This email account also draws a lot of political email — criticism of the President and Congress, annoying federal laws, even campaign strategy ideas for conservative candidates. The bad news is that Google is reading all those messages too. The even worse news is that Google's on record as unparalleled fans of President Obama, the Democratic Party and several liberal causes.
Individual Google employees donated 20 times as much money to Obama than they gave to Romney. Obama's tech-savvy campaign manager was personally mentored by Google's executive chairman. As soon as the 2012 election was over, a Google VP was named to Obama's National Science Board.
It's certainly their right to make their political voice heard. But when you factor in the more than $18 million Google spent on lobbying last year alone, the Internet behemoth also has a huge motivation to curry favor with the powers that be. In modern Washington, Big Government plus Big Business often equals Big Cronyism.
Like all companies, Google will do what they think is in their best interest. It is government's duty to make sure that the companies comply with all applicable rules and regulations. But as I noted in a recent article, the government has already dipped into your email without a warrant or even your knowledge. In 2012, officials accessed more than 30,000 of Americans' personal accounts with next to no oversight.
Ultimately, our protection against such invasions of privacy is the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. It is past time that our government stops conducting "unreasonable searches and seizures" of our email accounts.
And while they're at it, they should remove the appearance of impropriety from their cozy relationships with favored business interests.
This is right, as an individual protecting our online privacy is very important.


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Obama to Congress: 'Pass this Bill'
George E. Condon Jr.
The president laid out the elements of his $447 billion jobs package in a primetime speech, telling lawmakers it's their responsibility to approve it
President Obama called on Congress Thursday night to "stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy," urging approval of a $447 billion mix of tax cuts and spending he called vital to put people back to work. The package was larger than expected but the president pledged it would not add to an already historic deficit.
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Addressing a Congress partially controlled by Republicans highly skeptical of much of his program and a nation weary of waiting for recovery, the president did not say how many jobs would be created if Congress were to pass all elements of his plan. But he cast speedy congressional action as critical to attacking an unemployment rate that remains stubbornly above 9 percent.
Obama implored lawmakers not to wait for next year's election before acting. "The people who sent us here - the people who hired us to work for them - they don't have the luxury of waiting 14 months," he said, lamenting the "same old press releases and tweets flying back and forth."
And he warned them that this will not be his last economic plan. "What's guided us from the start of this crisis hasn't been the search for a silver bullet," he said. "It's been a commitment to stay at it, to be persistent, to keep trying every new idea that works."
Obama cast this as a choice between throwing a lifeline to hard-hit Americans, and doing nothing. "The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy," he said. While acknowledging that most jobs are created by the private sector, he said government "can help. We can make a difference."
He coupled his pleas for action with a call to the 12-member super committee set up by last month's debt deal to come up with additional spending cuts to pay for the "American Jobs Act" that includes $253 billion in tax cuts and $194 billion in spending. The tax cuts include $175 billion for an extension of last year's reduction in the employee payroll tax; $65 billion to cut employer payroll taxes in half and $5 billion for a bonus payroll tax cut for new hires. Under his proposal, taxes would be halved on the first $5 million in wages, which the White House said would benefit 98 percent of all businesses.
The new spending would include tax credits for companies hiring veterans, aid to state and local governments to prevent the layoffs of police, firefighters and up to 280,000 teachers, the modernization of 35,000 public schools, $49 billion to reform unemployment insurance and extend benefits for the long-term unemployed, and a $10 billion infrastructure bank to help modernize roads, bridges, railroads and airports.
The president insisted that most of the elements of the package have previously been supported by many Republicans, arguing that makes them bipartisan. That drew no applause from House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who spent most of the address sitting somberly behind Obama. Boehner and others in the GOP congressional leadership complained that they had not been consulted prior to the speech, which many of them saw as designed primarily to save one job - the president's.
"Every proposal I've laid out tonight is the kind that's been supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past," Obama said. "Every proposal I've laid out tonight will be paid for. And every proposal is designed to meet the urgent needs of our people and our communities."
But he acknowledged that "some of you have a different theory on how to grow the economy." And there were elements of his plan that are decidedly unpopular among Republicans. His call to eliminate tax loopholes for oil companies is a non-starter with the GOP. But still he stumped for it, insisting, "This isn't political grandstanding. This isn't class warfare. This is simple math."
And he served notice to Republicans that he will stand in their way when they attack health and safety regulations. "What we can't do - what I will not do - is let this economic crisis be used as an excuse to wipe out the basic protections that Americans have counted on for decades," Obama said. "I reject the idea that we need to ask people to choose between their jobs and their safety."
He also urged the Congress to reform a corporate tax code he called "a monument to special interest influence in Washington."
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Tajweed is known as important because it is the obligation on believers to recite each and every letter in Quran correctly, keeping in mind the language, the pronunciation, the stipulated attributes and the origin of its pronunciation.
Understanding in reading or teaching a slightest difference could lead to alter the entire meaning of such a issue where you are never recommended to make such a practice. As Quran is a source of guidance to the mankind and every word has its individual importance.


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"Feeling valued:" the dimensions organisations must deliver on
Are employees feeling less valued than last year? In our latest study, not feeling valued as a member of staff was the third most common reason for wanting to move on, cited by 39% of respondents and up from 35% in 2017. So, what can be done? In this article we look at what being valued means and how employers can make sure staff don't feel undervalued.
What does it mean to feel valued?
White and Mackenzie-Davey (2003) define feeling valued as a "positive response arising from confirmation of an individual's possession of qualities on which worth or desirability depends."
When someone recognises that our personal qualities or something we've done has helped the organisation, we feel valued. Someone could recognise our work ethic or positive attitude, for example, or a report we've completed that was particularly high-quality.
There's another side to feeling valued. The absence of certain conditions can make us feel unvalued. This is about the structures, policies and managerial behaviours that define our experience of the workplace. If we don't feel these are fair and just, we don't feel valued. Especially if others are treated differently.
Why is feeling valued so important?
To be valued is not an abstract concept. As human beings we know what it feels like to feel undervalued and before long it can become intolerable. This is not only true in the workplace, but in relationships, family life, social clubs and more.
A survey from the American Psychological Association found that feeling valued at work was linked to better physical and mental health, as well as higher levels of engagement, satisfaction and motivation. All the things that lead to a healthy and productive relationship between employer and employee.
Corroborating the findings of the Investors in People Job Exodus report, the APA survey also found that half of all employees who reported not feeling valued at work intend to look for a new job in the coming year.
At the heart of work is an exchange. The employer's money for the employee's time and skills.
What makes employees feel valued?
At the heart of work is an exchange. The employer's money for the employee's time and skills. If we feel unfairly paid for our time and skills, for example that the market rate for our job is higher, then we are likely to feel undervalued. Fair pay is a core part of the psychological contract and once employees think this contract has been broken, trust will deteriorate and disengagement will follow.
Along with equal pay, working conditions that are safe, clean, secure and healthy are considered a core part of the psychological contract. If we don't feel our employer takes the safety of our everyday environment seriously, it's going to be pretty hard to feel motivated and valued.
Fair treatment in relation to others
Human beings have a strong sense of relational fairness (how we feel treated compared to others). If we perceive others to get special treatment, we find it harder to feel valued because we wonder why we haven't been included.
There's evidence that giving individuals bespoke 'deals' at work. For example, special working hours or rewards, challenges the perception of fairness within teams and can undermine both team and individual dynamics unless managed correctly.
It's important that HR professionals understand that people are less likely to feel undervalued when they see others getting special treatment if a) they understand that individual's unique needs and b) if they also get special treatment aligned to their individual needs.
Recognition of discretionary effort
We put in discretionary effort, such as staying late or taking on tasks we aren't formally responsible for, for different reasons. For some people, it's driven by a desire to positively mould other people's personal and professional perceptions of them. While for others, it's due to inherent personal qualities, such as a strong work ethic.
Whatever the driver, we all feel valued when discretionary effort is recognised and celebrated as making a difference. If it's not, it's hard to feel valued and many employees regress then to doing the minimum, leading to long-term disengagement.
Recognition that is authentic and targeted to the individual
Human beings have a natural desire to be recognised as individuals. Even in team environments, we want to feel valued for our individual contribution to the team's success. For this reason, recognition at work should focus on how employees as individuals contribute to the success of the organisation, highlighting their choices and strengths and how these make a difference.
This is, of course, why organisations are moving towards peer-to-peer recognition, underlined by a belief that those working closest together will be able to better tease out the real contributions their peers are making to the organisation's success.
Self-recognition based on stable criteria
Self-recognition is an important part of feeling valued long-term. Formally defined as the ability to recognise yourself as separate to other people and the environment, in a work context it means the ability to recognise our individual qualities and strengths and see how these fuel the success of the organisation and of others. This is a really important skill not just for engagement at work but for quality of life.
We all feel valued when discretionary effort is recognised and celebrated as making a difference.
Asking for and delivering on employee feedback
If we don't think our opinion is needed or perceived as having merit, we are unlikely to feel valued in the workplace. The age-old organisational problem of employees thinking senior leaders sit in an ivory tower is representative of staff feeling like a cog in a giant machine, their contributions and opinions forgotten about or ignored.
Employee voice – or the sense to which employees are respected and heard – has a massive impact on organisational culture and part of this effect is down to employees feeling valued by their employer. This is no different to being in a relationship: if we don't feel our partner hears us or acts on our feedback, we do not feel valued or engaged in the relationship.
5 ways HR can help employees feel valued
Encourage self-recognition: not all employees are naturally introspective enough to recognise how their personal qualities contribute to organisational success. Strengths-based coaching from line managers and mentoring can be powerful here
Develop peer recognition schemes: offering peer recognition platforms or schemes can help make recognition authentic and focused more deeply on individual qualities
Link all recognition to goals: making employees feel valued must be seen as an organisational initiative rather than solely a wellbeing initiative, if it's to get long-term traction
Benchmark salaries: make sure reward packages are benchmarked against the market so that employees don't feel undervalued. Clear succession planning strategies that show how employees can take on more responsibility and earn more money should also be put into place
Gather and act on feedback: the importance of this can't be overstated. People feel valued for different reasons and we need to know what makes our employees feel valued. Setting up strong employee voice channels, building trust and acting on feedback about recognition and working conditions is a core part of being a successful, human-driven employer


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Biosimilars for Psoriasis: Spain's Dermatologists Weigh In
Jackie Syrop
The European Union's regulatory agency, the EMA, has approved over 20 biosimilars, 4 of which are indicated for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Each EU member country has its own approach to how biosimilars are prescribed and perceived once approved.
In Spain, physicians affiliated with the Psoriasis Group of the Academia Española de Dermatología y Venereología (AEDV) published an opinion article stating that the organization celebrates the incorporation of biosimilars into the treatment regimens for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis because the new drugs are likely to decrease the high cost of biologic therapies, which have substantially improved the treatment of these conditions.1 In Spain, the high cost of biologics has prompted debate on the economic sustainability of the country's public health system, so the combination of effectiveness and lower prices presented by biosimilar drugs has created great interest. Physicians, patients, and the pharmaceutical industry have all taken part in the Spanish national debate, much as they did years ago when generic drugs were introduced.
The AEDV states that the use of biosimilars should not imply a reduction in therapeutic efficacy, patient safety, or the prescriber's freedom of choice. But they note that biosimilars, while representing savings, do not appear to offer advantages over reference biologics. Decisions about which drug to prescribe should not be based on economic considerations alone but rather scientific evidence, they say.
An important concern expressed by physicians prescribing a biologic or a biosimilar for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis is that they find the right treatment for patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis who have failed to respond to, are intolerant of, or have a contraindication for other systemic therapies, including cyclosporine, methotrexate, or psoralen plus UV-A therapy. Although this is the approved indication for both the reference infliximab biologic and the approved biosimilars, the AEDV is concerned that the approval of infliximab was supported by data from clinical trials in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis, and not specifically patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. This is referred to as "extrapolated indications," and the AEDV calls for clinical trials involving psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis patients of the biosimilars to the degree possible in order to obtain direct information about efficacy and safety in these patients.
The decision to prescribe a biosimilar should be assessed on a case-by-case basis, the AEDV states, and patients must agree with the choice. In Spain, the decision about the interchangeability of biosimilars for the reference biologic is left to the physician. Biosimilars may not be automatically substituted for reference biologics.
The AEDV states that to best ensure patient safety, the biosimilar must submit to a pharmacovigilance program that is as vigorous as that applied to the reference biologic. Namely, each drug must be traceable and identifiable at all times to track possible adverse events.
Finally, the AEDV endorses clarity and precision in patient and prescriber information for biosimilars so that the prescriber and patient can make informed decisions about the acceptability of these medications. "We must take steps to inform and teach those concerned," the AEDV states, and ideally, information should reflect consensus formed before the new drugs are used routinely.
Hernandez GC, Puig L, en representacion del Grupo de Psoriasis de la AEDV. The use of biosimilar drugs in psoriasis: a position paper. Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2015:106(4):249-251.


The skies may look clear in the photo above, but this week was a worrisome one for me concerning the weather.
We had a load that was taking us directly into the path of extreme weather.
Every weather organization and all of the news outlets were calling for tornadoes. Not just one. Not just passing through.
An outbreak. Several. Touching down, and staying on the ground.
Tornadoes with GIANT hail. One news article even said "grapefruit sized".
Some school districts cancelled classes, others let out early.
We were driving right through the Dallas-Fort Worth area, then north into Oklahoma towards Tulsa. Exactly where all of this activity was going to be taking place.
I have to say, I was a little concerned. Even more so because I'm the night driver and a) I've never seen a tornado other than in the movies, and b) I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be seeing it heading my way at night.
Fortunately we didn't hit any bad weather. Not even rain. Although, Wednesday morning in Oklahoma the sky was looking a little tornado-y and I still wasn't convinced it was over. I definitely drove Ed crazy with my constant updates and checking all the weather apps and alerts on my phone, something I've never done.
I won't be deleting those apps anytime soon since the tornado season is just beginning.
I wonder if there's an app showing the nearest storm cellars? I need to be prepared.
These apps are a life saver they give you an option of driving in the right path and help you set the expectations for the weather that you are going to encounter on your way. If there are tornadoes or bad weather ahead you can play accordingly.


Eating a healthy diet is so much more than weight loss these days. With cancer, diseases and even mental health issues sky rocketing and projecting only to get worse, we can't risk eating poorly any longer. Weight loss cannot be our only motivation, there's much more at stake. It's time to take action with our health to prevent any future damage to our bodies.
There are other factors contributing to this problem besides diet, such as environment or genes. But what we are fueling our body with plays a huge role, and it's something we have control over. The first step is avoiding foods that can harm our health. Next, we focus on giving our body the nutrients it needs to heal itself as well as prevent future health issues. Whole, unprocessed, healthy food is in nature preventive against cancer and diseases. It's time to get healthy and live well!


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Filmografia parziale
 Gazzosa alla menta (Diabolo menthe), regia di Diane Kurys (1977)
L'école est finie, regia di Olivier Nolin (1979)
Cargo, regia di Serge Dubor (1981)
Il grande fratello (Le Grand frère), regia di Francis Girod (1982)
I miserabili (Les Misérables), regia di Robert Hossein (1982)
Enigma - Il codice dell'assassino (Enigma), regia di Jeannot Szwarc (1983)
Rue barbare, regia di Gilles Béhat (1984)
Il disordine (Désordre), regia di Olivier Assayas (1986)
La puritana (La Puritaine), regia di Jacques Doillon (1986)
Captive, regia di Paul Mayersberg (1986)
L'Union sacrée, regia di Alexandre Arcady (1989)
Mémento, regia di Jean-Max Peteau - cortometraggio (1992)
Mamirolle, regia di Brigitte Coscas (2000)
L'Envol, regia di Steve Suissa (2000)

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Drinking allowed until midnight
Weekends: pub can sell booze until 11.30pm
CUSTOMERS at a pub in a residential area can drink
until midnight at weekends, councillors have ruled.
The Claddagh Ring in Elgar Road was granted permission to sell alcoholic drinks until 11.30pm on Friday and Saturday with half an hour drinking up time at a licence applications sub-committee meeting yesterday.
Landlord Martin Neylan had applied to serve alcohol until midnight at weekends and allow customers to remain until 12.30am.
However the committee, chaired by Councillor Bet Tickner, agreed with neighbours that the area
surrounding the pub is entirely residential and could be subjected to noise.
Eight people living nearby wrote to Reading Borough Council objecting to the proposal along with David Boobier, who chairs Katesgrove Residents' Association.
Speaking on behalf of Mr Boobier, Councillor Richard Stainthorp, member for Katesgrove ward, said: "This is an area with many families and young children.
"It's inevitable that people leaving the pub will cause an element of disruption no matter how careful they are. If you look at the map there it is - all houses - and the people there are entitled to an undisturbed night's sleep."
But Mr Neylan claimed to have had no complaints from either neighbours or the police in the three years he has run the Claddagh Ring and said every effort would be made to keep noise at a minimum.
He said: "There are over 200 residents close to the pub but we've had only nine objections to this application. Fifty per cent of our
customers at the moment are locals who live within 200 to 300 yards of the pub. We've had no objections from the police about how the pub was run and we've never had to call the police once since I've been in charge."
Cllr Stainthorp admitted the pub, which once had a bad reputation, had changed since Mr Neylan took
over but warned the licence was for the pub and not the publican.
The committee granted the reduced extension with the condition that recorded music is turned down half an hour before last orders and the landlord restricts live music to 10 nights each year.
Mr Neylan said after the meeting he was happy with the decision.


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Sheldon Rothblatt (1)
J.I. Catto (1)
James McConia (1)
L.G. Mitchell (1)
L.S. Sutherland (1)
Peter Slee (1)
Oxford University's Long Haul
Sheldon Rothblatt, 21 January 1988
The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. I: The Early Oxford Schools
edited by J.I. Catto.
Oxford, 684 pp., £55, June 1984, 0 19 951011 3Show More
The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. III: The Collegiate University
edited by James McConia.
Oxford, 775 pp., £60, July 1986, 9780199510139Show More
The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. V: The 18th Century
edited by L.S. Sutherland and L.G. Mitchell.
Oxford, 949 pp., £75, July 1986, 0 19 951011 3Show More
Learning and a Liberal Education: The Study of History in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester, 1880-1914
by Peter Slee.
Manchester, 181 pp., £25, November 1986, 9780719018961Show More
"... Volume III brings us to the Renaissance. We notice immediately the firm direction of the editor, James McConica, who has imposed an order on the writing of the history of the University in the 16th century that is uncommon in productions by diverse hands. His long-standing interest in the social composition of Oxford, and his familiarity with some of the ..."


If you are a woman who travels abroad alone, read below some of the things you need to keep in mind in order to get back home safe.
People who travel on business to the same country frequently, they usually get a feel of the country and often pick up some local phrases. But unfamiliar places are also frightening, especially if you are a woman travelling alone. To feel safe and to enjoy solo travelling, follow the checklist below.
Day travelling is safer. In many cities airport buses and trains don't run on a 24 hours schedule, so in order to avoid having to walk through unfamiliar dark areas looking for a taxi in the middle of the night to get you to the hotel, schedule a flight that will get you to your destination during the day.
To avoid attracting unwanted attention, do some research before you go to find out the proper clothing requirements for foreign women travelling to the country. Also, learn something about the culture of the country you will be visiting and what gestures such as eye contact, a handshake or smiling may mean. Making eye contact in certain countries is considered disrespectful and small talk or a smile which you may think are friendly, innocent gestures, in some countries may be interpreted as a come-on.
When going out, you should study your route carefully so as to avoid getting lost and walking around aimlessly and confused. If you look lost and confused you will attract attention and you will become an easy target. If lost, read a road map instead of asking strangers or accepting a stranger's invitation to take you where you are going.
If you feel lonely, the safest company will be other women or families. To discourage strangers from approaching you during leisure periods, read a book or write postcards to friends back home, but if a stranger still harasses you and faking ignorance doesn't work, make a scene or walk away.
A few contacts in the city you will be visiting can make you fell less lonely and safer , so before you go, use the hotel's mingling website where you will be staying to connect with other business travellers who will be staying at the same hotel during the same period.
So if you are a woman traveling alone, follow these simple rules which will help you during your travel and get you back home safely.


Optically transparent wood combines mechanical performance with optical functionalities is an emerging candidate for applications in smart buildings and structural optics and photonics. The present review summarizes transparent wood preparation methods, optical and mechanical performance, and functionalization routes, and discusses potential applications. The various challenges are discussed for the purpose of improved performance, scaled-up production and realization of advanced applications. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'New horizons for cellulose nanotechnology'.


With the release of Non Perishables Vol. 4, some of West Coast battle rap's premiere talent has come together on one album. From Okwerdz, to Illmaculate, to Marv Won, to Sahtyre, Non Perishables Vol. 4 comes fully loaded with 22 tracks that feature a slew of contributors from the battle rap scene, both past and present.
Los Angeles battle rap maven Lush One, who serves as co-executive producer and who features heavily on the album, expressed his enthusiasm for the project.
"If you wanna hear classic lyricism over modern production that isn't embarrassing to listen to.. Slap dis," Lush told DX.
Presented by 667 and Fresh Coast, Non Perishables Vol. 4 is mixed and produced by regular Illmaculate collaborator Chase Moore.
Many of the contributors premiered the project live on the Ruin Your Day battle rap media channel.
Check out the stream, cover art, and tracklist for Non Perishables Vol. 4 below or on Bandcamp.


A 17 year old driver has saved more than £300 on his car insurance after fitting an in-car camera system.
The tennager from Hatfield in Hertfordshire, who fitted the ipix X100FHD camera to his mini CIty saved £340 thanks to a 15 per cent discount provided by specialist broker Adrian Flux Insurance Services.
An increasing number of motorists are fitting the small, screen/dash mounted cameras, which are playing a leading role in helping to cut fraudulent claims like 'crash for cash' scams. The cameras also help insurers and motorists identify who is at fault in an accident, potentially helping to protect drivers' no claims bonus where there is a dispute about who is to blame.
In this case, it is easy to see how a driver can easily cover the cost of the device of the camera in the first year whilst making significant savings each year thereafter. That is obviously in addition to the other benefits fitting an in-car camera can bring to motorists, such as fighting off fraudulent claims and helping to identify when they are not at fault in an accident.


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Offices Ladies podcast tackles Steve Carell's Season 2 The Office makeover: "They zhuzhed him up"
Originally, Carell's Michael Scott looked like Ricky Gervais' David Brent from the original British Office. But, says Angela Kinsey on the Office Ladies podcast, "the summer that he was going to film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, he got in crazy amazing shape, and then he's maintained that. He's very fit now, he sort of like, made that part of his life. They just gave him a whole new look. They zhuzhed him up." She adds: "Also, the first season I know they put this gel in his hair. They slicked it back to look like David Brent, and then after that, they were like 'Okay, let's style his hair different.'"
TOPICS: Steve Carell, Office Ladies, The Office (US), Angela Kinsey, Retro TV
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Dive Deeper: Visit the Steve Carell page


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Horror Movies Previews
Preview for "Emelie" from Dark Sky Films
ByTimothy Janson
Mar 29, 2016 Dark Sky Films, Emelie, horror
On the heels of a successful theatrical run, Dark Sky Films proudly announces the May 3rd DVD and Blu-ray release of EMELIE, starring: Sarah Bolger (In America, AMC's Into the Badlands, ABC's Once Upon a Time).
As their parents head out for a date in the city, the three young Thompson children immediately take to their new babysitter, Anna (Sarah Bolger, Into the Badlands, Once Upon a Time), who seems like a dream come true: she's sweet, fun, and lets them do things that break all of their parents' rules. But as Anna's interactions with them take on a more sinister tone, the kids realize that their caretaker may not be who she claims to be. Soon it's up to big brother Jacob to protect his siblings from the increasingly nefarious intentions of a very disturbed woman whose weapon is trust, and whose target is innocence.
Featuring tour-de-force performances from Bolger and its three young leads, EMELIE is a multidimensional, nail-biting thriller that asks the question: how can you put an end to horror after you've already let it in?
By Timothy Janson
Tim Janson has been an entertainment writer for 20 years whose credits include: Fangoria, City Slab, Newsarama, Collider, The Horror Review, Mania Entertainment, and several others. He is an avid collector of books and swords.


1st UK Cat No TXS 112 1st Issue Green Boxed Decca Labels! Earliest -1W -1W Matrix Endings!
Stunning Near as Mint Audio Quality! Looks and Sounds Barely Ever played In My Opinon! (Barely a Spider Trace Can Be Seen Around the Spindle Hole)!
Complete With 1st Issue Laminated Front Only Robert Stace Press Cover!
The original Green BOXED DECCA labels are in awesome condition! (These looks superb as new in my opinion)! Amaizingly I can not see any real spider marks/trails, even when angled to the light and of coarse little if (no) spindle ware the hole is perfectly round. This has only ever been played a handful of times by me only. So rare for a Savoy Brown blues album that is 45 years old! Impossible to find like this! very very collectable!
This is the original Decca poly lined record sleeve. no splits or tears. very clean. Light creases/browning with age only. Very straight and clean.
This is the original and earliest 1st UK issue Robert Stace Press Printed laminated front only gatefold cover! (No Barcode) .
Note: This is generally exceptionally clean with no edge splits or tears. All text is readable.. Note light creases noted on the front top edge and slightly wavy noted but you would have to look for it to notice in my opinion. Crease noted on the inside. Any other storage wear marks are minimal and again not really noticed unless looked for inmy opinion. Overall truly exceptional 44 year old cover. Now always kept stored in a case with the vinyl removed from this cover for protection. This is how I have always stored my records. Cover graded at excellent in my opinion!


Recently, the NHTSA released estimates regarding the number of traffic fatalities in 2012. While the numbers have not yet been finalized, the news is not good. The NHTSA data shows that there has been a significant increase in the number of people who died in car wrecks over the course of the year. This is the first year-to-year increase since 2005.
Our Birmingham accident lawyers know that the number of traffic fatalities has been steadily declining over the past six years, decreasing as much as 26 percent from near-record highs in 2005 up through 2011. Unfortunately, the 2012 increase indicates that it may be difficult to continue this downward trend. Still, if every driver makes a commitment to staying safe and if states continue to improve their driving regulations and safety enforcement, hopefully the traffic fatality rates can get back on the decline for 2013 and beyond.
According to the NHTSA's preliminary data, an estimated 34,080 people were killed in motor vehicle traffic accidents in 2012 as compared with just 32,367 in 2011. This would mean that the number of people killed in car accidents over the course of 2012 increased around 5.3 percent when compared with 2011.
The biggest increases occurred in the first and second quarters of the year, with 12.6 percent more fatalities in the first quarter and 5.3 percent more fatalities in the second quarter of the year as compared with 2011. The number of estimated vehicle miles traveled also increased slightly during this time but not enough to explain the rise in the number of traffic fatalities that occurred.
NHTSA has stressed that it is too soon to speculate about the causes of this uptick in car accident deaths. However, NHTSA did warn that the multi-year decline set a very low baseline, which makes it challenging for the number of fatalities to stay at these record lows and which makes it less likely for the number of fatalities to continue to trend downward.
Until the NHTSA has determined the likely causes of the increase in fatalities from 2011 to 2012, it will be difficult to assess what steps to take in order to try to reverse this troubling increase traffic deaths.
Changing demographics, including the aging of the population, could be one factor that helps to explain the increase in deaths. An improving economy allowing for increased travel and for drivers to spend more on gas could also potentially be explanations for why the number of deaths has increased. However, the NHTSA will need to evaluate the demographic data and the data on car accident causes in order to draw conclusions about why there were more deaths than the prior year.
Regardless of what the NHTSA determines was the reason for the uptick in fatalities, every driver can help to bring these numbers down by making a commitment to always exhibit caution when driving and to always obey driver safety rules.
Alabama Traffic Accidents a Risk Over Memorial Day Holiday, Alabama Injury Attorneys Blog, May 24, 2013.


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This September, I was in South Sweden for a really nice weekend of Rough Shooting on Partridge and Duck. We spend two great days with a lot of walking and shooting. We used very good trained dogs, spaniels and setters to flush the birds out of the hedges, woods and ponds and some really good retrievers. We had fantastic weather and saw some great shots and dog work. Accommodation was in an old castle directly on a lake and we spend 2 really great evenings with superb food and wines.
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White Hot Stamper (With Issues)
Side One: Mint Minus Minus (often quieter than this grade)
Side Two: Mint Minus Minus (often quieter than this grade)*
A stunning Columbia Red Label pressing with a Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) side one mated to an excellent Double Plus (A++) side two - fairly quiet vinyl too
Dramatically richer, fuller and more Tubey Magical than all of the other copies we played, with breathy vocals and rosiny, fairly smooth strings
There may be amazingly good sounding original pressings, but we've never run into one and we have our doubts about the existence of such a magical LP - where could they all be hiding?
"I'm a Fool to Want You" on this very copy may just send chills racing up and down your spine
Marks in the vinyl are sometimes the nature of the beast with these early pressings - there simply is no way around them if the superior sound of vintage analog is important to you
4 1/2 stars: "Lady Day herself said that this session was her personal favorite."
More Billie Holiday / More Pop and Jazz Vocal Recordings
*NOTE: On side 2, there is a mark that plays 3 times lightly near the start of track 1. There is also a mark that plays 13 times at a moderate level about 1/2 way into track 3, "But Beautiful."
On the better copies both the sound and music are absolutely breathtaking. They reproduce clearly what, to our minds, are the three most important elements in the recording -- strings, rhythm, and vocal -- and, more importantly, the are reproduced properly balanced with one another.
The monos, as you might expect, balance the three elements well enough, but the problem with mono is that the vocals and instruments are jammed together in the center of the soundfield, layered atop one another. Real clarity, the kind that live music has in abundance, is difficult if not impossible under the circumstances. Only the stereo pressings provide the space that each of the elements need in order to be heard.
Naturally, the vocals have to be the main focus on a Billie Holiday record. They should be rich and tubey, yet clear, breathy and transparent. To qualify as a Hot Stamper, the pressings we offer must be highly resolving. You will hear everything, surrounded by the natural space of the legendary Columbia 30th Street Studio in which the recording was made.
This vintage Columbia stereo pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn't showing signs of coming back. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to "see" the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio with the band, this is the record for you. It's what vintage all analog recordings are known for -- this sound.
What The Best Sides Of Lady In Satin Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear
What We're Listening For Lady In Satin
Then transient information -- fast, clear, sharp attacks, not the smear and thickness so common to most LPs.
Tight note-like bass -- which ties in with good transient information, also the issue of frequency extension further down.
Ray Ellis on Billie Holiday
Ray Ellis said of the album in 1997:
I would say that the most emotional moment was her listening to the playback of "I'm a Fool to Want You". There were tears in her eyes… After we finished the album I went into the control room and listened to all the takes. I must admit I was unhappy with her performance, but I was just listening musically instead of emotionally. It wasn't until I heard the final mix a few weeks later that I realized how great her performance really was.
Nat Hentoff, reviewing her Carnegie Hall concert for Down Beat, wrote:
The beat flowed in her uniquely sinuous, supple way of moving the story along; the words became her own experiences; and coursing through it all was Lady's sound – a texture simultaneously steel-edged and yet soft inside; a voice that was almost unbearably wise in disillusion and yet still childlike, again at the centre. The audience was hers from before she sang, greeting her and saying good-bye with heavy, loving applause. And at one time, the musicians too applauded. It was a night when Billie was on top, undeniably the best and most honest jazz singer alive.
Lady in Satin was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.
A Must Own Vocal Album
This Demo Disc quality recording belongs in any serious Vocal Collection. Others that belong in that category can be found here.
I'm a Fool to Want You
For Heaven's Sake
You Don't Know What Love Is
I Get Along Without You Very Well
For All We Know
Violets for Your Furs
You've Changed
It's Easy to Remember
Glad to Be Unhappy
I'll Be Around
The End of a Love Affair
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This was Billie Holiday's penultimate album, recorded when her body was telling her enough was enough. During the sessions with arranger Ray Ellis she was drinking vodka neat, as if it were tap water. Despite her ravaged voice (the sweetness had long gone), she was still an incredible singer. The feeling and tension she manages to put into almost every track set this album as one of her finest achievements. "You've Changed" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" are high art performances from the singer who saw life from the bottom up.


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Q: libgdal.so.1: undefined symbol: sqlite3_column_table_name I am trying to import openstreetmap into postgresql,
when I executed the command CREATE EXTENSION postgis; it returned this error,

ERROR:  could not load library
  "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/lib/rtpostgis-2.2.so": /usr/lib/libgdal.so.1:
  undefined symbol: sqlite3_column_table_name

Does anyone has an idea how to fix it?

A: Did you build SQLite from source? You forgot to enable Column metadata, compile with
CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1" ./configure
make
sudo make install

Enjoy!
Reference - https://www.sqlite.org/compile.html#enable_column_metadata

A: Installing different version of GDAL on Ubuntu didn't solve the problem.
I noticed that the library is working well on MacOS, So I Installed Linuxbrew and then I installed GDAL via Brew, now it is working like charm.
1- http://linuxbrew.sh/
2- sudo apt-get remove gdal-bin
3- brew install gdal

A: If using Anaconda you could try this:
conda update sqlite

A: In addition to Ganesh answer. In my case OpenCV used gdal, and gdal was referring to sqlite3. I had to rebuild sqlite3, and gdal as well. Then, on top of that, the rebuild of OpenCV library was also required. All of this was I guess because the brand new build libraries were added to the different directories than the original ones.

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Nearly a year after Prince suddenly and shockingly died at his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, the world is still coping with his loss. Last April 21, the Internet teemed with videos and images of middle-aged men crying at work, government buildings and city bridges being draped in royal…
Ones to Watch: Sampha
Last week, Sampha released his debut album. For anyone who has followed the British singer since his breakout performance as the dominant voice on Aaron Jerome's U.K. garage project SBTRKT, the arrival of Process seems long overdue. It's not as if Sampha has been entirely absent in…
10 Best R&B Albums of 2016
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If the recent past has brought the excitement of an identifiable movement, whether that be the "alt-R&B" explosion of 2011 or the ratchet R&B of 2014, then this year marked a return of social consciousness. Whether motivated by the "wokeness" of social media, Black Lives Matter…
10 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2016
Unlike 2015, when Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly landed on hip-hop fans like a copy of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, this year brought a surfeit of good-to-great albums and little consensus as to which was the best. Kanye West's The Life of Pablo may not…
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Soul music has lost a bit of the spark that fires it with the passing of Sharon Jones. Jones, who publicly fought pancreatic cancer since her diagnosis in 2013, lost her battle to the disease on November 18. She was 60 years old. It was reported that Jones was surrounded…
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In her native Britain, Laura Mvula is a bona fide star. In the United States, she's the kind of secret discovery that fans love. Her 2013 debut, Sing to the Moon, was the kind of left-field wonder that landed onalbums-you-might-have-missed lists, and made writers scramble to describe blend of…
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Square Enix has today announced the North American release of Drakengard for the PlayStation 2. Set in a gothic fantasy world, Drakengard is an action role-playing game in which players assume the role of a soldier named Caim, who embarks on an epic adventure in order to rescue his sister from the evil Empire. The game is combat-based for the most part, with players able to fight on foot or astride a powerful dragon.


How can native plant communities be restored?
Dr. Constance Hausman at Acacia reservation.
This project also includes molecular characterization of soil microbial communities in collaboration with David Burke's lab at Holden Arboretum.
The Holden research staff and summer interns with collaborators from Case Western Reserve University atop the Kalberer Emergent Tower in July 2015.
Graduate student Andy Lance planting native Liriodendron tulipifera.


He wanted to know if there was a technique or skill he could apply to be more effective because cracking jokes didn't seem to work in his favor.
The common misstep he and many of us make in these situations is trying to lead before we pace.
To be effective in sales, it's your job to put your client at ease. It's unrealistic to expect your client to change their behavior to match yours by doing the exact opposite of what they normally do.
The Savvy Sales Tip this week: Be flexible in your behavior to put your client at ease.
In the scenario listed above, a much more effective strategy is to match the other person's behavior. Start out being more serious (pace), then when appropriate, try lightening the mood by adding a light hearted comment and see how your client reacts (lead). If your client laughs, lightens up or changes their behavior, you can continue to lead. If your client maintains their serious behavior, your best bet it to continue to match (pace) your client.
It boils down to this simple decision; do you want to earn the business of clients with different styles than yours? If so, pacing is the first step in building rapport and putting the client at ease.
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ARESTIN (LOCALLY DELIVERED ANTIBIOTIC GUM TREATMENT
Arestin® (minocycline hydrochloride) Microspheres is a subgingival sustained-release product containing the antibiotic minocycline hydrochloride incorporated into a bioresorbable polymer, Poly (glycolide-co-dl-lactide) or PGLA, for professional subgingival administration into periodontal pockets. Each unit-dose cartridge delivers minocycline hydrochloride equivalent to 1 mg of minocycline free base.
Minocycline, a member of the tetracycline class of antibiotics, has a broad spectrum of activity.1 It is bacteriostatic and exerts its antimicrobial activity by inhibiting protein synthesis.1 In vitro susceptibility testing has shown that the organisms Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Eikenella corrodens, and Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, which are associated with periodontal disease, are susceptible to minocycline at concentrations of ≤8 μg/mL2; qualitative and quantitative changes in plaque microorganisms have not been demonstrated in patients with periodontitis, using this product. The emergence of minocycline-resistant bacteria in single-site plaque samples was studied in subjects before and after treatment with Arestin® at 2 centers. There was a slight increase in the numbers of minocycline-resistant bacteria at the end of the 9-month study period, however, the number of subjects studied was small and the clinical significance of these findings is unknown. The emergence of minocycline-resistant bacteria and changes in the presence of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus in the gastrointestinal tract were studied in subjects treated with Arestin® in one phase 3 study. No changes in the presence of minocycline-resistant bacteria or C albicans or S aureus were seen at the end of the 56-day study period.
In a pharmacokinetic study, 18 patients (10 men and 8 women) with moderate to advanced chronic periodontitis were treated with a mean dose of 46.2 mg (25 to 112 unit doses) of Arestin®. After fasting for at least 10 hours, patients received subgingival application of Arestin®(1 mg per treatment site) following scaling and root planing at a minimum of 30 sites on at least 8 teeth. Investigational drug was administered to all eligible sites ≥5 mm in probing depth. Mean dose normalized saliva AUC and Cmax were found to be approximately 125 and 1000 times higher than those of serum parameters, respectively.
In 2 well-controlled, multicenter, investigator-blind, vehicle-controlled, parallel-design studies (3 arms), 748 patients (study OPI-103A = 368, study OPI-103B = 380) with generalized moderate to advanced adult periodontitis characterized by a mean probing depth of 5.90 and 5.81 mm, respectively, were enrolled. Subjects received 1 of 3 treatments: (1) scaling and root planing, (2) scaling and root planing + vehicle (bioresorbable polymer, PGLA), and (3) scaling and root planing + Arestin®. To qualify for the study, patients were required to have 4 teeth with periodontal pockets of 6 to 9 mm that bled on probing. However, treatment was administered to all sites with mean probing depths of 5 mm or greater. Patients studied were in good general health. Patients with poor glycemic control or active infectious diseases were excluded from the studies. Retreatment occurred at 3 and 6 months after initial treatment, and any new site with pocket depth ≥5 mm also received treatment.
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Der Nacktkehl-Glockenvogel (Procnias nudicollis) ist ein südamerikanischer Schreivogel aus der Familie der Schmuckvögel.

Merkmale
Er erreicht eine Größe von 27 cm. Das Männchen hat ein weißes Gefieder mit blaugrünen nackten Hautstellen an den Augen und an der Kehle, die mit schwarzen Borsten bedeckt ist. Die Weibchen sind an der Oberseite, den Flügeln und am Schwanz olivgrün gefärbt und an der Unterseite gelblich weiß gestrichelt. Der Kopf ist schwarz, die Brust ist olivgrün und hell gestrichelt.

Der metallisch klingende, glockenähnliche Ruf gehört zu den lautesten Äußerungen in der Vogelwelt.

Verhalten
Der Nacktkehl-Glockenvogel hält sich meistens ruhig in den Baumwipfeln auf und ernährt sich von Früchten.

Vorkommen
Der Vogel lebt im Gebirgstropenwald in Ostbrasilien, Paraguay und Nordargentinien. Im Winter zieht er in tiefere Regionen.

Fortpflanzung
Das Männchen ruft von einem exponierten Platz aus mit zurückgeworfenem Kopf nach einem Weibchen. Taucht eine mögliche Partnerin auf, beginnt es mit gespreizten Schwanzfedern von Ast zu Ast zu hüpfen.

Nach der Paarung wird ein dünnes schalenförmiges Nest aus Stöcken in einer Astgabel, vorzugsweise in einer Höhe von 5 bis 7 m in Kakaobäumen, gebaut. Es wird ein einziges hellbraunes Ei gelegt, das dunkelbraun gefleckt ist. Die Brutdauer beträgt 23 Tage. Die Jungen sind nach 33 Tagen flügge.

Besonderheit
In Paraguay regte der metallisch klingende Gesang des Vogels die dortigen Musiker zu einem Stück an. "Pajaro Campana" ist zugleich Titel und der Name des Vogels auf Spanisch.

Literatur
 Colin Harrison & Alan Greensmith: Vögel. Dorling Kindersly Limited, London 1993, 2000, ISBN 3-8310-0785-3
 Bryan Richard: Vögel. Parragon, Bath, ISBN 1-4054-5506-3
 Bruce Campbell: Das große Vogelbuch, Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1976

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Alueputkitus Companies, consisting of Alueputkitus Oy and Konepaja Alueputkitus Oy, was acquired by YIT Group. Alueputkitus Companies offer mainly service, maintenance, installation, and small workshop services for petrochemical industry customers. In 2005 the Companies' consolidated turnover was about 14 M€ and they employed about 130 people. YIT, one of the leading manufacturing companies in Finland, offers technical infrastructure investment and maintenance services for the property and construction sectors, industry and telecommunications. YIT's main market areas are the Nordic and Baltic countries and Russia.
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In 1894 the business advertised its self as 'Printsellers, Carvers and Gilders, Picture Frame Manufacturers, Artists' Colourmen' selling 'English Gold Frames of the Highest Quality'. Pharmaceutical Society of GB v Boots Cash Chemists Ltd Procedural History: High Court to COA Material Facts: Self-service pharmacy Cashier station to scrutinized articles selected by customers before they were able to make purchase and exit stall 2 customers purchase 2 bottles of medicine which substances were included in Part I of the Poisons List but… Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. His hard work and concern for the poor came from his ardent Methodist upbringing and adherence to the John Wesley Primitive Physic for his folk medicine. It began as a local herbalist store and rapidly grew into the country's largest chemists' chain. The two-storey cast-iron shopfront, with its barleytwist colonnettes and plate glass windows, survives today. Boots is a nationwide chemist and pharmacist in the UK, and offered a picture framing service from 1894 to 1963 or later. A year later, suffering from overwork (and probably also grief), he had a breakdown and sought recuperation in the Channel Islands. He left school at thirteen and started to help his mother, Mary, full-time in their little shop, which sold soap, soda, camomile, senna, household necessities and simple herbal remedies. He sold his controlling interest to an America, Louis K Liggett. The first Boots branch outside Nottingham had opened at 17 Snig Hill, Sheffield, in 1884, just before Boot's sojourn in the Channel Islands. It was, in fact, 'an American elevator', operated by hydraulic power, which served the basement (Artists Materials) and the first floor (Dispensing Department, Ladies' Department, and Ladies' Waiting Room – in other words, the lavatory). ( Log Out / In the latter years of Jesse's life a 300-acre factory site had been purchased three miles south west of Nottingham, where a soap factory was built. During the First War World they manufactured large quantities of respirators, containing a special compound which resisted poison-gas, and they also supplied troops with over 115 million sterilizing tablets for purifying water. Postscript It was Florence who encouraged Jesse to devote a part of a few shops to stationery, artists' material, books and other goods. The first shop had been kept open to 9pm on most evenings and until 11pm on Saturdays, and then there was the writing up to do after that. 1989 - Boots spends 900 million pounds to take over Ward White, owners of Halfords and the Payless DIY chain. The grandson of the founder, John Boot, who i… Facts. At the age of thirty-six, Jesse was worn out. Shoppers can follow and connect with them through multiple social media channels, including Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest. At that time the firm employed nearly 300 people: 150 in the branches and 150 at the warehouse and laboratory (managed by E. S. Warning) on Island Street. This completes the marketing mix of Boots. On such occasions, he would have a bell-ringer touring the streets of Nottingham which brought customers flocking to his shop. In February 1900 'Boots Ltd.' changed its name to 'Boots Cash Chemists (Eastern) Ltd.' Other regional companies were: 'Boots Cash Chemists (Western)' formed in 1897, 'Boots Cash Chemists (Lancashire)' in 1899 and 'Boots Cash Chemists (Southern)' in 1901. Boots pioneered the use of analytical chemistry as a means of quality control with the appointment of the first analytical chemist. Later he renamed his shop "The People's Store". In 1908 an old Gas Works to the east was purchased and the site further extended. Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd. LORD JUSTICE SOMERVELL: We need not trouble you, Mr Baker. In addition, Boots developed and manufactured box respirators, which protected soldiers from the effects of gas. In 1920 he sold his company to the United Drug Co. of America and in 1922 decided to retire to Cannes, subsequently settling in Jersey. The Minor Ailment Service is an NHS service for children, people aged 60 or over, people who hold a medical exemption certificate and people on certain benefits. Boots is one of the oldest and most trusted brands on the British high street and its roots have been firmly based in Nottingham for over 160 years. A private company with around 18 investors was formed to finance expansion in 1888; this was the 'Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd.' The shops, now trading as 'Boot's Cash Chemists', were managed by qualified chemists. By the end of 1893, according to The Chemist and Druggist, Boots was then the largest of the company-chemist chains. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Jesse Boot died an invalid in 1931. My thanks to Sophie Clapp of The Boots Archive for giving me permission to publish images from their collection. Many were purpose built to designs by the Nottingham architect Albert N. Bromley, or by Boots' in-house architect and his team. The Court held that the exhibition of a product in a store with a price attached is not adequate to be considered an offer, although relatively is an invitation to treat. John Boot, Jesse's father, had grown up to be a farm labourer, but later, due to poor health, he left this and became a herbalist. John Boot opened his first store in 1849 and began a tradition of serving the health needs of ordinary people as cheaply as he could. Boot reportedly loved building, a passion evidently shared by his wife. He died in Jersey in 1931. Boots Cash Chemists. During the Great War, 4,000 Boots employees joined the forces, which made it difficult to fulfil demanding Government contracts. Use your Advantage Card on your phone, get personalised offers and check your points on the go. Jesse Boot changed the name yet again. The long hours began to take their toll on Boot. About Boots UK: Boots is a pharmacy chain based in the UK. Jesse was only ten years old when his father died. In 1883, his son turned it into a private company and named it Boot and company limited. Within the first month his takings had risen to £40 per week. The pharmacist station was near the poisons section so they were able to oversee all transactions but the pharmacist took no part in the transacti. His tactics provoked violent opposition from other chemists. Boots introduced the then new self service system into their shops whereby customers would pick up goods from the shelf put them in their basket and then take them to the cash till to pay. Facts :j. It was also her idea to start a circulating library, She knew that many people who used the shop would become bed-ridden and the long hours in bed could be better passed if they had books to read. His chain of ten shops was now called 'Boots Cash Chenist'. Jesse Boot's bust (1934) at Highfield Park. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. After his son Jessie married Florence Rowe in 1886 the business began to greatly expand as she to interest in it. In later days the paternal ancestors of Jesse Boot (born 2nd June 1850) had lived in the small Nottinghamshire village of Willboughby on the Wolds. For a short time, in the early 1890s, Jesse and Florence Boot lived in Sheffield. Boots Pension Scheme. A new headquarters building by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was erected in 1966-68. He financed the new University College, opened by King George V in 1928, and Highfields Park. The latter was founded after the acquisition of Day's Drug Stores, which provided Boots with 65 ready-made branches in the south-east. Boots Cash Chemists displayed another strategy for acquiring drugs from their store-the meds would be on display, clients would pick them from the racks, and pay for them at the till. A Soap Factory opened there in 1929; Sir Owen Williams' Wets Factory (D10) opened in 1933, and his Drys Factory (D6) in 1936. The move to diversify was not successful and they were later sold off. In 1889 Boot rented three rooms in Elliot's lace factory on Island Street, Nottingham; by 1892 he had taken over the entire mill. His benevolence towards the city over the years had mounted to at least £2 million. Due to street improvements, the Pelham Street depot was rebuilt, in the style of a large emporium, in 1903. They were charged under the section 18(1) of the pharmacy and poisons act 1933 which required that a sale of drugs takes place under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. In 1909 Jesse received a knighthood, but illness was taking an increasing hold on his body. So he employed a young man from Belfast named Albert Thompson to become general manager. This was followed – in 1887, after his recovery and marriage – by a branch in Lincoln. With over 2,300* stores ranging from local community pharmacies to large destination health and beauty stores, our purpose is to help our customers look and feel better than they ever thought possible. Two years later the chain had increased to 24 outlets, dispersed throughout nine different towns. Still there was opposition, which led to a decree of Parliament in 1908 which stated that a qualified pharmacist had to be in attendance at each branch. When a drug was involved, a pharmacist supervised the sale. 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Doncaster has been reduced to a mere satellite town
Letter to Mayor Ros Jones
By Barbara Craythorn
Thursday, 14 February, 2019, 10:49
Yellow notice in one of the information display boards that are installed at each service boarding point in the Interchange
Please find attached a photograph of a yellow notice in one of the information display boards that are installed at each service boarding point, in this case Stand A4.
If you are wondering what I am talking about, please look at it and spot the deliberate mistake. "Deliberate" meaning just that.
Doncaster has apparently been reduced to a mere satellite of the mighty Sheffield City Region, and we may as well do away with our proud name.
What next, Sheffield St Leger? Sheffield Rovers?
Over forty six thousand of us said "no!" to being forced into a spurious relationship with Sheffield instead of a wider business arrangement with the rest of Yorkshire that would have greatly benefited the Doncaster MBC and its partners. The UK government was no better at handling that situation than it is at handling Brexit. Blackmail and bullying has been wrapped in a cosy deal with our neighbours.
BBC News has once again announced that responsibilities such as Doncaster and Barnsley are a couple of the hardest hit councils when it comes to cutbacks.
Of course, there was no mention of Sheffield.
We know which part of South Yorkshire is getting the brass, and at our expense too!
I may appear to be in a rage about the shoddy treatment that Doncaster receives, but with this HS2 etc. try telling the good people of Donny that I'm wrong.
Carl Harrison
Rossington


Data is one of the most critical corporate assets for any organization. What's more, organizations are generating data at staggering rates, with analysts predicting roughly 50% year-over-year data growth in some industries, with media and entertainment rapidly exceeding these growth estimates due to large amounts of unstructured data. According to a Gartner survey, nearly 75% of organizations are investing or planning to invest in big data in the next two years. Despite these staggering assertions, many organizations are unaware if their data is being properly captured, integrated across lines of business and accurately represented.
Data Governance is at the heart of this problem.
Data Governance is a term with an evolving definition, but what it clearly is not is a collection of ad-hoc, tactically-focused data correction projects. Data Governance is the overarching policies and processes that govern the management of enterprise data assets. The purpose of data governance is to identify what data and information is important, establish the processes to manage it and measure the effectiveness of the effort in achieving business objectives.
Data Governance is achieved through the establishment of a focused team composed of technology and business stakeholders. This team oversees data by documenting policies and controlling how pieces of data are captured, defined, stored and distributed across the enterprise.
There are six foundational components that help Data Governance programs achieve success.
The need for Data Governance starts in the boardroom. Organizations are striving to be more innovative and adaptable to economic realities. This often manifests in the form of executive leadership frequently changing the strategic and tactical direction of the organization. As business needs change so do data needs; therefore, it is critical that senior leadership understand the importance of being data-driven, which means taking strategic action as a result of what the data indicates rather than making intuitive guesses.
Although senior and/or mid-level analysts who work daily with data may be the people who most want to drive data governance and initiatives, their efforts will only succeed if the executive leadership team is directly involved. Unfortunately, it is common for data quality projects to become an executive-level imperative only when the organization needs to comply with regulations or during a merger and/or acquisition. This type of initiative is often reduced to a one-off data integration or correction project assigned to IT to implement and maintain.
To motivate executive understanding and involvement in building a data-driven culture, it is necessary to start with a business case. Leadership must see the strategic benefit of doing business through data-driven initiatives, such as how data can drive more reliable sales and marketing campaigns or how data can help improve business processes and reduce operational costs.
When leadership is on board with the value of these initiatives, a strategy and roadmap should be created that shows how the business will transform to the new standard over time. These efforts should not be seen as a single project, but a gradual increase in maturity that is achieved through each initiative.
Defining the standards and policies that the rest of the organization will follow falls into the responsibility of the data governance team.
An essential piece of the puzzle is the definition, allowed values, and restrictions of each data element. Using our USPS example above, a key data element is the postal address of a customer. This piece of data can be named, defined, and inputted in multiple ways, so an authoritative standard must be set to maintain consistency. Without consistency, data cannot be integrated throughout the organization, which can result, as an example, in an organization sending mail to an out-of-date customer record resulting in an undeliverable address and wasted time and money. Ideally, each data element or grouping of data elements is assigned a data steward who documents the standards and ensures quality.
Data stewards examine how data enters the system through all the possible entry points. For example, data might originate through a point-of-sale application, a website, an iOS or Android application, a mailed-in form, a call center, or other channels. A full data workflow must be created, mapping all of the channels and entry points where errors or inconsistencies might occur. Any transformations the data goes through also need to be documented and distributed to all consumers of the data.
Data can be defined and captured in numerous ways, with different choices benefiting different lines of business. Each standard and policy that is produced will result in a tradeoff between the overall corporate needs and the individual line of business needs. It is critical that data stewards across all lines of business have healthy debates and strike a good balance in the structure and content of every policy and standard.
Master Data Management (MDM) provides a single, authoritative point of reference to ensure that all data stored in enterprise applications is consistently managed. Some organizations adopt Master Data Management solutions hoping that the technology alone will solve their data quality issues. However, MDM does not ensure data quality without human guidance and mature business processes. You still need data governance. As a result, organizations are often disappointed when MDM solutions fail to deliver the expected ROI.
Ideally, an organization establishes data governance before attempting to implement complex data initiatives like MDM and does so to satisfy a specific business strategy. But in reality, the situation is often reversed, resulting in some overlap of effort or missing data standards that were immaterial to the specific challenge MDM was implemented to solve.
The risks of not having a sound MDM strategy are well-known: no "single version of the truth," data inconsistencies across the enterprise, complex data integration efforts and potential negative business impact due to inaccurate data. This often materializes in the business as operational inefficiencies, lost customer opportunities and decreased revenues.
Organizations should not approach MDM as a "boil the ocean" strategy, but instead focus on the most critical data elements that need to be mastered. For example, retail organizations may want to have a robust MDM solution around their customer data, but may not have as much focus on employee data or vendor data. Additional focus may also be needed; "customer" can be defined many ways (e.g. consumer, business-to-business, user, etc.) and it is best to focus energy on solving critical business problems that add tremendous overall value to the organization first.
One of the first tasks for an organization's data governance body is to clearly establish data ownership. Having the business own their data is critical in ensuring a long-term commitment to the overall quality of data and to ensure that it aligns to the overall business needs. Organizations that have many IT stakeholders as the data owner should re-evaluate their governance strategy.
Once data ownership has been assumed by the business, data stewards are elected to document procedures and guidelines on how data is defined, transformed, accessed and used. If low data quality leads to poor business decisions, data stewards are held accountable. For example, if revenue is lost by sending the wrong type of customer discount offers, or if you can't deliver your product because of problems with inventory data, the data owner should be responsible.
Chief Data Officer – Provides overall guidance and makes overarching decisions across the entire organization; sets the vision and ensures executive leadership sees value.
Data Governance Council (Data Owners) – Typically a cross-functional representation of the data owners aligned by their respective business areas. These leaders ensure their own program tracks are progressing and elevate corporate issues as they arise. The council must empower data stewards.
Data Stewards – Business-aligned resources that set the business process rules, data definitions and help define the standards and policies; actively monitor data quality.
Data Custodians – The technical resources (often IT-aligned) that ensure data follows the standards and policies defined by the governance council and data stewards.
Data Consumers and Producers – The main users of the data and the first to be impacted by changes in policies and standards; one of the main stakeholders to consider.
Providing data management functions to data stewards creates impetus for quality, removes silos, and limits redundancy. There must be recognition that certain individuals in the organization are the authoritative resource on a specific subset of data. Most of these individuals already work with this data day to day, so assigning them ownership is simply recognizing their expertise and their accountability. The best people to become data stewards are usually not in IT.
Another critical component to ensuring a successful Data Governance program is to ensure a well-defined structure is in place and that teams meet to discuss critical issues on a regular basis. There are three forms of data governance organizations: decentralized, centralized and hybrid.
Decentralized: Functional areas operate with complete autonomy, while attempting to maintain global standards to meet specific enterprise requirements.
Centralized: Data Governance provides a single point of control at the enterprise level for decision-making, with little or no responsibility in the functional areas.
Hybrid: Data Governance provides a single point of control and decision-making at the enterprise level as well as governance structures in the functional areas.
Each of these structures have pros and cons and depending on the maturity and complexity of the organization, each can be successful. For example, a decentralized model works well for fast decision making in an individual line of business whereas a highly centralized model takes a long time to make decisions, but is very inclusive of needs across all lines of business.
It is best to examine your business needs and organization structure to determine what works best for your specific use case. Most importantly is that, once you commit on a structure, your data governance organization sets regular meetings and establishes a good cadence and momentum.
The following diagram is an example of how a Data Governance organization might be structured.
One of the most important aspects of data governance is measurement. Data quality must be checked against clearly defined and measurable metrics for the business to assess the result of their data governance effort. At a high level, there are two categories for metrics: quantitative and qualitative.
Validity references whether the value is correct within a limited context of reference, such as whether it matches a value in a master data repository.
Accuracy refers to whether or not data is correct in a real-world context, such as whether the postal address entered is a real address where mail can be delivered—according to, for example, the USPS database.
Qualitative metrics are more indirect. These metrics are established by the business to measure soft objectives like improved customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, business opportunity, regulations compliance, or team collaboration. For example, data collected from surveys, social media reviews, or comment cards can be used to measure customer satisfaction, but the way the business chooses to evaluate this data is subjective.
It is important that all metrics are relevant to the business objectives and establish what success looks like. For some data, this may be a hard number or percentage that the business is trying to hit. For other data, there may be levels of progress or maturity that are measured according to stated objectives and supported by other metrics.
Once measurements for data quality are established, regular audits must be done to ensure compliance. When data quality issues are identified, the source causing the quality issue must be discovered and fixed. For example, a company might discover many misspelled customer names in its database. Rather than just fixing the spellings, the data steward should investigate how the names were entered incorrectly. He or she might determine that most of the misspellings originated in the call center where intake operators guessed how to spell names heard over the phone. This could be corrected by implementing a process where call center representatives are required to ask the customer for a unique identifier, such as an account number or social security number, so that the system can pull the correct customer record.
We live in a data-driven economy. Organizations will continue to collect tremendous amounts of data regardless of whether that data is effectively managed. It is essential for businesses to understand that data quality initiatives are not done for the sake of data but for the benefit of the business. At AIM Consulting, we provide both the strategy and resources needed to help businesses establish data governance and optimize management of enterprise data throughout the entire data lifecycle, leading to more reliable business decisions and enhanced productivity and efficiency.
Are you interested in Data Strategy and Roadmaps, Data Governance, or the Data and Analytics space? Tell us about your challenge to learn about our flexible engagement model and the approach we would take with your organization.


Weight-bearing asymmetry in individuals post-hip fracture during the sit to stand task.
BACKGROUND: Individuals post hip fracture decrease force on the involved limb during sit to stand tasks, creating an asymmetry in vertical ground reaction force. Joint specific differences that underlie asymmetry of the vertical ground reaction force are unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare differences in vertical ground reaction force variables and joint kinetics at the hip and knee in participants post-hip fracture, who were recently discharged from homecare physical therapy to controls. METHODS: Forty-four community-dwelling older adults, 29 who had a hip fracture and 15 elderly control participant's completed the sit to stand task on an instrumented chair with 3 force plates. T-tests were used to compare clinical tests (Berg Balance Scale, activity balance confidence and gait speed, isokinetic knee strength) and vertical ground reaction force variables. Two-way analyses of variance compared vertical ground reaction force variables and kinetics at the hip and knee between hip fracture and elderly control groups. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to determine correlations between clinical and vertical ground reaction force variables. FINDINGS: Vertical ground reaction force variables were significantly lower on the involved side for the hip fracture group compared to the uninvolved side and controls. Lower involved side hip and knee moments and power contributed to lower involved side vertical ground reaction force. Vertical ground reaction force variables and strength had moderate to high correlations with clinical measures. INTERPRETATION: Uninvolved side knee moments and powers were the largest contributors to asymmetrical vertical ground reaction force in participants post-hip fracture. The association of vertical ground reaction force variables and clinical measures of function suggesting reducing vertical ground reaction force asymmetry may contribute to higher levels of function post-hip fracture. Functional and strength training should target the involved knee to reduce vertical ground reaction force asymmetry.


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A. We like to keep it simple – only supplying local and seasonal flowers from farmers we actually visit and know. By supplying you with only local seasonal flowers you are going to get the best, and since they haven't been carted thousands of kilometres—the freshest. If you're looking for something that you can't see on our website get in touch and we'll help you find it.
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The seven-story, 95,000 square foot Merrill Place Residence promotes an environment of learning, intellectual curiosity, collaboration and social interaction beyond the constraints of the classroom. Featuring 288 beds the co-ed residence hall has single rooms with bathrooms, double rooms with bathrooms and two single rooms with a shared bathroom. The first floor features a lobby with study area, administrative office area, laundry facility and a large conference center.
The 4,300 sf conference center will hold up to 500 students or summer guest for lecture style events or up to 300 people for dinners and other special events. The facility was built with advanced energy efficiency and sustainable methods to promote the University's commitment to the environment, as are all buildings on the Plymouth State campus.


Chances are, you have sipped grappa after a long meal at an Italian restaurant, and you were intrigued, overwhelmed – or both. This spirit has long gone misunderstood (many only remember a super strong, burning sensation) but it is slowly creeping into the spotlight, thanks to new distillers and fresh ways of using it.
Here, we present the 6 Essentials of Grappa – the things you need to know in order to better appreciate and enjoy it.
Grappa is made from pomace aka the skins, seeds and stems left over from winemaking. Sure, it may sound like grappa is basically made from the scraps of wine but that's not the case. "It is a tradition that is truly exemplarily of 'Italian thrift', because you don't waste anything," explains Chef Cathy Whims, chef and owner of Portland's Nostrana. "You use everything that is given to you. It's a kind of version of nose-to-tail cooking which happens in the meat world." Adds Luca Fabris, CEO of Gra'it grappa: "Many people think of pomace as the waste from winemaking but the skin is the best part of the grape – it has the most aroma and flavors.
Grappa has a higher ABV (alcohol by volume) than wine. You may think of it in the same class, but grappa is actually boozier: wine has an average ABV of 12% while grappa must be between 35-60% in order to be sold; most clock in around 37.5%. By comparison, vodka, rum and tequila are generally 40%.
Using the right grappa glass is key. A good grappa glass is generally tall and narrow with a slightly wider opening at the top, to allow for the aromas to be enjoyed. "Grappa is inherently a strongly flavored alcohol," says Chef Whims." Also, there is no DOC protection system in the world of grappa, like there is with wine, so there is no guarantee of quality." Many grappa drinkers like it at room temperature, but this can cause that burning sensation. Keep the glass filled one-third or less – this keeps the vapors further from your nose.


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Pamper yourself with a visit to the spa, which offers massages, body treatments, and facials. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, which include 3 outdoor swimming pools, 2 spa tubs, and an attached winery. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge).
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