Narrative objectives1 To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty for ureteropelvic junction obstruction.
presence or absence of complications at approach, intraoperative or postoperative.
Transition to laparotomy or laparoscopic surgery, blood transfusion practice, organ damage, vascular injury, postoperative bleeding, postoperative infection, pulmonary infarction, gas embolism.
Key inclusion criteria The patients diagnosed as ureteropelvic junction obstruction in Juntendo University Hospital Department of Pediatric General and Urogenital Surgery.
Subjects aged 1 to 15 at the time of acquiring consent.
patient or familys whose informed consents to join this study are obtained by the written document.


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Since its founding in 2014, Benchmark Strategies has provided services to a broad and diverse base of clients including Fortune 500 companies and startups, non-profit institutions, industry trade groups, real estate developers and many more.
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Patrick Bench is the Founder of Benchmark Strategies. In this role, he provides public affairs and lobbying counsel to clients. Patrick specializes in economic development and procurement advisory services.
Patrick founded Benchmark Strategies in 2014 after years of leadership in executive government offices, specializing in economic development and international affairs.
Prior to launching Benchmark Strategies, Patrick served for five years as a Vice President of Public Affairs at Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications. Preceding Rasky Baerlein, Patrick served for five years in economic development roles in Governor Mitt Romney's and Governor Deval Patrick's Administrations, primarily as the Director of Business Development for the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (MOITI).
Patrick is a Bachelor of Political Science graduate from Providence College, with a Master of Public Administration from Suffolk University. He lives with his wife and daughters in Boston, Massachusetts.
Favorite vacation spot is Barranquilla, Colombia
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Prior to joining Benchmark, Shelly obtained nearly a decade of newsroom experience to the table as an Emmy nominated assignment and video editor. She has worked in three different markets, including Washington, DC, and Boston.
Shelly received Mass Communications degree from Virginia Commonwealth University with a minor in History, specializing in British History and African Studies. She and her son live in the Boston Metro area.
Shelly has previously lived in the Barbados for a month.
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As Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Brian Domoretsky focuses on state and municipal government affairs and public sector business development. He also leads Benchmark's regional State Chief Information Officer (CIO) Advisory Practice for New England and other states.
Brian joined Benchmark after serving eight years at the cabinet level of government in the Commonwealth for Governors Baker and Patrick. Most recently, Brian served as an Assistant Secretary and Chief of Staff to Secretary/CIO Curt Wood at the Executive Office of Technology Services & Security (EOTSS). Before that, Brian managed a $1.1B budget as the Secretariat Chief Financial Officer for the Executive Office of Public Safety & Security (EOPSS). Earlier in his career, Brian was a Legislative Aide and Campaign Manager for the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Taxation – State Representative Paul C. Casey of Winchester. He was also the 2014 campaign manager that helped State Representative Michael S. Day become the first Stoneham candidate to win a seat in over 40 years.
In between government service, Brian was Director of Communications & Development and a Wealth Management Advisor at Commonwealth Financial Group in Boston.
Brian received a BA in Economics from Boston College. He currently resides in Stoneham, MA.
Brian is a mild-mannered professional by day and a rock guitarist by night.
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As a Senior Vice President of Public Relations, Susan leads the company's communications practice.
Susan joined Benchmark after more than six years working for a full-service public relations agency, and after 16 years as the Director of Communications for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the city's planning and economic development agency (d.b.a Boston Planning and Development Agency). In both the public and private sector's Susan brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications and message development, media relations, and issues and crisis management.
Susan holds with pride, a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and lives in Jamaica Plain with her husband and twin daughters.
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As a Senior Public Relations Associate, Colleen helps lead Benchmark's growing real estate development communications practice by supporting our clients' public relations efforts through all phases of real estate development, from initial permitting to final approval.
Colleen joined Benchmark after working at a full-service consulting agency where she developed and implemented effective legislative and public affairs campaigns for a diverse base of corporate and non-profit clients.
Colleen graduated from Fairfield University where she received a B.A in Political Science and English Literature and currently resides in the South End.
Colleen recently completed her first marathon, the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, and looks forward to her next.
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Prior to joining Benchmark, Nicole interacted with the political system on a local level through an internship in the Office of Congresswoman Katherine Clark (MA-5) and served as an intern in the Rhode Island State House with Representative Robert E. Craven.
Nicole is a proud graduate of Providence College, where she received a degree in Political Science and English and currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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As Operations Manager, Sarah is the lead for compliance, accounting, benefits, and administration while supporting the team to meet all goals set by clients.
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As an Assistant Vice President of Public Affairs, Jessica areas of focus and expertise include renewable energy and sustainability, intergovernmental relations, public policymaking and execution, and press and media relations.
Prior to joining Benchmark, Jessica served six years at the City of Boston as the Chief of Staff to former Boston City Councilor and Council President Pro Tempore Matt O'Malley. She oversaw and managed a team of legislative staff and neighborhood liaisons for a Council district that represents five Boston neighborhoods.
Jessica is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she received a degree in Politics and Gender Studies and currently resides in Dorchester.
Fun fact: Jessica has ridden a camel in the Sahara.
Joe Rull
As Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Joseph leads on business development, real estate development, and government affairs.
Joseph is a seasoned government, political, development and operations advisor with two decades of experience at all levels.
Prior to joining Benchmark, Joseph has served in senior leadership roles in the administrations of Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Governor Deval Patrick. He also worked for the Massachusetts Port Authority, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, and as Chief Administrative Officer for the Boston 2024 Partnership, the organization seeking to bring the Olympics and Paralympic Summer Games to Boston. Joseph then served on the Norwell Select Board.
Joseph is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Boston and resides in Norwell, Massachusetts with his family.
Joe has run 4 out of the 6 Abbott World Marathon Majors series to date.
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Prior to joining Benchmark, Elysia worked more than 15 years in television news as an Emmy award winning journalist. She worked across the country but most of her work had been in New England – with the CBS station in Providence, RI and the NBC station in Springfield, MA. She also spent the last 6 years in Boston at NECN/NBC10 Boston and then Boston 25 News.
Elysia is a graduate of Roger Williams University, where she earned degrees in communications and political science, and lives in Southern Massachusetts with her daughter.
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US Mattress Manufacturers Provide Thousands of Medical Relief Mattresses with Capacity to Produce More Than 400,000 Weekly During the COVID-19 Crisis
The mattress industry joins together to help meet health care supply needs across the country.
The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) today announced that US mattress manufacturing facilities across the country are working hard to produce and deliver mattresses and other critical products to fellow Americans in need.
"When the pandemic began, the International Sleep Products Association surveyed its members to determine how the industry could help hospitals and health care providers meet their needs in the face of a projected surge of COVID-19 cases," said Ryan Trainer, ISPA president. "The response from factories across the United States and Canada has been overwhelming, making clear that when help is needed, the men and women of the mattress industry stand ready to deliver."
Hear from a few of the companies involved—
Everton Mattress, President Chris Sanders
"We've made over 5,000 masks and supplied them to police and fire departments, care centers, hospice, medical care centers, and home health facilities in Filer and Twin, Idaho. We are now supplying companies, like convenience stores and equipment supply stores that supports dairy and farm operations."
Tempur Sealy, CEO Scott Thompson
"We are producing more than 20,000 mattresses per day for virus response. We have a full team of corporate employees who are doing daily outreach to state and federal government officials to let them know that our company has not just tremendous capacity to help, but (also) a tremendous compassion for our fellow citizens. We want to help, and we will continue to help."
Hickory Springs, COO Michael Hinshaw, Jr.
"We are shifting production at our facilities in North Carolina and Mississippi to provide up to 4,000 mattresses for medical use per day, as well as 2,000 metal beds per day – and we expect those numbers to increase. As one of the largest suppliers of OEM mattresses and mattress components for the bedding industry, we have the expertise and capabilities to produce these products quickly and efficiently to help address health care facility bed shortages as well as provide temporary sleep surfaces for emergency and overflow hospital sites nationally. In this unprecedented time, we are faced with many challenges, but as a company we are focusing all of our efforts on helping those in need, while also supporting the well-being of our employees by taking extra sanitary precautions for elevated cleanliness and adhering to workforce distancing guidelines as directed by the CDC and the WHO."
Relief Bed International, Founder Scott Smalling
"We've been tasked with helping with homelessness and other needs, and we love what we do. Our early cooperation with Serta Simmons was fantastic. While it continues, other US suppliers of products have really been inspired to come alongside to help with the efforts. Relief Bed also is now gearing up to supply face shields."
Brooklyn Bedding, CEO John Merwin
"We find ourselves in a unique position to help Americans, to provide viable solutions, at this very critical time in our history. We have set up a product page at BrooklynBedding.com for orders on demand and can produce up to thousands of mattresses a day, shipped to any destination in the country. As a Phoenix-based company, we've committed to free mattress delivery to hospitals and government agencies within our valley and have negotiated discounted rates, nationwide, for full semi-truckload deliveries. At this time, we are also producing masks for the State of Arizona as well as essential workers in our region. We continue to support the trucking industry with sleeper cab beds during this incredibly demanding period."
Serta Simmons Bedding, Chairman & CEO Dave Swift
"We are committed to ensuring those who are hospitalized have a bed available where they can receive care and heal. That's why we are donating 10,000 mattresses to New York City hospitals and temporary medical facilities, and why we are ready, with our factory footprint and distribution network, to produce an additional 20,000 beds a day."
Leggett & Platt, CEO Karl Glassman
"We can produce 8,000 mattresses a week, as well as supply innersprings, foam, and other components to other bedding producers. In addition, our employees are brainstorming ways to retool processes and redeploy raw materials to meet the needs of the moment. This is innovation in adversity. Furniture sewers are now stitching face masks, chemical lab workers are creating hand sanitizer, our foam plants are providing components for face shields."
Facilities in need of additional mattresses or other items during this crisis are encouraged to reach out to your local mattress manufacturer or contact
https://sleepproducts.org/request-help/ for help getting connected.
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From hippocampus.org, produced by University of California
This video is accompanied by text. "Although President Lincoln had a reputation for being an abolitionist, his political record indicated this label was not completely accurate. Lincoln focused his political stance regarding slavery on the prevention... of its spread into the territories. After becoming president he initially resisted laws by the federal government called the Confiscation Acts that pushed the Union toward abolition. The first of these acts, the Confiscation Act of 1861, approved on August 6, 1861, granted freedom for all slaves who had served in the Confederate military. It also allowed for Union seizure of all rebel property. This act was only enforced in areas where the Union Army had a presence..." (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.) [more]
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Civil War Turning Point
From history.com, produced by History Channel
The Emancipation Proclamation is explained by experts as the turning point of the way because of its influence on the slaves and resulted in 200,000 former slaves fighting with the North, including 16 who won the Medal of Honor.
Found by freealan in Emancipation Proclamation
Juneteenth - A Celebration of Freedom
From YouTube, produced by PBS
A documentary about how Juneteenth came to be celebrated and what is celebrates. A good video for those studing Civil Rights.
Issued after the Union victory at Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation had both moral and strategic implications for the ongoing Civil War. In this video clip, learn more about Lincoln's famous Emancipation Proclamation. (2:14)
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Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation refocuses the purpose of the Civil War to address the issue of slavery. This video explains how Lincoln changed his objectives during the Civil War to end slavery from holding the Union together. This video helps student...s place the importance of the Emancipation and how Lincoln becomes an icon for America and Civil Rights and Human Rights. (02:31) [more]
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War
From discovery.com, produced by Assignment Discovery
This three-minute video helps to show how the North thought it would be a short war. The first was the Battle of Full Run; It resulted in huge losses on both sides. It was anything but quick. Lincoln introduced the Emancipation Proclamation, which ba...nned slavery in the Confederate states and changed the rationale for the war. A good overview. [more]
Civil War Turning Point: Emancipation Proclamation
This video uses interviews to explain the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation had on the Civil War. It provides some insights into the reason for Lincoln's decision as well as the impact the proclamation had on the Union. (3:08)


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Era nipote dell'Imperatrice Teodora, consorte di Giustiniano I. Sposò il nipote di Giustiniano, Giustino II, che divenne imperatore nel 565 alla morte dello zio. Fu Imperatrice dal 565 al 578. Nel 573-574 Giustino II impazzì e Sofia venne nominata reggente; Sofia suggerì al marito di associare al trono il comes excubitorum Tiberio Costantino, che venne nominato Cesare nel 574. Nel periodo che va dal 574 al 578 furono Sofia e Tiberio a reggere le sorti dell'Impero facendo le veci del folle Giustino II.

Tiberio si provò un uomo molto misericordioso, arrivando al punto da sperperare i soldi dello stato per distribuirli ai poveri. Pare che l'Augusta Sofia lo rimproverasse per aver ridotto l'Impero in povertà, dicendogli:

Tiberio II rispose in questo modo:

Alla morte di Giustino (578), Tiberio II divenne Imperatore. Sofia voleva sposarsi una seconda volta con Tiberio, che però era già sposato e rifiutò per questo motivo la proposta. Sofia organizzò allora una congiura contro Tiberio; mentre l'Imperatore stava passando l'estate nella sua residenza estiva, Sofia convocò Giustiniano (un pretendente al trono) e organizzò una congiura per uccidere Tiberio e mettere sul trono Giustiniano; ma Tiberio II, scoperta la congiura, ritornò in fretta a Costantinopoli e ordinò di arrestare Sofia, che venne privata di tutti i suoi beni e dei suoi privilegi.

Note

Bibliografia
Paolo Diacono, Historia Langobardorum
Sante Guido, La Crux Vaticana o Croce di Giustino II , Città del Vaticano, Edizioni Capitolo Vaticano, 2009. ISBN 9788863390056

Altri progetti

Imperatrici bizantine

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Die Brähler ICS Konferenztechnik AG mit Sitz in Königswinter ist ein mittelständisches Unternehmen das in den Geschäftsbereichen der klassischen Konferenz- (Diskussionsanlagen, Simultandolmetscheranlagen und Abstimmungssysteme) sowie Veranstaltungstechnik (Vermietung) tätig ist.

Das Unternehmen wurde 1958 von Helmut Brähler gegründet, der als der Pionier in Sachen Konferenztechnik und Simultan-Dolmetscheranlagen galt und zählt heute in diesem Bereich zu den weltweit führenden Anbietern.

Es gibt mehrere Niederlassungen in Deutschland (Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Königswinter, München, Stuttgart und Frankfurt), sowie Tochtergesellschaften in Spanien, Großbritannien, Singapur und Hongkong.

Geschichte
1958 gründete Helmut Brähler in Bonn das Unternehmen "Helmut Brähler Elektroakustik". 1960 brachte Brähler ein Dolmetscherpult mit Originalkanal und vier Sprachkanälen auf den Markt. 1961 wurde die Einkabeltechnik eingeführt.

Ab 1962 firmierte das Unternehmen als "Brähler Konferenztechnik". 1965 entstand die erste Simultandolmetscheranlage mit drahtlosen 12-Kanal Induktionsempfängern. 1969 entstand das erste zentral gesteuerte automatische Diskussionssystem AUTOMIC. Im gleichen Jahr wurde mit einigen Partnerunternehmen das "International Congress Service-Netzwerk" gegründet.

Brähler Konferenztechnik wuchs und zog 1973 nach Königswinter-Vinxel und 1989 in einen Neubau in Königswinter-Oberpleis. 1973 folgte die Premiere des ersten computergesteuerten Diskussionssystem DIGIMIC und 1975 die Entwicklung des computergesteuerten Abstimmsystems Digivote. Ab 1981 wurde die Sprechstelle mit dem Lautsprechermikrofon mit roter Leuchte (aktives Mikrofon) vermarktet. Seit 1984 wird das Betriebssystem OS-9 (Multi-User- und Multi-Tasking-Fähigkeit, Echtzeitbetrieb) eingesetzt. 1985 konnte eine Video-Kamera durch softwaregesteuerte Mikrofone betrieben werden. 1990 wurde INFRACOM-Guard und 1991 eine Chipkarte zur Identifikation von Delegierten am Mikrofonpult eingeführt.

1994 wurde "Digivote 2000" ein erstes drahtloses Interaktionssystem mit Chipkarte und 1997 DIGIMIC auf den Markt gebracht. 1999 wurde die digitale Sprachübertragung mit bis zu 32 Kanälen eingeführt. Im Jahr 2000 folgte das digitale Konferenzsystem CDSVAN basierend auf DSP-Technik mit 16 Kanälen und 2002 ein neuer Infracom-Empfänger (32 Kanäle).

Ab 2003 konnten Audio-Aufzeichnungen auf der PC-Festplatte des Konferenzrechners durchgeführt werden und ab 2004 die Steuerung der Diskussionsanlage via TCP/IP und LAN. 2005 erschien ein CDSVAN mit 32 Kanälen und 2006 war eine Einführung des drahtlosen Digivote III Bewertungssystems. 2007 gab es eine zweite Generation des digitalen Dolmetscherpultes DOLV. 2009 war eine Einführung des digitalen, drahtlosen DIGIMIC Systems und 2010 wurde DIGIMIC Classic vorgestellt.

Produkte des Unternehmens wurden weltweit verwendet, u. a. in der El Azahar Moschee von Kairo, oder bei der Weltbank.

Literatur
 Hermann Simon: Hidden Champions, Die heimlichen Gewinner – Die Erfolgsstrategien unbekannter Weltmarktführer. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 1996. – ISBN 3-593-35460-8

Weblinks
 Website der Brähler ICS Konferenztechnik AG

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                             "', SELECT DEPT_ID FROM PERSONNEL_TEMP.DEPARTMENT WHERE DEPARTMENT_NAME="+comboBox1.Text;
 OleDbDataAdapter oda = new OleDbDataAdapter(sqlcommand, con);
            oda.Fill(dt);
            con.Close();

while i running it ,gets this error :

One or more errors occurred during processing of command.

i think my query has problem because when i enter it on TOAD editor(for oracle) gets me this error:

ORA-00936: missing expression

A: You were missing quotes and paranthesis in your query.
SQL Injection Alert
To avoid this you should use Parameterized queries as like follows
string sqlcommand ="INSERT INTO GROUPS(GROUP_ID, GROUP_NAME,DEPT_ID)
                           VALUES(?,?,SELECT DEPT_ID FROM PERSONNEL_TEMP.DEPARTMENT WHERE DEPARTMENT_NAME=?)";
OleDbConnection oledbConnection = new OleDbConnection(con);
OleDbCommand oledbCommand = new OleDbCommand(sqlcommand , oledbConnection);
oledbCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("?", txtquotationno.Text);
oledbCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("?", cmbjobcode.Text);
oledbCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("?", comboBox1.Text);
OleDbDataAdapter oda  = new OleDbDataAdapter(oledbCommand);
DataTable dt= new DataTable();
oda.Fill(dt);

A: You need to put your select query in braces as you are selecting this from another table so this shoould be in (). Also Department_Name looks of type varcharso its value should be in single quotes. Change your query like this.
string sqlcommand = "INSERT INTO GROUPS(GROUP_ID, GROUP_NAME,DEPT_ID) " +
                              "VALUES(" + MAXID + ",'"
                              + textBox1.Text +
                             "',(SELECT DEPT_ID FROM PERSONNEL_TEMP.DEPARTMENT WHERE DEPARTMENT_NAME='"+comboBox1.Text+"'"));

Also use parameterized query to prevent sql injection.

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Another Man's Shoes is a 1922 American comedy film directed by Jack Conway and written by Victor Bridges, Raymond L. Schrock, and Arthur F. Statter. It is based on the 1913 novel Another Man's Shoes by Victor Bridges. The film stars Herbert Rawlinson, Barbara Bedford, Una Trevelyn, Nick De Ruiz, Josef Swickard, and Jean De Briac. The film was released on November 6, 1922, by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

Cast
Herbert Rawlinson as Stuart Granger / Jack Burton
Barbara Bedford as Mercia Solano
Una Trevelyn as Grace Burton
Nick De Ruiz as Ropal
Josef Swickard as Gouret
Jean De Briac as John Alvara
Harry Carter as Lawrence
Nelson McDowell as Milford
Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Chetwell
Jessie Deparnette as Duenna

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Faculty Profile: Business Administration and Commerce
The Historical Background
In 1916, eight years after the founding of The University of Alberta, the School of Accountancy was created within the Faculty of Arts and Science, thus signalling the formal initiation of business education at the University. By 1922, enrolment and interest had grown sufficiently to justify a move toward establishing a Bachelor of Commerce degree program. The first six BCom students graduated in 1929, a year that also marked the creation of the School of Commerce, which was still, however, a unit of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The Deans of that Faculty acted as Chairmen of the Commerce Council until the appointment of a Director for the School in 1949. Andrew Stewart, who went on to become President of the University, served as Director until 1954 when he was succeeded by F.G. Winspear. In the fall of 1955, B.A. Lindberg, formerly of the Harvard School of Business Administration, followed Dr. Winspear as Director, a position he held until the spring of 1958.
The year 1959 brought Hu Harries's appointment as Director as well as major changes in the program. Dr. Harries mobilized Faculty resources and enthusiasm to meet new demands for high quality business education in a wide range of fields. He initiated his term of office by launching a five-year upgrading program, which included curriculum revisions and the extension of the undergraduate program from three to four years. These changes in the BCom program took effect 1 September 1960, the same date on which the School of Commerce was granted Faculty status with Dr. Harries as its first Dean.
Seven years later, in 1967, the undergraduate program was granted full accreditation by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, an indication of the level of quality attained as a result of the upgrading program. A major step taken by the Faculty in 1964 was the introduction of a program of studies leading to a Master of Business Administration degree. Enrolment doubled between the MBA program's first and second years and increased more than six times during its first five years, from thirteen students at the start to over eighty in 1969, reaching 200 by 1976. Recognition of the high quality of the Faculty's MBA program was accorded in 1972 when it was granted accreditation by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. This Faculty is now the only one in Canada with an undergraduate or MBA program accredited by AACSB.
During the first forty years of business education at the University of Alberta, enrolment in commerce programs grew slowly, from three students to approximately 150 by 1958, at which time the full-time staff complement had reached only six. During the sixties, however, enrolment and staff size increased sharply with almost 1,000 students pursuing BCom degrees by 1968 and full-time academic staff totalling thirty-five.
In more recent years, however, a divergence in student and staff growth rates has resulted in a student-staff imbalance which led to the imposition of a quota on admissions for 1977-78 and subsequent years. The quota is set at 210 for admissions to the first year of the BCom program plus 200 new students transferring from other Faculties at the University and from other institutions. Admission under the quota is based on past academic performance. Though the quota drastically reduced the number entering directly from high school, the long-run effects are expected to reduce the number of BCom degrees granted from 423 in 1978 to about 350 by 1981.
At a time when Alberta and Canada continue to experience a serious shortage of well-trained managers, such a reduction appears inappropriate. The critical nature of the problem, however, has been recognized and it is in light of this recognition that the increase in numbers of faculty referred to in "Recent Developments" should be viewed. In 1969 after L.C. Leitch, now Vice-President (Finance and Administration) of The University of Alberta, had served for a year as Acting Dean, E.J. Chambers assumed the position of Dean and for the next seven years guided the Faculty through a continued period of exceptional growth. After the sudden death of Dean-Elect J. Douglas Muir in the spring of 1976, Roger S. Smith assumed the role of Acting Dean for a year during which time he was appointed Dean-Elect to commence his duties in July of 1978 after a study leave in 1977-78. During Dean Smith's absence, Dr. D. Gordon Tyndall, a former Vice-President of Finance, served as Acting Dean.
In recent years progress has been made in dealing with some of the Faculty's basic problems. One such problem is that of insufficient resources. Improvements in this situation occurred during 1978-79. The University administration allocated funds for the creation of five additional academic staff positions to the Faculty for 1979-80, in recognition of the shortfall in resources with which the Faculty had been working. In addition, the Board of Governors made a commitment that over the coming four years at least five additional positions will be provided to the Faculty. Both of these decisions were made to improve current management programs being offered at the Bachelor of Commerce level and the MBA level, and in recognition that current resources were inadequate to meet the needs of existing students, even if the quota on the BCom program were unchanged and MBA enrolments held constant.
There now exists a stringent quota on admissions to the BCom program. The result of the quota in 1978 was that 295 high school graduates were denied admission to the Faculty although they met the general requirements for admission to the University. In addition, 345 applicants for transfer into the Bachelor of Commerce program were denied admission although they too met requirements for admission to the University. Thus, larger and larger numbers of well qualified applicants are being denied admission to the Bachelor of Commerce program. This is extremely unfortunate given the needs of Alberta and Canada for well qualified management manpower at this time.
In recognition of the need for an expansion of the Bachelor of Commerce program, the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta took important action in 1978-79. The Board approved a proposal from the Faculty to expand the quota on admissions from 410 to 560 over a three year period. This proposal, which was sent on to the Provincial Government for the necessary funding, requests that sixteen additional academic staff positions be added to the Faculty over the coming four years as the effect of the increased number of students impacts upon the Faculty. From the Faculty and University point of view, the linking of the quota expansion to provincial funding for this specific purpose is crucial in order to ensure that the Bachelor of Commerce and MBA programs at the University of Alberta maintain a high level of quality.
A recent event of tremendous importance to the Faculty has been the establishment of the Francis G. Winspear Chair in Professional Accounting. The Chair, which enables the Faculty to add a distinguished accountant of high academic standing to its Department of Accounting, was made possible through the generosity of the Winspear Foundation. This type of support from the private sector can contribute significantly to the development of The Faculty and the establishment of the first chair is a landmark in its history. An active search for an occupant of the Winspear Chair is underway.
The greatest challenge now faced by this Faculty, and by other faculties of management in North America experiencing expansion, is to attract the highly qualified manpower needed to permit the expansion of programs. Whereas one frequently hears of surpluses of PhD's in other disciplines, the reverse is true in management education. Graduate programs in Canada and the United States produce far too few graduates to meet the expanding needs of academic institutions. In a number of specialized fields – accounting, business policy, and finance – demand is several times supply. Effective recruiting of qualified personnel will be the greatest challenge faced by this Faculty in the next five years.
In recognition of expanding needs in the field of management education in Alberta and Canada, the Faculty proceeded with the development of proposals for two new programs during the 1978-79 academic year, one leading to a degree of Master of Public Management, and the other to a PhD. Although concern has been expressed about diverting resources from undergraduate education to graduate education, it is equally important to recognize that the demand and need for such new programs exists. If the University of Alberta is to have a strong and leading school of management in the Canadian context, then such steps are crucial in the development of FBAC.
The Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce awarded more BCom degrees in 1978-79 than in any previous year. Whereas the previous high had been 412 in 1977-78, the number increased slightly in 1978-79 to 420. The quota on admissions, initiated in 1976-77, will begin to have its effect on the size of the 1979-80 graduating class. Thus, graduating classes from the BCom program are likely to be substantially smaller than the one in 1978-79, until funds are provided to enable an expansion of the quota. The number of Master of Business Administration students graduated in 1978-79 was forty-three. This number was a slight drop from the forty-seven graduated in 1977-78. The MBA program is expected to expand in the future as the demand for University of Alberta MBA graduates remains very strong.
The Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce presently offers two degrees: Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Administration.
The four-year BCom program consists of forty term-courses of three credits each for a total of 120 credits. The program has the function of providing an education in general, and providing specific education in the skills and practices of management in business, industry and government organizations. The individual student is allowed considerable flexibility with regard to course requirements. A minimum and maximum number of courses are to be taken within the Faculty. This requirement ensures that the student will acquire a sufficient working knowledge as well as an introduction to a wide range of careers.
The required courses studied within the Faculty stress the basic disciplines of economics, quantitative methods, behavioral science, and the functional areas of business, accounting, finance, marketing, and industrial relations.
The limitations of money, space, and equipment require that quotas control the number of students entering the Faculty. Admission is based on academic performance in high school. Preference is given to Alberta residents for eighty-five percent of the available positions. For the next few years the number of students admitted will be fixed at 210 from the high school level.
Career opportunities for employment of graduates are many and include an extremely wide range of occupational areas. These areas range from business economics and industrial relations to accounting, finance, and marketing. The 1979 survey of University graduate employment, conducted by the Canada Employment Centre on campus, indicates that seventy-six percent of Commerce graduates find job related employment upon graduation. Average starting salaries are $1,265 per month.
The MBA degree has a two-year program designed for students with varied educational backgrounds, such as liberal arts, engineering, education, business administration, science, and others. The particular combination of courses and length of time to complete the program depends on the academic background of each individual student.
The educational philosophy of the MBA program accords with the ideas expressed by Alfred North Whitehead: "Whatever be the detail with which you can cram your student, the chance of his meeting in after-life exactly that detail is almost infinitesimal; and if he does meet it, he will probably have forgotten what you taught him about it. The really useful training yields a comprehension of a few general principles with a thorough grounding in the way they apply to a variety of concrete details. In subsequent practice the men will have forgotten your particular details; but they will remember by an unconscious common sense how to apply principles to immediate circumstances."
The MBA program stresses the common principles that underlie the operations and mangement of all types of organizations. It attempts to develop the student's critical, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities, and to give him both a sense of mission and a sense of confidence in his abilities. The MBA program is designed for well-qualified students preparing for professional careers in management: consequently admission requirements are high.
A proposal for the establishment of a Master's of Public Management degree has passed through various University committees, the latest of which was General Faculties Council. The proposal now goes to the Board of Governors. If approved there, it will be forwarded to the provincial government with a request to fund the program.
A survey conducted in 1978 by the Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce identified 115 vacant academic positions in Canadian business schools, and another sixty positions expected to become available in 1979-80. These alarming figures are one reason that the Faculty is currently working on a proposal for a PhD program. If the proposal results in the establishment of a program, students would have the opportunity to study in specialized areas such as accounting, finance, organizational behavior and management science. At the very best it will be several years before the PhD program will become reality. However, the increasing demand for such a program suggests that the Faculty will be successful in its proposal.
Enrolment Trends: The Male-Female Mix
The past decade has shown a rapid growth in the number of women enrolling in the Bachelor of Commerce program at The University of Alberta. As the following table shows, female enrolment grew from six percent in 1970-71 to twenty-nine percent of the total enrolment in 1978-79. Whereas the number of women in the BCom program has remained relatively constant for the past three years because of the imposition of the quota in 1977, women students have continued to grow as a percentage of total enrolments, and their absolute number would also have grown rapidly had the quota not been imposed. In percentage terms the rate of increase in female enrolment has been extremely rapid, growing by 544 percent over the past six year period from 1970-71 to 1976-77, prior to the imposition of the quota. During the same period male enrolment grew by only twenty-nine percent.
The situation in the MBA program has been similar, and it too shows a sharp increase in women as a percentage of total enrolment in recent years – from twelve percent in 1974-75 to twenty percent in 1978-79.
Serving The Wider Community
Members of the Department of Accounting continue to devote substantial time to committee responsibilities with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta. Staff members have been active with the ICAA Policy Planning Committee, the Interprovincial Examinations Board in Chartered Accountancy, the Professional Board of Examiners in Chartered Accountancy in Alberta, the Education Committee of ICAA, and the Canadian Academic Accounting Association. Individuals also contribute to the education programs of the professional accounting associations. Courses have been taught for the ICAA and the Society of Management Accountants. Numerous other courses offered through the Faculty of Extension, Banff School of Advanced Management, and in in-house training programs in the public and private sectors are instructed by Faculty staff.
Other professional services to the community include the establishment of the Alberta Foundation for Economic Education, and significant contributions to the development of course materials for Athabasca University and service to the community in the area of arbitration and grievance proceedings. Positive steps in the development of curricula for the Banff School of Advanced Management will result from the Task Force report on International Business and the professional Services of Faculty members.
The Management Advisory Institute
The Management Advisory Institute (MAI) was created in 1975 when the Board of Governors signed an agreement with the Federal Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce. Under the terms of its agreement with the University, the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce agreed to provide funding of $50,000 during each of the first three to five years, after which time the Institute was expected to be self-supporting.
Specific goals for the Institute continue to be dissemination and sharing of current knowledge with the wider management community, development of the management consulting industry's capability to serve Alberta business, and service in a consulting capacity on specified direct assignment.
The Board of Directors of MAI includes representatives from small and medium sized businesses, consulting firms providing services to businesses of all sizes, accounting firms, a labor union, special interest groups affected by MAI activities, the University President and members from various Faculties including the Deans of Business Administration, Engineering, and Extension.
In the past two years, the Institute has provided consultation on a non-fee basis to over forty individuals and businesses and on a fee basis to fourteen organizations including governments, businesses, and associations.
The Institute is a member of the Canadian, Alberta, and Edmonton Chambers of Commerce and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. It recently became a member of the International Council for Small Business and participated in its first meeting in Canada in June 1979.
The Kenya Project
In 1971, the Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce contracted with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for sponsorship of a technical assistance program at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Under the terms of this agreement, the Faculty undertook to contribute its resources and expertise to the development of a high quality Faculty of Commerce at the University of Nairobi, one that would be self-sustaining and predominantly African. Specifically, the Faculty agreed to work toward:
expanding and developing the graduate and undergraduate programs in the Nairobi Faculty of Commerce,
training Kenyan staff and post-graduate students in Canada and in Kenya, in order that they might ultimately fill all academic positions in the Nairobi Faculty, ' providing resource teaching and research materials for the library, ' developing a viable administrative support unit,
improving liaison with the Kenyan business community and government bodies, and
furthering applied research activities undertaken in cooperation with the Kenyan management community.
The Faculty's former Dean, E.J. Chambers, served as Project Coordinator in Edmonton during the first five years. From 1971 to 1974 the late J.D. Muir was Dean of the Faculty of Commerce in Nairobi and from 1974 to 1976 D.G. Tyndall served in Nairobi as Project Coordinator. John Brown also spent two years in Nairobi on secondment from the Faculty and was Project Director from 1976 to 1979, at which time Rolf Mirus was appointed as Project Director.
Today, many of the objectives listed above have already been attained or are close to being achieved. Unfortunately, a reduction in funds available for this type of project through CIDA means that the Kenya project as it currently exists will come to a close in 1980. Nevertheless, it is hoped that funds will become available, perhaps from other sources, to enable the program to be continued. In this regard, it is worthwhile to review the progress made.
By 1976 an MBA program had been established and the undergraduate program much improved. By that time, too, over twenty members of the total staff of forty-six were Africans, as compared with two in 1971. At one point, nine Canadians were serving in Nairobi, a number that was reduced to one by the end of the first five years. In the 1978-79 academic year, Kenyans continued to play an increasingly important role within the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Nairobi, to the extent that, out of a total staff of twenty-seven, sixteen were Kenyan.
The Faculty is operating efficiently in every sense of the word. With a staff of never more than thirty, already over 800 people have graduated from the Faculty with BCom degrees and over thirty MBA degrees have been awarded. These degrees are well regarded by students and employers and demand in Kenya for such graduates remains very strong.
In 1975 the Kenyans requested extension of the original agreement for a further three years. Although the Project had successfully achieved the design and implementation of curricula indigenous and relevant to the African management community and had also accomplished the goal of placing Africans in the majority of staff positions, there remained a need for assistance in strengthening the Kenyan research capability.
Chief among the innovations in the three-year extension agreement approved by CIDA was provision for short-term exchange visits between Kenyan and Canadian academic staff members. Faculty from The University of Alberta visited Kenya in the summer of 1977 to serve as external examiners and a limited number of secondments have been arranged to allow senior research scholars to assist the Kenyans to build a solid research foundation at the University of Nairobi.
The Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce is committed to continuing research in a wide variety of administrative, entrepreneurial, and managerial fields. With the assistance of the J. Douglas Muir Research Fund, established to commemorate the late Dean Elect who died suddenly in 1976, projects such as the development of an integrated energy model for Alberta, a study of consumer satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and investigation into the nature and functions of organization structures have prospered. Also, a number of external agencies have supported many different research endeavors. The National Research Council, for example, has supported an analysis of scheduling policies in queuing systems, the Canada Council continues to assist work on relative price changes and inflation, occupational health and safety regulations are the subject of a study funded by the Institute for Research on Public Policy, and the Government of Canada's Department of Communications currently supports research into the ownership of Canadian broadcasting institutions.
Such research topics and projects, however, are merely representative of the many worthwhile inquiries underway in the Faculty. In addition to these types of projects which have received generous financial support, numerous other research activities are undertaken in the Faculty. Faculty members regularly contribute to major learned journals and are the authors of specialized monographs which cover the whole gamut of the Faculty's interests, from economics to managerial strategies and from airline regulations to investigations of the Canadian federal income tax system. In addition, Faculty members participate actively in many public and professional meetings. Here they present research papers and, on many occasions, assist in the administration of such meetings and conferences.
To sum up: In the Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce, there is a heavy commitment to research, both pure and applied. Equally important to members of the Faculty, however, is the publication of their findings either in print form or in the delivery of research papers at public and professional meetings, at which they can converse with their colleagues both within and outside The University of Alberta.
Published March 1980.
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>> >> >> >>>  friendliest thing in the world to do to users.
>> >> >> >>  button (often labeled "NMI").
>> >> >> >  Agree.
>> >> >> for device paths as well.
>> >> > Yes.  Perhaps limited to the human monitor.
>> >> I'd limit all debugging commands (including NMI) to the human monitor.
>> compatibility to previous versions.
> use HMP passthrough for this, instead of a proper QMP command.
OK, maybe I shouldn't be very proud of my imagination.
> More generally I don't want to see stuff in HMP, that isn't in the QMP.
> well have just ignored QMP and continued with HMP for everything.
> scope of QMP, not restrict them to HMP only.
some level of compatibility is fine.


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The first thing I learned when I became a salesperson was that once I asked for the sale, the first person to speak loses. In fundraising we soften that to a simple admonition to be quiet after you've made the ask. But I want to make the case for being quiet long before you consider solicitation.
Over the years, I've learned the value of letting the other person hold sway. In my trainings, the less I talk and the more the participants take the lead, the more they feel they've learned. My job is to frame the discussion, keep it on track, and add expertise when needed.
It's the same thing in fundraising.
You don't want to spend your entire time with a prospect talking about something that has no relation to your task at hand. Yes, you are trying to build trust and yes, fundraising is about relationships—but the strongest relationship should be with your organization and the work it does, not with any individual. And don't confuse relationship with friendship.
This is not to say that you cannot care about the prospect. Indeed, you should and it is wonderful if you like them as a person. But, frankly, that is not the purpose. Your goal is to connect their hopes and aspirations with what your organization does—and help them help you to accomplish that.
In order to do that, you must what motivates their philanthropy. That often requires deep listening. Just because they have kids doesn't mean they care about kids beyond their own. To find out means asking open-ended question—and listening to their answers. Then, based on what they said, asking questions that probe ever deeper.
A few years ago, I took a coaching skills class. Our instructor kept talking about the need for the coach to ask powerful questions. That freaked me out until I realized that the power was simply in the space the question provided to the other person. In fact, one of the most powerful questions turns out not to actually be a question at all. "Tell me more," shows your interest and gives permission to the other person to continue with his or her story.
Asking a prospect how they got involved with your organization or interested in your cause can be powerful. Asking them to elaborate definitely is. So is asking them about their vision, their hopes, and their dreams.
Most powerful of all, of course, is the encouragement you offer to let them talk by not talking over them or shutting off their flow of words.
It's become a cliché to talk about the fact that we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them accordingly—but it is also true that the more you listen the more you will learn and the more you can then help your prospect become a happy and excited donor.
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Home Pakistan Commencement of intra-Afghan dialogues is very important: FM Qureshi
Commencement of intra-Afghan dialogues is very important: FM Qureshi
ISLAMABAD : Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has highlighted that the commencement of intra-Afghan dialogues is very important for establishing peace in Afghanistan.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while addressing a conference at Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS), said that the ongoing visit of Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, to Pakistan possesses great importance.
He said that the international community is backing the political process in Afghanistan and Kabul leadership should take advantage of the opportunity. The foreign minister reiterated that he is admitting the fact that Afghan conflict will be resolved through dialogues.
Qureshi said that all sides should remain vigilant about the elements trying to affect the ongoing peace process. It is inevitable for regional prosperity to continue peace process in Afghanistan, he added.
He continued that peace in Afghanistan will also ensure peace in Pakistan and the decision for the future of the neighbouring country will be made its nation. He clarified that no one could impose their decision on Afghan nation.
Earlier on Monday morning, Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation of Afghanistan, had arrived in Islamabad on Monday morning on a three-day visit.
He is accompanied by a high-level delegation, including prominent members of the High Council for National Reconciliation. This is Dr. Abdullah Abdullah's first visit to Pakistan in his capacity as Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.
The visit will provide an opportunity for wide-ranging exchange of views on the Afghan peace process and strengthening of Pakistan-Afghanistan bilateral relations and people-to-people interaction. The visit of Dr Abdullah Abdullah will contribute to further strengthening amity, brotherhood and close cooperation between the two countries.
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Volatile organic compounds produced by Aureobasidium pullulans inhibit the growth of Botrytis cinerea and Alternaria alternata
S. M. Yalage Don, L. M. Schmidtke, J. M. Gambetta, C. C. Steel
National Wine and Grape Industry Centre
Botrytis cinerea and Alternaria alternata are two necrotrophic fungal pathogens causing grey and black mould, respectively on horticultural crops, leading to preharvest and postharvest losses worldwide. Aureobasidium pullulans is a yeast-like saprophytic fungus which naturally inhabits plant and fruit surfaces and is a potential biocontrol agent against a wide range of pathogenic fungi. Production of antifungal volatile organic compounds (VOC) has been postulated as one of the biocontrol mechanisms of A. pullulans. In this study the efficacy of antifungal VOCs from four A. pullulans isolates were tested in vitro against the mycelium growth and spore germination of B. cinerea and A. alternata. Exposure to the headspace of four A. pullulans isolates caused a 43-74% reduction of colony diameter of B. cinerea and 35-47% for A. alternata compared to non-fumigated controls after three days of incubation at 25°C. A. pullulans VOCs also reduced spore germination of both pathogens, resulting in 15-70% germination for B. cinerea and 22-60% of germination for A. alternata. Non-fumigated controls resulted in 90 and 85% of spore germination for B. cinerea and A. alternate, respectively. Morphological deformations were also observed in fumigated spores and growing germ tubes of the two pathogens when exposed to the headspace of the A. pullulans culture. Further investigations are in progress to identify A. pullulans VOCs responsible for these inhibitory activities.
Acta Horticulturae
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1325.40
10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1325.40
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pathogens Agriculture & Biology 18%
germination Agriculture & Biology 15%
Yalage Don, S. M., Schmidtke, L. M., Gambetta, J. M., & Steel, C. C. (2021). Volatile organic compounds produced by Aureobasidium pullulans inhibit the growth of Botrytis cinerea and Alternaria alternata. Acta Horticulturae, 1325, 279-283. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1325.40
Yalage Don, S. M. ; Schmidtke, L. M. ; Gambetta, J. M. ; Steel, C. C. / Volatile organic compounds produced by Aureobasidium pullulans inhibit the growth of Botrytis cinerea and Alternaria alternata. In: Acta Horticulturae. 2021 ; Vol. 1325. pp. 279-283.
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Is your ISP selling your clickstream data?
Updated • Jun 2, 2013
David Cancel, the CEO of Compete Inc revealed at the Open Data 2007 conference that (some) ISPs are selling so called clickstream data of their users to marketing companies like Compete Inc. Clickstream data refers to the sequence of websites visited including the time that the sites were viewed. This is however not all the information that the companies get access to when they purchase the data from Internet Service Providers.
While they do not get access to your real name, all clicks on links that you make while connected to the Internet are made available to them. These clicks are linked to anonymized user accounts, e.g. user1, user2, so that they can be linked to accounts right away.A look back in history reveals that removing personally identifiable information from data may not be enough to prevent the identification of users. The AOL data release has shown that information can be used to identify specific users even if the data is anonymized.A simply example is if a user visits a a particular Facebook page, or a private website. By combining the information, marketers may be able to identify users.
The exact nature of the data that is being sold to the marketing companies is not known. Experts estimate that ISPs receive about $0.40 per month per user which totals to $4.80 per year per user.
An ISP with 10000 users would gain $48000 per year for the data that they sell. Enough money to forget about the privacy rights of their customers. The question remains: how can you find out if your ISP is selling clickstream data?
You can try and call them and ask them directly but the guys from the hotline probably do not even know what clickstream data is. A better way would be to call a representative or the official data protection officer.
The only possible way to counter this would be to use encryption, specifically encrypted vpns that make it impossible for the ISP to log what their users are doing.
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Martin, would you be so kind to give more explanation on how to use encryption (vpn). The idea of selling our surfing habits to whoever makes me sick.
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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
Booklist: 10 Best Adult novels of 2021
Cherokee America
NY Times Notable Book 2019
Spur Award Winner
Finalist, Reading the West Adult Fiction Award
Maud's Line
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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I am thrilled by Cherokee America being named the winner of the Spur Award for Best Traditional Western by the Western Writers of America. It's particularly gratifying to recieve an award from other writers. And this group of writers includes both novelists and historians, all specializing in the West. I could not be happier for this book. You know, you write a book and send it out into the world, hoping for the best for it and for it's characters, and then you don't have any control. Good things happen to it, or not. It's a lot like being a parent. You do the best you can do, and then just hope and pray.
I'm just thrilled to see Cherokee America has won the Spur Award from the Western Writers Association. Margaret, your work is superb, both in terms of its literary mastery and in terms of its achievements in storytelling. Where the finalist's list for the Pulitzer (which you enjoyed with Maud's Line) may place some extra weight on the former, Cherokee America receiving this year's Spur Award is definitely recognition of the latter. You evidence both in delightful combination. I cannot wait to preorder your next novel
- Ryan Petty


A group of students at Cavallini Middle School got $50,000 in Samsung technology for a concussion-monitoring program and will vie for the top prize.
UPPER SADDLE RIVER — After a friend suffered a bad concussion last football season, a group of middle school students knew something had to be done.
The Cavallini Middle School students made the injury a teachable moment and developed software and sensors for football helmets to better detect concussions. Eighth-graders Josh Chostaka, Jake Carlin, Ian Langan and Alex Fisherman entered their app, named Head Safe, into the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest and were recently named one of 10 national finalists.
"We can see the coaches can only watch so many things at once," Ian said. "A lot of things go on that people don't notice. It's a lot safer if the coach is able to keep track of all the players at once."
The challenge tasks students from Grades 6 to 12 with solving real-world problems using science, technology, engineering, arts and math. By reaching the top 10, Cavallini already has qualified for $50,000 in Samsung technology and a trip to the final pitch event in New York City in early April.
The sensors in a helmet for Head Safe calculate linear acceleration and read vibration and shock to determine head trauma. It has Bluetooth, so the information can go to a coach to alert the staff of a possible concussion on an app.
In a video describing Head Safe, Austin Calarco described his concussion.
"It was first down and our coach called the play," he said. "It was a sweep to the right. I got the ball and then cut in, and I got hit by the first kid, and as I was falling to the ground another kid dove headfirst on my head. At that point I kind of blacked out a little, couldn't really see, and at this point I knew I had a concussion."
Jonathan Harvey, enrichment teacher at the middle school and adviser for the students, said it was also part of their eighth-grade service learning project.
"As you get through each round of the competition, we find they keep digging a little bit deeper to make it better than it was before," Harvey said of the students. "It's been an exciting ride so far."
The research started for the project in December, when they studied what kind of sensor to use, learned about computer coding and finished for the Samsung contest in February. They also put together a video explaining their app.
"If Head Safe comes to market, it will make our sport better," referee Michael Alberta, a 12-year veteran, said in the video, "and more importantly safer for our athletes, coaches and entire football community."
The contest opened voting for the 10 finalists until April 2 for a $20,000 Community Choice prize. On April 3, the finalists will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges. Three winners will each receive a $150,000 Samsung technology grant.
The Solve for Tomorrow Contest debuted in 2010.
To vote for Cavallini Middle School, visit samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow.


I read and reviewed 45 books in July. With my kids going back to school in August, I am planning to pare back my reading further, aiming for 31 reviews.
With two young children who love being read to before bed, children's books dominate my reviews. Science Fiction, most in the form of the short stories I read in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and non fiction are tied for second. My "other" category mostly includes the excerpts I read in Havana: Tales of a City.


RED BANK — Tickets are currently on sale for Hope Concert 8, featuring Bobby Bandiera and Friends, scheduled for 8 p.m. Dec. 23 at the Count Basie Theater, 99 Monmouth St.
Proceeds will benefit 180 Turning Lives Around, Visiting Nurse Association Health Group and the Red Bank Borough Middle School's new arts initiative.
"Bobby and his friends continue to demonstrate their generosity and spirit of bringing hope to much needed organizations," said Count Basie Theatre President and CEO Adam Philipson in a press release.
Tickets range from $50-$500. For more information or tickets, call 732-842-9000 or visit www.thebasie.org.


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Q: Conventional jquery plugin vs AMD jquery plugin I still can't get my head around with this AMD jquery plugin.
// UMD dance - https://github.com/umdjs/umd
!function(root, factory) {
    if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
        define(['jquery'], factory);
    } else {
        factory(root.jQuery);
    }
}(this, function($) {
    'use strict';

    // Default options
    var defaults = {

    };

    // Constructor, initialise everything you need here
    var Plugin = function(element, options) {
        this.element   = element;
        this.options   = options;
    };

    // Plugin methods and shared properties
    Plugin.prototype = {
        // Reset constructor - http://goo.gl/EcWdiy
        constructor: Plugin,

        someMethod: function(options) {
            return options;
        }
    };

    // Create the jQuery plugin
    $.fn.plugin = function(options) {
        // Do a deep copy of the options - http://goo.gl/gOSSrg
        options = $.extend(true, {}, defaults, options);

        return this.each(function() {
            var $this = $(this);
            // Create a new instance for each element in the matched jQuery set
            // Also save the instance so it can be accessed later to use methods/properties etc
            // e.g.
            //    var instance = $('.element').data('plugin');
            //    instance.someMethod();
            $this.data('plugin', new Plugin($this, options));
        });
    };

    // Expose defaults and Constructor (allowing overriding of prototype methods for example)
    $.fn.plugin.defaults = defaults;
    $.fn.plugin.Plugin   = Plugin;
});

Some tests,
console.log($('.some-element').plugin({
        test: 'option1',
        test2: 'option2'
    }));

I always get this empty object,
Object[]

So how can I use this empty object?
And I want to access the method inside the plugin,
    var plugin = $('.element').plugin();
    var instance = $('.element').data('plugin',plugin);
    console.log(instance); // an empty object again!
    console.log(instance.someMethod("hello world"));

TypeError: instance.someMethod is not a function
console.log(instance.someMethod("hello world"));

So how should I do to run the method inside the plugin then?
It is so different from the conventional jquery plugin. AMD's is so difficult to understand. Any idea how I can get this AMD works like the conventional!??
EDIT:
Finally I got something,
    var plugin = $('.element').plugin();
    var instance = $('.element').data('plugin');
    console.log(instance);
    console.log(instance.someMethod("hello world"));

result,
Object { element={...}, options={...}, constructor=function(), more...}

hello world

Why was it so difficult for the those who comment and answer to point this out! Sigh!

A: In your test with .some-element you would get an empty jQuery object if .some-element matches nothing since $.fn.plugin returns what this.each(...) returns and the jQuery.each function returns exactly the same jQuery object as what it was called on.
As to how to get the instance, let's go through each step:
var plugin = $('.element').plugin();

The line above won't create a plugin if $('.element') matches nothing. One thing for sure, the value you assign to plugin is equal to $('.element').
var instance = $('.element').data('plugin',plugin);

In context, the line above is equivalent to var instance = $('.element').data('plugin', $('.element')); And the return value of jQuery.data(key, value) is the jQuery object itself, so that here instance will be equal to $('.element').
console.log(instance); // an empty object again!

That's what you'd get if $('.element') matches nothing.
console.log(instance.someMethod("hello world"));

This is definitely not going to work.
How to access the plugin instance is detailed in a comment in your code:
        //    var instance = $('.element').data('plugin');
        //    instance.someMethod();

Of course for this to work, $('.element') has to match a non-empty set of elements.
AMD is not a factor at all in your problems. All of the issues here have to do with how to use jQuery and how to write jQuery plugins.

A:     var plugin = $('.element').plugin();
    var instance = $('.element').data('plugin');
    console.log(instance);
    console.log(instance.someMethod("hello world"));

result,
Object { element={...}, options={...}, constructor=function(), more...}

hello world


LONDON (Reuters) - If currency turbulence in emerging markets escalates into full-scale investor flight, the Federal Reserve may have a fresh headache in deciding when to slow its dollar printing policy.
Given all the obvious influences on Fed policy - domestic inflation, jobless youths, long-term unemployment, stuttering credit creation or banking stability - gyrations on markets from Turkey to South Africa or South Korea may seem tangential.
But an enmeshing of the United States and the economies of the developing world since the turn of the century means the link between U.S. monetary policy and currency runs on the other side of the world could be tighter than many assume.
Another financial shock now in emerging economies that use vast holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds as capital insurance buffers could complicate a Fed exit from quantitative easing.
"As with so many previous emerging crises, although the Fed often triggers the withdrawal, it's then forced to turn more accommodative by default as a result of the fallout," said Simon Derrick, strategist at Bank of New York Mellon.
To avert the sort of protracted and devastating investment freeze they suffered in the late 1990s, economies across Asia and around the globe have built up huge hard-cash buffers as protection against future 'sudden stops' in foreign financing.
Over the past decade, emerging economies have absorbed trillions of dollars of western investment seeking higher growth and yields, while China's historic emergence into the world economy has helped fuel a commodities "supercycle".
In buying up the incoming dollars, euros and other hard currency to prevent a rapid appreciation of their own local currencies, emerging central banks have amassed some $7.2 trillion in reserves. That mirrors the estimated $8 trillion of private capital flows to emerging markets since 2004.
The International Monetary Fund estimates more than 60 percent of that total is held in greenbacks, putting dollar holdings at about $4.4 trillion. At least 80 percent of that - some $3.5 trillion - is banked in top-rated U.S. bonds, mostly Treasuries, IMF surveys suggest.
On those broad calculations, China alone holds about $1.6 trillion of U.S. bonds, while the rest is spread far and wide across Asia to Russia, the Middle East and Latin America.
This seemingly stable set-up was dubbed "Bretton Woods II" by Deutsche Bank economists 10 years ago, while former U.S. Treasury chief Larry Summers dubbed it "mutually assured financial destruction" a few years later.
But aside from a relatively brief stress-related financial heart attack that boosted the U.S. dollar briefly in 2008/09, these buffers have not really been tested.
If the sudden and steep emerging currency sell-off against the dollar - which on Fed indices has reversed their surge early this year in just three weeks - were to snowball, there is every chance these reserves will need to be sold to stabilize markets.
Any rundown of currency reserves may also require the sale of Treasuries, potentially steepening the rise in long-term U.S. interest rates, boosting the dollar and compounding the shock.
Could the Fed tolerate that? Back in the 1990s, then-Fed chief Alan Greenspan reversed a 1997 interest rate rise that some blamed for pushing emerging markets over the edge, cutting three times in 1998 as the crisis deepened - even though there was little material impact on the U.S. economy and the Wall St stock bubble continued inflating.
Might his successor Ben Bernanke do likewise - or at least act to tamp down talk of slowing QE for fear of a growth-sapping surge in U.S. Treasury yields?
There are several question marks over this sketch of events. Emerging economies may not be as fast to run down reserves without the fixed currency pegs of the 1990s, instead allowing more flexible exchange rate regimes to take the heat and enjoying a competitive boost from better terms of trade.
Outgoing Russian central bank chief Sergei Ignatyev said only last week: "The key is that our exchange rate is almost floating and close to free float."
That said, Russia, like Poland, was forced to run down between a fifth and a third of its entire reserves during the worst of the credit crisis in 2008/09.
Others reckon the very existence of hefty reserve buffers in many emerging countries will be sufficient to forestall capital flight. Deutsche Bank's Markus Jaeger points out that China, Korea and Russia run small current account surpluses and have short-term debts of less than 50 percent of reserves.
What's more, the Fed may feel the U.S. economy is strong enough to absorb some hit from sharply higher yields and push ahead regardless.
But emerging market crises are notorious for taking on a life of their own - mostly due to investor fear of illiquidity and the ability to sell securities at fair prices. That forces many to pre-emptively protect themselves by exiting early.
If that happens, the potential panic will likely require some response at home - or eventually in Washington.