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RTD Tea Sales Are Brisk After Demos
Whole Foods Market's Cherry Creek store is more than doubling its sales of iced teas marketed by the unit's ready-to-drink-tea share leader, Sweet Leaf Tea, with a series of sampling events hosted once or twice weekly. They're selling pretty darn well, Travis Brockavich, grocery team leader at the Whole Foods location, told SN. Since this January, weekly [incremental] sales are up $300,
Julie Gallagher | May 05, 2008
DENVER — Whole Foods Market's Cherry Creek store here is more than doubling its sales of iced teas marketed by the unit's ready-to-drink-tea share leader, Sweet Leaf Tea, with a series of sampling events hosted once or twice weekly.
"They're selling pretty darn well," Travis Brockavich, grocery team leader at the Whole Foods location, told SN. "Since this January, weekly [incremental] sales are up $300, on top of a base that's close to about $200," when demos are hosted.
Brockavich is part of an internal Whole Foods team that hosts about three out of every four sampling events taking place at the store.
"We've created a demo program to help support companies that don't necessarily have [the resources] to demo themselves," said Brockavich. "They pay us to help create an atmosphere for their product."
Although Sweet Leaf Tea relies on Whole Foods to host demos in this particular location, nine in 10 of all of its sampling events are staffed by members of the supplier's own separate team, noted Joel Skurnick, director of natural foods for Sweet Leaf Tea.
The sales lift resulting from demos hosted in the Cherry Creek store aren't necessarily typical of events hosted in Whole Foods locations in other regions, he added.
"It depends on how established we are in a particular store," said Skurnick. "If we were to talk about [Whole Foods'] Lamar store in Austin, Texas, it'd be impossible to double sales, but we recently demoed in [stores] in the North Atlantic region for four weeks, and each week sales were up over 1,000% over [that week] the previous year."
The use of Sweet Leaf Tea's internal team members contributed to the dramatic lift in sales, said Skurnick.
Although the supplier trains members of Whole Foods' team prior to demos, "There are no people who can host these demos like we can," he said. "Not that we don't see a lift in numbers at events hosted by the [Whole Foods team], but there is definitely a difference, since they may be demoing iced tea today and ice cream tomorrow."
Sweet Leaf Tea team members are trained to engage employees and consumers, noted Skurnick.
"We own the demo, from the moment we walk in the store," he said. "We walk around and introduce ourselves to [employees], hand out pins, bandanas and coupons that are good for a free bottle of tea — so by the time we set up our table, there is a bit of a buzz going around the store."
When they are available, Sweet Leaf Tea sets up sampling stations that are made to look like an old-fashioned lemonade stand, sitting on top of artificial grass.
Team members are instructed not to let a consumer walk by without at least saying hello and trying to get them to sample the product, noted Skurnick.
"Demo people are trained to talk to the consumer about what they normally drink," he said. "Their first reaction is usually to say 'No thank you, I don't want to try it,' but they'll inquire why, and it's usually because 'I don't drink caffeine' or 'like tea that's sweet.' Since we have different options, we can offer them something else."
All Sweet Leaf Tea varieties — including The Organic Original Sweet Tea, Organic Mint & Honey Green Tea and Lemon Lime Unsweet Tea — are available for sampling during the events.
Also inciting trial are buy-one, get-one-free coupons that are redeemed by between 50% and 60% of recipients. Coupon distribution is strategic.
"We decide who gets a coupon based on a consumer's interest and whether they've tried the tea in the past," said Skurnick. "We bring a limited amount of coupons with us, so when they're gone, they're gone."


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Q: Inputting multiple floats using cin ERROR I want to input 5 float values consecutively but the program is not working properly
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    float v, i, vr, vl, vc, r, xl, xc, z;
    for (int i = 1; i <= 9; i++)
    {
        cout << "Enter the values of v,i,vr,vl,vc" << endl;
        cin >> v;
        cin >> i;
        cin >> vr;
        cin >> vl;
        cin >> vc;
        cout << endl << v << " " << i << " " << vr << " " << vl << " " << vc << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

If I try entering the input as 1.1 2.2 3.3 4.4 5.5 , the program only accepts four values
The output is:
1.1 2 0.2 3.3 4.4
Please tell me where I am going wrong and how do I correct my code.

A: You are using i as float in outer scope and then using it as int in inner scope.
So when you input
1.1 2.2 3.3 4.4 5.5

Using
cin>>v;
cin>>i;
cin>>vr;
cin>>vl;
cin>>vc;

It only takes 2 from 2.2 and then takes 0.2 for vr variable.
So variable values become
v=1.1
i=2
vr=0.2
vl=3.3
vc=4.4

Hence 5.5 is left because it take 2.2 as 2 inputs

Solution:

Change your for loop variable to j.

A: There is a variable name conflict in your code:
float v, i, vr, vl, vc, r, xl, xc, z; // Here, variable "i" is declared as a floating-point variable

for (int i = 1; i <= 9; i++) // Here, "i" is declared again, this time as an int

When there are multiple variables of the same names, but in different scopes of the code, then the compiler uses the variable that is local to the scope at that point. That causes the error; you want the variable i to store the value 2.2 input, however, the most local variable is the counter i of the for-loop. Hence, the compiler tries to store the value in the counter. Since the counter is of type int, the 2.2 is broken up; counter i stores 2, and vr stores the 0.2.
That is why your compiler only accepts 4 values; the second value input is divided between 2 variables.
To correct this, change the name of the counter variable for your for-loop:
float v, i, vr, vl, vc, r, xl, xc, z;
for (int j = 1; j <= 9; j++) // The name of the counter variable is changed from "i" to "j"
{
    cout << "Enter the values of v,i,vr,vl,vc" << endl;
    cin >> v;
    cin >> i;
    cin >> vr;
    cin >> vl;
    cin >> vc;
    cout << endl << v << " " << i << " " << vr << " " << vl << " " << vc << endl;
}

Alternatively, change the name of the variable i (the one that has a scope outside the for-loop) to some other name:
float v, num, vr, vl, vc;
for (int i = 1; i <= 9; i++)
{
    cout << "Enter the values of v,j,vr,vl,vc" << endl;
    cin >> v;
    cin >> num;
    cin >> vr;
    cin >> vl;
    cin >> vc;
    cout << endl << v << " " << num << " " << vr << " " << vl << " " << vc << endl;
}

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Antifa Vandals Come for McConnell and Pelosi With The Phrase That Best Describes The Left: "We want EVERYTHING!"
By Leisa Audette | Jan 2, 2021
"We want EVERYTHING"…Nothing describes the far-left better than the saying that was spray-painted on Nancy Pelosi's garage door.
In recent days, Antifa paid a visit to both Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell to let them know they are targets of the far-left radical group. The homes of both DC leaders were spray painted with messages indicating that Antifa isn't happy with the rejection of a bill that would give a $2,000 check to every American.
Graffiti was found on the garage door of Democrat Nancy Pelosi's home with the phrases "$2K", "Cancel rent!" and "We want everything."
It's ironic that Nancy Pelosi called police because when its HER house, graffiti is vandalism. When it's anyone else whose home is vandalized, it's disenfranchised people having their voice heard. Remember what Pelosi said about the devastating riots and destruction of monuments last summer? She flippantly said, "People will do what they do."
Pelosi never spoke out when our cities were burning and now karma is coming for her…
Senate leader Mitch McConnell's home was also vandalized:

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Firstpost Explains: How Caster Semenya's case against the IAAF on hyperandrogenism will have wider ramifications in athletics
The CAS is expected to hold a five-day hearing into an appeal by Caster Semenya seeking to set aside the new regulations of the IAAF on hyperandrogenism.
KP Mohan February 16, 2019 20:58:05 IST
CAS is expected to hold a five-day hearing into an appeal by Caster Semenya seeking to set aside the new regulations of the IAAF on hyperandrogenism.
Both Chand and Semenya often argued that they were born with what their advantages were perceived to be and they would not be prepared to change.
The latest IAAF rules stipulate a testosterone level of 5nmol/L for female athletes compared to the 10nmol/L in the 2011 rules that were set aside by CAS.
There could be a variety of conditions that may present gender ambiguity and variations. This is what the anti-hyperandrogenism lobby has been arguing.
Will CAS be swayed by media hype and public support or will it strictly go by the evidence and the need to have some parameters to determine sex?
The hyperandrogenism issue is in international focus once again. Beginning Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is expected to hold a five-day hearing into an appeal by South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya, two-time Olympic champion, and three-time world champion, seeking to set aside the new regulations of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on hyperandrogenism among female athletes.
The new IAAF regulations, announced in April last year, were scheduled to come into effect on 1 November 2018 but the implementation was put off following Semenya's appeal in the CAS. It was agreed by the parties that an expedited hearing would be completed in February and the rules would come into force by at least 26 March. That would give athletes the IAAF regulated six-month gap required to lower and maintain their androgen levels in order to be able to compete in the World Championships in Doha in September. That is, provided of course, Semenya's appeal is thrown out and the IAAF regulations prevail. Right now, the dice looks loaded against the IAAF.
The issue of gender verification in sports, especially in athletics, is more than half a century old. Therefore, it is surprising that it has been projected and discussed through the past four years following the Dutee Chand episode in 2014 as something that had been sprung on the athletes all of a sudden.
Caster Semenya is unbeaten in 29 finals since September 2015. AFP/Karim Jaafar
From stripping athletes and examining genitalia to chromosome tests, karyotyping, buccal smear tests to hyperandrogenism regulations to the present DSD (Differences of Sex Development) rules, the process of gender verification has evolved in an effort to find a less intrusive, more acceptable form of verification to determine sex. It has been a delicate issue and remains one but the IAAF and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the other international federations are determined to find a way out.
The fact that confidentiality rules were readily flouted by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) in the Dutee Chand case eventually proved a blessing in disguise for not only the Odisha athlete but also for dozens of other hyperandrogenic athletes across the world. There was a groundswell of support for Chand from almost all corners of the world. A series of articles appeared in leading publications in the US, Europe and elsewhere, criticizing the IAAF regulations, backing the right of the athletes to retain their bodies they were born with, and raising the human rights issue. As Chand took on the IAAF in CAS, with legal help and expert opinion organized by Canadian and American activists, opinion seemed to have clearly swung against the IAAF.
The IAAF, despite its best efforts, could not convince the CAS panel that the hyperandrogenic female athletes derived an advantage that could be compared to that of the male athlete at the lowest end of the testosterone spectrum. Chand won the case, at least for that moment, and the IAAF was given two years to get back and convince CAS with more evidence that could decisively prove that the advantage was more than 10 per cent over non-hyperandrogenic female athletes.
The argument was — and this was brought out repeatedly by the media — that if there was an advantage, it was only comparable to the feet of an Ian Thorpe or the wingspan of a Michael Phelps or the long strides of an Usain Bolt; natural advantages gained through genetics and bestowed by God. That there were no classifications in sports related to the size of feet, wingspan or height was not discussed by those pressing for the abolition of the hyperandrogenism rules or most others. But there was always one classification, male and female.
Both Chand and Semenya often argued that they were born with what their advantages were perceived to be and they would not be prepared to change. Semenya reportedly went through a hormone suppression therapy and her timings slowed down to an extent she was no longer a force in the 800 metres, the event she had won in the World Championships in 2009 in an awe-inspiring 1:55.45, triggering a debate that led to her gender verification and subsequent absence for a period when she was barred.
Following the Dutee Chand verdict, Semenya has prospered, Today, the South African looks unbeatable. Whether it be World Championships or the Olympics, no one needs to look beyond Semenya for the 800m and she has also emerged as an equally formidable opponent in the 1500m. From September 2015, she has remained unbeaten through 29 finals in the 800m. Her 1:54.25 in Paris last year happens to be the fourth best on the all-time lists. Most observers feel that she is capable of bettering Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova's world record of 1:53.28 set in 1983 but is holding herself back for the time being.
The new rules won't affect Dutee Chand as she competes in the 100m and 200m events. AFP
The latest IAAF rules, which are based on research done on blood samples collected from the 2011 and 2013 World Championships, stipulate a testosterone level of 5nmol/L for female athletes compared to the 10nmol/L in the 2011 rules that were set aside by the CAS. The new rules are not applicable across the board in athletics but for a limited number of events — from 400m upwards to and including the mile, plus 400m hurdles and combined events having events between 400m and the mile. Chand has been spared since her forte is the short sprints, but Semenya is back in the centre of the controversy.
Some people have argued that there is a racial angle to IAAF's policy which looks directed solely against Semenya.
Katarina Karkazis, a bioethicist and activist and Senior Research Fellow at Yale University along with Rebecca Jordan-Young, an associate professor in Barnard College, Columbia University, have argued that the very fact that the IAAF dropped hammer throw and pole vault from the restricted events in the new rules despite the two events showing the highest advantage in the IAAF research at 4.53 per cent and 2.94 per cent respectively, showed the racial bias. According to them, the IAAF left these events and concentrated on middle-distance events only because the latter were dominated by athletes from the 'global south' for decades.
The IAAF study showed gains in 400m to be at 2.73 percent, that for 400m hurdles at 2.78 percent and in 800m at 1.78 percent. The CAS was looking for an improvement of 10 to 12 percent in order to be satisfied that the advantage would be closer to the male advantage and not merely that shown by athletes having better natural attributes.
Perhaps, for the first time since the controversy started, the IAAF has mentioned "testes" in a statement and that is significant even as it seems to have fallen short of the target indicated by CAS in projecting the perceived advantage for hyperandrogenic athletes. Surely, it would be illogical to argue that someone is a woman even as the source of her hyperandrogenism is shown as testes. The testes are responsible for producing testosterone in men. If it happens to be undescended (an abnormality at birth), an ultrasound could confirm the presence. Unless scientists prove that testosterone levels closer to male levels is being produced by adrenal gland or ovaries in a woman, the argument about testes, rarely made by IAAF or scientists so far, is hard to rebut. A condition called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) by which an individual is unable to utilise the testosterone produced in the body will negate the presence of testes and such athletes would be free to compete in the female section.
In responding to a report in The Times that claimed that the IAAF was going to argue that Semenya was biologically a male, the IAAF issued this statement: "The IAAF is not classifying any DSD (Differences of Sexual Development) athlete as male. To the contrary, we accept their legal sex without question and permit them to compete in the female category. However, if a DSD athlete has testes and male levels of testosterone, they get the same increases in bone and muscle size and strength and increases in haemoglobin that a male gets when they go through puberty, which is what gives men such a performance advantage over women. Therefore, to preserve fair competition in the female category, it is necessary to require DSD athletes to reduce their testosterone down to female levels before they compete at international level."
All along, the arguments from either side had focused solely on the testosterone levels and not on whether someone had testes — descended or undescended. If the law considered an individual as male or female there should be no further debate, the argument went.
How many countries have laws that require births to be registered within a particular time frame? How many countries have qualified doctors or nurses or midwives who attend to childbirth across the length and breadth of a country and can declare a baby to be a boy or a girl? Can there be ambiguities at birth? What happens then? Are the parents who brought up a child as a girl supposed to tell authorities during registration that there were ambiguities?
According to a UN statistical report in 1999 on India's Births and Deaths Act, "even after a span of 30 years of implementation of the provisions of this Act, the current statistics indicate registration figures as less as 55% of the births and 46% of the deaths. In terms of numbers, approximately 26 million births that take place in a year, out of which about 14 million only are registered."
Given that this is the condition in India, we can imagine that the state of birth registrations in African countries and other under-developed nations could be similar if not worse.
Santhi Soundarajan was stripped of her Asian Games silver medal for what was branded as a failed gender test. AFP/Marwan Naamani
After Santhi Soundarajan was disqualified and stripped off her 800m silver medal the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, reports quoted her mother as saying that she got worried when her daughter did not have menstrual cycles well past the age of puberty. Santhi later failed to clear a test that she underwent to gain employment in the Railways. Had Santhi been provided medical help early in life, she could have continued without the worries and troubles that she later encountered. She attempted suicide after all the controversy but survived and was later provided employment by the Tamil Nadu government.
In a BBC programme in 2018, Chand was asked what the doctor told her when she had to undergo tests in 2014. Through an interpreter, she answered that the doctor asked, among other things, whether she had had regular menstrual cycles and her answer was 'no'.
There could be a variety of conditions that may present gender ambiguity and variations. This is what the anti-hyperandrogenism lobby has been arguing. Primarily, they say sex is not binary, meaning there cannot be just two groups of humans characterized by XX (female) and XY (male) chromosome. There may be XXY or XYY or XXX among others.
Sports bodies have argued that essentially, from the 1920s, competitions have been divided into two distinct groups, one for men and one for women. The IOC laid down the hyperandrogenism rules for the 2012 Olympics following the rules adopted by the IAAF in 2011. In the wake of the Dutee Chand verdict in 2015, the IOC decided to keep the hyperandrogenism rules in abeyance for the Rio Games and asked the international federations to pursue legal recourse to bring back some rules that may be able to satisfy the CAS as well as meet the requirements of the male and female classification.
The new "eligibility regulations for female classification (athletes with differences of sex development)" of the IAAF, if they pass the CAS' scrutiny, will not restrict hyperandrogenic athletes in domestic competitions or any event other than mentioned in the new regulations. There would be restrictions on world record ratification, however,
Flaws in the IAAF research done by two IAAF scientists, Stephane Bermon and Pierre-Yves Garnier, have been pointed out by three independent scientists — Roger Pielke Jr of the US, Ross Tucker of South Africa and Eric Boye of Norway — who recently brought out a paper to question the findings. They have questioned the statistics provided, the conclusions derived and the refusal of the authors and the British Journal of Sports Medicine which published the IAAF research — to part with the full research data.
(It may be recalled that Tucker was quoted by The Guardian as saying, "If this policy passes, then I would predict that Semenya will be five to seven seconds slower over 800 metres.")
The IAAF is confident it would succeed this time. It seemed to have made a mistake when it did not go back to the CAS with its findings and arguments in the Dutee Chand case as could have been expected, and instead declared new regulations last April which were challenged by Semenya.
In the Dutee Chand case, CAS agreed with many of the arguments that IAAF put forward including the one that sought a distinction between male and female, and the acceptance of endogenous testosterone as the "the best indicator of performance differences between male and female athletes". It also accepted that hyperandrogenic female athletes may have a competitive advantage over athletes with testosterone levels in the normal female range.
The normal female testosterone levels have been determined to be 0.1 to 2.8 nmol/L while that for males it is above 10 nmol/L. The 2011 regulations allowed leeway for female athletes to have up to 10nmol/L. Now it has been reduced by half to 5nmol/L. Athletes will be required to show that their elevated levels of testosterone are not because of androgen insensitivity, in which case they would derive no benefit at all from the raised levels.
The dangers of allowing a limit of 10nmol/L had been explained in an article for LetsRun by Dr Joanna Harper, a physicist at the Providence Portland Medical Centre. In September 2014, she wrote: "This decision has serious implications for all female athletes. Higher T is an advantage and no typical female will get anywhere close to 10 nmol/L without doping. Thus, the agency has set a bar for the dopers, and they will aim for it."
Dr Harper is a transgender athlete. She underwent surgery to transform herself from male to female. She cautions athletes about surgery but also says that there might not be too much of a difference in speed. "I'm sure that many readers would be sceptical about the loss of speed after surgery, but I have no doubt. You see, I've been there. I'm transgender; I competed for many years as male, then had surgery and competed as female afterwards. I went from running a 37-minute 10K as a 46-year-old man to a 42-minute 10K as a 48-year-old woman," she wrote in the article.
In order to obviously avoid the orchestrated protests of the activists, the IAAF has completely removed the requirement of surgery through gonadectomy to bring down testosterone levels. "In particular, surgical anatomical changes are not required in any circumstances," says a clause in the IAAF regulations.
It is not just Semenya's future that is at stake when CAS opens proceedings in Lausanne on Monday but the careers of many others, especially a few African middle-distance runners who have beaten everyone except Semenya since 2016.
In the Indian context, with Chand cleared to compete in the 100m and 200m, the wait would be to see whether any of the 400m runners or those in the middle-distance or hurdles events would come under scrutiny if the new regulations are accepted by CAS. Athletics insiders have been suggesting that a few hyperandrogenic female athletes in India have been groomed for higher competitions for the past couple of years.
Will CAS be swayed by media hype, public support and human rights considerations expressed by a UN group and others or will it strictly go by the evidence presented and the need to have some parameters to determine sex?
Some observers have suggested that in the long run if the stalemate persists with regard to hyperandrogenism or DSD rules, the only option left for international sports bodies would be to have a third category of competitors.
Updated Date: February 18, 2019 14:47:46 IST
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Author Onesheet
Who was Tall Poppied?
FAQ: What is Tall Poppy Syndrome?
The introduction is my inauguration to TPS. A chance phone call to an Australian friend introduced and explained the concept of the TPS as well as its consequences. An illustrative example of TPS, Thomas Edison versus Nicola Tesla, follows. The journey into the world of the TPS begins.
Definition and History of the Tall Poppy Syndrome
Tall poppies and TPS are defined through various dictionaries and scientific papers. The terms have gone through various meanings through time. For example, TPs were once considered offensive, but now tall poppies are good; when they become conspicuous, they are deemed bad. The remainder of the chapter describes the presence of the TPS in most of the world's countries as well as a historical framework beginning when it was first detected. TPS was first noted by Herodotus in 430 BC. Examples of ancient and modern TPS are presented from various countries throughout the chapter.
The Australian Experience
TPS is most recognized in Australia of the Anglo-sphere nations. Australia's roots are explored to explain their egalitarian culture and why TPS is so prevalent. Examples of Australian TPS are peppered throughout the chapter to reinforce its primacy. A section on linguistics explores the Australian definition TPS which began in Chapter 1 but focuses on the evolution of terms in the English language.
The American Experience
This chapter is juxtaposed to the Australian chapter to aid in explaining why we do not know or have TPS in America. One of my theories is that we embraced the individual in our constitution as opposed to egalitarian cultures of Australia, Japan or the Scandinavian countries. The early history of our forefathers' thinking is explored to explain our culture of individualism. The small numbers of historical usage of TPS is documented with some examples. I offer some of my examples of TPS which are previously undetected or unknown. The rise of collectivism in American is established (a premise for TPS) and why TPS may become more prevalent in the U.S.
Why the Poppy Flower?
The poppy is a universal weed but also a popular ornamental plant. The universality of the plant possibly gave rise to the term TPS but Australia's role in WWI and the poppy fields of Flanders probably cemented Australia's love affair with the term. World War I, to some extent, helped spread the popularity of the poppy and perhaps some recognition of the term to the remainder of the Anglo-sphere countries.
The Cutter's Emotional Mindset: Envy, Jealousy, Resentment, Anger and Revenge
The cutter's motives are most commonly driven by emotions, usually envy. Emotions are defined, the prevalent emotions detailed and then some of the more negative emotions. The so called negative emotions such as envy are redefined by today's psychologist who give new definitions to emotions. For example, envy has a good component as well as the more notable bad component. The bad component, one of the seven deadly sins, has been emphasized in the past, but by emphasizing the good component, the so called negative emotions can improve one's stature in life. An individual with poor self esteem often stimulates the negative emotion of envy which results in TPS. Other emotions leading to tps are discussed. Case reports illustrate the various motives as poppies are cut down.
The Tall Poppy's Downfall: Unworthiness
Just as the cutter has emotional motives for cutting down a TP, the TP may act egregiously giving a potential cutter reason to act. Jonathan Haidt's moral foundation is the basis for explaining cutters' mindset as well as Australian's leading psychosocial research, Normal Feather - "deservingness". The cutter deems the TP unworthy which justifies cutting down the egregious poppy. Examples such as Harvey Weinstein or Eliot Spitzer cement the concept.
Conditions Similar to TPS: Bullying and Schadenfreude
Just as envy and jealousy are incorrectly used interchangeably, so too are bullying and TPS. The symptoms of bullying are defined so that the two entities can be differentiated and not mistaken. Examples of bullying are given. Schadenfreude , which means joy from someone's pain, often follows TPS so can be associated with TPS. Schadenfreude may occur without TPS. Both are driven by envy and worthiness
Tall Poppies
The next three chapters are the most entertaining aspect of the book. Premiere examples of people who: are TPs; have been tall poppied; have been tall poppied our government. Everyone has their own TP and one's TP may not be the other person's. Selections may be controversial but should have broad appeal. Most were time tested people, many from a century ago, with a bias for those with ideals of individualism. Many were immigrants or not many degrees separated from their parent's immigration. Most were not in politics or business who have enough accolades or are not discriminating choices.
You Have Been Tall Poppied
The author picks people who have been outrageously egregious and have been cut down. There should be universal acceptance of choice in this chapter. The cutter and their motive and roll in the cutting is also discussed since many played an initiating or leading role in the cutting . A few of the TPs had such egregious behavior that no one person had to lead the charge to cut them down. This is an all star list for bad behavior. The main problem is that it the list of fallen hurts too much to laugh (schadenfreude). Most are from the media-entertainment, business, sports and political world.
The Government as a Perpetrator
This chapter may elicit some controversy as many authors do not list the government as a cause of the TPS especially Australia. In fact, throughout history governments (most were not democratic) were prime cutters in TPS. Our government appears to be no exception. Not only are politicians powerful people but they head organizations that can cut people down which sometimes hides their own involvement. Since the government has so much power, they can take down groups as well as one person. The American Indians were cut down as a population, individuals and TP chiefs. World news reveals daily of governments cutting down TPs who they deem are enemies of the state. Many times they are TPs who are a threat to the state's status quo or its leadership. Much stems from Lord Acton's aphorism: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Examples of cutting by central government and various departments are presented.
Is TPS in America?
The answer is yes and greatly so. The question is will it increase. The entity remains unrecognized it goes undiagnosed but the author sees examples daily. The causes here are similar to those around the world but our culture and politics may makes our own cutters and cuttees unique. The political landscape is rife with TPS. Whenever there is competition and only one winner such as a political race, TPS is commonplace. America's various movements such as #MeTOO or #BlackLivesMatter are potentially big cutters. An intriguing aspect is that these movements cut down by moral justice in many instances and the cuttee disappears for various reasons: mainly they are guilty as charged but others are cut down without recourse. Various other causes of cutting down such of identity politics is presented.
How to Become a Tall Poppy
This is in the appendix and not necessary reading to grasp the concept of TPS. The meat of the book has been presented. The author spent a great amount of time researching the essence of the TP "tall" and it is his vain attempt to answer the question. The chapter may fall short. Why? As noted in the TP chapter, TPs and their circumstances, backgrounds, goals, or missions are so different it is difficult defining how to become one. There are certain traits that can be identified but possessing them does not guarantee tall poppydom. Many books already exist and more come out annually which implies the author is not the only one who has trouble defining excellence. It is much easier to spot in person than to define.
Why Tall Poppies Count
This chapter attempts to demonstrate how TPs make a difference. Many management books have sought to answer this million-dollar question and many have great points. In the end the author felt that "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey (24 million copies sold) was one of the best books on the subject. The author applied those seven habits to his job and demonstrated how it his service's performance become tall poppydom.
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Announced at the Goodwood Festival of Speed back in June, the French car maker's radical fortune bet in the segment seemed to have been in the limelight for its striking looks and impressive features. A revolutionary model to adapt and cope with everyday family daily driving –the carmakers aimed to pricks driver's interests within the car's segment.
While under-the-hood, it's powered by either Puretech petrol engines or an impressively economical BlueHDi diesel engine that is capable of 91.1mpg on a combined cycle. It has a eco-friendly carbon emissions of 82g/km.
The C4 Cactus is significantly longer and wider than the C4 but lighter because it's made with lightweight materials –adding up with its fuel economy and efficiency.
Inside there's a lively spacious interior where you can easily store around 388.5 litres of storage space from its glove box and boot spaces.
The dashboard also shows technology impressive and an uncluttered space with 7-inch central console that offers easy-to-use touch screen access to all controls.
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Combier USA
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Since its founding in the quaint village of Saumur in 1834, Combier has remained true to its history as an independent, family-owned producer of ultra premium distilled alcoholic beverages. Hand-crafted in the very same century-old copper stills first used by the Combier family, Combier's current portfolio includes fine liqueurs, crèmes and spirits, with its signature product being Liqueur d'Orange (Jean-Baptiste Combier invented the original orange liqueur formula, commonly known as triple sec, in 1834).
To learn the story of Combier is to discover a brand so rich in history and tradition that major media outlets like The History Channel's Modern Marvels and Condé Nast's The New Yorker have featured Combier in recent articles. The New Yorker described the company as "literally, a museum" with its historic copper stills and wrought-iron passerelle, or walkway, whose lacy gold-and-maroon ironwork clearly bore the signature of its designer, Gustave Eiffel, who later went on to create the Eiffel Tower.
Crafted with only the purest of ingredients by expert hands, it's no wonder then that Combier produces some of the most pure and authentic liqueurs in the world.
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La Red Ecuatoriana de Universidades y Escuelas Politécnicas para Investigación y Posgrados, también conocida como REDU, es una red universitaria fundada, el 17 de septiembre de 2012, por varias universidades ecuatorianas, con el fin de unir esfuerzos y trabajar en conjunto en investigación y posgrados.

Miembros fundadores
Sus miembros fundadores fueron las siguientes universidades calificadas con categoría "A", según informe de categorización del Ex CONEA 2009:
 Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN)
 Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE)
 Universidad de Cuenca (UCUENCA)
 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE)
 Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL)
 Universidad Técnica de Ambato (UTA)
 Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL)
 Escuela Superior Politécnica del Chimborazo (ESPOCH)
 Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE)
 Universidad del Azuay (UDA)
 Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)

Objetivo general
La REDU tiene como objetivo general el promover programas, proyectos y actividades académicas interinstitucionales, mediante el intercambio de experiencias, estableciendo mecanismos de comunicación y gestión compartida de recursos para contribuir al desarrollo de la educación superior y del país.

Objetivos específicos
Entre los objetivos específicos de la REDU están:

 Identificar espacios de discusión y difusión de la investigación y posgrados en la educación superior, a fin de ejecutar de manera conjunta programas de investigación y posgrados, asegurando la innovación y la transferencia tecnológica en beneficio de la sociedad.

 Fortalecer la relación de las instituciones de educación superior con la sociedad, así como su presencia regional.

 Vincular a los sectores académico, social, político y productivo, que tengan injerencia en las áreas temáticas o campos de las ciencias, a través de la realización de proyectos de investigación y formación conjunta a nivel de posgrados en ciencias e ingeniería.

 Optimizar los recursos humanos, materiales y financieros de las instituciones participantes en la red y su relación con otros actores sociales.

 Recomendar políticas de investigación y posgrado a las autoridades de las instituciones y organismos del Sistema de Educación Superior acordes al Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir.

Instituciones miembros

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Web oficial
 Escuela Politécnica Nacional: Lanzamiento "Red Ecuatoriana de Universidades para Investigación y Postgrados". Quito, 17 de septiembre de 2012
 Universia: Nació REDU, Red Ecuatoriana de Universidades para la Investigación y Posgrado. Ecuador, 18 de septiembre de 2012
 Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja: Red Ecuatoriana de Universidades para Investigación y Postgrados (REDU). Loja - Ecuador

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The nominal species (available and otherwise) in this synonymy are listed by usage rather than strictly by publication date. The primary sorting order is by the most recent year (since 1969) that the species name was treated as valid, and then nominal species are sorted secondarily by publication year.
The taxonomic history of the valid species (since 1900) is listed at the bottom of the page.
Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Fusconaia
species Fusconaia escambia Clench & Turner, 1956: nominal species
1 specimen available.
Fusconaia escambia Clench & Turner, 1956
Clench & Turner, 1956, Bull. Fla. State Mus. 1: 152, pl. 7, figs. 3-4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) MCZ_191470, Escambia River, 3 mi E of Century, Escambia Co., Florida.
Fusconaia escambia — Clench & Turner (1956), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), ..., Inoue et al. (2018), Pieri et al. (2018), Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)


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Underused Michigan factory is being refurbished
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In this Sept. 16, 2019 photo, members of the United Auto Workers Local 22 take to the streets during a national strike following stalled contract talks outside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly... (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press via AP, File)
(Newser) – General Motors is spending $2.2 billion to refurbish an underused Detroit factory so it can build a series of electric and self-driving vehicles, eventually employing 2,200 people. GM said in a statement Monday that the factory will start building the company's first electric pickup late in 2021, followed by a funky-looking self-driving shuttle for GM's Cruise autonomous vehicle unit, the AP reports. The truck will be the first of several electric vehicles to be built at the plant, which straddles the border between Detroit and the enclave of Hamtramck. The company has plans to revive the Hummer nameplate for one of the vehicles. The factory will be GM's first assembly plant to be fully dedicated to building electric vehicles. "GM is taking a big step forward in making our vision of an all-electric future a reality," GM President Mark Reuss said in a statement.
In Nov. 2018, GM announced plans to close the factory along with three others in the US. But the company promised to reopen Detroit-Hamtramck to build electric vehicles during last fall's contentious contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union. At that time the plant employed about 1,500 hourly and salaried workers. Currently the plant is working on one shift with about 900 workers making the Cadillac CT6 and Chevrolet Impala sedans. The factory will be shut down at the end of February, when renovations are expected to begin. The general assembly area as well as the paint and body shops will get major upgrades including new machinery, conveyors, and controls, GM says. GM will also invest $800 million in equipment for parts suppliers and other projects related to the new electric trucks.
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Harry Ramsden's is a British fish and chip restaurant that started in a small wooden hut in Yorkshire, 1928. I wanted to show the strong quirky origin of the brand.
Chips are a staple food/ product sold within the restaurant because customers either order them separately or they are served within a meal. As most cases the customer will be eating chips, the text of 'Dig into British potatoes' will be relevant to the situation.
RESPONSE: Harry Ramsden's is a British fish and chip restaurant that started in a small wooden hut in Yorkshire, 1928. I wanted to show the strong quirky origin of the brand.


Reference number for this case: 4-Oct-54-Crest. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
A "LARGE SHINING POINT WHICH DESCENDED LIKE A SPIDER"
October 3, at nightfall, Mr. Espy, who lives at Mr. Porel's, grocer in Saint-Vincent-on-Jabron (B.A.) saw in the sky "a great point shining which went down towards the ground the like a spider on its thread." Several neighbors also attended the evolutions of the luminous object which lasted ten minutes. The "spider saucer", which, according to the witnesses seemed to observe the valley, finally disappeared behind the mountain.
Mr. Louis David, student in Paris, currently on holiday in Crest and Mr. Jean Blanc, place des Marroniers in Crest saw, Monday 4 of this month, around 9 p.m., a craft of round form of very white aspect above the tower of Crest.
This craft which moved towards the Trois Eecs was at approximately 1.000 meters of altitude and left behind a very brilliant luminous trail. The craft went in saw-tooth, ascending and descending at regular intervals and this at very high speed.
Mr. David presented himself at our agency of Valence to report us this fact and affirmed to us that in his opinion it was neither an atmospheric phenomenon, neither a plane, nor a stratospheric balloon.
Luc Chastan notes in his database that in the Drôme at Crest on October 4, 1954 at 21:00 hours, "Two witnesses observed an object of round form above the tower of Crest. The object moved towards the trois becs leaving a luminous shining trail behind. It advanced in saw tooth, going up and down at regular intervals at high speed."
Luc Chastan indicates as source: "Le Provençal".
Not looked for yet. Probably astronomical.
[lp1] Article in the regional newspaper Le Provençal, France, page 12, October 7, 1954.
0.1 Patrick Gross March 1, 2006 First published.
1.0 Patrick Gross March 16, 2009 Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lc1].


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The various styles were designed together, resulting in a smooth, coherent style across the family. The italics take on livelier, more fluid forms that echo the design of the Arabic, allowing them to sit perfectly together, while the extrabold adds punch to official announcements and notices.
The Arabic was designed in consultation with Titus Nemeth.
Eskorte font won Bronze at the European Design Awards 2014 and Eskorte Arabic won the first prize in Granshan 2013 international type competition.


Painted Wooden Cubes has made it through sixty days. Since it's a board games blog, and not a US president, that rule about not reviewing its performance until a hundred days have passed thankfully doesn't apply. What have we learnt?
In terms of attracting readers, I'm pleased with how things have gone so far. I'm no web-analysis expert, but there are a number of promising signs. Most weeks have surpassed the previous in the number of views recorded. What seems to be a healthy proportion of people visiting the site through a link to a single post then click through to see the home page. So people who read something here are, in many cases, interested in reading more. And a fair number of views come without referrers, suggesting people who have visited before are coming back. If you're one of those, thanks for that. I'm not aiming to trick people into boosting page views artificially. I want people who visit the site to find it valuable in some sense.
To that end, what's more important than any measurable statistic is that I've written a number of pieces I'm proud to have produced (and only one I can say I dislike with hindsight – I won't specify which). I've had the honour of a number of designers reading my reviews of their games. And I've had a fair number of messages of support from readers – which are a buzz to receive, of course.
Today, I registered paintedwoodencubes.com. While domain registrations don't cost the earth, I wanted to be sure that I wouldn't be alone in feeling the site had value. I'm confident now that I'm not on my own in that view.
For sure, these are still early days. I'm not going to propose any dramatic changes to what has been broadly successful so far. In addition, I don't want to make unrealistic promises regarding the amount of extra time I can give to the site. Just be assured I'm self-disciplined about keeping the site going at the pace it's moving now.
Through writing here, I'm keen to develop my own knowledge and understanding. I'm reading more and more material which I feel can be usefully applied to board games (a certain amount of psychological theory in particular, which I haven't personally seen employed in connection with board games). So hopefully what I write can become more refined – sharper, more insightful – as time goes on.
One thing I am interested in exploring at this stage is the involvement of guest writers in the site. Those who get what Painted Wooden Cubes is doing, in terms of a more expressive, less formulaic criticism of board and card games. Whether the person in question is an established figure in the world of board games, or not is unimportant to me. Just as long as his or her writing suits the site.
Do contact me if you have something you feel would fit here. I want Painted Wooden Cubes to be a place for conversation on board and card games – what they can, and should, be and do. That's where I see it's richer future.


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Navan Union comprises the parishes of Navan, Kentstown and Slane. All three churches are open for public worship every Sunday and are in excellent condition and recently decorated. Services in Kentstown and Slane are at 10.00a.m. and in Navan at 11.30a.m. Holy Communion is celebrated on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month in Navan and Kentstown and on the 2nd and 4th Sundays in Slane.
The Ascension is celebrated on the Hill of Slane, St. Patrick's Day at St. Patrick's Church, Tara, and there is also an Open Air Service on the Hill of Tara on the last Sunday in June. There is a Children's/Family Service in Navan on the last Sunday of every month.
St. Mary's Church in Navan, where there is a Parish Room facility, has an average congregation of 52. St. Mary's Church, Kentstown 15, and St. Patrick's Church, Slane have an average of 11. St. Patrick's is situated in a village setting in Slane and St.Mary's Kentstown is situated in a quiet rural community where the local village is growing steadily.
St. Mary's Navan is situated in the centre of Navan town near the confluence of the river Boyne and the river Blackwater. Navan's population is 32,000 and it is one of the fastest growing towns in Ireland. Our greatest challenge is reaching out to new arrivals and maintaining an active ministry with our young families.
We have a Parish Primary School in Navan called Flowerfield National School which is a 2 teacher school with an enrolment of 48 pupils.
A range of parish organisations and activities such as Sunday School, Mothers' Union, Young Families, Healer Prayer Circle and Scouts are available.
Canon John David Maurice Clarke (Rector of Navan Union of Parishes) was born in Virginia (Diocese of Kilmore) in 1960. He was educated at The King's Hospital School and The Church of Ireland Theological College, Dublin. He was ordained as deacon in 1989 and priest in 1990. He served as curate in Whitechurch Parish and assistant chaplain to St.Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, for three years. He was instituted as rector of Navan Union (Navan, Kentstown & Slane) in 1992. He is chaplain to Our Lady's Hospital, Navan and the Meath County Infirmary. He is Rural Dean of the Slane Rural Deanery, and he is Canon of Meath and Kildare Cathedrals as well as a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin. He married Sandra Corrie in 1988 and they have two daughters, Lauren and Hayley.
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How Did Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Repair Their Relationship After Being Estranged for Years?
Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher were the ultimate mother-daughter duo. In the years leading up to their tragic deaths in 2016, the pair were like two peas in a pod and were so close that they spent 15 years as next-door neighbors.
However, when Fisher was younger, she and Reynolds had a complicated relationship, which grew into animosity that caused them not to speak to each other for 10 years.
Stardom affected Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher's relationship
The rift between Fisher and her mother began when she was a child. Though the Star Wars actor adored Reynolds, she very much resented the Singin' In The Rain star's fame.
"She wanted a mother who baked and did embroidery," Reynolds once told People of her daughter. "I was in show business and didn't do that."
In a 2016 interview with NPR, Fisher revealed that she greatly disliked having a celebrity mother, noting that she wasn't a fan of sharing Reynolds with the rest of the world.
"I had to share her, and I didn't like that," she said. "When we went out, people sort of walked over me to get her. And, no, I didn't like it."
But despite Fisher's feelings toward her mother's fame, the two still maintained a close relationship, which extended into their careers. However, their close bond hit a snag when Fisher became a young adult.
Carrie Fisher began distancing herself from Debbie Reynolds in her 20s
When she was 13-years-old, Fisher began experimenting with drugs, which continued well into her adult life.
By her early 20s, the Star Wars actor's drug use had spiraled out of control, as she abused everything from cocaine and heroin to painkillers and acid. At the age of 28, Fisher checked into rehab for the first time.
After getting discharged from the treatment facility, Fisher began distancing herself from Reynolds as she did not want to continue living in her famous mother's shadow.
"We had a fairly volatile relationship earlier on in my 20s," Fisher later said in a joint interview with her mom on The Oprah Winfrey Show. "I didn't want to be around her. I did not want to be Debbie Reynolds' daughter."
In that same interview, the Halloweentown star revealed that she and Fisher barely spoke for the next 10 years, which she said was heartwrenching.
"It was a total estrangement," Reynolds shared. "She didn't talk to me for probably 10 years. So that was the most difficult time of all. Very painful, very heartbreaking."
But despite their estrangement, Reynolds didn't let their complicated relationship stop her from eventually reconciling with her daughter.
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds became close
After Fisher got sober and began taking care of herself, she and Reynolds finally reconnected.
While Fisher's strides to better herself allowed her and Reynolds to grow close again, learning to embrace their differences ultimately helped the duo's relationship get stronger.
"I'm not as intellectual as my daughter. She says bigger words than I [do], I don't even know what they mean," Reynolds later told People. "But she's so amusing to me and it's wonderful to be around her."
In 2000, Reynolds bought the house next door to her daughter's in Beverly Hills. The following year, the two joined forces in showbusiness when Fisher wrote the television movie These Old Broads (2001), which Reynolds starred in.
By the early 2010s, Fisher and Reynolds relationship had fully mended.
"I would say that Carrie and I have finally found happiness," Reynolds said on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011. "I admire her strength and survival. I admire that she is alive, that she has chosen to make it. It would have been easy to give up and give in and to keep doing drugs. I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. I want happiness for my daughter — I want Carrie to be happy."
The two remained neighbors and maintained a close bond until their deaths in 2016.
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"Uncle Marty" unexpectedly left us on March 12, 2019, at the age of 78.
Longtime resident of Thiensville. Married to Diane (nee Sanfelippo) for almost 40 years; loving father of Brian (Lynn Bulgrin) and Daniel. Brother of Caryn Lamonica and Janice (Wayne) Hansen, brother-in-law of Sandy Sanfelippo, Steve (Sandy) Sanfelippo and Tom (Bonnie) Sanfelippo. Further survived by his grandchildren, and loved by his nieces and nephews, Chrissy, Ally, Nick, Mario, Melinda, Scott, Megan and Leslie.
Since Chrissy was born, he was only known as 'Uncle Marty' to our family. Marty loved spending time with his family.
Marty was in Outside Sales a good portion of his career. He loved the travel and the opportunity to meet different people in all walks of life. He was never lonely when he traveled, as he made friends with anyone at any time. Marty's sense of humor was his gift, as he loved to tease and laugh with everyone.
A memorial service was held at Crossroads Presbyterian Church.


The phenomenon of shared bikes (public-access bicycles that can be unlocked with a quick phone scan and left basically anywhere when you're done) took off at lightspeed in mainland China. People already use their cell phones for everything here, so the cheap, convenient, universally accessible alternative to your moped commute was a no-brainer.
But Ofo really outdid themselves with this one. Look at these things. The newest iteration of Ofo bikes comes equipped with these huge, all-terrain wheels. Who is using these? Who is dipping off the paved streets of the big city on their way to work, to go hit 360 tailwhips at the local BMX park? The world deserves an answer.
Maybe this increased willingness to shell out money on largely useless upgrades is prompted by the recent $700 million in new funds Ofo managed to raise, courtesy of e-commerce giant Alibaba group and Russia's DST Global investment firm. The neck-and-neck competition between Ofo and its competitor Mobike continues to grow necker and necker, with the other half-dozen competitor brands having been basically edged out of the infant shared bike industry. Looks like Ofo plans to achieve victory by takin' it to the dirt.


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Q: Usar no-ip en servidor y cliente He hecho una aplicacion cliente _ servidor en python. Pero cuando por ejemplo apago el router la ip ya no me sirve. Necesito saber como implementar no-ip en mi servidor y cliente programados en python y saber si es posible, ya que para conectar mis clientes(pc que tengo en mi casa) necesito que sea una ip estatica. Me recomendaron no-ip pero no se implementarlo en python.

A: Para actualizar no-ip, tienes que hacer una solicitud, llamada request a la interface de programación (API por sus siglas en inglés).
Esta es la documentación de la API: http://www.noip.com/integrate/request
También puedes usar el paquete npipy de python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/noipy/1.4.4


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Finland issues new 2-euro coin "Finnish Nature"
October 26, 2017 – Like the silver Finnish Nature collector coin released, the special coin will also take its design from the winning shot in the Blue and White special category of the Nature Photograph of the Year competition.
The special coin was launched at the Nature Photograph of the Year gala held at the Finlandia Hall on 21 October 2017.
"We are honoured and overjoyed, speechless really, that a nature photograph will be stamped onto the special and collector coins. The photograph has been expertly rendered in metal, and we are extremely happy about the result", says Kari Wallgren, President of the Finnish Nature Photography Association.
2-Euro coin as a tribute to Finland's beautiful nature – a Finnish crow sitting on a bald tree. Design by Kari Auvinen.
The winning photograph was shot by nature photographer Kari Auvinen. The commemorative coin's reverse is identical to that of ordinary circulation coins. The national side of the coin bears the images from Auvinen's photograph: the full moon over Harmaja and a crow gazing down on the world from its perch.
The crow symbolises the modern Finnish character – an outwardly common but intelligent bird that reacts flexibly to new situations. As per the rules of the competition's special category, the winning photograph was compiled from two shots. The Finnish Nature collector coin is released in nominal values of EUR 10 and 20, bears the same design.
Finland is known for it's beautiful landscape / Photo: Plenz CC BY 2.5
The designs and release of special two-euro coins is up to the individual euro countries and the Central Bank of Europe approves their mintages. The total mintage of the special Finnish Nature two-euro coins will be 500,000, of which 11,000 will be finished to lustrous proof-quality. The proof-quality special Finnish Nature two-euro coins minted in Mint of Finland's factory in Vantaa have been granted the Key Flag Symbol of Finnish origin issued by the Association for Finnish Work.
Each euro state is permitted to release two special two-euro coins into circulation each year. The special coins are legal tender everywhere in the eurozone, which means that vendors are obliged to accept them as payment.
To visit the website of Mint of Finland, please click here.
We already reported about 10 and 20 Euro commemorative coins of the same type.
And to get more information about Finland's nature, please take a look at this article or watch this video.


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Bulgarian Bust Followup: It Ain't Aphrodite
October 31, 2010 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist	~ Leave a comment
One of the things we posted t'other day detailed the bust of a smuggling ring in Bulgaria who/which had in its possession a two-metre sculpture of Aphrodite. Today Novinite suggests there are questions about that identification:
The 2-meter antique statue, which was found buried in the back yard of a Bulgarian village house belonging to illegal treasure hunters, is not of Aphrodite, as the police, who seized it, initially believed.
Petar Banov, archeology expert from the Regional History Museum in the northern city of Pleven told the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, that the statue is a Roman tomb sculpture of an ordinary woman.
Banov pointed out the find has no signs and symbols around her legs and/or arms, designating the female figure as a goddess, adding it was made during the flourishing of the ancient Roman city of Ulpia Oescus on the Danube, close to the village of Gigen in the Pleven District.
Banov, however, explained the archeological value of the discovery is still very high because it is of great quality and craftsmanship and it would give historians precious information.
According to the expert, it would be very hard to make a monetary appraisal of the statute because Bulgaria does not have an official antiques market and auctions.
… here's a photo … I really don't see how anyone could have called that an Aphrodite other than to further sensationalize the story:
Novinite photo
via: Bulgarian Expert: Seized Statue Is Not Aphrodite
Ozzy's Classical DNA
This is typical … of the myriad versions of this story — about Ozzy Osbourne's DNA revealing links to Neanderthals and assorted others, the one I happened to actually read (and post on Facebook) missed out on a Classical connection. Of course the Daily Mail had the part I missed, inter alia:
The researchers discovered that the star shares some DNA with the ancient Romans who were killed in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD
Osbourne said: 'That means I'm also probably related to some of the survivors, which makes a lot of sense.
'If any of the Roman Osbournes drank nearly as much as I used to, they wouldn't have even felt the lava. They could have just walked it off.'
via: We've all suspected, now it's official: Ozzy Osbourne IS a Neanderthal
We won't comment on the lava reference … it is Ozzy after all.
More Decapitated Roman Remains
… but this time, from Scotland, and without any of the usual attendant sensationalism. Indeed … the decapitation is mentioned only in passing. From the Scotsman:
IT IS a major public sector building project which has been delayed, causing headaches for bosses and the public.
But it is decapitated skeletons and 2000-year-old forts rather than red tape and swelling costs that have caused the hold-up for the new health centre in Musselburgh.
Progress on the site has been delayed by at least six months after significant Roman remains were discovered.
Now architects have revealed the extent of their discoveries, which include human remains, the bones of horses and weapons and culinary tools.
Archeologists there said the "unique" finds, among the most impressive ever discovered in Scotland from that period, will help build a picture not only of Roman activity in Musselburgh from 140AD, but improve the wider understanding of life at that time.
As well as the skeletons, some of which have been superbly preserved, there are impressive sections of rampart, thought to be part of a defensive wall for a fortlet.
Site director for CFA Archaeology, which is working on the site, Magnus Kirby said that some of the findings predated the Roman era, with items such as flints possibly dating back up to 5000 years.
"The number of Roman skeletons we have found doesn't point to this being a cemetery," he said. "But it is still fascinating. The Roman remains have been very well preserved.
"Of the older human remains that predate that, in some cases there has been nothing but a set of teeth."
It was known before the excavation began that Romans had existed in that area but the number of discoveries since work began three months ago has surprised archaeologists.
It is thought the Votadini tribe inhabited the Lothians during the late Iron Age period, around the time of the birth of Christ. They built hill fort defences which are still visible on Arthur's Seat, at Dunsapie Hill and above Samson's Ribs.
Historians believe they also occupied Traprain Law in East Lothian.
The Roman occupation of the Lothians soon after the turn of the millennium is said to have left both physical landmarks and governance legacies.
As well as forts, artefacts found across the Lothians point to an active trading set-up with locals and experts believe the Roman's stay in the Lothians helped convert Scotland to Christianity, and establish the early roots of our legal system.
"The quality of the structures such as the rampart are fantastic," Mr Kirby added.
"You do treat the human remains differently, because of what they are, but it is the structures you find that tell you more about life at that point."
Although the finds are interesting, the Roman revelations have actually proved a significant inconvenience for NHS Lothian, which wants to crack on with the Musselburgh Primary Care Centre.
The £20 million facility, which was first mooted 15 years ago, is now due to open in the spring of 2012.
via: Skeletons halt work on clinic | Scotsman
For an example of the more 'traditional' reporting of decapitated Roman remains, see, e.g. here or here or here (etc.) …
Bits of the 'Lava Treasure' Recovered by French Police
French police said on Wednesday they had seized a significant portion of an ancient Roman treasure that was discovered more than two decades ago by Corsican divers who became rich by secretly selling it off.
The seizure is the latest chapter in the exploits of a then young Corsican and two friends who spotted gold in shallow waters 25 years ago while diving for sea urchins off the coast of the Mediterranean island.
The three friends enriched themselves by selling the coins and medallions on the black market and later claimed that they had inherited them when the source of their newfound wealth was discovered by the local authorities.
Police did not say on Wednesday from whom they had recovered the latest portion of the treasure, which likely came from an ancient shipwreck. Specialists consider the find to be one of the most important related to ancient coins, dating from the 3rd century AD.
"This submerged treasure, identified as a maritime cultural asset, belongs to the state," France's national police said in a statement, after a long investigation into national and international black markets for antiquities.
One of the original three Corsican friends, Felix Biancamaria, told French daily Liberation in 2005 how the discovery of what he quickly suspected were Roman coins brought him and his fellow divers untold wealth and thrills until the party soured when local police caught wind of their exploits.
Rather than turn the treasure over to authorities as state property, the divers claimed they had inherited it and began selling it to dealers. However the flood of rare Roman coins on the market eventually raised questions among collectors.
"People thought we were part of a gang of armed robbers," Biancamaria said, describing how the three friends would dive all day for treasure and spend their evenings quaffing champagne in nightclubs.
The three men were among eight people tried in 1994 in connection with the case. They were handed prison sentences of between six and 18 months and made to pay fines.
One of the divers, Marc Cotoni, was killed in a shooting in 2004, according to French media.
Five other people were arrested last week in Paris in connection with the case, a judicial source said.
The recently seized coins, together with a prized golden plate, are estimated to have a value of between 1 million and 2 million euros ($1.38 million to $2.76 million), police said.
An investigation is still underway to track down other items from the treasure that remain missing.
via: French police recover Roman treasure sold by divers | Reuters
Other coverage:
French police recover missing Roman treasures | Washington Post
Roman golden plate of 'Lava Treasure' recovered – police | Times of Malta
Une partie du fabuleux trésor de Lava refait surface | Le Figaro
Callimachus Nike Monument 'Restored'
From the ANA:
The Nike Monument erected in honour of the ancient military commander Callimachus after the Battle of Marathon, its various surviving shards reassembled for the first time to resemble the form they would have had in antiquity, was unveiled in the new Acropolis Museum on Tuesday by Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos.
In statements at the unveiling, Geroulanos emphasised the importance of the monument 2,500 years after the historic battle, an event broadly regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of European culture.
In 490 B.C. when the Battle of Marathon took place Callimachus was then a 'polemarch' or supreme military commander of Athens. With the 10 Athenian generals evenly divided over whether to do battle or surrender to the Persian invasion force, it was he that cast the deciding vote that sent the Athenians into battle and on to their final victory over the Persian Empire.
"Everything now rests of you," Geroulanos said, quoting directly from the description given by the ancient historian Herodotus of a hypothetical conversation between Callimachus and Miltiades – the general that led the battle and earned Greeks their victory – just before the polemarch cast his vote.
"Today we are not unveiling the monument of just another general but a monument to a democratic process that changed the course of history," the minister stressed.
Callimachus took part in the battle himself, leading the right wing of the Greek army, but was killed during the fighting. His statue was erected atop of the Athens Acropolis.
According to Prof. Dimitris Pantermalis, the curator of the new Acropolis Museum, the monument has been reconstructed in a modern fashion, using only the original shards in their correct positions, so that a visitor might be able to see the authentic version.
The remnants of the 4.68-metre monument have been affixed to a metal column that holds the various parts in place and is built so that additional fragments might be attached if they are found. It is on display in the museum's Archaic Monuments' section.
A short distance from the original there also stands a copy showing archaeologists' best estimate of what the monument might have looked like when it was whole.
The unveiling of the Nike monument was among a series of events scheduled by the culture and tourism ministry to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary since the Battle of Marathon, which will culminate in the holding of the 28th Classic Athens Marathon on Sunday, in which more than 20,000 athletes from all over the world will take part.
via: Nike Monument unveiled at new Acropolis Museum | ANA
Somewhat strangely, the Xinhua coverage seems to have the best photo:
From Xinhua
via: "Callimachus Victory" monument re-assembled after 2,500 years | Xinhua


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I. Industry Domain: Search results Industry
The major search engines industry addresses firms functioning search-based websites and search engines like google displaying ads. Their companies are normally provided free of cost and their income comes from ads (i. e., paid click. quot; when users click ad links). Search engines like google rely on many free providers like media, e-mail, entertainment and online community for getting internet users (Clyde, 2000).
A. Historical Significance: Analyze in the past significant revolves points or perhaps factors that led to dramatic changes and innovation in the business environment of the selected marketplace domain.
The memory file format and hypertext concept was introduced in July 1945, with the posting of As We May Think by Vannevar Bush in The Atlantic Monthly (Seymour, Frantsvog Kumar, 2011). Rose bush insisted that scientists work together to develop an understanding pool to aid all of humanity. This was then Gerard Salton (considered the founder of the modern search technology) and coworkers in Cornell and Harvard creating Saltons Magic Automatic Breed of Text message (SMART), which usually encompassed key concepts just like Term Regularity (TF), vector space version, relevancy reviews mechanisms, Inverse Document Regularity, and term discrimination principles (Seymour Frantsvog Kumar, 2011). His work A Theory of Indexing describes several tests done by him, which always form the foundation modern search engines (Seymour Frantsvog Kumar, 2011).
Ted Nelson:
In the year 1960, Ted Nelson came up with the Project Xanadu aimed at setting up a computer network using a straightforward user interface which usually resolved a defieicency of attribution and similar social issues. 36 months later, he coined the word hypertext (Aaron Wall, 2017). Whilst Nelson was working away at broken links, complex markup code, and many other concerns linked to typical HTML (hypertext markup language) on the World Wide Web, Teds work in fact inspired the net (Aaron Wall structure, 2017). Yet , the precise causes of Project Xanadus failure continue to be a contested subject.
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANet):
The year 93 witnessed the launch from the earliest few hundred websites, most of which were situated in college campuses. However , well before these came into existence, the realms foremost google search, Archie (short for archives), was developed by simply McGill University student, Alan Emtage, in the year 1990 (Aaron Wall membrane, 2017). The engine efficiently resolved the info scatter issue through combining a regular phrase matcher and script-based data gatherer to retrieve document names that matched user queries (Aaron Wall, 2017). Basically, it is usually envisaged as a web filename database; the filenames can be matched with user queries. ARPANet ultimately resulted in the creation with the internet.
Data file Transfer Protocol (FTP):
Harry Burners-Lee was obviously a household name on the market prior to the Internet, when people typically shared info through FTP (Aaron Wall membrane, 2017). File-sharing required the establishment of an FTP storage space. An individual enthusiastic about data retrieval had to make use of FTP clientele (Aaron Wall structure, 2017). Although process was effective with small organizations, fragmentation elevated with embrace data volumes.
The primary website – http://info.cern.ch/ – went online on sixth August, 1991 (Barrel, 2007). The site referred to the World Wide Web principle, guided individuals in setting up web servers, and supplied browser ownership-related information (Barrel, 2007). Further more, it was the first Web directory in the world, since Berners-Lee stored a website list (Barrel, 2007). Additionally , he developed a Virtual Selection, the earliest web catalogue and authored a book Weaving the Web on the Globally Webs creation. The year 1994 saw the institution from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) for MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Levene, 2013).
Yahoo Inc.
Yahoo Inc. begun by Stanford students, Sergey Brin and Larry Web page, in the year 98. Their target was promoting Google Search, the worlds most popular internet-based search engine (Aaron Wall, 2017). The two came across the BackRub search criteria a couple of years before the companys establishment (Gilbert, 2009). The Google search engine loved swift accomplishment, with the developing firm shifting a number of moments prior to finally establishing head office at Pile View, Washington dc, in the year 2003 (Sutherland, 2012). After this emerged a period of swift progress for the corporation; the very next 12 months, it built its initial public supplying and rapidly became one of the biggest media corporations throughout the world. It introduced its Yahoo News support in the year 2002, Gmail (email service) in the year 2004, Maps in the year 2005, the Google Chrome web browser in the year 2008, and, finally its social network, Google+ in the year 2011 (Aaron Wall, 2017). It became Alphabet Inc. s chief additional in the year 2015 (Aaron Wall membrane, 2017).
Earning the Search War
Right after commencing functions, the Google founders received seed financing worth 100 thousand dollars from Andy Bechtolsheim, accompanied by twenty-five mil dollars coming from Kleiner, Kendrick, Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital (Sutherland, 2012). AMERICA ONLINE and Askjeeve! chose Google as their search partners it happened in 1999 and 2k, respectively. The brand new millennium experienced the Yahoo Toolbars kick off (Aaron Wall, 2017). Since that time, the companys share from the search market has increased considerably, annually.
The brand new millennium likewise witnessed the re-launch of AdWords, a cost-per-thousand-based ad-selling program (Aaron Wall, 2017). The service was retooled two years later, with advertisements sold through auction, considering click through rate and bid cost (Sutherland, 2012). In May 2002 came AOLs announcement it would deliver search-related advertising via Yahoo. This helped Google considerably in its battle against compete with, Overture (Aaron Wall, 2017).
AdSense, an application facilitating the companys development of the ad network through offering targeted advertisements on other sites was introduced the following year (Aaron Wall, 2017).
Going Open public
The company applied the following strategy when heading public: a 2-class share framework, with stock stocks and shares offered through a Netherlands-based public auction. Further, that refrained by giving earnings guidance (Aaron Wall, 2017). However , it absolutely was criticized hugely for the apparent selfishness it stated within the shareholder manual (Aaron Wall structure, 2017). A controversial Hughs playboy interview generated the company decreasing its initial public giving range and going community on 19th August, 2005, at 85 dollars/share (Aaron Wall, 2017).
B. Factors: Analyze the factors that contributed to the obsolescence or perhaps dissolution of notable businesses in your picked market domain in the recent past. Make sure you discuss the two inhibiting and enabling factors in your evaluation.
Yahoo Company
During the time for the millennium, Yahoo! t stock maximum was about five hundred dollars/share (i. elizabeth., only above 108 dollars/share following splitting) (Vaughan, 2016). Currently, however , the company will be purchased simply by Verizon for a bargain basement price – some. 83 billion dollars (Vaughan, 2016).
Yahoo lacked competitors in the time its start in the year 1994 (Vaughan, 2016) and was quick to get the most popular search guide for the internet. Excite and Entrada Vista opened two years later, though these were hardly any difficult competitors for the company (Vaughan, 2016).
Quick technological progression necessitates leveraging of smart acquisitions the moment undertaking long lasting development interests. Consider, for instance, Googles acquiring Youtube, DeepMind, DoubleClick, and Boston Dynamics or Facebooks purchase of Instagram and Ouverture Rift (Desjardins, 2016). Yahoos managers havent had success in making forecasts, have made a number of erroneous discounts, and have forgotten several profitable deals (Vaughan, 2016), thus leading to the companys demise.
How would Yahoo get it done?
Yahoo invested in search engine technology and its world wide web portal (Desjardins, 2016). The earliest investors from the company experienced a 1, 339. 4% stock growth at the beginning of the new millennium (Vaughan, 2016). Good results . the bubbles enlargement, the corporation embarked on an ill-fated quest of wrong acquisitions which includes Geocities and Broadcast. com, followed by the. com crash (Vaughan, 2016).
Akin to additional high-fliers, the company suffered a poor fall but unlike eToys, Pets. com, and Curcat, it didnt perish. Yet Googles kick off proved detrimental to Yahoo (Vaughan, 2016). Likewise, rather than producing search engine engineering investments, the business constantly acquired bad companies and stopped to be a expansion firm (Vaughan, 2016). Its sole truly successful action during the last decade was its purchase of an Alibaba stake. (Alibaba is Amazons Oriental version). Costly irony that during the past number of years, Alibaba only has ascertained Yahoos success. Nevertheless, it has witnessed several disappointing sectors (Vaughan, 2016).
One significant low level for the business was the Main Executives 08 decision to show down Microsofts 44. 6-billion-dollar buyout provide (Vaughan, 2016). Despite the rejection of Microsofts buyout, Yahoo dumped its own google search in July of 2009 for Ask (a Microsoft engine) (Vaughan, 2016). The fundamental of Yahoos slow downfall is their prioritization of acquisitions instead of innovation through the dot-com time (Vaughan, 2016). Though Alibabas stock buy certainly proven profitable, no other obtain did. Its Tumblr and Flickr acquisitions also failed to work (Vaughan, 2016).
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An Indiana senator and longtime critic of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries announced Friday that he's selling his stock in his family's arts and crafts company after The Associated Press reported it manufactures some products in Mexico.
Democrat Joe Donnelly said he hasn't had an active role in the company for 20 years but was taking the action to avoid allowing the issue to become "a distraction from our work to end outsourcing and keep American jobs here instead of shipping them to other countries." His campaign said he made the statement to reporters at an Indiana Black Expo luncheon.
Donnelly, considered one of the nation's most vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, was highly critical of Carrier Corp., an air conditioner and furnace maker. He accused it of exploiting $3-an-hour workers when its parent company announced plans last year to cut some 2,000 jobs at two Indiana factories by moving production to Mexico.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee quickly criticized Donnelly in a statement Friday, alleging he is "hypocritically profiting" from the company's actions. It called on him to donate his sale profits to organizations helping the families of displaced workers.
Stewart Superior, which also has an operation in LaPorte, Indiana, says on its website that the company's Mexican factory "brings economical, cost competitive manufacturing and product development to our valued customers."
Donnelly's brother runs the company, but the senator previously served as a corporate officer and its general counsel before he was first elected to Congress in 2006. He won election to the Senate in 2012.


Dozens of novels and many films have given the French Foreign Legion an adventurous and dashing air, and whether justified or not this has made the early 20th century legionnaire one of the most recognisable of history's soldiers. Airfix were well tuned to popular culture, and this set was among the first historic figure sets they produced, over half a century ago.
Well OK, this particular set is not that old. This is the second type set, and it was the first type that appeared in 1962 (reviewed here). This set was a retooled and much improved copy of the first, and appeared in the late 1960s. The poses were almost identical, but the standard of detail and quality of mould were a great deal better. 16 poses is pretty good for an infantry set, and these are a fair collection. Several make regular appearances in many Airfix sets, particularly the American Civil War, and for the most part they are quite acceptable. It is difficult to know what the man holding his rifle directly over his head is meant to be doing (parrying a downward blow from a sword?), and the man holding his rifle barrel pointing down is also something of a mystery, though he may be using it as a club. The officer holds both sword and revolver at the same time, the latter in his left hand, so presumably he is ambidextrous. Still this is a dramatic but pretty unlikely pose in reality, so not a great choice here.
All the men are in campaign dress with the heavy 'capote' coat and the loose trousers. Sadly the uniform has a number of inaccuracies and several missing components. Briefly, the canteen is a round affair reminiscent of the British Napoleonic type when it should be the two-spout bidon, the men have only one ammunition pouch when they should have one either side, and they are missing the Y-straps to support these over the shoulder. There is no sash under the belt - a proud symbol of the Legion - and no mess tin or haversack anywhere. The coats have a falling collar when this should be standing, and all the men wear gaiters, little seen by 1906. The officer's revolver holster is extremely uncomfortably placed on his stomach, and the mounted officer has a canteen with no visible means of support (they did not hang from the belt). Finally, no-one has fixed bayonets, which may not be an error but is certainly a surprise. The dismounted officer wears a capote like his men, but at this period it appears that officers would not wear this item, but a vareuse or similar tunic as depicted in the Esci set. So he should appear more like the mounted officer here.
Though a step up from the first type, detail is still not impressive, with weapons in particular being largely smooth bits of plastic that are no more than rifle-shaped. The officer's horse fits into an incredibly thin base using four very short pegs (naturally), so that even though all four legs touch the ground it is difficult to keep base and animal together. Some issues of this set have also suffered loss of detail on the horse, virtually losing the saddle and cloth altogether. The amount of flash varies, with later reissues having more than the original batch.
Some very realistic (and a few less realistic) poses and good anatomical appearance fail to compensate for the poor attempt at historical accuracy. Esci have produced a much better researched set, so maybe it is time for Airfix to produce a third, definitive version of this set with modern levels of detail and a more authentic uniform.


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