Tom, is that really you?
Venom actor Tom Hardy is nearly unrecognizable as infamous gangster Alphonse "Al" Capone in the first official photo from writer-director Josh Trank's impending biographical crime film, Fonzo.
Crowned by Glamour UK as the sexiest man of 2018, Hardy appears rough, weary, and completely unlike himself under the thick makeup and prosthetics. And before anyone shouts that he doesn't look like the chubby-faced Capone either, let us remind you that Fonzo centers around an older Capone who battles dementia and syphilis and struggles to come to terms with the crimes he committed in his past. So in that case, Hardy's haggard appearance is pretty darn spot-on. We can almost hear him saying classic Capone lines like, "Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business."
This photo isn't technically the first-ever snap of Hardy from behind the scenes of the film, since the actor previously uploaded to his Instagram account two Fonzo-related pictures. Back in March, Hardy shared a high-contrast photo of himself with the caption, "Time for Al Cap" to announce that he would be filming Fonzo after he wrapped principal photography on Venom, the Sony film due out this October. A few weeks later, he posted a snap of himself in character — this time wearing a loose-fitting shirt and matching pants, sporting a buzz cut, and holding a fedora in his hands.
This image is, however, the first official, director-released one of Hardy as Capone, so it's certainly worth getting excited about.
Fonzo doesn't yet have a release date, so there's no telling when we'll get to see a poster, teaser, or full trailer for the film.


An investigation was conducted regarding the effects of varying supplementary exposure on High eSpeed Infrared Film. In addition, CPA was evaluated in comparison to Hypersensitization and Latensification. The results were that CPA is superadditive with respect to both density and exposure, the maximum effect being noted in the toe of the characteristic curve. Furthermore, Hypersensitization and Latensification , with dark intervals up to five seconds, displayed efficiency that was not significantly different from CPA. It was also determined that the spectral distribution of the imaging source does not affect the efficiency of CPA. Corroboration of C&C Research's speed increase claims was achieved.


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User ID is your Employee ID (it is different from your SSN) which could be found on your pay stub.
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Once you have your User ID and PIN ready, type them into User ID and Password (your PIN goes here) fields and click "Log In".
After that website will guide you through the initial registration process.You will need to review and agree to Terms and Conditions. After that, you will be asked to provide an e-mail address and, if appropriate, ID to access to UPS applications. Then you will need to create your challenge questions and responses. Make sure to use questions which could not be easily guessed.
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Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.
And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.
Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations; an adherent of bid'ah who calls to his desires; a person who lies, even if I don't accuse him of lying in hadith; and a righteous pious worshiper who does not accurately retain what he narrates.
There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
Go.' Granmare pointed at the door. 'Let me work in peace.' Balthazar didn't look back when he left. 'Now, my dear, ' the witch turned to her, 'let me give you what that foolish boy paid for.' 'He's not foolish, ' Arianne said. For giving a drop of his blood, the least she could do was defend the annoying oaf. 'He's going out of his way to help me, so if there's anyone foolish here it's me.' 'My, my, my.' Granmare Baba gasped, spreading her hand at the center of her chest. 'You have a mouth on you. I will so enjoy watching what happens to you when the time comes.' A chill went down Arianne's back. She'd almost been afraid to ask, 'What do you mean?' Granmare Baba only smiled her yellow toothy smile before she went about putting things together in a large cauldron that seemed to have magically appeared in the center of the round room.
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.
But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.
Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldn't stand was how""for many years, really""she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses.
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind of Christ' (I Cor. 2:16), think that he who has the mind of Christ is foolish, and that he who has it not is sensible. Of these the prophet David rightly states, 'The ignorant and foolish perish together' (Ps. 49:11). Therefore such men twist the whole of Scripture according to their own desires (cf. II Pet. 3:3, 16) and corrupt themselves in their own passions. But it is not divine Scripture that suffers from this, but those who disfigure it!
It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal. Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish. White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them.
No, I do not believe in fate, that some spirits of the heavens weave the laws of the world to make it so. That is dogma for the foolish, for the universe is quite able to deal with such matters herself, to use her natural laws to guide matter and the spirits. Even so, souls within the world can act to naturally shift the cause of events. Magister Brennark did say that 'Nothing happens unless we make it so.' I believe you have made it so, Wolfdon, and how foolish it would be for us to ignore an opportunity that you yourself established, whether you knew you were doing so or not.
Call me not wise unless you call all men wise. A young fruit am I, still clinging to the branch and it was only yesterday that I was a blossom. And call none among you foolish for we are neither wise nor foolish. We are green leaves upon the tree of life and surely life itself if beyond wisdom and surely beyond foolishness.
My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have stumbled by mischance into a game for grown-ups and you have already found it a painful experience. You are not equipped, my dear boy, to play games with adults and it very foolish of your nanny in London to have sent you out here with your spade and bucket. Very foolish indeed and most unfortunate for you.' 'But we must stop joking, my dear fellow, although I am sure you would like to follow me in developing this amusing little cautionary tale.
I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.
The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.
O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless-of cities fill'd with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light-of the objects mean-of the struggle ever renew'd; Of the poor results of all-of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me; Of the empty and useless years of the rest-with the rest me intertwined; The question, O me! so sad, recurring-What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here-that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.
As she rounded a corner one of her favourite songs came on the radio, and sunlight filtered through the trees the way it does with lace curtains, reminding her of her grandmother, and tears began to slide down her cheeks. Not for her grandmother, who was then still very much among the living, but because she felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. It overwhelmed her, made her pull the car to the side of the road. Afterwards she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother... A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.


Global Vascular Stents Market Research Report – Forecast to 2023" – Market Analysis, Scope, Stake, Progress, Trends and Forecast to 2023.
Vascular stents are tiny tube like medical devices which are places into blood vessels or arteries to open the blockage in the vessels. Vascular stent is the valuable tool for the treatment of the different coronary diseases. Vascular stents are used to widen the narrow vessels so as to minimize the chances of heart attack and chest pain. This stents are prepared from variety of material. According to the WHO, approximately 18 million people died from cardiovascular diseases in 2014. Increasing number of people suffering from cardiovascular diseases is responsible for the driving the market. Additionally, globally 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight whereas 13% were obese. Technological advances and increasing obese population is also contributed in the growth of the market. Other advantages like low risk of infection and short recovery time will also drive the market. However availability of alternative therapy and high cost of ventricular stents may restrain the growth of the market.
Boston Scientific Corporation (US), Abbott Laboratories (US), Medtronic, Plc (UK), Cook Medical (US), Biotronik se & co. kg (Germany), B. Braun Melsungen AG (Germany), Cordis (US), Lombard Medical Technologies (UK), Translumina GmbH (Germany), MicroPort Scientific Corporation (China), Terumo Corporation (Japan), Vascular Concepts (India), W.L. Gore & Associates (US), Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. (India) are some of the prominent players at the forefront of competition in the Global Vascular Stents Market and are profiled in MRFR Analysis.
Many companies are focusing on research and development activity to improve the vascular stent products. Major companies are focusing on the development of biodegradable stents to overcome the disadvantages of other available stents. Some major has adopted strategies of acquisitions and strategic alliances for the growth of the market.
Abbott Laboratories is one of the leading healthcare company headquartered in US. In June 2016, FDA has approved the Absorb bioresorbable Stent for heart. This stents is completely dissolve in the body and used in the treatment of heart complications. Company's Esprit bioresorbable vascular scaffold is under clinical trials.
December, 2016 – Lombard Medical and MicroPort Scientific Corporation announced strategic partnership and investment agreement. This partnership allowed Lombard Medical to accelerate commercialization in global market with its two key products i.e Aorfix and Altura AAA. Aorfix, the only stent graft to hold global approvals to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) with aortic neck angles up to 900, and Altura, a highly innovative stent graft that offers a simple and predictable treatment option for standard abdominal aortic aneurysms anatomy.
Boston Scientific Corporation is a global manufacturer and developer of medical devices headquartered in US. PROMUS Element Plus Stent, REBEL Stent System, SYNERGY Stent are some of the major products of the company. In 2014, company has launched Promus PREMIER Everolimus-eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System in Asia Pacific region. In 2015, worldwide sales of the company's drug-eluting coronary stents were $1.074 billion as compared to $1.151 billion during 2014.
Medtronic is a medical device manufacturer headquartered in UK. It is the world's largest standalone medical technology development company. In 2015 company has develop Stent Graft System System for Endovascular Repair of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms. Earlier company's Resolute Drug-Eluting Stent has shown a very good performance in Diabetic Patients with Heart Disease. Medtronic market was increased by 7% in 2016 compared to 2015.
Cook Medical is an US headquartered company involved in the manufacturing of the medical devices. Approach, Bird's Nest, Advance are some of the major product of the company.
Geographically, the global vascular stents market is segmented into four regions. Of which North America commands market for vascular stents due to increasing obese population in North America is the major factor for the growth of the market. Beside this increasing people suffering from various cardiovascular diseases and lack of exercise also contributed in the growth of the market. Europe accounts second largest vascular stents market. While Asia Pacific is the fastest growing market due to rapid development in technology and a huge patient suffering from different vascular diseases. However, The Middle East and Africa has the lowest market for medical robotics because of limited development in medical field.


For Round 5 of the 2018 SoCal U4RC Summer Series, we made our final visit to Cherry Valley RC Raceway located in, of course, Cherry Valley CA. The weather report (a couple days before) stated a high of 68ish and cloudy, however when we got there it was hovering right around 52° with a slight drizzle. It did warm up a little, but never hit above 60°. So happy I brought jeans with me.
The track was going in the opposite direction this time, my first time driving it this way. Some of the areas of the track were actually easier – it seemed, to me anyways, that the flow was better. It definitely showed in the performance of both the Axial RR10 Bomber and Tekno RC DB48!
Since the Bomber is getting better with each run, I only made one tuning mod prior to this event and can honestly say that this is the best my Bomber has felt yet!
I opened the rear diff and swapped out the old oil with 10K weight – used Team Associated diff oil for that. This oil is a little thinner than what I've used before so I expect it to seep a bit faster (since the Axial diff isn't truly sealed), but I've come up with a few mods that will help delay this process. More on that in another post. Changing to 10K added a little more grip in the rear of the Bomber both in the corners and through the rocks. This made it a tick slower in the rock sections, but made up a lot more ground in the flats and bumpy areas. I'll take that trade off since there's less rock sections.
The Bomber was really good in qualifying, I just tried to push it a bit more than I should. I'm still not 100% sold on the front anti-roll bar, but I do notice a huge difference with it and with it off. Handling is improved everywhere but the rocks; the front end doesn't flex fast enough to soak up fast driving. I may look into a thinner bar up front.
I was able to pull off some fast laps, but not as fast as Anthony Vasquez. His rig was definitely on-point this weekend and looking really good. Then, of course, there's Jesse Villa. He's been fast at every event – this was not going to be an easy race by any means. Luckily, I was able to pull off a front row starting spot next to Anthony Vasquez, the fast guy who ended up with TQ.
As we sat on the starting line, I knew I was in a better starting position than Anthony. 2nd place lines up to the outside of the track, an area where all the dust has been blown away by cars flying down the straight. I needed to try and use this to my advantage to get the hole-shot to the first corner, especially with the large hump that would slow everyone down there. Getting caught in that could equal a first-turn disaster.
Luckily, I was able to get that awesome launch and threw the Bomber in front of Anthony, over the jump and into the lead. I immediately dropped into recon mode, something I typically do on the first lap of every race – don't push the car, drive smooth and smart to get the rhythm going. That usually means a good, clean first lap, but not so this time. Instead of jumping the back double (which is pretty small), I opted to single/single it and ended up flipping on my roof, letting Anthony by.
A half-lap later, Anthony made a mistake, letting myself and Jesse Villa by, but then a freak 'bump' entering the rock garden had me on my roof again, letting both of them by. Back and forth, back and forth, the three of us swapping positions, me making quite a few mistakes on laps 2 and 3 – all the while letting Jesse pull away. When I put in a good run, I could see myself catching Jesse pretty quickly, but then I'd make another mistake. I knew if I could just keep it together, I had a chance to win this thing. You know what they say, it's sometimes easier when you're leading the race and setting the pace.
On lap 5 I had made up some time on the left side of the track and was closing in on Jesse when he made a slight bobble, catching a tire on the rocks and sending his rig sideways. I just happened to be in the perfect position to get past without incident – this was my 'second chance' at the race lead. I built up a slight gap and from that point on made sure to hit my marks and take it a bit easier in the rock sections. Not a pretty race, but the Bomber felt great – the best it's been so far.
The Tekno RC DB48 got a full tear down after Round 4 to make sure everything was in tip-top shape. Steering was strong and precise (thanks to the aluminum servo horn) and the hardened steel spur gear was in perfect shape. No real changes were made to it – just a thorough cleaning.
The first round of qualifying was my only round of qualifying – well, sort of. A clean, fast run was what I was looking for to post a good time; 7/5:35.52, 17 seconds ahead of 2nd qualifier Chris Pickering. DB48 is smooth and fast – such and enjoyable rig to drive!
On the first lap of the second qualifier, I drove a bit to aggressive into the rock sections and slammed the front of the body into a rock, snapping the two front zip ties; yes, I have yet to progress past the zip ties. This caused the body to lift off and to the side, making it impossible to drive. I slowly walked down the ramp and grabbed my car, then thought to myself – it's zip ties. Go put a few more on and get back out there!
After a quick pit stop, I threw the DB48 back out there and had a goal in mind – let's see what kind of lap times I can do it I really push this rig! The first full lap out I hit a 43.5, record lap on this track. At that point, however, reality set in – I don't have a whole lot of parts for this truck and, if something should break, I could be out of the main! So I backed it down and did some various 'line' testing – different lines through the rocks and washboard section to find a faster line.
As I was TQ, I was on the inside line. Track was going to be loose so my main goal was a quick jump and be the first around turn 1. Jesse Villa was sitting in the #2 position, rocking a Losi-inspired Rock Racer and 4S power, so I knew he was going to be quick. He got a slight jump on me but I made sure to brake late, keeping him to the outside and allowing me around the corner first. That's one thing I have to say about my fellow rock racers – there's plenty of rubbing going on, but none of them are so anxious that they make stupid moves in an attempt to make a pass. I do truly appreciate driving with these guys.
Right after the first turn, it was basically cruise control – don't over drive it, don't attempt anything stupid – same as every race. Funny thing; even though I was just cruising and not trying to overdrive it, I was able to better the track record with a 43.3 second lap time. DB48 drives like a Cadillac I tell ya!
I do think I need to work on the rear shocks a bit; I noticed quite a bit of the 'donkey kick' over most of the jumps, but this could be due to the track running the opposite direction without any maintenance on the jumps.
Sit back and watch the video below. If you're interested in the 2.2 Unlimited class, the Tekno DB48 is the vehicle to have – hands down!
Here's the standings through Round 5. Note that this is a 6-race series with 1 throwout; these results have not been calculated with that throwout.
Another great weekend at the track in the SoCal U4RC 2018 Summer Series! Ready for the final round on June 9th back at Apple Valley RC Raceway!


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Marianne Meed Ward ( Meed; born January 4, 1966) is an American-born Canadian politician and former journalist who has served as the 29th and current mayor of Burlington since December 3, 2018.

Early life and education
Born in Greeley, Colorado, to a Canadian father and American mother, Meed Ward grew up in Kingston, Ontario and Toronto before moving to Ottawa where she earned a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University in 1989.

Career in media
Meed Ward worked for Faith Today magazine from 1989, becoming managing editor in 1996. She resigned her position in February 1999 following a 'change in direction' at the magazine. She launched her own communications business, Meed Ward Media, providing writing, editorial, consulting or teaching services to a range of clients including Chatelaine, Vision TV, Ryerson University, Tyndale College, CHCH TV, Crossroads Communications, and the Toronto Sun where she served as a weekly columnist covering faith and ethics, and later covering the 905 area of the Greater Toronto Area. She stood down from the position to contest the 2010 election.

Career in politics
Meed Ward first entered politics by running for Ward 1 councillor in the 2006 municipal election, losing to Rick Craven. In 2007, she ran as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate for Burlington, coming second to PC candidate Joyce Savoline by only 1824 votes, and receiving 37.81% of the vote. After 2007, Meed Ward returned to journalism, before deciding to run for election municipally. After moving to downtown Burlington (Ward 2), she ran for municipal council again in 2010, defeating incumbent Peter Thoem. She was re-elected in 2014, before running in 2018 for mayor, and defeating incumbent Rick Goldring.

Mayor of Burlington
Meed Ward was up against two-term incumbent Rick Goldring and former Burlington MP, Mike Wallace. She campaigned on stopping overdevelopment in Burlington, specifically downtown. She had also campaigned on addressing traffic congestion, flood risk, protecting the city's tree canopy, tax reform and building trust between the community and council. Meed Ward won the 2018 municipal election with 23,360 votes and receiving 46.04% of the vote. In December 2018, the Ontario Provincial Police laid criminal charges against a third-party advertiser for alleged election spending violations in an advertising campaign targeting Meed Ward. By April 2022, all charges had been withdrawn.

In October 2022, Meed Ward was re-elected for a second term, winning 77.95% of the popular vote and receiving almost 25,000 more votes than the runner-up. She ran on a platform for reasonable development, adding more community centres and parks, and cutting red tape. Less than 28% of eligible voters participated in the 2022 election, down from almost 40% in the 2018 election.

Personal life
Meed Ward currently resides in Burlington with her husband Peter and their three children.

References

External links
 Burlington City Council

1966 births
Living people
American emigrants to Canada
Journalists from Ontario
Mayors of Burlington, Ontario
Ontario Liberal Party candidates in Ontario provincial elections
People from Greeley, Colorado
Women mayors of places in Ontario
Carleton University alumni

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Q: Is $f(x)=\begin{cases} \frac{1}{n} & x\in(\frac{1}{n+1},\frac{1}{n}]\\ 0 & x=0 \end{cases}$ differentiable at 0? I have the function $f:\mathbb{[0,1]\to R}$ defined by $$f(x)=\begin{cases} \frac{1}{n} & x\in(\frac{1}{n+1},\frac{1}{n}]\\ 0 & x=0 \end{cases}$$
and I must show whether or not $f$ is differentiable at $0$. My first idea was to see if it was discontinuous at $0$, however I found that it was in fact continuous, so now I know that $\underset{x\to 0}{\lim} f(x)=0$ but this doesn't help me to see if it is differentiable at $0$. I know I must show whether the limit $$\underset{x\to 0}{\lim} \frac{f(x)}{x}$$ exists but I have no idea where to begin with this as my intuition would be to check both sides of the limit, however, $f$ is not well defined for $x<0$ so I can't do that. Is there something obvious I'm missing? This has been bugging me for a while now.

A: Any number  $x \in (0,1)$ lies in $(\frac 1 {n+1}, \frac  1 n)$ for some $n$. Note that  $\frac {f(x)} x$ lies between $\frac {1/n} {1/n}$ and $\frac {1/n} {1/(n+1)}$. Conclude that $|\frac {f(x)} x-1| <\epsilon$ provided $\frac 1 n <\epsilon$ which is true if $x <\epsilon /2$.
[ $\frac 1  n <x(1+\frac  1 n) \leq 2x$].

A: Since $0$ the left endpoint of the domain of $f$, you can only consider the right derivative.
You have that $$\frac x{1-x}≤f(x)≤x.$$ Then $$\frac 1{1-x}≤\frac{f(x)}x≤1.$$ By squizzing, $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{f(x)}x=1.$$

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Google Contributor as we know it is being unceremoniously shut down
This whole thing sounds really weird.
Google Contributor, the service that let you pay fractions of pennies to remove Google-served ads from websites, is being shut down in mid-January 2017. In an email set to Contributor subscribers, Google says that there are "important changes" coming to Contributor ... mainly, that it's being shut down.
The full email:
Thank you for being a part of Google Contributor, a service that helps readers enjoy fewer ads while funding the sites they love.
Early next year we are launching a new and improved Contributor -- your input throughout testing has been invaluable! As we build this new service, we will discontinue the current version of Contributor.
Starting in mid-January 2017, you will no longer see Contributor ad replacements as you browse the web and you will be unable to access your Contributor account.
About payments and billing
You will no longer be billed for the Contributor service starting mid-January 2017, and we will refund your remaining account balance to your credit or debit card on file.
Since launching in late 2014, Google Contributor has gone through a few different iterations of how it removes ads and charges users. The most recent (and user-friendly) model was to simply charge a flat rate of $6.99 per month and calculate the cost of the ads you removed, refunding you any money that wasn't put toward ads. It meant you never overpaid, and also didn't really feel the effect of being charged for every single ad that was removed.
Contributor needed improving, but handling it this way is odd.
While Google says that a new and improved version of Contributor will be launching next year, it's odd to see that its process for doing so involves completely shutting down the current version of Contributor and locking everyone's account. Considering how it's being handled, we could be in store for a pretty dramatic change to Contributor (including the name, perhaps).
Contributor was certainly an interesting idea and one that aimed to counteract the high usage of ad blockers on the web, but I find it hard to believe that there was any substantial number of users actively paying Contributor to remove ads. For as good of an idea as it is in its current form, Contributor needs a restructuring if it's going to catch on at the scale of any other Google service. Those who wish to be notified of the relaunch of Contributor's replacement can fill out this form and find out first.
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Both luncheons will feature California cuisine catered by the Crowne Plaza. The luncheons provide an excellent time to converse with fellow archivists over a tasty meal and enjoy presentations from historians who advocate the use of archival materials during their research.
The SCA Awards Ceremony will follow our speaker.
Janet Fireman, "Between Horizons: Traveling the Great Central Valley"
Over a dozen years, frequent driving trips between Los Angeles and San Francisco cultivated and seasoned the historian's esteem for California's Great Central Valley, and ripened her curiosity about how authentic travelers--witnesses of the land--understood the Valley's topographic variety, hydrology, ecosystems, and human cultures as they journeyed and documented what they saw. With quotations from a variety of observations, recollections, and meditations exposing the promise of place, the essay points to an under-appreciated past, directing attention to changes wrought by humans, nature, and the passage of time.
Janet Fireman is Editor of the journal California History with editorial offices in the history department at Loyola Marymount University; curator emerita at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and Adjunct Professor of History at USC.
Jerome Lynn Hall, "Beyond the Blue Door: Why I Teach Surf Culture and History"
Play has often been described as little more than a series of physical movements. But in his seminal volume, Homo ludens, or "Man the Player," preeminent Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga (b. 1872, d. 1945) explored the many social, psychological, and spiritual components of playful activity, likening it, on occasion, to the deeply expressive acts of, inter alia, dance and religious ceremony.
Because play necessarily occurs outside of "ordinary life," it is shrouded in mystery and ritual. In play we encounter transformational moments – thresholds through which our physical and psychological selves pass. Nowhere are these events better manifested than in the act of surfing, or "wave sliding" (he' e nalu) as it was known by the ancient Hawaiians.
Whereas most recreational activities are delimited by the artificial boundaries of gaming boards, courts, or fields, surfing is bounded only by nature; it is a threshold activity, realized on a narrow margin of water where land and sea intersect – a blue door through which those who pass are challenged and often changed: physically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Jerome Lynn Hall is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Diego. He is an officer in the Hawaiian Surf Club of San Onofre and a Board Member of the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente, California.


Tulip Floral Design were using their eflorist online shop website as their primary website but due to the limitations of the platform they were being outranked in the search engine results by their competitors.
After a consultation we decided to built a brand new SEO friendly web site as the main site, and use the old site purely for buying online, at the same time improving the SEO.
We managed to get the old site on page 1 of Google within 2 weeks, and are now working on getting the new site on page 1, position 1.


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SYMPHONY™ Gaming System Will Advance Lottery's Operations and Drive Maximum Profits
LAS VEGAS and ATLANTA – January 8, 2020 – Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company") has finalized a new five-year technology agreement with lottery partner Lotto Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart in southwest Germany. The Company will launch its advanced, new SYMPHONY gaming systems technology, migrating the gaming system it currently provides over the next year. Scientific Games will provide Lotto Baden-Württemberg software support and maintenance from its world-class European technology facility in Vienna, Austria.
With over 3,000 licensed retailers, state-owned Lotto Baden-Württemberg is the third largest of 16 German state lotteries and generates almost €1 billion (Euro) in annual revenues, benefitting good causes like sports projects, art, cultural heritage preservation and other social programs.
Matthias Müller, Vice President Sales & Marketing for Scientific Games International Lottery Systems, said, "SYMPHONY is Scientific Games' new digital business and games platform developed with a revolutionary architectural approach. It is designed to easily integrate third party solutions through its open interface. SYMPHONY is a self-contained system that can be deployed more efficiently than other systems, which allows a faster implementation of market requirements."
Müller said the open SYMPHONY design will empower Lotto Baden-Württemberg to offer its players multi-channel functionalities and respond to their needs in a more focused and targeted way than ever before.
Currently the largest lottery technology provider in Europe and the fastest growing in the U.S., Scientific Games provides games, technology and services to more than 150 lotteries in 50 countries around the globe.
© 2020 Scientific Games Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
About Scientific Games
Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) is a world leader in entertainment offering dynamic games, systems and services for casino, lottery, online gaming and sports betting. Scientific Games offers the gaming industry's broadest and most integrated portfolio of game content, advanced systems, cutting-edge platforms and professional services. Committed to responsible gaming, Scientific Games delivers what customers and players value most: trusted security, engaging entertainment content, operating efficiencies and innovative technology. For more information, please visit scientificgames.com.
The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this document.
Company Contacts:
SG Lottery Communications:
Therese Minella, APR +1 770-825-4219
Director, Lottery Communications
therese.minella@scientificgames.com
Corporate Communications:
Susan Cartwright +1 702-532-7981
susan.cartwright@scientificgames.com
In this press release, Scientific Games makes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "will," "may," and "should." These statements are based upon management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates and are not guarantees of timing, future results or performance. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated in these statements due to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors, including those factors described in our filings with the SEC, including the Company's current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 28, 2019 (including under the headings "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors"). Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and, except for Scientific Games' ongoing obligations under the U.S. federal securities laws, Scientific Games undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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A cover letter: The cover letter should summarize the chapter's qualifications for the award category to which it is nominating itself. If the chapter is applying in more than one category, it should ensure that all categories are clearly included on one cover letter.
An activities report: The activities report should contain 500-1000 words and give a detailed description of the particular work for which it is seeking an award. If the chapter is applying in more than one category, a separate activities report is required for each.


The past year has been a great time to work with the web, and an exciting one to be building applications with Ember.
Ember.js completed eight backward-compatible minor version releases in the last year, 2.4 through 2.11. Included were the framework's first two Long-Term Support (LTS) releases.
Glimmer 2, a major rewrite of Ember's rendering system, landed in Ember.js 2.10.
Framework support for Ember Engines landed in in Ember.js 2.8.
Support for Ember FastBoot stabilized in Ember.js 2.4.
The Ember.js addon community grew from 2,000 to over 3,500 publicly available addons!
With 2017 already under way, we would like your help to learn about who is in the Ember community and how they work with the framework. To that end, we're pleased to announce the official 2017 Ember Community Survey.
This is our third year learning about the community's makeup and interests, and we're looking forward to sharing the results at EmberConf 2017 on March 28th. The number of survey participants grew from 900 in 2015 (2015 survey results) to over 1,800 in 2016 (2016 survey results).
Completing the survey should take about fifteen minutes. Submissions will be accepted until March 21st.
Please help us spread the word by sharing the survey landing page on your social network feeds, at meetups and around your office and other communities.
We look forward to your participation! If you have any immediate questions, feel free to email Tom (@tzellman) and the survey team via survey@201-created.com.


If you are looking for stunning countryside, dramatic hills, vineyards with fine wines, great cuisine and charming ancient villages but would rather do without the hordes of tourists that descend on areas like Tuscany or some of the French wine regions, then the Priorat region of Catalonia has what you are looking for, and much more.
The origins of winemaking in the region date back to the Romans, who founded Tarraco (today's Tarragona), an important trading city and provincial capital with a large population. Their slaves converted the hillsides into perfectly–arrange terraces for their vineyards. The high alcohol levels of the wines ensured their quality remained intact as over the long journeys they took in amphorae to Rome and the rest of the Roman Empire.
In the 12th century, the monks of the Carthusian Monastery of Scala Dei (originally called a priory, or priorat in Catalan, and founded in 1163) reintroduced the art of viticulture. Legend has it that the monastery was named after the "Ladder of God" (Scala Dei in Latin) seen by a shepherd in a vision on the site.
For centuries, the monks oversaw the vineyards and villages in this area, and the monastery grew in prestige and wealth (to the increasing resentment of local peasants who worked the land) before being disestablished by the Spanish state in 1835. By then, vines occupied every corner of the mountains and they continued to be cultivated in small plots by the villagers.
At the end of the 19th century, the phylloxera plague devastated the vineyards, which were replanted with almond, hazelnut and olive trees. The loss of nearly all the grape vines in the area led the impoverished locals to emigrate.
Replanting, with the goal of creating wines of the highest quality, only began in the 1950s. From 1985, the D.O.Q. (the local regulatory body), has concentrated on high–quality bottled wines.
Visit the Priorat with Stefan, your guide, is export manager for several Catalan wineries and lives in the Priorat's main village, Falset. Stefan will introduce you to the Priorat's wines and cuisine and will guide you through the area's small winding roads to carefully-chosen wineries and enchanting villages. Most of the wineries in the Priorat are small and runned by families. The possibility to visit them and taste their wines is very difficult as they are not prepared for enoturism. Stefan will arrange the visits through his contacts, depending on which winery is available at the day of the trip.
Before we head in to the Priorat mountains we start off with an introductary tasting on Priorat wines and the main varietals. Stefan will recieve you in his tasting room in Falset (where he has his export office for Catalan wines) and comment on the history and main characteristics of the Priorat wines.
Lunch: From Informal home cooking to Michelin star restaurants (and anything in between), you choose!
Transport: Train (at 9 am- 2 hours) from Barcelona to Falset - stefan picks you up at the train station and brings you back at 6 pm at the end of the tour .
(Pick-up service from Tarragona also possible). If you prefer to stay longer in the area, We can help you find hotels and self-contained accommodation.
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More successful partnerships help the Paving Expo & Conference build collaborative networks that will impact the performance of their role in 2019.
At each visit and each new partner, we create and discuss themes related to the business environment and the Brazilian economic scenario in Infrastructure, in addition to gathering and inviting executives of national and international companies to participate in the event next year.
Event held in Las Vegas from November 7 to 9, 2018 at the Tropicana Las Vegas pavilion addressed the theme of construction and the Transportation Infrastructure of Tomorrow. The Paving team has secured its space by participating in the exhibition area and the key engineering and business knowledge boards that help build the infrastructure.
The Trimble Dimensions 2018 was held at the The Venetian and Sands Exhibition Center in Las Vegas from November 5-7. This is an important event for learning and networking for all professionals involved. There were more than 4,000 participants from 80 countries.
For the Paving team it was important to participate to tell a little more about the initiative of the event in South America.
Paving Expo & Conference seeks to boost business, optimize time and stimulate knowledge.


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April 9, 2018 | ISBA News
YLD Yoga & Brunch
The ISBA Young Lawyers Division hosted a yoga and brunch event on Saturday, April 7 at the Chicago Regional Office. The hour-long yoga session was taught by a retired attorney-turned-yoga-instructor, who provided valuable tips and tricks for using exercise as a way to combat stress, depression, and anxiety. After yoga, young lawyers enjoyed brunch and mimosas.
April 5, 2018 | Events
Young Lawyers Division to Host Bean Bag Tournament in May
Please join us at the ISBA Young Lawyers Division Bean Bag Tournament on Saturday, May 12 to show off your bean bag tossing skills. Groups will compete for first place in this annual tournament. Interested participants can register as a team or individually to be paired with another YLD member. We hope you help us continue this tradition of giving by joining us this year at our new location, the Firefighters Lake Club in Springfield.
March 28, 2018 | ISBA News
Young Lawyers Division Lunch & Learn: Solo & Small Firm Experience
The ISBA Young Lawyers Division hosted a free lunch and learn on Wednesday, March 28, at the Chicago Regional Office. The four panelists — Judy Conway, Stephanie Garces, Terrill Wilkins, and Natali Marquez-Ponce — gave a Q&A-style presentation covering their best tips and tricks for success at a solo practice or small firm.
December 14, 2017 | Events
YLD Speed Networking and Wine Tasting
Mark your calendars for Feb. 9, when the ISBA Young Lawyers Division will host its annual speed networking event followed by a wine tasting in Chicago.
Starting at 3:30, speed networking participants will meet and greet other lawyers and legal professionals to build professional and social networks in an event that combines concepts from speed dating and business networking. Refreshments will be served.
At 5:30, attendees can then move downstairs to the ISBA Mutual Office to enjoy an evening of tasting a variety of wines and cheese. This events proceeds will benefit the YLD Children's Assistance Fund.
Registration for both events is now open and we hope to see you there! Register now for speed networking and wine tasting!
October 27, 2017 | ISBA News
Young Lawyers Division Hosts "The Legal Profession 101 for New Lawyers"
The Illinois State Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division hosted a brown bag lunch on Thursday, Oct. 26. Panelists spoke to new lawyers and law students about life as a lawyer. Topics included how and why the panelists became involved in ISBA, as well how to build relationships, improve a resume, and gain experience in the field.
September 18, 2017 | Events
Young Lawyers Division to Host Day at the Races on Sept. 23
Register now to join your peers for an afternoon of socializing and horse racing at this annual event!
When: Saturday, September 23, 2017 1 PM – 6 PM
Tickets will be sent via ground mail upon purchase. Any tickets purchased after today, Monday, September 18, will available for pick up on-site on the day of the event. Further information will be provided upon purchasing tickets.
January 6, 2017 | Events
Young Lawyers to host wine tasting on Feb. 10
Registration is now open for the ISBA Young Lawyers Division Wine Tasting Networking event. Join your peers for an evening of socializing and wine tasting! This year, there will be select French wines from Que Syrah and hor d'oeuvres. To complete the experience, the YLD will be hosting a Speed Networking event beforehand at the ISBA Chicago office (20 S. Clark St, Suite 900) scheduled from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Please sign up for the networking event separately.
When: Friday, February 10, 2017, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Where: ISBA Mutual Space, 20 S. Clark Street, Suite 800 (map and directions)
August 25, 2016 | Events
Young Lawyers to host Day at the Races on Sept. 24
Join your peers for an afternoon of socializing and horse racing at this annual event!
When: Saturday, September 24, 2016, Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Tickets will be available for pick up at 11:15 a.m. on race day at the will call window, Grandstand Entrance (east side off of Wilke Road entrance).
Where: Arlington Park Racecourse, 2200 W Euclid Ave, Arlington Heights, IL 60005
ISBA will be at the Canopy Tables in the Winners Circle Section. (Map and Directions)
Cost: Cost: $9.00 per adult, $4.00 per youth age 4-17. Tickets are complimentary for children 3 and under. General Admission cost includes admission to the park, a daily racing guide, and a fabulous day of Thoroughbred racing!
Lunch is not included but our seating area is BYOB!
Please register by Wednesday, September 21, 2016
For information on permitted and prohibited items in the park, please visit: http://www.arlingtonpark.com/visit/general-information
Questions: Please email Blake Howard at bhoward@isba.org.
July 27, 2016 | Practice News
Quick Takes for Your Practice: Pleadings - 4 things to know
Attorney Robert Duncan discusses 4 things you need to know about pleadings when starting your legal career.
June 21, 2016 | Member Services | ISBA News
Submissions being accepted for Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest
Dear YLD Member:
You're out in the trenches...you know the hot topics in your field – the new statutes, the important new cases, the legal developments that you and your colleagues grapple with in the real world of lawyering.
We invite you to share your hard-won knowledge, and maybe win $2,000 in prize money by entering the Annual Lincoln Award Legal Writing Contest.
We're looking for useful, practical articles on topics important to practicing lawyers. The highest scores will go to manuscripts that Illinois lawyers can use in their practices, written in a no-nonsense, plain-English style.
If you're an ISBA lawyer member under age 36 as of July 1, 2016 or admitted to the bar fewer than five years as of that date, you're eligible to compete for a share of the $3,500 in Lincoln Award prize money and a handsome plaque for your office. And even if you don't win, yours may be among the many Lincoln Award entries to appear in the Illinois Bar Journal.
The deadline for filing a notice to enter the contest is July 15, 2016; use our online form. A brief outline of the article must be submitted on or before August 15, 2016; email the outline to Jean Fenski at jfenski@isba.org. The final deadline for manuscripts is noon Wednesday, September 28, 2016; manuscripts should be emailed by noon to Jean Fenski at jfenski@isba.org.


The essence of conflict is timeless, but the means and methods used continuously evolve. Modern ideas for supply chain surety were codified in 300 BC. The strategic framework expounded by Sun Tzu is not a theoretical construct; it is a coherent, historically validated, and proven strategy for winning in conflict that is as applicable today as it was when it was written over two millennia ago. The organization supporting the construct is what is important: the combinations of people, ideas, and hardware, rather than individual technologies. We herewith present a tested and proven, 2,400-year-old strategy to defend critical supply chains, protect business markets, and safeguard consumers.
All references and quotes from the original text of Sun Tzu are taken from the Lionel Giles translation of 1910. Recent translations are arguably more accurate and/or prescriptive, but we defer here to a well-used and accepted classic.
On 11 September 2001, long-repressed societal fears became real, and a new phrase entered our nation's lexicon: homeland security. Previously restricted to governments and think tanks, the term found new meaning and new interpretations as individuals and organizations wrestled with the new landscape of terrorism and its impact. The complacency that followed denies the force of history and, as new threats arise, a real need to conduct a thorough and sober assessment of the status quo accompanies them.
Industry is no stranger to terrorist acts. Product tampering, bomb threats, and executive kidnappings are standard lore. But new twists evolve. Following the events of "9/11," the nation's oldest and most revered distribution system (the US Postal Service) unwittingly became the messenger of death as letters containing deadly anthrax spores were delivered to targeted individuals. People died, Congress adjourned, and government functions were brought to a stand-still. The US government spent billions of dollars to repair the damage. To date, no indictments have been handed down, and the perpetrator(s) remains free to strike again.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism to include "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." This definition includes terrorism carried out by sovereign nations, which is something corporations cannot address. We narrow the scope for corporate applications by considering terrorism to be any hostile, covert act committed by an inimical interest against an individual, interest, or group for political, economic, or social gain and occurring outside the framework of a formally declared war.
Today a growing proliferation of counterfeit pharmaceutical products along with increased diversion and product tampering threatens the safety of consumers everywhere. Lest we forget, just over 20 years ago, seven innocent people in Chicago (ranging in age from 12 to 31) lost their lives to a wanton and reprehensible criminal act. Someone (there has been no conviction to date) replaced Tylenol pain-killer with potassium cyanide and left it on a store shelf for innocent purchasers. Tragically, after the unexpected death of their 12-year-old daughter, two more persons from the same family reached for the same poisoned bottle of analgesic to comfort them in their grief — and they died too.
National panic set in as the sanctuary of the home suddenly became the source of life-threatening risk. No medicine cabinet went unchecked, and storekeepers emptied their shelves lest they compound an unfathomable tragedy. Fearing for their lives, many people stopped taking life-sustaining drugs as well. Copycat crimes ranging from poisoned milk to adulterated baby formula to sulfuric acid-laced eye drops followed the Tylenol incident. Johnson & Johnson undertook a massive product recall and suffered serious business interruption even though the company was blameless. Government responded by passing new legislation (3), and the pharmaceutical industry responded with tamper-resistant packages — but only after people had died.
Pharmaceutical products are critical to individual well-being, which in turn maintains the social, economic, and political stability of societies around the world. No other economic sector is more dependent on consumer confidence. Like food products, drugs are highly vulnerable to deliberate and/or accidental disruption. Manufacturers are responsible for the safety and efficacy of their products throughout the supply chain, from the manufacturing plant to the consumer. Look at the warnings on a simple stepladder, and you'll see that situation is not restricted to any industry sector alone. Accepting this responsibility is not a simple task, and it requires a critical look at some long-held assumptions about operational activities in complex environments. Modern products increasingly rely on perceived value. Just as software promises to solve problems, pharmaceuticals promise to make people healthy. Both inferences are based on trust and founded on a delivery mode and medium that can be replicated (falsely) with relative ease.
Crisis, competition, globalization, innovation, and regulations drive traditional risk. Terrorism, however, is an unusual adversary because its perpetrators are neither competitors nor simple criminals (see the "Defining Terrorism" box). Their motivation can be anything from ideology to greed to vengeance, even something as foolish as 15 minutes of fame (notoriety). In the modern environment, landscapes are changing, and as new trends rise to the forefront they complicate protective behaviors. Disclaimer, probability, predictability, and protestations of innocence have little consequence if risks become a reality and customers suffer injury. Corporations, directors, officers, and executives are increasingly at risk, individually and collectively, for their own (in)actions and those of their subordinates.
The supply chain is an Achilles heel that proactive organizations must struggle with, especially those involved in the food and drug industries. Supply chains are vulnerable to internal and external breach as well as physical and nonphysical threats. Individual segments, separated by time and distance, often operate beyond the reach or control of those responsible. The internal workings of a company generally follow standardized procedures and processes written and designed to ensure normative behavior among personnel. Consequently, direct control measures can be used to solve most problems because those problems can be anticipated fairly well if their variables and boundaries are well-defined. The supply chain, however, extends beyond corporate limits of control.
The pharmaceutical industry holds a sacred trust given to it by its customers (as illustrated by Figure 1) to deliver safe and effective products. Consequently it pledges, under the penalty of law, not to put the safety of those products at risk. Logisticians assume responsibility for quality and track manufacturing and transportation; quality and security personnel assume responsibility from manufacturing through transporting products, so they seek to optimize proper achievement of all transactions. The advantage of addressing supply chain risks goes beyond simple protection of the revenue stream and economic profits. Other rewards include reduced risk of product shortages/stock-outs, diminished risk of adverse publicity, limitation of threats to consumer confidence, decreased exposure to product liability claims, and improved control over both material and information flow.
The supply chain operates on two levels. Strategically it is a business process, and operationally it is a value stream. The primary value stream is easy to comprehend: Simply look to physical flows of personnel, materials, and information, and assign dollar values to each transaction. As in science, such activities are subject to the laws of physics, chemistry, and mathematics — and there is no shortage of products, tools, and consultants available to help optimize various and individual elements of the stream.
Tributary value streams, (e.g., endorsements, alliances, miscellaneous synergies, and so on) can follow pretty much the same metric. The business process aspect of supply chains, however, is far more than can be explained by physical science because of the vagaries of human behavior and countless other intangible factors that contribute. The art (rather than science) of business starts with the need for judgment and includes the impact of moral forces, the influence of chance, the effects of socioeconomic parameters, and other similar factors. Business processes must strategically integrate a company's internal value steams with its external environment.
In the mid-1990s, a major pharmaceutical company marketed a very expensive therapeutic protein in an East Asian country. The drug product was a female hormone agonist for a specific indication, but it had a little-known side effect profile as an actual aphrodisiac for males (although long-term use was dangerous and contraindicated). Throughout the early market period, the company received an unusually high number of complaints from consumers and pharmacists for short fills, and its policy was to replace all such products at no cost to the customers.
Corporate management put pressure on the manufacturing plant to better control its filling operations, and those people in turn put pressure on the company's suppliers to maintain tighter specifications on their bottles and the closures to prevent leaks. Their efforts were successful, but the complaints continued. Other avenues were investigated until finally it was learned that prescribers and knowledgeable distributors were creating the short fills to exploit the aphrodisiac side effect.
In this case, physicians and pharmacists — usually valuable allies in the supply chain — were the culprits. The company instituted 100% weight checks and promulgated a new policy with its distributors. They were told of the manufacturing improvements and that product replacement would no longer be automatic but rather only after an investigation of a given supply chain stream was completed. It was a clear warning that supply chain tamperers might be caught by the investigators. And the customer complaints stopped.
Military history provides an interesting model for success and failure. Throughout history, generals have always studied (and often fought) the most recent war. Consequently, innovative adversaries usually triumph at the next stage. Consider the French defeat in World War II as the German Blitzkrieg circumvented the Maginot Line by going through Belgium, a neutral nation.
At one time, RCA "owned" vacuum-tube technology, much as Kodak "owned" photography. No one could touch them. But that's no longer the case in either television or imaging. Technological advances or conceptual innovations alone are insufficient to guarantee an outcome, and they are usually short lived compared with social attitudes.
Consider the French Revolution, thanks to which people in France suddenly became national citizens rather than royal subjects. Although this did not significantly alter their daily lives, it did profoundly affect their motivation in defense of the state. Similarly, even as a new wave of Islamic fundamentalism is changing the world order, our daily lives seem mostly unaffected.
So too with supply chain integrity. The sourcing of raw materials and distribution of goods is vital to a business entity. Business, like war, is about out-performing the competition in the midst of chaos and complexity. The Art of War is an unequivocal indictment of leaders whose only ideas of strategy are to use brute force in frontal assaults and battles of attrition. Anyone who believes that the traditional model of supply chain security — detection, prosecution, judgment, and punishment — will remain valid should stand behind the Maginot Line and turn on their vacuum-tube radio. Industry no longer deals with simple systems that are linear, closed, and predictable. The mechanistic paradigm of the Machine Age is breaking down, and the paradigm of symmetry that has been so studied is now history. Businesses like armies need to understand the nature of competitive conflict and devise appropriate strategies — just as generals use strategic thinking to win wars.
Sun Tzu's foundation for strategy is elegant in its simplicity: Discover and leverage the advantages of your total environment. It is overpowering in its complexity: Skillful action results only from knowing all the details surrounding a situation (its total environment). According to Sun Tzu, wisdom is the root of skillful action. Strategy must evolve from a deep knowledge of both ourselves and our enemy. Success is much more than simply winning. Sun Tzu sought to achieve victory in war, preferably by avoiding direct confrontation and instead causing the enemy's army to disintegrate before battle.
Commercialization of plant gene-insertion technologies at the end of the 20th century threatened to be the seeds of the biotech industry's destruction almost before it had begun. Under the traditional model, each year farmers would purchase new hybrid seeds because their crops by themselves would not generate a consistently appropriate hybrid for assured growth. When major seed companies introduced pesticide- and disease-resistant seeds using gene-insertion technology, the desired attributes were encoded into every crop seed produced. Consequently, farmers could theoretically have avoided buying from the legitimate supply chain by using their own crop as the seed for each following year. Similarly, anyone purchasing seed could, in effect, have produced competing seed corn for later years.
One company, however, predicted such behavior on the part of their future adversaries. They used their technology to develop a "terminator gene" that would preclude the problem before it could develop by preventing crop seed from germinating to new plants. Contrast this with the software industry, which took years to determine that it might preclude unauthorized copying by bonding software to hardware.
The strategy devised by Sun Tzu rests on two complementary forces, the internal and the external. Harmony on the inside is one objective; the external objective is to create confusion among the opposition that can be exploited.
The enemy commander and forces must become confused. The effectiveness of deception operations, security efforts, and intelligence gathering increases when the opponent is forced to deal with ambiguity.
Sun Tzu's text is not easily assimilated; it requires interpretation. For example, he states that preparedness everywhere means lack everywhere. In other words, a strategy of preparing and reacting, no matter how comforting it may seem, contains inherent vulnerabilities. Merely waiting for adversaries to make mistakes (that is, detection, prosecution, judgment, and punishment) and then forcefully reacting may be an appropriate tactic if circumstances warrant, but it generally fails to lead your opponents where you want them to go. Corporate governance alone cannot mitigate a new threat with policies and efforts that follow traditional approaches and fail to recognize asymmetric threats. Reaction as a strategy may temporarily prevent defeat; but it rarely delivers victory.
The passive paradigms of anticipate and respond are anathema to proactive leaders. Fast reactions are important. But remaining in control, staying cool in the heat of battle, and using the other side's momentum to your own advantage are factors that weigh heavily on the outcome. Risk assessment and judgment must be integral to preparations, but if reaction becomes the objective of strategy, then vision is clouded, proaction is prevented, and initiative will be lost. When dealing with indiscriminate threats, individuals or organizations cannot be identified and proactively eliminated; their plans must be thwarted. The focus should never be on defending, but rather on regaining and using the initiative so that you can coerce opponents into a position where you want them to be.
We cannot be arrogant. Our opponents are thinking human beings, and they can also implement the basic strategic tools of surprise, deception, and ambiguity to target centers of gravity (the sources of power and movement upon which management depends). Too often, efforts focus on preparing to defend against the most recent enemy. Such efforts generally work within the limited range of their objective, and although short-term success can be proclaimed, the long-term result may be very different. Again, the Maginot Line provides a clear analogy. France built it to defend against a World War I army — and it was successful for that intent. The attacking forces in 1940 did not breach the defended zone. Instead, they avoided it entirely but still achieved their real objective.
Great commanders seek to cloud their opponents' vision and destroy their will so that a battle (if it must be fought) is quick, decisive, and painless. The concept is to frustrate opponents' designs so that maneuvers can be applied to further confuse their decision processes, damage their morale, and open up vulnerabilities that can be exploited through surprise, deception, and rapid change. Concurrently, there must be active efforts to probe the opponent(s) and thus unmask weakness while interweaving menace, uncertainty, and mistrust. This strategy eliminates, or at worst greatly reduces, the need for bloody battles. The ideal result is to win without fighting.
In today's business organizations, demotivated opponents are defeated opponents, no matter what weapons remain in their hands. Anyone who has been on a losing team, followed a "lost" leader, or worked for a failing organization can point to a management focus that wasted time, wasted energy, and generated frustration as a consequence. Organizations in that mode succumb to a downward slide into internal conflict. As they fall further behind their competition, successes become rarer and rarer. Efforts to discover problems are more aptly termed "witch-hunts," and strict adherence to directives and procedures becomes the prime directive of individuals seeking to ride out the storm. People split into camps and start apportioning blame, and the company turns ever more deeply inward. Credit for past successes is reapportioned to those individuals who remain as true historical positive role models are eliminated from the ranks. And the managers never understand what hit them. Sun Tzu emphasized internal harmony to create and exploit external chaos outside. Disharmony can catalyze disaster.
In 1999, a large pharmaceutical company was preparing the roll-out and launch of its next blockbuster drug in South America. The company knew from prior history that there would be counterfeits on the market almost immediately. Indeed, they had already seen them. With great publicity and much fanfare, they provided South American physicians with samples and literature in anticipation of the product launch. Finally, the real commercial product was released in slightly different packaging and with slightly different artwork. Counterfeiters were stuck with product that could be readily identified as false.
The best way to defeat an enemy is by attacking his strategy. This is not direction to attack early, while the enemy's plans are being laid, but it is rather a deeper admonition to use unusual methods to seize victory without even battling. Should this prove impossible, Sun Tzu then recommends disrupting an adversary's alliances, isolating potential enemies from their sources of support or intimidating them through strong alliances of your own. It is advantageous to have on hand a variety of responses that can be applied rapidly to gain sustenance, avoid danger, and diminish an adversary's capacity for independent action. To shape and adapt to change, you can't be passive; instead you must take the initiative.
Therefore, The Art of War instructs us to analyze our environment and landscape, surmise courses of action, and identify the adversary's shortcomings. Probe the environment to ascertain the patterns of movement. The objective is to compel our adversaries to reveal their dispositions and, from that information, be able to ascertain our relative positions. The ultimate objective in dispositioning your own forces is to conceal them without exposing their strength and composition. Then the opponent cannot formulate plans against you.
Products (and packages) can be designed to incorporate features that make them difficult to copy and facilitate counterfeit detection. Multilayered defenses similar to those used in currency — overt, covert, and reserved — can help to make copying products more difficult. Criminals are focused on their bottom lines as well: They will seek the path of maximum profit with the least resistance, thus avoiding "hardened" supplies and choose "softer" targets instead. Beyond the embedded protections, corporate efforts must look to contract protections, supply chain hardening, distribution control, and careful control of employees. Cooperative efforts and alliances should be sought. And leadership must be unified and deliberate.
Sun Tzu was not concerned with the types of hardware in use. He focused on the problem of how to get groups of people to work together harmoniously under conditions of hardship, danger, and the inevitable confusion of conflict. There is no magic bullet or miracle technology (e.g., RFID, holograms, inks, and so on) that everyone can use to defend his or her supply chain. It is the combination of such tools with their human interface that generates their real power.
The Art of War begins with political leadership, which provides a direct comparison to today's corporations. Before envisioning conflict, Sun Tzu explains that leadership should survey and compare five factors: moral law, Heaven, Earth, the commander, and method and discipline. "Moral law" causes people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so they will follow him regardless of their lives and undismayed by danger. "Heaven" signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons. "Earth" comprises distances, great and small, danger and security, open ground and narrow passes, and the chances of life and death. "The commander" stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and strictness. By "method and discipline" are to be understood the marshaling of an army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure. These five concepts should be familiar to every general. He who knows them will be victorious; he who knows them not will fail.
The operative point is that three of those five — the most significant three because weather changes and along with terrain affects both sides — concern moral, human, and cultural issues. In modern supply chains, weather and terrain express themselves as uncontrollable business conditions. Moral, human, and cultural issues can be controlled internally to influence the external world. This is the dominant theme of Sun Tzu. He believed that the moral strength and intellectual faculty of men were decisive in war and that if these were properly applied, it could be waged with certain success.
The final chapter of The Art of War deals with the use of spies. Often what enables individuals to overcome others and achieve extraordinary accomplishment is fore-knowledge. That cannot be bestowed, cannot be had by analogy, and cannot be divined through analysis alone. It must be obtained from people who know the landscape and the environment. Far from an afterthought tacked on at the end of the book, this section on spies may actually be the key learning point of the entire work. Sun Tzu makes that clear in the final passage: "Spies are a most important element in war, because on them depends an army's ability to move" (7). In the business world, this translates to information. Good sources ("spies") can include due diligence, business consultants, and experienced personnel.
Defense of the supply chain is a conflict that can be won or lost. In the pharmaceutical market sector, a loss can translate to innocent deaths. Specific tools and methodologies exist to defend products and organizations, and their implementation is a function of art as much as of science. Skillful "warriors" strive to first make themselves invincible and then await the moment of their foe's vincibility. Invincibility depends on yourself, but the enemy's vulnerability on himself. Herein lies both the inevitable conundrum and the fundamental premise of defending the supply chain. It must be invincible and its enemies must be attacked when they are vulnerable. The most skillful defense eludes discovery by the enemy. A successful company can identify and use technologies, can align its organization and people with its own objectives, and react deliberately and swiftly to exploit its power while leveraging the environment. Success will translate to lessened liability and increased market share. The bad guys will look for easier targets — those who missed the lessons of Sun Tzu.
Because new pharmaceutical products must always come from a research base (even if they are acquired through financial means), the most forward-thinking companies continue to quest for new and better products with renewed intensity even after blockbuster compounds have proven themselves. The new class of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) provides a good example: The lead compound of its discovering company entered phase 3 trials with two back-up compounds entering phases 1 and 2, different formulations for different uses.
Cannibalization of the blockbuster product was used to control the research portion of the supply chain and establish "ownership" of similar avenues of therapy. As a consequence, the product category is available in capsules, tablets, and injectible formulations. Concurrent efforts developed veterinary formulations for dogs and horses and at least two other compounds with therapeutic effects believed to be better still remain for future development. Although initial product revenue is limited by this strategy, overall company revenue and market dominance are assured.
1.) Tzu, S. 1910.Chapter 1, Passages 1–2 The Art of War. Lionel Giles, translator.
2.) Tzu, S. 1910.Chapter 3, Passage 3 The Art of War. Lionel Giles, translator.
3.) US Public Law 98-127: Federal Anti-Tampering Act 1983. 98th Congress of the United States.
4.) Tzu, S. 1910.Chapter 3, Passage 18 The Art of War. Lionel Giles, translator.
5.) Tzu, S. 1910.Chapter 3, Passage 2 The Art of War. Lionel Giles, translator.
6.) Tzu, S. 1910.Chapter 3, Passage 27 The Art of War. Lionel Giles, translator.
7.) Tzu, S. 1910.Chapter 3, Passage 27 The Art of War. Lionel Giles, translator.
8.) Tzu, S. 1910.Chapter 5, Passage 11 The Art of War. Lionel Giles, translator.


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Young Gifted & Black highlights the great work of our Next Generation in the Community. Our youth are rarely recognized for their enthusiasm , positive energy & dedication to improve our future. This segment showcase those who do!!..


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WATCH! Snake charmer kisses the same deadly venomous cobra snake that killed his father!
A famous snake charmer in Malaysia had kissed the same deadly cobra snake that killed his father with just one deadly bite!
Amjad Khan is known as "The Prince Snake" and his father is also known as "The Snake King".
Amjad Khan, 27, from Taiping City is known as "The Prince Snake" throughout Malaysia. Khan had been charmed his fans not only in his country but all over the world ever since he was one year old.
He has the ability to charm snakes by hypnotizing them and extremely by kissing those deadly snakes!
Filming for the upcoming Tv series "World's Most Talented Show" Amjad had come face to face with the deadly king cobra, the world's largest venomous snake.
and believe it or not by kissing them!
He performed the same stunt attempted by his father during a show in Kuala Lumpur and was bitten.
Ali Khan, Amjad's father known by many as "The Snake King", was featured in Guinness Book of Records and was bitten for 99 times already in his life, but after being bitten in his show he was unable to receive any medicine and treatment for his injury so he died after two days.
TV series "World's Most Talent" is a global tournament contested by representatives from two different countries who will go head to head each week.
Amjad will be competing against an Italian, and they will be judged by 100 international vloggers.
The first episode of the series will air on Watch on Tuesday, March 31 at 9pm.


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Genki Japanese and Culture School Government Accreditation Published
Uncategorized February 23, 2016
GenkiJACS proudly announced the government accreditation of the Fukuoka branch of our Japanese school last October. However, as people who have dealt with the government know, they often work quite slowly, so we didn't have any proof of our accreditation to show at that time. Now, finally, the government has published the list of newly accredited Japanese schools!
Two lists are available:
1) The full list of all accredited Japanese language schools nationwide (PDF only). For reasons we can only speculate at, this 45-page list of several hundred schools is not searchable, but they're in order of prefecture, from north to south, and then in order of date of accreditation. GenkiJACS is on page 23, as Genki Japanese and Culture School.
2) A short list of only newly accredited schools (also PDF only). This list seems to be a scan of a the relevant page, but at least it's short… There are about 25 new schools accredited this year, of which most are of course in Tokyo.
Congratulations and a massive お疲れ様です! to all the other schools who managed to complete the accreditation process. It's an exciting time for GenkiJACS, and while it won't cause many changes to the short-term courses you all know and love, it will enable us to improve our services, and offer entirely new services, in the future. We look forward to sharing this journey with you!
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