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Before talking about the Novo water softener let's find out why you might actually need one in your home.
Hard water becomes extremely problematic when you combine it with heat or soap.
Heat plus hard water causes the formation of limescale stones. This limescale then accumulates in your water pipes, water appliances, heaters and other accessories.
Soap reacts with hard water to create less lather, which makes cleaning more difficult. This also results in dull colors in your clothes as well as your hair and skin.
Shower heads with hard water can lose about 75% of flow in less than 18 months.
Water heaters can fail after only 1.6 years with hard water. With soft water, however, they tend to maintain the original factory rating.
The operating costs can also be 34% less.
Gas water heaters are up to 24% cheaper when they use soft water.
You can use 50% less soap and detergent with soft water. Hard water makes soap work harder.
Electric water heaters can collect up to 30 pounds of white limescale rock from hard water. This also shortens the life of the heating element.
Nuvo H2O vs Novo Water Softener?
It can sometimes be confusing because "Novo" sounds a lot like "Nuvo" but they are different brands.
Another source of confusion is that both of them are salt free systems.
And in truth, the biggest selling point of the Novo water softener is that it does not use salt.
This is why it should technically be called a "water conditioning system" rather than a water softener.
You technically can't get soft water without using salt. However, conditioning makes it less likely for hard water to stick around in your pipes.
Using a salt free water conditioner is good for people that are watching the amount of salt they get in their diet (although you should NOT really be drinking soft water). It's also good for people that are ethically opposed to using and regularly buying softener salt.
However, the biggest advantage of the Novo water softener is its compact size which makes it suitable for people that don't have a lot of space.
The compact Novo water system uses an ecological process to condition the water throughout your home.
The NuvoH2O claims to provide you with soft water through its FDA-approved chelation technology used in luxury hotels and restaurants around the world. The result is water that is less hard for all the uses of your home, including bathing, washing and watering the lawn and garden.
Easy to replace the patented cartridge in 60 seconds and it will last for approximately 6 months.
You will not need to buy or use softener salt, unlike traditional water softeners.
Using no softener salt means it is healthier for you, your family as well as the environment.
Cheaper water and electricity bills.
The NuvoH2O system consumes up to 4 times less water than others and does not require power.
Easy to find and the access novo water softener manual online.
Very little novo water softener maintenance needed.
It can not technically claim to provide you with soft water because you can only get soft water by using salt.
Novo is not a water softener because it does not use salt. Instead, it can only "condition your water".
This means that if you don't have very hard water then the Novo might be a good option.
You don't want to use softener salt – ever.
Space is an issue and you need a compact water treatment system.
Your preference is for a system that is more environmentally friendly.
The hard water issue you face is NOT severe.
You don't need it for a large family home or a commercial premise.
When you need something that is VERY effective in dealing with high amounts of hard water.
Fleck is the best selling water softener on Amazon's online market place. Customers love its very competitive pricing, ease of installation, low or no maintenance and effectiveness compared to other models.
It allows you to set it and forget it through it's automated softening controls.
Fleck softener machines have good capacity and can provide enough soft water for the average family household.
The Fleck SXT range is easy to install, easy to configure and offers the best value for money.
Lower water consumption means lower operating costs when compared to other salt based water softener systems.
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second-half goals from Charlie Davis, Jonah Ayunga and Neil Martin wrapped up a second 3-0 victory for Dorchester over the Lilywhites this season.
Ayunga replaced Luke Holmes in the only change to the Magpies' starting XI after the defeat of Frome the previous Wednesday.
And he was in the thick of the action early on, running right through the heart of the Cambridge defence before teeing up Nathan Walker.
His shot was saved by Zac Barrett but the linesman's flag had gone up for offside a split second earlier.
A lull in proceedings followed before Dorchester keeper Alan Walker-Harris to tip Kaan Fehmi's effort out for a corner.
At the other end, Matt Oldring spurned a great chance to give the hosts the lead.
Davis floated a free-kick to the far post, Franklyn Clarke pulled the ball back to Oldring inside the six-yard box, but he could only stab his shot over from close range.
But minutes later, Fehmi served up one of the misses of the season.
Ieuan Lewis got in behind the home defence and looked up to find team-mate Fehmi free in front of goal.
But, with Walker-Harris having come off his line to narrow the angle on Lewis, Fehmi somehow managed to lift the ball over the crossbar.
Although the Avenue pitch had only been played on once since December 19 – that was for a reserve-team game – the wet weather of recent weeks still meant the surface had a big say on the quality of football on show.
There was another half-chance in the first period for Walker, who fired an Oakley Hanger cross straight at Barrett.
The second half was just six minutes old when the Magpies got the all-important first goal.
Ayunga seized on a loose ball inside the City box before being brought down by Lee Chaffey.
Southampton referee Christopher Wade pointed straight to the spot and, despite Barrett saving his initial effort, Davis followed up to smash home the rebound.
Things were about to get even better for Dorchester, however, they were given a scare when City skipper Buster Harradine found Walker-Harris' near post direct from a corner.
Soon after, though, the hosts were two goals to the good, giving them just the cushion they needed.
Walker was involved in the build-up and when the ball arrived at the feet of Ayunga, the youngster only had one thing on his mind.
The centre forward crashed a left-foot shot past Barrett from the edge of the box to register his eighth league strike of the season.
After Cambridge's Duran Reynolds had been booked and then replaced by Joel Norris, Ayunga went so close to scoring again.
A barnstorming run ended with him nudging the ball past Barrett but agonisingly wide of the upright.
Moments later, a Martin corner was glanced goalwards by Oldring and looked to have crossed the line only for Charlie Day to keep it out with a last-ditch clearance.
But whether the ball was over the line or not was made largely irrelevant on 75 minutes when Oldring's deflected cross gave Martin the simplest of finishes at the back post.
With the job done, Dorchester saw out the closing stages with the minimum of fuss, and they made their final change of the afternoon with Ayunga making way for young brother Sol.
His first involvement in the contest was to pick up a booking for a slightly mistimed challenge.
Nevertheless, the hosts had already done more than enough to bag their second 3-0 win on the trot in the Evo-Stik Southern Premier Division.
Magpies: Walker-Harris, Hanger (Sayers 72), Smeeton, Clarke, Oldring, Dillon, Davis, Martin, Walker, Watson (Holmes 59), J Ayunga (S Ayunga 83). Subs not used: Jermyn, Brookes.
Cambridge: Barrett, Cooper, Day, Murray, Chaffey, Reynolds (Norris 64), Kaye, Harradine, Kelly (Wolfe 77), Fehmi, Lewis (Maslen-Jones 73).


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'It's as if You Israelis Forgot What You Went Through and Where You Came From'
Date: 17.12.18 Source: Haaretz, Itay Stern
On a very rainy evening in Tel Aviv last month, a few hundred people crowded into the cinematheque for the premiere of new Israeli TV series "Ir Miklat" ("Asylum City"). While two of the show's stars, Hani Furstenberg and Mali Levi, dazzled in evening gowns, most of the other cast members avoided ostentatious fashion statements.
The exception was Sean Mongoza, who was sporting a colorful silk suit and pair of blue velvet moccasins. Mongoza, 24, had never experienced so many flashing cameras before, not even while working as a model. But what really excited him was the presence of his parents in the auditorium.
That year, at age 7, something happened for the first time in his life: he had a birthday celebration of sorts. "I remember my first white friend at school. He came over a few times. I made up a [story about a] birthday I was about to have in a few days. He got excited and bought me a gift. That day, my parents came home early from work. I was showering and heard someone knocking at the door. My father opened the door and asked who it was. This kid had bought me a soccer ball, but my father told him 'Sean doesn't have a birthday,' and shut the door. That was on a Friday, and when we went to church I saw the gift wrap flying around on the sidewalk."
Thankfully, his childhood improved as he grew older. He made new friends at the boarding school and was embraced by its counsellors and other staff members. He attended high school at the Herzliya Gymnasium, where he set up a youth band and became popular with his peers. He smiles broadly as he remembers his days at the boarding school. "For the first time I felt warmth from people, not fear and alienation. That's where I developed," he says.
However, aspects of his violent homelife did occasionally resurface at the boarding school, where he admits to "violent outbursts" if he ever encountered racism: "I'd go from 0 to 100 in one second flat. If I didn't get what I wanted, I'd close the door and not speak to anyone. I took out my anger mainly on objects. There was a lot of anger there."
At 16, when he first attempted to get his ID card, he encountered institutional racism as well. When he arrived at the Interior Ministry branch to receive his card, he was forced to line up alongside hundreds of asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea. Mongoza couldn't understand why someone who grew up in Israel and spoke fluent Hebrew, and whose friends were all Israeli, needed to go through the same bureaucratic channels.
At the time, he felt he had nothing in common with those Africans waiting in line. Now, though, his résumé includes roles playing African asylum seekers in the series "Alifim" ("Ninth-Graders") – which he landed at age 17 – and then "Betoolot" ("Mermaids") and "Metim Lerega" ("Dead for a Moment"), the latter two coming while he was still studying at Tel Aviv's Nissan Nativ Acting Studio.
Persistent casting director
"Asylum City," which premiered on Yes Edge in Israel last week, is Mongoza's first starring TV role. He plays Gabriel, an Eritrean who entered Israel illegally with his sister, having seen her be raped in front of him as they were crossing the desert. In Israel, he joins a refugee center where he meets a volunteer (Mali Levi), who pays a high price for trying to be the Don Quixote of south Tel Aviv.
The series is directed with great sensitivity and tries, according to director Eitan Tzur, to be an Israeli version of David Simon's groundbreaking show "The Wire." And after watching the first two episodes, it seems that such lofty pretensions are not completely unfounded.
Mongoza, Levi and Furstenberg (who plays a police officer trying to crack a criminal case) are all equally impressive, each of them part of a dark and disturbing mosaic in which asylum seekers are the weakest link.
Mongoza wasn't exactly busting a gut when he attended his audition. To him at the time, the part seemed like another of those stereotypical African refugee roles. But the casting director, who saw him facing the camera with an air of disinterest, did not give up and asked him to concentrate. Some 18 months later, he received an offer and was asked to show up for filming two weeks later. "I came to the first rehearsal and asked Eitan the director, 'Why did you choose me? You could have taken any non-actor Eritrean who knows the language.' He said he wanted an actor who could hold it all together. I told him, 'Great, that was good for my ego.'"
The actor contradicts my assumption that he probably doesn't have much in common with his character. "I found many points of identification with him, actually," he says. "The fact that he's a painter and an artist was important for me, as well as his loyalty to his family. I learned a lot from the character. It led me to appreciate my family and my place as a black man in Israel.
"Gabriel did not have the opportunities I have had. He walked through the desert with his sister, who was raped. He performed menial jobs here, but still kept his joie de vivre – which I can relate to. Something about his dignity really impressed me.
"As a child, I felt that my color differentiated me," continues Mongoza, saying it was only as he grew older that he learned to live at peace with his identity as a black man in Israel. "When it came to relationships – with the parents of partners who didn't want me because of my color or because I'm not Jewish – that was very painful," he admits. "Some people have blue eyes that they can cover with colored lenses; I can't paint myself white. That's my personality, my identity and scar – and it's there for the better."
Now he's the star of a TV series and has become something of a household face, he doesn't deny that he is part of the Tel Aviv art scene and a proud member of Israeli society. "It's the embodiment of a new generation: I'm a Congolese-Israeli," he smiles, "another color in the world, another genre. It has been confusing for me in a way since for many years I've distanced myself from my culture, my African identity, and I didn't want any part of it. I feel like I don't know my roots.
"I'm interested in going to Congo one day, but don't want to go as a tourist," he says. "In any case, I'll feel different there. I don't speak Lingala very well. They'll immediately spot that I'm different. And I don't want to go on a 'root-finding' mission. When I go, I want to do something significant – maybe set up a school. It has to be something else."
Although Mongoza has Israeli citizenship, he notes that many members of the Congolese community here are at risk of deportation. For him, "Asylum City" serves as a warning sign. "The Interior Ministry recently decreed that everyone who came here from the Democratic Republic of Congo must leave by the beginning of next year. This doesn't apply to my nuclear family, but it does to my uncle and to a good friend of my mother.
"There are 4,000 Congolese in Israel, not a significant number," he says. "How does it hurt the country to let these people live here? For me, this TV series is a protest, it's part of the whole issue. There is an entire community here. Jews also experienced hardships, they went through the Holocaust. Now they come to someone and deport him – it's as if you forgot what you went through and where you came from. I never for one moment forget where I came from. Even when I'm in the limelight I don't forget it."
I ask Mongoza how racist Israel is and he doesn't hold back. "It's really racist. The fact that I can't marry a Jewish woman here is racist. We're living in 2018 and that's a racist law. And that's before you're called 'N*****,' and before they make you go through hell to get an ID card. Look at Tsahi Halevi and Lucy Aharish, who had to conceal their relationship," he says, referring to the Jewish actor and Arab news anchor who secretly married in October. "You are always on the defensive living here. I ask myself if I want my children to live like that. I don't want them to go through what I went through. It wasn't easy."
Despite those damning words, Mongoza concedes there have been small signs of improvement. "Israel is changing slowly. The generation of Africans who were born here is slowly integrating into Israeli society and its cultural world. We have some influence over the way Africans are accepted here. It's easy for young Africans to complain about how they've been deprived. If something doesn't suit you – try to change it. You can start with your own milieu or your art or with how you talk or see the world. A lot is in our hands too."
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Trip – debiutancki album studyjny polskiej piosenkarki Patricii Kazadi, wydany 14 maja 2013 przez wytwórnię EMI Music Poland. Album składa się z dwunastu kompozycji, z których większość napisała sama wykonawczyni. Płyta jest podzielona na część angielskojęzyczną, z tekstami Patricii Kazadi i polskojęzyczną, do której teksty napisali m.in. Andrzej Piaseczny i Karolina Kozak.

Album odnosi się do podróży, którą Kazadi odbyła po świecie w latach 2011–2013, lecz główną inspiracją do jego stworzenia była jej podróż do Indonezji. Materiał na płytę był nagrywany m.in. w Warszawie, Poznaniu, Los Angeles, Paryżu i Zurychu.

Płytę promowały cztery single: "Hałas", "Wanna Feel You Now" w duecie z Mattem Pokorą, "Przerywam sen" oraz "Live a Little".

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Opracowane na podstawie materiału źródłowego.
 "Hałas" (remix) – 3:25
 "My Oh My" – 3:45
 "Wanna Feel You Now" (gośc. Matt Pokora) – 3:06
 "Shake the World" – 2:21
 "Knock Knock" – 3:32
 "Przerywam sen" – 3:25
 "In My Car" – 3:24
 "Live a Little" – 2:29
 "Say Yeah" – 3:33
 "Więcej ciepła" – 3:24
 "Nie tak po prostu" – 4:00
 "Zabraknie" – 3:49
Całkowita długość: 40:13

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Q: Compare the triplets. Print two space-separated integers denoting the respective comparison points earned by Alice and Bob The question has the url link hackerrankquestion
I wrote this code :

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.util.regex.*;

public class Solution {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        int a0 = in.nextInt();
        int a1 = in.nextInt();
        int a2 = in.nextInt();

        int b0 = in.nextInt();
        int b1 = in.nextInt();
        int b2 = in.nextInt();
        int[] result = solve(a0, a1, a2, b0, b1, b2);
        for (int i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
            System.out.print(result[i] + (i != result.length - 1 ? " " : ""));
        }
        System.out.println("");

    }

    static int[] solve(int a0, int a1, int a2, int b0, int b1, int b2){
        // Complete this function
        int resultA = 0;
        int resultB = 0;
        int[] arrA = {a0,a1,a2};
        int[] arrB = {b0,b1,b2};
        for(int i = 0; i <3; i++){
            if (arrA[i] > arrB[i] && arrA[i] - arrB[i] != 0){
                resultA++;
            }else resultB++ ;
        }
        int[]  array = {resultA, resultB};
        return array;

    }
}

Didn't pass the test . Attaching the snapshot.
then I manipulated the result B = -1 and hurray , I passed the test

Only to know the rest of the test cases I have failed.

Any insight please why is this happening to me.

A: I think, I found bug in your logic, it's here
Here is the correct implementation of the solve method
  static int[] solve(int a0, int a1, int a2, int b0, int b1, int b2){
    // Complete this function
    int resultA = 0;
    int resultB = 0;
    int[] arrA = {a0,a1,a2};
    int[] arrB = {b0,b1,b2};
    for(int i = 0; i <3; i++){
        if (arrA[i] > arrB[i] && arrA[i] - arrB[i] != 0){
            resultA++;
        }else if(arrB[i] > arrA[i] && arrB[i] - arrA[i] != 0){resultB++ ;}
    }
    int[]  array = {resultA, resultB};
    return array;

}

So what is happening is, if values of A and B are equal then also you are incrementing B and that is not what you want.
Hope this helps!

A: This code could be much simplified if the main function is modified as,
public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        int a0 = in.nextInt();
        int a1 = in.nextInt();
        int a2 = in.nextInt();
        int b0 = in.nextInt();
        int b1 = in.nextInt();
        int b2 = in.nextInt();
        int[] result = solve(a0, a1, a2, b0, b1, b2);
        //for (int i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
          //  System.out.print(result[i] + (i != result.length - 1 ? " " : ""));
        //}
        System.out.println(result[0]+" "+result[1]);//much simplified format

    }

A: #include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int x,y,z,a,b,c,count_a=0,count_b=0;
    scanf("%d%d%d",&a,&b,&c);
    scanf("%d%d%d",&x,&y,&z);

    if(a>x)
    count_a++;
    if(a<x)
    count_b++;
    if(b>y)
    count_a++;
    if(b<y)
    count_b++;
    if(c>z)
    count_a++;
    if(c<z)
    count_b++;
    printf("%d %d",count_a,count_b);
}

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Advertising technology, front-end frameworks, component-based development, and business expectations have transformed the web into a medium that is moving at a furious pace, focused on consumption, and increasingly built on technical debt to 3rd party modules and services—all traits that we would shun or cautiously consider in other industries.
Sustainability and climate change solutions require holistic thinking. Is it viable to focus on sustainability and efficiency in the real world while we haphazardly build short-sighted, inefficient digital platforms? How can we better align our approach to digital design & development with our values in the natural world?
By looking to ecological design, sustainable business principles, and residential and commercial construction, we can find opportunities to analyze or positively influence our digital efforts. We can begin to affect not only the sustainability of our websites and apps, but also our entire digital ecosystem and approach to projects and online workplaces. We can embrace an approach to our digital work that fuels our drive to contribute to a more sustainable world.
I'm going to step a step back. We've heard a lot of great stuff about tactical things we can do. I want to talk a little bit more about our practices as an industry with regards to a sustainable mindset. Specifically, looking at the concept of technical debt and how we can work smarter to avoid its impacts. Before we start, I want to give a shoutout to my colleague, Aaron, who helped me with the visual design elements for my presentation today.
When a programmer says technical debt, typically they're referring to things in their codebase that have slipped in there that they never had the time or budget to go back and clean up. If you've spent any time around programmers, it's a huge frustration. For the purpose of this talk, a few definitions to get started. I consider technical debt to be wasted performance, time, and money tomorrow, as a result of decisions or choices made today. Another way of saying that is decisions and choices made today that impact performance, maintainability, accessibility, and decisions or choices made tomorrow. Debt is something we owe in the future. Debt is contrary to any sustainable system. It's contrary to a sustainable economy, it's contrary to a sustainable household budget, it's contrary to a sustainable use of resources. If technical debt is a result of decisions and choices, I want to talk about the space in which those decisions and choices are made in our industry and how we work.
Getting into that, we had a presidential election in November here in the states, which I'm sure everybody is aware of. I'm not going to talk about politics, policies, or personalities, but there was something that was talked about after the election that I found interesting and relevant to our industry. Which is that there aren't a lot of rules around how a president or member of Congress must conduct themselves or behave or fill their role. There's what's referred to as norms and self-restraint. Similarly, in our industry, in the work that we do, we don't have a lot of rules and regulations in UX design and building websites. But we have developed some of these norms. For example, your workplace might tout an appreciation for work-life balance and say that your time of is your time alone. But particularly here in the states, we don't enforce that. We don't shut down email servers after hours like they do in some companies or other countries. We don't block accounts if you're on vacation. We don't have penalties if you email your colleagues when you're on vacation. Work-life balance is a norm. It's not a regulation or strict policy. That norm breaks down once one person sends an email saying, "This totally isn't urgent, but just in case you're checking email when you're out for the day." That's an example of self-restraint breaking down. There are other examples. Unless you're in a context where your work is required to be Section 508 complaint, accessibility is a norm. It's just a practice. The same goes for performance in websites that we're talking about today. The same goes for not launching on a Friday or not working directly on the production server. Many of us have turned these into practical rules, but we're all asked on a regular basis to make exceptions as well.
I don't bring up norms and self-restraint because I think we're all lazy. Or that technical debt is a lack of self-restraint on our part. I think for those of us who are enlightened about such things as accessibility and performance and sustainability perceive these to be norms. Unless we convince others to regard these as universal norms, our resistance, our ability to uphold these norms, will continue to be eroded and technical debt will creep in. We're making choices and decisions, as I said in the definitions, under constraints every day that will impact the future.
Another relevant example of norms that starts to get a little more proactive. The web standards movement of the early 2000s drove the shift away from table-based website layouts to separating structure and presentation through markup and stylesheets. There's no law today that says you can't make a website using tables. But HTML and CSS became the norm. I think one of the best tactics that Jeffrey Zeldman deployed was to make the push to establish such norms about money. When bandwidth costs money, all of that table markup, all of those inline font face tags and styles, pushed wasteful bits down the pipe and cost real money. Demand for web standards was created, in large part, because the costly financial penalty for waste was quantified. Those are the terms we need to think about when it comes to establishing norms around sustainability and performance today. We are talking about those in terms of electric consumption. But we need those to incentivize stakeholders.
So we have norms that have emerged, like web standards. We have perceived norms, like under-the-hood accessibility and performance optimization. Things that we might appreciate more than some of our colleagues are aware of. Now we're talking about a need to create demand for sustainable practices. We know it requires self-restraint, resistance, and strength to uphold these norms. At the same time, we work in a fast-paced industry with a fast-paced evolving medium. In many ways, the medium that we work in, the internet, is abstract. It's intangible. I think that contributes to technical debt emerging, as well.
Our daily lives now span three worlds. We have the natural world, the built world, and the digital world that we're talking about today in the context of UX. Most of us spend our days in the built world. We're in offices, working from home, driving in cars, riding mass transportation. We're growing more and more aware of the need to appreciate and reconnect with the natural world and be better stewards of the natural world. For many of us, attending a conference focused on sustainability, the people here today put a lot of effort into this. We choose green products. We recycle. We compost. We reduce energy usage and generate less waste. Many of us are in the process of changing our lifestyles and how we occupy the built world to better care for the natural world. But then we open our laptops and we throw unoptimized images online. We build websites on bloated off-the-shelf platforms or components. We layer in a dozen tracking or advertising scripts. We blame it all on the deadline or the business constraints. Wherever these practices impact performance or accessibility or they keep us from maintaining our core CMS platforms—because add-ons are incompatible—these all pile up and create technical debt. They're not a symptom of a lack of knowledge or lack of interest in building resilient or sustainable websites and apps, but of the pace that we are asked to do so.
The question is: How do we create demand for sustainable, resilient solutions? How do we take this mindset, that many of us here today embrace, and how do we instill that in our colleagues, in our stakeholders, in our customers, and anybody else we encounter in the work that we do? I'd like to talk about that by taking a look at that world in the middle here, the built world. The world that is manmade, like our digital world, but much more tangible than our abstract, online digital world. It's the tangibility of the built world that helps to keep it in check. Think about it. If you were building a house and the architect decided halfway through the build to scrap a huge portion of the layout, not only would you end up with wasted time, but you'd have this big, tangible pile of physical waste that costs as much as the labor involved. If you don't build to optimize standard dimensions of lumber when you build a house, you end up with a lot of scrap pieces that aren't good for much more than firewood, but that you did pay for. In our abstract digital work, the costs of a lack of planning and sustainability to the drivers of our projects are less tangible and costly. But for us here today, they're immense. They're long days, late nights, frustration, and burn out. There are mental health costs which lower our resistance, our strength to uphold our norms, and that's where technical debt starts to creep in. But I do think the built world gives us hope. In the built world, we have a combination of top-down solutions—rules, laws, policies, incentives—for building sustainably and efficiently, as well as bottom-up demand from consumers, homeowners, and people that in our digital world would be called "users", for more efficient, durable structures.
This picture and the second picture following are of something called Noble Home. Noble Home is a home building kit designed and produced by my friend, Noah Grunberg. In creating Noble Home, Noah aspired to create a home that was not only efficient and sustainable using passive energy—things like solar heating—but also a home that could be built by a homeowner, demonstrating integrity and is true to the material it's created from. All things that are great standards in the building world. Because Noble Home is pre-fabricated in Noah's shop, there's little waste. Waste would affect his bottom line. The kit shipped to the homeowner contains just the necessary parts to assemble the house, so there's no waste for the homeowner, either. Noah's customers are looking for an efficient, performant, sustainable home. There's organic demand there that's emerged through education, through growing interest in sustainability. That demand is helping transition relationships between the built and natural world through solutions like Noble Home. We have that bottom-up demand through homeowners for high-performance homes, and then we couple that with top-down demand through our states and municipal building codes. We have standards when it comes to home construction. We have things like Passive House. I think we should be looking, as an industry, at how we can create similar demand, similar incentives in our industry to encourage sustainability.
I interpret that as they slow things down a bit. When we're talking about the space in which we do our work, and it being fast paced, these programs help slow down the decision making process and how quickly things are built and churned out into the world. But, again, I'm not advocating necessarily for strict regulation in how we design and build websites and apps, but for the idea that it would be great to have some of these standards spelled out for our industry. Recognized, utilized as guidelines for design and development, and going back to Zeldman's approach in the web standards movement, incentivizing stakeholders to embrace these standards. I think it's worth asking, where can these standards help mitigate costly technical debt? Where can they provide us the framework for decision making? The space for better decisions and long term strategies? Where can we work better at defining guidelines for accessible, performant, and maintainable websites? I come at this talk having spent a lot of my personal time, my non-work time, reading about home building. Reading about sustainability. Reading about climate change. Not just what's being done in the built world, but reconnecting more with the natural world.
The great thing is, there is a lot happening there that's moving in a positive direction. But the more I read and learn about such things in that context, the more troubled I become by our ever-growing digital world and how it changes us. For those of us here today as designers and builders of that digital world, I think it is up to us to think about that and to start putting these frameworks and guidelines and new norms into place. Wrapping up, I have two quotes from a book called Design Like You Give a Damn, which is sort of a catalogue of projects and solutions for residential structures for people in need, following disasters and things like that.
Similarly, let us not lose sight of who we're designing for. The tasks to be done. How our work impacts the natural, built, and digital worlds. let us not be so enamored by the latest and greatest that we dismiss sustainable work ethic as impractical. Let us help our colleagues, clients, and customers understand that how we work impacts the work we ship, with technical debt being one consequence. That there are resources to conserve in digital design and development, and that sustainability and the digital world is as important as it is in the built and natural worlds. Thank you.
Mark Reeves is a digital designer, developer, and project manager focused on the application of appropriate technology in digital projects and sustainability in the natural world.
Mark has filled many roles over a 20-year career, supporting database design and reporting, front-end development, CMS integration, custom application development, UX strategy, HTML email design & development, and digital project management.
Today Mark supports clients' digital design & branding efforts at Clearbold, LLC, keeping an eye out for projects focused on matters of conservation, climate change, sustainability, and residential homebuilding. Mark and his family relocated to Montpelier, Vermont, in 2016, from Western Massachusetts.


350 He shall try to make the Jamā'at literature available to the members. For this purpose he may also undertake publication of books written by the Promised Messiah (peace be upon him), his Malfūẓāt and books written by different Khulafā' and eminent scholars of the Jamā'at .
351 He shall undertake publication of Jamā'at's magazines and gazettes.
352 Where possible, he shall be responsible for running Jamā'at's book depot(s).
353 He shall collect and dispatch to the Markaz the literature, which is published against Islam and Aḥmadiyyat. Where necessary he shall also publish a refutation thereof.
354 He shall see that appropriate articles in support of Islam and Aḥmadiyyat are published in daily papers and periodicals.
355 He shall involve talented members of the Jamā'at in writing articles and books which may promote aims and objects of the Jamā'at.
356 He shall see that Jamā'at's literature is translated and published in the local languages.
357 He shall see that all major branches have their own libraries and reading rooms which fulfil needs of the Jamā'at .
358 He shall arrange an exhibition library in which literature published by Jamā'at in different languages of the world is displayed.
359 Before undertaking publication of any new book he shall get approval from Wakīlut-Taṣnīf Taḥrīk Jadīd. He shall see that when a Jamā'at member desires to publish some book on a topic which concerns the Jamā'at, he will seek guidance and permission from Wakīlut-Taṣnīf.
360 He shall be responsible for collecting and compiling Jamā'at's history.
361 He shall collect and forward to the Markaz the names of such learned Aḥmadīs who volunteer to devote time in order to study the literature which has been produced against Islam. Such volunteers take a note of these writings and inform the Markaz about it. The secretary shall coordinate the efforts of this group known as the Tracking and Monitoring Cell.
362 In order to collect and compile the history of Jamā'at , a Tadwīn Tārīkh Committee shall be constituted at the national level.
363 The National Tadwīn Tārīkh Committee shall consist of seven members including the National Secretary Ishā'at, Muballighīn and other persons interested in the history of Jamā'at.
364 The National Secretary Ishā'at shall be its secretary and the remaining members shall be appointed with approval of Ḥaḍrat Khalīfatul-Masīḥ on the recommendation of the National Amir.
It shall identify the sources for the collection of the Jamā'at history, e.g., The Daily Al-Faḍl Rabwah, International Al-Faḍl London, Friday Sermons and Addresses of Ḥaḍrat Khalīfatul-Masīḥ, local newspapers, magazines, reports published on special occasions, narrations by individuals, etc.
It shall discuss and analyze the historical material collected from different sources and finalize it.
It shall then finally compile the history, obtain approval from Additional Wakilul-Ishā'at and publish the finalized material.
It shall establish Regional Committees in larger Jamā'at s and set out a guideline for them to compile the history of their relevant regions.
It shall finalize and publish the historical material relating to a specific period, as and when, it is available / collected.
It shall be responsible to collect record of significant functions / events of the Jamā'at, as and when, they take place.
It shall cover in detail the visits of Ḥaḍrat Khalīfatul-Masīḥ to the country.
366 The Regional Committees shall be responsible to compile the history of their relevant region in line with the instructions and directions of the national committee.
367 It shall be the duty of National Secretary Ishā'at to regularly collect historical information from the country and the regional committees and to present the received matter in the National Committee which should then be finalized.


Start by emailing photos to me at Kendra.Aldrich.Arts@gmail.com preferably with good resolution and large size. Sending more is always helpful when choosing the best photo for the portrait, however, I only work from the one photo chosen. If the portrait is to be of more than one subject, I can usually compose the painting from single photos of each. Please let me know if you have a favorite photo and I will let you know if it is suitable to work from.
Please indicate what size painting you are interested in. I will create a pre-painting composition using your photos and Adobe Photoshop. Once you OK the composition and make the payment in full, I will paint the portrait!
Please remember that portraits are completed in the order in which they were commissioned and Turnaround time will be discussed at time of ordering and usually takes a few weeks depending on the complexity of the painting. If a portrait must be completed by a certain deadline that requires changing the order of commissions, a rush fee may be applied.
Your finished portrait will be painted on archival-quality natural cotton Gallery Wrapped Heavy Duty Canvas unless another surface is requested. My Gallery Wrapped Canvases are 1.5" deep and is ready to hang as is with the edges painted, no framing needed. However, if you wish to frame a gallery wrapped canvas there are special frames out there. If you would like a canvas that can be framed with a standard frame, thinner canvas options are available, just let me know beforehand that you would like this.
I hand-paint all my paintings using professional acrylic or oil paints and brushes. Both acrylic and oil paintings look similar due to the techniques that I use, however an acrylic painting will dry and be ready to ship much faster.
I use a varnish medium after the painting is finished as a protective coating as well as to provide an even sheen on the painting.
Smaller sizes, like 8x8 or 8x10, are close up on the subject with minimal background, larger sizes have more room for entire body, toys, etc.
- Requests for a specific background or elements when proper customer photos are not provided.
- The need for me to fill-in incomplete and complex customer photos, such as missing body parts that have been cut off in the photograph.
- Having to fix poor resolution subjects by incorporating my own reference photos. A complex or specific composition that requires more time in the pre-painting stage than usual.
- Significant changes to a successful finished painting, especially when requests are made after you've approved the pre-painting composition.
In order to reserve a place on my wait list, your payment must be made in full.
Total portrait rates vary and are dependent on the size and complexity of the portrait. Portrait payments are non-refundable. However, If, under any circumstances, the portrait cannot be completed or fulfilled by any fault of mine, a full refund will be issued.
The 12x12" or smaller size painting will cost $19.35 S&H when mailed within the U.S. via USPS Flat Rate Priority Mail. Larger sizes vary in price.
- The cost of signature confirmation is included. Optional insurance is on you.
- Locals may pick up the painting in person and eliminate all these fees.
- International buyers please email me for shipping prices.
Images of the original artwork may not be shared on any social media platform without direct permission of Kendra.


The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is currently sleeping, but you can expect New Line to wake it up sometime soon. The series, which helped save the once-floundering studio from financial ruin, will launch yet another remake…eventually. That's what screenwriter David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick claims, at least. For now, though, New Line is more focused on their profitable Conjuring franchise. More on the inevitable new Nightmare on Elm Street remake below.
In 2010, New Line Cinema teamed with Platinum Dunes to get in on the horror remake trend with a Nightmare on Elm Street remake. The results were abysmal. While the film did well at the box office, audiences – especially Nightmare fans – were not impressed. Despite some talk of a sequel, a follow-up adventure for Jackie Earle Haley's new and un-improved Freddy Krueger never materialized. Since then, there have been rumblings of yet another remake. In 2015, Orphan screenwriter David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick was tapped to pen a new remake, but all has been quiet on the Freddy front since then.
The Conjuring franchise has been very profitable for New Line, primarily because the films are relatively cheap to produce. They're so cheap, in fact, that they almost always make their budget back come opening weekend. With that in mind, it makes sense that New Line is more focused on pumping out Conjuring sequels at the moment.
That said, Universal and Blumhouse just had a huge hit in the form of Halloween, David Gordon Green's reboot/sequel to the previously-dormant franchise. The Halloween success suggests audiences are still hungry for classic horror movie characters to return, and bringing back Freddy Krueger seems like a no-brainer.
Whenever New Line gets around to making a new Nightmare, they would be wise to emulate the Halloween model, and bring back a familiar face. Namely, Robert Englund, the original Freddy Kreuger. In the past, Englund has commented that his days of playing Freddy are likely over due to his age. But he's somewhat changed his tune recently, saying he'd like to come back at least one more time. Englund also returned to the role in a recent Halloween episode of The Goldbergs, and proved he could still play the part with ease. Honestly, Englund's age shouldn't be a factor here – the extensive burn make-up the character is buried in can easily cover that up. If the actor is game to return one more time, New Line would be wise to listen.


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Negotiation and due diligence: #6 in the 8 steps of technology commercialization
After a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is signed, OTC strives to negotiate a deal that is a win-win for all parties involved. Compensation can take various forms but is usually some combination of a cash fee, patent expense reimbursements, royalties and equity. Other variable licensing terms include exclusivity, fields of use, duration, sublicensing rights, and required diligence milestones.
What happens when a potential licensee is interested in a university invention?
The matching process begins when OTC or an inventor finds a third party potentially interested in commercializing the UT invention. The process often begins with a meeting with the inventor to gain a deeper understanding of the invention. If interested, the prospect may follow up with an in-depth review of the science, development path, patents, or market opportunity—often referred to as "due diligence." At the appropriate point in the process, OTC will have the prospect sign an NDA. As the prospect's interest in commercializing the invention deepens, OTC and the prospect will begin discussing economic terms, which will ultimately form the basis of a license agreement.
How long does it take to negotiate a license?
Typically the process takes a couple of months. OTC has reasonable template agreements which, if used in their entirety, leave only the business terms such as compensation up for discussion. (Sample term sheets and agreements may be seen in the "Forms for potential licensees" section.) If a partner is unable to accept certain terms or language in the OTC template, a more extensive legal review (and therefore lengthier) process will be necessary.
What are the principal business points negotiated with a prospective licensee?
Patent or technology license agreements must be constructed to meet the needs of the commercialization partner while compensating the university and the inventor(s) for their contributions. Per the Bayh-Dole Act and the Regents' Rules, UT Austin retains the rights to practice and publish its intellectual property. Negotiable licensing terms include:
The scope of the license grant (including, for example, exclusive vs. non-exclusive licensing, limited fields of use vs. all fields of use, and sublicensing rights)
The licensee's obligations regarding development and commercialization of the technology, including milestones
Compensation to the university and inventors for the license grant. Compensation terms may include fixed fees (on a set schedule or based on achievement of milestones), royalties based on product sales, and/or equity in the licensee. Generally, the licensee is also responsible for paying patent expenses.
What kind of financial terms are included in a license agreement?
University compensation can take on various forms but is usually some combination of a cash fee, patent expense reimbursements, royalties, and equity. OTC designs the compensation schedule in collaboration with the commercialization partner. The terms should reflect the anticipated commercialization plan and avoid undue burdens on licensees while providing fair compensation back to the university.
Can equity be included in a license?
Yes. The university frequently receives an equity stake in a new ventures licensing university technology. While almost any type of ownership stake is acceptable, the university will expect a reasonable exit opportunity.
What other types of agreements may be involved in the negotiation phase?
Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are often used to protect the confidentiality of an invention during evaluation by potential licensees. OTC enters into NDAs to safeguard proprietary information shared with someone outside the university.
Inter-Institutional Agreements (IIAs) are used when the university jointly develops an invention with another institution. The IIA defines which party will take the lead in patenting and marketing the invention and the economics of sharing patent costs and revenues.
Option Agreements describe the conditions under which the university grants a third party the right to license an invention. The option can either specify the terms of the license or provide an opportunity for the third party to negotiate the terms.
Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) are required for incoming and outgoing materials (e.g., biological materials, chemicals, laboratory animals) at the university. The Office of Sponsored Projects administers MTAs.
Sponsored Research Agreements (SRAs) with industry sponsors often grant the sponsor the right to negotiate a license to inventions resulting from the sponsored research. SRAs are administered by the Office of Sponsored Projects or the Office of Industry Engagement.
If a potential partner has a specific need not addressed by the current offerings, OTC may be able to find the technology under development in a lab or facilitate a collaborative research initiative. After finding a technology you are interested in pursuing, you are ready to contact the OTC to start the commercialization process. The first step in interacting with our office is signing a non-disclosure agreement, which guarantees that the transfer of intellectual property between the two parties is confidential. NDAs are available in the "Forms for potential licensees " section of this website.
OTC uses reasonable template agreements, which, if used in their entirety, leave only the business terms such as compensation up for discussion. If the commercialization partner is unable to accept certain legal terms or language in the OTC template agreement, a more extensive legal review process is required and execution of a final agreement will take longer.
If the invention is a software application, then there is a completely different licensing process. OTC currently uses four different software license agreements, detailed in the "Software licensing and copyrights" section of this website.
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Colin Kaepernick x Nick Cannon x Joey Badass #10for10
Colin Kaepernick's Million Dollar Pledge Tracker: $980,000
10K a day for TEN DAYS!
Day EIGHT Of Ten:
Colin Kaepernick's Donation: $10,000
Celebrity Match: Nick Cannon ($20,000)
Organization: Communities United By Police Reform | New York, NY
Communities United By Police Reform (CPR) is an unprecedented campaign to end discriminatory policing practices in New York, bringing together a movement of community members, lawyers, researchers and activists to work for change. The partners in this campaign come from all 5 boroughs, from all walks of life and represent many of those most unfairly targeted by the NYPD. This groundbreaking campaign is fighting for reforms that will promote community safety while ensuring that the NYPD protects and serves all New Yorkers. They are a movement that is here to stay – a campaign that will be a visible, lasting presence on the streets of neighborhoods citywide. They will be in communities and on the streets, educating people about their rights; and in the courts and on the steps of City Hall and the state capitol, demanding change to the NYPD — until these policies end.
UPDATE: THIS JUST IN… JOEY BADASS WILL ALSO BE DONATING $10,000 TO SCHOOL ON WHEELS!
Celebrity Match: Joey Badass ($10,000)
Total Amount: $40,000
Both Colin Kaepernick, Nick Cannon, and Joey Badass are donating $40,000 to Communities United By Police Reform! Their donations will specifically pay for:
30k for advance policy change and legislation
Mandate public reporting of police killings, deaths in custody, appoint special prosecutor law for police killings
Legislation for increased accountability for assault and sexual misconduct by police
Monitor and ensure effective implementation of past policy victories ensuring communities of color, LGBT, homeless, immigrants, Muslim community are able to benefit from these past victories.
5k expansion of know your rights education and training for encountering NYPD
5k for organizing, advocacy and strategic communication to support accountability and rapid response for cases of police brutality and abuse
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WatSan & PRSPs inception phase "Strengthening Design, Finance and Delivery of Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes under PRSPs"
To the extent water aspects of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are currently weak, the design of water interventions, and the performance of the sector in terms of delivery, needs to be strengthened accordingly. The water sector also needs to integrate better within broader financing processes, to make its case for more resources. PRSPs are important "platforms for financing" of national action on poverty, but also form part of the broader context of national budgeting and public expenditure management. The processes and decisions which determine the proportion of public funds allocated to different sectoral interests are crucial, especially for the water sector in sub-Saharan Africa where relatively modest private sector funding for water supply and sanitation (WSS) is available. The application of HIPC and related funds towards the declared means and ends of poverty reduction represents a major example of the challenge of shaping government budgeting and spending to further social goals, including targeting particular groups within society. The allocation of resources to different institutions and purposes is political, as well as technical, so national budgeting processes need to be reviewed in that light, including the degree of convergence between PRSPs and national development planning/budgeting. The water sector provides an important example of the challenges surrounding delivery and ongoing development of PRSPs.
This research project is a collaboration between three international organisations: the Overseas Development Institute-ODI, the Water and Sanitation Programme-Africa, and WaterAid, as well as their African partners. It is supported by the UK Department for International Development-DFID. The project follows a preliminary stage of research carried out in March-June 2002, also with DFID support. This further phase of research is designed to throw light on factors and processes behind the poor integration of the WSS sector in PRSPs. Focusing on selected sub-Saharan African countries - Malawi, Zambia and Uganda - the research will seek to make recommendations as to how the design, financing and delivery of WSS programmes within PRSPs may be improved. The following are outlines of the scope/focus of the three country studies:
WSS Design and Delivery: assessment of resource allocation and targeting in the water sector, to determine the extent to which water investment is appropriately prioritised within current district and national-level planning processes, according to three criteria: equity, sustainability and poverty impact; analysis of factors affecting resource allocation in two districts.
WSS Finance and Delivery: sector resource requirements, flows and volumes, allocations, distribution and utilisation; the processes and mechanisms, operating both within the sector and across government, for determination and allocation of resources to WSS, including comparison of resource allocation decisions with resource requirements.
WSS Design and Delivery: translating national WSS sector and PRSP ("PEAP") objectives into equitable and sustainable local services for poverty reduction: review of current WSS planning, intervention and monitoring in two rural districts.
Links are being made to similar work in other countries, e.g. Tanzania through the participation of WaterAid Tanzania, and Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa through studies commissioned by WSP-Africa.
Peter Newborne
Peter Newborne, Tom Slaymaker
WaterAid
Implementation of Water Supply & Sanitation Programmes under PRSPs: Synthesis of research findings from sub-Saharan Africa
From Plan to Action: Water Supply and Sanitation for the Poor in Africa
Briefing/policy papers


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«Елизавета: Королева английская» — драматический телесериал BBC, состоящий из шести 85-минутных серий, в которых Гленда Джексон играет английскую королеву Елизавету I в главной роли. Впервые он транслировался на BBC2 с февраля по март 1971 года на АABC в Австралии и в Америке на канале PBS в составе антологии «Masterpiece Theater».

История создания

Съёмки сериала проходили в различных местах, в том числе в Penshurst Place, который использовался как территория замка королевы, и в замке Чиддингстоун в Кенте.

Первый эпизод транслировался 17 февраля 1971 года и начал описание с постановки 1549 года, когда вот уже как девять лет тогдашняя принцесса Елизавета взошла на английский престол. Последний эпизод вышел на экраны 24 марта 1971 года, в 368-ю годовщину смерти королевы (24 марта 1603 года).

Сериал последовал за успешным сериалом «The Six Wives of Henry VIII» («Шесть жён Генриха VIII») 1970 года, некоторые актёры которого сыграли свои роли в «Королеве английской» (все в первом эпизоде) из более раннего сериала, из их числа Бернард Хептон в роли Кранмера, Бэзил Дигнэм в роли епископа Гардинера и Розали Кратчли в роли Екатерины Парр.

В феврале 1972 года «Елизавета: Королева английская» впервые вышла в эфир в США в рамках сериала «Masterpiece Theatre», тогда его ведущим был Алистер Кук на канале PBS. Летом 1972 года он был ретранслирован с рекламой на местной станции WOR-TV Channel 9 в Нью-Йорке.

Игра Гленды Джексон в главной роли принесла ей две премии «Эмми» — за лучшую женскую роль в драматическом сериале и лучшую женскую роль в специальном фильме/телешоу (за эпизод «Тень в лучах солнца»). Сам сериал получил премию «Эмми» в номинации «Лучший драматический сериал» в 1972 году (первый британский сериал, когда-либо получивший американскую телевизионную премию, до того, как два года спустя «Вверх и вниз по лестнице» получил эту награду). Примерно в то же время Джексон также сыграла Елизавету в фильме «Мария — королева Шотландии» (1971).

Художник по костюмам Элизабет Уоллер получила премию «Эмми» за свои проекты, она воссоздала многие из исторических платьев Елизаветы, адаптировав их из ряда официальных портретов королевы. Позже они были выставлены в Хэмптон-корт.

В «Елизавете: Королеве английской» снялись многие известные британские актёры, в том числе Малкольм МакФи, Майкл Уильямс, Маргаретта Скотт, Джон Вудвайн, Джеймс Лоренсон, Анджела Торн, Брайан Уайлд, Робин Эллис, Роберт Харди и Питер Иган.

Сериал был спародирован в «Летающем цирке Монти Пайтона» в абсурдистском скетче, где японский кинорежиссер, неубедительно замаскированный под Лукино Висконти, заставляет актеров выступать в роли двора королевы Елизаветы, сидя на мотороллерах и говоря на ингрише. Поэтому название было изменено на «Эризабет Л.».

«Елизавета: Королева английская» выпущена на DVD для региона 1 в 2001 году компанией BBC Warner, а затем переиздана BBC Worldwide в 2011 году. Выпуск DVD для региона 2 выпустила 2 Entertain в 2006 году.

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 Елизавета: Королева английская на BBC Programmes
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Телесериалы Великобритании, запущенные в 1971 году
Телесериалы на английском языке
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This report presents the results of the independent evaluation of UN Women's 'Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls and Host Communities' ("Madad") programme and offers lessons and recommendations for future programming on gender equality and women's empowerment. The Synthesis report includes country specific annexes for Iraq, Jordan and Turkey.
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Date: Thursday, 13 August 2020
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"I was impressed with your thorough needs assessment of my business, including an astute evaluation of our strengths and weaknesses. Your services have been an extremely worthwhile investment in my company."
The Philadelphia region is a place where companies and their leaders from varied backgrounds, coming from different parts of the country or world, can locate their operations in the northeast corridor to grow and expand their economic impact. With the excellence of our academic institutions and diversity of our workforce, we have a vibrant economic engine, robust opportunities for connectivity and a community dedicated to making the region a thriving center of excellence for commerce, innovation and high quality of life.
I am grateful to participate in this community through my own practice as well as from experience as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group (GPSEG), an organization of over 1,350 members drawn from a broad range of industries and expertise, who are committed to helping their fellow members grow both as businesspersons and individuals.
At GPSEG, our goal is community building – lending our collective knowledge and networks to one another for career development and to strengthen the business community as a whole through educational and charitable activities as well as peer networking and engagement.
We began this mission over a decade ago, when our founder Constantine "Chris" Pavlides recognized the need for a more valuable networking experience for senior executives in the Philadelphia region. He started with a bi-weekly networking event he called The Power Networking Breakfast and under the motto "Networking for Life," set out to help his colleagues and peers become more skilled and fulfilled members of the Delaware Valley business community. Today, we are proud to further his vision of what is now the largest C-level executive networking organization in the tri-state region.
One initiative our members take part in on an annual basis to further this mission is Temple University's 'Be Your Own Boss Bowl' (BYOBB), an annual project of the Fox School of Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute. GPSEG members participate as mentors to budding entrepreneurs, providing the benefit of their business experience in the development of participants' projects and also serving as judges to evaluate submissions. Last year, we helped recruit over 100 mentors and a significant number of the hundreds of judges reviewing the submissions. Roughly $225,000 in funding and prizes was awarded to a cadre of promising local entrepreneurs.
As we gear up for the coming year's event, we expect even more support from our membership, as we believe it is a unique way to share senior business leaders' expertise with entrepreneurs shaping our economic future.
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In fulfilling our mission, networking for GPSEG means we encourage our members to help their peers solve business challenges, make smarter decisions and identify new opportunities to either grow or transition their careers.
Through educational meetings, networking events and regional business forums, we equip members with the tools they need to be successful by combining senior level business experience with the sharing of tools to respond to current economic and workforce realities. At our events, members share business contacts, insight, advice and encouragement, fostering constructive conversations and building relationships that allow for career fulfillment. As members share potential business and new opportunities, they do so understanding that successful networking starts with helping others and building mutual trust and support.
During a meeting of the GPSEG Entrepreneurial Circle in 2005, Dr. Janice Presser, CEO of The Gabriel Institute, gave a brief presentation on TGI's business concept. At the time our organization had fewer than 500 members, but Mark Talaba – a new GPSEG member and former CEO of two software companies – was in attendance. Subsequent conversations at GPSEG socials and E-Circle meetings led Dr. Presser to invite Talaba to join her Advisory Board, and before long Mark was on his way to becoming a co-owner and Executive Vice President of TGI.
GPSEG played another key role in TGI's evolution in 2012 when Ron Pirollo – a GPSEG member since 2008 – met Mark Talaba, and the two began talking about the technology's potential to build better teamwork at the company where Pirollo was serving as CFO. Again, a strong relationship grew from conversations and introductions at GPSEG events until, just recently, Mr. Pirollo joined TGI as an LLC investor and CFO.
TGI did not come to GPSEG expecting these results; they came looking for ways to lend their expertise to peers in the hope of contributing to a stronger, more vibrant business community. In the end, they received the gift of idea sharing and relationship building, resulting in a successful venture.
This is a great illustration of the results when we adopt the vision of a more connected and mutually beneficial business environment, as bringing new ideas, products and services such as Teamability to the global marketplace makes our economy that much stronger. I am so pleased to be among so many business leaders who support philanthropic efforts, mentoring, and business collaborations as we share in making our region's business community one that continues to inspire excellence.
Rip Tilden is a Partner at Makarios Consulting, LLC and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group (GPSEG).


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For Immediate Release: March 16, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC: Today, the leaders of the United State of Women, End Rape On Campus and It's On Us, three initiatives of Civic Nation leading the fight for gender equity, will go to the White House as President Biden signs the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. They released the following statements:
Jordan Brooks, Executive Director, United State of Women
"The women's community celebrates President Biden signing the Violence Against Women Act into law, marking the first time in nearly a decade that this critical piece of legislation has been updated to meet the needs of survivors of gender-based violence. This moment could not come at a more important time as we've seen an increase in this type of violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, survivors were reminded that they are not alone and that our leaders stand with us in the mission to ending violence against women and girls everywhere."
Kenyora Parham, End Rape On Campus
"End Rape On Campus (EROC) is pleased to see that VAWA has grown to fit a more expansive understanding of what justice and support for historically excluded survivors can look like. EROC prioritizes the needs of student survivors who have been historically marginalized, including students from tribal communities, survivors with disabilities and LGBTQIA+ identified survivors. This iteration of VAWA responds to the emerging needs of these communities by expanding opportunities for population-specific, trauma-informed training for service providers on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking. As we center the needs of historically marginalized survivors, we also need to see more trauma-informed training within all levels of law enforcement to ensure the response to student survivors' needs are met through a non-carceral approach."
Tracey Vitchers, It's On Us
"At It's On Us we are experiencing a skyrocketing demand for our dating and sexual violence prevention education programs, driven by increased rates of intimate partner violence throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and a spike in reported sexual assaults since campus reopenings this past fall semester. We are pleased to see the reauthorized Violence Against Women Act include increased funding for prevention education efforts, including more than doubling the funding available through the CDC for the Rape Prevention and Education program — from $50 million to $110 million — and increased funding for VAWA Consolidated Youth grants, which fund prevention education programs that engage men and boys as allies and promote healthy relationships. As we continue to meet this increasing demand for prevention, we need additional funds to evaluate prevention education efforts in K-12 and campus environments as rigorous, ongoing evaluation is a necessary component of the work to end sexual violence."
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End Rape On Campus (EROC) works to end campus sexual violence through direct support for survivors and their communities; prevention through education; and policy reform at the campus, local, state, and federal levels. EROC envisions a world where each individual has an educational experience free from violence, and until then, that all survivors are believed, trusted, and supported.
EROC was in 2013 by several students after they connected and shared their harrowing experiences of sexual assault and recognized that there was a gap in students understanding their rights under Title IX and the lack of accountability held by colleges and universities. By strategically coming together to show that campus sexual assault is a nationwide epidemic, EROC began its national advocacy work by assisting students with filing federal complaints against universities and exposing the barriers that prevented students from navigating through a fair and equitable process. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the heightened awareness of the racial reckoning, EROC, under its Centering the Margins (CTM) framework, shifted its priorities to fill the disparity of resources between different communities with the intention to center and uplift historically excluded and marginalized students when addressing campus sexual assault. End Rape On Campus is housed at Civic Nation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that uses organizing, engagement, and public awareness to address some of our nation's most pressing challenges.
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Abstract : Rainfall data contains numerous zero values, either real or spurious, especially at high resolution. This paper investigates how a truncation of a multifractal field affects the scaling analysis. Synthetic multifractal fields are used. The main result, which is theoretically expected and empirically observed, is that the truncated fields exhibit a multifractal phase transition for small moments. This implies an under-estimation of the multifractality index, and consequently of the extremes. This framework enables one to retrieve most of the features observed on radar data corresponding to a heavy rainfall event that occurred in September 2005 in the South of France. Finally a new technique is proposed to improve the estimation of characteristic multifractal parameters. It yields imperfect but encouraging results. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.


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Morrow returns to Jets lineup, replaces injured Beaulieu
By: Jason Bell
Joe Morrow will be paired with Jacob Trouba against the struggling Ducks. (Trevor Hagan / Free Press files)
ANAHEIM, Calif — The depth of the Winnipeg Jets blue-line corps continues to pay off.
Nathan Beaulieu won't play tonight due to an undisclosed injury but Joe Morrow has been waiting in the wings and will return to the lineup against Anaheim as the Jets go Duck hunting at Honda Center.
Beaulieu might have been hurt when L.A. Kings forward Kyle Clifford got the better of him in a scrap Monday night in the first of three games on the road for the Jets. He had played 10 straight after being acquired from the Buffalo Sabres at the NHL trade deadline Feb. 25.
Morrow, who was out for 14 games after suffering a lower-body injury Feb. 14 against the visiting Colorado Avalanche, will be paired with Jacob Trouba against the struggling Ducks.
Nathan Beaulieu might have been hurt when L.A. Kings forward Kyle Clifford got the better of him in a scrap Monday night. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press files)
He said life as a spectator during his recovery — the second time he's been sidelined with an injury during his first full season in Winnipeg — was tough.
"There's no good time to get injured and the timing of everything, when a couple of key guys go down and there's opportunities to be had, it's definitely frustrating," said Morrow. "Now that things are on the upside, hopefully I can get a couple of games in here and get ready for the playoff push," added Morrow, who has one goal and five assists in 39 games.
Dustin Byfuglien (lower body) and Josh Morrissey (upper body) are both shelved for the Jets (43-25-4), who lead the Central Division by a point over the Nashville Predators with two games in hand.
In their absence, head coach Paul Maurice has relied heavily on Beaulieu and youngster Sami Niku during the final push to the NHL's post-season.
"It's a huge testament to the people who draft the players here and the people who develop them. There's not a bad hockey player in this organization and especially on the defensive end of things, there's a lot of depth and a lot of opportunities to be had," said Morrow.
"It's pretty obvious that the way they teach things here is very effective. It's just a willingness in players to know the details and to come in here and not miss a beat."
The Jets will turn to Connor Hellebuyck to guard the net as they attempt to post a fourth consecutive victory. Jack Roslovic also draws in on the fourth line after sitting out in Los Angeles. Matt Hendricks joins the list of healthy scratches that includes forward Par Lindholm and blue-liner Bogdan Kiselevich.
Maurice said a healthy Morrow fits the Jets fluid style of play.
"He moves the puck smartly, skates well enough and can get back and get his stick on it early, and he's sharp about how he moves (the puck) around and he'll get it to the net as well from the blue line," said the veteran bench boss.
The Ducks (30-35-9) are seventh in the eight-team Pacific Division and will miss the playoffs for the first time since the 2011-12 campaign.
The squad suffered through a 12-game losing streak from Dec. 18 to Jan. 17, a horrid stretch that cost head coach Randy Carlyle his job. He was replaced on a interim basis by general manager Bob Murray.
The Ducks, having won six of their last nine games, are a different club than the one that rolled over to the Jets 9-3 in early February, said forward Jakob Silfverberg, who leads the club with 22 goals.
"This is a team that's been in the playoffs, been in the clear usually within about 10 games left. It's the first time in my seven seasons not going to the post-season, so it's been a tough year," said Silfverberg. "We've said the last little stretch that it's a lot more fun winning and playing the right way rather than just putting your skates on and going out there and playing.
"We're still playing the right way and we're still always in the game, and I think we're playing with a completely different confidence level, we're making plays and scoring some goals, so its been working a lot different."
Winnipeg closes out the trip Thursday against the Vegas Golden Knights.
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An all-expenses paid trip to Australia, a gift certificate for a facelift, and oh yea, a bottle of Windex. These are just some of the items celebrities received on the film industry's biggest night of the year, and Uncle Sam will get his piece.
Despite the 2013 official Oscar gift bag being worth a reported $47,000 this year, celebrity lifestyle expert Dorothy Cascerceri says that number is tame compared to the value of swag filling the bags in the past.
But don't expect to catch Jennifer Lawrence and George Clooney on a plane to down under filling the time reading the self-help book. Cascerceri says most celebrities re-gift the goodies.
But all that swag comes with a price to Uncle Sam; Cascerceri likens it to winning a prize on Jeopardy.
The gift bags get taxed at the total cost of the full package, according to Certified Public Accountant Dan Roman of Liberty Tax in Detroit. So the full $47,000 will be taxed at both the state level of 13.3% in California, where it was issued, as well as at the federal rate of 39.1%, assuming the recipients are in the top income tax bracket.
"The IRS indicates these things as payment for something when celebrities receive these gifts," Roman says.
The tricky part of the scenario is in gifting the goodies to someone else. In this case, celebrities are supposed to issue the IRS and the person they are giving it to a 1099, so the government can track it. The celebrity will get taxed on it and it can be seen as a gift or additional income for the secondary recipient, according to Roman.
And finally if the A-lister is feeling charitable, and donates the Oscar goody bag, they can claim the charitable deduction and pay zero taxes on the gifts inside, he says.


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Kosher (for Passover) cannabis by Nancy Friedman @ Fritinancy
Years ago, long before California legalized cannabis, I knew a pair of Jewish Deadheads whose Passover table always included "sweet herb" (wink, wink) along with the traditional bitter herb. (Or so they said. They never invited me to their seder.) I've lost touch with them, but if they're still observing the ritual, I bet they're plotzing over this year's convergence of 4/20—the equivalent of St. Cannabis' Day—and the first day of Passover. It's like Thanksgivukkah, but for stoners. Call it Weed-Over, if you must. (The coinage belongs to Arielle Kaplan, a writer for Alma, the new-ish Jewish publication "for ladies with chutzpah.")
So: How best to honor the occasion? Is cannabis kosher? Is cannabis kosher for Passover? Are we going to be asking 420 questions instead of the traditional four?
To the last question I say: Isn't the seder already punishingly long? As for the others, here's what I've dug up.
Marijuana is a plant, of course, and plants don't require kosher certification under Jewish law. Cannabis edibles, on the other hand, contain additional ingredients, and would need to be approved by a supervising rabbi. (Gelatin, for example, can be problematic.) But Passover has its own sticky thicket of dietary restrictions. Even if you're not Jewish, you probably know that leavened bread is forbidden (which is why Jews eat matzah and products made from matzah meal for eight days), but there are also prohibitionson peas, corn, beans, and other legumes. (But only if you're an Ashkenazi Jew. Don't ask; I didn't write the rules.)
Cannabis isn't a legume; so far, so good. Still, if you want to be super-cautious about your Pesach high, you'll be glad to know that in 2016 Israel's chief (Ashkenazi) rabbi ruled that marijuana, whether smoked or eaten, is indeed kosher for Passover consumption. This ruling led to my all-time favorite Passover headline, from the Times of Israel.
This blessing came four years after a different rabbi blessed a California cannabis strain now known as Kosher Kush. According to Wikileaf—yes, dear reader, there is a Wikileaf—the strain had previously, for reasons unknown, been called Jew Gold, or JG: "As the strain became more mainstream and a favorite among dispensary owners, its original offensive name was changed to something more ... say, kosher."
The most comprehensive, not to mention creative, Weed-Over guide—in fact, the only guide I've managed to find—was written by the aforementioned Arielle Kaplan. Kaplan enumerates eight ways to incorporate weed into your seder, including substituting four joints for the traditional four cups of wine and making "K-for-P pot brownies." She also links to a video tutorial for adding marijuana (technically, CBD-infused schmaltz, or chicken fat) to matzah balls; it's taught by the grande dame of Jewish cooking, Joan Nathan, so it's certified kosher for foodies.
Finally, here's something for you ladies with chutzpah to wear to your 4/20 second-night seder. It's weed-free but guaranteed to elicit the fifth question: "What is she smoking?"
Unleavened levity: Handmade matzah dress, sizes S-XL, $60. Also available as matching leggings.
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Would you mind taking a look before I send to brett|darin?
> Would you mind taking a look before I send to brett|darin?
safe_numerics.h or something, and put numeric_cast in there?
> > Would you mind taking a look before I send to brett|darin?
> safe_numerics.h or something, and put numeric_cast in there?
OK, renamed in preparation for you to slam all your other crazy crap in here.
brettw: could you review as OWNERS?
Over to darin, if you have a chance.
nit: fix include guard.  or maybe the file name numeric_cast.h would be better?
what to include or what to call.
this feels like implementation detail.  perhaps it should live in the "internal"
the public API to just be the numeric_cast<> function, right?
> what to include or what to call.
cast operation is just the easiest one to implement, and the one we need asap.
>> what to include or what to call.
> one we need asap.
more things (other math operations) added to it soon.
I'm ambivalent either way if separate/narrow headers seem better.
> the public API to just be the numeric_cast<> function, right?
Moved to base/safe_numerics_unittest.nc as examples anyway.
fwiw, I was planning on just adding a saturating_cast, because it's shorter.
LGTM +1 to Brett's suggestion of instantiating common templates.
+1 to Brett's suggestion of instantiating common templates.
My apologies for not being more thorough before review.
I wasn't able to come up with a similar version that would avoid the warning.
it's not that complicated (? Or maybe I've stared at it too long now).
compile time, and evaluates the associated condition.
If you could steel yourself for another review, it would be appreciated.
> My apologies for not being more thorough before review.
> I wasn't able to come up with a similar version that would avoid the warning.
clarity, since they evaluate out as compile time constants.
> it's not that complicated (? Or maybe I've stared at it too long now).
> compile time, and evaluates the associated condition.
> If you could steel yourself for another review, it would be appreciated.
The cast is checked_numeric_cast not numeric_cast, right?
> The cast is checked_numeric_cast not numeric_cast, right?