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In just two years David Wang, a very switched on young Chinese man left his 'job' as GM at Shanghi Uber to create the Uber of bikes, Mobike ... which is now reputably worth $billion.
With more than 100,000 new bikes in their network, and 500,000 bike rides a day throughout the nne cities in China, bike sharing is big business,
This week Xiaofeng did a deal with Foxconn which will get 10 million Mobikes on the road by the end of this year. His plan is to be in 100 cities in China, and be international by the end of this year.
Talk about super size me ... that's FAST GROWTH.
The idea is so simple and possible because of the Mobike App that allows you to locate a bike near you, unlock it and take your ride, all for 15 cents an hour.
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The midfielder has joined an exclusive club.
Chelsea star Frank Lampard has become only the eighth player in England's history to reach 100 caps for the nation and will be given a 'Golden Cap' to celebrate this.
The midfielder will also captain the side against Chile in an international friendly and Lampard will be given the prize before the match.
The 35-year-old is the third player to be handed this in 2013 along with usual skipper Steven Gerrard and the player's domestic team-mate Ashley Cole.
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Austin Personal Injury Attorneys Explain Workers' Comp Violations
The Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) has recently released information about fines levied against companies that failed to provide health care and workers' compensation benefits to injured workers. In the first ten months of 2014, the DWC has issued nearly $1.8 million in penalties, mostly to insurance carriers. Healthcare providers, employers and other entities were also fined.
What Are Common Violations by Insurance and Healthcare providers?
The insurance carriers account for 93 percent of the total penalties. Examples of violations include the following:
- Failing to pay income benefits to injured employees in a timely manner.
- Failing to pay medical bills on time.
Healthcare providers received the second highest amount of fines. Their penalties amounted to $65,600. Their most common violations include:
- Failing to document an injury in such a way as to allow for continuing rehabilitation or medication when needed.
- Inaccurate or incomplete DWC paperwork.
What Happens to Companies that Fail to Provide Benefits to Injured Workers?
Punishments vary based on the severity of the violation. The Hartford Insurance Company, for example, was fined $40,000 for failing to pay income benefits and refusing to comply with the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.
Another healthcare provider was permanently removed from the Texas workers' compensation system. It was providing care that violated the commission's standards.
Why are Benefits Denied?
Your benefits may be limited or denied due to a misdiagnosis of your injury. This happens with injuries like traumatic brain injuries that take time to show symptoms, or if medical equipment malfunctioned during your exam.
Discrepancies between the definition of "workplace injury" can also prevent or delay workers' compensation benefits. For instance, an employer or an insurance company may argue that a worker was not at work when the injury occurred and does not qualify as a "workplace injury." An injury that occurs while traveling to work would probably not qualify as occurring within the scope of your employment, but if you get into a severe car accident while on a work-related errand, you likely would be entitled to benefits. Employers or providers could also dispute an injury that occurs after the official end of the workday, even if the accident occurred on the job site.
No matter the circumstance, if you have been injured on the job, you may need to pursue legal action to get the compensation you need to recover. Insurance companies do not always have your best interests in mind when making decisions about workers' comp benefits. If you are having any trouble with your claim for workers' comp, then contact our Austin workers' comp attorneys today.
Source: http://www.workcompwire.com/2014/10/tx-division-of-workers-compensation-announces-recent-enforcement-actions-17/


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📰 👀 Facebook offers to build a new library and community center in Belle Haven. The tech giant has announced plans to "fully fund" a "state-of-the-art," "multi-generational" community facility in Menlo Park. The proposed new facility would be located where the aging and outdated Onetta Harris Community Center is now.
In a statement, Facebook said, "We believe this effort will strengthen the social fabric of our neighborhood for decades to come."
Facebook first announced their offer at a meeting of the Belle Haven Neighborhood Association on October 2. Facebook representatives are expected to announce their offer to the City Council during the regularly scheduled City Council meeting on October 15.
The Almanac newspaper ran this story shortly after the October 2 announcement: https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/10/04/facebook-announces-intention-to-fund-new-belle-haven-library-and-community-center


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It's become known that Amanda Waller is set to debut in Arrow Season Two during the sixth episode.
SpoilerTV has the episode title listed as "Keep Your Enemies Closer," stating Amanda Waller will be featured who is an agent of A.R.G.U.S., will be a recurring character, and sends out a team to kidnap John Diggle (David Ramsey).
No cast details are known at this time.
In the DC Comics, Waller does actually head a team known as the Suicide Squad. She is also the liaison between the Justice League and A.R.G.U.S. (more or less equivalent to Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D.).
A previous episode of Arrow referenced A.R.G.U.S. (Advanced Research Group United Support), titled "Unfinished Business," where the character Lyla Michaels was featured as Harbinger, a high-ranking agent, and an old friend to Diggle.
Arrow returns for Season Two on Wednesday, October 9th at 8pm ET on the CW.


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There are very few unexplored places left on this planet, unless you count the bottom of the Marianas Trench, which is about 36,000 feet under the sea. But even in that unwelcoming environment, scientists keep trying to make inroads to find out what's down there. We just can't seem to stay way.
I get that desire to discover, to learn, to broaden one's horizons against all odds, to answer those unanswered questions. I really do. And in most instances, I say go for it. Curiosity is one of my favorite human qualities. However, I make one exception: I genuinely believe that uncontacted people should be left alone, unless, of course, they make the first move.
The people from North Sentinel Island, way out in the Indian Ocean, have been left to their own devices for at least 60,000 years. They have not developed past the stone age, and have rebuffed all attempts to contact them. They shoot arrows at approaching boats and planes. They turn their backs. They shout aggressively. More than once, they have killed those who have deigned to trespass. As far as I'm concerned, that's pretty much all we need to know. These people want to be left alone. So let's leave them alone.
Fortunately, the government of India currently agrees with this philosophy. It is illegal to get within 3 miles of this island. This has not always been the case, but it is now. Why isn't that good enough? Why can't we just let these people be?
Most recently, just last month, an American missionary, John Allen Chau, decided that these people need to be converted to Christianity. The arrogance. The nerve. How dare any of us think that we know what's best for an entire group of people who have never asked for our opinion? How dare we launch what amounts to a religious missile into their midst, knowing full well it would change their entire culture forever?
Not only is it foolhardy to approach an isolated group that has no immunity to our diseases, but it's criminal to barge uninvited into a land that they've occupied for thousands upon thousands of years. Have we learned absolutely nothing from history?
Chau was promptly killed by the Sentinelese, as he stood there spewing his scripture at them in a language they did not understand and do not care to know. His body will never be recovered. Its mere presence there, with its unknown disease vectors, may cause the death of the last uncontacted people on earth.
In the past 130 years, this island has been invaded by the outside world at least a half dozen times. One time, by a group from the National Geographic. Whether their intentions were good or not, these contacts have never ended well. Not once.
We know virtually nothing about these people. We're not even sure if they number 15 or 500. No one knows their language. There's even strong debate as to whether they are capable of making fire. But one thing is clear: They want no part of us. So let's leave them in peace. Our curiosity does not trump their right to live their lives as they see fit.
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1 Month Old
Sleeping: Luckily, we have a pretty great sleeper! Liam has been giving us a good 4-5 hour stretch (roughly 11pm-4am) almost every night! Mom & Dad are so proud. :-) The best part is that the long stretch of sleep has been in his pack 'n play! We continue to make great progress on getting him to sleep in there for most of the night although it is sometimes hard for us to put him down alone as we just want to snuggle him.
Diapering: Cloth diapers are still working great! I'm figuring out the best wash routine for us, and it hasn't been a hassle for me at all. We are going to be traveling to Montana for a long Labor Day weekend and I can't decide whether or not I want to bring our cloth diapers... The idea of temporarily going back to disposables is not appealing...but right now I wash diapers every other day, so that sounds like a lot of work while we'll be on "vacation."
Health:We still have a happy & healthy baby! He seems to be growing like crazy. No health concerns whatsoever; we haven't had to call our pediatrician once, yay! I'm anxious to see what he weighs and measures, but his next appointment isn't until he's 2 months old.
Likes: Being outside! Liam loves the fresh air, plus there is so much for him to look at. He's also starting to like kicking his little legs and practicing his standing. As he continues to get stronger, he likes to do more of this "standing;" however, we can only do that for a short while because he is working on his head control. I have a feeling this guy is going to need a bouncer here in the next couple months.
Outings: We have been busy! Liam & I have taken a couple long walks on Alki beach and had some coffee dates at Starbucks together! Such fun days with my little boy. Conor & I also took him to the Boeing Classic golf tournament two days in a row. I love that he is such a good baby, making it easy for us to take him places. We also braved our first restaurant with him, which was a success! Liam and I went to the La Leche League meeting where he got his first experience with other babies...he was fascinated by all the people and sounds.
Visitors: Liam has met lots of new friends! We had a fun dinner at my house with some great family friends, Katie & Abby. Conor's aunt and uncle, Ann and Steve stopped by to say hello. Our friend Holt from Delaware was in town on business last week so he joined us for dinner & got some Liam time in! Conor's roommate and good friend Micah came with us to the golf tournament and rode back seat with Liam. (He was introduced to a couple of Liam's favorite songs, next time it's his turn to sing him calm!) :-) Even Keenan family friend Pam and her sister stopped by the house while she was in town. Lots of action in the Keenan household and we are so grateful for all the generous gifts!Best Moment: Our outing to the golf tournament! Both days were perfectly sunny with a light breeze. It was fun being together as a family of three and having Dad with us all day. Conor & I always said we would continue to do the things we love, even with kids... Maybe easier said then done,but we're definitely pulling it off. This first adventure was not without some quick thinking moments, but overall very successful and proof that Liam will easily adjust to fit our lives and we to his. I can't wait for all the fun things we'll get to do together as a family! :-)


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Election Will Depend on Strong Support From Social Conservatives
by Daniel T. Zanoza, Executive Director
What I'm about to write may ruffle some feathers within the Republican Party, but I believe somethings need to be said regarding State Senator Bill Brady's Illinois gubernatorial campaign.
Most of us who follow Illinois politics closely understand full well there is a rift between some of those in party leadership and members of the GOP who represent its conservative base. This divide has existed for years and, unfortunately, it has led to the defeat of many Republican candidates--some good, some bad.
Even though I've followed Illinois politics for nearly twenty years, I don't claim to be an expert on how to run a political campaign, but, at times, history is the best indicator regarding what works and what doesn't. Many would have to agree there were those in the Illinois Republican Party who were surprised by Bill Brady's primary victory last February. Indeed, some think those with considerable influence in the Republican Party establishment outsmarted themselves by fielding candidates who split the party vote in the Chicago area which allowed Brady to win the primary because of his strong showing in other regions of the state.
Though it is unfortunate the divide between the Republican old guard and the socially conservative wing of the party exists, to deny this fact would be ridiculous. The crux of the matter is, there are those within the Illinois GOP who believe strong pro-family Republican candidates cannot win general elections in Illinois. Subsequently, some party leaders believe it will not be necessary for Republican statewide candidates to court the party's conservative political base.
This mindset continues--and was possibly reinforced--when Republicans were recently swept into office in other states, demonstrating there is a groundswell of voters who are not content with the direction America is headed. But it seems the impact of grassroots groups, including the Tea Party movement, are being misunderstood or ignored by some in the Republican Party leadership.
The Tea Party movement is not driven by a single issue. Some Tea Partiers now call themselves "Independent", due to the fact they see no difference between the two major parties. Many of these individuals whom I have communicated with believe a vast majority of politicians no longer represent their values or what's in the best interest of their country. They feel Congress isn't listening to them regarding a myriad of issues. Some are opposed to big government and high taxation which has led to the current state of our economy where one out of every ten Americans are unemployed. Others within the Tea Party movement see illegal immigration as an important issue which involves American security and our government's failure to enforce existing laws regarding those who have entered our nation illegally.
Many Illinois voters believe in the Republican Party because of its state and national platforms. Social issues are important to them. They may not all be members of the Tea Party movement, but they have been disillusioned because of the GOP's departure from the values and principles they were elected to office to uphold. It must be noted a significant number of Tea Partiers are Democrats or hold no party affiliation. But a vast majority of those who will decide the outcome of the general election in November are not members of a Tea Party or any other grassroots organization; many care about issues which include the fight for the rights of the innocent unborn, the support for traditional marriage, the preservation of the right to bear arms and other matters of import to them.
Of course, many are only concerned about fiscal issues. For example, just a generation ago, one wage earner could support an entire family. Certainly this is no longer the case, in most circumstances, due to the explosion of big government and higher taxation which has led to the devolution of American society.
Getting back to history, Peter Fitzgerald was the last Republican candidate to achieve a statewide victory for a major office when he defeated incumbent Carol Moseley-Braun for the U.S. Senate in 1998. Bill Brady and Peter Fitzgerald's legislative records were similar. Fitzgerald ran unabashedly as a pro-family conservative. He did not soften or downplay his position concerning a socially conservative agenda and, subsequently, Fitzgerald was the recipient of unified support from the GOP's political base. Fitzgerald won the primary and general election, despite the fact he received little support from the Illinois Republican Party. Fitzgerald spent a great deal of his own personal wealth in his campaign, but he did win.
Recently, many members of the mainstream media have suggested Sen. Brady needs to run a campaign of "moderation". But this advice is coming from those in the establishment press who would rather see Pat Quinn remain in the Governor's mansion after the election. There are also members of the Republican Party who, undoubtedly, are advising Brady to stay away from contentious social issues.
Though there is a strong possibility Republicans will be swept into office because of the negative reactions on the national level to the Democratic-dominated Congress which, despite public outcry, supported unfettered spending, bail-outs and passed an unpopular health care bill, the upcoming election in Illinois is not a fait accompli. I believe it will take a concerted effort from voters--which include the GOP's conservative base--for Brady to win in November. I also feel it will take an energized Republican electorate who believe Brady's legislative record is not enough for him to beat Quinn. Sadly, many Illinois voters are not familiar with Brady's voting record in the Illinois Senate. I believe Brady should embrace his legislative record. Certainly, the media will pick and choose what they like about Brady and what they don't like. My point is: Why let others define who you are and what you stand for?
I'm writing this piece because I have heard rumblings from pro-family leaders and activists that Brady plans to run away from his record. Of course, it's far too early in the campaign to make such a judgment. But I know there are those who would like the State Senator from Bloomington to do so.
I might be the victim of "kill the messenger" with these words. Personally, I will do everything I can to help Brady become the next Governor of Illinois. I know of his personal and political conviction regarding the issues I, as a social conservative, care deeply about. In the same breath, Illinois voters who do not follow politics closely must not be presented with an image of a politician who is defined by the media.
Pat Quinn will be a formidable challenger, especially in a state dominated by the Daley Democratic Machine. Brady's election will not be a walk-through, as I feel some in Republican leadership believe. In fact, one influential pro-family leader told me there are those within the GOP who think Brady can win without the party's pro-family base, due to the results of recent elections in Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey. If this is proven to be the case, and Brady buys into this strategy, it might be a formula for disaster for Brady. However, Brady has a reputation for being his own man. He ran a fiscally responsible primary campaign and I fully expect him to be a candidate of integrity and conviction. The Bloomington Senator has done nothing to show me otherwise.
In a way, the November gubernatorial race will be a type of referendum on Illinois politics for the future. Some experts claim the current political situation in America is an anomaly. Subsequently, there are those who stand by the notion Republicans will be swept into office, simply because they are Republicans. Of course, I could be wrong.
Illinois voters are looking to vote for candidates who stand FOR something. Barack Obama stood for "hope and change", but it was a type of change many Americans now find distasteful.
My support for Bill Brady is because of what he stood for (and why) while in the Illinois Senate. I will vote for Brady because he's the best man for the job to lead Illinois. But the challenge ahead for Republicans--moderate and conservative alike--will depend on a unified effort with everyone rowing in the same direction. Hopefully, Brady will energize those who represent the pro-family base of the GOP and not take their vote for granted. I don't think he will, but only time will tell.
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The Tashkent Files- Movie on mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri
Tributes poured in on the 52nd death anniversary of India's second prime minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, the man who gave the iconic slogan 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'. Leaders cutting across party paid their tribute.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute in a tweet, "We pay homage to Shastriji on his punya tithi (death anniversary). His impeccable service and courageous leadership will be remembered for generations to come."
Congress party paid tribute, saying "Lal Bahadur Shastri, India's second Prime Minister. He was instrumental in setting up the National Dairy Development Board which then led to the White Revolution."
His died on 11 January 1966 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration, reportedly due to cardiac arrest. His death remains one of biggest mysteries of modern India.
Award-winning filmmaker and writer Vivek Agnihotri are set to direct a movie- 'The Tashkent Files', based on the mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. Agnihotri has roped in ace actors Naseeruddin Shah and Mithun Chakraborty in the lead roles. Still, the hunt is on for the role of Shastri.
On this day, our 2nd PM Lal Bahadur Shashtri died mysteriously in Tashkent. Was it heart attack or poison? Even after 52 yrs, the truth of the biggest cover-up of free India has been denied to his family, followers, citizens. After years of research, I present #TheTashkentFiles pic.twitter.com/k53WBSrKk8— Vivek Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) January 11, 2018
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Key to the 2015 FT Global MBA rankings
We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest KPMG LLP news every morning.
Weights for ranking criteria are shown in brackets as a percentage of the overall ranking.
Audit year: indicates the most recent year that KPMG audited the school, applying specified audit procedures relating to data submitted towards the ranking.
Salary today: average alumnus salary three years after graduation, US$ PPP equivalent. This figure is not used in the ranking.†
Weighted salary (20): average alumnus salary three years after graduation, US$ PPP equivalent, with adjustment for variations between sectors.†
Salary increase (20): average difference in alumni salary before the MBA to now. Half of this figure is calculated according to the absolute salary increase, and half according to the percentage increase relative to pre-MBA salary — the "salary percentage increase" figure in the table.
Value for money (3): calculated using salary today, course length, fees and other costs, including lost income during the MBA.†
Career progress (3): calculated according to changes in the level of seniority and the size of company alumni are working in now, compared with before their MBA.†
Aims achieved (3): the extent to which alumni fulfilled their stated goals or reasons for doing an MBA.†
Placement success (2): effectiveness of the school careers service in supporting student recruitment, as rated by their alumni.†
Employed at three months (2): percentage of the most recent graduating class who had found employment or accepted a job offer within three months of completing their studies. The figure in brackets is the percentage of the class for which the school was able to provide employment data, and is used to calculate the school's final score in this category.
Alumni recommend (2): calculated according to selection by alumni of three schools from which they would recruit MBA graduates.†
Female faculty (2): percentage of female faculty. For the three gender-related criteria, schools with a 50:50 (male/female) composition receive the highest possible score.
Female students (2): percentage of female students on the full-time MBA.
Women board (1): percentage of female members on the school's advisory board.
International faculty (4): calculated according to the diversity of faculty by citizenship and the percentage whose citizenship differs from their country of employment — the figure published in the table.
International students (4): calculated according to the diversity of current MBA students by citizenship and the percentage whose citizenship differs from the country in which they study — the figure in the table.
International board (2): percentage of the board whose citizenship differs from the country in which the school is based.
International mobility (6): calculated according to whether alumni worked in different countries pre-MBA, on graduation and three years after graduation.
International course experience (3): calculated according to whether the most recent graduating MBA class completed exchanges, research projects, study tours and company internships in countries other than where the school is based.
Languages (1): number of extra languages required on completion of the MBA.
Faculty with doctorates (5): percentage of full-time faculty with a doctoral degree.
FT doctoral rank (5): calculated according to the number of doctoral graduates from each business school during the past three years. Extra points are awarded if these graduates took up faculty positions at one of the top 50 full-time MBA schools of 2014.
FT research rank (10): calculated according to the number of articles published by current full-time faculty members in 45 selected academic and practitioner journals between January 2012 and October 2014. The FT45 rank combines the absolute number of publications with the number weighted relative to the faculty's size.
† Includes data for the current year and the one or two preceding years where available.
* KPMG reported on the results of obtaining evidence and applying specified audit procedures relating to selected survey data provided for the Financial Times 2015 MBA ranking for selected business schools. Enquiries about the assurance process can be made by contacting Lori Huber of KPMG at email@example.com. The specified audit procedures were carried out between November and December 2014. The audit date published denotes the survey for which the specified audit precedures were conducted.
** These schools run additional courses for MBA students for which additional language skills are required. These figures are included in the calculations for the ranking but are not represented on the table to avoid confusion.


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The admission will be done on the base of merit in MP PEPT examination conducted by MP professional exam board (VYAPAM). The candidate can undergo the process of online off-campus counseling through the internet.
Online off-campus counseling will be conducted in five steps:
1. Documents verification:
The documents verification of the reserved category candidates will be done by the Directorate of Technical Education, Bhopal through its help centers whose list is available at www.dtempcounselling.org or www.mponline.gov.in. Unreserved category candidates do not have to get their documents verified at this stage.
2. Online registration and payment of registration fee:
Registration is must for each candidate seeking admission on the website www.dtempcounselling.org or www.mponline.gov.in
3. Online preference /choice filling and part payment of tuition fee:
The candidate has to select the preferred Institute and branch as per the option displayed in online counseling.
4. Online allotment:
On the basis of the choice entered and on the merit position of the candidate, the allotted Institute and Branch can be obtained through the login id and password. A print out of the same should be taken out by the candidate.
5. Reporting at allotted Institute and document verification:
In this step, the candidate has to carry his original documents to the allotted Institute. The admission slip will be provided by the Institute.


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An estimate 6.9 earthquake took place today northeast of San Pablo, Guatemala. There have been over 600 reports so far, from those having reported feeling the earthquake.
Currently, this area is getting heavy rainfall, as seen our real time, live Cruise Ship Weather Caribbean Satellite. Between the earthquake and the tropical storm weather in the area, flooding and loss of life may be possible.
According to United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program, "Central America is very seismically active, and the region within 250 km of the June 14, 2017 event has experienced 34 other M 6.5+ earthquakes over the preceding century. Most occurred on or near the shallow plate interface in this region.
The June 14, 2017 event also follows a series of shallow earthquakes on or near the subduction thrust interface about 150 km to the southwest. Since late May 2017, 16 earthquakes of M 4.1 and larger have occurred there, including a M 5.5 event on June 10th with a thrust faulting mechanism, and two M 5.1 earthquakes earlier in the day on June 14th."
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Pharma companies may soon be barred from giving any gift, cash or offer hospitality to doctors, as Indian government is considering making it mandatory for them to follow uniform marketing practices code.
The Department of Pharmaceuticals has prepared the Uniform Code of Pharmaceuticals Marketing Practices (UCPMP) and its voluntarily adoption and compilation was started from January 1 this year.
The code also prohibits companies from supplying drugs as samples, which are used to treat depression, inducing sleep such as hypnotic, sedative or tranquilliser.
"As of now it is voluntary for pharmaceuticals companies to follow UCPMP, but we are considering to make it compulsory in next few months," a senior government official told PTI.
A process has already been started to rework the entire code so that it could be make compulsory and the department will hold discussions for the same with all stakeholders including industry, Medical Council of India and others, the official added.
Discussions will also take place with Drug Controller General of India, Health Ministry and NGOs, the official said.
The marketing code which also cover medical devices sector was initially implemented from January 1 this year for a period of six months, which was extended for two months till August 31 and now has been extended for four months till December 31 this year.
As per the code, the companies can extend funding for medical research and study through approved institutions as per law and it should be fully disclosed.
The code also have stringent measures for audio video promotional activities and for the supply of free samples of medicines.
Source: PTI


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We tend to reserve special roles for our favorite writers—sepulchral Poe; sardonic Mark Twain; sexy, world-embracing Walt Whitman—and resist evidence that contradicts our cherished images. Emily Dickinson in this constellation is forever the lovelorn spinster, pining away in her father's mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Mass. We assume that the grand passion behind her poems ("Wild nights—Wild nights! Were I with thee") must have had a commensurate inspiration, whether imaginary, superhuman, or divine. Evidence that Dickinson's love life was fairly ordinary, with ordinary temptations and disappointments, doesn't quite fit the bill. Her exile on Main Street has seemed a necessary part of the Dickinson myth, so necessary, indeed, that contrary information—which happens to have been piling up lately—has often been discounted or ignored.
For example, when Mabel Loomis Todd, the vivacious and talented wife of Amherst College astronomer David Todd, was invited to play the piano for Dickinson and her younger sister, Lavinia, in September of 1882, she received a startling warning from their sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson, next door. The Dickinson spinster sisters, Sue informed her, "have not, either of them, any idea of morality." Sue added darkly, "I went in there one day, and in the drawing room I found Emily reclining in the arms of a man."
It's now widely assumed that that man was Judge Otis Lord, a widower of her father's generation who proposed marriage to Dickinson late in his life and hers (she died in 1886 at the age of 56) only to be affectionately rebuffed. "Don't you know," she wrote coyly but decisively, "that you are happiest while I withhold and not confer?" Yet the notion of Emily Dickinson making out in her living room is so foreign to our conception of her that her autumnal tryst with Judge Lord has never become part of the popular lore about her.
The discovery that Dickinson did not have to wait until her dotage to experience some of the pleasures of ordinary romantic companionship has so far sunk like a stone, too. A carefully argued scholarly article titled "Thinking Musically, Writing Expectantly: New Biographical Information About Emily Dickinson," published this summer in the staid New England Quarterly, has caused not a ripple.
The author, Carol Damon Andrews, is an independent scholar who has worked at the Worcester Art Museum in central Massachusetts. She told a reporter for the Amherst Bulletin that she was pursuing some family history among her Penniman ancestors when she stumbled across two intriguing entries in the diaries of Eliza Houghton Penniman, a music teacher who gave piano lessons in Amherst before settling in Worcester.
The first entry reads, in part: "I commenced teaching vocal & instrumental music when I was 16. My first pupils were Fanny Sellon daughter of Dr S. of Amherst … & lawyer Dickinson's daughter Emily." This was in 1839, when Emily Dickinson was 8 years old. Part of the understated charm of Andrews' article is that she gives as much attention to her discovery that Dickinson's musical education began six years earlier than had previously been supposed as she does to the bombshell that follows, in a later diary entry:
In Amherst … I had a class in music: … Emily Dickinson, daughter of lawyer Dickinson, to whom Dr. George Gould of Worcester, was engaged when in college there. Lawyer Dickinson vetoed the whole affair, the Rev. George being a POOR student then, and poor Emily's heart was broken.
The name George Gould is not new to Dickinson scholars. An Amherst College graduate of 1850 and a close friend of Dickinson's brother, Austin, Gould has long been identified as part of Emily Dickinson's youthful social circle. In Brenda Wineapple's new book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, he makes a cameo as one of the young friends "to whom she seems to have shown some of her early work" before finding a more sophisticated mentor in Higginson.
In fact, the possibility that Gould might have been more than a friend isn't new, either—but, as Andrews shows, it received a notably cool welcome.
Andrews does not pretend to be the first person to claim that Gould was Dickinson's secret lover. Genevieve Taggard, a leftist poet best known for her Depression-era populist verse, published a vividly written biography of Emily Dickinson in 1930 after teaching for a year at Mount Holyoke, Dickinson's alma mater. Taggard discovered what she called the "purloined valentine," sent by Dickinson in 1850, inviting a mysterious someone to "meet me at sunrise, or sunset, or the new moon." Subsequent scholars have assumed Gould was a likely recipient but left it at that. Taggard, however, built her narrative around the youthful love affair of Emily and George, blaming the breakup of the engagement on Dickinson's father but ascribing a different motive, one more in line with her proto-feminist approach.
It wasn't that George was poor, Taggard maintained; it's that Edward Dickinson wanted Emily for himself. Asking Emily to play the piano "was Edward's way of bringing Emily back when she escaped." When it became clear, at a graduation party in 1850, that Emily and George were in love, Edward declared "that the affair must end." Taggard suggested that Emily and George continued to meet despite the ban, hooking up secretly in Philadelphia and New York as well as in Amherst until a final break in 1862, when George, who had trained for the ministry, married and settled in Worcester.
It's startling to go back to Taggard's nearly forgotten and rarely read book and find how much evidence she tracked down for her tale of star-crossed lovers. She quotes several sources, including a friend of Lavinia's, all of whom requested anonymity but confirmed the basic details of the affair. So, why wasn't her story believed?
Once again, it was the popular image of shade-seeking Dickinson holed up in her father's house that prevailed. As Andrews argues, there was a concerted effort to suppress Taggard's findings, led by Susan Dickinson's daughter, Martha, and Amherst College professor and biographer George F. Whicher, who announced that he intended "to terminate the persistent search for Emily's unknown love." Whicher attacked Taggard's book as "untrustworthy" and suggested that its plotline was derived from the "stale formula of Hollywood romance and Greenwich Village psychology"—a sly dig at Taggard's bohemian and socialist convictions.
There is more to this tale, including some pretty convincing evidence that three mysterious love letters Dickinson drafted in the late 1850s—passionate, masochistic, and lyrical texts referred to as the "Master Letters" for their unknown recipient—were actually addressed to Gould: "I've got a Tomahawk in my side but that don't humor me much, Her Master stabs her more—Wont he come to her." After Dickinson's death, Mabel Todd began collecting her letters for publication and wrote to Gould. He responded that he had "quite a cherished batch of Emily's letters myself kept sacredly in a small trunk … which some 15 years ago mysteriously disappeared."
If there's a surprise in all this, it's an ordinary one. It turns out that Emily Dickinson had the kind of early romantic entanglement and disappointment that so many young people have. They find someone congenial; they exchange gifts and promises; their parents intervene for various acknowledged and unacknowledged reasons. If such ordinariness seems somehow beneath the dignity of one of our supreme poets, that's probably why even this latest challenge to the image of isolated Emily has gotten so little attention. Alas, there's nothing mysterious or mystical here except what Emily Dickinson made, in her extraordinary poems, of her all-too-human disappointment.


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Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 13.01.2018
Russia has been invading Ukraine in Crimea and Donbas since 20 February 2014. That's 3 years, 10 months, 24 days of unrelenting warfare by Russia against Ukraine – the largest countries that lies wholly within Europe.
Since the signing of the second Minsk Agreement on 11 February 2015 and the Battle of Debaltseve which ended on 20 February 2015, the Russians have settled into a pattern of static warfare against Ukrainians. Just like in the First World War trenches and fortified positions separate the warring sides – in the case of Putin's War it is the invading Russians on one side and the defending Ukrainians on the other. Putin's invasion of Europe battlefront in Donbas carves out a corner of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. The Russian invaders rely on an endless series of ceasefire agreements to cause the Ukrainian defenders to refrain from shooting back at the shells and grenades and mortars and rockets and bullets coming from Putin's invasion-occupation army. Eventually, Russia's attacks escalate to such a point that the lives of Ukrainian defenders and civilians are taken in drone-targeted attacks – that's when the Ukrainian armed forces are obliged to return fire. The escalation continues until the next worthless ceasefire is agreed at Minsk, and the pattern is repeated.
Since the static phase of Putin's War against Europe began in late February 2015, the overall pattern has been steady escalation. In a press conference on January 12, Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, reported that there were more ceasefire violations in 2017 than there were in 2016. The monitors recorded a total of 401,336 ceasefire violations in 2017. In 2016 there were 320,130 violations, which is an increase by a quarter. Heavy weapons (which are banned by the Minsk Agreement) were used 4,065 times in 2017, compared to 3,099 times in 2016 – a 31.17 percent increase. The freedom of movement of OSCE monitors was restricted 2,422 times in 2017, compared with 1,950 in 2016 – a 24.2 percent increase.
An example of banned heavy weapons being deployed by Russia was reported by the OSCE SMM on January 12. In Russia-occupied Donetsk region, near the village of Kachkarske (which is 35 km north-east of Mariupol), the monitors saw a multiple launch rocket system. It was a BM-21 Grad, which fires 122 mm rockets mounted from a truck. This is one of Putin's favourite terror weapons: he used it to attack the village of Novoluhanske in free Ukraine on 18 December 2017. 47 homes were damaged or destroyed and eight civilians were wounded in that particular Russian attack last month.
Putin's war policy against Europe's defenders in Donbas is to steadily escalate shelling and rocket attacks – fed by an endless supply of weapons, ammunition, fuel, matériel and soldiers from Russia. It is clear that Russia has no intention of adhering to any of the terms of the Minsk Agreements. It is clear that Putin will not settle for a "frozen conflict" and that he is waging war for the defeat of Ukraine.
Sanctions were imposed on Russia in 2014 because Russia brought war to peaceful Ukraine. The illegal occupation of Crimea and part of Donbas must not be allowed to stand. The so-called annexation of Crimea must not be recognized. These are the purposes of sanctions on Russian individuals and entities responsible for war crimes and human rights violations against Europeans in Ukraine. Logic dictates that because Russia's attacks against Ukraine are increasing, sanctions should increase too. New war crimes and new atrocities against human dignity are being committed by the Russian invaders, and they deserve the same penalty as the outrages by Putin's army in 2014.
Over 10,000 Europeans have already died in Putin's War since it started on 20 February 2014. Ukrainians have given their lives defending their fellow Europeans from the foreign Muscovy invaders. Other European countries do not fight alongside Ukraine. Other European countries do not arm Ukraine. Other European countries put in place half-hearted sanctions after Russia's initial invasion and have not implemented more numerous and more severe sanctions since. Ukraine is strong in Europe's defence, but other European countries are weak and do not adequately engage in the war which Russia wages against them. Because Putin will never stop until he is stopped, stronger sanctions against Russia must be imposed.


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Today's blog post is by Steven Forth, CEO of LeveragePoint, the leading SaaS platform for value-based pricing and sales.
The economic climate is tough: financial uncertainty, wild fluctuations in commodity prices, global competition, and rapid commoditization of products that we all thought were safe. Business buyers are paying a lot more attention to the economic variables in a purchase decision, and this is putting new pressure on sales to execute with an emphasis on value-based selling. This is something with which most of us have little experience. We know how to build relationships, uncover customers' needs and pain points, and translate features and benefits into solutions. But most of us are not very familiar with translating those solutions into economic impacts. And yet, that is precisely what we need to do today to capture an unfair advantage in the market.
One approach is to estimate the return on investment (ROI) for the customer. Many buyers, especially financial buyers, insist that the sales team provides ROI calculations as part of their proposal. In fact, though, ROI is not a very useful tool for sales. It is an important approach for the chief financial officer (CFO), who often needs to make decisions between very different options – apples-to-oranges kinds of decisions.
But in sales, we are more often comparing apples to apples – the buyer is trying to decide between two similar solutions from competing vendors. Or, in some cases, it is apples versus going without ("I haven't been eating apples, so why should I start now?"). How does one make the economic sale in this case?
Over the past two decades, pricing experts have been developing an approach called value-based pricing, which depends on the creation and subsequent use of value models to set price ranges for different segments and hone value message. (There are many articles on this available on the Resources section of the LeveragePoint Website.) Value-based pricing is based on a few key principles:
- The customer always has an alternative (known as the Next Best Competitive Alternative), and the price of this alternative sets the market price.
- Your solution will have some positive economic impact for the customer that your competitor's does not. By working with the customer, the scope of these can be estimated.
- Your solution will have some unique costs or shortcomings compared to the competitive alternative, and it is important to acknowledge these.
These three principles are combined to create a value model. A value model is a collection of value drivers for a specific customer or segment relative to a competitor. A value driver is a mathematical equation that shows how a customer derives value from your solution.
One common objection to value models is, "We can't get data for the value driver functions." Our experience is that, as long as the value driver makes sense and the initial numbers are reasonable, customers are willing to discuss them and share information in the sales conversation, especially if the salesperson understands value and acknowledges the competitor and the positive and negative value of his or her company's own solution.
Like sales, pricing is a conversation, and it needs to be collaborative. In the current economic environment, we need to be able to sell the economic value of our solutions as part of an honest conversation with our customers.
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I made timelapse from last night, here is result:
I used those BBC templates first time bit more and those look to work pretty nicely.
Nice where is the night sky. It looks to me as if there is a fiar bit of light pollution with the blueness of the sky, but that could just be the camera. I did some star photos in the Swiss Alps last year and was amazed at what you could capture, if anything too much sometimes.
How did you create that intro in Hitfilm?
@Shooter99 Pretty awesome! But your slate at the end says 06-07.03.2016. Which I am taking to mean that your shot was from the night of March 6th through midnight to the 7th in 2016. Is 2016 a typo?
Also, were you on a slider? I assume, so since the trees are moving to the left. Also it looks like you were pointed North towards Polaris.
Thanks for the info on the timelapse exposure times. I need to give this a try myself.
Andy001z Yeah, that is huge problem with most of cities around of world.
Yeremyah Basically this is my dslr created and edited with HitFilm but you can easily import image sequences to HitFilm what creates video for those to you, depending your composition fps.
Stargazer54 That i pure TYPO with multiple ways, it was 06.03.2017 22pm to 07.03.2017 05:30am.
And no, it was solid tripod where my dslr was standing.
Your welcome.
Very nice work.
Nice. What was your lens and ISO settings?
I've found through studies and using programs light Starry Landscape Stacker that you can really clean up the noise and get a darker sky.
One trick I noticed that works is to setup your camera (lens/ISO) and then take a shot with the lens cap on. You can then use that black slide and meld it into all "stacks". If you don't have any moving items in the shot you can also choke the ISO down and get the fore scape shot and meld that in on the top stack.......but I'm still practicing :-)
Great stuff @Shooter99
GrayMotion I had Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG ISO i think i had 3200.
Pretty standard value what i use.
That noice remoing is easy when you take each pictures but i really don't have memory card to take 2700 frames cause my 2 x 32gb memory cards can store only 800 pictures.
And yeah, when i took pictures i took only Raw, no other options on there.
Here is picture what i have took exact same spot with just one single hour exposure with ISO400. i have another video planed just need to get clear sky... https://www.facebook.com/MSPh0t0Art/photos/a.1669863309899653.1073741842.1643535009199150/1807238186162164/?type=3&theater
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The economy? Bah. Bring on the fancy TVs!
We know what Sony will be previewing at the Consumer Electronics Show today, and it's now clear that those awesome games will have the benefit of 150 Bravia TVs. The video presentation at the show is downright epic; Sony is showing off three OLED TVs, the new Vaio P mini notebook, LED backlit TVs, and several different top-of-the-line Bravia TVs, all located on every possible level of Sony's area. If you want to get a great look at the insanity, check out the screenshots courtesy of PCAuthority, which not only shows the crowd on hand, but the very slick Sony presentation. They also mention that Samsung has 117 LCD TVs hanging around, too, so it's fairly obvious that the big boys aren't pulling any punches just 'cuz the economy's a little low. Now, all we need is Killzone 2 being played simultaneously on all 150 Bravias, and every last attendee can gaze on in wonder and awe…some may even need medical attention. Can't that many TVs cause seizures?
Anyway, stay tuned for any breaking news that comes from the show (just don't hold your breath), and we'll try to locate as much game footage as possible. We would like a lengthy Infamous gameplay trailer, please.


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The issue of affordable housing in Pittsburgh hit big this summer with the news that hundreds of residents were being evicted from the Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty.
Officials responded promptly by holding a meeting to address anxious residents. City councilors, state representatives, county officials and Mayor Bill Peduto all attended. They seemed to be responding to East Liberty's trend of losing low-income earners while gaining richer residents.
Peduto promised residents that they "would be respected," and vowed to use the occasion to make a "statement to developers that we do not do business this way."
The city's affordable-housing task force also responded to the eviction, and the mayor's office instituted meetings between the Penn Plaza residents' tenant council and representatives of the buildings' owner to try to reach an agreement that benefits the residents and future affordable-housing decisions. The buildings are owned by the Gumberg family, who has extensive real-estate holdings — mostly malls and retail outlets — across the region.
Last week, an agreement was reached that will see the Gumbergs contribute to residents' moving costs, among other things, appeasing many of the Penn Plaza residents.
"This issue is bigger than us, so this deal helps to lay a great framework for more affordable housing in the city," says Lillian Grate, president of the Penn Plaza tenant council.
But critics question how this agreement can be considered a win for affordable housing when it appears Penn Plaza residents will ultimately end up displaced from East Liberty.
"People are never going to be able to duplicate that rent," says current Penn Plaza resident Randall Taylor, of the below-market-rate rents of Penn Plaza. "Where are they going to relocate?"
In early July, Pennley Park South, a Gumberg subsidiary that manages the Penn Plaza complex, issued 90-day evictions effective at the end of residents' leases. Some residents have lived in Penn Plaza for more than 15 years. Some residents moved out soon after receiving the notices. No explanation was offered by the Gumbergs on the future of the buildings, and rumors started to circulate; many believed a big-box store would be replacing their homes, while others thought high-end condos would take over.
Peduto told City Paper in July that the Gumbergs planned to renovate the property as a combination of retail and housing. (A press release on the deal issued this past Monday confirms that plan.)
On July 18, in response to the eviction notices, more than 140 residents voted to form a tenant council and elected representatives to meet with the city and the Gumbergs.
Also following the eviction announcement, city officials began acting on affordable-housing plans. City Councilor Daniel Lavelle says that the affordable-housing task force, which was created in February, began to hold regular meetings only in the week following the formation of the Penn Plaza tenant council.
Lavelle says that city councilors and their staff are planning to go neighborhood by neighborhood and identify each neighborhood's affordable-housing concerns in the "very near future." He adds that the city has hired outside consultants to determine what the best practices are in terms of creating affordable-housing legislation for Pittsburgh.
Lavelle says the task force is looking beyond East Liberty because affordable housing is a city-wide problem. In fact, in Allegheny County, there are only 25 to 40 affordable and available rental units per 100 extremely low-income households, according to the 2015 Pennsylvania profile by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
City Council's focus, according to Lavelle, is on ensuring that future communities are not displaced. "We are encouraging developers into looking to build [replacement properties] first, so residents can stay in the neighborhood," he says.
On Sept. 10, Peduto announced a plan to fund affordable housing in East Liberty, including possible funds for those displaced from Penn Plaza, according to a press release. Peduto's chief of staff, Kevin Acklin, was also holding periodic meetings with representatives from the Penn Plaza tenants' council and the Gumberg's lawyers to reach an agreement on how best to address the potentially displaced. That agreement was released Sept. 28.
And while the agreement addresses Penn Plaza residents' concerns about immediate evictions and moving costs, it appears that those residents might not fit into any of the city's affordable-housing plans.
According to Grate, of the tenants' council, the Gumbergs have agreed to provide as much as $1,600 to each household. This amount does come with conditions, she says, and some residents will not receive the entire amount.
Penn Plaza consists of two large apartment buildings — one at 5600 Penn Ave. and the other at 5704 Penn Ave. — with 312 total units.


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Linguine, meaning 'little tongues' in Italian, is a type of pasta produced both industrially or by hand from durum wheat flour and water. These ingredients may be simple, however many Italians will favour only the best flour and only natural spring water.
Linguine is flat and thick in the centre, about 10 1/2 inches long and 1/8 inch wide. It originates from the Liguria region in the northwest of Italy, where the very similar bavette and tenette pasta are found.
Linguine is bester served with oily sauces and aromatic herbs and is rarely served with meat. The most traditional dishes are Linguine al Pesto Genovese and Linguine ai Frutti di Mare (seafood linguine), popular in the southern region of Calabria.
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text: Medical Mission to restore sight in Nepal August 16, 2018 | UCI Health For UCI Health ophthalmologist Dr. Sanjay Kedhar, performing eye surgery in a remote Himalayan village in Nepal required finding a table big enough to be an operating surface, and rolling out sleeping bags on the floor for a night's rest. And that was the easy part. To get to Machha Kohla in Nepal's Gorkha district, he and a volunteer team of eye doctors made a long trek in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, followed by two days of hiking on treacherous, high-altitude trails, carrying eyeglasses, surgical equipment and other supplies in their backpacks and on the backs of mules. "There's no road into this area," explains Kedhar, who joined the medical mission organized by Operation Restore Vision. "It was probably only 15 to 20 miles of hiking, but with constant elevation changes." Room for surgery, but no table Kedhar, a cornea specialist and associate professor of ophthalmology at the UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, and the team would spend three days in the village, mostly performing cataract surgeries. There was a place for the doctors to spread their sleeping bags at night. And there was a room to perform surgery — but no operating table. "We had to scour the town searching for a suitable table," Kedhar says. "There was just one. We found it at a restaurant and thankfully they let us use it for the few days we were there." Patients flocked from smaller surrounding villages to be treated for vision problems. Over the three days, Kedhar and his fellow physicians screened 800 patients and performed surgery on 71 of them. The mission also arranged to provide food for the patients and places for them to stay. Local monks get the word out "We work with the local monastery," Kedhar says. "So the monks actually go out into the villages to let the community know there will be an eye camp." Schools sent their students for eye exams. Many of patients needed reading glasses, which the mission team provided free of charge. Other patients needed antibiotics or special eye medications. Though the Nepalese patients are unfamiliar with surgery, Kedhar says, they tend to be less nervous about it than many American patients. They get no medication to help them relax before surgery, just local anesthetic injections around the eye. Afterward, they leave with bandages that remain on for a day or so. Overjoyed to see again As stoic as they were, once the bandages were removed, some of the patients reacted with clear astonishment and joy. One man who began to dance wanted the doctors to join him. Another patient had been carried into town by her son-in-law. "She had had very bad cataracts in both eyes for the past three years," Kedhar says. The son-in-law had been carrying the nearly blind woman most places during that time because without sight it was impossible for her to traverse the uneven terrain in their mountainous area. When the woman's bandages were taken off, she gazed all around, drinking in the colors of everything. The day after her surgery, she walked out of town on her own, Kedhar says, adding, "The son-in-law was probably happier than she was." Watch a video about the mission Related Stories What you should know about cataract surgery › Protecting your aging eyes › Why eye exams are important for kids › Tags patient stories eye medical missions


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On March 24, EPA announced it is proposing criteria for the "beneficial" use of chat from the Tri-state mining district in transportation construction projects and in non-transportation, non-residential concrete and cement projects.
The proposed criteria involve encapsulating chat particles in asphalt or cement and concrete. Beneficially using chat according to the proposed criteria will both reduce chat piles and improve human health and the environment in the Tri-state area, officials said.
Chat is a gravel-like waste created from lead and zinc mining activities in the Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Tri-state district between the late 1800s and mid 1900s. Currently about 100 million tons of chat contaminated with lead, zinc and cadmium are located in the Tri-state mining district.
More information is available on EPA's Web site at http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/other/mining/chat.
This article originally appeared in the 03/01/2006 issue of Environmental Protection.
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We are going through troubled times where many people are fearful of the huge changes taking place in the world.
Startups and new businesses are also facing challenges which feel like they threaten the very continuation of all the time and effort put in to date.
But what if this forced change can be harnessed and used to create controlled change?
In my new guide, I look at what change is, and how to make the most of the circumstances we find ourselves in.
- The secret is to master change, and not have it dominate your business.
- Learning to change is now the single biggest factor determining business survival, and future success.
- There are a number of simple steps which can ensure that you are best-equipped to deal with the market storms which are now occurring, and come out fitter on the other side.
Learn To Change is an essential guide and vital philosophy to adopt.


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So I clearly have my fair share of makeup. Like more than the average bear. Ok, I have a lot of f-ing makeup and technically shouldn't get another beauty item for the next decade. So I try to avoid falling weak when I see a new collection and buy the whole thing but when I saw MAC's new It's A Strike collection, I could've bought almost every item before even trying them on. I mean, look at these colors!
These shades have me so ready for Fall, I wanted to share my faves so you can share in my excitement and purchase your faves before they're all sold out (and yes, they're selling out, I actually have two more items that are coming in the mail because my local store was sold out of them). Some of the pieces in the collection are staple colors, just like many collections, so I tried to just focus on the limited shades.
Perfect Score: Described as Deep Red, I was happy that it was a Matte finish as I usually prefer a matte look especially with a bold red lip. The color is rich, full of pigment, and was easy to apply evenly. And while I have more red lipsticks than I can count, as soon as I tried it on I knew I needed to add it to my collection. I like that it's a deep red, different than a classic cherry red, but not completely dark like a brick red. I'm really excited to wear this during the upcoming seasons!
Babes & Balls: This lipstick is exclusive to mac.com and is described as a Deep Burgundy. Again, was relieved it had a Matte finish and I'm SUCH a sucker for a berry lip. In my opinion, it's the perfect shade for Fall and will totally complete an outfit of skinny jeans, booties, and long cardi. If you remember my obsession for 'Fashion Revival', this is similar but a little darker and they're both amazing!
Cremesheen Lip Gloss
It's A Strike: Typically I don't gravitate towards glosses since lipsticks excite me more, but I was definitely drawn to this one which is described as a Soft Nude Pink, but I actually think it's almost more of a soft nude mauve, which I really like. I think it'll be perfect worn alone for subtle color and shine and probably will also look amazing worn over my favorite light pinks/nudes/mauves (Please Me, Angel, Lovelorn, Captive..to name a few).
Eye Shadow
300 Game: This is described as Blackened Cherry and is as pigmented as all of MAC's other shadows and I loved again how different it is than other shades you see and probably own.
Bowl Out: This shadow is described as a Midtone Grey and while I decided not to purchase it because I had to make sure my husband wouldn't leave or kill me, I wanted to just note how pretty this shadow really is! While it may be a little similar to other shades you've seen (because it's so pretty and versatile), I love the pigmented color and really like that it's matte. You can mix it with anything and it would look great…and I'm currently regretting not buying it, sigh.
Face Powder/Highlighter
Trophy: This is described as a Pearlmatte Face Powder and I'm pretty sure the packaging sells itself. But once you stop smiling over the bowling pin and ball design, you'll see how gorgeous – and different this highlighter is. I like that it gives off a subtle pinky blush/white highlight, which sounds weird but once you blend and buff (and blend again because the white dominates), you'll see how beautiful this powder looks!
Lip & Cheek Colour
Blind Score: Described as a Dirty Red Lilac, I was completely intrigued by this cream cheek and lip colour as soon as I saw it. I loved that it was completely different than other blush shades I have and that I could wear it on my lips as well. I have a feeling this will compliment any plum and berry lipstick when worn as a blush for a perfect monochromatic look. Just use sparingly and build, especially so it doesn't remove any of your face makeup.
Nail Polish
5 Pin: There's not much to say about this nail polish, which is described as a Deep Wine, except that it is the PERFECT polish for Fall. Period.
So now you're biggest decision of the weekend is what are you going to buy?!


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New Hollywood 'horror' picture features 'liberal men' hunting 'deplorable' conservative women
By Jon Dougherty
(NationalSentinel) A new political horror film set for release will feature "liberal men" hunting "conservative" women from 'red states,' though an ad for the movie was pulled this week over sensitivies regarding the El Paso and Dayton shootings.
The film, titled "The Hunt," is Blumhouse Picture's latest political horror thriller. The movie centers around a hunting lodge called "the manor," where elitist liberals can pay to partake in the gruesome slaughter of conservative characters referred to "deplorables" — the left's nickname for supporters of President Donald Trump first coined by 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The film is set for a late September release in AMC Theaters around the country.
Here is the official trailer for #TheHunt - @Blumhouse's ⚠very violent ⚠ new social thriller starring Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts, and Hilary Swank. Coming to AMC Septemeber 27. pic.twitter.com/z2LRFSM5o6
— AMC Theatres (@AMCTheatres) July 30, 2021
But following last weekend's mass shootings, new trailers for the film were pulled by Univeral Pictures because of a "fraught political climate," but not due of the contents or nature of the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Conservatives are also upset at the studio for making the picture in the first place.
This is Hollywood's response to mass shootings & heightened political violence. A movie that features "'liberal elites' kidnapping 'deplorables' from red states & killing them for sport."
It's hard to not feel this stuff is meant to further divide us all. https://t.co/UxxNVsG8pP
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 7, 2021
In a new film by @jason_blum, liberal men hunt down and murder female Trump supporters.
Watch a woman run in terror in his trailer her by @UniversalPics.@TeamYouTube supports this.
The Hunt - In Theaters September 27 (Private Hunting Experience) [HD] https://t.co/UqM0lQNfyY
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 7, 2021
According to The Reporter, the film caricatures conservatives as "red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it's his constitutional right."
Meanwhile, the entertainment outlent notes, liberal "blue-state" male hunters note throughout the film "that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter," making reference to President Trump as the current "ratf–ker-in-chief" while they pleasure themselves by chasing down and brutally slaughtering fellow American citizens with they simply disagree with politically.
The film "is meant to show what a stupid, crazy world we live in," one Universal executive told The Reporter. "It might even be more powerful now."
Meanwhile, a number of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders have blamed President Trump for the El Paso shooting, claiming his "anti-Hispanic rhetoric" led the shooter to take action. They include low-polling Robert "Beto" O'Rourke and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.
However, in a manifesto published online, the shooter, Patrick Crusius, wrote that his anti-Hispanic sentiments "predate" the Trump presidency.
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It doesn't matter one way or the other. These biblical examples of burial, the burning of bodies, are just shadows and similitudes.
Col*2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Col*2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him
, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross
Col*2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Which are a shadow of things to come
; but the body is of Christ.
Col*2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Col*2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which all are to perish with the using; ) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body
; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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Improving Inspections
The data spanned several years of his shop's work—more than 3,000 documented vehicle inspections in all. It sat, stacked tall on his desk, and Scott Osborn began by sorting the papers into piles.
At this point in late 2011, Osborn looked at numbers as the lifeblood of his business. All of the answers to every problem at Osborn's Automotive—a month-long sales slump or a dip in gross profit margin, for instance—could be traced to some metric.
And Osborn religiously tracked and analyzed those numbers.
It was one of the reasons his shop had nearly tripled its sales over the previous decade, and it was why he spent nearly three days sorting through that pile of inspection forms, trying to find a tangible answer to a burning question.
"I'd been told over and over that I should be able to run my business from a beach in the Caribbean with a coconut drink with an umbrella in it," he says. "But, at the same time, everyone preaches that getting good inspections from your technicians is the key to success, the key to more sales and doing a better job for customers. Well, how can you know for certain that every technician is inspecting every single car according to your policies? How do you know they aren't missing things? How do you know they aren't biased or overlooking things they don't like doing?"
The answer, Osborn hoped, was sitting in that pile of papers, in all the data collected from every inspection over the previous three years at his shop.
"The idea was to change the way we look at inspections," he says, "to take it from a subjective thing based on the technician's biases and skills and make it into something that's objective and repeatable—and something that we can monitor with ease."
The Backstory
If you're simply looking at physical size, Osborn's Automotive hasn't changed a whole lot since he first purchased the former gas station on the Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach, Calif., in 2003. It's a nondescript, three-bay, 1,400-square-foot facility on a busy road in a nice area. And it generates $1.2 million annually in sales.
"It's small, but we get a lot out of it, and that's by doing everything through systems," he says.
Osborn has focused heavily on processes in the last six years, implementing standard procedures for every aspect of his shop and tracking progress daily. His shop, which did roughly $40,000 per month in sales starting out, now regularly tops $100,000.
The Problem
The simple fact of auto repair is that customers don't know what they don't know. It's the shop's job to inform them. That's where the inspection comes in, Osborn says.
Like many shops, Osborn had a simple inspection checklist for technicians to run through during the process. It broke the vehicle down into categories, such as under hood, under car, safety, etc., and then into tasks like "check fluids" or "check hoses."
"It was pretty standard," Osborn says, but it didn't leave enough room for making full recommendations. Also, when the customer left following the repair, the shop's copy was simply put in a file, then likely moved to a box, which was then eventually put in storage.
"We had information on these vehicles and weren't using it to our advantage the next time the customer came in," he says. "You're starting from scratch every time."
So, Osborn set up an inspection file on his shop's computers. The techs would fill out inspection forms electronically, and the shop could then store them for future use.
That improved the availability of the information, Osborn says, but it still didn't do anything to improve the accuracy of it.
"The whole time I'm just thinking, 'This is great, but how do I know the inspections are any good?'" he says. "Sales only tell us if my front counter is doing a good job selling what they found. It doesn't say whether the stuff was really needed or whether we're missing other things. So, the problem is: How do I ensure a proper inspection every time without having to essentially do them myself?"
The Solution
It was now 2011, roughly three years after he started keeping track of inspection reports on his computers, and Osborn knew, somewhere inside that data, there was a tangible, measurable way to ensure quality inspections.
He wasn't going to hover over his techs, and he wasn't going to just assume things were fine based on sales.
Audits Aren't Optional
Larry Monroe, master consultant, Management Success!
Auditing your courtesy inspections is vital, no matter how far you want to drill down into the procedure. The inspection line is an important service to all of your customers, yet it is one of the first to unravel in terms of quantity or quality. The metrics need to demonstrate quality, training and integrity of the shop overall. It starts with having a workable form—hard copy or soft—and then an exact method laid out on how to implement it. Your analysis results will always be impacted by the attitude, training and experience of your tech team, which are always changing.
Instead, he pulled up all of his reports and hit print, and he started sorting them. He put the reports in piles for each technician. Then, he organized them by vehicle and looked at what problems technicians were finding.
It took him three days of doing little else but pouring over the reports to find his answer.
"I saw patterns and averages and a way to look at it all," Osborn says. "By doing this, I could see that so-and-so's average car was a 2002 with 90,000 miles on it. And I could see what he was recommending."
More specifically, he was able to see the amount of vehicles that received certain recommendations. For instance, he could see one technician recommended cooling system work on 15 percent of all vehicles—very standard for his area.
—Scott Osborn, owner, Osborn's Automotive
"All of a sudden, we have a way to see technicians' habits over the last three years in the shop," he says. "I could see which guys were recommending what work, and how often. I now had a way to measure what their inspections were producing. I had tangible numbers to put with it."
He still lacked a simple way to track it, though.
Osborn used an online program called Active Service Pages to create a Web-based inspection system that could compile the inspection data and turn it into a readable, easily accessible spreadsheet of data. He created an updated inspection form (with added ability to give specifics on issues and detailed recommendations) on the site that technicians filled out with each vehicle. The website then automatically broke the inspections down the way Osborn had by hand.
He now had live, tangible numbers to show his worker's habits on each vehicle.
The Aftermath
The first red flag popped up instantly. Osborn saw that a technician recommended brake-fluid service on 60 percent of vehicles he inspected—a very unusual number in sunny, Southern California.
His sales advisor was skilled enough to sell the work, Osborn says, but something about that high number bothered him. So, the next time he saw one of those jobs come up in the management system, Osborn decided to peek in and observe the tech's work on it.
"He wasn't even doing the whole service," Osborn says. "He was just draining the master cylinder with a suction tube, pulling the fluid in it and shutting the hood.
"He wasn't doing a good job for the customer. He was stealing from me. He was stealing from the customer."
And he was fired on the spot.
Another Level
Monroe, Management Success!
The next major step is taking your "findings" and having the organizational and training skills to fix or improve the situation. This can be one of the most major challenges for shop owners: "tuning up" employees. I know a lot of owners that have statistics and metrics on every detail of their business, but they don't have the training to address the human element. This is your next major step to success. Scott has done a very good job taking concepts on service and quality and creating a system that works in the real world. That is the important part. You may have all sorts of ideas about how you expect an inspection to be done, but getting your entire team doing it "your way" is always the challenge.
Another time, Osborn saw that his techs hadn't recommended any suspension work over the course of 75 inspections. After speaking with them, he realized it was a training issue, and in the following few weeks, their numbers were up to where they should be.
"Sales didn't necessarily change, but the right work is now being sold," he says. "My guys are now accountable for what they recommend, and it helps us make sure we're staying up on training and doing the work we need to."
The Takeaway
Osborn has since partnered with Elite Worldwide Inc. to create an offshoot company, Repair Shop Solutions, to enhance and promote his inspection system.
The lesson Osborn learned, though, isn't about diversifying his personal business opportunities.
"It just shows how important data mining really is," he says. "For every situation and every aspect of your shop, it's so important to measure and look at your numbers.
Keeping a Close Watch
Kevin Donohoe, consultant, Educational Seminars Institute
People and systems are the lifeblood of any business. Steve Osborn did what all business owners/managers should do: evaluate, analyze and implement with an eye toward consistent business improvement. Part of Steve's success was recognizing the mix of business his repair center offered was not balanced based on what his business goals and objectives were, and he took appropriate steps to correct the condition. He developed training and tracking solutions and trained his entire staff for success. I applaud Steve for his dedication to his clients, community and staff. It's success stories like Steve's that make me proud to be in this industry.
"Every area is going to be different, as far as your percentages (of work found in inspections). That's why you have to keep track of everything, and be on top of it all. The more tangible data you can have to look at your operations, the better and more efficiently everything will run."


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What EVERY heart patient needs before surgery
It's the science-backed therapy that can make a life-or-death difference if you're having heart surgery.
It's safe... it's cheap... it's readily available... and it comes with no side effects.
Odds are, though, you won't get it unless you ask!
New research proves once again that high doses of vitamin D before heart surgery can boost blood levels in patients who are low, but that's not all.
That boost will do something else that's every bit as important.
It will help keep you high in D during and even AFTER the operation, when levels of this critical heart-pumping hormone may rapidly plunge and lead to dangerous complications.
You can prevent those risks -- and all you have to do is ask your doc for high-dose D before the operation.
He'll have a hard time saying "no" in light of this new study!
Patients going in for heart surgery were given either a placebo or three daily 50,000 IU doses of vitamin D.
That's a high dose, but it's not dangerously high in short-term situations.
In fact, just the opposite: In this situation, it's a VITAL dose!
While folks who were given the placebo saw their levels of D drop to dangerous levels during and after the surgery, the ones given the supplements kept normal levels.
The study didn't track other outcomes, though there's another trial doing just that right now.
But you don't need to wait for those results to know that D is critical before heart surgery.
Other studies have already proven that high D levels before surgery can make a life-or-death difference.
In one study a few years back, bypass patients with even moderately low levels of D had more than TRIPLE the risk of death after their operations... while those with very low levels had FOUR TIMES the risk of dying in the three months following surgery.
If you're having some other form of surgery -- even an operation that has nothing to do with your ticker -- it's still a good idea to load up on D.
A study that looked at all forms of surgery found that every 5 ng/mL jump in D levels will cut your risk of complications by 7 percent, including the risk of serious infection, cardiovascular events, and death.
Those are just a couple of examples.
Clearly, you need it. But just as clearly, most patients aren't getting it.
So, if you're going in for surgery, talk to your doctor about D levels. Get tested for your current levels, if possible. And work on a strategy to keep those levels high before, during, and after your procedure.
Your life may depend on it.


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U.S. Specialty Cheese Gallery > Missouri
Hemme Brothers
16728 Arcadia Ave.
Sweet Springs, MO 65351
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Contact Hemme Brothers Today!
Almost 20 years ago, Dad saw an opportunity. Not in cheese, but in milk. He and Mom went from raising pigs to raising cows. They started a dairy without much experience, but they're not the types to shy away from the unknown. They listened and learned and learned some more, and raised their family in the process. It wasn't until their kids started to have families of our own that Dad saw another opportunity. He decided to take a second leap into the unknown, but this time with cheese.
Hemme Brothers Creamery opened their doors in 2016 to make handcrafted cheese that's better from the beginning. Their cheese is rooted in goodness and in family. Because that's where it starts - with family. They take farmstead a bit further, from crop to cream to curd. From their farm to your table. They say cream rises to the top. Well, so do creameries. Welcome to Hemme Brothers. Where they make cheese and today even better.
Meet the Cheesemaker
Nathan P. Hemme is the cheesemaker at Hemme Brothers. He has been making cheese since August 9, 2016. He has been mentored by Neville McNaughton, also known as "Dr. Cheese."
Discover Hemme Brothers' Specialty Cheeses
Move over, cream cheese. Quark is German for "fresh curd." Creamy, mildly tangy and wonderfully spreadable, it's no wonder Germans consume 17 pounds of Quark each year. It's a great replacement for cream cheese. At Hemme Brothers, they like to call it a high end cream cheese.
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