Business Can Egypt manufacture electric cars?
"The age of gasoline is gone" is a phrase that must be taken into account. We are at the beginning of a new era of cars with most of the world heading towards replacing old vehicles with new electric motors and renewable energy sources.
Consumers in developed countries will soon wake up to find no gas or diesel stations, but will only see them on screens in several third world countries. So, will Egypt be able to manufacture electric cars?
Mustafa added that it is necessary to work on establishing an appropriate infrastructure for electric cars to provide recharge centres and the government should begin to study attracting investments for electric vehicles to which all countries of the developed world would be attracted.
He pointed out the need to develop laws encouraging this, as it is necessary to develop customs and tax regulations for electric vehicles to keep pace with developments, other than vehicles imported for golf courses and malls, which are classified as luxury goods.
He pointed out that the manufacture of electric cars in Egypt requires high funding and mechanisation capabilities, which must be achieved through a partnership between the government and private companies.
The so-called Arab National Union, last week, announced the signing of an agreement with an Italian company to establish the first production line for the electric car industry in Egypt at a cost of $20bn, while an official source in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry denied the news, saying no studies or data or applications were provided for approval.
Mustafa, in his position as executive director of the EAMA, denied that the association has received any files in this regard, especially with an investment value of this size.
Khalid Saad, director general of Brilliance – Bavarian Auto Group, ruled out setting up a project of this size and clarified that all actors in the automotive sector were surprised by such news, which they had never heard of before.
He said that a project of this magnitude requires a time frame of at least five years to work on the huge infrastructure of the project, which, despite requiring recharge stations, parking lots, and energy sources to supply the cars, will not cost such a huge amount.
In the same context, a company named Revolta Egypt announced that it is the first company to set up its own network of electric car recharge stations. The first phase of this project is being prepared this year, including 65 stations in Cairo, Alexandria, and Kattameya road, Ain Al-Sokhna, Suez, Ismailia, Port Said, and the Red Sea.
This year sends a warning signal that the thriving of cars powered by gasoline, diesel, or fossil fuels in general, is closer to ending year after year. Several major countries have approved specific plans with set time frames to ban fuel-dependant cars permanently, and will replace them with electric cars or vehicles running on renewable fuels.
These countries include China, which will start enforcing the decision by 2020, the Netherlands by 2025, Norway and India by 2030, the United Kingdom by 2040, and France by 2050.
During 2017, a bitter war between companies emerged, with each of them trying to take control of electric car markets. The fast development of the market is an attempted race against time.
Daily News Egypt looks at the best five electric cars launched in 2017 out of about 13 cars.
American car manufacturer Chevrolet is at the forefront of electric vehicles with its Bolt EV, which surpassed expectations in 2017. The car comes with a contemporary look and very carefully designed lines to send a message that the car is the most prominent in its class.
Bolt supports a 200-horsepower electric motor, which accelerates from zero to 100 kilometre per hour in 6.5 seconds and takes 9.5 hours to recharge if a 240-volt source is used, from 30 minutes to an hour when a 480-volt plug is used. Its maximum speed reaches 150 kilometres per hour, while the range of the vehicle reaches 305 kilometres per charge, and its price starts from $37,500.
BMW, the German automaker, was able to quickly keep up with the electric car industry and released its model i3, almost the same size as the Chevrolet Bolt.
The i3 carries a 170 horspower engine, which allows it to accelerate from zero to 100 kilometres per hour in 6.6 seconds, with a range of up to 160 kilometres per charge. It takes 13 to 16 hours to recharge when using a 120-volt plug and 4 to 5 hours when using a 240-volt plug and 20 to 40 minutes when using a 480-volt plug. It has a top speed of 145 kilometres per hour, while its price starts at $44,500.
The Japanese carmaker Nissan, meanwhile has its Leaf, which is witnessing remarkable development every year, as the company has been keen to issue a new version annually for the past three years.
The vehicle is powered by a 107-horsepower engine, and it takes 12 hours to recharge when using a 120-volt plug, four hours when using a 240-volt plug, or 40 minutes if a 480-volt plug is used.
The car accelerates from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in 11.5 seconds, at a maximum speed of 140 kilometres per hour, and the car can travel up to 250 kilometres per charge, with a price starting at $31,000.
Volkswagen has introduced the e-Golf model, which has been the standard model of golf for decades. Turning it into an electric car is a successful step for the company to attract fans of this model to turn to the electric category.
The e-Golf has a 134-horsepower engine and accelerates from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in 8.5 seconds. It has a recharging time of 17 hours if a 120-volt plug is used, 5.5 hours if a 240-volt plug. It has a top speed of 140 kilometres per hour, and a range of up to 177 kilometres per charge, with a price starting at $31,000.
Mercedes-Benz has carried out several attempts to get involved in the electric car industry, the latest of which was cooperation with the US company Tesla for the production of the B-Class electric model. The model uses the usual five-door hatchback without any modifications, except an electric motor.
The car uses a 177-horsepower electric motor, which goes from zero to 100 kilometres per hour in 6.8 seconds. It takes 15 hours to recharge if a 120-volt plug is used and 3.5 when using a 240-volt plug. It has a maximum speed reaching 160 kilometres per hour, and the vehicle's range is up to 135 kilometres per charge.
This year will see a new chapter between competitors to dominate this emerging market, which will see large growth in the near future.
The most anticipated car of the year is the Model 3, which comes from the already-giant US electric car maker Tesla, which, so far, no company has been able to compete with its electric vehicle sales.
Next is the unique Porsche E Concept, which promises to add a number of new features and technologies, including high-speed charging.
Also on schedule for this year are the Audi e-tron quattro concept, the Aston Martin Rapide S concept, the Volkswagen ID by 2020, and a new version of the Nissan Leaf, Jaguar I-Pace, Audi Quattro, Hyundai Kona, and Faraday Future FF91.


Although politics this week is likely to be dominated by the Chancellor announcing the result of the Spending Review in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday today I understand the detail of the Strategic Defence and Security Review will be announced.
In the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris the threat facing us here in the UK is all too clear. It is frequently said that the number one duty of Government is to defend the realm and we will learn later today how that is to be reflected in our defence and security services in an uncertain and dangerous World.
I am travelling back to Westminster and in addition to Defence questions and the SDSR statement the main business is scheduled to be the Bill enacting welfare reforms in Northern Ireland.


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Barnes & Noble cancels its Diverse Editions series after accusations of "literary blackface"
And the rest of the week's best writing on books and related subjects.
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Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater.
Welcome to Vox's weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet's best writing on books and related subjects. Here's the best the web has to offer for the week of February 2, 2020.
Let's start by catching up on American Dirt news, because that story has yet to subside. (Here's Vox's explainer if you need a refresher on what this story is all about.) At a meeting with the literary advocacy group #DignidadLiteraria, Macmillan committed to developing an action plan in the next 90 days to substantially increase its Latinx representation, both on staff and through the books it publishes.
Meanwhile, at Slate, Laura Miller talks to editors at the Big Five publishing houses about what they've learned from the controversy:
The most common take on the American Dirt fiasco is that it resulted from Flatiron's hubristic failure in what the industry refers to as "positioning" — that is, communicating the genre a house considers a new book to fit into. "From what I've heard," said one senior editor, "it's a really quick, pacey, dramatic read, and there's a whole coterie of people who will say that to their friends, and word of mouth will move across the country like wildfire." In other words, the novel is a work of commercial fiction, much like Where the Crawdads Sing and other titles that sell in large numbers while generally flying under the radar of cultural critics and political commentators.
And at the Cut, Ingrid Rojas Contreras explains why so few novels about migration written by migrants are thrillers:
Most books about migration are heavy because the experiences are heavy. They are not thrillers, because how could we, after actually living through the pain and fear, find any thrill in it? If we include violence, it is there because we have weighed the risk of spectacle against the importance of not looking away.
In the wake of the American Dirt scandal, the lit world turned its attention last weekend to the forthcoming novel My Dark Vanessa (by Kate Elizabeth Russell), which deals with a relationship between a teenage girl and her older male teacher. Author Wendy Ortiz alleged My Dark Vanessa had "eerie" similarities to her 2014 memoir, Excavation, which launched a discussion of whether the novel was appropriating Ortiz's experiences — up until Russell revealed that it was based on her own experiences as a teenager. At Slate, Rachelle Hampton has a full overview of the controversy.
Meanwhile, at LitHub, Red Newsom considers My Dark Vanessa and the line between fiction and memoir:
Is statutory rape an intellectual property? Does one person have the rights to a story that happens to kids from all walks of life, everywhere? Whilst a novel isn't a call to action, a raising of awareness, in the same way a memoir can achieve, My Dark Vanessa will help people process their own similar or adjacent experiences. Russell isn't obligated to defend herself by saying "This happened to me," but I worry she will be forced to out herself as a victim as more people flood to criticize the similarities between the two books.
And because 2020 is truly just shaping up to be a banner year for diversity in publishing, Barnes & Noble and Penguin Random House briefly collaborated on a collection of "diverse" editions of classic children's novels like The Secret Garden and Peter Pan, with the characters reimagined as people of color on the covers. After widespread outcry and accusations that the covers were "literary blackface," they have canceled the editions, Publishers Weekly reports.
At the New Republic, Alex Shephard looks at how the "diversity editions" even came to be a thing:
The brainchild of Doug Melville, the chief diversity officer of TBWA, the project was inspired by the casting of a black actress as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter sequel The Cursed Child. But the people close to the project seem to have been unaware that J.K. Rowling's late-in-the-game embrace of diversity was criticized by others for being an "afterthought" that did little to change the otherwise largely lily-white YA fantasy series. Melville and Cal Hunter, of Barnes & Noble's flagship Fifth Avenue location, were also inspired by the controversy over rumors that Idris Elba was being considered to play James Bond. (TBWA and Barnes & Noble's Fifth Avenue store have had a relationship going back several years.)
After all that, should we take a second to talk about some of the ways that publishing is getting better at letting people of color tell their own stories? At Elle, Roxanne Fequiere talks to some of the black writers who are redefining YA fiction:
In spite of the intensity of the whirlwind — or perhaps because of it — Adeyemi wants to be perfectly frank. "A lot of authenticity comes from laziness, where I don't have the energy to pretend," she explains. Naturally, a slew of young writers are now looking to Adeyemi for tips on the creative process, and here, she makes a point of being equally candid about the most crucial step: revision. "The number one thing I tell people is, 'Yo, my books are bad for a long-ass time.' But my theory is, no matter what you do, you have a lot of shit to wade through, so you might as well be doing something you love."
The editor Alice Mayhew died on Tuesday at 87 years old, and at the New York Times, her authors remember her. Here's Bob Woodward on what it was like to work with Mayhew:
In December 1973, Carl and I were at the St. Regis. Alice would come over during the day and we'd write at night. The book was coming out in April and at that time, it was normally a year or 18 months before a book was released, so we were thinking, "My God, it's coming out in April, that's going to be so fast." I remember vividly: She came over with this 90-page section, an account of our reporting efforts that led nowhere, leads that didn't pan out, and she said, "You need to cut it." I said "O.K., by how much?" And she said, "Cut it to two pages." She was right.
At the New York Times Magazine, Parul Sehgal profiles Jenny Offill and considers the literature of climate change:
The climate crisis, Offill shows, is reshaping not just our world but also our minds. "Weather" joins other new fiction in transforming the novel of consciousness into a record of climate grief. "Sometimes I think that people today must be the saddest people ever, because we know we ruined everything," the heroine of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport thinks. One of Deborah Eisenberg's insomniac narrators frets: "I was exhausted, though still wide awake, as I was so often — wide awake, and thinking about things I couldn't do anything about. Couldn't do anything about. Couldn't do anything about."
At JStor Daily, Livia Gershon looks at how the standards for unacceptable words evolve over time. To wit: It used to be considered deeply shocking to say "pants" in public.
Read suggests that, in the U.S., a high point for limitations on acceptable words came in the first half of the nineteenth century. Compiling his dictionary in 1834, for example, Noah Webster rejected "teat," "dung," and "stink," in favor of the more acceptable "breast," "excrement," and "ill smell."
Another bad word around that time was … "pants." Read points to numerous newspaper articles referring to trousers with words like "unmentionables" or "inexpressables." In one 1848 account, "Mr. B. dressed himself in a new bright blue coat and a pair of large and showy unwhisperables." (It apparently wasn't until the early twentieth century that similar euphemisms came to refer to underwear.)
At LitHub, Sarah Heying explains why she Googles literary lesbians:
In the study of lesbian history, the desire for proof is generally one the researcher doesn't expect or even want to have satisfied. Queer research can feel like a secret club, where evidence is stored only within the blood that rushes from our bellies to our cheeks and is exchanged via intuition and rumor. When Shapland finds her proof, several years into researching McCullers, she's overwhelmed by the verification of that which she'd known all along. Her girlfriend doesn't share in her sense of shock. "'Isn't this what you were looking for?'" she asks. "'Well,'" responds Shapland, "'I didn't think I'd actually find it.'"
And here's the week in books at Vox:
Uncanny Valley author Anna Wiener on the stories tech companies tell themselves
A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes
The best $1,600 I ever spent: A handmade bookshelf
As always, you can keep up with all our books coverage by visiting vox.com/books. Happy reading!
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Somalia is in Eastern Africa at 10 00 N and 49 00 E, it has a total area of 637, 657 square kilometres. Somalia's coastline extends 2,720 kilometers along the Gulf Aden and the Indian Ocean. Its topography ranges from hilly in the north, where the land rises to between 900 and 2,100 meters above sea level, to flats in the central and southern regions (USDS, 2010). Somalia's current climate is hot and dry, with uneven rainfall and regular droughts (USDS, 2010). It experiences a northeast monsoon from December to February, at which time temperatures in the north become moderate while the south is hot; a southwest monsoon from May to October occurs when the north is extremely hot. Hot and humid conditions occur between monsoon periods (CIA, 2010). Land degradation is a prominent environmental issue in the country, driven by drought, desertification and poor agricultural and pastoral practices (UNEP, 2011).
As a result of approximately 25 years of internal conflict, Somali's governance systems are very weak. The country is governed by the Transitional Federal Government, with the regions of Somaliland and Putland having declared unilateral autonomy (USDS, 2010; Kolmannskog, 2009; UNEP, 2011). Despite these challenges, the country maintains a relatively active informal economy based on livestock, remittances, and telecommunications (CIA, 2010). Livestock accounts for 40 per cent of Gross Domestic Product and over 50 per cent of exports (CIA, 2010). Approximately 60 per cent of Somalia's population is comprised of nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists who typically breed cattle, camels, goats, and sheep (USDS 2010). Although only 1.64 per cent of the country's land is considered arable (CIA, 2010), a further 25 per cent of Somalis are farmers. From 15 to 20 per cent of the country's population residing in urban areas (USDS, 2010). According to the 2010 Human Development Report, 81 per cent of Somalis live in multidimensional poverty whereby they experience "acute deprivation" in health, education and standards of living (UNDP, 2010).
As livestock and agriculture form the basis of the Somali population's livelihoods, the country is highly vulnerable to the current and future impacts of climate change. This vulnerability is further compounded by the fact that the country is coastal, low-lying, poor and disrupted by war (Kinyangi et al., 2009; Kolmannskog, 2009). These climatic changes are likely to increase in both frequency and severity. Somalia's environmental problems include deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion and desertification. The UNDP has provided assistance to Somalia to strengthen its national capacity so that it can engage in the Global Environmental Facility and implement programmes to protect Somalia's fragile and significantly degraded environmental resources.


10th September 2018: Nokia, a brand that has a special place in all our hearts. Growing up, there hardly was any kid or adult in the 90s who didn't own a Nokia. So, both the Ninjas (PGPM) and the Aztecs (PGDM) 2019 batches were supercharged to welcome Mr Sunil Sayal, CFO Region India, Nokia Solutions and Networks. Mr Sayal took the time out to share his immense experience of the telecom industry and talk about the ongoing fourth industrial revolution.
Mr Sayal is a finance professional with close to three decades of experience across both MNCs and Indian Corporate houses. He is a member of ICAI and ICSI and holds commerce and law degrees from Delhi University. He has been working in the Telecommunication Industry for the past two decades with Ericsson in the past & currently with Nokia Solutions and Networks and has witnessed its evolution in India since its infancy to the present era.
Mr Sayal started his talk with the history of past industrial revolutions. Steam engine powered industries and rail-roads had sparked the first industrial revolution, followed by the second revolution energized by electricity. The third spurt of massive productivity gains was triggered by development and advancements in the domain of computing and web-based internet. Mr Sayal believes that the fourth industrial revolution would be empowered by the explosion in digital information, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence, with telecom being its biggest enabler.
He discussed the growth of the telecom industry starting from Analog Voice to current 4G making telecom industry an integral part of everyone's life. A life without a 4G connection is now not imaginable. Mr Sayal shared interesting facts regarding the contribution of the Telecommunication industry towards the development of India. Having 1146 million subscribers, telecom industry contributes to 6.5% of GDP and has generated over 4 million jobs besides attracting big scale FDI. India and China are currently the #1 consumers in global data traffic. In his words, "We sit on the cusp of a revolution in information", and the numbers are a definite proof of his statement.
How has Airtel managed to be the #1 company?
Mr Sayal highlighted the factors behind Airtel's immense success in India. Airtel has been the leader in the telecom industry since its inception and has always enjoyed the biggest pie in the market share. Innovation is one of the biggest factors behind Airtel's success. To quote him, "Either you innovate or you die out", and this seems to be the motivation behind Airtel's mission. Airtel, which had the first mover advantage, capitalized on the opportunities it got and never failed to take the lead in bringing technological changes in its services and quality rather than following the competition. While the strategy of adopting pay-by-capacity and network outsourcing to companies like Nokia and Ericsson has given them the competitive edge in improving the quality and services, having a brilliant brand connect has helped them in establishing the link with high revenue customers.
Why weren't Vodafone and Idea able to challenge Airtel's reign?
The two companies which recently merged to become the biggest player in the telecom industry bringing further consolidation in the industry have historically been the second and third biggest companies in the market. The guest discussed the gaps which kind of prevented these two great companies with extremely renowned parentage from challenging Airtel's reign. Vodafone, which brilliantly established brand connect with its unique advertisements, fell short of providing a better alternative to Airtel's services. While getting involved in the taxation dispute hurt the company during its early days, being a global company, it was perhaps not so successful when it comes to thinking and executing with local considerations in mind. Idea, too, lagged in establishing a concrete strategy to outsource or insource their networks and were not in a dominating or leading position in the cash-rich telecom circles of the country.
The latest entrant in the Industry, Jio, has been able to disrupt the market with its out of the box thinking strategy and huge risk-taking appetite. Jio entered an already saturated market with its ground-breaking innovation and technology and became the first player to launch its services with Pan-India 4G coverage which helped them reach every corner. It launched its services with path-breaking industry-changing cheap tariff plans. While most companies would prefer taking services from well-established brands, Jio took a risk by purchasing the network equipment from a new entrant– Samsung, and invested hugely in R&D from best brains across the globe and provided the best quality services to the consumer. Mr Sayal quoted Mr Ambani, "Data is the new Oil", which seems like the motivating idea behind Jio's strategies.
For his concluding thoughts, My Sayal explained the contours of the upcoming fourth industrial revolution which will be triggered by the introduction of 5G powered IoT. "5G delivers extreme broadband, ultra-robust, low latency connectivity, and massive networking for the Internet of Things to enable the programmable world, which will transform our individual lives, economy and society". Enabling the fourth revolution would require enabling massive capacity everywhere through Ultra-broadband, realizing the agility of software-defined business through Cloud and igniting the new businesses of IoT.
This, in his opinion, was the shape of things to come which will guide the future of the global telecommunication industry.
DIRECTOR (HR – GLOBALIZATION) – ZTE TELECOM LTD.
Thursday, 13 September 2018: An enthusiastic crowd, comprised of 100 plus Jaguars (PGDM 2018-20 batch), gathered in the auditorium dressed in business formals looking as sharp as Obsidian Blades, to learn about the significance of HR in companies from one of the best the field has to offer. Mr. Sanjeev Sharan, Director (HR – Globalization), ZTE Telecom Ltd., was in the campus to provide us with in-depth knowledge of the role of HR in the 21st Century and covered various topics like, expectations of businesses from HR, ways in which HR can be the core of a business and clarified if the time is ripe for HR to change to avoid going extinct; in an insightful interaction.
ZTE Corporation is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and systems company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is one of China's leading telecom equipment manufacturers. ZTE operates in three business segments – Carrier Networks (~54%)-Terminals (~29%)-Telecommunication (~17%). Being a Chinese company, its workplace policies and culture are quite different from those followed by Indian organizations. This was an interesting insight into work cultures followed by companies outside India for the attending crowd.
Mr Sanjeev Sharan – ZTE Telecom Ltd.
Mr Sanjeev Sharan is currently working as the Director (HR-Globalization) for ZTE Telecom Ltd. and is an accomplished HR Professional with over 24 years of experience in renowned organizations. Mr Sanjeev has been working as Director (HR-Globalization) with ZTE for 4 years and has also worked with MTS Sistema Shyam Teleservices and Reliance in the past. During his professional career, Mr Sanjeev has over 18 years of work experience in the Telecom industry in the HR Department. He is a strategic HR professional with Global experience and has a strong exposure to Culture Building, Performance Management and Business HR. He also headed the Globalization Project based in China with a focus on setting up HR led processes and policies aligned to Global Best Practices.
Mr Sanjeev started off the lecture by introducing the Great Lakers to the relevance of HR. He explained why people would want to join HR and also stated that HR is about finding the "Right people for the Right role". According to him, HR is no longer a support function but has matured to be an advisory function. Everything that can be measured, should be measured and HR has the responsibility to find ways to accurately measure the data related to the employees and advice the top management accordingly. Another requirement that businesses have from the HR function is to get into the mindset of the person whom they are investing money in, so as to understand the value that he may provide to the company. He also put forth the fact that technologies are changing at a rapid pace, companies are struggling to keep up with these advances and are now seeking the help of HR to fill the gap between the emerging technologies and the manpower required to utilize these technologies profitably.
Mr Sanjeev stated that the core functions of the HR department are its " FLEXIBILITY" in processes. He further explained that Business focus should be "married" to HR focus to achieve higher goals. He then dived into the key areas where currently HR spends maximum time (Recruitment, engagement, payroll and incentive calculation, etc.), brushing up on the tasks that are undertaken in each area. His belief is that "Power of HR is how you align it", HR practices that are the result of an extensive study of data gathered from various processes within the company will provide more fruition than generic HR practices. Mr Sanjeev then linked business challenges to HR, explaining HR's role as an advisory figure to business, helping them in building right leadership mindset, measuring productivity, fair evaluation culture, maintaining right talent pool and right people identification.
The final topic tackled was if the time is ripe for HR to change to avoid becoming obsolete. Mr Sanjeev having two decades' worth of experience was the perfect person to address this topic as he gave significant insights into the change that already is taking place in the HR departments across the companies around the world. He said, "The age-old HR practices have to be discarded due to the changing work environment. Knowledge is power and this is what HR has to conform to in all its functions. Deep industry and competition knowledge, networking, automation to reduce man-days, focus on culture fitment are few standouts in the recruitment function of HR." In regard to careers, he stated that "data-based decisions, promotion linked to organization need, capability and performance-based promotion are the factors which build careers." He then moved to Analytics in HR, as the world today is based on data and the analytics of this data. He explained that there is no place anymore in HR for "I think….& It Should", as every action and every decision has to be based on appropriate facts and data.
To conclude, it was an exciting and interactive session for the Jaguars which helped the young B-School students understand the nuances of HR and how the theories they learn in classes get applied to the corporate world.
Sunday, 19th August 2018: "There is no rest for the wicked." This idiom was tailor-made for the Great Lakers. When the world enjoys quiet and lazy Sunday mornings, the ambitious Great Lakers are always up and ready in their sharp business formals, armed with their laptops and notepads, to welcome an industry guest in the campus for an interactive learning session. This week we met Ms Preeti Khurana Chief Editor, ClearTax, who expounded the various nuances of the tax filing system, elaborated on the recently implemented GST tax structure and gave the students a holistic view of the Indian tax regimen.
ClearTax began as an "Individual tax return filing" platform. It has now ventured into multiple areas including Tax Cloud which is a bulk return filing system for Chartered Accountants. Along with possessing a dedicated "GST Return System" which facilitates GST invoicing, returns, supplier performance reporting and online e-way bill generation, it also has its own "Investment platform" which is regarded as the #1 platform in India for mutual fund investment. Another differentiated category which ClearTax caters to is the "Start-up regulation". It helps start-ups remain cognizant of the compliances, manages their accounting and bookkeeping and expedites their tax filing. It is also instrumental in providing comprehensive knowledge about tax regimes, investment and accounting to the people.
Ms Preeti Khurana is currently associated with ClearTax as the Editor in Chief. Prior to this, she has served as a Budget Manager and an Assistant Manager at American Express and PwC respectively. She completed her C.A in 2004 and started her career with PwC. Post that she joined American Express where she spent 7 years of her corporate career, but later on, realized that she wanted to pursue something more exciting. It was then she decided to call it quits and joined ClearTax. At ClearTax she serves in various capacities, which includes customer support for tax filing, sales pitching for the product as well as drafting the complete tax guide at the portal which even a layman could understand. She believes that if you put in your best efforts to accomplish a goal, you will definitely be able to achieve it.
Ms Khurana started by stating "The future is paperless and presence less" owing to the recent developments on the technological fronts, and how it has impacted the financial sector. She explained that this change has vastly opened up the business avenues by broadening the target market in terms of the tech-savvy users, but it has also opened up new challenges regarding issues like data privacy and data theft. She also talked about how the cumulative use of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the face of the Financial Services sector and how the business is being transacted in the global space. "Heightened need for collaboration and threat of competition coupled with the massive amount of regulatory oversight would be prevalent in the times to come" said Ms Khurana. Commenting on the differentiation that the financial companies face, she said that though these organizations are extremely asset light, their core investment area turns out to be data security, rules around which are yet to be framed and this would have several major implications on the taxation.
She also took the students through the worldwide taxation phenomenon and reiterated that how digital companies like Facebook and Instagram would face challenges in their taxation policies in the times to come owing to the digitalization and globalization. These companies which initially accounted their taxes based on the presence of a Permanent Establishment (PE) will now also be forced to pay taxes in countries where they have a significant economic presence in terms of revenues and subscriber base. This, she said, would have several ramifications as the International Tax laws and treaties would have to be revised. There are also humongous challenges with regard to generation, storage and retrieval of such large amounts of data.
The Goods and Services Tax or the GST implementation was also expounded by Ms Khurana. The students were awestruck with how she explained the entire GST regime in such a lucid manner. She explained the need for switching to the GST system and the flaws which were present in the indirect tax system which led to cascading of taxes, non-compliance and difficulties in tax filing procedures. She further elaborated on how GST has simplified the entire system by bringing all the taxes into the ambit of a single one and the simplification of input credit claims by suppliers, the launch of the e-way bill to prevent leakage of revenues and the easy tracking of the movement of goods throughout the country. Ms Khurana stated that although the new system has simplified the entire tax structure, it has a downside in the form of costs of compliance shooting up, discrepancies in the dating and receiving of tax bills and proper mechanisms to track the interstate movement of goods and contingencies in tax filing for real estate.
To conclude, it was a fruitful session which helped the students in understanding the nitty-gritty of the tax structure and the recent developments in the global marketplace. This knowledge will be a great asset to the students not only aspiring for a career in finance but every single one of us.


Wildwood is a city located in St. Louis County with an population of 35,517 residents, as recorded at time of the 2010 census and cover no more than 67.08 square miles. Located in the further western portion of St. Louis county, neighboring cities include Eureka and Pacific at the south, Franklin county by the west, Clarkson Valley and Ellisville by the east and Chesterfield by the north. Along with the city of Green Park, Wildwood is one of the more recently incorporated cities of St. Louis county.
Although its status as an incorporated city begins in 1995, the history of Wildwood's area has its origins 200 years earlier. Settlement of the area began in the mid-18th century from Spanish Land Grants, which permitted settlement and grazing rights on specific traits of land. As years passed, grant owners subdivided the land they owned and sold lots within the area to other settlers. Communities developed and landowners eventually would build post offices and shops.
Eleven communities, each with their own unique shops and background, made up what is now the encompassed land of the city of Wildwood. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the amount of individual communities dwindled as residents merged their towns together in an effort to lower property taxes.
Famous Wildwood residents include Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard and St. Louis Cardinals third baseman, David Freese. Residents of Wildwood are served by the Rockwood School District.
The most recent campus for St. Louis Community College, STLCC-Wildwood, is located in Wildwood and opened in 2007.
Hidden Valley Ski Area is Wildwood's premier ski resort location and the only one in St. Louis. With an elevation of 860 feet, Hidden Valley includes a 312-foot vertical drop, three surface lifts, four chair lifts and eight trails. Catering to experts and beginners, the resort offers both training courses and fun winter events.
Spread throughout the city of Wildwood are the area's four major parks – Babler State Park, Rockwoods Reservation, Rockwoods Range and Greensfelder County Park. The city of Wildwood has also recently added the Wildwood Community Park, which is one of several City parks, including Anniversary Park, Glencoe Park, Old Pond School Park and Kohn Park.
One of Wildwood's historic communities, the Orrville Historic District is made up of several buildings and landmarks that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Some of the area's oldest places include the Kreienkamp Store, built in 1854, and the Hoppenberg-Fick General Store and Post Office, built in 1867.


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Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane…no its Macro-man! Able to solve large problems with creative big thinking. Faster than a speeding data line and able to leap to broad conclusions in a single bound.
Meet Micro-boy…in the media archive / dam environment, Micro-boy pains on the plight of every asset; to Micro-boy every record is precious. The assets metadata record completeness and accuracy along with the integrity of the digital asset and its backups are his reason for being. He tackles all the different flavors of problems and exceptions that come up in the course of the day and makes things happen. He knows where all the bodies are buried. Micro-boy sees WHY every "simple" request from Macro-man is complex and challenging. Meanwhile, Macro-man wonders why Micro-boy makes everything more complicated than it needs to be. Why can't he just get with the program and get it done?
Micro-boy wants to circle the wagons and fix all the known issues before expanding into new things. Let's get what we already have perfect before we add to the collection.
Macro-man wants change. He sees opportunity everywhere and drives initiative around overall benefits and for revenue and opportunity. Macro-man wants to move mountains and will tend to oversimplify the tasks involved in getting the archive DAM operationally sound. "We have 20,000 hours already encoded, can we transcode by next week for this new...?"
So, how does Micro-boy survive in a Macro-land? Or, how does a Macro-man deal with Micro-boy details? They both want to be superheroes in their organizations but approach problems very differently. Effective teamwork, cooperation and communication are key to a successful effort. You need to have both superheroes. Too many Macro-men and you ger a lot of grand ideas and little results. Too many Micro-boys and you will have a small pile of content lovingly completed but the waterfall of content pouring into their world will pile up in backlog waiting for the same TLC that can never come.
So take a moment to reflect...are you a Macro-man or a Micro-boy? There is nothing wrong with either..perhaps you are a little of both, Whichever it may be it is important to recognize the importance of each.
DAM'stas unite! Can't we all just get along?
I am facing this situation right now, and I feel pressured to be a little bit of both. I have a client who is looking to implement a sizable DAM solution in a hurry -- I'm trying to balance the big picture of just what it is they really need with the details of getting all the assets ingested with accurate and thorough metadata. So in trying to be both, am I neither?
Thanks for your recent comment. The video project (separate from the one described above) has been folded into a larger DAM project. I am still a participant but it's as part of a larger group. We shall see.


Plans for the new year, hopes and dreams too, need noting.
The new Blue & White Mottainai Calendar rolled in from the printer last week and is guaranteed to make you laugh – or smile at the very least. It should provide humor and surprise in 2014. Large squares provide ample space to record plans and promises.
Pages of old calendars have been repurposed with the free and inventive imagination of our friends and fans and creatively turned into hats and lunch boxes and necklaces and notes.
MOTTAINAI means too good to waste. It is a beautiful term from Buddhism that is central to the mindful upbringing of most Japanese, (notably the older ones!) that honors the preciousness of things.
Treasure it. Waste not. Too good to waste. Use it again. Too good to be true. So many nuances, so many layers of meaning.
Generations of grandmothers have taught their grandchildren about the importance of treasuring each thing, eating everything on the plate, and not throwing things away.
Today recycling is a new imperative at Blue & White where we use only old shopping bags from other stores that our friends bring into Blue & White, and make eco bags of rejected materials from the dyers, and notepads from leftover paper from the printers.
For years friends amazed me when they write letters, postcards, and gift cards on old Blue & White calendar pages they had saved. It delighted me to see the rebirth of old pages of the calendar and know Blue & White travels the world in many different forms!
Try it yourself and see what you can make out of our old calendars. There is no end of possibility.
Old calendar pages reconfigured bring life and fun to the the New Year.
We use the last bits of old calendars as labels and price tags in the shop.
Recycling old Blue & White calendars can be playful and fun. Playing is important! Use it again. Make something that's never been thought of before. And smile while you're at it.
May 2014 be filled with play and innovation and happy surprises.
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Vana Labs' CBD owes its superior bioavailability, fast-acting effects, and potency to the process of nanoemulsion that we use to create our products. Vana Labs has devoted four years to research and technological innovation to develop our current, proprietary nanoemulsion methodology. Nanoemulsion is the key factor that sets our product apart from the competition, and through this technique, we have created water soluble CBD unlike anything on the market today. Our products have many advantages over common CBD oils, and owe those advantages to the nanoemulsion that we use to create our CBD. Understanding nanoemulsion is key to understanding why Vana Labs' water-soluble CBD stands apart from the competition. In this article, we define and discuss nanoemulsion, and overview the advantages of nanoemulsified CBD.
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Nanoemulsion involves two key factors: tiny CBD nanoparticles–which are so small that they are measured in nanometers (one-billionth of a meter)–and an emulsifier: a substance into which these CBD nanoparticles are dispersed. Though nanoemulsion is a relatively complicated process, for the purposes of this article, we can boil the process down to two crucial components. The first is nanotechnology, which is used to create microscopically small CBD nanoparticles; this prepares our CBD for the second step in nanoemulsion, which involves the addition of an emulsifier.
Nanotechnology and CBD Nanoparticles
The first step in nanoemulsion involves the use of nanotechnology, an innovative method of reducing CBD molecules to a microscopically small size. "Nano" is a prefix for "dwarf," and denotes an extremely small item. We create CBD nanoparticles using nanotechnology, which involves the use of ultrasonic waves to pressurize and shatter individual CBD molecules into dozens of exponentially smaller nanoparticles. Emulsion can only occur if a substance has been reduced into tiny, "nano" droplets; thus our nanotechnology is crucial to creating nanoparticles small enough to emulsify. Often, companies that attempt nanoemulsion do not have the advanced technology necessary to create a truly nanoemulsified product–this is a problem in the industry that Vana Labs has set out to correct. A true nanoemulsion requires nanoparticles that measure between five and two-hundred nanometers in diameter (one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). Such a small size may be difficult to conceptualize. As a point of comparison, consider that a single human hair is between eighty-thousand and one-hundred thousand nanometers wide. CBD nanoparticles are exponentially smaller. In fact, you could fit–at the very least–four-thousand CBD nanoparticles across the width of a single human hair.
The second step in nanoemulsion involves the use of an emulsifier, an intermediary substance that forces two otherwise incompatible substances–such as water and oil–to mix. CBD is lipophilic, meaning that it dissolves in fat rather than water. When CBD created without nanoemulsion is placed in water, it behaves like an oil; rather than dissolving, it separates into coagulated droplets that float on the surface of the liquid, rather than mixing with and disseminating through it. CBD oil is not water-soluble, meaning that it cannot mix with water: mixing the two is possible only through nano-emulsion. This is a major problem, as water accounts for nearly 60% of the human body; the CBD it contains behaves like oil in water, refusing to mix into the bloodstream (which is necessary for CBD to produce its effects). To solve this problem, Vana Labs places its CBD nanoparticles in an emulsifier, which serves as a base that forces the CBD it contains to mix with water (whether in the body, or in a beverage–hence the phrase "water soluble CBD"). Our emulsion process involves the use of fat and water, using an emulsifier
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by Shannon Turner | Jun 9, 2020 | black lives matter, Blog, mental illness, police brutality, walks with grief | 0 comments
I had just emerged from one of those evocative performance experiences that leaves you buzzing. I stepped out from 7 Stages in Little 5 Points onto the sidewalk into a noxious mix of sour-sweet smells on a hot summer night.
Most folks were still hanging around in the lobby, celebrating the cast and discussing all the thought-provoking imagery, but with a stretch of long days behind and before me, I headed out and turned left to walk down the street toward my car alone.
Making my way through a small crowd waiting to get into the adjoining performance venue or taking a smoke break from a nearby restaurant, I walked on with the waining crowd noise behind me. Suddenly, I realized that, although I was the only person for a stretch of blocks, there was now more noise coming from behind me than made sense.
As I looked back, I saw him. A large man was lumbering straight down the middle of Euclid Avenue, yelling. And talking. And talking and yelling. Some of his sounds were not words so much as verbalizations. The effect was a cacophony like I've rarely heard emit from just one human body.
He began to weave from one side of the street to the other like a slow-moving pinball, bouncing from sidewalk to parked car. It was so late that there was no traffic for him to negotiate. Still, it felt likely a car or motorcycle could come by and introduce a new dynamic at any second.
I calculated his trajectory and surmised that there were a few scenarios in which we might possibly run into each other.
At this point, equidistant between where I was coming from and going to, but seeing others up ahead, I decided to walk swiftly toward my car.
Unfortunately, as soon as I picked up my pace, I understood that his pattern was not entirely random. He was walking toward things that caught his eye, and I had brought myself to his attention.
My walk became more of a walk-run as I approached the group of people in front of me. They were both walking more quickly but also looking back for me to join them.
I made it to my car, as did they, with not a lot of time to spare. I slammed my door shut as he slammed his flat hand down on the trunk of a parked car.
We all sat in the parking lot, frozen, staring at each other, like we were in a quickdraw standoff. Those of us in our cars watched as the man, full of so much anguish, just stood and yelled and yelled and yelled at everything and nothing, and then disappeared behind the building where we'd parked.
I could see through the darkness that my brief companions were on the phone. I'm certain they called the police. I could not.
You see, not long before this incident, police had killed Anthony Hill. He was a Black man, a veteran, who was experiencing a mental health emergency.
He was completely naked.
Murders of people of color by police are appalling, inexcusable, and yes, murder, but there's often some story about some object in their hand or some provocation that's given as the excuse. In this case, there was absolutely no way they could have mistaken a weapon in his hand.
"The police are my friends."
~Anthony Hill's last words.
Ever since, I've wondered during each encounter with a person having a mental health emergency–who can I call?
I have defaulted to not calling and hoped that person would find their way to safety and support because I didn't want my ill-advised concern to lead to their death.
You may be hearing a lot of people talking about the need to "defund the police" right now. This is just one example of how redistribution of resources is crucial.
Mental illness is not criminal. Police officers are not trained social workers or therapists. Rarely do they know how to de-escalate a situation. The spiritual burden we have placed on them as public officers has fundamentally cracked them, which is why we're witnessing the atrocious behavior we have over the last few weeks.
Imagine that a woman who's just been raped would not have to suffer an immediate interrogation, treated as though she's the one who has committed a crime.
Think what our schools could look like without armed security guards, but rather with full and effective arts programming.
Hold in your heart all that would do for our kids' success, self-esteem, empathy, and, yes!, learning outcomes in science, math, history, and beyond.
And then, when you've imagined all the places where proactive, holistic approaches to our community could replace the paltry, harmful, bandaid approach of policing, if you still think there's no way that crime will go away completely, imagine a small community police department staffed by people who actually live in that community.
It's a beautiful dream. A dream based on living and thriving, not hiding and dying.
Here are some more perspectives and resources I've found since originally publishing this piece:
Confessions of a Former Cop
NY Times – The Daily – The Case for Defunding the Police
We're over policed, and under invested in communities
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Growing up Jinkx was always into heroes, his mother would always tell him stories of great warriors and heroes. Growing up he also was put down a lot was always told he would never become a Warrior he would never be a great fighter. He finally become of age you left a small village he grew up in and set out to make a name for himself when he came to Darkmoon The people there were friendly to him. In a short amount of time he grow very fond of the people there making new friends, starting to make a small name of himself. People notice him, and accepted him. It wasn't until he meet a few people that was mentor him to make him a batter fighter, Bruin Volarn and Viadra Moonblade. With a little of their Guidance jinx was able to but up a small fight when fighting others. Fighting companies were starting to notice Jinkx for it. The Black Harts wanted him in their group and there he stayed, but Jinkx story doesn't end there. Jinkx became belted into his mentor. Even thought he was able to fight a little even though he had a name there past of his past come to haunt him. Someone told him that they don't ever seeing him to be a great worrier. Jinkx had every flash back of his family by blood tell him the same that he would never be anything that's when Jinkx had a thirst to fight, to be one of the best fighters. He wanted to be a warrior where his name one Jinkx Abaddon would give top warrior the respect that he wanted. Now Jinkx Abaddon has a goal, a mission, a thirst to show and prove he can be a great fighter, a great warrior where others would respect him or fear him when he steps on the battle field. Jinkx Abaddon. A warrior forged in the heat of battle. But unlike so many others that had no choice but to fight or die, Jinkx chose to cast himself into the flames. When he was a youth, his family told him to put away silly things like toy swords. They told him he would never be a warrior. Even then, even when age had yet to leave a mark on his soul, he rebelled against their certainty. He wanted to know why. Why couldn't he be a warrior? Not his father nor his mother could give him a proper answer. Things like societal status and birthrights meant nothing to his aspiring heart. Jinkx would sneak away, every chance he got, and practice with the straightest branch he could find. His siblings caught him once, made fun of him and told him he'd never be a warrior, let alone a good fighter. They even betrayed him to his parents. The beating he received only served to solidify his resolve. He made sure they never followed him again, his first lesson in stealth. Finally, he came of age and left the town he grew up in, turning away and never looking back. He would make a name for himself in spite of his family. As he ventured, he watched tournaments in every town he came across. The fights were more brutal than he expected, but it never shook his resolve. Jinkx even managed to get into a bar brawl one night, walking out the victor and feeling confident in his prowess. His wonderings eventually led him to the Dutchy of Darkmoon, in the Kingdom of the Iron Mountains. There people welcomed and accepted him. When he told them he wanted to be a warrior, and proved his words by fighting alongside them on the practice field, they didn't tell him he couldn't. Instead they took note of his enthusiasm. Fighting actual foes, with armor and weapons, that weren't intoxicated by mead proved a challenge. Still he didn't back down or get discouraged. As he made friends in his new home and grew fonder of the citizens, he was offered guidance by two noted warriors. Count Bruin Valorn and Baroness Viadra Moonblade. They mentored him in the ways of battle and he began to garner attention on the battlefield. Fighting companies took note of his accomplishments, and shortly after he was approached to join the Black Harts. There he stayed, but his journey wouldn't end there. Jinkx was offered a belt by his mentor, Count Bruin, who told him he would show him the ways of the shadows. To move like the dark and fight like the wind. Jinkx accepted, but it didn't stop his past from coming back to haunt him. One day, while out on the field, he was told that he'd never be a great warrior. He had flashbacks to the family he would only claim through blood, of them telling him he would never be a fighter and holding him back from his destiny. A thirst grew inside of him. One that any who paid attention could see when he fought. It grew into a drive that was unmistakable. A drive to accomplish his goals, either through respect or fear. To be the most powerful warrior he could possibly be, to carve his name into the very bones of the Iron Mountains, and to make his enemies quake when he walked out onto the battle field.
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SCOW: 7 misdemeanor retail thefts can =1 felony theft
State v. Autumn Marie Love Lopez, 2017AP913-CR, State v. Amy J. Rodriguez, 2017AP914-CR, 11/27/19, 2019 WI 101, affirming a published court of appeals decision, 2019 WI App 2, case activity (including briefs)
This appeal asked whether the State may charge multiple acts of misdemeanor retail theft under §943.50 as one felony under §971.36(3)(a). The justices split 3-2-2. Five of them answered "yes," but did not fully agree on a rationale for that mandate. The justices also disagreed over the role titles play in statutory construction and over whether both appellants in a consolidated appeal must file a petition for review.
Where 5 justices agree. Section 943. 50 is entitled "Retail theft; theft of services." It provides that a person who engages in prescribed acts of retail theft is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, if the value if the merchandise value does not exceed $500 or a Class I felony if the merchandise value is greater than $500 but less than $5,000. Lopez and Rodriguez allegedly engaged in 7 retail thefts worth less that $500 per occurrence but totaling $1,452.12. So the statute suggests that they could be prosecuted for 7 misdemeanor retail thefts.
However, §971.36 is entitled "Theft; pleading and evidence; subsequent prosecutions." It provides that in any case of theft involving more than one theft, all thefts may be prosecuted as a single crime [if various factors are present.] Wis. Stat. §971.36(3). Although §971.36 does not refer to the retail theft statute, five justices seem to agree that it "applies in any case of theft involving more than one theft . . . " Opinion, ¶20. (Emphasis supplied).
The rift among the 5. Justice Ziegler wrote the the majority/lead opinion, and Roggensack and Hagedorn joined her. She devoted several paragraphs to the argument that courts may consider the titles as part of a "plain language of the statute" analysis. Ziegler, ¶¶25-31.
R.G. Bradley, joined by Kelly (except for footnote 2) took issue with Ziegler's reliance on statutory titles in her rationale. Both sides spent a lot of time asking WWGSD (What Would Garner & Scalia Do?). Genuflecting 5 times to the treatise, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, R.G. Bradley argued the Ziegler should have stopped her analysis at that the plain language. Titles are not a part of a statute. By discussing them, Ziegler lent "unwarranted significance to their role in statutory interpretation." R.G. Bradley, ¶40.
Oddly, Kelly joined Ziegler's opinion except for the ¶¶25-31 discussion about use of titles in statutory construction. He also joined R.G. Bradley's concurrence except for the parts where she says she does not join the lead opinion. Kelly, ¶46.
The dissent. Justice A.W. Bradley, joined by Dallet, agreed that titles are not part of a statute and cannot be used to establish a statute's plain meaning. Wis. Stat. §990.001(6). A.W. Bradley, ¶¶59-62. However, she argued that when the legislature used the word "theft" in §971.36(3), it was referring only to "theft" as defined in §943.20. It was not referring to "retail theft." When the legislature wanted to authorize the aggregation of certain types of theft crimes it knew how to do that. For retail theft, it chose not to. . Id. ¶¶65-67.
R.G. Bradley took issue with the Ziegler opinion's use of a consolidated caption in this case. The court of appeals consolidated State v. Lopez and State v. Rodriguez, but Rodriguez did not file a petition for review. Instead she wrote a letter to the SCOW stating that she joined Lopez's arguments. R.G. Bradley accused Ziegler of allowing a non-party to skirt the rules of appellate procedure and saud that this "suggests that the rules of appellate procedure need not be followed." R.G. Bradley, ¶38.
Seriously? Where was that indignation in State v. Jeffrey Denny when the State neglected to preserve a critical issue in its petition for review and the majority decided the point for the State anyway?
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A: I argue that the main reason of your question (hiding the URL of the PDF file) is for security issues.
E.g. you have some PDF files on your server that have to be sent and read only from intended audience and not from everybody.
I give you some basic  hints on how to realize this intent:

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*place the PDF files out of the public root of your webserver

*realize a server side script that:

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*get some parmeters to retrieve the correct file

*serve the file with this server side script content-disposition (as attachment, sending the correct Mime-Type and a "ficticious" URL)

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Add a content-disposition to the header with C#:
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", @"attachment;filename=""MyFile.pdf""");
Then you can display your pdf wherever u wish: blank page, iframe ...
It is sure you'll not find a solution just working with HTML/Javascript, not one of those easly to avoid for a medium level internet user.

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Abuse Inquiry Targets Pasadena's Ex-Chief
Los Angeles TimesThe girlfriend of former Police Department head accused him of beating her but later recanted. He is now living in Virginia and has declined to comment.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is conducting a criminal investigation into whether recently departed Pasadena Police Chief Jerry A. Oliver repeatedly beat his girlfriend while serving as the city's top police official.
The girlfriend subsequently recanted her allegations that Oliver abused her at least seven times between October, 1993, and June, 1994. The description of the physical abuse is contained in a summarized police report obtained by The Times.
Oliver, who resigned from his Pasadena post last month to become police chief of Richmond, Va., declined to comment through a city official there.
In Pasadena, City Manager Philip A. Hawkey said he was aware of the district attorney's probe and has informed City Council members.
"Jerry told me about this last fall," Hawkey said.
Citing policy, a district attorney's spokeswoman refused to confirm or deny whether there is an investigation of Oliver. However, Pasadena's acting city attorney, Cristina L. Sierra, said she had been in recent contact with prosecutors and confirmed the probe is taking place.
Three years ago, Oliver's fourth wife accused him of repeated physical abuse and electronic surveillance during their 14-month marriage, according to divorce records filed in court. Jackie Oliver also made a 911 "family disturbance" call to Pasadena police in the fall of 1991. Oliver denied her allegations.
Oliver, 48, was a popular figure during his four-year stint in Pasadena. Among other achievements, he was credited with pioneering a community policing program and the country's first ammunition registration law.
According to the police report, Oliver struck his girlfriend with his fist, causing a facial injury. In another confrontation listed in the report, she claimed that Oliver hurt her so badly that she needed medical treatment, including a neck brace.
The report said that, in a separate incident, Oliver squeezed the woman's hand so tightly it bled, and that he verbally and mentally abused her throughout their relationship. The alleged abuse occurred during a seven-month period at Oliver's Pasadena house, the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel and other unspecified locations, the report said.
The girlfriend's name was not mentioned in the records obtained by The Times, but Hawkey confirmed that she was the alleged victim.
The girlfriend, a county health worker, did not return several phone calls seeking comment. Sources familiar with the probe said she has refused to help the district attorney's office prosecute the case. Last summer she contacted police about the alleged beatings but has since recanted the allegations, according to Pasadena officials and police records.
However, even if the victim in a criminal case does not file charges or declines to cooperate, authorities can still file charges. In such cases, prosecutors can rely on medical records, eyewitness accounts and other evidence.
Several Pasadena City Council members said they were stunned by the 1- to 2-year-old allegations and were unhappy that they were not told about it by city officials until this week.
"It's unfortunate something like this wasn't told to the entire council. We should have been briefed with more efficiency," Councilman Chris Holden said.
Councilman William Crowfoot said he learned of the domestic violence claims only after recent media inquiries and knew nothing about the district attorney's investigation. Hawkey "didn't tell me this last fall," Crowfoot said.
Hawkey said the Oliver matter was a personnel issue and thus a confidential one. Because of that, Hawkey, who has authority to hire and fire the police chief, said he told only the mayor and the mayor pro tem.
In Virginia, Richmond City Manager Robert Bobb said Oliver told him he had had problems with his girlfriend but did not mention a criminal investigation. "We have to discuss these issues with Mr. Oliver," Bobb said. "If there is something wrong, file charges against him. Don't let it drag out and ruin a person's reputation."
Pasadena officials have refused to release the full June police report, and only confirmed the district attorney's probe Thursday.
On April 4, City Atty. Sierra said the only domestic violence incident she knew about involving Oliver and the girlfriend was a January telephone call to police from a person outside the city asking officers to check on the girlfriend's "welfare" at Oliver's home. No police report was ever filed in that case. On April 20-one day before Oliver left his Pasadena job-Sierra released the summarized police report of Oliver's alleged abuse and acknowledged knowing about the summarized report's existence for a week.
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A frequently rediscovered globular cluster in Scorpius catches Hubble's eye
First discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, the globular cluster known as NGC 6380 is roughly 35,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius (the bright star at the upper left of this Hubble Space Telescope image is much closer, "just" 4,000 light years away). As the European Space Agency points out on its Hubble page, the cluster was independently rediscovered eight years later by John Herschel and then again in 1959 by Paris Pişmiş. Until the 1950s, NGC 6380 was thought to be an open cluster but was recognised as a globular by A.D. Thackeray. Globular clusters are found in nearly all galaxies, and more than 150 have been observed in a roughly spherical halo around the Milky Way. This razor-sharp image of NGC 6380 was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.
NGC 6380. Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
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25 April 2016 Astronomy Now
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the simple beauty of NGC 339, a 6.5-billion-year-old massive intermediate age star cluster that lies in the SMC, a dwarf galaxy some 200,000 light-years away from us. The relationship between such clusters and true globular clusters is not yet fully understood.
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A group of researchers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered a planet-like body that may have been encrusted in limestone and is having its surface layers devoured by its deceased host star. The team found that the rocky material being accreted by the star could be comprised of minerals that are typically associated with marine life processes here on Earth.
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Family Weekend 2019 is Friday and Saturday, October 18th and 19th.
Please direct questions about hockey tickets to Cheel Arena Box Office at 315-268-7750.
Scroll through a few of the images from family weekend 2017.
Family Weekend 2019 is still being planned. Below is a tentative schedule to give you an idea of what to expect. Check back for updates!
Any last-minute schedule changes will be announced on the Clarkson University Parents Assocation Facebook group.
Visit the Student Center Desk to pick up an event schedule, campus map & ask questions.
10 a.m.-7 p.m. | Hockey Ticket Pick-up (Ticket Box Office, Cheel Campus Center) Pick up reserved hockey tickets. NOTE: If you did not purchase a ticket in advance, students and families will have to pay at the box office. Tickets for reserved seating are $13 and standing room tickets are $10. Students may sit in student section for free with ID Friday night game only.
5-11 p.m. | Club 99 Open (Next to Cheel Commons, Cheel) and Bar 9 Open (1st Floor, Student Center) Nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages are available for sale.
7 p.m. | Men's Hockey vs.TBD (Cheel Arena) If you do not purchase a ticket in advance, students and families will have to pay at the box office. Tickets for reserved seating are $13 and standing room tickets are $10. Students may sit in student section for free with ID Friday night game only.
9 a.m.-2 p.m. | Trip with Clarkson University Outing Club to Azure Mountain (Meet in front of Cheel at 8:45, caravan departs at 9 a.m.) Weather permitting.
9 a.m.-7 p.m. | Hockey Ticket Pick-up (Ticket Box Office, Cheel Campus Center) Pick up reserved hockey tickets. NOTE: If you did not purchase a ticket in advance, students and families will have to pay at the box office. Tickets for reserved seating are $13 and standing room tickets are $10. The entire arena is reserved seating and student ID is not valid for this game.
10:30-11:30 a.m. | Meet and Greet with Parent Association (Caporali Atrium, 1st Floor Snell) Please join members of the Parent Association for a coffee hour to learn more about Parent Association activities and how to get involved.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | TARS Open House. Visit Clarkson's first multi-sensor studio: take a virtual trip to your home using our VR system, test out a 3D printer, dance in front of our Kinects. Bring a toy to scan with our 3D scanner and take home its 3D model! TARS, lower level B10-B Snell.
11 a.m.-Noon | Photos with the Golden Knight (Cheel Campus Center, First Floor Kodak Lounge) Have your photo taken with Clarkson's very own Golden Knight!
11 a.m.-1 p.m. | Career Center Drop-In Hours (ERC 2nd floor) Meet the Career Center staff and ask questions! Learn about various services available to your students as well as professional experience opportunities including internships and co-ops.
11 a.m.-3 p.m. | Diversity and Inclusion Open House (Diversity and Inclusion Lounge, 1st Floor Student Center) Enjoy fun games, refreshments, sushi-making and interactive conversations!
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | SPEED Team Demonstrations (Student Center Forum) Students have been hard at work on the Chem E Car and Robotics SPEED Teams (Student Projects for Engineering Experience & Design). Enjoy a live demonstration and learn more about their projects!
11:30 a.m. | Family Fun: Build-A-Buddy (Student Center Multipurpose Rooms) Children can stuff their very own plush animal and decorate a t-shirt for it to wear! Free while supplies last!
2-3 p.m. | Meet & Greet with Faculty & Staff (Student Center Bar 9/Java City) Meet the faculty that teach your student's classes! Chat with the staff who support your student on campus! Representatives from various departments will attend this social hour.
2:30-3:30 p.m. | Studying and Interning Abroad: A Major Component of the Clarkson Experience (Snell 213) Learn how the program works and which universities and organizations we partner with to provide your students with quality international experiences.
3 p.m. | NCAA National Championship Banner Raising and Women's Hockey vs. TBD (Cheel Arena) Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for ages 8-14, and under 8 are free. Students enter free w/ Clarkson ID (one entry per CU ID).
3:30-4:45 p.m. | Student Performances (Student Center Forum) Featuring performances by Clarkson Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Dance Ensemble, Golden Knotes, The Lucky Steppers, and Clarkson Goldies Dance Team!
5:30-5:50 p.m. | Welcome from President Collins (Student Center Forum) President Collins will present current academic programs and curriculum innovations and introduce members of the Parents Committee.
6–6:45 p.m. | Pep Rally (Student Center Forum) Get pumped up with the Clarkson Community for the Men's Hockey game! The Pep Band will perform as well as Clarkson student groups—come see who wins the prized Tommy Award for the best skit!
7:30 p.m. | Men's Hockey vs. TBD (Cheel Arena) Tickets for reserved seating are $13 and standing room tickets are $10. Free open skating 40 minutes after the completion of the hockey game.
If you are planning on attending this year's family weekend and need lodging, we encourage you to make reservations as soon as possible. Please see this link for lodging information: www.northcountryguide.com.


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La risoluzione 359 del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, adottata il 15 agosto 1974, dopo aver preso atto con preoccupazione di un rapporto del Segretario generale sul proseguimento dell'azione militare a Cipro e aver ricordato che la Forza di mantenimento della pace delle Nazioni Unite a Cipro è stata collocata in loco con il pieno consenso dei governi di Cipro, Turchia e Grecia, ha deplorato il fatto che membri della Forza siano stati uccisi e feriti. La risoluzione ha richiesto il rispetto da parte di tutte le parti dello status della Forza e la cooperazione con essa nello svolgimento dei propri compiti in tutte le aree di Cipro.

La risoluzione è stata adottata con 14 voti contrari; un membro, la Repubblica popolare cinese, non ha partecipato al voto.

Note

Voci correlate
 Questione di Cipro
 Risoluzioni del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite (301-400)
 Elenco delle risoluzioni del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite relative a Cipro
 Invasione turca di Cipro

Collegamenti esterni
 Testo della risoluzione su undocs.org

Risoluzioni del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite riguardanti Cipro

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Un turn de veghe este locul care servește în anumite condiții pompierilor sau persoanelor desemnate ca supraveghetori, drept turn de observație pentru apărarea împotriva incendiilor. Acest mijloc a fost folosit mai ales în trecut, actual fiind utilizat doar în unele areale cum sunt cele cu acces dificil, de exemplu unele zone forestiere.

Foișorul de Foc

Foișorul de Foc este un astfel de turn de veghe care a fost folosit de către pompieri până în 1935 când și-a pierdut din importanță, deoarece în București s-au ridicat tot mai multe clădiri înalte și introducerea telefoniei a făcut inutil rolul acestuia. Din 1963 a fost transformat într-un Muzeu al Pompierilor. Clădirea este în prezent monument istoric, cu codul B-II-m-B-18722

Legături externe

Foisorul de Foc
Institutul de Memorie Culturală-Ultimul Foișor de Foc al  Bucureștiului

lupta contra incendiilor
Turnuri


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Dit is een lijst van burgemeesters van de voormalige Nederlandse gemeente Born tot de opheffing in 2001.

Zie ook
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Sittard-Geleen

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After two and a half years of experiencing the world of Visual Communications, the time came to put into practice all the skills I had obtained through many rigorous courses. The objective for my Senior Capstone project was to create and market a company. Because I love bed and breakfasts and I am from the country of Guatemala, I chose to create the Casa Nahual Bed and Breakfast, set in the beautiful colonial town of Antigua Guatemala. The Casa Nahual Bed & Breakfast project presents the complete process of developing and branding a company. This included researching the market and demographics as well as creating marketing materials such as stationary sets, newspaper and magazine ads, posters, merchandise, labels and packaging. The goal was to create something the audience would see as an authentic and professional business. This was an intensely gratifying experience, and my capstone project, gave me a better understanding of what it takes to be a successful graphic designer.