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Wisdom// July 27, 2018
Being Mindful of My Weaknesses — and Strengths — Made Me a Better CEO
What Mindfulness Can Do for Your Company
Nadav Shoval
Are you mindful of your strengths and weaknesses?
We live in a digital age — which means you probably assume that I'm writing this on a computer, as most people would. It's also true, that at just five years old, I was using a computer to write everything. And trust me, it wasn't because I was a tech Mozart, or ahead of my time. Instead, I suffered from a rare blood disease called Kawasaki. And though you've probably never heard of it, I survived Kawasaki with permanently impaired motor skills — to the point where even today, I sometimes struggle.
Believe it or not, I'm not telling you this to get your sympathy. Rather, I want to show that being mindful of one's strengths — something we're always encouraged to do — requires embracing a mutually dependent list of weaknesses.
Of course, when I was a kid, it wasn't too hard to fill up the latter category. I had and still have Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, or OCPD. Due to Kawasaki, my handwriting was virtually illegible. When I first started using computers, I thought of them purely as a way to get around these obstacles — what I didn't know, however, was that computers, and the web, would create opportunities I could have never foreseen.
I didn't realize it at the time, but each of these consecutive ventures was a small step towards creating the company I now lead. The biggest step, however, had nothing to do with computers or coding.
For me, these opportunities lived in online communities. Places where people across the web could engage with each other, and around the things they cared about the most. It started when I was just six, with instant messaging platforms like ICQ (I still remember my user number). Not long after, I discovered how to connect discrete pages on the web and create what we might now call a "social network." And with lots of hard work and many hours in front of my computer screen, a few friends and I concocted an app that allowed people in the same location (at a music festival, for instance) to find and message each other. I didn't realize it at the time, but each of these consecutive ventures was a small step towards creating the company I now lead. The biggest step, however, had nothing to do with computers or coding.
Truth is, there was a time when I thought I could shed my weaknesses and inherent limitations.
As people affected by OCPD tend to do, I was routinely pulling all-nighters, stressing over every detail and minor problem that arose without actually accomplishing the goals I had set for myself. That's when I knew something needed to change. Initially an ardent skeptic, I started a meditation class that a friend recommended. I won't lie, it was strange for me at first — I am usually a man of constant motion. But eventually, I experienced its enormous pay-offs, leading me to more mindfulness practices like breathing exercises and yoga. And to complement that, I began getting eight hours of sleep, every night.
I realized then that I hadn't been reaching my maximum potential as a CEO because I wasn't properly pairing my strengths and weaknesses. I was trying to do everything by myself, without developing the necessary infrastructure to grow my company successfully. Being mindful of my OCPD, for example, helped me understand that I could harness my uncommonly acute attention to detail to create work systems that were, and still are, bulletproof.
When we're mindful of both our strengths and weaknesses — of our whole selves — we're more aware of what we can provide, and what we can gain from working with others.
I should mention that being mindful of strengths and weaknesses isn't just a path to success; it's also a formula for identifying potential synergies between those who share your strengths and weaknesses, and those who don't. Rather than hiring a homogeneous cluster of employees, we've focused instead on building a team of individuals whose unique skill sets magnify the whole. We've created a culture where collaboration between and within departments isn't just promoted, but a necessary part of how we do business. When we're mindful of both our strengths and weaknesses — of our whole selves — we're more aware of what we can provide, and what we can gain from working with others.
My point in telling you this story isn't to make my case seem like an exception to the rule. Kawasaki and OCPD may be rare, but maintaining a harmony of weaknesses and strengths certainly isn't. As both individuals and entrepreneurs, we could all benefit from a keener awareness of, and comfort with, the smooth spots and the rough patches of our life story.
— Published on July 27, 2018
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Nadav Shoval is the CEO & Co-Founder of Spot.IM, an on-site community that brings power back to the publisher. Prior to Spot.IM, Nadav founded and developed four technology startups; Spot.IM is his fifth venture. Nadav is a technology erudite and a sports addict.
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Tron Legacy will be out in December. There's also a Tron game coming: Tron Evolution will be out a week before the Tron movie, here are the latest pictures and a gameplay video (released by Disney Interactive).
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A new bill in Croatia is set to be introduced within the next three months that will force retailers to hide cigarettes from customers view, as the government looks at measures to reduce smoking amongst the nation's youth.
"Around 10,000 people die as a result of smoking every year in Croatia, that is the size of the town Makarska," said Health Minister Rajko Ostojic at a parliament sitting.
The new law, which is expected to come into effect in two months, has not gone down well with some tobacco producers, reports daily Jutarnji list, with some companies announcing that they will be lobbying for government to allow small traders a time period to adapt to the new law, adding that in the UK the adaptation period lasted as long as three years some big traders and 5 years for smaller traders.
If Croatia introduces the new bill it will join only Norway, Iceland, England, Ireland and Finland in Europe as nations to force retailers to remove cigarettes from the eye of consumers to underneath the counter.


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Tim Pawlenty Biography
Tim Pawlenty (born November 27, 1960) is an American politician. He is the 39th governor of Minnesota starting his term on January 6, 2003.
Tim PawlentyHe had served as the majority leader in the Minnesota House of Representatives prior to being elected governor, beginning his term in the House in 1992. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Minnesota. His wife, Mary Pawlenty, is a district judge in Dakota County. He is a Republican.
Tim Pawlenty had originally planned to seek the US Senate seat in 2002. Several national Republican leaders including Vice President Dick Cheney, asked him to step aside to allow Norm Coleman to challenge Paul Wellstone. Pawlenty then decided to run for governor. The race saw four major-party candidates (the Republican, Democratic, Independence, and Green parties were all considered to be "major" by the state at the time). Pawlenty ran against Roger Moe (Democratic), Tim Penny (Independence), and Ken Pentel (Green).
He campaigned in 2002 on a pledge not to raise taxes to balance the state's budget deficit. He also supported requiring visa expiration dates on driver's licenses, a 24 hour waiting period on abortions, implementing the state's conceal-carry gun law and changing the state's education requirements. During the 2003 session, all these issues were passed except the "expiration dates on driver licenses". Like his predecessor Governor Jesse Ventura, he has a weekly call-in radio show.
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Haven't decided on whether to get the perfect pass option yet or not, I am wondering what new model PP guages look like in the 06 model boats. Does it completely replace one of the 5" gauges, or is it a half gauge like in previous years? If anyone has selected the Perfect Pass option on thier 06 Malibu, please post a pic so I can see what it looks like. THANKS!
The ones that I have seen either have the right side 5" gauge replaced with the PP gauge below or have the PP gauge installed in the dog leg that would normally hold the Sony drivers remote.
What are the differences between the now-standard speed control and PP?
ease of use, accuracy, cost, system integration.
I would skip the PP, waste of money, unless you need those magnet sensors for running the course.
Can the 06 cruise control be added to an 05 Response Lxi? If so, anyone know how much?
Probably only if you were to go to the new throttle by wire (it's all inter related). That can't be cheap.
The new 06 cruise control is accuski's layout and format, that has been on the market for years. What makes it new is that it works with the throttle by wire and not off the throttle cable. If you like the layout and use of accuski, you can get a 5" round display (for your rlxi) and it will work "like" the new accuski system. Or, you could look for an MSCAN display (2001 model year), which will integrate many gauges and the accuski control. I'm not saying that accuski is the one making the new systems, but that accuski (and Malibu) have used a 6 button 2 column/row design, and that if you like that layout, it can still be had.
Does anyone with the new '06 system know if you can use the auto pull up feature? That was a really cool selling point of accuski, but wasn't sure whether it made the transition to the TBW system. Also, how easy and accurate are the adjustments of "kx" and "px" settings like in PPass?
As for whether a PPass gauge would be half analog and half digial: it should be the 6.5N display that got posted. The half analog displays were terrible about breaking. So, they fixed it by going all digital as I understand.
On my demo last Saturday, I was playing with the "cruise control" and it didn't seem to take control like others. Maybe it was a user error. It seems like I still had to mess with the throttle keeping it in range and didn't hold the speed through the turns. The others I have driven took total control of the throttle. This was the standard feature not the perfect pass.
Was this user error or just the way the standard option works? If it wasn't my error then the upgrade to perfect pass seems worth it.
My experience with the new '06 system was great, I'd trade my Perfect Pass system for that one in a heartbeat.
What speed were you at?
I tried it at 22 and then 28. Just couldn't get the hang of it.
I got up to the speed I wanted and turned it on but it seemed to bounce around by about 2 mph's. The others I had tried I would get to the set speed and then push the throttle past the point but the controller was taking care of things, the throttle past the set point had no effect until pulled back.
Like I said, it is probably more of the instructions I was given vs system. I find it hard to believe that it wouldn't be easier to use than what I was experiencing. My I/O has it, all the way down, come back half way, if you don't like the speed get in the boat.
It works just like PP - turn on the control system either at idle or neutral, set the speed you want & then drive up to that speed. It will take over & tell you that by beeping. To take control back, just pull back on the throttle. It could be the boat - my boat has a few things that are quirky about it. Remember that not only is this a brand new system, but that it is directly tied into the engine management software. So it could be that some adjustment needs to be made. My boat has a new software program waiting at the dealer, I just need the roads to clear & the weather to dry out a bit before I can get it there.
It did take me a while to figure out how it works, so it could just be that you need more time with the system to understand it. It's actually much simpler to operate than PP, I think that sometimes we become used to the complexity & that we just make things harder than they need to be. Just remember that you don't need to spend the money on PP now, it can always be added at a later date if you just don't like the stock system.


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The unemployment rate hits a 49-year low
Domino's U.S. same-store sales lowest in 7 years
Chipotle stock hits a record
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Hurricane Florence put a temporary halt to restaurant job growth, but the labor market tightened even more last month. By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 05, 2018
The restaurant industry lost 18,200 jobs last month, according to new government data, as closures due to Hurricane Florence likely put a halt to a years-long surge in hiring.
But the industry is still facing increasingly difficult shortages of labor, as the overall economy added 134,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 3.7%—the lowest unemployment rate in almost 50 years.
Restaurants added 237,900 jobs over the past year despite the decline in September, which when added with new jobs in other industries such as ride-sharing companies have contributed to a labor crunch that is driving up wages.
Wages in the leisure and hospitality sector rose 3.9% year-over-year in September. By comparison, wages for all jobs rose 2.8%.
Dean Haskell, partner with the Denver-based National Retail Concept Partners, estimates that the higher wages and benefits have cost the industry $460 million since the start of 2017. And he said that restaurants paid more in labor in the first half of this year than in all of 2017.
And he said that attracting and retaining quality talent has become a major factor in whether a restaurant can generate sales.
"If you can attract and retain good talent, you will drive sales," Haskell said.
Hiring challenges have already led to rising labor costs for many restaurant companies this year. And the oncoming holiday shopping season is expected to make matters worse as retailers, which compete with restaurants for workers, expect to hire even more employees in the coming months to meet expected shopping demand.
One of the biggest challenges for the industry is the declining teen workforce. The number of people ages 16 to 19 who are employed has declined over the past year—by 157,000, according to federal data.
To be sure, the unemployment rate among teens remains high, 19.3%. But that's down from 22% a year ago.
Teens have traditionally been a primary source of employees in the restaurant business. Fewer teens in the workforce has contributed to the challenges many restaurant companies are having in filling positions.
Hurricane Florence made landfall in the Carolinas last month, doing an estimated $38 billion in damage and causing at least 48 fatalities. Severe weather can have a notable impact on restaurants because they close during and after the storm, which leads to losses of jobs that are recovered later on as the locations reopen and people return to work.
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Organigram celebrates three Canadian Cannabis Awards including Top Sativa Flower of 2017
On November 30, members of Canada's cannabis industry gathered for the fourth annual Canadian Cannabis Awards ceremony and gala, an event designed to recognize exceptional quality, forward-thinking innovation and superior service in the cannabis space.
Organigram Holdings Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OGI) (OTCQB:OGRMF) (the "Company" or "Organigram"), a leading licensed producer of medical marijuana based in Moncton, New Brunswick, is proud to have been honoured with one of the most coveted awards of the evening: Top Sativa Flower for its popular premium flower, Wabanaki.
"We're thrilled to have been recognized for our product quality," says Organigram CEO Greg Engel. "These awards are chosen by people who know Canadian cannabis and know it very, very well. To have been selected from a deep pool of competing products in the medical marketplace speaks to the hard work and dedication of our team, who don't compromise in their efforts to produce exceptional products for our patients."
Organigram was also awarded the Top Blended/Value Variety distinction for its indica-dominant Blueberry Cheesecake Premium Blend and as the Top Licensed Producer for Compassionate Pricing. Organigram was also nominated in the Top Licensed Producer Customer Service category.
"Our showing at this year's Lift Canadian Cannabis Awards is only the beginning," added Engel. "These awards are another validation that Organigram is well positioned with high quality products for the anticipated premium adult-use recreational flower market. Management believes our focus on quality indoor-grown product will ultimately deliver long term shareholder value."
Further, the province of New Brunswick was chosen as Most Progressive Public Office. Headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, Organigram has worked closely with the province by providing input and support that the Company feels will, ultimately, lead to a cannabis marketplace that's enviable, vibrant, safe and sustainable. Earlier this year, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Crown corporation responsible for overseeing the anticipated adult-use recreational marketplace in New Brunswick for a minimum of 5,000kg of product per year.
The awards are organized and hosted by Lift, a common ground for patients, producers and industry personnel to share reviews, gather and network. Voter-driven categories for the Lift Canadian Cannabis Awards were open through the month of September, and finalists were announced in October 2017.
A full list of award recipients from the fourth annual Lift Canadian Cannabis Awards ceremony is available here: https://canadiancannabisawards.com/winners/cca2017/
About Organigram Holdings Inc.
Organigram Holdings Inc. is a TSX Venture Exchange listed company whose wholly owned subsidiary, Organigram Inc., is a licensed producer of medical marijuana in Canada. Organigram is focused on producing the highest quality, condition specific medical marijuana for patients in Canada. Organigram's facility is located in Moncton, New
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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Has 10X the Data on American's than Facebook
By Paul Ebeling on March 31, 2018 Comments Off on Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Has 10X the Data on American's than Facebook
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Amazon has 10X the data on American consumers and owns the Washington Post a left wing political newspaper, always critical of President Trump and his administration.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) disengaged with Washington's biggest lobbying firm and brought on new advisers following passage of the tax overhaul bill last year and in the face of new challenges in The Age of President Trump.
The shakeup occurred last Friday, a week before President Trump briefly sent Amazon's stock down by $40-B with a Twitter attack on the world's largest online retailer.
President Trump charged that Amazon does nnot pay enough in state and local sales taxes, hurts America's small retailers and gets an unfair edge on the back of the US Postal Service.
Amazon ended its relationship with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the law firm that attracts more lobbying revenue than any other K Street operation, and Squire Patton Boggs, last Friday. At the latter firm, Amazon's lobbyists included former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.
In their place, Amazon hired Paul Brathwaite of Federal Street Strategies LLC and Josh Holly of Holly Strategies Inc. Both formerly worked as outside lobbyists for Airbnb Inc. and Oracle Corp.(NNASDAQ:ORCL) at the defunct Podesta Group, which was once dubbed the "King of K Street," before becoming entangled in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the Y 2016 election.
Amazon declined to comment.
For years, Amazon has worked to steer its image from that of a cut-throat internet giant wreaking havoc on Main Street to that of a job-creation machine that invests billions in new warehouses and offices, hires people by the thousands and helps small businesses grow by letting them sell products on its popular web store.
Recently, the company has come to face a shifting landscape in Washington.
President Trump has aimed repeated Twitter barbs at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, which has been critical of his administration.
Attacks by the President have coincided with calls for scrutiny by outside groups that say Amazon has gotten too big and should be investigated for anti-competitive practices.
Both Akin Gump, which began working with Amazon in Y 2014, and Patton Boggs, which the company famously hired in Y 2013 at the beginning of a surge in lobbying, had been focusing on tax matters for the company, according to their most recent federal lobbying disclosures.
By the way Amazon has 10X the data on American consumers and owns the Washington Post a left wing political newspaper, always critical of President Trump and his administration.
Driven by the need to tackle regulatory and legislative hurdles to its ever-expanding business lines, Amazon has increased its lobbying spending more than 400% in the last 5 years, spending nearly $13-M in Y 2017. As it lobbied more government agencies than any other tech company, the records show, making its presence felt from Congress and the White House to NASA as it outspent all of its peers except for Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL).
While for years, Amazon focused on a narrow set of issues such as state sales taxes and copyrights, the online retail giant now deploys lobbyists broadly across Washington as it seeks to begin drone delivery of goods, sell cloud services to the Pentagon and make acquisitions
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Q: How to classify the rings of fractions of a principal ideal domain? Let $A$ be a principal ideal domain and let $K$ be its field of fractions. I proved
a) Every ring $B$ such that $A \subset B \subset K$ is a ring of fractions of $A$,
and
c) Show that any ring of fractions of $A$ is principal.
But I'm having trouble with

b) Classify the rings of fractions of $A$.

The hint given is to consider the prime elements of $A$ which are invertible in $S^{-1}A$. However, it still isn't clear what sort of classification the author expects, and how to use the hint. Help would be much appreciated.

A: Hint $\ $ The overring is uniquely determined by the set of elements inverted, which is uniquely determined by the set of primes inverted. This yields a bijection between such overrings and subsets of primes of $A$.
In further detail, the set $\,S\subset A\,$ of elements that become units (invertibles) in the overring is a saturated monoid $\,S,\,$ i.e. $\,ab\in S\iff a,b\in S.\,$ One easily checks that such monoids are characterized (generated) by their prime elements, using the fact that $A$ is a PID so a UFD, so every element is $\,S\,$ has a (unique) prime factorization.

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Hi there, this is Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist for AWS in Europe. I'll steal the keyboard from Jeff Barr for a few minutes to share something really interesting with you: in fact, It is always fascinating to see how our customers are using the Amazon Web Services to power their businesses.
Olivier Gutknecht, Director of Server Software at French-based Fotonauts Inc., spent some time with me to describe how they use AWS to power Fotopedia, a collaborative photo encyclopedia.
We have been very lucky with our development timeframe: we developed this project while Amazon was building its rich set of services. Early in the development we tested Amazon S3 as the main data store for our images and thumbnails. Switching our first implementation to S3 was a matter of days. Last year, when our widgets were featured on LeWeb 08 site, we enabled Amazon CloudFront for distribution of our images – literally days after the official CloudFront introduction. Before this, we moved our processing to EC2 instances and persistent EBS volumes. And in the previous months, we integrated the Elastic Load Balancing and Elastic Map Reduce into our stacks.
It is interesting to see how the AWS services replaced our initial implementation. We're not in the business of configuring Hadoop for the cloud, for example, so we're quite happy to use such a service if it fits our needs. The same happened to our HTTP fault tolerance layer, quickly replaced with AWS ELB.
So Amazon S3, CloudFront and EC2 (with Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes for the data stores) are the three key services that they are using to power Fotopedia, but they also take advantage of other AWS services.
We regularly analyze a full Wikipedia dump to extract abstract and compute a graph of related articles to build our photo encyclopedia. We use Elastic Map Reduce with custom Hadoop jobs and Pig scripts to analyze the Wikipedia content – it's nice to be able to go from eight hours to less than two hours of processing time.
We're also using on-demand instances and Hadoop to analyze our logs: all services logs are aggregated and archived into a S3 bucket, and we regularly analyze these to extract business metrics and user visible stats we then integrate into the site.
And there's the secret sauce to bind this together: Chef. Chef is a young, and extremely powerful system integration framework. The Fotonauts team is working on a detailed blog post on "how we use chef" post in the future, because they consider Chef to be an essential component in our stack.
"For instance, when we provision a new EC2 instance, we set up the instance with a simple boot script. On first boot, the instance automatically configures our ssh keys, installs some base packages (ruby, essentially) and registers itself in our DNS. Finally, Chef registers the instance into our Chef server. At this point we have a "generic", passive machine added to our grid. Then we just associate a new role for this instance – let's say we need a new backend for our main Rails application. At this point, it is just a matter of waiting for the instance to configure itself: installing rails, monitoring probes, doing a checkout of our source code and finally launch the application. A few minutes later, the machine running our load balancer and web cache notices a new backend and immediately reconfigures itself.
It would be interesting to see how they will benefit from the recent Boot-From-EBS feature that we added earlier.
What is great with this Amazon & Chef setup is that it helps you into thinking about your application globally. Running a complex application like Fotopedia is not just a matter of running some rails code and a MySQL database, but coordinating a long list of software services: some written by us, some installed as packages from the operating systems, some built and installed from source code (sometimes because it's so recent it is not available in our linux distribution, sometimes because we need to patch the software for our needs). Automation is the rule, not the exception.
But putting aside the technical questions, our decision to base our infrastructure on Amazon Web Services led to several positive consequences on our process and workflow: less friction to experiment and prototype, an easy way to setup a testing and development platform, and more control over our production costs and requirements. We also recently migrated some instances to reserved instances billing.
Thanks Olivier, and good luck with Fotopedia!


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using DragonSpark.Application.Compose;
using DragonSpark.Application.Security.Identity.Claims.Actions;
using DragonSpark.Compose;
using DragonSpark.Identity.Mixcloud.Api;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

namespace DragonSpark.Identity.Mixcloud;

public static class Extensions
{
	public static AuthenticationContext UsingMixcloud(this AuthenticationContext @this)
		=> @this.Append(ConfigureApplication.Default);

	public static AuthenticationContext UsingMixcloud(this AuthenticationContext @this, IClaimAction claims)
		=> @this.Append(new ConfigureApplication(claims));

	public static IServiceCollection WithMixcloudUserLookup(this IServiceCollection @this)
		=> Registrations.Default.Parameter(@this);
}

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The physical retailer has seen its online-only competitor steal customers and beat it at its own game by winning the pricing war. Wal-Mart, however, has not conceded defeat to its digital rival and has big plans for becoming more competitive. The company shared some of them at its 22nd Annual Meeting for the Investment Community on Oct. 14.
Wal-Mart, which already invests heavily into its digital efforts plans to ramp things up even further, but the company's CEO wanted to make it clear that it was starting from a position of strength.
"We have also been building an e-commerce business; we have been hiring top technology talent in Silicon Valley and around the world," CEO Doug McMillon said to in his speech kicking off the investors' event. "Refreshing the customer experience and becoming a true Internet technology company. We are now one of the top three online retailers by traffic and our Wal-Mart U.S. app is among the top three apps in retail with tens of millions of customers downloading it and using it regularly."
The world's largest physical retailer plans to spend an addition $2 billion on developing its e-commerce efforts over the next two fiscal years. A key part of that strategy, McMillon said, comes from leveraging its physical locations.
"First, win with stores," he said. "We know customers love shopping in stores and they will want great stores tomorrow. And why wouldn't they? The chance to interact with products, to see something new, to look at an item, touch a fabric, smell something, see a color -- it is important to them. The opportunity to buy something and take it home right away is satisfying."
We win on our unique combination of assets. Our opportunity to build digital relationships with customers in ways that are seamlessly integrated into their lives is an important one. We are building that relationship today through our improved site experience and apps. Tomorrow we will build it through an enhanced or experience including how they find items, how they pay and how they check out. When you add it all up here is our plan: we will be the first to deliver a seamless shopping experience at scale. No matter how you choose to shop at Wal-Mart -- in stores, online, mobile, or a combination of them -- it will be fast and easy.
Essentially, McMillon believes that Wal-Mart will compete with Amazon by offering something the online retailer can't -- a mix of digital and physical sales all optimized to offer the best possible customer experience.
Currently, Wal-Mart has about $13 billion in digital sales, making it the third largest online retailer, but still only about one sixth as large as Amazon, Fortune reported. That's a big gap, but it's important to note that it's not like Wal-Mart is just getting into the online game. The company has a level of success to build upon.
The biggest challenge for Wal-Mart is turning the customers who walk through its door into digital shoppers. To do that it needs to improve its website so it's as easy to use as Amazon's. Once it does that, the chain can leverage the fact that it can offer in-store returns and pickup -- something it's rival cannot do.
Wal-Mart has stumbled, but the digital sales it puts up only look bad when compared to Amazon. The company has a large customer base to woo onto its digital platforms and there's no reason to believe it won't be able to do that, especially after spending $2 billion to enhance the experience.
This is a slow road for Wal-Mart, but the company is clearly committed and its physical stores should be able to give it a strong marketing advantage. The retailer may not catch up to Amazon, but it should be able to reverse the trend of consumers leaving for the online-only rival. Wal-Mart can offer competitive prices. If it can deliver a competitive digital experience then there is no reason to believe it won't win some business back.


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European police dismantle cybercrime ring with ties to Italian Mafia
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 21, 2021 | IT Security
The group used phishing, BEC and other types of attacks to swindle victims out of millions
Law enforcement agencies from Europe have cracked down on an organized group that is associated with the Italian Mob and has been involved in all manner of cybercrime, including phishing campaigns, SIM swapping and Business Email Compromise (BEC). The criminal network was also involved in identity theft, money laundering, drug trafficking, property crime, arms dealing and other exceedingly violent crimes.
"The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud such as SIM swapping and business email compromise before laundering the money through a wide network of money mules and shell companies. Last year alone, the illegal profit is estimated at about € 10 million," reads Europol's press release.
106 arrested in an operation against online fraud. #Europol supported @policia and @poliziadistato to dismantle this criminal group linked to the Italian mafia.
🏦 118 bank accounts frozen
💳 224 credit cards and point-of-sale terminals seized
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The operation was spearheaded by the Spanish National Police and backed by the Italian National Police, as well as Europol and Eurojust, the European Union's law enforcement and judicial agencies, respectively. The operation led to 106 arrests, 16 house searches, 118 bank accounts being frozen, and the seizure of a variety of electronic devices, 224 credit cards, SIM cards, and point-of-sale terminals.
Europol described the group as well-organized, with the network comprised of members with various specializations. "Among the members of the criminal group were computer experts, who created the phishing domains and carried out the cyber fraud; recruiters and organisers of the money muling; and money laundering experts, including experts in cryptocurrencies," said the European law enforcement agency.
The group operated out of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and used various tactics to dupe unsuspecting victims, usually Italian nationals, out of vast amounts of money, which they would send to bank accounts managed by the criminal organization. Once the money was wired to their accounts, they proceeded to launder it either through a large network of shell companies and money mules.
It's no wonder that organized crime has taken an increasing interest in cybercrime and especially BEC scams. According to the FBI's 2020 Internet Crime Report, BEC scams remain top-dog, with losses emanating from them reaching a total of almost US$2 billion last year. And if the FBI's annual report is any indication the losses from BEC scams can only be expected to grow further in the future.


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Sheikh of Qatar net worth and wealth: Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is the Emir of the State of Qatar who has a net worth of $2 billion dollars. The Sheikh of Qatar was born in Doha, Qatar in June 1980. He became the Emir of Qatar in 2013, taking over for his father Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and becoming the world's youngest reigning monarch.
He has served in various government posts in Qatar as well as working to promote sporting events in the country. He graduated the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1998. He became the Second Lieutenant in the Qatar Armed Forces. His elder brother Sheikh Jasim renounced the title and Tamim became the heir apparent. He has promoted ties with Saudi Arabia and supported Libyan rebels. He was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of Qatar's armed forces in 2009. He has been instrumental in helping Qatar be awarded the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 FINA Swimming World Championships. He is the National Olympic Committee chairman as well as a member of the International Olympic Committee. He heads the Qatar Investment Authority board of investors, which owns stakes in Harrods, Barclays Bank, and Sainsbury's. Sheikh Tamim has two wives and six children.
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Q: Does zero divide zero I wanted to know is zero divisible by zero? I've read that division by zero is not allowed in mathematics, but for instance in Apostol's Introduction to analytic number theory, it states that only $0$ divides $0$, and I've seen problems in form $0\mid f(x)$, wanting the possible amounts of $x$ (integer amounts).
This might be similar to some other topics, but they examine the problem in the set of real numbers (analytic sight), but mine is concered with elementary number theory which concerns integers.

A: If you're asking if zero is divisible by zero and you agree on the definition of divisibility to be

If $x$ and $y$ are two integers then $x$ is said to be divisible by $y$ if there exists an integer value $p$ such that $x = py$

Then zero is certainly divisible by zero as every integer follows that definition. If your notion of divisibility actually means to be able to divide those two and get some definite value then it is not divisible But according to what I think it is.

A: This depends on your context.
In the context of fields, like the rational numbers or the real numbers, $0$ does not divide anything, since division is given by multiplying by the multiplicative inverse (which exists from the axioms).
However, in the context of the natural numbers we define the divisibility relation as follows: $$n\mid m\iff\exists k:k\cdot n=m.$$
In that case, every number divides $0$, including $0$ itself. (Note that $\exists k$ is bounded to the natural numbers here!)


Ryan Reynolds became Blake Lively's husband in 2012 when the two tied the knot, but he's only truly secured his status as her Instagram husband (a.k.a. a devoted significant other who takes your pictures for you) today.
The actress just shared a few pictures on Instagram taken by Reynolds, and they are interesting (or artsy, depending on how you look at them). She shows off her beachy #OOTD, which he captured with a full-length shot (featuring the shore in the background), a detailed close-up on her accessories and a blurry candid. #Art.
Watch out, Jay Z, this photo-savvy husband looks like he's ready to take over our feeds.


It seems that all of your watching is adding up, to about an average of 93 minutes of Netflix viewing per day. And also around 45 GB of data each month.
According to new estimates from The Diffusion Group, Netflix subscribers around the world watch on average more than 90 minutes of video from the streaming service every single day. Also they reported this week that the total amount of Netflix streaming has risen up to 350 percent over the last ten quarters.
The new Netflix report of The Diffusion Group bases these estimate summaries on volume data that is streaming by Netflix. In the month of January in 2012, according to Netflix its subscribers had watched about two billion of streaming hours in total in the previous quarter, this means that a little less than an hour was viewed each day. In the second quarter of 2014, this amount of viewing hours increased to seven billion hours. WHat this means is it'll equal to 93 minutes of average viewing time for each day.
As Netflix continues to expand internationally, increaasingly more of this streaming time comes from outside the US. According to the report, in quarter three of the year 2011, 94 percent of all streaming hours came from users in the US. Now let us look at quarter two of 2014, this contribution of viewed streaming hours from the US fell to 72 percent. You can wait fort his percentage to go down even further in the future due to Netflix's recent expansion into large broadband markets such as Germany and France.
Also with the percentage of the amount of daily viewing being on the rise, users are also consuming ever more bandwidth. The recent numbers from Netflix's ISP speed index show that U.S. subscribers stream their movies and TV shows with an average speed of 2.57 mbps, which approximately equals to 1 GB of data consumption per hour streamed. What this means is that on average, a U.S. Netflix subscriber is burning through 45 GB of data every month.
But understandably, the data consumption of each consumer can differ greatly. Netflix performs a lot better for customers of some ISPs, and worse for others. The individual service plan and also the type of programming viewed can also affect the consumption of data of the user. For instance, Netflix gives advice to its subscribers saying that 4K streams can consume up to 7 GB of data per hour. As the amount of 4K programming on Netflix rises, one should expect the average amount of data consumed to also go up.


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Chicago right-handed pitcher Dylan Covey says he is healthy and ready to get back to work when the White Sox head to Texas to begin a three-game series on Friday against the Rangers at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
Covey (3-2 D.J. Hayden Jersey , 3.45 ERA) will pitch the series opener while Texas will counter with right-hander Yovani Gallardo (1-0, 12.08).
Covey has been the White Sox's steadiest starter this season and was protecting a 5-2 lead in the fourth against Oakland, his former team, June 23 when he felt some soreness in his hip and groin areas while he was coming off the mound and was removed from the game.
"I don't know exactly what it was," Covey said. "We didn't get any tests done but all the manual tests they did said my strength is good. Just probably like a cramp or something like that that was lingering a little bit. I was feeling it on the mound, so definitely thinking about it."
Covey was sidelined from May 26-Aug. 15 last season with a strained left oblique. He's been a pleasant surprise for the White Sox this year, having drastically cut down his home run rate.
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Covey is 0-0 with a 20.25 ERA in two relief appearances against the Rangers.
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Gallardo is slated to be working on extended five-days' rest. He picked up the win in his last start, a 9-6 Rangers victory on Saturday in Minneapolis. Gallardo is 1-1 with a 4.79 ERA over four career starts versus the White Sox.
The White Sox had a delayed arrival into Texas after a 2-1 loss to Minnesota in 13 innings on Thursday.
Texas enjoyed an off day on Thursday after a 5-2 win over San Diego that gave the Rangers their fourth straight series win.
Texas got a sterling performance by left-hander Mike Minor, who retired the first 19 Padres' batters before a single from Eric Hosmer with one out in the seventh. He retired 21 of the 22 batters he faced over seven innings.
The Rangers inked Minor to a three-year contract in the offseason. He was a starter with the Braves in 2010-14 before missing all of 2015-16 because of a torn labrum in his left shoulder and is starting to prove that the Rangers made the right move despite a slow start to the season.
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Rangers outfielder Shin-Soo Choo was hit by a pitch in his first plate appearance during Wednesday win over the Padres, extending his on-base streak to 40 straight games.
That ties for the longest such streak in the Majors this season. Odubel Herrera of the Phillies reached base in 40 straight from March 30-May 19.
The Rangers dropped three of four games on May 17-20 on Chicago's South Side in the first series between the two teams this season.
The San Francisco 49ers rewarded wide receiver Marquise Goodwin for his career-best season by giving him a three-year contract extension Thursday worth $20.3 million.
Goodwin was one of San Francisco's best free-agent acquisitions last season when he signed a two-year deal, giving the team a needed deep threat down the field. His play led the 49ers to lock him up through the 2021 season with the new deal that will guarantee him $10 million, according to NFL Network.
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"I definitely feel like this offense is good for me in a sense that it allows me to be a football player," he said. "It gives me the opportunity to be out there and make plays and that's what you want in a scheme and a system. It's not just me. Everybody gets to shine. That's what's good about this offense. It's not a one-man wrecking crew. It's not one guy making it happen. It's a lot of guys making opportunities to make plays."
The 27-year-old Goodwin set career highs last season with 56 catches for 962 yards and scored two touchdowns. The former Olympic long jumper had caught just 49 passes for 780 yards in four seasons with Buffalo.
He also won the team's Len Eshmont Award for inspirational and courageous play and won the team's Ed Block Courage Award given to the player that exemplified a commitment to sportsmanship and courage.
It was a trying season off the field for Goodwin, whose premature son died hours before he caught an 83-yard touchdown pass against the New York Giants on Nov. 12, and whose biological father died days before he had 10 catches for 114 yards against Tennessee on Dec. 17.
"From the minute Marquise joined our team, he has shown us everything we want to see in a 49er," general manager John Lynch said. "He leads by example with a tremendous work ethic, a trait that helped him expand his repertoire as a football player and post his most successful season as a pro last year. Marquise earned this extension by coming in every day focused on doing his job and, as a result Marcus Peters Jersey , he made himself and his teammates better."
Goodwin really excelled after Garoppolo took over as quarterback last December. He had 29 catches for 384 yards and one touchdown in five games with Garoppolo as the starter, tying for fifth in the NFL in catches and ranking sixth in yards during those games.
Goodwin was also tracked with the fastest speed by a receiver on any catch last season according to Next Gen Stats through SportRadar, running 21.68 mph on a 55-yard catch from C.J. Beathard against Arizona on Nov. 5.
He narrowly missed out on a 1,000-yard season when he was knocked out of the season finale against the Rams with a concussion after a helmet-to-helmet hit by Blake Countess. Goodwin has had at least four concussions in his career.
"I was not scared at all by any means," he said. "I know the game I play. It's tough, it's physical. Things like that happen at some point. The people in the stands were more scared than I was based on how it looked and me being unconscious for a few seconds. I'm blessed for the opportunity to be healthy and go into 2018 with new opportunities."
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Q: Spacing of output and breaking a number into hours and minutes I'm trying to write a program that calculates a preset entry of runners and figures out who's the fastest. It should list the times as
Suzie    329
Phil     445
each having equal spacing, but mine keeps coming out as printed above.
I also am having trouble breaking the final result's time into minute's and hours.
My questions are: how do I make the output spacing the same on every output's time no matter how long the name, and how do I break the final time into minute's and hours?
If you give an answer could you explain how each step works and show how the code should looks?
Here's what I have thus far:
        final int numRunners = 16;

        String[] names = { "Elena", "Thomas", "Hamilton", "Suzie",
                "Phil", "Matt", "Alex", "Emma", "John", "James",
                "Jane", "Emily", "Daniel", "Neda", "Aaron", "Kate" };

        int[] times = { 341, 273, 278, 329, 445, 402, 388,
                275, 243, 334, 412, 393, 299, 343, 317, 265 };

        for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(names[i] + ": " + times[i]);
        }
        fastestRunners(names, times);
    }
    public static void fastestRunners(String [] names, int [] values){
        int i;
        int fastest = 0;
        for (i = 0; i < values.length - 1; i++){
            if ( values [i] < values[i + 1]){
                fastest = i;
            }
            else {
                fastest = i + 1;
            }
        }
        System.out.println("The fastest runner is " + names[fastest] + " whose time in minutes is " + values[fastest]);
    }
}

A: You're missing part of the class. This will never compile. Anyway, I'd write the main loop as follows:
int fastest = 0;
for (int i = 1; i < values.length; i++) {
    if ( values [i] > values[fastest]) {
        fastest = i;
    }
}

Because what you have now will not work. As for minutes and hours, you can calculate that as follows:
final String name = "Phil";
final int value = 341;
final int hours = value / 60;
final int minutes = value % 60; // modulo
System.out.printf("%-20s: %dh%02dm%n", name, hours, minutes);


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Gmina Cedynia is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the German border. Its seat is the town of Cedynia, which lies approximately  south-west of Gryfino and  south-west of the regional capital Szczecin.

The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 4,343 (out of which the population of Cedynia amounts to 1,653, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 2,690).

The gmina contains part of the protected area called Cedynia Landscape Park.

Villages
Apart from the town of Cedynia, Gmina Cedynia contains the villages and settlements of Barcie, Bielinek, Czachów, Golice, Lubiechów Dolny, Lubiechów Górny, Łukowice, Markocin, Niesułów, Orzechów, Osinów Dolny, Parchnica, Piasecznik, Piasek, Radostów, Siekierki, Stara Rudnica, Stary Kostrzynek, Trzypole and Żelichów.

Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Cedynia is bordered by the gminas of Chojna, Mieszkowice and Moryń. It also borders Germany.

References
Polish official population figures 2006

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Social media can be both a carrot and a stick. The new media serves the growth of sustainability as a powerful communications tool and as a persuasive means of pushing for pro-social change. Social media gives organizations and individuals the ability to correspond with vast audiences. In addition to its tremendous reach, social media is largely about collaboration and community, which is entirely consistent with the values inherent in sustainability and CSR.
For organizations involved in sustainability, social media affords a multitude of benefits including increased consumer trust. While social media can benefit responsible organizations by enhancing their brand reputations, it is also a platform capable of exerting tremendous pressure on irresponsible businesses.
Organizational messaging has been transformed by social media and the ramifications for reputation and brand impact are becoming increasingly obvious. An editorial by Julie Urlaub, the founder & managing director of Taiga Company, a sustainability social media consulting firm, reviews the power of new media..
Research reveals that consumers want to see results, not merely lofty aspirations. Urlaub cites the 2012 Cone Communications Corporate Social Return Trend Tracker, which shows that 84 percent of Americans believe that companies are responsible for communicating the results of their CSR commitments.
Americans now expect companies to have a social media presence, but sustainability initiatives appear to be suffering from poor communications. This is significant because organizations that undertake major sustainability initiatives can still fail if there is a discrepancy between what they are doing and the perception of stakeholders.
In addition to being environmentally sustainable, organizations must also be able to effectively communicate this effort. However, with 63 percent of consumers claiming they do not know where to look for information on CSR, communications are clearly a problem.
Communications can benefit from using social media as a platform for sustainability and CSR initiatives. New media has been a boon for socially responsible businesses and cause marketers. Businesses that use social media to communicate their sustainable practices are afforded priceless PR at a fraction of the cost of traditional media.
Social media is sewn into the fabric of our lives and what makes the new media so revolutionary is its capacity to interact. The primary advantage of new media over traditional media is that it gets stakeholders involved in discussions that can ultimately frame solutions.
Organizations that employ effective communications involving social media are able to listen to and engage stakeholders. This is far superior to traditional push communications which disseminated information outward. In contrast to traditional communications, social media is a two way stream that generates useful feedback in addition to disseminating information.
There is tremendous value in real-time feedback from employees, customers and other stakeholders. The feedback provided through social media channels enables organizations to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their initiatives and where necessary, make changes. This is known as crowd sourcing which is the practice of soliciting ideas from a large group of people. One of the best examples of crowd sourcing comes from GE's Ecomagination Challenge.
While some may fear the amplification of potentially negative feedback, the nature of the digital age is such that it is unavoidable. It therefore makes sense for organizations to be part of the discussion.
Consumers demand transparent and credible information, but there is a gulf between what consumers want and organizational realities. The 2012 Sustainability Leadership Report shows that consumer perception is determined by communication strategies and not just organizational efforts.
Some major companies saw declines in the perception of their sustainability stewardship despite increased efforts. The moral here is that engaging sustainability must include communications which involves more than just sharing information with passive recipients. Engaging stakeholders and listening to what they have to say are essential elements of effective communications. Social media is the perfect modality for such interactive dialogues.
According to Urlaub, social media is the ideal platform to fill the gap between consumer expectations and what companies are perceived to be delivering.
"Social media executed successfully can be a powerful vehicle to build sustainable business communications by engaging with stakeholders. With new tools and strategies changing the way the business world communicates and exchanges information, social media is becoming the transparent, engaging, competitive advantage that business sustainability delivers," Urlaub said.
Because of the new media's ability to facilitate dialogue, Urlaub predicts that social media used for CSR and sustainability will gain momentum in 2013. Part of these efforts involve the development and implementation of responsible advertising using social media. Things like announcements about waste diversion and sustainable procurement are ideally suited for social media.
A lifecycle approach to communicating sustainability incorporates both education and branding. Companies can share information about a wide variety of initiatives including product information related to the sourcing of materials, disposal instructions, and recycling.
Social media is a revolutionary force for pro-social change. With more than 500 million users, Facebook alone has more users than the population of any country in the world except China and India. Organizations of all sizes are incorporating social media into their marketing programs. According to Kiwano, 9 in 10 organizations use social media and thirty-one percent say social media plays a major role in public communications around their brand.
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Businesses are increasingly reckoning with the revolutionary power of social media. New media is impacting our lives and changing the way we connect and communicate. The transformative power of social media was in evidence in the Arab Spring where it was a formidable force that proved capable of contributing to the toppling governments. Social media can even be used as a tool to pressure governments to act on climate change.
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There are a plethora of environmental events that use the power of social media to gain global reach. Some of these events have garnered the support of millions of people in countries all around the world. The large number of environmental events that provide information and advocate strategies for action are made possible by new media.
Social media is a public relations vehicle with unparalleled reach, but it can also be used as a potent weapon against irresponsible businesses. The new media has succeeded is changing corporate behavior all around the world.
Environmental organizations have used social media to encourage more responsible corporate conduct on a number of fronts. In 2011, Greenpeace's online efforts succeeded in forcing Nestle to adopt more sustainable business practices in Indonesia and Brazil. More recently, Greenpeace has used social media to engage consumers in a campaign that has successfully pressured a dozen leading brands in the apparel industry to adopt more sustainable practices. A number of other major bands including Cadbury, Unilever, Kraft, Burger King and General Mills have also been swayed by popular online initiatives.
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At long last we are getting some answers in Brian Michael Bendis' over-wrought Uncanny X-Men saga, yet for every smart or interesting moment there is a boring or inexplicable one. Scott Summers has made up his mind to bring an end to his mutant 'revolution' and some of what follows is strong character work, even despite the ultimately anti-climactic nature of the narrative. At least Chris Bachalo is on hand to make every single panel look characterful, complex, and unique.
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