reduction.[3] Trump himself, back in 2012, tweeted that global warming is a "hoax," and despite now admitting that there is likely "some connectivity" between human actions and climate changes, his willingness to cut EPA funding suggests a lack of required understanding about the seriousness of environmental changes.[6] Further, Trump's pick for EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, recently commented that the extent to which human activity plays a role in global warming remains unclear, resulting in an outcry from the scientific community.[5,6] Pruitt, prior to assuming his new role, protested the Obama administration's Clean Power Act and sued the EPA more than a dozen times over its regulations of mercury pollution, smog, and carbon emissions from power plants, indicating his partiality against environmental protection efforts.[2,5] While environmental regulation may interfere with big business interests, it does so for good reason: pollution, and the toxic environments created through industrial development, are hazardous both to nature and to human health. Consequently, having an anti-environmental protection advocate as the voice of the EPA is immensely problematic if the US is to work towards a cleaner, safer country.
The Trump administration's plan may not seem to be jeopardizing to public health initially, but especially in poor communities of color, the devastation that will result from diminishing environmental cleanup and protection efforts is far more clear. Under the proposed EPA budget changes, the Environmental Justice Office, which helps ensure that minority and low-income populations are treated equally under environmental laws, may be defunded.[4] The groups served by the Environmental Justice Office tend to live in heavily urbanized, polluted areas and are therefore more directly affected by pollution and unclean air and water, which can cause premature death. In fact, black children are twice as likely to have asthma than white children, and nearly half of the Hispanic populations in the US live in counties that fail to meet EPA air quality standards.[3] Additionally, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan provides a clear indication of the dire need to invest in environmental safety- in a developed country like the US, the fact that some areas of the country lack access to clean water suggests a huge public health issue that will simply be exasperated under the new changes to the EPA. In cutting EPA funding, poor minority groups will suffer even more from a lack of funding, leading to an increase in the toxicity of urban environments.
The proposed changes to the EPA are, on the surface, unfortunate to those who seek to create a less-polluted planet. However, digging further, the changes are also ethically unjustifiable. Investing in businesses and the military is certainly important for the success of the nation, but in limiting environmental funding, protection, and regulation, the government reduces the importance of human health as a priority, which should not be the case. As a nation, we should be investing not only in the current success of the nation, but also in the future of our country for generations to come. While having a strong US defense is part of this, so is creating a country that is physically habitable. Although the US remains ahead of many countries in terms of air and water quality, taking away EPA funding threatens the quality of living for citizens, as the EPA's programs are crucial in creating a safe environment and reducing pollution. Even more so, however, taking away this funding is itself a threat to human health- something that should be an inherent right of all citizens. No American should have to live with toxic waste in their backyard, or without access to clean water, and in reducing the EPA budget, the Trump administration will intensify the environmental issues that exist today.
"Our Mission and What We Do." EPA. https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/our-mission-and-what-we-do
Eilperin, Judy and Dennis, Brady. "White House eyes plan to cut EPA staff by one-fifth, eliminating key programs." The Washington Post. Published March 1, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/01/white-house-proposes-cutting-epa-staff-by-one-fifth-eliminating-key-programs/?utm_term=.f365df8c3e17
Milman, Oliver. "EPA cuts will hit minority communities hardest." High Country News. Published March 7, 2017. http://www.hcn.org/articles/epa-cuts-will-hit-black-and-hispanic-communities-the-hardest
Worland, Justin. "What President Trump's Proposed EPA Budget Cuts Mean for Your Health." TIME. Published March 2, 2017. http://time.com/4688753/donald-trump-epa-budget-cuts-public-health/
Greshko, Michael. "What You Need to Know About Trump's Proposed Climate Cuts." National Geographic. Published March 10, 2017. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/trump-cuts-epa-noaa-environmental-science-climate-change-impacts/
"EPA chief doubts carbon dioxide's role in global warming." BBC News. Published March 9, 2017. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39221092


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We have a weekly private doctors surgery within the Manor and relatives are welcome to attend appointments with residents.
We have a full diary of external entertainment ranging from exercise and painting classes to musical recitals.
We have close links with the local C of E and RC Church and hold regular communion. All other faiths can also be catered for within the home.
Electric gates at the entrance of the Manor rightly give a reassuring air of security, but of course, residents are free to go wherever they choose.
We have our very own luxury, chauffeured minibus (adapted to safely carry passengers in wheelchairs) for daily shopping outings to the nearby towns or frequent day-trips to surrounding places of interest.
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As part of the modernization and strengthening of training it offers to executives from public and private sectors in Africa and the world, CAFRAD, in partnership with the office BJ International consulting, has set up a series of high level training courses, under the banner of what is called the Session of the Pan-African Academy for Interregional Cooperation (APACI).
These high-level courses will lead to the award of a certificate called "Certificate of Aptitude in Administration of African and International Affairs" (C4AI) through carefully selected curricula designed to meet the current needs of today's and future African decision-makers or to decision-makers from other areas who may wish to work in Africa or with African countries.
The academy intends to be a place of meetings and knowledge, where Africans and non-Africans, driven by the same ideals, share a different perspective on the world, on governance and its transformations.
It is also intended to be a space where the principles of Responsible Public Governance (GPR) operate in a complex world, where the singularities do not exhaust the realities of an increasingly interdependent environment.
Finally, it is a place where a truly African and resolutely universal thought is assumed, created and recreated. It is a space where another relation with the public is built with happiness, with the logics which so much structures the public action on the regional and universal level.
Specific objectives
- Strengthening the capacities of the various decision-making bodies in public administrations as well as in the diplomatic sector in Africa;
- Ensuring the effective mobility of knowledge and skills across the continent underpinned by African principles and values;
- Building and developing an elitist knowledge capable of rigorously handling the various issues related to the development of African states with regard to current international issues;
- Ensuring high-level careers in national civil service as well as in diplomacy and in large corporations operating in and with the countries of the continent.
This is why the training programs it offers aim to provide its targets with the tools necessary for a better knowledge of the African and international environment, for more effective results. To that end, a special emphasis will be placed on: the authenticity of the approach, the multi-disciplinarity, the diversity of the profiles of learners and trainers, all in a friendly setting.
The methodological approach is simple interactive with descents on the ground to touch the finger of the reality of international life and international practices with a suitable evaluation system. The teaching team consists of practitioners and academics in the various known areas of law and international relations in Africa and beyond. They will provide high-level theoretical and practical training, thanks to the placement of learners and the presence of recognized personalities in the context of conferences or testimonials.
- Training fees: 1500 euros
- Payment online by Visa or Mastercard
- Inscription and payment : 8.07.2019
List of provided courses
- Overview on the idea and theories of the state;
- Law of Diplomatic and Consular Relations;
- The major problems and contemporary international issues;
- Practice and diplomatic uses;
- Business Policy and Strategy in Africa;
- Intercultural management;
- International and regional institutions;
- African integration and OHADA law;
- Issues of regional peace and global security;
- Globalization, governance and responsible democracy in Africa;
- Economic intelligence;
- Constitutional system of African countries;
- African policies of Western countries;
- African policies of emerging countries;
- Afro-Caribbean cooperation
- Administrative practice and quality of public service
- Public Responsible Governance
From 15. to 31. July 2019
(15 days)
Place of training
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Bilingual training French / English
Concerned public
- Personnel of diplomatic representations;
- Public service agents interested in international issues;
- Agents of international relations services within companies;
- Any other interested persons ;
Cost of training
1,500 euros
Registration fees can be paid online via the CAFRAD website (www.cafrad.int) or BJ international consulting (www.bj-international.net).
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Hyderabad, Dec 13 (INN): In view of the recent decision of the government to promote cashless transactions, South Central Railway has initiated a step forward by installing 109 Point of Sale machines at various Booking Counters across the Zone for purchase of reserved tickets through all types of credit/debit and RuPay cards. There will be no additional charge on purchase and cancellation of tickets.
This facility is available at 30 locations in Twin Cities including all MMTS stations namely Lingampally, Chandanagar, Hafeezpet, Hitech City, Borabanda, Bharatnagar, Fatehnagar, Nature Cure Hospital, Sanjeevaiah Park, James Street, Sitafalmandi, Arts College, Jamai Osmania, Vidyanagar, Malakpet, Dabirpura, Yakutpura, Huppuguda, Falaknuma, Lakdikapul, Khairatabad, Necklace Road along with Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Begumpet and Kacheguda railway stations. This facility is also available at PRS centres located at High Court, Telangana Assembly, Mehdipatnam, Zonal Railway Training Institute Moula Ali.
In addition the Point of Sale machines are also installed at 31 locations in the jurisdiction of Vijayawada Division, 17 locations in Guntakal Division, 10 locations in Nanded Division, 03 locations in Guntur Division. Excluding MMTS stations in Twin Cities 13 locations in Secunderabad Division and five locations in Hyderabad Divisions have been provided with Point of Sale machines. (INN)


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Next Wednesday, head on down to Jackson 20 to drop 4.25 of him at a five-course wine dinner w/ a special menu utilizing the entire pig (pig head bolognese pappardelle & pork Pâté en croûte, etc.). Each dish will be paired with a glass of Pinot Noir from wine distributors "Nice Legs", who will be on hand to talk about different terroirs, wine making methods, and presumably, the downside of Nair.
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New Challenges for International Business Research
Back to the Future
John H. Dunning
Chapter 12: In Search of a Global Moral Architecture
John H. Dunning
INTRODUCTION This chapter is designed to fulfil two main purposes. The first is to present the main findings of my edited volume Making Globalization Good, published by Oxford University Press in 2003. In that volume, 14 prominent economists, religious leaders, political scientists, statespersons and business leaders set out their views on how global capitalism and the global market place might be made more economically inclusive, socially acceptable and environmentally sustainable by upgrading its moral and ethical content. The second purpose of this chapter is to address, albeit very cursorily, the moral and ethical weaknesses of the contemporary state of global capitalism which the credit crunch and banking failures have so vividly exposed in 2007 and 2008. We then go on to assert that it is only by a holistic and more ethically based recasting of the leading institutions of global capitalism that such weaknesses can be overcome. In an Appendix to this chapter we set out the contributors to our earlier edited book. As far as possible, we have tried to update our findings to embrace the events between 2003 and the end of 2007. 2. PURPOSE OF THE ORIGINAL CHAPTER In my 2003 volume, each of my fellow contributors addressed three basic questions – from his or her particular perspective. These were: 1. How far, and in what respects, does the current stage of responsible global (or globalizing) capitalism (RGC) fall short of its economic potential, social acceptability and long term sustainability? To what extent can its deficiencies be attributed...
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What to remember about November 22nd…
- 1718 Infamous English pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach is killed by battle with British Navy off North Carolina coast
- 1783 President of Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation John Hanson dies (b. 1721)
- 1864 Confederate forces under General Hood invade Tennessee to try to draw Sherman away from his March to the Sea
- 1942 Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad encircles and traps a quarter million German troops
- 1954 Humane Society of the United States is founded
- 1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas (b. 1917), Texas by communist Lee Harvey Oswald
- 1977 Supersonic transcontinental passenger service begins with British Airways Concorde
- 1988 B-2 "stealth" bomber is revealed to the public
- 1990 President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush have Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia
- 1994 Murder suspect Bennie Lee Lawson opens fire in Washington, D.C. police station; 3 police and the gunman die
- 1998 60 Minutes airs videotape of Dr. Jack Kevorkian euthanizing patient Thomas Youk; he will serve 8 years in prison for murder


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Ne10 v1.2.0 is released. Now radix-3 and radix-5 are supported in floating point complex FFT. Benchmark data below shows that NEON optimization has significantly improved performance of FFT.
The Ne10 project has been set up to provide a set of common, useful functions which have been heavily optimized for the ARM Architecture and provide consistent well tested behavior that can be easily incorporated into applications. C interfaces to the functions are provided for both assembler and NEON™ implementations. The library supports static and dynamic linking and is modular, so that functionality that is not required can be discarded. For details of Ne10, please check this blog. For more details of FFT feature in Ne10, please refer this blog.
Figure 1 is benchmark data (time cost) of four FFT implementations, including Ne10 (v1.2.0), pffft (2013), kissFFT (1.3.0), and one inside Opus (v1.1.1-beta). Ne10 and pffft are well NEON-optimized, while kissFFT and Opus FFT are not. All implementations are compiled by LLVM 3.5, with -O2 flag. All these implementations have been tested on ARM v7-A (Cortex-A9, 1.0GHz) and AArch64 (Cortex-A53, 850MHz).
Figure 1
In figure 1, x axis is size of FFT and y axis is time cost (ms), smaller is better. Each FFT has been run for 2.048x106 / (size of FFT) times. Say, we run 2000 times for 1024 points FFT. Only multiple of 16 sizes are supported in pffft, so its curve starts from 240. Performance boost after NEON optimization is obvious.
Figure 2
Figure 2 is benchmark data in MFLOPS of these four implementations. Data are calculated according to this link. MFLOPS is a measure of performance of different algorithms in solving the same problem, bigger is better. When data are packed and processed by NEON instructions (in Ne10 and Pffft), MFLOPS is much higher.
API of FFT is not modified. Ne10 detects whether the size of FFT is multiple of 3 or 5, and then selects the best algorithms to execute. For more detail, please refer this blog.
@Phil Wang Can you tell me what clock rate was provided for the results shown in figure 1?


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Electric City Puppet Improv
Mopco's favorite fuzzy little performers headline a night of improv comedy
Doors Open @ 7:30pm, Show Starts @ 8:00pm
They have fur, horns, corrective lenses & plaid shirts. Weirdos, whatnots & whatchamacallits performing improv comedy like you've never seen! Quickly becoming an audience favorite, The ECPI go beyond the limits of human performers to where only puppets dare tread!


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the weekend cast
good morning friends! how are you doing? you know those mornings that you wake up kinda jittery, feeling kinda funky? I'm having one of those. alas, here I am in my kitchen, playing "coffeetable jazz," drinking a mug of tea, watching the flickering fire in my candle and condensation that has quickly formed on the underbelly of my window. deep breath in, deep breath out. tonight, we're going to Charlie Bird which I've wanted to try 4eva! have you been? any recommendations on what to order? tomorrow, we're heading to a hanukkah partay and I plan on making sufganiyot. can't quite decide if I want to bake them or fry them... help! what are you doing to stay warm this wknd?
here's what I've combed from the internet hairs this week:
a one-minute mini-meditation to let go of stress
merry xmas to me; are these not the most beautiful shoesies you've ever laid eyes on?
the next book on my to-do read list
damn these cranberry-apple hand pies sure do look t a s t y
have you heard of the book of the month club? I want to sign up!
how the end of net neutrality will affect you
also, net-a-porter is having a fire sale and these boots are my kryptonite
the sexiest little black dress on sale at reformation right this minute
ten tips for reducing waste + plastic use
speaking of reducing waste, the silicone bags I use as an alternative to ziploc
ok, this is THE most perfect winter candle; it smells leave fresh green leaves, eucalyptus and wintermint
have a beautiful weekend you guys!


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Georgian Prime Minister honors Armenian Genocide victims at Yerevan memorial
17:36, 10 September, 2018
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS. Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, who arrived in Armenia on an official visit, has visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide memorial today to pay tribte to the victims of the genocide.
PM Bakhtadze laid a wreath at the memorial and the Eternal Flame.
He was accompanied by foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and acting Mayor of Yerevan Kamo Areyan.
Acting director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Marine Margaryan accompanied the guests.
PM Bakhtadze also planted a symbolic fir tree at the tree lane.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
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So, we just found out that the estimator from the moving company was a wee bit off in his original estimate of the weight of our goods. If you recall, he estimated we had 26,000 lbs of possessions, so we immediately jettisoned most of our larger belongings: two couches, an ottoman, an over-size chair, coffee table, washer and dryer, two sets of patio furniture, most of our power tools, a garage cabinet, and half of my library. Plus, we put my Grandmother's upright grand piano in storage in San Diego. We'd also considered getting rid of our bed and end tables.
Imagine our delight when Tom found out this morning that our ship-out weight had been 10,700 lbs, out of an allotted 18,000 lbs. We are not happy campers this morning. Trust the experts, and then get shafted.
In truth, it's just stuff, and we can live without all of it. But we came so close to giving away other things that are near and dear to our hearts (besides my books). In fact, I went through all of our family photos and removed half of the frames, trying to save pounds wherever I could.
And all to find out that the estimator should have stayed at his desk and not come out to "fill in" for someone who usually worked the field. When he originally told us that, I cringed, but he said not to worry, that he had 18 years experience. I knew, though, when he listed us as having nine boxes of books going air freight that he was grievously mistaken (we had one box containing books and files). Little did I know how mistaken he was.
The upshot? Well, the government might retrieve our piano from storage in La Mirada and put it with our storage items in Maryland. End of story. The rest is history. I am delighted that our friends got to have our couch and coffee table and patio furniture; I have no problem with that. It's all the stuff we gave to the thrift store that bothers me. It's to a good cause, though, so I take comfort in that. And my books. Well, they are just books and now others can read them.
But I hate the incompetence that caused this whole episode. Ah well. As I told Tom. Now I have an excuse to buy things in Brazil! Seven thousand pounds worth!


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Date of Graduation
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Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
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Rennie, Craig G.
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Stamenov, Venstislav
This paper seeks to research the turn-of-the-month anomaly in the stock market. Prior studies have covered the anomaly's effect from 1962-2004. This study continues on the work of past research while also testing to find a shift backwards to the end of the month due to market timers anticipation of the anomaly. Empirical analysis is conducted using CRSP data of value and equal weighted market indexes along with historical returns of the S&P 500 from the Wharton Data Research Institute. Findings show that there is continued evidence of the anomaly in recent years (2005-2014), and there is subtle evidence of a shift backwards in the anomaly. Also, a passive strategy does provide different, yet not significant returns when attempting to pick a certain day of the month to make monthly contributions by leveraging this anomaly.
Recommended Citation
Marchewka, Ryan Joseph, "A Relook at the Turn of the Month Anomaly" (2014). Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses. 10.


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Steve King, Global CEO, Publicis Media, on his very exciting journey over the last 18 months including the 'big five' consolidation, leveraging AI, and the importance of being a 'connector'
Steve King, Global CEO, Publicis Media, on his very exciting journey over the last 18 months including the 'big five' consolidation, leveraging AI, and the importance of being a 'connector'
Steve King, Global Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Media, has been a busy man for the last 18 months. King who has been with the network in various roles since 1988, led the formation of Publicis Media, which comprised five global Brands—Starcom, Zenith, Mediavest | Spark, Blue449, and Performics and donned his current role in January last year. He describes the last 18 months as exhausting, relentless, and very exciting.
"Our structure was too complicated; we have simplified our story and structure, and now moved to a single P&L structure where one works with a common goal. We created a new model; scaled up and leveraged our capabilities. The truth is, if our clients are being disrupted and we are to help them transform, we better transform ourselves first," shares King.
Interestingly enough, he confesses to not have expected the success he has seen in this role when he took it on, and one of the factors was that he was being cautious and did want to over-claim or over-commit, what with him also having seen a lot of mergers that did not meet success.
"See, we were putting distinct cultures together and a larger number of mergers are usually failures. We had three distinctive good businesses, and we were going to create a single business in each market with a good leader, I thought maybe the cultures would overpower the simplicity of the business and come in the way of the changes we wanted to make, but I was wrong in terms of the business in media, there have been no issues. I have been surprised with this growth and it was embraced very positively," he explains. Here are edited excerpts from a conversation with King:
Q] What are two lessons you can share of your experience over the last 18 months?
I really feel you must have a combination of IQ and EQ. Today the world is so complex and you may feel you need more IQ, but the truth is EQ today plays a far more important role in connecting with the management and various segments. You need to be a connector, and maybe I have a strength in that area, it is ultimately a people's business.
Q] How much does India contribute to global revenues?
Publicis Media India is nearly $1 billion in billings and is ranked #2 in APAC, in the Publicis Media Network, according to RECMA
Q] What is the growth rate for Publicis Media in the last 18 months?
It is easily three or four times the market growth rate and we intend to continue on that momentum and the drivers for that have been our acquisitions that have done very well for us. We have invested in areas we feel are important and we had a good run with our events. We have been growing three times for the last three years but it is more credible now because when you grow at that rate then your base also grows, we have grown at 40 per cent, roughly.
Q] What are the growth and revenue targets for next year, in India?
We expect to grow at minimum double the market rate.
Q] How has this transformation of Publicis Media helped? What have been the tangible business advantages?
With our transformation, Publicis Media has established strong leadership, streamlined and scaled capabilities and redefined our brand proposition, which has led to a very successful first year. In terms of new business, we have $7+ billion billings of new businesses won, which includes P&G, Coty, Molson Coors, Fiat Chrysler, Mars, Visa, Bel and Merck.
Q] With the onset of the artificial intelligence revolution, what role do you think media agencies will play in the future marketing landscape?
With machine learning and automation coming to the forefront of our industry, it is imperative that media agencies make investment in AI so that we are not just serving a transactional service. AI is the most disruptive technology, accelerating from $589MM to $5+ billion in the last five years. In fact it has been the most disruptive in telecoms, airlines, consumer electronics, automotive and fast food categories, according to the Predictor Study. AI will automate processes driving more efficiencies and faster connectivity of marketing data with enterprise data, resulting in shifts in marketing department structures. A first, Zenith launched machine learning algorithms for our client, Aviva wherein we precisely attributed sales conversions to specific digital interactions and optimised external media activity. This resulted in brand benefit from 6% CPQ improvement on car searches and 10% improvement in CPQ on display advertising.
Q] What are your plans for the agency in India?
We look to further leverage our data, technology and performance marketing capabilities for clients in India. We have good foundation on which to build. For example, for India clients such as Airtel, IDFC and Lenovo, data is central to planning and delivery. To give you an example of this is our Maggi #WeMissYouToo campaign. After Maggi had to be taken off the shelves and advertising halted, Zenith partnered with Maggi to identify brand evangelist segments (43% of conversations were about how consumers were missing Maggi), we began segmenting loyalists—those who lived away from home and those interested in fast food, and launched targeted video campaign about missing Maggi, extended it to Twitter, YouTube. On Facebook, we were among first brands in India to target users, based on household composition. In this case, (we) created a cluster Housemate Households i.e. users living together with friends. We empathised with loyalists telling them we missed them too with the hashtag #WeMissYouToo, this resulted in positive sentiment increasing from 43% to 90%, and this campaign also won Festival of Media APAC Gold '17, Indian Marketing Awards '16.
Today the world is so complex and you may feel you need more IQ, but the truth is EQ today plays a far more important role in connecting with the management and various segments.
Q] How does Publicis Media approach the sensitive subject of brand safety for clients, a critical issue in today's times?
Firstly, we have made trust central to building Publicis Media, alongside Talent and Transformation. It's central to how we operate and our offering. We have established ourselves at forefront of rigorous brand safety, viewability and verification standards and protocols for working with media owners as the media and technology landscape continues to rapidly change. Some specific ways we ensure brand safety include:
i. Integrations with leading third party verification vendors for we are involved in the Facebook Measurement Council to achieve MRC (Media Council Rating) accreditation for their metrics and encourage their acceptance of advertisers' selection of MRC accredited third party metrics
ii. Publicis Groupe Verified vetting
iii. Human CPM (hCPM)
Q] What are the game changing factors for the communications industry today? How is Publicis Media positioned to have an edge in this scenario?
Clients today are looking for simplicity. With Publicis Media's new structure driven by five global brands and our global practices, we are able to deliver that for clients. We feel very passionately about removing silos. We believe in the Power of One – uniting creative, media, tech and healthcare around unique client needs. Our global practices help drive innovation and transformation for our brands around the world. Some of our practises include:
i. Business Transformation blends media sensibility, technical capability and marketing expertise to advise clients on how to apply imagination and innovation to the media strategy process.
ii. Content provides agile content solutions
iii. Performance drives performance capability throughout brands
iv. DTI serves up continued innovation through its engineering team and tech development
v. A&I –provides an analytics backbone to much of our work and proprietary tools
vi. Investment –powers our programmatic w/a centralised approach to investment
We are not looking to acquire just for scaling up: Anupriya Acharya
We are not looking to acquire just for scaling up: Anupriya Acharya
Anupriya Acharya, CEO, Publicis Media India tells us why Zenith's investment and over indexing on future capabilities comes in handy, in a disruptive market place today, insights behind changes made in the past one year and more… Here are edited excerpts from a conversation with Acharya:
Q] How much has the business grown over the past one year?
Over the previous year, Publicis Media has won many businesses such as Parle products, Citibank, Mars, Fiat Chrysler, ZTE Mobile, Citrus Pay, Lazypay, Luminous, OnePlus, Singapore Tourism Board, Fox Networks, Mahindra Holidays and Bombay Dyeing, amongst others. By December last year, only in nine months, we had won more than Rs 1000 crore of new business. Since then, we have won many more.
Q] What are the acquisitions you are looking at in India?
We are looking at acquisitions, but only if there is a strategic fit. It should enhance our capabilities significantly and make a substantial difference to our current offering. Just like the last two acquisitions – Resultrix and Convonix – gave us a tremendous head start in Performance Marketing. We are not looking to acquire just for scaling up. We are amongst top networks here with an adequate size and do not need acquisitions just for scaling up. We are interested in future-facing areas and in companies that are agile, inventive and innovative. We will explore acquisitions in areas such as digital, mobile, tech.
Q] What are the growth and revenue targets for next year?
The exact annual target setting for next year will happen next quarter. However, we are very ambitious – we expect to grow at minimum double the market rate.
Q] What are the changes you have made as the India CEO in the past one year?
I took on this role in April last year and with it came significantly higher scale and responsibility. We needed to re-engineer ourselves in line with our global vision of simplifying our organisation, invent more modern approaches to gain effectiveness and efficiencies, introduce structures for greater collaboration, and drive new levels of client value and delight.
We made appointments in key positions and almost all positions were filled from within the organisation. We moved into one P&L quite quickly and that has brought about extensive efficiencies. Consolidation on scale helped us with better conversations in shaping the media market and also brought in economies of investment to Data, Analytics and Research. We have been able to invest even more in the future facing capabilities like Business Transformation, Content, Personalisation at scale and the like.
These changes have been backed by a lot of training across levels on specialist roles, relevant skills as well as soft skills like collaboration, team building et al, all of which have helped people settle into new structures and roles.
These changes have been very well received in the market, both by clients and partners. The number of businesses that we have won in the last 12 months is testimony to it. On the back of these wins, we have been able to phenomenally expand across all our branches – Delhi was always big for us, now we are back to leadership position in Delhi. More importantly the wins have given us the opportunity to really bolster our Mumbai and Bangalore operations. We have brought on board some great talent across levels and significantly increased our bench strength on senior roles.
Q] Where do you see in the Publicis Media in India in a year's time?
We will continue on this momentum, our strategic choices here are clear – focus on being a leader in future capabilities – whether it is through in-house expertise building or through strategic acquisitions.
As the disruption in the market increases, marketers need to sell to an even more digitally empowered consumer. It is here that our over investment and over indexing on future capabilities comes in handy. We are more successful than others in winning – not only new clients but also in expanding our relationships with our own clients.
Our Business Transformation practice is already seeing good traction in the market – with businesses getting disrupted across the board, the need of the hour is solving business challenges for clients.
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Intentional (adj): done on purpose, deliberate
Integrity (n): a state of being whole, undivided
Your pain can be the result of an acute trauma, an overuse injury, or in many cases, a natural process (such as arthritis). In any case, healing has occurred incompletely and integrity has been lost. There are several reasons why this may have occurred. In today's world who has time to heal? Time is money and rest is a time wasting event. With your current commitments, work schedule, the introduction of year round youth travel teams and college courses before college, who has time to heal? And yet healing is the best form of pain relief.
What is the first thing you reach for at the time of injury or when you feel pain? In most cases the answer is an anti-inflammatory. This could be in the form of aspirin or an NSAID (ibuprofen). You take these medications with a hope that this will allow you to resume your activity quickly without experiencing downtime, time off work or missing a game. However, the quick return to activity, or diminished pain, does not suggest complete healing of an injury. By taking the medication, the intent was a quick return to activity without any thought to a return to integrity (a state of being whole). In many cases the pain is blunted and so is the healing cascade. Incomplete, incompetent, and insufficient healing has occurred setting you up for instability, repetitive injury and/or chronic pain. When this happens you have limited options, which results in the majority of people accepting the belief they are destined to live with pain. In desperation, when help is sought, the common physician response is "come back when you're ready for surgery" or "have you tried the latest medication".
Unfortunately medication will not heal or change your pain, but may change your perception of pain such that it becomes livable, yet nothing has been done to heal or change the integrity of the original injury.
Although medication is commonly accepted, it is nothing more than a bandage, used to cover the wound in hopes it will just go away. This is often times a useful strategy depending of your stage of life. But what if your pain could be healed naturally without medication or surgery? Your pain is more than likely the result of unintentional circumstances. Something that, if you had the knowledge, you would have not have chosen the outcome. Thus, healing must be equal to the original injury. Healing must be achieved through intention. Unintentional living got you where you are, and it will take focused intention to get you out. The goal of focused intention is to reinstate life with less pain and improved function or INTENTIONAL INTEGRITY. The mission of Intentional Integrity is the restoration of health and the improvement of function. It may have been fun, easy and thoughtless to get you where you are, but will take a plan to get you where you want to be.
Intentional Integrity does not negate the simple truth that healing remains intuitive. However, it does imply that healing can be planned and induced.
It is possible, via your body's built-in ability to achieve integrity, to stimulate a healing response, naturally. This can be accomplished by multiple techniques generally referred to as regenerative medicine.
In a nutshell, regenerative medicine stimulates the body's intuitive repair process, it basically reminds the body that there is a reason for pain or dysfunction and then provides a repair mechanism. This is done by intentionally placing growth factors and proteins responsible for repair in the area of dysfunction. In most cases this can be achieved by an injection. The material injected will depend on the extent and location of injury and can consist of specific components of your blood obtained through a simple blood draw or in some cases, bone marrow or fat aspiration. All of which can easily be performed in the office.
The goal of these practices are to decrease pain, and improve function, which can be achieved with a correct diagnosis and treatment plan. This plan will often require osteopathic manipulation and physical therapy to achieve desired results. It will also require pin-point accuracy in diagnosis for optimal outcomes. This is achieved by using ultrasound guidance to insure that the injured tissue is isolated and treated.


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The pineapple traditionally symbolizes welcome and hospitality, as well as friendship, generosity, and other forms of social warmth and graciousness. I cannot help but think of that when I see this old sign post housing this air plant.
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PRSA's three PR definitions are full of 'marketing lingo'
Corporate jargon mars the choices PRSA has offered to define the industry, according to this PR agency owner. What do you think?
Right before the holidays, PRSA embarked on a new initiative: redefining public relations.
An admirable undertaking and one that surely was not to please everyone, they made an impressive decision to have the definition crowdsourced.
There were, of course, some flaws in how you could submit your definition. In an effort, I would guess, to make everything uniform and make it easier for them to get through all of the responses (nearly 1,000 of them).
Last week they announced the final three definitions and voting is open for you to participate.
I have lots of friends at PRSA so I hope they don't take offense to this, but the definitions suck.
They are:
- Public relations is the management function of researching, communicating and collaborating with publics to build mutually beneficial relationships.
- Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.
- Public relations is the strategic process of engagement between organizations and publics to achieve mutual understanding and realize goals.
I'm a communication professional and I have no idea what any of these mean. They all are full of corporate, marketing lingo bingo.
Imagine you're at a cocktail party and someone asks you what you do. You say PR. They say, "Oh! You know, I never understood PR. What is it?"
And you say, drumroll please, "Public relations is the strategic process of engagement between organizations and publics to achieve mutual understanding and realize goals."
Say what?
Last week you read about the difference between PR and advertising. In the comments, Maddie Grant and I are still debating the difference. It's an important conversation (even if you don't agree with me).
It's not quite a heated debate, but it certainly lends itself to the bigger conversation about the definition of PR.
Maybe it's the difference between working for a large corporation (where Maddie got her early career experience) and a global PR firm (where I got mine). I never did much media relations, or publicity, when I worked for agencies. Now that I have my own, we rarely do any. And, if we do, it's part of a larger marketing program.
But the point is not PR is not publicity (though it's not—I'm not letting it go!), the point is that we're communication professionals. Why is it so darn hard to describe what we do?
You can vote on one of the three definitions. Voting closes on February 26.
Gini Dietrich is founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, Inc. A version of this article originally ran on Spin Sucks.
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Following the release of his debut EP, 'All Because The Lady Loves', DJ Milktray has been busy with remixes, collaborations and compilation features. His high energy DJ sets have seen him tour Europe & the US.
This year Milktray returns to the boards for his 2nd EP on Astral Black, this time putting an original twist on his trademark sweet boy flavour. Expect aggy, romantic anthems and some vocal features.


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The Trans-Pacific Partnership will lower trading barriers and set commercial rules for 40 percent of the world economy.
Mu Sochua said there are few opportunities for jobs, coupled with land grabs and low wages for jobs that do exist—and this is forcing many Cambodian women to work abroad.
As of June 2015, microfinance institutions lent more than $2 billion, compared to $1.6 billion dollars in 2014, according to the Cambodia Microfinance Association.
Some 41 percent of the population in Cambodia are left behind and still live on less than $2 per day.
The ADB forecasts GDP growth at 7 percent for 2015 and 7.2 percent for 2016.
Labor leaders say they believe the $207 monthly minimum is an accurate reflection of the needs of workers.
The government has announced a new review of economic land concessions, shortening the period of some from 99 years to 50 years.
Cambodia's manufacturing industry is a major economic driver, providing jobs to some 600,000 people.
Often underpaid and undervalued, there are not many artists devoted to preserving Khmer cultural values through arts these days.
Human rights campaigners claim the World Bank Group has repeatedly failed to intervene to stop its borrowers from cracking down on critics of dams, roads and other projects backed by the bank.
Labor leaders have said workers need a minimum $177 per month to keep up with the rising cost of living in Cambodia.
Vietnam may face a flood of Chinese imports as its neighbor to the north leans more on other countries to escape slowing demand at home
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Another great race for Jonathan Rea earned him a new triumph in the Superbike World Championship. The british did well in Misano this Sunday, from the bright start to patience to the fight for leadership. Then it was to choose the ideal moment and manage the advantage in the final moments.
Xavi Forés got the holeshot and led the race in the opening moments, with Jonathan Rea also starting very well and winning several places at the start of the race. Van der Mark was second and Sykes was third, with Davies fourth. Here's the start of the race:
#WorldSBK Race 2 is gooooo!🚦
What a start from @XaviFores!🚀#RiminiWorldSBK pic.twitter.com/4Mk2yUmIfA
— WorldSBK (@WorldSBK) July 8,2018
The fight for fifth place was alive, with Rea pressing Melandri. However, for each Rea's maneuver the italian fought back in the same way and he sustained the attacks of the rival. Davies was also in the fight:
Rea – Davies battle for 5⃣th!🔥#RiminiWorldSBK pic.twitter.com/fWYvSiPdKg
— WorldSBK (@WorldSBK) July 8, 2018
With 18 laps from the end Forés left the race when he was leading, with an alleged mechanical problem. Van der Mark inherited the lead:
Drama for @XaviFores 😰#RiminiWorldSBK pic.twitter.com/D1dVxQiGU2
— WorldSBK (@WorldSBK) July 8, 2018
Rea was in third place, behind Melandri, second and with the Yamaha rider in the lead. Rea and Melandri starred a spectacular duel for second place… and Van der Mark increased the lead up front.
The duel ended up being won by Rea, that then set on following to Van der Mark, with Melandri giving everything by everything to stay close to Rea, without success. Chaz Davies and Tom Sykes were fourth and fifth. Here's the top ten win ten laps until the end:
Van der Mark allowed Rea's approach six laps to go and the Kawasaki man launched his first attack on the lead, unsuccessfully:
Three laps to the end, Rea successfully overcame and took the lead. This was how close the top three were:
Until the end there would be no changes in the top three, with Rea, Mark and Melandri taking the podium at Misano. Here is the result:


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- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Here's my teaser from The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa:
"Hello my Love," Machina whispered, holding out his hands as I approached, steel cables writhing behind him in a hypnotic dance. Tall and elegant, his long silver hair rippling like liquid mercury, he watched me with eyes as black as night. "I have been waiting for you."
Okay, so I know thats three sentences, but I had to add that last one.