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Democrats' Health Care Taxes Threaten Millions More American Jobs Even as Unemployment Soars to 10.2 Percent
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$154 Billion Tax on Small Businesses. The bill would impose a 5.4 percent "surtax" on the modified adjusted gross income of individuals – including many small employers who file as individuals. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), one-third of this tax increase (about $154 billion) would fall on the income of small businesses – making it harder for them to meet payroll and avoid layoffs. Worse yet, the income thresholds for this tax are not indexed for inflation, meaning each year it will ensnare more and more families and businesses.
Payroll Tax Penalty to Hit a Majority of Small Businesses and Their Employees. Under the House Democrats' bill, employers who fail to provide coverage that is deemed "acceptable" by the new Health Choices Commissioner would have to pay a payroll tax of up to 8% of wages. According to data provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than half of small employers with fewer than 200 employees currently fail to meet that standard and thus would be forced to spend even more of their income on health benefits or become subject to the payroll tax.
Half-Million Dollar Penalties for Unintentional Failures. The House Democrats' bill also imposes on employers who promise to provide government-approved health insurance to their employees, but fail to do so at some point a penalty of $100 per day, per uncovered employee. Small businesses committing an unintentional mistake still could be subject to a penalty of $500,000.
Massive Tax Increases Mean Massive Job Losses. The House Democrats' bill raises taxes by a total of more than $750 billion over the next decade. Using methodology developed by Christina Romer, President Obama's top economic advisor, these tax hikes could cost the country 5 million jobs, something this morning's news shows we can scarcely afford.
"Economic research has shown time and again that mandates such as these are a "one-two punch" where the cost is first borne by the employer, but is ultimately borne by the employee – through job loss and lower wages." National Federation of Independent Business


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Hooking Mosaics
By: Janet Conner
Article Excerpt - November/December 2021
What do mosaics, Impressionist painting, and rug hooking have in common? Each one of these art forms creates a visual image by the close placement of individual dabs of color. The tesserae of mosaics, the brush strokes of Impressionist paintings, and the individual looped stitches of a hooked rug are all meant to work together to form a kind of pixilated image.
The Italian tradition of making mosaics was expressed all over the Roman world, from Great Britain to Asia Minor. Towards the end of the Roman era (220-330 CE), the Roman Empire shifted to the East and became Christianized. During the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora, the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna was completely covered in dazzling mosaics. It has been described by art historians as "beautiful as an Oriental dream," the "purest glory of Byzantine art of the West."
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Of the many issues dealing with the Askani timeline, only one (X-Force #17) uses a year number. All other books say about two millennia in the future.
The other year numbers are all to be seen in relation to 3806, the quoted year from X-Force #17. The assumptions are based on dialogue and character ages. For example Mother Askani said she lost the Phoenix Force nearly eighty years ago, or Tyler at least being 15-20 years old upon his capture by Stryfe.


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Hawaiian Gardens $90 Million Renovation Coming to End
For most people, Hawaiian Gardens – the smallest city located in Los Angeles County – is a nondescript town. It's well-known in the gambling community, though, thanks to the popular Hawaiian Gardens Casino, and that crowd is happy to see the city's main attraction get a major facelift.
The new and improved Gardens Casino, as it is now called, has received $90 million in makeovers over the last three years. These touch-ups started in late 2013 and originally were supposed to cost $45 million. The renovations turned into a full-on construction project with the costs ballooning by nearly double.
Governor Jerry Brown first visited the site in 2013, when players had to play underneath a tent. That was somewhat embarrassing for the hosts but that helped paved the way for significant changes.
Now the property will be at least 200,000 square feet in a building that can hold between 5,000 and 7,000 players at any given time. There will be at least 300 tables for them to play to keep them entertained. The inside of the casino is almost done with poker and blackjack tables, and there is more space for players to walk around compared to the older casino. By the end of the project, it will basically be a brand new casino.
The Gardens Casino also seems to be focused towards a more affluent player, which is emphasized by the VIP area. There will be rooms upstairs for selected guests to sleep in and even shower if they feel the need. There is also a gaming area which is well-decorated, complemented by areas for private parties and special events. The kitchen is massive and lively, with chefs preparing dishes from every corner of the world.
The security is also being upgraded so employees of The Gardens can watch everything from players' chips to cars outside, including their license plates. There will be over a thousand security cameras installed around the facilities as Gardens Casino wants to ensure their players' safety as well as the integrity of the casino.
The Gardens is just trying to keep up as there are a few other casinos in the area that are making themselves more attractive to players. The casino at Hollywood Park is going to open up soon in Inglewood, which is close to the new stadium of the Los Angeles Rams, so that is going to see some steady foot traffic. There's the brand new Bicycle Hotel and Casino in Bell Gardens, which opened in December. And then there's the Lucky Lady Casino, which is owned by Larry Flynt, the founder of Hustler. The Gardens saw all of this new competition crop up while simultaneously seeing their casino fall apart, which compelled them to change.
The Gardens Casino is the centerpiece of the city, providing nearly 70% of the city's general-fund revenues and employing 1,850 people, which is quite significant. There is no official opening date as of yet, but when it opens, Gardens Casino will surely garner a lot of attention from the local players and residents.
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Ratatouille is one of those delicious recipes you can endlessly vary with. This variant is definitely our favourite though.
Preheat the oven to 110 degrees Celsius (or 230 Fahrenheit). Clean the aubergines, bell peppers and onion and cut them in pieces. Next, lay them in a roasting tin. Afterwards clean the zucchini and remove, to taste, part of the peel (this makes the zucchini's taste less dominant). Clean the sugar snaps and place them in the roasting tin. Pick the herbs of the twigs and press the garlic, lay all the in the roasting tin and add salt and pepper to taste. Mix the whole. Pour Il Terzo Terra di Foggia over the mix. Place the roasting tin in the preheated oven and stir the mix twice during the baking process. After 30 minutes add the cut tomatoes and leave the mix in the oven for another 20 minutes. Stir the mix again halfway through.


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In 1862–67 Johan Ernst Rietz published a dictionary of Swedish dialects, which comprised nearly 860 pages. In his dictionary, he included not only dialect words but also 450 place names. This article brings these names into focus and examines what reasons Rietz might have had for including them. How the names are defined and how information about their pronunciation and provenance is conveyed is also analysed.


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One scene that Willie and I knew we wanted to photograph in the Eastern Sierras was sunrise at Mt. Tom. One of the most iconic and largest peaks in the Owens Valley region, there are many ways to photograph Mt. Tom but we felt this angle showed off its best side. The combination of trees, meadow, and mountains, along with the line running up Mt. Tom, make for a spectacular scene.
It was freezing when we woke up. Let me correct myself … it was well below freezing. It was barely over 5F when we set out and on that day we didnt see above freezing temperatures for many hours. This morning was also cloudy and as we drove to our spot we started to get really excited there was going to be a ton of color in the sky.
Willie and Alan had scouted this location a month or two previously but Willies GPS unit somehow deleted the coordinates. Alans attempt to remind us of the spot resulted in the wrong location. I think we did 4 U-Turns on CA-395 before finally getting to the spot we wanted The light to our east was going crazy and as soon as I put the car in Park we were grabbing our gear and running through the snow to setup our tripods.


Country music started in the southern part of the United States in the 1920s. Featuring many subgenres, country music is one of the most popular music genres in the United States today. This t-shirt is perfect for anyone who loves to listen to country music, as it features the popular phrase "Keep Calm" and ends in "Listen to Country."


Buyback Guarantee in Debitum Network, as in all P2P or P2B lending platforms, is a guarantee provided by our loan originators regarding a specific loan. If repayment of that particular loan is delayed by more than 90 days, then the broker (loan originator) is obligated to buy back the loan by fully or partly compensating investors for their remaining principal invested as well as outstanding interest. In other words, if a loan is 90 days late, the broker repurchases it from the investor parties, covering the remaining principal invested & outstanding interest.
An "Under Asset" field in asset details displays all guarantees that the borrower provides a Loan Originator in case of non-repayment. In most cases, these are invoices or personal guarantees by one or more owners of the company.


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The State Of Play For Retaliation Claims
It has been two years since the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published its enforcement guidance on retaliation and related issues in late August 2016. Since that time, the country elected a new president who has installed an administration that is focused on starkly different priorities than those of the prior administration. Not only that, but the past 18 months have also seen intense interest and awareness of sexual harassment with the rise of the #MeToo movement and nightly news accounts of sexual misconduct in the workplace. Against this backdrop, what has become of the EEOC policies on retaliation under Title VII? And, where will it go from here?
Perhaps it is worthwhile to examine what the EEOC—and federal courts—consider to be unlawful retaliation before going much further. The EEOC defines "retaliation" as "when an employer takes a materially adverse action because an applicant or employee asserts rights protected by the EEO laws." This may be in the form of "participation" in protected activity, or "opposition" to unlawful activity.
In many instances, the legal question in a claim for retaliation is whether the adverse action (such as a demotion or termination) was taken because the employee asserted participation or opposition rights under Title VII or other EEO laws. In years past, federal courts have reached a general consensus about the proper standard for making this determination. Generally, to earn the right to take a retaliation claim to trial, an employee must offer evidence of: (1) statutorily protected activity; (2) a materially adverse job action; and (3) a causal connection between the two. If the employee can show that they would not have experienced the adverse action "but for" the protected activity, they have stated a prima facie claim for retaliation.
What Do The Numbers Say?
The number of retaliation charges received by the EEOC in recent years has steadily increased. In 2007, the agency received 18,198 retaliation charges, constituting approximately 22 percent of its overall charge volume. But by 2017, the number of retaliation charges has risen to 41,097, which makes up nearly half of all charges received.
And this uptick in the volume of charges does not even reflect the number of additional retaliation charges received annually by state and local equal employment opportunity agencies. Clearly, the issue of workplace retaliation is a problem that is bubbling closer to the surface—one that, at times, may be even more challenging for employers than the underlying discrimination from which it usually springs.
Expanded View Of Protected Activity
Many court decisions discuss what actions constitute an adverse job action, and then describe what is necessary to establish the necessary "but for" nexus with the protected activity. A question that often remains debatable, and continues to be examined by the courts, is what constitutes "protected activity."
As noted above, an employee engages in protected activity when they participate in an EEO-related activity or oppose discrimination. An employee cannot just oppose any workplace conduct and claim that they are engaging in protected activity; rather, the employee must have a reasonable belief that the conduct they oppose violates Title VII or other EEO laws. As outlined in its 2016 enforcement guidance, the EEOC has taken—and continues to take—a broad, inclusive approach to the umbrella of protected activity.
One area in which this expansive view has become most noticeable is found within the emerging area of discrimination based on sexual orientation. In Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII. Since then, other federal courts have reached the same conclusion, including the recent 2nd Circuit decision in Zarda v. Altitude Express. Numerous district courts throughout the country have also adopted similar positions, though there continues to be disagreement about the extent to which Title VII protects sexual orientation.
While the courts have not yet reached a consensus on this issue, the EEOC continues to take the enforcement stance that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation constitutes sex discrimination under Title VII. Consequently, the EEOC holds the view that an employee opposing discrimination based on sexual orientation is similarly engaged in protected activity under the law.
This is because, given the legal developments in this area of the law, an employee may have a reasonable belief that sexual orientation discrimination is unlawful under Title VII and, as a result, believe that opposing such discrimination is a protected activity. In fact, even though certain federal appeals courts have only recently held that sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII, several district courts have held that, even if Title VII does not protect against sexual orientation discrimination, an employee's opposition to such discrimination can still give rise to a claim of unlawful retaliation.
Thus, so long as an employee holds the reasonable belief that they were opposing unlawful discrimination, those courts have reasoned, such opposition constitutes protected activity under the law. For example, in Swift v. Countrywide Home Loans, a 2011 federal court in New York concluded that "the fact that Title VII does not protect against sexual orientation discrimination does not necessarily negate plaintiff's good faith belief that he engaged in protected activity when making a complaint of discrimination."
As a result of its expanding view of sex discrimination, the EEOC has correspondingly stretched its definition of protected activity under the law. The agency recently filed an amicus brief in which it argued that an employee's belief that Title VII prohibits sexual orientation discrimination was reasonable because of the rapidly changing legal landscape and the growing public opinion that it is impermissible to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
EEOC Continues To Champion Retaliation Cases
Additionally, the EEOC continues to aggressively pursue retaliation claims on behalf of workers. These retaliation claims are often coupled with underlying allegations of sexual harassment.
In June, for example, the EEOC sued Sierra Creative Systems, a company located in Paramount, California, for alleged sex-based harassment, failure to prevent and correct ongoing sexual harassment, and retaliation against female employees. Similarly, the EEOC is currently pursuing claims against Georgina's Taqueria, a restaurant in Traverse City, Michigan, for violating federal law by subjecting female employees to repeated sexual harassment and retaliating against employees for opposing that harassment. In another recent case filed by the EEOC in Arizona, a federal district court ordered a Scottsdale, Arizona wine bar to pay $100,000 for sexual harassment against two servers because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation and for retaliation against one for complaining about it. These lawsuits, among others, typify the interconnectedness between claims of sexual harassment and those of retaliation.
In the evolving landscape of workplace discrimination, the country's awareness of sexual harassment continues to increase and the courts continue to grapple with questions relating to the definition of sex discrimination. There seems little question that issues concerning retaliation are virtually inseparable from the underlying claims of discrimination that frame these discussions.
Not only that, but the EEOC continues to take a broad view of what constitutes discrimination and, as a result, what it deems "protected activity" giving rise to potential claims for retaliation. As the statistics and recent decisions show, retaliation will continue to be at the forefront of employment discrimination litigation for many years to come.
A version of this article originally appeared in EmploymentLaw360. For more information, contact the author at AStrauss@fisherphillips.com or 214.220.8303.


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from msrest.serialization import Model

class X12OneWayAgreement(Model):
    """X12OneWayAgreement.

    :param sender_business_identity: The sender business identity
    :type sender_business_identity: :class:`BusinessIdentity
     <azure.mgmt.logic.models.BusinessIdentity>`
    :param receiver_business_identity: The receiver business identity
    :type receiver_business_identity: :class:`BusinessIdentity
     <azure.mgmt.logic.models.BusinessIdentity>`
    :param protocol_settings: The X12 protocol settings.
    :type protocol_settings: :class:`X12ProtocolSettings
     <azure.mgmt.logic.models.X12ProtocolSettings>`
    """

    _attribute_map = {
        'sender_business_identity': {'key': 'senderBusinessIdentity', 'type': 'BusinessIdentity'},
        'receiver_business_identity': {'key': 'receiverBusinessIdentity', 'type': 'BusinessIdentity'},
        'protocol_settings': {'key': 'protocolSettings', 'type': 'X12ProtocolSettings'},
    }

    def __init__(self, sender_business_identity=None, receiver_business_identity=None, protocol_settings=None):
        self.sender_business_identity = sender_business_identity
        self.receiver_business_identity = receiver_business_identity
        self.protocol_settings = protocol_settings

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and discomfort, a new study finds.
The quality of the survivor's sex life is also influenced by the type of cancer she experienced and the intensity of the treatment, researchers found.
"This is one of the largest population-based studies of sexual function ever conducted in young women following cancer," said lead author Lena Wettergren, a professor in care sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden.
The study, published Sept. 30 in the journal Acta Oncologica, involved Swedish researchers surveying 694 women ages 18 to 39 about a year and a half after cancer diagnosis. The women had been diagnosed between January 2016 and August 2017 and were identified through national health registries.
About half had breast cancer and the others had survived gynecological cancer, brain tumors or lymphoma. About 53% had treatment that was rated "very" or "most" in intensity or how extensive it was.
The women were asked about their sex lives in the past month in eight topic areas, which were satisfaction, interest, discomfort, pain while engaging in sexual activity and ability to have an orgasm. The patients were also asked reasons for not having sex with a partner and questions about body image and emotional distress.
The study authors compared their answers with those of a random sample of 493 women ages 19 to 40 who had not had cancer.
The research team found that women who had survived cancer were equally sexually active as those without the disease, about 83% compared to 87%, but a significantly higher proportion experienced difficulties with intimacy.
About 45% reported lack of interest in sex, with 34% of people reporting problems achieving orgasm and 22% reporting issues with satisfaction with sex life.
By comparison, women without a cancer diagnosis were 32%, 28% and 19% likely to report these issues, respectively.
"Our results show two out of three women experienced sexual dysfunction and the problems are related to their cancer treatment and emotional distress," Wettergren said in a journal news release.
"These findings underscore the need to routinely assess sexual health in clinical care and follow-up," she added. "We recommend development of specific interventions directed to women in addition to offering counseling and other aids."
About 63% of women with a cancer history reported at least one sexual issue, which could include complaints such as vulvar discomfort. Others reported vaginal dryness.
Older women and those with breast or gynecological cancer were at higher risk of sex-related problems, the authors found. That was true of patients who went through high-dose radiation and chemotherapy.
Feeling unattractive was another key factor linked to lack of sexual activity with a partner. Emotional distress and a distorted perception of their bodies following cancer treatment were associated with greater sexual dysfunction, the study found.
More than a half million women are diagnosed with cancer in young adulthood each year, according to the study.
The researchers, who also included those from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, urged health care providers to offer sexual well-being support such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT), vaginal moisturizers and psychological counseling.
The American Cancer Society has more on cancer in young adults.
SOURCE: Acta Oncologica, news release, Sept. 30, 2022


My name is Mary K. Doyle, and I am an author, blogger, and freelance writer with nearly forty-six years of experience across multiple forms of media. I've written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines and copy for businesses of all sizes. Writing is my passion, and I truly enjoy writing on topics I believe can help us to be more compassionate and understanding.
My published books include The Alzheimer's Spouse, Hans Christian Andersen Illuminated by The Message, Navigating Alzheimer's, Saint Theodora and Her Promise to God, Young in the Spirit, Grieving with Mary, Seven Principles of Sainthood, The Rosary Prayer by Prayer, and Mentoring Heroes as well as the booklet, Fatima at 100.Fatima Today.
In addition to this one, I also post on my blog: Midwest Mary.
I have a Master's Degree in Pastoral Theology from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. Attending that school inspired me to write two of my books on St. Theodora, also known as St. Mother Theodore Guerin, the founder of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College.
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While the Agile Manifesto and its principles guide us to deliver software in small increments and be accepting of change, it does not say "stop planning ahead". Many teams continue to only focus on the next sprint without a clear understanding of how the work will impact the longer term vision of the product. Many teams also do nothing to help product managers and management plan ahead. We can all do better at long-term planning without sacrificing the core Agile principles and by doing so, deliver higher value and have fun doing it.
Agile frameworks, including the Scrum Guide, talk very little about planning beyond the short iteration.
Software developers are afraid of being held accountable for any planning into the future and giving specific dates, especially when they know the plans will change.
Engineers express frustration in not understanding the product vision. Tech debt often comes from the team not understanding the product direction, not from bad coding.
The anti-waterfall establishment has put a black cloud over upfront project planning.
While well intentioned, agile team efforts are often not aligned with the long-term goals of the product or company.
How can we plan ahead and still respect our agile principles of delivering small increments, responding to change, and constantly delivering working software?
Three things to consider are adding or increasing backlog refinement time, schedule a "release planning" every 3 to 6 sprints, and tracking your plan with transparency to management.
Make it a Regular Ceremony: schedule a backlog refinement (sorry, +1 meeting) every sprint strictly for ensuring an understanding of the future sprint or two, and giving the team an opportunity to add their input.
Share the Vision: product owners should share the product vision with the team on a regular basis. Do this at the start of refinement when needed (yay! -1 meeting).
Connect Stories to Strategy: ensure the team understands which strategic initiative their stories/tasks support and why the work is important.
Schedule a block of time, 4 hours to 2 days to look out 3 to 6 iterations (no more than 12 weeks).
Don't fear making rough estimates on less than 100% documented stories - communicate that this is a plan and not a commitment (easier said than done, but you need to start somewhere).
Focus on understanding the value and connection to strategic vision for the product. The details are easier to work out if you understand this first.
Invite stakeholders and other key players (UX, Ops, etc.) so they can weigh in on priorities and details to confirm their approach.
Ensure that the goals beyond the sprint are clearly tracked.
Update this plan every sprint/iteration.
When change happens, make the impact very transparent to the stakeholders and management.
Planning beyond the sprint benefits the Agile team by providing clear vision and goals, while management gains more value directly toward their strategic vision. It also benefits the product owner to help them prioritize the backlog and helps stakeholders understand the impact of change and short-term decision making. Consider doing a bit of longer term planning and maybe your Agile team will deliver even higher value and allow for improved upward communication and collaboration at the same time.


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Q: Navbar links don't center properly I made a simple webpage with header and navbar, but I came across this little problem that's actually pretty annoying. The links aren't 100% in the middle of the inline list, here's a screenshot:
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To prevent confusion, the whole page is centered, but the screenshot is just of the navbar part.
The HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>Test</title>
    <link href="css/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

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The CSS file:
/* navigation bar */
#nav {
    width: 490px;
    margin: auto;
    border-top: 1px solid black;
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

/* unordered list in navbar */
#nav ul {
    text-align: center;
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/* list items in navbar */
#nav li {
    display: inline-block;
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/* links in items of navbar */
#nav li a {
    text-decoration: none;
    margin: 20px;
    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
}

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h1 {
    text-align: center;
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}

A: The issue is the default padding that is being applied to the ul, simply zero out the padding:
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A: Just remove the padding and margin from the UL:
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A: Above answer is correct, but in ideal scenario  should have padding so in future if we want to have a background-color for link, it will occupied entire block.
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Home Startup News Germany's Xentral nabs $20M led by Sequoia to help online-facing SMBs run...
Small enterprises remain one of the most underserved segments of the business market, but the growth of cloud-based services — easier to buy, easier to provision — has helped that change in recent years. Today, one of the more promising startups out of Europe building software to help SMEs run online businesses is announcing some funding to better tap into both the opportunity to build these services, and to meet a growing demand from the SME segment.
Xentral, a German startup that develops enterprise resource planning software covering a variety of back-office functions for the average online small business, has picked up a Series A of $20 million.
The company's platform today covers services like order and warehouse management, packaging, fulfillment, accounting and sales management, and the majority of its 1,000 customers are in Germany — they include the likes of direct-to-consumer brands like YFood, KoRo, the Nu Company and Flyeralarm.
But Benedikt Sauter, the co-founder and CEO of Xentral, said the ambition is to expand into the rest of Europe, and eventually other geographies, and to fold in more services to its ERP platform, such as a more powerful API to allow customers to integrate more services — for example in cases where a business might be selling on their own site, but also Amazon, eBay, social platforms and more — to bring their businesses to a wider market.
Mainly, he said, the startup wants "to build a better ecosystem to help our customers run their own businesses better."
The funding is being led by Sequoia Capital, with Visionaires Club (a B2B-focused VC out of Berlin) also participating.
The deal is notable for being the prolific, high-profile VC's first investment in Europe since officially opening for business in the region. (Sequoia has backed a number of startups in Europe before this, including Graphcore, Klarna, Tessian, Unity, UiPath, n8n and Evervault — but all of those deals were done from afar.)
Augsburg-based Xentral has been around as a startup since 2018, and "as a startup" is the operative phrase here.
Sauter and his co-founder Claudia Sauter (who is also his co-founder in life: she is his wife) built the early prototype for the service originally for themselves.
The pair were running a business of their own — a hardware company they founded in 2008, selling not nails, hammers and wood, but circuit boards they they designed, along with other hardware to build computers and other connected objects. Around 2013, as the business was starting to pick up steam, they decided that they really needed better tools to manage everything at the backend so that they would have more time to build their actual products.
But Bene Sauter quickly discovered a problem in the process: smaller businesses may have Shopify and its various competitors to help manage e-commerce at the front end, but when it came to the many parts of the process at the backend, there really wasn't a single, easy solution (remember this was eight years ago, at a time before the Shopifys of the world were yet to expand into these kinds of tools). Being of a DIY and technical persuasion — Sauter had studied hardware engineering at university — he decided that he'd try to build the tools that he wanted to use himself.
The Sauters used those tools for for years, until without much outbound effort, they started to get a some inbound interest from other online businesses to use the software, too. That led to the Sauters balancing both their own hardware business and selling the software on the side, until around 2017/2018 when they decided to wind down the hardware operation and focus on the software full-time. And from then, Xentral was born. It now has, in addition to 1,000 customers, some 65 employees working on developing the platform.
The focus with Xentral is to have a platform that is easy to implement and use, regardless of what kind of SME you might be as long as you are selling online. But even so, Sauter pointed out that the other common thread is that you need at least one person at the business who champions and understands the value of ERP. "It's really a mindset," he said.
The challenge with Xentral in that regard will be to see how and if they can bring more businesses to the table and tap into the kinds of tools that it provides, at the same time that a number of other players also eye up the same market. (Others in the same general category of building ERP for small businesses include online payments provider Sage, Netsuite and Acumatica.) ERP overall is forecast to become a $49.5 billion market by 2025.
Sequoia and its new partner in Europe Luciana Lixandru — who is joining Xentral's board along with Luciana Lixandru and Visionaries' Robert Lacher — believe however that there remains a golden opportunity to build a new kind of provider from the ground up and out of Europe specifically to target the opportunity in that region.
"I see Xentral becoming the de facto platform for any SMEs to run their businesses online," she said in an interview. "ERP sounds a bit scary especially because it makes one think of companies like SAP, long implementation cycles, and so on. But here it's the opposite." She describes Xentral as "very lean and easy to use because you an start with one module and then add more. For SMEs it has to be super simple. I see this becoming like the Shopify for ERP."
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The Lord Mayor was joined by the President of Motorsport Ireland, Martin McKenna and the US based philanthropist and long time motorsport fan, John Campion.
The Team Ireland Foundation will focus on identifying, supporting and coaching Irish competitors who can succeed in all categories of competition both domestically and across the globe. The aim is to put Irish drivers at the forefront of international motorsport.
The initiative will be run by Declan Brennan Sports Management and entails specific programmes developed to address nutritional, physical and psychological improvements for the participants over the course of their involvement.
The drivers will be chosen from the winners of many of the junior motorsport disciplines, such as rallying and racing, as well as the winners of the elite Billy Coleman and Sexton trophies.
President Motorsport Ireland, Martin McKenna said, "I am honoured today to be part of the Team Ireland launch. The programme we have developed for our young gifted and elite drivers is designed to bring the best out of the participants both personally and competitively.
"The pool of talent we have available to us in Ireland is quite phenomenal and with the support of the foundation, we are confident that our young Team Ireland drivers will make great progress and become the best that they can be and will go on to represent Ireland on an international level."


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UO research looks to tame food cravings, reverse early adversity
Grants from the National Institutes of Health will enable UO psychology professor to complete a pair of two-year research projects
EUGENE, Ore. — (Oct. 9, 2014) — Why do we find it so hard to say no to fatty, processed foods? How do we reverse the spiral of negative outcomes that occur later in life as a result of early adversity? New research from University of Oregon psychology professor Elliot Berkman aims to answer both of those questions.
Berkman recently received two new grants, a $580,000 award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and a $347,000 award from the National Cancer Institute. As the director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Berkman conducts research examining the behavioral, motivational and neural factors that contribute to human success or failure in achieving long-term goals.
"Both of these projects involve linking basic science knowledge from neuroscience and psychology and translating it into practical, low-cost interventions that will improve people's health and well-being," said Berkman, a professor in the Department of Psychology and a member of the UO's Prevention Science Institute.
The NIA grant (R01AG048840) seeks to reverse the effects of so-called early adversity — a broad term encompassing everything from physical abuse to neglect to the absence of consistent, supportive parenting. Early life adversity has been shown to disrupt the brain's executive functioning, including the ability to think and plan and engage in self-control, which can lead to problems later in life, such as depression, anxiety, obesity and heart disease.
The study builds on Berkman's research on inhibitory control, which is the ability to stop an unwanted response. Researchers will test if a training intervention that is effective in young adults can prove successful in helping older adults who have experienced early adversity.
"The effects of early adversity on behavior and underlying neural circuitry is a really strong area of research for the University of Oregon. It's something that we've studied quite a bit here," Berkman said. "With this study, we are applying an intervention that is grounded in neuroscientific knowledge about how adversity disrupts these systems and seeing if we can't reverse some or all of the damage that was done."
Berkman's research on inhibitory control made headlines last year when he published a study in the Journal of Neuroscience examining the impact of popular brain-training programs such as Lumosity. For that study, he employed the UO's Siemens full-body MRI housed in the Lewis Center for NeuroImaging to map the brain activity of research subjects while they engaged in inhibitory control.
Berkman will use the same powerful tool for a second new research study funded by the National Cancer Institute (R21CA175241). The aim is to develop new strategies to help people overcome their cravings for harmful cancer-promoting foods. Subjects will select their own favorite foods from a list of highly processed, fat- and sugar-laden foods.
"These are the kinds of foods that people will snack on, and will have trouble not eating, even when they are not hungry," Berkman says. "We will look at people's brain activation as they attempt to reduce their cravings."
Once inside the MRI, subjects will be shown images of food and be asked to practice "cognitive self-regulation techniques" — essentially trying to change the way they think about the tasty foods — to reduce their cravings. Their self-reported cravings and brain activity will be recorded. Since research has shown that craving is a strong predictor of eating, the study can be applied to diet.
Just as subjects will select their own foods, they will also choose their own self-regulation techniques based on what works best for them. For some, this may mean finding a way to distract the mind long enough for the craving to go away. Others may find that thinking more broadly about how eating junk food conflicts with their own self images as health-conscious individuals reduces cravings.
"In the past, we would just assign someone to a particular regulation strategy," Berkman said. "We're working here on the hypothesis that finding a strategy that works for you because it fits with your values and identity is much more effective."
Both studies have two-year timelines that involve basic brain research, the development of interventions and seeking to transfer what is learned into policy decision and for use by teachers and caseworkers.
"This is an incredibly exciting time for neuroscience at the UO," Berkman says. "Our faculty represent a wealth of expertise across the translational spectrum, and we're coming together to build innovative new tools that will really impact people's lives for the better."
Media Contact: Lewis Taylor, 541-541-2816, lewist@uoregon.edu
Source: Elliot Berkman, assistant professor of psychology, 541-346-4909, berkman@uoregon.edu
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Q: Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'car' is defined Can anyone tell me what is the error in this program and how to correct the error? I have given proper annotation and still getting errors.
I need help fixing this error I get when trying to deploy . Why isn't the Car bean being defined? Am I missing something in my web.xml or do I have to map the customerService somehow? I am using annotations for mapping. any help would be much appreciated. Here is the error log entry from the localhost log:
App.java
package om.venkatesh.omshakthi;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class App
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        ApplicationContext context=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Spring.xml");

        Car obj=(Car)context.getBean("car");
        obj.drive();
    }
}

Car.java
package om.venkatesh.omshakthi;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
@Component
public class Car implements Vehicle{

    public void drive()
    {
        System.out.println("Car");

    }

}

Vehicle.java
package om.venkatesh.omshakthi;

public interface Vehicle {
     void drive();

}

Spring.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:context = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd">
   <bean id="tyre" class="om.venkatesh.omshakthi.Tyre">

   </bean>
</beans>

A: Spring.xml has no bean with id "car" (although there is one for "tyre")

A: You need to define your bean in XML
<bean id="car" class="om.venkatesh.omshakthi.Car">

A: You don`t need @Component annotation when you use ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.
Just define a Car bean in your xml:
<bean id="car" class="om.venkatesh.omshakthi.Car">

A: Without xml you can do it like this:
Create config class:
@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

    @Bean
    public Car car() {
        return new Car();
    }
}

Main class:
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
    AnnotationConfigApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext();
    ctx.register(AppConfig.class);
    ctx.refresh();

    Car car = (Car) ctx.getBean("car");
    car.drive();
    }
}


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Dracaena erythraeae (Sansevieria erythraeae) es una especie de Dracaena (Sansevieria) perteneciente a la familia de las asparagáceas, originaria de África oriental en Eritrea, Etiopía y Sudán.

Ahora se la ha incluido en el gen de Dracaena debido a los estudios moleculares de su filogenia.

Taxonomía
Sansevieria erythraeae fue descrita por Giovanni Ettore Mattei y publicado en Bollettino di Studi ed Informazioni R. Giardino Coloniale 4: 170, en el año 1918.
Etimología
Sansevieria nombre genérico que debería ser "Sanseverinia" puesto que su descubridor, Vincenzo Petanga, de Nápoles, pretendía dárselo en conmemoración a Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, duque de Chiaromonte y fundador de un jardín de plantas exóticas en el sur de Italia. Sin embargo, el botánico sueco Thunberg que fue quien lo describió, lo denominó Sansevieria, en honor del militar, inventor y erudito napolitano Raimondo di Sangro (1710-1771), séptimo príncipe de Sansevero.

erythraeae: epíteto latino que significa "roja".
Sinonimia
Sansevieria schweinfurthii Täckh. & Drar

Referencias

Enlaces externos

erythraeae
Flora de África oriental
Plantas descritas en 1918
Plantas descritas por Mattei


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Marilyn Monroe's "Happy Birthday Mr. President" Dress Just Sold for Major $$$ at Auction
Hand-stitched crystals are a girl's best friend.
By Mehera Bonner published 18 November 16
Remember when Marilyn Monroe sang to President John F. Kennedy for his birthday? Probably not because you likely weren't alive, but it looked a little something like this:
As you can tell from this grainy video, Monroe looked completely stunning in her flesh-colored gown, which was designed by Jean Louis—an Academy Award winning costume artist. The iconic dress (which Monroe is said to have been sewed into) just sold at Julien's Auctions for a whopping $4.8 million, with a winning bid from Ripley's Believe it or Not.
You can check out an up-close and personal look at the gown below, which features 2,500 hand-stitched crystals. We want to go to there.
Mehera Bonner
Mehera Bonner is a news writer who focuses on celebrities and royals.
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By Iris Goldsztajn
Kate Middleton Becoming Princess of Wales Would Be a "Bittersweet Moment" for Prince William, Source Says
It's likely she will inherit Princess Diana's title.


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27 November — 27 Nov 2015
'Music Technology Beyond the Classroom' Elective Excursion
The girls in the Year 8 and 9 Music Technology elective class had spent many weeks composing original pieces of music to be played on the Federation Bells. This was a challenging task, because the bells were tuned to many unusual notes and sounds, and they had to adapt their ideas to make them work on this unusual instrument. All the composition work was done on a computer at school, and then performed live at Birrarung Marr on 16 November. There was also an opportunity for the girls to play the bells live from an iPad App, which was very exciting.
After the Federation Bells experience, the girls then walked to the Scots' Church, to witness and learn how the organ operates. After Dr Robin Batterham the assistant organist at The Scots' Church, had demonstrated his musical skills, the students went in groups to tour the inside of the multi-million dollar organ. There were thousands of different pipes varying in size and shape. To finish off Dr Batterham performed a modern piece which he thought was relevant to the current world events affecting people today. In organ music there are three lines (or staves of music) instead of the usual two we see on piano music. This is because there are keys on the floor which are played with your feet. The students would like to thank Mr Kidd and Mrs Bezaire for taking them on a city musical experience.
By Carla Di Pierro and Isabella Murphy, Year 8
Tintern's Concert Band performs to great acclaim at Federation Square
Our Year 7, 8 and 9 students were exemplary musical ambassadors for our school last Thursday 19 November. The Concert Band performed in the Novice Band section at the Victorian School Music Festival at Deakin Edge. Adjudicator, David Jones from Brisbane, was highly complimentary about the very mature sound that our band produced. He felt that their intonation was excellent and they produced beautifully rich and sonorous tone colours. He commented on the well-developed technique of our musicians and the attention paid to detail in the music, which is a particular credit to the ensemble's conductor, Mrs Lisa Clarke. Mr Jones then spent some time working on stage with our students in a live tutorial session. Our students responded very well to working with a new conductor, once they got used to him. He challenged them to watch him carefully for subtle changes of phrase shaping and variations in tempo. Mr Jones so enjoyed the responsiveness of the group that his parting comment was, "I could conduct this band all day!"
I was very proud of our students, as were the many Tintern parents who were able to attend the performance at 5.20pm, which was very convenient for those who worked in the city. Well done!
Not only did the Concert Band perform on Thursday afternoon. The night before they were entertaining parents of incoming Year 7s at the Information Evening and they were back on stage in the CM Wood Centre on Sunday at 'Munch with the Musos'! We thank this dedicated team of musicians for their commitment to the ensemble and also thank their parents for the wonderful support of their musical endeavours.
Music and fabulous food to Munch – who could ask for more?!
A bumper crowd of well over 300 students, staff, parents, family and friends packed the CM Wood Centre on Sunday morning for our annual Friends of Music 'Munch with the Musos' event. Now in its eighth year, this event is a relaxed and festive musical occasion. It is unique for the fact that it brings together our boys and girls from the Junior and Middle Schools, in particular, who work together to present a delightful array of musical treats, many with a Christmassy flavour (yes, it's only around the corner!). Many thanks to the music staff who prepared the students for these performances.
Setting up and running such a tremendous undertaking would not be possible without our hard-working team of parents on the Friends of Music Committee. President, Tim Oldmeadow, was a jovial host on the day and the FOM team made special mention of the wonderful support provided by Kathy Green, departing parent of Year 12 student, Brendon Green. Kathy has given many years of loyal service to the school in many ways, not the least of which has been her 10 years with the FOM Committee. We thank Kathy for her good humour and no-nonsense approach to all tasks to which she turns her hand.
Friends of Music Team
Little Archive winners at the MCC/FREEZA Battle of the Bands
On Friday 20 November, at EV's Youth Centre in Croydon, the Maroondah City Council and FREEZA ran a schools' Battle of the Bands event. Our own 'Little Archive' (Brendon Green, Rory Shepherd, Zoe Stephenson) represented Tintern and were up against 'Infamy' from Aquinas College, 'Sea of Trees' from Ringwood Secondary College and two more bands from Melba and Norwood Secondary Colleges. We were thrilled to receive the news late on Friday night that the three judges, with a tough decision on their hands, had decided to award first place to 'Little Archive'! Judging criteria included presentation of the band, musicianship, originality of material, interpretation of covers and potential of the act. For their efforts, our group were awarded a recording deal at new local recording studio, Realm in Ringwood. Congratulations Zoe, Brendon and Rory – we're very proud of your efforts and can't wait to hear the tracks you lay down at the studio!
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