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Spotlight on Paraj Mathur
Meet Paraj Mathur, an incoming venture capital team member and startup advisor who utilized an interesting strategy to make connections and create opportunities.
Tell us about the work you've done for early-stage startups.
I actually started freshman year of college. I knew I was super interested in startups, but I did not have the luxury of proximity (being in Lancaster, PA) to a lot of interesting startups. So I started a personal 'five in five' strategy where every day I would thoroughly research 5 early stage (pre-series A) startups, write-up a one-page strategy recommendation document, and cold-email it to the CEO of the company. I made so many valuable connections that way and a lot of them led to consulting and internship opportunities. For example, I helped a Thiel Fellow with market research for his company, I helped an east coast food tech startup with marketing strategy, and a home services startup with early user acquisition and growth. Additionally, I also found some great internship opportunities through this process and I ended up at JetInsight where I was responsible for product marketing. Now, I am an advisor for several early-stage consumer, AR/VR, and blockchain startups.
How did you become interested in VC?
When I started my P2P storage marketplace - SimplyStow, I spent a lot of time raising my angel/pre-seed round from VCs in the area. Having a background in finance, it was fascinating to see the venture capital process (and how subjective it is). Curious to learn more, I cold-emailed a lot of big VCs and emerging VCs and asked them to give me projects for free. A lot of them gave me tiny projects, which I crushed, and slowly built my way up to more important projects. As I did more projects, I fell in love with the early-stage venture with its focus on the team and the opportunity rather than some financial metric. I ended up leading my school's venture initiative and landed a full-time position with Candela Partners, an early stage fund focused on Mixed Reality Investments. Candela was one of the funds I had done projects for in the past, and I was extremely comfortable with the team so I was happy to accept! I am super excited to lead us to a significant platform shift.
What is your best advice for a company looking for help with product management or user acquisition?
Early stage user acquisition requires tender love and care. On one hand, you can spam subreddits and FB groups to promote your products which will get you users, but they won't have any attachment or loyalty to you or your product. On the other hand, if you do things that don't scale, like getting to know your potential customers personally before onboarding them on to your product, spending months creating value on groups before you mention your product for the first time, sometimes even customizing your product for your earliest users , you can create a legion of passionate users. These users will be your loyal advocates and even help you grow your customer base. The key is to find these customers and cultivate them.
Similarly for product management, after building SimplyStow my product development process was idea -> product -> pricing -> customer -> repeat. However, I learned that it should have been idea -> customer -> product -> customer -> pricing -> customer -> repeat.
Involving the early customer at every step is crucial for rapid product-market fit.


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Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW) has received an "A-" credit rating from analysts at Morningstar. The firm's "A-" rating suggests that the company is a low default risk. They also gave their stock a three star rating. Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW) belongs to Technology sector. Its net profit margin is 14.30% and weekly performance is 4.84%. On last trading day company shares ended up $18.41. Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -7.17%.
KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) CEO Beth E. Mooney purchased 20,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, October 17th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of $12.32 per share, with a total value of $246,400.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 423,748 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $5,220,575. KeyCorp. (NYSE:KEY) shares moved down -0.40% in last trading session and ended the day at $12.58. KEY return on assets is 1.00%. KeyCorp. (NYSE:KEY) quarterly performance is -8.04%.
Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE:YGE) announced that the Company has successfully completed its fifth annual global investor day in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on Tuesday, October 21st, 2014. Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE:YGE) belongs to Technology sector. Its net profit margin is -12.20% and weekly performance is 5.99%. On last trading day company shares ended up $2.83. Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE:YGE) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -15.29%.
On Oct 16, UBS AG (UBSN) and Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMR) were sued by a Japanese school operator for 8.8 billion yen ($83 million) in compensation for losses on derivative transactions. Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMR) ended the last trading day at $5.55. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 1.72% and price to cash ratio as 1.07. Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMR) showed a weekly performance of 2.02%.
On Oct 14, AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO), announced its 2014 Third Quarter Earnings Release Conference Call is scheduled for Tuesday, October 28th at 10:00 a.m. EDT. AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO) shares moved down -1.61% in last trading session and ended the day at $43.98. AGCO Gross Margin is 22.00% and its return on assets is 6.40%. AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO) quarterly performance is -16.83%.


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This summer, from July 18 - 22, kids in our community will be participating in Cityview's annual summer day camp. Kids will be going on a treasure hunt as they sail with the Cap'n to discover what it means to find real Treasure in life. They will interact with Jesus as he calls his disciples, walks on water, feeds the crowds, heals the sick, and calms the storm. We'd love for everyone at Cityview to participate with us! Here's how you can be a part:
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Brazil: Assassination attempt upends campaign
A knife attack might have ensured the victory of the far-right candidate running for the Brazilian presidency, said Kelli Kadanus and Fernando Martins in Gazeta do Povo (Brazil). Jair Bolsonaro was campaigning in the town of Juiz de Fora last week when he was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen by an apparently mentally ill leftist, who ranted about his "divine duty" to kill. Bolsonaro—a 63-year-old former paratrooper who is known as Brazil's version of Donald Trump for his racist, sexist, and homophobic comments—lost 40 percent of his blood and underwent several surgeries. He is expected to recover fully, but may not be able to resume campaigning before the first-round vote on Oct. 7. Even before the attack, Bolsonaro was leading the crowded race, with an estimated 22 percent of the vote. Now, analysts say, the extensive coverage of his recovery "could have a significant effect" on the 28 percent of Brazilian voters who claim they're undecided. Some might have been his supporters all along. "Many people who were ashamed to say that they'll vote for Bolsonaro," says political scientist Marcio Coimbra, "will now have the courage to admit it."
Bolsonaro is the front-runner only because the courts have banned the most popular candidate, said El Observador (Uruguay) in an editorial. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is still loved by many Brazilians for lifting up the poor while president from 2003 to 2011. But the leftist can't run in the election because he was recently sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption, a charge he says was politically motivated. His barring "radicalized the campaign like never before." Brazil had already been shaken by the impeachment on dubious charges of Lula's leftist successor, Dilma Rousseff, and by the disastrous presidency of her conservative replacement, current President Michel Temer. Poverty has soared by a third under Temer, who has implemented tough austerity measures and is also battling corruption charges. With many poor, black Brazilians demanding Lula be allowed to run, and wealthier, white voters cheering on Bolsonaro, this election has the makings of an "explosive cocktail."
Lula isn't helping, said Merval Pereira in O Globo (Brazil). For months, he refused to let former Saõ Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad replace him as the official candidate of his Workers' Party, believing he'd somehow be allowed to run from his prison cell. Lula reluctantly endorsed Haddad this week. Bolsonaro's team has also done little to reduce tensions, said Eliane Brum in Brasil.ElPais.com. His running mate, retired Gen. Hamilton Mourão, reacted to last week's attack with a threat to call out the military, saying, "If you want to use violence, we are the professionals of violence."
Such rhetoric should frighten us all, said O Estado de São Paulo (Brazil). It is "the echo of a long and deafening preaching of hatred and flight from reason." Candidates from all parties talk of their opponents "as if they were enemies to be physically destroyed." If we can't stop this cycle, "Brazil will once again plunge into the turmoil of instability." ■


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We're thrilled to announce that we've joined forces with the beautiful British travel website This is Your Kingdom for their giveaway with From Britain With Love. The winner will receive one of our Twin Tone Tweed Cushions for their favourite #thisismykingdom image of the month.
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The fight for proper legalization of cannabis and homegrow continues in the State of Washington, even though tourists can come to buy an ounce of cannabis here, citizens don't have a right to grow for themselves. Washington State citizens don't have a chance to be adequately educated through experience on what it takes to grow the plant.
Passing A Bill
Homegrow almost happened last legislative session with bills in the House and Senate by homegrow activists and NORML's lobbyist but its a convoluted process.
First, there were the bills. Two separate bills went through were HB2559 and companion bill SB6482, based off of HB1212. One for the House of Representatives and the other for the Senate, a bill needs to go through both to be considered by the legislators. With the same verbiage, the two were needed to pass through their perspective chambers simultaneously, so it could be later merged as one to be signed by the Governor. You could run one bill through both, but this will take twice as long.
Another reason for the two bills is that each chamber is presently pointing fingers at the other as to why they should care about this, why should they even bother. According to NORML lobbyist Bailey Hirschburg "With homegrow, we were regularly told, "Why should we vote for it if the other chamber won't take action?" Hence two bills both trying to move simultaneously."
But wait there's more (said in a coked out Billy Banks voice) before their perspective legislators will hear a bill, it has to be approved by several committees in each chamber. The House and Senate both have committees on various topics, and both have a Rules (leadership) committee. The rules committee decides if it needs to be assigned to other sub-committees, and which ones. Those committees can do any of the following: Not hear the bill, hear it but not take any action, hear it and pass without recommendation (meaning committee members are indifferent) or give it a pass (With or without Amendments or suggestions for change).
Once it passes each assigned committee the bill is returned to the Rules Committee where they decide to pass it on to the legislator to be voted on the floor or on to another Committee, this is where things get murky. The Rules Committee is comprised of the chamber's party leadership, people who are supposed to look out for the will of their constituents (people they represent) which in this case is the Washington State citizen who in turn is the Washington State cannabis consumer. At this point in the process, the Rules Committee can let it pass for a floor vote or send it to another committee for some rulemaking consideration for the financial concerns.
The bills failed in their perspective chambers, not due to any lack of will of the people (which can be seen by the outnumbering pro messages sent to the WSLCB via their "Homegrow Study Report"); but due to the still lingering reefer sadness that resides in the minds of those in charge of enforcing policy for cannabis and the politicians who are suppose to serve the will of the people.
Transparency is weak, a bill can be passed from committee to committee until it dies or as in the case of the Senate, the Rules Committee assigned the bill to a Committee that didn't even hear the bill making it, so politicians don't have to take a stance against a billion dollar industry or one for social reform.
The people supporting SB6482 couldn't get a hearing in the assigned Labor and Finance Committee, stopped by Senator Karen Keiser the Committee leader who represents parts of Burien, Normandy Park, Seatac, Kent, and Des Moines. In her infinite wisdom, she chooses that this is not important enough to be considered by the people when her district holds recreation shops.
In the House of Representatives the Rules Committee didn't send the bill to die; instead, it was passed by the Commerce and Gaming which you think would be efficient enough but from there was handed to the Finance Committee headed by Representative Kristine Lytton where it died.
In both cases where the bills died the Committees were headed by Democrats, the supposed justice warriors of politics but yet don't find it important enough for me to have a fundamental right in my home with this thing we call legalization in the United States of America or at least in Washington State.
If not for the passion of activist (or business as in the case of SB5052) and NORML nothing cannabis related would ever get through the bicameral State process and as seen on the Federal level. You can't drain a swamp there's no plug for. Cannabis issues are not issues for State legislators when they have potholes, budgets, and campaign promises to fill but it is to me, it's one of the few ways where we could invoke positive change for all in the country and state we live.
Homegrow for 2019
The homegrow effort is underway and you can help by joining the conversation. Big marijuana is not stepping up for you. Yes, many stores and grows support homegrow but last year I mostly saw activist with no ties to the industry and NORML lobbyists stand up for what's right, and that's putting the nail in prohibition.
Washington State is the last holdout State when it comes to an individual's right, and this is our greatest stain when it comes to equality for its citizens. We need you to help give ideas, contact your legislators in both the House and Senate, be involved. If you would like to help and be a part of the grassroots effort to get homegrow passed please contact email@example.com and ask what you can do or come to the first meeting on September 9th in North Seattle.
The passing of a homegrow bill is more important than ever for the Washington State consumer as the recreational market thrives the average citizen remains ignorant of a product they're consuming. The present Washington State recreational has created a market of willful ignorance. The average consumer isn't a gardener but should have a chance. I am more concern about azamax in my cannabis than I am fentanyl and that should be everyone's priority because it's more of an actual hazard to my life.
It's Up To Washington State Citizens To Shape Washington State Law
One of the most common replies to complaints in the original I502 was "we can fix that later." That the will of the people will prevail to change things and after seeing the actual process and seeing politician's enthusiasm for the passing homegrow, especially that of the democratic party, it is more evident that people need to step up as consumers and be more involved. We are six years into this so-called experiment, 20 years into Washington State having a form of marijuana legalization.
During the days when medical marijuana was the rule of the land, I was able to buy seeds and clones through storefronts, during this 14 year period before the creation of the recreational market, homegrows, clone and seed purchases were never an issue for the average citizen. Instead, it gave the citizen a chance to be a part of the market because they had a better understanding of the plant by working with the plant.
Homegrow will give the end consumer who chooses to be an enthusiast a better understanding of this beautiful plant because one thing is for sure, not everyone has a green thumb or time, some have higher standards than others, and that's o.k.


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We turn finally to the government's rights in inventions arising in federally supported research and development. We will consider both the scope of these rights and the effect these rights should have on the development of new technology in the public interest.
Patents on subject inventions are not ordinary patents. We have seen how Bayh-Dole's public covenant transforms the property rights in such patents. There's a working requirement not otherwise in patent law. There's a requirement to promote free competition and enterprise that's more demanding than antitrust law. There's a requirement to promote American manufacturing. All very nice, were these property rights acknowledged by nonprofits, their non-conforming practices challenged, and Bayh-Dole's requirements enforced.
Of course, this is Bayh-Dole, the do WTF you want Franken-monster law. There are no public protections operating. But even in its written form, Bayh-Dole lacks protections for inventors and third parties (anyone other than institutional owners and their commercialization favorites), and the Supreme Court noted that it would find that lack "deeply troubling" if it were not that Bayh-Dole governs only the relationship between the government and an institutional contractor after the contractor acquires ownership of an invention made in research supported by the federal government.
What then about the government's rights? There are multiple elements here. First, there is the government's license. Then there is the government's right to obtain title to inventions. And finally there's the government's march-in rights on a patent owner's patent rights.
Under Bayh-Dole, a patent owner's rights are divided between the invention owner and the government. The government's rights come by way of a compulsory license made a condition of the owner's "election" to retain title to an invention the contractor has otherwise acquired. That is, the patent rights split upon that notice of election (see 35 USC 202(a) and 202(c)(4)), as a matter of federal contracting. In Bayh-Dole, there is no distinctive labeling of the patent owner's rights or the government's rights–the section heading is "Disposition of Rights." But the standard patent rights clause calls the patent owner's rights the "principal rights," taking up the usage of the Kennedy executive branch patent policy, where the rights are called "principal or exclusive rights." The "principal rights" are the conditional rights that the federal government permits, by federal contract, an invention owner to exercise, provided that the owner comply with the obligations imposed by the federal contract.
Bayh-Dole takes this division a step further. Bayh-Dole is part of federal patent law, where the Kennedy executive branch policy was established by executive order and applied to federal contracting. The Kennedy patent policy did not alter patent law–it worked by regulatory agreement, as it were. It was conditional upon a contractor accepting a funding agreement; it altered what a contractor could do with a patent, not the patent itself. Bayh-Dole is different. Bayh-Dole does alter patent law. It introduces a new category of invention, the subject invention, and it establishes a policy in law that governs the property rights in this new category. The policy and property rights are stitched together by the first sentence of 35 USC 261:
Subject to the provisions of this title, patents shall have the attributes of personal property.
Patents on subject inventions are subject to the provisions of 35 USC 200 among other portions of Bayh-Dole. Thus, Bayh-Dole alters patent law, dictates how federal agencies must treat inventions in funding agreements, and dictates how federal agencies dispose of inventions that the federal government owns.
The patent owner's interest in a subject invention, then, is in its "principal" rights, along with the limitations on the patent property right set out in 35 USC 200. Collectively, these two restrictions form the public covenant of Bayh-Dole. One principal right of the invention owner is to file a patent application on the invention. A second principal right is to use the patent to achieve the purposes set forth in 35 USC 200. A third principal right is to retain income relating to the invention or from licensing royalties. But what the invention owner cannot do is sue the federal government for infringement or to bring a claim for restitution in the Court of Federal Claims–that's one effect of the government's license to all subject inventions. A patent on a subject invention is not enforceable on the government.
The government's license is often depicted as a "right to use" an invention. But the actual language of the grant is much broader–the right to "Practice and have practiced." Bayh-Dole does not bother to define "practiced and have practiced." The Kennedy patent policy did, the Nixon variations on that policy did, and the IPA program template agreements did, and the IPA program was created by the same person who drafted Bayh-Dole and then oversaw its implementing procedures–Norman Latker, patent counsel at the NIH. In the former policies, "practice and have practiced" was defined to mean "make, use, and sell, and have made, have used, and have sold." That's much broader than "use."
The scope of this grant is also broader than the federal agency that funded the work. In prior executive branch policy, the scope of the right extended to the entire federal government, to states, and to domestic municipal governments (unless a federal agency determined that the license should be restricted only to the federal government). Bayh-Dole, true to form, is less forthright on the extant of the scope (35 USC 202(c)(4)):
the Federal agency shall have a nonexclusive, nontransferrable, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice or have practiced for or on behalf of the United States any subject invention throughout the world
The agency gets the license, but the scope of the license includes "for or on behalf of" the "United States." The standard patent rights clause slips this language:
the Federal government shall have a nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice or have practiced for or on behalf of the United States the subject invention throughout the world.
The federal government gets a license "for or on behalf of the United States." This addition would not be needed if the federal government has a license for itself–that's what "shall have a license" means. The additional language alters that scope. It does not merely repeat the scope. The alteration is to expand the license to include the states of the United States–that's what "United States" means and that usage is consistent with the Kennedy and Nixon patent policies that Bayh-Dole replaces. The federal government and state governments are thus granted a license to make, use, and sell each subject invention, and to have others do so on their behalf.
We will take the scope of this license one further step. Bayh-Dole defines subject invention in a convoluted way, but it can be sorted out. First, we have the broad statement of scope in 35 USC 200: "inventions arising from federally supported research or development." This scope is often reduced to an inapt and misleading shorthand–"federally supported inventions." But that's not the meaning here. The inventions arise in research or development that is federally supported. This is a meaningful distinction. If the research or development receives support, then inventions arising in that research or development come within the scope of 35 USC 200.
Now look at the definition cascade in 35 USC 201, where we would expect to find a clear statement of the scope established in 35 USC 200. There are multiple definitions, so bear with it. First, invention (201(d)):
The term "invention" means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under this title or any novel variety of plant which is or may be protectable under the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 2321 et seq.).
An invention is anything that "is or may be patentable" or a "protectable" plant variety. Funny, that, patent law being extended to include non-patentable stuff. Now for subject invention (201(e)):
The term "subject invention" means any invention of the contractor conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of work under a funding agreement
There is some further fussiness regarding those plant varieties, but the key points here are that the patentable invention must be owned by a contractor, and either the conception or first actual reduction to practice takes place "in the performance of work under a funding agreement." We can spend a long while working through conception and reduction to practice issues–here, however, it is enough to point out that these are terms that arise in disputes over who invented first under a first-to-invent system, and US patent law is now first-to-file so it's all rather strange. Instead, let's look at what "performance of work under a funding agreement" means. For that, we have to look first at the definition of funding agreement, and then at the implementing regulation discussing scope.
Here's the definition of "funding agreement" (201(b)). There are two sentences. Here's the first:
The term "funding agreement" means any contract, grant, or cooperative agreement entered into between any Federal agency, other than the Tennessee Valley Authority, and any contractor for the performance of experimental, developmental, or research work funded in whole or in part by the Federal Government.
The point here is that the work is funded "in whole or in part" by the federal government. It's that "in part" element that is the general scope, with "in whole" being a subset. The "performance" of "work," then, is any work–project, effort, initiative–for which the federal government provides at least funding "in part."
Dwell on this. Enjoy the moment. It's something that university patent administration folks often decline to do, being so busy and all. If we unwind the logic, it looks like this:
- Consider experimental, developmental, or research work
- Now posit federal funding for at least part for that work
- A funding agreement covers performance of the entire work
- When the federal government funds at least some part of that work
The scope of the funding agreement is not just what the government fully pays for. It is not even that old wives' tale about "if even $1 of federal funding touches an invention"–something that the Supreme Court had some jolly laughs in dismissing. It is rather, "whatever the federal government was reasonably led to believe it was supporting." That is, the definition is directed at the work, not at the federal funding. The agreement pertains to the work in which some part has federal funding.
"Inventions arising in the performance of work under a funding agreement" is scoped to mean "any invention in the activities of experiment, research, or development for which the federal government provides at least some funding." A statement of work by a contractor that it will do research and development to achieve a goal creates the definition of the "work" that is the subject of the agreement. It is not necessarily only the "work" that a detailed budget is prepared for as part of a federal grant application–that would cover only the "in whole" prong of the scoping statement, not the "in part" portion.
Now the second sentence of the definition.
Such term includes any assignment, substitution of parties, or subcontract of any type entered into for the performance of experimental, developmental, or research work under a funding agreement as herein defined.
A funding agreement extends to include anyone who is assigned work (or some portion of the funding agreement), substituted to do work in place of the original contractor, or subcontracted to do the work. It doesn't matter what "type" of transaction these actions take for the "performance of … work." Some work may be called "research" and done by a university and some work may be "development" and done by, say, a commercialization partner who receives an assignment. Any invention that arises from the performance of work, when the federal government funds at least a part of the work, is a subject invention when it is owned by a contractor. And what's a contractor (202(c))?:
The term "contractor" means any person, small business firm, or nonprofit organization that is a party to a funding agreement.
Presidential executive order has expanded Bayh-Dole to companies of any size. A contractor is any party to a funding agreement. Parties to funding agreements may be added by assignment, substitution, or subcontract–of any type. A license with a requirement to do development work may be a subcontract. A license that assigns a subject invention makes the assignee a party to the funding agreement, a contractor. When that assignee obtains ownership of an invention made in performance of "work," that invention also becomes a subject invention. It doesn't matter that Bayh-Dole isn't enforced. It's still the law.
All this to establish the scope of the government license required by Bayh-Dole. It's broad. It includes downstream development in projects that have partial funding from the federal government. It includes the rights to make, use, and sell, and to authorize others to do so on behalf of the federal government and state governments. Why does this matter? Because these government license rights, also, form an essential part of Bayh-Dole's public covenant.


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connect once a day. jump up in the air, scream out loud, high five friends and strangers, emote fully, and fear nothing at all.
smile once a day. laugh into the universe, dance in the middle of the circle, have a drink with a colleague, sing karaoke, dive into the deep end of a pool and linger underwater to experience near-weightlessness.
be brave once a day. ask things of the world around you, put out positive energies and expect nothing in return, help people with their tasks, make waffles, clean your room, house, life.
tonight's homework:
make sure to do something once a day which scares you. face your fears to confront them, in the hopes that you will elicit the same bravery in others. the worst they can say is no, the best they can say is yes every time.


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Condola Rashad began her career Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award Nomination). Broadway: Stick Fly (Tony Award and Drama Desk Nominations), The Trip to Bountiful (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Romeo and Juliet. Film: Money Monster, Complete Unknown. She currently stars in Showtime's "Billions." Other television credits include "The Good Wife," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Smash," "Master of None," and "Steel Magnolias."


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2 August 2018
CANADA: Expression of Interest program in Quebec
Effective 2 August 2018, an Expression of Interest system will replace the first-come, first-served system in Quebec. The new system will give priority to employment-based applicants who have skills that are in high demand and will be used for the Quebec Skilled Worker Program.
Quebec's Expression of Interest system is based on a three step process:
Step 1: Individuals aged 18 years or older must first enter a pool of candidates where they will receive a score based on a range of factors. For minimum eligibility, 2 points in education (secondary school general diploma) and 1 point for financial self-sufficiency are required. The second threshold requires a minimum score of 43 points for employability factors. The third threshold requires 50 points (59 points if applying with a spouse/partner) which are based on additional selection criteria.
The points awarded for most selection factors are the same as those awarded under the current Quebec Skilled Worker Program points grid.
Profiles submitted to the Quebec Expression of Interest system will be valid for up to 12 months.
Step 2: The Government of Quebec will invite its preferred candidates, drawn from the Expression of Interest pool, to apply for a Quebec Selection Certificate (CSQ). The invited candidates will have up to 90 days to submit their complete application.
Step 3: Those who receive a CSQ may then apply for Canadian permanent residency.
How does this affect the client?
The changes will help to reduce processing times from the current three years to less than one year.


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New Year's resolutions and job search are a lot like romantic relationships. Some job seekers choose to flirt with the idea of looking for work. Some prefer dating without limits, and are open to any and all possibilities. While others, are more marriage-minded and looking for their one and only love: a career focused opportunity!
Some resolutions involve getting a job before the end of the year or at least by the start of the new. There's nothing wrong with this mindset. However, you may want to consider what "type" of job seeker you are before you allow yourself to be restricted purely by the stroke of midnight! Timeframes will vary depending upon what type of job seeker you are and resolutions you have chosen.
THE FLIRT, Commitment Optional
Not everyone has to be in the exact same place when it comes to job search. If you don't need to look for work and can sustain your lifestyle with little to no financial burden! Continue reading my blog for additional resources. Cheers to you!
TIP: However, if you find yourself filling out one application at a time while "waiting" for someone to contact you, you may be "waiting" indefinitely. Job search requires commitment! It's a strategy consisting of time spent in ongoing employer research, active networking, targeted resumes, and applications galore, all while attending Workforce Solutions Seminars until you find your New Year's match.
TIP: Submitting one application at a time (or flirting), won't provide sufficient return on your investment. Change your strategy by putting in three to five applications weekly to increase possibilities. As your production increases, you should notice significant and measurable results in employer interest and interviews.
DATING Beyond Limitations
You are progressive, "live in the now," and think beyond limitations. If this sounds like you, then congrats, you may actually be on to something! If you're not seeking a career position, your possibilities are truly limitless, more so than if you were focused primarily on a certain industry or job title!. Consider yourself unrestricted by those end of year, (or start of year), self-imposed deadlines. I prefer to think that you're "clever" and that you didn't accidently fall into this way of thinking. (Nod your head in agreement).
TIP: If any full, part, temp, temp to hire or seasonal position(s) is just your speed make sure you're registered in WorkInTexas.com to increase access to these and other types of employment. Our database offers thousands of job leads available across the state of Texas! And, because you are open-minded and flexible in your search, expect endless opportunities throughout the new year.
MARRIAGE – Minded and Focused
Your new year can only end one way…career focused! With little exception, you have remained loyal through layoffs, downsizings and company closures. Employed within the same industry for most of your adult life; your commitment remains intact. Your eyes see no other opportunity because (to you), it doesn't exist! Depending on your experience and labor market research, your search may take longer than planned. And you're ok with that. If that describes you, read on.
TIP: Be sure to include seminars (Skills Identification, Resume, and Interviewing), from Workforce Solutions in your hectic schedule. Participation, like fireworks, will add refreshing color and pop to your current agenda!
TIP: Finally, If you need additional tips or motivation from someone who's been there, I encourage you to take a look back at two of my previous New Year's inspired blogs, "Holiday Tips for the Soul," and "Resolutions Revisited."
Here's to wishing you a joyful and prosperous New Year filled with sparkling resolutions and successful relationships in abundance!
Frieda Carmouche is a member of the Regional Facilitator team specializing in training, educating and assisting students, job seekers, employers and career center staff throughout the Gulf Coast region, regardless of abilities. She obtained her BFA in Graphic Communications and minored in Psychology from The University of Houston. Frieda, a native Houstonian with a love of training and development, and has been employed by Workforce Solutions for over 10 years.


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Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Jdo Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by MichelleCaisse: http://wiki.apache.org/jdo/TechnologyCompatibilityKit The comment on the change is: Added TOC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + = The JDO 2.0 Technology Compatibility Kit = + + [#About About the Technology Compatibility Kit][[BR]] + [#ToDo TCK ToDo][[BR]] + [#TestingStrategy The Testing Strategy][[BR]] + [#HowTo How to Develop a Test][[BR]] + [#Assertions JDO TCK Assertions][[BR]] + [#Guidelines Guidelines for Writing Test Code][[BR]] + [#Cleanup Cleanup][[BR]] + [#Cfg Configuration Files, Schemas, Metadata, and XML Test Data][[BR]] + + [[Anchor(About)]] = About the Technology Compatibility Kit = The JDO Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) tests that a JDO implementation is in compliance with the standard. This page contains information for developers of the JDO 2.0 TCK. + [[Anchor(ToDo)]] = TCK ToDo = This is the list of tasks required to complete the JDO 2.0 TCK. We welcome new contributors! If you wish to contribute, please send email to [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com]. See [http://incubator.apache.org/jdo/mail-lists.html Apache JDO Mailing Lists] for subscription information. @@ -18, +31 @@ ||AllTheOtherTests||Tests of new JDO 2 features, other than query or metadata||Karan Malhi, others||?/05|| ||TechnologyCompatibilityKit||Write a description of how to write a test case||Michelle Caisse||9/05 in progress|| + [[Anchor(TestingStrategy)]] = About the Testing Strategy = There are several variables involved in testing a relational JDO implementation: *the database schema, @@ -29, +43 @@ It is a design goal of the TCK to reduce the number of permutations of these variables. In order to minimize the number of database schemata, the TCK aims to generate, via a DDL generator, any database schemas required. It is not expected that the first version of the JDO 2.0 TCK will include such a generator. Until such time, database schemata will be maintained manually. In an effort to eliminate the number of vendor-specific database products, SQL92 will be used to express the database schemata, and implementations will be able to test their conformance against any number of database vendors' products. We have not yet determined to what degree variations from the TCK's schemata will affect conformance test results. - + [[Anchor(HowTo)]] = How to Develop a Test = These instructions assume that you already know how to check out the JDO repository. See SubversionRepository for more information. @@ -88, +102 @@ 1. Make changes as agreed upon by the community. When all changes are complete, submit the patch for check-in. 1. Update the [http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/incubator/jdo/trunk/tck20/assertions/JdoTckAssertionsTable.sxc assertions spreadsheet] with your test information. Change the Implemented column to "yes" and add the test path and name to the Test column. + + [[Anchor(Assertions)]] = JDO TCK Assertions = The JDO team went through the JDO specification and identified assertions the JDO TCK needs to test. An assertion consists of an assertion number and the corresponding text of the JDO specification describing what the test class needs to check. Usually an assertion is implemented by one JDO TCK test class and the test class covers one assertion. There is an assertion spreadsheet listing all the assertions with their number, text and whether they are already implemented in the current version of the JDO TCK. This assertion overview is organized in multiple sheets, one sheet per chapter of the JDO specification. You find the current version of the spreadsheet below. @@ -106, +122 @@ Download the current version of the [http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/incubator/jdo/trunk/tck20/assertions/JdoTckAssertionsTable.sxc assertions spreadsheet]. It is in Star``Office/Open``Office format. This version adds new assertions to the query chapter covering JDOQL extensions in JDO 2.0. Furthermore it updates the assertions about JDOPermissions. + [[Anchor(Guidelines)]] - = Guidelines for Writing the Test Code = + = Guidelines for Writing Test Code = Use the [http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo/CodingStandards coding standards] of the Geronimo Project. See the annotated SampleTest for pointers on how to write test code. + [[Anchor(Cleanup)]] == Cleanup == Each test in the TCK must leave the datastore clean when it exits. @@ -137, +155 @@ '''Note''': The order of adding tear down instances and classes is significant. 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In "Composition and the Circulation of Writing," John Trimbur critiques the prevalent practice in composition pedagogy of reducing the canon of delivery to mere submission of a paper, which separates writing education from modes of production and delivery and over-emphasizes the act of writing — "the creative moment of composing" — which becomes what writing means to students. Trimbur wants to prolematize this "isolation of writing from the material conditions of production and delivery as a problem" (189). Delivery in the writing classroom has been reduced to a mere technical issue — the physical presentation — of writing, instead of as ethical and political in additional to technical. His desire is for "a democratic aspiration to devise delivery systems that circulate ideas, information, opinions, and knowledge and thereby expand the public forums in which people can deliberate on the issues of the day" (190).
Trimbur describes the composition classroom as domestic, as a place in which the teacher has become in loco parentis, which neutralizes the potential for delivery (the classroom instead becomes a place where students, like children at the dinner table, recount ideas and are asked questions by their father [193]). He notes, however, that he does not believe we can get out of the in loco parentis model in the teaching of writing (194), for a classroom that focuses unproblematically on "real world" writing in rejecting the domestic "draws upon a gendered separation of spheres that fails to see how the public and private merge in the domestic space of the middle class" (195).
Drawing from the work of cultural studies and Marx, Trimbur shows "that the epistemological and discursive status" of a text "depends on how it circulates and, in effect, how it is exchanged and capitalized" (204). He then makes two points: 1) "that we cannot understand what is entailed when people encounter texts without taking into account how the labor power embodied in the commodity form articulates a mode of production ands prevailing social relations"; and 2) "that the unity of opposites in the commodity form — exchange value and use value — enables not only tangential and impertinent readings. Its unity is a contradictory one" (210). Production and delivery are linked, Trimbur argues: "to understand and, potentially, to change the way knowledge circulates requires thinking about how the means of production are distributed in the first place" (212).
Trimbur shares a few class activities/assignments from his course "Writing about Disease and Public Health." In one he asks students to take a science journal article and to write a news report to make the information accessible to the public. The idea isn't to privilege "the moment of scientific discovery as the origin of production." Rather, he wants "students to see that the shift in register and genre between a journal article and a news report amounts to a shift in modality — the relative credibility and authoritativeness invested in written statements — that marks journal articles as 'original' contributions and news reports as secondary and derivative" (213).
I'll admit that I'm confused by parts of this article, but this example Trimbur gives helps me a lot. He discusses the ways in which the change in delivery is also a site of knowledge production, creating "the work of science as a heroic and agonistic struggle" (213). So, production and circulation are not separate, but must be considered in relation to each other.


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Christmas Eve service on Saturday 24th December is at 7.30pm in the Church. Our Young Church will lead us in their Christmas Nativity play which will involve the children and some adults from the congregation. Your favourite carols will be included in this great opportunity to come together as we get ready to celebrate Christmas. You are encouraged to wear your Christmas Jumpers, hats and ties to brighten the atmosphere even more. There will be Christmas Refreshments served afterwards in the hall.
Our Christmas Day Service on Sunday 25 December takes place at 10.30am (please note the earlier time) at Bellshill Central Church, 346 Main Street. This is a shorter service suitable for all ages – especially children. You are encouraged to bring along a Christmas Gift to show off and wear your Christmas Jumper and Hat (or tie!). Activities for children and young adults are available in our Young Church groups that meets during the morning service. All are warmly welcome to our service of worship. We're a warm and welcoming church family at the heart of Bellshill. We would love to see you join us.
Advance Notice of Joint services in the New Year with St Andrew's UF Church are:
Sunday 1st January 2017 at 11 o'clock in Bellshill Central Parish Church and Sunday 8th January 2017 in St Andrew's UF Church. Normal services at 10.45am resume in Bellshill Central Church on Sunday 15th January 2017.
A massive thank you to all you helped organise our Christmas fundraising and social event on Saturday 3rd December. We were treated to A Shoppers Carol service in the Church from 12noon with carols and readings and a humorous retelling of the Christmas Story, then we were seated from 1pm in the hall for Christmas Afternoon tea, with a sumptuous spread provided, friendly banter, Christmas music and even a visit from Santa. Thank you to those who donated items and gifts for our Christmas raffle. We raised in excess of £1100.00 for our Church funds – and we thank everyone for your contribution to this fantastic amount.
Our church guild next meets on Monday 9th January at 1.30pm All ladies and gents are welcome to come along to a warm and welcoming group, full of fellowship. Full event details for the year are available online.
Church choir next meets on Friday 6th January at 7.30pm All are welcome to come along and join us.
Friday night club – a club for all ages – including crafts, games, table tennis and refreshments – resumes in the Church Hall on Friday 13th January from 7pm in the church halls. Families welcomed
Our Church YouTube channel is now live! We are now uploading our worship services online and please visit and worship with us. We are especially pleased to see people worshipping with us when they can, using their PC or tablet or mobile device. Please like our videos and send us a message. Whether you worship with us in person or online you are part of our church family.
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Are you ready to hear this...
Are you ready for this?
And I mean it. Are you really ready to hear 5 of my HARD AND HONEST truths?!
This morning I was having an open and honest conversation with a friend, and this sparked a topic that I feel very passionate about and it is "choices and life lessons". I truly feel that you have the choice to be happy and healthy. It frustrates me when you don't see your true value, it infuriates me when you doubt yourself and it upsets me when you sit on your pain for long periods of time. Why does it create a fire within me? Because I'm passionate, and I feel very deeply on what you feel.
My biggest hope and desire for you is to see your limitless potential and have you feel ALIVE.
It is YOUR choice to OWN your life and learn from it.
Or be a bystander and watch your life pass by.
It is YOUR choice to be happy and healthy. Today I'm dishing out my hard and honest truths to create a stronger YOU, all from my heart.
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Read further...
If not... then STOP
Here it is, my 5 HARD AND HONEST truths
1. It's not your office jobs fault you are 10lbs over weight. (I gave you fair warning, I'm being honest) You have the choice to either go for a walk/workout at lunch, wake up earlier for your workout or do it after work, park farthest away from your building and please pack or choose a healthy lunch! YOU HAVE THE CHOICE! As a result of YOU not taking action on your health, you are 10lbs over weight. NOT the job you have.
2. Kids can LOSE too! In life there are winners and there are losers. (Oh yah, I'm going there) Even at young ages, you will have winners and you will have losers. This teaches our children so much more than the actual sport. Society as a whole took away winners and losers in children's sports. WHY? Because of PARENTS and FEELING being hurt! Parents that were getting too competitive, were getting too involved and trying to pressure their kids. Hey, I get it I want my kid to succeed but I also want him to know, that it takes hard work, determination and dedication to have a winning result! Feelings- well, sorry kids -- loosing sucks -- not getting the job I applied for also sucks-- but talking about feelings and not allowing there to be a winner SOLVES NOTHING! Kids can handle loosing, it's a part of growing up. Adults need to learn from this too.
3. Eating great one day is not going to make you skinny! Eating like crap one day is not going to make you fat! It's what you do EACH AND EVERY DAY, that gives you the body you have! So what if you have glass of wine on Friday night, it's a glass! Enjoy yourself. Reward yourself. You're allowed to LIVE LIFE while living a healthy one! Being consistent and living life in moderation IS A MUST!
4. Your happiness is YOUR CHOICE. We have all had rough times and rough days. I'm not devaluing what you went through or are going through. What I am saying is that you have the choice to either sit on it OR move forward. As much as that first step forward is scary and painful, it is THE MOST IMPORTANT step you will ever take in your process! Give yourself that first step and life will brighten up.
5. Doing a 100 sit ups daily or a 100 squats daily will NOT strengthen you. It will actually do the REVERSE! By doing those large reps you are working your aerobic system which is oxygen dependent. Thus meaning, IT'S CARDIO! If you want your squats or your sit ups to be effective- work against gravity and slow down your tempo. Adding external weights like a barbell or dumb bell will increase the load forcing your legs/core to work harder. Increase the resistance and slash your reps down. THIS WILL STRENGTHEN YOU -- NOT 100+ reps!
THERE IT IS! My 5 hard and honest truths, I hope I didn't offend you or upset you. It all comes from my heart. I'm sharing these truths with you to show you how to GIVE YOURSELF CONTROL of your life. How to break free and start living a life of moderation and ALIVE!
Stop feeling HELPLESS, you have people around you to support you and encourage you and if you don't REACH OUT. Find your tribe that will (Alive Fit Fam) and LOVE THEM HARD!


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Hepatitis cases also go viral, 2 from Mumbai
The hepatitis virus, particularly A and E, are thriving in the city, with at least 18 new patients being admitted to just the municipal-run Kasturba Hospital on Tuesday.mumbai Updated: Jul 14, 2015 23:22 IST
The hepatitis virus, particularly A and E, are thriving in the city, with at least 18 new patients being admitted to just the municipal-run Kasturba Hospital on Tuesday.
The virus gets into the system through infected food and water and causes liver inflammation.
"Only two of the patients are residents of Mumbai, the rest are from the neighbouring districts," said Dr Mini Khetarpal, the chief of the BMC's epidemiology cell.
Khetarpal said an average of four or five cases of the hepatitis E infection were reported every day. The two cases of hepatitis E from the city were reported in Worli and Churchgate, the civic officials said.
Doctors said not all patients with virus require hospitalisation.
"Patients with persistent vomiting need to be admitted as they tend to be severely dehydrated. Most times, the infection can be managed with symptomatic treatment," said Dr Shahid Barmare, a physician at the Kohinoor Hospital in Kurla. Dr Barmare is treating five patients.
Symptomatic treatment focuses on relieving symptoms, including jaundice, by giving patients fluids to reduce the dehydration and medicines to bring down the liver inflammation.
At least 80% of the patients recover with symptomatic treatment, Dr Barmare said.
"But, one of our patients has developed liver failure because of the virus."
All doctors warned against eating food from roadside stalls. "Many patients admitted to the hospital with hepatitis E have been consuming road-side food," said a senior doctor from the Kasturba Hospital.
"I just discharged a pregnant woman who developed hepatitis E. The elderly, children and pregnant women should avoid eating food from outside," said Dr Pratit Samdani, a physician at the Breach Candy Hospital.
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Everyone plays a role in keeping our computing environment safe
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ensure that their personal and office computer equipment, including
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The ITS Network Services team supports a comprehensive virus
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Creating a secure wallet can be challenging due to the security risks involved. It is recommended that all keys are generated on separate machines, with the backup key placed offline in a secure location. Many users don't want the burden of securing keys or remembering difficult pass-phrases at the risk of losing their funds.
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Something I think we need added to the report system
The report system should tell you, no matter which report did it, when a player you reported within the last 2 hours has been punished. I think if people can see the system does work, they'll feel less inclined to be toxic, be it out of revenge or thinking the system doesn't work. Just tell us the name, why we reported them, and (if you want) how long their punishment is for.
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So, corruption…
On Monday, I came back from a vacation in the Netherlands and at my brother's farm in Serbia to an unpleasant surprise: a problem with my visa for Lebanon. My passport was confiscated, and the next three days I spent in the offices of the Security General, running from room to room, waiting in the hallways, getting questions and stamps and signatures and more questions. All these hours, Walid's mother was with me, asking around, translating, waiting with me, explaining my situation, repeating over and over again that I was her future daughter in law and she would not let me be kicked out of the country just like that. It took three days for them to give me a decision (get married as soon as possible or leave the country within two months), and it's still unclear what the problem was. It might be that I didn't accept an offer from someone within General Security to pay for something I didn't need a while ago in the visa process, when it was unclear if I should pay for what I did need at that moment. According to a Dutch guy I spoke to during this whole process, that's exactly where I had gone wrong: I should have gone along with the offer of the Security General employee, because 'you know how it goes here, they're all corrupt and you just have to go with it.' Well no, I don't know that that's how it goes here: in my experience, the people at the General Security offices have usually been very clear in stating what the rules and procedures are and what I need to bring or pay for things to get done. When a friend once tried to help me get in through the back door, they politely refused and told me where to go for the regular procedure. This may not be everybody's experience, but that doesn't mean that 'in reality, they are corrupt,' and I am naïve for thinking otherwise.
Of course I'm not stupid or blind. I know there is plenty of corruption, in Lebanon and elsewhere. But I do not believe that Lebanese people are inherently corrupt, or that things here can never change. That's why the Dutch guy's words hit me on another level as well: I find it incredibly condescending to speak this way about Lebanese society, as if people here are incapable of change or improvement. I also find it strange that people who would never even consider offering a policeman in their own country some banknotes to forget about the rest of the fine think nothing of doing so when they are in Lebanon, as if it doesn't take two for corruption to continue; those in power, and those who want something from them. Yes, there are some people who are corrupt no matter what, but it is my firm belief that most people are mainly corrupt if the situation arises – I mean, why not accept that $100 bill somebody is offering you, if eventually you will have to give him or her the stamp anyway?
And of course I know there are always two things to consider in such situations, and that these two things are not necessarily in agreement at all times: in this case, my own stance against corruption, and the fact that I needed to get something done (a visa to stay in Lebanon) from a possibly corrupt guy. Although not entirely on purpose, I am glad that in this case I did not contribute to corruption, and can do nothing but bear the unfortunate consequences - or convince my fiancé that a Sunni marriage certificate isn't so bad after all. As the lieutenant signing the final decision said: You know, you should get married soon anyway. You have a very good mother in law!


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Wow. It is June already. The start of Winter.
At last week's Saturday meeting it was discussed again how older pictures that we post sort of fade quickly into the past. No new visitors go back into the hundreds of posts to look at the older pictures we have posted.
So the team had a think about what we could do.
We had a number of ideas but in the end we are going with a plan that Alise came up with. There are basically five of us now. Christine and her boyfriend (and the boyfriend was not at the last meeting), Alise, Alise's friend Claire, and myself. The plan is that each of us will pick our favourite pictures from the past out of sets of 50. Then I will do a post showing the five that were picked titled something like "Team's picks from pictures 1 to 50". Also we will create five new tagging items like "Christine's picks", "Alise's picks", Claire's picks", etc., and the pictures we pick will be tagged.
It is possible that each of us might pick the same picture(s) as one of the other team members and this is okay. So it could be that each time I post the team's set of pictures there may not be five pictures posted because one or more of us picked the same picture from that set of 50.
A little more work for me but hopefully something people will like.
And, as always, our guaranteed high heels picture with every post . . .


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