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import React, { PropTypes } from 'react';
import s from './ConfList.css'
import {BootstrapTable, TableHeaderColumn} from 'react-bootstrap-table';
import _ from 'underscore';
import { Sparklines, SparklinesLine, SparklinesSpots, SparklinesReferenceLine } from 'react-sparklines';

function whoFormatter(cell, row) {
  return `${cell} (${row.year}) <a href='${row.source}' target='_other'><span style='font-size: 10px' class='glyphicon glyphicon-link'></span></a>`;
}

function historyItemFormatter(historyItem) {
  return genderDiversityFormatter(historyItem.diversityPercentage, "") + " <sup>(" + historyItem.year + ")</sup>";
}

function yearExtractor(historyItem) {
  return historyItem.diversityPercentage;
}

function minDiversityFormatter(history, row) {
  return historyItemFormatter(_.min(history, yearExtractor));
}

function maxDiversityFormatter(history, row) {
  return historyItemFormatter(_.max(history, yearExtractor));
}

function numberOfMenFormatter(cell, row) {
  return row.totalSpeakers - row.numberOfWomen;
}

function genderDiversityFormatter(cell, row) {
  var formatter = new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US', {
    style: 'decimal',
    minimumIntegerDigits: 2,
    maximumIntegerDigits: 2,
    maximumFractionDigits: 0,
  });

  return `${formatter.format(cell)}%`;
}

function genderDiversityRowStyle(row, rowIndex) {
  var percentage = row.diversityPercentage;
  if (percentage < 10) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortFTrans}`;
  } else if (percentage < 20) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortETrans}`;
  } else if (percentage < 30) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortDTrans}`;
  } else if (percentage < 40) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortCTrans}`;
  } else if (percentage < 50) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortBTrans}`;
  } else {
    return `${s.percentageCohortATrans}`;
  }
}

function genderDiversityCellStyle(percentage, row, rowIndex, columnIndex) {
  if (percentage < 10) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortF}`;
  } else if (percentage < 20) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortE}`;
  } else if (percentage < 30) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortD}`;
  } else if (percentage < 40) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortC}`;
  } else if (percentage < 50) {
    return `${s.percentageCohortB}`;
  } else {
    return `${s.percentageCohortA}`;
  }

}

function rowIndexFormatter(cell, row, formatExtraData, rowIdx) {
  return (rowIdx + 1);
}

class ConfList extends React.Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.options = {
      defaultSortName: 'diversityPercentage',
      defaultSortOrder: 'desc',
      sortIndicator: true
    };

    this.state = {
      confs: props.confs
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.refs.table.handleSort('desc', 'diversityPercentage');
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <BootstrapTable
        data={this.state.confs}
        ref="table"
        containerClass={s.confTable}
        condensed bordered={ false }
        trClassName={ genderDiversityRowStyle }
        tableStyle={ { border: "none" }} >
        <TableHeaderColumn
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          dataField='diversityPercentage'
          dataFormat={ rowIndexFormatter }
          dataAlign='center'
          headerAlign='center'
          width='30'></TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          isKey
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          dataField='diversityPercentage'
          columnClassName={ genderDiversityCellStyle }
          dataFormat={ genderDiversityFormatter }
          dataAlign='center'
          dataSort={ true }
          headerAlign='center'
          width='50'>f:m</TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          dataField='name'
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          dataFormat={ whoFormatter }
          dataSort={ true }
          width='220'
          >who</TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          dataField='numberOfWomen'
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          dataSort={ true }
          headerAlign='right'
          dataAlign='right'
          width='50'
          >#f</TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          dataField='numberOfMen'
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          dataSort={ true }
          headerAlign='right'
          dataAlign='right'
          width='50'
          >#m</TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          dataField='year'
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          dataSort={ true }
          headerAlign='right'
          dataAlign='right'
          width='60'
          >year</TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          dataField='location'
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          >where</TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          dataField='history'
          dataFormat={ minDiversityFormatter }
          headerAlign='right'
          dataAlign='right'
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          >min</TableHeaderColumn>
        <TableHeaderColumn
          dataField='history'
          dataFormat={ maxDiversityFormatter }
          tdAttr={ { 'id': `${s.confTableRow}` } }
          >max</TableHeaderColumn>
      </BootstrapTable>
    );
  }

}

export default ConfList;

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A ROADMAP FOR SMALL BUSINESS ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENTS
Shawn M. Peddycord
Asset purchase and sale transactions may be complicated, with hundreds of pages of contracts, schedules, exhibits, and appendices. Or transactions may be relatively short, with just a few key documents. Either way, each acquisition is unique and varies in complexity based on the types of assets sold, liabilities assumed, risks each party is prepared to take, and willingness of the parties to "get the deal done."
This article provides a roadmap for small business asset purchase agreements (APA) along with a high-level overview from the perspective of a buyer and a seller. These section headings are similar to the section headings you would find in a standard APA.
ASSETS / LIABILITIES
Assets and liabilities are usually listed broadly and then detailed in schedules attached to the APA. Excluded assets can also be identified depending on the circumstances of the transaction.
Buyer: The more valuable the asset category to a buyer, the more detailed the description will likely be in the APA. A buyer will want to be specific with which liabilities it will assume.
Seller: A seller does not want to inadvertently include more assets than intended by listing assets too generally in the APA.
Hint: Schedules are usually completed toward the end of the transaction, but they are too important to shortcut or skip altogether.
The purchase price is the consideration paid for the assets plus the assumption of agreed-upon liabilities. The purchase price may be paid in cash, equity, earn-outs, or a variety of other possibilities.
Buyer: A buyer may desire to make payments over time to enable offsets against unknown risks and liabilities. Earn-outs can confirm the actual value a buyer receives or can motivate a seller to stay involved in the business to help effectuate a smooth transition.
Seller: If the purchase price is paid over time (as opposed to one lump sum payment), a seller may request a promissory note and, sometimes, for an owner to sign a personal guarantee.
Hint: Allocation of the purchase price among the various types of assets and other components of the transaction (e.g. the non-compete and non-solicitation covenants) can be a hot button in negotiations due to the tax implications.
The closing of an acquisition transaction can be a "simultaneous sign and close" or a "sign and then later close." In a sign and then later close, a buyer may continue its due diligence after signing, and there are usually pre-closing obligations the parties must meet in order to close. The simultaneous sign and close is more common in small business acquisitions.
Buyer: A buyer almost always pays at least part of the purchase price at the closing.
Seller: At the Closing, a seller will usually deliver the assets and signed ancillary documents (e.g. bill of sale, and assignment and assumption), and transfer any assumed liabilities to a buyer.
Hint: As part of the APA, the parties decide whether to exchange closing deliverables in person or electronically. Some documents may still require "wet" signatures.
Representations (or "reps" for short) and warranties serve to allocate risk between the parties and provide a basis for post-closing indemnification obligations. Representations are statements of past or present facts about the business. Warranties are promises about the future outlook of the business.
Buyer: Reps and warranties require a seller to stand behind its financial statements, disclosures, information, and commitments. They can be made by a seller, owner(s), or both (sometimes stated in legalese as "joint and several").
Seller: A seller can negotiate the wording and narrow the scope of the reps and warranties in the APA to ensure they are accurate. Exceptions can be included in the APA, schedules (corresponding with the section number in the APA), or a disclosure letter.
Hint: Reps and warranties usually account for the largest part of the APA. A false representation or a dishonored warranty may result in claims for breach of the APA, including claims for indemnification. Representations and warranties insurance (R&W insurance) is commonly used by buyers to minimize post-closing risks (but can be expensive).
POST-CLOSING
The post-closing provisions state the responsibilities of the parties after the closing, such as confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicitation covenants (e.g. of employees and customers), insurance requirements, consulting and training, indemnification, and rights of offset.
Buyer: Indemnification, holdbacks, and rights of offset are critical tools for a buyer to encourage and enforce honesty and compliance by a seller, and sometimes by an owner.
Seller: A seller may try to minimize post-closing commitments by setting minimum and maximum liability limitations, short time periods, and exclusions.
Hint: If a seller has little to no assets remaining after the closing, a buyer may request a provision that prohibits the seller from dissolving for a defined period of time in order to help a buyer avoid successor liability.
OTHER PROVISIONS (AKA BOILERPLATE)
These provisions vary depending on the transaction, but may include important terms such as governing law and jurisdiction, severability, integration, and notices.
Buyer: A buyer may include the ability to obtain an injunction or other equitable relief in the event of a breach of obligations by a seller (e.g. disclosure of confidential information or continued use of transferred intellectual property rights).
Seller: A seller may want to ensure the boilerplate terms are balanced.
Hint: An integration clause (or "entire agreement" provision) can ensure the executed APA controls over any letter of intent (LOI), term sheet, emails, conversations, and other negotiations between the parties related to the transaction.
Acquisitions are complex and, at times, frustrating. However, it is possible for everyone to win as long as the parties and professional advisors work in good faith toward the same end goal of closing the transaction.
Shawn Peddycord is a business attorney specializing in acquisitions and contracts in North County San Diego. He represents small businesses in a variety of asset and equity purchase and sale transactions, and has extensive experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts. This article is for educational purposes only, is based on California law, and is not intended as legal advice or as a substitute for legal counsel. Shawn can be reached at shawn@peddycordlaw.com and by phone at 760-943-1537.
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On the 6th of December, BRHA and UNHCR had organized a workshop consisting of several seminars (held by members of BRHA and members of UNHCR) for the managers of the IDP and refugee camps in the province of Duhok. The workshop was on how to deal with the media that enter the camps and the rules that have to be followed by the parties during their (media) visits to the camps. The privacy of the IDPs and refugees need to be respected and there are for example specific rules if we look at the individuals that were held captive by Daesh (ISIS) at some point.


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Truth is Utility
Interviewed 2013. How important is the voice of the designer in a game?
Roles: #Founder #Educator #Writer #Game Designer
Credits: #DINER DASH
So, I think that sometimes game designers suffer from what I think of as science envy. Game designers are often very analytic people because we make structures with rules. We're often, you know, uh, somewhere maybe on the Asperger's spectrum of, you know, really wanting to figure out how we can put the world into boxes and - and systematize things, uh, at least for - for a lot of game designers. Obviously game designers come in many forms. Um, and there's a - sometimes an impulse to kind of like lock down definitions, really understand this is what a game is. And sometimes that impulse is an overcorrection to something that's wrong with the industry. For example, uh, about ten years ago in the game industry we saw a lot of these big 3D budget, uh, games, uh, big budget games that were - that were, you know, had lots of cinematic cut scenes and - and very, very limited game play and they really were about trying to replicate the pleasures of cinema. And there was a generation of game designers making those kinds of games saying we have to, um, make games more open ended. We have to give the player the ability to express themselves. Games are not about us, designers expressing ourselves, it's about the players being able to express themselves. And that was kind of a beautiful and very interesting idea. Now, ten years later, we're seeing the - the exact opposite which is that there's a lot of people saying, "Well, the game industry has had a certain kind of game creator. We want new diverse voices. And people are saying the - the only thing that's important is the voice of the creator." That the game designer's voice is - is the most important thing and the game is a - is a channel for them to kind of communicate who they are to the world, um, and to the players for their game play. And those things are totally contradictory, right? One says that - that what's important is the players expressing themselves and the other says that the, um, that the game designer is expressing themselves. But, in fact, they're both correct. And, um, you know, we would never say about literature, for example, that literature is just one thing. We wouldn't say, well, literature is really about, you know, the evolution of plot structures and how people learn to tell more complicated stories. We - wouldn't say, well, literature is just about the history of the printing press and how new technologies make distribution of information to the masses easier. We wouldn't say that - that literature is just about the - the representation of gender, and the gender politics of - of how, uh, stories reflect our societies and - and culture. Obviously all of those things are - are true at the same time. And to say that literature is just one thing cheapens the enterprise as a whole for everyone that's involved. So, I would say that - that this is part of what I mean when I say that truth is utility in games. We don't want to cling too hard to the idea that games are just one thing. Um, they're many things. Now, in terms of how this applies when you're making a game, uh, is that a lot of people have very - have very, um, strict concepts about what - what they're trying to do with the game. Well, I'm trying to tell a story and to tell a story first you make a world. And then you have a character. And then, so you may have a very set procedure for doing that. And, um, you know, the - the, uh, the - the truth of a concept I feel for designers is its ability to help us solve problems. You know, when you're - when you're studying wrestling, for example, um, you might learn a concept for a stance, right? So, you can't see the lower half of my body, but let's say that I'm, imagine I'm getting into a wrestling position here now, right. So, I've got 45% of the weight on this foot and my - my back foot is at a certain angle relative to the - my shoulders and that kind of thing. If you're training wrestling you study the exact correct way that those stances, you know, need to be in your body. But, when you're actually in a match, when you're wrestling with someone, who cares if you have the exact correct stance that you're doing, right. So, so, um, what's more important is how you can utilize and improvise with the knowledge and skills that you have in the heat of trying to overcome this problem. And for designers, the - the wrestling match is trying to wrestle with the design problem that you have. So, concepts are important. But you want to use them and deploy them at certain moments, right, so you might have certain mathematical ideas about what a game is that you can use at a certain point when you're trying to balance the - the - the economic systems in your game to get them just right. On the other hand, if your play testers are telling you I don't like this character, I don't feel anything for them, then maybe the mathematics matter less and it might end up being more about the - the politics of gender representation in your game. Who is this character, what's their story, why are people relating or not relating to them in the way that you hoped that they would? So, that's the sense in which truth is utility. Right, is it - is it true that games are just a set of mathematical rules? Well, when you're looking at them as math, sure. Um, but that, that whole way of looking at games might - might not be relevant when you're - when you're trying to look at them in terms of a - a, you know, in terms of story and character and the psychology of - of how a - how a player relates to the character that they're playing, which itself is just really, uh, you know, complicated, uh, complicated question. So, so what we - what I try and do when I teach game designers is have them think about games in - in lots of different ways, in multiple points of view. So, so you're - you're heading in like Batman with all of your, you know, different tools on your tool bed - belt and, you know, just because you have a grappling hook doesn't - doesn't make your battering untrue. It just means that it - it might not work in - in one situation. And I think for me as a game designer one of the things I love so much about it is that being a game designer means that you are - you are working on levels sometimes of mathematics and logic. But you're also working in terms of aesthetics and storytelling and music. And you're also working in terms of understanding how what you're doing fits into culture at large. You also have to be a, sort of a cultural anthropologist. And, and it's such a wonderful kind of discipline because it really - you're really firing on all cylinders at - at different points in the process. And, uh, yeah, I love making games, if you can't tell.


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Stark: Beltran's star rising
16yJayson Stark
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UFC Fight Island viewers guide: Finally in the spotlight, Neil Magny has what it takes to shine
2dBrett Okamoto
Sarah Thomas to be 1st woman to officiate at SB
9hKevin Seifert
10hBrian Windhorst
Vols firing Pruitt with cause after investigation
1dChris Low and Mark Schlabach
Fantasy basketball waiver-wire finds: Goran Dragic, Shake Milton among key pickups
1dJim McCormick
Clobbering an impossible pitch
Jayson StarkESPN Senior Writer
Senior writer for ESPN.com
21 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer
Author of three baseball books
HOUSTON -- It was a how-did-he-do-that moment, by a man riding a how-is-he-doing-this tidal wave.
Seventh inning. Tie game. Two teams and their October dreams hanging in the balance.
A man on the mound (Cardinals pitcher Julian Tavarez) who had allowed exactly one home run all season.
A man at the plate (ascending Astros supernova Carlos Beltran) traveling on a home-run-a-day October journey even he can't explain.
What happened next couldn't possibly have happened. But it did.
Julian Tavarez snapped off a fire-breathing slider. By the time it reached home plate, it was about three inches off the ground. And Beltran still swung at it.
If this were anybody else, this would have been strike three, thanks for playing. But in this place in this time, there isn't anybody else like Beltran. Not in this solar system, anyway.
Somehow, he propelled this baseball over everyone and everything. When it finally came back to earth in the Astros' bullpen, approximately 390 feet away, a ballpark rattled. And a pitcher filled up with rage and disbelief. And a fabulous playoff series had just gotten a little more fabulous.
This was how the winning run scored in the Astros' 6-5 win over the Cardinals on Sunday, on Beltran's astonishing swing of the bat.
This was how a National League Championship Series that once seemed so firmly in the grip of the Cardinals suddenly transformed itself back into a tie, at two wins apiece.
Next up, they will play Game 5 on Monday night in a ballpark where the Astros are now 21-1 since Aug. 23. So suddenly, these Astros don't look much like a team in trouble anymore.
History tells us they are the 16th team to lose the first two games of a best-of-seven series on the road and then come back to win the next two at home. History tells us that of the previous 15 teams, nine won the series.
This should not be happening to an Astros team that was four games under .500 with only 46 games left in its season. But it is happening, in real life.
And now, apparently, Beltran is planning to hit a home run every single day for the rest of October. Which would be just fine with that team he plays for.
"I'll ride his coat tails," said Jeff Bagwell, "as long as I can ride them."
Well, if he is, we'd suggest he fasten his seat belt and put his seat back in the full upright and locked position -- because this is one crazy ride this guy is on.
Men have been playing postseason baseball games for more than a century now. No one had ever hit a home run in five consecutive postseason games before -- until Beltran came along.
The Astros have been playing baseball for 43 seasons. And only once, in nearly 7,000 games, had any Astro ever homered in five consecutive regular-season games (Cliff Johnson, way back in 1975) -- until Carlos Beltran came along and did it in five straight October games.
Sunday was the ninth postseason game of Beltran's life -- all of them in the last two weeks. But already, he has hit eight home runs.
That's as many as Joe DiMaggio hit in 51 postseason games. It's as many as Frank Robinson hit in 26 postseason games. It's as many as Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Ted Williams and Stan Musial hit combined in 72 postseason games.
So how hot is Beltran? Better high-five him with a pot holder.
He was asked Sunday if he can ever remember having eight games like this -- any time, any place, any team, any season. He shook his head and said just one word: "No."


It started with an award-winning first 'citra' brew, crafted using someone else's kit. Then it blossomed into a full-scale brewing operation below a country pub in Swanscombe Kent. Now Caveman offers a fully stocked craft beer range that packs a magnificently earthy punch.
We were engaged from day one to create a full brand ID, pump clip designs, posters and press ads and a business expansion plan which is already in full swing.


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Q: DRAM Rank-Level Allocations I want to do allocations on a specific DRAM rank. The smallest allocation unit in an OS such as Linux is at the page size granularity, which is typically 4KB. So I need to be able to place at least a complete page in a DRAM rank.
But based on DRAMDig Paper1 and page 20 of Datasheet, volume 1 (M- and H-processor lines) (i.e., my processor chipset family), my Haswell processor uses channel interleaving when DIMMs are placed in slots belonging to different channels (my system has two DIMM, a 4GB and a 8GB). In other words, successive 64-byte (which is, unfortunately, less than 4KB) allocations are mapped to different channels and, consequently, different ranks (e.g., physical address 0 is mapped to rank 0 of DIMM 0 which is located at channel 0, while physical address 64 is mapped to rank 0 of DIMM1 which is located at channel 1), for performance reasons. My questions are:
1) Is it possible to set the channel interleaving bit at a higher order index so as to make 4KB single-rank allocations possible?
2) Otherwise, is it possible to disable channel interleaving purely in software?
3) Otherwise, is placing both DIMMs in the same-channel slots the only remaining approach? This is equivalent to the following statement: channel interleaving does not allow single rank allocations.
Any help, suggestions and guesses are appreciated. I am stuck and the documentations are rather vague.

1 Table 2 on page 5 shows mapping functions (from physical addresses to DRAM components). In all dual-channel configurations, a low-order bit (a bit in the range [6-8]) is used as the channel interleave bit while it should be at least bit 12 to make 4KB single-rank allocations possible.

A: Haswell supports approx 32 GB if memory serves.
And the traditional wisdom is, that channel interleaving only happens if the DIMM modules are identical, channel to channel (mirror style). If the DIMMs are not identical, the BIOS won't engage interleaving.
If you have just two DIMMs, 1x 4GB + 1x 8GB = 12 GB total, your RAM controller is likely running them in consecutive / concatenated mode. (The effect of double RAM bandwidth does not happen.) Some BIOSes report interleaved mode somewhere in the POST screen - in your BIOS, try suppressing quick POST, disable graphical bitmap logo / welcome screen, some BIOSes allow you to add an extra delay after POST - to read the POST messages. PauseBreak also tends to work during POST. To know for sure if your BIOS reports interleaving or not, you'd have to plug in two identical DIMM modules and try to find the message in the POST screens.
If your memory controller does in fact run in interleaved mode, you probably should not try to change this from your running OS, even if the hardware would allow you to (which it likely won't allow, as these chipset config registers tend to be locked against modification by the BIOS at the end of POST, irreversibly to the OS).
Guess what would happen if your BIOS and OS were all started up with the RAM interleaved, and you'd remove the interleaving. I mean the effect would be fun to think about - like an office shredder. On the computer screen it wouldn't actually be all that interesting, probably. The OS would likely just freeze hard. Unless the GPU framebuffer would also get shredded, which could yield some interesting visual effect after all...
If you'd like to access just one DIMM at a time, and they're interleaved, and you know the "stride" of the interleaving, how about this: The interleaving "stride" length is likely a power of two (number of bytes). You could as well allocate a chunk of memory, sized as you see fit. For a good measure, I'd either try to ask the OS (or libc) for the allocation to be page-aligned, or if this is not possible, I'd allocate 2^N + 1 pages, and find the boundary inside the allocation. Memory mapping from kernel to user space (VM) is definitely granular at page boundaries, so you just need to mask some bottom number of bits in the address to make this page-aligned (12 bits for a 4 kB page?). Modulo huge pages, but I don't think these would hamper your practical outcome, even if used by the kernel's memory management.
Next, access the allocated buffer by an algorithm that only ever touches the odd or even strides in your expected interleaving scheme.
You could probably try to measure if it works by timing some large transfers. Large enough to trash the cache. Try a transfer that should interleave, and then a transfer that should only hit one RAM channel.
If you do in fact need to have 4kB chunks allocated continuous in a DRAM channel, your only practical chance probably is to derail interleaving on purpose, either by populating just one RAM channel, or by using two (four?) DIMM modules with unequal sizes.

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Situated on the edge of town and sandwiched between the river and the steam railway, Boat of Garten can trace its illustrious history back to 1898 when the original six holes were laid out over pure heathland.
Two holes were added in 1910 and 20 years on extra land became available and the legendary James Braid submitted his design. Since it was opened in 1932, the 18-hole course has been tweaked a little but the remarkable individuality of the holes is still unmistakeably present in the delightful design that threads through the silver birch, heather and gorse.
All the holes are christened, some with names that are almost unpronounceable to everyone other than a native Scot. The signature 6th is said to have been Braid's favourite. In providing wonderfully lofty tees, several of the holes, but in particular the 6th and 12th, make full use of the available elevation, of which there is plenty.
A feature of the course for which Braid can't take any credit is the spectacular mountain backdrop provided by the Cairngorms. Another natural asset is the abundant wildlife - hares and deer are a particular feature.
A James Braid-designed course, Boat of Garten is situated in the Scottish Highland and is unsurprisingly surrounded by beautiful scenery. Fairways lined by birch trees, heather and broom make it a scenic, yet difficult test.
Considered a real hidden gem, this course is a must-visit if you are planning a trip to the Scottish Highlands.
Pretty course away from the links and an easy days golfing although if planning 36 holes suggest you don't carry 14 clubs all the way. Shame though that the course wasn't in better condition. Greens had bare patches and inconsistent roll. A bit untidy here and there. Word had it that the winter had been particularily hard on the course and there had been a few issues with green staff. A kind of Manor House at Castle Coombe type of feel about the place.
An absolute gem. the setting made the hairs on my neck stand up, and I could have heard bagpipes through the glen. Not a long course, but tight and testing with a few easier holes to give you hope. The welcome in the clubhouse was also first class. I could have spent the whole weekend here without a care.
A superb course, which gave you plenty to think about without being intimidating. Greens were excellent and the views stunning. The course was extremely well drained and would certainly get me playing it again and again. A real corker!


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Q: Forcing removal of broken packages on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS $ dpkg -l | grep php7.0-cgi
ri  php7.0-cgi                         7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1            amd64        server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
$ apt-get purge php7.0-cgi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libc-dev-bin libice-dev libice6 libjbig-dev liblzma-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libsm6 libtiffxx5 libvpx-dev libx11-dev libx11-doc libxau-dev libxcb1-dev
  libxdmcp-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev libxt6 pkg-config x11-common x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xtrans-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  php7.0-cgi*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 8,658 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 72987 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing php7.0-cgi (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
ERROR: Conf php7.0-cgi does not exist!
dpkg: error processing package php7.0-cgi (--purge):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 php7.0-cgi
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$ apt-get install php7.0-cgi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
php7.0-cgi is already the newest version (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libc-dev-bin libice-dev libice6 libjbig-dev liblzma-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libsm6 libtiffxx5 libvpx-dev libx11-dev libx11-doc libxau-dev libxcb1-dev
  libxdmcp-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev libxt6 pkg-config x11-common x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xtrans-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq  php7.0-cgi
(Reading database ... 72987 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing php7.0-cgi (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
ERROR: Conf php7.0-cgi does not exist!
dpkg: error processing package php7.0-cgi (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 php7.0-cgi

How can I get php7.0-cgi removed so that I can perform a fresh install? The package appears to be broken because it is not behaving as it should.

A: sudo apt-get install -f should remove packages and allow fresh install.
Also try sudo apt autoremove.
Read more about it here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto?action=show&redirect=AptGetHowto


Mammal, (class Mammalia), any kind of participant of the team of vertebrate animals in which the young are nurtured with milk from special mammary glands of the mother. In addition to these characteristic milk glands, mammals are identified by several other one-of-a-kind functions.
Hair is a common animal attribute, although in many whales it has gone away other than in the fetal stage. The mammalian lower jaw is hinged straight to the skull, rather than through a separate bone (the quadrate) as in all other animals. A chain of three little bones transfers sound waves across the center ear.
A muscle diaphragm separates the heart as well as the lungs from the stomach dental caries. Just the left aortic arch persists. (In birds the best aortic arc persists; in reptiles, amphibians, and also fishes both arcs are retained.) Mature red cell (erythrocytes) in all animals lack a core; all various other animals have nucleated red cell.
Except for the monotremes (an egg-laying order of mammals consisting of echidnas as well as the duck-billed platypus), all creatures are viviparous– they bear real-time young.
In the placental mammals (which have a placenta to facilitate nutrient as well as waste exchange between the mommy and also the developing fetus), the young are carried within the mother's womb, getting to a reasonably sophisticated stage of growth prior to birth.
In the marsupials (e.g., kangaroos, opossums, as well as wallabies), the newborns are incompletely created at birth as well as remain to establish outside the womb, connecting themselves to the lady's body in the location of her mammary glands. Some marsupials have a pouchlike structure or fold, the marsupium, that shelters the suckling young.
The class Mammalia is worldwide in distribution. It has actually been stated that animals have a bigger distribution as well as are extra versatile than any type of various other single class of animals, with the exemption of certain less-complex kinds such as arachnids and pests.
This versatility in manipulating Earth is connected in large component to the capacity of creatures to manage their body temperatures and internal atmosphere both in too much warmth and also aridity as well as in severe cold.
Planet's 25 earthbound hot spots of biodiversityAs identified by British environmental researcher Norman Myers and also associates, these 25 areas, though tiny, include abnormally multitudes of plant as well as pet varieties, as well as they likewise have actually been subjected to abnormally high degrees of habitat destruction by human task.
The advancement of the class Mammalia has generated significant diversity in type and also behavior. Living kinds vary in size from a bat weighing less than a gram as well as small shrews weighing but a few grams to the largest pet that has actually ever before lived, the blue whale, which gets to a size of more than 30 metres (100 feet) and also a weight of 180 statistics lots (almost 200 brief [U.S.] lots). Every major habitat has been made use of by animals that swim, fly, run, burrow, glide, or climb.
There are more than 5,500 species of living mammals, organized in concerning 125 family members and as several as 27– 29 orders (domestic as well as ordinal groups occasionally vary amongst authorities). The rats (order Rodentia) are the most numerous of existing creatures, in both variety of types and number of people, and also are among one of the most diverse of living family trees.
In contrast, the order Tubulidentata is stood for by a solitary living varieties, the aardvark. The Uranotheria (elephants and also their kin) and Perissodactyla (steeds, rhinoceroses, as well as their kin) are instances of orders in which far higher variety took place in the late Paleogene and Neogene durations (about 30 million to about 3 million years ago) than today.
The greatest present-day diversity is seen in continental tropical areas, although participants of the class Mammalia live on (or in seas adjacent to) all major landmasses. Animals can also be discovered on numerous nautical islands, which are principally, but by no means specifically, occupied by bats.
Major local faunas can be determined; these resulted in huge part from evolution in relative seclusion of stocks of very early creatures that got to these areas. South America (the Neotropics), as an example, was separated from The United States and Canada (the Nearctic) from about 65 million to 2.5 million years earlier.
Animal teams that had actually reached South America prior to the break in between the continents, or some that "island-hopped" after the break, progressed independently from loved ones that stayed in North America.
Some of the last ended up being vanished as the outcome of competition with advanced groups, whereas those in South America flourished, some emitting to the level that they have actually effectively competed with invaders since the rejoining of both continents.
Australia supplies a parallel instance of very early seclusion and also adaptive radiation of creatures (specifically the monotremes as well as marsupials), although it varies in that Australia was not later connected to any other landmass.
The placental creatures that got to Australia (rodents and bats) seemingly did so by island-hopping long after the adaptive radiation of the mammals isolated beforehand.
In contrast, The United States and Canada as well as Eurasia (the Palearctic) are separate landmasses yet have carefully relevant faunas as the result of having actually been attached numerous times throughout the Pleistocene Date (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) and earlier across the Bering Strait.
Their faunas frequently are considered representing not 2 unique units however one, associated with such a degree that a single name, Holarctic, is related to it.


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Work with PIOs Outside Your Institution
Besides your own PIO, you can work with PIOs at journal publishers, scientific societies, and your funding agency to communicate your work. Also, your institution may use commercial PR agencies. Each of these types has differences, and understanding them can help you best benefit from their expertise.
PIOs at Journal Publishers and Scientific Societies
Many journal publishers and scientific societies have media relations offices that publicize the journal's articles or the society's meetings.
PIOs for journals typically send out a media package for each issue containing summaries of papers that might be of interest to journalists. For example, the news operations of Science, Nature, and the Cell Press and the American Chemical Society and American Physical Society journals all issue summaries of selected papers they deem newsworthy.
If you have a paper in press, check with your editor about the publicity process for that journal. And, check the journal's Web site for instructions for authors on how best to work with them. For example, the American Physical Society's Web site includes instructions for authors on publicity and outreach. The APS also operates the online magazine Physics, which features lay-level summaries, written by scientists, of important papers in its journals. And Nature posts a Web page that explains communication and media benefits.
And, as discussed previously, always always always let your own PIO know when you have a paper accepted.
Most major journals will notify your PIO when a paper is scheduled for publication. Also as discussed previously, Science, JAMA, PNAS and Cell Press journals post information on articles when they have been accepted but not yet scheduled. For example, AAAS notifies some 300 PIOs a week about upcoming papers in Science, even phoning PIOs with information on particularly newsworthy papers.
These journals recognize that your PIO is an invaluable ally, since he or she can do a news release that publicizes the journal's papers. There may be some limitations on such notifications, however, says AAAS public programs director Ginger Pinholster:
We are constrained until editorial tells us that the paper is accepted and the publication date. We can't launch into high gear with our notification while the paper is still in flux. However, it doesn't hurt to call, because you can get an idea of whether it looks like the paper is going to survive peer review and approximately when it might be published.
You can aid the journal's publicity process by offering to prepare a lay-level summary of the paper and to provide photos, graphics, video, or animations that illustrate the findings. Also, offer to check for accuracy any press summary on your paper.
You should make sure you are given a chance to edit any press release about your work or risk being at the mercy of their writers, warns the New York Times science writer Cornelia Dean, author of the book Am I Making Myself Clear?
"The journals are commercial operations. They tout their paper as a way of promoting the journal. And many times scientists have told me 'I saw the press release, and I just about died.'"
If the journal in which your paper is being published lacks such publicity support, find out the publication date from your editor, and make sure your PIO knows about it.
Do not assume that a journal PIO is aware of the newsworthiness of your paper, especially at publishers with many journals—such as Nature, Cell Press, the ACS or the AGU.
"We publish something like sixteen journals that total some fifty thousand pages a year of peer reviewed research," says former AGU communications officer Harvey Leifert. "There is no way we can tell what all the good stuff is. Titles and even abstracts often don't tell that a paper is newsworthy." What's more, says Leifert, journal editors might not even inform the PIO of newsworthy papers.
"We try hard, but with only modest success, to get the editors to tip us to exceptionally interesting papers that they have just accepted."
Thus, you and your PIO can alert the journal's PIO to your newsworthy paper and offer to help publicize it.
If your institution does not have a PIO who covers research—such as a smaller college—you can contact the journal PIO for help.
PIOs at scientific societies also publicize their meetings. For their national meetings, AAAS, ACS, AGU, and other major societies produce substantial online press kits and virtual press rooms that feature paper summaries, news conference schedules, and other information. To get an idea of the materials offered at such meetings, explore the EurekAlert! meetings announcements site.
Your PIO may prepare news releases on papers being delivered by researchers at such meetings, providing them for the virtual press rooms. Many PIOs also travel to such meetings, to contact reporters and talk about their institution's research. So, besides notifying your PIO about accepted papers, let him or her know about papers accepted for meetings.
PIOs at Your Funding Agency
The federal funding agencies, most notably NSF and NIH, operate active public affairs offices whose PIOs want to hear about your work. Their Web sites are excellent venues for your news releases and other content, because they carry the unique cachet of a major federal agency.
In communicating the advances in projects they support, funding agencies aim to demonstrate to Congress and the public their value, says NSF science communicator Leslie Fink, of NSF's Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA).
"I think of it as a general responsibility of a federal agency to inform the American public—in ways that make sense to them and in context—what they are getting for the money they are spending," she says.
NSF and NIH consider such broad communications so important that their grant-making rules stipulate that the research projects must incorporate efforts to broadly disseminate their results. For example, in its merit review criteria, NSF offers these examples of activities for disseminating results beyond scientific publication:
Partner with museums, nature centers, science centers, and similar institutions to develop exhibits in science, math, and engineering.
Involve the public or industry, where possible, in research and education activities.
Give science and engineering presentations to the broader community (e.g., at museums and libraries, on radio shows, and in other such venues.).
Publish in diverse media (e.g., non-technical literature, and Websites, CD-ROMs, press kits) to reach broad audiences.
Present research and education results in formats useful to policy-makers, members of Congress, industry, and broad audiences.
However, says former OLPA Director Jeff Nesbit, researchers would do well to think beyond this list when proposing their outreach activities:
Most researchers choose things that they know have worked in the past, and that they have heard other researchers talk about. So, they tend to focus on broadening diversity in education, or educational materials that might show up in classrooms. The review committees are now starting to look for the more innovative and creative ways to broaden the reach of your research, and one of the easiest ways is to look at mass communications vehicles and podcasts and video and projects of that sort.
NSF's public affairs office is eager to partner with researchers and their PIOs to communicate their work, say Nesbit and Fink. Given that the NSF Web site receives about a million hits a month, the chance to have a news release or feature posted on the site represents a golden opportunity. NSF offers basic advice for scientists on how to work with their PIOs on this page.
However, points out Nesbit, the reach of NSF media efforts extend far beyond the Web site. OLPA can produce releases and videos that are fed directly to media partners' cable channels, Web news portals, and Web sites. Also, NSF may produce media-briefing Webcasts on discoveries involving NSF-sponsored research. NSF's outreach efforts are not limited to the material produced by OLPA, he says.
"We promote university press releases just as much as we do our own," he says. "It is not about building up NSF's name," says Nesbit. "I don't want to say we are not interested in that, but it is not our principal mission. Our principal mission is using the NSF's name and platform to try to empower and facilitate the research that is going on out there."
To help your release reach media, NSF may post it in a media section of the NSF Web page on EurekAlert!, as well as being featured on the NSF Web site, he says.
To have your research news featured by NSF, your PIO should submit it to NSF through the appropriate staff member, as listed on the OLPA Web site. That staffer may do a version for the NSF site that will include a link to your release. Also, NSF might highlight your release in the "News from the Field" section, with a direct link to the release on your site.
The NSF site also seeks photos, illustrations, videos, and audio, says Nesbit and Fink. These will be featured on the NSF site and distributed via its Science360 news service.
You can help NSF reach another important audience, Congress, by producing a well-written annual research summary for your program officer. NSF excerpts these summaries in the report it sends to Congress, as part of the budget process. Unfortunately, many summaries are poorly written, says Fink:
"The vast majority of the time they are incomprehensible," she says. "We have to figure out what they were talking about and rewrite them in a way that a typical congressperson can not only understand, but get why the work is important.
"We realize that researchers have a lot of demands on their time, but they should realize that the science budget is not as protected as it once was, and this is one way they can help protect it." OLPA considers these summaries so crucial to NSF's legislative communication mission that it is rewriting them to make them more understandable and posting them on a special NSF Web page for Congressional staff that lists research projects by state.
The NIH communications offices also work with institutional PIOs to publicize NIH-sponsored research. However, the NIH is more decentralized than NSF, with 27 institutes and centers, each of which has its own communications office. These individual communications offices may have different practices for working with you and your PIO. Check with your program officer and/or the PIOs in your institute to explore the best way to work with its communications office.
The main NIH Web siteoffers news releases about work funded by all of the institutes and centers. Also, it offers the online magazine "Research Matters," which covers all of NIH's research. Those materials are produced by the Office of Communications and Public Liaison.
The National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) exemplifies the benefits of working with NIH PIOs. For one thing, its Web site links to universities' own releases about NIGMS-sponsored research. The NIGMS communications staff identifies those releases by searching EurekAlert! So, such releases should be posted on EurekAlert! and should specifically cite NIGMS as a funding source. What's more, NIGMS features selected releases on its e-newsletter, Biomedical Beat, as well as on a blog, Facebook pages, podcasts, videocasts and a Twitter feed.
NIGMS is also willing to provide a quote from an NIGMS administrator for a university's release, says NIGMS PIO Alisa Machalek.
"It's good for such releases to have an extra voice that explains the significance of the research and also to have a respected institution like NIH convey their support for the work," she says.
Some private foundations also take an active role in publicizing research that they support. For example, HHMI does releases on the work of its investigators—who are employees of HHMI, but based at their home institution. HHMI releases are often quite helpful to the institution's news office, says HHMI's Jim Keeley:
"My own anecdotal evidence is that many news officers are saying, 'We just did not have time to do this release; we are glad that you have one," he says. "We share our news releases, making them available to the institution, so that if they don't have their own, we are happy to provide those to them."
PIOs with Companies and Commercial Agencies
If you are at a university, and your work is funded by a company, you might find yourself working with PIOs from the company or a commercial agency they employ. Or, if you work for a small company, it might hire an outside agency or communications consultant.
In either case, understanding how to assess such firms can help you avoid the pitfalls they might present, and to communicate your work effectively and responsibly. Public relations consultant Lynne Friedmann offers advice on how to assess PIOs from an outside agency. She says the agency's writer should have a journalism background and should be a member of the National Association of Science Writers, or the Public Relations Society of America. It is also a good sign if they are an APR (Accredited Public Relations) professional, which means they have demonstrated a body of knowledge about PR and adherence to ethical conduct.
Universities also may hire commercial agencies to represent them. In working with such firms, apply the same principles of responsible communications that you would in working with your own PIO. For example, just as you would not allow your own PIO to hype or distort your work to gain attention, you should not allow such an outside agency to do so.
One drawback to such commercial firms is that journalists often hold a negative perception of them.
"At the Chronicle, we used to get these guys coming in with fancy suits from PR agencies hired by one university or another to increase their standing," recalls Kim McDonald, who was a science writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education for 20 years. "The problem was that they were advertising company executives who knew very little about the substance of what was going on at the universities they represented."
Former Science News editor Tom Siegfried declares that "Agencies are almost always bad." The advantage of an institutional PIO, he says, is that "you have the personal individual relationship with someone who gets to know the reporters and their interests and needs personally and build a trust and helping relationship." In contrast, he says, when he has encountered agency public relations people, "it always come down to 'How do you manipulate the media into doing what you want them to do?'
"Very rarely has an agency ever come in and pitched something, or presented something in a way that remotely coincided with what I wanted to hear," says Siegfried. "They give us fancy press kits, and they get these weird ideas they think are clever for stories that are totally dumb as hell."
One absurd agency strategy that Siegfried encountered in his newspaper days was to offer a reporter clips from other newspapers, such as the New York Times, to show how important a story they are pitching is.
"First of all, it's usually a story I did before the Times, and to think that is going to make me want to write a story because they can show you what the New York Times wrote, it is dumb," says Siegfried.
"A message for scientists is that if they are interested in having good media relations, rule number one would be don't hire an agency," he says. "Hire a professional science journalist/PIO, who knows the field, who knows science journalism, who knows the journalists, and who knows how to cultivate those personal relationships."
You may also encounter pitfalls working with a PR company or agency on a release on your work—particularly for medical researchers with contracts from pharmaceutical companies. Says Don Gibbons,
That first press release is something that I refer to as a ménage à trois on burlap sheets. What that means is you are excited about your work, your university PIO is excited about the work, and the drug company's PR agency is excited about the work. But they all have different reasons for being excited, and someone is going to end up with skinned knees unless you go into it carefully.
You are excited about the work because of what your colleagues will think of it. Your PIO is excited because of the news peg. And the drug company is looking for something that will send their stock up.
While your PIO will be looking for the caveats and making sure it's not oversold, the company will not be as interested; and you might get so taken in, you forget those caveats.
What's more, warns Gibbons, a PR agency might try to use your institution's reputation to enhance media attention to the work. For example, the agency might ask for an institution's letterhead or logo to use on a release. Obviously, you should decline such requests. Also, make sure that the agency checks its news release quotes with your own news service, to make sure you are not being cast as an endorser of a product such as a drug.
When PIOs Synergize to Publicize
There may be occasions when multiple PIOs are working on separate releases about your work, for example if you publish a newsworthy journal article, receive a major grant, and so on. Collaborations among PIOs are often amicable and synergistic.
For example, if your PIO notifies AAAS of a planned news release on a Science paper, the AAAS Office of Public Programs can enhance media attention for the release, says AAAS public programs director Ginger Pinholster. The release can be posted on the AAAS online press room containing summaries of the next issue's papers, as well as on the EurekAlert! embargoed news pages.
NIGMS PIO Alisa Machalek says she considers working with a university's PIO
...a win-win relationship. I have on countless occasions offered a PIO a news release to distribute themselves. I feel like we have the same goals; that we are not competing. And when we put a quote in their release, they get an authoritative quote, and we get our little piece of the story.
When a paper's authors come from several institutions, their PIOs can agree to either issue a joint release or "parallel" releases from each institution. Multiple releases or a joint release can emphasize the importance of a piece of work to journalists. At the AGU, Harvey Leifert encouraged such joint releases for just that reason.
"When a PIO would contact us about a release on a paper in, say Geophysical ResearchLetters, we would ask to see a draft in advance, with a view toward co-issuing it," he says. "And if we were doing a release, we would contact the institution to see whether they would like to come in on it. Or, if we were both doing releases, we could coordinate to issue them on the same day.
"Working together could multiply the number of reporters who would see the release. For example, a state university would focus on their immediate market, because they were interested in influencing state legislators; whereas, we have a worldwide distribution of about fourteen hundred reporters."
Failing to take advantage of such mutually beneficial collaborations can create strains on relationships and lose opportunities for enhanced coverage. Catherine Foster recalls when she worked at Argonne National Laboratory that there were lost opportunities to help PIOs from institutions whose scientists used its research facilities.
"We always got a little upset when we saw a story go out about work done at the Advanced Photon Source, and we didn't know about it. We felt like we could have helped with it; for example posting it on our Web site. It's not that hard to drop an email to somebody that says 'Tomorrow we are putting out a news release that mentions you. Anything you could do to help would be lovely.'"
A PIO might tend to resist such coordination, "because they see it as another approval hoop, and most of us are jumping through enough of those," says Foster. "But we were not looking to approve your release, if your researcher is comfortable with it." Also, a PIO might be possessive or parochial about his or her news release, reluctant to share it with colleagues at other institutions.
In working on a news release with your PIO, your wisest course is to advocate coordinating it as widely as possible. Such coordination is to everybody's benefit, since it broadens the reach and impact of your communications.
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Man dies days after crash in Winton Hills, police say
Updated: 5:54 PM EST Mar 8, 2018
A man is dead days after being involved in a crash in Winton Hills, police said.Shortly after 10 p.m. on Sunday, police said they were called to the 5300 block of Este Avenue for a crash.Officials said William Willard, 66, was exiting a private driveway when he failed to yield the right of way and struck another vehicle.Willard was taken to UC Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. On Thursday, police said he died.The driver of the other car suffered minor injuries.Police said excessive speed and impairment appear to have been factors in the crash.The investigation is ongoing.
WINTON HILLS, Ohio —
A man is dead days after being involved in a crash in Winton Hills, police said.
Shortly after 10 p.m. on Sunday, police said they were called to the 5300 block of Este Avenue for a crash.
Officials said William Willard, 66, was exiting a private driveway when he failed to yield the right of way and struck another vehicle.
Willard was taken to UC Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. On Thursday, police said he died.
The driver of the other car suffered minor injuries.
Police said excessive speed and impairment appear to have been factors in the crash.


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Union Ads Call Out 45th Ward Candidates' Republican Ties
By Heather Cherone |&nbspFebruary 2, 2015 5:31am
45th Ward Union Ad
JEFFERSON PARK — The first negative advertisements in the hotly contested 45th Ward aldermanic race tags two challengers trying to unseat Ald. John Arena with the most-dreaded label in Chicago politics:
Against a backdrop of vintage Bush-Cheney bumper stickers and emblazoned with the GOP's elephant emblem, the first of two glossy fliers paid for by the Service Employees International Union Political Action Committee proclaims "John Garrido and Michelle Baert have made it clear what side they are on."
On the flip side — accompanied by pictures of the candidates — the mailer blasts Garrido, a Chicago police lieutenant, for running for Cook County board president as a Republican in 2010, for attending a "Tea Party" event during the 2011 aldermanic election and for supporting a plan endorsed by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to hurt President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.
The second ad features the same information but creates a nonexistent "Garrido-Baert" lawn sign and plants in front of Chicago bungalows in a field of Bush-Cheney, McCain-Palin and Romney-Ryan signs from the last three Republican presidential tickets.
Being alderman is about delivering city services to residents, not politics, Garrido said.
"I will treat this job just I as I do my job as a police officer," Garrido said. "When someone calls for help, I help. I don't ask what their political affiliation is or who they know."
Baert "voted in Republican primaries even when Obama was on the ballot," according to the flier.
Baert has made no secret of her Republican voting record, mentioning it at a recent debate and discussing it in an introductory letter sent to residents of the 45th Ward in Jefferson Park, Portage Park, Forest Glen, Gladstone Park and Irving Park.
"I'll leave politics to the politicians and I'll work with residents who just want to get things done," said Baert, who publishes a family-friendly website as the 45th Ward Mom.
Arena denounced the ad as counterproductive, and said his campaign had nothing to do with it.
"As I have throughout my first term, I will continue to work together with everyone in the ward — Republicans, Democrats, Independents and union members — everyone, to improve our neighborhoods," Arena said in a statement.
SEIU gave Arena's re-election campaign $52,600 on Jan. 16, according to records filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections.
A national organization, SEIU represents more than 100,000 employees in Illinois in a variety of fields, and has led the push for a higher minimum wage.
The flier does not mention the fourth candidate in the race, Michael Diaz, an attorney for the state.
Diaz' campaign declined to comment on the union's advertisements.
The aldermanic races are nonpartisan, but 67 percent of 45th Ward voters cast a ballot for Obama in the 2008 election.
SEIU State Council Executive Director Gerald Morrison said the flier was designed to make sure Garrido and Baert "don't try to deceive voters that they are Democrats."
"This is a perfectly valid issue," Morrison said. "It is important that voters to know this history."
The flier cites a blog that detailed Garrido's appearance at a gathering hosted by the Chicago Tea Party in the South Loop in December 2010 during the last aldermanic race, which Garrido lost to Arena by 30 votes in a runoff.
At that event, Garrido said the city needed to hire 2,000 more officers and called the city's use of tax-increment financing "a slush fund," according to the account by Jim Bowman, a former political reporter for the now-shuttered Chicago Daily News.
During Garrido's 2010 run for county board president, he was criticized for voting for former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), in the 2008 presidential primary.
"I am a Republican, have always been a Republican, and will always remain a Republican," Garrido said in a statement published by the Illinois Review, a blog focused on conservative politics.
Garrido said he voted for Clinton as part of a strategy endorsed by Limbaugh and others designed to prolong the primary fight between Clinton and Obama in an effort to weaken the eventual Democratic nominee for president.
Garrido said he joined the Chicago Young Republicans in 2002, and donated money to President George W. Bush's first presidential campaign in 2004.
After the 2011 election, Garrido sued Arena, the SEIU and several other unions for claiming that Garrido took money from a firm involved in the much-maligned 2009 parking meter privatization deal and would collect two city pensions if elected.
That suit was dismissed Jan. 7 by a Cook County judge. Garrido has not announced whether he plans to appeal that decision.
In races where no candidate earns 50 percent of the votes cast on Feb. 24, a runoff between the top two candidates will take place April 7.
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The Domino Theory of B2B Content Marketing
"You don't optimize a landing page or an email. You optimize the thought sequence of the customer."
This is one of my favorite aphorisms from Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director, MECLABS, parent company of MarketingSherpa.
That approach works well for the short time someone is engaging your landing page or another marketing medium, but what about longer time horizons common to complex B2B sales?
Let me illustrate the answer with a case study where I first learned about what I will refer to as the "domino theory" of content marketing.
You've seen scenarios where one domino can knock over the next domino, creating a chain reaction. That's a perfect metaphor for content marketing in B2B, not just within the buying cycle, but across the lifecycle of a customer.
Too often, marketers think of content marketing as only text and graphics; white papers, e-books or infographics. But, content marketing is the entire experience of your customer across your customer-facing brand touchpoints.
In that context, content marketing can include social, video, mobile, customer service, sales, event marketing, and even the products and services customers buy from you. You should orchestrate any and all of these elements into a domino framework aligned to the growing relationship and expectations of your customers.
My client was, at the time of this case study, the world's largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) company serving the mid-market. The target was the CEO of a $3 million to $100 million company. This scenario presented one key challenge: CEOs of mid-market companies are the original do-it-yourselfers. They were totally disinclined to seek the services of an M&A firm.
To address this issue, the company had a highly structured four-step process:
Domino #1: The company invited CEOs to opt-in to a by-invitation-only quarterly newsletter that shared proprietary information about selling mid-market companies. The newsletters went to the private residence of the CEO to keep such a sensitive topic from worrying existing employees.
Domino #2: Those CEOs would then be invited to an exclusive one or two-day workshop at a five-star destination resort. The workshop was led by a former CEO who had sold his own company. Networking with other CEOs was part of the appeal, as was the opportunity to write-off a mini vacation. These workshops, which had an unconditional money-back guarantee of satisfaction, helped CEOs understand the complexity and danger of attempting to sell their own company and the legitimate advantages of using a third party.
Domino #3: At the end of the workshop, seminar leaders would introduce a service for packaging the company for sell.
Domino #4: By looking closely at the financials and other considerations, the M&A firm could then prioritize the most viable companies and market a deep portfolio of potential acquisition candidates to their own buyer community.
I have seen this domino theory of content marketing repeated many times. The key is always really digging in and understanding the motivations of your customers and then designing content – in its broadest sense – that takes them on a long journey through the lifecycle of your relationship with them.
In this case, the content was not just the direct mail, email, landing page or newsletter, but the nuance of making this a highly confidential matter that warranted gaining the home address of the CEO, the upscale resort, the opportunity to network with other CEOs in a similar situation and even the evaluation service.
More importantly, the M&A company sequenced this content to move the customer systematically through a complex decision.
In this sense, content marketing isn't just words and images, but it's a set of experiences that occur in many months or years. To paraphrase Flint, you are not optimizing content; you are optimizing the lifetime of your relationship with each customer.
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Yvonne Gay Williams was born on September 28, 1952, in Portland, Jamaica to parents Hubert and Sylvia Robinson. Died peacefully at home on February 27, 2021 in Sun City California. She is survived by three brothers, Alton Robinson of West Palm Beach, Florida, Henrick Robinson of St. Ann, Jamaica and Leeroy Robinson of Hartford, Connecticut. Daughter Jacqueline Haber of Palm Bay, Florida. Grand daughters Ariel and Ramona Haber of Palm Bay, Florida and Georgiana Johnson of Lauderdale Lake, Florida. Grandsons George Bedward III, Khaleel Haber of Palm Bay, Florida and Jalen Bedward of North Lauderdale, Florida. Yvonne is predeceased by her son George Bedward Jr., parents and brothers Hubert Robinson Jr. and Clement Robinson. Yvonne attended Martin Primary School and later transferred to Port Maria Primary School. She did well on her exams and was granted a scholarship to attend Dinthill Technical High School in St. Catherine, Jamaica. After high school Yvonne worked for the Government of Jamaica in the Post and Telegraphs Department. Yvonne loved the tasks that challenges her abilities and later worked for JAMAL Foundation. Still seeking to challenge her abilities, she became a licensed insurance agent and worked for Mutual Life Insurance Company. She soon got bored with this line of work and went into business, opening a boutique and hairdressing Shop out of the Highgate Shopping Center Complex. She also operated a fleet of taxi cabs. Yvonne was blessed with the gift of fashion. She enjoyed accessorizing outfits for a variety of clientele who in turn received glowing compliments. For Yvonne, a dress was just not a dress or a pants suit was not just a pants suit it was all about the accessories that made the outfit come alive. Fashion was the delight of her entire life. She was a visionary and migrated to the United States and lived briefly in Florida. She visited California and fell in love with the place. She had this vision of opening and operation a board and care facility for the elderly. She acquired the training to operate said facility and was granted a license by the State of California in 2006 to operate Mona Lisa Manor.
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"Retro-Seduction Cinema" is proud to introduce its first volume of classic 16mm Nudie Loops from the 1960s – newly transferred from original film elements, mastered to High-Definition, and presented for the first time ever in widescreen format enhanced for 16x9 televisions…with newly recorded, retro musical accompaniment to boot!
Short nude films had been around since the dawn of cinema, but it was early in the 1960s that the "nudie loop" exploded across the flickering screens of 10 cent arcades and became a mainstay in Peep Shows establishments and Grindhouse theaters throughout the U.S. Retro-Seduction Cinema now has gathered together many of the hottest loops featuring the most luscious, buxom and voluptuous women of the day – naughty, girl-next-door exhibitionists! – and packaged them in special Retro Collector Editions that are a true voyeur's dream-come-true.
"Naughty Nudes of the 1960's" showcases the hippest, super erotic darlings ever to tease and tempt and strip their way into your heart. See them bump, see them thrust, stroke and fondle, see them do the kinds of things that no self-respecting girl would ever dare to do…even behind closed doors with no camera running! Get a taste of the genuine peep show experience that always left the patron wanting more…more…more!!
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One man dead, another injured after shooting on Southport Road
Kaitlin Lange
One man is dead and another in serious condition after a shooting Friday night on the city's south side.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to Jake's Pub on Southport Road, east of Bluff Road, just before 10 p.m. When officers arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds, according to a news release. Fox59 reports there was a disturbance inside the pub leading up to the shooting.
Both gunshot victims were transported to Eskenazi Hospital. One was pronounced dead at the hospital, and the other is in serious condition.
The names of the two men have not yet been released.
Homicide detectives are investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call IMPD at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477 (TIPS).
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The company, which recently won the Most Promising New Business category at the Mansfield 2014 business awards, has just signed off on its financial figures for the year ended April 2014.
Based at the iCentre on Oakham Business Park in Mansfield, the company was founded just two years ago by Jamie Senior and Martyn Salmon.
Senior said, "From a standing start in 2012, we have placed around 1,200 people – mostly from the Mansfield and Ashfield area – within both temporary and permanent work.
"That's quality work. We never place anyone in a role we would not do. If companies have previously treated people in an unethical manner, we will not work with them. After all, it's our name on the door.
"The recruitment industry has had a lot of bad press and its reputation has been tarnished. But our fresh and transparent approach of building relationships and working hard for people is paying off."
Senior and Salmon, both in their early 30s and from the Mansfield area, had worked together a number of years ago, at a company in the iCentre. But Martyn left to join a large recruitment company and soon after Jamie followed.
After a few years, Senior and Salmon realised they could run a recruitment business themselves one with the right ethos and a focus on delivering the right results for everyone.
Specialising in engineering, commercial and industrial sectors but operating across many more, Senior Salmon works with more than 40 local businesses on a weekly basis, supplying in excess of 130 people into permanent positions during the past 12 months.
One of the company's largest partnership clients is Synseal Extrusions Ltd based in Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire, a company that employs more than 800 people.
Senior Salmon sourced, interviewed and recruited 72 local people whose temporary posts became permanent at Synseal through 2013.
Kevin Bush, the HR Director at Synseal Extrusions Ltd, said: "Jamie and Martyn have worked with Synseal for more than seven years they know our business and our needs, working closely with our management teams.
"Their knowledge and expertise is critical to delivering our ability to quickly flex our workforce with good quality, motivated staff."
Senior Salmon has plans to increase the number of consultants within its own business, and is investing heavily in software to further improve the recruitment process.
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Die Investitionsgüterkreditversicherung (IKV) ist eine spezielle Variante der Warenkreditversicherung (WKV). Sie schützt vor den Folgen eines Forderungsausfalls bei der Lieferung von Investitionsgütern wie Maschinen, Anlagen, Fabriken, Flugzeugen, Schiffen etc. Mit der IKV können Warenlieferungen im In- und Ausland versichert werden. Wie auch die Warenkreditversicherung deckt die IKV nur das wirtschaftliche Risiko ab. Politische Risiken können über die Exportkreditgarantie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland abgesichert werden.

Unterschiede zur Warenkreditversicherung
Da bei diesen Handelsgütern von der Rechnungsstellung bis hin zur endgültigen Bezahlung meist mehrere Monate oder Jahre liegen, spricht man auch allgemein von einem Langfristgeschäft (im Gegensatz zu Kurz- oder Mittelfristgeschäften mit Laufzeiten von Tagen oder wenigen Wochen, die über eine WKV abgesichert werden können). Wegen der vergleichsweise langen Laufzeiten ist das Risiko eines Forderungsausfalls aufgrund von Zahlungsschwierigkeiten oder der Insolvenz des Abnehmers bei Investitionsgütern ungleich höher.

Fabrikationsrisiko
Auch schon während der Produktion (also vor Auslieferung) kann die Insolvenz des Abnehmers eintreten. In diesem Fall kommt es nicht zu einem Forderungsausfall im Sinne der Kreditversicherung, da die Ware ja nicht geliefert wurde. Die Produktion selbst (beispielsweise eines Schiffes) stellt aber schon eine erhebliche finanzielle Investition des Herstellers dar. Da es sich in der Regel um eine Spezialanfertigung handelt, lassen sich die schon angefallenen Kosten nur in den seltensten Fällen durch den Verkauf der Ware an einen anderen Abnehmer wieder hereinholen. Dieses sogenannte Fabrikationsrisiko lässt sich im Rahmen einer Investitionsgüterkreditversicherung ebenfalls absichern. Dazu werden vor Produktionsbeginn die reinen Herstellungskosten geschätzt, die dann je nach Produktionsstand vom Kreditversicherer entschädigt werden.

Siehe auch
 Exportkreditgarantie
 Kreditversicherung
 Warenkreditversicherung

Versicherungswesen
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COVID-19: New energy for flagging immune cells
Immune cells do not receive sufficient suitable energy carriers in infected individuals, a study reveals
28-Jul-2022 10:45 AM EDT, by University of Bonn
Credit: © Chantal Wientjens, AG Prof. Wilhelm / University of Bonn
When T cells (blue-white sphere) fill up with energy in the form of ketone bodies (blue), they can fight viruses more effectively.
Newswise — When we fall ill, we often lose our appetite. This also has an effect on our metabolism: since it is no longer as well supplied with carbohydrates, it switches to burning fat. This creates energy-rich molecules called ketone bodies. And these may help our body to cope better with viruses.
At least that is what the results of the current study suggest. "We found that patients with influenza infections produce ketone bodies in considerable quantities," explains Prof. Dr. Christoph Wilhelm from the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital Bonn, who is also a member of the Immunosensation2 Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn. "In contrast, we saw hardly any increase in Covid-19 patients, at least in those with a moderate or severe course."
In addition, it was striking that those infected with the coronavirus had lower levels of inflammatory messengers in their blood. This was particularly true for interferon-gamma. This is a cytokine secreted by a specific group of immune cells, the T-helper cells. These cells use it to summon the help of phagocytes and other defense troops of the immune system to fight viruses. For efficient production of IFN-gamma, however, the helper T cells apparently require an adequate supply of ketone bodies. If this is lacking, they produce less interferon-gamma. In addition, the helper T cells then die earlier.
Ketone bodies make immune system more powerful
The researchers also saw similar effects in another important group of immune cells, the killer T cells. "They too need ketone bodies to function well and effectively eliminate the virus," says Dr. Christian Bode, lecturer at the Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Bonn. Apparently, the ketone bodies promote the function of mitochondria, metabolic power houses fueling the immune cells. This not only ensures improved energy production, but also provides molecules that are needed for interferon production.
"Without an adequate supply of ketone bodies, on the other hand, the killer T cells and helper T cells show signs of exhaustion," Bode explains. "In this depleted state, they can no longer perform their function adequately." However, the researchers were able to revive the immune cells by placing diseased mice on a ketogenic diet (a diet low in carbohydrates and protein) or by administering ketone bodies directly. The animals then succeeded better in eliminating the virus and also developed significantly less lung damage.
Hope for new treatment options
The results therefore also raise hope for new treatment options. "It may be possible to increase the power of the body's own defenses through a targeted change in diet," says Wilhelm. "Whether this really works must now be shown by further studies." The researchers expressly advise against self-experimentation with dietary supplements or diets - these could possibly do more harm than good.
The new findings could also be relevant for other infections. In the medium term, they may even contribute to new strategies to help the body fight tumors.
Participating institutions and funding:
In addition to the University Hospital and the University of Bonn, the TU Braunschweig and the University Hospitals of Hannover, Zurich, Nijmegen and Essen were involved in the study. The study was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the European Research Council (ERC), and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Publication: Fotios Karagiannis et al.: Impaired ketogenesis ties metabolism to T cell dysfunction in COVID-19. Nature; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05128-8
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The reason we are all mediums is because the faculty is inherent in man. Although not all of us have an ostensive mediumistic faculty, it is true that we all engage, consciously or not, in a continuous exchange with the invisible world and its inhabitants. On the one hand, we act as transmitters of thoughts and energies that impact the fluidic nature of our environment and can be captured by other beings, both incarnate and discarnate. On the other hand, we are simultaneously acting as receivers, assimilating external energies from our environment and capturing the thought waves of those close by, again both incarnate and discarnate.


The opening concert of the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society is this Sunday entitled "Greg Kostraba and Friends!" Greg is joined by cellist Josh Aerie and violinist Jinty McTavish in a program featuring works by Beethoven, Sowash and Dvorak. WBAA's John Clare spoke with the trio.
For the last month, Frankfort residents have been expressing their concern about the goings-on at the Clinton County Humane Society. After a well-liked director was fired, a community uproar began. What's transpired since has led to questions not just about the shelter, but about how public funds are spent. This week on WBAA's Ask The Mayor, Frankfort's Chris McBarnes weighs in.
Art on the Wabash is a local artists' fair this Sunday, September 23. From 10 AM to 4 PM at West Lafayette's Tapawingo Park you can see this juried fair that features work from artists in a 15 county area. WBAA's John Clare spoke with coordinator Kathleen Atwell and photographer Alan McConnell about the 13th annual event.


Exactly. There are "solved" Blue Book cases where a certain planet is listed as the cause of that sighting, when that planet wasn't even above the horizon at the time. Blue Book's desperation to list an explanation, any explanation, was especially evident while the project was under Hector Quintanilla's leadership.
There are many more 'UFOs' in those Blue Book files than the official 701 unknowns. Brad Sparks, for example, puts the number of unknowns at closer to 1700. Here is a link to his pdf list of those 1700 from cufos.org.
Another informative and well-sourced post from karl12. I guess some things never change!
Good to see you're still here fighting the good fight after all these years, Karl. I don't know how you do it so consistently -- I'm one of those who has to take periodic breaks from the topic -- but I'm glad you do.
Blue Book's desperation to list an explanation, any explanation, was especially evident while the project was under Hector Quintanilla's leadership.
) -couldn't agree more about Quintanilla's contrived 'force fit' explanations and the group's active agenda of reducing the number of 'hot reports' and statistical unknowns at any cost - according to Hynek, Major Quintanilla (and his subordinate Sgt Moody) even went back through the old Bluebook files and 're-edited' many of the evaluations (link) - and this is the project sold to the American public as 'a systematic study of unidentified flying objects' with a view to 'scientifically analyze UFO-related data' - it really would make a great black comedy (if it wasn't such a pseudo-scientific tragedy).
Don't know if you've been keeping up with Dolan's work but he's been putting out some great videos about Bluebook and Condon (didn't realise Low was an intelligence asset) - also some good ones dealing with the research of McDonald, Ruppelt etc..
"Much more disturbing are the indications from my limited review of BB cases that there may be as many as possibly 4,000 Unexplained UFO cases miscategorized as IFO's in the BB files. McDonald similarly stated in 1968 at his CASI lecture that from his review of BB cases he estimated that 30-40% of 12,000 cases were Unexplained, or about 3,600 to 4,800. These are mostly military cases and many involve radar".
Good recent interview with JGJ here mate in which he discusses Bluebook and demonstrates how the US Gov lies to the public about the UFO subject - also brought up are handwritten pages of daylight foo fighter sightings by WW2 pilots (see 57:05).