Executive Construction Homes has really outdone themselves with this home. Located on private Lake Columbia, just 18 mins from the South Carolina State House, you can be at your private oasis in no time. Take a look below for a full length video, virtual tour (throw on a pair of VR goggles even), and take a look at everything this home has to offer.
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Don't miss all of the details on the outside of this all brick home. Loaded with board and batten accents in the gables, fully bricked front porch floor, TREX® flooring on the upper back porch, full gutters, a brick accent band wrapping the home and two fully insulated garage doors adorning the left side of the home.
As you enter the home you are instantly greeted by designer front door enveloped with windows to allow the outside flow in. The foyer is intentionally wide to make you feel as grand as the home is. Keep following the hand-scraped hardwoods past the formal dining room to the large great room that is topped off literally with coffered ceilings, recessed lighting, an eye catching fireplace that is flanked by custom cabinetry. I am guessing you didn't even know these fantastic features because as soon as you enter the home you are drawn the panoramic views of Lake Columbia.
Before you head outside make sure to take a pit stop to the chef's inspired kitchen. This gourmet kitchen features a large inviting island, top of the line Dacor appliances, beautiful and bright custom cabinetry and plenty of room for entertaining.
The master suite is fit for a King and Queen. Starting with large views of Lake Columbia, tray ceilings, access to the Juliet porch, and a master bath that will knock your socks off. With a large walk-in shower, oversized garden tub, massive walk-in closet, double vanities, there isn't one thing this home is missing.
Expecting guest? Not to worry there is an additional bedroom on the main floor and three more on the lower level. Each bedroom has ample closet space and are mere steps from a bathroom.
One of the best parts of this home is it is geared to entertaining and enjoying Lake Columbia. With the secondary great room on the lower level, with a fireplace, french doors, kitchenette and a ton of unfinished space, you can make the area anything you want. Pool table room? Done. Game Room? Ok. Playroom? Easy. BUT best of all this could be an entirely separate suite if you need to have the parents or grandparents come live with you.
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Are you a new couple? What to do with that wagon wheel coffee table?
Many a new couple has faced this age old dilemma, and I'm guessing most of you remember the classic Wagon Wheel Coffee Table scene from "When Harry Met Sally".
Hubby, Gil and I have been married since 1990, and still today we are often in disagreement over how to manage our investments, how to spend (or not spend) our money, how to best support and discipline our two boys, and over all kinds of wagon wheel coffee table issues.
Currently, Gil and I are immersed in an ongoing discussion over the type of artwork we should have over our couch in our newly remodeled den. We have agreed that it should be a California landscape, and yet even after hours and hours of research online and dozens of visits to art fairs and galleries, we have not aligned on The Piece yet.
I love Jonathan Harris' work. Gil's more likely to head in the direction of one of Terry Sauve's pieces.
The beautiful thing about this disagreement we have about whose artwork to purchase is that we aren't arguing over it. We're wrestling with each other over it, we're laughing about it, we're exercising patience, and we're finding that we're able to just kind of sit with the uncertainty of it while we keep looking for the piece we can both be excited about purchasing.
We'll be redoing our kitchen next year too, and there will be lots of design decisions we'll have to align on, not to mention the question of who pays for what, out of which bank account – the financial issue alone, in past years would have sent us to the therapist's couch, but I'm confident and excited about the adventure that it will be for us to create this new kitchen together.
The honest to goodness truth is that Gil and I would very likely not be married today if it hadn't been for the courageous decision we made to attend a weekend workshop on partnership with Alison Armstrong, during a particularly challenging chapter of our marriage some years back.
Through studying with Alison Armstrong, Gil and I learned about the art of deal making… and we learned about and practiced together the art of communicating with each other. That partnership workshop saved our marriage. And we use the tools we learned every day of our lives. And it's available for you too, here.
If you haven't already, run, don't walk to study with Alison, who is my absolute favorite relationship guru. Whether you are in a relationship or dating with the intent to create a beautiful partnership, the solutions to today's most challenging gender issues, dating dilemmas and relationship traps are all covered somewhere within her body of work. Where to start? For women: It's here and for men: visit the page.
The troubles we have in our relationships are usually really and truly never about "the coffee table" – and taking the time to learn how to love more fully and to communicate with greater skill and expertise can only be a blessing and a benefit to your daily life and to each of your treasured relationships.
The most powerful thing you can do, to enrich your relationship or to better your odds of creating a beautiful relationship for yourself is to continually strive to become the best version of you possible. Challenge yourself to question your understanding of who you are, of what you need and want, make the conscious choice to grow and to evolve as the unique expression of human spirit that you are. Enjoy the journey, every day of it, every moment of it, with childlike wonder and endless curiosity.
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Buying a home is the biggest purchase most of us will ever make, so it's vital to do your homework. You need to ensure your new condo fits your lifestyle and meets your expectations.
1. Choose the type of condo that meets your lifestyle – Ask a qualified real estate agent that specializes in the condo market about new developments, and reputable builders.
2. Determine what you can afford– Meet with a financial representative to get pre-approved for a mortgage amount that you can comfortably afford. This ensures that you spend your time wisely on condos within your price range.
3. Research your builder – A call to 1.877.9TARION or a visit to www.tarion.com will give you access to information on registered home builders in Ontario, including their customer service record with Tarion. When you find a builder you like, ask your agent about their previous developments, and even ask current residents about their condos and neighbourhoods.
4. View Tarion's online education seminars – Understanding Warranty Coverage is designed to help you understand your statutory warranty coverage and the process for addressing warranty-related matters. View it at your convenience and quickly move through the presentation to topics that interest you most.
5. Talk with a real estate lawyer – It's important that you meet with a real estate lawyer before signing an Agreement of Purchase and Sale to make sure you understand exactly what is and is not included in the price of your new condo.
6. Read Tarion's Homeowner Information Package – Your builder will give you this package before or during the pre-delivery inspection for your new condo. It explains your new condo's statutory warranty, and the responsibilities of you and your builder.
7. Prepare for your pre-delivery inspection (PDI) – This inspection is your chance to do a thorough inspection of your new condo to identify any items that are incomplete, damaged, missing or not operating properly, and have them taken care of before you move in. This is also a prime opportunity to ensure that everything has been built accordingly to you Agreement of Purchase and Sale.
8. Become familiar with the new-home statutory warranty and submit forms on time – Familiarize yourself with this warranty. You'll find out more about what is and isn't covered by the warranty as well as time lines and procedures to follow should a warranty-related item need attention. You can also register for MyHome, a service that will allow you to manage your warranty online.
9. Maintain your condo through the season – It's important to remember that ongoing maintenance helps to ensure that your statutory warranty is protected. So, after you've moved in, follow an annual maintenance routine and help keep your new condo in top shape.
10. Enjoy all your new condo has to offer!– You've done a lot of research, decision making and waiting by the time you reach this point. Now it's time to enjoy all the wonderful things your new condo has to offer. Tarion has a wealth of resources available for new-condo buyers and owners.


I am using a ZD620 with Zebra 10010054 Barcode Labels.
In code, setting the Label header to 0,0 misses the left hand part of the print.
I have to set the LH to ^LH50,0 in order to see the left part of the text.
I am completely mistified. Why is 0,0 NOT the top left of the label?
Could you please to share a full ZPL code of your label?
^FX Third section with barcode.
So why is the Label Origin so far off to the left and up?
I am unable to find on the Zebra site any Firmware downloads for the ZD620.
In code I am using Network printer (i.e. writing in code to the IP address and Port of the device).
Ok I think I understand what is going on. The ZD620 ONLY supports 203dpi despite the offering of ZD620 drivers for 203,300 and 600 dpi.
If I uninstall all drivers and ONLY install the 203dpi driver then the registration is correct.
There is a good chance that you are correct because Zebra Designer could read some values from the driver and then put some ZPL commands and settings into your label file.
It may provide you some insight on what exactly is going in a wrong way.


Summary: Provide quality customer service and food products using standards set by Fourteen Foods and International Dairy Queen to enhance the customer's visit, while assisting general manager with daily and weekly management responsibilities.
Supervise work crew and ensure shift responsibilities are completed.
Complete daily bookwork and ensure it is accurate and complete.
Initial training of new employees and on-going training of existing employees.
Practice and enforce Fourteen Foods policies and procedures.
Complete cash register transaction with customer and prepare orders.
Prepare food products according to food preparation guidelines.
A general working knowledge of all food/product preparation equipment.
Ensure inventory is ordered, stocked and consistently replenished.
Work as a "team" member to assure consistent customer satisfaction.
Perform interviewing and hiring decisions.
Assist manager with weekly schedules to provide proper coverage to assure consistent customer satisfaction.
Complete ordering and taking of monthly inventory.
Promote company's mission and values.
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One of the most important and difficult challenges that must be overcome at the beginning of a new relationship is the acquaintance with parents of your significant other. The only way to avoid this step is not to start a serious relationship, but only to limit oneself to short romances. But if you have serious intentions and seek to find your only one, the person with whom you could live the whole life, then you can't avoid meeting with her parents.
But don't worry, ukrainian woman site prepared 7 tips on how to behave when meeting your girlfriend's parents.
Before meeting girlfriend's parents, you should find out a little about them. Clarify with your girlfriend a few key points, for example, what they do, where they come from, what hobbies they have or something else that can help you establish contact with them. If you are fans of the same sports team or your girl's mom works in the same field as you, it will help you to start a conversation and establish contact.
Think about the outfit for meeting the parents. Put on something presentable for the first meeting. If your clothes are too casual, the parents will think that you either don't care enough about your appearance, or you are stupid, because you do not understand why you should even think about it. You should have beautiful clothes that goes with the occasion. If you go to a summer house to cook shish kebabs, it will be appropriate to put on jeans and shirt. But if you go to a restaurant, you need dress trousers and a nice shirt.
For meeting her parents for the first time, you should come with flowers or another gift to express your respect. You can also bring a bottle of good wine. Ask your girlfriend what her parents like. It's discourteously to come empty-handed to their house. Even a simple gift will show your foresight.
If you have a meeting at their house, you should offer any help. Perhaps you will help her father to put the brazier, and mom – to clean up after delicious dinner. Perhaps you will find another way to help them out around the house to show that you aren't indifferent and want to be helpful. Most likely, her parents will tell you that they don't need help, but you will look like a gentleman.
This is the only and most important thing you can do to conquer them. All parents, including those who are unfriendly towards their daughter's boyfriends, want her to find a good partner – a person who will respect and treat her properly. When meeting parents for the first time show them you are that person! Support their daughter when she speaks, talk about how perfect she is and how much positive qualities she has. Don't humiliate her and don't talk to her with disdain. Be a gentleman and treat her like a lady.
It's important to act as if you are interested in talking with your girlfriend's parents, even if it's about paying taxes or growing cauliflower. Ask many questions, nod politely and give her parents full-time attention. Be sure to react when they try to joke. Show that you are sincerely glad to be in this place and you are interested to communicate with them. This behavior is of great importance, and it will show them that you are good and nice person.
Don't try to seem someone else just to please her parents. You don't have to change to surprise them. Don't forget that your girlfriend chose you for some reason. In addition, parents can see when guys play to the audience. There is a difference between their seeing your sides of character, reflecting maturity and responsibility, and your desire to appear an absolutely different person. If you plan to be with their daughter for a long time, then you can't pretend constantly.


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package com.cryptoregistry.rainbow;

import java.util.List;

import org.bouncycastle.pqc.crypto.rainbow.RainbowPrivateKeyParameters;
import org.bouncycastle.pqc.crypto.rainbow.RainbowPublicKeyParameters;

import com.cryptoregistry.Signer;
import com.cryptoregistry.passwords.Password;
import com.cryptoregistry.pbe.PBEParams;

public class RainbowKeyContents extends RainbowKeyForPublication implements Signer {

	public final Coefficient2D A1inv;
	public final Coefficient1D b1;
	public final Coefficient2D A2inv;
	public final Coefficient1D b2;
	public final  int[] vi;
	public final List<RainbowLayer> layers;

	public RainbowKeyContents(Coefficient2D A1inv, Coefficient1D b1,
			Coefficient2D A2inv, Coefficient1D b2, int[] vi,
			List<RainbowLayer> layers, int docLength, Coefficient2D coeffQuadratic,
			Coefficient2D coeffSingular, Coefficient1D coeffScalar) {
		super(docLength, coeffQuadratic, coeffSingular, coeffScalar);
		this.A1inv = A1inv;
		this.b1 = b1;
		this.A2inv = A2inv;
		this.b2 = b2;
		this.vi = vi;
		this.layers = layers;
	}

	public RainbowKeyContents(RainbowKeyMetadata meta, Coefficient2D A1inv,
			Coefficient1D b1, Coefficient2D A2inv, Coefficient1D b2, int[] vi,
			List<RainbowLayer> layers, int docLength, Coefficient2D coeffQuadratic,
			Coefficient2D coeffSingular, Coefficient1D coeffScalar) {
		super(meta, docLength, coeffQuadratic, coeffSingular, coeffScalar);
		this.A1inv = A1inv;
		this.b1 = b1;
		this.A2inv = A2inv;
		this.b2 = b2;
		this.vi = vi;
		this.layers = layers;
	}
	/**
	 * Used with key generation
	 *
	 * @param pubKey
	 * @param privKey
	 */
	RainbowKeyContents(RainbowKeyMetadata meta, RainbowPublicKeyParameters pubKey, RainbowPrivateKeyParameters privKey){
		super(meta, pubKey);
		this.A1inv= new Coefficient2D(privKey.getInvA1());
		this.b1= new Coefficient1D(privKey.getB1());
		this.A2inv= new Coefficient2D(privKey.getInvA2());
		this.b2=new Coefficient1D(privKey.getB2());
		this.vi = privKey.getVi();
		this.layers = RainbowLayer.convert(privKey.getLayers());
	}

	/**
	 * If a password is set in the KeyFormat, clean that out. This call can be
	 * made once we're done with the key materials in this cycle of use.
	 */
	@Override
	public void scrubPassword() {
		PBEParams params = this.meta.format.pbeParams;
		if (params != null) {
			Password password = params.getPassword();
			if (password != null && password.isAlive())
				password.selfDestruct();
		}
	}

	public RainbowPrivateKeyParameters getPrivateKey() {
		RainbowPrivateKeyParameters params = new RainbowPrivateKeyParameters(A1inv.getCoeff(), b1.getCoeff(),
                A2inv.getCoeff(), b2.getCoeff(), vi, RainbowLayer.convert(layers));
		return params;
	}

}

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My documentary for BBC radio on the longstanding links between Arab royals and Britain's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Four reigning Arab monarchs have passed through Sandhurst or its associated institutions, alongside a long list of lesser sheikhs and princes, and many of the region's military chiefs of staff. I use archive, analysis and new interviews to examine the relationship. Produced by Karen Pirie at Whistledown.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, August 2014.
Repeated on BBC World Service, March 2015.
Since 1812, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, on the Surrey/Berkshire border, has been where the British Army trains its officers.
It has a gruelling 44-week course testing the physical and intellectual skills of officer cadets and imbuing them with the values of the British Army.
Alongside would-be British officers, Sandhurst has a tradition of drawing cadets from overseas. Many of the elite families of the Middle East have sent their sons and daughters. Perhaps the most notable was King Hussein of Jordan.
Four reigning Arab monarchs are graduates of Sandhurst and its affiliated colleges – King Abdullah of Jordan, King Hamad of Bahrain, Sheikh Tamim, Emir of Qatar, and Sultan Qaboos of Oman. Past monarchs include Sheikh Saad, Emir of Kuwait, and Sheikh Hamad, Emir of Qatar.
Sandhurst's links have continued from the time when Britain was the major colonial power in the Gulf.
It's a place where future leaders get to know each other, says Michael Stephens, deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute, Qatar. And Sandhurst gives the UK influence in the Gulf.
"The [UK] gets the kind of attention from Gulf policy elites that countries of our size, like France and others, don't get. It gives us the ability to punch above our weight.
Emotion doesn't always deliver. In 2013, despite the personal intervention of David Cameron, the UAE decided against buying the UK's Typhoon fighter jets.
British policy in the Gulf is primarily "mercantile", says Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, of the Baker Institute in Houston, Texas. Concerns over human rights and reform are secondary.
In 2012 Sandhurst accepted a £15m donation from the UAE for a new accommodation block, named the Zayed Building after that country's founding ruler.
In March 2013, Sandhurst's Mons Hall – a sports centre – was reopened as the King Hamad Hall, following a £3m donation from the monarch of Bahrain, who was educated at one of Sandhurst's affiliated colleges.
The renaming proved controversial, partly because of the perceived slight towards the 1,600 British casualties at the Battle of Mons in August 1914 – and partly because of how Hamad and his government have dealt with political protest in Bahrain over the last three years.
A critic might note that the third term of Sandhurst's Officer Commissioning Course covers counter-insurgency techniques and ways to manage public disorder.
Since tension between Bahrain's majority Shia population and minority Sunni ruling elite boiled over in 2011, more than 80 civilians have died at the hands of the security forces, according to opposition estimates, though the government disputes the figures. Thirteen police officers have also lost their lives in the clashes.
But what happens when Sandhurst's friends become enemies? In 2001, then-prime minister Tony Blair visited Damascus, marking a warming of relations between the UK and Syria. Shortly after, in 2003, Sandhurst was training officers from the Syrian armed forces. Now, of course, Syria is an international pariah.
That tradition persists. In the 1990s Egyptian colonel Ahmed Ali attended Sandhurst. In 2013 he was one of the key figures in the Egyptian military's removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, now rewarded by a post in President Sisi's inner circle of advisers.
In the late 1990s there were moves by the British government under Tony Blair to end Sandhurst's training of overseas cadets. Major-General Arthur Denaro, Middle East adviser to the defence secretary and commandant at Sandhurst in the late 1990s, describes the idea as part of the "ethical foreign policy" advocated by the late Robin Cook, then-foreign secretary.
The funeral of King Hussein in 1999 appears to have scuppered the plan.
Today, Sandhurst has reportedly trained more officer cadets from the UAE than from any other country bar the UK. The May 2014 intake included 72 overseas cadets, around 40% of whom were from the Middle East.
Sandhurst says that "building international relations through military exchanges and education is a key pillar of the UK's international engagement strategy".
Sandhurst may be marvellous for the UK, a country where the army is subservient to government, but it is also delivering militarily-trained officers to Middle Eastern monarchies where, often, armies seem to exist to defend not the nation but the ruling family.


The majority of Optoma projectors, especially those designed for installation have an RJ45 network connector. This allows you to control, monitor and even send images to them across your network.
Once connected to your network, simply enter any projector's IP address into your web browser's address bar and the Optoma web interface allows virtually any function of your projector to be controlled in just a few clicks.
The free Crestron RoomView® Express software provides a custom configurable interface to monitor, manage and control multiple projectors remotely from a PC.
Manage up to 250 projectors at the same time – group projectors into categories and control them independently. Instantly monitor the power, lamp and error status of all units from a single window.
Set up automatic email alerts to notify the correct personnel of any issues. Display warning messages onscreen in the event of an emergency. Ideal for large installations in both in the education and business environments.
Reduce overheads and power consumption by scheduling projectors to automatically power ON/OFF at a specific time of day.
Support for Extron's IP Link, AMX dynamic device discovery and PJ-Link protocols, allow almost all aspects of your projector to be controlled across a network, keeping you in control, wherever you are.
PJLink is a standard set of commands designed to unify communication interfaces and protocols across multiple manufacturers, enabling easier installations of both new and replacement equipment.
What do I need for PJLink?
Extron and AMX control systems use text based commands to communicate with devices on a network.
Optoma projectors use the same unified code set for both RS232 and Network control to simplify the programming procedure and reduce time required onsite.
What do I need for Extron and AMX?
Alternatively, advanced users can control and monitor the projectors using Telnet. Telnet allows users to connect to the command line interface of their projector remotely, making it ideal for troubleshooting any potential issues.
What do I need for telnet?
Advanced network chip-sets allow you to send your desktop to a projector across the network Simply download the free software from the projector's web interface to start comparing charts, figures, images... virtually anything.
Broadcast your desktop across the network to as many as 8 projectors simultaneously using the free Optoma Presenter software.
What do I need for one-to-many broadcasting?
Simultaneously present desktops from up to four computers on a single screen.
What do I need for many-to-one broadcasting?
Using the "Wireless Projection System" software, HD video with audio can be streamed across the network to create exciting and engaging presentations every time.
What do I need for wireless A/V streaming?
Please specify the MovieUrl property for the location (URL) of the movie to display.


The feeding programs of Ciudad de Refugio have been around for a long time, but they are in dire straits presently.
Pastor Avelino Guzman is the sole survivor of the founding members of the Ciudad church and feeding program. His health is failing and it is all he can do to keep basic food staples available for the children.
That's where we come in. MCUGuatemala.org, or Misioneros Cristianos Unidos, provides a lot of support to the program. Besides providing meat and other food for the cooks to work their miracles with, we strive to keep the program running smoothly and efficiently.
MCU handles much of the logistical matters for the program. This includes registration and monitoring of the children. Last year, we replaced the cups and plates the children use to obtain their meals.
This year, we replaced all the cooking utensils and some small appliances for the kitchen. Over the years, we also replaced a broken refrigerator and reorganized the storage pantry. Our friends from MOPS provided new cooking stoves and pots.
Most importantly, we are trying to keep this more than a feeding program. We want these sites to be safe places for the children to gather. They should feel like they are part of a special community that they can call on when they need help or guidance.
Through our counseling and education program, we want to provide adult leadership and resources to turn to when they have no one else.
We want these sites to be their second home. That is why we tie our mission to the feeding programs.
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The Basic Guide to No-Code Apps for HR Management
How to Create a Low-code App to Manage Your HR Tasks
Why Should Human Resources Departments Use a Tool that Doesn't Need Coding?
Uses for HR Technology
What is one common no-code use case in HR?
How do you build a human resources management system?
How do you make a platform without code?
What Software do HR Professionals use?
People who work in HR put in a lot of effort. They are in charge of everything, from hiring and training new employees to ensuring policies are followed and managed. HR employees possess the talent to talk to a wide range of company staff members. You are expected to show talent efficiently, especially in an emergency. You lead your efforts to create HR business continuity plans and help your staff adjust to teleworking. Human Resources employees do significantly affect any company's talent. Having a wide range of responsibilities can sometimes mean more manual tasks. The do-it-yourself movement has made its way into HR. More and more HR professionals are making their existence with no-code, a low-code application that doesn't require much programming knowledge.
With these low-code software development platforms, the HR and recruiting staff can do the work of "developers." This lets HR eliminate time-consuming spreadsheets and replace them with workflows that show talent. It builds its HR job sites, makes dashboards for talent analytics, does surveys, and then processes by hand. HR can avoid the long wait times of the often-overworked IT staff by making its software. It also avoids the high costs of hiring outside consultants or suppliers.
Effective low-code development platforms make it easy to design applications by hiding the underlying code. The logic behind a user-friendly interface that lets you drag and drop things. These platforms handle all the grunt work behind the scenes. The citizen developer can focus on the program themselves and make sure customers are happy. A firm that has adopted a "no-code" technology should consider these nine rules when building applications without using code:
Choose the Right Platform
Choose a system that lets you do anything without having any code. It has an easy-to-use user interface and lets you add complex features by dragging and dropping components around the workspace. Also, it should be able to grow to meet any future needs. If it hosts your apps, it should be fast and reliable.
Figure Out What Your Goals Are
Before you start making an app, think about why you're doing it and how it will help your business. The goal is to have a clear picture of how the apps work from the very beginning. It would help if you also had a clear idea of how the app fits your organization's bigger goals and plans. This will help you determine where these apps run for your business.
Look at Your Place Where You'll Be Working
Even if you're switching to low-code development platforms that don't require coding, you still need to think about the larger environment in which new platforms will progress. Development may also need to create custom code or set up different systems for some apps.
Creating mobile applications that clients don't want or won't use is a waste of time. Find out who your users are, what they want, and what they think of your product.
This makes it easier for businesses to change and meet the needs of their customers. Pay attention to both security and following the rules. Some of these methods are encryption and managing rights.
Monitor Everything
Even though all the coding is done behind the scenes, no-code, low-code technology still needs to be tested before end-users can use them. This is true for both the first update and any updates that come after it. When a product isn't good enough, it makes people more upset, costs more to fix, and affects the company's reputation.
Find Some Good Developers
Even though the idea of a "citizen developer" is a big selling point for low-code platforms, this doesn't mean that everyone should be able to build their virtual platform. People will get the most out of these platforms if they know a lot about the operational environment in which the applications will be used. No organization can get the most out of low-code HR technology budgets. Still, this one that can do so stands to gain a lot, whether they make apps for internal business users or consumers outside the firm. This means that businesses ready to switch to technology have more options than ever.
Using tools that don't require coding is a popular way of developing to speed up the HR job application process. But many people may wonder why you should use a system that doesn't need coding instead of buying a low-code app that's already made or hiring more developers.
It's possible that investing in a platform that doesn't require coding will be cheaper than buying software, and it will also save money on the cost of paying engineers to design or run individual systems.
HR low-code software might not have the feature you need the most or too many features that you don't need. When you use a solution that doesn't require coding, you decide what parts go into your workflows.
Prebuilt software for HR recruitment can be expensive and is usually made for use in only one department. When you use a system that doesn't need coding, you can use the tools for various things in the organization. Smaller businesses' human resources departments usually choose low-code software that meets their needs right now. But when the company starts to grow, they find out that the platform either can't handle them or costs a lot more than they thought it would. Tools that don't need coding are very flexible and can grow as your team does.
Let's look at a few situations where no-code tools would be an excellent choice for human resources (HR).
You can do this with no-code software that lets you set up automated email responses, decide who should get each submitted form and where it should be stored, and set up automated emails being part of HR technology budgets.
Requests for time off and bills for different things
If you don't have the right tool, it can be hard to keep track of people's demands for time off. If you have a GUI-based drag-and-drop platform, it only takes a few mouse clicks to set up the approval process.
Recruitment Management is the most common no-code use case in HR. The job board or careers page is the principal no-code, low-code technology where the recruiting team operates. However, recruiters don't usually work on making these resources. When using a platform that doesn't need coding, it's easy to change the website's layout or add new content without calling the low-code development team. Also, the whole process of applying for a job can be improved by the HR team at your company, who knows it best.
A Human Resource Management System (HRMS) is a group of software solutions used to optimize and automate the management of an organization's human resources and the activities related to those resources over the entire life cycle of an employee.
Set project goals
Create a map of how your firm does business.
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Family and Success Essay
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Ye Hong
Mrs. Strow
Work Hard not always Achieve Success
People in this world should work hard for everything, and you should achieve success sometimes, this can be true and fair, but not always. There are some examples show sometimes you could not achieve success after you word hard, and sometimes you could. In the film ' Little Miss Sunshine '. First, the father tries so hard to make his words publish into the book and then he can makes plenty of money, but he doesn't make it at the end because he is not that famous like the other guy. Second, the son wants to go to Air Force, so he tries to be quiet all the time, but at last he could not achieve his goal because Air Force never accepts color blink, and actually he is. These two examples all show that sometimes you may not achieve success after you work hard. On the other hand, in the film, the grandfather is dead on their way to California, and also their car is broken too, but they never give up. The family tries to push the car to move and they even take the dead body of grandfather to California in order to finish Olive's dream, and they achieve it.
First, in the film ' Little Miss Sunshine ', the father always believes his words about winner and loser will write into the book, be published; therefore, he will earn a lot of money for his family. So e tries so hard to give a speech about his words, makes other people believe his words too, he also tries to make his words become perfect, and often HONG 2 give himself courage. He even use his words to teach his kids that winner is winner, and loser is loser forever. Although he tries all the things he could do, the result is he failed to be the number one in the United States, he doesn't earn money because the other person tells him he is not famous, and people will not believe his opinion. This example shows the father really work hard for his goal, but he doesn't achieve his success at last.
Second, the son in the film wants to go to Air Force to work, and he tries to be quiet all the time because it is one of the role in air force. He almost does everything he can do, although it is very extreme. At least his mother agrees that he can go to Air Force, but he must go to California with the family. He feels very happy, but his dream is broken when he knows
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The concept of tacit knowledge — knowledge that is difficult or impossible to parameterize, or to express in words or numbers — is central to organization theory, as well as philosophy (Polanyi) and social theory more generally (Hayek). Most of the research literature on tacit knowledge is conceptual and theoretical, such as Hayek's famous "Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) or more recent pieces like Jensen and Meckling's "Specific and General Knowledge, and Organizational Structure" (1992). Empirical studies of tacit knowledge are rare, which is not surprising given the idiosyncratic, personal, subjective, and often ephemeral nature of such knowledge.
An interesting new NBER paper by David Chan estimates the effects of tacit knowledge using matched pairs of physician trainees with similar levels of explicit knowledge but different levels of experience and hence accumulated know-how. The hospital setting allows for some clever tricks, e.g., exogenous sorting into occupational roles by experience, rather than ability. Measuring outcomes via spending is problematic to me, though standard in the medical economics and management literatures. Check it out:
Uncertainty, Tacit Knowledge, and Practice Variation: Evidence from Physicians in Training
David C. Chan, Jr
NBER Working Paper No. 21855, January 2016
Studying physicians in training, I investigate how uncertainty and tacit knowledge may give rise to significant practice variation. Consistent with tacit knowledge accruing only with experience, and empirically exploiting a discontinuity in the formation of teams, experience relative to a peer substantially increases the size of variation attributable to the physician trainees. Among the same physician trainees, convergence occurs for patients on services driven by specialists, where there is arguably more explicit knowledge, but not on the general medicine service. This difference is unexplained by formally coded patient information. In contrast, rich physician characteristics correlated with preferences and ability, and quasi-random assignments to high- or low-spending supervising physicians explain little if any variation.
2 February 2016 at 5:21 pm Peter G. Klein	2 comments
As a skeptic of the evidence-based management movement (championed by Pfeffer, Sutton, et al.) I was amused by a recent spoof article in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, "Maternal Kisses Are Not Effective in Alleviating Minor Childhood Injuries (Boo-Boos): A Randomized, Controlled, and Blinded Study," authored by the Study of Maternal and Child Kissing (SMACK) Working Group. Maternal kisses were associated with a positive and statistically significant increase in the Toddler Discomfort Index (TDI):
Maternal kissing of boo-boos confers no benefit on children with minor traumatic injuries compared to both no intervention and sham kissing. In fact, children in the maternal kissing group were significantly more distressed at 5 minutes than were children in the no intervention group. The practice of maternal kissing of boo-boos is not supported by the evidence and we recommend a moratorium on the practice.
The actual author, Mark Tonelli, is a prominent critic of evidence-based medicine, described by the journal's editor as a "collapsing" movement and in a recent British Journal of Medicine editorial as a "movement in crisis." Most of the criticisms of evidence-based medicine will sound familiar to Austrian economists: overreliance on statistically significant, but clinically irrelevant, findings in large samples; failure to appreciate context and interpretation; lack of attention to underlying mechanisms rather than unexplained correlations; and a general disdain for tacit knowledge and understanding.
My guess is that evidence-based management, which is modeled after evidence-based medicine, is in for a similarly rocky ride. Teppo had some interesting orgtheory posts on this a few years ago (e.g., here and here). Evidence-based management has been criticized, as you might expect, by critical theorists and other postmodernists who don't like the concept of "evidence" per se but the real problems are more mundane: what counts as evidence, and what conclusions can legitimately be drawn from this evidence, are far from obvious in most cases. Particularly in entrepreneurial settings, as we've written often on these pages, intuition, Verstehen, or judgment may be more reliable guides than quantitative, analytical reasoning.
Update: Thanks to Ivan Zupic for pointing me to a review and critique of EBM in the current issue of AMLE.
2 January 2016 at 5:06 pm Peter G. Klein	Leave a comment
I Agree with Larry Summers
Justin Fox reports on a recent high-powered behavioral economics conference featuring Raj Chetty, David Laibson, Antoinette Schoar, Maya Shankar, and other important contributors to this growing research stream. But he refers also to the "Summers critique," the idea that key findings in behavioral economics research sound like recycled wisdom from business practitioners.
Summers [in 2012] told a story about a college acquaintance who as a cruel prank signed up another classmate for 60 different subscriptions of the Book-of-the-Month-Club ilk. The way these clubs worked is that once you signed up, you got a book in the mail every month and were charged for it unless you (a) sent the book back within a certain period of time or (b) went through the hassle of extricating yourself from the club altogether. Customers had to opt out in order to not keep buying books, so they bought more books than they otherwise would have. Book marketers, Summers said, had figured out the power of defaults long before economists had.
More generally, Fox asks, "Have behavioral economists really discovered anything new, or have they simply replaced some wrong-headed notions of post-World War II economics with insights that people in business have understood for decades and maybe even centuries?"
I took exactly the Summers line in a 2010 post, observing that behavioral economics "often seems to restate common, obvious, well-known ideas as if they are really novel insights (e.g., that preferences aren't stable and predictable over time). More novel propositions are questionable at best." I used a Dan Ariely column on compensation policy as an example:
He claims as a unique insight of behavioral economics that when people are evaluated according to quantitative measures of performance, they tend to focus on the measures, not the underlying behavior being measured. Well, duh. This is pretty much a staple of introductory lectures on agency theory (and features prominently in Steve Kerr's classic 1975 article). Ariely goes on to suggest that CEOs should be rewarded not on the basis of a single measure of performance, but multiple measures. Double-duh. Holmström (1979) called this the "informativeness principle" and it's in all the standard textbooks on contract design and compensation structure (e.g., Milgrom and Roberts, Brickley et al., etc.) (Of course, agency theory also recognizes that gathering information is costly, and that additional metrics are valuable, on the margin, only if the benefits exceed the costs, a point unmentioned by Ariely.)
Maybe Larry and I should hang out.
22 September 2015 at 12:03 pm Peter G. Klein	7 comments
Foss Wins Best Article Award
Nicolai is far too modest to mention it (and no, he did not make me do this), but he has won Sloan Management Review's best article prize:
The editors of MIT Sloan Management Review are pleased to announce the winners of this year's Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, awarded to the authors of the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development published between fall 2013 and summer 2014.
This year's Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize goes to the spring 2014 MIT SMR article by Julian Birkinshaw, Nicolai J. Foss, and Siegwart Lindenberg, entitled "Combining Purpose With Profits."
In this article, the authors examine a familiar and important question for managers: How can the tension between purpose and profits be best managed? The authors explore the kinds of structures companies need to put in place to provide clarity and direction for employees while also serving to both motivate individuals and draw people together in a common pursuit.
As the judges for the prize pointed out, the tension between purpose and profit is well-known, and many companies claiming to have "pro-social goals" have difficulty backing up their claims. However, the judges were impressed with the examples the authors presented of companies that have actually been able to balance purpose and profit. Some were familiar (such as Whole Foods Market and Tata Group), but others were less so (such as the Swedish bank Svenska Handelsbanken and HCL Technologies, an India-based IT-services company).
The pro-social goals the companies emphasize — for example, putting employees first or investing in local communities — are hardly elaborate or surprising. What is important is that companies put systems in place to meet these goals. For instance, at Tata, where the pro-social goal is "to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve," the supporting systems include charitable trusts that own the majority of the equity capital of the Tata Sons holding company. Pro-social goals require what the authors call a "counterweight," such as an employee council or a measuring system, to ensure that the pro-social goals continue to have influence.
The judges thought the article was well aligned with the beliefs of Richard Beckhard, who insisted that what truly motivates employees is the sense that what they do matters and serves a purpose that goes beyond organizational profitability or personal gain. As the judges observed, "What engages people is the broader, value-centered question of why we do what we do — precisely what the three authors of this year's winning article make evident."
This year's panel of judges consisted of distinguished members of the MIT Sloan School faculty: Schussel Family Professor and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review managing board Erik Brynjolfsson, retired senior lecturer Cyrus Gibson, and Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management John Van Maanen.
Nicolai, you can do great things, when you pick the right coauthors….
20 August 2015 at 3:42 pm Peter G. Klein	2 comments
Piece Rates and Multitasking
A canonical result of multitask agency theory is that, when agents are assigned to multiple activities and some are more easily measured than others, piece-rate incentive schemes encourage agents to focus on the measurable activities while shirking the others. Professors at research universities, for example tend to focus on research at the expense of teaching — not because they don't care about teaching, but because research output is easy to measure, while teaching quality isn't, so administrators wishing to reward good performance tend to base their evaluations on research productivity. Or so I've heard (ahem). The implication is that, to encourage balanced effort and performance across activities, supervisors should rely at least partly on subjective, holistic evaluation criteria, and not just objective, quantitative measures of employee performance, or even do away with incentive compensation altogether.
An interesting paper in the January 2015 Southern Economic Journal offers a different theory, and some experimental evidence to back it up, suggesting that piece rates may actually be better than other schemes under multitasking. The idea is that agents may be uncertain about the principal's monitoring ability, and the choice of a piece-rate scheme signals that the principal is a good monitor. This signaling effect can, under certain conditions, overcome the standard distortionary effect described above. Put differently, relying on subjective, holistic evaluation criteria, or abandoning performance measurement altogether (Alfie Kohn cheers!), may signal a sophisticated, experienced principal, but may also signal a principal who is too lazy to pay attention to employee behavior at all.
The paper is by Omar Al-Ubaydli, Steffen Andersen, Uri Gneezy, and John List and is cleverly titled "Carrots That Look Like Sticks: Toward an Understanding of Multitasking Incentive Schemes." (Yes, it is part of the List Project on which we have mixed opinions.) Here is more on multitasking.
20 July 2015 at 8:32 am Peter G. Klein	1 comment
Casson on Methodological Individualism
Thanks to Andrew for the pointer to this weekend's Reading-UNCTAD International Business Conference featuring Mark Casson, Tim Devinney, Marcus Larsen, and many others. Mark's talk (not yet online) focused on the need for methodological individualism in international business research. "Firms don't take decisions, individuals do. When you say that a firm pursued an international strategy, you really mean that that the CEO persuaded the individuals on the board to go along with his or her strategy." As Andrew summarizes:
Casson spoke at great length about the need for research that focuses on named individuals, is based on the extensive study of primary sources in archives, takes social and political context into account, and which looks at case studies of entrepreneurs in different time periods. In effect, he was calling for the re-integration of Business History into International Business research.
And a renewed emphasis on entrepreneurship, not as a standalone subject dealing with startups or self-employment, but as central to the study of organizations — a theme heartily endorsed on this blog.
14 June 2015 at 1:53 pm Peter G. Klein	Leave a comment
Review of Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment
David Howden's generous review of Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment appears in the March 2015 issue of the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. Excerpt:
This ambitious book has a three-fold purpose. First, it seeks to clarify "entrepreneurship" in a manner amenable to both modern management and economics literature. Second, it redefines the theory of the firm in order to integrate the role of the entrepreneur more fully and give a comprehensive view on why firms exist. Finally, and most successfully, it sheds light on the internal organization of the firm, and how entrepreneurship theory can augment our understanding of why firms adopt the hierarchies they do. . . .
Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment is a massive undertaking, and one that ambitiously spans the unnecessary divide between management studies and economics literature. For the scholar seriously contemplating exploiting this gap further, the book is highly recommended. Having thoroughly enjoyed reading this rendition of their entrepreneurial theory of the firm, it is this reviewer's hope that Foss and Klein continue to carve out this growing niche straddling the two disciplines. Following up with a more direct and focused primer on their firm would be a welcome contribution to further the growing field.
Also, at last November's SDAE conference, the book received the 2014 FEE Prize for best book in Austrian economics.
We have several new papers coming out that develop, extend, and defend the judgment-based perspective. Details to follow.


In 1997, plaintiffs filed an "adequacy" and "equity" suit, Kasayulie v. State, 3AN-97-3782 CIV, against the state of Alaska, claiming that the state's method of funding capital projects for education violates the education clause and the equal protection clause of the Alaska Constitution and the implementing regulations of Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The rural parents and school districts who brought the case had alleged that the state's financing formula for school construction discriminated against rural students, many of whom were Alaska Natives, in violation of the Alaska Constitution and Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. They also alleged that inadequate funding of rural schools was a breach of the state's obligations under the public school land trust. The core problem seemed to be that many rural districts lacked the legal authority or the ability to pass local bond issues for capital construction and thereby to gain access to state funding for debt reimbursement that was available to many urban districts.
In 1999, the Superior Court granted plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment, holding that Alaska has a dual, arbitrary, unconstitutional, and racially discriminatory system for funding school facilities. It also held that education in Alaska is a fundamental right.
In March 2001, the Superior Court rejected a motion from the state to reopen the Kasayulie decision, concluding that the new information the state submitted reinforces the court's prior findings. After the 2001 decision, the state allocated significant funds for construction and renovation of rural schools. However, it did not change the unconstitutional, dual system of facilities financing.
Because the 2001 decision was not a final, appealable order, the case remained on the court docket but was inactive for many years. In February 2010, several rural lawmakers and Republican Governor Sean Parnell renewed efforts to improve facilities for schools represented in the Kasayulie v. State case by utilizing Fiscal Year 2010 budget surplus funds.On October 4, 2011, the 14-year old lawsuit was settled, after the legislature approved funding to pay for the replacement or repair of schools in five remote Western Alaska villages.
In 2004, a different set of plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the state (Moore v. State), alleging the state's education finance system is inadequate and inequitable in funding operating costs.
Judge Gleason said the state was failing to provide sufficient oversight of school districts with low test scores. Despite a tradition of local control of schools, she wrote, the Legislature is responsible under the State Constitution's Education Clause for providing students "the opportunity to acquire the basic tools they need to succeed in both traditional and global societies." Judge Gleason stayed judgment in the case for one year, giving the state an opportunity to remedy the constitutional violations.
The Court ordered the state to file with the court revised district intervention plans that address each of the problem areas identified in the findings.
In March, 2012, the parties settled the eight-year Moore v. State of Alaska case. The settlement provides a one-time appropriation of $18 million to be distributed to forty of Alaska's lowest-performing school districts. Districts must apply to be granted funding. Twelve million dollars will go towards teacher retention and remedial efforts to help students pass the high school exit exam. At least $6 million will go towards two-year kindergarten and literacy programs for pre-k aged children. The funding is intended to last for a minimum of three years. This money will be distributed by the Department of Education and the "Moore Committee"—a six-member committee appointed by the Department of Education and the Citizens for the Educational Advancement of Alaska's Children (CEAAC). A seventh, non-voting member chairs the committee. The recipients of funding must adhere to established "best practices" and accountability measures and set improvement benchmarks.
A Superior Court judge in Alaska ruled in December 2014 that a state mandate requiring local municipalities to make education funding payments directly to their respective school districts violated the state constitution.
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Former NASA Astronaut
Joan Higginbotham was born in chicago on August 3, 1964 . She obtained Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a 1987 Master of Management degree from Florida Institute. Her career with NASA began at Kennedy Space Center, where she was payload electrical engineer in the electrical and telecommunications systems division. She actively participated in 53 space shuttle launches during her nine year tenure at kennedy space center. She logged over 308 hours in space, having completed her first mission with the crew of STS-116 where her primary task was to operate the Space Station Remote Manipulator System. In November 2007, Joan Higginbotham retired from NASA in order to pursue a career in the private sector. (NASA bio)
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The county's Metropolitan Planning Organization, which maps out spending priorities for federally-funded transportation projects, on Thursday formally objected to proposed state legislation that would sharply reduce the number of county commissioners who serve on the board.
Sponsored by Miami Rep. Jeanette Nuñez, the proposal by the Republican lawmaker so rankled the commission that one commissioner this week briefly threatened to pull funding of a county staffer that runs the Miami-Dade delegation office while the Legislature is in session.
"We are paying for staff for a delegation that doesn't even support us," Commissioner Audrey Edmonson said at Tuesday's county commission meeting.
As one of 13 county commissioners, Edmonson also gets an automatic seat on the 23-member MPO. The Nuñez amendment would shrink the panel to 14 members, with the Miami-Dade mayor getting a seat for the first time but county commissioners losing eight slots. The county's six largest cities would keep their seats, as would the county school system and the MDX. But the legislation would drop an at-large municipal seat and a slot reserved for a civilian from the suburbs.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Francis Suarez, a Miami city commissioner, are their cities' representatives on the MPO, and they supported the legislation. That led to a series of tense exchanges at the MPO meeting as county commissioners mostly objected to the end-run and city leaders urged MPO reform given Miami-Dade's worsening gridlock.
"I think it's important that members of the MPO respect the MPO," said County Commissioner Dennis Moss. Mayor Levine said later: "I'm sorry you feel I went and told our parents on us." Levine and Suarez were on the losing side of a 14-4 vote by the MPO to oppose the membership change.
The MPO language passed the House as part of a large transportation bill. Sen. René Garcia, a Miami-Dade Republican, said Thursday he hoped to attach the MPO amendment onto a Senate bill heading for passage.
Both the MPO and MDX legislation would give Gimenez prominent roles on boards overseeing millions in transportation dollars as he heads into a 2016 reelection season where transit issues are getting more political attention.
The MDX oversees the county's toll roads, and last fall extended tolling on the Dolphin Expressway in a move that critics trashed as "Tollmaggedon." Appointed by the county commission and governor, the 13-member MDX board roster currently lists one elected official — a city councilwoman from Aventura. The proposed legislation would shrink the board to 11, while transferring the chairmanship from an appointed member (currently Maritza Gutiérrez) to Miami-Dade's mayor. The bill also would ban appointments of members who lobby or work for firms with financial ties to MDX projects.
Sen. Flores said Mayor Gimenez has been active in requesting changes in the MDX legislation, which she said drew concerns from county commissioners as well. Flores touted the idea of having a countywide elected official running the board. "He would have direct accountability to the voters," she said.
Maurice Ferré, a former Miami mayor and current MDX member, said he saw problems from inserting the county mayor into a board with an active committee system meeting every 30 days.
"Is the mayor of Miami-Dade County really going to spend the amount of time the MDX requires?" he asked.
Miami Herald staff writer Glenn Garvin contributed to this report.


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Comptroller's power to revoke patents on his own initiative
73.-(1) If it appears to the comptroller that an invention for which a patent has been granted formed part of the state of the art by virtue only of section 2(3) above, he may on his own initiative by order revoke the patent, but shall not do so without giving the proprietor of the patent an opportunity of making any observations and of amending the specification of the patent so as to exclude any matter which formed part of the state of the art as aforesaid without contravening section 76 below.
(1A)1 Where the comptroller issues an opinion under section 74A that section 1(1)(a) or (b) is not satisfied in relation to an invention for which there is a patent, the comptroller may revoke the patent.
(1B)2 The power under subsection (1A) may not be exercised before -
(a) the end of the period in which the proprietor of the patent may apply under the rules (by virtue of section 74B) for a review of the opinion, or
(b) if the proprietor applies for a review, the decision on the review is made (or, if there is an appeal against that decision, the appeal is determined).
(1C)3 The comptroller shall not exercise the power under subsection (1A) without giving the proprietor of the patent an opportunity to make any observations and to amend the specification of the patent without contravening section 76.
(2) If it appears to the comptroller that a patent under this Act and a European patent (UK) have been granted for the same invention having the same priority date, and that the applications for the patents were filed by the same applicant or his successor in title, he shall give the proprietor of the patent under this Act an opportunity of making observations and of amending the specification of the patent, and if the proprietor fails to satisfy the comptroller that there are not two patents in respect of the same invention, or to amend the specification so as to prevent there being two patents in respect of the same invention, the comptroller shall revoke the patent.
(3) The comptroller shall not take action under subsection (2) above before -
(a) the end of the period for filing an opposition to the European patent (UK) under the European Patent Convention, or
(b) if later, the date on which opposition proceedings are finally disposed of;
and he shall not then take any action if the decision is not to maintain the European patent or if it is amended so that there are not two patents in respect of the same invention.
(4) The comptroller shall not take action under subsection (2) above if the European patent (UK) has been surrendered under section 29(1) above before the date on which by virtue of section 25(1) above the patent under this Act is to be treated as having been granted or, if proceedings for the surrender of the European patent (UK) have been begun before that date, until those proceedings are finally disposed of;
and he shall not then take any action if the decision is to accept the surrender of the European patent.
73(1) relates to 'dormant' prior art published after grant of application in issue, i.e. application is granted quickly (<18 mo).
"same invention":
differences in scope do not avoid the application of s73(2) (Maag Gear's Patent [1985] RPC 532);
overlapping protection includes coverage of the same invention (Marley's Patent [1994] RPC 231)
EP(UK) patent being allowed to lapse does not prevent corresponding UK patent from being revoked.
EP(UK) may be surrendered before s25(1) date to avoid revocation of UK patent or by deleting UK designation. Surrendering EP(UK) will only be possible if EP grants before UK (very unlikely).
Comptroller cannot take action before opposition period ends or proceedings are concluded.
Revocation is ex tunc.
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Fresh off the back of his hit single "Bokiniyen", Nigerian artist Koker shows no sign of easing up. This eagerly anticipated release, "Wavy", is set to blow up the airwaves—and it's been fuelling expectations from diehard followers that he's on a path toward creating a unique brand of "wavy", the style of flow that blends sung vocals with rap. This jam, from the Chocolate City label star and "Kolewerk" crooner, is produced by Rhyme Bamz and co-produced by Reinhard Tega.


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Ariantes (Ariantas, en antiguo griego: 'Αριαντάς) fue un rey de los escitas quien, para poder conocer el número de súbditos que tenía, ordenó a cada uno de ellos llevarle una flecha, para así contarlos con mayor facilidad. Con estas flechas hizo un monumento que se instaló en Exampaeus, entre los ríos Borístenes e Hipanis.

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I guess I was going to some kind of class, and water had something to do with it. I was in some kind of room; it makes me think of a breeding room in a cult (something in the fiction I write), where all the women are kept, only they had some babies with them. A couple of the babies didn't want to go into the water or something. I think one of the women shoved a baby in the water and drowned it.
This dream might have shifted into/been related to "¡Bienvenido A Mi Bano!"
This dream might have shifted out of/been related to "Hydrophobia."
I went into the bathroom. There was a curtain on the shower, but there was like a new wall protruding partly from the wall that was already there. It had a door in it. I'd never noticed it before, but then I told myself I had, even though I hadn't. This door led from my bedroom or from outside or the basement, maybe, and it was like some kind of place where people could sneak in. I looked at the thickness of the wall--it was about a foot or less wide--and thought, "I wouldn't be able to fit through that!" I think some Latino guys had to force their way through it and come into the house. I thought, "Dad wouldn't like this!"
I have written down "leaving on trip," so I have the feeling I was leaving on what was going to be a trip, but it wasn't really a trip; I don't remember that at all. I also have written down "tape recorder"; can't remember that.
This dream might have shifted into/been related to "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?"
This dream might have shifted out of/been related to "¡Bienvenido A Mi Bano!"
I went to Mr. Cady's (high school literature teacher) class in the high school; Mr. Cady was still the teacher. I went to take a seat and I think I put my stuff there. I went out into the hallway again and there were a bunch of people walking around; I started talking with them, I think. I went back into the class and my seat had been taken by somebody! >:( So I sighed and took my stuff and went to another seat. I think there had been stuff in the basket under the chair at the first desk, so I had to kick it or move it around to get it out of the way.
This dream might have shifted into or been related to "Hawk Captive" and to "That '70s VR."
This dream might have shifted out of or been related to "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?"
I was looking through some books that were on a rack, maybe in the classroom (see "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?"). Several of them were like Mary Poppins's Scrapbook or Mary Poppins's Notebook. I started looking at one because I thought maybe it would be in scrapbook/notebook form, which I kind of like; but it was just a story about Mary Poppins, and I didn't like it very much. One book had weird drawings and such in it. There were some other books. One had a picture of what I think were two weasels, and they were grabbing a hawk to prevent it from escaping; it was a really weird drawing, all curves. I had the feeling that there might have been an orangutan in part of this, but I don't remember where.
* The weasels capturing the hawk.
Ma and I were in a car, driving along a road. We had to get to some destination, but in order to get there we had to drive through the water. So the car was driving along this big long walkway and it started going into the water; water started spewing over the hood! Ma said, "I don't like this!"
I said, "Well, we have to drive through the water for about seventy miles; it's like seventy miles long."
We started going past these houses and I described them while we went by. I think I was recording this on tape; maybe that's why I spoke aloud? One of the houses was blue and had kind of an open structure; it was in a tree. The base of it was built around the trunk of the tree and there was a smaller part, maybe a garage ^_^ , even though they had nowhere to park; the smaller part was attached to the bigger part and to the tree. There were some other houses. I continued describing them--"Oo, I like this house here with the blue sides..."
We just kept going through the water. I think I was singing "On The Road To Mandalay," or else I mentioned it. The thing is, I don't know the words to that song! I have written down "turned off tape," so I either turned off the tape recorder or a tape that was playing in the car.
This dream might have been related to "Puck's Pentacle."
This dream might have been related to "Tree Houses."
This dream took place before "Tree Houses." I was my character Puck Benteen, and I/he was walking out of some kind of building at night. I wondered what kind of necklace he was wearing. I thought it would be a pentacle, only it would be upright--like a witch's pentacle. I thought, "Isn't that associated with witchcraft?" I thought that's what I wanted in my dream, but that isn't what Puck wears in my fiction (he's not a witch). I have the feeling he was sliding down some tubes, like a waterslide or something.
I was at home, playing some kind of game on the computer. First it looked like a screensaver because there were things moving around, but then it turned into some kind of trivia game. Ma had been playing it and I tried to play it myself, but I couldn't even figure out how it worked, or how I was supposed to play the game! That was kind of annoying.
This dream might have been part of/related to "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?"
I think I was back in a class (Mr. Cady's class?--see "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?") again. I have written down "notebook," but I can't remember what it was. They were listing some things on the board--things from the 1970s or something, and I think one of them was Shaft. There were some Eyes of Horus up on the board or above it. Somebody said something about virtual reality of the '70s; I thought, "They didn't have VR in the '70s!"
I went over to sharpen my pencil; I did so, but then it broke off and I thought, "Oh, this is really GREAT!" So I started sharpening it again...and I just kept sharpening my pencil. >:/ I finally got it almost sharpened. I think there were a couple of psychiatrists standing out in the hallway talking to each other, but I'm not sure where that fit in.
This Is What Happens When I Wake Up Late!
This dream is convoluted. In one little part it seemed I was waking up late. I was getting ready to go to class. When I say late, I don't mean late FOR class, I just mean later than I wanted to get up. On Tuesday I have class in the morning in Petoskey (in real life), but on Wednesday I have a night class in Cheboygan. The class starts at seven PM, so I can get up pretty much whenever I want. But in real life I wanted to get up earlier, so I got up two hours earlier than I usually do. In my dream I slept in to the usual time. I thought, "Man, I didn't want to do that, I wanted to get up early!"
Well, I think a helicopter crashed on our pavement outside, so I went out. There were some guys out there standing around. I think somebody was talking about somebody else who was supposed to have been a former boyfriend of mine. It was somebody I'd known and met at the county fair. I think of the bald guy who was in the episode of The X-Files with the Men In Black in it ("Jose Chung's From Outer Space"), the guy with the glasses who played Dungeons & Dragons and wanted to be abducted by aliens. ^_^ Maybe he was my boyfriend. I had met him at the fair and we got to be friends, but when the fair ended he was gone, so I thought, that was really worth it. :/ They were talking about this, I think.
Anyway, the ground was wet and these guys were standing off to the side talking. I started picking up all this stuff that was on the pavement. There were little bits of metal and such. I kept finding lots of little springs. As they talked I kept finding tufts of what seemed to be hay or something, and it was wet. I picked up a bunch of tufts, put them in my hand, and squeezed them to get the water out of them so that they wouldn't be as bulky. I just kept picking up big gobs of this and putting them in my hand so I could throw it away. The guys were looking at me while I did this. They turned and started to leave.
While they were leaving, I looked up into the sky; it had been lighter earlier but now it was darker. I could see the stars, and there was some kind of pale luminescence in the sky; I wondered if it was clouds or the Northern Lights. I started getting dizzy looking up there. I thought about HP Lovecraft and what he would say about a sight like this.
* The wet clumps of "hay" I found on the pavement outside.
In real life, I copied two audiotapes for Marie, a family friend; one was a Crash Test Dummies tape, which she wanted, and the other was a mix tape of some songs by other artists whose songs I could copy for her. Ma told me that she'd discovered the tapes and I said, "Did you tell her what they were for?"
"Well, you can tell her that."
In my dream, I was telling Marie what the tapes were about. I said, "This one's Crash Test Dummies, and this one is a mix tape. If you're interested in any of the songs on this second tape, just let me know and I'll record more."
Marie was sitting on our couch and she got up and said, "Oh, this is really great! Thanks!"
This dream might have shifted into/been related to "To Stand Or Not To Stand?"
To Stand Or Not To Stand?
This dream might have shifted out of/been related to "Mix Tapes."
I then talked about how Marie probably wouldn't like seeing The Stand because of the violence in it, but as I couldn't think of any, I ended up thinking, "Well, maybe she WOULD like to see it!"
I was getting a bag ready for school, I think. First when I was getting it ready I was putting tapes in it, then later on it seemed I was cleaning it out. I cleaned out a lot of that colored paper I used to make beads, and a bunch more junk; then I thought, "Wait, I have no pencil!" So I was going to have to get one.
I think I was going outside. I believe Pepper might have been trying to escape, only I felt kind of sorry for her. I have a feeling that in part of this the radio was on and they were telling the weather or something. Anyway, I went outside. Next to the garage there was a bag or a trunk; I started digging through it. It's like someone was watching me and looking at my facial expressions. In the bag I found a bunch of shirts that I had worn like two years ago, I think, when I was with Mya (old best friend) or something. I can't remember when this was. The person who was watching me said, "She looks kind of eager, like she's looking for something."
I started pulling out the shirts to see if any of them would be wearable. I pulled out one that I'd worn before. It was really small and I thought, "Ha! I'll never fit into this again!" I tried to stretch it a little bit. It was really small; it looked like something my mom would wear, and it would be tight on her!
I think I quit digging in the bag and maybe I went back inside. While I had been digging through the bag I'd found a paper or book on the ground by it--this was taking place in front of the garage, closer to the side where Smokey (deceased dog) used to be kept (the south side). I found something; I don't know if it was a book or a schedule or what, but it was something about The X-Files. They were having an X-Files baseball team and I wondered what they'd call them--the X-Filesians or something like that? ^_^ I didn't know; I thought, "Well, that's kind of interesting, but I don't see what it has to do with anything!" I had the feeling that this had come about because of Kazaam, the genie played by Shaquille O'Neal--I felt some kid had wished that The X-Files be made into a baseball team and this genie had granted it. It was really weird.
I went back inside and I think The X-Files was on TV, because we saw the beginning of it; whatever it was, it was something that I wanted to watch. Then they went to what seemed to be a commercial, but it was some sportscaster talking about baseball. I think I'd started to record with the VCR, but this made me say, "Baseball? They're gonna put on baseball now?? But the show already started!"
Dad said, "Well, it looks like it."
However, after these guys stopped talking my show came back on, so I guess that they weren't going to show baseball after all.


Star Wars: Episode IX is still far, far away, but on Friday Lucasfilm announced the cast of the third film in the new trilogy, and there are a few surprises. Mark Hamill is said to be returning, despite Luke Skywalker having died in The Last Jedi. And, Leia will appear in Episode IX despite the death of her actress, the great Carrie Fisher.
According to the announcement post on StarWars.com Leia will appear in Episode IX, but true to Lucasfilm's word, the studio will not be recasting Fisher nor will they be making a computer-generated version of her (á la the digital Peter Cushing the studio made to bring Grand Moff Tarkin to life in Rogue One).
It's unclear how extensive this footage is, or what the circumstances of the footage are. Presumably, there will be some editing trickery to make the cut Force Awakens scenes fit into the story's present. In December of last year, Last Jedi director Rian Johnson said there weren't any big scenes" involving Fisher that he'd cut from his movie, though he said Abrams was welcome to use it.
In addition, the casting announcement reveals that Hamill will return, presumably as a Force-Ghost version of Luke Skywalker. This news seems to quash worries that Hamill's shaved beard meant fans had already seen the last of the Jedi master.
Billy Dee Williams will also return to Star Wars to play Lando Calrissian, as previously announced, and he'll be joined by series newcomers Naomi Ackie (Lady MacBeth) and Richard E. Grant (Dr. Zander Rice in Logan).


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Drink driver Owen Finn who ploughed into teenager and left him for dead is jailed
Kiernan Roberts, 16, had to undergo life-saving surgery and is still in hospital now
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A disgraced business leader who left a teenage boy for dead after ploughing into his bicycle while drunk at the wheel has been jailed for three years.
Owen Finn, 64, left 16-year-old Kiernan Roberts sprawled in the middle of the road with a broken neck and a brain injury in Brantingham Road, Elloughton, late on October 7 last year.
Instead of stopping to help the youngster, who had been cycling home from his part-time job, Finn fled the scene in his Mercedes – and drove 130 miles to Birmingham with a smashed windscreen.
He has also been banned from driving for 11 and a half years.
Kiernan, who was found by a passer-by, had to undergo life-saving surgery, was only expected to be released this week and will require 24-hour care.
The talented South Hunsley sixth-form pupil had dreamed of becoming a political journalist.
Sniggering teenage robbers Josh Tomassi and Saul Oxburgh pulled knife on man in west Hull street and demanded cash
Finn, who was at the time president of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, had denied the charges against him when he appeared before magistrates, but admitted causing serious injuries by dangerous driving, failing to stop after an accident, failing to report an accident, and drink-driving in a further hearing at Hull Crown Court.
Finn, of Soilihull Lane, Hall Green, Birmingham, was sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Jeremy Richardson QC.
Kiernan's family have made a statement outside court 11:15
Family are expected to make a statement 10:50
'Sentencing guidelines do not come close to reflecting the pain and suffering', say family
Owen Finn is responsible for this and it is right and fitting that he receives this jail sentence in order for redemption to take place, particularly in light of the fact that he went to such measures to avoid taking responsibility for his actions.
It is unfortunate the law does not allow harsher sentencing for this offence. The sentencing guidelines do not come close to reflecting the pain and suffering Kiernan and our family have endured.
The family would like to thank everyone who has supported us and Kiernan in his journey of survival; the police and everyone who assisted him in their investigation, and the media for respecting our privacy during such an emotionally difficult time.
Family make powerful statement
In a statement read outside court on behalf of the family, Kiernan's sister, Katrina McLane, 30, said:
Kiernan has been treasured his entire life yet was left alone, discarded and potentially dying in the road.
When he was born, he united our family in love and has been our beloved boy ever since. He is the best of us – principled and kind: loved beyond measure.
As a family we would often marvel at him when he was younger and wonder where his life would take him – medical school, parliament or political journalism; musician.
Never did we contemplate his life and ours being so completely and irreversibly shattered in an instant.
Kiernan's family have made a statement outside court
Family are expected to make a statement
Kiernan's family are expected to make a statement following the sentencing of Finn in a few minutes.
Kiernan is still in hospital and has suffered life changing injuries.
Finn branded 'callous and cowardly' by judge
Sentencing Finn at Hull Crown Court today, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, Recorder of Hull and East Riding, said:
I state at once that this is an exceptionally serious case. It reveals the utterly dreadful consequences of drinking and driving, particularly when the driver is driving a car having consumed over twice the permitted level of alcohol for driving.
"Your behaviour that night was shameful in the extreme. Your cowardice after the collision was breathtaking in its callous disregard for the life of the boy who you maimed, leaving him as you did in the roadway while you made off in an endeavor to evade justice.
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Her 13th birthday party a BDSM orgy: Witness
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A girl's 13th birthday party celebration started at a London restaurant and ended as a BDSM orgy at her home, court heard Tuesday.
The now 30-year-old woman testified that in October 2001, her mom and stepdad arranged for a fellow BDSM enthusiast to join her public dinner and a private sex party.
The man she knew only as "Scotdom" — which stands for Scottish dominant — is Martin Galloway, the alleged victim testified. Her identity is covered by a publication ban.
Galloway, a former Scottish cop who now works as a commercial photographer, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the woman when she was 13.
The woman testified that after her birthday dinner at a restaurant in London, Ont., she returned to her home with family members and Gallowy.
Her younger two siblings retired while the parents spread "blankets all over the living room floor," she testified.
Galloway and the stepdad had a threesome with his wife, court heard.
"Then, Scotdom had sex with me in a few different positions," she recalled.
"I was excited to try something new," added the witness, rolling her eyes. "I was apprehensive. I was really manipulated by my stepdad and I was in survival mode."
The woman described how her stepfather groomed her for sex acts and told court she saw him sexually abuse both her younger brother and sister.
"He brought our family into this (more affluent) lifestyle from poverty. At first, I thought he was a nice guy and then he turned into a monster," she told the court. "He forced sex on me … I didn't want that."
The stepfather also bound the witness in front of online viewers "who would tell him what to do to me," the witness told Madam Justice Louise Botham.
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"He'd penetrate me and do other sex acts on me," said the woman, who has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Crown attorney Jennifer Strasberg is alleging Galloway was one of a trio of BDSM enthusiasts who preyed upon the girl between Jan. 1, 2000 and Dec. 31, 2006.
Jacquelyn Laronde
Last October, the first of the co-accused, Jason Dickens, 48, a former DeGrassi High actor, pleaded guilty in connection with this case. The second co-accused, a transgender now known as Jacquelyn Laronde, 48, is awaiting judgment next week on sexual assault charges.
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The XTAL is a high-resolution VR headset for professional use. It sports a very high 170° FOV and two quad HD high-density OLED displays (2560 * 1440px per eye). Also it is the first headset to feature an automatic IPD adjustment.


This was one of my outfits for the Dove Summit (read more about it HERE). We were required to wear white all weekend and I realized that I don't really own a lot of plain white clothes let alone a white dress so I just had to make do with what I had.
I so, so love these skorts from SM Ladies Fashion. They're a great alternative to another favorite of mine: the origami skort :P So glad I managed to snag another one in white last week at SM Moa.


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The Centennial Park Sporting Precinct Master Plan aims to deliver a realistic and workable design; focusing on shared use, improved playing surfaces; and enhanced event spaces that are economical and socially sustainable. The master plan addresses the three major issues of flood mitigation / drainage, vehicle parking and lighting.
Centennial Park - Community Update (2MB) View File OR Download FileThe Autumn 2016 Centennial Park Sporting Precinct community update.


On the last Friday of every month, tens of thousands of cyclists across 300 cities ride their bicycles for about an hour. In these events, cyclists disregard laws and regulations by bursting through red lights, traversing highway overpasses, and occupying multiple lanes of the road. These cyclists form part of Critical Mass. For the time in which Critical Mass takes place, participants are part of a nomos, or "normative universe", which determines laws for their particular community. Critical Mass' conception as a nomos, together with its interaction or performance among the legal orders set out in municipal, provincial, and federal law, are analyzed in this paper. paper presents an understanding of how performativity contributes to the interdisciplinary legal geography project by challenging the language of jurisdiction imposed by law.
Alexandra Flynn, "Regulating Critical Mass: Performativity and City Streets" (2016) 37:1 Windsor Rev Legal Soc Issues 98.