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One of these things is not like the others? After all, Thatcher’s sole political merit was that she was pro-choice. Let me explain.
Ding Dong the Wicked Old Witch is a jolly song. As Angry Women of Liverpool note in their feminist analysis of how to discuss Thatcher’s death “there are so few songs you can sing joyfully about the death of somebody thoroughly deserving”:
Tough one. The history of witch persecution is fraught with the very foundations of modern capitalist and patriarchal oppression, as anybody who’s read Silvia Federici knows. But there are so few songs you can sing joyfully about the death of somebody thoroughly deserving.
You want a proper argument in defence? Give me a minute. Continue reading
Who is that Ed Miliband chap again?
This is the MP I want to lead the Opposition. Because today, she did.
‘When I made my maiden speech a little over two decades ago, Margaret Thatcher had been elevated to the other place but Thatcherism was still wreaking, as it had wreaked for the previous decade, the most heinous, social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country, upon my constituency and my constituents.
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Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham and died in the Ritz. In another world, she might have become a chemist, following in the footsteps of Dorothy Hodgkin and Rosalind Franklin. Instead we may owe her for Mr Whippy ice-cream. Among her other achievements, in what is still today a male-dominated party, Thatcher first stood for election in 1950, and became the MP for Finchley in 1959 – which seat she held for the next 33 years.
During that time she destroyed much of the heavy industry in the UK, especially in Scotland and Wales, primarily because she didn’t like trade unions: she set the trend to privatisation going which led to the high prices and inefficiency in our public transport, our gas and electricity, our water, our post-office, and our health service. She supported Section 28, the cold cruel legislation which made it unlawful for teachers to stand up against homophobic and transphobic bullying. She abolished the rates, fattened landlord’s pockets with the poll tax, and said bluntly that she “didn’t believe in society”. The only thing I can think of she did that I ever liked her for was voting pro-choice (and causing lots of Tory MPs to trot after her like lambs into the No lobby) whenever anti-choice legislation was proposed.
IDS claimed he could live on benefits:
Interviewed on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, Iain Duncan Smith was challenged on whether he could live on £7.57 a day, which was said to be the lowest rate of jobseeker’s allowance given to adults under 25. In fact the current rate is £56.25 a week.
“If I had to I would,” he replied.
Michael Gove talked about people living beyond their means, and Labour spending too much on welfare, and claimed this justified the Tory/LibDem cuts cuts cuts workfare cuts.
Michael Gove used to work for Rupert Murdoch as a journalist at The Times, until he was selected as the new Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Surrey Heath in the 2005 election.
Gove and his wife Sarah Vine, had bought a nice house in Kensington for £430,000 in 2002.
Between December 2005 and April 2006, Michael Gove used the Additional Costs Allowance (meant for an MP to claim for their second home) to claim more than £7000 for furnishing this house:
Around a third of the money was spent at Oka, an upmarket interior design company established by Lady Annabel Astor, Mr Cameron’s mother-in-law.
In a virtually-empty House of Commons, a handful of MPs stood up to oppose the cheap-work conservatives on the front bench, with a Labour Whip instructing party MPs to let the workfare bill pass, and cheat thousands of the poorest people in the UK out of the money the courts had ruled they were due.
The lonely Opposition in the House of Commons this afternoon:
Is it not the reality that this is a multi-billion pound failed flagship scheme, which was condemned by the Public Affairs Committee as extremely poor? Having lost a case and fearing that they will lose the appeal, the Government, instead of respecting our justice system, are abusing our emergency procedures to fix the consequences of losing? Does that show not a shocking disrespect both for our courts and for the principle that workers should be paid the minimum wage?
Read Seven Reasons Why You Should Stop Bitching About People On Benefits. Today’s debate – from Tory, LibDem, and Labour – was for the most part just bitching about people on benefits, who – sanctioned unlawfully of the money they were due – might be so impertinent as to want the money taken away from them unlawfully given back.
The idea that a day’s work deserves a day’s pay has become an ideal for radicals.
The idea that Labour ought to be the party of the left, standing in opposition against cheap-work conservatives, has … just gone, for a clear majority of Labour MPs.

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Lovin’ the vibe inna the Caribbean… “Irie”, the second single from Eesah’s upcoming project Ghetto Sunset with DJ-Producer / tastemaker King I-Vier and 3x Grammy Nominated production duo Loud City Music.
After the release off the gritty track “Move” (the fist single off the project), “Irie” depicts the more enjoyable side of growing up in Kingston, Jamaica. A feel good track to help get through an insane year. Dat bad Eesah “feeling irie” inna sweet, sweet Jamdown.


Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Bida) has signed MoUs with five government agencies to provide 11 types of services through the One Stop Service (OSS) centre.
The OSS will now provide 30 services including 14 from Bida and 16 from other agencies.
Jiban Krishna Saha Roy, director (OSS) of Bida signed the MoUs with the Security Services Division, Office of the Chief Controller of Import and Export, Chattagram Development Authority (CDA), Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (Desco) and Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) on Wednesday at an event presided by Bida's Excecutive Chairman Md Sirazul Islam.
Talking at the event, the Bida chairman said despite 8 notches of improvement, Bangladesh is far behind the other competitors like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam in the index of Easy of Doing Business of the World Bank.
To harmonise businesses and to attract foreign investment, the government is intending to improve Bangladesh within 150th position in this year and below 100 in the next year.
He urged the authorities to provide quality services within time after MoUs.
Dinarul Islam, excecutive member of the Bida said, currently they are providing 19 services through the online platform.
He said, the Bida signed MoUs with six agencies but two city Corporations of Dhaka and Chattagram City Corporation are not proving services following MoUs.
Bida will provide total 154 services of 35 agencies through the OSS, he added.


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Airtel Nigeria has announced its partnership with Africa Magic in order to sponsor The Voice, a Nigerian version of the internationally acclaimed reality singing competition.
The singing competition will offer talented Nigerians a solid and credible ladder to stardom just as it will bring excitement and joy to the homes of music lovers across the country.
Speaking on Airtel’s partnership with Africa Magic on The Voice, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer, Ahmad Mokhles, said the telco is committed to seeking partnerships that will empower talented Nigerians, especially young people and also bring joy, laughter and happiness to the homes of Nigerians.
“As the smartphone network, Airtel is passionate about innovative initiatives that will empower and enrich the lives of Nigerian youths. Airtel is positioned as the mobile Internet service provider of first choice for Nigerian youths and we shall continue to support programmes that will connect more young Nigerians to their dreams,” he said.
Auditions of The Voice will begin on the 9th of January, 2016 and the show begins airing in April, 2016.
To stand a chance of participating in The Voice Nigeria, prospective contestants need to visit the various audition venues across four cities:
Port Harcourt: 9th & 10th January 2016 at the Viontel Hotel Plot 96 Stadium Road G.R.A
Calabar: 9th & 10th January 2016 at the Channel View Hotels, 27 MCC Road
Abuja: 16th &17th January 2016 at the Bolingo Hotels, Independent Avenue, Central Business District, Garki
Lagos: 16th & 17th January 2016 at the Freedom Park; 1 Hospital Road, Old Prison Ground
For his part, the Managing Director, Multichoice Nigeria, Mr. John Ugbe, said: “For over 20 years, Multichoice has played an active role in the development of the African film and television industry. The Africa Magic channels, which sit on our Dstv and GOtv platforms, continue to display the best of African entertainment content to the world and with the launch of The Voice Nigeria, we have once again provided a platform for African talent to shine.”

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U.S. Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks throughout a press convention following a Senate Democratic luncheon on the U.S. Capitol on September 28, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate permitted a one-week extension of federal authorities funding, averting a partial authorities shutdown that was scheduled to start Saturday.
The measure, which handed 71 to 19, offers lawmakers an extra week to barter and go a complete invoice to fund federal companies by way of the fiscal yr, which ends Sept. 30.
The U.S. Home handed its model of the one-week extension on Wednesday by a vote of 224-201, with 9 Republicans crossing social gathering strains to assist the invoice.
Whereas that vote was technically bipartisan, just one returning Republican voted for it. The opposite eight GOP votes got here from members who’re leaving Congress on the finish of the yr, both retiring or as a result of they misplaced reelection.
The Senate was beneath stress Thursday to go the invoice directly, and with out objections from particular person senators that would maintain up a vote beneath the expedited process getting used to go the measure.
“We should always transfer rapidly to avert a shutdown as we speak, with none unwelcome brouhaha that has prompted shutdowns in years previous,” Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer stated on the Senate ground Thursday morning.
Schumer pledged that each side would spend the remainder of the day working to get the seven day “persevering with decision,” or CR, invoice completed.
The Senate vote over the stopgap CR happened beneath the shadow of much more high-stakes negotiations at the moment underway over a large omnibus spending invoice that will fund all federal companies by way of the tip of fiscal yr 2023 subsequent September.
On Tuesday night, the highest appropriator within the Home, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the highest Republican and Democratic appropriators within the Senate, introduced that that they had reached a framework settlement to start critical negotiations over an omnibus invoice.
All three of them expressed optimism that an omnibus invoice could possibly be hammered out and handed earlier than Congress leaves for Christmas, on Dec. 23.
Notably absent from the announcement, nevertheless, was the highest Republican appropriator within the Home, Rep. Kay Granger of Texas.
Home Republicans have little incentive to assist Democrats go any spending payments earlier than they take the bulk on Jan. 3.
Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy has publicly advocated for a sequence of CR payments that will fund the federal government solely into January, permitting him and his new majority to sort out a broader spending invoice after they have extra leverage.


Bromus tectorum Response to Fire Varies with Climate Conditions
Taylor, Kimberley T.
Brummer, Tyler J.
Rew, Lisa J.
Maxwell, Bruce D.
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The invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) forms a positive feedback with fire in some areas of western North America’s sagebrush biome by increasing fire frequency and size, which then increases B. tectorum abundance post-fire and dramatically alters ecosystem structure and processes. However, this positive response to fire is not consistent across the sagebrush steppe. Here, we ask whether different climate conditions across the sagebrush biome can explain B. tectorum’s variable response to fire. We found that climate variables differed significantly between 18 sites where B. tectorum does and does not respond positively to fire. A positive response was most likely in areas with higher annual temperatures and lower summer precipitation. We then chose a climatically intermediate site, with intact sage-brush vegetation, to evaluate whether a positive feedback had formed between B. tectorum and fire. A chronosequence of recent fires (1–15 years) at the site created a natural replicated experiment to assess abundance of B. tectorum and native plants. B. tectorum cover did not differ between burned and unburned plots but native grass cover was higher in recently burned plots. Therefore, we found no evidence for a positive feedback between B. tectorum and fire at the study site. Our results suggest that formation of a positive B. tectorum-fire feedback depends on climate; however, other drivers such as disturbance and native plant cover are likely to further influence local responses of B. tectorum. The dependence of B. tectorum’s response to fire on climate suggests that climate change may expand B. tectorum’s role as a transformative invasive species within the sage-brush biome.
Taylor, Kimberley, Tyler Brummer, Lisa J. Rew, Matt Lavin, and Bruce D. Maxwell. "Bromus tectorum Response to Fire Varies with Climate Conditions." Ecosystems 17 no. 6 (2014): 960-973. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-014-9771-7


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The most livable city selection in Turkey with the grey relational analysis
Grey Systems: Theory and Application
Article publication date: 12 June 2020
Issue publication date: 16 October 2020
This study has two main objectives: (1) to expand the application areas of grey system theory and (2) to select the most livable city in Turkey.
Choosing the most livable city is a complex problem that requires many criteria to be considered. It is important to select decision points according to which the criteria selection will be made and to what extent the criteria will affect the evaluation. For this purpose, a questionnaire was prepared to determine the criteria to be used in the assessment. The survey results were evaluated by the factor analysis (FA) and it was found that the criteria included in the survey were grouped under seven factors. Then, criteria weights were assigned to the determined criteria using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). At the last stage, Turkey's six most popular cities are graded using the grey relational analysis (GRA) to reduce the uncertainty existing in the process of evaluation.
The obtained results indicated that the most livable city in Turkey is Istanbul. Istanbul is followed by Izmir, Antalya, Eskisehir, Bursa and Ankara, respectively. Considering that Istanbul is a center of attraction in many respects, this result is not a surprise for many people. It is also observed that the results obtained overlap with similar studies in the literature.
Grey system theory and grey numbers have not been previously used to select the most livable city. With this aspect, this study has expanded the application of grey system theory and made an important contribution to the literature.
Kose, E., Vural, D. and Canbulut, G. (2020), "The most livable city selection in Turkey with the grey relational analysis", Grey Systems: Theory and Application, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 529-544. https://doi.org/10.1108/GS-04-2020-0042
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I am sorry to say, but, in my opinion, we no longer have a functioning justice system in our country. Courts have fallen to the pressure of politics, vendettas and personal motives.
On Monday a small semblance of sanity stepped in when an appeals court lowered the $454 million bond that New York Attorney General Letitia James was requiring from Donald Trump or she would seize all of his assets.
A judge (no jury) had found former President Trump guilty of overestimating the value of properties that he had used as collateral for bank loans – in other words, he had committed fraud. No bank or organization that Trump had done business with had complained or brought any complaints or lawsuits against him – the lawsuit was from Ms. James who had been promising to bring Donald Trump down since 2018! We all need to realize that, with this conviction, we can all become targets of anyone not liking us.
When we go to the bank to take out a loan to buy a house, refinance a house, or take out an equity line of credit on our home, there is generally a requirement for an appraisal. The bank, mortgage company, or other lender then makes the decision if the value of the property is in line with the amount of the loan requested. Then, of course, we are expected to pay it back or the bank comes after us!
But in THIS case; the bank, or other lenders who President Trump has been doing business with for years; did not file any type of complaint, even testified to the judge that their dealings had always been in order, that they made money from the loans to Trump, and there was no wrong doing.
So why was the value of Mar-A-Lago determined by the judge to be only $18 million? He based it on the valuation from the Palm Beach County tax appraiser’s valuations, which ranged UP TO $37 million. But the tax appraiser’s value was based on the fact it is a PRIVATE club and taxed based on its net operating income – not on resale value or reconstruction cost.
Real estate agents in the Palm Beach area set the selling price for Mar-A-Lago could be between $300-$600 million and possibly as much as a billion dollars or more.
Mar-A-Lago was established as a national historic landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1972 by the U.S. Congress. The estate was built from 1923-1927 and was owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post – the wife of E.F. Hutton. When Ms. Post died in 1973 she willed the property to the federal government to be used as a presidential/diplomatic retreat, but the government gave the title to the Post Foundation in 1983 because of the maintenance and security concerns.
Donald Trump bought the estate from the foundation in 1985 and used it strictly as his residence until 1995. The property was then designated as The Mar-a-Lago Club and fell under a business designation. The Trump Organization has also invested millions of dollars through many upgrades and additions since then.
Back to my questions. The main question is if an attorney general and a judge can do this to a man who is a billionaire and former president of the United States, what could the justice system do to you or me with no protection from the law?
How would you feel if a court filed a claim that you had overvalued your home – even though the lender was fine with it? Could they press charges against you for fraud when you had only been doing business with a willing and approving lender?
If you doubt that this has been a vendetta against Donald Trump by Letitia James, please Google some of her speeches since 2018 where she explicitly states her objective is to take him down. You can’t always believe what the media says, but you should be able to believe what comes out of someone’s mouth.
Think about it and decide how much you trust the justice system to guard YOUR rights.
Now I want to share something GOOD going on in Rockford. With the economy in the situation it is in there are many people who are struggling to pay their bills, buy their medicine and still be able to buy food to feed their families.
The increases in benefits that were put in place during the COVID-19 outbreak were rolled back even though the prices of goods were not reduced. Also, DHR in many areas has started a review of people receiving benefits to be sure they are financially eligible with the new guidelines. This has affected many people in Coosa County.
A small group from Rockford Baptist Church started putting out or sponsoring “Blessing Boxes” around the county to try to help those in need. From that, Manna Ministries of RBC came into existence and partnered with the Montgomery Area Food Bank (now the Heart of Alabama Food Bank) to provide more services for the people in Coosa County.
Manna Ministries is now one of the most active partners with the Heart of Alabama Food Bank and does monthly food drops in addition to the Blessing Boxes and a monthly community dinner at Rockford Baptist Church on the second Tuesday of each month. There is no charge for these services, and it is open to everyone in Coosa County.
This outreach is not limited to the members of Rockford Baptist Church and is not affiliated with any government organization. Volunteers from all areas of the county come together to help serve their neighbors who need a helping hand.
Manna Ministries is operated entirely on faith with donations from individuals and companies and has been able to provide a variety of food to 35-50 families at the food drops, 30-80 people for the community dinners and as many as 225 at the annual Thanksgiving Dinner.
Emergency service is available Monday-Wednesday by calling the church between 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. for an appointment.
If you know of someone in need of food assistance, and they are not able to contact the church, please let Manna Ministries know through their Facebook page or email firstname.lastname@example.org. Also, if you are interested in volunteering to help with their events, unloading deliveries from the food bank, or any other activities, please let them know.
I hope you have or will enjoy the activities of Holy Week – today is Good Friday, the day we remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and Sunday will be the celebration of Easter and His resurrection.


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With few women in Europe taking up research jobs, a campaign launched Thursday by the EU executive seeks to convince teenagers that science is a "girl thing."
Girls in families characterised by strong social control often live a double life. Yet the roles and relations in these families are much less static than commonly thought, according to a new doctoral thesis from the University ...
Many boys say they would prefer a male befriender according to early findings, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Yet, less than a quarter of UK volunteer child befrienders are men.
A report commissioned by the NSPCC, conducted in collaboration with Kings College London, reveals the level that sexting has reached among teenagers, with schoolgirls facing increasing pressure to provide ...
(Phys.org) -- A concerning gender-gap exists in career aspirations among Australian youth across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, a new study has found.
(Phys.org) -- Women who excel in male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields are often unjustly stereotyped as unfeminine.
New research from the University of Warwick suggests girls benefit significantly from more interaction with very bright peers at secondary school, but it can be detrimental for boys.
Do your parents know where you are at night? According to 36 per cent of 15 year old boys and nearly a quarter of 15 year old girls the answer to that question, at least once a month, is no.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Talk about gender confusion! A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology into whether speaking French influenced ...
A Queen's University study has found that when people think about having children, men want boys and women want girls.


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In any culture, industry, or interest groups, myths, superstitions, and misconceptions will always pop-up. The same is of course the case in the automotive world. Examples include silly things like cars made out of aluminum aren’t as safe as steel, hybrids are slow, etc. There are also countless unproven car operating practices that won’t provide palpable benefits or even affect your car’s performance at all.
Lately, a certain video has been making the rounds on the internet, which talks about the proper way to use a car’s push-to-start button. According to the video, you need to press the push start button once without stepping on the car’s brake pedal.
Then, the video is suggesting that you need to wait for the accessory light symbols to disappear before you step on the car’s brake and press the push start button. The proponent of the video explained that doing this will ensure that the car’s electrical system won’t break and therefore affect the car’s performance.
Why complicate something that was made to make life simpler?
>>> Related: Advantages and Disadvantages of Push Start Ignitions
However, there’s arguably not a single car manual from any manufacturer are these convoluted series of steps ever mentioned. In contrast to that, most reputable websites, car forums, and the personal experiences of drivers we know (including the writer) are saying that it's as simple as stepping on the brake, and pushing the button until the car starts.
No fuss, no time wasted. Moreover, the video peddling the so-called proper steps mentioned that the usual method is wrong.
Now, supporters of the method are saying that manufacturers won’t mention the supposed proper way of using the push start button as it will prevent profits from spare parts sales from coming in.
Sure, “planned obsolescence” did happen at some point in the automotive industry. The most notable case is from 1924 when an American car brand designed their parts in a way that a car owner will need to get new parts yearly.
In the modern age, however, competition in the automotive industry has become tight. As such car companies are racing and working hard to earn a customer’s trust. This of course involves providing reliable models with robust components.
Modern cars undergo stringent quality control measures
>>> Related: Potential dangers of Start/Stop push-button
There’s also the fact that engineers and quality control technicians have poured in hundreds of man-hours to consider multiple scenarios a car owner might do. Then consequently, working to ensure that it won’t let you down day in and day out.
Again, using a push start button is as simple as making sure the keyfob is inside the car, stepping on the brake, then pushing the button until the engine starts. If you still have doubts about this, consult your car’s manual.
For the latest automotive industry news, keep it here on Philkotse.com.
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I'm a big fan of Linkedin, mostly because I think there's huge utility to the business social net's features. For someone who's long been both a functional practitioner and manager with strong editorial interests in a number of areas, the site's mix of business networking, groups and recruiting features has given me plenty of reason to visit on a near daily basis over the past decade.
And so when the company started to beef up its original content program with the hire of Dan Roth, the former managing editor of Fortune.com, I had a sneaking suspicion the site was about to become an even more important part of my daily routine. Dan came on board just after Linkedin had launched Linkedin Today, its curated vertical news effort heavy on algorithmic targeting. Before long Linkedin Today had started to become an important source of news for myself and millions like me.
Fast forward to last year and Roth and his team launched the Linkedin Influencer program, a handpicked, invite only group of super-influencers like Richard Branson, Barack Obama, Arianna Huffington and Herb Greenberg. Pretty much the top voices in almost every major business vertical.
I decided to spend some time with Dan to ask him how the effort has gone so far, about four months in. I talk to him about the idea behind the initiative, how the effort is going from a recruiting and posting perspective, what the overall editorial strategy is for the effort, and where he sees it going. We also talk about what business media initiatives and startups he sees outside of Linkedin that excites him.
So I invite you to have a listen!


Survey finds Kent Police officers' crime fear
Hundreds of Kent Police officers fear crime will rise in the county if the force cuts 1,000 staff and 500 officers, according to a survey.
Many respondents to the Kent Police Federation survey said they would consider leaving the force if the planned £53m savings go ahead.
Chief Constable Ian Learmonth said he understood why officers were feeling "unloved and vulnerable".
But he said a cut in officers did not necessarily mean that crime would rise.
The federation, which represents rank and file officers, said about 1,540 of its 3,600 members responded.
About 87% of respondents felt crime would rise and the service to the public would fall while 98% said morale has fallen over the past year.
In addition, 87% said they think the cuts will have such a detrimental effect that officers will want to leave.
Ian Pointon, chairman of the Kent Police Federation, said the survey was a reflection of "professional people on the front line".
He said: "You can't just take out 500 police officers and 1,000 police staff and think that things are going to carry on as normal."
Mr Learmonth said: "No one would be surprised that police officers and police staff are feeling unloved and not listened to.
"These changes are unprecedented. I've got 34 years policing and I've never known changes of this magnitude so it's not surprising that officers are feeling very sensitive at the moment."


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What to do with all the empty white space that drifts over the 733 pages and nearly 200 fictions of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis? Make origami, maybe. Like Don DeLillo, who drafted Underworld at the pace of one paragraph per sheet of paper—the technique, he once explained, evolved out of “a sensitivity to the actual appearance of words on a page, to letter-shapes and letter-combinations”—Lydia Davis is as much sculptor as writer. “I put that word on the page,/but he added the apostrophe,” reads the entirety of one recent story, “Collaboration With Fly.” Another, “My Mother’s Reaction to My Travel Plans,” doesn’t even stretch onto a second line: “Gainsville! It’s too bad your cousin is dead!”
Of course, Davis doesn’t only write short. Past the flash fiction are gags (see: “The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists”), mild erotica (“This Condition,” a two-page list of aphrodisiacs such as “a plate of pudding” and “the bare arm of a wooden chair”), occasional flights of magical realism, and what she calls “logical argument” stories, which get tangled up in everything from the Bible to shared bank accounts. One 1997 investigation, “A Second Chance,” begins: “If only I had a chance to learn from my mistakes, I would, but there are too many things you don’t do twice; in fact, the most important things are things you don’t do twice, so you can’t do them better the second time.”
Collected Stories has a lot of this type of philosophical churning, much of it revelatory and even more of it, probably, inconclusive. You do not read Lydia Davis in the hopes of finding someone like, say, Mrs. D, the writer-protagonist of Davis’s caustic “Mrs. D and Her Maids,” whose “approach to writing is practical” and in whose stories a change inevitably takes place, usually followed closely by an epiphany. You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity.
Style is character, Joan Didion once observed. And over eight austere books—including the story collections compiled here, Break It Down (1986), Almost No Memory (1997), Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (2001), Varieties of Disturbance (2007), and one novel, The End of the Story (1995)—Davis’s prose has been unmatched in mirroring the workings of the mind. Few are better than this writer at representing thought on the page; she captures not just the peculiar rhythm of internal speech but also its cycling, digressive mechanics. Here’s one character, waiting for a phone call from a lover: “When he calls me either he will then come to me, or he will not and I will be angry, and so I will have either him or my own anger, and this might be all right, since anger is always a great comfort, as I found with my husband.”
Her words are usually plain. Davis also works as a translator (notably of Swann’s Way, in 2004), a vocation that’s a natural complement to what seems to have been an inborn sensitivity to language. (A year after Davis learned to read English, her family moved to Austria, where she picked up German; these days, she translates French.) “Dear Sir,” begins “Letter to a Funeral Parlor,” from Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: “I am writing to you to object to the word cremains, which was used by your representative when he met with my mother and me two days after my father’s death.” The letter goes on for another page or so, and ends: “There is nothing wrong with inventing words, especially in a business. But a grieving family is not prepared for this one. We are not even used to our loved one being gone. You could very well continue to employ the term ashes. We are used to it from the Bible, and are even comforted by it. We would not misunderstand. We would know that these ashes are not like the ashes in the fireplace. Yours sincerely.”
There is humor here. Davis’s reputation is as a cerebral writer—her characters go unnamed and don’t do much, in the conventional plot sense—and some of the most successful stories in this collection are formal experiments. “French Lesson I: Le Meurtre” is a teacher’s monologue into which vocabulary such as la hachette and l’anxiété conspicuously creeps, while “Oral History (With Hiccups)” carves out lacunae on the page—”My sister died last year leaving two dau ghters”—to feint away from a catastrophically warped family dynamic. “We Miss You: A Study of Get-Well Letters From a Class of Fourth-Graders” is what it says it is: a deadpan, sociological/linguistic dissection of 27 student letters to a hospitalized classmate. It’s also a study in self-betrayal: One realizes that the narrator is, in fact, seeking something entirely more personal and complicated amid headings like Sentence Structures and Come Back Soon/Wish You Were Here.
But Davis is more likeable than the forensic technician she’s so often pegged as. Her lapidary prose—like Didion’s—is above all else a monument to her perceptual intelligence; both writers are not just stylists, but intuitionists, too. “Head, Heart,” a poem of a story first published in Varieties of Disturbance, is hardly detached: “Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love,” Davis writes. “I want them back, says heart . . . Help, head. Help heart.” And “How Shall I Mourn Them?,” a late, understated story, comprises a series of portraits of lost friends fragmented in such a way that the reader must reassemble them: “Shall I know the classics, like K.? Shall I write letters by hand, like B.? Shall I write ‘Dearest Both,’ like C.?” C., as we read on, emerges as impulsive, careless, and charismatic; B., stubborn and self-sufficient. The technique demands some labor on our end. But first and foremost, what Davis requires—and what she solicits—is our empathy. The names are beside the point. She leaves a lot out so that she might keep even more in.

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Sutton Lee Seymour: The Broad Way Tour
Sutton Lee Seymour is NYC's Live Singing Camp Queen of Stage and Screen bringing "old school drag" BACK in a brand new way! Parodying everything from Disney, Broadway, and Hollywood to spoofing Pop Divas like Celine Dion, Tina Turner, and Madonna, Sutton Lee will have you rolling in the aisles with her many celebrity impersonations (or assassinations). Having appeared on Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live," sailing the seas with Atlantis Events, or travelling to several vacation towns like Puerto Vallarta, Ogunquit, and Saugatuck, Sutton Lee Seymour can't wait to come home to Kalamazoo with her show!
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ASPEN, Colo. -- Colorado officials are exploring new ways to keep large vehicles off the narrow, high-altitude Independence Pass after hefty fines failed to stop the problem.
The Aspen Times reports that sheriff's deputies had to turn around more than 20 semi-trucks one day in July because vehicles longer than 35 feet can't traverse the narrow, winding mountain pass near Aspen.
The Colorado Department of Transportation and Pitkin County commissioners are considering spending half a million dollars to tackle the issue.
CDOT traffic engineer Zane Znamenacek says the solution involves technology that would identify large vehicles and activate a sign telling them to turn around. He says the county would also pay to build a roundabout to route truck drivers back toward Aspen.


Hi I'm guitarist in a band in Liverpool based at University of Liverpool and we are looking for a singer so I thought Id post a random ad on here, just in case anyone happens to be looking through.
We are a heavy rock/post hardcore 4 piece looking to be a 5 piece with the addition of a vocalist. Influences include Funeral for a Friend, A Day to Remember, Thursday, Thrice, Hondo Maclean, Fightstar, Lostprophets, Senses Fail, amongst other bands from alt rock and metal genres.
Looking for a vocalist who can ideally do both clean and scream singing, but just clean is also great - who is up for rehearsing twice a week with the aim of playing some gigs in the near future.
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Sad to hear this morning of the death of Greg Lake. I was never a big ELP fan (although I did see a crazy live gig once) but King Crimson's 'In the Court of the Crimson King' was one of the first albums I bought (1969). The short song quote in todays piece is a snippet of a song from that album. King Crimson's Drummer, Mike Giles, played on the second Nutshell album 'Flyaway' in 1976 ! Paul Field 9/12/16
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J.C. Penney announced Wednesday, Jan. 15, that it will close 33 underperforming stores as part of its turnaround efforts, but its store in Elkhart’s Concord Mall won’t be one of them.
The move is expected to cut 2,000 jobs nationally and save $65 million beginning this year, the Plano, Texas-based department store chain said in a statment. The closure list includes stores in the Five Points Mall in Marion and Marketplace Shopping Center in Warsaw.
Bob Thatcher, general manager of the Concord Mall, said he would have been surprised if that store was slated for closure because of the thorough renovation the store received over the past two years.
“We’re all thrilled with our fully renovated and really gorgeous J.C. Penney store that continues to operate successfully at the Concord Mall,” Thatcher said. “Traffic has been good.”


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I lay in the darkness, suddenly fully awake, my eyes wide and staring into nothingness, my heart thumping like a rabbits that had just been chased by…well by my dog. I knew it wasn’t a sound that had woken me. Old ghosts had shaken me awake, whisps of memories pulled me from my slumber.
My face felt damp and I reached up to touch it with shaking hands, a memory whispered to me that I needed to stop the blood, my fingers searched for the jagged gash on my nose. Instead they found a tiny raised line, all that was left of the cut, the small silver scar the only sign of what had happened.
My finger tips found no blood, only tears, and I knew without looking what time it must be. The clock on the bedside table was as silent as ever, it was the internal one that had woken me. A year ago today it had been time to get up and go, I had turned on the torch in the cabin and eerie shadows had watched me as I dressed.
I reached out to my right, slowly, just to be sure of where I was, checking there was a wall there, checking that I hadn’t suddenly been transported back to that cabin in the wilderness. My fingers touched the cold wall and in the utter darkness I could picture my surroundings at last. My comfy bed in my nice safe house, my tiny scar barely visible on my nose and the huge ones that that day made inside of me.
I lay in the darkness and hot tears ran down my face, knowing that a year ago my alarm had just gone off, knowing that I gotten up and dressed and walked towards the day that would change my life.
It’s been a year since my accident on the Routeburn, since a stumble completely altered the course of my life, a few seconds left the old me on the side of a mountain as the new me took her place and continued on. A year of concussion, of blinding headaches and of tears, a year of pain and frustration.
But it’s also been a year of learning, a year of adapting and slowing down, resting and growing.
I keep thinking of all the things I could have done this past year, the things I should have been doing, but then I remind myself that that’s just not true. That other life I’m imagining was never promised to me, that path wasn’t for me. I truly believe that everything happens for a reason, this was always going to be part of my journey. I need to find the good in this because I can cry and moan all I like but it’s not going to change anything.
There is a tradition in Japan called Kintsugi, where they highlight the broken parts of something with gold instead of trying to hide them. They make the cracks beautiful instead. I came across this this week and it made me think.
I miss the old me, I miss her everyday. Today I’m finally going to let her go. I’m typing this through sobs, with my face soaked in tears. The screen is blurred by them and my chest hurts from crying.
I look out the window at the snow covered mountains. My coffee has gone cold. My dog hears my sobs and comes to lie at my feet, his eyes full of concern and love as he looks up at me. Today I’m going to allow myself to feel everything I’ve been hiding from for the last year, I’m going to grieve for the old me and I’m going to accept the new me. I’m going to cry until I don’t have any more tears left and then I’m going to move on.
I’m going to stop putting time limits on recovery, that is not how this works. I’m going to stop counting days and instead count the good moments.
I’m going to fill all the broken bits with gold.
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As always, beautiful words & beautiful pics.
Thank you lovely xxx
powerful stuff as always Sarah. Its a long road but you have come so far in a year. Hope you and Gerry are keeping safe through all this mad times at the moment.
Thanks John, thinking of you two as well, crazy times!


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How Can Anyone Trust Economic Reports From the Government Prior to an Election?
Not long ago, I was talking to an acquaintance of mine about the challenges and problems with the economic data coming out of the government. There seems to be two critical issues with this; one, is the fact that often the data is derived before all the data is in; and two, often the data is manipulated purposefully for political reasons. The first can be forgiven, to a point, except that it happens so often it can no longer be excusable.Oconee County, GA Businesses
Oconee County business may be suffering as a result of the economic recession that we are going through right now. But you’ve got to give the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce credit for taking positive control over the situation.Asian (Con)Fusion – US Fiscal and Monetary Policy At Work
As the “Greatest Deleveraging in the History of the World,” continues along a bumpy road, with the bumps created by well-meaning political leaders, one must sit back and ask what we can learn from the past in order to better understand the present. I would relate current US fiscal and monetary policy to a form of Asian (Con)Fusion, which is leading to what I would call bi-modal financial markets.A Race To The Bottom
Just about every major developed nation is struggling to continue its growth. Countries in Europe are struggling even more so now with all the austerity measures they have implemented to reduce their debt, Japan hasn’t whiffed a scent of growth for two decades now, and the U.S. is barely growing AND that is with all the unprecedented “stimulus” that has been provided by the U.S. government and Federal Reserve.Inflation – The Despised Antidote
We’re actually headed in the direction of deflation, as the current below average inflation rate of 1.15% attests, because with a depressed economy and devastating unemployment the system has too little money, not too much: people aren’t spending. The Federal Reserve has started to take notice too, and it is considering taking measures to combat this trend.Going After ‘Idle Iron’
If you can’t keep people employed digging holes, pay them to fill the holes they have already dug. That seems to be at least part of the logic behind a new mandate from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.Poverty Doesn’t Equate to Poor
Why do most people use poverty and poor synonymously? These two words have very different meanings and will require some social engineering in order to get people to use these words in the right context.Keeping the Jamaican Vibe Alive
Jamaicans are the ones keeping jerk vendors like Victor ‘Brown Man’ Grigg’s afloat along the Hip Strip in Montego Bay in the absence of visitors who are few in numbers since the closure of several resorts along the area. Busily preparing his chicken and festivals for his nightly customers Brown Man as his customers call him, took an opportunity to explain how he has had to marshal the support of Jamaicans in order to remain economically viable during this period…Boosting Jamaica’s Tourism Through Shopping
Luxury shopping at it best can be found in Montego Bay at the billion-dollar Whitter Village which has helped to cement the resort town’s crown as Jamaica’s tourism mecca. Montego Bay is not intent on being seen only as the tourism mecca but is securing its position as the ideal place to do business with the inclusion of the billion-dollar multifaceted shopping complex along the Rose Hall main road.10 Steps to Economic and Educational Success – Facing Reality Versus the Fairness Myth
Here’s what the country faces: The confusion of do gooding and fairness with achievement and success. What ails the US economy and its education system is the constant desire to rationalize the idea of equal outcome. By the nature of being human, you will always have a pecking order. Some will succeed more than others.Silver Mining: The Lure of South Australia
Australia is mineral-rich country. It is one of the major exporters of silver to the world market. During British colonization, silver mining was the main attraction of South Australia, making it one of the most populated regions in the subcontinent.


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Abigor – Apokalypse. Label: Napalm Records – NPR027. Format: CD, Mini-Album. This release sees Abigor with a more primitive and aggressive sound than we have come to know, gone are the beautiful melancholic melodies and all you get here is pure fucking violent aggression. Of course the music is not that primitive when all comes to all, but it is definitely more primitive than what Abigor has released up to this release. I actually don't think that Abigor are capable of composing truely primitive music. The production fits the music perfect, it is not to clean and it is not to raw.
Abigor - Apokalypse 6 songs lyrics: Celestial, Verwüstung, Ein Hauch Von Kälte, Hyperwelt, Tu Es Diaboli Juna, Ubique Daemon.
Verwustung, Invoke the Dark Age. Album. 0. Supreme Immortal Art.
A Satisfying Mini-Album. Co-produced and co-mixed by Abigor at Tonstudio Hörnix in a few hours on January 18 and 19, 1997.
The trio of musicians signed with Acit Records in 1990 and traveled to Porto Alegre to record their first release. The material on Apocalypse was written mostly by keyboardist Fritsch
Apokalypse is a music singles/eps/fan club/promo recording by ABIGOR (Tech/Extreme Prog Metal/Progressive Rock) released in 1997 on cd, lp, vinyl and/or cassette.
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Produced and mixed in a few hours on 18th & 19th of January 1997.
Performer:Abigor Genre: Rock Title: Apokalypse Country: Ukraine Released: 1997 Style: Black Metal MP3 version ZIP size: 1632 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1392 mb Rating: 4.2 Votes: 680 Other Formats: VOX AHX AU MP2 ADX AA DTS


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Israel is facing national elections shortly after the U.S. elections. Interestingly, Israel was mentioned more than 30 times in the October 22, 2012 U.S. presidential debate . There is no doubt that the results of either election will have serious ramifications on both countries’ policies in the Middle East.
On Oct. 16, 2012, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed the Law for the dissolution of the 18th Knesset. Accordingly, general early elections for the Knesset will be held on January 22, 2013, less than a month ahead of the termination of its full four year term. According to media reports, Prime Minister Netanyahu initiated the passage of the Law after concluding that he could not pass the 2013 state budget based on the composition of his current coalition government. Other reports attribute his introduction of the Law to his intention to adopt a strategy in response to Iran’s development of nuclear capabilities, one that would enjoy broader parliamentary support.
Unlike the U.S., Israel maintains a parliamentary system of government, with the Prime Minister serving as the executive authority of the state and the head of the government, and the President serving as the Head of State but not the head of the government. Knesset Members are generally chosen from candidate lists selected by the parties, following their own primaries. The Prime Minister is selected by the President and is usually the head of the largest party, or the party capable of forming a coalition government, as is the case with the current Prime Minister, Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu.
In accordance with the Basic Law: The Knesset, the Knesset must be elected in a country-wide single electoral district. The Basic Law requires that the elections be direct, equal, secret and proportional. Accordingly, the number of seats that each candidates’ list receives out of the 120 seats available in the Knesset is proportional to the number of votes it received, subject to a minimum qualifying threshold of two percent.
As a general rule, the financing of political campaigns is derived from both private as well as government funding. Parties obtain government funding for the duration of the campaign as well as for ongoing expenses. The funding and expenditures of both political campaigns and ongoing activities are subject to extensive rules of financial disclosure and enforcement. Additionally, individual contributions to general elections are permitted as long as they originate from donors who are Israeli citizens and residents above the age of eighteen and who are not anonymous.
It should be noted that under Israeli law candidates do not have the right to an independent campaign for election to the Knesset. Party groups and candidate lists nominate their candidate for the post and incur expenses in promoting that individual’s candidacy. Candidates, however, run independent campaigns within their party primaries. The Law limits the total amount that may be contributed to an individual’s campaign in the primaries.
For further information on the financing of the primary elections held by the political parties, as regulated by the Israel’s Parties Law, 5752-1992, as well as on the financing of the general elections for the Knesset under the Political Parties (Financing) Law, 5733-1973, we recommend that you check our Law Library of Congress website under “Legal Topics”, where, in addition to information on campaign financing in Israel you can find articles on the financing of general elections under the laws of Australia, France, Germany and the U.K.


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Catherine Brown, chief executive of the FSA, told BBC News: "This is an appalling situation. I have to say that that the two cases of gross contamination that we see here indicates that it is highly likely there has been criminal and fraudulent activity involved."
She added: "We are demanding that food businesses conduct authenticity tests on all beef products, such as beef burgers, meatballs and lasagne, and provide the results to the FSA. The tests will be for the presence of significant levels of horse meat."
There is no evidence to suggest the horse meat found is a food safety risk, the FSA said. But the agency confirmed tests have been ordered on the lasagne for the veterinary drug phenylbutazone or "bute", which is banned from entering the food chain.
A Findus UK spokesman said: "We understand this it is a very sensitive subject for consumers and we would like to reassure you we have reacted immediately. We do not believe this to be a food safety issue. We are confident that we have fully resolved this supply chain issue. Fully compliant beef lasagne will be in stores again soon.
Findus UK withdrew its 320g, 360g and 500g lasagne meals from supermarket shelves as a precautionary measure earlier this week. It came after Comigel alerted Findus and Aldi that their products "do not conform to specification".

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Group Riding - Drop-Off System
I am often leading or "Tail-End-Charlie" for group rides - out tomorrow with a Group of 20 riders, for example.
We typically use the 'Drop Off" system to manage the ride, stay as one Group and all end up where we planned, together.
I will use this system for larger Brit-In-The-Basque tour Groups, so thought you would like to read about it!
How it works
The Drop off system will be explained to all riders in a briefing at the start of the ride, where riders should get to know their colleagues - I tend to remember their bikes, as most bikers look the same on the road....
The group will have a designated 'Ride Leader' and a 'Back Marker' (often called “Tail end Charlie”). The positions of these two riders will not change throughout the run. They will be introduced to all the riders in that group and be easily identified by a day-glow jacket, using spotlights or other identifier, if possible.
Riders in the group may alter their own relative positions (overtaking) as they see fit whilst out on the road providing they always remain between "The Ride Leader" and "Back Marker", and they do not upset other riders in the Group.
When the Ride Leader makes a direction change at a junction or roundabout the new direction of travel should be marked by the rider directly behind the ride leader, (The Marker). To do this, the Marker should pull in at the side of the road, in a safe place where he/she will be visible to the rest of the riders, so the direction can be indicated to the following riders.
It is most important that the Marker stops in a position where :-
It is safe to do so and they do not put themselves at any risk
The rest of the ride can see them clearly as they approach the direction change
They use a clear signal to show the direction - put out your arm please!
They do not break the law - no holding back traffic or stopping where you would not
The Marker should maintain that position until he/she can rejoin the rear of the section in front of the approaching Back Marker. The Back Marker will always try to give sufficient space for this to happen otherwise the Marker - worst case, the Marker will allow the Back Marker to pass, then overtake when a suitable opportunity presents itself, thus re-establishing the correct running order.
It could happen that number two rider forgets to mark a direction change - in which case the next rider (Number three) should take it upon himself to drop off and mark the direction change to prevent the chain from breaking. It is always better to mark all direction changes rather than assume that the route is so obvious it is not worth doing.
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Digital Transformation for the betterment of your business can be a daunting task. Check out our key insights from our AIM Power Consulting Partners
By Craig Nicholson
The pressure to “Be Digital or be a Dinosaur”
Current thinking is that in order to sustain a competitive advantage your business needs a digital strategy. But is this driven by the promise of efficiency and effectiveness or by the fear of missing out and becoming obsolete? What should your strategic goals and objectives be and what are the downside risks? Furthermore, are there parallels or a precedence that can be drawn from?
One example: The ERP story
The general promise of a digital transformation is to provide better access and usage of company data to improve specific business outcomes.
In this regard ERP systems checked multiple boxes. Standardization of reporting, structured workflows, access control ensuring segregation of duties and automation of the entire financial system. All strategically logical and prudent for a company to undertake.
But it hasn’t been a smooth ride. In fact, at times it has been a disaster. Take for example the US Air Force’s abandoned ERP implementation after $1 billion and almost 10 years, or the UK national health system’s $12 billion ERP system which was scrapped, and Hewlett Packard’s ERP switch which ultimately cost $160M in backlogged orders and lost revenus, five times more than the cost to implement.
“Businesses have boundaries with bottlenecks and inefficiencies, which form the basis of the structural integrity of the organization“
Underlying current #1: Company Organics
Simply put, businesses are organically grown and generally build new things on top of old things. Further, within any mid to large sized organization there are disparate groups and subcultures that operate with various levels of independence and interdependence. Typically, the balance of interfacing between groups are such that each group can interact to meet or exceed corporate expectations (interdependence) while maintaining levels of autonomy and locus of control (independence). In other words, businesses have boundaries with bottlenecks and inefficiencies inherently driven by historical and human factors. More importantly, these boundaries form the basis of the structural integrity of the organization.
Underlying current #2: The Human Factor
At an individual or group level, change is hard at the best of times. However, if a digital transformation project is perceived to have a negative effect on either independence (I can’t do my job as well as the old way) or interdependence (I now rely more on others to my detriment) with little perceived benefit for those affected, the project is likely to encounter bands of structural resistance. Think of these boundaries of independence and interdependence as the frame of a house and digital transformation is network wiring of the entire house. One can fish wire through drywall or drill through 2×4’s, the latter is significantly harder and removal of too much material may affect the structural integrity of the house.
If Uber and Lyft were more expensive or less accessible than taxis would we use them? If Amazon products cost more than brick and mortar store products would we buy them? If a digital technology in a company adds to an employee’s daily burden, it should be dead right out of the gate regardless of the benefits for the management team. Sometimes this death takes a long time to be realized before the project is abandoned.
Underlying current #3: limits of technology
Technology alone cannot change human behavior. As we look forward to future innovative technologies driving strategic objectives, the key takeaway is digital transformation at is core, is a form of process and organizational disruption for employees.
As mentioned, disruption that materially changes intragroup autonomy, independence or work burden with little perceived benefit, will be met with resistance. Further, a prerequisite for interdependence is independence, in other words, a group’s ability to act for the collective good of the company is a function of intragroup autonomy. Such changes risk tearing at the structural integrity of the company. As in the highlighted ERP cases, such attempts to disrupt these dynamics with technology alone turned out to be very costly having a negative impact on business. Furthermore, most of the effort is focused on functional product implementation rather than the user. History has shown us organic bottlenecks and organizational inefficiencies driven by human behavior cannot be abated by technology alone.
Winning the transformation game
Change management begins with engaging the people involved in the new process. As we’ve highlighted in prior blogs, successful digital transformation starts with intimate knowledge on how the business makes money and how digital transformation will improve on that position. Next is seeking feedback and developing a deep understanding of how the area of a business being considered for transformation truly functions including actual processes, norms and intra group interactions inclusive of bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Just as important is understanding why such latencies exist and how any digital technology may assist in mitigating such latencies as part of a holistic solution.
During the process of understanding current state, underlying assumptions in the transformation strategy will be challenged and unintended consequences realized leading to modifications and improvements to the plan, perhaps addressing organizational inefficiencies in their analog form or possibly abandonment prior costly implementation. Digital transformation is disruptive in nature and change is hard in human nature, during any such disruptive change, perhaps the last piece of any digital transformation should be the digital technology itself.


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Roku April 19 announced that season one of Roku Original comedy “Children Ruin Everything,” will debut on The Roku Channel in the United States on May 13. Roku has picked up season two of the series, which will feature double (16) the 30-minute episodes of season one. Production for season two is to begin this spring in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario.
Created by Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Kurt Smeaton (“Schitt’s Creek”), “Children Ruin Everything” is about living with the worst roommates of all: young children. Astrid (Meaghan Rath) and James (Aaron Abrams) struggle to find a balance between being Mom and Dad to two kids and being who they were before offspring.
“This story is universal, endearing, and audiences will instantly relate with these characters,” said Colin Davis, head of scripted originals at Roku, in a statement.
The series is produced and developed by New Metric Media in association with CTV, with the participation of the Canada Media Fund. Bell Media Distribution is the international rights holder for “Children Ruin Everything,” and New Metric Media is the series’ exclusive international sales agent. While airing in Canada, the series was the No. 1 new comedy of the 2021-22 broadcast season and ranked as the biggest debut episode for a Canadian comedy among since 2019.
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In addition to Rath (“Being Human,” “Hawaii 5-0”) and Abrams (“Blindspot,” “Hannibal”), the series also stars Ennis Esmer (“Blindspot,” “Schitt’s Creek”), Nazneen Contractor (“Ransom,” “Heroes Reborn”), Logan Nicholson (“Blues Clues and You”), Mikayla SwamiNathan, Dmitry Chepovetsky (“Killjoys,” “Departure”), Veena Sood (“Corner Gas Animated,” “The Indian Detective”), Lisa Codrington (“Letterkenny,” “Anne With an E”), and Darius Rota.
Launched in 2017, The Roku Channel reached U.S. households with an estimated 80 million people in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2021. The Roku Channel was a top five channel on the Roku platform in the United States by active account reach in Q3 and Q4 2021. The platform features a lineup of more than 80,000 free movies and programs and more than 275 free live linear television channels in the United States. It licenses and distributes content from more than 250 partners.
In addition to Roku devices, The Roku Channel is available on Web, iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire TV and select Samsung TVs.

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Parrot toys are precisely what the name suggests. Toys for parrots! Apparently, our feathery pals also require a thing to pass time. Which is why parrot toys had been developed inside the very first location; small contraptions which can be in fact formed like a perch with mechanical cogs, shredders, plastic foot toys, etc. The web site that sells these parrot toys claims to present parrots some thing to complete to be able to boost their intelligence and avert boredom.
Parrot toys may be divided into classes. Parrot foot toys, parrot foraging toys, significant parrot and little parrot toys and shredders.
There are numerous sorts of parrot toys. Many of these parrot toys are called shredding toys. Toys for shredding really are a must for most each species of parrot. Parrots have usually had a wish to chew, rip and tear. Acquiring them a shredding toy would retain them occupied. A form of shredder you obtainable in nearby grocery retailers are created of dried corn husk. There’s also items on the net called shredders that are designed out of a natural woven palm lead and would do properly for your feathery pets. All you’ve got to do is tie it inside the parrot’s cage. Not all parrots like shredders but they will present some interest at anytime, leaving you to search out pieces of the shredder strewn throughout the bottom in the cage. There exists yet another kind of parrot toys which might be great for birds living inside of in cages or outside on a perch, are foot parrot toys. They can be kept with the bottom from the cage, attached to the perch or around the floor. They are often very entertaining and the parrots could choose them up, chew on them, or toss around. Even so, considering that these parrot toys are far more typically than not, produced of plastic it truly is much better to go through the catalogs and make sure you’re not unknowingly poisoning your bird.
Parrots are wonderful puzzle solvers so parrot toys normally have these puzzle techniques that may retain your bird occupied. Certain types of parrot are demonstrated to get really intelligent, finding out meanings in particular words and piecing them into straightforward sentences, not just repeating phrases which are taught to them. Because parrots have such a substantial intelligence level often in contrast to that of a five year outdated child. Parrots are explained to get in a position to comprehend language and utilize it to kind an understanding. According to some research with the Brandeis University, parrots can recognize particular objects and words and don’t just stupidly repeat what they may be instructed. Apparently, the examination issue, an African grey named Alex would in fact refuse to try and do a number of the exercises if he does not sense like it. Parrot toys are great in the event you just want your pet to get a good time, but using these toys researchers are learning a complete new side towards the parrots’ intelligence which while in the prolonged phrase could actually support autistic children.
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This case study sets out the story of a small woodland in Upper Cwmbran in the County borough of Torfaen that was This case study sets out the story of a small woodland in Upper Cwmbran in the County borough of Torfaen that was an early leasehold acquisition by the Forestry Commission in the 1930’s. Subsequent history saw the leasehold pass through private hands before an embryonic community group in the form of a Trust had the opportunity to take over the lease and bid for grant funding. In the process the community group evolved from a Trust to a Company limited by guarantee and has gone on to also become a registered Charity.
This case study tells the story of a long standing community woodland group. They were actively involved in supporting the environmental management of a combination of sites in the heart of Prestatyn, North Wales. This case study describes the group and our aims, how they were formed and what they hoped to achieve in the future. It also provides advice and tips for those setting up a community woodland group.
This case study is about how a community committee who did not know each other went from:
• Conflict to consensus
• Ideas to activity days
• No members to membership
• No money to some money
• No woodland to (almost) managing 50 acres of NRW managed woodland
• No knowledge of the wood to 3 surveys as a baseline
CS 12: From spoil tip to fruit orchards: how a community woodland group has reclaimed Sirhowy Valley Woodlands – Sirhowy community woodland
This case study shares the journey of a newly formed community woodland group; Sirhowy Valley woodlands near Tredegar. The woodland area is a reclaimed spoil and refuse tip which was used as a depository for the steel industry and household waste until the 1970s, after which it was reforested. It’s now designated as a Local Nature Reserve.
This case study tells the story of Coppicewood College, a charity, and Llais y Goedwig member that provides training courses in woodland management skills at Cwm Plysgog, a woodland in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
This case study tells the story of Wild Pickings a small mid-wales business that sells foraged products from woodlands and the coastal areas in Ceredigion. The key themes of the case study are collaboration and sustainability.
This case study documents the overlap of two stories, that of Abergavenny Community Woodland Group (ACWG) and that of a privately owned wood, Arcadia Wood, looking at the evolving relationship between them. The study examines how a community group operates in a private woodland, at related challenges and occasional solutions, and how shared values and interests have led to a useful partnership.
This case study will tell you about how and why KTAT originated, what we have achieved, as well as what problems we are encountering and how we are dealing with them. It will give some details of the English woodland that KTAT manages but will concentrate on our Welsh site.
CS 07: Transforming a woodland used by the community into a community woodland – Coed y Bont community woodlands
This case study concerns a community woodland project in the County of Ceredigion in West Wales, near a village called Pontrhydfendigaid. The woodland is part of the Welsh Government’s woodland estate and is managed by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The study describes how the project started and how the community has become involved and what it has achieved.
This case study outlines the experience of one community woodland group in considering social enterprise as a means of maximising grant income available, being more sustainable, and being able to take forward everyday maintenance in a woodland. It describes the journey taken and the issues faced that may be helpful for other groups considering similar issues.

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A family act featuring three sisters, their brother, and their first cousin, Eisley formed in 1997 when the DuPree siblings -- guitarist Chauntelle, singer/guitarist Sherri, singer/keyboardist Stacy, and drummer Weston -- began playing whimsical, dreamy alt-pop with bassist Jon...
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March 09, 2012 10:00 AM by Lisa Princ
This week on FOX‘s American Idol, the top 13 finalists took the stage with songs by Stevie Wonder and the late Whitney Houston. While we saw many great performances, none were as impressive as Jessica Sanchez’s rendition of I Will Always Love You, which surprised even Jessica herself. Check out what Jessica had to say about her performance below…
American Idol‘s Jessica Sanchez had the best performance this week as she took on Whitney Houston’s power ballad, I Will Always Love You. While the judges gave her a standing ovation, Jessica Sanchez admitted that she didn’t even realize what was going on as she told Life & Style Magazine: “It was really surreal. I can’t even take it in right now because it’s all so crazy. I just ended my song, and everyone stood up. I was like, ‘What is going on right now? Where am I? Am I here?’”
While Jessica Sanchez’s performance awed the judges and fans alike, Jessica really enjoyed singing one of Whitney Houston’s songs as she added: “She was one of the artists I grew up listening to. She pretty much taught me how to sing.” And Jessica, like many fans, was saddened to hear of Whitney’s passing: “When I was singing, I just thought of her. Her passing was something that touched me and hurt me a lot. It really hit me.”
What did you think of Jessica Sanchez’s performance this week? Is Jessica the contestant who could be the next American Idol? Comment and share your thoughts with us below!
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This article presents a new planar translational cable-direct-driven robot (CDDR) with actuation redundancy and supported against loading normal to the motion plane with a passive planar two-degree-of-freedom SCARA-type (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) serial manipulator. This allows the robot to resist cable sag without being supported on the motion plane. The proposed robot architecture may assure high payload-to-weight ratio, resistance to forces normal to the plane of motion, and a potentially large workspace. Another benefit is that the passive SCARA has structure to provide end-effector moment resistance, which is not possible with many proposed translational CDDRs. Moreover, the passive robot can also serve as an independent Cartesian metrology system. This article derives the kinematics and dynamics models for the proposed hybrid serial/parallel architecture. Additionally it proposes a dynamic Cartesian controller always ensuring positive cable tensions while minimizing the sum of all the torques exerted by the actuators. Simulation examples are also presented to demonstrate the novel CDDR concept, dynamics, and controller.


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As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, #WeRemember the millions who perished, but also the brave individuals who risked their lives to rescue hundreds of Jews, among them 36 diplomats who couldn't turn a blind eye to the most horific injustices.
Japan: Chiune Sugihara “I may have to disobey the government, but if I don’t, I would be disobeying God.”- Chiune Sugihara Following the German attack on Poland on September 1, 1939, some 15,000 Jews fled Poland to Lithuania. Caught between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, they desperately sought ways to emigrate. Travelling westwards was no longer possible, and crossing the Soviet Union required proof that they had entry visas for their final destinations. Jan Zwartendijk, the Acting Dutch Consul, provided them with statements that Curacao – a Dutch colony – required no entry visas: now all they required in order to leave Lithuania were transit visas through Japan. Chiune Sugihara, served as Japan's consul in Kovno, Lithuania. In 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania, and all foreign diplomats were ordered to leave. As Sugihara was packing his belongings, a Jewish delegation arrived, and begged him to issue them transit visas to Japan, which would enable them to cross the Soviet Union. Sugihara cabled the foreign ministry in Tokyo for permission to deviate from the standing orders; however, troubled by the refugees' plight, he began issuing visas at his own initiative. Nine days later, the Japanese Foreign Ministry rejected any change in the conditions for issuing transit visas. Although many of the Jews did not fall within the required criteria, Sugihara went on, and issued visas to over 2,000 Jews. When Nazi Germany invaded Lithuania in June 1941, this small window of escape slammed shut, and almost all the Jews remaining in Lithuania were murdered. Chiune Sugihara was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1984.

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UCH Resident Doctors Begin Indefinite Strike
Resident doctors at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, have embarked on an indefinite strike.
President, Association of Resident Doctors, UCH, Dr Zakariyau Hussein confirmed this in an interview with Radio Nigeria.
Dr Hussein noted that the strike was in solidarity for colleagues who were yet to be paid salaries since January.
The UCH NARD President maintained that the industrial action was total, urging the government to include the names of the affected doctors in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS platform.


In a Midwest city of the United States an interesting situation emerged; the City generated more energy than its residents and businesses consumed. As the city had a limited total capacity for growth in energy use, the possibility of the city acting on behalf of the energy network was practically nil. While some may view this surplus as inefficient but acceptable due to the own City’s limitation, Arthur Inc perceived it as an opportunity.
Normally, power grids produce energy more than the necessary consumption, often to withstand the overload of peak consumption times. However, not only is this energy wasted, but it can also be harmful to the power grid, since the systems are constantly operating at maximum capacity unnecessarily.
This situation ends up requiring greater maintenance of the networks in order to avoid problems in situations of high need, leading to more costs and more accumulated financial losses from the waste of this energy.
Arthur´s Inc Solution
Since ARTHUR is an energy hunter, we are constantly on the lookout for new, more efficient and low cost sources of energy. Recognizing the potential in this situation of the Midwest city, Arthur Inc initiated discussions with the city’s energy providers. The objective was to serve as a stabilizer and consumer for the city’s energy grid through our expertise, bitcoin mining.
Trought the years we learned how bitcoin mining, when well operationalized, could provide one the most powerful revenue streams for energy generators. Most energy generators produce more energy than they are able to sell, causing energy waste and consequently financial loss.
By directing the energy towards mining, we not only offered a solution that effectively utilized the surplus energy from an economic standpoint, we monetize the otherwise wasted energy, and also contributed to stabilizing the city’s electrical grid.
This business collaboration demonstrated a solution; The city gained from having a more stable grid and optimized energy usage while ARTHUR Inc could operate and mine bitcoin with a cost-effective energy, expanding our bitcoin mining operations forward.
Through establishing connections between our expertise and our business with the city’s power grid we successfully maximized the utilization of surplus energy produced by the city for our advantage. In doing, we enabled them to enhance their power generation by monetizing this stranded energy.
Furthermore, by serving as a stabilizer for the power grid, ARTHUR Inc was able to adjust its operations to meet the increasing energy demands of the city. This flexibility allows us to release energy when it is needed most resulting in an energy purchase agreement for both parties involved.
This particular scenario highlights ARTHUR’s Inc dedication to energy solutions and our ability to transform challenges into opportunities. As we continue to establish partnerships our collaboration with the Midwest city serves as a testament to our thinking vision, adaptability and the mutual benefits that come from working together.
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