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Q: How can I convert this native SQL to HQL/JPQL or a Criteria Query using Hibernate? SELECT T1.ORGANIZATIONID, T1.CODE, T1.RFQCATEGORYID, T1.OWNERID,
T1.PARTCOUNT, T1.DESCRIPTION,T1.STATUSCODE, T1."COMMENT", T1.CREATEID,
T1.CREATEDATE, T1.UPDATEID, T1.UPDATEDATE, T2.CODE, T2.DESCRIPTION,
T3.ORGANIZATIONNAME, T3.ORGANIZATIONURL, T4.SALUTATION, T4.FIRSTNAME,
T4.LASTNAME, T4.EMAIL,T4.FINANCIAL_LIMIT, T5.ORGANIZATIONNAME
USR_ORGNAME,T5.ORGANIZATIONURL USR_ORGURL, T6.STARTDATE, T6.ENDDATE,
T6.OPENDATE, T6.RFQID, T6.PARTNUMBER,
T7.RFQTYPEID,T1.CURRENCYID,T1.MINQUOTECOUNT,T1.ISMATCHING,T1.ISMULTICURR,
T1.ESTIMATEDVALUE,T1.RAENABLED,T1.PAYMENTENABLED,T1.ISPRICEACPTINRA,
T8.DESCRIPTION AS RFQTYPEDESC , T1.FOREIGNCURRONLY , T1.DELEGATE ,
T1.LOCATIONID ,T6.INITIATERAID ,T10.AUTHENTICATIONCODE
,T6.DOCUMENTSALEENDDATE,T1.OWNER_DIGITAL_CERT_ID , T1.ANNUALVALUE ,
CASE WHEN (SELECT COUNT(1) FROM EPS.ORGLOCATION WHERE LOCATION_ID =
T1.LOCATIONID AND ORGID = T1.ORGANIZATIONID ) >0 THEN  (SELECT
DESCRIPTION FROM EPS.ORGLOCATION WHERE LOCATION_ID = T1.LOCATIONID AND
ORGID = T1.ORGANIZATIONID) ELSE '' END AS LOCATIONDESC,
T1.MATIHINGVALUE,T1.SKIPQUOTE,T1.WCENABLED,T1.LOADTYPE,T6.DISALLOWBIDREV,T6.UPDATEDATE
AS RFQDATE_UPDATEDATE,T1.SIGNED,T1.ENCRYPTED,T1.OLDCODE
,T1.IMPACTBIDFLAG,T1.LOADING_EVALUATED,T1.ENCKEYENABLED,T1.VALUEFLAG,od.code
as designation, (SELECT MIN(UPDATEDATE) FROM EPS.HRFQ WHERE RFQID =
T1.RFQ_ID AND STATUSCODE= 'A' ) PUBLISH_DATE,LCNCMATCHING, T1.BOQ,
B.DESCRIPTION AS BOQDESC, T6.PHYSICALDOCSUBENDDATE, T1.AUCTIONSTYLE,
T1.AUCTIONTYPE, T1.AUCTIONSTATUS, T1.AUCTIONFILENAME,
T1.AUCTIONCOMMENT,T1.ITEMSUBMITBY, T1.AUCTIONWINNER  FROM EPS.RFQ T1
LEFT JOIN EPS.BOQ B ON T1.BOQ=B.BOQ_ID left outer join (select * from
EPS.RFQDATE where partnumber=?) T6 on t6.RFQID=t1.RFQ_ID left outer
join EPS.RFQRFQTYPE T7 on t7.RFQID=t1.RFQ_ID,EPS.RFQCAT T2,
EPS.ORGANIZATION T3,EPS."USER" T4 left outer join eps.orgdesignation
od on od.designation_id=t4.designationid, EPS.ORGANIZATION T5,
EPS.AUTHENTICATION T10, EPS.RFQTYPE T8 WHERE T1.RFQCATEGORYID =
T2.RFQCAT_ID AND T1.ORGANIZATIONID = T3.ORGANIZATION_ID AND T1.OWNERID
= T4.USER_ID AND T4.ORGANIZATIONID = T5.ORGANIZATION_ID AND T10.USERID = T4.USER_ID AND T4.ORGANIZATIONID = T10.ORGANIZATIONID AND T1.RFQ_ID = ?  AND T8.RFQTYPE_ID = T7.RFQTYPEID

I want to convert it into hibernate. How can I do this?

A: You have two choices here.

*

*If you want to use your SQL as-is, you use createNativeQuery in order to supply a potentially database dependent SQL.  You can supply compliant SQL that will run across all of your potential database vendors to avoid any database dependence issues, but this is definitely an option, particularly when you need to make use of certain database features.

*Use JPQL/HQL or Criteria API.  This is essentially an abstraction atop of SQL itself allowing you to write your query in a language or way that is agnostic to the database as Hibernate will translate it for you to your database platform's syntax where applicable.

Your native query is somewhat complex so my suggestion if you want to use option (2) would be to decompose it into simpler parts and build upon each step iteratively until you have what you need.
The first thing to note is your base query is against a table named RFQ by ID.  If you don't have an entity that represents your RFQ table, create one and expose the basic string and numeric attributes which you're trying to return from this base table.  Then in order to query against this you would write
List<Rfq> rfqs = session
  .createQuery( "SELECT r FROM Rfq r WHERE r.id = :id", Rfq.class )
  .setParameter( "id", rfqId )
  .getResultList();

From this point its a matter of building additional entities and relationships between your RFQ table and the joined tables, the attributes in each one, and then returning them as a part of the select clause as desired.


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It well behoves me, now that another year of my existence has almost gone, standing on the threshold of a fresh era, to consider what I am, where I am going, what I am doing, whom I am serving, and what shall he my reward. I will not, however, do so publicly before you; I hope that I may be enabled to perform that duty in secret; but rather let me turn this occurrence to another account by speaking to you of the frailty of human life, the fleeting nature of time, how swiftly it passes away, how soon we all shall fade as a leaf, and how speedily the place which knows us now shall know us no more for ever.
The apostle James asks, "What is your life?" and, thanks to inspiration, we are at no great difficulty to give the reply; for Scripture being the best interpreter of Scripture, supplies us with many very excellent answers. I shall attempt to give you some of them.
I. First, we shall view life with regard to ITS SWIFTNESS.
It is a great fact that though life to the young man, when viewed in the prospect appears to be long, to the old man it is ever short, and to all men life is really but a brief period. Human life is not long. Compare it with the existence of some animals and trees, and how short is human life! Compare it with the ages of the universe, and it becomes a span; and especially measure it by eternity, and how little does life appear! It sinks like one small drop into the ocean, and becomes as insignificant as one tiny grain of sand upon the seashore.
Life is swift. If you would picture life, you must, turn to the Bible, and this evening we will walk through the Bible-gallery of old paintings. You will find its swiftness spoken of in the Book of Job, where we are furnished with three illustrations. In the ninth chapter and at the twenty-fifth verse, we read, "Now my days are swifter than a post." We are most of us acquainted with the swiftness of post-conveyance. I have sometimes, on an emergency, taken posthorses where there has been no railway, and have been amazed and pleased with the rapidity of my journey. But since, in this ancient Book, there can be no allusion to modern posts, we must turn to the manners and customs of the East, and in so doing we find that the ancient monarchs astonished their subjects by the amazing rapidity with which they received intelligence. By well-ordered arrangements, swift horses, and constant relays, they were able to attain a speed which, although trifling in these days, was in those slower ages a marvel of marvels; so that, to an Eastern, one of the clearest ideas of swiftness was that of "a post." Well doth Job say that our life is swifter than a post. We ride one year until it is worn out, but there comes another just as swift, and we are borne by it, and soon it is gone, and another year serves us for a steed, post-house after post-house we pass, as birthdays successively arrive, we loiter not, but vaulting at a leap from one year to another, still we hurry onward, onward, ever onward. My life is like a post: not like the slow wagon that drags along the road with tiresome wheels, but like a post, it attains the greatest speed.
Job further says, "My days are passed away as the swift ships." He increases, you see, the intensity of the metaphor; for if, in the Eastern's idea anything could exceed the swiftness of the post, it was the swift ship. Some translate this passage as "the ships of desire;" that is, the ships hurrying home, anxious for the haven, and therefore crowding, on all sail.
Job also says that life is "as the eagle that hasteth to the prey." The eagle is a bird noted for its swiftness. I remember reading an account of an eagle attacking a fish-hawk, which had obtained some booty from the deep, and was bearing it aloft. The hawk dropped the fish, which fell towards the water; but before the fish had reached the ocean, the eagle had flown more swiftly shall the fish could fall, and catching it in its beak it flew away with it. The swiftness of the eagle is almost incalculable; you see it, and it is gone; you see a dark speck in the sky yonder; it is an eagle soaring; let the fowler imagine that, by-and-by, he shall overtake it on some mountain's craggy peak, it shall be gone long before he reaches it. Such is our life. It is like an eagle hasting to its prey; not merely an eagle flying in its ordinary course, but an eagle hasting to its prey. Life appears to be hasting to its end; death seeks the body as its prey; life is ever fleeing from insatiate death; but death is too swift to be out run, and as an eagle overtakes his prey, so shall death.
If we require a further illustration of the swiftness of life, we must turn to two other passages in the Book of Job, upon which I shall not dwell. One, will be found in the seventh chapter, at the sixth verse, where Job says, "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle," which the weaver throws, so quickly that the eye can hardly discern it. But he gives us a yet more excellent metaphor in the seventh verse of the same chapter, where he says, "O remember that my life is wind." Now this excels in velocity all the other figures we have examined. Who can out stride the winds? Proverbially, the winds are rapid; even in their gentlest motion they appear to be swift. But when they rush in the tornado, or when they dash madly on in the hurricane, when the tempest blows, and tears down everything, how swift then is the wind! Perhaps some of us may have a gentle gale of wind, and we may not seem to move so swiftly; but with others, who are only just born, and then snatched away to heaven, the swiftness may be compared to that of the hurricane, which soon snaps the ties of life, and leaves the infant dead. Surely our life is like the wind.
Oh, if you could but catch these idea, my friends! Though we may be sitting still in this chapel, yet you know that we are all really in motion. This world is turning round on its axis once in four-and-twenty hours, and besides that, it is moving round the sun in the 365 days of the year. So that we are all moving, we are all flitting along through space, and as we are traveling through space, so are we moving through time at an incalculable rate.
Oh, what an idea this is could we but grasp it! We are all being carried along as if by a giant angel, with broad outstretched wings, which he flaps to the blast, and flying before the lightning, makes us ride on the winds. The whole multitude of us are hurrying along, — whither, remains to be decided by the test of our faith and the grace of God; but certain it is that we are all traveling. Do not think that you are stable, fixed in one position; fancy not that you are standing still; you are not. Your pulses each moment beat the funeral marches to the tomb. You are chained to the chariot of rolling time; there is no bridling the steeds, or leaping from the chariot; you must be constantly in motion.
Thus then, have I spoken of the swiftness of life.
II. But, next, I must speak concerning THE UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE, of which we have abundant illustrations.
Let us refer to that part of Scripture from, which I have chosen my text, the Epistle of James, the fourth chapter, at the fourteenth verse: "For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." If I were to ask for a child's explanation of this, I know what he would say. He would say, "Yes, it is even a vapor, like a bubble that is blown upward." Children sometimes blow bubbles, and amuse themselves thereby. Life is even as that bubble. You see it rising into the air; the child delights in seeing it fly about, but it is all gone in one moment.
The wind moves them, and they are gone. "What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." So uncertain is life!
Again, if you read in the Book of Ecclesiastes, at the sixth chapter, and the twelfth verse, you will there find life compared to something else, even more fragile than a vapor. The wise man there says that it is even "as a shadow." Now, what can there be less substantial than a shadow? What substance is there in a shadow? Who can lay hold of it? You may see a person's shadow as he passes you, but the moment the person passes away his shadow is gone. Yea, and who can grasp his life? Many men reckon upon a long existence, and think they are going to live here for ever; but who can calculate upon a shadow? Go, thou foolish man, who sayest to thy soul, "Thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease! eat, drink, and be merry;" go thou, and store thy room, with shadows; go thou, and pile up shadows and say, "These are mine, and they shall never depart." But thou sayest, "I cannot catch a shadow." No, and thou canst not reckon on a year, or even a moment, for it is as a shadow, that soon melteth away, and is gone.
King Hezekiah also furnishes us with a simile, where he says that life is as a thread which is cut off. You will find this in the prophecy of Isaiah, the thirty-eighth chapter, at the twelfth verse: "Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life." The weaver cuts off his thread very easily, and so is life soon ended.
I might continue my illustrations at pleasure concerning the uncertainty of life. We might find, perhaps, a score more figures in Scripture if we would search. Take, for instance, the grass, the flowers of the field, etc. But though life is swift, and though it is to pass away so speedily, we are still generally very anxious to know what it is to be, while we have it. For we say, if we are to lose it soon, still, while we live, let us live; and whilst we are to be here, be it ever so short a time, let us know what we are to expect in it.
III. And that leads us, in the third place, to look at LIFE IN ITS CHANGES.
If you want pictures of the changes of life, turn to this wonderful Book of poetry, the Sacred Scriptures, and there you will find metaphors piled on metaphors. And, first, you will find life compared to a pilgrimage by good old Jacob, in the forty-seventh chapter of Genesis, and the ninth verse. That hoary-headed patriarch, when he was asked by Pharaoh what was his age, replied, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not obtained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." He calls life, a pilgrimage. A pilgrim sets out in the morning, and he has to journey many a day before he gets to the shrine which he, seeks. What varied scenes the traveler will behold on his way!
Sometimes he will be on the mountains, anon he will descend into the valleys, here he will be where the brooks shine like silver, where the birds warble, where the air is balmy, and the trees are green, and luscious fruits hang down to gratify his taste, anon he will find himself in the arid desert, where no life is found, and no sound is heard, except the screech of the wild eagle in the air, where he finds no rest for the sole of his foot, — the burning sky above him, and the hot sand beneath him, — no roof-tree, and no house to rest himself; at another time he finds himself in a sweet oasis, resting himself by the wells of water, and plucking fruit from palm-trees. At one time he walks between the rocks, in some narrow gorge, where all is darkness, at another time he ascends the hill Mizar; now he descends into the valley of Baca anon he climbs the hill of Bashan, and a high hill is the hill Bashan and yet again going into the mountains of leopards, he suffers trial and affliction.
Such is life, ever changing. Who can tell what may come next? Today it is fair, tomorrow there may be the blundering storm; today I may want for nothing, tomorrow I may be like Jacob, with nothing but a stone for my pillow, and the heavens for my curtains. But what a happy thought it is, though we know not how the road winds, we know where it ends. It is the straightest way to heaven to go round about. Israel's forty years wanderings were, after all, the nearest path to Canaan. We may have to go through trial and affliction; the pilgrimage may be a tiresome one, but it is safe; we cannot trace the river upon which we are sailing, but we know it ends in floods of bliss at last. We cannot track the roads, but we know that they all meet in the great metropolis of heaven, in the center of God's universe. God help us to pursue the true pilgrimage of a pious life!
We have another picture of life in its changes given to us in the ninetieth Psalm, at the ninth verse: "We spend our years as a tale that is told." Now David understood about tales that were told; I daresay he had been annoyed by them sometimes, and amused by them at other times. There are, in the past, professed story-tellers, who amused their hearers by inventing tales such as those in that foolish book the "Arabian Nights." When I was foolish enough to read that book, I remember sometimes you were with fairies, sometimes with genii, sometimes in palaces, anon you went, down into caverns. All sorts of singular things are conglomerated into what they call a tale.
But I cannot tell, and you cannot divine. I know that my tent cannot be removed till God says, "Go forward;" and it cannot stand firm unless he makes it so.
You have been opening a new shop lately, and you are thinking of settling down in trade, and managing a thriving concern; now paint not the future too brightly, do not be too sure as to what is in store for you. Another has for a long time been engaged in an old establishment; your father always carried on trade there, and you have no thought of moving; but here you have no abiding city; your life is like a shepherd's tent; you may be here, there, and almost everywhere before you die. It was once said by Solan, "No man ought to be called a happy man till he dies," because he does not know what his life is to be; but Christians may always call themselves happy men here, because, wherever their tent is carried, they cannot pitch it where the cloud does not move, and where they are not surrounded by a circle of fire. God will be a wall of fire round about them, and their glory in the midst. They cannot dwell where God is not the bulwark of their salvation.
Thus I have spoken of the changes of this mortal life.
IV. And now, to close, let me ask, WHAT IS TO BE THE END OF THIS LIFE?
We read in the second Book of Samuel, chapter 14, and verse 14, "We must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again." Man is like a great icicle, which the sun of time is continually thawing, and which is soon to be as water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Who can recall the departed spirit, or inflate the lungs with a new breath of life? Who can put vitality into the heart, and restore the soul from Hades? None. It cannot be gathered up again; the place that once knew it shall know it no more for ever.
But here a sweet thought charms us. This water cannot be lost, but it shall descend into the soil to filter through, the Rock of ages, at last to spring up a pure fountain in heaven, cleansed, purified, and made clear as crystal.
How terrible if, on the other hand, it should percolate through the black earth of sin, and hang in horrid drops in the dark caverns of destruction! Such is life! Then, make the best use of it, my friends, because it is fleeting. Look for another life, because this life is not a very desirable one, it is so changeable. Trust your life in God's hand, because you cannot control its movements, rest in his arms, and rely on his might; for he is able to do for you exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or think; and unto his name be glory for ever and ever! Amen.


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Wacław Tkaczuk (ur. 30 marca 1942 w Delatynie, zm. 5 stycznia 2018 w Warszawie) – polski dziennikarz, krytyk literacki, poeta.

Życiorys
Absolwent studiów na kierunku polonistyka na Katolickim Uniwersytecie Lubelskim. W latach 1981–1985 sekretarz redakcji tygodnika "Antena". Z Polskim Radiem związany w latach 1990–2005. Pełnił tam funkcję sekretarza i wicedyrektora Programu II PR, od 1994 do 2005 był kierownikiem literackim Teatru Polskiego Radia. Animator pozaantenowych spotkań Teatru PR ze słuchaczami, juror Festiwalu Słuchowisk Polskiego Radia w Bolimowie w latach 1997–1999, w Rzeszowie w 2000 oraz w Sopocie na I, II, III, IV i VII Krajowym Festiwalu Teatru Polskiego Radia i Teatru Telewizji Polskiej – "Dwa Teatry". W latach 1999–2006 trzykrotnie powołany w skład Komisji Etyki Polskiego Radia.

Od 1996 prowadził zajęcia z zakresu radiowych form artystycznych na Studium Komunikowania Społecznego i dziennikarstwa KUL. Był członkiem zespołu redakcyjnego kwartalnika "Regiony" w latach 1999–2004.

Dokonania
Był autorem licznych audycji literacko-dokumentalnych i poetyckich oraz, rzadziej adaptacji radiowych prozy, dramatu i poezji.

Laureat Złotego Mikrofonu w (1993) i Nagrody Rady Programowej PR w (2004).

Jest laureatem Nagrody Literackiej im. Stanisława Piętaka (1994), za prezentację poezji współczesnej na antenie radiowej.

W 2009 został laureatem Nagrody im. Witolda Hulewicza w kategorii twórczości radiowej za zasługi w dziedzinie kultywowania hulewiczowskich tradycji "Teatru Wyobraźni", czyli Teatru Polskiego Radia.

Był znany również jako poeta, krytyk, wydawca, tłumacz literatury niemieckiej, m.in. utworów J.W. Goethego i R.M. Rilkego.

Twórczość poetycka
 Skrzydło liścia (wyd. Iskry, 1970)
 Co z ognia – co z wody (wyd. Ars Christiana – Novum, 1977)
 Na więcej, na przepadłe (wyd. Iskry, 2013)
 autor wyboru poezji pt. Prośba do Matki Boskiej. Antologia polskiej poezji maryjnej (wyd. Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1991)

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Jan Władysław Woś, In memoria di Wacław Tkaczuk (1942-2018). Poeta, critico letterario, giornalista, Città di Vita, r. LXXIII (2018), nr 1, ss. 61-62.

Linki zewnętrzne

Ludzie urodzeni w Delatynie
Urodzeni w 1942
Absolwenci Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II
Polscy krytycy literaccy
Polscy ludzie teatru
Polscy pisarze współcześni
Polscy poeci
Ludzie Polskiego Radia
Zmarli w 2018
Laureaci Nagrody im. Stanisława Piętaka

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Cycling Hawke's Bay
by Kathy Webb December 21, 2011 January 4, 2012
Hawke's Bay's new network of rural recreational cycle tracks is a roaring success, but for everyday cyclists, dangerous roads are still the reality. Kathy Webb takes a look at the imbalance of pedal power in the Bay.
It's a turf war, playing out as a game of life-and-death dodgems. The battle formations are basic. Cyclists put on a plastic helmet and head out into the traffic to mingle with vehicles travelling at anything between 50km/h and 150km/h. In between them, for safety, is a line painted on the road.
In just one year, the casualties mounted to 10 dead and 895 injured, 186 of them seriously. This was back in 2008, and these cyclists were killed or injured when they were hit by cars. The Ministry of Transport says the "social cost" of those cycle-vehicle clashes was $224 million.
All up, 22 cyclists died in 2491 crashes with vehicles on New Zealand roads between 2005-10. Another 1932 suffered injuries ranging from minor to serious.
Once upon a time it was safe as houses to cycle on the roads, but during the past 30-40 years vehicles have taken over, and the people driving them seem to have become ever-more impatient, fractious and readily-offended when their "rights" are transgressed. Road rage is a fact of modern life, and there are plenty of drivers always keen to knock another ten seconds off their journey times; whose speed is held in check only by the sight of a police car.
Understandably, cycling has been in retreat, but now the world is changing again.
Concerns are mounting around the world about unhealthy, unfit populations sitting in cars for hours a day; about fuel-polluted environments, the cost of building more and more roads as oil prices rise inexorably. There are campaigns to get people walking and cycling again as part of their daily lives. It's called "active transport".
Is everybody happy?
And there's no doubt, cycling is coming back. But not everyone is happy about that.
Cyclists, bloody cyclists. The last thing we need careering around the roads, demanding their own space. Well, they needn't think it's going to be that easy. They're going to have to tussle for their tarseal.
Cyclists call it "cycle hate". Motorists call it "cyclist fault".
It's not unique to Hawke's Bay; it happens everywhere motorists are being asked to give up some of their road space and look out for others. They complain of cyclists all over the road, appearing out of nowhere, getting in their way and holding them up. Their pent-up rage spills out.
"Don't pay for roads, but expect to use them maybe they shd be chgd, " texts Angry Taxpaying Driver.
"Y is cl giving road space 2 bikes," says Get Out Of My Way.
"No wun uses them, dumb idea," curses Subaru Supremo.
In turn, cyclists all over the country tell horror stories of screaming abuse, accidental near-misses, and non-accidental near-misses. They say it's getting worse.
Small wonder, then, that the 180km of safe, off-road trails that have sprung up around Hawke's Bay have proven to be such a hit, not just with locals getting out for a spin at the weekend, but tourists.
Safe cycling has become a novelty, a tourist attraction. It's bringing in a lot of visitors, some serious cash, nurturing a string of businesses and sparking new ones.
National and international media are writing glowing pieces about the network, now officially named the Hawke's Bay Trails.
It's taken 15 years, but in its own disparate way the Bay has pulled together for success. The challenge now is whether it can capitalise on that and extend the trails concept to the next stage — safe urban commuter cycling.
Ambitious projects are unfolding in Europe, Canada and North America to build routes that promote cycling as a viable, alternative form of commuter transport, while capturing the multitude of social, health, financial and environmental benefits that come with it. Velo-City Global in Vancouver is one example.
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The Ministry of Transport has a theory that there is safety in numbers, so if more people took to the roads on their bikes they would have less chance of being killed or injured. Another school of thought says that might reduce statistical rates of death or injury, but actual numbers would inevitably increase.
Nicholas Jones, medical officer of health for the Hawke's Bay District health Board, says the cost of inactivity among Kiwis is about $300m a year. That's in health terms alone. Making it easier for people to walk or cycle to work or school has a range of flow-on benefits. It keeps them fitter and healthier and gives them a sense of wellbeing. It brings them into more social contact with others, and for a low income family, the financial benefits of not having to keep a car on the road could be far-reaching. They could eat better food instead. "It puts money into family pockets for other expenses."
Research indicates that the health benefits to individuals and the national health budget is $1.30 for every kilometre we cycle, and $2.60 for every kilometre we walk, he says. "It's a virtuous cycle."
Hastings District Council is one of two cities to have been given $4.5 million by the Government as part of a scheme called Model Communities. Part of this is to encourage walking and cycling. Most of the $4.5m has been going into a safety campaign and painting cycle lanes on Hastings roads. The glamour piece will be a $1m boardwalk-style cycle path between Hastings and Havelock North, built over the top of deep drains, and separated from the road by a 3m planted strip.
"This is groundbreaking for us. It will be magnificent," says deputy mayor Cynthia Bowers. Work is about to begin.
A recent survey by the council revealed that only 35% of cyclists feel safe in their designated road lanes. That's an improvement on the 28% who felt that way in 2008, but still not good. Conversely, the 48% who felt cycling on the road was very dangerous in 2008 had reduced to 36% this year.
Cycling champions
Businessman Paul McArdle, returning to the Bay after 10 years in the Netherlands, was struck by the absence of bikes on our roads. He and his wife established the Bike On NZ trust, with the goal of building cycle paths within school grounds and setting them up with a supply of bikes and helmets for pupils to use. So far, four schools in Napier and Hastings – St Mary's, Riverslea, Peterhead and Maraenui — have them.
The results have been astounding, says McArdle. Learning to ride a bike is a milestone. It brings confidence and self-esteem, which is flowing through into classroom work, he says. "It makes school an attractive place to be. We've haven't found a kid who doesn't want to learn to ride a bike."
Don Kennedy, a Havelock North lawyer who has biked to work in Hastings daily for decades, also loves bike racing and Formula 1 car racing. He holds F1A accreditation to attend races. "I could be labelled a pedalling petrol head," he says.
Kennedy says he could fill a newspaper page each day with complaints about the behaviour of motorists who "still struggle" with the concept of sharing the road with cyclists, and often, simply do not notice them.
He cites drivers opening their doors without first checking for cyclists; passing a cyclist then turning left directly in front; racing a cyclist into a roundabout and crowding them out; or pulling over into cycle lanes for a chat on their cellphones.
"You have to concentrate the whole time," he says. "The potential hazards are everywhere."
Cyclists pay their share and have an equal right to use the roads, he says. "I pay tax, rates, ACC and own two cars. I would guess that 98% of cyclists also drive vehicles," he says.
On May 30, 1997, Kennedy wrote to the Hastings District Council, noting that its roading plans made no reference whatsoever to cyclists, and that "the current attitude seems to be that the motor vehicle is king and all other forms of road use are secondary".
In that same letter, he suggested a novel idea — a network of pathways separated from the roads for use by walkers and cyclists. Simple and inspirational, it was immediately condemned to languish in the dungeons of long-term council planning. It was not until 2001 that Kennedy achieved his first "success",
when the council implemented a "Cycling Strategy" and put $500,000 in the budget for it.
"Of course, it never happened," he says. "Each year the CEO happily slashed the budget by taking out the $500,000, and eventually took it out of the annual plan completely. Council used surplus funds from its minor roading to put in the odd cycle lane.
"We did get to spend about $10,000 on cycling education back in 2004, I recall, but no direct funding until council secured $4.5 million in the Model Community Initiative (the iWay project)."
Despite the iWay programme, Kennedy remains sceptical about the council's long-term commitment to cycling. The test will come when the iWay money runs out, he says. "Then we will know how serious the council is about making Hastings the cycling capital of NZ."
Will momentum continue?
Bowers – also a keen cyclist and member of the council's cycling strategy group — admits the record makes sad reading. "It was really, really hard work because there was no recognition by the council of the benefits of cycling and active transport," she says. "We absolutely battled to make anything happen."
However, she is confident the council will not lapse. The iWay project brought not just cash, but a turnaround in attitude. There is momentum now, she says. "It's about getting the building blocks in place, then when you're doing roadworks, you can incorporate cycleways as best suits the street."
She believes Hastings has options for the creation of urban cycle commuting. One would be to narrow some residential streets, and use the space gained to take cyclists right away from busy roads. Those narrowed roads would also slow down any traffic — "so residents get an immediate benefit" — and create more green space, which brings social change. "It gives you a street completely different in character. It gives children a space to play out front, and starts a change in the whole nature of a community."
Such communities would be likely to attract young families, says Bowers. "The main benefit of cycling is an economic one, and the housing stock around central Hastings is in the more affordable price bracket. That's an attraction for young families if you can co-ordinate that with safer streets for cycling and walking. You bring back more of the community elements that I think we've lost."
Nevertheless, Bowers is encouraged by the council survey showing most cyclists don't feel safe in their roadway cycle lanes. It's the trend that counts, she says.
"I'm pleased with the trend. That's what the whole iWays programme is about, encouraging people to share the road."
Robert Oliver, veteran cyclist and owner of The Hub cycle shop in Hastings, says painted cycle lanes on the roads are better than nothing – "if they save even one child's life then they're worthwhile" – but cyclists are not going to venture out on the roads in much greater numbers until it becomes a whole lot safer.
Even when they're wearing high-viz clothing and sticking to 2m-wide cycle lanes on the shoulder of the road, they have no guarantee of safety, he says. "Roundabouts are lethal. You get halfway through, it's so narrow and tight, and cars try to pass me. Motorists need educating. Nobody's got any patience these days."
Hawke's Bay Trails
In complete contrast, the off-road Hawke's Bay Trails have revolutionised recreational cycling in Hawke's Bay, particularly among the over-60s, Oliver says. "It's huge."
"My generation are getting back on their bikes. That's where the market is. All our generation rode bikes, and now they've got the pathways and they're getting back on their bikes." They're also introducing their grandchildren to safe, distance riding – something they would never have been able to experience without the safety offered by off-road paths, says Oliver.
The obvious success of the first off-road paths in Napier prompted Hastings to follow suit. The Hawke's Bay Regional Council allowed paths to be laid out along stopbanks, and more recently has given cash for another trail, connecting wineries in the Gimblett Gravels and Ngatarawa areas west of Hastings. The taxpayer-funded New Zealand Cycleway has also linked in.
Most of the paths are off-road, along beachfronts, riversides and more latterly, an estuary. So far, they've cost about $5.5 million, and it seems we're not finished there.
The light has officially gone on, and everyone is now agreed we're on to something.
Chairman Fenton Wilson announced enthusiastically in October that "we can see how the trails lead to other opportunities, with potential to the north and south of the region. On the one hand there are public open spaces at Waitangi, Pakowhai and Pekapeka Wetland and possible pathway linkages in Central Hawke's Bay. On the other hand there are potential pathways leading to Tutira, north of Napier. And we can't discount the idea of trail network connections into and out of Hawke's Bay."
Tourism Hawke's Bay and the regional council are now charged with promoting the Trails locally, nationally and internationally. Annie Dundas, general manager of HB Tourism, says the trails are "becoming a major part of our tourism puzzle. It has given us a wonderful new opportunity to market Hawke's Bay. They're fabulous". About 130 media representatives – domestic and international – have tried the trails during the past three months and gone away enthused, she says.
Otago Rail Trail model
Of course, they already know about this sort of thing in Central Otago, where a dead railway line has been transformed into an international success story.
Work began on the Otago Rail Trail, covering 150km between Middlemarch and Clyde, when the line was closed to trains in 1990. A Rail Trail Trust was formed, and worked with the Department of Conservation to convert the railway into a cycling, walking and horse riding trail. It opened in 2000.
It's now getting more than 14,000 users each year, mostly attracted by word of mouth. Nearly half travel from the upper North Island, and 22% come from overseas. The rail trail has created a string of new businesses and more than 120 full-time jobs. It's injecting $18m a year into the local economy and reversed a population slide in the Maniapoto area. The direct business beneficiaries are those offering accommodation, food, luggage-transport, guided tours and bike hire, but wineries and tourist attractions such as the historic Otago gold fields also get spin-off.
At Bay View, north of Napier, Takaro Trails is based in stylish headquarters. Founder Jenny Ryan established the business in 2009 and was a finalist in this year's Hawke's Bay Business Awards. Ryan and her team are now renting out 82 art deco bikes to corporate, conference or family groups, and business is good, says Ryan.
Her clients get to sample Hawke's Bay scenery, wineries and restaurants, chocolates, olives, fruit, honey, arts, pickles and gannets. She and her staff transport the luggage for three-day and five-day cyclists, and collect the purchases they make along the way. "We've picked up sculptures, handbags, paintings, dresses – they spend a lot," says Ryan.
Brian Fisher, owner of FishBike on Napier's Marine Parade, says just over half his bike-hire customers are from overseas, and most of the rest are from Auckland and Wellington, then Manawatu and Waikato. Clients tend to be fit, active and middle-aged, and "think nothing of biking 50km-plus".
However, we're still not as good as the Otago Rail Trail, which is long-distance and point-to-point, offering changing vistas along the way. "Ours are all loop tracks. I would like to see a track from here to Gisborne. That would be greater than the Otago Rail Trail." Even Napier to Tutira "would be wonderful", he says.

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US-China Relations in the Global Context
11/13 Monday | 5:30pm
NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Undergraduate Academic Affairs invite you to join for a talk on US-China relations with He Yafei, Jeffrey Lehman, and Clark T. "Sandy" Randt. He Yafei, former Vice President of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The People's Republic of China, will first speak on how the US-China relationship will shape the emerging global order. After his keynote address, former Vice Minister Yafei will engage in a conversation with Jeffrey Lehman, Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, and Clark T. "Sandy" Randt, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 2001 to 2009 making him the longest serving US Ambassador to China.
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5:30pm - 7pm
NYU Law Tishman Auditorium
40 Washington Square South


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So I finished filming my part for The Rite, actually the official title is The Rite of Exorcism: Myths, Mystery, and Hope, on Thursday. I played a lady named Donna. We filmed at an old church in Maricopa, Arizona on the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation. I got there an hour early, which is good I guess. I couldn't sleep the night before because I was scared of being late for my call time. That made me pretty exhausted for my very physical role. And it was literally freezing! But everyone was really nice and they had coffee and pastries and pretzels. I got into costume, which was a skirt I brought and a strawberry-colored sweater, and they did my make-up, which was pretty much like Linda Blair from the Exorcist make-up. I looked pretty scary. I had major dark under-eye circles and they made me pretty pale and wetted down my hair to make it look like I'd been sweating.
I had a film husband and mom in the scene too. It was my film husband's role to restrain me in the chair that I was sitting in. We rehearsed the scene once in the chilly, old kitchen and then went into the church. They filled it with stage smoke and put some very bright lights outside the church windows. And then we started filming. I had to writhe and kick about as if I was determined to escape and my film husband had to clamp down really hard to prevent my escape. He said I was one strong cookie. The only scripted line I had was a demonic No! and a muted screech at the end. This was the hardest thing I have ever done. I had to find strength I didn't think I had to do the job. It was just that physically challenging.
Veritas Pictures is just awesome. From casting to filming, the experience was professional and positive. They even ordered lunch for us from a local cafe on film day. It was a really great experience and I am really happy to be paid for acting. I really thought I'd never get into anything but here it is: an actual film credit.
In other news, I didn't get into Judy: the Musical and I auditioned for Rockin' Cabaret, which I have yet to hear about. It's an ongoing cabaret series. And I plan to attend the open audition for Romeo and Juliet for Story First Productions tonight.


Citation: ROBINSON, I., WALSH, S.J. and STIMPSON, G., 1998. Vehicle accessory tonal noise: experimental determination and subjective assessment. IN: Goodwin, V.C. and Stevenson, D.C. (eds.). Inter-noise 98: proceedings: the 1998 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering: Christchurch, New Zealand, 16-18 November 1998: sound and silence, setting the balance. Auckland, N.Z. : New Zealand Acoustical Society, pp.1049-1052.
Abstract: Introduction: There is a general trend in the motor industry towards reduced noise levels inside vehicles. Low frequency vehicle interior noise, below 500 Hz, is mostly generated through structure-borne vibration emanating from the powertrain and transmitted through the various connection points to the vehicle body and into the passenger compartment. This noise contribution has been reduced dramatically over the past few years by control of the vibration levels generated by the powertrain, engine mount isolation and improved body structures. The consequence of this is that high frequency noise has become much more intrusive because of the reduction in the masking effect of low frequency noise. High frequency noises come from a variety of sources, and are generally airborne rather than structure-borne. Possibly the most annoying to the driver are narrow band high frequency noises, classified as 'whine' noises, the majority of which are attributable to noise radiated from the powertrain and the various auxiliary components attached to it. Engine radiated noise has also been reduced significantly over recent years, which means that the contribution of auxiliary components has become more important. A component such as the alternator can produce more overall radiated noise than the rest of the powertrain, if badly designed. So that an accessory will not give rise to unacceptable noise inside a vehicle the component suppliers must develop their parts such that radiated noise levels are sufficiently low. This can only be achieved if the suppliers know what levels of radiated noise are acceptable. This paper presents the results of an investigation into the influence of accessory noise on the overall interior noise of a vehicle, and the setting of tonal noise targets for vehicle accessories, concentrating on an automotive alternator. The investigations are based on detailed transfer function measurements carried out using a wideband sound source and the principle of acoustic reciprocity. A subjective target setting experiment is then described which allowed rig based target values to be derived.
Description: This conference paper was presented at Inter-noise 1998.


Kannapolis Middle School » Staff » Staff List K-P » Logan, K.
Hi Everyone! I am happy to be serving as the 7th grade counselor for KMS. Prior to this year, I served as the 6th grade counselor and am looking forward to continuing my work with students and families as they are in 7th grade.
Prior to KMS, I worked for 2 years as a school counselor at Kannapolis Intermediate School, as well as taught in 5th and 6th grade classrooms for 11 years as a regular education teacher. I have a love for Kannapolis, as I grew up here, and have been a part of KCS for my educational career.
I believe all students should have equal opportunity for learning. My role includes assisting students in academic, personal/social, and career development to promote success at school, home, and as a future citizen in society.
Middle school is a growing and transitional time for our students. Please know that you may contact me at any time during the school day by email or by school phone at (704) 932-4102 to discuss your child's needs.


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Q: CGAL edge_collapse assertion failure I'm using CGAL 5.1 with a kernel of type typedef CGAL::Simple_cartesian<float> Kernel; and a surface mesh type typedef CGAL::Surface_mesh<Kernel::Point_3> Mesh;
I load the mesh via Assimp, and everything seems fine. But when I come to run an edge_collapse I get an assertion failure CGAL_assertion(resulting_vertex_count == vertices(m_tm).size()); And sure enough, doing the math on the total number of vertices minus the removed vertex count shows that it's off by one regardless of the ratio I set.
The relevant code is:
            if(!CGAL::is_triangle_mesh(*node->mesh_info.mesh))
            {
                std::cerr << "Input geometry is not triangulated." << std::endl;
                return;
            }
            if(!is_valid_polygon_mesh(*node->mesh_info.mesh))
            {
                std::cerr << "Input geometry is not valid." << std::endl;
                return;
            }

            SMS::Count_ratio_stop_predicate<Mesh> stop(reduction);
            SMS::edge_collapse(*node->mesh_info.mesh, stop);

The two tests pass ok, so is there something obvious I'm missing? I've not tried the other algorithms yet, or set any of the optional properties. I've cleaned up the mesh using Assimp's tools for removing degenerate faces and edges, and merging coincident vertices, but I've not tried any of CGAL's tools.
I do have a "v:uv" property on each vertex, but the position property is whatever the default is.
If anyone could give me a sanity check, I'd appreciate it!

A: While trying to isolate the issue to post here, I started playing around and found that because my mesh is noisy and patchy - it's photogrammetric scan - that the standard simplification strategy was barfing on my borders. Ignoring the assert just produced a starfish.
So I followed the example in the user manual and marked my borders as non-removable, and it is much happier now.

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Megami Tensei Wiki wrote: Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth is an RPG for the Nintendo 3DS and a sequel to Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. It is a crossover game between Persona 3, Persona 4 and Persona 5.
Comes out in Japan November 29.


A 12m x 12m GiantMirror by ShowTex was the focal point during the performance of "La Scala di Seta" by Gioacchino Rossini at Teatro Alla Scala di Milano.
The angled mirror allowed the audience to experience the play from two different points of view, offering them a fascinating view of everything that was happening on stage.
The unique set design and the reflections of the actors created a high visual impact, as spectators were able to see more than they would in a traditional theatre setting.
ShowTex also supplied the black Molton lining for the mirror and the special truss it was mounted in.


The deal means Grab has brought on four automotive firms in the round, although Yamaha Motor is focused on motorbikes. Indeed, Grab said it intends to collaborate with the bike-maker on Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy and the world's fourth most populous country with 260 million people, where it is in a dogfight with rival Go-Jek and also less traditional foes like Tokopedia who compete on finance and on-demand services.
Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are three markets where Grab offers motorcycles on-demand as both passenger rides — traffic in Southeast Asia's megacities is something to behold — as well as fleet based food or grocery deliveries or services on demand.


reunited with '52 M38 after 44 years.
Re: reunited with '52 M38 after 44 years.
The jeep looks great and well taken care of by the Family member who had it.
What a nice reunion, and a great looking jeep !!
Nice to see how unmolested it looks to be! I get the roll cage, one of mine has it the other doesn't.
Just a suggestion, lose those two side reflectors as soon as you can find the correct OD ones. Otherwise great looking!
my thanks to you both, gents.
As always, it's a little rougher in person that as appears in the photos, so there is some work to do.
the roll bar can come off with 4 bolts, but only for static display!
Great story, and im sure its great to have her back. Looks in good nick too.
Beautiful Homestead as well as Jeep ~!!!
Is that house from the 1700's ??
You have an excellent eye, sir.
Yes the house in the background was already 187 years old the day the M38 was built.
"When you have an antique house, the only thing that works is you."
George Washington never slept there, nothing famous happened, we just try to be good stewards and not screw it up too badly... sort of like having a 67 year old car.
I grew up in New Hampshire, and most of the houses were like yours.
What a living piece of history you have with your homestead, 254 years old, surely the Minute Men knew of it !
Most of the Minute Men from my little town of Sanbornton, NH were at the Batttle of Bunker Hill.
I remember a farm family, who found muskets hidden in their walls, that likely were used there, and at other battles.
The family still has the same last name as the name on the roster of the troops from Sanbornton.
Many families are still there in the area.
Your jeep is now part of your home and family's history, and looks to be in good hands !


A pancreas transplant is a complex operation and, as with other types of major surgery, there is a risk of complications.
Complications following pancreas transplants are common. About one person in five needs further surgery to deal with problems such as infection and bleeding.
Other potential complications are described below.
Rejection is a normal reaction of the body. When a new organ is transplanted, your body's immune system sees it as a threat, and attacks it in the way it would attack any foreign organism, such as bacteria or a virus.
To reduce the immune system's response, immunosuppressant medications are given and must be taken for life.
The rejection rate of pancreas transplants is lower in older people. The risk of developing complications after the procedure is higher in people who are over 50 years old.
If you have any of these symptoms, contact a member of your transplant team immediately.
Rejection is usually treated by increasing the dosage of your immunosuppressants.
Some other possible complications of a pancreas transplant are outlined below.
Thrombosis is a blood clot in one of the deep veins in the body. It is an early complication that often occurs within 24 hours of a pancreas transplant.
A thrombosis in one of your own veins can be treated with medication designed to thin the blood.
A thrombosis in the transplanted pancreas itself usually results in it failing and being removed.
Pancreatitis is inflammation (swelling) of the pancreas and is common in the first few days after surgery.
Pancreatitis should pass within a few days.
Most patients notice their vision gets worse in the first three months after a pancreas transplant, and then it starts to improve after this time. If patients are on steroids as part of their immunosuppressant treatment any pre-existing cataracts may get worse following a pancreas transplant.
Fluid retention (oedema) is more likely to occur for several days after a simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplant (SPK).
This can cause swelling of your feet and ankles.
Sometimes urine can leak as a result of a breakdown in some of the transplanted tissue. It usually occurs during the first two or three months after the transplant. Surgery to repair the leak will usually be required.
Antibiotic, antiviral or antifungal medications can be used to treat infections.
An abdominal abscess is a serious complication that can occur one to six months after the surgery. Symptoms include abdominal pain and a high temperature (fever).
A computerised tomography (CT) scan will often be used to determine whether an abdominal abscess is present.
They can be treated using a combination of antibiotics and surgery to drain away the pus.
As with all major surgery, there is a risk (between two and five in 100) of dying in the first year after a pancreas transplant, from a complication such as an infection, heart attack or stroke. However, your chances of being alive 10 years later are much higher following a successful pancreas transplant.
Taking immunosuppressants following a transplant carries its own risks.
You will have to take a dose high enough to prevent your immune system rejecting the pancreas, but not so high your body is unable to fight off infection.
Finding the right dose can be difficult, and it may take months to find the most effective dose that causes the fewest side effects.
Most of these side effects start to improve once the right dose of immunosuppressants has been identified. However, even if your side effects become very troublesome, you should never suddenly stop taking your medication. If you do, your pancreas could be rejected.


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How Was Your Holiday?
How was your holiday? And by holiday, I mean Christmas? I don't know about you, but I'm always a little startled these days when someone who doesn't know me at all wishes me a merry Christmas, or asks how my Christmas was. But at the same time, I kind of like it, because it seems so, well, rebellious. We all know that we are meant to say HOLIDAY as a way of avoiding insensitivity toward other faiths, which is fine, except that now I exclusively say holiday just as a reflex, which is kind of too bad.
Anyway, my Christmas was quite nice. Really no "buts" here. Last year, there were some "buts." My Christmas was nice, but my front tooth had broken, and it broke some more during Christmas dinner, so I had to get up in the middle of the meal and get some Super Glue to put it back on, in addition to which my sister was recovering from surgery and my boyfriend had been sick and had to get out to the suburbs in the snow in a ZipCar.
No such buts here. Everyone was healthy, present and accounted for. I felt very lucky for that.
There were a couple of moments, of course. Not buts. Maybe alsos.
My aunt defied the Thanksgiving pact stating that none of us would bring gifts for extended family this year. She brought gifts for everyone -- everyone except my boyfriend. My uncle saw his wife deliver my gift to me and said to her (as if the bf and I were not within earshot), "Did you get gifts for..." and yanked his head unsubtly toward my bf and my brother's girlfriend. My aunt looked flummoxed for a moment, then recovered with a cleverly worded reply. "Yes, I got gifts for all the kids!" she answered him triumphantly. There was no gift for my bf -- but then, he's not one of "the kids."
My gift was a lidded tea mug that looked ceramic, but claimed to have Thermos-like properties that kept the inner contents hot while keeping the outside cool to the touch. "I got it for you because I know how much you love to drink tea," my aunt enthused as though we'd talked about my beverage preferences at length, when in fact she has no way of knowing whether I drink tea. I mean sure, yes, I do drink tea. But how odd that she gave me this gift based on a pretense that could be entirely false, for all she knew! And we had agreed no gifts...
My dad had gotten my mom a set of wireless speakers to put around the house, because he'd noticed that she listens to music when he's not around. "I noticed that you always listen to music when I play golf," he said by way of explanation as she opened it.
"What? When you play golf? I don't listen to music when you play golf," she said in the unnecessarily offended way that only people who have been married 40-plus years can use with each other -- in the way that suggests there are years, RIVERS really, of transgressions buried here in this seemingly innocuous exchange that you as a bystander know nothing about.
"Yes you do, when I come back from golf, you're always playing music on your computer," my dad persisted. She finally got what he was saying, sort of.
"He was being thoughtful, mom," I said later.
"I just didn't understand what he meant! I thought he was saying that I play music when we go out golfing together, and I never do that!" she said. To be fair, my mom is a little too accustomed to my dad being -- well, not thoughtful.
When a gift-giver is truly thoughtful -- in other words, actually thinking about what you might want, instead of just giving a token prize, or worse, giving what s/he really wants -- it's a wonderful thing. But sometimes the gift-giver is thoughtful toward a version of you that does not exist; or existed 10 years ago but no longer does; or exists now, but has not been properly verified. And so we can't see the thoughtfulness, because we're staring at the petrified trees of old resentments and habits.
The tea mug, by the way, gets unmanageably hot within about a minute of being filled with boiling water, just like a regular mug would, except that this mug doesn't have a handle (because, you know, it has double insulation), which renders it nearly useless.
Still, my aunt had been so psyched about giving it to me. And it really was very thoughtful. So I will probably keep trying to use it, depending on how many burns my hands can withstand.
My dad is in charge of the stockings at Christmas. This year he included the customary Ban roll-on at the bottom of my stocking, which is an inexplicable family in-joke (and not related to anything regarding my personal hygiene), even though I now have more Ban than I'll ever be able to use. He also got me a copy of Rolling Stone, which I haven't read in about 10 years, but subscribed to from my teens through my 20s.
In previous years, he has given me investing magazines, even though I'd taken a 10-year hiatus from stocks and I never read investing magazines. He was remembering that time in the '90s when I was excited about stocks.
But what I love about these magazines is that (and this is going to sound pathetic, but I try always to remain true to the spirit of this blog) they tell me I am seen. I am seen in a kind of blurry, Coke-bottle way, but when it comes to my dad, I'll take it. Besides, I liked catching up with Rolling Stone. It was kind of like visiting an old friend who got too annoying to hang out with, but had some redeeming qualities you'd forgotten.
Basically, that's all anybody wants from a gift: The sense that the giver sees you.
Did your holiday come with any buts or alsos?
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Rosie 1:53 AM
I ALWAYS say "Merry Christmas" and hope that no one is offended. A " Happy Hanukkah," "Happy Kwanza," or "Happy Winter Solstice" in response would make my day!
How is the mug workin out for ya?
HuffPo and the Spectrum of American Life.
False Start.
Reformed Underachiever.
How I Feel at Most Museums.
Slice of Life.


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Simon Groth: Ex Libris
von Doro | 18.11.2019 | Storytelling
ex libris is the expression for "a book owner's identification label that is usually pasted to the inside front cover of a book" (Merriam Webster).
Ex Libris is also the cleverly chosen name of a book project by Simon Groth for which he's looking for crowdfunding (only 8 days left, hurry if you want a copy, you can use the platform pozible as a guest – no account necessary). Ex Libris will contain twelve chapters that can be read in any order which leads to a billion different story versions. Each copy of the book will be an individual version and just by comparison of other Ex Libris-books you'll learn the differences.
What is the story about Simon?
The form of the book and the story kind of feed off each other.
It's set in a hyper-networked surveillance state, where a small band of subversives calling themselves the 'free readers' has been quietly attempting to rebuild a library from the fragments and scraps of old books that have survived. In the process, they have built an elaborate and formidable organisation away from the otherwise ubiquitous eyes of the feared 'committee for public safety'.
It's the story of four people drawn to the free readers variously by circumstance, romance, force, and curiosity. Dock dreams of relief. Inkle is looking for trouble. High seeks enlightenment. And Trace is chasing a legacy of written stories passed down to her by her grandfather before he was 'erased' by the authorities.
I would call it part dystopia, part satire, with doses of paranoia and farce, and a self-reflexive bent.
I asked my editor what she thought the story was about in the broader sense and she said it was about the truths we choose to believe in the face of lies and the lengths we will go reclaim stories that have been taken from us. Which is a much more elegant way of putting it.
What about the format of Ex Libris?
A few writers in the 1960s experimented with order and storytelling in this kind of way, most notable B. S. Johnson in 1969 published The Unfortunates as booklets held in a box. I wanted to play with similar ideas, but focus on the narrative itself, design a structure that as much as possible retains a sense of narrative arc. That took a really long time to figure out and I had to throw away three previous drafts (one of them complete) in the process.
Plus I wanted to use digital print technology to make it a seamless reading experience. Rather than a book in a box, I wanted it to look and feel and read (mostly) like a regular book. The big reveal only happens when you compare it to another copy.
What are the challenges of writing Ex Libris?
There are fixed chapters at the beginning and end to help frame the story, but the 'fluid' chapters I didn't write the story in any particular order. I jumped around and worked on different chapters at various times. I kept a kind of storyboard in Scrivener, detailed chapter outlines in dot points, and used it to track the big picture stuff and ensure that each chapter revealed something new about a character or the world they live in. I wrote the manuscript itself in Word, each chapter in a separate document. For me there is no true version of the story.
I've tried reading a few different versions of it from start to finish, but it's difficult for me because I'm so familiar with the details. I really have to rely on others to know if the story works or not (so far so good). My editor and I will at some point sit down with a few versions and critique them.
So in that sense, I don't really have a 'favourite' version. I know the rough chronology of the chapters (though it's only rough, there's no way to construct a pure chronology) and I like the idea of certain parts of the story being revealed before others, but I've avoided getting too involved in that. I've worked almost exclusively regarding each chapter as its own miniature arc and refining the story at that level, avoiding room much repetition, trusting that the pieces fit together.
I like to think of it like a jigsaw puzzle. The picture at the end is the same, but the journey towards it is different depending on the order in which you put the pieces down.
Could Ex Libris work in other media and if so: how?
I hadn't really thought about it. I imagine you could create an audio playlist on shuffle. You could do something similar with video too. But how you ensure these are truly randomised and that they never acquire a standard or 'canonical' version? That I don't know.
One thing I like about printing and creating bespoke ebooks is each reader gets their own version that stays the same. It's your copy of the story that no one else has. I really like that, probably more than having it in a format where you can make any version or that changes with each retelling.
Do you think this way of storytelling would work with any kind of story?
You could use to tell other kinds of stories, definitely. But I think you really need a good reason to use a structure like this. For me, it was about created a fragmented story that was about fragmented stories. But you could use a structure like this to do a mystery, say, and it would totally work. In fact I think it would be awesome.
Do you have an idea who'll love Ex Libris?
Other writers, mostly. I think it's sparked the imagination of a lot of the writers I've been in touch with and it's a very 'writerly' kind of thing and it piques the curiosity of people who tell stories, who immediately trying to imagine how it's done.
But then there's also been interest from regular readers too, drawn variously by the gimmick of the structure or sometimes the story itself.
I like the idea that, one day, someone will pick up a copy of Ex Libris without any clue as to how it was made, read it from cover to cover and enjoy it. I like the idea that you can engage with it like any regular book, but there's a whole new layer to the story if you want to go out and find it.
I'm already thinking about ways I can enable readers of Ex Libris to seek each other out once the book is ready. But there's a lot of work that needs to happen before then.


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2HRS2GO: Oracle pendulum swings back too far
COMMENTARY--Dear Oracle shareholders: Thanks for overreacting to today's downgrade by Lehman Brothers analyst Neil Herman.
You've done a smashing job so far. Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) shares were down more than 9 percent an hour after the regular session opened this morning, after Herman's report was released.
Some of your sell-off was probably tied to the general market downturn today. After all, the Nasdaq composite index has fallen almost 4 percent as we speak.
But let's be honest. You folks used Herman's report as an excuse to cash in after watching your stock rise steadily for several sessions.
It's a natural reaction, and one that Herman himself suggests when he points out that Oracle's stock price rose 42 percent over the last two weeks. "Valuation (is) on the high side given near-term risks," the Lehman analyst writes in downgrading Oracle to "buy" from a "strong buy" rating.
Herman calculates that Oracle is currently valued 34 percent or 87 percent above its average for the past five years--excluding the tech stock bubble of November 1999 to February 2001--depending on whether you measure the stock on price-to-earnings or price-to-revenue. Sounds mighty expensive, doesn't it?
Yet keep in mind that these valuations are based on estimates for the next four quarters. I don't know if that's a terribly stable figure to use, because no one really knows what's going to happen over the next several months. All earnings forecasts by Wall Street analysts are guesstimates these days, thanks to the economic flux.
OK, you say, forget valuation for a moment. Herman raised some real concerns about Oracle's business.
He believes the company's near-term business will take a hit because several major deals that didn't close last quarter might not get signed this quarter, or may be reduced in scope. "We doubt that Oracle is likely to feel relief in the May quarter or even in the August quarter," Herman writes.
Adding to the worry was the latest quarterly report from Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), which sells a lot of servers specifically for Oracle's software. Lehman Brothers expects Sun's product revenue in the current quarter to fall 23 percent year-over-year. Herman points out that Sun's bookings tumbled to $3.6 billion from $5 billion.
At the same time, international business--normally a source of strength--could hurt Oracle as the economic slowdown spreads around the world.
Individual products could be threatened as well, Herman said.
IBM's latest database product appears to be better and more robust than ever, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) is selling it at a competitive price. And Oracle's customer relationship applications don't seem to be making much of a dent in the market leadership of Siebel Systems (Nasdaq: SEBL), which recently reported a stronger quarter than many observers expected.
You sellers can no doubt recite all those worries, as reasons to justify your departure from Oracle's ranks. Now here's a question: So what?
Assume that all of Herman's economic fears are valid. Oracle might not make the quarter. The overseas economy is getting worse. Sun's hardware sales will tumble like a barrel going over Niagara.
It all adds up to: The tech market will look weak for the next few quarters. This isn't news. It doesn't even qualify as recent history.
If you've been paying any attention over the last four months, you already knew this year was going to be lousy. Hopefully you've already written the year off and are looking ahead.
And let's assume that Oracle does face threats from Siebel and IBM. Hello? Siebel has been the market leader in customer relationship management for years, but CRM is a big field. There's room for more than one. And as for IBM's DB2 database software putting pressure on Oracle--we've heard this one before.
Even Herman is hedging his bets:
"We believe Oracle is a great company that is likely to continue to dominate a database market which we believe could well grow at the low double digit range over the next several years...Oracle does appear to be gaining traction in the applications business as whole, particularly against SAP. We believe that when the IT spending environment begins to improve Oracle will feel the benefits and come out strongly on the other side and we can't rule out the possibility that this improvement will come sooner than anticipated."
In other words, things aren't really that bad for Oracle, at least on a relative basis. It's certainly hard to see why the company should be worth 9 percent less today than on Friday.
But thanks for driving it down. You have kept Oracle's share price from getting ahead of itself, as it sometimes does. You are keeping Oracle, if not cheap, at least not overly expensive. That can only help its Wall Street performance in the long run. 22GO >
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Background : Both the parents of Subhash Kumar are landless agricultural labourers. They have a meager and a seasonal income and find it difficult to support a family of three sons and one daughter. They live in a mud hut and the family live well below the poverty line. Village Husainabad is about 5 kms from the district Headquarters Sheikhpura. The village has a reasonably good approach road and the village has electricity as well.


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Q: Why is Jquery UI Datepicker not making dates unavailable? I'm developing a datepicker that will allow an administrator to choose dates that holiday makers will be staying at her property, and then store that data in a database. I then want to update a datepicker that potential customers will see with the unavailable dates greyed out.
I've managed to retrieve the data from my database and pass it via JSON into a JS variable but I'm having no luck greying it out with the beforeShowDay method. My console.log on the datesToBlock var showed the following info:
Object {fromDate: "2014-02-28", toDate: "2014-02-23"}

And my code so far.
var datesToBlock = <?php echo json_encode($unavailableDates); ?>;

  $(function() {
      var unavailableDates = ["false","","not available"];
      $( "#fromDatepicker" ).datepicker({
        dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd",
        beforeShowDay: function(datesToBlock) {
          return unavailableDates;
        }
      });
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Aimia launches strategic partnership with Portugal's leading retailer
MONTREAL, Aug. 14, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Aimia Inc. (TSX: AIM), a global leader in loyalty management, today announces the launch of a strategic partnership with Continente, Portugal's leading retailer from Sonae Group, to support a deeper understanding of its customers.
This partnership will provide Continente with the ability to understand the needs of its customers through its loyalty program, Continente card. This will enable Continente to make better strategic and customer-centric decisions across many aspects of its operations.
The multi-year deal will be supported by a team of Aimia's retail and analytics experts embedded within Continente. It will also see the implementation of 'Self Serve', Aimia's data analytics software tool which uses a powerful combination of customer data from Continente card, overlaid with demographic and behavioral data to deliver unparalleled insight into Continente customers and their needs.
Jan-Pieter Lips, President - EMEA, Aimia, said, "This is a significant agreement for both companies. Continente is already Portugal's leading retailer but this partnership will enable it to build even deeper relationships with existing customers and help attract new customers."
"With this agreement, Aimia and its Intelligent Shoppers Solutions business enter a new European market, bringing loyalty expertise, insights and analytics to bear alongside its proprietary self-serve technology," Lips said.
Miguel Seixas, Sonae MC Marketing Executive Director, said, "Building strong relationships with our customers has never been more important. As we continue to develop a more immersive experience, focused and rewarding purchase, we work in partnership with an innovative organization with the power to help us achieve this goal. Aimia's experience in delivering a deep understanding of the buying habits of consumers means that it is a natural partner for us."
Aimia owns or operates loyalty programs in more than 20 countries. Its expertise includes growing Nectar, the UK's leading coalition loyalty program, from a start-up company to a multi-national business with 19 million UK members in the space of ten years. It also owns Aeroplan, Canada's premier coalition loyalty program, Nectar in Italy and most recently it has taken a minority investment in Spain's Travel Club. Aimia provides data analytics services to a number of retailers and CPG's around the world including Sainsbury's in the UK, Sobey's in Canada and Coles in Australia.
About Aimia
Aimia Inc. ("Aimia") is a global leader in loyalty management. Employing more than 4,300 people in 20 countries worldwide, Aimia offers clients, partners and members proven expertise in launching and managing coalition loyalty programs, delivering proprietary loyalty services, creating value through loyalty analytics and driving innovation in the emerging digital, mobile and social communications spaces.
Aimia owns and operates Aeroplan, Canada's premier coalition loyalty program, Nectar, the United Kingdom's largest coalition loyalty program, Nectar Italia, Italy's largest coalition loyalty program and Smart Button, a leading provider of SaaS loyalty solutions. In addition, Aimia owns stakes in Air Miles Middle East, Travel Club, Spain's largest coalition loyalty program, Club Premier, Mexico's leading coalition loyalty program, China Rewards, the first coalition loyalty program in China that enables members to earn and redeem a common currency, Think Big, the owner and operator of BIG - AirAsia and Tune Group's loyalty program, Brazil's Prismah Fidelidade and i2c, a joint venture with Sainsbury's offering insight and data analytics services in the UK to retailers and suppliers. Aimia also holds a minority position in Cardlytics, a US-based private company operating in card-linked marketing. Aimia is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: AIM). For more information, visit us at www.aimia.com.
About Continente
It was the first chain of hypermarkets in Portugal and remains a benchmark in the food retail sector in the country. With a market position of highly competitive prices, Continente combines variety, customer care and services with a promotional approach which enables it to give excellent value for money, an approach which is much appreciated and well known among Portuguese consumers. It has a network of stores across Portugal, offering an extensive and varied range of products and services in stores. The solid and steady path followed over the last 25 years, with frequent innovative and high impact promotional and social initiatives, has earned the confidence and empathy of the Portuguese people.
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Big band marks 100 years of Sinatra
Musicians pay tribute to Chairman of the Board with refreshed takes on old standards
Big band marks 100 years of Sinatra Musicians pay tribute to Chairman of the Board with refreshed takes on old standards Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/04/08/andrew-walesch-big-band-marks-years-sinatra/25465921/
Kate Kompas, kkompas@stcloudtimes.com Published 4:14 p.m. CT April 8, 2015
Andrew Walesch has been heavily influenced by Frank Sinatra and songwriting greats such as Cole Porter.(Photo: Courtesy of Andrew Walesch)
Singer/pianist Andrew Walesch wasn't even in junior high when Frank Sinatra died in 1998. Still, the iconic crooner was one of Walesch's biggest influences.
"I listened to him constantly and tried to emulate his singing and his phrasing," Walesch said. "I had everything he recorded by the time I was out of high school."
Why such a fan? That's simple — "he really set the standard for singing," said Walesch, 26, a graduate of Cathedral High School and St. John's University.
"He chose the best songs, and delivered them with grace and art and sophistication. Any good singer should have a serious respect for what he did for music."
The Andrew Walesch Big Band will pay tribute to the man still called The Voice and Chairman of the Board with a series of concerts this year called "100 Years of Sinatra." Sinatra would have had his 100th birthday this December.
The shows will be at Pioneer Place on Fifth, the Paramount Theatre and Chanhassen Dinner Theatres.
Walesch has been touring all over the Midwest in support of shows celebrating The Great American Songbook — timeless artists such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. Walesch credits the St. John's Boys' Choir for helping him learn how to sing properly.
For the Sinatra show, Walesch worked on a setlist with his friend Bob Parsons that includes some new arrangements of standards such as "I've Got You Under My Skin."
"All the music retains the original sound and integrity, but it's got a fresh kind of flavor and liveliness," he said.
One of the toughest parts for Walesch and Parsons was crafting a setlist. Walesch's initial list started with 40 songs, way too long for a show. (There's time for about 25 songs.)
"I had to let go of a lot of the songs I wanted to do, but that's just the way it goes," he said.
Frank Sinatra during a concert on his 75th birthday in 1990 at the Meadowlands Area in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo: AP)
The show's material starts at about 1939, the beginning of Sinatra's career. Sinatra, who sang at a bar where he also waited tables, was discovered by Harry James, who asked him to join his band, Walesch said. Then Sinatra worked with Tommy Dorsey — who "was really the bee's knees back in the late '30s," Walesch said — and his orchestra. His career shot to super stardom shortly afterward.
"We kind of work our way through the real high points of Sinatra's career" all the way to the end, Walesch said.
Walesch is careful to emphasize, though, that he's not imitating Sinatra with the show.
"I don't want to sound just like Frank. I want to make Frank proud and really do something original and do it my way," he said. "If I wanted to just sound like Frank, I might as well do an act in Vegas with a karaoke track. I want to give new life to this music, for the whole new generation of kids my age."
And perhaps 100 years is just the beginning.
Story continues below.
Frank Sinatra in 1956. (Photo: AP)
"I think Sinatra's singing and music will live on forever, just like Bach's music and Beethoven," Walesch said.
Follow Kate Kompas on Twitter @copygirlkate, or call 259-3620.
Frank Sinatra facts
•He was born Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra on Dec. 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey.
•Between 1943 and 1946, he charted 17 Top 10 singles.
•During War War II, he was deemed unfit for military service because of a punctured eardrum.
•Made his movie acting debut in 1943 in "Higher and Higher."
•Won an Oscar in 1953 for "From Here to Eternity."
•Was a member of the Rat Pack along with Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
•Married four times — Nancy Barbato, Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow and Barbara Blakely Marx.
•He is the father of three children, all of whom with his first wife (although Farrow has said that Sinatra could be the father of her son Ronan instead of Woody Allen).
•Performed in concert for the last time in 1995 at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom in California.
•Died of a heart attack on May 14, 1998.
Source: Biography.com
If you go ...
What: "100 Years of Sinatra."
When: 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. (Note: At press time, the 7:30 p.m. show was almost sold out.)
Where: Pioneer Place on Fifth, 22 Fifth Ave S.
Tickets: $26 in advance, $29 at the door. Buy at www.ppfive.com or call the box office at 203-0331.
When: 1:30 and 7 p.m., July 16.
Where: Paramount Theatre, 913 St. Germain St.
Tickets: $17-$20. Buy at www.paramountarts.org, or call the box office at 259-5463.
More on Andrew Walesch: Visit www.andrewwalesch.com.
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Quality First Software GmbH receives two prizes at Great Place to Work
Also in 2019 this headline is correct. On March 19, 2019 the results were announced in Munich by the Great Place Work Institute. QFS is one of the top leagues of the best ITK employers in Germany. The Geretsried-based company is proud to have repeated the success of 2018, when it reached first place as a newcomer in the category of companies up to 50 employees. Delighted and proud Plamen Vesselinov and Dr. Martina Schmid received the award.
We won "gold" as well in the competition "Great Place to Work Bavaria". The ceremony took place on April 03, 2019 in a big conference center in Munich's city. Michael Höber and Claudia Baur represented the company there. We were awarded as best company of all firms in Bavaria with less than 50 employees.
1. Germany's best employers in ITC 2018: Place 1 in category "small" IT company for QFS from Geretsried
2. Quality First Software GmbH is No.1 in competition "Bavarias best employers 2018"
Germany's best employers in ITC 2018:
Place 1 in category "small" IT company for QFS from Geretsried
"Quality First Software" participated for the first time in the nationwide competition "Great Place to Work" (GPTW). QSF was among 32 companies that were awarded out of 116 participants. This information had reached QFS before the award ceremony on March 20, 2018. QFS competed in the category of companies with less than 50 employees.
The two QFS representatives Dr. Martina Schmid and Thomas Max were really surprised that they even won the first price of this category. They were very happy and also excited when standing on stage and told about QFS: The host and managing director of GPTW Andreas Schubert wanted to know: How can a company with two home office days be worldwide successful? How can knowledge be shared? How works team work? Family before job is one of the values of this attractive employer.
The surprised winners: Dr. Martina Schmid and Thomas Max
The organizers GPTW, Computerwoche, Bitkom e.V. and IDG Business Media GmbH presented the award ceremony in Munich with many exciting practical examples of the present IT industry like the "CWO" Chief Weißwurst Officer of a further winner.
The valuation basis of this competition was an anonymous detailed employees' survey regarding central workplace subjects as
trust in leaders
quality of cooperation
identification with the company
remuneration,
Furthermore the management had to explain extensively the company culture as communication, values, teamwork up to the company's social commitment etc. besides the core business. The result of both international proven instruments were weighted 2:1, this means the employees' valuation us central. "To put in a nutshell I can say, here is a good workplace", say 100% of the QFS employees. The managing directors are proud of this trust as incentive to maintain and develop this special company culture with the employees further.
Answers from Quality First Software
A further step was made in 2017 with a One-day-workshop with Mr. Hipping.
Great Place to Work® dimensions
Credibility Respect Fairness Pride Team spirit
Managers keep in the loop Offers of professional training and development Appropriate Remuneration Own work as important contribution I can be myself.
Managers show their expectations Appreciation of of good work performance No preference of single workers Proud of joint performance New employees feel welcome.
Competent managers Inclusion of employees in desicions Fair dealing with complaints Employees like coming to work Sentiment of "family" or good team spirit
From words to deeds Encouraging of Life-Balance Satisfied with firm's contribution to society
Interest in person, not only work force
Ranking within the industry comparison & overall impression
"Quality First Software GmbH attaches importance to an employee centered work place culture. This begins already when employing new workers and giving them a Welcome School Cone. Reconciliation of family and work is important too that always a spontaneous solution will be found e.g. home office, bringing the child or dog to work when organizational difficulties occur. Fun is crucial and even part of QFS's guiding principles as e.g. playing table soccer. All things considered a great culture audit what shows an excellent work place culture and atmosphere within the company. Keep it up!" Overall conclusion of Great Place to Work
Quality First Software GmbH is No.1 in competition "Bavaria's best employers 2018"
Yesterday the IT company Quality First Software GmbH (QFS) won the first prize "Bavaria's best employers 2018" (Company size 10-50 employees). The prize giving ceremony by "Great Place to Work" was the highlight of the "Congress IT 2018 – Leadership 4.0 between disruption and continuity" on the 25th of April 2018 held by the baymevbm (Bavarian Employers' Association).
The Managing director Karlheinz Kellerer (on the right) and Michael Höber received the prize. On stage they got the possibility to tell about specialties like the possibility to have a nap in the company. "At QFS the managers have their nap during lunch time", explained Mr. Kellerer. "And during the rest of the day?", asked someone from the audience. This offer is available for all employees of course.
At the same time in the castle of Dachau the managing director Dr. Martina Schmid stood on stage at the annual general assembly of commedIT ( a network of upper Bavarian IT managers) and was asked "What are you doing differently and apparently better than others?" Instead of the company name "Quality First" here the expression "Family First" would be better due to two days of homeoffice, playing table soccer, having lunch together once a week paid by the company and free nursery school. Then some people from the audience applied spontaneously.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is an international network and research network that supports companies in about 50 countries worldwide designing an employee centered company culture. Building of trust, excitement and team spirit take center stage. The German Great Place to Work® institute was founded in 2002 and employs about 90 employees in Cologne. Further information: www.greatplacetowork.de


Brinks shareholders recognized as IP Stars this year include firm president James R. Sobieraj and his Chicago-based colleagues William H. Frankel, Bradley G. Lane, Scott J. Slavick, and Andrew D. Stover, Ann Arbor, Mich.-based attorneys Lawrence G. Almeda, Joshua E. Ney, Ph.D., and Steven L. Oberholtzer, and Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based Allen R. Baum. Each of these attorneys has been named an IP Star annually since the inception of the designation in 2013.
IP Stars also again recognized the firm for its work in the Copyright, Patent Contentious, Patent Prosecution, Trademark Contentious, and Trademark Prosecution categories. The publication noted the deep technical expertise of Brinks' attorneys in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering, among other industry areas, and called out its well-known trademark practice as well as its tough, analytical approach to litigation.
Managing IP conducted extensive research between September 2014 and January 2015 to develop the rankings; attorneys and firms are named as a result of recommendations from clients and peers. More information is at www.miphandbook.com.