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Indian wind energy sector witnessed a record installation of 5,400 MW in FY17, registering a 60% growth as against 3,400 MW in FY16. With this addition, the total installation of wind moved from 27 GW to 32 GW.
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Renewable energy sector has grown rapidly in the last two years. In FY15, the total investment was USD 4 bn. Subsequently, it was USD 7 bn in FY16 and USD 14 bn in FY17. The renewable sector is now growing by 100% on a YoY basis. The RE installations has grown from 36 GW in FY15 to 57 GW in FY17. This sector is witnessing unprecedented growth.
We appreciate the support given by Central and State Governments and the Administration. The opportunity given to the sector to increase scale enables us to bring down the cost of energy. The sector has generated more than one millionn jobs and I am sure the momentum will continue.
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We have a scenario where raw milk undergoes quality checks, separation, standardization, pasteurization and then is distributed to two different storage tanks - one for each flavor. This then goes for filling and packing. So in this case we have same product but 2 different flavors, coming from the same batch of raw milk. I would like to clarify if we can consider these products as a single batch? What would be the best way of identifying these products for future traceability?
Kindly assist. Thanks in advance.
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Batch identification, same batch of raw milk, two different flavours
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Posted 10 September 2017 - 08:50 PM
We have a scenario where raw milk undergoes quality checks, separation, standardization, pasteurization and then is distributed to two different storage tanks - one for each flavor. This then goes for filling and packing. So in this case we have same product but 2 different flavors, coming from the same batch of raw milk. I would like to clarify if we can consider these products as a single batch? What would be the best way of identifying these products for future traceability?
Kindly assist. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Hi Rodhni,
IMEX a batch = a "lot" and typically, ideally, refers to a quantity of product with an intended uniformity of "quality" characteristics.
So answer to yr query IMO = No..
Assuming this is a non-continuous process, I guess you could identify/distinguish the 2 finished lots referred by time of production(+ possibly location), product name and flavour. Traceability, per se, requires documentation of aspects according to this (BRC) definition -
Traceability (BRC) = Ability to trace and follow raw materials, components and products, through all stages of receipt, production, processing and distribution both forwards and backwards.
How do you do it at present ?.
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Posted 14 September 2017 - 04:12 AM
You can't consider the two flavored, finished batches, as the same lot. You would consider your raw milk (and the separation of skim/cream) used in both batches as the same lot as one of the raw materials for that batch. I'm assuming the finished products are different SKU's (items) and you would be applying some type of lot coding. This would mean you have two different lots for the finished goods.
Do you use batch sheets or is your process continuous? These would be critical in your traceability through the process. I'm not familiar with your specific process, but with dairy I have a lot of experience. Typically you would do the following for traceability:
Receiving of Raw Materials Records (bulk dairy and any dry ingredients) ----> Separation Records -----> Batching Records ----> Processing Records -----> Packaging Records ----> Shipping Records
Similar to other food processing, but different in the raw milk can go a lot of different ways. Because of this you have a myriad of ways you can document the traceability. Try to find the easiest way possible that captures your process and audit against it with traceability exercises.
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Posted 16 September 2017 - 11:54 AM
You definitely must consider them as as two different finished products because they are differently flavoured. That is, you add flavour at some processing stage.
Let us consider this example
Product 1 - You are adding strawberry flavour and matching colour
Product2 - You are adding pineapple flavour and matching colour
Here upto the storage tanks the traceability may be common but from the storage point onward (assuming that you are adding flavour & colour in storage tank, from the details given by you) they are two different products. So traceability is also separate as the process steps are also different - adding flavour, colour, packing
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Posted 16 September 2017 - 01:49 PM
Thank you for your responses. It is a new company I have joined so I misunderstood the scenario. Actually the confusion in traceability is in another regard:
The products are printed with expiry date, production date nd a time code denoted by an alphabet. In order to trace the products to the retail stores the invoices generated indicate the time codes according to which the stores should arrange the products and at time of delivery the sales person has to sort and deliver. The stores and sales personnel are of the opinion that this is a time consuming and tedious process due to which it is not followed mostly. So traceability then is now a challenge as we won't be able to trace the products as indicated on the invoices.
Hopefully the scenario is clear. So I am curious as to how other companies tackle traceability. Is there a better way to achieve this? The time codes are hourly so there are 24 different codes for a days processing. Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions? Thank you for your help.
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Posted 17 September 2017 - 07:24 AM
my ideal is. each rawmaterial have own TBS , before going to production, you have TBS code from each supplier.
Your raw production can't be digested all TBS the same time.
So after extraction, seperation, vaccum processing. the products will move to final processing is sterilize. so that moment you already have TTC code and biology analysis report. You must be remarked them on that moment.
And do it the same with another flavor. Notice: Before to do another batches, you have to reject some Milk products from the new batches because it have amount of milk from the last batches.
So in the COA, you could divide into 2 batches. and see the traceability from Code in COA. or label.
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Men's Basketball Misses Oppotunity to Wrap Up Nescac, Will Head to Wesleyan for Quarterfinal
February 14, 2018
The men's basketball team's 10-game winning streak was snapped last Friday, Feb. 9, when the Panthers fell to Hamilton 102–83, in Clinton, New York. In a crucial game for Nescac seeding the next night at Amherst, Saturday, Feb. 10, Middlebury lost to the Mammoths 80–68. After sitting atop the conference standings entering the weekend, the Panthers fell into a five-way tie for first place and lost the tiebreaker because of their 1–3 head-to-head record with the other teams, dropping them all the way down to the fifth seed in the Nescac tournament.
In Middlebury's loss on Saturday, Jack Daly '18 became the 23rd Panther in program history to score 1,000 points. Daly has accumulated 1,002 career points, 611 rebounds and 579 assists, and is believed be the first player in Nescac men's basketball history to tally 1,000 points, 600 rebounds and 500 assists.
"Jack is a unique player," said Head Coach Jeff Brown on Tuesday. "He has the ability to impact a game in so many different ways with his scoring, passing, rebounding and defense. His mental and physical toughness is at an elite level. The fact that Jack is the first NESCAC player to reach 1000 points, 600 rebounds and 500 assists shows the impact that he has had in our success."
A week earlier in a 75–56 victory over Colby, the Panthers' star player became Middlebury's all-time assists leader, surpassing Jake Wolfin '13's record of 553 helpers. He leads all of DIII this season with 8.7 assists per game.
Middlebury will travel to Middletown, Connecticut, for their quarterfinal matchup with Wesleyan this Saturday, Feb. 17, which will mark the first time the Panthers have had to play a conference tournament quarterfinal game away from Pepin since 2004.
Middlebury had two chances to clinch the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, the first coming on Friday at Hamilton. Middlebury entered the matchup 7–1, while Hamilton was 6–2 in second place. The Continentals led by as many as nine points in the first half after going on an 8–0 run to go ahead 32–23. But the Panthers responded with an eight-point run of their own to pull within one. At the end of the first twenty minutes, Hamilton led 38–32.
Middlebury struggled with turnovers in the first half, giving the ball away 12 times compared to Hamilton's six.
The Panthers kept pace with Hamilton the first nine and a half minutes of the second half, staying within six. But then the Continental offense took off, hitting four straight threes to take an 11-point lead, 73–62. Middlebury cut the lead to single digits a couple more times, but Hamilton's attack was too much in the second half. The Continentals scored 64 points in the final 20 minutes to defeat the Panthers 102–83.
Hamilton's Kena Gilmour scored a career-high 29 points on 10 of 15 shooting, including four of four from three. The Continentals' shooting from beyond the three-point line carried them to victory, as they knocked down 15 of 24 threes after making only eight per game before Friday.
Eric McCord '19 led the Panthers with 21 points coming off the bench. Matt Folger '20 scored 17 while hitting four threes, and Daly added 15 points, nine rebounds, and six assists.
With the win, Hamilton moved into a tie for first place with Middlebury, but controlled their own destiny heading into the last game of the regular season by beating the Panthers.
Entering the last game of Nescac play on Saturday, Middlebury, Hamilton and Williams sat atop the Nescac standings, one game ahead of Amherst and Wesleyan.
Ahead 16–14 a little over seven minutes into the first half on Saturday afternoon, Amherst went on a 16–0 run to take a 32–14 lead at the 7:20 mark in the first half. The Mammoths hurt the Panthers with offensive rebounding all afternoon, and half of their 16 points in this game-defining run were second chance opportunities.
Over the final 7:20, Middlebury outscored the Mammoths by three but still trailed 43–28 at halftime.
Middlebury could never get much closer either, only trimming the lead to single digits with around a minute remaining in the game, 75–66. McCord got the Panthers within eight, but Amherst hit four free throws to secure an 80–68 win.
Middlebury shot 35.8 percent from the field and 25 percent from three on an afternoon when the Panther offense never got going, scoring its lowest total of the season. Amherst hurt the Panthers inside, where the Mammoths outscored the Panthers 42–30. The hosts also scored 17 more second chance points than the visiting Panthers, 22–5, and outrebounded the visitors 60–34.
Jack Farrell '21 scored a career-high 22 points for Middlebury, and Nick Tarantino '18 also finished in double digits with 11 points. Daly had a tough day from the field, making only two of 15 shots on the afternoon when he scored his 1,000th career point.
The Panthers' hopes at hosting the Nescac semifinals were dashed with the losses to Hamilton and Amherst, and with those hopes also went any playoff game in Pepin Gym. But Middlebury still finished in a tie for first place with a 7–3 record in conference. And as Coach Brown pointed out, "I am going remind our guys that two years ago, we lost our last two regular season games on the road and won the NESCAC Tournament. We will put last week's results in our rear-view mirror."
Now fifth-seeded Middlebury will travel to Wesleyan on Saturday, Feb. 17, to play the fourth-seeded Cardinals at 3 p.m. Earlier this season, on Jan. 6, Wesleyan beat Middlebury 80–70 but led by only three with 47 seconds remaining. With the win, the Cardinals snapped a 15-game losing streak against the Panthers dating back to the 2004-05 season.
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The Maryland General Assembly voted Thursday to override Governor Larry Hogan's May 2015 veto of Senate Bill 190.
The bill would allow the local Maryland government to impose a six percent sales tax on the fees travel agents charge when booking hotels for their customers within the state. The bill would also potentially add new administrative burdens for agencies.
In April 2015, American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) President and CEO Zane Kerby made the trip to Annapolis, Maryland, to argue against the legislation, and Governor Hogan vetoed the bill the following month.
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"ASTA is disappointed by the Maryland General Assembly's vote to override Governor Hogan's veto of SB 190, a bill which on its face will impose new taxes on fees charged by travel agents for services provided to their clients. When it comes to implementing this new law, the devil is in the details. ASTA will keep a close watch on state taxing authorities in the coming weeks and months and report back to our members as necessary."
"We can't win every fight, but we are heartened by the response of our Maryland members to our multiple calls to action over the past year – nearly 500 advocacy messages sent to legislators, as well as dozens of phone calls and in-person meetings. In particular, we wish to recognize ASTA Vice Chairman Jay Ellenby of Safe Harbors Travel in Bel Air, Karen Dunlap of Travel-On in Laurel and Bill Cleveland of Antietam Travel Service in Frederick for their exemplary efforts to support our industry against long odds. We also want to thank Governor Hogan and supportive legislators such as Del. Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore/Harford County) for their backing through this process."
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Legal Question in Personal Injury in Colorado
Is 50,000 to 100,000 a good demand for a personal injury claim that effected victim for life?
Asked on 12/18/13, 11:53 am
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Evan Banker Chalat Hatten Koupal & Banker PC
What constitutes a "good demand" is far too fact dependent to be answered with the information provided. What would be a reasonable demand will depend on the facts of the happening of the injury, the total economic loss, and a the nature of the way the injury affected the victim. The total amount of available insurance is also a necessary consideration. If you would like to talk in greater detail about your case, please call our firm for a free consultation.
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
Bike Check
My new [to me] SCOTT Genius LT Tuned is a stunning bike, with its loud paint scheme & sleek internal cable routing. Almost immediately, though, I knew I'd need to ditch the internal routing since it was causing most of the cables/hoses to kink when the handlebars were spun - especially in the case of a fall. In fact, when I purchased the bike it was suffering from a broken rear hydraulic hose due to this constraint.
The previous owner had ditched the TwinLoc system, which I chose to reinstall. I'm not a huge fan of locking both front and rear simultaneously, but I'll primarily use it as a way to soften the suspension damping through rock gardens, switching back to the medium setting for the majority of trail scenarios. The setup is actually quite similar to my Senior Design Project (for mechanical engineering undergrad), in which my team used servo motors to operate the compression and rebound dampers of a rear shock. Seems we were onto something ;-)
In any case, I've rerouted the cables and given the bike some TLC in the form of new bushings in the shock. For protection of the frame, I've wrapped the downtube with a tire casing. I'm testing the application of Shoe Goo to help hold this in place and offer another level of padding. Since cables are running externally, I've placed them within the knobs of the tire to help hold them in place and offer some protection.
Now it's time to ride! I'll update this post if any other changes are made to improve upon this setup.
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I will review the science and technology of solar radiation modification. Estimates of the risks and efficacy of solar geoengineering are deeply uncertain. Accurate physically-based models along with laboratory and in situ experiments will be needed to improve estimates of the efficacy and risks of proposed solar geoengineering methods. As an example, I will discuss out laboratory experiments and plans for perturbative outdoor experiments. Governance poses the greatest challenge for solar geoengineering. Finally, I will sketch how solar geoengineering might fit together with emissions cuts, carbon removal, and adaptation in a coherent climate strategy.
David Keith
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics
David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty-five years. He took first prize in Canada's national physics prize exam, won MIT's prize for excellence in experimental physics, and was one of TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment. David is Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and founder of Carbon Engineering, a company developing technology to capture CO2 from ambient air to make carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels. Best known for his work on the science, technology, and public policy of solar geoengineering, David led the development of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program, a Harvard-wide interfaculty research initiative. His work has ranged from the climatic impacts of large-scale wind power to an early critique of the prospects for hydrogen fuel. David's hardware engineering projects include the first interferometer for atoms, a high-accuracy infrared spectrometer for NASA's ER-2, and currently, the development of pilot plants for Carbon Engineering and the development of a stratospheric propelled balloon experiment for solar geoengineering. David teaches courses on Science and Technology Policy and on Energy and Environmental Systems where he has reached students worldwide with an online edX course. He has writing for the public with A Case for Climate Engineering from MIT Press. Based in Cambridge, David spends about a third of his time in Canmore, Alberta.


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Your Bathroom is Part of your Marketing Plan
The grey haired, highly respected and distinguished professor stood in front of the Areas and Facilities class on the very first day of the class.
He said, with great authority and impact, "If you only learn one thing from this class remember this, keep the bathrooms exceptionally clean. This is the most important thing to remember about your facilities.
It was my senior year in college. This was one professor I had a great deal of respect for. This was one of those classes I was looking forward to, not because of the course content (facility management), but because I could learn from such an accomplished man.
His words have followed, even haunted, me at times for my entire professional career.
Every facility I have ever managed has always had exceptionally clean bathrooms (restrooms). I made that priority #1 and trained my staff accordingly.
Things can go sideways and often do. If we had a janitorial problem and priority #1 was at risk, I grabbed the mop and did whatever necessary to resolve the situation.
The professor had it right. But I have learned a deeper truth from the experience. Restroom cleanliness is not a facility issue, it's a marketing issue. Yes, a marketing issue!
Think it through. The times when you have used a public restroom. If the "facilities" were dirty, smelly or whatever your impression of everything else went down. If they were spotless you found it easier to be understanding of other slight oversights, such as poor wait service.
In fact, if you are at a restaurant with poor service, but the restrooms are spotless, you think less of the waiter and not less of the owner. But if the restrooms are a mess you blame the owner and no one else.
People always talk about the restroom cleanliness with their friends. They advertise for you automatically and for free. Word of mouth marketing and advertising costs you nothing, but remember it's a double-edged sword. You do have control over what they are saying.
In today's world, a remarkably clean restroom is a rare and unique find. People love to talk about it when they find such a thing.
Stand apart from the crowd and have the cleanest restrooms around. Make it happen.
I am always surprised how fitness professionals view marketing.
At 6-Figure Trainers, we know that marketing relates to everything you do to get your facility and program up to high standards first, then add traditional marketing strategies. If you buy into the hype of the so-called experts, that their marketing strategies will get you all kinds of customers and will solve all of your problems, only to find that you ended up losing market share, and money, then it's time to do something different.
6-Figure Trainers is a disruptor in the fitness industry. We disrupt assumptions, slick sales presentations, guesses and innuendo with the facts of how it really is, what really works for fast sustainable growth.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Exposure to chemicals in drinking water associated with 5% of annual bladder cancer burden in Europe
News from ISGlobal
Each year, more than 6,500 cases of bladder cancer — nearly 5% of all cases in Europe — can be attributed to exposure to trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water. This is one of the conclusions of a large-scale study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) that analysed for the first time the presence of these chemical compounds in the tap water of 26 European Union countries.
Trihalomethanes are formed as an unintended consequence of water disinfection. Earlier research has found an association between long-term exposure to THMs — whether through ingestion, inhalation or dermal absorption — and increased risk of bladder cancer.
The authors of the study analysed recent data on trihalomethanes levels in European municipal tap water and estimated the burden of disease for bladder cancer attributable to exposure to these compounds.
"The biggest challenge was collecting representative data on national trihalomethaneslevels for all EU countries", explained Cristina Villanueva, the ISGlobal researcher who coordinated the study. "We hope that these data will become more readily available in the future".
The findings revealed considerable differences between countries. The average level of trihalomethanes in drinking water in all countries was well below the maximum permissible limit in the EU —11.7 µg/L versus 100 µg/L— but the maximum reported concentrations did exceed the limit in nine countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom).
Iro Evlampidou, Laia Font-Ribera, David Rojas-Rueda et al. Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer Burden in the European Union. Environmental Health Perspectives, January 2020. doi.org/10.1289/EHP4495.
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The Pal Zileri x Matthew Goode SS17 campaign
For Spring Summer 2017, English actor Matthew Goode — best known for his role in The Imitation Game alongside Benedict Cumberbatch — fronted Pal Zileri's new season campaign, a mix of colourful style and contemporary tailoring.
Shot outdoors by German photographer Dylan Don, among the multi-coloured walls of Muralla Roja in Calpe, Spain, the collection presents a mixture of 3D textures and volumes as well as shiny and matte effects. This is brought to life by the sun-soaked walls and graphic lines of the compound. Aside from the classic Pal Zileri prints and tailoring, Matthew Goode's effortless style gives the collection a dynamic feel.
Esquire caught up with Goode to discuss his experience of working with the brand.
Esquire: What first attracted you to the collection and this campaign?
Matthew Goode: I think the aesthetic behind the collection was something that really attracted me. Its elegance exuded a traditional Italian style that makes fashion such an essential characteristic in Italian culture. I've always believed that you can't embody the image of any campaign without having a genuine affection towards it, so when I saw the collection for the first time I immediately wanted to be a part of the campaign.
Did the shoot prove a challenge?
Well, yes and no. Obviously it was more physically challenging than the usual shoots, especially with the intense heat. But it was a challenge I enjoyed because of this. And it was also fun to try out some parkour, I must say.
Was it easy to get distracted in such a beautiful location?
Muralla Roja is such an incredibly unique location and was perfect for what the shoot was trying to evoke. It complemented the style that inspired the collection. I was going to say that the environment was a distraction to the work, but I think that would be the wrong word. I was more engrossed in the location than distracted by it. The contrasting colours were spectacular. It was just so beautiful to be there.
What is your favourite piece from the collection?
For me it's hard to pick a favourite. There are so many items that I loved and I couldn't single out any one piece.
Are you happy with the result?
Seeing the final product, I am extremely proud of what we have achieved. Dylan has created the perfect medium for the collection to be conveyed through and I am very happy that I could help him. I really believe that we have done justice to the collection.


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This can also be used while conversating forums, electronically and in most other cases of conversation.
1- Always speak the truth. Never hesitate in speaking the truth even at the greatest risk.
2- Speak only when you must, and always talk with a purpose. Too much talk and useless conversation betrays a lack of seriousness. You are accountable before Allah for every word you utter. The Angels of Allah record. "A supervisor remains vigilant to preserve on record every speech that is uttered by his tongue."
3- Always speak politely. Wear a smile on your face and a sweet tone in your speech. Always speak in a moderate voice. Do not keep your voice so low as to be inaudible to the addressee, nor raise it so loud that the addressee might be over-awed by your voice. Allah affirms: "Surely! the harshest of all the voices is the voice of the ass." [Surah Luqman, 31:19]
4- Do not spoil your tongue with dirty talk. Do not speak ill of others. Never indulge in backbiting. Do not complain against others. Never indulge in mimicking others to ridicule them. Do not make false promises. Never laugh at others, nor boast of your own superiority or indulge in self-praise. Never get unreasonable and rash in conversation. Do not pass remarks by a disgraceful name. Avoid swearing frequently.
5- Always say what is just and fair regardless of any loss of yourself, your friend or relative. "And when you say something, speak what is just even if you are talking about your relative." [Surah Al-An'am, 6: 152]
6- Be soft-spoken, reasonable and sympathetic in your conversation. Do not utter sharp, harsh and teasing remarks.
7- When women happen to talk with men, they should speak in a clear, straight, and rough manner. They ought not to speak in delicate, sweet tone lest the listener should entertain any foul expectation.
8- If the impudent with to entangle you in dialogue or altercation offer them 'Salaam' politely and leave them. Those who indulge in loose talk and absurd conversation are the worst lot of the Ummah.
9- Keep in view the mental level and outlook of the man you are talking to so as to make him understand. If the addressee cannot hear or is unable to catch your meaning, repeat what you have said before without any resentment.
10- Always be brief and to the point in your talk. It is unfair to prolong discussion without rhyme or reason.
11- When you wish to explain the tenets of Islam and want to speak on the teachings of Islam be simple and clear and speak in a passionate and heart-warming style. To seek reputation through oratory, to try to impress people with flowery language, to seek popularity among people, to adopt a proud and haughty mean or to deliver speeches only for the sake of fun and recreation -- all these are the worst habits that corrupt the man to the core of his heart.
12- Never indulge in flattery, or ingratiate with anybody. Always mind your honour and respect and avoid anything below your dignity.
13- Do not interrupt and interfere in others' conversation without their permission, nor intercept others conversation in order to say something yourself. If, however, you must speak, do so with the permission of the other.
14- Speak slowly in a proper and dignified manner. Do not speak in a hurried manner nor indulge in fun and jokes all the time as it degrades you in the eyes of others.
15- If somebody puts a question to you, listen carefully to him and make an answer after careful thought. It is simply foolish to answer the questions without due consideration. If the questions are being put to somebody else, do not be officious as to give answers yourself.
16- When someone is narrating something, do not say "we know already." May be he reveals something new and impresses you by his sincerity and piety.
17- When you talk to someone, give due regard to his age, status, and his relationship to you. Do not talk with your parents, teachers, and elders in a manner in which you would talk with your friends. Likewise, when you are talking to youngsters, speak with affection and elderly dignity.
18- While engaged in conversation, do not point out towards any one lest he should conceive any misunderstanding or suspicion. Abstain from eavesdropping on others.
19- Listen more and talk less. Do not reveal your secrets to others. Once you disclose a secret to someone, never expect it to remain a secret any more.
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Today's flower of the day is the Josee Lilac. Josee is a reblooming lilac with a huge flush of blossoms in late spring followed by intermitent blooms until fall. It is a dwarf lilac growing only about 4-6 feet tall which makes it easier to pick blooms for indoors. The fragrant lavender-pink flowers attract butterflies to its heavenly scent! This lilac grows best in full sun to part shade for lucky zones 2-8.
Happy gardening!


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Cosmetic Surgery Too Much of a Good Thing?
November 26th, 2012
When is cosmetic surgery too much of a good thing? I filmed a segment for the local Fox News Affiliate here in Minneapolis, hosted by Medical Correspondent, Dr. Archelle Georgiou. They filmed part of the segment while I was performing a lower blephaorplasty or lower eyelid surgery. My patient did have some other plastic surgery in the past and while gathering routine background information, Dr. Georgiou inquired whether I felt that the patient was perhaps choosing cosmetic surgery too often. In other words, did I think the patient suffered from a possible cosmetic surgery addiction? As with all my patients, I am careful to evaluate a patient's motivations for surgery and attempt to uncover any unhealthy desires for seeking cosmetic surgery. In this case, I feel confident that my patient had legitimate concerns regarding the unsightly bags under her eyes and that she was an excellent candidate for eyelid surgery. She expressed realistic expectations from the surgery and in my opinion; she is certainly not a cosmetic surgery addict.
However, while we are on the topic, let me elaborate. There are several characteristics that are common among cosmetic surgery addicts and for the most part, they are not dissimilar to other addictions. Patients that have Body Dysmorphic Disorder are likely to seek cosmetic surgery to correct "perceived†physical flaws. This disorder has significant psychological components and it is unlikely that any amount of cosmetic surgery will correct feelings of having physical deformity that may not exist. This disorder leads some patients to have excessive cosmetic surgery. As a physician, I feel a professional and moral obligation to refer patients that exhibit these difficulties to the proper psychological care when it is appropriate.
Without a doubt there are patients who do suffer from this problem. The pop culture media machine is quick to point out the cosmetic surgery obsessions of Michael Jackson, New York's "Cat Woman†and Joan Rivers, to name just a few.
Is Teenage Breast Enlargement Appropriate
November 7th, 2012
Breast implants are approved for use in America by the FDA (Federal Drug Administration). In fact, all medical implants are regulated by the FDA. However, FDA approval comes with "use limitations" or guidelines for appropriate usage. The trend toward younger and younger patients considering cosmetic surgery is troubling. Unfortunately good judgement is sometimes lacking when teens consider having breast enlargement surgery.
The key limitation which impacts any young woman under the age of 18 and the decision to have breast enlargement surgery are the FDA age restrictions. Saline breast implants can be used for cosmetic breast enlargement surgery at age 18. Silicone gel breast implants on the other hand, can only be used for cosmetic breast enlargement surgery at the age of 22. These age restrictions are in place based on the FDA's evaluation of each implant type. According to the FDA, "FDA restricts the marketing of breast implants for augmentation to women of a minimum age because young women's breasts continue to develop through their late teens and early 20s and because there is a concern that young women may not be mature enough to make an informed decision about the potential risks." Johnson & Johnson (formerly Mentor) and Allergan (formerly Inamed) package inserts reflect the age limitations in their package inserts. In addition, both the ASPS (American Society of Plastic Surgeons) and ASAPS (American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) back the FDA's age restrictions.
I believe that the age restriction is based on sound recommendations and as a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and a member of the societies above, I follow these guidelines.


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Commentary on Paul Bloom's How Children Learn the Meanings of Words Giorgio Marchetti Paul Bloom (2000)'s main concern in this book is about how children learn the meanings of words. This concern leads him to face many different problems. Just to mention the most important ones: • How much input do children need to learn a new word? (p.26). • Do children learn words better than adults do? (p. 26). • To what extent does word learning differ from other types of learning? (p. 26). • How do children make the connection between words and what they refer to? (p. 60). • How do children parse the world into the right sorts of entities, and how do they parse the language to find the names for these entities? (p. 119). • How do children learn names for individuals – pronouns and proper names – distinguishing them from common nouns that refer to kinds? (p. 121). • How is it that we come to possess concepts? (p. 148). • How important is syntax to learn aspects of the meanings of words? (p. 208). • How do children come to learn the meaning of number words? • Are words necessary for thought? Bloom tries to answer all of them grounding his discussion in experimental reports, and, certainly, he succeeds in providing a solution to most of them, even if it is sometimes a provisional one: 1 • Children can grasp aspects of the meaning of a new word on the basis of a few incidental exposures, without any explicit training or feedback – in fact, even without any explicit act of naming (p. 26). • There is no evidence that children learn words quicker or more efficiently than adults do (chapter II). • Learning the meanings of words is not qualitatively different from learning facts about the world (chapter II). • Children make the connection between words and what they refer to through their understanding of the referential intentions of others: they use their theory of mind to learn the meanings of words (p. 60). • Children's capacity to parse the world into the right sorts of entities is due to their cognitive capacity to grasp the object principles; their capacity to parse the language to find the names for these entities is due to their capacity to perform a distributional analysis on the linguistic input (p. 119). • Children learn pronouns and proper names distinguishing them from common nouns through the use of syntactical cues, lexical contrast, and contextual information - namely, observing the range of entities that pronouns and proper names are used to refer to (chapter V). • Children learn concepts because they have an essentialist bias that is central to their understanding of categories: they believe that the members of a category possess internal properties, and that they are members of the same category because they share those internal properties (chapter VI). • No word meaning can be learnt entirely through syntactic cues: syntax is certainly an important informational source as to the meanings of words, but it must be integrated with information obtained from other inferential mechanisms (chapter VIII). • Number words are learned in two distinct stages: in the first, children learn that number words correspond to numerosities of sets, but they do not know which numerosities they correspond to; in the second stage, they learn the precise meanings of the number words (chapter IX). • Words are not necessary for thought: rich abstract thought is possible without words. Language can create new concepts; however, it is not the form of language that causes the concepts to emerge: it is the content that the language conveys (chapter X). Although he gives an answer to all these questions, he must admit that the most important question remains unanswered: "Nobody knows how children learn the meanings of words" (p. 262). 2 In my opinion, he falls short of explaining how children learn the meanings of words because he lacks altogether a workable theory of meaning. Bloom equates meaning with concept. According to him, to know the meaning of a word is to have a certain concept that is associated with a certain form (p. 17). The equivalence between meaning and concept is variously underlined by Bloom in several passages of his work: on page 89, for instance, he states: "Learning a word involves mapping a form, such as the sound "dog", onto a meaning or concept, such as the concepts of dogs". Similarly, on page 242, he maintains that: "what goes on in word learning is establishing a correspondence between the symbols of a natural language and concepts that exist prior to, and independently of, the acquisition of that language". Not having any workable theory of meaning, but only the equivalence between meaning and concept, Bloom is doomed to consider the following four cognitive capacities as the necessary and sufficient ones to word learning: the ability to acquire concepts, the ability to infer the intentions of others, the appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities (p. 10). Children would need nothing else to learn the meanings of words. The ability to acquire concepts would ensure children's capacity to parse the world into the right sorts of objects. The ability to infer the intentions of others would ensure children's capacity to map words onto the objects, actions, and events in their environment (this ability would ensure some other capacities as well: for instance, children's capacity to conceive of words as arbitrary and bi-directional signs). The appreciation of syntax helps children make broad distinctions, such as whether a word refers to an individual versus a property. In my opinion, however, these four cognitive capacities are not sufficient or adequate to explain word learning. Let us consider, for instance, how children learn non-object names. According to Bloom, the cognitive capacity that allows children to grasp the object principles, and consequently to learn the meanings of words referring to objects that satisfy the Spelke-principles, cannot explain how they learn words such as "conference", "fight", "party", "story" and "joke" that refer to individuals that cannot be considered as Spelke-objects1. To account for these words, Blooms proposes then to resort to theory of mind: children are induced to see these words as referring to non-object individuals because they sense that they are thought of as single individuals or singular entities in their interlocutor's mind. These individuals exist because they have been intentionally created, designed, desired by other people, or social and historical factors (chapter IV). However, this is a circular explanation. Children learn certain words through their understanding of the referential intentions of others, that is, the others' thought of what words refer to. But it is precisely this that a theory of word learning should explain: how one understands what others think 3 a certain word means. To understand the meaning of a word is to understand what it means for others, and to understand how one understands the meaning of a word is to understand how one understands what this word means for others. But if we say that we understand a certain word through our understanding of the others' thought, or because we can understand their intentions, we will have not explained how it happens: simply, we will have tautologically reformulated our aim. By saying that children understand the meaning of words such as "conference", "fight" or "party" because they sense what is going on in their interlocutor's mind, one does not explain how they learn such words: one simply states that children learn the meaning of these words because they understand what their interlocutor means. I do not want to deny the utility of the intentional stance, or theory of mind: anyone knows what the adaptive advantages are in conceiving of others as beings provided with thought, desires, intentions, beliefs, and so on. What I want to point out is the fact that having a theory of mind is only a precondition that is required for us to conceive of the existence of meanings as possible, and not an explanation of how we learn meanings. We know that there are such things as meanings, and that they have a certain kind of existence because they are used by human beings, and human beings are special beings because, unlike other beings and entities, they think, desire, speak, and so on. Moreover, as some authors have observed, theory of mind would not even be necessary to explain human beings' capacity to learn words (Cimatti, 1999, 2000, Geurts, 2000, Hirsh-Pasek et al., 2001). The role that theory of mind is supposed to play in word learning could be ascribed just as well to some other mechanisms, such as association, reinforcement, etc. It is possible that children exploit (what we adults think to be) intentional information without having any understanding of what it means to have intentions or mental states, and therefore without attributing any mental states to their interlocutor, but simply basing themselves on some associative mechanism (see also Green's explanation of the false-belief task in Heyes, 1998). The four cognitive capacities that Bloom proposes as necessary and sufficient to explain word learning reveal their inadequacy also in other instances. As admitted by Bloom himself (p. 22), although the program of relating word learning to issues of reference and categorization (and, consequently, of ascribing word learning to the capacities to understand the referential intentions of others and grasp the object principles) works well for common nouns like "dog" and "gold", it works very poorly for determiners, prepositions, and modals. Not for nothing, Bloom treats such words in a cursory manner, dedicating only a few pages to pronouns, determiners and prepositions, and not mentioning modals, quantifiers, complementizers and question words at all. Moreover, as observed by Bickerton (2001), even when he deals with them, he tends to rename the problem 1 A Spelke-object can be defined as a connected and bounded region of matter that maintains its connectedness and 4 rather than solving it. Trying to explain, for instance, how children learn the meanings of "a" and "the", Bloom states that they: "attend to NPs such as "the dog" and "the cups" and figure out the semantic role of the determiners across all of these phrases" (p. 116). But, how do they figure it out? These words could be interpreted as embodying some other meaning as well. Also the explanation of how children learn verbs seems to suffer similar difficulties. Relying only on the capacities to grasp the object principles, to appreciate syntactic cues to meaning and to make general inferences, does not seem to suffice. How do children cope with the fact that the same event can be interpreted in different ways? How do they come to know that a certain event corresponds to "bringing" rather than to "carrying" or "taking"? Are they provided with "preverbal event concepts" that, as Naigles (2001, p.1113) suggests, "would direct children's attention to default events for their initial referent mappings"? If so, Bloom should add another cognitive capacity to the four original ones: the capacity to grasp event principles. But this would lead to an uneconomic proliferation of innate cognitive capacities, one for each kind of experience children live (objects, events, perceptions, feelings, thoughts, etc). Moreover, how could they distinguish one kind from the others? Should they be provided with an additional capacity specifically dedicated to this aim? Bloom's difficulty in accounting for these and other cases of word learning originate from the equivalence he establishes between meaning and concept. Believing that meaning is equal to concept, he provides himself with theoretical, conceptual and analytical tools that are more suitable to analyze how children learn concepts than how they learn meanings. One of the four cognitive capacities he considers as necessary and sufficient to word learning is specifically devoted to the acquisition of concepts. The others are either general capacities not special to word learning (theory of mind, and certain general learning and memory abilities), or only subsidiary to word learning (an appreciation of syntactic cues to meaning). Actually, what Bloom offers is not so much a theory of how children learn the meanings of words, as a theory of how they learn concepts. However, concepts are not meanings. The meaning of a word is univocal: it is valid for, and shared by, everybody, and it has to be so to safeguard the communicative function of language. On the contrary, concepts are individual: everybody can have a different concept of that to which the word refers. For instance, everyone understands what the word "freedom" means, despite the fact that everyone can have a different concept of "freedom". Moreover, the meaning of a word remains so throughout time despite what people think of it or believe it represents may change during time: as Bloom himself recognizes: "We are comfortable translating a word from an ancient Greek text boundaries when it is in motion 5 into the English word star, even though the ancient Greeks believed that stars were holes in the sky" (p. 19). The phenomenal, conscious experience of the meaning of a word is very different from that of the concept that the meaning of the word represents. To be conscious of the meaning of a word is to be able to differentiate it from the meaning of other words: we understand the meaning of the word dog because we know that the word "dog" does not mean the same as, for instance, the words "cat" or "table" mean. On the contrary, to be conscious of the concept that is expressed through a word is to be able to differentiate it from the other concepts that may be expressed through the same word. Even if when I say "dog" you understand what I mean, the concept I have of a "dog" may be very different from your concept of "dog": for me a dog can be a nasty animal, whereas for you it can be a lovely one. Moreover, the difference between meaning and concept stands out when we think about the fact that while all words have a meaning, not all words have an associated concept. While it seems reasonable to have concepts for words like "dog" and "cat", it does not seem plausible to have concepts for other words such as "and", "or", and "to". What is the concept of "and", "or", and "to"? Usually concepts influence or govern our behavior: my concept of dogs, for instance, may lead me to avoid dogs and to prefer cats. May we find a parallel influence of a supposed concept of "and" on our use of this word? Apparently, we cannot find it, which would be an indirect evidence of the fact that concepts for words like "and" and "or" do not exist. On the contrary, meanings exist both for words like "dog" and "cat", and for words like "and", "or", and "to". In fact, if we are able to understand the difference between the phrase "dog and cat" and the phrase "dog or cat", it is precisely because "and" and "or" have different meanings. Not having a definition or theory of meaning independent of the notion of concept, Bloom fails to notice that they differ. If he had realized that they differ, he would have certainly been obliged to ask himself what it is that makes them differ, and that makes them differ also from other kinds of conscious experience, such as images, representations, thoughts, perceptions, and so on. Most probably, he would have reached the same conclusion that other authors had already reached: meanings, concepts, images, representations, thoughts, etc. are all different products of different ways of mentally working. When performing certain mental operations we experience images, when performing other mental operations we experience memories, when performing still different mental operations we experience meanings, and so on. In some authors' opinion as well as in my opinion, the fundamental mental mechanism that allows us to obtain different mental products is 6 attention2. Depending on the way in which we move our attention, where and when we move it, the span of time involved in moving it, we consciously experience different things. Meanings, for instance, are the result of a meta-attentional operation: to learn the meaning of a word, children have to attentionally focus on, isolate, select, and retain in their memory the attentional operations they have been told, or induced to pay attention to. Each meaning is composed of a specific sequence of attentional operations: the sequence represents the skeleton that supports and allows the conversion or actualization of the meaning into any of its sensible, perceptible instances, whether they are images, memories or thought process (Marchetti, 2003). Despite resorting to attention and its related concepts (pointing, focusing, eye gaze) several times in his book (I counted more than forty explicit occurrences), Bloom does not seem to conceive of it as a fundamental capacity, but only as a subsidiary one. Bloom sees attention as a secondary and accessory process that serves as a support for those cognitive capacities he conceives as fundamental: gaze following, for instance, is treated as a constituent of a more general capacity, theory of mind. In his work, attention is never considered for the conscious experience that it produces directly, but for the cognitive capacity or mechanism for which it works. In his view, attention is simply a tool that connects the human mind with the world, thus allowing the fundamental cognitive capacities to operate on the world: it is a kind of arrow or pointer that makes children establish a relation between the words and the world, figuring out what the words refer to in the world. Attention is not considered for its fundamental role in determining conscious experience (Mack and Rock, 1998, Marchetti, 2001), and in producing and shaping the world as we know it. Consequently, he cannot realize that it is precisely through, and thanks to, the use of attention that children as well as adults can experience perceptions, images, objects, meanings, ideas, memories, and so on. Conceiving of attention only as something that allows us to connect our mind with the world, and not as the fundamental tool that allows us to perceive, experience, think about, remember, etc. the world, poses unsolvable problems. Let us see why. This conception presupposes that at least three entities exist independently of, and prior to, any activity of ours: the mind, the world, and the gap between them. Consequently, each of these entities should have its own predefined structure, quality, dimension, components, etc. But admitting that such entities exist entails admitting that all we human beings should have the same experiences, perceptions, thoughts, memories, etc. when focusing our attention on something in the world, and that any experience, perception, thought, etc. should be univocal and unquestionable. However, our daily experience very often shows the 2 The importance of attention for our mental life, and specifically for meaning formation and construction, has been recognized since the second half of the last century: see Ceccato, 1969, Ceccato and Zonta, 1980, Marchetti, 1993, Vaccarino, 1981. 7 opposite. The same thing or event can be seen, described, perceived, and thought about in different ways, and conversely different things can be described, seen, thought about in the same way; different people see the same thing from different points of view; even the same person can change one's mind about the same thing at different times; and so on. Bloom's hypothesis about human being's capacities to grasp the object principles and to understand the referential intentions of others actually answers, and adheres to, the presupposition of the independent existence of the three entities. However, it does not and cannot answer the problems that such presupposition entails. To answer them, we have to reconsider the role of attention, and figure out what we can produce and obtain through it. When we focus our attention, we consciously experience something. Depending on how, where, and when we focus it, we experience different things. If we look at the following, we can see either a "line", a "twisted line", a "black sign on a white page", a "fissure", "white spaces around a line", a "graph", the "top of a sheet of paper perpendicularly lain on the page" or something else, depending on how we focus our attention, which side of the page we focus on, and how we combine the various focused elements. If the world assumes different forms, it is precisely because we shape it through different attentional operations. Attention is not simply a kind of arrow or pointer that serves to connect the mind with the world; on the contrary, attention allows us to give form and sense to the world, as well as to our mind and the relationships between the two. When we look "out there", we do not find a world that is already well defined, structured, composed of such and such objects, classified, etc.: the world becomes so only after we have attentionally worked on it. If Bloom had taken into account the fact that attention is the key to conscious perception and experience, he would have realized that world perception and conception in general, and word learning in particular, are strictly dependent primarily on attention and only subsequently on the other cognitive capacities. Children learn to perceive and experience a certain kind of world by moving their attention and applying it to their somatosensory system and sense-organs in a certain 8 way. In a similar way, they learn the meanings of words essentially by performing and retaining the attentional operations that constitute such meanings. They repeat those attentional operations that adults invite, or make them, repeat, by means of gestures, eye gaze, sounds, other words, etc. In repeating them, they become conscious of the meanings, experiences, perceptions, and so on, and learn to differentiate one meaning from the others, one experience from the others. As Ceccato (1968, p. 38) has shown, even the most abstract, nonfigurative words are learnt this way: L' "o" mostra nel modo più chiaro una struttura attenzionale. Bisogna che l'attenzione, dopo essere stata applicata ad una cosa, passi ad un'altra, abbandonando la prima. "Vuoi il cioccolatino o la caramella?", etc., diciamo al bambino. Intanto gli sottraiamo alla vista l'una delle due cose; ed egli impara. (The "or" shows an attentional structure in the most patent way. It is necessary that the attention, after being engaged on an object, is disengaged from it and addressed to a new object. While asking the child: "Do you want the chocolate or the sweet?", etc., we remove one of the objects from his view, and he learns). In learning words, attention is not so much simply drawn toward this or that property, object, or event of the world, as it is used to construct and determines those very phenomena. I believe that if Bloom had been aware of the real importance of attention in meaning construction and learning, he would not have resorted only to theory of mind and the other dedicated capacities to explain word learning: he would have instead addressed himself to mainly analyzing how adults help children control their attention, and how words pilot attention. 9 References Bickerton, D. "Okay for content words, but what about functional items". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24: 11041105. Bloom, P. (2000). How Children Learn the Meanings of Words. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass. Bloom, P. (2001). "Précis of How Children Learn the Meanings of Words". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24: 10951103. Ceccato, S. (1968). Cibernetica per tutti. Vol. I. Feltrinelli. Milano. Ceccato, S. (1969) (ed.). Corso di linguistica operativa. Longanesi. Milano. Ceccato, S. and Zonta, B. (1980). Linguaggio consapevolezza pensiero. Feltrinelli. Milano. Cimatti, F. (1999). "Linguaggio e teoria della mente. A proposito di una domanda prematura: i primati non umani hanno une teoria della mente?". Sistemi Intelligenti, 1: 165-174. Cimatti, F. (2000). La scimmia che si parla. Linguaggio autocoscienza e libertà nell'animale umano. Boringhieri. Torino. Geurts, B. (2000). "Review of Bloom 2000: How Children Learn the Meanings of Words". Linguist List 11.1511. www.linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1511.html. Heyes, C. (1998). "Theory of mind in nonhuman primates". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21: 101-148. Hirsh-Pasek, K., Hennon, E., Golinkoff, R.M., Pence, K., Pulverman, R., Sootsman, J. Pruden, S. and Maguire, M. (2001). "Social attention need not equal social intention: From attention to intention in early word learning". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24: 1108-1109. Mack, A. and Rock, I. (1998). Inattentional Blindness. Bradford Book. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. Marchetti, G. (1993). The Mechanics of the Mind. Espansione. Roma. Marchetti, G. (2001). "A Theory of Consciousness". www.mind-consciousness-language.com Marchetti, G. (2003). "Foundations of Attentional Semantics". www.mind-consciousness-language.com Naigles, L. R. (2001). "Why theories of word learning don't always work as theories of verb learning". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24: 1113-1114. Vaccarino, G. (1981). Analisi dei significati. Armando Armando. Roma. 10
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Home24 tech department have had a busy and very productive year this year, so in order to celebrate this – and to look forward to an awesome 2018 – we will be hosting the first ever Home24 HackDay. HackDay will take place on December 21st in our HQ in Greifswalder Straße. All members of the tech team have been invited to participate and spend the day hacking on whatever they like.
The theme this year is improving home24 and we have five prize categories, based on our new company values
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In this category we want to reward the team who is eager to put themselves into the shoes of the customer. The team should have an initiative which is solving problems for our customers.
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We also value team-work and when people are supporting each other in daily challenges. This award is for the team who wants to create something useful for their colleagues.
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Last, but not least, we want to have fun when we are working together. We want to see colleagues being motivated to come to work and see their colleagues. That's why we also want to reward most engaging presentation of the project at the end of the day.
The categories will be judged by our esteemed judging panel, which includes our VP of Product, Director Recruiting & Culture, Director of Data and Director of SAP.
Why do we hack? It's important to think outside the box of your daily work. Not just for fun, but in order to facilitate collaboration, learning and innovation. Everyone in tech has been invited to submit ideas for projects, which other members of the team can join. Teams are limited to a maximum of 5 members and are self-organised. We have had a sleuth of very interesting ideas already and are getting excited to see the results.
HackDay will take place all over the 5th floor of our building. There will be music, pingpong, delicious food, and lots of snacks and drinks, along with other surprises to keep our busy tech team fuelled up for the day. And at the end of the day, we will celebrate the winning teams with an awards ceremony, and a party in our office!
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By and large, the advertising business is filled with good people. They're smart and creative and funny and generally agreeable. Yes, there are prima donnas, as you would expect in a business that requires confidence and a healthy ego to survive. And yes, there are jerks, as there are everywhere in this wide world. But overall, since it's a creative field, the people it attracts are generally people who just want to have fun.
What sparked today's thought, though, is I saw someone I used to work with the other day. He was one of the rare scumbags on the agency side I've had the displeasure to work with. An agency I worked for hired him to be its New Business Director. It was his responsibility to find leads, get us into pitches, and help us win the business.
After he was fired for non-performance, we found out he was farming leads like he was supposed to, but then he was telling prospective clients he could personally do the work cheaper than the agency could. Wow. Still infuriates me just to write this. I don't know if he was successful in any of his underhanded overtures, but there aren't many people in my life I've run across that I thought were lower. And yeah, yeah, I know, it's not the lowest thing in the world, but come on, join me in my contextual outrage here.
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The LWML has released new logos in 1947, 1991, and 2017. The most recent logo update was unveiled during the 75th Anniversary Convention, as we look forward to 75 more years of serving the Lord with gladness!
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Click here for a printable PDF of an important news release which includes the national LWML mite goal for 2017-2019, the 22 mission grants which were adopted, and newly elected officers for the 2017-2019 biennium.
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Ladies, please read the email below that I received from one of the NOLA 4H organizers. It is copied and pasted exactly as received by me.
Dear President Granger…
I humbly write this note of gratitude for your prayers and spiritual fortitude in helping us to move our grant forward.
To: All Within the Louisiana-Mississippi District of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League – Lutheran Women in Mission
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Date: 6/26/17
It is with great joy that I announce the New Orleans-based NOLA 4H program received a $100,000 grant from the LWML at the national convention held the past 4 days!
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By: Pittsburgh Courier, June 8, 2015
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Neighborhood Allies has a vision of a Pittsburgh full of thriving, healthy communities that are livable for all. To that end, they support the people, organizations and partnerships committed to improving the social and physical infrastructures of Pittsburgh's distressed and transitional communities. On June 5, they announced the recipients of their spring 2015 grants. Neighborhood Allies awarded a total of $540,000 to eight creative and collaborative projects and ideas that will help transform struggling neighborhoods.
Presley Gillespie, Neighborhood Allies President, said about these grants, "We really want to be a forward-thinking, solutions-oriented community developer that brings hope, fresh ideas, expertise and resources to distressed and transitional neighborhoods. We are excited about these projects and will continue to listen to the needs of our neighborhoods, while serving as a catalyst for change."
The following grants were awarded:
- $75,000 Operation Better Block: To implement a placemaking strategy, building off of and continuing blight removal while creating productive greenspace, completing baseline repairs and façade improvements on occupied homes in a cluster along the East Busway near Faison School.
- $75,000 Made Right Here: To implement a year-long youth maker training and professional development program with Larimer Youth.
- $75,000 Community Empowerment Association: Strategic Training Employment Program (STEP) that provides construction industry training and job placement for Homewood residents and assists local public and private developers and contractors to recruit and retain qualified community residents.
- $50,000 FOCUS Pittsburgh: A planning grant to create, convene and manage a local advisory board made up of high-level experts and professionals who will inform the implementation of a pilot trauma-informed community development strategy in the Hill District.
- $75,000 Hosanna House, Inc.: To implement a placemaking strategy that will complete beautification and infrastructure improvements that will connect the services Hosanna House offers at their facility with the Penn Avenue business district.
- $65,000 Wilkinsburg Community Developent Corporation: To support a small business marketing/promotion and investment attraction program that incorporates physical façade and building improvements with tools that both current and prospective entrepreneurs can use to grow and maintain their businesses.
- $50,000 The Mission Continues: To deploy a service platoon of 40-60 returning veterans to work with community leaders to plan and execute service missions throughout our focus neighborhoods.
- $75,000 Vibrant Pittsburgh: To implement a pilot diversity advancement project that will create an online platform to identify, source and pool diverse talent and formalize a partnership with leaders to recurit and place that talent locally.


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The best way to experiment with a new component framework is to create components, and a simple Map component is often one of the first candidates that come to mind.
I this article, I share a Lightning Map Component built with the popular Leaflet open-source library.
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