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Love will always be in fashion
As the expectations surrounding the arrival of duo Brooke Taylor and Nana Aganovich of womenswear label Aganovich began palpably to rise, the Aula Magna resonated with the moody musical musings of DJ Shadow's "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt". Mr Taylor would later explain from the podium, Nana smilingly perched by his side, "At …
As the expectations surrounding the arrival of duo Brooke Taylor and Nana Aganovich of womenswear label Aganovich began palpably to rise, the Aula Magna resonated with the moody musical musings of DJ Shadow's "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt".
Mr Taylor would later explain from the podium, Nana smilingly perched by his side, "At the opening we played a track by DJ Shadow and what's so fascinating about it is that that whole album was made out of dead material. He sampled everything from run-down old records that he found in crates. In my opinion, this track is one of the most loving tunes ever made, for his breathing new life into discarded and disused material totally blew the lid off the music world when it first came out in 1996".
Is love still the essential source of creativity?
"There's far more media than there used to be when we were younger. You're being hit on all sides and encouraged to be creative but no-one really wants to talk about what being creative is. We believe that this process is sidestepping an essential word, and that word is 'love'. We're living in grim times – love is not top of the bill at the moment, so that is why we decided on this topic for our lecture".
Brooke Taylor and Nana Aganovich met 15 years ago in London and have been together ever since. The brand currently operates in Paris, which is, after all, the city of romance and fashion. Love is essential to the way the two communicate, create and connect with each other and the outside world. Some cultures have 50 words for love, others just have one, but ultimately, as Mr Taylor pointed out, the real question is: What is love? Is it at the very root of creativity?
Love puts you in a condition of immense creativity and connectivity. You are in a heightened state of mind where everything falls into place and feeds you. Creating emotions through fabric is one of the most amazing things in the world. You can build up marketing tools, fashion shows and money making enterprises that sell clothes but if at the center of it all you don't have a small group of people who absolutely and completely believe in the power of love and creativity, the whole system is bound to fall apart.
Brooke Taylor
Fighting back FOMO
Brooke Taylor also tackled the subject of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), one of the most widespread causes of social anxiety and depression among younger generations. This syndrome leads to a compulsive need for interaction and a desire to always be in-the-know, achieved mainly through online technology, as well as strongly influences the way we perceive and use time.
"We also wanted to tap into the power of love because we recently read a report that states that the level of FOMO has reached an all-time high. They actually say that it's the 'apocalypse of a generation'; people are feeling lost, removed from their center and have thus become more and more isolated. In this case, love can be a source of creativity but also a pillar of support. When inner displacement sets in, you lose your voice, your uniqueness, your sense of belonging. Love is the primary essence that allows you to access originality and find your true self; and the amazing thing is that we all have access to it. As human beings, we are innately born with it."
Grasping the amazingness of it all
"Every single one of you here, short, tall, nervous, sociable, beautiful or otherwise – you're never going to open your eyes in someone else's body. You're always going to be you, from the day you're born to the day you die. And it drives me crazy when I think how much time we spend obsessing about what people think and have – we keep forgetting that we're the most amazing thing on the planet".
Owning your uniqueness is a necessary quality when braving through hard times. To further underline this point, Brooke Taylor went over Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking literary oeuvre, the iconic fashion designers we all admire and South-African band Die Antwoord's astounding against-all-odds rise to fame. When the Aganovich couple first decided to take on the challenge of launching their own label, Nana's studies in fashion and previous experiences gave her the necessary know-how but untaught Brooke set out on a quest for knowledge.
"We wanted to have an impact on the outside world. When I first got into this I was reading about fashion shows. I read that it was common for the audience to cry and it seemed slightly ridiculous – why would anyone cry for a piece of clothing? But as we progressed, the more shows we did, the closer we got to having this effect. I started to understand that there's something extraordinarily beautiful in the making of clothes as one of the creative art forms. Many artworks survive for a long time. Books, for example, are reprinted for hundreds of years. Clothing, on the other hand, has this horrendous thing: you gather a team, you put all your efforts in creating your line and then you send it out into the spotlight. Then it's just going to disappear. Sure, it will go into shops, sales and distribution but that first moment is gone, which makes it an extraordinarily painful and tragic thing."
Being an emanation of love, although fleeting in form fashion has given rise to long-standing imageries, instilled heart-wrenching emotions and inspired generations of creatives. There is no doubt that love is and always will be in fashion.


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Kurdish votes will be kingmakers in Istanbul mayoral race - pollster
The votes of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) will play a pivotal role in the rerun of the mayoral election in Istanbul according to a public opinion poll published by Konsensus polling company, news site T24 reported on Sunday.
The ruling party's Istanbul mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım and the main opposition's candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu are head to head in polls and Kurdish votes will be the kingmakers, the head of Konsensus consulting firm Murat Sarı said.
İmamoğlu, the mayoral candidate of the Republican People's Party, won the Istanbul mayoral race in Turkey's financial powerhouse, defeating the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate Yıldırım with 13,729 votes according to official results announced after 17 days of recounting. Upon an appeal by the AKP citing irregularities, Turkey's top electoral board annulled the Istanbul election and rescheduled a rerun on June 23.
For the local elections on March 31, the HDP, which draws most of its support from the country's Kurds, supported İmamoğlu even if the party was left out of the coalition formed by opposition parties.
"So now when we look, 200,000 (votes) in this election makes 2 percent of the votes, that is, the one who gets that 200,000 will win the election," Sarı said.

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Ex-TV Executive Praver Joins NPR
Mitch Praver, veteran TV and more recently new-media executive, was named executive vice president and chief operating officer of National Public Radio.
NPR has been ramping up its digital efforts, and that has been Praver's strong suit.
Most recently, Praver was executive VP, business development and sales for software developer Hillcrest Labs and, before that, was with AOL, helping to pioneer instant messaging.
But he is better known in broadcasting circles from new media posts at National Geographic Ventures and Discovery Communications, as well as programming, research and public-relations posts at companies including Lifetime Television, Katz Media Group and ABC.


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The legislature passed legislation in 2015, Act 837, which provides for limitations and prohibitions on the collection and sharing of student information. Additionally, the legislature passed Act 677, which requires that the Louisiana Department of Education and all LEAs make available information about the transfer of students' personally identifiable information (PII). Information may be shared with vendors who provide services necessary for the operations of our school.
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Not a day goes by that I'm not impressed with John Evankovich and his team - they manage our tire and battery business at Sam's Club.We're especially thrilled for him as he takes on the role of president of the Tire Industry Association (TIA).
I encourage you to get to know John a little better below and learn more about what he's hoping to accomplish during his tenure as president.
How did you get your start in the tire industry?
I certainly had a passion for the industry although I didn't know where it would take me. I held various jobs through high school and college, but it was while tires were being installed on a 1972 Dodge Charger at a Sam's Club in Orlando, Florida that I ran into a situation that provided a job opportunity that would end up shaping my entire career. I began as a tire technician at Sam's Club in February of 1990 and have been with the company since that day.
What do you love most about being a part of the Sam's Club Tire and Battery team?
Serving thousands of Sam's Club Tire & Battery Center associates for the last 14 years has been the most rewarding experience for me as the leader of the Tire & Battery Center Operations team. Member and associate safety is the highest priority for me and my team, which means we must be dedicated to providing our associates with the resources and care they need to grow with the company to achieve their goals, and do all this while celebrating success and having fun. It's not unusual that many good opportunities to serve begin by trying to find a solution to a problem.
How did you first get involved with the TIA?
My involvement in the Tire Industry Association (TIA) began in 2011 with an email to their team regarding challenges with Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems. The professional response and true desire to help was apparent during those early discussions and it wasn't long after that Sam's Club became a TIA member and we've been actively involved since then. As I became more active, I was supported by many TIA board members and encouraged to run for the TIA board of directors and was elected to the board in November 2014. During that time, I gained even more respect for the organization and the efforts to help tire dealers of all sizes. Although Sam's Club has nearly 600 locations, we began with one location in Midwest City, OK in 1983. It doens't matter if you have one location or 3,500, we are all in this industry together and our different experiences combined make us better prepared to serve the TIA member base.
What has your experience been like since serving on the board?
During the first few years on the Board, I had the opportunity to collaborate on training and government relations which inspired me to want to contribute even more and I was elected by the Board to serve as Secretary on the Executive Committee in 2016. Most recently, my focus has been the continued development of the TIA Advisory Council and working with the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) to develop a better system for tire recall recovery.
What are you looking forward to most during your tenure as president?
I'm excited about the future and would like to use my time as president to focus on the current strategic initiatives around our mission to promote tire safety through training and education. I also hope to act as the principal advocate in government affairs as well as enhance the image and professionalism of the industry so that our member businesses may be more successful.
John's commitment to collaboration will serve the membership of TIA well. I hope you all will join me in wishing him the best! Check out the full profile on John in Today's Tire Industry here. Congrats, John!


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Brevity Twenty
What We're Good At
By Sheryl
St. Germain
His hands roam your
back, and you smell him everywhere, he is the air, and you breathe him
in as deep as you can.
I've had to learn to fix things, you say, because no man I've been with has ever been good at fixing things. You're not sure why you're telling him this. It sounds accusatory, though you don't mean it to be. It's a point of pride with you, that you can fix most things, that you don't need a man to do anything mechanical around the house.
He pulls back, his head on the pillow and looks at you. It's those dark eyes, Dutch and Frisian that first cut into you, and still do. Those eyes want you to say the truth.
Even if you had offered, you say, I wouldn't have let you fix it.
At this point you think you should shut up because you feel like an idiot. You pull him close, feeling the warmth of his sturdy body, the sweet smell you love so much.
He is from a land that also lies beneath the sea, and his people are trying to help save your ruined city, but you don't know that they will. He has told you that the story of the little boy with his finger in the dike is a not true, just a stupid story Americans like to tell about the Dutch. And as much as he feels like a levee for your own rushing grief, you don't know that he can cure your sadness, which seems huge and gaping. What can love really do, you think to yourself, but do not say. You don't wish to hurt him. You love him. You want him to keep touching you, to keep saying he loves you. To keep putting his hands on whatever fractures there are in you.
I am good at opening jars, he says slowly, as if he is saying something monumental. Any jar, he says, any jar that's hard to open.
You feel like crying. He kisses you.
I'm also very good at pouring liquids from one container to another without spilling them, he says. This does not seem like such a useful thing, but you love him so you look in his eyes as if you understand why he is telling you this.
It comes from having worked in a darkroom for many years, having to pour things in the dark, he says. Without seeing.
Maybe, you think, it is a useful skill, to be able to measure things, to move confidently in the dark. You stroke the hairs on his chin. He continues.
also good at getting keys out of cars when they're locked inside,
he says.
At the moment you feel good at nothing.
Sheryl St. Germain's work has received several awards, including two NEA Fellowships, the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, and, most recently, the William Faulkner award for the personal essay. Her poetry books include Making Bread at Midnight, How Heavy the Breath of God, and The Journals of Scheherazade. Swamp Songs: The Making Of an Unruly Woman, a collection of essays about growing up in New Orleans, was published in 2003 by The University of Utah Press. She currently directs the MFA Creative Writing Program at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, where she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction.


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|The Sushi Spinnery Guide ✍
Creating a Dish Edit
- Make sure you have hundred of Sushi Coins such as 200++ for getting chance creating high-quality sushi.
Selecting the Ingredient Edit
The levels are:
- I should find something decent
- I think it'll be above average
- I'll try to find high-quality stuff
- I'll look for the best quality
- Something special may turn up
The number of coins will vary based on the ingredient and your staff used.
Contests Edit
There are two ways to win a contest. Preferably, the starting ingredient in the contest entry should have good compatibility to the judges. When that is not possible, the alternative is to simply have very high values on the specific criteria(s) being judged.
You don't need to have a perfect score to beat a contest, either - you only need to at least equal the score of the first entry (usually 26-28 points).
Stock up on Price Seeds as soon as you can afford them. Use the storebought items on your ingredients as much as possible to power them up - stop only when they give you very low (1 or 2) or no improvements.
- Neighborhood Contest (#1): Tamago + Kizaminori + Sweet Sauce = [SauceTamago]. Do this as soon as possible, as this controls access to all future contests. Unlocks contest #2.
- Municipal Contest (#2): Ika + Rock Salt + Mayonnaise. Unlocks contest #4.
- School Contest (#3): Amaebi + Rock Salt + Daikon Oroshi (OR Mayonnaise if you don't have it yet) = [SaltAmaebi]. Unlocks ability to rotate/move objects.
- Prefectural Contest (#4): Kyuri + Ika + Rock Salt = [SaltKappa Gunkan]. This one is difficult as you are likely going to lack compatibility with judges, so go with pure numbers instead. I won this contest with Texture at 9 and Aroma at 5. Do this ASAP, because you need the second test kitchen for all contests past #4.
- Company Contest (#5): Salmon + Mayonnaise + Daikon Oroshi = [MayoSalmon]
- Birthday Contest (#6) and Makizushi Prelims (#7): Since the judging criteria is similar (both require high Color values, with #7 also needing some Flavor), simply make one entry for both - Salmon + Salmon (Makizushi) = [SalmonSalmon Mk]. Price Seeds and Sashimi Knives are very useful here to boost the Color value.
- Kanto Contest (#8): Hamachi + Neriume + Asatsuki = [UmeHamachi]
- Sugamo Sushi Contest (#9): Tako + Daikon Oroshi + Cheese = [CheeseTako]
- Makizushi Contest (#10): Maguro + Ika + Unagi. You can wait until around Y14 and Y15, as the rewards are nothing special. Use Price Seeds here as well.
- Mermaid Contest (#11), Japan Championship (#12), and International Contest (#14): I used only one entry for all three contests, so I didn't attain a perfect score (but managed to win nonetheless) for #14. Recipe is, as Gunkan, Uni (base ingredient) + Umibudo + Lemon = [UmiUni Gunkan].
- Showbiz Contest (#13): This contest pits you against very high aroma values, with judges being 2 female youths and one male adult. If you do not have access to Matsutake yet, use the recipe for Kairo Cup instead.
- I did this as sort of a joke, and never anticipated winning with a perfect score. Recipe is, as Makizushi, Matsutake (base ingredient, very high starting Aroma value) + Maguro + Maguro. The resulting recipe resembles that of a male genitalia, with the Aroma value sitting above 20; this is done with both chefs Hikaru Shirai and Futoshi Asaryu at Level 9. I received a perfect score, despite having low compatibility with the 2 female youths.[1]
- Kairo Cup (#15): You're up against a score of 29 by entry #1, so a perfect score is crucial. You need high values on all attributes EXCEPT Aroma. Recipe is Madai (base ingredient) + Akagai + Lemon (A compatibility to both) + Onion (B to Madai, A to Akagai) - do this as soon as Madai becomes available to Consulting at Y14 M2.
- Use all storebought items, Price Seeds, and all special powders to this recipe. The recipe should have final values of 16+ Flavor, 12+ Texture, 10+ Aroma and 10+ Color, with very high compatibility to all gender and age groups. (p.s: its best to focus mostly on dishes that have Madai as they can help you win almost every contest)
Consulting Edit
When you have the ability to do Consulting proposals, run PR: Offices right away. The initial cost is only 10,000 yen, but this cost does go up - after about 5-10 other proposals, the cost will have ballooned past 20,000 yen.
Staff Edit
When you have your first staff, unless this is your first time playing the game, do not train him/her or create any new recipes. Dismiss him/her instead, and wait until you can start running Consulting proposals. Run the Want Ad proposal, and save the game as soon as you see the message that it's complete.
Must-have staff (reload the savegame until you can hire both at once):
- Haruo Enokida (high prep - you need him to make recipes involving Ika early on)
- Pony Inuzuka (high discern - you'll get "high-quality stuff" and better for all initially available ingredients plus Anko, without spending a lot of Sushi Coins)
Train both Haruo and Pony to level 3, and use them until your restaurant reaches 3-stars; after that point is reached, put them to work your tables.
Nice to have staff, put these to work your tables:
- Ichiro Kotobuki
- Gario Marukome
When you can run the TV Commercial proposal after reaching 3-stars, make sure you also have the money to hire the staff afterwards. Do the following hires, preferably both at once:
- Hikaru Shirai (high prep and discern)
- Futoshi Asaryu (high discern)
Use both Hikaru and Futoshi (trained to at least level 4) for all contests past #4 - this is when you can have two chefs developing new dishes. If you need more discernment, train Futoshi first; train Hikaru only when you need more prep for newer ingredients.


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Question: Prolapse can I leave treatment till July
|Quinga - Thu May 21, 2009 12:50 pm
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I am on holiday in foreign country, due home 3rd July am suffering prolapse of small intestine and possibly uterus. Uncomfortable and tiring but not painful. Can I leave treatment till I see my own doctor on return from holiday
|Debbie Miller, RN - Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:35 pm
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It would be impossible to advise you on this without knowing your particular case. Without pain, chances are you can delay treatment, but it would be advisable to get the opinion of a doctor who can assess the condition and extent of the prolapse. It is rarely an emergency procedure.
Possible complications that could occur with delay include worsening of symptoms, damage to the anal sphincter or a sore from the tissues rubbing. A more serious concern would be if the blood flow to the rectum became compromised, causing tissue damage or death of the tissue. A bowel obstruction is rare but can happen when a loop of the large intestine is pinched off blocking the intestine.
So, you should consult with a doctor, explaining your desire to wait and get all the facts for an informed decision.
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Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) HEFFX Highlights
- Exactly one week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested his company could help with Puerto Rico's electricity crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, more of the company's Powerwall battery packs have arrived on the island, according to a photo snapped at San Juan airport Friday, Oct. 13.
- The image shows what could be crates of Tesla Energy equipment for equipping Puerto Rico buildings with solar power. It's likely that Powerwall battery packs are among the gear, because the energy cells are necessary for sustaining electricity off the grid. Three weeks after the Category 4 hurricane hit the island Sept. 20, approximately 85% of Puerto Rico is still without electricity.
- Tesla's involvement in Puerto Rico first surfaced a week after the storm, when Tesla employees were on the ground assisting with efforts to connect buildings with power. The company previously confirmed it had shipped hundreds of Powerwalls to assist in that effort.
- But a week later, Musk personally intervened, replying to a link posted to Twitter and elaborating how his company could help rebuild the island's electricity system. Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello then reached out to Musk via Twitter, inviting the head of Tesla to get in touch.
Tesla, Inc., formerly Tesla Motors, Inc., designs, develops, manufactures and sells fully electric vehicles, and energy storage systems, as well as installs, operates and maintains solar and energy storage products. The Company operates through two segments: Automotive, and Energy generation and storage. The Automotive segment includes the design, development, manufacturing, and sales of electric vehicles. The Energy generation and storage segment includes the design, manufacture, installation, and sale or lease of stationary energy storage products and solar energy systems to residential and commercial customers, or sale of electricity generated by its solar energy systems to customers. The Company produces and distributes two fully electric vehicles, the Model S sedan and the Model X sport utility vehicle (SUV). It also offers Model 3, a sedan designed for the mass market. It develops energy storage products for use in homes, commercial facilities and utility sites.
Overall, the bias in prices is: Sideways.
Short term: Prices are stalling.
Intermediate term: Prices are ranging.
The projected upper bound is: 370.94.
The projected lower bound is: 330.01.
The projected closing price is: 350.47.
TESLA INC closed down -4.970 at 350.600. Volume was 23% below average (neutral) and Bollinger Bands were 33% narrower than normal.
Open High Low Close Volume
353.760 354.480 347.160 350.600 5,375,486
Technical Outlook
Short Term: Neutral
Intermediate Term: Bearish
Long Term: Bullish
Moving Averages: 10-period 50-period 200-period
Close: 353.03 354.99 312.13
Volatility: 37 37 43
Volume: 5,876,234 5,366,359 6,385,137
Short-term traders should pay closer attention to buy/sell arrows while intermediate/long-term traders should place greater emphasis on the Bullish or Bearish trend reflected in the lower ribbon.
TESLA INC is currently 12.3% above its 200-period moving average and is in an downward trend. Volatility is low as compared to the average volatility over the last 10 periods. Our volume indicators reflect volume flowing into and out of TSLA.O at a relatively equal pace (neutral). Our trend forecasting oscillators are currently bearish on TSLA.O and have had this outlook for the last 0 periods.
Momentum is a general term used to describe the speed at which prices move over a given time period. Generally, changes in momentum tend to lead to changes in prices. This expert shows the current values of four popular momentum indicators.
Stochastic Oscillator
One method of interpreting the Stochastic Oscillator is looking for overbought areas (above 80) and oversold areas (below 20). The Stochastic Oscillator is 63.4973. This is not an overbought or oversold reading. The last signal was a sell 5 period(s) ago.
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
The RSI shows overbought (above 70) and oversold (below 30) areas. The current value of the RSI is 47.90. This is not a topping or bottoming area. A buy or sell signal is generated when the RSI moves out of an overbought/oversold area. The last signal was a sell 78 period(s) ago.
Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
The CCI shows overbought (above 100) and oversold (below -100) areas. The current value of the CCI is 18. This is not a topping or bottoming area. The last signal was a buy 10 period(s) ago.
The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator (MACD) gives signals when it crosses its 9 period signal line. The last signal was a buy 4 period(s) ago.
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Log In and Add $243.07 -20.53 (-7.79 %) (As of 04/1/2020 04:00 PM ET) Add Compare Today's Range$241.28Now: $243.07▼$261.5350-Day Range$196.40MA: $258.51▼$314.7052-Week Range$132.60Now: $243.07▼$316.32Volume16.37 million shsAverage Volume13.66 million shsMarket Capitalization$148.76 billionP/E Ratio53.78Dividend Yield0.24%Beta1.7 ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email NVIDIA Corp. engages in the design and manufacture of computer graphics processors, chipsets, and related multimedia software. It operates through the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tegra Processor segments. The GPU segment comprises of product brands which aims specialized markets including GeForce for gamers; Quadro for designers; Tesla and DGX for AI data scientists and big data researchers; and GRID for cloud-based visual computing users. The and Tegra Processor segment integrates an entire computer onto a single chip, and incorporates GPUs and multi-core CPUs to drive supercomputing for autonomous robots, drones, and cars, as well as for consoles and mobile gaming and entertainment devices. The company was founded by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris A. Malachowsky, and Curtis R. Priem in January 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.Read More Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NASDAQ Industry Semiconductors & related devices Sub-IndustrySemiconductors SectorComputer and Technology Current SymbolNASDAQ:NVDA Previous Symbol CUSIP67066G10 CIK1045810 Webhttp://www.nvidia.com/ Phone408-486-2000Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.21 Current Ratio7.67 Quick Ratio7.13Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio53.78 Forward P/E Ratio38.16 P/E Growth2.83 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$10.92 billion Price / Sales13.63 Cash Flow$4.81 per share Price / Cash Flow50.52 Book Value$19.94 per share Price / Book12.19Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$4.59 Net Income$2.80 billion Net Margins25.60% Return on Equity26.08% Return on Assets18.30%Miscellaneous Employees13,775 Outstanding Shares612,000,000Market Cap$148.76 billion Next Earnings Date5/21/2020 (Estimated) OptionableOptionable Receive NVDA News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for NVDA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. NASDAQ:NVDA Rates by TradingView NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Frequently Asked Questions How has NVIDIA's stock been impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)? NVIDIA's stock was trading at $246.47 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, NVDA shares have decreased by 1.4% and is now trading at $243.07. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus. Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of NVIDIA? 39 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NVIDIA in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 30 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for NVIDIA. When is NVIDIA's next earnings date? NVIDIA is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 21st 2020. View our earnings forecast for NVIDIA. How were NVIDIA's earnings last quarter? NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 13th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.89 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.67 by $0.22. The computer hardware maker earned $3.11 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.96 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 25.60% and a return on equity of 26.08%. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.80 EPS. View NVIDIA's earnings history. How often does NVIDIA pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for NVIDIA? NVIDIA announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 13th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.16 per share on Friday, March 20th. This represents a $0.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.26%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 27th. View NVIDIA's dividend history. What guidance has NVIDIA issued on next quarter's earnings? NVIDIA updated its first quarter 2021 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 13th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.94-3.06 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.85 billion. What price target have analysts set for NVDA? 39 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for NVIDIA's stock. Their forecasts range from $145.00 to $360.00. On average, they expect NVIDIA's share price to reach $273.70 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 12.6% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for NVIDIA. What are Wall Street analysts saying about NVIDIA stock? Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about NVIDIA stock: 1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "NVIDIA's fourth-quarter fiscal 2020 results reflected strength in Data Center and Gaming end markets. The company is benefiting from strong growth in GeForce desktop and notebook GPUs, which is boosting gaming revenues. Moreover, an increase in Hyperscale demand was a tailwind for the Data Center business. Further, the solid uptake of AI-based smart cockpit infotainment solutions is a boon. Additionally, strength across desktop workstation products is aiding Professional Visualization revenues. Shares of the company have outperformed the industry in the past year. However, in the near term, management expects a $100-million negative impact of the coronavirus menace on revenues. Moreover, the U.S.-China trade war remains a key concern. Also, lower demand for notebook workstations might be a near-term hindrance." (2/20/2020) 2. Rosenblatt Securities analysts commented, "We remain positively pre-disposed in the longer term on NVDA and believe the valuation at current levels supports an upside to $180." (8/16/2019) Has NVIDIA been receiving favorable news coverage? News stories about NVDA stock have been trending very negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. NVIDIA earned a coverage optimism score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the computer hardware maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutNVIDIA. Who are some of NVIDIA's key competitors? Some companies that are related to NVIDIA include Intel (INTC), Broadcom (AVGO), Texas Instruments (TXN), Micron Technology (MU), Analog Devices (ADI), Xilinx (XLNX), Microchip Technology (MCHP), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Cree (CREE), Cirrus Logic (CRUS) and First Solar (FSLR). What other stocks do shareholders of NVIDIA own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other NVIDIA investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), General Electric (GE), Canopy Growth (CGC), Netflix (NFLX), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Tesla (TSLA), Paypal (PYPL), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Bank of America (BAC). Who are NVIDIA's key executives? NVIDIA's management team includes the following people: Jen-Hsun Huang, President, Chief Executive Officer & DirectorDebora Shoquist, Executive Vice President-OperationsColette M. Kress, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice PresidentTony Tamasi, Senior Vice President-Content & TechnologyWilliam James Dally, Chief Scientist & Senior Vice President-Research What is NVIDIA's stock symbol? NVIDIA trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NVDA." How do I buy shares of NVIDIA? Shares of NVDA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab. What is NVIDIA's stock price today? One share of NVDA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $243.07. How big of a company is NVIDIA? NVIDIA has a market capitalization of $148.76 billion and generates $10.92 billion in revenue each year. The computer hardware maker earns $2.80 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.59 on an earnings per share basis. NVIDIA employs 13,775 workers across the globe. View additional information about NVIDIA. What is NVIDIA's official website? The official website for NVIDIA is http://www.nvidia.com/. How can I contact NVIDIA? NVIDIA's mailing address is 2788 SAN TOMAS EXPRESSWAY, SANTA CLARA CA, 95051. The computer hardware maker can be reached via phone at 408-486-2000 or via email at [email protected] MarketBeat Community Rating for NVIDIA (NASDAQ NVDA)Community Ranking: 2.7 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 2,279 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 1,958 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 4,237MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about NVIDIA and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe NVDA will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe NVDA will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. 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Green Man has confirmed a new wave of acts to play the festival later this summer with Warpaint and Grandaddy leading today's announcement.
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Hi! I'm Natalie, teenage girl who lives in south Poland
I love art and totally enjoy creating almost everything, but most: painting. Still trying to do sth good and digital, but i think i'll rather stay with my pencils and oil paints!
I also adore books and stories, it's my magical little world I try to write, usually ffs, but I don't publish it - preferably hide it in basement or sth like this, lol.
Sims join those two things, so I play a lot ;D I'm not best at making sims stuff - but i still have time to learn (also English, sorry for mistakes)!
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Is addiction linked to your genes? Or is it all about your environment? According to the experts, it's both. Learn the role that your DNA plays in addiction and the ways to overcome the hereditary challenges you may face.
According to the Art Therapy Association, "Through creating art and reflecting on the art products and processes, people can increase awareness of self and others, cope with symptoms, stress and traumatic experiences; enhance cognitive abilities; and enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of making art."
Truer words were never spoken. The therapeutic value of art has been used in various forms of rehabilitation for centuries, aiding the process of healing all manner of physical and mental illness and disorders. However, the use of art in drug treatment programs is fairly new, but the results are uniformly powerful. One of the primary reasons for its effectiveness is the fact that the main creative process of art is by and large, non-verbal. During treatment, most addicts spend a large part of their time attending and participating in various process groups and therapy, heavily involved in the verbalization of past recriminations and more importantly, realizing and accepting the state of their addictive behavior… and hopefully, finding their way out. These are the cornerstones of treatment, and they are tougher for some than others. Art is based on creative expression and self-expression that many may find easier than a verbally-based format.
As a counselor at a Southern California treatment facility, I was able to witness all manner of transformations that were certainly influenced by the creation of art. One case was particularly inspiring. A young man named Paul was admitted to the program after a lengthy run on methamphetamine. He was 19, extremely non-verbal, angry and physically and emotionally sick. Getting him to participate in process groups was like pulling teeth. His posture during counseling and therapy sessions said it all: arms folded at the chest, feet tightly crossed, and his face was either lost in a thousand-yard stare, or complimented with a clenched jaw, anger written all over his face. Open to the process of recovery? Not really…
Paul was required to attend all of his first level groups, which he generally did, although with some difficulty. Upon beginning his art therapy groups, he showed no real interest, and also claimed that he'd never drawn a picture since first grade. I confess here that I bribed him into attending these groups with a cigarette before and after. According to Paul, art therapy was 'the lamest excuse for a group' he'd ever seen.
After a couple of sessions, I could see something begin to happen. He started opening up, slowly at first, and than progressed to really participating actively in his recovery. He got an NA sponsor, and was beginning to repair a relationship with his parents that seemed hopeless upon admission. According to Paul, art therapy, it seems, was what unlocked the door. I asked him about it, and he confessed that he really wasn't sure what art 'was all about', but when he was shown that the world of tattooing was based in art, he saw some merit in it. What was important here is that he was able to relate art to something that he had regard and admiration for. His drawings were not of any notable skill on an artistic level, but that wasn't important. They were, however, emotionally-charged and powerful, and he relished the opportunity to explain what they were about in groups.
According to British Artist Adrian Hill, the author of Art Versus Illness, the value of art therapy lies in "completely engrossing the mind (as well as the fingers)…releasing the creative energy of the frequently inhibited patient", which enabled the patient to "build up a strong defense against his misfortunes".
As for Paul, he never became the tattoo artist he thought he might become…but he is currently in his 4th year of sobriety. And he quit smoking.
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John Taber, traffic engineer and PHP developer, has a great post comparing the various MVC frameworks available for PHP, as well as Ruby on Rails.
We really don't care what the language is or what the plumbing looks like, just so long as we can get the program to do what we want, is super maintainable, and is fast to market. The last thing we want to do is CRUD stuff. Actually, a framework concept should be ideal for us. Which is why I looked so hard at all the choices…. These are strictly our opinions and of course, YMMV.
John compares them with a real practical sense. On a side note, for some reason I find it funny to read a traffic engineer write "Your Mileage May Vary" (YMMV).


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X-Wing Alliance wasn't the last surprise of 1999. Volition would also roll out a sequel of their own by the end of the year in September and as with Alliance, I had no inkling that it would also be their final hurrah to the space sim genre as many PC players knew it. It would also become an iconic classic that would go on to be one of those "go to" titles that best represented the golden age of the genre, a game that polished everything about its formula while embarking on a grand adventure in deepest space. The game was FreeSpace 2.
FreeSpace 2 is an incredible game. Although the intro movie doesn't have the kind of flashy production values that Origin and Lucasarts had bolted to the beginning of their own space operas, or that the box included anything extra like a booklet to get you into the atmosphere. Even the manual, which was fairly pagey, didn't talk up the story at all…only the mechanics. This left everything up to the gameplay that followed along with the narrative presentation which didn't often miss the drumbeat of impending dread created by the return of the enigmatic Shivans.
Thirty-two years have passed since the epic battle in the last game sealed the jump node to Earth, saving it from the Shivan invasion and destroying their fleet in the process. No one has seen them since then, but the human colonies of the GTA and the fleets there have been trapped on the wrong side of the galaxy in all that time. Without a jump node, it could take decades for a ship to even get back home.
So the humans and the alien Vasudan empire, who they had allied with to defend against the Shivan threat by forming the GTVA (Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance), continued to build on their partnership sharing resources and know-how to prepare for the next possible invasion as well as rebuild their lives after the devastation of the Shivan onslaught. For the humans, in particular, the benefits of the alliance had also brought peace allowing their colonies to focus on survival as the "lost generation" was born and would grow up never knowing what Earth had looked like with their own eyes.
But as the back of the box asks, the Shivans are wondering what happened to their scouting party. Wait, scouting party???
The Shivans aren't really called "Shivans". No one knows what the hell they are. Terran intelligence just called them that to put a name on what their race was and used names like "Lucifer" and "Belial" to tag their capital ships with because they were so terrifyingly devastating. In the first Freespace, the player was caught up in a story of David and Goliath where both the Vasudans and the Terrans had to actually learn and reverse engineer some of the Shivans' technology just to be able to hit them. After that, the Shivans brought out a ship that was codenamed the Lucifer that nothing could destroy unless it was traveling in sub-space which is where it was taken out. Both races barely survived the invasion. And that was only the starting round as they find out.
But thirty two years is a long time and the GTVA hasn't been sitting idle. New technologies, weapons, fighter craft, and a badass super battleship bigger than anything in either the Vasudan and Terran fleet have been built to prepare for the Shivans. At least that was the idea.
Volition polished up everything from the last game. Gameplay elements remain largely the same so if you're used to FreeSpace's controls, you'll jump right into the cockpit here without a second though. Training missions can also get you up to speed though they can be skipped if you just want to get right into the fight. Later in the game, you can pick what ships and loadouts you want to take with you into battle, or go with the mission suggestions instead. And just like in the last game, everything can be remapped. FRED, the FreeSpace Editor tool, is also included again for would-be designers to build their own missions along with online multiplayer.
But what about the new stuff? For one thing, the capital ships now have a new weapon to play with – beam weapons. These are the kind of "anime" beam lasers that wreck the face off of other capital ships (though they're sort of forgiving if they hit your ship which can be a little odd). When two huge ships confront each other in battle flinging energized spears of humming death, it's like watching something out of a WW2 naval battle.
Fighters have also gotten a few new toys of their own including swarmer missiles that anime fans might squee in joy at seeing, but aren't just all show and are actually pretty useful. You can even call in a re-arming ship to fill your missile reserves back up in battle as long as no one is shooting at you. And the missions themselves? Nearly all of them were solid chromium and featured voice chatter over coms including cuts and briefings narrated by stars Robert Loggia as Admiral Petrarch and Ronny Cox as Admiral Aken Bosch, leader of the Neo Terran Front.
The twisting story behind the game is laid out neatly by the missions that build up to the inevitable confrontation with the Shivans that tentatively poke at the frontiers of GTVA space before delivering a hammerblow of their own. The Neo Terran Front, opposed to the GTVA and who promote a "humans first" policy, are also causing no end of grief to the alliance leading to a number of missions in trying to stop them and their leader.
But are they really a terrorist organization that is determined to sow civil war? Volition shakes things up by allowing the player to listen in on Admiral Bosch's philosophical musings on the Shivans which he may have discovered how to speak to. Ronny Cox's faceless performance has also made Admiral Bosch one of those characters of unexpected depth in a game where the player is largely playing a nameless grunt participating as one pilot out of many trying their best to stem the tide of extinction. You don't expect the kind of intellectual wandering that his character does in a game like this, but I also couldn't help but feel pulled along the mystery in trying to find out just what he was all about.
When the Shivans finally start showing up in force, I could feel the pressure being pushed against the GTVA by their arrival as grim briefings describe heavy losses on all fronts and as battles between titanic ships flinging beams at each other become more commonplace. Squads of fighters go out to die almost as often as capital ships do and covering the retreat and passage of refugees from one jump node to the next with the eerie soundtrack following right behind you only added to the anticipation of something going horribly wrong. Would it be the Neo Terrans next? Or the Shivans? I hoped it was the Neo Terrans more often than not in moments like that.
And then there were the nebulae. As the story went on, more mysteries uncovered about the Ancients were slowly uncovered. One of these was the Knossos Gate, a colossal device large enough for huge capital ships to fly on through and jump to wherever they led. Of course, you're sent to scout out what's on the other side first and it's a soup of gas and sensor scrambling static. Now I know how Kirk and Khan felt fighting in the Mutara Nebula.
Then we had to dogfight in that soup in missions involving trying to follow a breadcrumb of beacons to rescue a ship in trouble, find an enemy that may or may not be there, and rely on sensors that can generate as many ghosts as the Ghostbusters. Confusing, tough, and nerve wracking in trying to keep up with your own teammates and listen to mission control try and guide you through that, the nebulae in FreeSpace 2 dared to take players even further out on the edge of what a space sim could deliver and I loved it.
The battles became even more heated as the ending closed in and Volition delivered a crushing, bittersweet series of twists that the Shivans delivered in their near, limitless reserves. The Colossus, the greatest achievement for both the Terrans and the Vasudans, was outmatched by something far larger that had been codenamed the Sathanas. It was a ship so huge that it required a few dedicated missions to whittle down its defenses before you could even hope to destroy it. And then the Shivans brought in even more.
The climax saw the GTVA in a final, last ditch attempt to halt the Shivan advance by destroying the Gamma Draconis jump node which would seal off that part of the galaxy and keep the Shivans from advancing into inhabited space. It was then that from a far distance, the player could see a squadron of Sathanas surrounding a star, and in the furball that you're in, you get the call to jump for home…because somehow, the Shivans and their ships have caused the star to go nova and the shockwave will be hitting your part of the system in less than a handful of minutes.
I died before I could make it to the jump node the first time because I had flown too far out in chasing down and fighting Shivans. I got an ending, and it was one where I was a heroic pilot that didn't quite make it out but will be remembered. The next time around was a lot better now that I knew that a STAR WAS EXPLODING, and the ending for that was just as enigmatic. What were the Shivans attempting to do? Why did they attack us in the first place? But at least we stopped their advance and with the discoveries made from the Knossos Gate, the possibility exists for the GTVA to make their own jump gate capable of crossing the vast distance to Earth.
And that's where things would forever stay. Freespace 2 never had a sequel and Volition was picked up by THQ later on due to Interplay's own financial problems. It also suffered from extremely low sales, somewhere in the neighborhood of 83K units. That also includes numbers from the "Game of the Year" edition. That's only a little over half as many that FreeSpace sold for.
There were several reasons for why this happened, one of which was a lack of marketing on Interplay's part that has been cited as a reason for its laggard performance. Not a lot of people even knew it was out. Another could be that the space sim genre was simply running out of steam. Even X-Wing Alliance posted numbers that were a third off from X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, but I'll get to that later.
However, FreeSpace 2 would leave a lasting impression that wouldn't be forgotten more than a decade or so later. Its EULA also had this to say:
You may make copies of the Software for your personal noncommercial home entertainment use and to give to friends and acquaintances on a no cost noncommercial basis. This limited right to copy the Software expressly excludes any copying or distribution of the Software on a commercial basis, including, without limitation, bundling the product with any other product or service and any give away of the Software in connection with another product or service.
Of course, it doesn't say that today especially now that it's out on Good Old Games, but you can bet that this helped to keep the game alive in the hands over a new generation of pilots that might otherwise have never gotten a hold of it. The openness of the game, thanks to FRED, had also injected it with new life in the hands of a very talented modding community over at Hard Light Productions. Hard Light has plenty of links to a huge collection of mods that do almost everything ranging from bringing in Star Trek ships to full conversions such as Wing Commander: The Darkest Dawn. But if you just want to stick with the original game there's also the FreeSpace Open project which integrates a number of enhancements including even better visuals. I reloaded FreeSpace 2 just to see how good it looked. I also had to experience the campaign all over again.
The ad posted above was made up of three pages. The first page stands alone as the intro and when you flip the page, you'll see the two page spread filled with energy weapons smashing giant ships into expensive scrap. The number of big ships and fighters being thrown at each other in the sequel make the first game look like a warm up and the ad isn't exaggerating too much in telling players what is waiting for them.
FreeSpace 2 had a harder edge to it than either Star Wars or Wing Commander did thanks to the grimdark of its future. Listening to the flailing desperation worked into its missions as your commander called out the latest ship to be destroyed by the enemy, finding the unexpected surprises lurking within the corpse of a dead star, and dealing with the overwhelming , Cthulhu-esque mystery and terror of the Shivans themselves layered with the eerie soundtrack made the game's universe stand out like few others have. Throughout the game, the Shivans never lost their mystery and that only enhanced their reputation as an unstoppable galactic knee-jerk reaction, a violent response of nature than something that wanted to talk and explain itself to you.
It was Volition's parting shot to the old school space sim genre, and perhaps one of the genre's greatest examples. In some ways, it was also one of the last "big name" titles to emerge at the tail end of the golden age of space combat sims and a milestone marking the end of an era, though I wouldn't know that until years afterwards. With its story unfinished and fans left wondering what was going to happen next, FreeSpace 2 had also become a reflection of the genre. Yet as its community of modders have shown, and just as its enduring legacy continues to be remembered fondly by old and new fans alike, the game, and the genre, remain far from forgotten.


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On Friday, August 3rd we will publish on Facebook an album with all the photographs and the voting will open until August 8th. The 3 most voted photographs will receive a voucher of 50, 100 and 150€ respectively to spend in our online store.
Rules for participation:
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2. The mechanism is the following: to. All photographs that show at least one bottle or glass of Luzón wine, which is correctly labeled with the hastag # MomentoLuzón, and that have been published between Wednesday, July 11 and Thursday, August 2, will enter the contest. b. On Friday, August 3, all photographs will be collected and an album will be uploaded to our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/bodegasluzon/?ref=bookmarks) so that our followers can vote for their favorites through a system of "I like it".
3. Each participant can upload as many photos as they wish to their networks, up to a maximum of 10.
4. There will be three prizes, one for each of the three most voted photographs: a voucher of € 50 for the third most voted, € 100 for the second most voted and € 150 for the most voted photograph. These vouchers can be exchanged in our online store (http://www.tiendaluzon.com/).
5. The winner will be announced on our social networks between August 9 and 10, 2018.


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- Sir David Dalton says he will respect both sides in negotiations over junior doctor contracts
- He says NHS has long way to go to achieve consistent standards of care for patients
- Talks will remain aimed at securing a cost neutral deal for junior doctors
Sir David Dalton has said his "absolute priority" is to get a deal that is good for doctors and patients from negotiations on a new junior doctor contract with the British Medical Association.
Sir David was appointed by health secretary Jeremy Hunt this week to lead on talks between the government and the BMA through the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
In a letter published shortly after his appointment, Sir David struck a conciliatory tone and stressed his desire to respect both sides.
However, he also highlighted continuing concerns over inconsistent standards of care for patients across seven days a week.
The chief executive of Salford Royal Foundation Trust said he hoped "to bring a new perspective" to negotiations with the BMA that would help a deal to be reached. He said this was new territory for him, adding: "I will do my best, but time will tell. What I will do is work in the way that I always have: to listen and respect the views of others."
Sir David said it was the dedication of all NHS staff, as well as how they are supported and valued, that enabled them to provide safe care.
He added: "We must all recognise too that both employers and their workforce want to provide the best care to patients and to know that if it was one of their family, that they would have the same access to expertise and facilities seven days a week.
"We still have a long way to go to achieve reliable standards of care for all of our patients, and I am pleased that the NHS is now being more explicit about the standards which should be available to all. I am in no doubt that any gap which exists is not to do with the dedication that our doctors in training provide (which is substantial) but I do think that new care models, new investment and new patterns of working by all staff will build assurance on meeting these standards."
Sir David said he regretted the consequences that patients will experience as a result of the BMA's planned strike action, which begins with a 24-hour non-emergency walkout on Tuesday.
He said: "The understanding I have with the secretary of state is that I will work with the NHS Employers team and within the existing framework of cost neutrality, that is, that the NHS will not reduce the money it spends on the pay of doctors in training but will increase this in line with the agreed uplift."
He said he was "cautious and open" in understanding where the talks were, adding: "I need to engage with the BMA team directly and listen to their outstanding concerns."
Sir David said letters would be sent to employers and trainee doctors setting out details on patient safety, training and pay.
He will also convene an advisory panel of other chief executives and medical and HR directors.
"It is really important that at this crucial stage I really listen to everyone and craft a solution which is safe and fair and commands support," he said.
"I realise that I have stepped into a role late in proceedings but I hope that I can quickly build support and trust both at a leadership level and also within organisations with our doctors in training and their representatives."
Talks between NHS Employers and the BMA are due to start tomorrow via Acas.


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In this article, we report the development of a new 200-kV analytical electron microscope equipped with a monochromator with an integrated double Wien-filter system.
Modern microelectronic devices have nanoscale features that dissipate power nonuniformly, but fundamental physical limits frustrate efforts to detect the resulting temperature gradients.
A-site deficient Nd2/3TiO3 ceramics stabilized with CaTiO3, with an overall composition of 0.9Nd2/3TiO3 – 0.1CaTiO3, were synthesized by the mixed oxide route. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction was used to identify the basic perovskite structure and revealed cross-type super-lattice reflections.
Core-shell particle ensembles are fabricated by pulsed-laser-induced dewetting of initially continuous, ultrathin alloy films through a combination of morphological and chemical instability.
Chiral, multipetal gold nanoflowers (AuNFs) with crystalline tips were synthesized in high yield through the reduction of HAuCl4 in water in presence of preformed core-satellite Ag nanoparticle (AgNPs) seeds.
We report on the fabrication of silicon carbide (SiC) nanocrystals using a continuous scanning mode laser for the ablation of pelletized SiC microparticles (NPs).
Ion induced bending is a promising controlled technique for manipulating nanoscale structures. However, the underlying mechanism of the process is not well understood. In this letter, we report a detailed study of the bending mechanism of Si nanowires (NWs) under Ga+ irradiation.
Elevated temperature sliding contact experiments were carried out on an Al-Mg alloy AA5083 to study the formation of oxide fibres on their surface. Deformation and friction tests were conducted at a constant strain rate of 4×10−2 s−1 at temperatures 350 °C, 450 °C and 545 °C.
Significant loss of life and property results each year from fires fueled by polyurethane found in household furnishings. Established layer-by-layer flame retardant systems were combined to produce a stacked nanocoating for flame retarding polyurethane foam.


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LeBron James had a triple-double by the third quarter. It wasn't enough to beat the Jazz.
Seriously. James had 32 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists. Cavs lose 103-101. We'll give Ilgauskas a pass, he had 18 and 14. He certainly did his job again. Oh yeah, he had 4 blocks to go with that. Gooden had a terrible shooting night, hitting only 2 of 11. Sasha Pavlovic finally started to resemble the Sasha we saw last year, with 17 points, but where was the defense Sasha? Daniel Gibson hit a few shots early, and fouled out with 12 points and 3 assists in over 30 minutes. Damon Jones was…well Damon Jones.
Once again the Cavs lost control of the game when James sat down for 3 minutes at the end of the third quarter. I don't know what the answer is here, but I remember last year when James sat we saw healthy doses of Sasha penetrating and Zydrunas posting up. If Sasha isn't up to speed why not throw the ball down low to Ilgauskas? He has been a machine so far this season. He is averaging 17 points and 14 boards a game.
Unfortunately, he is also averaging 35 minutes a game. That is 6 minutes more than his career average. In fact last year he averaged just over 27 minutes. This is bad news gang. This is Big Z breaking down later in the season bad news. Like maybe Christmas. Only three Cavs bench players saw any time last night. Three. Yes, if Larry Hughes and Donyell Marshall would have been healthy they would have played. I don't think that would have helped us beat the Jazz however. The Cavs are going to be desperate for Varejao sooner than we think.
Watching LeBron do what he did last night I couldn't help but think of Oscar Robertson. Because while LeBron played a tremendous game and can call that one of his 11 triple doubles, Oscar Robertson would have called that Wednesday. Maybe the Big O can still play a little. The Cavs could use an outside shooter and play-maker. At least for the 4 minutes when LeBron is on the bench. What do you think Oscar? Can you give us 4 minutes a night?


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Friday, November 17, 2006
EMPLOYMENT: WaterNet Research Leader (SADC)
WaterNet is a regional network for capacity building in integrated water resources management (IWRM) in Southern Africa, with a membership of 48 university departments and research institutions in fourteen countries. WaterNet facilitates a number of projects to build capacity of professionals to conduct water related research and to train and educate practicing water sector professionals in southern Africa. On one of its research projects entitled "The Challenge of Integrated Water Resource Management for Improved Rural Livelihoods: Managing Risk, Mitigating Drought and Improving Water Productivity in the Water Scarce Limpopo Basin" also referred to as CP-PN17 has now taken off in all of the four countries involved, namely, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe and requires strategic leadership support. In addition, there are a number of initiatives that require a senior person to work with the WaterNet Manager. WaterNet wishes to recruit a Research Leader, reporting to the WaterNet Manager, with two key result areas: providing leadership to the CP-PN17 project and working with the WaterNet Manager. The job description includes: Within the Key Result Area of Project Leadership:
- Maintain effective communication with the global Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPW&F)
- Management Team, in order to ensure smooth transactions and coordination and to solve any issues that may arise.
- Provide a link with the CPW&F scientific management.
- Provide overall supervision, guidance to the CP-PN17 Research Coordinator, support and mentoring to increase the effectiveness of project administration and coordination.
- Provide leadership on social, institutional and policy research.
- Advise the WaterNet Manager on any strategic management or substantive issues where a policy decision is required.
- Carry out similar duties under certain new initiatives or projects that may be developed.
Within the Key Result Area of Working with the WaterNet Manager:
- Provide technical and management assistance to the WaterNet Manager.
- Develop and maintain a system to ensure institutional memory of all WaterNet activities.
- Assist the WaterNet Manager on project proposal development and submission.
The suitable candidate shall have a good background in the water sector, hold at least a Masters Degree and proven track record of research in a water-related field and have experience in project leadership, research and training (professional or academic). Experience in social and institutional sciences, and skills to lead multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research projects offer a distinct advantage. Applicants should be Southern African Development Community (SADC) nationals.
The position will be open as of January 2007, and will be based in Harare, Zimbabwe. A competitive and negotiable international package is offered. Appointment will be for two years full-time, renewable subject to satisfactory performance. Suitable candidates are invited to submit an application letter, including motivation, curriculum vitae and the names and contact details of three referees by 8 December 2006, to: WaterNet Secretariat, PO Box MP 600, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. Please also submit the letter and c.v. in electronic form by e-mail to: mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com. For further inquiries, please contact the WaterNet Manager, Dr. Bekithemba Gumbo, phone +263 4 336725, mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Do you know that server procedures continue to grow according to Moore's Law? The server processes double in density every eighteen months. A data center is a construction created to accommodate storage and computing infrastructure in distinct networked formats. The size of a data center varies according to the quantity of servers that are housed. The design of a data center is categorized into tiers. Data center tiers are defined as the standardized technique of describing the operation of a data center. As a matter of fact, data center tiers are critical for organizations looking forward to cloud computing infrastructure to ease application management and IT procedures. The role of the data center tiers is to measure:
- Return on investment
- Data center performance
- Investment
Data center tiers are classified in 4-tiers based on:
- Redundancy of the data center,
- Power distribution,
- Cooling delivery and
- Uninterruptible power supply.
The main role of a data center is to deliver the services required by accommodated personnel and equipment. The responsibilities are:
- Security
- Power
- Shelter
- Cooling
Data Center Journal
The data center journal is a publication that focuses on problems that impact the daily operation, business, and design of a data center. The journal is published on major areas of the whole data center. For instance, the topics covered in data center industry include:
- Business strategies
- Network
- Hardware
- Telecommunications
- Fire protection
- Architecture
- Research
- Electrical
- Education
- Monitoring
The information provided in the journal helps to manage complex data centers in an increasing dynamic and complicated data center environment and satisfy the business demands.
Data Center Solutions
There are various clients from across all fields such as aerospace, technology, defense, finance and healthcare in need of datacenter solutions. These clients utilize these solutions to maintain their current position and operation despite the difficult economic environment and increasing load requirements. Data center professionals are certified in Assured Information Security or AIS's five strategic technology pillars, namely:
- Storage
- Management software
- Servers
- High-end networking
- Virtualization
These AIS solutions assist resellers to efficiently manage, design and deploy integrated and fully optimized data centers. Solutions to solve data center difficulties include:
- Rapid deployment cabling solutions
- High-speed connectivity solutions
- Data center infrastructure management
- High-density connectivity solutions
- Intelligent lighting network solutions
- A purpose-built data center
- Intelligent lighting network solutions
Data Center Information
Large-scale operation of separate personal computers (PCs) involves complex IT infrastructures with a distinct number of hardware that are accommodated in appropriate rooms. The data centers give a central place to run applications. The requirements and architecture of data centers are determined by the purpose of the facility. The data center information is categorized as either enterprise or internet center. The internet data center support few applications, which are generally browse-based and involves many users. On the other hand, the enterprise data center host many applications but service few users. An efficient and effective data center operation is attained through a balanced investment in the equipment and the facility regardless of the category. The aspects of a data center include:
- Infrastructure. It involves support components like ventilation, uninterruptible power sources and biometrics.
- Operation workers who monitor and control equipment and IT.
- IT equipment for storage of the company's information and operation.


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For the full article :https://canopylabs.com/blog/fostering-a-culture-of-data
Earlier this September, we wrote about the importance of fostering a company culture that embraces data to drive revenue and improve organizational practices. The article generated a great deal of discussion and feedback across our online communities, and we were fortunate to have many industry leaders weigh in with their own experiences. We reached out to a few of them to hear a bit more about their own stories and perspectives.
Today, we speak with Flora Lewin of B-Pro on how to use data to shape company strategy, as well as some common strategy mistakes and pitfalls that organizations can avoid.
Flora, thanks for taking the time to speak with us. Can you introduce yourself to our readers?
My pleasure. My name is Flora Lewin and I'm a partner at B-Pro, a consultancy firm based in Israel. B-Pro helps customer centric organizations achieve growth by combining customer, data and technology strategies with the best methodology and tools for ensuring execution. We do not sell any products, nor do we assist in technical implementations.
Our consulting work is grounded in our own experiences with large organizations. Before joining B-Pro, I served as the CIO of a major organization – so when it comes to making difficult decisions around changing corporate attitudes, I know what that means because I have been there. I understand the difference between academic solutions and action-oriented ones. So it's really about knowing both the academic theories around management, but also understanding the politics and individual interests that exist within large organizations. We combine the "softer stuff" and the business side of applications with the engineering and technical challenges and opportunities, and that is where our value proposition lies.
You work with many customer-centric companies and organizations. How do you see data changing the way organizations operate?
I think it is a really exciting time to be working in large organizations right now. The term "Big Data" has really opened up a big appetite and curiosity around this space, and while some organizations may not be ready to make big moves around it, they are at least curious enough to explore the topic and really invest time and money into research.
Data itself may not solve problems, but I think it gives you the grounding to start making changes around your business. It helps drive better business decisions, it helps you stay ahead of your competitors, and it informs strategic decisions, like whether to adopt a new business model, or decide on a major merger. This is an exciting time for organizations to do all of that.
What advice would you give to businesses when it comes to using data to achieve its goals?
First of all, remember that data is not the solution – it is just the means to the solution. Data helps you build a business case and identify new trends and patterns, but you still need to understand the context around the decisions being made, and you need to recognize and respect the existing corporate culture and priorities. Use data to build your case – but remember that it is not a solution in itself.
My second piece of advice is to work with your IT department. Sometimes, the immediate priorities and responsibilities of IT, sales, and marketing will differ, but all sides need to be patient and cooperative. After all, you will eventually need to work together when it comes to integration and ensuring platform stability. Find a way to work together.
Any examples that you can share with our readers?
Certainly. In particular, I'm reminded of one large organization we worked with where there was a lot of internal confusion and differing priorities around data and analytics. In this case, the CEO would talk proudly about Big Data, and all of the so-called shiny things that would be achieved by harnessing data analytics – but if you asked the sales and IT teams, their bigger challenge was just making sure the data they were collecting was actually accurate in the first place! So there was a clear gap between what management wanted, and what the operational teams were looking for.
How do you get to a common solution? Where do you invest? Do you invest in the "boring stuff", such as making sure the data is correct, or do you place it in the shiny stuff like BI? Balancing both sides can be a challenge.
How do you help them make a decision between those two options?
The golden rule is around setting reasonable expectations. In fact, that's probably the best piece of advice my mother imparted on me!
To be truly successful, everyone in the organization, from top to bottom, needs to be on the same page around what being data-driven means and what that will achieve. There needs to be a balance between respecting the existing way of doing things and embracing the new, shiny stuff. This involves surveying the organization, putting together workshops, and jointly defining key goals and metrics around the data strategy. Only when you involve all of the parties will you get true buy-in from the entire organization, from IT to management to sales.
We recently went through this strategy process with a large financial organization that we work with. Now, they are establishing the role of a Chief Data Officer, and starting to build out the supporting processes and teams that will really make data a key pillar in their larger organizational strategy. Data can now become a valuable asset rather than an operational nightmare, and its something that they can use to leverage their business and ultimately achieve the larger strategic goals. And it was really about getting buy-in from all sides, making sure that successes were recognized and that challenges were dealt with together, instead of blaming each other.
What's the best way to bridge those IT and business gaps?
I find that oftentimes, the squabbles may take place over discussions of data and technology, but the underlying issue is confusion around the organization's bigger strategy.
You see this problem being discussed in the work of Palladium Group, whom we represent here in Israel. Palladium is a strategy consultancy founded by Dr. Kaplan and Norton from Harvard University, and while they write about various ideas from strategy execution to balance scorecards, the core message they try to distil is that companies need to take a hard look at how their strategy is being perceived and defined by various stakeholders and parties. If everybody is on the same page, if everybody understands what the goals are, then it is much easier to achieve that. You need a sort of "North Star" that guides the entire organization toward a common objective and ideal.
If you had to sum up your advice in a few sentences, what would you say to our readers?
Set reasonable expectations and work them out in a process. I've found that setting expectations and communicating them well can be just as, if not more challenging than the technology integration itself. We are now at a stage where technologies are stable and widespread enough, and the new challenge is really around soft skills and management.
In a sense, it's like electricity – when it works and it's flowing, you don't worry about that stuff for your business, you're more focused on the more advanced and nuanced things. I assume that the data analytics technology is already stable, so now I'm making sure we're optimizing it well, we're delegating responsibilities, and we're setting reasonable targets for all of us to aim for.
Thank you to Flora Lewin for joining us for this interview – click here to see her work at B-Pro. To learn more about your own company's data culture, read our free Customer Data Framework white paper today.


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