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Newcastle's Samuel Knight announces new investment and recruitment strategy for 2019
Newcastle-headquartered Samuel Knight International, a global recruitment and project man-power specialist, has announced Gresham House Ventures investment and will be recruiting for 40 new staff members in 2019.
Samuel Knight, which was established in 2014 and has offices in London and Bristol, provides skills and energy solutions to the energy and rail sectors.
In 2018, it achieved £13m turnover and secured new client contracts in more than 30 countries, boosting headcount and expanding the business to accommodate business growth.
Steven Rawlingson, CEO at Samuel Knight said: "We have a clear vision of what we want to achieve with the investment, and how this will help us to support commercial goals.
"We are delighted to have secured the funding from Gresham House Ventures, who share in our ambition and vision to grow the business. The investment will enable us to strengthen our global offer, expansion plans and team growth."
The growth capital investment from Gresham House Ventures, using funds from the Baronsmead Venture Capital Trusts, will fund Samuel Knight's near-term growth plans.
These include increasing headcount at the offices in Bristol and London and adding local talent to the Newcastle team, from entry level graduates to experienced consultants.
The company is also planning international expansion with the potential acquisition of two sites abroad.
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Eldora Stinson and her 7-year-old daughter, Roxy, moved to Washington Court House in 1896. Originally from Pierre, South Dakota, they lived in Memphis before relocating to Fayette County at the urging of relatives who resided in nearby Jamestown.
Eldora opened a music conservatory on the second floor of a building on North Main Street that housed a men, women, and children's clothing store. The store, opposite the courthouse, was owned by Jess W. Smith. Eldora and Roxy lived in an apartment on the building's third floor.
In 1908, Roxy Stinson at age 19 married Jess Smith, who was 16 years her senior. (She gave her age as 23 on the marriage license.) Roxy was an attractive, statuesque, strawberry blond. The couple divorced in 1910, but they remained pals and confidants.
Jess Smith was the influence peddler and "Man Friday" for Harry M. Daugherty, the Washington C. H. native, who began serving as Attorney General of the United States on March 4, 1921. Daugherty was appointed Attorney General by President Warren G. Harding, whose nomination for the presidency he had orchestrated at the Republican national convention in 1920.
From the outset, Daugherty's tenure at the Department of Justice was clouded by allegations of shady deals with a bevy of unsavory characters. In poor health and depressed over his part in the scandals, Jess Smith died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on May 30, 1923.
Burton K. Wheeler, a Democrat, was elected a United States Senator from Montana in 1922. In March 1924, he led a Senate select committee charged with investigating Daugherty's rumored malfeasance. Washington D.C. insiders told Wheeler that Roxy Stinson knew all about Daugherty's shenanigans through gossipy conversations with her former husband, Jess Smith. Senator Wheeler came to Columbus where Stinson was living and subpoenaed her to appear before his committee.
The committee held hearings for the first time on March 12, 1924, and Roxy Stinson was the first person questioned. She returned to the witness chair the following day and was called back three more times before the committee concluded its work in late March. Dressed smartly and occasionally glancing at notes, Roxy gave eye-popping accounts of payoffs, secret meetings, the clandestine exchange of stock certificates, and suitcases of liquor that Smith brought back to Washington C.H. despite national prohibition. She said that Smith had once shown her a roll of 75 $1,000 bills.
Roxy Stinson was no friend of Harry Daugherty. She told her interrogators that Jess had been "the tool of a Kaiser-like man." She believed Daugherty was "morally responsible" for her ex-husband's death.
Newspapermen called Roxy Stinson the committee's "star witness." Her good looks, articulate response to questions, quick sense of humor, and convincing testimony made her role in the hearings a sensational story for the national press. Her photograph and hundreds of articles about her appeared in newspapers across the land. A reporter for the Washington Times wrote that Stinson's appearances before the committee "had all the atmosphere of a murder trial, combined with the bated breath excitement of opening King Tut's tomb."
Senator Wheeler's committee questioned 115 witnesses, whose transcribed testimony and supporting documents totaled 3,300 printed pages. Roxy's testimony was instrumental in President Calvin Coolidge asking Harry Daugherty on March 28, 1924 to resign as Attorney General. In 1926 and again in 1927, Daugherty was tried in federal court for defrauding the government. The juries deadlocked at both trials.
In 1926, Roxy Stinson married Phillip Brast, an automobile salesman in Columbus, who previously had done oil exploration in Oklahoma. Phillip and Roxy Brast soon moved to Washington C. H. and lived inconspicuously at 526 Mulberry St. for 45 years. Mrs. Brast had no children, but she was fond of the youngsters who lived in her Millwood neighborhood, where young Lester Coldiron cut her grass and Cathy Croker helped with her cats.
Mrs. Brast never discussed her moment in the national spotlight with historians, newspaper reporters, or even her friends. In 1954, she telephoned Burton Wheeler when he was no longer a United States Senator. Wheeler and his star witness reminisced about the hearings three decades before. Mrs. Brast told him she had married soon after the hearings and that she had lived happily in Washington Court House ever since. Senator Wheeler later wrote that her phone call was "the final, happy echo" to his investigation of Harry Daugherty.
Roxy Stinson Brast died on Jan. 1, 1973 at her Mulberry Street home. She was 83-years-old. She is buried in Jamestown, Ohio, beside her mother and father.


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There is so much common sense in this article, but it is often difficult to engage with partners to open up their clients and access to them to the wider team.
Perhaps the starting point is to encourage partners to understand their own strengths and weaknesses and how the wider team can compliment what is missing.
Sometimes the answer can come from the most unlikely source. I remember once being the youngest and least experienced in a meeting of very senior comms and marketing people who were trying to come up with a solution to what to me seemed a very simple task. Luckily I had the confidence to speak up and I was congratulated on my 'genius' suggestion.
Some of the best leaders I've worked with over the last 20 years will often turn to the most unlikely person in the room to ask what they think.
A review of one firm's relationships with its 300 biggest clients revealed a scary truth: Of those clients served by a single partner, roughly three-quarters said they'd consider moving their business to a competitor if their relationship partner left. But of those served by two or more partners, 90 percent said they'd remain loyal to their existing firm.


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Businesses in an enormous variety of industries need to buy in quality products all the time, whether they're to sell on or for the operation of their processes. You could be purchasing products from a wholesaler to sell to your customers or looking for specialized equipment for an industrial company. Either way, it's essential that what you choose is the best quality for your purposes. Sourcing products with high standards can take a long time. But it's worth it to get the right setup for your business and satisfy your customers. Use the following tips to help you choose the right supplier, with whom you can form a lasting business relationship.
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Before you can begin looking for suppliers, you need to ensure that you know what products you are looking for. Researching what's available to you might involve viewing offerings from some different vendors, but you don't want to make any moves just yet. There are several essential things to think about, depending on whether you want someone to supply equipment or stock. When buying equipment, you need to consider its main purpose. But you should also think about any secondary features you want, whether it's WiFi connectivity or free servicing. Buying products to sell requires you to keep your customer in mind, thinking about what they want and how they want to buy it.
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When you choose a supplier, you can pick from several different types of company. Some people decide to buy direct from the manufacturer, which could be better value but often requires a minimum order. Another option is using a distributor, which you use as a middleman between the manufacturer and your business. If you're buying products to sell to your customers, you might consider using a drop-shipper, who fulfills orders for you. Don't forget that you can look at suppliers worldwide, and you don't have to limit yourself to your home country.
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You might have decided what sort of product you need to fulfill your purpose and the level of quality you need, but what makes a good supplier? Let's imagine that you're buying cooling equipment from a company such as Allied Heat Transfer. One thing that you want to ensure is that they perform rigorous safety tests on the products they supply, which you can see on their website that they do. You should also look for signs of excellent customer service and dedication to clients, including servicing of the equipment that they provide. You need to see that they can provide excellent service, as well as quality products.
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2015. BMG: Belize Tourism Board reports that during the first quarter of 2015 there was a significant growth in the number of cruise arrivals in Belize. The month of January had a major increase of 16.6% and during the month of March there was an increase of 15.8%.
According to the BTB, overnight arrivals have remained steady and one of the main factor that influenced this result was flight cancellations due to the weather conditions in both Canada and U.S.A.
During the month of March there was an increase of 1% which represents 424 tourists whilst the month of January had a small decrease of 1% which represents 306 tourists. The month of February on the other hand also decreased by 1.1% which represents 352 tourists.
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Taekwondo: PTF organizes InterProvincial C'ship from April 18March 29, 2013
Karachi: Pakistan Taekwondo Federation PTF is organizing Inter Provincial Taekwondo Championship from April 1821 here in Karachi.
Teams from all the provinces and FATA will be seen into action.
Earlier PTF will also organize Inter District Taekwondo Championship April 1215 in Quetta.
Meanwhile, PTF will also hold Inter Divisional Taekwondo Championship from April 1316 in Rahim Yar Khan.
Another 9th Korean Ambassador National Taekwondo Championship will be held from May 1318 in Islamabad.
"We are looking forward to promote this martial art sport throughout the country," PTF Secretary Waseem Ahmed said.
"We have immense talent in the sport and hopefully we will soon be able to have strong fighters, who could forcefully compete in international tournaments," he added.
He said that PTF has also planned to send its player to International Training Camp from May 20 to June 5 at Jakarta, Indonesia.
He said that the federation will also send players to 3rd Islamic Games to be played from June 1719 at Riau, Indonesia.
"Later the federation is also looking forward to send its junior players for competing in 7th Junior Asian Taekwondo Championship scheduled to run from June 2330 at Jakarta, Indonesia" he added.
"The federation is also keen to send its players in Swiss Open International Taekwondo Championship, which will be played from June 79 in Switzerland," Waseem said.


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Five people have been injured after a car crashed into a canal bridge near Barton-under-Needwood.
The incident happened just off the A38 northbound at 9.40am today (May 9).
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "Crews arrived to discover five patients, all from the same car, following the crash.
"The most seriously injured patient was a teenage male who was a passenger in the car. He was treated for a suspected pelvic injury and injuries to his face, immobilised and airlifted to Royal Stoke University Hospital. Thankfully, his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
"The driver of the car, a man thought to be in his 20s, was treated for chest and hip pain, cuts to his face and taken to Royal Derby Hospital.
"Also taken to the that hospital was a passenger from the car, a man in his 20s, who received treatment at the scene for chest and abdominal pain.
"Two further patients were transported to Queens Hospital Burton after receiving treatment from ambulance staff at the scene. They were a woman in her 20s who had suffered chest, hip and leg injuries and a man in his 20s who was treated for a head injury and back pain."


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Jordi Alba addresses Barcelona future but remains unsure over contract
Jordi Alba has said he wants to remain at Barcelona but is unsure whether he will be offered a new contract.
Alba's current deal at the Camp Nou expires in June 2020, but agent, Vicente Fores has claimed the former Valencia man has been waiting since 2016 for fresh terms.
The likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Gerard Pique have all since signed new deals, whilst the Catalan club also issued Samuel Umtiti with fresh and improved terms this summer.
Alba, who last signed a contract with Barca in 2015 – was in superb form last season, having helped his side to a La Liga and Copa del Rey double and he has continued in the same vein so far this season.
"The situation remains the same, but I do not know where the club stands," Alba told reporters after Sunday's 3-0 win over Eibar.
"I do not know if they want to renew my deal or not, I have not heard anything more and that is a situation I cannot control.
"I am focusing on my situation, I want to remain and I think I have been playing well, but that is all I can say."
Reports of an exit have been present in Spanish media – with Juventus having been linked prior to the winter break in La Liga.
Claims in Mundo Deportivo last week did however claim that a deal until 2023 has been offered and that Alba is keen to tie down the deal, sooner rather than later.
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Alba has played in over 250 matches for Barca since returning to his boyhood club in 2012 from Valencia.


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The military saints, warrior saints and soldier saints are patron saints, martyrs and other saints associated with the military. They were originally composed of the Early Christians who were soldiers in the Roman Army during the persecution of Christians, especially the Diocletian persecution of AD 303–313.
Most of the Early Christian military saints were soldiers of the Roman Empire who had become Christian and, after refusing to participate in Imperial cult rituals of loyalty to the Roman Emperor, were subjected to corporal punishment including torture and martyrdom.
Veneration of these saints, most notably of Saint George, was reinforced in the Latin Church during the time of the Crusades. The title of "champion of Christ" (athleta Christi) was originally used for these saints, but in the late medieval period also conferred on contemporary rulers by the Pope.[citation needed]
Since the Middle Ages, more saints have been added for various military-related patronages.
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In Late Antiquity other Christian writers of hagiography, like Sulpicius Severus in his account of the heroic, military life of Martin of Tours, created a literary model that reflected the new spiritual, political, and social ideals of a post-Roman society. In a study of Anglo-Saxon soldier saints (Damon 2003), J.E. Damon has demonstrated the persistence of Sulpicius's literary model in the transformation of the pious, peaceful saints and willing martyrs of late antique hagiography to the Christian heroes of the early Middle Ages, who appealed to the newly converted societies led by professional warriors and who exemplified accommodation with and eventually active participation in holy wars that were considered just.[1]
The military saints are characteristically depicted as soldiers in traditional Byzantine iconography from about the 10th century (Macedonian dynasty) and especially also in Slavic Christianity.[2] While early icons show the saints in "classicizing" attire, icons from the 11th and especially the 12th centuries, painted in the new style of τύπων μιμήματα (imitating nature), are an important source for our knowledge of medieval Byzantine military equipment.[3]
The angelic prototype of the Christian soldier-saint is the Archangel Michael, whose earliest known cultus began in the 5th century with a shrine at Monte Gargano. The iconography of soldier-saints Theodore and George as cavalrymen develops in the early medieval period. The earliest image of St Theodore as a horseman (named in Latin) is from Vinica, North Macedonia and, if genuine, dates to the 6th or 7th century. Here, Theodore is not slaying a dragon, but holding a draco standard. Three equestrian saints, Demetrius, Theodore and George, are depicted in the "Zoodochos Pigi" chapel in central Macedonia in Greece, in the prefecture of Kilkis, near the modern village of Kolchida, dated to the 9th or 10th century.[4] The "dragon-slaying" motif develops in the 10th century, especially iconography seen in the Cappadocian cave churches of Göreme, where frescoes of the 10th century show military saints on horseback confronting serpents with one, two or three heads.[5] In later medieval Byzantine iconography, the pair of horsemen is no longer identified as Theodore and George, but as George and Demetrius.
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- Christians in the military
- Patron saints of the military
- Saint George: Devotions, traditions and prayers
- Military ordinariate
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- ^ Damon, John Edward. Soldier Saints and Holy Warriors: Warfare and Sanctity in the Literature of Early England. (Burlington (VT): Ashgate Publishing Company), 2003, ISBN 0-7546-0473-X
- ^ "The 'warrior saints' or 'military saints' can be distinguished from the huge host of martyrs by the pictorial convention of cladding them in military attire." (Grotowski 2010:2)
- ^ (Grotowski 2010:400)
- ^ Melina Paissidou, "Warrior Saints as Protectors of the Byzantine Army in the Palaiologan Period: the Case of the Rock-cut Hermitage in Kolchida (Kilkis Prefecture)", in: Ivanka Gergova Emmanuel Moutafov (eds.), ГЕРОИ • КУЛТОВЕ • СВЕТЦИ / Heroes Cults Saints Sofija (2015), 181-198.
- ^ Paul Stephenson, The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography, Oxford University Press (2016), 179–182.
- ^ "Patron Saints: M - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online". www.catholic.org. Retrieved 2015-12-30.
- ^ Martin is not a martyr, and not a classical military saint. He came to be venerated as "military saint" in 19th to 20th-century French nationalism due to his successful promotion as such during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1. Brennan, Brian, The Revival of the Cult of Martin of Tours in the Third Republic (1997).
- ^ "Portal Cultura de Defensa". Ministerio de Defensa.
- ^ Ministerio de Defensa, Portal Cultura de Defensa. "Santos Patrones de las FAS y la Guardía Civil".
- Monica White, Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900–1200 (2013).
- Christopher Walter, The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition (2003).
- Piotr Grotowski, Arms and Armour of the Warrior Saints: Tradition and Innovation in Byzantine Iconography (843–1261), Volume 87 of The Medieval Mediterranean (2010).
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Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, may not be an official member of the royal family anymore, but when out and about in public, she still boasts the impressive wardrobe of a Duchess.
Most recently, Prince Andrew's ex-wife stepped out in a pair of stunning, blush-pink ballet pumps, which she paired with a simple black dress and matching pink blazer.
And there was a subtle detail on the front of the shoes which made them particularly unique.
Sarah's pumps featured a subtle Alice in Wonderland motif on the front, with one shoe sporting the iconic 'Eat me' phrase on top of a cookie, and the other saying 'Drink me', on top of a curious-looking bottle of liquid.
Fergie's shoes come from perhaps one of her favourite footwear brands, French Sole.
The Duchess has regularly worn shoes from the retailer over the years – most frequently favouring her blue velvet butterfly pumps from the store.
These pink pumps appear to be a new pick for Beatrice and Eugenie's mum – and we have to say, we're a fan.
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Take a pinch of drunken Tetris, add a dollop of Flappy Birds on speed and throw in a glug of outrageous neon nuttiness and you will be left with Size DOES Matter.
It's a new rhythm-based action game from 4Music and set to be one of those arcade apps which you can't break free from. The concept is pretty straight forward: You have to navigate a block through gates in time to electronic music. But, and it's a big but, the block needs to be re-sized with one of your thumbs while the other navigates it through the gates.
Sounds easy, right? Wrong… so, so, wrong. The pace of the moving equaliser is frenetic and there is little room for error. You have three strikes, your punishment for hitting a gate or reducing the block so it's too small and therefore not the correct size. Do this and you can't progress.
The fun comes in navigating the neon maze, earning more points by pumping up the multiplier to crazy numbers, and unlocking new tracks and levels. Artists for you to tap and swipe along to include Savant, Chipzel and Rymdreglage. You can also challenge your mates and dominate the SDM leaderboard.
It's only 99p and well worth every penny. You'll be glued to this game on your commute to work and it will leave you hankering for more retro-ravin' ridiculousness.
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This bright pink "nice cream" will have you dreaming of a tropical island vacation. This smoothie bowl is thick like ice cream, and while you might be thinking breakfast or midday snack, it's a pretty amazing dessert as well.
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GS-170 Press Release
|August 16, 2017 , Yorba Linda, CA--Today Global Specialties introduces a new line of mini multi-colored breadboards.The GS-170 series of solderless breadboards are miniature and colorful.
These mini breadboards are perfect for introducing circuits in the classroom as well as for the hobbyist who wants to prototype small projects. Measuring a mere 4.5 by 3.5 cm, these breadboards are ideal for projects with the Arduino or the Raspberry Pi. Though small, the GS-170 still maintains the center spacing for DIP IC's. Made from durable POM plastic, they come with a peel and stick adhesive for easy placement on most surfaces.
MSRP of $3.50, the GS-170 is is available immediately.
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Since 1973, Global Specialties has been the recognized leader in innovative electronics training solutions for education and industry. Global Specialties' prototyping and trainer systems set the worldwide standard for reliability, durability and long life, designed to take the sustained use of educational, research and product testing environments. A leader in the development of integrated teaching systems, Global Specialties offers completely packaged courses including everything required for effective instruction. Global Specialties' products are available from electronics distributors worldwide.


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New CEO and new funding for Coresonic
LeoCore technology sets new metric for low power and small die WiMAX solutions at WiMAX World
Linköping, Sweden -- 26 September 2007 -- Coresonic AB, a leading provider of baseband processor IP technology, has announced that it has appointed industry veteran, Rick Clucas, as its CEO. Clucas has over 22 years industry experience with over 17 in the semiconductor IP industry most notably as founder and CTO of ARC International. Clucas has also spent some time as CTO of an Investment Bank working with technology companies and more recently as a business consultant to technology start-ups and as CEO of Ignios Ltd. His appointment coincides with a million euro investment into the company by Industrifonden that will enable Coresonic to market its innovative LeoCore™ technology into the growing WiMAX market and other demanding wireless standards.
"The timing is perfect for Coresonic which is why we are showing our technology at WiMAX world this week," explained Clucas. "WiMAX is shaping up to be a major new technology and we are ready to provide a modem baseband processor that significantly cuts the power consumption and die size while providing the flexibility that WiMax and other complex wireless standards need."
The challenge with WiMAX at the moment is that it is evolving and, as a result, there are several different variants. Creating solutions that allow for several of these in one hardwired design results in large die sizes and large power consumption. Coresonic's approach is to use a fully programmable and configurable baseband processor core that solves the problem of numerous variants simply through loading the appropriate software as required. Even for a single WiMAX variant, a LeoCore-based solution uses significantly less power than competing solutions as well as being significantly smaller due to its innovative architecture that minimises memory use and reuses hardware blocks. Moreover, adding variants to the hardwired solution increases the size and power consumption, but hardly has any impact on the LeoCore approach.
LeoCore's Single Instruction Multiple Tasks (SIMT) processor allows parallel processing using a single instruction flow – eliminating the need for multiple DSPs for multiple or complex standards. It effectively provides the performance of a VLIW architecture but with lower control overhead and much lower program and memory usage.
The core is also customisable, providing the scope for significant product differentiation, and makes it ideal as the ultimate, converged, mobile communications modem for WiMAX, DVB-T/H, WLAN 802.11a/b/g, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth and EDR. This multi-standard capability is aided by the LeoCore instruction set that reduces program size, enabling several different standards to be in memory simultaneously for instantaneous switching.
The LeoCore IP package includes fully portable RTL code, accelerators, programming tools, and a selection of optimised subroutines for different algorithms creating a complete solution and development environment to enable designers to rapidly create products for market.
About Coresonic
Coresonic AB, founded in 2004, is a privately owned Swedish company developing and marketing multimode modems for the wireless industry. Coresonic has developed a novel, patent pending, processor architecture optimized for wireless modems that delivers small, power-efficient and flexible modem solutions. The product range has been already proven in silicon and includes both complete multimode modems for quick market entry and programmable baseband processors that the customer can tailor to their needs, all delivered as silicon intellectual property. Coresonic's products are suited for all types of mobile wireless devices from mobile phones and PDAs to wireless networking and digital broadcasting. Read more at www.coresonic.com.
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The International Monetary Fund has warned that the raging land debate in the country is creating policy uncertainty on property rights and discrediting South Africa's stated need for foreign investment.
On Monday, the global lender released its annual Article IV report following consultations with South Africa between May and last month.
The report serves as an economic and financial assessment of government policies in IMF member states.
This comes as Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee conducts public hearings on whether Section 25 of the Constitution should be changed to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.
"In line with best international experience, land reform should focus on enhancing agricultural productivity, improving land administration to strengthen security of tenure, and reducing poverty.
"At the same time, there is a need to mitigate any potential negative effects of land reform on the agricultural base, and the financial spillovers from changes in the value of land as collateral," the report said.
The IMF pointed out that expropriating land without compensating its owners would, however, potentially turn away investors.
"The 'without compensation' clause, which has accentuated uncertainty over property rights, has been identified as a concern for investment," the report stated.
The report also called on the government to consider private equity partnerships in financially troubled state-owned companies, including Transnet, Eskom and national carrier, South African Airways.


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Riverland Farm
Great comfort food.
Prep Time
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- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
- 5 cup chopped leeks
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 lb extra sharp cheddar cheese, coarsely grated (approx. 4 cupss)
- 1 tbsp mustard
- 1 tsp hot pepper sauce
- 2 large eggs
- 1 lb penne pasta
Lightly butter 15x10x2-inch baking dish. Melt 1/4 cup butter in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add leeks; stir to coat. Cover saucepan and cook until leeks are tender, stirring occasionally, about 12 minutes (do not brown). Uncover saucepan; add flour. Stir 2 minutes. Add milk; bring to simmer, stirring often. Add cheese, mustard, and pepper sauce. Stir until cheese melts. Remove from heat. Season cheese sauce to taste with salt.
Whisk eggs in medium bowl. Gradually whisk in 1 cup cheese sauce. Stir egg mixture into cheese sauce in saucepan.
Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain. Return to pot.
Stir cheese sauce into pasta in pot. Transfer to prepared baking dish. Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Bake pasta until cheese sauce is bubbling around edges and some ends of pasta are golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
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Blueberry jam fruit spread 450 gr. HORVAT
We offer you here a glass of high-class Blueberry jam made after "Grandmothers recipe" in careful and natural way of the family Horvat, a small craft enterprise in Bruneck, the central market place of the nice Puster Valley. Fruit portion 50 gr. on 100 gr. Finished product.
"Freshness and pleasure the mountains."
There are used only the finest fruits controlled cultivation which are mixed into tiny amounts of sugar, afterwards are carefully heated up and are brought under constant stirring to the cooking. After a short and careful cooking the jam is bottled in before warmed up glasses, is pasteurised briefly and afterwards cooled down. The valuable vitamins of the fruits are thereby preserved.
This high-quality natural product is carefully worked on poor in sugar. It is suited as a bread spread, for pancake and as a taste in the yoghurt and ice.
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Darbo All Natural Preserves are produced according to an old family recipe. Then as now, only the best fruits - with no added preservatives - are gently warmed and stirred. That way the natural fruit aroma is retained.
Kofler Speck is a South Tyrolean family enterprise with passion for bacon, sausages and meat products. After traditional and transmitted recipe refined generations and with very modern processing technologies we produce for over 30 years decent bacon, spicy Kaminwurzen (smoked sausages), Gselchtes (smoked cattle ham) and other high-class specialities.
One of the traditional South Tyrolean dishes, are the spinach dumplings, hand made by the butcher's shop Steiner in Rasun
Because sesame contains among others unsaturated fatty acids, proteins, dietary minerals, E and B vitamins, it makes our Schüttelbrot very easily digestible. The careful addition of local spices rounds off this unmistakable culinary experience.


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TEES Pride 2009 is under way - and this year we are turning the spotlight on Tees Valley's unsung heroes with Year Of The Volunteer.
This new initiative will be taking a closer look at the great work under way right across Teesside. Plus we want more people to donate just some of their time and get involved in volunteering themselves.
We want to hear from local firms who are working with the community and raising cash for good causes.
Log on to www.gazettelive.co.uk/teespride to tell us your story.
Now in its eighth year, Tees Pride has a strong line-up of sponsors supporting the campaign in 2009.
South Bank-based SBV Fabrication and Site Services has put its weight behind the campaign this year.
Entrepreneurs David Geary and Samantha Condren secured a management buy-in deal at the firm at the end of last year.
SBV has around 100 staff at its Middlesbrough headquarters and Hartlepool site.
Another new sponsor for 2009 is the Co-operative Bank.
Other sponsors:
Aker Solutions
Endeavour Partnership
Hartlepool Council
Learning and Skills Council
Middlesbrough Council
One NorthEast
PD Ports
Redcar and Cleveland Council
Stockton Council
Teesside University
Tees Valley Regeneration
Tees Valley Unlimited
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It's been a long time in the making, but GMass finally works with Google Inbox. We're so excited that we're celebrating with a relaunch of GMass on Product Hunt today, August 10. Please join the conversation there…add a comment, ask a question, shower us with praise.
How do you get it?
You don't have to do anything to get GMass to work inside Inbox, if you already have the GMass Chrome extension installed in your browser. Just fire up Inbox and the GMass buttons should appear. If they do not appear, your Chrome browser may not have the latest GMass extension, version 4.0.0. If that's the case, go to the URL chrome://extensions and click the button at the top to "Update extensions now". Then confirm that your version of GMass is 4.0.0.
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Era Swap: Let's Swap to Next Era
Updated on November 10, 2018
In the US alone, there are 57 million freelancers, with a turn-over of $1.4 trillion dollars a year. A large survey found that 70% of all freelancers use an online marketplaces to find work.
Let me start with a small personal STORY. I have been working as freelancer for quite some years. And freelancing came with some challenges that many will recognize. The first: Freelancing is often running or waiting. You have way more work than you can handle, OR the whole market is at a standstill. How do you balance that out? The second: How do you find the perfect assignment that fits you? I can tell you that this is even more a challenge if you are highly specialized. The easiest is using an online market-place. But these marketplaces come with a middlemen and fees.
So a solution is needed. And EraSwap creates it. EraSwap is a P2P Ecosystem for freelancers based on decentralized blockchain technology. It includes a marketplace where freelancers sell their labor in the market. It also includes the currency Era-Swap Token to pay each other, and an active community that is incentivized to maintain the platform.
Era Swap comes with clear advantages. Allow me to share the 3 most important ones.
Firstly, supply and demand find each other smoothly on the marketplace. This marketplace is global, allowing for a huge base of both clients and freelancers.
Secondly, the fees are very low because there is no middlemen. Much lower than most of the traditional platforms. This makes the rates of the freelancers more competitive. EraSwap allows for in-platform exchanges between the Era-Swap token and other currencies.
Lastly, the data stays in the hands of the owner: the freelancer.
On the website and in the whitepaper you will find an excellent explanation of Era Swap. Join Era Swap today. The Initial Token Offering started with a bonus of 33%. Don't miss this opportunity. Explore Era Swap at https://eraswaptoken.io
Edgar Kampers works with Community Currencies and peer2peer marketplaces since 1993. In 2015 he became active as Advisor for blockchain companies.
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Monday, August 20, 2018
In Which I Grouch About the Oscars
"The Madness of the Academy" is my take on the Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film, my first commentary piece in a long time for Thomas L. Knapp's The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism. I've enjoyed getting back in the op-ed writing game and set to write a couple more in the coming months ... but I'll be able to write more of them if Tom has more money to buy them from me!
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Value Homes Real Estate School
Value Homes Real Estate School is a continuation of Daniel J. Taddeo Real Estate School. After Mr. Taddeo's death, a decision was made to continue the providing the citizens of St Lucie, Okeechobee, and Highland counties the opportunity of enrolling in Florida Real Estate course. During the time I was affiliated with Mr. Taddeo, I came to appreciate and respect Mr. Taddeo's commitment to providing Real Estate courses to the citizens of Okeechobee and Highland counties, along with St Lucie and Martin counties.
After being granted permission to become the Permit Holder for Daniel J. Taddeo Real Estate School, it was determined due to legal restrictions the name of the school had to be changed. Due to the substantial number of inquiries received regarding the continuation of the real estate school a decision made to proceed continue with the school under the new name.
As the permit holder and instructor for Value Homes Real Estate School, Inc, it is my goal to provide an educational program comparable to what Mr. Taddeo provided in his school. Being associated with Mr. Taddeo over the past several years I became familiar with the processes and procedures Mr. Taddeo used in his classroom. Mr. Taddeo had an unique style to teaching.
The ultimate accomplishment for Value Homes Real Estate School, Inc, is providing the pre-license course material in a manner that is clear and concise to the students. This will allow the students to grasp the applications and concepts in a manner that will allow the students to apply what they have learned to the required state examinations. Proper application of the concepts will allow the students to successfully pass the examinations.
Value Home Realty School, Inc is responsible to ensure post license courses are relevant. Students attending these courses will be provided material that will supplement what was provided in pre-license courses. It is NOT the responsibility of the school to provide students with practical skills of being a real estate agent or broker. The responsibility for this knowledge rests with the broker to whom the newly licensee is affiliated. Continuing education courses will provide the students with updates to license laws.


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In Spring this year I was contacted by fellow Blogger and Honourary Reject Chris (Axebeaker) from Bunker Hill blog and the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. He came over to the UK back in 2016 and had a Napoleonic game at Reject HQ. As he was coming back over for a holiday in the UK once again, we planned another game.
In a very rare occurrence, the game was planned for a Friday night, the day before Chris and his family went home. As we wouldn't have enough time for one of our mega bash fests, Postie decided to play a skirmish game. Chris likes the Horse and Musket era, so setting the game in the French Indian War was a no brainer.
Check out BigLee's blog for his version of Lies & deceit....
Order of Battle (Ruthlessly stolen from BigLee's blog)
British/Colonial Forces
C/O General mounted (Christopher)
44th Foot (24)
80th Light Infantry (Gages) (16)
55th Light Infantry (Howes) (16)
Indian Character
Mountain Man/Adventurer + Mule
2ic Captain of Foot (Lee)
Virginian Provincials (20)
Rodgers Rangers (12)
3ic Captain (Judge Hogg) Militia (Richard)
Militia/Colonials (Civilians) (42)
French/Indian Forces
General on Foot (Ray)
Indian Character
Indian Torch Carriers (2)
Guyenne Line regt (20)
Indian Warband (12)
2ic Colonel of Foot (Mark)
Compagnes French de la Marine (12)
Indian Warband (12)
3ic Major on Foot (Surjit)
Trois Revienes Militia (12)
Indian Warband (12)
At the start of the game, The Brits Chris their CnC, Lee and Richard, set their troops up without us in the room. We came in and saw the layout of the British troops then had to choose where our command entered the table. My troops are hidden in the woods under the large blue circles. Smiffy then placed his, which are at the end of the table to my left. Now here's when things went tits up. Its was Surj's time to set up, after a breif chat, it was decided the he would set up directly next to either myself or Smiffy. Then we were given the great news, that Surj had to set up in the woods opposite Fort Christopher!!!! You can just see Surj's blue circle, top right of the pic above!!!!!!


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Philippians 3:17-21
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
This is an uncomfortable subject for many of us, but if you listen and take heed, this particular series can not only change your life spiritually, but it can save your life physically.
According to the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, "Compared with a nonobese person, an obese person incurs $2,741 more in medical costs annually."
Some aspects of our culture aid and abet those of us who are overweight when it comes to glorying in our shame. Every 4th of July, there are hot dog eating contests across the nation. We applaud the man who can stuff himself with the most hot dogs in ten minutes. There is a Major League Eating organization that oversees eating competitions. (And they soothe our conscience by saying the proceeds of such events go to charity.)
American fast food chains ought to be prosecuted for such insane food items as KFC's "Double Down," a chicken sandwich which, instead of having two slices of bread, has two slabs of fried chicken with melted cheese and bacon in between; Taco Bell's "Naked Chicken Chalupa," which is a taco that has a shell made out of fried chicken; or Pizza Hut's hot dog stuffed pizza crust. I'm not mentioning these food items to get your mouth watering. I'm pointing this out to show you that, despite the fact that no right-thinking person should ever consume such blatantly unhealthy foods, fast food restaurants make these foods and millions of people buy them knowing that they are unhealthy for them. We make light of it. We glory in our shame. And we wonder why we have blood clots and heart failure.
On top of these supremely unhealthy food products, our culture has made it taboo to speak against being overweight. We have created euphemisms for obesity that suggest that it is something positive: we call obese men "husky," "Big and Tall," or "healthy"; and we call women "curvy," "full-figured," or "plus-sized." Now, if you are overweight, there is no need to be depressed about it; that won't help you or others. (In fact, keeping a good attitude and a healthy sense of humour about your situation is one of the key elements that will help you overcome it.) But, at the same time, we don't need to lie to ourselves and try to make obesity into something normal or positive. That is what the Bible is talking about when it condemns those who glory in their shame.
PRACTICAL STEP: Stop eating refined foods. According to The RAVE Diet and Lifestyle by Mike Anderson, "Refined foods are simple carbohydrates such as white flour, wheat flour, refined sugar, pastries, white pasta, white semolina, white bread, white rice, French fries, chips of any variety, cakes, soft drinks, and similar junk foods — foods that have been transformed from their natural state into man-made products. This includes refined soy products. The only soy product you should eat is the original soy bean, and the only rice product you should eat is whole brown rice."
Daniel Whyte III has spoken in meetings across the United States and in over twenty-five foreign countries. He is the author of over forty books including the Essence Magazine, Dallas Morning News, and Amazon.com national bestseller, Letters to Young Black Men. He is also the president of Gospel Light Society International, a worldwide evangelistic ministry that reaches thousands with the Gospel each week, as well as president of Torch Ministries International, a Christian literature ministry.
He is heard by thousands each week on his radio broadcasts/podcasts, which include: The Prayer Motivator Devotional, The Prayer Motivator Minute, as well as Gospel Light Minute X, the Gospel Light Minute, the Sunday Evening Evangelistic Message, the Prophet Daniel's Report, the Second Coming Watch Update and the Soul-Winning Motivator, among others.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Theology from Bethany Divinity College, a Bachelor's degree in Religion from Texas Wesleyan University, a Master's degree in Religion, a Master of Divinity degree, and a Master of Theology degree from Liberty University's Rawlings School of Divinity (formerly Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary). He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Ministry degree.
He has been married to the former Meriqua Althea Dixon, of Christiana, Jamaica since 1987. God has blessed their union with seven children.


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She was taken out of the security line at the airport and subjected to an extra-special TSA security pat down. In addition, x-ray scanning of her carry-on alerted the technician which resulted in further scrutiny. Apparently the wet wipes look like suspicious items when scanned.
I was watching all this from quite a distance outside the security area. It reminded me of the time my grandfather, father, and I, an eighth grader, were searched leaving West Berlin, on our car trip through East Germany.
Once to her gate, she found herself surrounded by Trump deplorables.
I just received an e-mail note from her. She has arrived safely in Portland, raving about how wonderful Alaska Airlines is compared to Spirit Airlines, her go-to airline when she flies to Los Angeles.
She did not say whether she plans to return to Texas next week as scheduled. In a follow-up e-mail she wrote: "Those TDA (sic) agents, though were polite & personable, unlike at Spirit."
My hunch is she is paranoid that her e-mail is being monitored.
The graphic at the link might be photo-shopped. Link here.
Really? Still My Favorite Symphony


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If a reviewer falls asleep and then wakes up and can't take it anymore and leaves half way through the movie, can they still write about it? Hells, yeah!
This is what happened to me while attempting to wrap my head around Cloud Atlas, possibly the most expensive, unnecessary B-movie ever made. No matter in what era of humanity we were supposed to be, no matter what egregious make up the characters were wearing, every single word they uttered was gibberish. It was like listening to kids when they pretend to speak a language.
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing", is right. William Shakespeare, film reviewer.
My recollections are as disjointed as the movie, hence I will render them here as such:
What does it matter if the characters are in San Francisco in the seventies, or Seoul in the future or Flinstoneland in some weird age, if we have no idea of who they are nor do we care? We never spend enough time in each of their storylines to give a rat's ass about them, past or present.
I loathe stories of interconnection, be it through continents or ages. If a yurt falls in Mongolia and a gaucho sneezes in Patagonia, I could care less.
This is the worst piece of casting in the history, not of movies, but of mankind. Every single actor, except perhaps for Jim Broadbent and Ben Whishaw, is spectacularly wrong for the parts. This may be because all the parts are wrong for all actors, unless they were played by Martin Short, or Mel Brooks. Then this movie might have been a hoot. It did, at times, remind me of Spaceballs and not in a good way. It's Spaceballs with money.
Let's start with Tom Hanks. Always a trooper, he shows up with his customary bonhomie, despite wearing calamitous wigs and preposterous make up. He is, as always, working hard to be likable. But Tom Hanks is not the man for a period piece, let alone many periods. He is not the man for costumes or disguises. Giving him protheses of any kind will only make him look ridiculous. He is Everyman USA and he should stay this way. At least he tries to have fun. Everybody else seems to be walking on burning coals.
Halle Berry may be gorgeous, but she is as interesting as a plastic bag. When they give her a yellow wig and a reverse nose job and claim she is a Jew, we are on Mystery Science Theater 3000 territory. In fact, I propose that a full episode of that splendid series be devoted to this film. It's the only way to endure it.
I could watch Susan Sarandon pad away in her pajamas all day long, but this wonderful actress is a thoroughly modern dame. She is no good as a cavewoman witch in the pastfuture. She seems to be crying out for a martini.
And don't get me started about Hugh Grant, who should never, ever, for any reason, leave Notting Hill. He fares worst of all, at some point looking like Gene Simmons from Kiss.
By insisting on having the same actors play myriad characters and plastering them with varying degrees of bad make up, the directors (the Wachovski siblings and Tom Twyker) actually undermine the thesis of their unwieldy contraption, which is that humans reincarnate or live through the centuries or some such crap. So when they try to turn sweet Jim Sturgess into a Korean man, a Japanese actress into a blond, blue eyed cave dweller, or Hugo Weaving into a busty woman, even though in their bleeding hearts they think that we are all humans and we are all equal, they actually undermine this by making all the characters into grotesque freaks. All they are doing is taking away from their humanity and spiraling into kitsch. Kitsch is the opposite of culture. Just sayin'.
Nice production design, for sure. It is everything that the make up is not.
Nice production design, for sure. It is everything that the make up is not.
When I said to my movie companions that this is the kind of movie that could impress a 13 year-old with zits and a metaphysical bent, they told me that even such a creature would be bored out of their wits. As always, the cardinal sin in movies is boredom. One could withstand such an assault on common sense if it were nimble and had a sense of humor. It's supposed to be some big philosophical new agey mumbo jumbo, which translates into a cheesy, obvious, inane, bloated film, too full of itself to have a funny bone.
My friend Orlando Leal has a term for creative enterprises that everybody knows are doomed from inception, but people nevertheless drink the kool-aid and soldier on, uselessly trying to whip them into a coherent shape. He calls the sad result an inventicide: a suicidal invention. Cloud Atlas is this.


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Interview guide: How to answer a Product Improvement question in a Product Manager job interview
I will first ask to clarity what the interviewer means by 'improving restaurant search on Yelp'. If they give me the opportunity to define it myself, I would suggest that increase in satisfaction with restaurant selection after using Yelp would be my definition of improving Yelp.
When I think about the use cases of Yelp, restaurant search is one of the most popular ones. There are many different user groups that are looking for restaurants in Yelp and they each have different needs. Here are a few user groups I can think of:– Couples– Friends groups– Foodie's– business professional
I will ask the interviewer if it's ok for me to focus on "friends' groups" as I find it difficult today to pick a place collaboratively with a group of friends. Each person has a few suggestions. After each suggestion is brought up, we each have to go and search for details of them individually, and then come back and share our feedback. It's a painful experience to pick a restaurant with a group of friends.
Here are a few ideas I can have to improve the friends restaurant search experience– Enable comparison table between a few restaurants on key metrics (E.g. yelp rate, cuisine type, neighbourhood, price range) and allow the table to be shared / modified easily by multiple people– Provide information around max size of the tables for each restaurant. Some restaurants cannot accommodate large groups.– Make recommendations based on historical Yelp reviews given by the people that are planning the dinner
And here is how I would rate the three features listed above based on customer impact and cost of development.
Feature 1- High impact on customer satisfaction. Makes it a lot easier to find good places. Development effort is low (the data is already available and there is only some front end development that needs to be done).Feature 2- Low impact on customer satisfaction. Most restaurants can accommodate for majority of groups (given most groups of people are 4 or less). Cost is Medium to high given Yelp has to find a way to start collecting this data from either the restaurant or the usersFeature 3 – Medium impact on customer satisfaction because many recommendations might not be useful (e.g. what if a user goes to restaurants their spouse likes and now that their spouse is not coming, they like to try a different type of place). Cost is high because Yelp has to find a way to first detect which accounts are getting together and then develop an algorithm for recommending places.
I suggest developing feature 1. It's easy to implement and makes the search process easier by bringing immediate visibility to various options at a high level.
Define the goal using the metrics, Engagement/Revenue. Let's say it is engagement. I will further define this to identify how success would like: #Time spent searching, Reduce number of clicks by providing appropriate recommendations.
Customer segment: Tech savvy casual diner with interest in trying different cuisines (local and while travelling) who is in the age range of 20-40 years
Customer journey:1. Search a restaurant based on my mood2. Filter Distance by which I have to travel from my current location: Is the travel worth it?3. Filter How much to spend?4. Filter What other people are saying about the restaurants I have short listed5. Choose6. Reserve seats7. Leave a review
ProblemsDue to time constraint, I will choose 2 stages in journey, search based on mood and what other people are saying.
– Searching restaurants based on mood- celebrating, long day at work, weekend, quite time etc.– Too many results in reviews sometime so I do not get the crux of the review – except the ratingor many reviews with or without visuals– Not sure how many people of similar interests have been here – validation
Solutions.1. Introduce user to search by mood with pre-select options and using AI suggest restaurants based on ambience and reviews. High impact: High LOE, Med. Risk2. Use data analytics on the review to provide labels on the most used description – Ex. Fast delivery, courteous staff etc. – High impact, Medium LOE, Low Risk3. Picture speaks thousand words, and videos even more: Instead of reading, video reviews of 10-20 seconds along with text. – Medium impact, High LOE, Low risk4. More information about the reviewers and giving badges as incentives. So a person with Badge review (equivalent of verified purchaser review) would have more weightage for the person searching. – Med. impact, Med LOE, low Risk.5. Voice based search – High Impact. Med LOE, Med. risk (visual)
As a short term, I would go with 2. and long term with consider mood based voice based search.
Summary:To improve engagement = time spent searching for the right restaurant on yelp I would build a feature to get a overall sentiment of the restaurants without having to check every single review and MVP it with user segment in age group of 21-35.
Video answers will receive feedback from the site's creator,
Product Management Exercises is the best place to get help preparing for product manager interview questions. Any member of Product Management Exercises can post product manager interview questions, submit answers to the questions, and give feedback to other members' answers.


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Opportunity Costsby Jadrian
Alex has landed a dream internship but it's really high stakes and stressful. Meanwhile, Phil has a tough choice to make in a board game. Every time we choose to do something, we are also choosing NOT to do something else. Does Alex really want the internship? What is its opportunity cost? Also, what should Phil do?
Modern Family: Can't Lose
Filed under: Economics, Modern Family, Opportunity cost, preferences, human capital, scarcity, risk aversion
Phil uses a board game to teach Alex a lesson
- from Modern Family (2017)
- Creator: Chris Lloyd and Steven Levitan
- Distributor: Google Play Store
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Reducing Lymphedema Risk Through Preventive Surgery
When Emmie Cheses, 46, of Bexley, Ohio, learned her breast cancer treatment would involve the removal of numerous lymph nodes on her right side, she was concerned about the realistic possibility of developing lymphedema.
An estimated 3 to 5 million Americans — and a staggering 140 to 200 million people worldwide — will experience chronic lymphedema, uncomfortable and oftentimes mobility limiting swelling of the arms, legs, hands or feet that occurs as a side effect of cancer treatment. Breast cancer patients treated with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are at the highest risk, but lymphedema can occur in all forms of cancer that require full lymph node dissection.
An active mother, Cheses was concerned about future lymphedema impacting the use of her dominant arm, as she is right-handed and her cancer was on her right side. A friend told her about Roman Skoracki, MD, chief of oncologic reconstruction at The OSUCCC – James, and the lymphedema-relieving surgery techniques he helped pioneer and was now offering in Columbus, Ohio.
"I knew I was at a high risk of getting lymphedema. I was really concerned about my future," says Cheses. "When Dr. Skoracki told me this surgery could reduce my chances of developing lymphedema from 40 percent to less than 4 percent, there was no question: I had to do everything I could to reduce my risk of developing the lymphedema."
Cheses had a preventive lymphovenous bypass with Skoracki, a so called "supermicrosurgery" procedure that involves using tiny shunts to re-direct the flow of lymph fluids around the affected area. This creates pathways for the fluid to flow freely, avoiding the "traffic jam" that can cause lymphedema swelling.
The bypass procedure has traditionally been done to reduce/manage existing lymphedema. In Cheses' case, the procedure was done with the hopes of preventing the condition from developing at all. The surgery was performed at the same time as her lymph node dissection, allowing her surgeons to complete two procedures through one incision site.
Understanding Lymphedema
Skoracki says lymphedema is a significant clinical issue that has serious quality-of-life implications for cancers survivors. The severity and persistence of the condition varies based on each patient's specific situation.
"Up to 40 percent of all cancer patients who have full lymph node removal will develop lymphedema. This is also true specifically for breast cancer," says Skoracki. "Now we can offer patients a surgical approach to better manage their lymphedema and – in some cases – prevent it from occurring entirely."
It's too early to know if the lymphovenous bypass procedure will prevent Cheses from developing lymphedema, but she is optimistic and wants other women to know they have options.
"I had no idea this type of surgery was available before facing my own diagnosis and began researching my options," adds Cheses. "All cancer survivors at higher risk for lymphedema should know they can advocate for themselves and take steps to ensure quality of life after cancer."


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An Automatic and Locally Tunable Transformation Function for Fog and Haze Removal in Aerial Imagery
Sai Babu Arigela
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A new automatic image enhancement technique based on a locally tunable transformation function for visibility improvement in aerial images is presented. Aerial images usually suffer with poor visibility and contrast because of bad weather conditions like haze, fog, and turbid conditions. We propose a model based image restoration approach which uses a new nonlinear transfer function on luminance component to obtain the transmission map. The model assumes that the weather conditions include haze and fog particles. The amount of accumulation of haze/fog particles depends on the depth information of the scene. The local luminance image provides approximate depth information of haze/fog regions. Local multi scale Gaussian mean is used to estimate the approximate local depth image. A new nonlinear function which is locally adaptive based on the approximate local depth information is used to estimate the transmission map of the image. The haze free image can be restored from the haze image by estimating the transmission map and substitute in the model for each spectral band. Results from various experiments demonstrate that this technique can be used for various applications like traffic monitoring, weather observation, video surveillance, and security applications.
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Graduate Research
Primary Advisor
Vijayan K. Asari
Primary Advisor's Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stander Symposium poster
Recommended Citation
"An Automatic and Locally Tunable Transformation Function for Fog and Haze Removal in Aerial Imagery" (2013). Stander Symposium Posters. 202.