(Paris) Bars, restaurants, cinemas, hospitals, transport: The health passport entered the daily life of the French on Monday, after being ratified almost entirely by the Constitutional Council and despite a street protest.
On the eve of its entry into force, the government wanted to be reassuring, noting that there would be a first week of tolerance and penetration for this new tool. Already required in culture venues since July 21, it takes the form of a QR code that must be presented for lunch in a restaurant or for a drink on the balcony.
Health Minister Olivier Veran confirmed in Parisian Sunday.
For the passport to be actually valid in many European countries, it must show either a complete vaccination schedule, cured disease with a positive test certificate of at least 11 days and less than 6 months, or finally a negative dating test “less than 72 hours” .
It may also be required by decision of the prefecture in stores over 20,000 square meters2However, you will not be required to see a GP. On the other hand, it will be in hospitals, but in no way should it be a hindrance to obtaining useful and urgent care, assures Mr. Ferran.
On Twitter, the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Cedric O, noted on Sunday that those who present a passport “that is not theirs will incur heavy fines,” explaining that passports “improperly used will be blacklisted and rendered unusable.”
Anyone using a relative’s passport will be subject to a fine of 4NS A denomination of 750 euros (fixed at 135 euros if paid quickly), an amount that increases to 1,500 euros if the offense is repeated within 15 days.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen asked the governors to mobilize the police and gendarmerie to take control “in uniform and in civilian clothes” of establishments whose access is subject to passport presentation, by targeting “urban and tourist areas”. “And “places of gatherings,” according to a telegram consulted by Agence France-Presse.
The number of patients is on the rise
The entry of this passport is disputed on the street: For the fourth consecutive week, nearly 237,000 people demonstrated peacefully on Saturday, according to Interior Ministry figures.
In a video released on Sunday, Florian Philippot hailed the prolongation of the validity of the tests he presented as “a withdrawal from the government.”
The former FN, head of the pro-Frexite Les Patriotes party, who has made fighting the executive’s health strategy his hobby, called for mobilization to “accelerate”. He said, “Fear changes sides.”
Within the executive branch, which is confident that the target of 50 million vaccinations has been reached for the first time by the end of August, Emmanuel Macron’s July 12 speech is said to have given a boost to the campaign. Since then, more than 6.8 million injections have been scheduled for the first time, those around him insist.
According to French Public Health, 44,739,322 people have received at least one injection (ie 66.4% of the total population) and 37,231,075 people now have a full vaccination schedule (which is 55.2% of the total population).
But the number of hospitalized patients continues to increase, with nearly 8,700 patients registered on Sunday, representing a 25% increase in hospitalizations in three weeks.
With 1,556 patients enrolled in critical care wards, the number of COVID-19 patients in critical condition (+81%) has increased since July 21. During the past 24 hours, 117 patients were admitted to intensive care.
And last week, the head of state divided 12 videos on social media, which were viewed more than 60 million times, to answer the questions of the French and invite them to be vaccinated.
On Wednesday, the Health Defense Council will chair a video conference where it will notably be the issue of injecting a third dose of the vaccine to the most vulnerable people at the start of the school year.
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Epidermal growth factor receptor first generation tyrosine-kinase inhibitors
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) oncogene was positioned as an attractive target for drug development in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Gefitinib and erlotinib were the first two reversible inhibitors of the EGFR kinase. The discovery of EGFR kinase domain-activating mutations that significantly correlated with a high likelihood of response to EGFR tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKIs) allowed to design studies to test these drugs as potential first-line therapies. In the same way, the feasibility of personalized medicine was established in patients with advanced NSCLC. Currently in the field of NSCLC with EGFR mutation have developed second and even third generation TKIs that would be gaining the positioning in the treatment of this subset population of NSCLC. In spite of this, without the knowledge that EGFR first generation TKIs have provided, we would not have gotten so far. We will review step by step how it was forged the exciting history of the subpopulation of lung cancer with EGFR mutated, through the various clinical trials performed with first generation TKIs that changed the focus, the future of NSCLC as well as survival of these patients.

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Since 2005, Compass Professional Health Services has challenged everyday people to take an active role in their healthcare experience. We believe that patients are truly the change agents for building a healthcare system that operates efficiently, transparently and with high quality care at the center of everything. At Compass, it’s our mission to empower you to speak up about what’s right for you and your family when it comes to your healthcare. Better care, lower costs, happier patients – it’s what we mean when we say, “Healthcare Redefined.”

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This years theme Karl Largerfeld chose for his show was a Casino, and not just any kind of casino it was full of Hollywood stars playing craps. Edit
Not only were these stars there to gamble but they were also there to model. We saw Juilianne Moore and Kirsten Stewart really get into the spirit while the highly anticipated outing of the new Chanel muse Lily-Rose Depp. You might probably know her best as Johnny Depps 16 yr old daughter.

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AIOps leader raises $40 million to fuel product innovation and global expansion, adds Goldman Sachs board member
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 13, 2018–
Moogsoft, a leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), today announced $40 million in Series D funding led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, with participation from existing investors including HCL, Northgate Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Singtel Innov8, STTelemedia and Wing VC. This round brings Moogsoft’s total funding to $90 million. Funds will be used to scale sales and marketing to meet global demand as well as R&D investment for new product development and continued innovation in their core AIOps platform.
In 2017, Moogsoft more than doubled revenue and saw the onboarding of key customers from across the Global Fortune 500. In addition to closing its fourth round of funding, Moogsoft has also recently released over 15 updates to their AIOps platform, bringing to market innovative new features such as Real-Time Service Dashboards, Collaborative Team-Based Workflows, Algorithmic Clustering Engine, Probable Root Cause Analysis, and a Mobile version. To date, Moogsoft has been awarded six patents and have filed for over 40 additional patent applications for their inventions.
“We are enormously excited to welcome Goldman Sachs Growth Equity as a partner as we dive headlong into the future of IT operations and service assurance,” said Phil Tee, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Moogsoft. “Moogsoft’s purpose-built AIOps platform is in production in the world’s most complex IT environments and is fundamentally transforming the way enterprise operations teams work. We have the intention to be the primary supplier of service assurance software for the new digital economy. With new products, additional capability in AIOps, and with significant investments in sales and marketing, Moogsoft is set to lead the next phase of the digital revolution.”
Gartner Research defines AIOps platforms as software systems that combine big data and AI or machine learning functionality to enhance and partially replace a broad range of IT operations processes and tasks, including availability and performance monitoring, event correlation and analysis, IT service management, and automation. In their 2017 Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, Gartner predicts that, by 2022, 40 percent of all large enterprises will combine big data and machine learning functionality to support and partially replace monitoring, service desk and automation processes and tasks, up from five percent in 2017.
“We have followed the Moogsoft story closely over the past several years, and have been consistently impressed with their thoughtfulness around product development and ability to deliver such a compelling value proposition to customers managing some of the most complex IT operations in the world. By leveraging intelligent algorithms to deliver true machine learning, Moogsoft’s platform addresses the human scalability challenges of using legacy rules-based monitoring technology in increasingly distributed and complicated IT environments,” said Jason Kreuziger, a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, who will join the Moogsoft board of directors in connection with the investment. “We are excited to partner with a world-class management team that has deep domain expertise and a track-record of success in this market, and look forward to working with them to help further scale Moogsoft going forward.”
To learn more about Moogsoft’s future plans, read CEO Phil Tee’s latest blog post.
Moogsoft provides AIOps solutions that help IT teams become faster, smarter and more effective. Through the application of patented AI, Moogsoft helps enterprises such as SuccessFactors, Intuit, HCL and GoDaddy avoid outages and achieve operational agility across the world’s most complex IT environments. Learn more at www.moogsoft.com.
About Goldman Sachs
Founded in 1869, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division (MBD) is the primary center for Goldman Sachs’ long term principal investing activity. With nine offices across seven countries, MBD is one of the leading private equity investors in the world. Since 1986, the group has invested approximately $180 billion of levered capital across a number of geographies, industries and transaction types. Within MBD, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (GS Growth) is a dedicated platform for venture capital and growth equity investments in leading companies that have built innovative technology or processes to transform their industries. Since 1994, GS Growth has partnered with more than 200 companies and invested more than $5 billion of capital across sectors including technology, software, media, healthcare IT, and business and information services. GS Growth seeks to partner with strong management teams to help companies achieve product, customer and geographic expansion. For more information about GS Growth, please visit: www.gs.com/gsgrowth.
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Recent memory has turned the story of General Electric (GE.N) from classic success story to a near tragedy. Founded in the 1890s, GE is one of the oldest recognisable businesses in the world and for the majority of their existence, they were successful. They were one of the founding members of the Dow Jones Industrial average and were the only remaining founding member until they were replaced in 2018 by Walgreen Boots.
Like many businesses, they were hurt badly by the onset of the global pandemic. Their most profitable sector at the time, GE Aviation, changed from money maker to massive money sink almost overnight. Unfortunately, this was not the sole cause and start of their problems. GE stock prices have been on a steady decline since early 2017, having never fully recovered from the 2008 financial crisis due to public, heavily scrutinised mismanagement by unpopular CEO Jeffrey Immelt.
It’s not all doom and gloom though. After Immelt’s retirement and the short-lived spell of John Flannery, GE appointed an outsider CEO for the first time in its history, Larry Culp. Well respected from his 13-year stint as Danaher CEO, Culp is generally thought to have marked an end to an extended period of poor management. While he is yet to deliver, both the mammoth size of the task and the global pandemic likely provide adequate reason for the slow turnaround.
Now with vaccine distribution underway in many major economic areas, it shouldn’t be long until the air travel industry is back up and running. Also because short flights are likely to recover before long haul, GE should have an advantage over their major rival in aerospace, Rolls Royce. Short flights tend to use smaller aircraft such as Boeing 737s and Airbus A320s, both of which use engines partly manufactured by GE. The return of 737s and A320s to the skies should return GE Aviation to profitability as revenue in both engine sales and aftermarket care returns.
In addition to this GE’s Energy sector, while relatively slow in the industry, is now devoting more resources in the shift to renewables as part of a larger restructuring of the entire company. As seen by skyrocketing share prices of “green companies” such as Tesla, going to a more environmentally friendly model can likely only be good for GE.
In conclusion, although current circumstances do not favour GE, the coming return of air travel and wider restructuring of the company are positive signs. And with GE stock at their lowest sustained value in recent memory, now may be a great time to invest in GE. While a return to the glory of the late 90s/ early 00s is not coming any time soon, positive change looks like it could be on the way.

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In designing the exterior of the Great Hall in the Heavenly city of Thyatira, the Author uses structural images from a compilation of medieval castles, including a large Keep standing tall over the courtyard.
The picture above is inside the Great Hall. Uriel and Azarias enter through the over-sized double doors. They find it eerily empty with large, odd paintings of angels flaunting colorful borders, which Azarias assumes signifies their high statuses. Without spoiling the plot, the scene in the Great Hall is inspired by the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. The author experienced the ride when it first opened in 1969 leaving a lasting impression on him that inspired this part of the novel—he was twelve years old at the time.
The author draws upon Revelation 2:20;22; 24-25 in other parts of the series relating to Thyatira.
“…I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. I will cast her on a bed of suffering…Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
Thyatira also has a “Jezebel,” who appears in this Hall during the series. The challenge for the reader is to determine who this character is in the Angelic Wars series. She does not appear in “First Rebellion,” but appears in other forthcoming books, “Into the Mind of Lucifer” and “End of the Beginning,” where this illustration is relevant.
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(Wangaratta - Tarrawingee - Beechworth)
We were fortunate that we got up early and already had a shower before the council workers came around and closed the toilets and the showers for public use. “Out of Service” signs were placed on the doors. The council workers told us that the facilities were being closed because of the rising water level in the river, which made it impossible to flush the toilets.
After we had breakfast, we drove towards Tarrawingee to the point on the Great Alpine Rd, (B500) where I had walked up to the previous day. I got off the van and resumed my walk from that point towards Beechworth. While I had already walked around 8-10 Kms the previous evening, I knew that it was going to be a long and challenging day. It was not going to be a flat walk, but I would have to climb several hills before reaching our destination for the day.
Many towns in New South Wales and Victoria were inundated after the recent heavy rains, Beechworth faced no such issues, because it is located at a height of 560 meters above sea level. Beechworth is known for its beauty and its gold rush history dates back to 1850s. Consequently, the town is very popular with tourists and many wealthy Australians have their principal residence or their holiday home in Beechworth.
After a few breaks, we finally walked into Beechworth town centre around 2:00/2:30PM. I was absolutely exhausted and hungry. So, Michael and I went straight to a cafeteria/restaurant that was still open. Many of them had already closed after lunch. Everything tastes yummy when you are as hungry as I was, but this food was really well-cooked and tasty. We had parked the van in the town centre so that people could see the banners and the online link as well as the QR Code while we walked around the town centre. We went to the Goldfields Greengrocer to get some fresh vegies, fruit and bread. I told the lady what why we were in Beechworth and showed her the video of Channel 7. She called over the young shop owner and asked me to show again the video. They were in disbelief. We filled our basket with the items that we needed and brought it to the check-out counter. I pulled out my credit card and was ready to pay but Michael, my friend wouldn’t let me do it because he wanted to pay for everything. The shop owner smiled when he saw Michael and I both trying to pay. The young owner said, “Neither of you would need to pay, because I am not going to take any money from you when you are doing such a commendable work for the community.” We tried to convince him that it would be appropriate to perhaps give us a discount, but not taking any money at all would not be the right thing to do. He remained firm in his resolve and refused to take money from us. Instead, he said that he and his shop were honoured by our presence. The shop was full of customers. They were all happy and stunned at this generous and contributory gesture by the young shop owner. Thank you so much for your incredible support. On this 1,000 Km journey, meeting people like you makes it all worthwhile. Thank you Goldfields Greengrocer!
The roundabout in the middle of Beechworth is the town centre and it is surrounded by magnificent buildings from the goldrush era of the 1850s and 1860s. The main attraction are the old Post Office, the erstwhile Bank of Victoria and the Gold Museum. Michael and I walked up and down the town centre and talked to people to raise awareness about the breast cancer and the help provided by the McGrath Foundation. We also went to see the former Bank of Victoria which is now home to the Gold Museum. When the staff found out about the fundraising walk to support the McGrath Foundation, they honoured us with a bookmark, a beautiful cap, and a precious stone for me to keep in the pocket for strength and energy and to protect me during the long walk. I was so humbled by the honour bestowed upon me by the museum staff. Thanks very much to the whole team at the Gold Museum in Beechworth. A big Thank you for your support for this worthy cause.
Primarily, there are two caravan parks in Beechworth, namely; Holiday Park, and Lake Sambell Caravan Park. We drove around to find a place in the park near the water. Lake Sambell is one of the busiest and largest caravan parks around. The toilets and showers were pretty clean, but I am not so sure if these facilities would be sufficient for a fully occupied caravan park. At the moment, it was alright because of the low tourist season. After good, hot shower, I had a good sleep throughout the night.

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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel triazoloquinazolinone and imidazoquinazolinone derivatives as allosteric inhibitors of SHP2 phosphataseWenjun Ye, Ye Liu, Qian Ren, Tianhui Liao, Yumei Chen, Dongmei Chen, Sisi Wang, Lihong Yao, Yihe Jia, Chunshen Zhao & Zhixu Zhou
A series of novel triazoloquinolinone and imidazoquinazolinone derivatives were designed and synthesised, and their biological activities against SHP2 protein and melanoma A357 cell line were evaluated in vitro. The results show that some target compounds have moderate to excellent inhibitory activity on SHP2 protein and melanoma A357 cell line. Structure-activity relationships (SARs) showed that both imidazoquinazolinone and triazoloquinazolinone derivatives have good SHP2 protein kinase and melanoma cell line A357 inhibitory activity. The results of molecular...
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So, I stumbled on this fic the other day when I ran across this image on Emily Fay's DeviantArt page. Grr... still can't get images to work, so I'm just putting the link to the DA page. /sigh
I followed the links back to dysonrules's livejournal and immediately was hooked.
The originality of so many of the ideas here is what impressed me the most. Not just the wings. (Although they were my favorite part of this fic...) There were quite a few elements in the plot here that I'd not seen before. I'm not sure how much I liked some of them, but I definitely have to give points for originality.
I also really liked that each chapter started with a quote about flying. Very fun.
3.5 stars, rounded up for all of the beautiful images!Favorite Quotes:Draco flexed his wings and set about learning to fly.
"And how is thinking like a Slytherin going to help us now, oh Slithery One?"
"He lives to make me feel like an inferior arse. He despises my friends; he's continuously insulting; hes--"
"Astoundingly gorgeous, is just your type, is not ever going to be blinded by your name, and will never be boring."
"In our dreams we are able to fly...
and that is a remembering
of how we were meant to be.
"He would kill me and I don't mean that figuratively. I mean gruesomely and with relish."
"I hope you mean the relish figuratively."
"When once you have tasted flight,
you will forever walk the earth
with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been,
and there you will always long to return.
Weasley sighed. "I'm starting to think none of us deserves anyone. Maybe we just have to do the best we can and hope they put up with us."
He took them upward again, delighting in Harry's love of flight and, frankly, Harry's love in general.


I guarantee it. If you listen to Rolling in the Deep by Adele while you’re running, you’ll speed up. It’s not chaotic, it’s not loud. The beat and melodies are simple, yet motivating.
Adele is a young British songstress who, I think, is one of the top few voices in music right now.
This song reminds me a little of Johnny Cash, because of its simple guitar riff and war drums. But it also has soul. It’s a good combo. Make this the last song you listen to on your run and you’ll finish faster no doubt.


Beirut - Nov 29, 2018
Impact investing is the purposeful act of investing in a business or product that will generate, in addition to financial returns, a social or environmental impact.
A 2017 survey conducted by the Global Impact Investing Network, a nonprofit organization for scaling and measuring impact investing worldwide, revealed that over 200 self-identified impact investors closed around 8,000 investments in 2016, with a total value of $22.1 billion. The businesses they invested in focused on creating a positive impact on society or environment, while generating profits for investors.
Seedstars, a global organization that empowers startups in emerging markets through events, workshops, acceleration programs and hubs, is an example of organizations doing impact investing. It aims to reach 10,000 entrepreneurs in 2019. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, between 5 and 7 trillion dollars of investment are needed each year, until 2030, to reach sustainable development goals worldwide.
Since the inception of Seedstars six years ago, their amount allocated to impact investing has multiplied by nine, said Seedstars event manager Laure de Peretti de la Rocca, during her keynote speech at Seedstars MENA Regional Competition held in Beirut on November 29.
“Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, have either acquired, launched or committed capital dedicated to impact. Despite the growing interest, the amount allocated to impact investment is low. If we look at Goldman, they have 1.3 trillion asset under management, less than 1 percent of it is dedicated to impact,” added Laure stressing on the importance of incentivising corporate and big investment firm to invest in impact businesses.
With a focus on impact investing and fundraising in the US versus Lebanon, the event marked Seedstars’ third regional edition and it was supported by several partners including Investment Development Authority of Lebanon (IDAL), MADA Assistive Technology Center, local telecommunication company Touch, Speed Lebanon, Berytech, Endeavor Lebanon, LebNet and many others. The 3-day competition had 351 attendees, 45 investors, 119 startup founders, 303 one-on-one meetings and a representation from 21 countries.Lebanese telecommunications company Touch organized a workshop on business growth and accessing new markets and featured 64 one-on-one meetings with 8 local and regional mentors. (Image via Seedstars)
Speakers included Christopher Schroeder, American investor and entrepreneur and the author of the book Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East; Fadi Zoghzoghi, CTO of Bridge Athletic and a LebNet board member; Sharif El-Badawi, partner at 500 Startups; Walid Hanna, founder and CEO of Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP); Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of global success startup littleBits and Hassane Slaibi, CEO and cofounder of Band Industries, the company that built the most fundraised musical hardware on Kickstarter: Roadie Tuner.
Over 70% of Millennials and Generation X’ers are investing with a purpose
Doing business to generate profits without expressing social or environmental values is no longer an option for most of the millenials and their predecessor generation. A study conducted this year revealed that millennial investors and generation X investors are becoming more attuned to socially responsible investing than their older counterparts. Another study revealed that 77 percent of millennial investors and 72 percent of generation X investors have made an impact investment, compared to just 30 percent of affluent investors from the baby boomer and older generations.
“It’s no longer about making money, but also about having a purpose. Not only is there this rising interest in impact investing, but also a rise in power of a new generation that believe doing business with a purpose goes hand in hand,” added Laure.
And the winner of last year’s Seedstars Global Summit is an example of investing in high-impact startups.
Impacting farmers’ lives through technology
Last April, over 1,000 attendees, investors, startups and enthusiasts attended Seedstars Global Summit in Switzerland. After hosting around 80 local competitions and organizing five regional summits, the global summit gathered startups from 65 countries including the MENA region, for a chance to pitch and win the grand prize of $500,000 of equity investment. Twelve startups were chosen to present and the winner was AgroCenta. This Ghana-based startup aims to solve two critical problems small farmers face: access to market and access to finance. The lack of an access to a market forces farmers to sell their produce to middlemen, who will in return sell the products at a higher price. The lack of finance won’t allow farmers to expand to bigger farms and increase their production.The winner of Seeedstars Global Summit last year took home $500,000 (Image via Seedstars)
AgroCenta built a platform, AgroTrade, that allows farmers to sell their produce directly to large food traders, to ensure fair prices and selling in bulk. It has another platform called AgroPay, which provides financial institutions more visibility over low-risk farmers.
Another Seedstars success story is eFishery, an Indonesian startup that won the global summit in 2014. It’s a smart automatic feeder for fish in farms, making it easier for farmers to track and schedule feeding times using a mobile app. eFishery’s goal is to increase feed efficiency while saving food, as many farm fishes die due to overfeeding.
We may have a long way to go to reach sustainable development goals, especially with the $2.5 trillion investment gap in developing countries, but today’s generation is more than ever willing to invest in businesses that reflect their social and environmental values. With most millennials located in emerging markets, we can only hope the next big success story comes from the MENA region.


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Since 2010, China’s manufacturing output has overtaken the US, becoming the biggest manufacturing country all over the world. However, after the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, the European and American developed countries have implemented a series of industrial revitalization plan, which means that a third industrial revolution with the characteristics of personalization, intelligence and digital in the global market continued to deepen. In such a new wave of industrial revolution, Chinese traditional manufacturing industry is facing huge impact, such as the gradually decreasing labor cost advantages, mode of production localization and diversification and deepening manufacturing service level, etc. In order to achieve a new round of growth and success for industry transformation, manufacturing revolution in China is urgently needed. Based on the key historical period, this paper puts forward the new direction for transformation of Chinese manufacturing paradigm―“man- ufacturing individuation”, pointing out that the size of its core content is from the traditional economic paradigm to the scope economy. At the same time, through the theoretical analysis of traditional scale economies and scope economy for its applicability, it is pointed out that with the use of a large number of advanced manufacturing crafts, enterprises average cost curve is flatting, and the importance of personalized customization in today’s market is increasingly prominent. What’s more, the traditional large-scale standardized production to reduce the enterprise cost function will be no longer obvious, and the importance of economies of scale in the modern market will decline. On the other hand, through the analysis of the current market supply and demand, the effect of quick market to meet the personalized needs of consumers of the scope of the economy in the third industrial revolution wave will be even more popular, and the scope economy will bring manufacturers to reduce production costs and improve product differentiation, even promoting the marketing and enterprise technology innovation and competitive advantage. Finally the essay proposed that compared to traditional standardized mass production, new manufacturing paradigm based on the scope economy could be more adaptable to the current market demand, and promote a country’s economic growth.
2. Trend and Essence of the Third Industrial Revolution
2.1. Current Situations about Reform and Development of Modern Manufacturing Industry
When the international financial crisis triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis fades away, people begin to reflect on such new-type international financial crisis, especially European and American developed countries deeply encumbered by this financial crisis. At present, major developed countries in the world have realized that the production capacity and knowledge accumulation contained by manufacturing industry are related to the long-term development performance of economy in a country. The strategy of manufacturing industry-oriented entity economy is not only shown in the economic value directly created by the department but also reflected in its long-term driving effect on national economy. Therefore, these developed countries have introduced the so- called “re-industrialization” one after another, such as “manufacturing renaissance plan” of US and “future factory plan” of Europe. Such industrial recovery plans are not simply equal to “re-industrialization”. Western developed countries can hardly form effective competitive advantages in the aspects of traditional manufacturing industry elements covering labor cost, professional and technical personnel, and market size. Therefore, they are at a disadvantage in the international trade with developing countries. According to David Ricardo’s  comparative advantage theory, with the pre condition that there are differences existing in labor productivity between two countries, which are capable of producing two commodities engage in the free market, then each country’s overall consumption will go up by exporting the good for which it has a comparative advantage while importing the other good. Ricardo’s theory also indicates that it is the comparative advantage responsible for most of the international trade instead of absolute advantage. Therefore, it is quite difficult for Western developed countries to guide the return of overseas factories again.
HUANG Yanghua and ZHUO Lihong  pointed out that the so-called “re-industrialization” and “industrial recovery” meant to drive the development of manufacturing industry via the breakthrough of advanced manufacturing technology and to build new comparative advantages of competition for manufacturing industry. The core content is to accelerate and promote the application of advanced manufacturing technology like artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing, 3D print and industrial robot, and to guide the global industrial production system to develop toward individualization, automation and intelligence that will help Western developed countries gain technology and resource advantages by utilizing the technical advantages accumulated by developed countries in information, communication and technology fields for a long time. At present, due to such an individualization, automation and intelligence reform of manufacturing industry under the drive of extensive use of emerging technology, people have realized that a new industrial reform tide is being formed―“the third industrial revolution”.
2.2. Core Content of the Third Industrial Revolution
For the definition and connotation of “the third industrial revolution”, opinions still vary in different circles and the following two viewpoints are the main sources. The first viewpoint is “communication and energy theory” proposed by the US scholar Rifkin  in The Third Industrial Revolution. He considered that all industrial revolutions in human history were important changes triggered by the combination of communication technology and energy technology. For instance, in the 19th century, owing to the combination of communication media including newspaper, periodicals, magazines and books with steam engine setting coal as the energy, people entered the age of steam, and the first industrial revolution arrived. In the 20th century, the combination of communication media including telephone and wireless communication with oil engine led people to walk into the electrical age, and the second industrial revolution was triggered. Now with the continuous development of the new communication technology internet, renewable energy sources have entered people’s daily life gradually. The combination of internet with new energy is about to cause the third industrial revolution around the world. The second viewpoint is “production mode theory” proposed by Markillie  in The Economist. He considered that industrial revolution mainly referred to the revolution reflected in production technology and production mode. In the first industrial revolution, machine production replaced manual workshop, and mechanized factory system became the dominant production organization form. In the second industrial revolution, assembly line production created by automation made large-scale production become the dominant production mode. In the third industrial revolution that is happening now, the core is digital production, individualized production and intelligent production, and the new production mode will make the large-scale assembly line production mode become a history. Meanwhile, individualized manufacturing closer to the consumer market with fast reaction characteristic will be become a brand-new production mode. In my opinion, no matter how the third industrial revolution is defined, the future development trend of manufacturing industry is undoubtedly certain. With the integration of information technology and production & service fields, industrial production will be transformed into digitization, networking and intelligence, and the production mode will also develop toward individualized, distributed and local production. Meanwhile, the third industrial revolution is not simple revolution of production mode and production technology, and its essence is the transformation of economic development idea. It will be transformed from scale economy aiming to be bigger and stronger into scope economy aimed at high efficient utilization of resources. On the one hand, when fundamental changes happen to productivity conditions, the multi-purpose nature of resources will be discovered endlessly, exclusiveness of assets will decline, and scale advantage will weaken gradually. On the other hand, with the continuous increase of people’s income level, consumer demand also experiences fundamental changes. The simple material need is transformed into non- material need. Consumption aims to not only meet physiological needs but also satisfy psychological needs. “Diversification, individualization and differentiation” have become essential characteristics of demand. The change of demand not only hastens flexible production system and guides “small-amount and multi-variety” production mode to occupy the status of mainstream production mode but also makes differentiation become the starting point and objective of enterprises or regions when they seek scope economy. It is easy to see that the tide of economic growth pattern revolution is rising in the world, and quantitative expansion is changed into quality growth. Compared with assembly line and standard production under the traditional scale economy, scope economy has more extensive applicability.
3. Impacts of the Third Industrial Revolution on China’s Manufacturing Industry
Faced with such a new industrial production mode revolution, either developed countries or developing countries will experience opportunities and challenges at the same time. It becomes a hot topic discussed by various circles in the society to grasp the development opportunity in such a new industrial revolution tide and to find a new economic growth pattern. China is faced with multiple challenges. Since reform and opening up, Chinese economy has increased rapidly and its economic strength has been enhanced quickly. It has become the world’s second largest economy second only to the US by surpassing Japan. Its GDP has maintained growth at the rate of about 10% for 30 consecutive years. In recent years, the growth rate slows down, but the growth rate is still approximate to 8%. However, if we still stick to the traditional economic development pattern, these economic growth miracles might disappear in the tide of the third industrial revolution. Therefore, faced with the upcoming third industrial revolution, we should hold sense of crisis and sense of urgency. Firstly, we must realize which challenges it will bring about to economic growth in China.
1) Decline of labor cost advantage
With the digitization and intelligence of manufacturing process in the third industrial revolution, numerous traditional simple workers will be replaced by a few knowledge employees, and the proportion of labor cost in the whole production cost will decline gradually. Therefore, the labor cost advantage of China will be weakened little by little. In the current global trading market, a large amount of cheap labor force is the major comparative advantage in foreign trade of China. However, with the further application of advanced manufacturing technology, the proportion of labor in the total investment is bound to decrease. Then in international competition, the comparative advantage of cheap labor force possessed by China will disappear gradually. In recent years, the growth rate of labor cost rises obviously in China, and the growth rate is greatly higher than that of developed countries. According to the research of HUANG Qunhui  , from 2000 to 2009, the annual average growth rate of hourly wage of Chinese workers in dollar was 13.7%; as for developed countries in the same period, it was 3.3% in the US, 4.5% in Britain, 6.6% in Germany, 7.9% in France, and 8.7% in Australia. Obviously, the “re-industrialization” and “industrial recovery plan” guided by developed countries will trigger counter-trans- ference of manufacturing industry from developing countries to developed countries in the future. Faced with such counter-transference, if we still rely on the traditional economic growth pattern and attract foreign investment by utilizing China’s cheap labor force, we will be at a disadvantage gradually in international competition with the continuous introduction of advanced manufacturing technology. Numerous laborers will be faced with unemployment, and economic growth will slow down and even degrade. Finally, we will fall behind developed countries again in the tide of the third industrial revolution.
2) Localization and decentralization of production mode
Due to the further deepening of globalization, the boundary among countries in the market becomes vaguer and vaguer. On the one hand, global enterprises participate in contending for the global market, so product quality, uniqueness and flexibility will become prominent gradually in competition. On the other hand, consumers become more and more captious and often pursue individualized products, so upgrading of products is faster and faster, and the production cycle becomes shorter and shorter. Consumer demand has already been transformed from large scale in the past into anti-popularization and even individualized development. Moreover, the application of reconfigurable production system, 3D print technology and additive manufacturing technology in modern manufacturing industry has further promoted this development trend. Therefore, in order to approach the market more and to gain closer interaction with consumers, the function of large enterprises declines gradually, and innovative middle and small-sized enterprises play a more and more important role. The new production mode presents characteristics of localization and decentralization. FENG Fei  considered that this would form a challenge for Chinese industrial system still relying on large-scale export. Due to digital manufacturing, scale economy of many industries will not be obvious anymore, and personalized customization and dispersed manufacturing become the new characteristics. In order to approach the market more, to be closer to domestic consumers, and to react to the market more rapidly, foreign merchants building factories in China will get their fund back and invest in their own countries, so as to conduct local production. Products of overseas innovative middle and small-sized enterprises are more individualized, which will also bring about huge challenges to China’s standardized products depending on scale economy and mass production.
3) Gradual deepening of service degree in manufacturing industry
With the promotion of intelligent technology, consumers began to participate in product design and production process gradually; in this way, product design and manufacturing should be closer to consumers’ individualized needs; meanwhile, product design, development, manufacturing and use would be combined more closely, and the previous linear process development would be replaced by integration process. Just as mentioned above, small-scale and decentralized production mode will cause further changes to production organization form. For instance, by applying advanced 3D print technology, individualized production will carry out “micro-manufac- turing” and “individual business” by setting individual and family as the unit. This is mutual fusion of manufacturing industry and service industry, and the service trend of manufacturing industry is further intensified. At present, in order to expand domestic demand and promote economic development, China excessively emphasizes the increase of service industry proportion. However, it ignores the huge driving effect of manufacturing industry in the future development, and neglects the service trend of manufacturing industry. If the development strategy of Chinese manufacturing industry and service industry is not adjusted in time and the service degree of Chinese manufacturing industry is not improved timely, Chinese industrialization process might be unable to gain further breakthroughs for quite a long time in the future.
4) Suppression on the traditional industry upgrading path and industrialization process
According to traditional industrial economics theory, as a backward country, China should develop labor- intensive industry and occupy the bottom of smiling curve by undertaking the industrial transfer of developed countries through its comparative advantage. Moreover, it should develop toward both ends of “smiling curve” gradually through imitative innovation and original innovation of products, so as to realize upgrading and surpassing in technology and industry. However nowadays, with the application of advanced technology, manufacturing link and production efficiency of developed countries are improved gradually. For example, when reconfigurable production system is applied, the production cost will maintain a fixed level rather than increase with the output. In this way, developed countries can not only occupy both ends of the industrial value chain but also form competitive advantages in the whole industry chain. HUANG Qunhui and HE Jun  pointed out that with the gradual deepening of the third industrial revolution, due to the individualized consumer demand and digital and intelligent manufacturing technology, the product manufacturing link would be as important as research and development and marketing links. In another word, “smiling curve” might not “smile” anymore, and it would even turn into “silent curve”. Enterprises and factories moving to overseas developing countries to reduce production cost might go back to developed countries with advanced manufacturing technology due to the application of advanced manufacturing technology and labor cost rise in developing countries. The traditional industry upgrading path will be suppressed in China, and the original industrial paths surpassing developed countries will also be affected. Therefore, the industrialization process will be forced to slow down.
With the gradual weakening of labor cost, localization and decentralization of production mode, increasing deepening of manufacturing industry service degree, and gradual suppression on the traditional industry upgrading path, the effect of traditional economic development mode and manufacturing paradigm on economic growth might not be significant anymore. For instance, as the core achievement of the second industrial revolution―mass production, the content is to conduct assembly line production via specialized equipment, to reduce production cost by utilizing scale economy of production, and to increase the product quality at the same time. Mass production has resulted in explosive growth of industrial capacity and supply capacity. However at present, in the traditional industrial market with numerous standard and large-scale products, consumers pay more and more attention to product differentiation, individualized market requirement becomes more and more important, and the contradiction between scale economy and product differentiation is more and more prominent. Therefore, in the modern market of free competition, scale economy is not the only choice of enterprises, and scope economy becomes more important. It can endow enterprises with the ability of reacting to the market rapidly, so as to respond to consumers’ individualized needs. Faced with various challenges, a great revolution of economic growth pattern around the world is brewed. Just as mentioned above, economic growth is transformed from quantitative expansion into quality growth, and more and more attention is paid to scope economy. Can scope economy adapt to the new economic development pattern in developing countries like China? Will a new round of economic growth be brought about to us? Is scale economy inapplicable? This paper will further analyze the above questions.
4. Theoretical Analysis on Applicability of Scale Economy
Scale economy in Microeconomics means to form an economy that makes the long-term average cost of output in an enterprise or region decrease with the increase of output by reducing unit output cost in the enterprise or region due to the enhancement of professional level caused by labor division under a certain production technology condition. The theoretical basis of scale economy lies in inseparability of resources, exclusiveness of assets and explicitness of sunk cost. It highlights profession, and tries to increase the efficiency and benefit of economic activities by enhancing profession.
Originating from the US, scale economy theory reveals the economic scale of mass production. Typical representatives include Alfred Marshall, Chamberlain, Robinson and Bain.
In Principles of Economics, Marshall put forward, “The benefit of mass production can be clearly seen in industry―The benefit of factories lies in: use and reform of special agencies, purchase and selling, and further division of special technology and management work.” Besides, Marshall expounded two approaches of forming scale economy, i.e. “internal scale economy” formed by relying on full and effective utilization, organization and operation efficiency increase of some enterprises for resources, and “external scale economy” formed by relying on reasonable labor division and combination of multiple enterprises as well as reasonable regional layout. He further studied the change rule of scale economy returns. With the continuous expansion of production scale, the scale returns will experience three stages covering increase of scale returns, invariability of scale returns, and decrease of scale returns. However, enterprise scale cannot be expanded endlessly, and it should not be too large. Too large enterprise scale will result in too high management cost, diseconomy of production, increase of cost, and diseconomy of scale.
How to determine the appropriate scale for enterprises? Neoclassical economics further explains scale economy through average cost curve. See Figure 1 when technological progress is not considered.
Short-term average cost curve reflects the change rule of average cost (i.e. unit product cost) when production capacity remains unchanged in a certain period. In the figure, SAC1, SAC2 and SAC3 represent short-term average cost curves of different scales. Average cost decreases with the increase of output, and then rises with the increase of output when it exceeds a certain limit. Long-term average cost curve (LAC) shows the change rule of average cost in the process of increasing production capacity, and it is the envelope curve of short-term average cost curve. When the curve slopes down, it means scale economy. In the figure, is the long-term average cost will decline to point B; it is at the floor level between B and C, and rises above point C. Therefore, BC can be called “optimal scale interval”, scale at point B is called “minimum optimal scale”, and scale at point C is known as “maximum optimal scale”. Enterprise scale at any point in this “interval” appropriate.
However in real economy, the increase of production capacity is often driven by technological progress, enterprises will adopt new technology with higher efficiency when increasing the production capacity. Therefore, when the factor of technological progress is considered (it is acknowledged that increase of production capacity and technological progress happen at the same time), in an ordinary way, long-term average cost curve driven by technological progress declines continuously, but the decrease range will drop with the increase of potential exploitation difficulty. Therefore, the long-term average cost curve is adjusted correspondingly, as shown in Figure 2.
No matter whether technological progress is considered, the application of scale economy should be able to effectively reduce average cost of enterprises and to lower production cost. However, with the arrival of the third industrial revolution, various kinds of advanced manufacturing technology will be applied. Here 3D print technology will be taken as an example. SUN Bolin  pointed out that 3D print technology meant to complete a series of digital slices via computer aided design technology. Meanwhile, information about these slices will
Figure 1. Average cost curve of enterprises (technological progress is not considered).
be transferred to a 3D printer, and the latter will pile consecutive thin layers through hierarchical processing till a solid object is formed. Its working principle is almost the same with common printers. It is connected to a computer, and “printing materials” will be piled layer by layer via computer control. Finally, the blueprint in computer will be changed into an object. Such new manufacturing technology might make the production cost of single product equal to the unit product cost of mass production. See Figure 3.
From the macro angle, scale economy will help to increase market competitiveness of enterprises and industries, and thus to enhance international competitive ability of countries. In order to enter the world powers, China has to develop economy and to improve its economic strength. We should not only step toward the international market but also occupy a certain position on the international economic stage. Especially after entering WTO, China has to meet the challenge of “competition internationalization”, so world-class enterprises and enterprise groups with strong power and competitive capacity must be established.
However, we should clearly realize that with the further deepening of the third industrial revolution, the mode of attracting consumers by relying on expansion of production scale and reduction of product cost is not suitable for enterprises if they want to gain a success, to survive in the international market with fierce competition, and to stand out. Now consumers need individualized, diversified and differentiated products, and they are willing to purchase personalized products at a higher price rather than cheap products from standardized production. Due to advanced manufacturing technology like intelligent manufacturing system, reconfigurable manufacturing system and flexible production in developed countries, manufacturing industry has entered a brand-new production stage. Individualized customized production satisfying each consumer’s needs becomes possible. In developing countries like China, large enterprises that adopt mass production by depending on the comparative
Figure 2. Average cost curve of enterprises (technological progress is considered).
Figure 3. Average cost curve of enterprises (scope economy).
advantage of low labor cost will be faced with the dilemma of being eliminated again. Therefore, when the effect of scale economy is not obvious anymore, will scope economy guide the new round of economic growth?
5. Theoretical Analysis on Applicability of Scope Economy
Scope economy was the economy that the long-term average cost of output tended to decline with the increase of output categories as well as the phenomena like efficient utilization of resources brought about by the synergistic effect of diversified economic activities or economic activity cost saving caused by resource sharing of diversified economic activities. Different from scale economy, scope economy mainly originates from multi-purpose nature of resources and sharing of resource utilization cost. Traditional scope economy in a narrow sense means that the total output of a single enterprise exceeds the total output that can be realized by two enterprises of manufacturing the same product. SHEN Qianqian  put forward that scope economy in a broad sense referred to the benefit brought about to the single enterprise when multiple enterprises in the same region manufactured multiple related products, i.e. aggregation effect; this was the external economics of scope economy or the regional scope economy. In this paper, discussion is mainly conducted from scope economy in a broad sense.
In a market of free competition, traditional economics theory tells us that the supply-demand relationship of commodities plays a decisive role. Various changes of the market also come from the interaction between suppliers and demanders. Therefore, this paper will analyze the applicability of scope economy from market suppliers and demanders when considering the applicability of scope economy.
With the continuous improvement of technology, consumer demand changes with each passing day, product categories become more and more diversified, and the market life cycle is shorter and shorter. Dedicated manufacturing system under the traditional mass manufacturing paradigm often has problems like excess production capacity and excessively long development cycle. Due to the high fixed cost and lack of flexible production system, such single production system has lost its rationality gradually. In order to adapt to the highly dynamic product market at present, product suppliers do not need the traditional assembly line production or blind expansion of their production scale. Instead, they require a kind of production that has stronger applicability and flexibility, that can closely respond to the changes of consumer demand, that can manufacture products needed by consumers, and that will realize full life circle products. Undoubtedly, new requirements will be raised for product supply chain and product suppliers. “Supply chaining” of the US retailer leader Wal-Mart mentioned by the US scholar Thomas Friedman  in The World Is Flat shows the power of scope economy for us. In the distribution center of Wal-Mart, boxes with commodities acquired from different suppliers will be sent to conveyor belts with different sizes; the electric eye system will scan the bar code on each box and classify them again according to different contents. Then they will be sent to exclusive trucks assigned by various Wal-Mart stores, and transported to the goods shelves in different Wal-Mart stores. When consumers take them off from the goods shelves, the cashier will send signals to the commodity suppliers through the network of Wal-Mart when scanning the commodities. After suppliers receive the signals, they will supplement commodities to the distribution center of Wal-Mart according to the above supply chain. This process goes round and round.
Therefore, when you take off a commodity from the goods shelf of Wal-Mart, the commodity will be produced in a certain place around the world. Wal-Mart conducts horizontal cooperation among suppliers, retailers and consumers through the “supply chaining” mode. In this way, it can timely grasp the latest demands of consumers in the era of consumer demand diversification―shortage can always make more profits than surplus. Someone might consider that this is an effective marketing method of Wal-Mart, but it’s not true. Such a new retailer operation mode contains the quintessence of scope economy. It has integrated suppliers, logistics transportation and customers into its marketing, and formed an uncrossed low-cost supply chain. Firstly, Wal-Mart requires its commodity suppliers to install specific bar codes and electronic supply systems according to its specifications, so as to effectively reduce the transaction cost with suppliers and to improve veracity and efficiency of freight delivery. Secondly, for Wal-Mart, each commodity can be acquired from the same wholesaler, so it has to directly purchase commodities from manufacturers if it wants to gain a lower purchase price than other retailers. However, it is impossible for manufacturers to send commodities to various Wal-Mart stores. Therefore, Wal-Mart has established its own logistics distribution center. The average cost of operating distribution center is increased, but the cost of wholesaler link is saved. As a result, the ultimate cost of Wal-Mart is reduced. Meanwhile, by sharing commodity information with suppliers, Wal-Mart can effectively save cost and avoid overstock. Moreover, it can acquire the latest consumer demand information in time. All in all, when the supply chain scale and scope are larger, they are able to sell products to consumers at a lower price. Besides, there will be more advantages in the process of bargaining with suppliers, and thus bigger benefit can be acquired.
Commodity suppliers will benefit from such scope economy. Besides, consumer demand has provided powerful support for scope economy when it plays a role in the current economic society. The US scholar Chris Anderson  narrated the era faced by us as consumers in The Long Tail. Transfer of our cultural and economic centers is accelerated, and it moves from few big hotspots (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the curve to a large number of niche products and markets at the tail of the curve. In an era without commodity space limitation and other supply bottlenecks, products and services directing at small groups can have the same economic attraction as mainstream hotspots. This means that we consumers possess more diversified and individualized choices, which are not restricted to standardized products from large-scale production several decades ago. Such changes mainly depend on the following three aspects. 1) Expansion of selection space: with the development of production technology, producers have already been transformed from enterprises and factories into individuals, and various products are manufactured all the time. Therefore, our selection space is expanded at an unprecedented speed, and the camp of selectable products multiplies. 2) Reduction of search cost: nowadays, internet makes consumers able to hunt for any products they need as well as products with more individualized characteristics. Through online shopping, consumers can acquire thousands of commodities easily. 3) Flexible production mode: advanced production technology makes individualized products possible. Through 3D print technology and reconfigurable production system, consumers can acquire customized products. For instance, when consumers purchase a computer in HP store, the workers can customize an exclusive computer for them within 2 - 3 days as long as they tell them their requirements for computer configuration and functions.
All these will promote consumers to pursue differentiated commodities and make the commodity life cycle shorter and shorter. The quick change of consumer demand market will raise a new requirement for suppliers again. Only by establishing an individualized product supply chain able to rapidly respond to the market and timely satisfy consumers, can enterprises maintain economic growth ability in the third industrial revolution. Without question, scope economy plays a unique role in effectively reducing the cost by utilizing the synergistic effect among different industries, and manufacturing individualized products by rapidly responding to the market.
6. Conclusive Comments
In the tide of the third industrial revolution, in order to prosper the industry, western developed countries will vigorously promote the global industrial production system to change toward the direction of digitization, individualization and intelligence that will help to express the advanced manufacturing technology advantage of developed countries. Developing countries like China are faced with impacts and challenges like gradual weakening of labor cost advantage, localization and decentralization of production mode, increasing deepening of service degree in manufacturing industry, and suppression on the traditional industry upgrading path, so paradigm change of traditional manufacturing industry becomes an increasingly significant topic. With the appearance of flexible production mode covering 3D print technology and reconfigurable production system, average cost curve of enterprise production will become a horizontal line, and there will be no difference between the single finished product and finished product batch. As a result, scale economy does not have an obvious effect on cost reduction. In addition, with the saturation of traditional commodity market, consumers’ individualized needs are more prominent. Standardized products from mass production cannot adapt to consumer demands anymore. In the modern market where product cycle is shortened and consumer demands change with each passing day, individualized customized production dominated by scope economy is undoubtedly more suitable. It can respond to the market requirements quickly and satisfy consumers’ individualized needs.
However, this does not mean that scale economy is not applicable. In my opinion, this is an economic thought and manufacturing paradigm transformation toward scope economy on the basis of scale economy―large-scale individualized customization. We should not totally repudiate scale economy when emphasizing quick response to the market and demand diversification. Its effect on product cost reduction is not obvious, but it still plays a role in reducing enterprise operation cost.
Therefore, when the third industrial revolution becomes even more violent, China has to effectively combine the thought of scope economy with transformation of traditional manufacturing paradigm by directing at different market requirements. Besides, the combination between digital manufacturing industry and informatization should be promoted, and the application of advanced manufacturing technology must be valued, so as to grasp the development opportunity. We must enter the so-called list of developed countries, rather than fall behind them again.
 Friedman, T.L. (2008) The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century: Content Upgrading and Expansion Version. He, F., Xiao, Y.Y. and Hao, Z.F., Trans., Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha.


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Illinois public universities risk being downgraded, Moody's Investors Service announced today, singling out schools ranging from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
The other universities mentioned by Moody's include Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University and Western Illinois University.
The universities are overly dependent on the state for "operating funds and fringe benefits," Moody's said in a statement. The agency also noted "extensive appropriation payment delays in a challenging budget environment that continues to pressure Illinois' public universities cash flow and liquidity."
Moody's doesn't have a high opinion of Illinois' debt. Last week the credit rating agency signaled that the state's already low rating may soon be lowered again, based on a pessimistic outlook that Illinois can reduce its pension costs. Illinois already is Moody's lowest rated state, one notch below California.


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Orlando’s newest attraction is not a theme park—but it is huuuge!
Fun Spot America near International Drive is celebrating their two new roller coasters, which is one of several new attractions in the Fun Spot’s planned $25-million expansion.
The Fun Spot’s new roller coasters—the White Lightning and the Freedom Flyer—are already drawing the attention of families seeking to spend a “day at the park” but without spending “theme park prices”. This is exactly what Fun Spot America, which is located near the intersection of International Drive and Kirkman Road, has aimed to do by providing an entertainment venue with fun rides, fun food and lots of fun all around.
The first of these two new roller coasters at the Fun Spot is the White Lightning, an old-style wooden roller coaster that gives guests the thrill of yesteryear’s coasters—complete with sound and the jerky movement typical of these rides. The second one is the Sky Coaster, which is a modern hanging roller coaster with a faster and smoother ride, but still full of thrills thanks to its twists and turns. Together, these two roller coasters have become the star attractions of the little giant that is Fun Spot America.
The best part is that Fun Spot America is located just over 3 miles from Vista Cay Resort by Millenium and since it is open from 10 am to midnight, it is a perfect entertainment venue for both families on vacation or convention attendees—particularly those looking for an affordable thrill park where you can spend several hours having fun. And you can have all that fun for under $50 per person, so be sure to ask the staff at Vista Cay Resort by Millenium about getting tickets for Fun Spot America.
If you are planning your next Orlando vacation at Vista Cay Resort by Millenium, be sure to ask us about Fun Spot America and any other local attractions that can be a great alternative to the larger theme parks.


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ASAP Ferg Drops Two New Songs “Nia Long” and “Aw Yea” With Lil Yachty
Update (June 13, 10:12 p.m. EST):
Ferg releases his fourth song of the day with "Plain Jane." Listen below.
Update (June 13, 7:41 p.m. EST):
And another one. Ferg drops off his third song of the day with "Furious Ferg" produced by Tommy Lovee. Listen to it below.
This morning (June 13), A$AP Ferg premiered two new songs on his official SoundCloud page. On the spacey, hard-hitting track "Nia Long" he compares his current girl's beauty to the 46-year-old actress fawned over by guys since the Friday movie trilogy, while "Aw Yea" sees Ferg switching up his flow with assistance from 2016 XXL Freshman Lil Yachty. The cuts also have HighDefRazjah on production for "Nia Long," who worked with Mike WiLL Made-It on Rae Sremmurd's "Take It or Leave It," and Maaly Raw on "Aw Yea", who's worked with Lil Uzi Vert on all of his projects.
As part of Ferg's Trap Lord Tuesday series, "Nia Long" and "Aw Yea" offer only a hint of what's to come as he prepares to release more solo music and with the A$AP Mob gang. In early 2015, Ferg first introduced "Nia Long" to his audience at a concert in Boston, which he tweeted about this morning, calling it "very rare shit."
As of late, A$AP Ferg is on tour with Future and the Migos. Over the past few months he has released a music video for "East Coast" featuring Bronx spitter Remy Ma and a collab with A$AP Rocky entitled "Wrong," seemingly off the upcoming Cozy Tapes Vol. 2. Last week the Harlem rapper spoke to XXL about his newest venture in interior design, launching a pop-up shop in his hometown made to look like his own apartment. “I’ve always been into interior decoration, so what I’m doing right now is bringing my home to your home and expanding the Trap Lord brand," he said.
Listen to "Nia Long and "Aw Yea" below and stay tuned for more music from the Trap Lord.
Go Behind the Scenes With Lil Yachty at 2016 XXL Freshman Cover Shoot


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SYDNEY — Australian federal coin agency Film Finance Corp. wrapped the financial year on Saturday by announcing it had backed a record production slate of 15 pics, three telepics, 10 minis and 46 docs worth A$202 million ($173 million).
FFC contributed 37% of the slate’s value, the highest in its 18-year history.
Org also issued temporary operating guidelines and three letters of intent to co-fund pics.
Film and TV makers are set to embark on a new film financing era Down Under, but details of the federal government’s new rebate program announced in May, due to replace the direct government finance model in place for almost two decades, were finalized in time for Sunday’s start date.
In the absence of firm legislation, the FFC is advising producers of eligible projects to apply for FFC coin now, and then seek the rebate after it passes through parliament in September.
This will allow the FFC to back projects, then redeem some of those funds for future projects, and it enables producers to retain rights.
FFC intends to fund “Look Both Ways” helmer Sarah Watt and producer Bridget Ikin, who will re-team for “My Year Without Sex,” an as-yet-uncast dark romantic comedy.
Another project to attract a promissory note is thriller “The Visitor” from “The Oyster Farmer” producer Anthony Buckley and tyro helmer-scribe Greg Woodland. Pic is about a family that is the focus of a mysterious nocturnal prowler.
Also, Mark Patterson will produce “The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks” from director Jonathan Teplitzky (“Gettin’ Square”).
Not all projects that receive letters of intent end up using FFC coin. Phillip Noyce is considering tapping the new rebate for his 2008 adaptation of “Dirt Music” rather than using the FFC loot promised to him last December.
And filming of Scott Hicks’ long-mooted return to Oz to helm “The Boys Are Back in Town” with Clive Owen has been postponed.


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SPRING BRANCH, Texas — If you can’t decide on dinner tonight, consider ordering from Tacos Doña Lena.
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Raised by an Amish family, Katie Lapp (Katie Leclerc, TV's "Switched at Birth") starts a quest to find her birth-mother, Laura Mayfield-Bennett (Sherry Stringfield, TV's "ER"). Along the way, two very different men try to help her overcome a devious scheme to steal her rightful inheritance and divide her heart between two worlds.
I have to admit that I usually like to read the books first before I watch a movie based on a book. But when I watched The Confession, I was really drawn into the story. I don't know much about the Amish or the genre of Amish literature, but found this movie to be be quite entertaining. It had love, suspense, family relationships in various forms and drama, all wrapped into 88 minutes of entertainment. This movie is the second in a trilogy. I loved that the movie was quickly paced, the story unraveling fast while maintaining the suspense and intrigue. I really disliked some of the characters and wanted to yell at the screen because of their deceitful doings and downright shameful behavior. I loved other characters for their tenderness and honesty and care. This movie was beautifully acted and the emotions of the characters jumped from the screen. This was a great adaptation from book to movie. I can only imagine how good the book was based on this great movie. I rate it 4 stars!
About the books by Beverly Lewis:
Book 1 in The Heritage of Lancaster County. Katie Lapp only knew the Amish ways, but when she discovers a satin infant gown in her parents' attic, her hidden past devastates the community she has always called home.
Leaving behind her cloistered Amish life, Katie Lapp seeks the mother she has never known. A heart-rending tale of compassion and betrayal. Heritage of Lancaster County book 2.
Book 3 in The Heritage of Lancaster County. The long-awaited conclusion to a beloved trilogy! Katherine Mayfield must find the peace that once reigned in her mother's heart before she can embrace her first love again.


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Pulteney is a town located within New York, United States.
Pulteney is wonderful for those who need quiet areas, as there isn't a lot of street noise or city clamor. Green spaces aren't well-distributed, making them very difficult to access.
Single detached homes are the predominant housing type, representing the vast majority of buildings in Pulteney, and the rest of the dwellings are mainly mobile homes. This town also has quite a good variety of unit sizes; houses range from lofts to four or more bedrooms. Roughly 90% of the population of this town own their home whereas the remainder are renters. About 45% of homes in this town were constructed pre-1960, while most of the remaining buildings were built in the 1960s and the 1980s.
There are no high schools and no primary schools in this town. With regards to eating, it is very rarely practical for property owners in Pulteney to purchase their groceries on foot.
The car is usually the favored approach to move around in Pulteney. It is very easy to access a place to park. On the other hand, Pulteney is not very suitable for traveling on foot since running common errands is very inconvenient by walking.


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A Bartow County Sheriff’s Office deputy was called to the McKaskey Creek Road residence and spoke with the victim, who said she was in an argument with Jason Ledbetter. She said Ledbetter allegedly punched her in the left ear twice, choked her, threatened to stab her and broke her necklace and bracelet before fleeing the scene.
The deputy noted red marks around the victim’s throat, a “very red” left ear and the broken necklace. The knife was described as a gray, pearl-handled pocket knife.
The victim said she was on the phone with 911 when Ledbetter was threatening to kill her for “ruining his life.” Bartow County Dispatch received the call recording and said they could hear Ledbetter yelling in the background that the victim was ruining his life.
Another deputy located Ledbetter and returned him to the scene. Ledbetter said he was talking to the victim when they began to fight and the victim pulled out a knife and came at him. Ledbetter said he had to disarm the victim by punching her in the head and pulling on her clothing. After he disarmed the victim, Ledbetter said, he put the knife in her vehicle.
A search of the victim’s vehicle did not find the knife. After searching Ledbetter, deputies found the knife on his person.
Ledbetter was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, battery, terroristic threats and acts and criminal trespass. He was transported to the Bartow County Jail without incident.
Woman under the influence nearly strikes vehicles, building
After leaving work, a woman driving under the influence of drugs struck one vehicle on her way home and nearly hit a Dollar General store.
Sunday afternoon a caller told Bartow County Dispatch a gold Honda Civic had hit the back of her vehicle on Ga. Highway 113 near Burnt Hickory Road, but there was no damage and she did not need a report. However, the caller did say the Honda was “all over the roadway.” The caller said the driver, later identified as Darlene Shaw, was an older woman with a ponytail.
A BCSO deputy in the area responded and dispatch updated him on Shaw’s location.
Another caller said Shaw nearly struck her vehicle and was reportedly swerving all over the roadway near Picklesimer Road on Highway 113. The caller said she pulled over to allow Shaw to pass. Shaw then pulled into the parking lot of the Dollar General on Highway 113 near Covered Bridge Road, according to the report.
The second caller gave dispatch the vehicle’s license plate number and gave a description of Shaw, saying she was wearing a brown apron with yellow writing, a light colored blouse and black slacks. The second caller also said Shaw was “staggering and having difficulty walking,” according to the report. When Shaw got back into her vehicle, she allegedly put it into drive instead of reverse and almost hit the store.
The second caller followed Shaw after leaving the store and continued west on Highway 113 until the area of Floyd Creek Church Road, where the caller lost sight of Shaw.
After dispatch ran the license plate number, the deputy went to Shaw’s residence and was able to speak with her. The deputy noted she was wearing the same items the second caller had described. When the deputy explained how he had received calls about her driving, Shaw said she had run off the road on Interstate 75 southbound near the Cartersville Main Street exit. Shaw also said she had gone north on I-75 before she realized she was going the wrong way and she had to turn around, according to the report.
As he spoke with Shaw, the deputy noted she appeared drowsy, was licking her lips continually and her movements were slow and lethargic. Shaw said she had not had any alcohol or taken any medications. When asked again, Shaw said she had taken “a couple” of Flexeril, which she had a prescription for, and Klonopin, which she got from a friend.
Shaw was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and failure to drive within a single lane. A blood sample was later taken and Shaw was transported to the Bartow County Jail without incident.
Woman attempts to steal medical supplies from CMC
A woman attempted to steal used syringes, vials, forceps, a pocket knife and a used scalpel Monday night, while she was checked in at Cartersville Medical Center.
According to the BCSO incident report, a deputy was at CMC on a special detail when a nurse told him a patient, Tonya Walker, had items belonging to the hospital in her duffle bag.
The nurse said she saw syringe wrappers and 18-gauge needle wrappers on the floor along with the sharps container box in room 21, where Walker was staying. The nurse also said sheetrock dust was covering the counter as well. When asked about the trash on the floor and the sharps box, Walker said it fell off the wall and spilled all over the floor. When asked if there were syringes or needles in her bag, Walker said, “We can all look together,” according to the report.
Hospital personnel were present for the search, which turned up hospital blue pads, wound cleaner, packs of sterile pads, syringes, empty medicine vials, needles, syringes with needles broken off, syringes with blood in them, forceps, a pocket knife, an ophthalmoscope and a used scalpel, according to the report. Bloody forceps were reportedly found in the bed as well.
The items, valued at approximately $600, were returned to CMC. The damage to the wall and sharps container was valued at $100.
Walker said she did not know how the items got into her duffle bag. According to the report, Walker repeatedly said she “blacks out on occasion and does not know what happens when she blacks out.”
After being discharged from the emergency room, Walker was arrested and charged with theft by taking and criminal trespass.
Tow trucks stolen from business
M&M of Georgia reported three vehicles were stolen from its property Monday morning.
According to the BCSO incident report, a 2005 F-650 truck, a 2006 F-350 truck and 2005 C-350 truck were stolen. Both the F-series trucks were described as a black, roll-back wrecker truck, while the C-350 was described as a white service truck with a generator, fuel tank and air compressor on the back.
The three trucks were listed in the Georgia Crime Information Center and a be on the look out was listed for them.


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New wind power installations totalled more than 52GW in 2017, according to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21).
But this total was only just over half of the 98GW of solar PV installed last year and less than new additions in 2015 (64GW) and 2016 (55GW), REN21’s analysis showed.
The contraction in wind power installations was mostly due to less capacity being added in China (19.7GW, down from), REN21 stated in its global status report.
Wind power global capacity and annual additions, 2007-2017 (source: REN21)
Overall, new renewable power (178GW) accounted for 70% of net additions to power generating capacity in 2017.
Researchers also found that more solar PV capacity was added than the combined additions of coal, natural gas and nuclear power in 2017.
Global renewable energy capacity and biofuel production, 2017 (source: REN21)
REN21 concluded that "the electricity transition is well under way" as renewable sources such as wind and solar PV installations increase and become increasingly cost-competitive.
However, energy-related CO2 emissions rose by 1.4% compared to 2016 as energy demand increased due to economic and population growth, the researchers stated.
This rise in emissions came despite investment in renewable power capacity being twice that in new fossil fuels and nuclear power combined.
More than two-thirds of investments in power generation in 2017 were in renewables, REN21 added, with nearly 75% of this being concentrated in China, Europe and the US.
Wind deployment was driven by its cost-competitiveness and potential environmental benefits, the analysts wrote.
They added: "Around the world, wind power is quickly becoming a mature and cost-competitive technology."
However, the market faces challenges as it matures. "Increased competition and the scramble for market share in 2017 came at the expense of profits throughout the supply chain, with several large manufacturers seeing their turbine orders increase but their profits decline," REN21 said.