Choose from one of our diaper packages and try to sign up at least a month before your due date. Pay a deposit for your chosen package to ensure availability. About two weeks before your due date your package will be available for pick up from Baby Cotton Bottoms.
You will be required to attend one of our Cloth Diapering 101 Classes prior to picking up your package. This class can be booked in-store or by calling 1-866-77-CLOTH and in complementary with the renting of a diaper package.
All new diapers will be prepped for immediate use if you choose to pay a prep fee with your deposit. Used diapers will be washed and sanitized in our store washer.
Any piece of your package that is defective or no longer useable during your rental period may be returned to BCB for replacement.
Use your diapers for up to twelve weeks, Return your items clean, dry and in good condition. You will receive a deposit back as store credit or a refund. A fee for any diapers that are missing or in unsatisfactory condition will be taken from the deposit.
Can I choose my brands and/or prints?
Unfortunately, no. We have limited availability of various brands, etc. Please choose gender neutral or boyish or girlish prints and colors when you sign up.
No. We ask that you use our detergent for diapers. If we find that another detergent or additive was used and the diapers have residue or damage as a result, you will be responsible for the replacement of the affected diapers.
We will provide washing instructions. Please follow these instructions that coincide with the manufacturer's care instructions. The internet is full of different methods, but we have found our methods to work best in local water conditions and with the brands of diapers provided.
What if I want to keep the diapers when I'm done? You can do that! We will give you the opportunity to buy them at market value at the end of your rental period. Easy. Just let us know.
What if I lose or damage the diapers?
Any diapers that are missing or returned in unsatisfactory condition will be charged at market value. This will generally be taken from your deposit return.
When you decide you want to rent your newborn diapers, you pay the full rental amount. When the package is returned at the end of the 12 week period complete and in good condition, we will refund your full deposit amount in store credit. If you wish a refund to your method of payment, we will refund your deposit minus $25.
All in Ones are very easy to use—almost exactly like disposables. We include a mix of brands and a few doublers for overnights or any longer times for comfort.
This package is great for trying different types of diapers to determine the best for your family. Includes a mix of brands.
Fitted diapers are loved for their protections against "blow-outs" and better absorbency at the front for boys. Trim and super cute!
Prefold diapering is an excellent budget-friendly, "workhorse" option.


At face value the following principles for CEOs appear rather intuitive. However, they're not so simple to follow. Regardless of how "big" you've become, following these principles will keep you grounded in running a business. Enjoy!
1. Study Your Business Model: Don't rest on prior laurels. Many CEOs fall in love with the past and their cozy business models. What made you money in the past will likely become more costly to do with lower revenues in the future. You need to think about cannibalizing your own business model. If you don't, someone else will do it for you.
2. Follow Trends in Other Industries: Study other categories and markets - you will find innovations you can bring to your sector that will position you ahead of the competition. Get a picture of where the world is going and how you plan to be part of this future. Much of your revenue 2-3 years out will come from areas that didn't exist a few years ago.
3. Celebrate Successes More: This isn't done often enough. Companies are often too busy to do so, but it's important that employees feel something good happened. It builds momentum and it's good for the soul.
4. Understand the Problems the Company Faces: Most CEOs hope their problems will go away. As a CEO, my fear is "not knowing" all the problems or issues. You need to unlock them in order to collectively attack them. Lead team meetings that encourage tough questions.
5. Don't Isolate Yourself: Too many CEOs are hermetically sealed; they hide in their offices and avoid the company break room. I've found it's best to listen to real people and find out their needs. If you lose your connection to the people, you eventually lose your way.
6. Reward Execution: Set the bar high and only put people on your leadership team who have audacious goals and an ability to execute. Winning isn't just based on intelligence and talent. Talk is cheap. Execution always wins.
7. Make Corporate Culture a Priority: You are the Chief Culture Officer - if you abandon the role, it will get filled by the noise of the day. Once it's diluted or damaged, restoring the Culture is very, very hard.


↑ "Prakash Raj Openheart with RK ABN Andhrajyothy". YouTube. 6 November 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
↑ "I stopped taking life for granted after my son's death: Prakash Raj". The Times of India. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.


I applied to the in2science program with high expectations due to the great reviews I had heard. I wanted to use the experience to help me decide whether Engineering was the right career for me. I really enjoyed my 2 weeks in the Biomechanics lab at the University of Bath, learning about really interesting research and also working alongside actual PhD students and researchers.
I did some work in the mechanical engineering labs where I learnt how to disassemble and reassemble an engine, how to use CNC machines and how to use laser cutting software. I then specialised into the biomechanics lab where I was introduced to many research projects.
One research project I was shown was looking into pain within the knee. My supervisor, Evelyn Frank, showed me how to prepare and clean bones in a hydrogen peroxide solution. She went on to do a CT scan of the bone that we had prepared and developed the image into a software. From this she will use the model of the bone to simulate a load that occurs whilst walking to see how the material behaves mechanically. It was an incredible experience working alongside Evelyn, helping her with the bone development and learning how to use software like Ansys.
My other supervisor, Sonia Ramos Pascual, is aiming to characterise and understand the biomechanical behaviour of the spine by looking into the properties of the natural, intact intervertebral disc, the degenerated disc and the spine as a whole. She hopes to aid the development of the next generation of artificial discs. I found this research project extremely interesting, especially learning about the machine Sonia is programming and using to characterise the biomechanics of the spine.
Many thanks to everyone in the biomechanics lab at Bath!


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# objcToxBot

[Tox](https://tox.chat/) bot for iOS.

This bot is made for testing [objcTox](https://github.com/Antidote-for-Tox/objcTox) library and [Antidote](https://github.com/Antidote-for-Tox/Antidote). I'm not sure if it would be usable for something else.

## Downloads

1. Clone repo `git clone https://github.com/Antidote-for-Tox/objcToxBot.git`
2. Install CocoaPods `pod install`
3. Open `objcToxBot.xcworkspace` file with Xcode 5+.

## Contribution

Before contributing please check [style guide](objective-c-style-guide.md).

objcToxBot is using [Uncrustify](http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net/) code beautifier. Before creating pull request please run it.

You can install it with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/):

```
brew install uncrustify
```

After installing you can:

- check if there are any formatting issues with

```
./run-uncrustify.sh --check
```

- apply uncrustify to all sources with

```
./run-uncrustify.sh --apply
```

There is also git `pre-commit` hook. On committing if there are any it will gently propose you a patch to fix them. To install hook run

```
ln -s ../../pre-commit.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit
```

## Author

Dmytro Vorobiov, d@dvor.me

## License

objcToxBot is available under the MIT license. See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for more info.

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Харадж — у Османській імперії і других мусульманських країнах — подушний податок з немусульман.

Під час монгольського завоювання Ірану як синонім поняття харадж в законодавстві з'явилося поняття мал, маліят-і арзі, XV—XVII століттях у Середній Азії та Ірані — мал-у джихат.

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Q: How to display membership info and profile on Gridview in ASP.net I can display information of user profile in Gridview, but I can not display Email of users.
plaese you see below my code:
<asp:GridView ID="GridUser" runat="server" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333"
    GridLines="None" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
    <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" />
    <Columns>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="First Name" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="LastName" HeaderText="Last Name" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="UserName" HeaderText="UserName" />
        <%--<asp:BoundField DataField="EMail" HeaderText="E-Mail Address" />--%>
    </Columns>
</asp:GridView>

And in code-behind:
List<object> profileList = new List<object>();
MembershipUserCollection muc = Membership.GetAllUsers();
foreach (MembershipUser mu in muc)
{
    profileList.Add(Profile.GetProfile(mu.UserName));
}
GridUser.DataSource = profileList;
GridUser.DataBind();

Now, How I can display Email of users plus profile of users in Gridview?

A: Create you own entity that inherits from MembershipUser and extend it by adding properties that will hold profile informations. Populate your new entity and then bind it to GridView. This is the cleanest way to do.

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Q: MySql - Adding strings to column values from other column within the same table I have table which include 2 column: title and param, the values are like the following:
-title: Teaching
-params:
{   "ufield926":"34",
    "ufield927":"Sud",
    "ufield928":"Ara",
    "ufield929":"Mecca",
    "ufield930":"1\/1\/1983",
    "ufield933":"011",
    "ufield934":"Mub",
    "ufield943":"SU\/HI\/14",
    "ufield944":"Average",
    "ufield946":"Female"
}

I want to extract the code after "ufield943": which is SU/HI/14 only and concatenate it with the value in title column to be like the following:
--> Teaching (SU/HI/14)
Here is the query I tryingI have tried:
update tbl set title = CONCAT_WS(title,' ', '(' , (select *, substring( params, locate('ufield943', params) + 12, locate('ufield944', params) - locate('ufield943', params) - 15 )),')') from tbl;

I get the following error "ERR_PARSE_ERROR" every time I run the code.

A: Export the table row/s to a csv, upload to google sheets and use the tool 'split text to column' and cleanup the csv.
Import the CSV back to the mysql table.
Hope it helps.


Dr. Newman is one of CED's electrical engineers who along with being a professor at Case Western University, has experience in various engineering subjects. Just some of these subjects include the design and control of intelligent machines, network and control theory, thermal and fluid sciences and the design and control of laser-based sensing, targeting and machining systems.Dr. Newman holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he concentrated in the design and control of dynamic systems. Prior to attaining his Ph.D., Dr. Newman completed his masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and an additional masters degree from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. He is the inventor of 12 patents and has written over 120 technical publications as well as supervising over 75 graduate theses. Dr. Newman is a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and serves as the local chapter chair of IEEE Power and Energy Society.


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Microsoft InfoPath fue una aplicación usada para desarrollar formularios de entrada de datos basados en XML. Su primera publicación, InfoPath 2003, fue como parte de Microsoft Office 2003; después, en julio del 2004, se publicó InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1. La última publicación, Infopath 2013, fue lanzada dentro del conjunto de programas Microsoft Office 2013. Inicialmente se le dio el nombre "Xdocs". La principal característica de Infopath es la habilidad de poder crear y ver documentos XML con soporte para XML Schema. Infopath puede conectarse a sistemas externos usando servicios web XML a través de MSXML y el SOAP Toolkit, back-end y sistemas middle-tier pudiendo configurar la comunicación usando estándares de servicios web como SOAP, UDDI y WSDL. Su última versión es InfoPath 2013; sigue con soporte hasta abril de 2023.

Referencias

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Like many 20something New Yorkers, brunch is a favorite pastime of mine. It was explained to me that "brunch" isn't so much a concept for our Italian counterparts, so let me explain it in a nutshell: Brunch is a midday breakfast/lunch plus social activity that you go to with your girlfriends on the weekends. A little alcohol is involved.
Brunch is serious business in NYC. And Queens Comfort in Astoria, Queens is the most serious of them all: They don't take reservations, they don't take credit cards and they don't serve decaf. They're also BYOB, so you can bring along a bottle of champagne if you so choose.
This place is popular because it's a novelty. The interior has a sort of retro, sci-fi theme. Comic book posters and action figures line the walls. The ambiance is cool and upbeat, with a DJ spinning throwback 90's music and an old movie playing via projector on the wall.
The menu is vaguely Southern-inspired with a healthy dose of comfort food, and is constantly being updated. We split two appetizers, a savory and a sweet. The doughnut of the day, provided by the nearby Donut Diva, was Carrot Cake, and it was truly perfect. The internet favorite Disco Tots did not disappoint: Tater tots with cheese and gravy. Holy moly.
For an entree I got the Egg McRuffin, a fried egg with bechamel, cheddar cheese, and smoked bacon on an English muffin. The food here is outrageous. Outrageously bad for you and oh-so-good.
All in all, a visual, auditory and delicious brunch experience.
Taking inspiration from the U.S., the idea of brunch has gained popularity in Milan for couples and young people that aren't content with the usual Sunday family dinner, but prefer to go out with friends and relatives.
In a walkway along the Naviglio Pavese canal, where last summer saw the building of a new marina, there is a beautiful, picturesque restaurant called Erba Brusca.
The restaurant is nestled in the countryside around the Naviglio, just adjacent to the roads but still rural and scenic. After taking the place of famous club in Milan, L'Osteria del Tubetto, today Erba Brusca is located next to a vegetable garden filled with fresh food that is used to make the dishes they serve.
The interior is rustic and traditional, but the endless choice of wines and homey atmosphere makes the place familiar and cozy.
What makes this restaurant special is not just its unique location, but the appeal of getting to pick right from the garden what you wish to eat. The food is fresh, tasty, and inviting to the both the taste buds and the eyes.
A brunch that reminds you of the countryside, in a restaurant that maintains and preserves its own traditions, but isn't afraid to experiment and try new dishes.
Erba Brusca serves lunch every day on brunch on Sundays, giving customers a chance to try new and tasty food, in addition to a cultural tradition.


This is an interactive multimedia piece combining the visual aesthetics of photo albums and illustration with a series of interactive musical pieces. As each page of the stylized album is turned, new music begins and the listener is invited to "play" the page like an instrument, changing the music, modifying the sounds and creating a unique version of the piece. The interactive input is handled by an Arduino microcontroller, which sends data to a computer running Max/MSP, which does all the audio processing. What you hear in this video directly correlates to the how the user is interacting with the book. The audio has a good amount of binaural information in it, so wear headphones for the full effect. The piece is a collaboration with my husband Shane Myrbeck.


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Heterogeneity in the clastogenic response to x-rays in lymphocytes from Ataxia-telangiectasia heterozygotes and controls.
Wiencke JK; Wara DW; Little B; Kelsey KT
Cancer Causes Control 1992 May; 3(3):237-245
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A coded analysis of X-ray-induced chromatid aberrations in lymphocyte cultures from 45 control individuals and 19 ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) heterozygotes was performed. The distribution of chromatid breaks induced in the late G2 portion of the cell cycle by 60 cGy of X-rays appeared bimodal in the study population. In six controls (13 percent) and in 12 of 19 (63 percent) A-T heterozygotes, the yields of X-ray-induced breaks observed were within the higher mode of the distribution. However, lymphocytes from A-T heterozygotes sensitive to the induction of chromatid breaks by 60 cGy did not contain increased numbers of aberrations following exposure to 20 cGy. The radio-resistant inhibition of DNA synthesis that occurs in A-T homozygotes was not observed in heterozygotes. Co-cultivation experiments showed an increased G2 delay in lymphocytes from an A-T heterozygote whose lymphocytes contained increased X-ray-induced chromatid breaks. The results show a significant association of A-T heterozygosity with G2 chromosomal sensitivity (P less than 0.001; Wilcoxon rank sum test). The measurement of X-ray-induced breaks, however, failed to identify 37 percent of A-T heterozygotes tested. The predicted prevalence of increased sensitivity to X-rays in controls is approximately three- to 30-fold greater than the estimated frequency of A-T heterozygotes in the general population. Therefore, although the increased sensitivity to X-ray-induced chromatid breaks appears to be associated with the A-T-gene, it is not a reliable indicator of A-T heterozygosity. Genetic or environmental factors other than the A-T gene also must be involved in the increased clastogenic response.
Mutagenesis; Humans; Environmental-factors; Genetics; DNA-damage
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Q: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol LIBID_ I am creating a ATL Com DLL .
During the link time I get the following error
dllmain.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol LIBID_ATLProject4Lib
Following are the files involved
stdafx.h
#include "targetver.h"

#define _ATL_APARTMENT_THREADED

#define _ATL_NO_AUTOMATIC_NAMESPACE

#define _ATL_CSTRING_EXPLICIT_CONSTRUCTORS  // some CString constructors will be explicit

#define ATL_NO_ASSERT_ON_DESTROY_NONEXISTENT_WINDOW

#include "resource.h"

#include <atlbase.h>
#include <atlctl.h>
#include <atlcom.h>

ATLProject4.cpp
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "resource.h"
#include "ATLProject4_i.h"
#include "dllmain.h"

using namespace ATL;

class CAppModule :
    public CComModule
{
};

// Used to determine whether the DLL can be unloaded by OLE.
STDAPI DllCanUnloadNow(void)
{
            return _AtlModule.DllCanUnloadNow();
    }

// Returns a class factory to create an object of the requested type.
STDAPI DllGetClassObject(_In_ REFCLSID rclsid, _In_ REFIID riid, _Outptr_ LPVOID* ppv)
{
        return _AtlModule.DllGetClassObject(rclsid, riid, ppv);
}

// DllRegisterServer - Adds entries to the system registry.
STDAPI DllRegisterServer(void)
{
    // registers object, typelib and all interfaces in typelib
    HRESULT hr = _AtlModule.DllRegisterServer();
        return hr;
}

// DllUnregisterServer - Removes entries from the system registry.
STDAPI DllUnregisterServer(void)
{
    HRESULT hr = _AtlModule.DllUnregisterServer();
        return hr;
}

// DllInstall - Adds/Removes entries to the system registry per user per machine.
STDAPI DllInstall(BOOL bInstall, _In_opt_  LPCWSTR pszCmdLine)
{
    HRESULT hr = E_FAIL;
    static const wchar_t szUserSwitch[] = L"user";

    if (pszCmdLine != NULL)
    {
        if (_wcsnicmp(pszCmdLine, szUserSwitch, _countof(szUserSwitch)) == 0)
        {
            ATL::AtlSetPerUserRegistration(true);
        }
    }

    if (bInstall)
    {
        hr = DllRegisterServer();
        if (FAILED(hr))
        {
            DllUnregisterServer();
        }
    }
    else
    {
        hr = DllUnregisterServer();
    }

    return hr;
}

dllmain.cpp
// dllmain.cpp : Implementation of DllMain.

   #include "stdafx.h"
#include "resource.h"
#include "ATLProject4_i.h"
#include "dllmain.h"

CATLProject4Module _AtlModule;

// DLL Entry Point
extern "C" BOOL WINAPI DllMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, DWORD dwReason, LPVOID lpReserved)
{
    hInstance;
    return _AtlModule.DllMain(dwReason, lpReserved);
}

A: In exactly one source file, write #define INITGUID and then #include "ATLProject4_i.h".
If I recall correctly, the wizard generates a file named initguid.cpp that contains just these two lines, and adds it to the project. You seem to be missing yours.
This is how it works. A MIDL-generated header file (typically, IDLFileName_i.h) contains a bunch of DEFINE_GUID invocations. DEFINE_GUID is a macro that expands to a global variable declaration (with extern) when INITGUID is not defined, and to a definition (without extern) when INITGUID is defined.


Okay, I talked about sci fi, now the other side. For me it starts with revealing my little secret – I wrote fanfic for X-Files for ten years (10!!). Like I said, I've always written. What I didn't mention was I never allowed anyone to read anything I wrote – it was just for me.
Then I stumbled across a fanfic story that popped up on my feed. I didn't know any such thing existed. I dived in headfirst. I wrote over 500 short stories, including a 60 chapter novel – After the Future – which got a chapter a month. You do the math, I wrote that thing for five years with monthly installments! Fanfic has no formal editors and quite often it shows, but we had fun!
Talk to me, what abilities would you want to read about (or have yourself)?
Well, for me it came naturally. Both of my parents read extensively – Daddy, sci fi and Momma, Harlequin (I still remember those boxes arriving.).
In third grade my teacher, Mrs. Hickman, allowed us to bring in books to read when we'd finished our work to keep quiet while she helped someone who wasn't finished. One of the books I chose came from Daddy's paperbacks in the basement – Slan by A. E. van Vogt. Okay maybe that wasn't what most third graders would read, but it was about a young boy who was an alien, and I was fascinated. Then Momma found the book in my bag and took it away. I was told that I couldn't take that book to school because, and I quote here, girls don't read science fiction. Well, that sealed my fate. If I wasn't supposed to read it because of my lesser gender, it was the only thing I wanted to read.
Do you remember what led you to the love of reading? Please share – you never know what will inspire someone to pick up a book!
Hi! I'm Donna Steele and I'll be visiting with you here at Supernatural Superlatives now. A little about me – I've been writing my whole life, and I can state that with reassurance now. When Hubby and I downsized and moved to our condo, I found a manuscript I wrote when I was seven! It's never going to see the light of day, but I wrote it, so I've been at this awhile.
I'm celebrating right now. My 23rd book came out June 20. A Different Time is the second in the Guardians of Now series that I'm writing for Soul Mate Publishing. The first in the series, Another Time came out last year and the third, A New Time, is half written. I hadn't written a time travel before so this led to some fun research – medical practices, women's rights, and green energy in 1891. In this second book, they're back but things are not the way they remember them.
Back in a futuristic present following their time travel, Dusty and Dee have a lot to catch up on in their new reality. Things have improved, but people still have their issues. With their child on the way, they think everything will be smoother sailing.
The other influences have different ideas. The Guardians are watching as the offspring heralds monumental changes, and The Malveks plot to discover why a planet they had planned to invade is no longer viable.


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Ryania angustifolia är en videväxtart som först beskrevs av Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Joseph Vincent Monachino. Ryania angustifolia ingår i släktet Ryania och familjen videväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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package org.apache.cassandra.utils;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.sun.jna.Native;

public final class CLibrary
{
    private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CLibrary.class);

    public static final int MCL_CURRENT = 1;
    public static final int MCL_FUTURE = 2;

    public static final int ENOMEM = 12;

    static
    {
        try
        {
            Native.register("c");
        }
        catch (NoClassDefFoundError e)
        {
            logger.info("JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.");
        }
        catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e)
        {
            logger.info("Unable to link C library. Native methods will be disabled.");
        }
    }

    public static native int mlockall(int flags);
    public static native int munlockall();

    public static native int link(String from, String to);

    private CLibrary() {}
}


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Land and Climate
Plant and Animal Life
Transportation, Communication, and Education
Official nameRepublik Österreich (Republic of Austria)
Form of governmentfederal state with two legislative houses (Federal Council [61]; National Council [183])
Head of statePresident: Alexander Van der Bellen
Head of governmentChancellor: Sebastian Kurz
CapitalVienna
Official languageGerman
Official religionnone
Monetary uniteuro (€)
Population(2019 est.) 8,895,000
Population rank(2019) 97
Population projection 20309,113,000
Total area (sq mi)32,386
Total area (sq km)83,879
Density: persons per sq mi(2018) 274.7
Density: persons per sq km(2018) 106.1
Urban-rural populationUrban: (2018) 58.3%Rural: (2018) 41.7%
Life expectancy at birthMale: (2017) 78.9 yearsFemale: (2017) 84.4 years
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literateMale: 100%Female: 100%
GNI (U.S.$ '000,000)(2017) 400,262
GNI per capita (U.S.$)(2017) 45,440
Dirndls (full-skirted dresses) and loden coats (wool jackets) are traditional Austrian clothes.
Toni Schneiders/Bruce Coleman
National anthem of Austria
A small, mountainous country in Central Europe, Austria was once at the center of a great empire and one of the great powers of Europe. Its position at the middle of Europe made it a center of trade, transportation, and culture. Area 32,386 square miles (83,879 square kilometers). Population (2019 est.) 8,895,000.
The Republic of Austria occupies the eastern end of the great mountain ranges of the Alps. The highest peaks are in the western and central parts of Austria. A number of ranges extend west to east with several major river valleys between them. The highest peak is the Grossglockner (12,457 feet; 3,797 meters), located in the Hohe Tauern range. The high ranges of the Austrian Alps are glaciated.
The major lowland areas lie in the northern and eastern parts of the country. The northern lowland is the wide valley of the Danube River, which flows across northern Austria. At the eastern end of this lowland, where the Danube emerges from the mountains into the drier plains, lies the capital city of Vienna. South of Vienna a second area of plains extends to the Slovenian border. These lowlands occupy about 20 percent of the country's total area. North of the Danube is an area of hills that is an extension of a mountain area in the southern part of the Czech Republic.
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A number of rivers, such as the Enns, Inn, Drava, Ill, Salzach, and Mur, flow through the interior valleys of the Alps. These valleys provide conditions suitable for farming as well as for the development of cities and towns. Among a number of Alpine passes, the most important is the Brenner Pass, which connects Austria with Italy. The city of Innsbruck, located in the valley of the Inn, owes its importance to its location at the approaches to the Brenner Pass. The Semmering Pass south of Vienna leads to the northern end of the Adriatic Sea. The largest lake is Neusiedler Lake, south of Vienna. The western tip of Austria lies on the shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee), which borders Austria, Switzerland, and Germany.
The climate of Austria is not uniform throughout its whole territory. The western mountainous region receives considerable moisture from the Atlantic Ocean and thus tends to have higher rainfall and snowfall totals than the east. The difference between summer and winter temperatures is greater in the east than in the west. The interior valleys and the eastern lowlands have the warmest summer temperatures. In the latter area summers have average temperatures of about 68° F (20° C) and winter temperatures of about 29° F (–2° C). In the mountains temperatures decrease with altitude, and the permanent snow line averages between 8,000 and 9,000 feet (2,400 and 2,700 meters). Alpine weather is affected by winds. The most important is the foehn, a warm, dry wind that occurs on the leeward slopes of the mountain ranges. (See also Alps.)
The original vegetation of the Austrian Alps consisted of deciduous trees, such as beech, birch, and oak, on the lower slopes, and coniferous trees, such as spruce, pine, fir, and larch, on the upper slopes. Much of the forest on the lower slopes and on the lowlands has been removed to allow crop farming. A large number of the native species—bears, wolves, and wild swine—have vanished, but there are still marmots, deer, foxes, martens, badgers, squirrels, hares, partridges, pheasants, and a number of other birds. In the high parts of the Alps chamois and a few ibex are found. Above the timberline grow numerous species of berries and flowers, including the rare edelweiss.
About 96 percent of the inhabitants of Austria are German-speaking. The small minority groups include Czechs, Croats, Slovenes, and Hungarians. Dominant in Austrian society, along with German language and culture, is the Roman Catholic religion. The few Protestants and Jews reside mainly in Vienna.
Austrian culture has made many contributions to the world. In particular, several great composers— such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, and Gustav Mahler—have lived or worked in Austria. Austrian writers such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Arthur Schnitzler have made important contributions to German literature. Austrian folk culture is rich in music, dance, arts, and crafts.
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Since the 1970s the growth rate of the population has decreased to near zero, due to a balancing out of the birthrate and the death rate. About 65 percent of the population lives in cities. The largest city by far is the capital, Vienna, with a little more than 1.5 million inhabitants. The second city, Graz, is much smaller, with only about 237,000 inhabitants. Other important cities include Linz, Salzburg, and Innsbruck. (See also Vienna, Austria.)
Because of its large region of mountains only about half of Austria's total area is suitable for farming or pasture. More than one third of its area is forest and woodland, and more than 15 percent is unproductive. More than half of the farmland consists of natural meadows and pastures where cattle, goats, and sheep are grazed. Of the country's agricultural output more than two thirds consists of animal products, especially milk, butter, and cheese. The major grain crops are corn (maize), barley, wheat, and rye. Other important crops include potatoes and sugar beets. Orchards and vineyards are found mainly in the eastern part of the country. The main tree orchard fruits are apples, pears, plums, apricots, and peaches. Wine is produced both for home consumption and for export. A typical farm is small and is usually owned by the family that lives and works on it.
The forest-products industry is important, and about one eighth of Austria's exports consists of timber, timber products, and paper. The country is one of the world's leading producers of coniferous sawn timber. Much of the forest land has been severely overcut, but extensive reforestation and other forest management techniques such as controlled thinning are being encouraged by the government. About one third of the forest land is in small, private holdings, and many of the owners have formed efficient forest-utilization cooperatives.
The lack of energy resources is the weakest aspect of Austria's economy. Austria must import more than 70 percent of its bituminous coal and lignite. It also imports more than 80 percent of its oil and natural gas. Some petroleum and natural gas come from wells east of Vienna. There is a refinery at Schwechat, a suburb of Vienna. Oil from the Middle East is brought by pipeline from Trieste in Italy. Natural gas is imported from Russia by pipeline. Lignite is mined locally in small quantities and is burned to generate electricity. About half of the electricity produced comes from hydroelectric power stations on Alpine rivers and on the Danube. A nuclear power station built near Vienna was protested, and, after a national referendum in 1978, it was not used.
Production of metallic minerals is significant, and Austria mines iron ore, lead, zinc, copper, and magnesite. Iron ore is mined in the southern area of the country. Magnesite is an important export.
Austrian industry is in general characterized by a number of small specialized enterprises, many of them state-owned. The iron and steel industry is important and produces enough for the country's needs and for export. The major plants are at Linz and in the south near the iron ore deposits. The Austrian iron and steel industry expanded rapidly after World War II. There is also a sizable aluminum industry that processes primarily imported aluminum, which is economically feasible because of the abundance of inexpensive hydroelectric power. One of the largest plants in Western Europe is located near Braunau. The chemical industry produces fertilizer, plastics, and synthetic fibers, mainly for use in Austria. The paper industry is important, and cellulose, paper, and cardboard are exported. Other industries include construction, machinery, transportation equipment, electrical equipment, and cotton and wool textiles.
The development of the tourist trade also contributes much to the Austrian economy. The main attractions are the alpine scenery and the skiing resorts in the mountains. Many art and music enthusiasts and historians are attracted to the galleries, concert halls, and museums of Vienna. Salzburg, with its annual music festival, also brings many visitors.
Eberhard Spaeth—© Silvestris
Austria is located at the meeting place of several important transportation routes. In the west is the Brenner Pass to Italy, and in the east is the Danube River, which flows through southeastern Europe. Austria also lies on the land route between the head of the Adriatic Sea and the Danube Plain.
Austria has a good railroad network, half of which is electrified. There are several mountain railroads and many cableways and chair lifts that provide access to the high slopes for skiers and hikers. Austria also has several four-lane highways that are connected to the German and Italian road networks and permit easy access to the country for tourists. The two most important river ports are Vienna and Linz. The national airline links Vienna with many cities of the world.
Austria has a well-organized postal and telegraph network, as well as a state radio and television service. All of these services are controlled and operated by the Post and Telegraph Administration.
The Austrian educational system is based on compulsory, free education for all children between the ages of 6 and 15 in a variety of primary and secondary schools. There are six universities, located at Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Krems. They are particularly noted for their technical and medical schools and clinics. Austria has produced Nobel prizewinners in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was an Austrian.
Austria is a federal republic, consisting of nine democratic states, known as Bundesländer. The states of Niederösterreich (Lower Austria), Oberösterreich (Upper Austria), Steiermark (Styria), Tirol (Tyrol), Kärnten (Carinthia), Salzburg, Vorarlberg, and Burgenland have their own capitals and legislative assemblies. The federal capital, Vienna, is also a state.
The country is governed under the constitution of 1920, as amended in 1929, which gives the federal government considerable political and economic power. The residual powers are left to the provincial governments. The federal president is elected by popular vote for a term of six years. He is the head of state, but his power is largely limited to appointing the chancellor (head of government) and the Cabinet ministers. The legislature consists of a lower house, the National Council (Nationalrat), and an upper house, the Federal Council (Bundesrat). There are two major political parties, the People's party and the Social Democratic party. The former is, in general, a conservative party representing businessmen and farmers, and it has the unofficial support of the Roman Catholic church. The Social Democrats count on the support of industrial workers.
The present nation of Austria is the remnant of a once-powerful empire that controlled a large area of central and eastern Europe. With the breakdown of the empire of Austria-Hungary after World War I, Austria found itself only one eighth of its former size. (See also Austria-Hungary.)
This sudden reduction from world power to a small and relatively weak country was a major blow to the Austrian people. In 1918 the German members of the imperial parliament declared the formation of an Austrian nation consisting of the German-speaking areas of former Austria-Hungary. This new republic, however, was threatened by Communist attempts at a takeover along with the attempts by several of the provinces to break away and form independent states.
The republic in its early days wished to be united with Germany, but this was expressly forbidden in the World War I peace treaty signed with the Allies in 1919. The main task of the government was the restoration of the economy, which was in chaos. Although economic conditions improved considerably in the 1920s, the internal political situation did not, due to a continuous confrontation between the Socialists and right-wing groups. Many people turned to the Nazi party after a financial crisis in 1931 discredited the major parties. The Christian Socialist party under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was attacked by both the left and right, and in 1934 the conflict led to a brief civil war. In the same year the Nazis attempted to take over the government by force and murdered Dollfuss. The leaders of this attempt were arrested, and the new chancellor tried to resist Nazi Germany. In 1938 the Germans marched into Austria and declared a union, or Anschluss. Renamed Ostmark by the Nazis, Austria fought World War II as part of the Axis powers.
In 1945 Austria was divided into zones of occupation by the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. Economic problems retarded the recovery of the country, but by the early 1950s considerable prosperity had been restored. In 1955 the four countries signed a treaty with the Austrian government and removed their troops. Austria was prohibited from union with Germany and undertook to maintain a democratic political system. The constitution was amended to make the nation neutral. Austria was admitted to the United Nations in 1955.
Controversy erupted during Austria's 1986 presidential election when candidate Kurt Waldheim, former secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), was accused of participating in war crimes while serving in the German army during World War II. Despite this, Waldheim won the election.
Austria's neutrality had prevented it from joining the European Communities (EU; formerly the European Communities) or any major European military organization. With the end of the Cold War, this situation changed (see Cold War). Austria was a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). In 1991 the EFTA signed a free-trade agreement with the EU, and in June 1994 Austrians voted overwhelmingly to join the EU in 1995.
Elections to the European Parliament held in Austria in October 1996 yielded results that raised concern throughout Europe, as the rightist Freedom party claimed 28 percent of the popular vote. The Freedom party finished third in the elections, behind the conservative People's party, which won 29.7 percent of the vote, and Chancellor Franz Vranitzky's Social Democratic party, which received 29.5 percent of the vote. Critics warned that the surprising success of the Freedom party in the largely symbolic elections placed the party on course for a strong showing in future Austrian parliamentary elections.
The Freedom party, led by Jörg Haider, won over its largely working-class constituency by campaigning against immigration, government corruption, and a United Europe. Under Haider, the Freedom party reinvented itself and supposedly cast aside its neo-Nazi undertones; however, Haider raised more than a few eyebrows when he spoke, in terms reminiscent of Third Reich rhetoric, of a need to create a "Europe of fatherlands." In a speech following the elections, Haider spoke about the dangers of immigration and blamed Turkish immigrants for the increase of criminal activity in Austria. He warned that a unified Europe combined with loose policies of immigration would lead to the loss of jobs for Austrian workers.
Austria: A Country Study(U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1994). Jelavich, Barbara. Modern Austria: Empire, and Republic 1815–1986 (Columbia, 1987). Robertson, Ian. The Blue Guide to Austria, 3rd ed. (Norton, 1992). Sully, M.A. A Contemporary History of Austria (Routledge, 1990). Sweeny, J., and Weidenholzer, J. Austria: A Study in Contemporary Achievement (Ashgate, 1988).


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"I feel like I'm a basketball player, talking about 'I came away with a W,'" The Voice winner Javier Colon told Rolling Stone at the hit singing competition's season finale red carpet event. Everyone on the red carpet was singing Colon's praises, from his coach Adam Levine and country star Miranda Lambert to Train frontman Pat Monahan, who says the singer might be "the next Babyface." "I actually wasn't disappointed," says runner-up Dia Frampton. "I was the person backstage who, while Javier while singing with Stevie Nicks, was bawling. So I'm a fan."
Before the season finale, Rolling Stone caught up with each of the show's superstar judges to talk about their experience being part of The Voice's phenomonal first year. Christina Aguilera talked about how the show has impacted her own music, Cee Lo Green said he joined the show to reveal aspects of his personality that don't always come across in his stage persona, Blake Shelton explained that he was originally unsure of becoming part of the series and Adam Levine expressed his belief that the show has a magic that separates it from reality television.
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Around the time FNM reunited (sans Jim), there was this band that published an "open letter" regarding to that they wanted to be the opener on FNM's tour. They had a song on youtube, I THINK the song was called "diamonds encrusted" or something like that (I can't for the life of me remember the name of the band). I remember that I liked the tune, but now I can't find it. Can anybody help me with this? It would be much appreciated!


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Checking in – the hospitality trends powering the industry's covid-19 recovery
Sarah Cole | 09/11/20
Like non-essential retail, hotels and hospitality venues have had to close once more during the second national lockdown in England. But before the lockdown, many were already at the forefront of pivoting their business models.
This not only helped support their communities during the first wave, with many opening up their rooms to exhausted key workers, but has helped their businesses explore new formats and services to meet emerging demands.
As hospitality businesses look ahead to reopening on 2nd December, we look at how the sector is adapting to these new trends and opportunities to keep their doors open.
Workspitality
With ONS figures suggesting almost a quarter of the UK population is now working exclusively from home, it seems the home working revolution has begun, and hotel firms have been quick to offer remote working spaces as part of their services.
Accor, for example, has begun building in modular workstations, converting rooms into offices for daily uses by employees who don't want to work from home or need a break from the at-home office set-up. The 'home office' concept allows customers to book their own hotel room, at a discounted rate, for an uninterrupted, premium remote working experience. Their "office" is then available between 9am and 6pm and, during that time, guests can also enjoy in-room amenities and comforts, including room service. It has now rolled out its new 'Hotel Office' concept to 320 hotels in Europe since August.
Biodiversity bubbles
Some hotels have also stepped up to support professional sporting teams as they form biodiversity bubbles. Take for example Toronto's iconic Fairmont Royal York hotel, which became the home of the National Hockey League bubble for the Eastern conference. While this provided an ideal opportunity to diversify their offer before fully reopening to the public, it came with its own new logistical challenges.
For instance, every day, each staff member had to take a COVID-19 test, check in via a health screening app and take their temperature, with all the data feeding into one central system.
"If you had said to me a year ago that I was going to have an app that our 1,000 colleagues would use every day as a checkpoint before moving forward, I would have said pretty aggressively, 'that's not going to happen,'" said Edwin Frizzell, the Royal York's General Manager, speaking at AxoniCom LIVE 2020, the event from Axonify that shares smarter strategies for building a resilient frontline workforce.
"In 2020, we made that happen with about seven days' notice. We trained everyone on the technology, implemented it and executed it for 30 days without issue," he said. While technology will never replace the human connections at the heart of hospitality, Frizzell predicts this will be a watershed moment: "I think, moving forward, we'll see a renewed focus on integrating technology into the hotel environment."
Virtual experiences replace on-site events
Like many retailers, hoteliers have also turned to tech and embraced digital experiences to replace in-person activities across their sites. Instagram cooking masterclasses with Italian chefs, digital concert series on Zoom and virtual kids' camps, are just some of the virtual schemes hotels are now building into their services.
Contact-free experiences
"We're also seeing innovation with technology for 'high-touch' guest engagements, which have been very well received," Richard Hyde, managing director of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, told Travel Weekly.
It's Canal House hotel in Amsterdam has launched a new app that controls in-room facilities and communicates directly with hotel staff, while its Rockliffe Hall hotel in Darlington has created a Spa in a Box concept, that allows guests to safely treat themselves to a contact-free skincare treatment.
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El pastor mentiroso es una fábula atribuida a Esopo, con una moraleja que advierte contra la mentira y el abuso de confianza.

En España y Latinoamérica, se menciona a veces como  el cuento de Pedro y el lobo, por referencia al cuento musical homónimo (1936) de Sergéi Prokófiev, que tiene un argumento diferente. También ha sido editado en numerosas ocasiones con el nombre de Juan y el lobo. De este cuento se ha extraído la célebre frase ¡Que viene el lobo! como símil de amenazas infundadas.

Historia
Un joven pastor cuidaba de su rebaño de ovejas en las cercanías de un pequeño pueblo. Un día se le ocurrió hacer una broma a los habitantes del lugar, así que acudió al sitio alarmado gritando que se había encontrado con un lobo, y que sus ovejas corrían peligro. Esto preocupó a todos los habitantes, que se dispusieron a ayudarlo. Corriendo, lo siguieron hasta el lugar en donde había avistado al supuesto lobo, pero se encontraron que solo era una broma. Tiempo después el pastor se halló con un verdadero lobo que lo amenazó con sus feroces fauces. Aterrado, acudió al mismo pueblo buscando ayuda, pero esta vez los habitantes creyeron que era otra de sus bromas, y no salieron a ayudarle. El lobo devoró las ovejas y se llevó algunas, dejando al pastor aterrado y arrepentido de haber bromeado con algo tan alarmante.

Moraleja

"En boca de un mentiroso, lo cierto se hace dudoso".

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El pastor mentiroso
Lobos de ficción
Metáforas referentes a lobos


Jay is a born and bred Somerset boy and had moved to my hometown in Essex just weeks before we met. At the time we were both working in local tattoo studios and I'd gone to where he worked to book in.
Everything is just so chilled and easy, nothing is a chore and Jay supports me whole-heartedly and always encourages me to be free and do what makes me happy. He's the life of the party and we have an unreal group of friends and family. We are both surrounded by a lot of love and feel so lucky.
We both live and work in Essex now. I work in a tattoo studio really close home, Jay has a business of his own alongside a whole list of crazy hobbies to keep him busy and when we've had enough we escape to visit his family on Somerset or to my dads caravan in Kent.
My day to day look is very relaxed, mostly band tee shirts with baggy jeans or leather trousers. If I could get away with wear my pjs to work I would although I do love any excuse to get really dressed up and put on some heels. I'm really into high fashion looks with anything oversized and I love mixing textures and layering.
I found my wedding dress with the help of Katy Headley at Ghost Orchid in Hessle. I knew I wanted to steer away from classic bridal it was also important for me to have a long sleeve dress to cover my tattoos because I feel really under dressed with them on show.
The Meghan dress was actually the first gown I tried on and I knew right away. The fact that I could customize the back with the fringe was a deal breaker and got the most compliments on the day.
Our wedding vibe was heavily influenced by our love for religious renaissance and Baz Lurhmans Romeo+Juliet movie. The initial idea was to do a classic kitsch Las Vegas day but we're both so close to our families and worried it would have been a regret not to have everyone there on the day. With that we settled on a casual/informal setting in London.
Fave thing about your day?
We scrapped a lot of the traditional post wedding stuff, we just wanted to unwind and party with everyone. Food by Lucky Chip burgers was passed around at intervals throughout the night to keep everyone going rather than a seated meal and my dad gave our only speech later on after a lot of tequila shots. Having all our friends and family together celebrating with us was the best bit.
Marriage to me is about support and teamwork. Growing together, making mistakes and learning from them, my relationship with Jay has been one huge learning curve. We've both taught each other so much about ourselves, he knows me better than I do! It's important to scrap the idea of a fairytale relationship and be open to take on challenges together.
My advice to future brides would be to take everything in your stride. Things might not completely go as planned but everything happens for a reason, remember what you're here for and relax. Don't let the stress of planning steer you away from why you're doing it.
It's still so surreal! I don't feel like a wife but what's supposed to change?
We've been together for 7 years, 6 of them living together and two engaged so in my mind I'd already adjusted.
We went straight onto our honeymoon the week after the wedding. For the first time since we've been together we totally switched off from life at home which was great and very hard to come back down from cloud nine on our return home.


The letters 'IPO" have all but disappeared from the vocabularies of most software CEO's, but white hot Recruitsoft has quietly become one of only a handful of private companies with a serious chance at a successful public offering in the near future. The company has zoomed from 2 employees to nearly 400 staff, over 150 marquis customers, and GAAP profitability in under four years. Amazingly, by the time Bain Capital began evaluating Recruitsoft as an investment opportunity, there were already dozens of vendors vying for leadership in the hot new segment of 'human capital management'. Traditional venture capital wisdom dictates that cluttered categories are to be avoided at all costs; yet something compelled Bain Capital's partners to pull the trigger. Shortly thereafter, Recruitsoft began leaving competitors behind as Fortune 500 customers flocked to it's enterprise talent management platform in droves. Angel Mehta, Managing Director at Sterling-Hoffman, chats with Recruitsoft's execution-obsessed CEO Louis Tetu about how the 'McKinsey of Human Resources" became a market leader.
Angel Mehta:	Let's talk about the concept of supply chain management principles being applied to the human capital management world, which seems to be the vision that Recruitsoft is building. Where did it come from?
Louis Tetu:	The existing idea prior to Recruitsoft's founding in 1999, in any corporation, was that the CEO should always focus on better deploying their assets as a means to maximize the return on assets. The idea with Recruitsoft is that the same principles could be applied to deploying the workforce…that given the constant changes in demand for work within an organization, there is always a way for corporations to be more agile and more efficient with regards to how human capital is deployed. So the idea was to start a company around that theme - with staffing at the core of it because ultimately, staffing is where you actually run the process of assigning people to jobs.
Angel Mehta:	You came out of the supply chain business – after selling your company to BAAN in 1995, as I recall - so when and how did you start to get passionate about the concept of 'human capital management' as an emerging sector?
Louis Tetu:	Prior to Recruitsoft, I was an angel investor in a job board business. In looking at that business, we realized that the job board business was a media play. We were more familiar with business models related to enterprise applications. So we decided to exit the media play and build a business plan for an application instead. We started with about 4 people and zero revenues…so we've come a long way.
Angel Mehta:	Moving from an early stage genesis scenario, growing exponentially to the level you're at now with 400 employees and what not…it's a pretty serious transition…especially over a 3 – 4 year period…did you find it difficult? How has your role changed?
Louis Tetu:	Initially, when you start a company you are physically responsible for both setting and executing the strategy. So I spent a lot of time in the field…talking to large corporations, understanding their needs, forming strategic partnerships and evolving the software and services. I spent a lot of time in the field with various industry pundits, trying to carve out a marketing strategy…all that kind of stuff. And of course, like you said, the role has changed. Obviously due to the sheer size of the organization at this point… it's the textbook business problem, in a small, entrepreneurial company, you as an executive can watch and follow every single detail. Eventually, you need to make the transition to a company that relies more on processes…document those processes, and institutionalize business processes that let the company become more scaleable. Although, it's important to never leave quality behind – which I think we've been able to do very effectively. So today my role is extremely focused on strategy…trying to understand how the industry will evolve…and make sure that we plan accordingly. I'm certainly stronger in that area, so I guess you could say it's more fun.
Angel Mehta:	Let's talk a little bit about market drivers. To what extent do hiring trends correlate to demand for Recruitsoft's solution?
Louis Tetu:	To a certain extent it does, but there is not an exact, direct correlation only because companies realize that staffing, or more specifically the process of assigning people to jobs, doesn't only have to do with external hiring (in other words, hiring of new employees from outside the company). Companies realize that it has just as much to do with mobility. It's not only about how you select new people - it's about how you redeploy your own employees. It's about how you're able to optimally deploy your workforce – the people who work for you – as the means by which your organization delivers and responds to change. So in fact we had a number of companies buying from Recruitsoft who were actually shrinking – actually laying off employees. Yet, they've still implemented quality processes around how they fill positions and how they manage the overall staffing process. Even companies undergoing M&A have pushed forward with rolling out our platform.
Angel Mehta:	The biggest problem ISV's have faced over the last 2 years is convincing buyers that their offering is a 'need to have', not just a 'nice to have'…I was talking with Terry Garnett from Venrock a few months ago and he was describing how even now, you've got 400 public software companies with their sales organizations calling on the same customers – so it's just way too hard to get the attention of any given company with an idea for an enterprise software project. That said, Recruitsoft has grown consistently over the last 2 years….so how are you getting attention from buyers?
Louis Tetu:	Look, the companies we provide solutions to are very large corporations that hire at a minimum 1,000 people a year, all the way up to 50,000 people a year – our largest client does that. We have clients like Hewlett-Packard and Procter & Gamble who hire north of 10 000 people per year. So those companies realize that it's not only a "Nice to Have" - it's absolutely a "Must Have". They are now very educated on the costs and unfavorable implications of a low-quality staffing process as opposed to a high-quality process. So on one hand, you can argue that staffing drives more value to the organization in terms of better staffing processes, better productivity, better retention, etc. It's easy to conceptualize, but it's hard to quantify. What is easy to quantify is the cost of non-quality associated with a large amount of variance in the staffing practices of a global company. Industry in general recognizes that process variance is a source of non-quality in everything, whether it's in manufacturing, distribution, service or whatever – it's also true in staffing. So the idea and the whole notion of being able to implement systematic and consistent staffing practices goes a long way in terms of eliminating non-quality in staffing. Lack of quality in staffing actually lowers earnings…it means lower return on assets, and substandard customer service, which can also unfavorably impact a company's brand. When we quantify those measures for the types of clients we deal with, it's typically millions, if not tens of millions of dollars in costs. So it's a little bit like applying ISO 9000 or Six Sigma to staffing.
Angel Mehta:	The market for talent management software was originally quite cluttered…in most cases like that, the incumbent…like the larger ERP players tend to enter a market that's getting a lot of hype and the smaller players get squeezed out. In this case, Recruitsoft has really emerged as the dominant player….so how did you do it? In other words, why do you win?
Louis Tetu:	As it relates to winning new deals, I think we are very good at picking the battles we want to engage in. We run our company with the fundamental principle that everything is thoroughly analyzed and strategic. And of course, we strive to execute flawlessly once we've decided to engage. Sometimes we win just because our competitors execute poorly. But the key is the analysis on the front end. What is the game we should be in? Why do we know we can win that battle? I think that's been a big part of it – thinking through our options before charging in to the battle.
Angel Mehta:	To some degree that contradicts the notion of 'ready, fire, aim' that so many entrepreneurs and even CEO's seem to favour, doesn't it? I mean, there is a philosophy in business that says you have to execute without all the analysis and data up front because things happen so fast. So when you talk about the importance of analysis at Recruitsoft…I guess I'm interested in whether you've recognized any major victories that came about purely by accident, rather than as a result of deep analysis on the front end?
Louis Tetu:	Angel, long term, I don't believe in things happening by accident. But I can point to a short-term win or two….as an example, when Recruitsoft started to become a more prominent solution in the industry a couple of years ago, many of our clients also wanted to leverage the power of Recruitsoft's Structured Talent Definition Platform to manage internal mobility. In the beginning, many customers and the industry as a whole was a little more focused on using solutions for external recruiting We were positioning Recruitsoft primarily as a solution to manage external hiring…so that's probably a good example right? Our platform, however, was designed to support both internal and external hiring from the beginning. Clients also saw the opportunity to leverage the platform in the form of kiosk….to make it available for internal use…a tool for their own employees within the organization. Either using kiosks or by simply applying online, its allows employees at these organizations to manage their 'ideal job profile'. Our platform is used as a means to facilitate the process of an existing employee finding a new opportunity within the company by simply entering a skills-based profile. A huge problem for employees in many companies is that, without the right processes, it's actually easier to find a job OUTSIDE of the company they work for, as opposed to an opportunity inside their own company. So that's a great example of an application that was supported on our platform without any planning or analysis from our side.


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Fist of Liberty
UPDATE Oct 15, 2019: This game is on hold indefinitely. While I had some fun play test sessions, I realized the reason the games were fun more had to do with my ability to run a good session and not because the rules supported fun play. There is still some good in there which I may repurpose or release in some form at some point.
Introducing a new game I'm working on called Fist of Liberty!
Fist of Liberty is a tabletop roleplaying game about normal people attempting to overthrow the oppressive state. Inspired by such dystopian classics such as 1984 and Brave New World, and films like eTHX-1138, Brazil, Max Headroom, Idiocracy, Equilibrium, and The Hunger Games. It is a one shot game designed to be played in 4-6 hours. Every game of Fist of Liberty is different as it starts with a fast cooperative world building and character building session!
The game mechanics for Fist of Liberty are inspired by the excellent game Soth by Steve Hickey and also by Apocalypse World. If you haven't played either I highly recommend both!
I've already started play testing the game. Several of the play tests happened at Big Bad Con 2017 which were a whole lot of fun and very instrumental in helping me improve the game and develop it further. I will be running additional play test sessions sometime soon so if you are interested in joining please drop me a line at info@mirthpeddlers.com
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With the Kickstarter release of Graham Walmsley's Cthulhu Dark, I've finally gotten around to finalizing my Lacuna Dark game hack, for playing a more horror focused version of Jared Sorensen's wondrous oddball game Lacuna Part 1 – The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City!
Lacuna Dark adapts the Cthulhu Dark rules for the sole purpose of enhancing the personal otherworldly horror of Lacuna. While Blue City does have it's monsters, with it's Spidermen and Hostile Personalities, Lacuna Dark works best when focused on the surreal ominous nature of Blue City and it's eerily banal imaginary inhabitants.
Lacuna Dark is available as a pay what you want downloadable PDF. I'm not charging for this PDF as it relies heavily on the design and content of Lacuna. It contains no setting info and requires Lacuna to play.
HeckaPoker
Last year, I jumped on the Kickstarter for the Heckadeck by Travis Nichols. I was sold by the ridiculous of it all and the simple yet wonderful illustrations. I've broken them out a few times but never really got to play a full game with them until yesterday. Of course with all the weird cards — like Beasts, Zeros, The Crone, and Octogons — the first question is what the heck do you play with the Heckadeck? My answer to this is Heckapoker!
How to Play Heckapoker
Heckapoker is plays like normal straight poker with each player dealt a hand of five cards. All of the relatively normal cards (even of the extra suits) are act like normal poker hand cards. If you have a hand with a weird card, like Beasts, or Zeros, or the Crone, and you are the first to play such a card you get to come up with the rule for how that card works. That rule then persists throughout the rest of that game — of course these new game rules vanish as soon as the cards are put away so that each time Heckapoker is plays it is a different game.
Possible examples:
Beasts can fit in-between Jacks and Queens but don't have to
Travelers are useless straights as they work alone but they have a special power where they can be traded with any other card from another person's hand
Arrow cards automatically can fit between any split cards to create a straight (2,3,arrow,8,9 is a straight), if the arrow color matches as well as the other cards suits match then it can work as a straight flush.
The Crone automatically invalidates everyone's hand; all bets in the pool are kept until next hand sweetening the next hand's pot.
Octagons can transform the numbers and letters on cards by reducing them to their individual lines and reforming them. For instance, an A can become a 4 or vice versa.
Darkness forces one other player to discard a card of your choice
As you can see, sometimes rules may interfere with people's poker hands and thus require knowing who plays their hand first, play order is by whomever placed the last highest bid and then goes clockwise around the table.
Wagering for Words
Of course while you could play for money the traditional wager when playing Heckapoker — a tradition I started as of yesterday — is to wager for words. For instance, the first player may bid "Shoe" and the next player may agree to wager the word "Shoe" and then call or see that bid and raise it with the word "Burrito", the third player may then call or raise or fold before adding words to the pot to avoid loosing the words.
The person who wins gets to keep using the words that were bid!
The loser has to lost the words and must avoid using any words they lost for the remainder of the day!
A devilish player may choose to raise with the word "Cards" or "Raise" forcing players to restrict their vocabulary or use alternate words when talking.
Any words that were already bid in a game cannot be bid again in order to avoid overlap with players who already lost said word.
Compound words are treated like different words as long as they have conceptually different meanings: for instance, a player who lost the word "Card" can still use the word "cardboard"
Of course, a player could fold right out of the gate every time before putting their words in the pot, never risking loosing any words, thus in a sense "winning" but where is the fun in that?!
Where to get the Heckadeck
I highly recommend picking up a Heckadeck. You can buy Heckadeck online and other great comics and stuff from Travis Nichols site More Lie Publishing. And when you do buy it you will get a special card that you must DESTROY! Here is my video I created of me destroying the #destroythiscard
I was inspired and made a micro rpg game for David Schirbun's awesome #200WordRPG challenge called THE RAVER AND THE BEAR! You should check out the 200 Word RPG Challenge site as there are some amazing entries. I especially love LoveInt and Holding On and KillByNumbers but I've honestly barely scratched the surface of all the entries.
UPDATE!!! NEW RAVER AND THE BEAR – ECLECTIC HIPSTER EXPANSION with rules for advanced play with the dangerous finicky hipster bear.
THE RAVER AND THE BEAR is available for download as a print-n-play PDF as a pay what you want game!
Actual Play Video
Actual play video from Big Bad Con 2015!
HE RAVER AND THE BEAR FAQ
Once the DJ starts playing, does the bear's first check start from anywhere in particular or wherever the bear decides?
The Bear's first check starts as soon as the second album is put on.
I'm still confused about what order is correct vs reverse vs out of order can you explain it better? Think of the albums as positions on a clock but unlike an analogue clock this clock only has 5 positions on it (1-5) and once it reaches the last position it goes to the first position. The Bear places one album on each position. Let's say there are 5 records A,B,C,D,E and the Bear preferred play order is clockwise in this order C>E>B>A>D (since this is a clock it continues and D>C… etc.). Now if the DJ plays C and then E it is in the right clockwise order and the Bear is happy, If the DJ plays C then D then it is in the wrong anti-clockwise reverse order and the Bear is angry and mauls them. If the DJ plays C and then either B or A then the Bear is annoyed as is out of order and the Bear growls
After the DJ gets mauled the first time, should the bear start from the original start place? When the DJ get's mauled they just put on another record — either one they played before or a new one. There is no "start place" for the Bear's music order preferences as it's a continuous circle. Let's say the Bear's preferences are B, A, C, E, D — then the DJ can "win" by playing in a row consecutively B, A, C, E, D or A, C, E, D, B or C, E, D, B, A or E, D, B, A, C or D, B, A, C, E. Probably better way of thinking about it is the DJ needs to make the bear happy 4 times in a row by playing albums in the right order.
UPDATE Oct 15, 2019: Development for this game is back underway after a long hiatus! I was inspired by the game Bluebeard's Bride to completely revise the game centered around the life of a single Hero, with all the players acting as aspects of the Hero's humanity. I ran this game at Big Bad Con 2019 and it went great. I will be doing more playtesting in the coming months. If you are interested in playtesting contact me at info@mirthpeddlers.com
UPDATE Jan 28, 2017: The development for this game is on hiatus. I ran a number of play test sessions and while they were fun overall the game wasn't quite working. I have some vague ideas for how to redesign the game but it is on hold.
I had a inspiration the other day that superhero games are boring as they only tell the day to day banal tales of laser beam shooting out of peoples eyes. Wouldn't it be great to tell the full story of what having real power is like? What it's like to be heroes like Dr Manhattan with powers so beyond mere mortals that it's hard to relate to anyone or anything?
The game Unstoppable Power is a one-shot storygame that tells the story of normal people who gain superpowers. And how this 'gift' of true power transforms them until they can no longer can relate to the world or people they once knew, and likely leaving irrevocable harm in their wake.
The game mechanics are pretty honed in — simple and designed to help support the story of people facing their own Unstoppable Power. I've run a solo play of the game to test the system and it worked great. Next step is running real playtests which is happening soon. If you are interested in play testing Unstoppable Power you can contact me at info@mirthpeddlers.com
Here's a quick overview summary of the story that the game told in my solo playtest…
The story started as Sonny, a retired hit man fighting to save his kidnapped boyfriend. He died in a massive gun battle yet then rose from death as a silent shadow enshrouded assassin — first taking revenge, then fighting crime mostly because he was bored. Time passed and he drifted away from all he once was transforming into a being known only as Operation Shadow by the US government. Project Shadow worked with the Pentagon and CIA to target ISIS — an operation that succeeded in destroying ISIS yet caused massive collateral damage and worldwide outrage. Shunned by a coalition of world governments, the world spanning essence of shadow known as Project Shadow to some and the Dark Djinn to others has the power to destroy entire nations. In fact it accidentally wiped Syria off the map — it was only trying to help! Feared and truly disconnected from the people of the world, it decides for esoteric reasons all it's own to leave Earth. During a lunar eclipse, it steps to the moon and breaks off a piece the size of the Mount McKinley, then gets on and aims it at the black hole at the center of the Galaxy. A small shadowy part of it however stayed behind on Earth to possess — no possess isn't the right word — to become one with the old boyfriend (his boyfriend?) who was all but left behind so many years ago.
There was a lot more detail I left out, but yeah that's the kind of wow story you can tell with Unstoppable Power in only a single one-shot game!


Sometimes I'll create a discussion in my classroom that will not only be part of an English lesson but a way for me to learn Chinese culture. One of my topics was to discuss whether working hard for a better future or working less for a better today was more suitable for their current lives. There was, of course, no answer to this and the responses were mixed. Many said the Chinese traditional way is to work as hard as possible for their future of marriage, jobs, and a steady life. Most of my students would not hesitate to get married this instant. They're about 20-years old. I simply wanted a relaxed discussion in English. It created interesting responses but one response in particular caught my attention which was that Money is Unlimited but Life is Limited.
This got me thinking of the life I chose for myself. When I worked for corporate America, I was living for tomorrow. I was setting a path for a better future because I was programmed to think I didn't have enough. The norm was to rise up the corporate ladder and so I did. It still wasn't enough. As I made more money, I needed more money. Moving apartments and the ever growing amount of bills felt never ending. All this made me stop living for the moment and worry too much of what I would have in the future.
I am not saying not to prepare for your future but rather to balance your life. Simply, to remember that you are breathing today. You can use travel to re-shape your life.


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New organisers for London Pride
It has been announced that London LGBT+ Community Pride will take responsibility for London Pride for the next five years.
The group took part in a bidding process last October following the financial difficulties faced by the previous organisers just days before World Pride.
Co-chairman of London LGBT+ Community Pride Michael Salter said: "We're delighted with the support we've already had for our bid from the community but the hard work starts now. We have 115 working days to raise the funding required, finalise plans and make our vision a reality. We've already begun working with community groups and sponsors and now we are looking for motivated individuals to get involved and join the small army of volunteers that are essential to making Pride a roaring success."
Mr Salter added: "We are a Community Interest Company, which means any surplus made can only be used to support the event in future years or donated to LGBT+ organisations. We hope this will appeal to businesses and individuals sponsoring Pride."
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "London's Pride celebrations are one of the biggest and most high profile events in our city's cultural calendar. They are enormously popular and underpin London's status as one of the best cities in the world for LGBT people, who make an enormous contribution to the social and economic life of the capital."
The new event will include a fundraising dinner, a Festival of Pride, a sports day as well as the traditional parade and street parties in Soho and Trafalgar Square.
Same-sex parents 'just as good'
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Teacher Awarded Compensation After Homophobic Comments About Her Gay Son
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MPs support 'compromise' plans for homophobic Christians
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Daniel Radcliffe talks about gay sex in his latest movie


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At the urging of Congress, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) studied fluoride/cancer effects in rodents. Some rodents developed cancer. But the 1990 report downgraded those and other effects, officially calling the certain cancer findings "equivocal"(uncertain), some said to protect the US fluoridation program and the government agencies promoting it. An EPA Senior Science Adviser blew the whistle on this discrepancy, was fired for doing so, then re-hired with back pay under the whistle blower's act. But the NTP never corrected its misrepresentation. Below is Dr. Marcus' May 1, 1990 Memo on the falsification of the NTP fluoride/cancer results which got him fired. Here is a 1995 transcript of his experience.
panel members was David Rall, Ph.D., M.D., Director of NIEHS. Dr.
seated for the entire proceedings with only two minor interruptions.
NTP studies had not been closely monitored for fluoride content.
especially if data exist on the populations before fluoridation.
that these lesions are indeed hepatocholangiocarcinoma. Because Dr.
his opinion in this matter. These tumors are extremely rare. Dr.
incorporation in our docket for the fluoride regulation.
fluoride in drinking water based on the scientific evidence.
use in the development of the revised fluoride regulation.
chemical toxicology studies. Fundam. Appl. Toxicol.
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fluoridation and human cancer. Proc Pennsylvania Academy of Sci.
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Q: Blockchain: CA service and fault tolerance I am moving my first steps in the amazing world of Blockchains. This technology have a lot of very interesting aspects I am interested to understand.
To make it short, a Blockchain represents a distributed and decentralized database deployed on a peer-to-peer network. Nodes are equally privileged, and equipotent participants: for each of them a full replica of the dataset is made available. This design assure a very high degree of fault tolerance (Byzantine) and can enable data integrity through proper cryptography and a consensus algorithm.
I was now looking at a chainbase implementation based on Hyperledger Fabric, a blockchain framework implementation hosted by The Linux Foundation.
In particular, I came through an amazing sample project called Hyperledger Fabric Basics published by Anna D Derbakova and available on GitHub at: https://github.com/angrbrd/hyperledger-fabric-basics.
In this implementation, the author defined a network made of:

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*4 peers;

*1 master service node CA.

Please, correct me if I am wrong, but does the master service node represent a single point of failure for the whole implementation? Indeed, the blockchain will be shared between the peers. However without a CA, it should not be possible anymore issuing signing keys for new transactions.
If true, which approaches are typically used to achieve a more robust design for a blockchain implementation?

A: The cited work is rather dated, and based on an older architecture that is no longer relevant. Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 was recently released and is not dependent on a single CA as the previous architecture required. Please see How to avoid the Fabric CA beeing a single point of failure? for more on this subject.


Our consortium partners, Héctor Cano Esteban, Qian Wang, Jan Hoogmartens and Ongun Berk Kazanci introduce hybrid MPC GEOTABS and its key modules, and their optimisation in the REHVA Journal's February 2019 edition.
As the first article of a serial of project disseminations, this paper introduces the working principle of hybrid GEOTABS, as well as their main components/modules. The optimization approach of key modules in common practice is also discussed. This article aims at providing a basic knowledge of the concept as a preparation for the up-coming optimization development and integration of the involved key modules.
As a renewable source, geothermal is a globally efficient and abundant energy source. In this content, it is more important to use this resource efficiently in corrected designed systems. The combination of TABS, heat pumps and GHEX shows to be an efficient solution that has potentials to maximize the advantages of each component. Different approaches of how each module are optimized as common practices have been intro-duced in this article. However, the challenges lie in the further integration and interactions of the above modules/components by means of, e.g., MPC control system. These aspects will be continuing introduced in the following up articles in the serial.


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↑ There's also a trumpet version, but I'll spare you that.
Warning: it's harsh on the ears.
Weird funky tune from the 1970s I heard recently.
You lost your 8-track of The Monster Mash?
Here we go, the moaning of something dying painfully and in despair.


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filed: June 22, 2011 • Montana
Bonneville projects boost wind capacity in northwest
Credit: Reporting by Eileen O'Grady, Reuters, www.reuters.com 21 June 2011 ~~
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has proposed two power line improvement projects that will allow more electricity produced at wind farms in Montana to flow to markets that need power, the agency said in a release.
The Northern Intertie Reinforcement Project would include substation, line and other equipment upgrades to increase capacity on BPA's link to Canada in coordination with Puget Sound Energy.
The Colstrip Upgrade Project would combine system upgrades to boost transmission capacity in eastern Washington and Montana in coordination with a NorthWestern Energy project.
BPA said the additional upgrades will allow 3,200 megawatts of additional power to flow – about triple the generating capacity of Bonneville Dam – including 1,900 MW of wind.
"The projects will allow BPA to provide transmission service to wind projects in Montana," said Brian Silverstein, BPA's senior vice president for transmission service.
Most wind projects on the BPA system are located in the Columbia Gorge region, creating a challenge for grid operators to manage constant variations in wind output, BPA said.
"More geographic diversity in wind projects could make balancing easier," Silverstein said.
BPA currently has 3,500 MW of wind generation connected to its network, an amount expected to double as early as 2013.
Montana, which ranks among the top five states for wind power potential, has just 375 MW of wind generation currently with about 500 MW planned by year end, according to a state website.
Last week, frustrated wind farm owners filed a complaint with federal regulators over a BPA policy that currently curtails wind operations in times of low demand and low prices.
The largest snowpack since 1997 has boosted Northwest river levels and hydro output, complicating growing competition between hydro and wind interests in the region where BPA operates 75 percent of the grid.
BPA said both upgrade plans were the result of a "network open season," BPA's process to gauge demand for new transmission.
The projects will work in conjunction with four new high-voltage lines already under construction or development that were identified in a 2008 open season.
Preliminary engineering and environmental review of the projects could take one to two years, BPA said. The federal agency will decide whether to proceed after that.
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