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Aoife Flood: 'When we are not afraid to be ambitious, that trumps any barrier'
Aoife Flood: 'I was completely underqualified – but I just knew in my gut that I could do the job.'
We were thrilled when senior PwC manager Aoife Flood sat down with us to talk about how she got where she is, what's holding women back and what can be done to help.
Do you consider yourself an ambitious person? If so, how has this shaped your career path?
Yes I do. But I think the best way to describe it would be 'varying' ambition.
What I mean by that is that sometimes it's soft; so for example at the moment I feel that I am in a really good place in my career so I am not overtly talking or thinking about the next step. But the absolute certainty is that I know there will be a next step. At other times my ambition has been much harder – I have been very explicit in chasing an opportunity, a role, or a promotion.
The latter type has probably been strongest in shaping my career path. When I began my professional career as a very junior administrator (straight from school) I definitely didn't have half the ambition or self-efficacy that I have now. But when I was 25 I showed my first sign of hard ambition. I applied for my first global role with PwC having worked with the Irish firm for five years. I was completely underqualified by way of the required tenure, seniority, technical expertise, but one thing was certain: I just knew in my gut that I could do the job.
I was brave enough to apply. Given we know there is lots of research telling us women nearly need to feel over qualified for a role before they apply this might not have been the case for every 25-year-old female professional. I think my ambition came to the fore during this experience in that I recognised the gaps that would be glaring on my standard two-page CV so I created a CV appendix. A portfolio, so to speak, that showcased every piece of work I had ever been involved in that linked with the requirements of the role.
During the first interview the interviewer explained I was the least experienced of all those who applied but as a courtesy he wanted to interview me given all the work I had put into my application. What he expressed would be a 30-minute interview lasted two hours, and another three interviews later I got the job. If it wasn't for this first bold step of ambition during my career, who knows where I might be career-wise today. It has definitely made me more courageous in bringing my ambition to the forefront throughout my career since – during both my soft and hard ambition phases.
What role do you see for large employers such as PwC in making the corporate workplace more accessible to women?
PwC is a network of member firms with nearly 190,000 people in 157 countries. Half of our workforce is female. For years now we have been recruiting in the range of 18,000 graduate hires annually – half of whom are female. Our workplace is without doubt accessible to women and it has to be noted that this is an achievement. However, where we are challenged perhaps is in driving a more inclusive workplace culture where everybody can succeed.
Historically our industry was male dominated and this combined with societal influences presents us with a culture that could still be considered as more 'male orientated'. We are working hard to change this, and we're focused on explicit priorities and actions to drive the behavioural, process, and cultural change we want to see take shape to get us to that end game. For me, this is what is important when it comes to large employers like us.
It is essential that organisations have leaders who understand the diversity business case and who are willing to take on, support and advocate for hard change management, so that we capitalise on the value diversity offers while creating a more inclusive workplace for all talent – not just women. At PwC we are lucky to have a Global Chairman who does all of this.
I also think it is important that organisations look beyond their own sphere of influence to create momentum on this topic in the societies in which they operate. This April PwC will be doing just that as we drive a university-based global forum on women and their aspirations in collaboration with Sheryl Sandberg and the Lean In organisation entitled: Aspire to Lead, The PwC Women's Leadership Series. We hope to touch female students from all over the world with this series in a bid to inspire them to lean in to their ambitions.
What do you think (if anything) is holding women back?
Unfortunately I do believe there are factors holding women back, predominantly societal barriers, organisational barriers and self-barriers. We need to see societal changes, we need to see organisational change, and as women we need to have the courage to empower ourselves more. The last is the piece we can most influence ourselves – and I honestly believe that when we are not afraid to be ambitious, that trumps any barrier and the world is our oyster.
What do you see when you look in the mirror?
When I look in the mirror I am challenged with all of the personal hang-ups I've no doubt every woman has. But I also see someone who has surprised herself by achieving much more than she thought possible when she started her career. It is this that gives me my energy and pip and helps me to think less about my hang-ups and more about the opportunities and challenges I'll get to conquer on the road that lies ahead of me.
Aoife Flood is Senior Manager of the Global Diversity & Inclusion Programme Office for PwC International Limited, and co-author of PwC's Global Gender Agenda blog. She is based in Dublin, Ireland.
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Here are some important dates for the 2018-2019 Masonic Year. Check for new dates and details, added as they are released.
From toilets to sinks and even the massive ovens and heavy kitchen equipment, it's all hands on deck to get the lodge put back in order in anticipation of the Deputy Grand Masters rollout program on August 11th. Any loose ends will be addressed each night, August 6th-8th Beginning at 6:30 pm.
Our Lodge will be hosting the entire Northeast Ohio senior Lodge officers for the incoming Grand Master's trestleboard presentation. Dress code is business casual.
Join us for our annual family picnic at Summit Lodge, we have games for children, great food and fun for all!
Later in the day, come out to Summit Masonic Lodge to enjoy a wonderful clambake. Contact Larry Landals, Ed Lowe or Charlie Steach for tickects, pricing and the menu!!!!
Star Lodge in Cuyahoga Falls will be hosting the Symbolic Lodge Officers Association breakfast at 8:00 AM and meeting at 9:00 AM. All those interested in the goings on in the district are encouraged to attend!
Election night, come on out to get your vote in.
Annual installation of elected and appointed officers of Summit Lodge. Officers are required to arrive no later than 6:00 PM. This is a non-tiled event, open to brethren of all degrees and their families. Light refreshments served afterwards.
Thursday, November 22nd - Happy Thanksgiving!
Guy's Night out details to follow, stay tuned!
Saturday, December 1st - Breakfast with Santa!
Christmas tie/Shirt and One Pound Gift Exchange - Wear your ugliest sweater and bring anything that weighs one pound for exchange!
Continuing the education program from November 8th, part 2 of "Who are we?"
Reservations required, cost is $20, contact any officer for details. See this month's newsletter for menu and attractions!!!
Brother Joe Caprioletti presiding, WB Larry Landals to give the lecture, brother Brad Long will give his first charge. Come out for a great degree!
Code Course Part II - The sequel and special meeting to vote on a petition.
Come one Come All! Our annual Spaghetti Dinner features handmade meatballs, fresh baked crusty Italian bread, delicious scratch made sauce and of course, pasta. Begin the meal with a salad and assorted dressings, finish it up with homemade brownies and ice cream. A treat for the whole family.
Doors open at 5:00 pm, reservations required. Contact our Lodge Secretary, Worshipful Master, or ask one of the brethren for a ticket. Cost is only $15 for adults and $7 for kids 12 and under. All proceeds go to the lodge scholarship fund.
Thursday, March 28th - Annual Inspection in EA degree, 7:00 pm.
Wear something yellow night and MM proficiency exam.
We have three potential candidates who will receive the degrees of EA, FC and MM. If you have time to support the brethren, the class is being held at the Canton Masonic Temple. Registration begins at 7:30 am and the Welcome and Opening of the Lodge will be held at 9:00 am. Don't forget your aprons!!!
Click here to visit the Canton Masonic Temple Website, for directions, navigate to the bottom of the page.
We have several 50 year members who will be honored for their dedication and fidelity to the craft over the past half century. Dinner is at 6 pm, menu includes but is not limited to Chicken, Mashed Potatoes and Vegetables. Contact the WM for details and reservations.
No degree work can be performed, but if need be, a special meeting may be called.
Military Recognition Night. Bring your Military memorabilia and help honor those who have sacrificed to defend and protect the freedoms we enjoy.
Mandatory class at Star Lodge in Cuyahoga Falls for all Deacons and Wardens.
Here is a link to the 21st district website with details on times, meals, classes and their speakers.
These classes help masons lead better, formulate administrative plans, and give insight from the wisdom of long serving brethren into how to strengthen your lodge. Be there and be square!
Breakfast at 8:00 am, classes start at 9:00 am, cost is a mere $5. There is one registration form for each lodge, talk to the lodge secretary or Worshipful Master about class registration as soon as you can!


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# Mock
A mocking libary for the Elixir language.

We use the Erlang  [meck library](https://github.com/eproxus/meck) to provide module
mocking functionality for Elixir. It uses macros in Elixir to expose
the functionality in a convenient manner for integrating in Elixir tests.

See the full [reference documentation](http://jjh42.github.io/mock).

## Example
The Mock library provides the `with_mock` macro for running tests with
mocks.

For a simple example, if you wanted to test some code which calls
`HTTPotion.get` to get a webpage but without actually fetching the
webpage you could do something like this.

```` elixir
defmodule MyTest do
  use ExUnit.Case, async: false

  import Mock

  test "test_name" do
    with_mock HTTPotion, [get: fn(_url) -> "<html></html>" end] do
      HTTPotion.get("http://example.com")
      # Tests that make the expected call
      assert called HTTPotion.get("http://example.com")
    end
  end
end
````

An additional convenience macro `test_with_mock` is supplied which
internally delegates to `with_macro`. Allowing the above test to be
written as follows:

```` elixir
defmodule MyTest do
  use ExUnit.Case, async: false

  import Mock

  test_with_mock "test_name", HTTPotion,
    [get: fn(_url) -> "<html></html>" end] do
    HTTPotion.get("http://example.com")
    assert called HTTPotion.get("http://example.com")
  end
end
````

The `test_with_mock` macro can also be passed a context argument
allowing the sharing of information between callbacks and the test

```` elixir
defmodule MyTest do
  use ExUnit.Case, async: false

  import Mock

  setup do
    doc = "<html></html>"
    {:ok, doc: doc}
  end

  test_with_mock "test_with_mock with context", %{doc: doc}, HTTPotion, [],
    [get: fn(_url) -> doc end] do

    HTTPotion.get("http://example.com")
    assert called HTTPotion.get("http://example.com")
  end
end
````

The `with_mock` creates a mock module. The keyword list provides a set
of mock implementation for functions we want to provide in the mock (in
this case just `get`). Inside `with_mock` we exercise the test code
and we can check that the call was made as we expected using `called` and
providing the example of the call we expected (the second argument `:_` has a
special meaning of matching anything).

You can also pass the option `:passthrough` to retain the origina module functionality. For example
```` elixir
defmodule MyTest do
  use ExUnit.Case, async: false
  import Mock

  test_with_mock "test_name", IO, [:passthrough], [] do
	IO.puts "hello"
    assert called IO.puts "hello"
  end
end
````

Currently, mocking modules cannot be done asynchronously, so make sure that you
are not using `async: true` in any module where you are testing.

## Tips

The use of mocking can be somewhat controversial. I personally think that it works
well for certain types of tests. Certainly, you should not overuse it. It is
best to write as much as possible of your code as pure functions which don't
require mocking to test. However, when interacting with the real world (or web services,
users etc.) sometimes side-effects are necessary. In these cases, mocking is one
useful approach for testing this functionality.

Also, note that Mock has a global effect so if you are using Mocks in multiple tests set
`async: false` so that only one test runs at a time.

## Help

Open an issue.

## Suggestions

I'd welcome suggestions for improvements or bugfixes. Just open an issue.

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Script Analysis for the Theatre
Robert Knopf
Bloomsbury / Methuen Drama
Released 9 February 2017
While this book has what seems like an academic title, it is actually a practical manual for fledgling theatre directors on how to properly use a script, from the first time you read it as a production you are to direct to writing a pitch to producers, designers and others involved in the production to put across your "vision".
The methodology used is largely derived from Stanislavski with terminology borrowed from the original translations of An Actor Prepares by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood such as "objectives", "tempo-rhythm" and "given circumstances" with a fair dose of what has become known as "actioning", where individual lines are assigned active verbs to describe the character's intentions for the actor to play. There's even a bit of Keith Johnstone thrown in when discussing status (Impro must be the most well-thumbed book on my shelves).
These terms are not always defined as clearly as in the original source, although there are good examples from plays that should be familiar, or at least are readily available, to most directors in Europe and the US. Knopf uses excerpts from a wide range of scripts, including Hedda Gabler, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelfth Night, Oedipus the King, How I Learned to Drive—a good selection from different genres and periods.
It's a practical approach that has been developed by the author through his own directing work in American colleges and at small theatres in New York, which, though there is a college production feel about the way it is described, should work fine as a starting point for a new director, and possibly give a few ideas to those who have just started out as directors for the stage.
There are further aids provided, including some blank forms to use in the different aspects of the analysis—there is a lot of paperwork in this method—and sample verbs for all occasions if you are hampered in your actioning by momentary lapses in vocabulary.
This is not, however, a guide for academic or literary analysis—it doesn't have sufficient rigour for that and doesn't provide enough detail of the origins of the various techniques. This is a description of a practical process that clearly began with Stanislavski and others but which the author has evolved into a practical system that works for him—the roots of the system matter little in the rehearsal room as long as the required results are achieved.
The system does have its limitations. Stanislavski himself was adamant that his 'system' could be applied to any style of theatre, not just naturalism (he also regularly directed opera) but never entirely justified this. Similarly, Knopf tries to apply his techniques to many different styles, but a few techniques clearly designed for a world of psychological realism seem a bit odd, if not counter-productive, when applied to, say, Oscar Wilde or Ancient Greek drama.
He does have a short section on what he terms the "avant-garde", i.e. work that "deliberately rejects the conventions of linear, casual action." For those, he says the techniques are useful for helping to find how they are different from "traditional plays".
While there is nothing new here, it brings several techniques together into one book and applies them to a good range of plays. However it is priced more as an academic textbook than a "how-to" manual (RRP £27.99—and not discounted at all on Amazon), which may greatly limit its potential readership.
Reviewer: David Chadderton

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"Kormantse", as the modern people of the settlement call it, was and is still fishing and farming settlement located on a hill north east of Fort Amsterdam at Abandze on the Accra-Cape Coast main road. The settlement constituted a major landmark in its role in the colonial trans-Atlantic trade. The name, "Kormantse" in its various spellings continues to signify bravery, power, spirituality, authority and the best of the African in the African Diaspora. But among researchers, its true role in the identity and interpretation of the history and culture of Africa and the African Diaspora remain elusive. "Kormantse" has become a central pillar of identity for groups of people, who passed through that location, consequently suggesting definitions that cut across ethnicity, art, artistic expressions, traditional practices, geographical boundaries and other forms of cultural identity. Kormantse remains a significant symbol of African survival in the Diaspora.
When the British attempted to build their very first lodge at Kormantse and failed to complete it owing to the depredations of the local people, little did they realize that they were sparking an everlasting confrontation with one of the warrior groups of Africa that would define the course of freedom for many. Even though no clear evidence of the lodge has yet been recovered, the historical legacy that it sparked continues to shape our understanding of the process that led to the culture of freedom fighting in the African Diaspora.
"Kormantse" has been used in its various forms to refer to the origins of a group of enslaved Akan people of the then Gold Coast and most often with the Asante, who constitute one of the many Akan groups in modern Ghana, Ivory Coast and to their cultural practices such as religious worship, drums and drumming, songs. Kormantse has been characterized as a "Nation", and although very important in the reconstruction of African cultural identities in the African Diaspora, it remains archaeologically unexamined. References and meanings in historical and archaeological record of the African Diaspora are many. In addition, numerous references to Kormantse and the claims of societies in the African Diaspora as their "homeland" or "culture" in Africa, and its recognized central role in the search for African identities and interpretations, demonstrate the need to explain its historical importance by use of tangible evidence provided by Archaeological research. The role played by the people in and around the Historic site of Kormantse during the colonial period in West Africa is far, and much more, significant than has been recognized. A closer examination of the archaeological, and related evidence (KARP's objective), should place Kormantse at the center of our understanding of African culture in the African Diaspora, particularly in the Caribbean and the Americas and how African cultures have not only shaped the African Diaspora but has shown the way toward freedom fighting and self determination. The sceptical who think that uncovering the English lodges defines the role and contributions of Kormantse in World History will come to understand that there are more significant considerations such as how Kormantse helps to redefine the formation and transformation of African cultures in the Diaspora in the present and in the past.
Resistance history, and particularly marronage, in many parts of the New World appears to suggest that religious connection with Kormantse heritage empowered the enslaved, who passed through Kormantse, as they fought to define their power relations, restore justice and their traditional values and consolidate their achievements, successes and survival. The presence and participation of Kormantse descendants or the spirits of their ancestors in Diaspora are always recognized in colonial or modern areas of the Africa and the Diaspora. Mention of Kormantse would spark fear, pride and empowerment. Without anything else, the spiritual connection alone would drive many, including even those, who were not necessarily 'Kormantse', to survive centuries of wars. The leadership status of Kormantse in the History of the African Diaspora has been voiced in many ways.
For more information, visit www.kormantse.com.


Connecticut's new governor is getting high marks for his first address to the General Assembly from Democrats and Republicans.
Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney says Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday presented a "traditional, optimistic Democratic message," praising him for mentioning the need for a $15 minimum wage and a new paid family medical leave system.
Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano says nothing in Lamont's speech was a "non-starter," even his proposal for a higher minimum wage. Fasano says he's optimistic that Lamont's business background will ensure he'll be more fiscally responsible when it comes to Connecticut's budget.
House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (THEHM'-his KLEHR'-ih-dehs) warns however that Republicans were optimistic about former Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on his first day, yet the two sides ultimately clashed.
Newly minted Gov. Ned Lamont, a successful businessman, is promising to present state lawmakers with a budget that will be in balance for the foreseeable future.
The Democrat addressed a joint session of the General Assembly shortly after being sworn into office as Connecticut's 89th governor on Wednesday.
Lamont is also calling for making state government more efficient and encouraging more regional cooperation among Connecticut's 169 cities and towns.
Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. says newly minted Gov. Ned Lamont will be a great Connecticut governor, crediting him with caring for those less fortunate.
"And I like that. He's a great guy," he says.
Weicker joined fellow former Governors M. Jodi Rell and Dannel P. Malloy for Wednesday's inaugural ceremonies.
Ned Lamont has been sworn in as Connecticut's 89th governor, promising a new beginning for the state.
The 65-year-old former businessman was administered the oath of office Wednesday by former Connecticut Chief Justice Chase Rogers, a personal friend from Greenwich who went to college with Lamont's wife, Annie.
He was surrounded by his family on stage at the Gov. William A. O'Neill State Armory in Hartford.
Lamont succeeds fellow Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who did not seek re-election. Malloy, former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and former independent Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. are attending the inauguration.
Connecticut's constitutional officers have taken their oaths of office.
Attorney General William Tong, Comptroller Kevin Lembo, Treasurer Shawn Wooden and Secretary of the State Denise Merrill were each sworn into office during a ceremony at the Gov. William A. O'Neill State Armory. All four are Democrats.
Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz (BY'-suh-wits) was previously sworn into office during a ceremony in the state Senate chamber.
Besides Bysiewicz, Wooden and Tong are newcomers to their jobs. They are all filling seats left open by fellow Democrats.
Gov.-elect Ned Lamont will also take the oath of office at the armory, which was packed with members of the public and politicians. Former Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers, a personal friend of Lamont's, will administer the oath of office to the new governor.
Several dozen activists are outside the state armory, hoping to catch the attention of Gov.-elect Ned Lamont before he takes the oath of office.
They are voicing concerns about Lamont's proposal to impose highway tolls on truckers and warning they'll likely be more widespread, affecting all drivers. They're also concerned about climate change, hoping to persuade Lamont to support efforts that encourage alternative energy in Connecticut.
Pat Sasser co-owns a small trucking company in Stamford and helped to organize the protest. He says tolls are "an easy way out," and wants Lamont and state lawmakers to consider new ways to save money in order to cover the cost of Connecticut's infrastructure needs.
Susan Bysiewicz (BY'-suh-wits), a former secretary of the state and state representative, has been sworn in as Connecticut's new lieutenant governor.
The Democrat took the oath of office on Wednesday in the state Senate, the General Assembly chamber where she will preside. Her running mate, Gov.-elect Ned Lamont, will take the oath of office at a 12:30 p.m. inaugural ceremony at the nearby state armory.
Bysiewicz succeeds outgoing Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman.
An attorney from Middletown, the 57-year-old Bysiewicz says she and Lamont are ready to address state's challenges. She says they'll work for paid family medical leave and fight for equality.
Connecticut lawmakers have taken the oath of office and re-elected their top leaders.
Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney of New Haven and House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz (ehr-eh-SIM'-oh-wits) of Berlin returned to their leadership posts on Wednesday, opening day of the 2019 General Assembly session.
It's also Inauguration Day for Democratic Gov.-elect Ned Lamont.
Democrats will have a stronger presence in the legislature this year. After Election Day, it appeared they will hold a 23-13 majority in the Senate and a 92-59 advantage in the House. But those numbers may change. There will be five special elections — three for Senate districts and two for House districts — to fill the seats of lawmakers who resigned to take jobs with the Lamont administration.
There's also one House seat that's in dispute.
Gov.-elect Ned Lamont is expected to deliver a dual message of optimism and realism as he takes the oath of office, becoming the state's 89th governor.
Wednesday marks Inauguration Day in Hartford, when Lamont, a Democrat, will be sworn in during a ceremony at the state armory.
Following a 19-gun artillery salute, a Connecticut National Guard flyover and a parade, Lamont will later address a joint session of the General Assembly. Wednesday also marks opening day for the new legislative session.
Lamont is scheduled to speak at both events. He says he plans to convey a "spirit of optimism" but also acknowledge the fiscal challenges Connecticut faces. The new fiscal year is projected to carry an approximate $2 billion deficit.
Lamont succeeds Democrat Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who did not seek re-election.


Hiring the best people is hard work. Ask any recruiter worth his or her credentials. And, in today's employee-driven market, employers are looking for new and better ways to lure top people into their company.
Hence the birth of a new buzzword: Employer Branding.
Like old-time cattle ranchers, marketers love to brand things. The idea is to evoke a strong, emotional image in the minds of prospective customers. Gauge your feelings when reading the following: Google… Pepsi… Apple… Ferrari… Congress… United Airlines.
The emotions you just experienced are a result of "branding," and as you can see, branding isn't always positive or consciously created. A company's brand is its reputation, good or bad, and it reflects current feelings about the company and its products. While millions of dollars in advertising can shape a company's brand, 98% of American companies build their brand through the quality of their products and how they treat their customers.
On the surface, employer branding makes sense. You want to create a positive image of your company that entices the best people in your industry to apply for jobs.
However, employees aren't customers. The best people will look past your brand because this is their life. It's not a product they can return or toss in the trash heap. If their experience doesn't match their expectations, they… will… be… pissed. And, they'll leave.
Put another way, the quality of your culture is at the heart of your Employer brand.
If done right, employer branding can work. To accomplish this feat, we must focus on building and then promoting a great culture. While you are welcome to name this your "employer brand," it is your culture that you are promoting to prospective employees.
A key point is that if you don't have a great culture, no amount of branding will enable you to hire and keep great people. So, first you build. Then, you promote.
1 Growing a business on a weak culture is like trying to grow carrots in sand.
An undesirable culture will attract and breed undesirable employees. You've got to begin with a strong, healthy, vibrant culture to attract and keep strong, healthy, vibrant employees. Start by creating the kind of culture that will attract the kind of employees you want. Don't fall into the trap of painting a picture that is more abstract than reality.
Either an employee fits your culture, or they don't. A problem child in an otherwise healthy culture presents issues because he or she does not fit the culture. They don't share the values, aren't interested in the company's purpose, cause or passion, and rebel against their way of doing things.
There are two pieces to this puzzle. First, you only want to hire people that absolutely fit your culture. These people are great for your company, and if you've got a great culture, these great people will step all over each other to work for you. Second, these great employees are perfect fits for the seats in which they'll be placed. They GET the job. They WANT the job. And, they have the absolute CAPACITY to do the job well.
Suzane Hanifin at Acumen Executive Search likes to say that there are three things you need to know about finding and hiring top executives that will stay with you: culture, culture, and culture.
The process of first building, and then promoting a great culture will produce your employer brand. Larger companies can advertise their brand, but most companies will rely on word of mouth to promote their brand.
There is one additional way to promote your brand (values, vision, purpose, way of leading, managing, and doing things) to prospective hires: reveal all in the application process. You require candidates to understand and resonate with your brand (culture) before submitting their application. Yes, you can do this. Yes, we're doing it today for executive and non-executive positions.


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Press Release (UCTV): UCTV Launches Scholar-Serving Seminar Web Portal (5/25/2011)
UC Researchers invited to submit content through online video uploader
LA JOLLA, CA — With hundreds of seminars, conferences and colloquia taking place each week across the University ofCalifornia system, it's nearly impossible for today's scholar to keep up. While many scholarly presentations are posted online after the fact, they often end up buried in departmental or conference websites, making it difficult for thoseunaware of the event to discover on their own. UCTVSeminars (http://seminars.uctv.tv), a new scholar-serving web portal launched in May by University of California Television (UCTV), offers a simple, cost-effective solution by providing a single destination for scholars to find and share peer-to-peer scholarly presentations in any academic discipline via video and visual media.
Using UCTV's existing online dissemination infrastructure and experience organizing large video collections for prime search engine optimization, UCTVSeminars offers an easy-to-navigate user interface that allows visitors to browse videos by subject area, event date, speaker name, conference, host organization or UC campus. While presentations must originate from a University of California campus or affiliated institution, they feature researchers from universities around the world and can be freely viewed in Flash format, downloaded as audio and/or video podcasts, and embedded in outside websites. Presentations will also be made available on UCTVSeminars' YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/uctvseminar) and on UCTV's iTunesU channel.
UC researchers are invited to submit their own video presentations, which can range from a simple, low-cost narrated PowerPoint presentation to a highly produced video, to UCTVSeminars through the online video uploader at http://seminars.uctv.tv. Users will also find helpful hints and tips to capture these presentations on the UCTVSeminars website. Programs will appear alongside user-submitted metadata, including descriptions, related links, lecture notes, and other complementary materials.
UCTVSeminars launched in May 2011 with a range of content indicative of the academic pursuits found throughout the University of California, including the six-part "Zoobiquity" conference hosted by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and featuring leading UCLA and UC Davis clinicians and scientists in both human and veterinary medicine discussing the same diseases in a wide spectrum of animal species and human beings. Also featured are presentations from the Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series hosted by the UC Davis Ecology Graduate Group, and an array of existing seminars and programs from the renowned Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, among others.
For more than a decade, UCTV has gathered and disseminated general interest programming from throughout the University of California to more than 23 million homes nationwide on satellite and cable, and worldwide on its website and YouTube and iTunesU channels. While in-depth and, at times, challenging, UCTV's content is intended for the general public, with additional content aimed at K-12 teachers and health care professionals. Over the years, UC faculty have expressed interest in making seminar presentations available to fellow scholars online, while also having access to other seminars from throughout the system. Unlike videos created for broadcast, these scholarly presentations require less production effort— minimally just the audio and the PowerPoint of the presentation.
While some departments and conference organizers offer these kinds of presentations online after a seminar or conference has occurred, most are lost to anyone not directly participating. And, with hundreds of events occurring each week, it is virtually impossible to participate in as many as one might like. As a proven aggregator and disseminator of video content, UCTV is applying its proven expertise to UCTVSeminars by both surfacing and then distributing this valuable content to interested audiences inside and outsidethe academy.
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34th CST trains at Fort Indiantown Gap
Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assigned to the Fort Pickett-based 34th Civil Support Team conduct collective lanes training July 29, 2021, at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. During the exercise, the team used a robot and survey teams to conduct reconnaissance on a potential biological threat before collecting samples for testing. The exercise, externally evaluated by U.S. Army North, also included a response to a simulated "man down" situation. The 34th CST supports first responders during potential hazardous materials incidents involving possible chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive threats and can identify unknown substances, assess current and projected consequences, advise an incident commander on response measures and assist with requests for additional state support.
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34th CST trains at FIG on chemical, biological hazards
By Mike Vrabel | Virginia National Guard Public Affairs Office
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. –
Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assigned to the Fort Pickett-based 34th Civil Support Team conducted training including two full-scale exercises in preparation for an upcoming Training Proficiency Evaluation Jul 26-30, 2021, at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.
The 34th CST supports first responders during potential hazardous materials incidents involving possible chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive threats and can identify unknown substances, assess current and projected consequences, advise an incident commander on response measures and assist with requests for additional state support. During the training event at Fort Indiantown Gap, the CST conducted two separate exercises, each focusing on a different fictional hazard, each while being evaluated by representatives from U.S. Army North.
"We conducted two exercises," said Lt. Col. Lyndsey Hodgkins, commander of the 34th CST. "One focused on chemical and one focused on biological. The ARNORTH team was extremely helpful as observers and trainers. They bolstered our established tactics, techniques and procedures and educated us on CST best practices. We look forward to implementing them in future missions in preparation for our TPE in November."
During the biological hazard exercise, the team employed their robot to conduct the first survey of the potential threat. The robot, which is operated by remote control, maneuvers on tracked wheels and carries a variety of cameras and sensors which can help identify a threat.
"We employed our robot to conduct our first entry for reconnaissance of the building," explained Hodgkins. "The benefit to utilizing the robot is less time in suit for our Soldiers and Airmen, as well as the most important, for personal safety. If there are any traps set in or around the building, it is ideal that the robot detect the threat so we can request EOD to clear the threat."
Once the robot made entry to the building where the suspected threat was housed, survey team members donned protective suits to conduct their own reconnaissance of the threat and collect samples for testing. To add another wrinkle to the exercise, the CST also had to respond to a mock "man down" situation involving one of the survey team members.
The most challenging aspect of the training, however, was one outside of the CST's control.
"Our biggest challenge was the weather," said Hodgkins. "We deployed to FIG hoping for cooler weather. On our first day the heat was intense and it was at least 10 degrees warmer in the Level A, fully encapsulated, CBRN suit. We condition for this regularly, but ensure we develop and emplace safety precautions as well. We limit the amount of time Soldiers and Airmen are allowed in suit."
Conducting the training exercise outside of Virginia provided additional benefits to the 34th CST.
"We regularly train across the commonwealth but deploying to a different state affords us the opportunity of travel and train in an unknown environment," said Hodgkins. "This deployment would be similar to responding to real world missions."
The 34th CST is divided into six sections: command, operations, communications, administration/logistics, medical/analytical and survey. Each team member completes between 500 and 900 hours of specialized training during their first year of assignment and continues advanced training throughout their tenure with multiple agencies including the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, the National Fire Academy, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Huge explosion rocks downtown Nashville; police say it's an 'intentional act' [VIDEO]
by Ellen Killoran
Authorities are responding to an explosion in downtown Nashville Christmas morning linked to a vehicle.
As News 4 Nashville reports, Nashville Metro Police responded to a vehicle explosion at about 6:30 a.m. Friday. A CNN reports indicates that police may have been en route to the report of a suspicious vehicle when it exploded.
At a news conference Friday morning, police spokesperson Don Aaron said investigators believe the "significant" explosion was an "intentional act."
Footage shows smoke rising after a parked recreational vehicle exploded in downtown Nashville in what police believe was an "intentional act."
No significant injuries have been reported. https://t.co/NvDVu7EzVy pic.twitter.com/Hh3SKYy8U0
— ABC News (@ABC) December 25, 2020
According to News 4 Nashville, three people have been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Several downtown buildings were damaged. The vehicle that exploded is believed to be an RV.
Multiple agencies are investigating the suspicious explosion, and police are cautioning residents to avoid the downtown area.
This is a developing story and all information is preliminary. CrimeOnline will provide further updates when more information is available.
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Tamas and Alan join us to talk about the Federal Reserve, banking, debt based society, Freedom Force and a bunch of stuff. Alan and Tamas met Graham at the Red Pill Expo, and they both talk about their red pill moments and reading G. Edward Griffin's book "The Creature from Jekyll Island".
We talk about attending the expo, the most important system in the country, the monetary system disease, quotes from Jefferson, the left right design, Tragedy and Hope, and much much more.
In the intro we talk about a gofundme for our friends young niece who has cancer. Graham shares a listener post psychedelic UFO sighting and the typical UFO quote of the week. We open a couple of gifts for Christmas and Graham has a rant about weather modification as we share a youtube video.


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Food safety issues saw a 24% jump in concern from 2001-2008: Now 77% of Hong Kong residents believe unsafe food is the most important environmental issue. And they want to government to do something about it: 90% of people surveyed want the government to take action on this front, up 21% from seven years ago.
Of the top environmental concerns people listed, the one with the second largest percentage change from 2001-2008 was global warming. In 2001 only 29% of people surveyed considered global warming to be a top concern; now 51% responded that it was a serious issue (still behind more immediate concerns...fair enough when you have trouble breathing and have contaminated food).
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Q: Is it correct to say "someone's heart is with us"? Is it correct to say "someone's heart is with us"?
I'm trying to translate a piece of text to English and I really don't know whether that is correct or not. The source text is saying that someone is wishing to be with us and do something together, but he didn't succeed. So we are questioning whether he was truly intended to be with us or not? That's the part I need to know if it is correct to say that phrase or not.
I have checked some dictionaries but didn't find the meaning I was looking for.

A: It's not clear from your question whether the absent someone has declined to join the group for a social outing or has failed to turn up to support a cause for which the group was rallying. If the latter, then the metaphorical use of the word heart to indicate feeling or emotion is apt. The use of heart to indicate innermost feelings goes back to the origin of modern English. The OED finds written references almost one thousand years old.
Here's Abraham Lincoln talking about the struggle against slavery and for the maintenance of the union of the United States:

The human heart is with us —- God is with us.

The other side spoke in the same terms: Here's Jefferson Davis some fifteen years before he became the President of the Confederacy writing to a friend about another President of the United States supporting slavery:

As I have often told you, his heart is with us.

Here's a more modern usage: Vishay Prashad in his book The Darker Nations, quotes the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad in her poem "Someone Who Is Not Like Anyone" about the Mahdi, the redeemer prophet of some Islamic sects:

Someone is coming
  Someone is coming
  Someone who in his heart is with us

The usage is somewhat poetic and used for issues of deep concern or emotion. Closely related is the English idiom, "not to have one's heart in it," i.e., to do something one isn't really emotionally committed to. For example,

Joe is still attending classes, but it's clear his heart isn't in it.

In other words, Joe is still dragging himself to class but not because he's committed to his education.

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A-Plus Contract with BOST Still Intact
By Justice Dzido On Sep 26, 2017
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Controversial musician, A-Plus has disclosed he is still working with the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), contrary to his earlier post on Facebook that he was cancelling his contract with the oil firm.
A-Plus had said he is writing to the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) to cancel a contract he has with the state oil firm following criticisms against him by supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that he has been bagging in contracts after the party won power in December 2016 elections.
But in an interview with KOD on The Zone Monday, September 25, A-Plus said he still works with the state oil firm.
"For now, I will say yes I'm working with BOST".
Asked if he had sent his resignation letter as he had said in a video posted on Facebook, A Plus said: "Oh no, I can't take that decision", he told KOD.
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name: lumi
age: about 800
familiar: formerly suul (deceased), tristan
birthplace: finland
lumi is a witch who lives in the top floor of a giant snail named richmond. she is fluent in snailspeak but her accent is terrible. neither good nor evil; she prefers to let nature take its course. she wears a gold wedding ring around her right ankle.
name: richmond
age: he won't say.
richmond claims to be a dinosaur snail. he rents out the top floors of his shell, while his internal organs occupy the ground floor. he is fluent in human tongue, but lacks the mouth structure to speak it.
name: tristan grodkropp
age at time of death: 19
birthplace: sweden
after being thrown off his horse, tristan's head was cracked open, and his dying soul was sucked into a frog. he now spends his afterlife as lumi's familiar. during his life as a human, tristan was a bookworm, studying hard to get a good education to support his mother and himself.
name: fru grodkropp
tristan's mother. a devout christian woman, widow to a farmer (tristan's father). she has several brothers that help to support her and her son.
name: kolya grodkropp:
neither as intelligent nor as ambitious as his younger cousin tristan, kolya is content to raise chickens. he wishes his elders wouldn't yell at him so much.
name: suul
lumi's first familiar, now (partially) deceased. suul was eaten by lumi in order to preserve her soul and now sleeps inside her chest. occasionally sends up feathers with hints or advice written on them through lumi's throat.
name: ulla
familiar:
birthplace: norway
a witch who spends most of her time milling about with european royalty, ulla will suck up to anyone in a position of power. ulla likes to believe that she is favoured by king simo, and gave herself the title of "lady". she claims to be lumi's friend - just in case.
name: sindri
age: about 3200
familiar: hrimfaxi (deceased)
birthplace: siberia
the first son of baba yaga, fathered by the night things. after abusing his power as the witch king, his younger brother simo overthrew him, exiling him to the other places. before simo could finish sindri off, he tricked lumi into marrying him. the curse on lumi's wedding ring prevents anyone from entering or exiting his home except her - unfortunately, that includes him.
name: king simo
familiar: arvakr
birthplace: west russia
the second son of baba yaga, fathered by the dawn folk. simo is the current witch king. like his paranoid fathers, simo is haunted by the fact that his older brother is still alive, and spends most of his time trying to find a loophole to finish him off.
name: prince sisu
familiar: skinfaxi
birthplace: east aral sea
the third son of baba yaga, fathered by the day people. when his mother left the human world for the other places, he followed her and vowed to light her way. sisu is a bit lonely with only his mother and familiar for company. he spends his time making the barren wastelands of the other places more habitable, waiting for the day that the other witches join them.
name: baba yaga
age: damn old
familiar: better not to ask
baba yaga would prefer it if everyone left her alone. she is disappointed in her two eldest sons, and doesn't hold much hope for sisu either. baba yaga ages each time a question is asked of her; thus, she allowed her sons only one question each.
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Home News Fletcher calls supporters of tougher noise ordinance 'old biddies'
Fletcher calls supporters of tougher noise ordinance 'old biddies'
Islander Teresa Adams is sworn in Monday night during the Hyde County commissioners' meeting as the Hyde County public information officer.
By Connie Leinbach
Hyde County Commissioner John Fletcher on Monday at the Hyde County commissioners meeting called those on Ocracoke who are complaining about excessive noise "old biddies."
The comment came during the portion of the meeting where Will Doerfer, special assistant county manager, gave an update on his research on possibly revising the Ocracoke noise ordinance.
The community has been discussing the ordinance this season stemming from several complaints between island businesses over noise violations.
Hyde County Manager Bill Rich explained that he had made a presentation about a suggested new ordinance at the November Ocracoke Civic and Business Association meeting, and that there are a lot of differing opinions.
Among other provisions, the current ordinance restricts noise to a maximum of 70 decibels between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. After that, it has no decibel limits from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. but says noise must not cross property boundaries. One proposal being floated would restrict decibels to 43 from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m.
While no action was taken Monday night, Rich said that Doerfer would be on the island next week to take decibel measurements.
Fletcher commented that there was a petition in favor of making the ordinance suggestions more liberal.
"I think to some extent this has to do with generations," he said. "Most of the people who are so upset by noise are old biddies, and I'll say that straight up, a bunch of old women. The younger people on the island and the business people don't mind a little noise."
He said that there are still young people that like to go out and have a good time. Since the beaches are closed at night in the summertime, the only place to have a good time is in the village.
"We're in the business of tourism, and if the old ladies don't like noise they can move out or go away in the summertime and rent their houses," Fletcher said.
In the public comment period at the end of the meeting, islander Tom Pahl took exception to Fletcher's noise ordinance comments.
"I don't have a dog in that fight, and I have heard both sides to that argument making good points," he said. "I hear them on the island working to a resolution in a pretty responsible manner. I think to refer to one side of the argument as old biddies is irresponsible and reflects badly on the entire board of the commissioners."
"I put you in that category," Fletcher retorted.
Rich also reported on the growing mallard duck population in the heart of the village, noting that he and Doerfer are researching ways to control and possibly eliminate the flock, estimated at about 300. By next spring when breeding season resumes, this number could triple if nothing is done.
Lodging owners are having to power wash their parking areas every day, Rich said.
"It's out of control," he said. (See sidebar story at end.)
In other business,
By unanimous vote, Earl Pugh Jr. was named chair of the commissioners, replacing Barry Swindell. Pugh said he would like to visit the schools in the near future and hold a commissioners meeting on Ocracoke.
The commissioners voted to send a resolution to the Albemarle Regional Planning Organization to delay consideration of tolling the free Hatteras ferry.
State Reps. Paul Tine (U-Kitty Hawk) and John Torbett (R-Gaston), co-chairs of the House Transportation Committee, have said to hold off on this issue until the short session when they said they will work again on getting these funds out of the local funding pot and into the regional pot.
Ferry replacement funds are driving the ferry tolling issue and in October, the Dare County commissioners, in a surprise move, voted to support a toll should that eventuality occur.
Fletcher remarked that it appears Hyde County is working at cross purposes with the county manager supporting a proposed passenger ferry that charges a fee alongside free car ferries.
"People will ride a free ferry as long as they can," Fletcher said. "The Ferry Division will want to run fewer (car) ferries, and that will be fine for tourists but hell for the people on Ocracoke."
He said that with a tolled ferry and a free one, the county is "talking out of both sides of our mouth. The People on Ocracoke are dead set against a passenger ferry."
Commissioner Ben Simmons, who is a member of the ARPO, noted that the Currituck County representatives side with Hyde and Rich said Tyrell County sides with Hyde, too.
After a lengthy discussion again with Dr. Randolph Latimore about his second request to fund three teacher assistant positions in the school district, the commissioners voted to fund two positions at Mattamuskeet School for $43,250 from January to the end of the school year. The requested position for Ocracoke was not approved.
Rich said the newly approved regulations on southern flounder that would shorten the season, increase the size of the catch and the mesh size will have a bad impact on commercial fishing. Commissioner Ben Simmons agreed saying it would harm Engelhard's fishing community.
The commissioners voted to ask the lobbyist team, McClees Consulting of Oriental, to continue working for Hyde County in 2016 for the same amount of $25,000, though the lobbyists have asked for $27,500.
Wayne Clark, owner of Edward's Motel, was approved for appointment to the Ocracoke Development Ordinance Board of Adjustment.
Islander Teresa Adams was sworn in as a deputy county clerk and the county public information officer. Adams replaces Sarah Johnson, who left the position in November.
Sidebar on the ducks (reprinted from the December Ocracoke Observer):
DON'T FEED THE DUCKS. They may be picturesque, but Hyde County officials urge all not to feed the mallard ducks to help control the population. Photo by Melinda Sutton.
Bill Rich, Hyde County manager, at the Nov. 16 monthly meeting to talk about ferries with NC Ferry Division officials, had said that he is working on the growing mallard duck problem in the village.
Despite the picturesque aspect of the wild fowl causing traffic stops along the main roads, their presence has been a cause of concern for many on whose property they roost.
In an interview after that meeting, Will Doerfer, special assistant county manager, who is helping with this issue, stressed that the biggest help would be for people to stop feeding them and remove food sources.
"Ducks have a higher procreation rate if they have a secure food source," he said.
In the meantime, the county is looking into removing the ducks, but this solution is a few months down the road since permits have to be obtained from state and federal wildlife agencies, which takes time.
When (and if) these ducks are removed, they would have to be contained on private property somewhere on the mainland, Doerfer said.
"They can't intermingle with wild mallards," he said. This is because, having been habituated to human habitat, they may carry diseases.
Peter Vankevich contributed to this story.
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Edward December 10, 2015 At 11:03 am
It was just found in court records that the Owner of Ocracoke Bar and Grille was found guilty of violating the noise ordinance because "talking" could be heard across the street from the business. "Talking" not music, not whooping and hollering but "Talking". Now this really is getting ridiculous. Because this is the biggest thing facing one of the poorest counties in NC. Wonder how the mainland folks appreciate their tax dollars being spent trying to stop revenue at 10pm?
Why would anyone want to visit this vacation destination only to have to have your vehicles off the beach by 9pm (not allowed back until 7am) and then businesses have to be closed by 10pm? And be quiet in your rental house/hotel or you will get a fine? Atlantic Beach sounds better every day, and probably less expensive too!
TRUE RIKI is finding the quiet and peace within, not finding a quiet place outside.
Edward December 9, 2015 At 9:54 am
While it may have been irresponsible to call some parties to this topic "Old Biddies" it should be noted that when it was brought up at the Ocracoke Civic And Business Association Meeting, Mr. Death pointed out that the first three signatures out of more than 120 on a petition against the proposed new decibel levels were those of some of Ocracokes Oldest and most respected women (Grace Gaskins, Cloe O'Neal and Edith O'Neal) when former commissioner Darlene Styron interrupted and loudly proclaimed that "They don't count, they cant hear anyway!"
Point here is its not just the younger generation against this proposed change, older folks, much older folks in their 70s and 80s oppose it as well.
And even former commissioners can be irresponsible as well


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Shaw City Jail Inmate Search and Prison Information
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Shaw City Jail offender locator: Mugshots, Bond, Authority, Inmate List, Booking Date, Bookings, Warrant, Arrests, Charges, Release Date, Charges, Race, Who's in jail, Eye Color.
The Shaw City Jail is a minimum-security detention center for adults that opened in the year of 1984.
Those who are arrested within the city limits are taken to the Shaw City Jail where they are processed at the intake. This is where the offenders are fingerprinted and booked. Offenders are housed in single-person cells and are provided with three meals a day.
The Shaw City Jail is a short term facility so the offenders are transported to the county jail if they are denied bail. However, a majority of the arrestees within this facility are eligible for bail.
The prison is operated and maintained by Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC)
How to Find Someone in Shaw City Jail
Search our Arrest & Warrant Records database.
The Shaw City Jail has an offender locator on its website. To do an inmate search you will need to enter the offender's first and last name to learn their housing location. This database will not show the inmates' records that have been released or that have escaped.
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You are allowed to send inmates written letters from home. If you would like to send reading material to a loved one in jail make sure it is sent directly from the publisher to the Shaw City Jail.
If you would like to fund an offender's trust account that is held at the Shaw City Jail you will need to contact the jail personnel at 662-754-5741.
Offenders are allowed to make phone calls to their loved ones. They will need to set up a phone account before they can make phone calls. You can find the instructions here.
Visiting Rules
Visitation days at the Shaw City Jail are on the even and odd system by the inmate's last number of his Doc number in conjunction with the date. Odd number doc numbers have visitations on odd number days even numbers on even number days. There are no visits on the 31st of every month.
Visitors must be registered at least one hour before the last hour of visitation. You will also be required to present your government-issued photo ID card. All minors under the age of 18 must be an immediate family member to the inmate and be accompanied by a legal guardian that is also on the inmate's approved visitors list.
During your visitation at the Shaw City Jail, you or the offender is not allowed to use the restroom. If someone needs to use the restroom the visit will be over. Not including infants and toddlers, 3 visitors are allowed to visit at a time. Offenders are allowed to have two visits each week.
Shaw City Jail
Shaw City Jail Information
Jail Name Shaw City Jail
Location 214 White Oak Street, Shaw, MS, 38773
City Shaw
State Mississippi
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% and filtering the noise area when the value of signal is bigger than a
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% then filter the wiener method based the filter befor and after the noise
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            midle=int64(o/2);
            h=signal(k-midle:k);
            H=fft(h);
            signald= noisesignal(1:midle);
            %[ signalback ] = meannoisewindow( signald,fs );
            sign=signald;
             %SNR=snr(signald',fs);
            [ signalfilt ] = wiener1D( sign,H,SNR );
            signalfilt=signalfilt-mean(signalfilt);
              vv=signalfilt(1:midle);
                 kl=1;
            for i=k:k+midle-1

                signal(i)=vv(kl);
                kl=kl+1;
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            H2=fft(h2);
            signal2= noisesignal(midle:end);

            %SNR2=snr(signal2',fs);
              %[ signalback2 ] = meannoisewindow( signal2,fs );
              sign2=signal2;
            [ signalfilt2 ] = wiener1D(sign2,H2,SNR );
             signalfilt2=signalfilt2-mean(signalfilt2);
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Q: How to identify what class an output is in R? I literally just started computational bio that utilizes R. I'm a little confused on classes and how to identify them?
A. wal = c(c(1, 2, 3), "string"), what is the class of wal?
B. What is the class of wal[[1]]?
C.  rus = c(list(1, 2, 3), "string"), what is the class or rus?
D. What is the class of rus[[1]]?
E. What is the class of c(wal, rus)?
F. What is the length or c(wal, rus)?
G. What is the length of c(list(wal), rus)?
H. What is the length of c(list(wal), rus)[[1]]?
I. What is the length of c(list(wal), rus)[1]?*
Not sure how to go about these

A: For class you can just use
class(wal)
typeof(wal)
for length, you can just use
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Calif. pension board hikes contributions
Updated: 6:18 PM PST Feb 18, 2014
California government agencies and some workers are going to pay more for pensions because of longer life expectancies.The board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System approved new assumptions for its pension system Tuesday effectively increasing contribution rates.The board agreed to Gov. Jerry Brown's request to accelerate the state's payments starting this summer. But rates paid by cities, counties and school districts rates won't change until 2016. The board rejected an option for public agencies to absorb costs more slowly.More money for pension contributions means less money for police, roads and parks, but is expected to save taxpayer dollars in the long-term. Brown says a delay in increasing rates would have cost the state $3.7 billion.Some firefighters and police officers will have to pay more for their pensions under the board's action.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
California government agencies and some workers are going to pay more for pensions because of longer life expectancies.
The board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System approved new assumptions for its pension system Tuesday effectively increasing contribution rates.
The board agreed to Gov. Jerry Brown's request to accelerate the state's payments starting this summer. But rates paid by cities, counties and school districts rates won't change until 2016. The board rejected an option for public agencies to absorb costs more slowly.
More money for pension contributions means less money for police, roads and parks, but is expected to save taxpayer dollars in the long-term. Brown says a delay in increasing rates would have cost the state $3.7 billion.
Some firefighters and police officers will have to pay more for their pensions under the board's action.


My office is conveniently located at the Ridge Hill Mall in Yonkers, NY. There is easy access to the free way, convenient garage parking, and food options if clients want to grab a quick bite before or after a therapy session. Parents or baby sitters have a safe and fun place to walk around while their child is in session.
You have a few great options. You can call me at 702-204-7513, email me at arva@cbpcity.com or send me a message via my website. Be sure to leave me a good number or the best way to contact you and also suggest a few times when I can call you. I will get back with you within 1 business day.
An initial consultation will last about 90 minutes and will include a full diagnostic assessment. Inquiry will surround the following topics: current difficulties, medical, family, work and relationship history, past treatment including hospitalizations, your goals for treatment.
Sessions following the initial assessment are typically 45-50 minutes.
Longer sessions are indicated when working on exposure therapy for OCD, panic, or phobias, however this will be explicitly discussed prior to scheduling appointments. In rare cases when children or sometimes adults are unable to tolerate a full 45 minute session due to extreme anxiety or mood disturbance, shorter sessions may be offered to help them ease into treatment. Again, this will be discussed prior to scheduling.
Treatment needs for each client are different. Weekly appointments are most typical, however more or less frequent visits will be recommended when needed.
Once we connect and schedule an appointment, I will send you a link to your own secure "patient portal." You will be asked to set up a secure log in and complete the required paper work on the portal. I will have access to your forms on the portal, so you do not need to print these out. It is helpful if you brought hard copies of any medical reports, medication lists, previous psychological evaluations or discharge summaries from in-patient psychiatric stays.
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ASSETs for Life
Emission-Free Cities
What is ASSETs for Life?
This site is dedicated to catalyzing emission-free cities and rural communities through least-cost-and-risk energy services over their lifecycle. ASSETs for Life is meant to trigger multiple interpretations. By definition, assets are useful or valuable qualities, persons, or things; an advantage or resource. Assets are associated with various forms of capital - human, social, civic, natural, spiritual and financial. By far the largest energy asset available to the planet is the Sun. Solar power, combined with end-use efficiency (originating from human and social capital) and wind power (a solar-derived natural asset), can deliver virtually all of humanity's energy needs virtually emission-free. It is technically feasible to do this within several decades. It is economically attractive and financially achievable; as well as offering a competitive alternative to the existing global energy system powered by fossil and nuclear fuels.
ASSETs for Life alludes to health, well-being and prosperous living conditions for people and the planet's biodiversity, now and for generations to come. It is also an acronym that stands for "Apps for Spurring Solar and Efficiency Tech-knowledge." Apps created in a self-organized manner by ad hoc assemblages of self-motivated individuals geographically dispersed around the world. Or what is often referred to as collaboration innovation networks or collective intelligence networks (COINs) focused on achieving a specific goal or mission. So, COINs into ASSETs is about catalyzing a robust cluster of individuals participating in creating, using, refining and evolving Apps that can show cities and rural communities how to secure emission-free local economies.
For readers interested in a lengthier document I am posting a draft chapter from my book-in-progress, Assets for Life, Generating Legendary Legacies (10 Mb): Assets_for_Life_chapter_DRAFT_version_nov_2012_michael_p_totten_pdf_52pp.pdf
Humanity's unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Over the past millennium (1000 to 2000), global population increased 28-fold (250 million to 7 billion), total world real GDP rose 1161-fold ($35 billion to $41 trillion in 1990$), and per capita income increased 49-fold.
This phenomenal rise in wealth, assets, and well-being has occurred for a number of factors, with access to cheap fossil fuels being a primary driver this past century. Fossil fuels have admirably served humanity in this capacity, fueling the engine of economic activity, especially access to cheap oil over the past century. Cheap energy, in turn, made access to water and natural resources cheaper, resulting in an 8-fold increase in materials use this past century.
Most economists assume global average annual per capita growth rates of 2 to 3% in the 21st century. This implies a nearly 10- to 20-fold increase in world GDP over a century. Earth scientists, however, are far less sanguine. A prodigious accumulation of scientific observations, measurements, gathered evidence and findings indicate serious instabilities throughout the biosphere. These intensifying risks pose cataclysmic threats to undermine, disrupt, and collapse humanity's vulnerable socioeconomic systems in the years, decades, centuries, and millennium ahead.
Until very recently, with the quick succession of mega weather disasters - hurricanes, floods, severe droughts, prolonged wildfires, spread of deadly infectious diseases -- most people simply did not reflect on or take heed of even more frequent and severe catastrophes projected for the decades ahead.
In deriving and consuming multi-trillion dollar quantities of fossil energy resources, their use have unwittingly become a primary driver of most of the global risks and threats confronting humanity:
✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of climate destabilization.
✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of marine acidification.
✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of acid rain.
✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of smog, particulates, and air pollution.
✖ Fossil fuels (oil) are a primary driver of international wars and conflicts, which are contributing to ethnocide and genocide.
✖ Fossil fuels are a primary driver of water and land contamination.
✖ Fossil fuels are responsible for large releases of mercury, heavy metals and toxic chemicals.
✖ Fossil fuels are a major contributor to illness, premature morbidity and mortality.
✖ Fossil fuels are major extractors of freshwater for their operations.
Taxpayers pay good money for accelerating all of this destruction of the planet -- a staggering $700 billion to $1 trillion per year in subsidies. These debilitating impacts are quite like that of humans paying good money to ingest enormous quantities of solids and liquids known to trigger debilitating and deadly diseases. The diagnosis and prognosis from humanity's "medical community" of planetary physicians-- earth scientists -- is a wake-up call for humanity to change its consumption habits.
Just one assessment among a number profiled in succeeding chapters reveals this in damning details. According to a comprehensive analysis by Harvard Medical School, the externality costs of coal use in the U.S. amounts to upwards of $500 billion per year. If these costs were factored into the delivered price of electricity consumers would be paying upwards of 37 cents per kWh. That is 12 to 40 times more expensive than end-use efficiency improvements, six times more costly than wind power, and more than two to three times the price of solar PV delivered electricity.
A recent global analysis prepared for large-scale institutional investors estimates economic losses from environmental externalities exceed $6 trillion per year, of which fossil fuel consumption accounts for a majority of the costs.
Revealingly, more than 50% of company earnings could be at risk from environmental costs in an equity portfolio weighted according to the MSCI All Country World Index.
Such bold claims demand substantiation and compelling evidence, which are presented in other sections of this web site. But the more commanding question, of far greater importance, is whether there are more benign ways to deliver humanity's gargantuan appetite for energy and materials for delivering a virtually infinite diversity of goods and services?
Addressing that complex question is the focus of ASSETs for Life, which is now under development and not yet launched. The site's purpose is to provide a platform for catalyzing a results-driven collaboration innovation network (COIN). ASSETs is an acronym standing for "Apps for Spurring Solar and Efficiency Tech-knowledgies."
Free (open source) COIN ASSETs is self-organized, grown and maintained by an ad hoc group of users in localities worldwide. The content and activity is focused on promoting acceleration of communities and cities becoming highly energy, water and resource efficient as well as 100% solar powered. There is abundant evidence and accumulated experience showing immense win-win-win benefits, value and accruing assets from such a transformation process.
As with the bold claims regarding the unprecedented challenges of global and historial magnitude confronting humanity that demand substantiation and compelling evidence, so are the bold claims on efficiency and solar technologies are substantiated in other sections of this web site.
Tech-Knowledge
Efficiency is derived from the increasing quality of information and knowledge, which makes possible delivering goods and services in smarter and smarter ways, requiring less energy and material inputs and less waste, pollution, and contaminant outputs.
In the USA, for example, energy efficiency gains over the past half century resulted in delivering more than 25 millions barrels of oil equivalent per day -- nearly four times the amount extracted by the century-old U.S. domestic oil industry in 2011.
The efficiency gains cut Americans' energy bills by nearly half a trillion dollar per year, while also reducing millions of tons of CO 2 emissions at zero cost. Doubling this efficiency through 2050 remains the least-cost-and-risk (LCR) energy service option available for sustaining robust economic growth.
What if nations worldwide were to embrace this superior opportunity for delivering LCR utility, mobility and industrial energy services to the point of use?
Based on the best available assessments of existing efficiency opportunities plus what is emerging from the R&D pipeline, recent assessments indicate the following level of energy services can be delivered globally through efficiency gains by 2050:
delivering the equivalent of 12,800 TeraWatt-hours (TWh) per year [12.8 trillion kWh]
compared to 20,000 TWh consumed in 2009 worldwide
delivering the equivalent of 46,500 PetaJoules (PJ) per year [353 billion gallons of gasoline equivalent]
compared to 160,000 PJ consumed in 2009 worldwide
TRANSPORT FUELS
delivering the equivalent of 80,000 PJ of liquid fuels per year [607 billion gallons of gasoline equivalent]
compared to 80,000 PJ consumed in 2009
Supply displaced
To put these massive figures into understandable context, these efficiency savings would displace the need for ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SUPPLY (illustrative purposes only, not in these exact quantities):
18 million rail cars per year carrying 2 billion tons of coal
For comparison: 17.4 million China rail cars carrying 2 billion tons and 7 million U.S. rail cars carrying 810 million tons in 2011, with the two nations consuming more than half of global production
24 million barrels per day
For comparison: 30 million barrels/day (from 4,000-plus offshore oil rigs worldwide in 2011)
5 million LNG supertanker shipments (200,000 m3 per shipment)
For comparison: 1.7 million LNG shipments worldwide in 2011
44 million hectares of oil palm plantations for diesel fuel
For comparison: 15 million hectares total global oil palm production in 2011
50 mega-sized hydrodams each equivalent to 3 Gorges Dam (total of 910,000 MW)
For comparison: 1 million MW of global installed hydroelectric capacity in 2010
68 million hectares of sugar cane for ethanol
For comparison: 24 million hectares total global sugar cane production in 2010
82 million hectares of corn for ethanol
For comparison: 162 million hectares total global corn production in 2011
640 nuclear power plants each 1000 MW in size (total 640,000 MW)
For comparison: 372,000 MW of global installed nuclear capacity in 2012
What about the so-called rebound effect? The argument that efficiency gains induce people to use more energy, cancelling out the energy saving benefits. This has been shown to be a manageable issue, and this pdf discusses the issue in greater detail: rebound_section_-_chapter_on_efficiency_assets_for_life_draft.pdf
The Sun's Jewels of Joules
The sun is the largest, and only, nuclear fusion reactor operating in the solar system. Every day, without fail or interruption, the sun delivers in 5 minutes the amount of energy the world economy consumes in a month. The Earth receives from the Sun 3.8 billion trillion photons per second per square meter of reception area. This is about 1350 Joules per second per m2 or 1350 watts per m2 of area. This amounts to the staggering sum of 120,000 trillion Watt-years per year. For comparison, world energy consumption is 15 TWy/yr -- equal to about an hour of sunlight.
As Caltech Professor Nathan Lewis has articulated,
"The sun is simply the champion of all energy sources. When talking about solar energy, I like to cite what I call the 'Willie Sutton principle' of materials science and energy. Willie Sutton was a bank robber who robbed many banks and managed to elude the law for years before he was finally caught. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied, 'Because that's where the money is.' If Sutton were presented with our energy problem, he would obviously say that we should use the sun because, quite simply, that's where the energy is. Solar energy is, in fact, the only renewable resource that has enough terrestrial energy potential to satisfy alone, with room to spare, the 10–20 TW carbon-free supply constraint in 2050. No other source comes even close."
source: Professor Richard Perez, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, http://www.asrc.cestm.albany.edu/perez/
As a rough approximation, solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems installed on 20% of urban area rooftops and available ground areas could deliver 100% of total utility and mobility services.
Conceivably this could occur before 2050, or it may take the rest of this century to achieve. The time it takes turns on annual growth rates. Global Solar PV has been growing at an annual compounded rate of 30% between 2000 and 2011. Installed costs of solar PV systems have steadily fallen (to below $2 per Watt for Germany's rooftop systems), while the efficiency output of solar cells continues to rise. The wildcard in sustaining high rates of solar PV growth turns on public policies -- simply providing the same level of robust support governments have provided this past half century to the fossil and nuclear industries would ensure maintaining high growth rates.
WIND Resource Assets
Throughout the time it takes solar power to become the world's dominant mainstream energy supply, the second most abundant solar-derived renewable resource, wind power, could supply most of the world's expanding new utility and mobility energy services.According to two independent comprehensive assessments in 2012, "There is enough power in Earth's winds to be a primary source of near-zero-emission electric power as the global economy continues to grow through the twenty-first century."
In recent proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Stanford Professor Marc Jacobson and Univ. of Delaware Professor Cristina Archer reported estimates of maximum available wind power at 100 meters height of 250 terawatts (TW) globally, and approximately 80 TW at 100 meters over land plus coastal ocean outside Antarctica.
Wind power has become spectacularly successful, technologically, economically and financially, and solar power is repeating wind's success in the recent decade. In 2006, for example, China had only 3,000 MW of installed capacity, and was a tiny global player. By late 2012 China surpassed 70,000 MW, reaching nearly one-third of installed global capacity – a 25-fold increase in six years while the rest of the world only expanded by a factor of 2.6.
A 2009 joint assessment by Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Tsinghua University's Department of Environmental Science and Engineering concluded that China's favorable onshore wind resources could provide nearly 25 trillion kWh of electricity annually, more than five times national consumption in 2012. The team also made a key point, that assuming a 10-year feed-in tariff payment per kWh comparable to what is currently being offered, "wind could accommodate all the demand for electricity projected for 2030, about twice current consumption."
The Harvard team estimates wind power can supply 40 times world consumption of electricity, and more than five times total global use of all energy. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Michael McElroy et al conclude, "that a network of land-based 2.5 MW turbines restricted to non-forested, ice-free, non-urban areas operating at as little as 20% of their rated capacity could supply more than 40 times current worldwide consumption of electricity, [and] more than 5 times total global use of energy in all forms."
Available wind resources on the U.S. Great Plains were estimated to be as much as 16 times total current U.S. power consumption. The land footprint of wind farms are remarkably small. Analysis indicate the several million wind turbines that could produce as much power as the U.S. currently consumes would take up less than three percent of the Great Plains region. The wind royalties paid to site the wind farms would generate twice as much revenues for the region than farming and ranching currently generate occupying 75 percent of the Great Plains!
Wind power is an established least-cost-and-risk power supply. Both the United States and China could steadily displace all their current and proposed coal power plants, and most natural gas power, with their wind resources. China has current plans to construct 558,000 MW of coal plants (the US 17,000 MW), and the US projects building 141,000 MW of natural gas plants . When wind (and solar) are phased in with utility bill-reducing efficiency opportunities, the system costs and risks of delivering electricity should be comparable to or less than continuing dependence on coal or natural gas plants powering inefficient devices. This transformational action would also position the two wind-giant nations to seize a substantial share of the multi-trillion dollar wind export market opportunity worldwide.
Free COIN ASSETs
The explosive growth of the Internet and near-ubiquitous access to laptops and hand-held smart phones and tablets is radically re-imagining daily activities, services and products. This is fully revealed in Mary Meeker's most recent annual presentation on the accelerating pace of this incredible tech revolution.
Less than 7000 days ago, the World Wide Web was virtually nonexistent, then it exploded, growing nearly 500% between 2000 and 2010, with one out of three people now having Internet access. 'The World Wide Web was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, and human culture, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project.'
Information technology (IT) experts anticipate it will take less than 5000 days before most of humanity will be connected globally to a ubiquitous semantic Web network. The emergent phenomenon of new value creation and social engagement opportunities occurring through self-organizing web collaboration networks are being examined in countless publications (e.g., Benkler, Gloor, Jarvis, Nielsen, Shirky, Tapscott & Williamson).
One of the most promising, productive Internet tools to emerge are Collaboration INovation Networks (COINs). Witness the self-organizing open source COIN initiatives, as evidenced by the breathtaking formation of Wikipedia, daily growing and error correcting the world's largest publicly accessible pool of accumulated knowledge and learning resources. In the decade since it was launched, Wikipedia has swiftly established itself as the world's largest encyclopedia. Within 60 months and six employees, Wikipedia grew to 10 times the size of the largest encyclopedia.
Size of English Wikipedia as of August 2010 (2647 Encyclopedia Britannica volumes)
Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2010.svg
As of August 2010, the size of just the English version of Wikipedia amounted to nearly 2700 volumes the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica. This phenomenal growth has been accomplished with relatively few paid employees (still less than 100). Daily additions, updates, edits, and error corrections are carried out by several hundred thousand volunteers, with content being translated into 285 languages. An IBM research team estimated that it took around 100 million hours to self-organize and maintain this open source public knowledge asset. For comparison, Americans watch 100 million hours of television ads every weekend.
New York University Professor Clay Shirky makes a compelling case that there are more than 1 trillion hours of television viewed each year by people with Internet access, representing an immense pool of 'cognitive surplus' that could be harnessed to create other open source public collaboration assets like Wikipedia.
The specific COIN, ASSETs, involves engaging users in expanding a portfolio of knowledge resources for using to transition local areas to 100% solar and high efficiency end-uses (buildings, smarter urban layout, vehicles and transit-, pedestrian and bike-oriented mobility options, lights, appliances, consumer electronics, office equipment, myriad plugloads, electric motors, etc).
The focus is on peer-production, exchange of software apps, animations, mapping and simulation tools, shared advice, posting of video and audio clips that explain how to accomplish tasks, skills and other learning and capacity building training aspects; Q&As and FAQs, lessons learned, state-of-play initiatives, regulations, policies, incentives, financing methods, monitoring and evaluation techniques and protocols, best performing technologies and methods for delivering utility and mobility services through end-use efficiency gains and solar technologies.
Check back for further developments. michael p totten, founder & principal, AssetsforLife.net. LinkedIn background info.
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