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Old, Irrational Fear
December 8, 2012 by 0thisslavegirl0
Why did tsg try to hide her less than perfect profile? Why was she afraid for Master to see it? Fear. A panic set in when He suggested tsg might want to make a profile on fet life, and she knew she already had one, had not told Him about it, and that it was not written in even a submissive style, much less in slave speak. tsg had already gotten into trouble for being disrespectful, so she didn't want Him to see a profile full of improper capitalization's and such a casual tone. So, she changed it. Cleaned it up. Changed all the he his him to He His Him. Changed I my mine to tsg tsg's. Updated some information that had changed since she wrote it. In the great scheme of things, the changes themselves were minor. But she was scared of His reaction.
Why in the world was tsg scared of the reaction of the man she has literally given and trusted her life to? Over what was basically an editing issue? she could have simply said Master, tsg already have a profile on fetlife, but its very poorly written. If it pleases You, your slave would appreciate Your suggestions on improving it. (Even now as tsg writes this, she wanted to say that Your slave would clean it up first before You saw it… argh, learn, woman, learn!) Master is neither mean nor unreasonable, He very well could have just helped tsg fix it without any repercussions whatsoever. But she was embarrassed by how she had written it… and the thought of Him finding fault in it (and therefore in her) sent her into a panic.
Why panic? What was there to get all freaked out about? her past experiences: the only thing tsg has to base her expectations upon. she has had to deal with a lot of rejection, a lot of anger; a lot of being told she had screwed up things she'd had nothing to do with, ruined things by not being more than she was; feeling worthless and useless and completely undesirable. her innocent acts of service and submission (not even tsg herself knew that's what they were at the time) were looked upon with scorn at best, disgust more often than not. her ex-husband was an abusive control freak, and she lived much of their married life walking on egg shells, fixing problems as they arose to the best of her ability, because when faced with a problem to solve, he usually exploded. He threatened to throw tsg out, throw their baby son out, throw her out and keep their son himself, leave us with nothing, you name it, he said it. Eventually, she learned to see a problem, say a late bill, not as something that just needed to be taken care of, but as something to hide every last trace of.
Soon tsg was hiding stuff left and right. That is a very hard and stressful thing to do. Keeping secrets is a difficult job. One that can't be done on a full time basis without at least some level of lying, deceit, dishonesty. she hated having to lie, but tsg really felt she had no choice. she was trapped. We had bills due but not the money to pay them. That was of course tsg's fault, because she either did not have a job or was not making enough money at the jobs she had. (Some how, we could always afford beer and food for him and his friends.) tsg juggled things as best she could, never telling him anything. Why wake the dragon? To her husband, the only problems in their house were all about his stressed out wife. He didn't give a rats ass about WHAT was stressing her, just that he had to be around her in that condition. On the rare occasion he would ask about something, tsg was so lost in secrecy she had no idea what was safe to say, safe to share. It was really bad. she hated it, and she was stuck in it. Whenever anything happened now, good OR bad, tsg went into self protection mode and kept it from sight.
Eventually, he did leave her for someone else. Somewhere deep in her mind, she logged that in as yet another failure on her part, not living up to expectations… not being good enough… not being worth the trouble.
So what does all of that have to do with fear over an editing issue? Everything.
tsg had been somewhat on edge with Master, because she's so new at the lifestyle, tsg just don't know what He expects from her. tsg doesn't mean cranky on edge, but, well, walking on those egg shells again. Timid, not wanting to make a mistake. Not wanting Him to find fault. Not wanting to disappoint. And she knows all of that is silly, because we are BOTH new at this, we BOTH are going to make mistakes, and we BOTH know that. ( tsg want to be very clear that Master has NEVER acted like her ex-husband, or any ex-boyfriend… or really, any other man she's ever met. He has NEVER insisted she be perfect or mistake proof. And no, Master is not a control freak. Master does take control, but He also holds HIMSELF responsible. A control freak only blames others when things go wrong. Got it? Good! ) But there still dwelt in tsg that niggling nasty voice that told her over and over that not being correct or proper or slavish enough was going to drive Him away, that He would leave her, just like she deserved, just like every other man in her life had done. And that thought was indeed worthy of panic! With Master tsg feels she's found a piece of herself that's been missing forever. A piece that now found, she can not live without. (she is SUCH a slave) A piece she can not risk losing. So, when confronted with being "found out", the past old, irrational fear took over, tsg panicked, and she did what she hadn't done in ages and ages… she covered it up.
Well, she tried to cover it up. tsg is already too much His slave to actually hide it. she basically ratted herself out 🙂 tsg told Master what she did, after the fact. she wasn't even then thinking she had done anything at all wrong. In her twisted little brain, she was just fixing another problem, and what He didn't have to look at wouldn't bother Him. tsg had saved the day!
Oh goodness, wrong, wrong on so many, many levels.
tsg has no idea how He does it, but Master can change the tone of His voice IN A TEXT MESSAGE. How is that possible? tsg knew immediately that He was NOT happy with her. Because she figured she must have gotten too casual and abandoned it all together (its happened before!) her protocol level instinctively shot up a notch. But that wasn't the problem. In no uncertain terms, Master told tsg the problem.
tsg, intentionally or not, consciously or not, had shown lack of faith and trust in Him. Then she had been dishonest, and tried to cover it up, which impacted His faith and trust in her(ratting herself out counts for nothing, not even in her own mind 🙂 ) Basically, tsg had damaged the foundation of their relationship. The very best thing that has ever happened to just tsg, and, in her convoluted mind, she's blowing it. Not only has she blown it, she's blown it by trying to save it. her old irrational fear had come to life.
Except for a few biting, scathing texts (which Master can do without being rude, crude, or mean… 'cause He's awesome like that) Master was very, very quiet. tsg could see that He would enter text, then stop, possibly erasing, and entering again. tsg kept saying to herself oh man, is He ever mad. He is REALLY mad! For an hour this went on, each completed text a little more raw than the last. tsg protocol went to its highest level (for her) and she did the few things He asked of her as quickly as she could. It was with actual relief that tsg read His message that He was going to come to her and punish her, because she knew that meant He still felt we were worth the effort… but then He said something that made tsg physically ill, and to be honest, probably had the most impact of anything before or since: Master said He now was hesitating to collar her. Holy wow, tsg really HAD blown it. What happened next is detailed here, and here is where tsg stops, because the irrational fear was over… completely rational fear had taken its place.
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EXETER NEWS-LETTER
Stratham boy needs transplant from Ethiopia
Family anxiously awaits test results for bone marrow matches
Corinne Holroyd
STRATHAM — Behaylu Barry is like any 12-year-old boy: He competes on soccer and basketball teams, plays with the family dog named Yoshi and is in the seventh-grade at the Cooperative Middle School.
What's different about him, however, is that he has a condition called aplastic anemia, a version of bone marrow failure, in which the body stops making enough new blood cells.
Aplastic anemia is rare, with only 600 to 900 people diagnosed each year in the U.S. according to the Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation. One of the best treatments is a sibling-provided bone marrow transplant. Behaylu's father Aidan Barry, however, said that this case is "a semi-unique exception."
"I don't think they've ever done a transplant from a sibling in Africa," he said.
Aidan and Behaylu's mother, Midori Barry, adopted Behaylu from Ethiopia in 2007. He has five siblings who could be possible bone marrow matches, however, they are all still in Africa.
"We not only have to deal with the American government, but the Ethiopian government," Midori said.
Aidan and Midori, who have lived in Stratham for 30 years, adopted Behaylu when their daughter moved out of the house. Aidan read a Boston Globe article about American families adopting African children orphaned by war.
He showed his wife the article and said she was all for adopting a child. They went through the group Wide Horizons for Children and adopted Behaylu from Ethiopia. When the Barrys went to see him, they made a network in Ethiopia with a charity and have helped his siblings afford private school and live a "middle-class life" according to Aidan.
Soon, however, his son began to miss his siblings, so the family visited in February 2012 and caught up with their network in the area.
"He was welcomed in his village like a home-coming hero," he said.
Their friends in the network they built in Ethiopia are the ones who have completed cheek swabs on Behaylu's siblings, which they finished Friday, to see if any are a match. The swabs then arrived in a lab in Massachusetts on Wednesday, March 5 for testing.
The family hopes to know by early next week if there is a match.
These contacts have also been speaking with the Ethiopian government, sending articles and finding out more information.
The family and contacts are working to find out how to get one of his siblings, if one is a match, to America. This means dealing with safety, laws and guardianship in order to make medical decisions during the month that sibling would have to be here.
"(Senators) Ayotte and Shaheen have been very supportive," Aidan said. If the Barrys cannot get one of Behaylu's siblings to America for the surgery, the next option would be an autoimmune suppressant medication treatment. According to Midori, it has a 70 percent success rate and requires a lot of follow up.
If the medication does not work, the family will have to look for a non-identical bone barrow transplant.
"Twenty years ago, the outcomes were not as good," Aidan said.
Currently, his blood is at 20 percent capacity and requires blood transfusions for platelets once a week and transfusions for red blood cells once a month.
"Whenever they give me the platelets I have to sit in a chair with a thing in my arm," Behaylu said, rubbing his arm where the needle would be.
Aplastic anemia makes it hard for Behaylu to run or do anything active. He also cannot take the bus to school, has to watch what he eats because of germs and has to use antibacterial hand sanitizer, as his immune system has a hard time fighting off infection.
"It's a subtle change, but it's a difficult change for a teenage boy," Midori said.
She also said the symptoms came on quickly. He was in great condition playing soccer and basketball when he would suddenly get nosebleeds. They were difficult to stop due to his condition, but the family did not know it yet.
His condition quickly worsened as he was playing basketball and he had exhausted himself after two minutes. The family brought him to a doctor, where they found that his white and red blood cell and platelet counts were so low, he needed to be brought to Boston Children's Hospital.
"He went from being a super athlete to not being able to jump for the ball," Aidan said.
Luckily, his aplastic anemia is not inherited. Inherited conditions mean there are damaged chromosomes, which are difficult to treat.
Since his condition is acquired — although, like in many cases, it is not known what caused the reaction in his body — he will not have lingering chromosome damage after treatment.
"He has always been very healthy," Aidan said. "He keeps the doctors laughing at the hospital."
While the Barrys have been focusing on Behaylu's health and the logistics of a transplant, their friends and neighbors have been helping the family with food and financial support.
"We feel very blessed by the community of Stratham," Aidan said. "They're doing functions he (Behaylu) doesn't even know about."
There is currently a fund set up with Annie's Angels, a group which helps families fund-raise through financially difficult times due to life-threatening illnesses.
Those who wish to donate can go to http://anniesangels.net/product/fund-donation/ and select "Spirit of Behaylu."
Behaylu is looking forward to feeling better, hopefully by this time next year, and getting back to his normal, busy schedule when he is in eighth-grade. While his actual date of birth is not known, the family will celebrate his 13th "birthday" on March 28.
"Hopefully I can play soccer," he said. "I spend all my time in this house, too much (time)."

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Catching up: HIV research round-up
I am finally emerging from a monstrous load of urgent freelance work, which is why the blog was silent last week. I was finally able to catch up on global health news last week, so I thought I would post groups of similar studies today and tomorrow. Today's round-up will be HIV-related; tomorrow will feature tuberculosis.
I will kick off with results released yesterday: a study conducted in Uganda and presented at the HIV Drug Therapy Glasgow conference found that the ART efavirenz reduces levels of levenorgestrel, which is used in hormonal implants common in developing countries:
Hormonal contraceptive implants are highly reliable forms of contraception, and have been shown to prevent conception for at least five years with a pregnancy rate of less than 1%. As a form of contraception, implants compare favourably in convenience and reliability to the male condom, and do not require regular clinic visits in order to maintain the contraceptive method.
The disadvantage of progesterone-based hormonal contraceptive implants for women living with HIV lies in the interaction between levenorgestrel and antiretroviral drugs which induce CYP3A4 metabolism. Both efavirenz and nevirapine have been shown to reduce levonorgestrel levels, but the impact has been unclear.
However, a retrospective cohort analysis of unwanted pregnancies among 570 women living with HIV using the Jadelle contraceptive implant in Swaziland, published earlier this year, showed that the only factor associated with unwanted pregnancy was efavirenz treatment.
After adjusting for body weight, levenorgestrel levels in the nevirapine group were 32 to 39% higher than those in the control group during the follow-up period, levenorgestrel levels in the efavirenz group were 40 to 54% lower than those in the control group, and in three cases fell below the minimum recommended concentration for contraceptive efficacy.
The research group concluded that the levonorgestrel implant should be used with nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy.
A meta-analysis published in AIDS asserts that prevalence of transmitted drug-resistant HIV has doubled in low- and middle-income countries in recent years:
An international team of investigators wanted to establish a better understanding of global trends in rates in transmitted resistance and variations according to world region and risk group.
They therefore conducted a meta-analysis, analysing the results of 212 studies conducted between 1999 and 2013 that reported on rates of transmitted drug resistance.
The authors examined trends in industrialised and low- and middle-income countries. They also compared rates between the main HIV risk groups: men who have sex with men (MSM); people who inject drugs (PWID); and heterosexuals.
Overall, North America was the world region with the highest burden of transmitted drug resistance, which was present in 14% of MSM, 9% of PWID and 11% of heterosexuals.
Western Europe was the next-worst affected region, with transmitted resistance present in 11% of MSM, 6% of PWID and 7% of heterosexuals.
There was also a notable epidemic of transmitted resistance in South America, where prevalence in the key populations were 8% for MSM, 14% in PWID and 8% in heterosexuals.
High rates of transmitted resistance were observed among MSM in Oceania (Australia 16%), Eastern Europe/Central Asia (10%) and East Asia (8%).
A study in AIDS and Behavior by researchers from Brown University School of Public Health examines the male-to-male sex trade as a driver of HIV infection in Mexico, specifically focusing on condom use in MSM in Mexico city:
In his research, including detailed interviews and testing with hundreds of male sex workers on the city's streets and in its clinics, his team estimates that the prevalence of the virus among them could be as high as 40 percent. Because of inconsistent condom use and high degrees of infection among many sex workers, about 8 percent of their customers and other partners become infected each year. Infection can spread further from there.
But out of such seemingly bleak knowledge, Galárraga said, there is also hope. In a new study in AIDS and Behavior, Galárraga, lead author João Filipe G. Monteiro, and colleagues project that a 10-percent increase in condom use by HIV-positive male sex workers would reduce an 8 percent annual infection rate among their partners to 5.2 percent. Meanwhile, increasing the number of HIV-positive sex workers on antiretroviral medications by 50 percent would slash the infection rate among clients to 4.4 percent. More aggressive interventions could cut the rates further.
"There is universal access to HIV treatment in Mexico, so if this is implemented, especially among these key populations, it can really make a dent in the concentrated epidemic that Mexico has," Galárraga said.
NYU researchers examine the link between HIV, drug use, and tourism in the Caribbean, specifically in the Dominican Republic:
Insufficient attention has been paid to the intersection of drugs and tourism as contributing factors for the region's elevated HIV/AIDS risk. Caribbean studies have almost exclusively focused on drug transportation. Seldom acknowledged are the roles which drugs play in tourism areas which may be fueling the Caribbean HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Now a new study, "Illicit drug use and HIV risk in the Dominican Republic: Tourism areas create drug use opportunities," published in Global Public Health addresses this gap by conducting in-depth interviews with 30 drug users in Sosúa, a major sex tourism destination of the DR. The study's results suggest three themes: (1) local demand shifts drug routes to tourism areas, (2) drugs shape local economies and (3) drug use facilitates HIV risk behaviors in tourism areas.
The results of a study published in PLoS One detail how an intervention in South Africa reduced mother-to-child transmission of HIV:
The incidence of HIV infection in South Africa tops that of any nation in the world, with some 6 million of the country's nearly 50 million residents infected. Sadly, young women—and particularly young pregnant women—suffer some of the highest rates of HIV infection. More than one-fourth of pregnant South African women are infected with the virus; in some communities, the infection rates are even higher.
But those infection rates might be reduced—and the overall health of children improved—through community-based peer counseling programs...The study found that having specially trained lay community mothers from the Mentor Mother Programme make regular home visits to pregnant women, and later to those mothers and their infants, led to significantly better health outcomes 18 months later in both the mothers and their children.
Among other outcomes, the study found that Mentor Mother home visits led to a 50 percent improvement by mothers in completing tasks designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus, compared to mothers in the control group of the study who did not receive home visits, just clinic-based pre- and postnatal care.
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Q: Windows Patches/Updates in a hosting enviornment I'm looking for a good tool besides WSUS that will allow me to update Windows 2000/2003/2008 servers that are part of a domain/in a different domain/standalone enviornment.
The current products I'm looking at are
Kaseya
Security Manager Plus
Does anyone have any experience with these tools? How do they work in your environment? Are there any other tools that someone can recommend so I can take a look at it as well?

A: Remote RebootX is good. Was free, now have to pay, except if you kept the free version.
I guess SCCM from Microsoft is not an option ?

A: Is it out of the question to let the servers reboot themselves? I use this for a good number of our servers through Group Policy and it has never let me down. Note that these servers are only rebooted in the wee hours of the morning and their uptime during that time is of no concern.

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Mourners pay their respect to opposition politician Boris Nemtsov after his murder last week near the Kremlin in Moscow. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Several hundred Russians, many carrying red carnations, queued on Tuesday to pay their respects to Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic whose murder last week showed the hazards of speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin's aides deny any involvement in killing Nemtsov, who was shot in the back four times on Friday within sight of the Kremlin walls, but Nemtsov's friends say he was the victim of an atmosphere of hatred whipped up against anyone who opposes the president. In a gesture of conciliation from the Kremlin, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich joined mourners filing into the hall where Nemtsov's open casket was on display. Dvorkovich, from the Kremlin's increasingly sidelined liberal camp, was carrying a bunch of red flowers.


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Is TikTok the Most Egalitarian Social Platform?
Marketing, Media, Popular CultureSocial Media
Tick Tock for TikTok?
Tick tock. That's the sound of 45 minutes flashing by since you downloaded and opened TikTok on your phone. Two minutes of that was the actual set-up. It's that easy. The rest was pure amusement, watching hilarious lip syncs (think music, movie scenes, a child's temper tantrum, politicians' speeches and talking dogs). Then there are the hashtag dance challenges, family members pranking each other, "how to" cooking lessons, comedy and more. Swipe up and there's another!
What is TikTok?
TikTok is a short-form (15 to 60 seconds) video app famous for viral memes, collaborative challenges, lip syncing and comedic content. Since its inception in 2018 TikTok has accumulated over 1.5 billion installs worldwide*, including 315 million in the first quarter of 2020 alone. Those numbers are capturing the attention of brands looking to capitalize with sponsored hashtags, advertising and leveraging UGC—user generated content.
Telling Your Own Story
TikTok is one of the most egalitarian platforms.** Perhaps it's because we've been required to stay at home for the past few months, but TikTok offers an amazing peek into others' homes and lives–minus any stereotypes because it's all self-representation. Then there's the collaborative, relational nature of TikTok. The platform is based around community engagement and hashtags, so a good practice is to find existing content to build on, react to, imitate and make your own.
How Is it Different than Facebook or Instagram?
You won't only see posts from the same 25 friends in your echo chamber as you might see on Facebook, or carefully curated scenes like on Instagram. Your "For You" feed in TikTok shows an unlimited number of top trending videos from around the globe. And while it's not clear exactly how their algorithm works, anyone, even those with only a few followers, can go viral and become instantly famous on TikTok. That's part of the allure for users, primarily, but not exclusively, 18- to 24- year-olds.***
Will TikTok surpass YouTube? That battle is fierce in India right now, but in the US time will tell. The short answer to that question is start making videos. Because regardless of the platform, video as a marketing platform will only continue to grow.
TikTok's parent company is based in Beijing and one of its largest markets is India. Lawmakers have taken notice and have expressed concern that TikTok might censor videos on topics the Chinese government finds sensitive. On the positive side of being so internationally focused, some of the most-viewed comedy videos are just faces and dances, an inclusive, universal medium with no language barrier.
Not Sure if/how to Get Started?
Go to tiktok.com on your computer or download the TikTok app to your smartphone. Watch a lot of videos first to get a feel for it (tick tock). And if you think you want to create your own potentially viral video, there are plenty of online Tutorials. As for content, Social Media Examiner suggests you use the two magic ingredients: pets and children.
On the "if" side, before diving into any new social media platform for business, always ask—does this medium serve my strategy and objectives in real life? Is the time extended worth the return on investment? Do my potential clients hang out there?
How is your digital strategy supporting you? Not sure? Contact us to find out.
This post was originally shared in a monthly newsletter (you can sign up for that, here) that went out last week. Between then and posting it here five days later, India banned TikTok and I received some interesting responses, shared here:
* Just yesterday India banned TikTok (and nearly 60 other China-based tech platforms) as tensions between the two countries escalate. Security and spying were among the concerns. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/world/asia/tik-tok-banned-india-china.html
** George from Skokie questioned how I could call TikTok egalitarian and cited reasons why it was just the opposite:
"I, coming (escaped) from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, run by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, am very sensitive in regard to freedom. The Chinese Communist Party controlling the lives not only of their population but trying to influence lives of people in western democracies. The use of social platforms is just one of their methods. I was in China about 6 years ago and saw how people are afraid to talk freely, especially to a foreigner. Our young Chinese tour guide was talking with us with her hand covering her mouth, so plain cloth police would not be able to read her lips. Unfortunately, social media are not neutral."
*** Terry from Chicago pointed out that it was 12 to 18 year olds who used TikTok to supposedly foil President Trumps recent, poorly attended rally. "All the kids are doing it," her daughter told her, about reserving tickets to the rally with no intention of attending. Over 1M people RSVP's, with only 6,500 showing up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/21/tiktok-kpop-trump-tulsa-rally/
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The mission deals mainly with the areas of engineering and the like, having as its main focus academic training, research, development and innovation activities closely connected with training of the second and principally the third cycle, and also the activities of the University's third mission, which include the transfer of knowledge and technology, the provision of services, continuous education, participation in discussion concerning national policies and involvement in the economic, cultural and social life of our region and country. Complementing these, the cultural, civic and humanistic education of the FEUP community, together with the value of the surroundings and heritage and the preservation of the memory of this institution, must also be seen as an integral part of the mission.
FEUP positions itself as an 'erudite and cosmopolitan' institution, a living campus and fount of inspiration for the technical and scientific, civic and cultural growth of so many youngsters, promising them a better future.
It also aims, through its quality as an institution, to inspire in all who have permanent employment therein a state of well-being, ambition and pro-activity in order always to improve on the quantity and quality of its public service, in pursuit of its mission's objectives, in the creation of knowledge and its transfer to society.
FEUP will serve as a key asset, and will therefore necessarily be rigorous, proactive and demanding, in accordance with the aims of the University of Porto and for the development of Portugal, in order to achieve that ever delayed goal of European convergence.
Strategic Policy 1 – To promote overall quality in line with internationally accepted criteria.
We re-affirm the pursuit of quality assurance policies to ensure continued performance improvement at all levels of FEUP activity.
In particular, in the activities fundamental of education and research, quality models will be adopted that are understood and accepted by all partners, i.e. internationally adopted models.
Strategic Policy 2 – To promote internationalization, particularly as regards widening the basis of international cooperation.
FEUP should maintain a policy of seeking to broaden its base of international cooperation, through participation in prestigious international networks, in international associations for training and research, and through the conclusion of institutional protocols and bilateral agreements.
FEUP has to maximize all its assets in order to assert itself as a national and international reference for engineering education policies in all relevant dimensions.
Strategic Policy 4 – To consolidate the reform of the training offer in terms of structure, contents, teaching methods and assessment.
FEUP has as a matter of priority to promote rationalization of its courses and a review of methods, in favour of increased multidisciplinarity, of student autonomy in the learning process and of the fostering of educational attainment.
Strategic Policy 5 – The steady improvement of the performance indicators for mobility of incoming and outgoing students.
The target of having 20% of students on mobility programs in 2020, indicated in the Leuven Communiqué of Ministers , 2009, has been adopted in our mobility project.
The document presents a broad range of goals and actions associated with the 3 policy lines mentioned therein, aiming at the international consolidation of FEUP Masters Courses, the adoption of best practices in teaching and learning, the necessary social dimension policy and even the privileged relationship that FEUP management and course directors must have with the student associations, especially with the FEUP Students' Association (AEFEUP).
Strategic Policy 6 - To promote the improvement of the evaluation results of R&D units whose host institution is FEUP.
Considering the importance and implications of the results of quality assessments, FEUP should actively support the internal processes of restructuring R&D Units leading towards the improvement of the quality indicators, in particular by fostering discussion on best practices of research in order to improve these indicators.
Strategic Policy 7 – To promote the integration of FEUP doctoral programs at the Doctoral School of the University of Porto, in accordance with the Statutes of the School.
FEUP should review its supply of existing courses, with a view to their integration into the Doctoral School in the first phase of evaluation; it should be willing to propose the closure or merger of courses and should also encourage the taking up of opportunities that the Doctoral School creates for the launching of new courses of a multidisciplinary and/or multi-institutional nature.
Strategic Policy 8 – To promote synergies and cooperation in strategic areas.
Multidisciplinary activity should be fostered, particularly through the creation of Centres of Competence, statutorily provided for in emerging areas of high development potential, or in relevant traditional areas, where the activity framework might be widely dispersed, in order to create critical mass and competitive capacity for acceptance in major international projects.
Strategic Policy 9 – To adapt the R&D activity of teachers and researchers to FEUP statutes and create a Research Observatory.
The report of every FEUP teacher's and researcher's activities should be consolidated, in accordance with the terms of the statutes (articles 48 and 49), through the creation of a Research Observatory, making it possible to comprehend in a consistent manner the full extent of the R & D activity of FEUP teachers and researchers. On the basis of this report, an observatory of R & D & E activity covering the performance of all teachers and researchers must be established.
Strategic Policy 10 - To promote competitive international collaboration and procurement of external funds.
Particularly promoting our candidacy for major European projects within the framework of the EIT (European Institute of Technology) and within the new Framework Programme Horizon 2020, and also promoting the organization of major international events.
Overall, these political lines intend to take the opportunity to revisit all the research developed by teachers and researchers of the University of Porto and also aim to promote, without any exception, the quality of research, multidisciplinary cooperation and strategic investment.
Strategic Policy 11 - To adopt a consistent policy of fostering the promotion of the 'third mission' activities, considering that these, in their different aspects, are of great economic and social relevance.
Such a policy must be carried out by all sectors of the organization, as it includes (i) the activities developed by teachers and researchers, regardless of their organizational framework; (ii) the necessary activities of FEUP Services in support of R & D activities; (iii) the independent activities of those Services, in important cases.
Strategic Policy 12 – To promote a sustained supply of courses, both in terms of continuous education and of single units, at first degree, post-graduate specialization and advanced training levels.
FEUP considers as a relevant goal the fostering of a culture of lifelong learning and of strengthening its offer in this area, on three levels of activity: (i) course units and undergraduate level courses; (ii) course units and post-graduate specialization courses; (iii) curricular units and advanced training courses for those with Masters degrees.
Strategic Policy 13 – To disseminate FEUP activity through the organization of national and international events and initiatives, and through the promotion of international cooperation as regards issues of employability, mobility, entrepreneurship and innovation.
FEUP boasts a remarkable portfolio of 'permanent' events in the areas of training, cooperation and disclosure of engineering information.
At national level the present plan is to strengthen existing initiatives.
At international level it is proposed to strengthen mobility relations with Europe and Latin America, seeking FEUP entry into prestigious mobility networks and into European groupings (clusters) of excellence associated with the promotion of entrepreneurship.
There has been a full cultural agenda, of great quality. Everything will be done at least to maintain this, given current budgetary constraints.
There needs to be an improvement in the sporting calendar, and this will be possible with the commissioning of the new equipment scheduled for 2012 and 2013.
The message associated with this set of policies is clearly that of the importance of this dimension of university activity and at the same time that there is plenty of room for progress and improvement of indicators that characterize it in most of its aspects: i.e. in the promotion of ethics and social responsibility; in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation; in cooperation with economic activities and with regional and national administration; in participation in public policy development; in connecting to society through FEUP alumni; in the promotion of sporting activities.
Strategic Policy 15 – To develop a policy of strengthening the Alma Mater, the creation of a sense of well-being, dignity in the working environment and the promotion of quality of work, in all its aspects.
We emphasize the promotion of the identity of the mission objectives, the defence of work associated with human dignity and the promotion of civic respect in internal relations.
Strategic Policy 16 – To maintain an active policy of enhancing the FEUP campus and its urban, landscaping, architectonic and environmental aspects; to improve internal living conditions and those of daily socialization, and to preserve the collective memory of the institution.
FEUP will contribute as a participant or transformation engine for its surroundings. In particular, FEUP will always seek a policy which coheres with the other Organic Units of the Campus according to that definition of action of common interest and in the procurement of material resources for that action, of which the QUALIFICA ASPRELA project, currently in progress, is an important example.
In this set of policies it is important to underline the relevance of promoting the identity of the community and involving it in discussing the future, symbolized in the organization of the "FEUP Congress 2011", whose purpose was to present and discuss topics put forward by the community, for two days. This was the first forum with these goals for more than thirty-five years.
We must stress the equal importance of undertaking historical analysis, which will lead to FEUP's future celebration of its "FEUP Day", in association with a celebration of the origins of the teaching of engineering in Portugal.
We consider four strategic components of governance that are scheduled for the next five years, and management policies in relation to themes that are considered sensitive for the smooth-running of FEUP in the future, which includes the current budget management policy.
Strategic Policy 17 – In relation to the creation of CRSCUP and an eventual organic reorganization of the University of Porto, to cooperate with the University Senate and with other organic units in seeking the best solution for a reorganization that seems not only desirable, but inevitable.
The potential organizational changes under discussion at the University of Porto have or will have profound implications for the governance of the Organic Units.
For a Faculty the size of FEUP, which carries the distinction of an engineering teaching history almost 200 years old, this evolution of a governmental model will have to be analyzed as rigorously as possible as far as the implications for quality associated with it are concerned.
In this framework, the model that could be adopted, beyond the argument for rationalization of human and economic resources, which is particularly sensitive in the current situation, should have as its main objectives the improvement of quality of services and the preservation of the identity of each Organic Unit's own areas of activity, which in case of FEUP's case is engineering.
Strategic Policy 18 – In 2012, with regard to the potential for internal reorganization of FEUP, to study scenarios within the Scientific Council and with broad-based consultation.
It is important to understand the evolution of knowledge, to facilitate multidisciplinarity, faced with the evolution of the concepts of training and development, and anticipate the necessary change (reduction) in the size of the teaching and technical staff.
Strategic Policy 19 - In the context of a reduction in its teaching and research staff, to adopt a policy of rigorous competitive procurement of new, high quality staff, thinking particularly of strategic areas defined by FEUP, naturally ensuring the necessary skills required for undergraduate courses.
FEUP offers exceptionally attractive conditions, at national level, which it must use to build a highly scientifically qualified teaching body, which will guarantee its competitive capacity on an international footing, essential for affirming its authenticity and for its fundraising projects.
Strategic Policy 20 - Given the context of state funding, to adopt a budgetary policy, at least for the first few years of this plan, which will be highly competitive in terms of obtaining external and internal revenues and suitably austere in its expenditure forecasts.
In this fund-raising effort, we underline the statutory duty of teachers, researchers and technicians to contribute to the FEUP mission, not only in terms of results associated with training, research, development, extension and dissemination of knowledge, but also through the generation of income necessary to carry out this mission.
On another sensitive issue, that of budget management for the coming years, the picture is clear - FEUP will have to do better with fewer resources.
It will be necessary to continue to adopt a policy of attracting new funds, but it will be equally necessary to obtain a significant reduction in expenditure. However, this needs to be carefully studied in order not to compromise the development objectives.
The Plan contains a set of strategic objectives and concrete action indicators which demonstrate that FEUP possesses all the conditions, not merely to survive, but first and foremost to be an effective springboard for the leap in qualitative development that Portugal has to take.
FEUP has within itself the intellectual and cultural capacity for entrepreneurship and for scientific and technical innovation that affords us confidence to believe in the future.


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module ShopifyApp
  class InMemoryShopSessionStore < InMemorySessionStore
    class << self
      def store(session, *args)
        id = super
        repo[session.shop] = session
        id
      end

      def retrieve_by_shopify_domain(shopify_domain)
        repo[shopify_domain]
      end
    end
  end
end

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Al-Fateh: Al-Kazemi And Biden Agreement Is A Play That Was Performed On The Iraqi People
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The Al-Fateh Alliance considered, on Saturday, that the agreement that Al-Kazemi signed with Biden regarding the presence of the occupation forces in Iraq is a play that was played by the people.
A member of the coalition, Hamid al-Moussawi, said in a statement to the "Information" agency, that "the bases inhabited by the American forces put the government in front of a great challenge, which is either implementing the people's decision and removing the American forces from it, or disregarding those demands and parliament's decisions."
He pointed out that "what the New York Times described as a play, and it is really so, as the agreement signed between Al-Kazemi and Biden is nothing but a representation of the Iraqi people, absorbing anger, and then prolonging the life of the occupation in the country."
He pointed out that "the government is required to prove its credibility with the American withdrawals, to show the forces present in those bases, whether they are Iraqi or American, and not to defraud the people."
It is noteworthy that the resistance factions threatened to target the occupation forces at the end of this year if they did not comply with the parliament's decision and the will of the Iraqi people to leave the country.


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Durante la carriera ha raggiunto sette volte la Top10 britannica con una prima posizione e collaborato con numerosi artisti tra cui Beyoncé, Emeli Sandé, Sam Smith e Ed Sheeran.

Ha prodotto e scritto brani per Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Tinie Tempah, Lily Allen, Leona Lewis, Joe Jonas e Jess Glynne.

Biografia
Iniziò a studiare alla London Metropolitan University ma interruppe gli studi per concentrarsi sul lavoro. Prima di entrare nel mondo della musica, lavorò da Domino's Pizza e all'ospedale di Watford.

2009-2012: Inizi da produttore
Nel 2009 irrompe nelle scene discografiche producendo e scrivendo con Emeli Sandé, la quale partecipa anche vocalmente alla traccia, "Diamond Rings" per i rapper Chipmunk e Wiley, che raggiunge la Top10 della classifica britannica. L'anno successivo, sempre con Sandé, produce un secondo brano per Wiley "Never Be Your Woman", cover di "Your Woman" di White Town, che raggiunse anch'esso la Top10 vendendo 120.000 unità.

Naughty Boy portò Emeli Sandé a firmare il contratto discografico con Virgin Records e EMI, e insieme tra il 2010 e il 2011 scrissero testi, poi da lui prodotti, per Lily Allen, Alesha Dixon, Devlin, Tinchy Stryder e Tinie Tempah.

Nel 2012 co-scrive e co-produce l'album di debutto della Sandé, "Our Version of Events", comparendo come artista collaborativo nel singolo "Daddy" che entra nelle classifiche di Regno Unito, Finlandia, Stati Uniti e Belgio. Inoltre è presente insieme alla cantante negli album di Leona Lewis, Rihanna e nella traccia "Craziest Things" per Will.i.am e Cheryl Cole e "Side Effects of You" per Fantasia Barrino.

2012–2014: Hotel Cabana
Durante tutto lo sviluppo della sua carriera, inizia a lavorare al suo album di debutto intitolato "Hotel Cabana", che doveva essere pubblicato con il suo pseudonimo "Naughty Boy" dalla Virgin EMI Records nel 2013. Prima del lancio dell'album viene pubblicato i singolo Wonder con Emeli Sandé che raggiunge la Top10 di Regno Unito ed Irlanda e la posizione 17 della Euro Digital Songs.

Il 18 maggio 2013 rilascia "La La La" con la collaborazione di Sam Smith. Il brano arriva nelle Top10 di 40 paesi, tra cui la prima posizione in Italia, Regno Unito, e la posizione 19 nella classifica statunitense. La canzone vende 5milioni copie in tutto il mondo, di cui 2milioni negli Stati uniti e 1milione nel Regno Unito, ricevendo inoltre due nomination ai BRIT Awards come Best British Single e British Video of the Year.

L'album viene pubblicato il 23 agosto del 2013 arrivando alla seconda posizione della classifica britannica e nelle Top30 di Irlanda ed Australia. Nel disco collaborano, oltre a Emeli Sandé e Sam Smith, anche Ed Sheeran, Gabrielle, Tinie Tempah, Wiz Khalifa e i Bastille. Per promuovere l'album inizia un tour ne paese natale a partire dal novembre dello stesso anno.  Successivamente vengono estratti "Lifted" con Sandé, "Think About It" con Wiz Khalifa e Ella Eyre ed infine nel 2014 il brano "Home".

Dopo aver completato il lavoro sul proprio album, nel 2013, ha ripreso la produzione per altri artisti. Ha lavorato su dischi pop per la cantante americana Britney Spears. La cantante inglese Lily Allen ha chiesto a Naughty Boy di produrre alcuni brani per il suo prossimo album. Inoltre, ha collaborato con Sandé e Katy Perry a New York per lavorare su una canzone per il prossimo album di Perry, Prism.

2016-presente: Collaborazioni e secondo album in studio
Dopo la partecipazione all'album di debutto di Jess Glynne nel brano "Saddest Vanilla" con la Sandé, il 17 settembre 2015, dopo una sola settimana di anticipo, viene annunciata la pubblicazione del nuovo singolo di Naughty Boy, Runnin' (Lose It All) il quale figura la partecipazione della pop-star Beyoncé e del cantante Arrow Benjamin. Il brano entra nelle Top10 di diversi paesi. tra cui Regno Unito e Nuova Zelanda, vendendo un milione di copie in tutto il mondo, ricevendo la certificazione di platino nel Regno Unito. Il video ha vinto un Leone di bronzo nella categoria Excellence In Music Video alla prima edizione del Cannes Lions Entertainment for Music e riceve una nomination ai BRIT Awards nella categoria British Video of the Year.

Il brano "Should've Been Me", con voce di Kyla e Popcaan è stato pubblicato come secondo singolo il 18 novembre 2016. La canzone ha raggiunto il numero 61 della UK Singles Chart. "One Chance to Dance", con voce di Joe Jonas è stato pubblicato come terzo singolo il 20 ottobre 2017.

Il 18 aprile 2018, ha pubblicato la sua collaborazione con gli artisti Ray BLK e Wyclef Jean dal titolo "All or Nothing" mentre il 7 dicembre 2018, "Bungee Jumping" è stato rilasciato con la voce di Emeli Sandé e Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, prevedendo l'uscita del suo secondo album per l'autunno del 2019.

Discografia

Album in studio
Hotel Cabana - (2013)

Singoli
Never Be Your Woman - (2010) (con Wiley & Emeli Sandé)
Wonder - (2012) (con Emeli Sandé)
La La La - (2013) (con Sam Smith)
Lifted - (2013) (con Emeli Sandé)
Think About It - (2013) (con Wiz Khalifa & Ella Eyre)
Runnin' (Lose It All) - (2015) (con Beyoncé e Arrow Benjamin)

Collaborazioni
Daddy - (2011) (Emeli Sandé con Naughty Boy)
Dreams - (2013) (Gabrielle con Naughty Boy)
Home - (Sam Romans con Naughty Boy)

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Collegamenti esterni

Artisti alla posizione numero 1 della classifica singoli italiana

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Question: How Much Does It Cost To Build A House In Wisconsin?
1 How much does it cost to build a 3 bedroom house in Wisconsin?
2 What is the cost per square foot to build a house in Wisconsin?
3 Is it cheaper to buy a house or build one?
4 How do I estimate the cost of building a house?
5 Is it possible to build a house for 50k?
6 What is the cheapest type of house to build?
7 Can you build a home for $100 per square foot?
8 What is the average cost to build a 4 bedroom house in Wisconsin?
9 What is the most expensive part of building a house?
10 Where to start if you want to build a house?
11 How do I buy land with no money?
12 Is it expensive to build a house right now?
13 How do you estimate building costs?
14 How many bags of cement do I need for 1000 square feet?
15 How many bricks do I need for a 1200 square foot house?
How much does it cost to build a 3 bedroom house in Wisconsin?
To help keep it simple, let's start with the base price. A basic 1650 square foot, three- bedroom, two-bath ranch-style home with no bells and whistles averages about $157 per square foot. This means you'd expect to pay roughly $259,050.
What is the cost per square foot to build a house in Wisconsin?
On average, prices may range from $180 to $200 or more per square foot in Northeast Wisconsin, depending on the size of your home and the specific features you choose.
Is it cheaper to buy a house or build one?
Is it cheaper to buy or build a house? If you're focused solely on initial cost, building a house can be a bit cheaper — around $7,000 less — than buying one, especially if you take some steps to lower the construction costs and don't include any custom finishes.
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How do I estimate the cost of building a house?
Total Cost = 9,00,000 Materials,
Cement = 16.4% = 1,47,600 Rs.
Sand = 12.3% = 1,10,700 Rs.
Aggregate = 7.4% = 66,600 Rs.
Steel = 24.6% = 2,21,400 Rs.
Finishers = 16.5% = 1,48,500 Rs. (Paint = 4.1% + Tiles = 8.0% + Bricks = 4.4%)
Fittings = 22.8% = 2,05,200 Rs.
Total Cost = 9,00,000 Rs. /
Is it possible to build a house for 50k?
Yes, it's definitely possible. Without the benefit of financing, you can still build a basic 3 bed/2 bath house around 1000 sqft to code for that much in central California or even a little larger in Texas.
What is the cheapest type of house to build?
Generally defined as houses with square footage between 100 and 400 square feet, tiny houses are typically the cheapest kinds of houses to build. That said, fitting your everyday needs into a tiny space often takes some custom work, so there may still be some costs to the custom cabinetry and custom fixtures required.
Can you build a home for $100 per square foot?
The average cost to build a house is $248,000, or between $100 to $155 per square foot depending on your location, size of the home, and if modern or custom designs are used. Cost Per Square Foot to Build a House.
Cost Per Square Foot
South Region $100
Midwest Region $109
West Region $131
Northeast Region $155
What is the average cost to build a 4 bedroom house in Wisconsin?
Expect to spend in the ballpark of $320,000 to $450,000, depending on fixtures, appliances, land size, contractor costs, home size and more.
What is the most expensive part of building a house?
Framing is the most expensive part of building a house. While exact framing costs can sometimes be tricky to predict, there are general guidelines that can help you understand what will drive costs up. Size. The bigger the house, the more expensive it will be to frame.
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Where to start if you want to build a house?
Where To Begin When Building a House
Step 1: Get In Sync With Your Priorities.
Step 2: Set Your Budgets.
Step 3: Assemble Your Dream Team.
Step 4: Find Your Land.
Step 5: Work With Your Architect to Create Your Plans, Or Pick Your Plans with Your Builder.
How do I buy land with no money?
How to Buy Land With No Money
Have SOME Money. Though I just finished saying these tips are for if you have no money, having even a small amount, say $500, can really help you out.
Search Locally.
Buy Land That Has Been on the Market A Long Time.
Ask For Property Access.
Request A Delayed Closing.
Buying Land IS Possible for You.
Is it expensive to build a house right now?
In 2020, the average cost to build a house was over $485,000. Meanwhile, the average cost to buy an existing single-family home was nearly $334,500. That means choosing to buy a pre-existing house instead of building a new one could save you $150,500!
How do you estimate building costs?
Estimation of a Building with Plan
Check dimension of each block is provided or not.
The check Schedule of the opening is there.
Check specification of work.
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How many bags of cement do I need for 1000 square feet?
Cement bags About 0.38 cement bag is used per sq ft of construction. So, around 400 bags of cement (50kg each) are consumed for 1000 sq ft home.
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How many bricks do I need for a 1200 square foot house?
Site Size: 30×40 site house construction cost (Ground + 1, 3 BHK) upto 1875 Sq. ft built up area.
Materials Required
Concrete M Sand 52 Tonnes
40mm Jelly 410 Cft
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For my computer I still have a problem. "Can not connect to BLED112 Dongle".
In another laptop I connected the app to Sbrick however I did not test it yet.
Some kind of manual would be... moreHi Balint.
Some kind of manual would be useful.
I updated the firmware 2 times and it is still red like I did nothing.
I made some test on another laptop and I was partly successful.
The system is the same (win7), I just noticed that BLED112 used COM3 and on my laptop it was COM4 (COM3 is already used).
The connection is not solid, I sometimes have to restart windows to reconnect to SBrick+ again.
Generally I successfully connected motors but no sensors yet. As I followed other topics, this is a different problem (are they still not supported in my configuration?).
My s2bot can see the SBrick + but can not see the ports, what would you adviece?
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Arib Maazouzi – ex giocatore di calcio a 5 e calciatore norvegese
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The notions of sustainable design and energy efficiency first entered global consciousness following the energy shortages of the 1970s and 1980s. Influenced by ideas of energy independence, many designers in Europe and North America sought ideas and strategies that could help create energy-efficient buildings and cities. As they searched for design solutions, some researched the environmentally responsive elements of traditional architecture, while others developed new solutions that employ modern technologies and high performance materials.
UPDATED – The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) at Thuwal (near Jeddah) in Saudi Arabia was recently announced as one of the winners of the American Institute of Architects' Top 10 Green Buildings awards for 2010.
The new international graduate-level research university was established by the government-owned Aramco, the world's largest energy corporation, to drive innovation in science and technology and to support world-class research in areas such as energy and the environment. The campus project was designed by HOK Architects and was completed in September 2009.
KAUST's new campus is Saudi Arabia's first LEED certified project earning a Platinum certification, the highest rating in the United States' green building rating system At 496,000 Square meters, the project also represents the world's largest LEED Platinum project.
In February 2010, the design for Al-Birr Foundation Headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been named as the winner of the 2010 Architectural Review / MIPIM Future Projects Awards under the 'tall buildings' category (Image 1). The unbuilt project, designed by Perkins+Will's New York Office, was commissioned for Al-Birr Foundation, a non-profit organization aimed at alleviating poverty and caring for disadvantaged families and children.
Of the many features of the design of the 59, 000 sqm tower, perhaps the most interesting is how it was concieved as a sustainable urban tower that responds to the environmental characteristics and the microclimate of the city of Riyadh, which is a challenging climate to address given the extreme solar exposure and the heat conditions of Riyadh.
Faced with these climatic conditions and a deep plot of 1000 x 1200m, the projects's designers response was to rethink the high rise typology in this context. The design's most visible response to the climate is the building's envelope which was designed as a large rectangular frame of brise-soleil enclosing the occupied parts of the building. This shading frame was designed to respond to both the different amounts of solar radiation received by each elevation as well as the interior spaces behind it. To achieve this result, a mapped shading mesh was devised to provide varying levels of openness for different locations of the different elevations depending on its solar exposure and its spatial/contextual influences. The result was an envelope that resembles a mesh of varying densities surrounding the building and simultaneously protecting and revealing the activities behind it.
This proposed design solution thus helps the building reduce its solar heat gain while maintaining its views towards the city (FIgure 1). In addition to this shading effect, the mesh-like dynamic treatment of the envelope has also helped animate the building's expression with the dense and sparse zones of the facade adding a dynamic effect to what otherwise may have become a static pure form.


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Tales from the Cask
Tasting Notes: SMWS 29.71 (Laphroaig 11)
Dec 9, 2017 · 2 min read
Today's whisky needs something of an introduction. Technically it is a single cask Laphroaig 11 year old. However, it comes from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, making its legal name SMWS 29.71.
A lot of you probably know about the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. For those who don't, it's a whisky club that offers unique, single cask bottlings from just about every distillery in operation, and a few that are silent. The society holds tastings all over the world, with discounted rates for members, and also has a number of formal tasting rooms located in the UK and Switzerland (not so useful for US members).
Individual membership costs $200, the price of which includes your first 750 mL bottle of whisky. Bottlings from the society are not called by the name of their distillery, but rather by two numbers, the first of which signifies the distillery, the second a particular expression. Members are provided with a cheat sheet to help decode this naming convention.
I was given a gift membership by my co-blogger, Strong Like Cask, for my birthday this year, and this Laphroaig 11 was the bottle he selected as part of my initial membership. I've been a member since May and I've yet to attend a tasting or purchase a bottle. Quite frankly, the prices on both are usually too high for my budget, and I'm still not sure that it's worth it. But I certainly appreciate the gift, Laphroaig is one of my favorite distilleries, and I did get this bottle out of the deal, so it's high time I put up some tasting notes. Plus my bottle is almost empty, so it's now or never!
Laphroaig 11 (SMWS 29.71)
Distilled October 1996. Bottled August 1998
ABV: 58.2% (and feeling every bit of it)
Color: Pale Gold
Nose: Medicinal, peaty. Some fruit with water added (lots of water).
Taste: Peaty and coal smoke, but more phenolic and medicinal than the smoke from, say, a Caol Ila. Lots of heat.
Overall: This is a cask strength and you feel it in every sip. I added water a number of times and there was just no shaking the aggressiveness and the heat of this dram. Otherwise it's much like the 10 year — lots of smoke and medicinal flavors — but really really aggressive. It will bite you in the ass. It's like the angry older brother of the regular Laphroaig 10 year.
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Deposition Author(s): Ren, J., Esnouf, R., Ross, C., Jones, Y., Stammers, D., Stuart, D.
The structure of unliganded HIV-1 reverse transcriptase has been determined at 2.35 A resolution and refined to an R-factor of 0.219 (for all data) with good stereochemistry. The unliganded structure was produced by soaking out a weak binding non-nucleoside inhibitor, HEPT, from pregrown crystals. Comparison with the structures of four different RT and non-nucleoside inhibitor complexes reveals that only minor domain rearrangements occur, but there is a significant repositioning of a three-stranded beta-sheet in the p66 subunit (containing the catalytic aspartic acid residues 110, 185 and 186) with respect to the rest of the polymerase site. This suggests that NNIs inhibit RT by locking the polymerase active site in an inactive conformation, reminiscent of the conformation observed in the inactive p51 subunit.
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Plenary Roads State Street Redevelopment Project reaches financial close
Gowling WLG acted as B.C. counsel to Plenary Group (Canada) Ltd. on its equity investment, note offering and related ISDA Swap Transaction with respect to the State Street Redevelopment Project valued at US$120 million.
On March 15, 2016, the State Street Redevelopment Project achieved financial close, two months ahead of the initially scheduled closing date. The project, valued at US$120 million, will remake State Street — a West Lafayette, Indiana, road that leads from downtown and Purdue University — into a thoroughfare focused on residential, business and student needs.
In January, the City of West Lafayette and Purdue University Joint Board conducted a series of presentations to residents and elected leaders to walk through the details of the proposal. Following this public engagement, Plenary Roads State Street and the Joint Board collaborated to further optimize the project structure and accelerate financial close, taking advantage of favorable interest rates and allowing the remaining perimeter parkway segments to be negotiated into the project scope without increasing the overall project cost.
The State Street Redevelopment Project is a collaborative effort between the City of West Lafayette and Purdue University in cooperation with the West Lafayette Redevelopment Commission and Purdue Research Foundation. Detailed project designs are currently being developed, with construction set to commence mid-2016. Plenary Roads State Street will continue on in a maintenance capacity following the completion of construction, set for December 2018.
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Economists have been arguing about the connection between unemployment and inflation for decades. Critics claim that the connection is unreliable and leads policymakers astray, while others argue that the relationship is useful for forecasting. We examine the more direct connections between elevated unemployment levels and the rate of increase in wage and labor costs, more generally. We find that wage and labor cost growth has declined markedly following recent recessions. It has again declined sharply in the most recent recession. We also find that compensation typically remains subdued during the initial phases of recent recoveries. This is again the case in the current recovery, making labor costs a significant restraining force on inflation going forward.
It is logical to assume that today's unemployment rate is high enough to influence the compensation of workers who find themselves competing with millions of other unemployed people for the same jobs. This connection between real economic activity and prices is what economists refer to as a "Phillips curve," which, despite how reasonable the relationship seems, has been extensively criticized as unreliable.
One criticism concerns the use of the Phillips curve relationship as a basis for monetary policy, since the curve could suggest that a tradeoff between inflation and unemployment exists. The existence of such a tradeoff could mean that causing an increase in inflation will lower unemployment. Two notable critics of that idea, Nobel prizewinners Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman, first argued in the late 1960s that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment would exist only in the short run; once the public expected higher inflation in the future, the effect would disappear. Thus, expansionary monetary policy leads to more inflation rather than a decline in the unemployment rate. This critique aptly describes the Fed's policy errors during the 1970s, which many critics of current monetary policy fear are being repeated.
More technical limitations to the Phillips curve have also been noted. In particular, the forecasting performance of various forms of the Phillips curve has been shown to be unreliable in certain time periods. In the extreme, economists have argued that in recent time periods ". . . Phillips curves are not useful for forecasting inflation." This is not a mainstream conclusion particularly among economic forecasters, but the instability of the relationship is widely recognized and is a real challenge for central banks.
Conversely, a recent paper by James Stock and Mark Watson argues pretty convincingly that "U.S. recessions are associated with declines in inflation." In their work, Stock and Watson use a time-scaling technique to compare increases in unemployment and declines in inflation over business cycles. Using the time scaling technique, they are able to compare similar points in time during business cycles of various lengths. Their results point to a more stable relationship between the rise of unemployment in recessions and lower subsequent trend rates of inflation.
In order to focus a little deeper on the underlying response of labor costs to unemployment, we explore the connection between elevated unemployment levels and the rate of increase in labor costs, using Stock and Watson's technique. We conclude that labor cost growth has already declined markedly, and labor costs are likely to be a significant restraining force on inflation going forward. Furthermore, the patterns of past recessions indicate that most of the decline in labor cost growth may have been already realized.
Ultimately, we will have to look back on the next couple of years of data to see how influential elevated unemployment rates were on the inflation process, but in the meantime, economic projections for inflation have to be guided by something. At the very least, projections must assume an implicit view on the question of what effect unemployment has on compensation growth and inflation.
In this analysis, we primarily use the employment cost index or ECI to measure growth trends in labor costs. The ECI comprises two series: wages and salaries, and benefits. Wages and salaries includes all types of salaried and hourly wage rates, but we will refer to the series as wage growth for brevity's sake. Wages and salaries typically contain the clearest information about firms' pricing decisions, as changes in benefits can often be out of a firm's control. But since benefits make up about 30 percent of total compensation (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employer Costs for Employee Compensation), we do include them in our analysis. Note that the type of benefits included in the ECI go beyond your traditional health insurance coverage. Overtime pay, vacation days, sick time, pension and other retirement plans, and social security and unemployment insurance are all accounted for under the ECI's benefits series.
One key factor in choosing to use the ECI data as the source of wages or compensation data is that it is structured as a price index, with a fixed set of occupations designed to be representative of the typical U.S. workforce. This prevents distortions in the data that might occur during recessions as certain employment groups decline. It also helps to avoid the cyclical variability that other pay measures are exposed to.
The ECI data do not go back very far, so results should be interpreted with caution. To check the sensitivity of our results to the limited sample period, we redo the analysis with various other measures of employment costs (compensation per hour, average weekly wages).These measures have longer histories but produce similar results.
Even though the ECI total compensation series only began to be reported in the early 1980s, it clearly shows that compensation growth has tended to decline during and after recessions (figure 1). It also shows that compensation growth is not recovering like it used to: It has not returned to its prerecession level in any of the recent business cycles. This is despite the fact that benefits costs have at times increased rapidly.
Compensation growth has slowed 2.5 percentage points from its peak in 1990. The latest figures put growth at only 2.5 percent over the past four quarters. The decline reflects both wage and benefit reductions, although in this case, benefits growth fell more sharply, going from 6.5 percent to 1.9 percent. During the 2001 business cycle, compensation growth slowed by 1.9 percentage points, even though strong growth in some benefits such as health insurance supported total compensation growth over the period. The 2007 recession shows a similar pattern, although given what we can tell from past business cycles, the full extent of the slowdown may not yet be known.
Figure 2 shows wage growth and unemployment data scaled for comparison using this approach. While there are only three complete business cycles, a pattern is evident. Wage growth declines during recessions as the unemployment rate increases. Wage growth then stabilizes at lower levels following the peak in the unemployment rate. In the case of the 1990 recession, wage growth remained 1.5 percentage points lower than it had been at the previous business cycle peak until 1995. Following the 2001 recession and the jobless recovery, wage growth dropped 1.5 percentage points in 2005 and remained 0.5 percentage points lower all the way to the start of the 2007 recession.
Post-recession declines in unemployment do not seem to have an analogous effect on wage growth. Rather, wage growth appears to remain stable even as unemployment declines. This suggests that increases in unemployment cause a one-time adjustment in wage growth rather than there being a tight ongoing relationship between unemployment and wage growth during and after recessions.
Currently, wage growth is running in line with the two prior cycles' patterns at about 1.6 percentage points lower than it was before the recession. In one sense, the limited decline in wage growth is surprising given that the increase in the unemployment rate is far larger in this recession. A simple regression model would support the view that the declines in wage growth are far less than expected given the size of that increase in unemployment. A regression model would also tend to anticipate increases in wages going forward rather than the relatively level pattern seen in the ECI in past recoveries. Of course, such an analysis would also point to the limited statistical reliability of the estimates due to the very small number of observations.
Compensation growth is a better overall measure of labor costs than wage growth, because producers have to set their prices to cover both wage and benefits costs. Yet benefits costs are more variable than wage and salary payments (see figure 1). Indeed, anecdotal reports from business contacts suggest that benefits costs are subject to surprises that can make them harder to contain. Still, over time, employers also report adjusting either wages or benefit-program costs in order to hit a given labor cost target.
Applying the Stock and Watson approach to compensation data reveals a pattern similar to wage growth (figure 3). Compensation growth declines in recessions as the unemployment rate increases, then stabilizes at lower levels following the peak in the unemployment rate. In the case of the 1990 recession, compensation growth remained roughly 2.2 percentage points lower until 1999. Following the 2001 recession and the jobless recovery, compensation growth remained about 1.5 percentage points lower all the way to the start of the 2007 recession. Currently, compensation growth is running between the two prior cycles' patterns at 0.9 percentage points lower than it was before the recession. Again, conventional regression methods would indicate that the current declines in compensation are far less than expected given the increases in unemployment.
Applying the Stock and Watson procedure to one of the data series with a longer history yields similar conclusions. Averaged over the ten post-World War II business cycles, compensation per hour decreased as unemployment significantly increased. A period of declining unemployment yet stagnant compensation growth followed (figure 4).
Declines in unemployment rates following the peak in unemployment have not resulted in an immediate acceleration in compensation growth.
While this pattern is very consistent with Stock and Watson's results for a lower inflation trend following recessions, this pattern is not fully consistent with the most basic Phillips curve. The breakdown lies in the period following the peak in unemployment. The theory states that as the unemployment rate declines, labor costs should increase. In our analysis, we find that labor costs remain subdued following the peak in unemployment.
Intuitively, it makes sense that subdued labor costs should act as a restraint on future inflation for a number of reasons. Labor compensation is the main input cost companies must consider when setting prices. Labor costs are a substantial share of the total cost of producing and providing services—for example, legal services, medical care, or barber shops—and other services now make up a much larger share of our economy. Notably, they represent about 60 percent of consumer purchases in the CPI basket. Inflation in the service components of the CPI has in fact been highly correlated (0.72) with compensation growth since the early 1980s. Even though none of these results offers evidence of which way the causation might run, they are consistent with a period of restrained price changes in many parts of the consumer market basket.
To add more of a causal interpretation requires an economic model of the price setters' decision process, which links wage and price setting in a manner consistent with rational inflation expectations. The literature on "New-Keynesian Phillips curves" provides such a framework and addresses many of the early critiques of Phillips curves. For example, Jordi Gali, Mark Gertler, and Argia Sbordone have developed models where firms set their product prices infrequently based on their costs. This implies a tight link between labor costs and inflation, as forward-looking pricing rules respond to cover current and future labor costs.
These models also stress the importance of accounting for productivity growth by considering the cost of a representative unit of output or unit labor costs. We have ignored unit labor costs to this point in the Commentary because volatility in productivity growth across the business cycle tends to hide the compensation growth patterns. Still, for compensation growth to put upward pressure on inflation, it needs to exceed productivity growth and the current rate of inflation. Today that is not the case. With compensation growth at 2.3 percent, it is near the trend rate of productivity growth of about 2.0 percent and well below the sum of productivity growth and inflation. This implies that the labor market is applying no pressure on the pricing of domestic producers.
This lack of labor cost pressures is also being currently confirmed by many businesses. In anecdotal surveys conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for the Beige Book, contacts have frequently reported that subdued compensation growth has been a critical factor behind limited product price increases even while commodity prices accelerated in the spring of 2011.
While our analysis did not clarify how long subdued compensation growth might be expected to continue, forecasters and policymakers should continue to be watchful for signs of acceleration. However, recent indicators point to minimal expectations of wage increases over the next year. Moreover, evidence from recent business cycles argues that compensation growth has been and is likely to remain rather subdued until the recovery has progressed much further, which is helping to dampen cost pressures for both domestic goods and service producers.
An inflation scare driven by other factors, like consumer inflation expectations or commodity price increases, cannot be ruled out even with high unemployment rates. However, for that inflation to be sustained like it was in the 1970s, we would need to see a sharp turnaround in compensation growth.
The time dimension of each data series has been rescaled so 0 is the start of the recession (as declared by the National Bureau of Economic Research or NBER), while 1.0 occurs at the peak of the unemployment rate. Figures 2-4 plot percentage point changes in the unemployment rate and wage and compensation growth from the NBER-designated business-cycle peak, which helps to account for the previous trend in the data.
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"The Role of Monetary Policy" by Milton Friedman, 1968. American Economic Review, vol. 58.
"Inflation Dynamics: A Structural Econometric Analysis," by Jordi Gali and Mark Gertler. 1999. Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 44.
"Modeling Inflation after the Crisis," by James Stock and Mark W. Watson, 2011. Presented at the 2010 Jackson Hole Symposium, as published in Macroeconomic Challenges: the Decade Ahead, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
"Phillips Curves, Expectations of Inflation, and Optimal Unemployment over Time," by Edmund S. Phelps, 1967. Economica, vol. 34.
"Prices and Unit Labor Costs: A New Test of Price Stickiness," by Argia Sbordone, 2002. Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 49.


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This is your last phase so if you haven't read up on phase 1 or 2, we'll give you a second to do that now. In phase 3, you have established trust with your students, you've seen app success and its time to start making it available everywhere. You can start encompassing all the services across campus to really make the app your own. By tying the entire campus into loyalty, your branded app will be the vehicle you use to ultimately drive student behavior. To learn more about how to drive student behavior through loyalty click here. In this phase, you want to let the students know that everyday tasks can earn them tons of app points; but because you've made it campus-wide, this feature becomes so much more attractive. In order to make loyalty a campus-wide feature, students need to be able to earn points everywhere. Some examples of additions to your branded app would include the book store, retail stores, athletic centers, event tickets, parking, printing, residence life, laundry and so much more. Students can earn points every time they buy books, or if they buy during a certain time period. Students can earn points by checking into campus or residential events. Points can even be allocated for the smallest tasks, like doing laundry or parking on campus.
We acknowledge this step seems like an extensive amount of work for the campus; however, with Hangry's API, adding points to any action is an extremely easy process and we do the majority of the leg work. With our API, we can easily work with any idea you come up with and integrate with any other app students are using on campus. In a few easy steps, your Campus Branded app can be available everywhere, and can adapt to any changing situation or environment. The student experience is constantly changing and growing, so we like to consider phase 3 a permanent thing—the marriage of student and campus branded app. In this phase you'll see that you've not only created a simple mobile app for students to use, but a mobile enterprise that increases sales, keeps students on campus, drives behaviour, and is a main source of marketing.
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You probably know that diets don't work. If they did, people wouldn't be coming up with new ones all the time, billions of dollars wouldn't need to be spent on 'dieting' and we would all be competent eaters. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. Children aren't fed in a way that helps them remain competent eaters, which they are when they are born.
The Body Love Society was started by women who have been chronic dieters and seen for themselves that there is a better way to live your life than by the scales. They are presenting a series of podcasts 'Never Diet Again' starting on 21st February 2018. There will be 20 episodes and the one on 6th March will be with Jennifer Harris, a faculty member of the Ellyn Satter Institute. Jennifer has been utilizing the Satter Eating Competence models in her practice for both adults and children for over 20 years and has found them to be protective for both children and adults. You can learn more about the series here.


International students come to the Drucker Institute to learn essential tools for leadership and self-management.
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We believe in growth through constant learning which is why we set ourselves the challenge of reading one book every two weeks for 2017. Our theme of growth, entrepreneurship, mindset, and success has inspired our peers, clients and team and we have been inundated with recommendations of books that have changed their lives! Our fellow Google mentors have come up with some great titles - Google mentors' business books for startups, as has our team – and we've taken a leaf out of Mark Zuckerberg and Darren Hardy's reading lists too! Our reading list kicked off with 'The Compound Effect 'by Darren Hardy.
The Compound Effect is a great book to get you started on a new course. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazines extols the virtues and vices of routine habits. The point being is that inconsequential actions, repeated consistently over a long period (think 18 months' minimum) add up to a significant positive or negative effect.
The book kicks off with some simple but effective demonstrations that underpin the point of the compound effect of repeated actions and argues that to really change the game, you need to change the small stuff. He talks you through practical exercises along the way to get the theory really embedded into your daily life. Firstly, is the soul-searching task of working out not only what you want, but more importantly 'What is your burning desire to really achieve this goal' a.k.a. your 'Why Power'.
He then moves on to discuss the common place theory that 'You are the average of the five people you most associate with', but does this in a different way, encouraging you to practically assess your environment, create a plan to associate with people who have the attitude/life/mindset that you want, and commits you to implementing the plan in manageable steps.
This then naturally leads to goal setting, and monitoring of your plan of action daily. It's not about beating yourself up if you don't manage to achieve every action you planned, every day, but it is about bringing to your attention, the long-term effects of not successfully implementing a habit.
Installing Feedly and removing my other news apps to ensure only relevant news fills my feed to keep me to my commitment to reading 3 industry articles a day.
Telephoning a new prospect client 2 times a week.
The final one I'm really struggling with is 10 minutes' meditation every morning, but my toddler, newly released from his cot, to a bed is beating my alarm clock, so this may need a routine re-jig!
So does it work? Ask me in 17 months! But it's certainly made me realise that if you want it enough, you will find a way to find those extra few minutes a day, and that these changes, whilst small, will have a compound effect, changing your life towards how you want it to be.
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