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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) has released an updated list of identified COVID-19 clusters. Clusters refer to groupings of cases linked to a specific time and place, identified through the case investigation process conducted by the team at Metro Public Health.
Of the 160 identified clusters, 41 were attributed to long term care facilities, 19 were attributed to construction sites and 13 were attributed to social gatherings.
The disclosure comes as Airbnb issued a warning against Nashville house parties ahead of Halloween and a reminder that it prohibited one-night reservations over the Halloween weekend throughout the U.S.
MPHD has released a graph showing the timing of the number of identified clusters by week, with time markers denoting reopening phases and public health orders. In accordance with patient privacy protocols, clusters with less than 10 identified cases are not identified by name.
Graphs showing cluster types and clusters associated with more than 10 cases are below.
Count of Clusters by Type
Clusters with 10 or More Associated Cases


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From 1975, turbos have run riot through the automotive world. Within a couple of years, manufacturers who previously had no real performance credentials would be producing cars that would worry the sports car elite off traffic lights – and they'd be coming from unexpected corners of the globe. We're now at a stage where the average family car sports a turbo for efficiency reasons, whilst at the power end of the scale the performance of sports turbos has allowed the creation of the obscenely powerful hypercar genre.
But let's start where we left off, with the original Porsche Turbo. The development that made the car viable for the street was Bosch's new K-Jetronic electronic fuel injection system, as it finally allowed better metering of fuel delivery at the correct times – but that didn't make it magically easy to drive. From the start the 911 Turbo was clearly something different in every sense.
The enormous whale tail spoiler and wide bodykit warned you that getting behind the wheel would be an experience you wouldn't forget. If you survived. Once again, fearsome lag meant that the slightest error in throttle control could decide which direction the car was facing when going round a corner, and this would continue to be a part of the mystique of turbo cars for quite some time: decades in fact.
The 930 started rolling off the Porsche production lines in 1975, and would beget a whole family of legendary offspring both on the road and track. Widowmakers on the road, slayers on track. Was there anything more extreme than the brutal slant-nose Turbo of the early '80s?
As ever, Formula 1 didn't like being given a run on technology by rival series, so initially thumbed their nose at turbocharging. Turbos wouldn't make their way into the rarefied atmosphere of F1 until 1977, with Renault's RS01 powered by a 1.5-litre V6 with a Garrett turbo at 7.0:1 compression.
The car was heavy (the block made of cast iron to cope with the additional pressures the turbo created), and barely finished a race at first, but the speed wasn't in question. The writing was very much on the wall. Ferrari followed suit soon after, and the yellow and red factory cars became the scourge of qualifying, starting the F1 turbo revolution that would last the next decade.
The search for reliability in F1 was helped by the parallel programme for Renault's Le Mans endurance programme, which had started in 1976: another Garrett installation, this pushed Renault's Gordini-badged two-litre V6 to deliver over 500hp. Renault's Alpine A442B would win Le Mans in 1978, starting a 13-year-long run of turbo-powered victories in the great race. Turbos were now all over racing. What about the roads?
The next big name in the Western turbo story was rather more surprising. Safe and Scandinavian, no one expected Saab to be the ones to bring turbos to the mainstream car buyers. But boy did they bring it: in 1978 the 99 Turbo reinvented a model that was almost a decade old and started a tradition of unfeasibly quick sleeper saloons that lasted the history of the company. I still have a soft spot for these quirky beasts.
By opting for a smaller Garrett T3 turbo, the Saab was actually drivable; power was a sensible 135hp (which was actually pretty serious for the time) and delivered in a way that could be controlled by a sensible human being rather than requiring luck and a race driver's reflex reactions. Bosch mechanical fuel injection also helped with cost and reliability. The Saab 99 Turbo was winning rallies by 1979, and in 1982 the company also introduced variable boost control, allowing higher compression ratios whilst acoustically monitoring knock.
Whilst outright performance was being pursued on one hand, the next major parallel step in turbos coming of age also came in 1978 with the Mercedes-Benz 300SD and the first practical consumer turbo-diesel. Again using a Garrett turbo, Mercedes took what had previously been economical and long-range but cripplingly underpowered, unresponsive and smokey diesels, and rewrote the rulebook.
Turbocharging a big commercial diesel had been one thing, but getting them working on smaller blocks already subject to high compression was the problem Mercedes solved, carefully managing the combustion process and fuel delivery whilst also reinforcing the engine and developing improved wastegates.
Three-figure horsepower numbers were now possible, and that second strand of turbo's history, economy and efficiency, was back in play.The anti-lag eighties
Le Mans… turbo-diesels… family rocketships… What next? Well, I think few people expected the Renault 5 Turbo of 1980. Setting both a precedent for homologation specials and new levels for hot hatch performance (read: inventing hot hatch performance), the mid-engined, bulked-up 5 really did break the mould. It had issues for sure: lag of course, cooling was a major problem and there were stories of having to leave the car running for a while before turning off to let everything settle down, but like the old 2002 Turbo it was a joyful, tail-out whirlwind to control. The GT Turbo that followed was a far more sedate affair: the original was the true mentalist.
The Volkswagen Golf turbo-diesel followed in 1981, and gradually people's negative perceptions of diesels began to recede. The cheaper fuel was one thing, but now throttle response began to rival petrol cars and emissions were reduced. Diesel was no longer a dirty word, even if you still wouldn't necessarily want to be behind one in traffic.
The Scandinavian's turbo story didn't begin and end with Saab: fellow Swedes Volvo took things a step further by turbocharging a… wagon. They started in '81 with the saloon, and then moved to the boxy estate the following year.
The 240 Turbo took a regular, inoffensive estate car that was more used to school runs or shopping trips and dropped in a turbo that hiked power by 50 percent and provided a turbo-whine soundtrack for the high street, reinforcing that turbos were here to stay.
But then, ah yes, we're up to the 1980s, which can only mean one thing: Group B. Tick that one off your JM bingo card. Pitting 600hp and all-wheel drive against ice, gravel, tarmac and mud, well, what's not to like? Forests were torn apart by these outrageous legends of the rallying world, gravel thrown into the stratosphere as they pummelled stages.
Too fast, too dangerous, Group B might not have lasted long but the turbo template has continued in rallying ever since, even if in a more subdued form. Thankfully there are more and more opportunities to relive those glory years (and in a much safer environment for all involved) through the myriad classic rally events around the world.
The 1980s also saw Maranello finally sit up and take notice. Ferrari finally relented and got on board the F1 turbo bandwagon. The 126C was not only a pretty car, but it was fast as well. It's just a shame that it handled like a truck. But developments for the following seasons turned things round, and Ferrari would sweep the Constructors' Championship two years running with the evolution of their turbo car.
Just like their earlier reticence to put engines in the back and a glorious adherence to V12s, Ferrari took a while to develop a turbo car for the street. But when they did… the result was worth waiting for.
The steroidal 288 GTO of 1984 kicked things off in brutal style, delivering a scarlet beast that would pass 60mph in four seconds and top out around 190mph. It was built to unrestricted Group B rules, and was easily the fastest Ferrari ever up to that point.
Three years later was a car that is up there – or perhaps even surpasses – the status of the original Porsche 930 as a turbo icon. The F40. Exotic and extreme in equal measures, there's little to add; insert long eulogy here. In just a decade, turbocharging had allowed cars that previously would be considered edgy on a race track to become available to drive on the road (if you had enough cash) and to be posters on every kid's wall.
During this phase, it wasn't like turbocharging was not being used in the US, so much as maybe it just wasn't manly enough when loud, gas-guzzling V8s were still in vogue.
Having helped make turbocharging work in the first place, there were the odd North American forays into turbo cars over the decades, such as the Buick Grand National, GMC Syclone, V6 TransAm Turbo and Fox-body Mustang Turbo of the '80s, but boost wasn't really the de rigeur option for delivering power Stateside.
One interesting variant on the Mustang Turbo was the ultra limited edition McLaren M81: a lesser known tuning and branding exercise for the US market. However, across the water there was a turbo fire waiting to be blown into life…
Okay, so I'm sure you've been thinking this for a while: where the hell are the Japanese cars?! Japanese manufacturers caught the turbo bug early, studied it in a laboratory and then unleashed it back on the West in evolved, viral form. I think it's fair to say that since then, adding performance turbocharging has been a speciality in tuned Japanese cars from that point on, more so than in any other scene.
In the '80s, a tsunami of turbo loving came washing in from the Far East. Iconic cars came in from Japan that changed both the landscape of affordable performance and what the West expected from Japanese cars. It was a right-hook of power, style and substance that overwhelmed most of the established brands.
These weren't one-offs either: these were the beginning of epic turbo dynasties that last to this day, starting with cars like the Skyline. Nissan had turbocharged the C210 Skyline back in '77, just after the initial European specialists' forays but before the more mainstream breakout. A national treasure, it remained relatively rare outside Japan, but was the foretaste of what was to come.
A different beast was the '82 Supra Turbo: from the start this was a car that looked like it meant business. If the Skyline was Godzilla, then the Supra was T-Rex.
Back in Europe, turbocharging continued for high-end banner cars across model ranges, from sports car manufacturers like Porsche of course, but also made its way into the emerging hot hatch arena. Cars like the '84 Escort RS Turbo trod a more Japanese line, providing relatively affordable, supercar-beating performance.
I still remember a ride in an Escort Turbo as a kid as one of my most enduring memories of childhood: that noise, watching the boost gauge needle jump, the wheelspin in every gear. It was unbelievable.
During the '80s, Formula 1's turbo affair went to a completely different level, recalling almost CanAm levels of power. In 1982 the Brabham BT53 became the first turbocharged F1 car to carry a driver to the World Championship.
The lightswitch power delivery was still there, but power levels almost doubled within the span of just a couple of years, with the high point being the fearsome (in both power and unreliability) BMW turbo-powered Brabham BT55: 1,400hp of turbocharged insanity from a 1.5-litre, four-cylinder engine. It's only now, and for factors other than the pursuit of power, that turbos are coming back to that arena.Non-naturally aspirated nineties
Moving into the '90s the Japanese influence became all-pervasive, and there are two models that have come to define the second wave of turbo invaders. Firstly, of course there's the Mitsubishi Evo. For me, one of the reasons that these cars are so attractive is often because of their humble origins: it's like with touring cars, where the starting point might be a snoozy saloon but the evolution looks like it will attack you with bats. Mitsubishi's Lancer is a case in point: the 1980 base model was the first to feature a turbocharger, but it was when the Evolution series was launched in 1992 that things got serious and a legend was born.
The same year saw the launch of another icon born on the rally stages of the world: the first Subaru Impreza and its big-winged, turbocharged big brother, the WRX series. Just as this pair had direct DNA from its WRC programme, so the MkIV Supras in particular looked like they had been driven straight off the race track and onto the road, and the twin-turbo 300ZX oozed power.
The tradition has continued ever since, and engine bays of tuned cars are awash with turbochargers. It's beyond a trend: it's a way of automotive life.
So what now for turbos? Modern hypercars boast boost in abundance, deploying four-digit numbers of turbocharged horsepower that reach towards even CanAm levels.
How anyone uses this stuff on the roads of an average town is anyone's guess, and unfortunately as we know, many are consigned to static lives in dust-free, controlled environments in secret basements around the world. Not the life a turbo deserves.
Thankfully there's the passion of the tuning scene to allow the general public to witness that kind of thousand-horsepower-plus madness in the flesh: whether with specialised companies like 9ff or passionate individuals making lightcycle Supras or extreme Esprits.
Scandinavia has emerged as the one of the new bastions of boost, turbocharging anything and everything. Gatebil's forests echo to the whines of turbos and chirrups of wastegates.
Turbos are also likely to see more common deployment in high-end sports cars, as fuel efficiency becomes more of an issue.
So it's continued, with the two faces of turbocharging gradually converging towards today, where it's likely that perhaps even the majority of cars will be turbocharged in the future. Nowadays, pretty much every family diesel has a turbine hiding away under the bonnet and black smoke machines have become a thing of the past. Well, except for deliberate attempts to rekindle that epithet…
Developments in turbocharging have been anything but static as well: we now have things like variable turbine geometry, and things will only become more efficient as the automotive world turns to turbocharging generic engines in the name of efficiency and ecology, with even F1 moving to small capacity turbos.
But we shouldn't worry that this means turbos will become tame. That improved technology will only make for more extremes at the high end. The days of torturing air for fun are only just getting started.
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Where are all the Cosworths? seriously
I have a boner for turbo this article is fantastic really good history and tar for the RS turbo picks I've only owned 1 turbo car guess which and I won't look back to N/A not a chance like you said the boost is so addictive
Nothing can beat the sound of a Audi 90 IMSA GTO or 956/962 wastegate chirping away violently and spitting flames.
Where's the FD RX7? Wasn't that the first mass produced car to bring sequential twin turbos to the market?
Glad to see you mentioned the first computer controlled turbo system in a production car:
Ahh the Bosch K-Jetronic. It's an amazingly complex system when you compare it to another mechanical injection system from the time by a company like Hillborn. Admittedly the Bosch system is world renown thanks to it's use in Porsche, Mercedes, BMW and Volvo products. The masterpiece of engineering generally gets thrown out in favor of a megasquirt EFI system these days but it's still a beautiful system to behold.
Vittorio Jano or the Chrysler 2.2 turbo from the eighties...?
The Chrysler Laser was a really cool turbo car too.
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Senna's first World Championship and coincidentally the last year that turbos ran in F1, yet there is no mention of any of this, nor of the legendary MP4/4. I just think it's remarkable that legends of both the mechanical and physical aspects of Speedhunting coincide seamlessly with the boost theme and neither are mentioned. Senna was known for his incredible throttle control, you could hear the exhaust cackle as he worked the throttle mid-corner to keep the turbo spooled, and the MP4/4 was arguable the engineering pinnacle of the turbo era (not to mention 2013 is McLaren's 50th anniversary). Is that coverage being saved for later, and if not, why was it left out?
KJK91 Think they're trying to mention firsts and notable milestones rather than an exhaustive (no pun intended) history of every single turbo road and race car and every single turbo championship victory...
Brett Allen KJK91 I understand your reasoning, and perhaps it is correct, but I felt that the confluence of events mentioned above were too coincidental not to mention; Last year of turbo's in F1, Senna's first World Championship, and when considered in today's context, McLaren's 50th anniversary and the reintroduction of turbos to F1 in 2014. You must be able to understand my reasoning as well?
If the turbo era of F1 wasn't covered in this piece I probably wouldn't have commented, but the fact that it was mentioned on two separate occasions was enough to evoke my curiosity. I thought it would've been a nice way to tie it all together at the end, an opportunity to link the past and present.
Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this.
Buick GNX was GM fastest production car to date. Buy one go to the strip and watch peps with V8's lose all day.
1980 Le Mans was won by a a Rondeau...
the article was amazing but it skiped 90's to today.
and that bmw engine...1500cc 4 cylinder delivering 1400 hp!!!! shut up and take my money
You missed the early sixties Corvair Spyders.
Couple things
1. Not mentioning the R32 GTR is a sin.
2. The 1.5L BM F1 motor had a potential for 1400hp, but no turbo engines were ever run over 1000hp. Maybe for a lap or two in qualifying before they exploded.
You forgetting about the greatest turbo cars of the 80's/90's, the Chrysler turbo cars. Like the Shadow, Daytona, Caravan, Charger,Lancer, Omni, the Shelby's and many more. Chrysler probably has mad more turbo cars than any one else.
Your forgetting about the greatest turbo cars of the 80's/90's, the
Chrysler turbo cars. You could get a turbo engine in everything, like the Shadow, Daytona, Caravan, Charger, Omni,
and the Shelby's. Chrysler probably has mad more turbo cars than any one
else. Chrysler even had VNT turbos int he early 90's.
not even a word aboute 944 turbo !
As much as i hate bitching about "why didn't you include this or that" but: did i miss the first german production turbo-vehicle, the 2002 turbo?
what about... and you forgot... and didn't mention...JEBUS...... what about shut the hell up?????? JM is just covering specific genres... not catered to any specific make or model.....
...... but honestly i would like to see something about audi diesels and rx7's =P
A great read. And I learnt something.
That may have been the first German production turbo-vehicle, but the FIRST production vehicle to be equipped with a turbocharger was the '62/'63 Oldsmobile Cutlass


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It's that time of year again. That magical time when Kristin Dos Santos forces us television addicts to make the TV equivalent of Sophie's Choice by posting her annual and often times highly contentious "Save One Show" Campaign: Your chance to save your favorite 'on the bubble' series from cancellation. It's a big decision, one that over the past decade has successfully contributed to rescuing shows such as FELICITY, ANGEL and ONE TREE HILL from joining the likes of JACK & BOBBY, GROSSE POINTE and FREAKS AND GEEKS in that brilliant-but-canceled graveyard in the sky. Which is why, before you head on over to cast your vote, we wanted to give you a few, well, a few unexpected things to think about.
But before you do, here are the twenty shows that Kristin has included in this year's poll: ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE, BETTER OFF TED, CASTLE, CHUCK, FLASHFORWARD, THE FORGOTTEN, GHOST WHISPERER, HEROES, HUMAN TARGET, LIFE UNEXPECTED, MEDIUM, MELROSE PLACE, MERCY, NUMB3RS, ONE TREE HILL, PARENTHOOD, SCRUBS, SONS OF TUCSON, TRAUMA, and V.
Easiest to cross off the list are shows that have absolutely no hope of getting picked up for another season. Those shows include THE FORGOTTEN, SCRUBS, NUMB3RS and BETTER OFF TED which for all intents and purposes have already been cancelled by their respective networks. Followed closely by shows that we wish were already given the ax yet for some inexplicable reason remain on the air, including CBS' highly unfunny 'laugher' ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE and HEROES, which we believe even the show's few remaining fans would agree has had more than its fair share of opportunities to turn itself around.
Next up is what we like to call the democratic equivalent of voting for the Independent candidate. Quality shows that in a perfect world might merit merit a second look, but in reality are pretty much akin to spoiling your ballot. Yeah, we're talking to you TRUAMA, MELROSE PLACE and FLASHFORWRD fans. Promising story-arcs and the occasional flash of brilliance aren't nearly enough to your show from disappointing ratings and millions of lost dollars in revenue.
Now here is where things might get ugly. If Jay Leno taught us anything this year, it's that nobody likes a sore loser. Which is why we're imploring MEDIUM, GHOST WHISPERER and ONE TREE HILL fans to simply let go. Seriously. You all had very nice runs, frankly, runs that most shows would kill for, but it's time to give other, younger shows a chance in the spotlight. Particularly you ONE TREE HILL.
See how easy that was? In three short paragraphs, we've managed to cut your decision by more than half! All that's remaining are CASTLE, CHUCK, HUMAN TARGET, LIFE UNEXPECTED, MERCY, PARENTHOOD, SONS OF TUCSON and V.
What's that? Still too many choices for you to decide? Well, if you assume that there is no way CASTLE and PARENTHOOD are getting cancelled, seeing as though the former has proven to be a compatible lead-in for ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS and the latter will continue if only to serve as an example for others that NBC is serious about getting back in the quality scripted drama department, you really only have to choose between CHUCK, LIFE UNEXPECTED, MERCY, SONS OF TUCSON and V.


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Older folks in care properties have the symptoms and indicators of mental well being situations recognised and recorded as part of their care plan. Here is the deal, if you are going to have these less wholesome meals sometimes, it is good to offset those energy with a exercise.
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DOJ Directed to Issue Wire Fraud Report
June 11, 2019
At ALTA's request, the House Appropriations Committee directed the Department of Justice to issue a report to Congress on its efforts to combat wire fraud. This is part of Congress' annual appropriations process that directs how government agencies spend money.
On pages 15 and 16 of the report, the committee directs the U.S. Department of Justice to provide a report detailing ongoing activities to both combat and raise awareness of wire fraud in real estate.
"The report should detail any joint activities conducted with the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Trade Commission, and other relevant agencies," the committee wrote in its report. "The report should also include recommendations to Congress on any legislative changes that would enhance these efforts."
In the report, the committee recommends more than $1.2 million be appropriated for FinCEN. The committee also urges FinCEN to continue working with federal regulators and financial institutions to encourage innovative approaches to detecting and combating money laundering and terrorist financing, including artificial intelligence and machine learning technology.
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We have a client who runs a successful company in the UK. For about a year, they had one senior employee calling in sick at least once every two weeks, read on to find out what they did.
According to the Office for National Statistics, employees took an average of 4.1 sick days in 2017. This figure is much lower than in 1993 when the average was a staggering 7.2 days.
Some of the causes of short-term illnesses are:
- Minor illnesses such as flu, stomach ache and migraines.
- Family members such as children are sick.
- Stress due to workload or office culture.
- Repetitive strain injuries.
Despite the average having decreased to 4.1 sick days, given that the costs of doing business have actually gone up over the years, absences due to sickness do cost businesses a significant sum of money. In addition, absences also have a negative impact on other team members and the overall morale as the team members are likely to take on the additional workload left by the absentees, leading to further stress and frustration among team members.
HR says to approach with caution
Most HR professionals warn line managers and company directors to tread carefully when it comes to handling sickness and absences because employment law in the UK is complex. At present, the law allows employees to self-certify for up to seven days, meaning they do not need to give their employers a fit note (also known as a sick note) or other proof of sickness from a medical professional.
Some HR professionals also argue that the current employment law is very much on the side of the employees, and any attempt to pressure them to return to work can lead to a tribunal and some nasty press coverage.
But what do you do if you're convinced the employee who calls in sick frequently is – to put it candidly – faking it?
Absence management
In the case of our client, they could see a clear pattern that this particular employee had been calling in sick one to three days every two weeks.
Under the watchful eyes of HR professionals, the first step they took was to establish a meeting with said employee and offered support. During the meeting, however, it became apparent that the employee did not want any help nor was willing to disclose any information pertaining to her regular illnesses. For two weeks after the meeting, the employee did not call in sick, but the pattern started again in the third week. It was then that one of the company directors decided to call our surveillance team for help.
Using surveillance to solve the case
Monitoring the employee's activities takes time and effort, but this technique can work exceptionally well in proving if the person is genuinely sick or has committed fraud. In this particular case, we were able to establish that this person was working in the café of her partner when she was supposed to be resting at home due to illnesses.
Armed with the evidence, the company called for another meeting with the employee. The upshot of it was the employee agreed to leave the company and the overall morale improved significantly.
Catching the holiday sickness claim fraudsters
Over the past few years, some claims management companies have been actively encouraging holidaymakers to make fraudulent sickness claims even when they have been perfectly healthy. It is a profitable business for the claim companies and the solicitors involved as they take a cut of the payment made by the insurance companies. As it becomes common, it starts to cost tour operators, overseas hotels and insurance companies dearly.
Thankfully, after a string of convictions for fraud, the number of British holidaymakers pursuing fraudulent sickness claims against overseas hotels fell this year, as reported by The Telegraph in March 2019.
One of these cases involved a couple from Chorley who tried to claim £20,000 compensation for falling sick. They were later exposed and convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud.
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In the global economy, many manufacturing companies have tried to ensure fair and efficient delivery and distribution of their products today. Therefore, they have come up with different strategies that will increase effective supply to meet customer needs. Also, lessen the various risks that may occur. Supply chain management has been one of the main strategies used by various companies today (Lee & Katzorke, 2010).
This research paper will demonstrate, describe and explain using relevant illustrations and examples to show how the Coca-Cola company uses supply chain management to meet customer demand. Also, the paper will present how the company addresses associated risks.
Coca-Cola is a worldwide leader and distributor of beverages, among of which are brands such as fruit juices, soft drinks, sports drinks and much other beverage (Li, 2007). John Pemberton was the Founder of Coca-Cola in the 19th century. Asa Griggs Candler then bought it in the 20th century after which, its dominance increased In the world of soft-drinks (Lambert, 2006).
Contends that Coca-Cola's global chain distribution is a highly complex and intricate system that composes of bottlers, plants, customers and warehouses, along with many different lines of product that support multiple series stores with a different objective. The following is some of the common strategies used by Coke.
Firstly, they sell their products to entertainment events such as in areas where there are events such as sports. In this case, they target the young age which forms the highest population in the whole world. This is one of the major reasons as to why Coca-Cola products do not wait for long in stock due to strong sales volume (Mentzer, 2004).
Secondly, Coca-Cola has established retail stores all over the world where its products can be bought in bulky. Coca-Cola has established retail stores even in remote areas where their prices vary concerning time and place (Wisner, Tan & Leong, 2005). This has not only promoted a good customer relationship, but also it enhances fast customer delivery of their products.
Thirdly, to fit customer convenience, coca-cola came up with vending machines. The structure enhances the delivery of their products in organizations such as offices and learning institutions. This creates confidence in supplies as there is less chance of theft and disorder. Thus, the possibility of loss is minimized and provides customer convenience thus meeting customer demands.
Fourthly, to create awareness of their products to their customers, Coca-Cola uses commercial agents to attract many customers to liking their products. Some of these agents include the use of media such as radios, newspapers, use of promotional trips to various areas. For instance, in the year 2010 where the Coca-Cola company was a key promoter of the world cup.
Here, coca-cola strategized in associating their business with the tournament (Lee & Katzorke, 2010). Therefore, many people became aware of many other new Coca-Cola products during events. Through such practices, it creates a good relationship to its customers who will, in turn, be glued to their products.
Fifthly, Coca-Cola Company also operates in multiple channels where it sells beverages bases, syrups and concentrates to bottling companies enhancing the customer's marketing initiatives. Bottling companies enable merchandise, manufacturing, package, and distribution of Coca-Cola products to the vending partners and customers who finally sells products to the final consumers (Bidgoli, 2010).
In a bid to meet consumer demands along with minimizing risks, Coca-Cola uses such tools as selling goods in entertainment areas, operating in multiple areas, advertising its products, uses machines such as vending machines, and finally majoring in the formation of retail stores. This strategy has been one of the keys to the success of Coca-Cola.
Bidgoli, H. (2010). The handbook of technology management. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons.
Lambert, D. M. (2006). Supply chain management: processes, partnerships, performance (2nd ed.). Sarasota, Fla.: Supply Chain Management Institute.
Lee, W. B., & Katzorke, M. (2010). Leading effective supply chain transformations: a guide to sustainable world-class capability and results. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: J. Ross Pub..
Li, L. (2007). Supply chain management: concepts, techniques and practices enhancing the value through collaboration. Singapore: World Scientific.
Mentzer, J. T. (2004). Fundamentals of supply chain management: twelve drivers of competitive advantage. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
Wisner, J. D., Tan, K., & Leong, G. K. (2005). Principles of supply chain management: a balanced approach. Mason, Ohio [u.a.: Thomson South-Western.


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~ May, 2021 ~ "There were times when I think we could have come close to splitting," says academic David Christian. Author Chardi Christian, his wife of 50 years, nods. "[But] we worked hard at not [splitting]," says David, "and in fact I think we both really didn't want to split."
Being in a relationship that endures is something many people aspire to – the romantic ideal of having someone to accompany you through life's countless ups and downs. And research shows there are very real benefits to being in a successful long-term relationship: couples who stay together are healthier, wealthier, happier, having more sex and living longer than their solo peers.
Despite this, most romantic relationships fall apart: whether you're Bill and Melinda or Kim and Kanye, having a relationship that lasts seems to be one of life's toughest tests.
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The Biggest Difference Between Valerian And The Fifth Element, According To Luc Besson
Luc Besson's The Fifth Element is a seriously weird movie. There's no other way to look at it, and I'm not disparaging the film at all. In fact, I think that's what makes the movie so iconic. The 1997 sci-fi adventure has become a bona fide genre classic, but the world has changed quite a bit since Besson first brought it to theaters. It's a change that has not gone unnoticed by the French filmmaking legend as he prepares to finally bring the endlessly bizarre Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets to the silver screen.
Luc Besson took to Hall H stage this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con and compared the world of today to the world of twenty years ago when he released The Fifth Element. He said:
In his own opinion, Luc Besson thinks that The Fifth Element was incredibly ahead of its time when it landed on the scene in 1997. The sci-fi tale of a futuristic cab driver protecting a lethal yet innocent alien woman proved itself as a modest success and subsequently became a cult classic as the years wore on. Science fiction has evolved since then with the increasing popularity of comic books and nerd culture, so Besson seems to think that Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has a chance to immediately make an impression on audiences who have come to expect that sort of weirdness from the genre.
We've actually seen exclusive Comic-Con footage of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and we have to say that we think it definitely captures the same weird sprit of The Fifth Element. It's got the hallmarks of a Luc Besson sci-fi classic: snappy dialogue, vibrant colors, exotic creatures, and even Rihanna as an alien stripper. In true Besson fashion, the project is based upon a relatively obscure (but equally beloved) science fiction graphic novel that likely wouldn't even have had a chance at getting a green light twenty years ago.
If Luc Besson is right about this, then we can likely expected Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets to be one of the movies to watch next summer. We will bring you more information concerning the sci-fi epic as more details become available to us. Valerian will hit theaters on July 21, 2017.
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Ad Hoc is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a focus on API Governance. The ideal candidate will serve as the technical subject matter expert on API design, implementation, and maintenance. They will communicate technical options and requirements of the API platform to API teams and set technical context for other teams who engage in onboarding, maintaining or updating APIs. They will have deep experience developing and maintaining large-scale production platform systems in modern agile development environments. They know how to design and build mature, robust developer ecosystems. They're comfortable building systems where developers will be the primary users, and they understand how to build relationships with those developer-users and application teams. They can write well-structured, tested, and secure application code with little feedback or guidance.What you'll do
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Ana Isabel Cáceres Matos is Senior Partner of the firm where she specializes in the provision of legal services in the Corporate, Banking and Finance areas. In addition, she leads our firm IP practice, along with a group of very talented IP attorneys and experts in the field.
She has concentrated her practice in complex commercial transactions, project finance and mergers and acquisitions, areas in which she has served a wide portfolio of clients, from local companies to large multinational corporations, advising on important deals in the Dominican Republic.
Ana is experienced in arbitration processes having served as an arbitrator in arbitration cases of the Conciliation and Arbitration Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Production related in the banking field.
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- Advice on syndicated loans for debt restructuring and for private investment projects in the country.
- Advice on construction and real estate development projects, including real estate trusts.
Since 2006 she has held the position of Secretary of the Board of Directors of Banco Multiple BDI SA without interruption.
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Are you ready to take Additive Manufacturing to the next level?
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Solvay is committed to pushing the limits of Additive Manufacturing (AM) with high-performance polymers by developing open innovation projects with universities and start-ups. In 2018 Solvay launched an international Additive Manufacturing competition called AM Cup.
Past editions have been very successful and inspiring. The winning teams have demonstrated the potential of high-performance 3D printing for fabricating complex polymer shapes and overcome the challenges of fused filament fabrication (FFF) to create parts that can virtually match the performance and quality of conventional injection molded parts.
For the third edition of the AM Cup in 2021, Solvay is partnering with L'Oréal and Ultimaker in a global challenge that is addressed to engineers, makers and students with 3D affinity from universities around the world.
L'Oréal is the world's largest cosmetics company with the mission of "creating the beauty that moves the world" Offering each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity, and responsibility.
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The collaboration with these strong partners further accentuates the importance of optimizing material, hardware, and process together when designing a successful 3D printing project. This year's challenge is to design a 3D printed real-world industrial application which highlights the potential of AM to revolutionize production line agility.
The competition started on September 1st 2021 and ran through to mid-November 2021.
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Solvay reveals the winner of the third edition of its international AM Cup 2021 for participants to design a real-world industrial 3D printed application capable of revolutionizing production line agility, using Solvay's easy-to-print Solef® PVDF AM Filaments. The winner was selected from among 60 international teams who took part in the challenge.
As covid-19 restrictions would have made it hard for participants to directly print their designs, Solvay organized for the winning designs to be printed directly by Ultimaker using their S5 desktop printer. The application will then be tested by L'Oréal.
The overall winner is… 3D Fab from the University of Lyon, France. Well done!
The team secured the first prize due to its ability to develop an innovative, versatile monobloc design, based on a reversible deformable structure, that is easy to print in a relatively short time.
The winning team, selected by an international jury, receives five thousand euros to be reinvested in academic, societal or entrepreneurial activities and an Ultimaker 2+ Connect printer. Furthermore, the winning design will be demonstrated during their high-profile tour of L'Oréal's production facilities in March.


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Written by IEEE | September 7, 2018
Most organisms on Earth have a soft build. Skeletons typically make up a small proportion of our body mass, and the movement of creatures generally reflects that. So, when researchers work to create robots that move like natural organisms, things get complicated.
Soft robotics is an emerging field that's transforming the way robots look and function. While you might associate robots with rigid metal structures (things like rods, pistons, actuators, motors, etc. aren't exactly plush), soft robots house those features within a soft, pliable exterior.
Researchers studying soft robotics frame their broad goal as such: "The development of physical structures and behaviors that are more similar to those of living organisms can help robots to better negotiate real-world environments and accomplish real-world tasks."
When it comes to real-world tasks, one use is allowing researchers to interact with animals in their natural habitat, since the very presence of humans is likely to alter it. IEEE Spectrum has written about a robotic fish that "moves more or less in the same way that real fish do," and "didn't scare nearby fish, although it'll take more experimentation to figure out exactly what kind of impact a robotic fish like this has on the real thing."
Research has also focused on skin shapes and textures for soft robots. In one study, recapped by IEEE Spectrum, where scientists worked to recreate the movement of a snake, analysis focused on the pattern for the skin. The version with trapezoidal shapes was the winner, "not because the trapezoidal shapes generated more friction—rather, the trapezoids allowed the skin to stretch more, which meant that the robot would elongate more when it inflated, yielding a longer 'stride.'" This work is important for creating robots that can excel in tight spaces.
Work doesn't end at the physical nature of animals. Plants are also inspiring advances in soft robotics, like the pinecone, which has inspired a soft actuator with bending capabilities.
The IEEE Robotics & Automation Society has a Technical Committee for Soft Robotics that is focusing on areas like the study of unconventional materials, tools and methods for fabrication, modeling and simulation, techniques to achieve sensing and more. They're bringing together scientists and engineers to discuss these issues, as well as upcoming visionary ones, like self-repairing, growing, and self-replicating robots.
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Oct 25, 2015 | By Kira
This week marked an important date in both science and pop culture, as the past caught up with the present, and brought us back to the future. That is, this past Wednesday, October 21st , the world celebrated the 'actual' date that 1980s pop-culture heroes Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in the infamous Back to the Future trilogy. In the film's vision of 2015, flying cars and hoverboards get us from point A to B, while on the fashion scene, self-lacing shoes and self-fitting jackets are the norm. Yet, as us millennials know, so far none of those predictions have really come true. Rather than waiting for some future designer to make it happen, wearable's technology expert and Instructables member Lara Grant used 3D printing technology and some nifty sewing tricks to recreate the auto-adjusting jacket that put the 'fly' in Marty Mcfly.
"My love for dynamic wearable's and the movie Back to the Future Part II sparked the desire to make Marty McFly's auto-adjusting jacket a reality," said Grant. As in the movie, the jacket was created around the idea that clothes could be purchased 'on-size-fits-all', and if the sleeves are too long, a pulley system would see them self-adjust to the correct size. By simply pushing a button on the jacket hem, cables threaded internally throughout the jacket and sleeves are wound around a 3D printed pulley mechanism, drawing the sleeves up.
The pulley was inspired by this 3D printed bear with driven miter gear design, uploaded by Instructrables user Paolo Salvagione, who printed his on an Object 500 Connex printer in Veroclear, so he could see through to the moving parts. For Grant's jacket, the 3D printed parts include the motor mount, bevel gear, Y connector and a sewable attachment. Grant also thanks fellow Instructables user and 3D software designer JON-A-TRON for contributing to the jacket's creation.
To achieve the most authentic look possible, she ordered a jacket online that was actually inspired by the movie, but insists that any jacket with sleeves would work as well. She also suggests finding one made with a heavier material, such as real or faux leather, since thinner materials may sag under pressure from the movement. As for the exposed gears? Those were an intentional design choice: "In my opinion, adding a cover to the mechanism would add unnecessary bulk plus the gears look very cool on their own," she said.
No stranger to combining technology with fashion, self-described "sewing and soldering" expert Lara Grant currently teaches an interactive fashion and textile class called Wearable and Soft Interactions at California College of the Arts. She also has a background in costume design and pattern-making, which explains her commitment to accuracy and authenticity in recreating Marty's iconic look.
October 21st, 2015 may have come and gone, but the Back to the Future films—as well as their optimistic vision of our technology-driven future—are as timeless as ever. Besides, with 3D printed super high-tech wearables already hitting the scene, with or without flying cars, the future is now.
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Centre County Report: April 23. 2021
On today's Centre County Report: why some PA counties are lagging behind on vaccination rates; how Penn State's Spring football practice caused some "ticket turmoil"; and we take a look at Bellefonte Arts Museum's newest exhibit.
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It all the rioting and madness, one mom stood
out above all others. She is just "Yellow Mom"
And when she saw her son dressed in all black
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"After speaking with the police officer and he pointed
across the street, from the Mondawmin Mall, I stood
there on the same side as the police with the shields &
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So she ran across, & started smacking him on
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Now THAT's a mother. Thanks Toya, you rock
Well, poor choice of words (Wink with sound)
AGAIN, Rioting Does Nothing to Advance Their
main goals of justice, & peace. It only feeds the
flames of racial hate so the bigots can subjugate
them more. Cooler heads leads to REAL change
And to make matters worse, my White Sox ALL
will play a game a tonight, with No Fans in the
stands, due to this "insanity". Now it's personal
And Yet Again…
If you read me daily, you know I'm getting sick
of having to Type this Evil Systemic Racist Shit
But this was in my back yard of Chicago, So on
it goes. 17 year old Justus Howell from Zion was
shot twice in the back. The Police Claim he was
buying a gun from an 18 year old Tramond Peet
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off. When the cops came (Which was lightening
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Both these Cops should be charged with murder
NOTE: The Lighter Side Of The Baltimore Riots
NOTE II: Sean 'Bigot Train' Hannity Gets Called
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I just had to link to this. This is the rally cry for the 'Ole' shout that goes up whenever there was a restart in the recent Rugby World cup. I recognise it from the Rugby World cup, but I do believe it is also used in the IPL as well.
Trumpet sound used in the Rugby World cup
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