Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. (NYSE:RYAM) today reported net income for the first quarter 2015 of $11 million, or $0.25 per share compared to $31 million, or $0.73 per share for the same period in 2014. Pro forma net income for the first quarter 2014 was $33 million, or $0.78 per share. There were no pro forma adjustments for the first quarter 2015.
Sales for the first quarter of 2015 were $221 million compared to $243 million in the prior year period. The $22 million decline was primarily due to lower cellulose specialties sales prices and volumes. Cellulose specialties sales volumes declined in early 2015 due to timing of customer orders mainly related to acetate tow destocking as previously communicated. Full year volumes are on track to be comparable to 2014/2013 levels, with the vast majority of these volumes under contract. Operating income for the first quarter of 2015 was $24 million compared to pro forma operating income of $46 million for the same period in the prior year. The $22 million decline is primarily due to lower cellulose specialties prices. Lower cellulose specialties volumes were offset by increased commodity volumes and improved commodity profitability. Operating income was negatively impacted by higher selling and general expenses as a result of being an independent, public company and higher professional fees incurred during the period.
Interest expense, net of interest income, was $9 million for the first quarter of 2015 reflecting the debt issued to effect the separation.
The first quarter 2015 effective tax rate of 28.2 percent is comparable to the same period in 2014 of 28.6 percent. For the first quarter of 2015, the effective tax rate was below the federal rate of 35 percent primarily due to the benefit of domestic manufacturing tax deduction and state tax credits. The full year effective tax rate is expected to be between 33 and 34 percent.
The Company generated adjusted free cash flow of $32 million and reduced net debt by $32 million. As of March 28, 2015, the Company had $300 million of liquidity including $222 million available under its revolving credit facility after taking into account outstanding letters of credit.
"Although cellulose specialties volumes were lower in the first quarter as expected, we are off to a good start in 2015 driven by our cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives. Based on our performance to date, we believe we will realize our goal of run-rate savings approaching $40 million and capture a significant portion of these savings in 2015. This progress, coupled with favorable input costs, specifically for certain chemicals and energy, allows us to raise our EBITDA guidance for 2015 to $210 to $225 million," said Boynton.
A conference call will be held on Friday, May 1, 2015 at 9 a.m. EDT to discuss these results. Presentation materials and access to the live webcast will be available at www.rayonieram.com. Investors may also choose to access the conference call by dialing (800) 857-7003, password: Rayonier Advanced Materials. A replay of this webcast will be available on the Company's website shortly after the call.
Certain statements in this document regarding anticipated financial, business, legal or other outcomes, including business and market conditions, outlook and other similar statements relating to Rayonier Advanced Materials' future events, developments or financial or operational performance or results, are "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements are identified by the use of words such as "may," "will," "should," "expect," "estimate," "believe," "intend," "anticipate" and other similar language. However, the absence of these or similar words or expressions does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. While we believe that these forward-looking statements are reasonable when made, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and undue reliance should not be placed on these statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that these expectations will be attained and it is possible that actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements due to a variety of risks and uncertainties.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: competitive pressures in the markets in which we operate; customer concentration; changes in cellulose specialties product prices; changes in raw material and energy prices; international operations; changes in global economic conditions, including currency; the Chinese dumping duties currently in effect for commodity viscose pulps; litigation with the Altamaha Riverkeeper relating to our permitted Jesup, Georgia effluent discharge; the effect of current and future environmental laws and regulations; the potential impact of future tobacco-related restrictions; potential for additional pension contributions; labor relations with the unions representing our hourly employees; the effect of weather and other natural conditions; changes in transportation-related costs and availability; the failure to attract and retain key personnel; the failure to develop new ideas and protect our intellectual property; uncertainties related to the availability of additional financing to us in the future and the terms of such financing; our inability to make or effectively integrate future acquisitions and engage in certain other corporate transactions; any failure to realize expected benefits from our separation from Rayonier Inc.; our debt obligations; and uncertainties relating to general economic, political, business, industry, regulatory and market conditions.
Other important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements that may have been made in this document are described or will be described in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K. Rayonier Advanced Materials assumes no obligation to update these statements except as is required by law.
(a) Other expenses primarily consist of environmental and one-time separation and legal costs.
(c) On June 27, 2014, 42,176,565 shares of our common stock were distributed to Rayonier Inc.
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Cayetano Ferrer: Las Vegas Life
"Quarter Scale Grand Entrance"
Interview by Devon Caranicas in Los Angeles; Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012
Although currently based on the west coat, visual artist Cayetano Ferrer spent many of his formative years in Las Vegas, a metropolitan anomaly that continues to be a subject source for much of his work. Ferrer's visual fascination with the city began as a teenager barring witness to the demolition of casinos along the strip.
The Las Vegas real estate market has a proclivity for constantly reinventing itself. Spurred on by economic surges and the active imagination of hotel developers, the reconstruction of the infamous "strip" is hyperactive to say the least. For Cayetano, this resulting architectural mosaic has become symbolic of the regenerative and cinematic narratives that the city embodies. Working with video, sculpture and installation, Ferrer uses demolition footage, scrolling marquees and glowing signs in an ongoing and ever expanding exploration of a social and psychological rational behind explosion-as-spectacle that exists in the west.
Recently shown at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery (which was part of a much larger exhibition titled "Made in LA", the inaugural biennial of Los Angeles artists organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART) Ferrer explored these architectural tropes while simultaneously utilizing a very different visually schizophrenic icon: the casino carpet. Swatch for Remnant Recomposition was created by affixing different geometric fragments to develop a wall-to-wall carpet composed of oddly juxtaposed culturally coded icons. These mass produced textiles are easily recognized for their flamboyant and intricate designs, while the imagery and symbols embedded into casino carpets are often appropriated from various times and cultures. When combined by Ferrer the final product results in a conglomeration of contradicting and disparate meanings.
This flattened composition is a mimicry of the city's previously mentioned haphazard architectural make up. But it also points to our contemporary way of consuming conflicting and converging information, such as on the internet. I met with Ferrer at his studio in Los Angeles to discuss his current projects and recent "Made in LA" exhibition and the following interview took place via email:
DEVON CARANICAS: Surface, veneer and illusion seem to be recurring themes in your work. What specifically attracts you to these notions?
CAYETANO FERRER: I'd say that these are recurring themes in the western tradition of visual art, if not central to the problem. The Renaissance is filled with examples of trompe l'oeil painting which was that period's version of the various kinds of augmented reality that we have today. The effect was perfected into the Baroque period and was maintained a presence until you arrive at places like Caesar's Palace. Special effects in cinema came along with a knowledge of centuries of illusionistic work in theater, and even the apparatus of the camera and the projector has its roots in these illusionistic techniques.
My work ends up being the result of the question: what exactly is an illusion? Is everything we see on a screen or a printed photograph an illusion? Is culture implicated in illusion? Can language itself be an illusion? I think language could definitely be considered in relation to this concept of illusion and this might render the word "illusion" itself a fabricated concept. The most effective illusions have weight to them. They are tangible and concrete, just as our gaze into reality is often distorted by artificial mirages. I think its interesting to consider that the word "real" didn't come along until well after landscape painting became popular in the 16th century.
You've worked with casino carpets in the past to catalogue them into a "field guide." How has the significance of this imagery evolved for you?
Casinos are basically noisy colorful labyrinths and the carpets play a crucial role in this. The basic order of shape and color here is organized in a way to affect how your body moves, and if you look at it on a formal level this is a really powerful experiment. Pathways are inlaid into the graphics of the carpet but they seduce you in certain directions towards a state of disorientation more than showing you the way to anything specific. The paths might seem to be taking you an exit, but actually draw you in circles through the gaming floor and to the spectacular shopping labyrinths. So we have this situation where aesthetics are sort of guiding movement in these subtle ways.
More recently I started looking at this imagery more closely, and I started feeling it was closer to mythology than outright deception. Something as dense with content as these carpets have fragments of ideas that amount to some sort of absurd myth, but I sincerely believe this myth is sort of crucial to understanding important parts of a global human condition. So I started on this equally absurd path to study of these fragments.
Even with these deceptive objects which are designed with a visual strategy that specifically asks me, the pedestrian, not to read into its meaning, there are plenty of speculations to be made into their mythological roots. This is most readily visible in the designs that reference the past and I choose to believe that even if these motifs are changed and flattened that these various visual elements that can be recognized are reaching into a deeper meaning. Corporate design on this scale integrates so much market research that our desires are finding their way into these places, and I'm privately trying to embody these spaces to better understand these desires. All of these effects are created to stimulate sensations and memories, and even if the designer is just a carrier of this myth there is some semblance of tradition taking place. In a way this is our new tradition. The internet works this way too and I see these lossy operations in Vegas as a physical kind of proto-internet, with hyperlinks and compression artifacts everywhere you look.
Show in tandem with Swatch for Remnant Recomposition was Quarter Scale Grand Entrance, a flashing casino facade that the viewer had to walk through in order to access the carpet. Obviously the pieces work as an installation, but I'm curious how, and if, they function on their own for you?
I try to avoid the word installation to describe these things because they were conceived as something closer to a model or a swatch. It comes from this larger project of designing a casino where each element is sort of infused with local history. Where the city always had this obsession to appropriate culture far away from its own, I wanted to use elements of its dying vernacular to put the lens on its own history. Its a pneumonic device on an architectural scale for an amnesiac city. Someone told me about this pneumonic device where one tries to hold onto a memory by imagining an object that represents this memory and then putting that object into an imaginary building. You carry the object up the stairs and into the room in a meaningful place where you want store this idea, like on display on a shelf or a hidden in a drawer. This theoretical casino works on a similar level, a kind of computer model to store memories.
So with this in mind the two works are definitely connected, but they are adjacent models working on different scales. The Grand Entrance is a design for the façade of the main entrance of this casino from the street. Working with this idea of Vegas as this index of the past I wanted to use elements from the various cultures already brought into this index and then put them all in one place. The result is a relief sculpture that channels through the pastiche of other casinos into the origins: Ancient Greece, Egypt, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Venice, turn-of-the century Paris, Aztec, Navajo, etc. The whole wall was then animated with projectors.
Remnant Recomposition was in progress for a couple years as I collected carpet scraps, which they call remnants in the fabric trade. I talked about this before but these cutoffs represent a powerful historical record stored in the patterns, and placing them all together it creates a matrix of contradiction and similarity. As a pedestrian is passing through this threshold, they are passing into a timeless space, not a space with no history as Las Vegas is often described. It's a sort of convergence of many historical traditions into one location so it deals with time and location in a similar way as the wall.
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In conjunction with the show organized by the Hammer Museum at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery you were able to install a tromp de l'oeil billboard on Hollywood Blvd. Can you talk a bit about its conception and relation to the work shown interiorly?
The billboard goes down a separate line in my work but there are definitely relationships. Both lines are deeply affected by context and a few dominant aesthetic forms that rose into their own categories in the American West: cinema, and thematic architecture, and signs. I see themed architecture as a direct descendent of cinema, borrowing from set building techniques to create sculptural simulations of architecture.
So in a way with the billboard I'm just following this casino design back to cinema. I was thinking about the old painted movie backdrops but of course the landscape around Los Angeles has also always been a backdrop for film, ported to look like different locations. So I wanted to make something that made use of the billboard to integrate these layers of representation and history, and then shoot a film in a way where these layers draw a line that points back to the camera. Since it would also be seen from the street the billboard is something between an advertisement and the last frame of a credit sequence of a movie. These end credit graphics are superimposed over an image of the Hollywood Hills behind it and in the film the billboard installers put the sign up and reveal these end credits so the movie just becomes about its own ending.
See more of Cayetano Ferrer's work:
www.cayetanoferrer.com/v3
Devon Caranicas is a visual artist and writer based in London. Originally from New York, Devon received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and is currently completing her MA in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has previously worked in education and programing at the Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles and as studio assistant for Berlin based Hannes Bend. Devon is regular contributor to Artslant, Artwednesday, Berlin Art Journal, and Berlin Art Link.
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Garden of Delights is de naam van een bouwplan uit 2005 van projectontwikkelaar AM Wonen voor een groot wooncomplex in de Nederlandse gemeente Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland). De kosten van het plan werden geschat op zo'n 12 miljoen euro en het zou ongeveer 200 woningen omvatten. De twee torens zouden respectievelijk 115 en 75 meter hoog worden. Ook werden er verscheidene commerciële voorzieningen in het plan opgenomen, waaronder een bioscoop met 900 stoelen. Veel inwoners van Rijswijk verzetten zich tegen het in hun ogen megalomane plan.

Ophef
In december 2007 kwam het project ter sprake in het AVRO-programma Landroof. Landroof liet zien dat een groot deel van de Rijswijkse bevolking tegen het project was, omdat het oude gemeentehuis en een groot deel van het Rijswijkse Bos zouden moeten wijken voor de hoge torenflats. In het televisieprogramma werd beargumenteerd dat de reden voor de bouw was dat de lening van het huidige gemeentehuis, gevestigd in winkelcentrum In de Bogaard, afbetaald moest worden.

Raad van State
Na een lange procedure, onder meer gevoerd door de Historische Vereniging Rijswijk, vernietigde de Raad van State in december 2008 het ontwerp-bestemmingsplan. Niet alleen betoogde de Raad van State dat het bouwplan niet paste in de cultuurhistorische omgeving, maar bovendien was er door de gemeente Rijswijk ten onrechte geen MER-procedure gevoerd. Daarom moest de gemeente haar 'huiswerk overdoen' waarmee de kans dat het plan daadwerkelijk wordt gebouwd, aanzienlijk kleiner werd.

Crisis
Gebieds- en vastgoedontwikkelaar AM heeft in oktober 2011 vanwege de economische crisis en de daaruit volgende situatie op de woningmarkt, de samenwerkingsovereenkomst met de gemeente Rijswijk beëindigd voor de (her)ontwikkeling van de oude stadhuislocatie.

Zie ook
Oude stadhuis (Rijswijk)

Externe link
 Uitspraak Raad van State, 24 december 2008

Bouwwerk in Rijswijk

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OBITUARY: Bettye Jo Langham, 90, of Kingsland dies Jan. 26, 2014
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Bettye Jo Langham, 90, of Kingsland passed away Jan. 26, 2014. She was born to Will H. and May (Milam) McKee in Abilene, Texas, on Nov. 17, 1923.
Mrs. Langham was a homemaker and, in her spare time, enjoyed crocheting, ceramics and bowling. She married Kenneth Langham on July 8, 1944.
She is survived by her son, Dannie Langham and wife Linda of Kingsland; grandchildren, Kevin (Sharon) Langham of Granite Shoals, Devin Langham of Converse, Stephanie Langham of North Carolina, Roxann Wilson of Forney and Donald Fisk III of Garland; great-grandchildren, Magen and Jesse Wilson and Donald Fisk IV.
Mrs. Langham was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Kenneth, whom she was married to for 67 years.
Visitation is 2-3 p.m. Feb. 1 at Putnam Funeral Home, 145 Texas Ave. in Kingsland, (325) 388-0008. A graveside service follows at 3:30 p.m. at Bluffton Cemetery in Bluffton.
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Cavaliers host Hawks in Drew's 2018 debut
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Acting head coach Larry Drew and the Cleveland Cavaliers host the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday. File photo by David Tulis/UPI | License Photo
Nine days ago, the Cleveland Cavaliers stumbled through an ugly loss to the Atlanta Hawks in their home opener.
It turned out to be the beginning of the end for former coach Tyronn Lue.
Three more losses followed and by Sunday afternoon Lue was shown the door when GM Koby Altman replaced him with Larry Drew.
Drew will coach the winless Cavaliers Tuesday night when the Hawks visit but as for his status, that seemed to remain murky at best.
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"I'm not the interim coach," Drew told reporters Monday after practice. "I'm the voice right now."
Drew is in charge because after the Cavaliers dropped to 0-3 with a 133-111 loss to Atlanta on Oct. 21, Lue went back to using veterans JR Smith, Kyle Korver and Channing Frye at various portions of the next three games.
Those veterans from Cleveland's 2016 title team could shake the Cavaliers from their ugly start and the day after a 119-107 loss to the Indiana Pacers, Altman felt a new voice was needed, especially since Cleveland has not held a lead in the second half and trailed by at least 16 in each game.
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"The challenge of this year was we had a mix of veterans and young guys and that's a complex situation that's difficult," Altman told reporters. "It didn't come together the way we envisioned, and we just didn't think coach Lue was the right fit for this group. We wanted to go in a different direction, a different coach and a different voice."
Drew will be coaching the Cavs for the second time. He won eight of nine games last season while Lue dealt with health issues and will be coaching his third team after going 143-169 in four seasons with Atlanta and Milwaukee.
However, now Drew does not want to be the interim coach without a new deal. Drew and the rest of Cleveland's assistant coaches are in the final seasons of their contracts.
"It's not a very complicated situation," Drew told reporters. "It's obvious this team is going in a different direction with the group that we do have and with the decisions that have been made with the organization. I would like to be part of it long term, to be perfectly honest. I've been through the rebuilding process as a player and as a coach and I feel I know what it takes. Certainly, when you talk about rebuilding, it's not an easy thing to do. It's usually something that takes a little time.
With their new "voice", the Cavaliers will try to avoid their first 0-7 start since 1995-96 under Mike Fratello. That version of the Cavaliers recovered to win 47 games and reach the playoffs and the front office is hoping for another recovery.
Cleveland enters the game as amongst the league's worst defensive teams with a defensive rating of 120.1 while allowing 118.5 points per game. On Saturday, Cleveland allowed the Pacers to shoot 64.9 percent from the floor. It was Cleveland's second-highest field goal percentage allowed in team history.
Kevin Love is expected to miss his third straight game Tuesday as he recovers from the same injury that limited him in the preseason.
On Thursday in Detroit, Frye started but on Saturday Sam Dekker started and played 24 minutes. Dekker is listed as the starter in Love's spot again for Tuesday but eventually, Larry Nance Jr. could work his way into the starting lineup after getting 15 points and 12 rebounds Saturday.
Atlanta followed up its rout in Cleveland with a 111-104 home win over Dallas last Wednesday but enters off consecutive losses to Chicago and Philadelphia.
On Monday, the Hawks hung with the 76ers for the first half but were outscored 31-13 in the third quarter and were handed a 113-92 loss.
"We had a couple lapses defensively to start the third quarter, obviously they were prepared for some of the adjustments we were making and we just had a couple lapses at the start," first-year Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce said. "It was a 10-12 point stretch and we just never really recovered.
Rookie Trae Young scored 35 points in the first game in Cleveland but was held to 11 on 5-of-13 shooting Monday. In his last three games, Young is averaging 13.6 points while shooting 29.7 percent (11 of 37).
In the first meeting with Cleveland, the Hawks sank a franchise record 22 3-pointers but Monday they shot 21.6 percent (8 of 37) from 3-point range, marking the first time it did not hit 10 3-pointers this season.
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Woman who struck girl in Saanich crosswalk to hear sentencing date today
Published Tuesday, May 19, 2020 9:27AM PDT Last Updated Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:25PM PDT
Leila Bui, now 12 years old, suffered what the Crown described as "catastrophic injuries," including a permanent brain injury, a broken neck and a ruptured spleen.
VICTORIA -- A woman who was convicted of dangerous driving causing bodily harm after severely injuring an 11-year-old Saanich girl will be given a date for sentencing today in Victoria.
Tenessa Nikirk was behind the wheel of a Mercedes SUV when it struck Leila Bui at a crosswalk in December 2017, leaving the girl with severe brain damage and a fractured neck.
Nikirk is scheduled to be given a sentencing date at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Victoria Law Courts.
She was found guilty of dangerous driving causing bodily harm on Jan. 27 in front of a packed courtroom that included Leila and her family.
Kairry Nguyen, Leila's mother, said at the time the verdict offered "some comfort that we did teach her right and she is a smart girl and it's not her fault."
During the trial, which began in late November, defence lawyer Tom Morino argued that Nikirk might not have been able to see Leila crossing the road.
Crown prosecutor Jess Patterson noted that Nikirk engaged in a number of dangerous-driving behaviours, including tailgating, dangerous passing, speeding and texting while driving.
Witnesses also testified that Nikirk was texting while driving and crossing a yellow line into the oncoming lane to pass vehicles before the crash occurred.
A video expert hired by police testified during the trial that Nikirk's SUV was travelling in excess of 100 km/h before the crash and came to a stop about 18 to 20 metres beyond where it struck the girl at Ash Road and Torquay Drive.
"I am left with no doubt that the accused drove both before the accident and at the time of the accident in a manner that was dangerous to other users of the road," Judge Mayland McKimm wrote in his decision.
Bui, now 12 years old, suffered what the Crown described as "catastrophic injuries," including a permanent brain injury, a broken neck and a ruptured spleen.
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Oprah's Super Soul
53 minutes | Jan 24, 2023
Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project
Oprah speaks with Nikole Hannah-Jones about her New York Times bestselling book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine from August of 2019. In the book's collection of essays, Jones along with a variety of esteemed authors, journalists, historians, and poets share how the inception of enslavement in America in 1619 reaches into every part of American society up to present day. Nikole Hannah-Jones shares her thoughts on how the resistance efforts of Black Americans have always strived to hold our country accountable to the ideals of the Constitution.
Quinta Brunson Abbott Elementary
Oprah speaks with Emmy and Golden Globe-winning writer, producer and actress Quinta Brunson to discuss her mega hit comedy series, Abbott Elementary. Brunson shares reflections about her childhood, her greatest mentors and the pivotal moments of her career.
Super Soul Special: Daniel H. Pink: A New Mind
Original Airdate: November 21, 2018 Is there one sentence that sums up your life? New York Times best-selling author of several provocative books about business, work and behavior Daniel H. Pink says a great person can be summed up in just a few words. Daniel discusses his book, "A Whole New Mind," which has been translated into 39 different languages. Daniel explains the "six senses" he believes can help you learn to be more creative, successful and live up to your full potential. He offers tangible exercises that will help you find your greater purpose, including one called the "Gratitude Visit" and another called "Picturing Yourself at 90." Also, Oprah shares what she thinks her one, descriptive sentence would be.
35 minutes | Jan 4, 2023
Super Soul Special: Father Richard Rohr: The Universal Christ
Original Airdate: June 3, 2019 Contemporary theologian, mystic and author Father Richard Rohr discusses his new book, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe. A Franciscan friar for more than 40 years and founder of The Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Father Rohr shares why he believes the essential function of religion is to radically connect humanity with the world around us and why "Christ" is another name for everything. He also explains true enlightenment as looking out from oneness and how these realizations can transform the way we live in our everyday world.
23 minutes | Dec 28, 2022
Super Soul Special: Oprah Winfrey: INTENTION
Original Air Date: December 16, 2020 Oprah Winfrey says intention is at the heart of her every decision and has become an intrinsic part of her spiritual journey. When she first encountered the idea of intention in Gary Zukav's best-selling book The Seat of the Soul, she says it was life changing. It soon became the guiding principle of her life. This episode draws from Oprah's conversations with Gary Zukav, Joel Osteen, David Brooks, Brené Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, Devon Franklin, Amy Purdy and Diana Nyad, all of whom have been featured on her Emmy Award-winning show Super Soul Sunday. You can find this compilation and more profound conversations in Oprah's New York Times best-selling book The Wisdom of Sundays.
Super Soul Special: Adyashanti: Falling into Grace
Original Airdate: July 30, 2018 Spiritual thinker, teacher and author Adyashanti explores the meaning of grace and how it shows up when and where we least expect it. Adyashanti offers practical insights into how and why the thoughts in our heads must not be mistaken for our true identities. He explains why all negative energy is looking for resolution and reveals a surprising way to let go of painful emotions and unlock true happiness. Adyashanti also discusses his books "Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering" and "Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic."
Super Soul Special: Kris Carr: How to Live a Crazy, Sexy Life
Original Airdate: July 10, 2019In a live appearance at UCLA's Royce Hall, New York Times best-selling author, wellness activist and cancer survivor Kris Carr teaches us how she let go of old habits in order to embrace her new crazy, sexy life. At age 31, Kris was diagnosed with an incurable cancer. She fought back, embracing a healthy lifestyle and launching a career as a wellness activist. More than a decade later, she is still thriving with cancer, and her healing journey has inspired many. Yet, Kris confesses in her Super Soul Session, as the 10th anniversary of her diagnosis approached, she desperately wanted to be cured. "Underneath it all, I felt broken," she says. That's when Kris had an epiphany: She had to shift her thinking and learn to truly love herself—cancer and all. Kris also shares the three crucial things she has learned about self-acceptance.
34 minutes | Dec 7, 2022
Super Soul Special: Steven Pressfield: Unlock Your Creative Genius
Original Airdate: January 9, 2019 New York Times best-selling author Steven Pressfield discusses his book "The War of Art." Steven offers practical steps on how to "unlock the creative genius" he believes lives inside all of us. He reveals four questions that can help you identify your true calling in life. Whether you want to change careers, run a marathon, write the great American novel or be an entrepreneur, Steven's advice can help all of us express our deepest yearnings from the inside out.
22 minutes | Nov 30, 2022
Super Soul Special: Oprah Winfrey: FORGIVENESS
Original Airdate: January 13, 2021 Oprah Winfrey says that for many people searching for peace and purpose, one of the biggest obstacles can be the struggle to forgive. Especially if one has suffered trauma, abuse or personal betrayals, forgiveness can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. In this episode of Super Soul, Oprah sits down with such luminaries as Dr. Maya Angelou, Karen Armstrong, Marianne Williamson, Adyashanti, Mark Nepo, Wayne Dyer, Gabrielle Bernstein, Don Miguel Ruiz, Tracey Jackson, Shaka Senghor, Bryan Stevenson and Michael Singer to discover what it means to truly forgive and the steps we can all take to find personal freedom. These interviews with talented writers, speakers and thought leaders are excerpted from her Emmy Award-winning show Super Soul Sunday. You can also find this compilation and other insightful conversations, in Oprah's New York Times best-selling book The Wisdom of Sundays.
Super Soul Special: Oprah and Newton's Third Law
Original Airdate: November 27, 2019Oprah explores what she calls one of the most important laws of physics and in life: Newton's Third Law of Motion. Oprah explains why she lives her life by this law, which states, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Oprah then explains to an audience why she believes the law affects everything we do physically, emotionally, financially and spiritually. She says, "The energy you're putting out right now is coming back to you all the time whether you recognize it or not. And, if you can become conscious of that then it will change the way you operate your entire life." Oprah also talks about Newton's Third Law of Motion with filmmaker Tom Shadyac who gave up his glamorous Hollywood life after a near death accident.
Super Soul Special: Charles Eisenstein: A More Beautiful World Is Possible
Original Airdate: December 19, 2018 What will come to define the human race for future generations? Philosopher, teacher and writer Charles Eisenstein provides insight into what could await us in the future, and discusses how cynicism, self-delusion and separation help to create our troubled world. In his book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Charles explains why he believes the one way to resolve conflict is when opponents try to understand one another on a human level, become less judgmental and then begin to find common ground. Charles says, "It's basically anything that says, 'Yeah, we're connected. Your well-being will bring my well-being. More for you is more for me. We're not really separate.'" Charles also talks about the themes of civilization, human cultural evolution and being aware of one's own existence.
33 minutes | Nov 9, 2022
Super Soul Special: Elizabeth Lesser: The Healing Power of Love
Original Airdate: July 4, 2018 Author of the New York Times bestselling book "Broken Open," Elizabeth Lesser shares how she likes to unwind, make each day matter and learn from the challenges life puts in front of her. Elizabeth explains how she used what she calls the healing power of love to "clear up" relationships in her life and why she believes we should never wait to have life-changing conversations with those we love. Since the publication of "Broken Open," Elizabeth has been through many tough times, including the return of her younger sister's lymphoma and later death. Elizabeth reveals what she would write if her book had an epilogue.
Super Soul Special: Oprah Winfrey: FULFILLMENT
Original Airdate: February 3, 2021 In this episode Oprah sits down with inspirational teachers, including Gary Zukav, Mastin Kipp, Paulo Coehlo, Sue Monk Kidd, Pastor Wintley Phipps, Nate Berkus, Diana Nyad, India.Arie, Janet Mock, Jack Canfield, Daniel Pink, Daniel Goleman, Shawn Achor, Jeff Weiner, Wes Moore, Shonda Rhimes and Devon Franklin to discuss how we can fulfill our purpose with meaning and discover our own authentic power leading to the highest and truest version of ourselves. Interviews with these talented writers, speakers and thought leaders are excerpted from Oprah's Emmy Award-winning show Super Soul Sunday. You can also find this compilation and other insightful conversations in Oprah's best-selling booksThe Wisdom of Sundays andThe Path Made Clear.
27 minutes | Oct 19, 2022
Super Soul Special: Dr. Shefali Tsabary: The Awakened Life
Original Air Date: May 13, 2019 In a live appearance at UCLA's Royce Hall, clinical psychologist, parenting expert and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Shefali Tsabary teaches us how to let go of traditional ways of thinking to become the essence of who we truly are. She explains how our essential 'selfhood' is stripped from us, piece-by-piece, as we grow into adulthood. Dr. Shefali also makes a plea for what she calls 'a case against parenting.'
Super Soul Special: Mitch Albom: The Dying Know the Secrets to a Good Life
Original Airdate: August 27, 2017 It's been twenty-five years since Mitch wrote about the most impactful life lessons he learned from his former professor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying from ALS. Mitch chronicled their weekly visits in one of the best-selling memoirs of all time, "Tuesdays with Morrie," which has been translated in 41 languages. Oprah and Mitch discuss how Morrie's lessons continue to resonate because of their universal truths about life and happiness.
48 minutes | Oct 5, 2022
Jarvis Jay Masters – That Bird Has My Wings
Oprah speaks with the author of her latest Oprah's Book Club selection Jarvis Jay Master. Written from prison, his memoir chronicles his tumultuous childhood which was impacted by addiction, poverty, violence and the foster care system. The conversation takes place over the phone as Jarvis is currently sitting on death row in California's San Quentin State Prison for a crime he says he did not commit. Jarvis explains how the practice of Buddhism has kept him sane and allowed him to become a role model for fellow inmates, guards and a growing public audience.
40 minutes | Sep 28, 2022
Super Soul Special: Suzy Amis Cameron: One Meal a Day
Original Air Date: October 16, 2019 Environmental activist, actress and author Suzy Amis Cameron discusses her book, OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline and Save the Planet. She also discusses her storied career, her marriage to director James Cameron and what she is most grateful for.
Super Soul Special: Oprah & Joel Osteen — I Am: Life is How You See It
Original Air Date: December 18, 2019 Oprah and Pastor Joel Osteen take the stage at Houston's Hobby Center, with an audience of thousands, to share the principles that guide our lives. Pastor Osteen explains why what we say after "I am" is what we become. He says the words you speak can become your destiny.
Super Soul Special: Oprah and Dwayne Johnson: Your Life in Focus
Original Air Date: Jan 29, 2020 As a part of Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour, New York Times best-selling author, wrestler, producer and actor Dwayne Johnson sits down with Oprah in front of a live audience in Atlanta, Georgia. Dwayne opens up about the sudden loss of his father, legendary wrestler Rocky Johnson. He also discusses his childhood, mental health, fatherhood and fame. Dwayne then explains why he believes being true to yourself is one of the most powerful lessons he's ever learned.
57 minutes | Sep 7, 2022
Edward Enninful: A Visible Man
Oprah speaks with British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful about his new memoir A Visible Man. Edward discusses his turbulent childhood growing up in Ghana and his teen years as a new immigrant in London. He recounts his early days as a fashion director at i-D magazine, a job he landed when he was just 18. Edward opens up about his drug and alcohol addiction and the moment he hit rock bottom. He shares stories about his illustrious career including working with fashion icons Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley. He also explains how he has shaken up the status quo in the fashion industry making it more inclusive.
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SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The wage gap between workers in large companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) widened in 2014 amid a deepening polarization of the labor market, a report said Monday.
According to the report published by the Bank of Korea (BOK), large businesses — those with 300 or more workers — paid wages 1.7 times greater than those paid to employees at smaller firms in 2014, widening from a 1.1-fold gap tallied in 1980.
The large firms put a 46.1 percent wage premium on their highly-educated, skilled employees in 2014, compared to 6.3 percent in 1980.
Meanwhile, only 2 percent of SME workers earned money on par with big businesses in the 2015-2016 period, down from 3.6 percent in 2004-05.
On the other hand, the author noted that the disparity between regular and non-regular workers has been narrowing to some extent over the last few years.
Temporary workers received 62 percent the wages of regular workers in 2006, with the percentage rising to 73.2 percent in 2017.
The BOK report said Sweden and the Netherlands have successfully addressed a two-tier labor market in recent decades through a social consensus of labor and management.
"We have to start a discussion on ways to mitigate the duality and improve the flexibility and security of the labor market," Park said.


The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC) convened in a closed session at the Hay-Adams Hotel at 9:30 a.m. All members, with the exception of Michelle Neal, were present. Deputy Secretary Justin Muzinich, Counselor to the Secretary Craig Phillips, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Federal Finance Brian Smith, Director of the Office of Debt Management Fred Pietrangeli, and Deputy Director of the Office of Debt Management Nick Steele welcomed the Committee. Other members of Treasury staff present were Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi, Chris Cameron, Dave Chung, Tom Katzenbach, Devin O'Malley, Ken Phelan, Peter Phelan, Renee Tang, and Brandon Taylor. Federal Reserve Bank of New York staff members Nathaniel Wuerffel, Oliver Giannotti, Ellen Correia Golay, and Jake Schurmeier were also present. The meeting began with a review of Committee guidelines by Treasury counsel.
Director Pietrangeli then provided an overview of the fiscal situation. Pietrangeli noted that for Q1 FY2019 receipts were little changed year-over-year, rising just $17 billion. Increases in social insurance and excise and customs deposits were mostly offset by declines in individual and corporate taxes. Outlays increased $45 billion year-over-year, an increase of 4 percent.
Next, Pietrangeli turned to the near-term fiscal outlook by referencing the most recent annual marketable borrowing estimates from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and the primary dealers. He highlighted that Treasury is projected to be either fully funded or slightly underfunded for FY2019, but that funding gaps are projected for FY2020 and subsequent years. Referencing the recently published current law forecasts from CBO, Pietrangeli noted a cumulative $1.4 trillion reduction in projected borrowing needs for the next ten years, which can largely be attributed to the return of the discretionary spending caps associated with the Budget Control Act of 2011 and a downward revision to its interest rate forecast. Pietrangeli also acknowledged that primary dealer estimates for Treasury's net privately-held marketable borrowing needs exhibited significant variability, reflecting a range of estimates for the end of SOMA portfolio normalization.
Addressing the prior quarter, Pietrangeli noted that during the October to December 2018 quarter, Treasury borrowed $426 billion in privately-held net marketable debt and ended the quarter with a cash balance of $402 billion. Looking ahead, Treasury's Office of Fiscal Projections announced a privately-held net marketable borrowing estimate of $365 billion for the January to March 2019 quarter with an end-of-March balance of $320 billion. Given Treasury bill auction sizes quarter-to-date, Pietrangeli indicated that net bill supply is expected to increase from current levels through the end-of-March by a similar magnitude as occurred between October and December 2018. In addition, Pietrangeli stated that Treasury expects to borrow $83 billion in privately-held net marketable debt during the April-June 2019 quarter, assuming an end-of-June cash balance of $300 billion. This $300 billion figure assumes some degree of constraint from the debt limit, preventing Treasury from maintaining its prudent cash balance policy.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Smith then summarized the feedback from primary dealers in response to recent quarterly refunding agenda discussion topics. Primary dealers noted that Treasury is well positioned to meet financing needs over FY2019 but would need to increase coupons further in FY2020. Additionally, primary dealers were broadly supportive of the use of an earlier auction time, particularly for bills, and believe that Treasury should consider using earlier auction times on an ad hoc or more regular basis going forward. The Committee agreed with this assessment. Smith then noted that primary dealers were generally supportive of Treasury evaluating the potential for a new product indexed to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). Many primary dealers indicated that issuance of a SOFR-linked product could support the market's transition from LIBOR to SOFR. However, several primary dealers believe that Treasury should allow the SOFR-linked market to develop further prior to making a determination about issuance. Smith also noted the importance of understanding prospective pricing of any potential SOFR-linked product.
Debt Manager Taylor then presented a brief overview of public data sources for foreign participation in the Treasury securities market. Data for the primary market includes investor class data and auction results. Data for the secondary market includes Treasury's International Capital (TIC) data and Treasury securities held in custody at the Federal Reserve for foreign official and international accounts. Taylor described how each data set is constructed and noted important differences between them. Taylor also pointed out that the categorization of competitive bidders released with the auction results data does not identify foreign entities and that foreign entities can participate in any of the three categories.
Next, Deputy Director Steele noted that on average, primary dealers suggested increasing TIPS issuance gradually, resulting in an increase of $24 billion over the remainder of CY2019. Primary dealer recommendations for auction size increases averaged $1 billion in the 5-year and 10-year maturities and $2 billion in the 30-year maturity. However, it was noted that these increases could be implemented gradually, and the 30-year could at first be increased by just $1 billion over the next quarter. The Committee agreed that the TIPS issuance increase should be gradual, with the bulk of the increase in net issuance originating from the introduction of the new 5-year October maturity.
Following the discussion, the Committee turned to its overall financing recommendation for the upcoming quarter. The Committee agreed that Treasury is well-suited to meet its financing needs in FY2019 given its current financing schedule. As a result, the Committee recommended that Treasury leave nominal coupon auction sizes unchanged for the coming quarter, while gradually increasing TIPS auction sizes by $1 billion per auction, starting with the 30-year TIPS in February and the 5-year TIPS in April, while considering increases in the 10-year at subsequent meetings. The Committee also noted that the timing of the end to SOMA normalization could have a significant impact on their outlook for additional coupon increases beyond FY2019.
Among the new products discussed, the Committee focused on the possibility of a SOFR-linked floating rate note. The Committee agreed that based on the feedback from the primary dealers and the ongoing market transition the product deserves further study.
The Committee reconvened at 1:30 p.m.
The presenting member described how the when-issued (WI) market has played an important role in price discovery and evolved over time. The presenting member then discussed the risk exposure for WI trading given the lack of margining, and offered comparisons between the WI market and the TBA market. The presenting member concluded by noting the different definitions are used to describe the pre- and post-auction periods in the WI market and that a standardization of the WI period definition could be useful for future studies. The Committee briefly discussed the charge and agreed that the WI market continues to play an important role and that Treasury market structure developments should continue to be studied further.
The Committee adjourned at 2:30 p.m.
Taking into consideration Treasury's short, intermediate, and long-term financing requirements, as well as the variability in financing needs from quarter to quarter, what changes to Treasury's coupon auctions do you recommend at this time, if any?
Treasury is always considering ways to minimize borrowing costs, better manage its liability profile, enhance market liquidity, and expand the investor base in Treasury securities. In light of these objectives, we would like the Committee to comment on the likely costs and benefits of potential new Treasury products that might assist Treasury in achieving some or all of these objectives. In addition, are there any other debt management tools or processes that Treasury should consider utilizing? In answering the question, please review the practices and products employed by debt management authorities around the world.
The when-issued (WI) market plays a role in price formation in advance of Treasury auctions. We would like the Committee to provide an overview of the WI market including liquidity, trading venues, clearing and settling, major participants, linkages to the cash and futures markets, effects of market conditions, and counterparty risks. What, if any changes, should be considered to improve the WI market?
• The composition of Treasury notes and bonds to refund approximately $54.1 billion of privately-held notes maturing on February 15, 2019.
• The composition of Treasury marketable financing for the remainder of the January-March 2019 quarter, including cash management bills.
• The composition of Treasury marketable financing for the April-June 2019 quarter, including cash management bills.


Did Steve Jobs secretly admire Mark Zuckerberg?
Mark Zuckerberg - the master of social networks, the genius who created one of the biggest internet phenomena ever... yes, he sure does deserve our admiration, but one thing we didn't expect to hear today was that another, probably bigger genius himself has secretly looked up to Mark.
"I once asked Jobs who [he] admired in the Valley"... "Mark's was the first name on his lips."
As you probably remember, Apple once tried to offer a social service itself, in the form of Ping. The service had Facebook integration, but apparently Steve and company didn't ask for Mark's permission. As a result, Facebook cut Ping's access and Apple's service turned out to be a failure (for that, or some other reason). Interestingly, when asked by Isaacson why Apple won't try to enter the social networking biz again, Jobs replied "Maybe because Mark did it so well. There's not a need for a whole lot of social networks and Facebook has got it licked."
At the end of the day, these are both great men, who we should admire for inventing the great computers and means of communication we have today.
I do admire both Steve Jobs & Mark Zuckerberg.. They're both great on stealing other ideas..
Because they could never create something as popular as what he did.
I can respect their creativity and what they were able to accomplish. I will never respect or admire either as a human being.
That's fine. Because you don't know either one as a human being. How can you have an opinion on someone that you know so little about.?
many people still believe he stole the idea. the fact that he didnt start working on facebook until he was contacted to work on connectu is a story with more holes than swiss cheese.
By that logic, McDonald's makes gourmet burgers. Facebook has is riddled with so many security issues it's a wonder people even use it.
I have heard that Jesus, Buddha and Queen of England is in genealogical tree of Steve Jobs. Now all share these rumors all around and inflate Steve Jobs pop icon bubble!!!
Who gives a damn. What does this have to do with cell phones.
Dude, that is exactly the thought that came into my mind after I read this!
Makes perfect psychological sense; admire and iDolize what you are not [Steve]: 'sociable', good-looking, genius and young. And, "anatomically" correct.
Jobs was very good looking when he was younger. And, though I'm not much of a apple product user, I have to admit he is more of a genius than Mark.
Agree on most of what was said on the article, but neither of them actually "invented" anything. They only improved existing ideas.
I think Jobs and Zuckerberg would have made a great couple.


The Austrian photographer, Hermann Fuchs was born in 1955 in the Austrian province of Braunau am Inn. During his school years, he was interested in various types of art and began to take photographs, at that time still black and white pictures with a Canon F1 camera. He built his own laboratory and expanded photography to photographics. His landscapes and portraits, as well as surreal compositions received praise and recognition at improvised exhibitions. In 2005, Hermann Fuchs resumed his work in the field of photographic art, which he had already pursued in his younger years. Now he opens up the many new possibilities that digital photography now offers and develops his own methods for the digital pre-pocessing and processing of his pictures and images with Adobe Photoshop. He finds his own way. There are not yet any examples, and manual and technical instructions are not yet written. The image design of the photographic artist Hermann Fuchs is increasingly oriented towards the aesthetic commandments of painting. They are photographed and digitized paintings, they are unique and unmistakable: Modern masterpieces from Austria.


Drive4life is a fundraising event at Teretonga Park on February 24, 2019, aiming to raise awareness and funds for mental health organisations. Sam Hole (20) and Bree Nutsford (18) found the number 668 heartbreaking – 668 Kiwis took their lives in the 2017-2018 year, and yet little change is happening to improve access to professional care and support.
After talking to many in the community, it became apparent that little support was available for mental health organisations and it was the smaller groups trying to make the biggest changes.
They decided something needed to be done to change the way mental health is perceived in the community. After going through their own personal struggles and seeing those around them battling with mental illness, the pair took it upon themselves to create Drive4Life.
Their drive comes from a passion of motorsport and the adrenaline-inducing experience that Teretonga Park offers. This location had provided the pair with an outlet during their own darker days, and they knew it would be the perfect location to launch their event.
Sam and Bree have a vision to create a day where everyone is welcome, and the whole family can get together and go to an event that caters for all ages. They aim for it to not only benefit those who attend but everybody in Southland. They also hope to spread the word and get people to reach out to loved ones when they are struggling.
Drive4Life gives the community a chance to step out of their comfort zone, try something new and experience Teretonga in a way that's never been seen before.
They would like to thank Teretonga Park and the Southland Sports Car Club for turning their dreams into reality and revving up the mental health community. The groups have made it so the young couple can fuel their passion and help the community in need. It was also appreciated when they approached What's On Invers about sponsoring the event; they didn't hesitate to jump on board as the presenting sponsor.
Gates open at 10am on Sunday, February 24, and they welcome anyone interested in participating in the events on the day to contact Drive4life on their Facebook page where you can also download entry forms.
Healing is not linear, and everybody grows in different ways. However, having help and support within the community makes the development a little easier.
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'Campirosa' (literally 'Pink Fields') is a tasty rose' made with 100% Montepulciano grapes. Montepulciano is the main red grape variety of the region and its rose' version is called Cerasuolo (meaning 'cherry' in Italian) because of its attractive cherry-like color. Pretty floral and berry aromas follow through to the palate. Dry and fresh with a good finish. Served well chilled it will pair beautifully with appetizers, seafood dishes, grilled vegetables and grilled poultry.
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Houle v. St Jude
This case is the next stage in the evolution of Canadian jurisprudence relating to the third-party litigation funding in class actions. Previous cases considered litigation funding for disbursements and adverse costs orders alone. In Houle, the Ontario Superior Court provided guidance on a Litigation Funding Agreement where Bentham agreed to pay a portion of lawyers' fees as the case progresses, in addition to agreed disbursements and any court-ordered costs.
Justice Perell commented that "the novelty of the hybrid retainer that combines a partial contingency fee with a fee-for-services retainer strikes me as a positive factor . . . This approach which partially protects the financial and human capital of class counsel may expand the roster of firms prepared to assume the risks of class action litigation" [para. 79].
He then set out a six-part test for assessing an LFA: (a) can a court scrutinize the LFA [para. 73]; (b) is third-party funding necessary in the case [75]; (c) will the funder make a meaningful contribution to access to justice or behaviour modification [78]; (d) will the funder be overcompensated for its risks in the case [80]; (e) is the lawyer-client relationship protected from interference [88]; and (f) is the LFA not illegal under some other grounds, independent of champerty and maintenance [100].
The Court concluded that the LFA met all criteria except for (d) and (e).
In regards to (d), overcompensation, Justice Perell concluded that the appropriate level of compensation for Bentham can be determined only at the end of the litigation [87]. In other words, Bentham cannot know if it is entitled to its full contractual rate of return for its investment in the litigation until after the case is over. The Court was willing to pre-approve only a 10% return, by analogy to the Class Proceedings Fund's rate of return, with any further return to the funder to be assessed at the conclusion of the case.
In regards to (e), interference, Justice Perell expressed concern that Bentham's termination rights under the LFA might interfere with the plaintiffs' litigation autonomy [89]. Specifically, the Court held that Bentham should have no right to terminate the LFA if the case is no longer meritorious, and should be able to terminate the LFA in other specific circumstances only upon court approval [98].
The Divisional Court granted leave to appeal, and in October 2018, upheld the motion Judge's decision.
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Me in 1996, wearing a crown of daisies at a Jāņi celebration.
For me, it all started with an episode of the 1990s television program Travel Travel. My mom loved watching Travel Travel (we only had two channels so there wasn't much choice) and when I was eight years old the program aired an episode on Latvia. It was pretty exciting for me because I knew that my grandparents were from Latvia and that my uncle had recently moved there after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the restoration of Latvian independence in 1991. Though I could never speak Latvian, it is my mother's first language and Latvian phrases and folk songs had always been a part of my life. The country looked great on TV too, with a picture-book castle poking out behind a green forest (it was probably Sigulda Castle featured in the show). Watching the Latvia episode of Travel Travel is the first memory I have of my parents saying, "Wouldn't it be nice to live there for a year?".
It seems weird to think of now, almost like a magic trick, the way the pieces fell together to facilitate this adventure. In reality, it wasn't at all easy and I know my parents had to do a lot of research and phoning and faxing and writing letters in order to obtain jobs and visas and housing and the rest of it. But I'm still mystified by the way it just sort of worked. My parents applied for teaching positions at the English-speaking International School of Latvia and were hired (my mom,who taught elementary music, was even given a budget to order instruments for the school). My sisters and I were able to attend the school free of charge. My mom applied for a year-long leave from her current teaching position and got it. We needed someone to rent our place and take care of our pets for the year and a decent renter was found. Now, the idea of looking at a map and saying, "I want to move my family here" and actually DOING IT is astounding to me.
So my family spent my 4th-grade year living in Latvia. And it was one of the most wonderful and important experiences of my life. Not only were we living in another country, our school that year was housed in an old seaside mansion in Jurmala and everywhere we went we saw castles and palaces, ancient springs in the country and colourful buildings in Old Riga, huddled over cobblestone streets and dripping with art-nouveau detailing. Though newer, Soviet-style architecture (like the gargantuan concrete apartment complex we lived in) was both ubiquitous and ugly, my imagination was always busy erasing those details, taking me into the past and furnishing splendid palaces in my mind.
My Latvian-ness, which had seemed a somewhat intangible thing growing up in rural Saskatchewan (where you will find many folks of Ukrainian descent but not many people who had even heard of Latvia), became real to me when I was able to visit the farm where my grandmother was born and where my great-aunt now lives (as a young woman, she'd become separated from her family as they fled to England and was sent by the Soviets to a work camp in Siberia, where she met her Ukrainian husband and started a family) and to which my great-grandmother had returned to spend the last years of her life (I was lucky enough to meet her that year, even though I wasn't able to do more than say hello and sing a couple of folk songs in Latvian). I started to understand that leaving a place is one thing, but being forced to leave is quite another–it leaves an ache that never goes away, even if you eventually make a new life for yourself somewhere else (as per his wishes, a Latvian flag stood beside my grandfather's coffin at his funeral last summer, and he had been adamant, the week before his death, that we attend the Jāņi celebrations at the Latvian centre in Toronto, even though he couldn't go himself).
Zolitude, where my family lived (the little blue X was our balcony).
Awesome! I think you may find everything has changed completely but somehow stayed exactly the same, too.


If you have a company WiFi connection that your employees can access, you can use it to recognize when they are on location so they can clock in for their shifts. All you need to do it set the IP address.
Go to Dashboard > Locations and click the location name in the list to open the details.
Next, click the Settings tab and you will see the option to enter your IP address manually, or the option to add your current connection by clicking the link under the IP address field (IP address has been removed from the link in this image for privacy).
Once you click Save, Sling will recognize when your employees are on location because they are in range to connect to the WiFi.
It's also possible to set multiple IP addresses for your location. Just click the options button (3 dots) and you will see Add IP address as well as the option to remove one.


I am wondering is there duckduckgo app that my cell will accept , I tried to down load and saying it needs a 6. or higher . I don't have that version on phone as it is a large update ,any ideas TY .
The app provides all of the features on DuckDuckGo.com but with a few extra things. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like you're able to install the app-- in which case, the best option would be to use the website with a mobile browser, like Safari or Dolphin.
I don't have an iPhone but if you're going to be installing a 3rd party browser I recommend Dolphin. I run it on my Droid as well as on my iPad -- it's great.
iOS 6 is required because we opted to use Apple's built in sharing facility which is only available in iOS 6+.
I'm really new to all this stuff. I'm trying to figure out how to get private VoIP and IM on my iPhone 4. I was able to get the app(?) on mine from DDG site. I really like DDG!


Bonnie J. Lewis, principal and founder of 55+ TLC Interior Design, LLC, was awarded first place in the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Arizona North Chapter 2017 Design Excellence Competition in the Commercial Universal Design / Aging in Place category.
"We combine contemporary design with accessible and supportive elements for residents and guests," Lewis said. "We design public spaces to be inclusive of special needs, keeping areas safe and functional, while providing an aesthetically pleasing environment that feels welcoming to everyone."
One of three awards Lewis won in this year's competition, first place was given to Lewis for her unique remodel design of a reception area for a senior living community. Ensuring the new space would eliminate clutter and include an additional workstation, Lewis designed the area to be ADA-compliant for full accessibility.
Lewis updated the design to include a hospitality aesthetic and a unique, contemporary design. She a custom designed an ADA-compliant reception desk with a storage cabinet and a security gate to contain clutter and custom cabinets with beautiful square knobs for easy gripping that also provide lockable storage and further eliminate clutter.
Tall transaction counters provide access to built-in iPads for fast self-service sign in, while two adjoining lower counters allow for wheelchair access and personalized service. To create a welcoming feel, Lewis added accent lights and a 3-D focal point, sustainable wall treatment.
The accessible and stunning space received top marks in the new Commercial - Universal Design/Aging in Place category, which was initiated to focus on inclusive designs and broad-spectrum ideas meant to produce buildings, products, and environments that are inherently accessible. Lewis has a passion for creating universal and aging-in-place design spaces, helping clients make the most out of their space while providing safety, functionality, and beauty for residents and their families, caregivers and operations staff.
Lewis also won Honorable Mention in the Commercial – Element category for her stunning interior design of a private dining room at a senior living community. The space included slip-resistant flooring, new lighting, a senior-friendly color palette, and a mobility-device accessible furniture selection and arrangement. The main feature was a custom 1,000-year old reclaimed wood piece, a permanent wall element to create an inviting, biophilic-designed environment. The piece also featured a mirror, a shelf with accessories, and bow-tie insets.
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Bonnie J. Lewis, Allied ASID, Assoc. IIDA, CAPS, is the principal and founder of 55+ TLC Interior Design, LLC. She is a degreed, highly-specialized senior living interior designer and NAHB Certified Aging in Place Specialist. Bonnie is passionate about improving physical environments to support psychological, emotional, and physical wellness to help people enjoy their "second chapter in life." Since 2013, she has designed award-winning commercial and residential Senior Living, Aging in Place and Universal Design spaces that are beautiful, functional, and reliable for Boomers and Seniors to life longer, more productive lives.
Based in Scottsdale, Arizona and founded by senior living interior designer and NAHB Certified Aging in Place Specialist Bonnie J. Lewis, Allied ASID, Assoc. IIDA, CAPS, 55+ TLC Interior Design, Inc. is focused on commercial senior living and healthcare design and residential remodel design for aging in place. Commercially, the company caters to independent, assisted living and memory care communities and care homes that want to increase occupancy and marketability while improving residents' quality of life. Residentially, 55+ TLC Interior Design caters to discriminating Baby Boomers and seniors who want a beautiful, individually tailored home that makes life easier and sustains independence as long as possible. For more information, please visit http://55plustlc.com.


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Robotic Process Automation or RPA is the technology that allows anyone today to configure computer software, or a "robot" to emulate and integrate the actions of a human interacting within digital systems to execute a business process. RPA is capable of automating activities (by creating software agents) that once required human judgment. This is the evolution of automation: the automation of automation. RPA is basically the application of technology that allows employees in a company to configure computer software or a "robot" to capture and interpret existing applications for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses and communicating with other digital systems. Any company that uses labor on a large scale for general knowledge process work, where people are performing high-volume, highly transactional process functions, will boost their capabilities and save money and time with robotic process automation software.
Just as industrial robots are remaking the manufacturing industry by creating higher production rates and improved quality, RPA "robots" are revolutionizing the way we think about and administer business processes, IT support processes, workflow processes, remote infrastructure and back-office work. RPA provides dramatic improvements inaccuracy and cycle time and increased productivity in transaction processing while it elevates the nature of work by removing people from dull, repetitive tasks.
According to a report by Healthcare Leaders, three out of four hospitals and health systems CEOs cite reduction of overall cost and increasing efficiency as two of their top financial priorities. The healthcare industry is continually looking for improving efficiency, cutting costs and automation of manual tasks can be an important part of the overall strategy for performance improvement.
In contrast to other, traditional IT solutions, RPA allows organizations to automate at a fraction of the cost and time previously encountered. Intelligent automation is entering the business world, and CFOs are happy because RPA is delivering the promised cost savings. However, cost-only value propositions are no longer attractive to top executives. They are looking for cost-plus value propositions(transactional plus judgment-intensive plus analytics). Global labor arbitrage, the disintegration of barriers to international trade or moving to where costs of doing business are low, is no longer sufficient. In this quest for greater cost-plus value propositions, technology plays acritical role. Health plans and providers are discovering software agents as a cost-effective alternative to enhancing or replacing platforms.
The conversation has expanded beyond cost reduction to quality, engagement, and innovation. Healthcare is indeed one area where this technology is helping to streamline operations. Robotic Process Automation has enabled those in the healthcare sector to shift manual, time-consuming and cumbersome work from humans to robots, thereby achieving positive results. This new phase of sourcing will engage and manage resources to shift workers from the mundane task to activities with deeper customer interactions. Health innovators are using robotics process automation to drive the next stage of transformation – at affordable costs.
Evolution in technology and transition in a business environment constantly create more and more opportunities for the advancement and development of new software solutions that benefit the companies. We provide end-to-end software development services and solutions for any requirement of our partners and clients. Viaante's team of experienced software development professionals understands the importance of completing the projects within budgets on time with high quality. Viaante is a HIPAA compliant HealthcareService Provider offering quality and customized services, which helps the healthcare firms in improving business process efficiencies, deliver superior customer service experience and boost their financial performance.


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RRRR, or R4, or rapid real-time routing is an open source computer program written in C that has implemented multiple public transport journey planning algorithms. The software accepts GTFS, as input, and compiles this to an intermediate timetable format. Additionally GTFS-realtime is supported for updating the journey planner in realtime. The output of the program complies to the JSON format found in OpenTripPlanner. The program can be used in simple A-B routing, and directly supports A to all, and all to B at the same operating cost. The software supports advanced routing features such as wait-time compression. Additionally an API for the Python programming language is available allowing scripted batch processing. The source code is available under a BSD license on Github.
In The Netherlands a pre-commercial public procurement for ITS project was organised by Province of Noord-Brabant as part of the national Dutch project Optimising Use. The project Multimodal Travel Information (MMRI) would host five consortia bridging the gap between realtime public transport data in national Dutch interfaces and journey planners. The Bliksem Consortium (now: Bliksem Labs B.V.) was formed to build a journey planner small enough to run on a mobile device without an internet connection. The initial pitch contained demo of static information running on iOS and Android. During the project a mobile journey planner, server program and data integration platform were created. The high quality input data Bliksem Integration provided in GTFS and GTFS-RT was used by all other consortia, and includes accessibility features for all trips and stops in the network.
Andrew Byrd, initial implementation and interpretation of the RAPTOR paper paper by Daniel Delling, Thomas Pajor and Renato F. Werneck.
Stefan de Konink, the current project lead and responsible for the initial time-dependent file structure and realtime updates. Furthermore the conversion of all code to ANSI-C and interpretation and implementation of the Scan Algorithm paper.
Thomas Koch, the Java bridge to Android and further development of timetable integration in the side project: Bliksem Integration and Bliksem Integration Realtime.
Joel Haasnoot, the initial Windows Phone implementation.
Edwin Bosveld, the initial iOS implementation.
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GTFS-consuming applications
Trip-planning & navigation applications
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California Biosimilar Bill Aligns with BIO Principles on Biologic Substitution
Yesterday, we noted that the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) recently expressed its opposition to a California bill (SB-598) that would authorize a pharmacist to select a biosimilar when filling a prescription order for a prescribed biological product, provided that the prescriber did not personally indicate "Do not substitute" (see "GPhA Opposes California Biosimilar Bill; Points to Report on Savings from Biosimilars"). The legislation would also require that the substitution of a biosimilar be communicated to the patient, and that the pharmacy notify the prescriber of the substitution or enter the substitution into a patient record within five business days of the selection. The bill, which was passed by a 30-2 vote in the California Senate on September 4, is now before Governor Jerry Brown.
When SB-598 was passed by the Senate, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim Greenwood issued a statement "commend[ing] California's Assembly and Senate for overwhelmingly passing legislation that creates a pathway for the substitution of interchangeable biologic medicines." He also noted that because "the policies outlined in Senate Bill 598 align with BIO's principles on biologic substitution," BIO supported the legislation and encouraged Governor Brown to sign the bill.
In a letter issued in January, BIO outlined its principles on the substitution of biologic products. In its letter, BIO notes that while the FDA will determine whether a follow-on biologic will achieve biosimilar or interchangeable status under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA), state law will govern whether one biologic product may be substituted by a pharmacist when a different biologic product is prescribed. In the letter, BIO also expresses its belief that "a sound policy in each state outlining parameters for safe substitution of interchangeable biologics is the best option to ensure patients have access to high-quality, safe, and effective biologic medicines." The letter outlines two principle safeguards and three additional safeguards to guide substitution policies for interchangeable biologics under state law. The two principle safeguards are as follows:
• Substitution should occur only when the FDA has designated a biologic product as interchangeable.
• The prescribing physician should be able to prevent substitution.
And the three additional safeguards are:
• The prescribing physician should be notified of the substitution.
• The patient, or the patient's authorized representative, should, at a minimum, be notified of the substitution.
• The pharmacist and the physician should keep records of the substitution.
SB-598 satisfies all five safeguards outlined in BIO's letter, with pharmacies being given the option under the legislation to either notify the prescriber of the substitution or enter the substitution into a patient record within five business days of the selection.
More recently, BIO provided testimony during a hearing before the Health Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in support of HB 746, a Pennsylvania biosimilar bill that would allow a pharmacist to substitute a biosimilar product for a prescribed biological product only if:
(1) The biosimilar product has been determined by the United States Food and Drug Administration to be interchangeable with the prescribed product for the indicated use.
(2) The prescriber does not designate verbally or in writing on the prescription that substitution is prohibited.
(3) The person presenting the prescription provides written consent for such substitution.
(4) The pharmacist notifies the prescriber in writing and as soon as practicable but no later than 72 hours after dispensing.
(5) The pharmacy and the prescriber retain a written record of the biosimilar substitution for a period of no less than five years.
With respect to the Pennsylvania bill, BIO indicated that the legislation "gives pharmacists the ability to substitute lower cost interchangeable biologic medicines while also ensuring that patients and physicians have been notified of an appropriate switch in their medication."
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Microsoft Office 365 Alternatives. In 2018, it appears not much has changed from last year for the already full featured office apps OpenOffice and LibreOffice. These two titles are the only real alternatives to Office 365. If you prefer to save $70/yr and don't mind using something other than Microsoft Office 365, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are definitely worth a look. If your familiar with using Microsoft Office, you'll have no problem making the transition to the new office apps. Both programs have the same layout as Office 365. Identical in the way they function. Neither of these apps will leave you short on office tools. Currently Microsoft Office 365 plus 1 TB of OneDrive can be had for $69.99 per year. That's not bad. However, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are free. Or donate, they deserve it. These open source office suite alternatives are slowly becoming more attractive to the paying Microsoft Office customer and soon to be in the workplace everywhere. Businesses will eventually figure out how much money they could be saving by using a product that performs exactly the same as Microsoft Office but is free.
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Here at the Howardian Dental Practice we offer a patient centred approach to dental care. We understand that no two patients are alike and dental care is provided with bespoke solutions to your treatment needs.
Our purpose built facility aims to provide a comfortable and relaxing environment for local people to access quality dental care. We use premier dental materials to provide durable and cosmetic solutions to your dental needs, whilst taking care to ensure that your visit has a positive outcome so that you'll be happy to return.
We would be delighted to welcome you and your family as patients to the practice to allow us to demonstrate our excellence of service. Whilst we are unable to offer NHS treatment we believe that many patients value the time taken and personal service we provide. Our focus is on the expert treatment of any problems you have and the prevention of further dental disease, to leave you comfortable and confident about your mouth and smile.
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