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Николай Терентьевич Муханов (1747—1808) — генерал-майор, герой Русско-шведской войны 1788—1790 годов.

Биография
Происходил из дворян Харьковского наместничества, родился в 1747 году.

Поступил на военную службу в 1764 году солдатом в Белозерский пехотный полк.

Он участвовал почти во всех войнах того времени: в Русско-турецкой 1768—1774 годов, в русско-шведской 1788—1790 годов, при покорении Крыма и в Польше в 1792 году против конфедератов и в 1794 против Костюшко.

Муханов отличался замечательной личной храбростью и распорядительностью: так, в 1789 году в Финляндии 27 апреля взял у шведов в плен 14 человек; 10 июля при Иотландской кирке овладел неприятельской пушкой, причём взял в плен артиллерийского офицера и 25 нижннх чинов; 28 сентября при Сайменском проливе, при штурме неприятельских укреплений, он лично взял две медные пушки. За первое отличие он получил орден Св. Владимира 4-й степени и чин премьер-майора, а за Сайменское сражение был 5 октября 1789 года удостоен ордена Св. Георгия 4-й степени (№ 357 по кавалерскому списку Судравского и № 666 по списку Григоровича — Степанова)

В 1793 году произведён в подполковники с назначением батальонным командиром в Московский (будущий Павловский) гренадерский полк и в 1797 году — в полковники. 10 июля 1798 года Муханов был назначен командиром Павловского гренадерского полка и на этой должности находился до 10 августа того же года, которую вынужден был оставить из-за болезни.

3 сентября 1798 года Муханов вышел было в отставку, но уже 27 сентября был назначен командиром лейб-гвардии инвалидного батальона. 23 июля 1802 году он был произведён в генерал-майоры и получил шефство в Полоцком мушкетёрском полку, а 24 августа 1806 года был переведён на ту же должность в Минский мушкетёрский полк. Скончался Муханов в ноябре 1808 года, из списков исключён 20 ноября.

Историк лейб-гвардии Павловского полка П. Н. Воронов оставил следующую характеристику Муханова: «Прослужив значительное время в нижних чинах, Муханов отлично узнал солдата, его быт и тягости строевой службы. Хотя он получил ограниченное образование, и знал только русскую грамоту, но этот недостаток сторицей вознаграждала его обширный военный опыт, приобретённый 32-летней службой в строю. Он ходил опираясь на палку, потому что при осаде Браилова был ранен пулей в левый бок у поясницы. Как человек, всей душой преданный своему служебному делу, он ни одного дня не был ни в отпуску, ни в отлучке».

Литература

 Степанов В. С., Григорович П. И. В память столетнего юбилея императорского Военного ордена Святого великомученика и Победоносца Георгия. (1769—1869). СПб., 1869.

Генерал-майоры (Российская империя)
Участники Русско-турецкой войны (1768—1774)
Участники Русско-шведской войны 1788—1790
Участники войны против польских повстанцев 1794 года
Участники Русско-польской войны 1792 года
Кавалеры ордена Святого Георгия IV класса
Кавалеры ордена Святого Владимира 4-й степени
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Etteplan has set the standard in engineering design for 30 years. The company has been a pioneer in the development of engineering design and methods as well as new business models. For example, we anticipated the needs of our customers by being the first Nordic operator in the industry to open an office in China. The first productized services in the field of engineering design improve the efficiency of our customers' operations and the competitiveness of their products. In 30 years, we have grown from a small engineering firm in a small town in Southern Finland into a global engineering company with top-class expertise and the most competitive service solutions in the industry.
2017: Geographical expansion
New offices opened in Beijing and Xi'an in China and Poznan in Poland.
2016: Acquisitions of Espotel and
Soikea Solutions
The acquisition reinforce Etteplan's expertise in embedded systems and into the Internet of Things (IoT). New service area Embedded Systems and IoT was established.
2016: Success in strategic growth areas
The share of Managed services exceed 50%. Continuous success for Etteplan's outsourcing business.
2016: Engineering with a difference
New brand promise and visual outlook were launched.
2015: Entering the German market
Etteplan entered the German market through the acquisition of arvato AG's technical documentation business.
2015: Expansion in plant engineering
The acquisitions of SAV and Suomen Unit strengthened Etteplan's market share in plant engineering.
2013: New vision launched
"Our customers get the best service solutions anywhere at any time."
2012: Latest methods and solutions in engineering design
Etteplan is an industry forerunner in the development of advanced engineering methods and productized services. The services utilize the latest technologies and tools.
2009: Transfer to solution business
Since 2009 Etteplan has gradually moved towards high value-added services and solution business. The change of business model enables growth and profitability.
2004: China operations commence
Etteplan was the first Nordic engineering design company to establish an office in China. We have already served more than 120 customers in China.
2001: Increasing competence by acquisitions
Competence base has been broadened in the 21st century by acquisitions especially in Finland and Sweden. The company became a significant partner e.g. to the aerospace and defense industry and medical equipment manufacturers.
2000: Internationalization and IPO
Etteplan was listed on NM-list of Helsinki Exchanges in April 2000. Soon after the listing the company's international operations department was established.
1998: Outsourcing as a new
A new business model was introduced in 1998 when Valmet and Etteplan agreed on the transfer of 30 designers to Etteplan. Almost 500 designers in total have been transferred to Etteplan through outsourcings.
1985: First computer-assisted program
Etteplan's first loan was needed to buy a computer. In 1985 it came to cost FIM 320 000 (approximately EUR 54 000).
1983: Etteplan is founded
Etteplan was founded by four engineering company entrepreneurs: Ensio Juotasniemi, Tero Elomaa, Tapani Mönkkönen and Esko Poltto. The initial component of the company name – Ette – originates from the initials of their first name.
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Etteplan updated its strategic and financial targets in December 2019. The targets for growth and profitability remained unchanged. Read more
In acquisitions, which play a key role in our strategy, our focus is on increasing our competence capital and geographical expansion. Read more
Etteplan has set the standard in engineering design for 30 years. The company has been a pioneer in the development of engineering design and methods as well as new business models.
At Etteplan, corporate responsibility is at the core of our day-to-day business as we design hundreds of sustainable solutions for the world's leading machinery and equipment manufacturers every year. Our highly skilled personnel play a crucial role in fulfilling our customer promise.
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Etteplan's operations have significant economic impacts on many different stakeholders. We pay taxes, wages, dividends and financial expenses and we purchase products and services. Etteplan's financial performance has been strong for several years now, and our revenue and operating profit continued to grow in 2019. Etteplan's revenue grew by 11.3 per cent and was EUR 263.3 million (236.5). Our operating profit (EBITA) rose to EUR 26.0 million (22.6). We pay taxes on our profits in all of the countries that we operate in. Read more
Personnel and leadership development, providing career opportunities and treating employees equally are at the core of Etteplan's human resource management. Etteplan's Code of Conduct is the foundation of the company's human resource management. Read more
The day-to-day work of Etteplan's environmental management is based on the standards specified in the ISO 14001 environmental system. The goals of our environmental policy include minimizing the environmental impacts of our own operations, training our personnel to recognize the environmental impacts of their work, and helping our partners observe responsibility in environmental matters. Read more
We want our employees and partners to be proud to work with us, and we want to create well-being for all our stakeholders, based on our values of customer-orientation, proactiveness and attractiveness. This is why we have written this new Code of Conduct. Its purpose is to clearly present and communicate our common set of ethical values and business principles to all employees, stakeholders and partners, as well as to provide guidance in our daily business. Read more

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Q: How to use properties and setters the Pythonic way I'm following this code example from a python course:
class P:

    def __init__(self,x):
        self.x = x

    @property
    def x(self):
        return self.__x

    @x.setter
    def x(self, x):
        if x < 0:
            self.__x = 0
        elif x > 1000:
            self.__x = 1000
        else:
            self.__x = x

And I tried to implement this pattern to my own code:
class PCAModel(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.M_inv = None

    @property
    def M_inv(self):
        return self.__M_inv

    @M_inv.setter
    def set_M_inv(self):
        M = self.var * np.eye(self.W.shape[1]) + np.matmul(self.W.T, self.W)
        self.__M_inv = np.linalg.inv(M)

Note that I want the M_inv property to be None before I have run the setter the first time. Also, the setter solely relies on other properties of the class object, and not on input arguments.
The setter decorator generates an error:
NameError: name 'M_inv' is not defined

Why is this?

A: Your setter method should be like below:
@M_inv.setter
def M_inv(self):
    M = self.var * np.eye(self.W.shape[1]) + np.matmul(self.W.T, self.W)
    self.__M_inv = np.linalg.inv(M)

The decorator @M_inv.setter and the function def M_inv(self): name should be same

A: The example is wrong.
EDIT: Example was using a setter in __init__ on purpose.
Getters and setters, even though they act like properties, are just methods that access a private attribute. That attribute must exist.
In the example, self.__x is never created.
Here is my suggested use :
class PCAModel(object):
    def __init__(self):
        # We create a private variable
        self.__M_inv = None

    @property
    def M_inv(self):
        # Accessing M_inv returns the value of the previously created variable
        return self.__M_inv

    @M_inv.setter
    def M_inv(self):  # Keep the same name than your propery
        M = self.var * np.eye(self.W.shape[1]) + np.matmul(self.W.T, self.W)
        self.__M_inv = np.linalg.inv(M)

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Brainwash Trailer & Press Release
In Culture, I love Oakland, Recommendations, Video
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 18, 2009
Contacts: Dave Krzysik, 415-273-1545
Jason Gohlke, 510-684-6100
Brainwash Movie Festival to show 25 shorts, 1 feature
15th Annual Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Festival starts tonight in Oakland, continues 7/31 & 8/1
The New York Times says the Brainwash Movie Festival "pirat[es] a piece of that old Hollywood magic and challeng[es] conventions on the role of public space in the process." (Now Playing, a Digital Brigadoon, 7/29/04, Chris Thompson)
"We project movies onto a tarp in West Oakland," counters festival director Shelby Toland.
The sometimes thought-provoking, often wacky, but always original Brainwash Movie Festival returns in the summer of 2009 for what could be the best festival ever.
"These are movies that know they're movies," claims festival judge Jason Gohlke. "If you like the art of storytelling, if you care about the suspension of disbelief, or if you just like watching moving pictures on a screen, you don't want to miss Brainwash this year."
Attendees to the festival are encouraged to either drive, bike, walk, or take public transit to the venue, where movies are screened in traditional drive-in movie theater fashion, complete with FM transmission and a full-service concession stand.
The fully juried festival will screen 23 original shorts in two separate programs (see http://www.brainwashm.com/2009/07/2009-brainwash-program/). There will also be a Premiere Party — Brainwash Zombie Night — on July 18th at 9 pm at 1357 5th Street in Oakland, which will be the West Coast Premiere of the feature film "Doctor S Battles the Sex Crazed Reefer Zombies: The Movie." Filmmaker Bryan Ortiz of San Antonio, Texas, will be in attendance for Q & A.
The 2009 15th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival will be held July 31st and August 1st at 9:00 p.m. in Oakland — check BrainwashM.com for location details. (Tentative location is the Steel Building at 1960 Mandela Parkway @ 18th; backup location is 1357 5th Street.) Moviemakers to attend include Mark Thimijan, creator of "Mister Coffey."
Admission is $9 per person per night OR $30 for a Double Brain Pass, which gets two people into the entire festival including a special exclusive preview night. Buy tickets at http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/EventListings.action?orgId=16986 or at the gate.
For more info, see http://brainwashm.com/.
Brainwash Movie Festival: 7/18, 7/31, 8/1 in Oakland!
In Culture, I love Oakland, Life
I've been spending lots of my free time — even when I was on vacation and out of town — working on the Brainwash Movie Festival. (Here's Brainwash on Facebook — become a fan!)
That would be the Bay Area's own original Drive-in, Bike-in, Walk-in Movie Festival, held within spitting distance of the West Oakland BART station.
2009 marks the 15th annual festival (founded by the mysterious Shelby Toland and one of my co-workers, Dave Krzysik), and I've been helping out for at least the last five years. Sometimes it's felt like 500, but this is not one of those times. This is the first year I've officially been a partner in the festival.
I launched a new website (which still needs some images and stuff) when I happened to be out of town, designed some new flyers, put us on Facebook, helped judge the movies and set up the program (and 24 of the 25 shorts are actually really GOOD), and then this past weekend helped shoot the trailer for this year's festival (finally). It's all been a lot of fun but pretty exhausting. Hopefully we'll get a good turnout, but it's always hard to know what's going to happen.
The venue is actually a little up in the air, which is a humongous pain, a problem for promoting the festival, and a story I (or Dave) can tell you some other time. Parts of the festival will almost certainly be at the Steel Building at 18th and Mandela — we will know if we have to move it on Thursday.
But I can say with confidence that if you come to the festival you will enjoy it.
When, and where?
July 18th at 1357 5th Street in Oakland: Brainwash Zombie Night and Premiere Party (RSVP to Zombie Night at the Drive-in on Facebook)
July 31st at either 1357 5th Street or 18th and Mandela: RSVP to Brainwash (night 1) on Facebook
August 1st at either 1357 5th Street or 18th and Mandela: RSVP to Brainwash (night 2) on Facebook
Buy tickets in advance on TicketWeb. Hope to see you there!


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Wilkinson's trial rebranding here to stay?
by Graham Soult · Published July 27, 2009 · Updated June 12, 2018
New (top) and old (bottom) Wilkinson logos
Over the last few months, you may have spotted the new Wilkinson logo – above – that has been quietly appearing on the retailer's bags and own-brand product packaging.
I'm yet to read anything suggesting that the new logo is any more than a trial, linked to the testing of a new store format; certainly, the full rebrand seems to have been rolled out to only a handful of stores so far (but with seemingly positive reviews), and the WilkinsonPlus website is yet to receive any makeover at all. However, the new logo's increasing ubiquity on Wilkinson bags and products suggests that it may well be here to stay.
I've never been a great fan of the old logo, which has been around for as long as I can remember (i.e. the 1980s!), and has been looking rather tired and clunky for, well, as long as I can remember. The new logo, in contrast, seems to be informed by similar principles to those that have made the 2007 rebranding of Morrisons a success.
First, it is much cleaner and crisper as a visual identity – particularly when viewed online. Second, just like Morrisons, the new logo respects the heritage of the old by retaining the same dominant colour (in this case red), but opting for a less garish shade. Again echoing Morrisons, this is presumably designed to assist Wilkinson in making further inroads beyond its north of England heartland, gently shifting perceptions from that of a value retailer to one that also emphasises quality.
Given that Wilkinson now has 325 stores across the UK, it will certainly be quite an undertaking to roll out the new look to all of them – particularly if, as with the trial stores, it involves a full revamp of the store interiors rather than just a new logo on the outside.
Old Wilkinson logo at the Newcastle upon Tyne store
Old logo at Gateshead store
I'm also not clear whether Wilkinson's new stores – such as the one due to open in Barnstaple in September – are already adopting the new store format and visual identity. Barnstaple's new store, incidentally, is noteworthy in that it's one of the very few former Woolworths sites that Wilkinson has acquired; the only others that I'm aware of are in Ilford and Bognor Regis.
I'm surprised really that Wilkinson has not snapped up more of the larger Woolworths stores, given that it sells many of the same products (only more successfully), and in many ways can be seen as Woolworths' natural successor. Perhaps it's because Wilkinson is already represented in many of those town and city centre locations – such as Newcastle – where the old Woolworths stores are large enough to meet its needs?
Anyway, now it's over to you with a couple of questions. First, what do you think of the new logo? And second, where else would you like to see Wilkinson take over an old Woolworths store?
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Poppy James says:
Whilst a regular shopper at wilkinsons Colchester ave the staff are very polite and friendly I know if I'm having a bad day that they will cheer me up the main staff that I get to have a chat with are the till staff on the late shift whilst some are not so cheerful the till staff are . On this occasion I went into store the manger of the store was speaking to said till staff like they were naughty children I didn't much appreciate this and was disgusted whilst in store .if it wasn't for great customer service I receive from the tills I would take my custom elsewhere due to poor managerial skills it needs to be sorted or you will loose a lot of your customers
Having read your article, I find that through my own observations and shopping experience in the north of England from childhood to teenage years and on to adulthood……
Woolworths was a cheap and cheerful experience.
My grandmother first took me to "Woolies" as a small child and it was an eclectic mix of confectionary and cleaning products. The sweeties,"pick n mix", was a firm favourite down to the cheap stationary and toiletries. The bold red signage with large font, represented an iconic shopping experience.
However, during my teenage years it took a different perspective and I found myself discovering a multitude of teenage cosmetics which were pocket money friendly, but not well received by my mother, who advised a trip to John Lewis and a tour of the Chanel counter where her mother had introduced her to the concept of lipstick for the more sophisticated woman, a family tradition.
In later years after living abroad for a while and not a Woolworths in sight…..I rediscovered Woolworths….sadly it had seemed to have lost some of its lustre…..and was in need of an makeover….only to find it later to disappear without trace…..memories left of happier nostalgic times.
Now we have Wilkinsons….my local branch was quite shabby and again cheap and cheerful….however, recently there have been changes and after the rebuild of town centre the new and improved Wilkinson's is quite bright with much improved layout and although not a store I visit regularly, seems quite improved since my last visit.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the level of staff and customer experience. As I have experienced quite a lack of customer engagement, I feel that most of the staff would prefer not to be employed in their current roles as their ability to communicate and resolve any issues seems non existent.
I feel they would benefit from further training regarding how to treat customers and realise their roles and responsibilities towards customers without whom they would be unemployed.
I fear in these times of cutbacks and unemployment that some of the employed feel that they can give attitude to customers which is not mindful of their position.
Therefore, regrettably, I feel I will be taking my custom elsewhere, rather paying a few pence more than receiving a bad customer experience.
Logos are expensive….good manners and polite customer care cost nothing…..surely, that should come as standard?
The new wilkos is still about value products but a much friendly shopping environment
Dan Naylor says:
Just for your info. Wilkinson's new corporate image is being rolled out on a national basis. All new Wilkinson stores set to open will be in the new theme, with a further 80 of their existing stores being rebranded this year. The remaining sites in their property portfolio will be converted over the next 4 years. So it's goodbye to the old Wilko's and hello to the new, better Wilkinsons!! I follow their progress closely as I used to work for them and still hold them close to my heart…..sad I know but true!!
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Muscular dystrophy breakthroughs
August 31, 2009 The most common childhood form is called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which is caused by the lack of a protein called dystrophin. The disease first presents itself with generalized weakness and muscle wasting of the hips, pelvic area, thighs and shoulders. "The child may not be meeting their developmental milestones -- not walking on time, falling, tripping, unable to climb stairs," Linda Cripe, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, told Ivanhoe. Eventually, the condition affects all voluntary muscles, including the heart and lungs. It's rare for a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy to survive past the early 30s, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The condition primarily affects boys, who inherit it from their mothers. Women who are carriers of the condition usually show no symptoms.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy becomes deadly when it spreads to the heart and breathing muscles. "The majority of the children will die as a result of either respiratory complications -- because it affects the muscle that help the child breathe -- or they will die as a results of the failure of the heart muscle to perform adequately," Dr. Cripe said. Because earlier detection leads to earlier treatment of the condition, Dr. Cripe says it's critical to diagnose a child with the condition as early as possible. "The only way that we have to treat this disease at this moment in time is by jumping on the symptoms as soon as possible and addressing them early in order to try to maximize the patient's quality and quantity of life," she said. Dr. Cripe says science is making progress in the area of detecting respiratory and cardiac complications earlier, and thus extending the lives of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, she is using cardiac MRI to track the development of damage to the heart of patients with the condition. "As a result of that, we can institute traditional heart failure treatments earlier," Dr. Cripe said.
TREATMENTS: Treatments for heart damage caused by Duchenne muscular dystrophy include ACE inhibitors, diuretics and beta blockers -- all used in the treatment of traditional heart failure. "A lot of these things that you would use in 65-year-old men, you're using in 12-year-old kids," Dr. Cripe said. For treatment of lung damage, some doctors prescribe cyclosporin A (CsA), but it carries the side effect of weakening the immune system. One new drug being investigated in the treatment of lung damage in children provides an alternative to such drugs. Called Debio 025, the drug was shown in a recent study in mice to protect against muscle wasting. More importantly, the drug didn't affect calcineurin, a protein important to maintaining a healthy immune system.
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As frontrunners emerge in the Giannis sweepstakes, Milwaukee's clock is ticking

The clock is ticking on everything the Milwaukee Bucks have built the last few years, a title contender facing adversity it has yet to prove it can climb from.
And if they're not careful, the clock could be ticking on their time with a homegrown MVP who desperately wants to live up to his billing.

The officiating gaffes only seemed to prolong the inevitable, the basketball gods ensuring a just result was the conclusion as the Miami Heat took an improbable 2-0 lead Wednesday night on the team with the NBA's best record.
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="As certain and as clear as the Bucks speak on matters off the court, ready to forfeit a game in the name of social justice causes that matter, they seem as skittish and unsure about playoff basketball. For the better part of two games, Miami has made the most comfortable team in the NBA look uncomfortable — and whether they realize it or not, could be putting on the best recruiting job on Giannis Antetokounmpo, who's set to enter unrestricted free agency after next season.» data-reactid=»23″>As certain and as clear as the Bucks speak on matters off the court, ready to forfeit a game in the name of social justice causes that matter, they seem as skittish and unsure about playoff basketball. For the better part of two games, Miami has made the most comfortable team in the NBA look uncomfortable — and whether they realize it or not, could be putting on the best recruiting job on Giannis Antetokounmpo, who's set to enter unrestricted free agency after next season.

They've contained him and shown the soon-to-be two-time Most Valuable Player his biggest warts in a raw but controlled fashion, similar to the job the Toronto Raptors put on him for the last four games in the conference finals last year.
It's no wonder many in league circles believe Miami and Toronto are the frontrunners in the Antetokounmpo sweepstakes, with one observer telling Yahoo Sports "it's an open secret" within the Orlando bubble.
Miami looks like the perfect mistress with their culture, the ability to morph into different identities at a moment's notice but yet still feel like a team playing within itself.

In Game 1, Jimmy Butler took over in the most tangible of ways with a cool 40-ball.

In Game 2, Butler hit the clutch free throws in an empty gym but Tyler Herro and Goran Dragic took center stage, looking every bit like a team ready to snatch supremacy in this uncertain environment.
Giannis Antetokounmpo will hit free agency after the 2021 season. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
The Bucks look ill-prepared at this moment in time — although one wouldn't put it past them to snap out of their lethargy to hit a few shots, find themselves, and march onto the next round — but the Heat force them to be things they don't want to be.
At their best, the ball is whipping and opponents heads are spinning, unaware of where the knockout punch is coming from.
But so far, they're bracing for the overhand right, tentative and second-guessing what made them great — just the way Butler, Bam Adebayo and the rest want things: off-balance and chaotic.
Erik Spoelstra doesn't get high marks in the coach of the year category but the Heat seemed both prepared for the moment and for Antetokounmpo, he can't be forgotten about in this equation. They've scouted him and look ready for every move he makes, so much so he doesn't want to come across like he has the answers — when it's clear he does.
"This is what great players do, present challenges," Spoelstra said. "You want it to be easy? It's not gonna be easy. He's not gonna stop. He's incredibly gifted and aggressive and he's gonna put you in compromising positions."
"I would never say," before his voice trailed off, reverting from the wide-eyed wonder to the CIA-like Pat Riley disciple.
And there's no counter from Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer and his staff to this point, partially due to their own regular-season excellence.
The first punch has been their best punch for the last two seasons, the league's best point differential in both, barely tested in what amounts to 82 single-game exhibitions.
But in the playoffs, you'd better be able to adjust on the fly and you can't leave your best player in positions so unfamiliar that he starts looking less than MVP worthy, because it won't fly well if he accepts his second consecutive award in anything less than a pregame environment.

The verdict isn't yet in on Budenholzer but his stubbornness to this point has been costly. Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton have to be the headliners, but Miami looks as prepared as any team for what the Bucks do well.
And the Bucks have no answers for this pop quiz to this point.
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra has presented an early challenge to the Milwaukee Bucks. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
It's easy to see why the Bucks believe in what they do. It's led to dominating regular seasons featuring an efficient offense that is no match for most teams, a 6-foot-11 forward that can physically overwhelm even above-average defenders and a roster chock-full of complementary players who genuinely allow Antetokounmpo to play MVP ball.
Antetokounmpo's counting stats looked regular enough — and he had some thunderous moments — but the Heat made him look far less than his line of 29 points and 14 rebounds.
But mostly, it looks as if Antetokounmpo makes the game easy compared to the game coming to him easily, a huge difference in a playoff setting.
In short, he looks like another two-time MVP at 25 years old who needed a trip to South Beach and the school of Spoelstra to realize his potential: LeBron James.
James was a generational talent before joining the Heat but became an all-time great during his four-year stint in Miami, refining his game after Spoelstra challenged him, pushed back against him and stepped up for James when it counted most.
But the Bucks can't operate in fear — of either losing the series or even Antetokounmpo. Luckily for them, they didn't drop two games at home or those ghosts from playoff past would be haunting them in the little sleep they can muster in the bubble.
At their best, they throw you off — either with a bold locker room move or floor-spreading efficiency.
They'd be best to discover from boldness in the next few days before this adversity catches them, yet again.

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import logging
import os

import click

from platformio import fs
from platformio.package.manager.library import LibraryPackageManager
from platformio.package.manager.platform import PlatformPackageManager
from platformio.package.manager.tool import ToolPackageManager
from platformio.package.meta import PackageSpec
from platformio.project.config import ProjectConfig
from platformio.project.savedeps import pkg_to_save_spec, save_project_dependencies

@click.command(
    "uninstall", short_help="Uninstall the project dependencies or custom packages"
)
@click.option(
    "-d",
    "--project-dir",
    default=os.getcwd,
    type=click.Path(exists=True, file_okay=False, dir_okay=True, resolve_path=True),
)
@click.option("-e", "--environment", "environments", multiple=True)
@click.option("-p", "--platform", "platforms", metavar="SPECIFICATION", multiple=True)
@click.option("-t", "--tool", "tools", metavar="SPECIFICATION", multiple=True)
@click.option("-l", "--library", "libraries", metavar="SPECIFICATION", multiple=True)
@click.option(
    "--no-save",
    is_flag=True,
    help="Prevent removing specified packages from `platformio.ini`",
)
@click.option("--skip-dependencies", is_flag=True, help="Skip package dependencies")
@click.option("-g", "--global", is_flag=True, help="Uninstall global packages")
@click.option(
    "--storage-dir",
    default=None,
    type=click.Path(exists=True, file_okay=False, dir_okay=True, resolve_path=True),
    help="Custom Package Manager storage for global packages",
)
@click.option("-s", "--silent", is_flag=True, help="Suppress progress reporting")
def package_uninstall_cmd(**options):
    if options.get("global"):
        uninstall_global_dependencies(options)
    else:
        uninstall_project_dependencies(options)

def uninstall_global_dependencies(options):
    pm = PlatformPackageManager(options.get("storage_dir"))
    tm = ToolPackageManager(options.get("storage_dir"))
    lm = LibraryPackageManager(options.get("storage_dir"))
    for obj in (pm, tm, lm):
        obj.set_log_level(logging.WARN if options.get("silent") else logging.DEBUG)
    for spec in options.get("platforms"):
        pm.uninstall(
            spec,
            skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
        )
    for spec in options.get("tools"):
        tm.uninstall(
            spec,
            skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
        )
    for spec in options.get("libraries", []):
        lm.uninstall(
            spec,
            skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
        )

def uninstall_project_dependencies(options):
    environments = options["environments"]
    with fs.cd(options["project_dir"]):
        config = ProjectConfig.get_instance()
        config.validate(environments)
        for env in config.envs():
            if environments and env not in environments:
                continue
            if not options["silent"]:
                click.echo(
                    "Resolving %s environment packages..." % click.style(env, fg="cyan")
                )
            already_up_to_date = not uninstall_project_env_dependencies(env, options)
            if not options["silent"] and already_up_to_date:
                click.secho("Already up-to-date.", fg="green")

def uninstall_project_env_dependencies(project_env, options=None):
    options = options or {}
    uninstalled_conds = []
    # custom platforms
    if options.get("platforms"):
        uninstalled_conds.append(
            _uninstall_project_env_custom_platforms(project_env, options)
        )
    # custom tools
    if options.get("tools"):
        uninstalled_conds.append(
            _uninstall_project_env_custom_tools(project_env, options)
        )
    # custom ibraries
    if options.get("libraries"):
        uninstalled_conds.append(
            _uninstall_project_env_custom_libraries(project_env, options)
        )
    # declared dependencies
    if not uninstalled_conds:
        uninstalled_conds = [
            _uninstall_project_env_platform(project_env, options),
            _uninstall_project_env_libraries(project_env, options),
        ]
    return any(uninstalled_conds)

def _uninstall_project_env_platform(project_env, options):
    config = ProjectConfig.get_instance()
    pm = PlatformPackageManager()
    if options.get("silent"):
        pm.set_log_level(logging.WARN)
    spec = config.get(f"env:{project_env}", "platform")
    if not spec:
        return None
    already_up_to_date = True
    if not pm.get_package(spec):
        return None
    PlatformPackageManager().uninstall(
        spec,
        project_env=project_env,
        skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
    )
    return not already_up_to_date

def _uninstall_project_env_custom_platforms(project_env, options):
    already_up_to_date = True
    pm = PlatformPackageManager()
    if not options.get("silent"):
        pm.set_log_level(logging.DEBUG)
    for spec in options.get("platforms"):
        if pm.get_package(spec):
            already_up_to_date = False
        pm.uninstall(
            spec,
            project_env=project_env,
            skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
        )
    return not already_up_to_date

def _uninstall_project_env_custom_tools(project_env, options):
    already_up_to_date = True
    tm = ToolPackageManager()
    if not options.get("silent"):
        tm.set_log_level(logging.DEBUG)
    specs_to_save = []
    for tool in options.get("tools"):
        spec = PackageSpec(tool)
        if tm.get_package(spec):
            already_up_to_date = False
        pkg = tm.uninstall(
            spec,
            skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
        )
        specs_to_save.append(pkg_to_save_spec(pkg, spec))
    if not options.get("no_save") and specs_to_save:
        save_project_dependencies(
            os.getcwd(),
            specs_to_save,
            scope="platform_packages",
            action="remove",
            environments=[project_env],
        )
    return not already_up_to_date

def _uninstall_project_env_libraries(project_env, options):
    already_up_to_date = True
    config = ProjectConfig.get_instance()
    lm = LibraryPackageManager(
        os.path.join(config.get("platformio", "libdeps_dir"), project_env)
    )
    if options.get("silent"):
        lm.set_log_level(logging.WARN)
    for library in config.get(f"env:{project_env}", "lib_deps"):
        spec = PackageSpec(library)
        # skip built-in dependencies
        if not spec.external and not spec.owner:
            continue
        if lm.get_package(spec):
            already_up_to_date = False
            lm.uninstall(
                spec,
                skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
            )
    return not already_up_to_date

def _uninstall_project_env_custom_libraries(project_env, options):
    already_up_to_date = True
    config = ProjectConfig.get_instance()
    lm = LibraryPackageManager(
        os.path.join(config.get("platformio", "libdeps_dir"), project_env)
    )
    if not options.get("silent"):
        lm.set_log_level(logging.DEBUG)
    specs_to_save = []
    for library in options.get("libraries") or []:
        spec = PackageSpec(library)
        if lm.get_package(spec):
            already_up_to_date = False
        pkg = lm.uninstall(
            spec,
            skip_dependencies=options.get("skip_dependencies"),
        )
        specs_to_save.append(pkg_to_save_spec(pkg, spec))
    if not options.get("no_save") and specs_to_save:
        save_project_dependencies(
            os.getcwd(),
            specs_to_save,
            scope="lib_deps",
            action="remove",
            environments=[project_env],
        )
    return not already_up_to_date


The Amsterdam Content Analysis Toolkit (AmCAT) is a free open source infrastructure that makes it easy to conduct large-scale automatic and manual content analysis (text analysis) for the social sciences and humanities. AmCAT aims to make manual and automatic content analysis of various types of texts more easy and accessible. AmCAT improves the use and the standard of content analysis in the social sciences and humanities, and stimulates the sharing of data and analyses.
The AmCAT system was designed to make it easier to manage (large) content analysis projects. Documents being one of the essential ingredients, an essential aspect of AmCAT is the storing, viewing, and managing of documents from various sources. The data are stored in a standard database, to which every user has access for his/her own projects. The source code for the scripts and website are open source, so everyone is free to setup his/her own server. The system is designed to make it easy to integrate new analyses, through the website, web services, or through direct access. AmCAT is designed as an open system, herewith encouraging users to contribute to AmCAT. The AmCAT designers have tried to make it easy to add functionality, such as upload or scrape scripts or analyses, by using as open standards where applicable and by using a plugin-structure in the places where they expect extensions to be useful.
This wiki provides a beginner's guide to AmCAT.
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Contoh Soal Modals Deduction (Present) dalam Bahasa Inggris – Welcome back! Sahabat BDBI semua tentu masih teringat dong dengan materi kita kemarin yang membahas mengenai Modals Deduction?
Nah, untuk sahabat BDBI yang sudah membaca materinya, langsung aja tes pemahamannya dengan mengerjakan latihan di bawah ini.
Caranya mudah, sahabat cukup menyiapkan alat tulis dan kertas/buku, lalu mengisi titik-titik yang masih kosong dengan pilihan 'Modal of Deduction'. (Baca penjelasannya dulu). Are you ready? Langsung aja cekidot!
Anita's sure Ronaldo is there. She can see his Ferrari in front of the stadium.
Ronaldo ……………………….. be there. She can see his Ferrari in front of the stadium.
My smartphone is not in my pocket. I'm sure it's in the drawer.
My smartphone is not in my pocket. It ……………………….. be in the drawer.
Rendy's not sure he is going to pass the test. He doesn't feel confident.
Rendy ……………………….. pass the test. He doesn't feel confident.
Jack has bought a lottery. There's a chance he will become a millionaire.
Jack ……………………….. become a millionaire.
His family and his girl are coming this Saturday night but he doesn't know which day.
They ……………………….. be coming tomorrow night.
I'm sure Michael doesn't speak Javanese very well. He's only lived in Jogja for a week.
Michael ……………………….. speak Javanese very well. He's only lived in Jogja for a week.
What?! You got a girlfried bro? 😀 That's great. I'm sure you're delighted.
What?! You got a girlfried bro? 😀 That's great. You ……………………….. be delighted.
Marquez told her that Rossi was in Indonesia, but she saw him yesterday in Bangkok so she is sure Rossi's not abroad.
Rossi ……………………….. be abroad, she saw him in Bangkok yesterday.
My father asked me to send his smartphone goods as soon as possible. He will receive his smartphone in an hour if the go send is fast.
My father ……………………….. receive his smartphone in an hour if the go send is fast.
They told Siska to prepare the project by tomorrow but it's alomost impossible to have it done so fast.
Siska ……………………….. finish the project if she stays at work all night, but she is not sure.
Ronaldo must be there. She can see his Ferrari in front of the stadium.
My smartphone is not in my pocket. It must be in the drawer.
Rendy may not/might not pass the test. He doesn't feel confident.
Jack may/might/could become a millionaire.
They may/could/might be coming tomorrow night.
Michael can't speak Javanese very well. He's only lived in Jogja for a week.
What?! You got a girlfried bro? 😀 That's great. You must be delighted.
Rossi can't be abroad, she saw him in Bangkok yesterday.
My father may/might/could receive his smartphone in an hour if the go send is fast.
Siska may/might/could finish the project if she stays at work all night, but she is not sure.
Modals Deduction Exercise. http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/intermediate-grammar-exercise-modal-verbs-for-present-probability-must-cant-could-may-might . Accessed on August 21st, 2017.
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Filled with a rich history and culture, Shanghai is a fascinating blend of sprawling skyscrapers interspersed with narrow alleys lined with traditional Chinese architecture. Old stone gate residences known as shikumen can be found on the fashionable pedestrian street Xin Tian Di. Established in 1849, and laced with cafés, restaurants, art galleries and chic boutiques, unique architecture showcasing European style buildings with Chinese panache are located in the famed French Concession. Tianzifang is another popular area to visit.
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Encountering Patti Smith and Allen Ginsberg on William Blake's Birthday
We begin in the Automat. What better place to launch a column on William Blake's birthday than with the first encounter between two of his most passionate advocates, Patti Smith and Allen Ginsberg?
Smith's endlessly readable 2010 memoir Just Kids offers only a few clues as to exactly where and when this chance meeting took place. Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were living at the Chelsea Hotel at the time (I'm guessing late sixties); "a few doors down" was the Capitol Fishing tackle shop, a favorite source for two artists determined to transform "the insignificant into the divine." According to Smith, "Horn and Hardart, the queen of Automats, was just past the tackle shop," which puts the site in question at 202 West 23rd Street.
The routine was "to get a seat and a tray, then go to the back wall where there were rows of little windows. You would slip some coins in to a slot, open the glass hatch, and extract a sandwich or fresh apple pie. A real Tex Avery eatery." On this "drizzly afternoon," Patti has eyes for a cheese-and-lettuce sandwich with mustard on a poppy seed roll. After putting all the money she has — 55 cents — into the slot, she can't get the window open because the price has gone up to 65 cents. When a voice behind her says "Can I help?" she turns around and sees a man with "dark intense eyes" and a "dark curly beard." Yes, it's Allen Ginsberg. They'd never met "but there was no mistaking the face of one of our great poets and activists."
Ginsberg not only adds the extra dime, he stands her to a cup of coffee, which, as any reader of M-Train knows, is elixir to Patti Smith. They sit down at a table, he talks about Walt Whitman, she mentions that she was raised near Camden, where Walt lived out his life and is buried. At this point, Ginsberg asks "Are you a girl?" Yes, she is, she says. "Is that a problem?" He laughs and admits that he took her for "a very pretty boy." At which she offers to return the sandwich. No problem, "my mistake." Years later after he becomes her "good friend and teacher," he asks her how she would describe that first meeting. "I would say you fed me when I was hungry," she tells him.
In Just Kids, Smith refers to the "very pretty facsimile" of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience she liked to read to Robert Mapplethorpe at bedtime. The couple's "most prized books" were by Blake. She also read Blake as a child, telling a Rolling Stone interviewer, "Songs of Innocence was next to Winnie the Pooh and Black Beauty." In the same May 2004 interview, she mentions the childhood visions for which Blake was "ridiculed and even beaten" and how he held on to his visions, wherever they came from, "whether he animated them from within or they were from God."
Referring to his "Blake visions" in a 1965 interview, Ginsberg says, "The thing I understood from Blake was that it was possible to transmit a message through time which could reach the enlightened, that poetry had a definite effect, it wasn't just pretty, or just beautiful … — it was something basic to human existence."
The lesson Smith learned from Blake was don't give up. "He never got a break in his life. His work never sold. He lived in poverty. When he spoke out, he nearly lost his life. He could have been hanged for insurrection." After quoting a line from her song, "My Blakean Year" ("Throw off your stupid cloak, embrace all that you fear"), she says, "That's the one thing in our country — I know we have a horrible deficit, all of these horrible things happening. But the worst thing the Bush administration has done is instill huge amounts of fear in our people. That is deplorable. We have to replace that fear with awareness and a determination to make things better."
I did a doubletake when I read that. She was talking about the Bush administration.
Tree of Angels
Blake's childhood vision was of "a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars." In an anecdote not unlike the American legend of Washington chopping down the cherry tree and confessing to his father "I cannot tell a lie," Blake told his father what he'd seen and would have been thrashed for lying but for the intervention of his mother. He was "eight or ten" at the time. Two centuries later a William Blake Angel Oak was planted on Peckham Common in south London.
In "A Memorable Fancy" from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake (1757-1827) asks the prophet Isaiah how he dared to assert that God spoke to him and Isaiah says, "I saw no God, nor heard any, … but my senses discover'd the infinite in everything." Being persuaded that "the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God," Isaiah "cared not for the consequences." When Blake asks whether a firm persuasion that a thing is so, makes it so, Isaiah tells him, "All Poets believe that it does."
Allen Ginsberg believed as much the day Blake spoke to him. It was June 1948 and he was subletting an apartment at 321 East 121st Street in Harlem. To paraphrase Patti Smith, "wherever it came from, whether he animated it from within," the experience changed his life. A protracted account of what he calls "the apparitional voice" is in the aforementioned interview, reprinted in Writers at Work, the third series of Paris Review interviews.
As Ginsberg recalls, "my eye was idling over the page of 'Ah, Sunflower,' … and suddenly I realized that the poem was talking about me. Now, I began understanding it … and suddenly, simultaneously with understanding it, heard a very deep earthen grave voice in the room, which I immediately assumed, I didn't think twice, was Blake's voice." For Ginsberg, "this was the moment I was born for." He told himself "never forget, never renege, never deny the voice." The experience expanded visually to take in the cornices of the old tenement building across the backyard court that "had been carved very finely in 1890 or 1910." Although there were cornices like that on buildings all over Harlem, "I never noticed them before. And I never realized that they meant spiritual labor … that someone had labored to make a curve in a piece of tin — to make a cornucopia out of a piece of industrial tin." Everywhere he looked he saw "evidences of a living hand" and "that the sky was the living blue hand itself. Or that God was in front of my eyes — existence itself was God."
"The Lion for Real"
Ginsberg ends the anecdote by recalling that "a couple of girls were living next door and I crawled out on the fire escape and tapped on their window and said, 'I've seen God!' and they banged the window shut." Ten years after the event, in Paris, he brings it to life in poetry: "I came home and found a lion in my living room/Rushed out on the fire escape screaming Lion! Lion!/Two stenographers pulled their brunette hair and banged the window shut." When he tells his Reichian analyst, "There's a lion in my living room," the analyst that he actually consulted at the time says, "I'm afraid any discussion would have no value" and hangs up on him.
It's as if Ginsberg were acting out Henry James's "Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
"Lion for Real" ends "In this life I have heard your promise I am ready to die I have served/Your starved and ancient Presence O Lord I wait in my room at your Mercy."
Blake at Bedtime
It's possible I was subconsciously influenced by Patti Smith reading Blake to Robert Mapplethorpe when I took our facsimile edition of Songs of Innocence, a wedding present, to bed with me late one night last week. In the glow of the little booklight, the words and images warmed me, made me smile, the pastel tones as pure as illustrations in a storybook from childhood, the simplicity of the words enhanced by their very faintness, so that making them out meant looking closely, intimately. One I returned to was "Infant Joy," the tulip enfolding mother and child the boldest, most richly hued image in the book. I read this page twice because when our son was two days old and we were ready to take him home from the hospital (then located on Witherspoon), we were told we needed to write his full name on the form. "We're still not sure," we said, though we were leaning toward "Benjamin." Fortunately, we'd received that same day a handwritten card from a friend, quoting a line from "Infant Joy": "I have no name, I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am. Joy is my name, — Sweet joy befall thee!"
We looked at each other and I wrote in "Blake" for Ben's middle name.
I wonder if I'm the only person who has been plagued by dreams of petty frustration over the past year and a half. I can't say that these mundane going-nowhere so-what not-even-nightmares began after the 2016 election. But the overriding sense is that something's wrong, an impediment needs to be cleared, a problem needs fixing, and I wake up relieved knowing that I needn't worry about completing the trivial task, finding the house I was looking for, or the town, or the solution. Finally, last week I woke up smiling from a joyous dream, the storyline of no consequence save that it involved creating something beautiful. No loose ends, no massive impossible impediment to be cleared. Looking toward the bedside table, I saw the copy of Songs of Innocence that I'd been reading the night before.
The mantra "breathed into" Patti Smith's ear in her song, "My Blakean Year," is "One road is paved in gold/One road is just a road."


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This Employee Data Privacy Notice applies to people who work for us or apply to work for us. It explains what personal data we collect and how we use it and provides additional information to comply with our obligations under privacy laws.
The primary controllers for our processing of your personal data are Reach plc, Reach Group Shared Services Limited and any other Reach group companies referred to in your contract of employment, some other Reach group companies are also controllers of some of your personal data. This Employee Data Privacy Notice is provided on behalf of each of these controllers.
The Group HR Director is responsible for monitoring our compliance with privacy laws in relation to employee data. If you have any questions, believe privacy rights have been violated or are concerned there may have been a breach of privacy laws, policies or procedures please contact dataprotection@reachplc.com
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We collect various types of personal data about you including information relating to your personal details, recruitment, screening results, work details, business contact, regulatory and compliance data, pay and benefits, attendance and leave, training and development, performance, disciplinary and grievance and other HR management or business processes, health and safety, working capacity, monitoring data and photographs and other information relating to the administration or management of your employment. [click for more detail - section 2 of long form]
We also hold some special category personal data (e.g. health information, race, religion, trade union membership and information relating to criminal records or offences where appropriate).
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Most of your personal data comes from you. We also obtain information from managers, other departments and occasionally from colleagues. Some information will come from third parties (e.g previous employers, regulatory authorities or benefit or other service providers). Information is also collected through your access and use of certain work areas and systems.
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We hold and use personal data primarily to ensure that those who work for us are suitable and appropriate and to administer and manage your engagement effectively in line with your contract, our policies and procedures and applicable laws.
We rely on an appropriate legal basis whenever we process your personal data. Where processing involves special category data we also rely on an additional legal justification.
Processing will normally be justified either because (a) it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g. employment and health and safety laws, anti-discrimination laws, tax laws or regulatory rules); or (b) because it is necessary to enter into or comply with your contract (e.g. provide contractual pay and benefits); or (c) in other cases where the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or the legitimate interest of a third party) provided this is not overridden by your rights.
The detail of our legitimate interest in particular processing will vary depending on our business purpose. However, in overall terms we have a legitimate interest in attracting and retaining engaged, motivated, high calibre people to work for us; and in securing, defending, managing and developing our business and our people in line with our policies and procedures and in line with our legal and regulatory obligations. Our processing is designed to support these aims. This is important to enable us to deliver our commitments to our clients; to protect our reputation; and to achieve our immediate and longer term business objectives.
Processing of special category data will most commonly occur where necessary to carry out your or our obligations and rights in the field of employment, social security and social protection law in line with applicable laws. There are however other grounds we may rely on in some situations.
We will only process personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences where authorised by applicable law.
Automated Decision Making And Profiling
Details of any automated decision making and profiling we use in recruitment or employment are explained here [click for more detail].
We keep different types of personal data for different periods depending on the nature of the information and the purposes we need it for.
Disclosures Of Personal Data
Basic information in our global directories may be accessible to employees across the Reach group. Other information may be disclosed internally on a need to know basis to appropriate members of management, Human Resources or certain staff in other departments (e.g. finance or IT) where needed for them to perform their role.
Appropriate information may also be disclosed to third parties we work with such as our system providers, benefit providers, third party processors or professional service advisers. We may also share information with national or regulatory authorities to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data.
International Transfer Of Personal Data
As part of an international group of companies with Reach plc as the ultimate parent company, some of your personal data will be accessible or transferred to countries both within and outside of the European Union. This may include internal transfers and transfers to third parties (e.g. service providers or regulators). Where this is the case we ensure safeguards are in place in compliance with applicable laws including standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission
You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data including the right of access; to ask us to correct inaccurate data; to ask us to restrict or delete data in certain circumstances; to object to particular processing based on legitimate interest grounds; to withdraw consent in the limited circumstances where we may rely on consent; and to complain to the relevant supervisory authority.
Notice Of Changes
We will review this Employee Data Privacy Notice from time to time and may change or update it at any time. We will tell you about any changes.
We may undertake certain processing of personal data which are subject to additional Employee Data Privacy Notices and will bring these to your attention where they engage.
This Employee Data Privacy Notice was last reviewed and updated on [22nd May 2018].


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OS - Windows Server 2000 SP4 or newer. Although not supported, in small offices you can sometimes get away with using a Windows XP desktop. There is a limit to 10 connections on a share, so this should only be used in offices with less than 10, and be thoroughly tested before put into production.
Permissions - SMS Site Server added to local Admin group on the server targeted to be the DP, and if a file share is used, the local admin group should have full rights, and authenticated users grated read permissions. This will ensure that the system accounts on the targeted PCs can access the packages.
IIS installed with WebDav enabled – this is required if you are going to use BITS on the DP. Depending on the connection to targeted clients this may be a nice thing to have, but you must also consider the security risks of having IIS installed, and lock it down accordingly. This will allow the site to control the rate at which the package is copied to the local cache on the client, and allow the client to resume the download if the connection is lost instead of beginning the download again from scratch. This should be considered for any DP that remote, VPN, and Dialup users will use.
When choosing a server for a DP, and deciding whether to use a file share or accessing the entire server you must consider your end result. If you add the server, you will be giving SMS access to all drives, and creating a package share on each NTFS formatted drive, unless you create an empty file named No_SMS_on_drive.sms and place it on the root of that drive. SMS will place the packages on the drive that has the most free space available. This may change as drive space changes. If you are going to use this server for anything else besides a DP, such as a Reporting Point, you will have to add it as a site system. If you add a share you have created, you will force SMS to always use that location. This can be helpful if you need to ensure the path does not change from one DP to another, or you want to be able to find where the packages are being copied. I typically use a share called SMSPKG on all my file servers for this reason.
The second item, and maybe it should be the first, is space. My 1st DP only had 50 Gig of free space, and to this day I could still survive with that so long as I do not put my OSD images there. I now require a minimum of 40 Gig free on all DPs, and 250 Gig on my site server for packages. This is because I have all packages on my site server, but only what is needed on the other DPs. The big question is how much space are you going to need 2-3 years from now. There are some calculations out there but it all comes down to how much you need today, and how much will you grow. Between OSD images, Office packages, and 50-100 other applications you will need to have available in your site for your company, I believe the standard is to allow enough room for your package repositories to double in size. I know some companies require over 250 Gig on all DPs due to the amount of packages required for day to day business.
Last is which site you want to add the DP to. If you have only one site this is not an issue, but if you have multiple sites, you will need to create the DP in the same site as the clients it will serve. DPs from a child are visible to the parent site(s) so they can assign packages, but a child site cannot see or assign packages to DPs on a parent site.
Click Set and enter the server name and share depending on your selection above, and click OK.
If you are running 2003 SP2, and have extended the schema, click Specify a Fully Qualified Host Name. This will allow clients to find the site systems using DNS, reducing network traffic.
Although Microsoft does not come out and say this, any remote DP should be protected unless you want to risk clients pulling their packages across WAN links, or you have 10+ Meg connections to all your offices. SMS 2003 is better at finding local DPs, but we will always get a black eye if we cause even one bandwidth issue. It is better if you can tell management that you know without a doubt that SMS is not filling up the pipe between offices.
Select the boundaries for your DP. You can select multiples if you use the Shift or CTRL key when you are clicking on the IDs, and click OK. Only boundaries specified for the site will be visible. If you are using AD Sites for your SMS Site boundaries, you will only see those sites listed as options for your DP. If you wish to use subnets for your boundaries that are not listed, you will need to add them to your SMS Site or Roaming boundaries.
You can add DPs to groups to make it easier to add large numbers of DPs to a package. This is very handy when you assign packages to certain DPs based on business use, department, locations, etc.. I have groups set up for Security Patches, and Sites so that when I create a package I can use the select group option and get all the DPs I need instead of selecting them one at a time.
You can also click the Properties button, and then click Include this system in this distribution point group. This window will also show you all the other systems that are currently members of this group.
Antivirus may block copying of INF files; we have had to turn off scanning of the SMS Package folders when using McAfee. I do not recommend removing the Antivirus on any server or desktop as a resolution to any issue. If you run into problems with SMS accessing your DP, you may want to check your antivirus solution to ensure that it is not blocking access to the DP based on behavior such as remote access via HTTP, or a package that has a .INF (such as drivers in an OSD package).
Once you have successfully added a DP, or any other site system, you should be able to see the status for this site in the Site Database\System Status\Site Status\"Site name"\Site System Status screen. The status should be listed as OK, and you should also see drive statistics such as free space.
A second place to look is SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER. 1014 will show the system is being installed, and a 1015 message will indicate success for installing the site system. Any errors should be checked against the message codes in the download below from Microsoft.
If you have successfully created the DP, but your package is not being uploaded to the DP, check the message on the SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER component. If you are seeing access denied messages, they are most likely due to one of two issues; Antivirus is blocking the package(or part of it), or someone has changed the permissions on the DP.


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With Dallas Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott's legal options for staying on the field seemingly exhausted, the team will now find out just how much they will miss the defending rushing champion.
And while there's no doubt that the next six games will be difficult without Elliott's immense talents, all of the games on the schedule are winnable without him.
Now, don't get me twisted. There isn't another back on the roster as versatile or dynamic as the 2nd year player from Ohio St. But the guys replacing him aren't exactly chopped liver.
Alfred Morris, who has been the primary backup in the first eight games, is a two time Pro Bowl player in his own right. He has also shown to be up to the task when handed the ball. He even rattled off a 70 yard run against the Rams in week 4.
Darren McFadden has been waiting in the wings. Lest Cowboys fans forget that the 30 year old McFadden is just two years removed from a 1,000 yard season in Dallas that for the majority of the season was quarterbacked by a bunch of guys named Stan (no offense to people named Stan intended).
And Rod Smith averaged nearly 8 yards per carry in mop up duty against San Francisco a few weeks ago.
Now, any one of these guys are not Elliott on their best day. But the three of them together should put up a more than competent rushing attack while he serves his suspension.
Now that begs the question. Who is the player the Cowboys can least live without?
QB Dak Prescott looks even better than he did in his inaugural season in which he won 13 games while taking Rookie of the Year honors. He's spreading out the ball in the passing game, making the right calls on audibles, running when he needs to, and all but eliminating turnovers.
However the most important thing that Prescott brings to the table is leadership. Despite being only in his 2nd season, he commands the total respect of everyone in the locker room.
Waiting in the wings to take his place should the need arise is Cooper Rush. Rush, an undrafted rookie free agent from Central Michigan, dazzled his way into the hearts of Cowboys fans with his outstanding August performances against guys that are about to take their next customer on a test drive.
And while Rush has the requisite tools and may someday make a good NFL QB, he's not remotely ready to step up in the middle of a stretch run and take a team to the playoffs. If Rush has to play in anything but a blowout this season, he may as well change his name to Stan (again, no offense intended).
The Cowboys offense will miss Zeke. But there is more than enough talent to compensate for his absence. The same cannot be said for Prescott. And as long as he stays upright, the Cowboys have a chance to make the playoffs. But if he doesn't, it will be long winter with or without Zeke.
Let's just hope Stan (no offense) stays on the sidelines.
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