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This story accompanies The Leadership Factor.
In The Leadership Gap, the Center for Creative Leadership responds to clients, executives and human resources professionals about their concerns about talent deficiencies within their employee base.
Although economic and operational decisions may be taking priority over talent development in the short-term, today's challenging times also underscore the importance of effective leadership. Layoffs, early retirements and dramatically changing market realities are adding another layer of complexity to companies' understanding of what they need in terms of talent.
This paper shares findings from a Center for Creative Leadership study conducted between 2006 and 2008, designed to explore the concern that leadership skills are lacking. The study showed that crucial leadership skills in today's organizations are, in fact, insufficient for meeting current and future needs.
The report also provides recommendations for organizations seeking to assess and bridge the gap between where they are and where they need to be as they adjust and re-invent themselves in the coming months and years.


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Senate panel subpoenas White House staff in Enron investigation
AP Business WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel voted on party lines Wednesday to issue Congress' first subpoenas to the Bush White House, seeking information on staff contacts with Enron Corp. officials.
The vote was 9-8 to subpoena President Bush's executive office and the office of Vice President Dick Cheney to compel them to produce relevant documents by noon on June 3. The vote followed a two-hour debate that at times turned bitterly partisan. The material being sought also covers the Clinton administration, going back to January 1992.
The vote grew out of the Governmental Affairs Committee's investigation of Enron, which filed the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history last year. The Houston-based company has been among Bush's biggest campaign contributors.
Some Republican senators accused Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., chairman of the committee, of being politically motivated in requesting the subpoenas and unfairly giving the impression that wrongdoing in the Enron affair had occurred in the White House.
Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer, traveling with Bush to Germany on Air Force One, said the subpoenas were "unnecessary" because the White House was preparing to send over documents Wednesday.
"The White House has cooperated with Senator Lieberman," Fleischer told reporters. He said the White House's own review showed "no instance in which Enron approached anyone in the executive office of the president for financial help before they filed for bankruptcy."
Republicans noted that the White House had indicated it would deliver material to the panel on Wednesday and asked Lieberman to hold off the subpoenas.
"Are we doing this to attract the attention of the public?" Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., asked. "It makes me very suspicious about the motivation of asking for a subpoena."
Lieberman, chairman of the committee because Democrats control the Senate, told Cochran: "Your suspicions are unwarranted."
"The clear message I've gotten from the White House is that they're not going to give us what we want," Lieberman said. He noted he has been seeking the information since late March.
"I have finally concluded that we were being slow-walked ... at the least and stonewalled at worst," Lieberman said.
He stressed that he was not accusing anyone in the White House of wrongdoing but was seeking material needed in the committee's investigation.
The General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, already has sued Cheney to force release of the names of Enron and other industry figures who met last year with his energy task force.
The Bush administration disclosed in January that former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay made a series of telephone calls to members of the Bush Cabinet, including Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, as the company spiraled toward collapse last fall.
Lieberman, who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000 and is considering a run for president in 2004, had said Friday he would seek a subpoena unless the White House promised to provide all the material requested by the end of the month.
"I respectfully suggest that you reconsider and withdraw the threat of a subpoena until, at a minimum, you can review the information we intend to provide soon to the committee," White House counsel Alberto Gonzales told Lieberman in a letter Tuesday.
Lieberman spokeswoman Leslie Phillips said Gonzales' letter contained no new proposal to resolve the impasse.
Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, the ranking Republican on the committee, said it was premature and needlessly confrontational to issue subpoenas, with no specific allegations of wrongdoing by the White House having been raised.
Some of the material the subpoenas are seeking may be "at the core of the executive function," said Thompson. He said their issuance "appears to be an effort to force the president to claim executive privilege" and withhold the material.
The energy-trading company filed for bankruptcy court protection on Dec. 2. Investors nationwide were burned and thousands of Enron employees were stripped of nearly all their retirement assets as the company's stock plummeted.
The Governmental Affairs Committee has been looking into why federal regulators did not raise warning flags about Enron's questionable business practices and intervene.
Gonzales said Tuesday the panel would be acting "precipitously," and in a manner contrary to how Congress and the executive branch traditionally interact, if it issued a subpoena now.
In response to Lieberman's request, Gonzales on April 29 asked 204 White House staffers to fill out a questionnaire.
On Friday, Gonzales offered to give the questionnaire to all 2,000 or so executive office employees if Lieberman would withdraw his subpoena threat.
"We have yet to hear your response," Gonzales wrote.
"We already have taken numerous steps to gather information requested by the committee," he said. Gonzales said his staff was gathering and reviewing documents, e-mails and entry records of visitors to the White House, and was interviewing people with relevant information.
"We are preparing to respond soon to assist the committee's inquiry," he told Lieberman.

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Turner wins new licence
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• Liverpool haulier Robert Turner, who has been associated with a number of failed companies, has succeeded in obtaining a licence for his new company, Dollarfax, trading as AS Haulage. The company applied for a new licence for four vehicles and trailers before North Western Licensing Authority Martin Allbu at a Manchester public inquiry.
Turner said that the business of AS Haulage had been acquired from a Mr and Mrs Burton last November.
Questioned about two companies, Wakekeen and Kabfast, Turner said that Wakekeen had operated two vehicles on contract hire. The paperwork issued by the contract hirer had shown the vehicles' earnings. Customs and Excise thought that Wakekeen should pay VAT, although the contractors had already paid it, and the company was put into liquidation.
Customs and Excise later conceded it was wrong, but it was then too late, he said. Kabfast survived for some time on an interim licence until Turner liquidated the company on professional advice.
Albu said that Kabfast was refused a licence when it failed to supply information requested. A second application was made and the company then went into liquidation.
Turner said that when he acquired AS Haulage £500 was borrowed from the bank for diesel and paid back within the week. Since then the company had always been in credit with the bank. The only outstanding debt was to Mr and Mrs Burton. Diesel was paid for in cash and no cheques had bounced.
After the LA pointed out that Turner had also been involved with a company called Arena Trans, Turner said that company had got into financial difficulties when it was working for Leigh Environmental. ArenaTrans had been wound up due to people outside the company.
Asked how he had been able to finance the purchase of AS Haulage, Turner said that Mr and Mrs Burton were being paid £2,000 a month and the outstanding balance was £22,000.
Albu also heard evidence from a business consultant that the company was sound.


Parents and teachers will be feeling let down by the Government after realising education is one of the big losers in Budget 2018, National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye says.
“After making big promises and creating high expectations, parents and teachers were expecting significantly more for education than just the business-as-usual funding for growth and increases in schools’ operational funding.
“The increase in schools’ operational funding is less than the average increase under the National Government, 1.6 per cent compared to National’s average of around 1.9 per cent.
“Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins talked a lot about this being a ‘rebuild’ Budget for areas like education, yet the percentage of funding going into compulsory education drops from 13.2 per cent this year to 12.8 per cent next year as a result of this Budget.
“For all Mr Hipkins’ talk about so-called ‘holes’ in the school property budget, he has provided an almost identical amount for school infrastructure to last year and that’s to cover the usual growth in student numbers.
“Noticeably absent is funding to keep pace with accelerated growth in Auckland which would have required capital spending to double to between $300 million and $350 million a year, or any funding for Labour’s promise to modernise all school buildings by 2030.
“Mr Hipkins’ attempt to create a story about ‘holes’ seems more bizarre now – after claiming there was a $215 million hole in the Christchurch Schools Rebuild Programme and promising to speed the programme up, he has only provided $62 million for the final tranche.
“In fact, Labour has failed to deliver on almost all its promises in education. There will be no iPads for every child, no incentives to scrap donations, no extra funding for 100 per cent qualified teachers at early learning centres – and that’s just a handful of the litany of broken or watered-down promises.
“Another glaring example of Labour underdelivering is teacher supply, after only spending about two-thirds of what it promised to spend on addressing the issue.
“The one positive is the extra funding for learning support which will be welcomed by the families and schools that need it, though they might wonder what happened to Labour’s promise of uncapping the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme.
“What makes the small increase in funding and the many broken promises so surprising is that not only did Labour inherit a strong economy, it is also borrowing more and taxing more.
“At a time when the Government is awash with cash, Mr Hipkins couldn’t even get the basics right in planning for growth or getting serious about teacher supply. His Government overpromised and has underdelivered, which will go down as the hallmark of Budget 2018.”
Parents and teachers will be expecting a lot from the Budget following Labour’s many big promises, National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye says.
“After spending the last few years criticising everything the National Government achieved in education while talking up its ability to do more, Labour has created very high expectations.
“Among its many big promises, Labour committed to ensuring every school in New Zealand has modern learning environments by 2030 which could cost anywhere between $10 billion and $15 billion.
“Along with the funding needed for the Canterbury schools rebuild programme that Labour did not include a line item for in its fiscal plan, there will be an expectation that there will be a significant injection of funds going into school infrastructure.
“On top of that, Labour also promised to provide $150 incentive payments to try to end school donations, provide free iPads or devices for every child in every school, boost early childhood education funding by $193 million, put in place Te Reo lessons for all early childhood and primary school teachers, remove caps on the number of children accessing the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Scheme, and introduce a School Leavers’ Toolkit – just to name a few.
“It also built up expectations around big pay increases for teachers and support staff. With pay talks underway and teachers seeking a 16 per cent pay rise, Labour will need to have plenty of money tucked away to cover a significant increase. Not to mention pay equity settlements.
“And there will be plenty of business-as-usual spending, for things like school growth and existing programmes, which Labour will attempt to present as shiny and new.
“National increased education funding every year we were in office, all while dealing with the GFC and major earthquakes. Labour inherited a strong economy and will be taxing people more and borrowing more.
“In fact, before new taxes this Government is already predicted to get an extra $20 billion in tax revenue by 2022 as the economy grows.
“That means that the Government has choices. It will have some serious explaining to do if it fails to meet its lofty promises or presents watered down versions of its commitments.”
Education Minister Chris Hipkins has engaged in a terrible process over partnership schools, ruling out changes to allow the schools to maintain aspects of the partnership school model that enable the success of their students before the Select Committee has deliberated on the matter, National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye says.
“A letter released by a partnership school reveals that Mr Hipkins several weeks ago dismissed any possibility of changes to improve provisions for partnership schools as he forces them to become designated character or state integrated schools, including requested changes around governance, funding, and staff employment agreements.
“And this is all while the Select Committee is mid-way through hearing submissions on the Government’s policy to scrap the partnership school model. What’s the point of the Select Committee hearing submissions if the submissions are just going to be ignored?
“It is also clear that he is signing off some partnership schools under new models ahead of the Select Committee deliberations, with his announcement today that all schools have received termination notices, which makes a mockery of the Select Committee process.
“He has confirmed that three schools’ contracts have ended. Mr Hipkins needs to confirm all funding and compensation paid so far, including if any legal action is expected.
“It’s highly unusual for a Minister to circumvent the Select Committee process, but not surprising given Mr Hipkins’ arrogant and close-minded approach to the matter so far.
“Last week he tried to celebrate that schools had applied to become either designated character schools or state integrated schools. Several schools pointed out that this was done under duress, given the legislation in Parliament to axe the partnership school model.
“The partnership school that released the letter has confirmed that it has asked that the Select Committee considers public hearings to be held at the school. Many of the families can’t afford flights to Wellington, and even getting across Auckland may be difficult for them.
“National will be supporting the push by the school and their students and families to have their voices heard. We hope Labour, NZ First and the Greens listen and ensure the school has the opportunity to directly speak to the committee.”
The Government’s $21.5 million investment in early intervention is a positive step for children and families who need additional learning support, but there is a need to focus on reforming the system, National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye and Early Childhood Education Spokesperson Nicola Willis say.
“Labour inherited a strong economy and is awash with cash, so it’s good that it is building on National’s solid investment in education and directing more money into learning support for young children – even if it’s borrowing more and taxing people more to do so,” Ms Kaye says.
“We must continue to invest in the early years which has been a large part of our of social investment approach. That’s why last year National invested additional funding for the Incredible Years programme which assists children with autism aged two to five.
“We also provided more than $34 million in specialist behaviour services for an extra 1,000 children, and $6 million to support young children with difficulties talking and listening.
“Despite the GFC and Canterbury earthquakes, National increased the education budget from $8 billion to $11 billion, including record amounts into learning support – around $658 million a year by the time we left Government, a 30 per cent increase since 2008.
“But we recognised that the learning support system wasn’t working well enough for the children, parents and teachers who needed it. We knew we had to do more than simply pour extra money in – we needed to reform the system itself.
“That’s why we kicked off an update of learning support which included testing a new model that aims to make accessing learning support much simpler and quicker for all involved.”
Ms Willis says the Government must continue this work to ensure that young children with complex needs get support as early as possible and for as long as they need it.
“Parents and teachers will welcome this boost to learning support. The Government must now ensure all ECE services make the most of these resources for children in need.
“There is also a need to invest in the learning support workforce so that young children who may have additional learning needs, like dyslexia, dyspraxia and autism, have the right support they need from specialists, teachers and teacher aides, now and into the future.”
“The Government must also build on our Budget 2016 investment of $16.5 million for the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme, which significantly increased the number of children getting access, as well as the investments we made to lift the number of teacher aide hours by 550,000,” Ms Kaye says.
“But most importantly, we need to get the system right so that we can give children the best opportunities to help improve their lives – that should be the focus.”
Education Minister Chris Hipkins is struggling to keep up with his ever-changing story about so-called funding ‘holes’ in the Christchurch schools rebuild programme, National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye says.
“Last week, Mr Hipkins told The Press newspaper that he only found out in October last year that the Christchurch schools rebuild programme was funded through tranches and that there was further funding required in the programme.
“This week, he is denying he ever said it despite the story reporting his assertions that there was a $215 million ‘hole’ in the programme.
“What’s clear is that Labour’s story is rapidly changing and that it failed to account for some business-as-usual spending and existing programmes like the Christchurch schools rebuild.
“Mr Hipkins has realised it is not credible to claim he didn’t know that the Christchurch schools rebuild programme was being appropriated in tranches over successive years – there were Cabinet papers, business papers, press releases, and news stories explaining this approach.
“He now appears to be backing down, admitting that he knew about the tranche funding for the rebuild – even stating today in Parliament that he believes Labour accounted for this in its pre-election costings.
“But the fact is, there was no line item for the rest of the Christchurch schools rebuild programme in Labour’s Fiscal Plan.
“Labour has previously manufactured ‘holes’ by labelling spending for business-as-usual or existing programmes as such, so now we have this farcical situation where Labour’s own policies, that it claims to have costed, are ‘holes’.
“Mr Hipkins has a bit of digging to do to get himself out of this one.”
The cracks in the Coalition Government are deepening by the day, with the Prime Minister at odds with not only the Greens, but members of her own caucus who have since been threatened by the Deputy Prime Minister if they don’t back down on compulsory Te Reo.
“Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta has made it clear she wants to see the Green Party’s policy to make Te Reo compulsory taken up,” National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye says.
“That puts her at odds with the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, but she’s not the only one.
“Associate Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson has said he doesn’t see any difference between compulsory and universally available, and he considers the Government’s policy to mean Te Reo is compulsory.
“And now we have Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters threatening that Nanaia and Willie should be out of government if they don’t back down.
“National’s policy is for Te Reo to be universally available. We announced at the last election that we would invest $160 million over four years to ensure all children have the opportunity to learn a second language at primary school, if they choose to. That policy is currently being progressed as a Members’ Bill.
“My Members’ Bill currently in the ballot ensures that all children in years 1-8 have universal access to learn a second language, including Te Reo. It makes it clear that Te Reo is to be a national priority language and that resources must be available to any school that wants teach it and any child that wants to learn it.
“The number of students learning Te Reo increased around 30,000 between 2010 and 2016. However, there is more to do and one of the key issues we need to address is access to Te Reo teachers and resourcing.
“I am happy to work with the Government to support my Members’ Bill to Select Committee so that the public can have their say on the importance of increasing the number of young people learning Te Reo and other languages.”
The withdrawal of the Education (Protecting Teacher Title) Amendment Bill is a big win for hardworking swimming teachers, music teachers, ballet teachers and other teachers affected by the bill, National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye says.
“It’s clear that National’s campaign against this flawed bill has succeeded. The lack of work on the bill to determine the number of people affected, the costings, and the general impact that the bill would have had meant that it was destined to fail.
“The bill’s misguided attempt to raise the status of the teaching profession by stopping those who have not gained recognised teaching qualifications from calling themselves ‘teachers’ was not even supported by the teaching profession.
“It’s extraordinary that it got to Select Committee with the support of Labour and the Greens despite opposition from the Government’s own Attorney-General David Parker.
“It’s good that Jenny Marcroft has recognised the overwhelming opposition to the bill she inherited from Tracey Martin and made the right call to drop it. Her heart was in the right place but the bill was not well thought-through.
“People who teach swimming, music, dance or art make a significant contribution in our communities and should have every right to call themselves teachers. Fining them for using that title would have done nothing to raise the status of qualified school teachers.
“There are far better ways to raise the status of teachers. We need to make sure we have high quality graduates choosing teaching as a career and investing in professional learning and development opportunities.
“This bill was severely flawed from the start and I hope this the last we’ll see of it.”
Labour is struggling to deliver on their wild campaign promises because they ignored the basic capital pressures of business-as-usual government, National’s Education spokesperson Nikki Kaye says.
“The chickens have come home to roost. Despite billions of additional funding from new revenue and borrowed money, Labour is admitting they failed to budget for business-as-usual spending and are now crying poverty,” Ms Kaye says.
“Chris Hipkins says he has identified a ‘surprise’ $1.1 billion of school property projects that need funding. This is embarrassing for the Minister, because the projects are just part of business-as-usual that the Government needs to fund each and every Budget.
“Over the last three Budgets, for example, National set aside an extra $1.7 billion for school property – taking the total funding available for school infrastructure over the next four years to $4.8 billion.
“It is clear the Government is trying to cover up its negligence with a two-step spin programme. Step one: pretend existing programmes like the Canterbury schools rebuild and population growth funding are holes in the Budget that they never knew about. Step two: relabel initiatives National funded as their own.
“The reality is that investing in school property to get ahead of growth was a priority for National, and is part of the business-as-usual spend of any government.
“We were on track to deliver the 17,000 extra student places needed in Auckland by 2019, and were finalising the Auckland Education Growth Plan to strategically manage the increasing pressure on Auckland’s schooling network.
“We knew that growth was continuing and would need further funding each year.
“The funding for the Canterbury schools rebuild was always through a tranche process – that has always been clear publicly. It is laughable that Chris Hipkins failed to understand this.
“If it is really a surprise to Mr Hipkins that there is a need for continued investment in these areas, he clearly wasn’t across his portfolio. It is more likely that he is trying to find any excuse at all to cover up his failure to deliver on his extravagant promise to modernise every one of New Zealand’s 30,000 schools.
“These areas need investment every Budget and to try and dress that up as something new and unforeseen is spin at its worst,” Ms Kaye says.
Auckland Council and the Government must prioritise Auckland’s sporting infrastructure to ensure that community sport is not put at risk, National’s Sport and Recreation Spokesperson Nikki Kaye and Local Government (Auckland) Spokesperson Denise Lee say.
“Auckland Council’s draft long-term plan for youth sport and recreation infrastructure is inadequate. The current plan contains a capital shortfall of at least $500 million over the next ten years and does not sufficiently satisfy local demand,” Ms Kaye says.
“There are between 90 and 150 sports fields and courts needed in Auckland right now. These sports facilities are vital to the survival of organisations that provide sport and recreational opportunities and employ more than 25,000 Aucklanders.
“This deficiency is exacerbated by the Government moving to scrap Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). PPPs are an innovative way to spend taxpayer money efficiently, and are crucial to ensuring sport and recreation remains accessible for all Aucklanders.
“Scrapping PPPs will hold Auckland and other parts of New Zealand back in terms of sporting infrastructure. Even if the Government doesn’t support PPPs then it could consider partnerships that harness central, local and community funding.
“With intensification there will be a growing need to utilise space better. With over $4.85 billion allocated to school infrastructure by the last Government, a large amount of which was destined for Auckland, there are huge opportunities for greater partnerships.”
Ms Lee says National will be holding a series of meetings over the next six months with the community and sporting organisations to help progress projects across Auckland to ensure more young people and their families have access to sport and recreation facilities.
“We know there are councillors and local board representatives who feel strongly about this so we plan to work closely with them.
“While we are focusing on Auckland, we will also be working with local MPs to identify other areas of New Zealand where projects can be progressed.
“The economic ramifications of poor sporting infrastructure are huge, with the sector contributing at least $1.9 billion to Auckland’s economy each year.
“Physical inactivity cost New Zealand’s health care system over $200 million in 2013 and some research indicates that around 20 per cent of young Auckland children are overweight.
“The Education Minister needs to continue the Auckland Education Growth Plan which was being worked on by the previous Government and was due to be considered by Cabinet last November. It is important to look at the work done so far to factor in potential opportunities around sport and recreational infrastructure.
“We must prioritise sport and recreation in our communities and Auckland Council and the Government must front up with more funding to support Auckland’s sporting infrastructure.”
Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye has launched a Member’s Bill to ensure that the Youth Court has greater access to education officers to help reduce the risk of reoffending.
“We know that getting qualifications reduces the risk of a young person reoffending and that education officers therefore have a big part to play in steering young offenders away from crime,” Ms Kaye says.
“While there are education officers at some of the Youth Court locations, they are not universally available. The Oranga Tamariki (Youth Justice Education Officers) Amendment Bill will strengthen the role of education officers and provide access to these officers in all Youth Court locations.
“This bill is about giving the Youth Court access to a young person’s educational status, addressing the young person’s educational needs, better supporting the young person’s family where needed and assisting the young person to re-engage in education or training.
“It enables education officers to attend family group conferences and provide education reports to the conferences.
“It also requires the Secretary of Education to sufficiently resource the Youth Court with officers and empowers the Secretary to provide financial assistance to give effect to education aspects of decisions and recommendations of family group conferences.
“Data shows that in 2015, more than two-thirds of offenders in Youth Court had prior involvement with Child, Youth and Family. And of all young people who had experienced CYF care, 80 per cent had left school with only NCEA Level One or less.
“This indicates that many of those going through the Youth Court have almost no qualifications. Despite this, only a small number of education orders are made by judges which may be because they don’t have all the information on a young person’s education status or there isn’t the resource to support the young person to get reengaged in education.
“It’s well known that a large number of people in our prisons lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. While it’s important to invest in education programmes in prisons, this bill is about helping to ensure young offenders never make it to prison.
“I have spoken to lawyers and others working on the frontline with young offenders who support this bill. They know the importance of greater education resource and support for these young people.
“This bill puts education outcomes of young people at the heart of our youth justice system.”


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Daniel Craig calls for roles ‘just as good as James Bond’ for women and actors of colour
Daniel Craig has called for roles “just as good as James Bond” for women and actors of colour.
The 53-year-old star is to play 007 for a final time in forthcoming film ‘No Time To Die’, but he has shot down suggestions that a woman could take over from him, as he believes “better parts” should be created for actresses instead.
When asked if he would support a more “diverse” appointment as his replacement, he replied: “The answer to that is very simple.
“There should simply be better parts for women and actors of colour.
“Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?”
Daniel also admitted he hasn’t felt objectified after a memorable scene in 2006 movie ‘Casino Royale’ – his first outing as the spy – when Bond came out of the sea wearing a tiny pair of blue trunks.
The star admitted he in fact chose the swimming attire because he wanted a similar shock reaction to the famous scene in which Ursula Andress emerged from the sea wearing a white bikini in her role as Honey Ryder in the 1962 Bond film ‘Dr. No’.
Speaking to Radio Times magazine – www.radiotimes.com - Daniel added: “I’m OK with it. I knew what I was doing.
“They showed me some shorts, some swim trunks, and I went, ‘Those’.
“Because of Ursula Andress, and because of that look, I wanted to flip it on its head.”
Daniel recently admitted he used to “lock himself in and close the curtains” after landing the role of Bond, as he struggled to cope with the fame attached to the iconic part.
He said: “My personal life was affected by being that famous all of a sudden.
“I used to lock myself in and close the curtains, I was in cloud cuckoo land.
“I was physically and mentally under siege.
“I didn’t like the newfound level of fame. It was Hugh Jackman who helped me to come to terms with it and appreciate it.”
The star also read numerous “hate-filled” online comments after it was revealed he was taking over from Pierce Brosnan as the secret agent.
He said: “I went online and stayed up all night and read everything because that is what happens if you do that. And it was tough, really tough – hate-filled.
“And I woke up the following morning I went, ‘F*** it, I know the film is going to be good’. I knew we were doing something really special.”
After producer Barbara Broccoli had offered Daniel the part, he wasted no time getting into character.
The ‘Knives Out’ actor set about getting drunk on Bond’s beverage of choice – martinis.
He said: “She just went, ‘Over to you kiddo’. And I grabbed a bottle of vodka, vermouth, a cocktail shaker and went back to my apartment and started mixing myself vodka martinis.
“It was my first bit of exercise. I had a hangover for three days.”
After ‘Casino Royale’, Daniel starred as Bond in 2008 movie ‘Quantum of Solace’, 2012’s ‘Skyfall’, and 2015’s ‘Spectre’.
He once infamously admitted he would “rather slash his wrists” than play the character again, but he has now said he has “loved every single second” of portraying 007.
This article originally ran on celebretainment.com.

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The population of the United States is growing older and people are living longer than ever before. With these increases in life expectancy, health concerns such as Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) are becoming more prevalent. The existent literature suggests that persons with dementia (PWD) may be at high risk for self-harm or aggressive behavior toward others1,2; however, less is known about how these behaviors may further increase the risk of self or inter-personal harm when juxtaposed with firearm access among older adults.3
In their article published this week in JAMA Network Open, Betz and colleagues4 highlight PWD and their caregivers as an important, but understudied, group of individuals who own or have access to firearms and are potentially at high risk for injury incidents. Caregivers for PWD were surveyed only if they resided in a firearm-owning household. Authors delve into practical and timely questions, such as the frequency by which providers are discussing firearm safety with caregivers and the knowledge among caregivers for PWD about risk for firearm injury.4 The authors have done a commendable job in beginning to estimate the proportion of residents of firearm-owning households who are providing care to PWD—some of whom also have access to household firearms. They found that among caregivers who cohabitate with PWD in firearm-owning homes, 31% of caregivers reported that the PWD could access a gun. Over 80% of caregivers agreed that there are times when it is appropriate for health care professionals to discuss firearms with patients in the context of ADRD, and nearly 65% of caregivers reported that they had looked or would look to health care professionals for information about firearm safety; nonetheless, very few caregivers reported a health care practitioner ever broaching the subject.4 The lack of dialogue between patients, caregivers, and clinicians may at least partially explain why of the 11% of caregivers who expressed concerns about PWD having firearm access, only 53% reported that they or family and friends acted on that concern.4
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India a ‘devastating reminder’ of damage COVID-19 can wreak, says WHO chief, India News News
People are dying across the world because they are not being vaccinated against COVID-19, they are not being tested and not being treated, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
He said he was concerned about the growing caseload in India.
“The situation in India is a devastating reminder of what the virus can do,” he told a virtual briefing in Geneva.
Over one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, about 90 per cent of the world`s 105 countries surveyed still report disruptions to their essential health services, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
A recent WHO survey has found that about 66 per cent of countries continue to report health workforce-related reasons as the most common cause of service disruptions, and in nearly one-third of countries supply chains are also still disrupted, affecting the availability of essential medicines, diagnostics and the personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to safely and effectively provide care, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
More than half of the countries surveyed reported service disruptions due to patients not seeking care, because of community mistrust and fears of becoming infected, while 43 per cent cited financial challenges as a major cause of disruption.
Most extensively affected are the health services for mental, neurological and substance use disorders; neglected tropical diseases; tuberculosis; HIV and hepatitis B and C; cancer screening; and services for other non-communicable diseases, including hypertension and diabetes; family planning and contraception; urgent dental care; and malnutrition, according to the survey.

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If you're looking for a place to enjoy the fall apple harvest, a visit to Reid's Orchard in Owensboro Kentucky is a great idea.
The garden is located next to the Daviess County Public Library and features a 100-foot sassafras tree.
Visitors to the Museum of Fine Art Owensborough Kentucky can enjoy a wide variety of works of art.
Many conventions choose a destination based on local attractions.
For example, a military cemetery is only open to veterans in the county.
Established in 1839, St. Stephen Cathedral is the largest Catholic church in Owensboro.

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The three major classifications of memory that the scientific community deals with today are as follows: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Information from the world around us begins to be stored by sensory memory, making it possible for this information to be accessible in the future. Short-term memory refers to the information processed by the individual in a short period of time. Working memory performs this processing. Long-term memory allows us to store information for long periods of time. This information may be retrieved consciously (explicit memory) or unconsciously (implicit memory).
“Sensory memory is the capacity for briefly retaining the large amounts of information that people encounter daily” (Siegler and Alibali, 2005). There are three types of sensory memory: echoic memory, iconic memory, and haptic memory. Iconic memory retains information that is gathered through sight, echoic memory retains information gathered through auditory stimuli and haptic memory retains data acquired through touch.
Scientific research has focused mainly on iconic memory; information on echoic and haptic memory is comparatively scarce. Iconic memory retains information from the sense of sight with an approximate duration of 1 second. This reservoir of information then passes to short- term vision memory (which is analogous, as we shall see shortly, to the visuospatial sketchpad with which working memory operates).
Di Lollo’s model (Di Lollo, 1980) is the most widely accepted model of iconic memory. Therein, he considered iconic memory a storehouse constituted by two components: the persistence of vision and information.
- Persistence of vision. Iconic memory corresponds to the pre-categorical representation image/visual. It is sensitive to physical parameters, such that it depends on retinal photoreceptors (rods and cones). It also depends on various cells in the visual system and on retinal ganglion cells M (transition cells) and P (sustained cells). “The occipital lobe is responsible for processing visual information”.
- Persistence of information. Iconic memory is a storehouse of information that lasts 800 miliseconds and that represents a codified and already categorized version of the visual image. It plays the role of storehouse for post-categorical memory, which provides visual short-term memory with information to be consolidated.
Subsequent research on visual persistence from Coltheart (Coltheart, 1983) and Sperling’s studies (Sperling, 1960) on the persistence of information led to the definition of three characteristics pertaining to iconic memory: a large capacity, a short duration, and a pre- categorical nature.
Regarding short-term, Sperling interpreted the results of the partial report as due to the rapid decline of the visual sign and reaffirmed this short duration by obtaining a decrease in the number of letters reported by the subject in delaying the audio signal for choosing a row to remember in the presentation. Averbach and Coriell’s experiments (Averbach and Coriell, 1961) corroborated Sperling’s conclusion; they presented a variety of letters for a certain period of time to the subject. After each letter, and in the same position, they showed a particular visual sign. The participant’s task was to name the letter that occupied the position of the visual sign. When the visual sign appeared immediately after the letters, participants could correctly name the letter that occupied the position of the sign, however, as the presentation of the sign became more delayed, participant performance worsened. These results also show the rapid decline of visual information.
In the Atkinson-Shiffrin model, stimuli from the environment are processed first in sensory memory: storage of brief sensory events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes. It is very brief storage—up to a couple of seconds. We are constantly bombarded with sensory information. We cannot absorb all of it, or even most of it. And most of it has no impact on our lives. For example, what was your professor wearing the last class period? As long as the professor was dressed appropriately, it does not really matter what she was wearing. Sensory information
about sights, sounds, smells, and even textures, which we do not view as valuable information, we discard. If we view something as valuable, the information will move into our short-term memory system.
One study of sensory memory researched the significance of valuable information on short- term memory storage. J. R. Stroop discovered a memory phenomenon in the 1930s: you will name a color more easily if it appears printed in that color, which is called the Stroop effect. In other words, the word “red” will be named more quickly, regardless of the color the word appears in, than any word that is colored red. Try an experiment: name the colors of the words you are given in the picture . Do not read the words, but say the color the word is printed in. For example, upon seeing the word “yellow” in green print, you should say “green,” not “yellow.” This experiment is fun, but it’s not as easy as it seems.
Methods of studying-whole report and partial report techniques:- Miller’s Magic Number
A factoid is a snippet of information (usually taken out of context) that's assumed to be factual
because it's repeated often. A favorite pop-psychology factoid, repeated in textbooks and popular media, is that human short-term memory is limited to 7, plus or minus 2, items (called "chunks"). While there is some truth to it, this factoid offers little as a pedagogical tool beyond stressing the need to break problems into manageable chunks for novices. The full story behind the "magic" number seven, however, provides a fascinating look into Psychology's quest to understand the differences between experts and novices.
The number seven, called "Miller's Magic Number," comes from a 1956 article by the psychologist George A. Miller title "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information." In this celebrated and highly-readable article,
Miller considers two kinds of situations:
- A person must correctly distinguish between very similar items (e.g., high/low-pitched tones, shades of green), and
- A person must recall items presented in a sequence.
In the first kind of situation, called absolute judgement , subjects are exposed to a stimulus that varies along a single dimension, such as the pitch of a tone, the green-ness of a color, or the concentration of salt in a cup of water. Across many different kinds of stimuli, people can consistently distinguish about six distinct stimulus levels without making mistakes.
The second kind of situation is used to measure the span of immediate memory . Here, the subject must retain a select number of chunks in their short-term memory, and recall as many items as possible at the end of a trial. Across a handful of simple domains, such as decimal digits, letters of the alphabet, and monosyllabic words, people are able to hold anywhere from five to nine chunks in short-term without making mistakes. While it is tempting to assume that the limits of absolute judgement and immediate memory are related, Miller did not believe this to be the case.
The Game of Simon
A helpful way to understand the difference between absolute judgement and immediate memory span is with the electronic game Simon by Milton Bradley. This simple game device has four colored buttons, each associated with a distinct tone. In each round, Simon plays a sequence of tones, and the player must repeat the sequence back by pressing the appropriate buttons. The game gets progressively harder as the length of the sequence grows.
A player is exercising absolute judgement when distinguishing between Simon's tones. The number of distinct tones is fixed at four, well within a safe "no mistakes" range for most people. Simon's increasing sequence length, however, is meant to strain immediate memory capacity. Based on Miller's article, one would expect it to be quite difficult for players to repeat
back a sequence of nine or more tones, yet expert players have managed nearly ten times that. How are they able to do this?
Shortcomings of the Magic Number
The span of short-term memory as reported by Miller in 1956 (7 ± 2 chunks) is where the pop- psychology factoid usually stops. Since that time, however, researchers have cast doubt on the magic number itself as well as its cross-domain applicability. Research with chess experts, for example, has suggested a span limit of 3 to 5 chunks; nearly half the magic number! In the domain of language, it has been found that phonological similarity and spoken word length are much better predictors of how many words a person can hold in short-term memory (less- similar and longer words are harder to retain). Things have even changed for absolute judgement: subjects in one experiment were only able to distinguish about 7 colors until they were given a broader vocabulary (i.e., "pale blueish green"). With little training, they were then able to discriminate around 36 colors.
What does it mean for short-term memory to have a limited capacity in the first place? A key insight is that traditional means of measuring absolute judgement and short-term memory span require blocking recoding -- the process of grouping or relating chunks. To block recoding, experimenters must use non-sensical or unrelated stimuli, such as made-up words or random decimal digits. Under these artificial conditions, we see something resembling a strict capacity limit, but this limit increases or even seems to disappear when subjects are able to find some higher-order meaning in the stimuli. For example, one famous subject in a random decimal digit memorization experiment found he could remember more digits at a time by mentally recoding them as mile times (he was an avid runner).
Recoding is Magical
In the real world, people are constantly recoding stimuli. Because of this, it is difficult to define precisely what a "chunk" is. Cross-domain research with experts suggests that they retain the same short-term capacity limits as novices, but the content of their chunks is far greater. In addition to denser chunks, experts have invested in building intricate networks of chunks in their long-term memories, ensuring that relevant chunks are always readily available. As Miller and many psychologists since have shown, recoding is truly where the action lies.
If stimuli can be recoded relative to one's background knowledge, then using Miller's magic number alone to judge the cognitive burden of something may or may not be helpful. When the chunk sizes are known, it becomes possible to use short-term capacity limits as a predictor of cognitive burden and complexity. In an ingenious experiment with chess players , subjects were asked to copy the positions of all pieces from one chessboard to another. By placing the boards far apart, subjects were forced to turn their heads to focus on either board.
The experimenters were thus able to use the number of piece positions copied on every turn as an estimate of the subjects' chunk size, and were able to show that the performance difference between grand masters and novices was slim when random board positions were used.
A similar experiment was done with programmers copying code by hand, and the same kind of results were found (experts were no better at remember code with shuffled lines than novices).
The Big Picture
Miller's magic number is a fun factoid, but it is only the beginning. In the search for a fixed short-term memory limit, we have found something much more interesting: an understanding of domain expertise. Experts do not exceed the limitations of the average human mind, they
have "simply" built a vast, complex network of domain-specific chunks that allows them to rarely end up in unfamiliar territory. We can still see experts' capacity limits in the lab, but they are much more difficult to spot in the wild.
Chunking refers to a phenomenon whereby individuals group items together when performing a memory task to improve the performance of sequential memory.
The word “Chunking,” a phenomenon whereby individuals group items together when performing a memory task, was initiated by (Miller, 1956). (Lindley, 1966) showed that groups produced by chunking have concept meanings to the participant. Therefore, this strategy makes it easier for an individual to maintain and recall information in memory. For example, when recalling a number sequence 01122014, if we group the numbers as 01, 12, and 2014, mnemonic meanings for each group as a day, a month and a year are created. Furthermore, studies found evidence that the firing event of a single cell is associated with a particular concept, such as personal names of Bill Clinton or Jennifer Aniston (Kreiman et al., 2000, 2001).
Psychologists believe that chunking plays as an essential role in joining the elements of a memory trace together through a particular hierarchical memory structure (Tan and Soon, 1996; Edin et al., 2009). At a time when information theory started to be applied in psychology, Miller claimed that short-term memory is not rigid but open to strategies (Miller, 1956) such as chunking that can expand the memory capacity (Gobet et al., 2001). According to this information, it is possible to increase short-term memory capacity by effectively recoding a large amount of low-information-content items into a smaller number of high-information- content items (Cowan, 2001; Chen and Cowan, 2005). Therefore, when chunking is evident in recall tasks, one can expect a higher number of correct recalls. Patients with Alzheimer's disease typically experience working memory deficits; chunking is also an effective method to improve patients' verbal working memory performance (Huntley et al., 2011).

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Women Entrepreneuship Cell (WEC)
Woman is our tomorrow. Woman is the eye of the nation .Woman is the perfect architect of the society. Woman empowerment can make society powerful.
Women Entrepreneuship Cell (WEC) works under the aegis of IamSMEofIndia, as a dedicated unit for the sole purpose of achieving women empowerment through various initiatives. Entrepreneurship for Girls (EFG) program is one among many activities being initiated by WEC.
IamSMEofIndia W.E.C was formed on 29-january – 2009 under the Dynamic leadership of Mrs Jaya Goyal .
Mr. Rajive Chawla
“It is rightly said
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Each Time a Woman Stands, without knowing
it possibly, she makes whole society stand.
Hence, At IamSMEofIndia we dedicated a Special Cell to encourage Women Entrepreneurship known as Women Entrepreneurship Cell (WEC).
Kudos to IamSMEofIndia’s Women Entrepreneurs Cell that has been doing phenomenal work there for the past 12 years training and handholding hundreds of youngsters and aspiring entrepreneurs.
I wish Women Entrepreneurship Cell (WEC) will Contribute to the emergence of an empowered Society.”
Women Leading and Changing the World through Entrepreneurship
Mrs. Jaya Goyal
Chairperson, Women Entrepreneur Cell, IamSMEofIndia
Master Trainer at Ministry of MSME, NIESBUD, IFC
Executive council member at Haryana State Productivity Council.
Member of NHRDN, National Human Resources Development Network and FMA
Initiator at Akshay Swachh Jal Water and Craft clusters


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Harrison’s novel follows a longtime Michigan State Police detective whose hobby in retirement is tracking down the founder of a religious cult—the Great Leader of the title. “I’m investigating the evil connection between religion, money, and sex,” he jokes. Harrison, a poet and novelist who has written with subtlety about many of the hidden corners of America, is less interested in his torn-from-the-headlines plot than in the quirks of his dyspeptic, lecherous, and gouty detective, whose “shit-stained” view of life drove his wife away, and who can’t help getting turned on by every woman he sees. The result is an enjoyable if self-indulgent literary detective novel. The best moments come when the detective loses the trail and looks up to find, in Harrison’s precise and powerful descriptions, the landscapes that surround him, where religion, money, and sex disappear, and “a creek is more powerful than despair.” ♦
My Terezín Diary
And what I did not write about.
The Front Row
Review: “Hustlers” Is a Lurid Crime Story with No Edge
The film reminds viewers, again and again, that these women are good at what they do. But it is hardly interested in the turns of mind, the character traits, the figures of style that go into their labors.
How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman
In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.
The New Yorker Interview

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At first I misread this as "we live Ina generation where." To which I said HAH NOPE.
When I first read this I thought he would be one of those dochebag men, but this turned out funnier then I expected.
Pinterest: kindaclaudia ❁
Not only that, but the fact that society (patriarchy) puts girls on a clock, to be prepared for the day when they turn 18 (legal age of consent)
Sally Kohn for the win.>>> It's so easy to portray another race as villains while the gullible never actually want to see the facts.
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Feeling like this New Year's celebration called for a feminist twist, writer and feminist .
shout out to girls who never go to school wearing makeup and have messy hair and want to look nice but never really have the energy to because i dont see very many posts for them and i want them to know that im proud they were able to get out of bed
I feel better now.
How tragic for them we must fight for men's right to be sexist assholes freely!
How does it feel
19 Times Tumblr Got Serious About The Struggles Of Women In Our Society
"Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.
27 Times Tumblr Captured How You Feel About Dating
You bitch ass liar
I usually put things in a 'Me, all the time' board. That's because I want to say these things a lot and there are a million other things there as well. I am not saying that every problem is about me. I didn't want people confused by that.
The 31 Realest Tumblr Posts About Being A Woman
31 Realest Tumbler Posts on Being a Woman
If you're not someone who does *thing* in *statement* THEN THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU. No one who says "men" are saying ALL men. Men means MEN WHO DO *THING*.


Orlando Mayor Bill Frederick has decided to go a step beyond what is required by the state Sunshine Law to publicize his irregular official meetings. He said he will now give at least 48 hours' notice of such meetings and keep written minutes.
The Sunshine Law, as interpreted by the courts and attorney general's office, holds that members of public boards must give advance notice and keep minutes of all meetings and discussions they have to consider official business.
Frederick, members of the Orlando City Council and Metropolitan Transportation Authority held 17 one-on-one meetings from October 1984 to November 1985 that might have violated the state law. Frederick, a member of the city council and MTA, was involved in 14 of the possible violations.
In the 17 meetings, no minutes were kept and at least one, and possibly as many as four, of the meetings were not properly publicized ahead of time.
Frederick said in November that he was unaware that city council and MTA members weren't following the Sunshine Law. He maintained that, if anything, the city and MTA were doing a better job than many local governments of following the law.
Orlando officials used to publicize such meetings by penciling in sketchy information on a weekly meeting list posted on the second floor of city hall. Occasionally such postings went up only hours before meetings. Sometimes meetings that were not official also were posted, creating confusion about whether they were open to the public.
Responding to a request from The Orlando Sentinel to clarify his policy on public meetings, Frederick is directing his staff to:
-- Post notice of official meetings he is involved in at least 48 hours ahead of time. When appropriate, reporters will be notified by phone 48 hours in advance.
Although the Sunshine Law does not define adequate notice, informal opinions issued by the attorney general have held that special meetings should be posted in writing at least 24 hours in advance. Opinions also have suggested alerting the media of the meetings by telephone.
-- Keep written minutes of all meetings. The city has not kept minutes of one-on-one meetings between its elected officials.
The MTA, which began meeting in October, also did not keep minutes of meetings involving its members until November. At Frederick's suggestion, the MTA has adopted a policy similar to the one he has adopted for himself.
Miami media attorney Dan Paul, who criticized the city and MTA's handling of one-on-one meetings, said last week that many local governments have adopted guidelines on the posting and recording of special meetings between elected officials. What is unusual is Frederick's policy of calling the media ahead of time.
"I don't know of any governments that agree to do that, but I think it's a good idea," said Paul, who helped write the first edition of the Florida Open Government Laws Manual in 1978.
Frederick termed the Sunshine Law "complicated" and said public officials new to it "are scared to death of it." The mayor said the policy should eliminate confusion or frustration on the part of the city and the public.
"I think it would be very helpful if all the major players in the community had some guidelines," he said.
Several city council members said they would be willing to adopt the policy, although most said they don't see it as a critical need because they rarely hold such meetings.
"I don't need a policy," said council member Jeff Clark. "I will never have a meeting like that."
According to city records, Clark and Frederick scheduled four one-on-one meetings between November 1984 and August 1985.
"I'd be willing to bet you that most of the commissioners would say, 'Just don't have the meeting' " if confronted with the question of how to publicize it, said Glenda Hood.
One-on-one meetings among city council members are rare. But Hood raised the issue Monday with her fellow council members and suggested they follow the same 48-hours-notice rule as the mayor. There was no vote or formal action, but no one objected.


There’s one thing that’s certain if you use proxies in any sense then you’re going to slow down your internet connection to some extent. The effect can certainly be minimized if you have a fast server, situated close by and indeed compression technology can even provide something of a speed boost to mitigate any loss. However the simple fact is that you’re adding another hop into your journey both inbound and outbound which must have some impact.
The distance is crucial especially if you’re using proxies for a specific purpose or application. For example if you’re using proxies for marketing purposes on Instagram, then you should ensure that they have fast links and are close to the Instagram web servers. This means that the best Instagram proxies will almost certainly be US based because they minimize the distance, however this would also partly depend on where your client is located too.
TCP Hybla is a developmental TCP improvement conceived with the principal aim of combating the performance decline triggered by the prolonged RTTs typical of satellite connections. It includes a set of procedures that includes, to name a few:
- an enhancement of the basic congestion control protocol (to grant long RTT connections the exact same immediate segment
- transmission rate of a comparatively fast reference connection).
- the mandatory adoption of the SACK policy.
- the use of timestamps.
- the adoption of Hoe’s channel transmission capacity estimation.
- the implementation and mandatory use of packet spacing methods (also known as “pacing”).
- TCP Hybla involves only sender-side modification of TCP. As that, it is fully compatible with standard receivers.
With regard to a full description of goals and characteristics of TCP Hybla refer to the publications section.
TCP Hybla offers a pretty impressive performance improvement to long RTT satellite connections with respect to TCP NewReno. It can be used either as an end-to-end protocol, or as satellite segment transport protocol in PEP (Performance Enhancing Proxy) architectures based upon the TCP splitting concept. It can be also used as transport protocol in DTN architectures. See the performance section for even more information.
Beginning with kernel 2.6.13 Hybla has been included in the official Linux kernel. This implementation, based on the “module” Linux technology, does not include the last two Hybla components: Hoe’s channel bandwidth estimate and packet spacing. Their enhancement is mandatory to totally benefit from Hybla performance improvement. To this end, it is enough to patch the official kernel with the MultiTCP package, downloadable from the downloads section.
A TCP Hybla module has been created for the widely adopted NS-2 simulation platform. This element can be downloaded from the downloads section.
TATPA stands for Testbed for Advanced Transport Protocols and Architecture. It is a testbed established by Hybla’s authors to carry out comparative efficiency assessment of new TCP variants (included Hybla) and alternate frameworks, such as PEPs (Performance Enhanced Proxy) and also DTN (Delay Tolerant Networks). It can be fully managed by remote through a powerful web interface. For further information see the TATPA testbed and the publications sections.
TCP Hybla development was previously supported by the European Satellite Network of Excellence (SatNEx) project.
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Muncie reacts: What do we think of the impeachment inquiry?
MUNCIE, Ind. — After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, news organizations and the political world have been buzzing.
But what do Muncie residents think?
Have they kept up with the news? Was the information concerning? Do they think Trump will be impeached? Do they care?
Answer: All of the above.
The Star Press interviewed six Muncie residents on the north side, six on the south side and five in the downtown area, as well as 10 Ball State University students, and the responses were just as diverse as the 27 people, who came from an array of ethnicities, ages and political parties.
Ball State student Kristen Thomas, a Democrat, studies acting and has tried to follow the news. She thinks the move for impeachment is a good idea and said the investigation will have a negative impact on Trump’s chance for reelection.
“I think he’s done various crimes that are impeachable,” Thomas said. “I don’t know if he will be impeached, because he has such a strong rapport with Republicans, but I think he easily could be.”
Some BSU students felt they were not up-to-date or knowledgeable enough about the topic, but many were trying to keep up. More than half of the 10 had opinions.
Alex Angle studies construction management and is a Trump supporter. He said he keeps up with the news, at least enough to know what’s happening. The whistleblower complaint concerned him.
“I think it’s a concern, trying to get foreign countries to meddle in our election,” Angle said. “It definitely needs to be looked into.”
While Angle said he thinks it’s an impeachable offense, he doesn’t think Trump will be removed from office.
On the south side of Muncie, Lisa Chambers was loading groceries in her car at the Walmart on 29th Street.
A lifelong Muncie resident, Chambers hadn’t kept up with the news since the announcement for impeachment proceeding was made two days ago.
She’s already tired of it.
“Sometimes, I think they should all grow up,” Chambers said.
A few other southside residents making their way out of the store also hadn’t kept track of the issue, whether it be because of a busy schedule or a lack of interest in politics.
Over at Aldi on Madison Street, The Star Press found two Trump supporters.
Jeff Peterson said the situation was “all hogwash.”
To him, the impeachment inquiry would only better President Trump’s chances of reelection.
“This is just going to get him in office,” Peterson said. “That’s what we need. The economy has been better than it’s ever been.”
Wanda Watters, a Yorktown resident, was also unloading her shopping cart. A proclaimed “Trumper,” both she and her husband have been interested in the topic.
What’s been most concerning for her, though, is the way the issue has been portrayed.
“It wouldn’t matter who your president is,” Watters said. “You need to stand behind him, whether you voted for him or not.”
At the Muncie Mall on the north side, Dalen Norvel was wandering the mall and spending time with friends.
While Norvel knew about the inquiry, he felt there wasn’t much he could do as a teenager in the world of politics. Going forward, he didn’t think impeachment was possible.
“I feel like there’s not enough concrete evidence for it to happen,” Norvel said.
Marsha Moore, who just moved to Muncie, had just sat down on a bench inside the mall to catch up on the news. She said she was concerned for the country.
“If our president doesn’t have ethics, and that’s our leader, then that’s what concerns me most.”
On the streets of downtown Muncie, from The Caffeinery to The Barking Cow, four out of five residents interviewed were in touch with the issue, all either left-leaning or independent.
Laura Haisley, who reads the news every day, said there were more important things to worry about than Trump’s phone calls to Ukraine.
“I get the proceedings going through, and they have to do it the way they do, but there’s so much going on with the border and the legalization of marijuana,” Haisley said. “I think it is probably going to end up like everything else, and he’s going to talk his way out of it.”
Eva Grouling Snider and Luke Russell were enjoying drinks outside The Caffeinery. Earlier in the day, they had discussed the issue, relating it back to the Bill Clinton presidency.
“My first thought is, Lindsey Graham lead the charge against Clinton, and suddenly now, he’s super concerned about protecting his party’s president,” Russell, an independent, said. “I think both parties are trigger happy to come to a conclusion before the research is done.”
Grouling Snider, a Democrat, was frustrated impeachment proceedings hadn’t happened months ago.
“I’m appalled that congressional Republicans aren’t in anyway speaking out against Trump,” Grouling Snider said. “There have been many opportunities to do that, and this is one of the biggest, yet they continue to circle their wagons and defend him, with a few exceptions.”
With a Republican-controlled senate, the pair didn’t see Trump being removed from office, but rather another year-and-a-half of partisan speak and no results.
Charlotte Stefanski is a reporter at the Star Press. Contact her at 765-283-5543, firstname.lastname@example.org or follow her on twitter @CharStefanski


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A judge has ordered a Clare businessman to clear his property off a piece of land that was determined last month to be owned by Isabella County.
Isabella County Chief Judge Paul Chamberlain last week denied a motion by Tom Kunse, Ron Kunse and Steve Stark that would allow them to keep their property on the land while they appeal Chamberlain’s June ruling that the county owns the parcel adjacent to Northern Dry Bulk on Industrial Drive in Clare.
Stark and the Kunses had planned on building a fueling station on the property.
While the Kunses and Stark plan to appeal Chamberlain’s ruling on last week’s motion, they must take down infrastructure they began building on the property before the dispute between Northern and the county went to court, Isabella County Administrator Tim Dolehanty said. Tom Kunse, however, said any order to move the infrastructure – concrete fuel station pads – will be put on hold while the judge’s decision is being appealed. Meanwhile, county officials will work with the county’s attorney, Timothy Perrone of Cohl, Stoker, Toskey and McGlinchey, on a timetable for the Kunses and Stark to remove the infrastructure, Dolehanty said on Monday. Kunse, who said he had worked out a deal with the county last year that fell through, said he is disappointed that the matter ended up in court. “It just continues to amaze me that we can’t work this out,’ he said, adding that technical real estate disputes “need to be looked at twice,’ so he and his business partners filed with the Michigan Court of Appeals shortly after Chamberlain’s ruling in June. Kunse also said that any future plans for the Pere Marquette Rail Trail to be extended through the city of Clare could be in jeopardy. Kunse, who said he is not surprised by Chamberlain’s ruling last week, owns a parcel next to the land that the county owns that the rail trail would go through if plans to extend it come to fruition. But Kunse said he won’t sell the parcel to Isabella County. “It’s difficult not to be bitter at Isabella County,’ he said. Although Kunse said it is conceivable that he would sell the parcel to the city of Clare, the cost would be exorbitant. Kunse also said he still must recoup legal expenses for the civil suit with the county over ownership of the land on which he planned on building the fueling station. Stark and the Kunses believed that Chamberlain would grant their motion because they have already appealed Chamberlain’s June ruling that the property belongs to Isabella County, Dolehanty said. However, Stark and the Kunses took a chance when they began building on the property, Dolehanty said. When Chamberlain ruled June 21 that the piece of property in question is owned by Isabella County, he indicated that it appeared that the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway’s deed to Stark included a portion of property that the railroad didn’t own. That apparently happened because of the use of two different methods for drafting legal descriptions of the property, Chamberlain said in the June ruling. Midland County had deeded the property to Isabella County with a provision that it must be used for parks and recreation. Kunse said Monday that Midland County officials had offered to amend the restricted use provision. A date for the appeals court to hear the case has not been set.

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Every day you take somewhere between 17,000 and 23,000 breaths, many of them at home while you’re working, exercising or sleeping. When’s the last time you stopped to think about what exactly you’re breathing in and the effect your indoor air could be having on your body?
The act of breathing itself isn’t something people spend too much time fretting about, especially when we’re at home, we are always counting on our body’s ability to replace high levels of carbon dioxide with life-sustaining oxygen.
But as we go about our lives there’s another aspect of this process that’s far from our minds: how the quality of our home’s air affects those everyday activities.
Here are five key questions you can add to your better-breathing checklist to make sure you’re making the most of your indoor air.
1. What is the ideal temperature for an exercise like yoga?
When exercising at home what you’re less likely to be considering is how the air around you is affecting the quality of your workout. Traditional yoga calls for a temperature between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius. You might want to raise or lower your thermostat by a few degrees depending on your personal preference.
Beyond temperature, you also need to account for humidity, airborne pollutants and even a general perception of how the air ‘feels.’ A good HVAC system lets you control all of these factors so that your workout leaves you feeling great inside and out.
2. Do air filters really make a difference?
When we think about air pollution, we usually picture smog-choked streets or exhaust from giant pipes outside a factory, but indoor air contaminants can also make your breathing more difficult, especially for people with allergies or asthma.
From pet dander and dust mites to pollen that hitched, the air inside your home could probably use a clean. High-efficiency Particulate air (HEPA) filters actually do make a difference.
Sweta Hari, a director of product management at Lennox who works on indoor air quality, said: “Homeowners often don’t recognise that the basic one-inch filter they buy at their local hardware store can only do so much to keep basic lint and pollen out.”
More advanced filters, Mr Hari says, can filter out dust mites, pet dander, smoke, smog, and the spread of cough and cold particles.
3. How does air temperature affect sleep?
We spend a third of our lives in pursuit of a ‘good night’s rest.’ From customised mattresses and white noise machines to ergonomic ear plugs and melatonin, many of us take a scientific approach to getting the best sleep possible.
But none of these things will be of much help if we’re not correctly managing the air around us. There’s a direct correlation between our body’s temperature and our sleep cycle. Research suggests that the ideal condition for sleep sits somewhere between 15 and 20 degrees Celsius. The temperature is on the low side as your core body temperature drops to a lower level during sleep, so an overly warm temperature interferes with your brain’s messages that it’s time to get some sleep.
Additionally, older systems lack the ability to optimise conditions for different rooms and don’t factor in temperature changes from space to space. Investing in a high-tech system can also be an investment in getting a better night’s sleep.
4. What’s the optimal indoor humidity level?
Indoor air that’s too moist not only feels damp and unpleasant, but encourages the growth of mould and mildew spores. Similarly, in colder months indoor heating systems can also be too drying, leading to irritated nasal passages and flaky skin.
Humidity is a measure of the water vapor suspended in the air around you. Inside your home, it can cause troubles from warping your furniture to making you feel sick.
Brandon Chase, a senior product marketing manager at Lennox, said: “Oftentimes, humidity levels are the true culprit when it comes to ideal indoor comfort.”
The ideal relative humidity for health and comfort is somewhere between 30-50 per cent, a factor you can control with an advanced HVAC system. Proper humidity levels can help you feel more alert and energised, while also protecting your belongings, your walls, and the rest of your home.
5. Should different parts of my house be optimised at different temperatures?
Setting your thermostat to the recommended temperature isn’t a guarantee that you’re getting what’s indicated. Older heating and cooling systems kick on or off at one speed, resulting in significant temperature swings. They also lack the ability to optimise conditions for different rooms in our home.
That’s where advancements such as variable-capacity motors and zone control come in to play. Such motors can be found the Lennox Ultimate Comfort System, one of the quietest and most efficient systems available. With the zone-controlling iHarmony feature from Lennox, you can divide your home in up to four sections that can be individually optimised for whatever you’re doing.
Paying attention to the air around you matters. With an advanced HVAC system you’ll still be automatically inhaling and exhaling, but now you’ll know that the air you’re breathing is doing more than filling your lungs; It’s helping you live better and feel better, from sleep to exercise to overall well-being.
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It’s still November. That means you still want the re-cap of our lovely Thanksgiving dinner, and aren’t totally absorbed in Christmas preparations, right? Wrong? Well, humor me anyway. I was so pleased with how things turned out that I have been very excited to share with you.
I didn’t host Thanksgiving. We went to my husband’s grandparent’s house, but they are both in poor health, so it took several of us providing food to create this meal. Originally my Mother-in-law had thought to go really simple by using paper plates and such, but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to create a beautiful tablescape, especially when my friend Laura from Pink Cake Plate, offered to let me pillage her supply of beautiful white dishes and gold chargers in lieu of the paper goods.
We had 16 adults plus several small children, so the plan was to eat outside. Grandmother and Grandad have a couple of rustic picnic tables and I figured the best way to make this feel like a special meal was to push the tables together to create one large table. I felt like tableclothes would be too formal (except for the lovely one Laura let us borrow, that turned an old ping-pong table into a serving table, and knew I wanted to leave much of the wood table exposed for this meal.
I made table runners to go across the table out of rolls of painters paper. Easy and super cheap. I also used the paper to cover the kids table.
Initially I had a different plan for centerpieces, but as it was, there was barely room enough for everyones goblets. I placed a few of these vintage gold candleholders in the spaces that weren’t occupied by glasses.
My first plan was to line the length of the tables with these gold vases that I made from old jars and thrifted vases. (Let’s pretend those drips were intentional).
To create the gold-dipped effect, I taped of the top of each jar, often at an angle, and spray-painted the vases with a pretty shimmery gold paint.
I taped off stripes on the square vase. I picked up a couple of bunches of inexpensive daisies from the grocery store and put a couple of blooms in each vase. The vases then lined the back of the serving table since there wasn’t room on the table. I borrowed the rest of the serving table decor from my Thanksgiving mantle.
I thought the vintage high chair they pulled out for my niece was so cute, and went well with the rest of the decor.
I recycled my cornhusk poms that you might have noticed in the Thanksgiving Preschool celebration, to frame the banner.
I came up with a fun way to tie-in the corn husks with the centerpieces. And what makes it better, they are edible!
I made “indian corn” treats, by making rice crispie treats with a combination of Kix cereal and Cocoa Puffs (mostly Kix with a smaller amount of Cocoa Puffs).
I used buttered sandwich bags over my hands to help me shape the corn treats. After they were set-up I wrapped them in corn husks like the kind you can buy in the grocery store to make tamales (at least in Arizona).
I made the name cards out of the TomKat Studio printable set and tied them with twine on to each ear of corn.
And incase that wasn’t enough cuteness, I made some of these apple turkey tarts (inspired by these ones at MirandaMade), as part of the dessert selection.
It was a lovely meal. Good food. Good company. But the very best part came before we left when Grandmother, with tears in her eyes, thanked me for making the meal so special, and for doing what she wasn’t able to do any more by creating a beautiful atmosphere for our meal. I don’t think I could have anticipated what my efforts would mean to her. Life is too short to just go through the motions.
I like the above picture because it shows how Grandmother had set aside the place card corn treats I had made for her and Grandad, because she wanted to save them for a while, and it just seemed fitting that they were side-by-side.
Thanks for letting me share! I would love to hear about your Thanksgiving! Any memorable moments? What did you do to make it a special day?


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Biography 17:Finn Hudson by Manny
Finn Hudson is a character on Glee. I know, this is the second time I’m writing about a Glee character, but I think you can learn a lot from Finn. Finn Hudson is a football jock who likes to sing, and is torn between the two. He’s on the football team, and the Glee Club. So luckily for him, he doesn’t have to choose between the two of them.
Well, Finn Hudson is a kind, popular sophomore in high school. Well, in season 1 he was a sophomore. He is worried about his reputation by some things. Although, overall he’s a nice kid, and he can teach people a lot. Like, do you what you want to do. He gets slushied because he’s in the Glee Club. But he still does it because he loves singing, and that teaches something.
“What, do they again? Oh yeah, the show must go all over the place.”
“You’re asking me to choose between you and football?”
“As you can see, I’m kinda busy with college.”

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HIPHEN is a spin-off of INRA ( National Institute of Agronomic Research, France) specialising in measuring plants, for high throughput phenotyping.
HIPHEN developed algorithms and methods for estimating biophysical variables, (chlorophyll content, leaf area index, plant counting, etc) of a vegetal canopy.
A real scientific sensor was required to meet these needs and the result was AIRPHEN.
AIRPHEN is a scientific multispectral camera developed by agronomists for agricultural applications. It can be embedded in different types of platforms such as UAV, phenotyping robots, etc. AIRPHEN is highly configurable (bands, fields of view), lightweight and compact. It can be operated wireless and combined with complementary thermal infrared channel and high resolution RGB cameras.
Main features of Airphen camera:
- Can be integrated in various types of UAV
- Lightweight: 200g
- Provided with batteries, but can easily be connected with UAV power supply
- Has its own GPS, but can also be connected to UAV GPS if available
- Can be triggered by UAV (5V signal), or autonomously (at a given frequency)
6 configurable global shutter cameras:
- By default 450/530/570/675/710/730/750/85
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- Configurable focal distance, by default 4,2mm or 8mm or both.
- Camera temperature
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I’ve been working on this recipe for Peanut Butter Oatmeal Toffee Cookies for several months now. Loaded with peanut butter, old-fashioned oats, sweet coconut flakes, and chocolate covered toffee, they are quite delicious. Especially when served with a large icy glass of milk.
Baked Spinach Artichoke Dip is a yummy appetizer when you want something a little salty and warm. This dip is perfect with crackers (especially Trisket crackers) or toasted Tangy Sourdough Bread or Rustic Sourdough Baguettes.
I’ve been making this Pico de Gallo Salsa all summer, ever since I realized I didn’t abhor fresh cilantro. I love working with all the fresh ingredients, and it’s so tasty! Perfect for your next Mexican dinner night or tailgating party!

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