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Worth a Look: Books on Ethics and Democracy
Ethics, Worth A Look
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Eric Beerbohm is assistant professor of government and social studies and director of graduate fellowships for the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
"Are citizens in a democracy complicit in the injustices perpetrated by a state that acts in their name? Yes they are, argues Eric Beerbohm. In Our Name is a major statement in democratic theory that develops a novel approach to the relationship between citizen and representative. This book will reorient our understanding of the nature of representation in a democracy and appeal to philosophers, political theorists, and social scientists alike."–Rob Reich, Stanford University
Gary B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour
Although social scientists generally do not discuss "evil" in an academic setting, there is no denying that it has existed in public administration throughout human history. Hundreds of millions of human beings have died as a direct or indirect consequence of state-sponsored violence. The authors argue that administrative evil, or destructiveness, is part of the identity of all modern public administration (as it is part of psychoanalytic study at the individual level). It goes beyond a superficial critique of public administration and lays the groundwork for a more effective and humane profession
Constructing a positive future for public administration requires a willingness to deal with the disturbing aspects of the field's history, identity and practices. Rather than viewing events such as genocide as isolated or aberrant historical events, the authors show how the forces that unleashed such events are part of modernity and are thus present in all contemporary public organizations. This book is not an exercise in bureaucrat-bashing. It goes beyond superficial critique of public administration and lays the groundwork for a more effective and humane profession.
Michael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at the University of Harvard. Sandel's legendary 'Justice' course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard.
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life–individual rights and freedom of choice–do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society.
Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion.
These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.
The defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has lost its civic voice, leaving both liberals and conservatives unable to inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that self-government requires.
Harold F. Gortner is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University.
Interest in ethics within the field of public administration has grown steadily since the late 1970s. Harold Gortner focuses on public administration ethics theory and how it applies to the lives of managers operating in the middle ranges of public bureaucracy. Using a general review of the literature on public administration ethics and a comparison of that literature to the real-life experiences of civil service managers, he categorizes the literature and measures its relevance to the thought processes, decisions, and actions of individuals within a bureaucracy.
According to Gortner, the literature on public administration can be divided into five meaningful categories: philosophical discussions of ethics; professional aspects of ethics; personal characteristics and their influence on ethics; organizational dynamics and their influence on ethics; and legal aspects of ethics
Rosemary O'Leary is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration with additional appointments in political science and law, and Co-Director of the Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict, at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Her areas of expertise include Public Management, Environmental Policy, Dispute Resolution, and Law.
Guerrillas in government are all around us. They can be as high profile as "Deep Throat," or as low profile as the bureaucrat who belligerently slows the processing of an application for a driver's license. Their dissent stems from dissatisfaction with the actions of public organizations they work for, but they strategically choose not to go public with their concerns. Instead, they work against the wishes–either implicitly or explicitly communicated–of their superiors and run the spectrum from anti-establishment liberals to fundamentalist conservatives, from constructive contributors to deviant destroyers. Typically guerrilla government is undetected as it is woven into the fabric of the everyday, often mundane, world of bureaucracy. Rosemary O'Leary shows that the majority of guerrilla government cases are the manifestation of inevitable tensions between bureaucracy and democracy, which yield immense ethical and organizational challenges that all public managers must learn to navigate.
James H. Svara is a professor of public affairs at Arizona State University and the director of the Center for Urban Innovation.
A Primer That Introduces The Reader To The Fundamentals Of Administrative Responsibility And Ethics, This Text Seeks To Explain Why Ethics Are Important To Administrators In Governmental And Non-Profit Organizations, And How These Administrators Can Relate Their Own Personal Values To The Norms Of The Public Sector. Additionally, The Text Helps Identify Ways To Link Ethics And Management In Order To Strengthen The Ethical Climate In A Public Organization.
Fred Dallmayr is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, including Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter and Margins of Political Discourse, both also published by SUNY Press, and In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times.
A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon such figures as Aristotle, Montesquieu, Hegel, Dewey, Heidegger, Arendt, and Lefort, Fred Dallmayr emphasizes the need for civic education and practical-ethical engagement in all societies aspiring to be democratic. With reference to Middle Eastern societies and especially Iran, Dallmayr explores the possible compatibility between democracy and Islamic faith. In a similar vein, he discusses the strengths of Gandhian and Confucian democracy as possible correctives to current versions of "minimalist" democracy and the cult of laissez-faire liberalism and neoliberalism. Addressing how to instill a democratic ethos in societies where corporations and elites exercise a great deal of power, The Promise of Democracy presents an inspired vision of democracy as popular "self-rule" in which ethical cultivation and self-transformation make possible a nondomineering kind of political agency. Against this background, Dallmayr casts democracy as a "promise," making room for the unlimited horizons opened up by a new understanding of liberty and equality.
Gregory R. Beabout is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Daryl J. Wennenmann is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fontbonne College in Saint Louis.
This innovative book is written in an accessible, compact style that sets forth and explains a sound framework for professional ethics that readers can quickly put into practice in analyzing and writing about cases. Through a series of moral conflicts, it aims at improving the skills of moral reasoning and achieving moral development. Contents: List of Diagrams; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; What is Ethics?; The Structure of Moral Development: Interest, Roles, and Principles; Rules and Relationships; Moral Principles; Applying Moral Principles: Intention, Motive, Circumstance; Conflicts in Rules and Relationships; Context and Character; Codes of Professional Ethics; How to Write a Case Study Report; Examples of Student Case Study Reports; Some Works on Moral Theory; Some Works that Contain Case Studies.
Dr. Norman Geisler is president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Geisler holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Wheaton College, a Th.D. from William Tyndale College, and a Ph.D. from Loyola University in Chicago.Frank Turek is a former assistant professor at George Washington University and is a specialist in Legislative and Regulatory management. He holds a Master of Public Administration from George Washington University and is working toward a Th.M. in Apologetics from Veritas Graduate School.
Through a very concise and logical presentation, it answers objections from those who are opposed to legislating morality and those that question whether political activism is a proper focus of Christians. A brief history lesson helps put things in perspective. Legislating religion vs. legislating morality is also covered, as are short sections on specific moral issues like abortion and homosexuality. Appendixes include the Declaration of Independence and Amendments to the Constitution.
Cheating, argues author David Callahan, is no longer the exclusive purview of lowlife criminals, slick hucksters, and shady characters with ace cards shoved in secretive places. Now everyone's doing it and because everyone sees everyone else doing it, they keep on doing it. Callahan says the trouble begins in America's brutally competitive economic climate, which rewards results and looks the other way when it comes to the ethical and even criminal transgressions of those who come out on the winning end. Certainly there is no shortage of examples of cheating from the business community, and Callahan nimbly dissects the dishonest actions of the usual suspects (Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing) to demonstrate how that same mentality extends out to our educational system, amateur and professional sports, the news media, and even the lives of common citizens who, while they would never think of themselves as being cheaters, are nevertheless inclined to commit the occasional act of beneficial fudging. And while honesty is a nice ideal, Callahan says that cheaters cheat because, contrary to oft-repeated axioms, cheaters win: the chances of being caught are shrinking as are the punishments meted out should one be nabbed, and the benefits of a successful cheat far outstrip any potential threat. Further, Callahan posits that otherwise upright folks who would not cheat are drawn into the practice out of fear that they simply won't be able to make it in modern society otherwise. There's a lot of material for Callahan to work with here, given that every instance of cheating is fair game as source material and is able to be used to construct a theory of epidemic. And the range of material is so broad and the basic argument ("we cheat more") so simple that The Cheating Culture feels a bit like a Newsweek trend piece writ extremely large. Still, it must be noted that Callahan really had all that material to work with and that fact alone is compelling evidence that his premise is dead on. –John Moe
In "Philosophy and the Social Problem", Will Durant's first book, Durant argues that philosophy has fallen into disrepute because it has stood high and dry upon academic ground, has occupied itself generally with the problem of knowledge, and has not gone down among the crowd to be of practical service. Durant says that philosophy can justify itself only by fruits which are of direct utility to the common man. And since the great prblem of the modern world is the social problem – the problem of waste and want, rich and poor, luxury and starvation, child labor and education, crime, and so on – it follows that philosophy must be brought to take this problem in hand and that it will stand or fall as a factor in civilization according as it is or is not adequate to its solution. The new edition of this hard-to-find treasure is fully annotated with philosophical details, historical facts, and behind-the-scenes insights into the man and his ideas.
Dr Allyn Fives currently teaches on Political Theory and Research Ethics at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He holds PHD in Political Theory from the University of Edinburgh.
In modern democratic societies, the plurality of differing and conflicting moral doctrines stands alongside a commitment to resolve political disputes through the use of moral reasoning. Given the fact of moral pluralism, how can there be moral resolutions to political disputes? What type of moral reasoning is appropriate in the public sphere? These questions are explored through a close and critical analysis of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Rawls. In this book it is argued that the anti-Enlightenment work of Alasdair MacIntyre, along with post-modernists, fails on epistemological, ethical, and political grounds, while in contrast, Rawls's 'core conception of reasonableness,' which is a type of political reasoning carried out 'in the manner of' the Enlightenment, is better placed to successfully respond to the moral disputes of contemporary politics. The practical application of these ideas is also explored in discussions of civic education and global distributive justice.
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Vista Murrieta High student treated for tuberculosis
About 250 letters were sent out to Vista Murrieta High School students and parents of students under 18 who may have been exposed to tuber...
News, Tuberculosis, Vista Murrieta High School
http://www.murrieta247.com/2017/02/vista-murrieta-high-student-treated-for-tuberculosis.html
About 250 letters were sent out to Vista Murrieta High School students and parents of students under 18 who may have been exposed to tuberculosis following an announcement that a student at the school has been treated for the disease, according to a news release.
The Murrieta Valley Unified School District, in conjunction with the Riverside University Health System, said in the news release that the student has been cleared to return to school. That student has not been identified due to confidentiality requirements.
Staff members who may have been exposed will receive notification from the school as well.
County health officials are recommending that anyone who receives such a notice should be screened with a TB skin test at a clinic being planned at the high school. They may also be tested by their own health care provider. A positive result would then result in a chest X-ray at an appropriate provider to help determine whether the individual simply has been exposed or has active TB.
According to the news release, tuberculosis is spread through the air during prolonged, repeated and close contact with someone who has been infected. It is not spread by shaking hands, sharing food or drink, or via bed linens or toilet seats.
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Q: User is not a constructor error - mongoose I have an error and after a few hours of trying, I can't figure out what's wrong.
I am trying to make a post request and get the error 'User is not a s´constructor'
user.js:
const mongoose = require('mongoose')

const userSchema = mongoose.Schema({
    name : {type:String, required:true},
    password :  {type:String, required:true}
    })

const us = mongoose.model('UserSchema', userSchema);
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Import:
const  User = require ('./models/user')

POST method:
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        name : req.body.name,
        password : req.body.password
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Q: Setting up a recurrence relation of ternary strings of length n that does not have three consecutive 1s Let $a_n$ denote " the number of ternary strings of length n that do not contain three consecutive 1s"
Ternary string contains only 0, 1, 2 and has length n. The way I approached it was to make a tree of length n:

Besides from my obvious lack of artistic skills, I find it very hard to believe that the recurrence relation is $  a_n = 26(a_{n-3}) $ . If anybody could tell me what I did wrong and help me out, that would be greatly appreciated.
Note: I realized that there are some possible duplicates on the site, which I have went through and either 1) do not apply to three consecutive (insert digit here)s or 2) I don't fully understand.

A: Let $T_n$ be the number of such strings, call them "good", of length $n$.  The goal is to get a recursion for $T_n$.  To do it, we'll distinguish between the various ways a "good" string might end.  Specifically (reading from left to right):
Let $a_n$ denote the number of good strings that end in $01$
Let $b_n$ denote the number of good strings that end in $011$
Let $c_n$ denote the number of good strings that end in $21$
Let $d_n$ denote the number of good strings that end in $211$
Let $e_n$ denote the number of good strings that end in $0$
Let $f_n$ denote the number of good strings that end in $2$.
Clearly $$T_n=a_n+b_n+c_n+d_n+e_n+f_n$$
It is easy to read off that: $$T_1=3\;\;\;\;T_2=9\;\;\;\;T_3=26$$
Recursively, we pass from strings of length $n-1$ to those of length $n$ by appending one of the three digits.  Visibly,
$$a_n=e_{n-1}\;\;\;\;b_n=a_{n-1}\;\;\;\;c_n=f_{n-1}\;\;\;\;d_n=c_{n-1}\;\;\;\;e_n=T_{n-1}=f_n$$
It follows at once that $$a_n=T_{n-2}=c_n\;\;\;b_n=T_{n-3}=d_n$$
Whence
$$T_n=2(T_{n-2}+T_{n-3}+T_{n-1})$$
And we are done.

A: Generating Function
Let's build the generating function of the number of $n$ length bit strings that don't have $3$ ones in a row. We can do this by starting with $1+x+x^2$ representing $0$, $1$, or $2$ ones. Then we will have $0$ or more molecules consisting of $2$ atoms: an atom consisting of $1$ or more zeros and twos, and an atom consisting of $1$ or $2$ ones. There are $2^k$ atoms of zeros and twos that have length $k$. Thus, the generating function for $1$ or more would be
$$
\sum_{k=1}^\infty(2x)^k=\frac{2x}{1-2x}
$$
The generating function for the atom of $1$ or $2$ ones is $x+x^2$. Then there is a final atom of $0$ or more zeros and twos, giving a generating function of
$$
\sum_{k=0}^\infty(2x)^k=\frac1{1-2x}
$$
We can get any valid pattern in a unique way by summing
$$
\begin{align}
&\overbrace{\left(1+x+x^2\right)\vphantom{\left(\frac11\right)^k}}^{\text{initial ones}}\sum_{k=0}^\infty
\overbrace{\left(\frac{2x}{1-2x}\left(x+x^2\right)\right)^k}^{\substack{\text{arbitrary number of}\\\text{zeros and twos followed by ones}}}\overbrace{\frac1{1-2x}\vphantom{\left(\frac11\right)^k}}^{\substack{\text{final}\\\text{zeros and twos}}}\\
&=\left(1+x+x^2\right)\frac1{1-\left(\frac{2x}{1-2x}\right)\left(x+x^2\right)}\frac1{1-2x}\\
&=\bbox[5px,border:2px solid #C0A000]{\frac{1+x+x^2}{1-2x-2x^2-2x^3}}\\[6pt]
&=1+3x+9x^2+26x^3+76x^4+222x^5+\dots
\end{align}
$$
Thus, we get $a_0=1$, $a_1=3$, and $a_2=9$. For $n\gt2$ we can use the recursion indicated by the denominator:
$$
\bbox[5px,border:2px solid #C0A000]{a_n=2a_{n-1}+2a_{n-2}+2a_{n-3}}
$$
Representing A String By Atoms
The string "$\color{#C00000}{0220}11\color{#C00000}{2}1\color{#C00000}{2220}1$" is counted in the $k=3$ term:
$$
\begin{align}
&\small\overbrace{\left(1\color{#C0C0C0}{+x+x^2}\right)}^{\text{$0$ ones}}\overbrace{\overbrace{\left(\color{#C0C0C0}{2x+4x^2+8x^3+}16x^4\color{#C0C0C0}{+\dots}\right)}^{\text{$4$ zeros or twos}}\overbrace{\left(\color{#C0C0C0}{x+}x^2\right)}^{\text{$2$ ones}}}^{k=1}
\overbrace{\overbrace{\left(2x\color{#C0C0C0}{+4x^2+8x^3+16x^4}\color{#C0C0C0}{+\dots}\right)}^{\text{$1$ zero or two}}\overbrace{\left(x\color{#C0C0C0}{+x^2}\right)}^{\text{$1$ one}}}^{k=2}\\
&\small\overbrace{\overbrace{\left(\color{#C0C0C0}{2x+4x^2+8x^3+}16x^4\color{#C0C0C0}{+\dots}\right)}^{\text{$4$ zeros or twos}}\overbrace{\left(x\color{#C0C0C0}{+x^2}\right)}^{\text{$1$ one}}}^{k=3}\overbrace{\left(1\color{#C0C0C0}{+2x+4x^2+8x^3+16x^4+\dots}\right)}^{\text{$0$ zeros or twos}}=512x^{13}
\end{align}
$$
Getting The Recursion From The Denominator
Suppose that
$$
\sum_{k=0}^\infty a_kx^k=\frac{1+x+x^2}{1-2x-2x^2-2x^3}
$$
Multiplying both sides by $1-2x-2x^2-2x^3$, gives
$$
\left(1-2x-2x^2-2x^3\right)\sum_{k=0}^\infty a_kx^k=1+x+x^2
$$
Equating the coefficient of $x^n$ on both sides, for $n\gt2$, we get
$$
a_n-2a_{n-1}-2a_{n-2}-2a_{n-3}=0
$$
which gives the recursion
$$
a_n=2a_{n-1}+2a_{n-2}+2a_{n-3}
$$


Streamlining Possessions…Like Movies??? Ebay is My New Hub.
Life is messy, and death is annoying. Stuff is torture.
I'm not really certain why a librarian would want to own THOUSANDS of DVDs, but one of the things Mavis left to me when she ran off to the Great Cat Rescue in the Sky was more than 15,000 movies (not kidding; one of our friends counted them as she packed them). And there's only one thing that's more annoying than plastic in my house: selling the plastic taking up space in my house. I actually *own* exactly one DVD…I'm considering listing it. There's a reason why GOD invented streaming. Electronic files. I love them.
I've been selling Mavis Ann's movie collection on Ebay because a lady at Half Price Books told me that I was ripping myself off giving them away to them. But it's soooo slow.
Like movies??? I keep adding more. And since speaking to Ebay customer service, I'm pretty sure I'm now allowed to post 5,000 of these things at a time (it was 50 total, with no way to add more each month unless others sold). So that's what I'm doing…every freaking day.
Dirt cheap. Buy them all. Please!!! I'm begging you. Spread it around! Email a link to your cousin Guido! I want them out of my hair.
Proceeds are being used for soaping supplies, animal feed, and heating oil for my stupid piggy furnace. And (bonus!) the sooner they're all gone, the sooner I'll have space to unpack my books. My beloved, beautiful, sweet-smelling musty old books….I miss them so much.
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It's just maddening. It took me four hours to upload the info for seventy more titles yesterday.
I think in most cases, consciousness is overrated.
Just hanging out, waiting for planting weather. I have rediscovered the joys of lying in bed – a la Chesterton – reading books all day. The Great Fast has begun, and I'm craving a good roasted chicken; fortunately, I'm broke and have no grown roosters left. You?


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Q: When the system suspends, later not awake just restart I have a problem with I put the system in suspend mode when I try to resume, Ubuntu reboot.
This not happened with previous version (15.10, etc.)
Why is happening this?
Where can I find the log to fix it?
Thanks
Ubuntu 16.04 x64

A: Your swap partition should be large enough in order to hold all the information your system needs to suspend/hibernate and wake up.
https://wiki.debian.org/Swap is a good reading and mentions:
Things to consider when deciding how to setup swap space on your machine
Do you intend to use the Hibernate and Suspend functions? If you intend to use either, you will need to ensure your available swap space is large enough to hold all information your running system will have in RAM. If you intend to use Hibernate you should ensure that your Debian installation has access to a swap partition or file that is NOT shared with another instance of GNU/Linux.


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The 'Glee' Super Bowl Episode : Football and Musical Theater Can Co-Exist
Kevin Fallon
Glee came out after the Super Bowl, bras blazing, to prove that football and musical theater could go together after all. The episode opened with a scantily clad homage to Katy Perry, a scene of actual football playing, and an American-as-apple-pie country song. To really drive the point home, Coach Bieste and Mr. Schuester even forced the school's football players and glee singers to perform together. And, aw, they bonded! Over applying zombie make up on each others' faces!
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But paradise is only a quick rendition of the Zombies' "She's Not There" (which suited Cory Monteith's voice well, actually), because it was one red slushie to the face and the gridiron gang was out of glee. For all the bells and whistles that were promised in this special post-Super Bowl episode, the start to the show was slow, unfunny, and, quite frankly, boring. If Fox really wanted to keep eyes glued to the TV after the big game, the network should have opened the show with the "Bills Bills Bills" number by the Warblers. The a capella performance of the Destiny's Child song was surprising, oozing with charm, and actually kind of joyous—whereas that overproduced "California Gurls" opening was, as Sue Sylvester would put it, "All Boom Boom and no Pow."
It's unclear why exactly Glee's biggest rising stars—Chris Colfer's Kurt and Darren Criss' Blaine—were relegated to cameo status for the series' biggest episode to date. But being that the outing lacked both the show's usual acerbic wit and emotional heft, "The Sue Sylvester Bowl Shuffle" would certainly have been well-served by more of the two actors' screen-illuminating presences. This is a show about young talent—which Colfer and Criss are brimming with.
Luckily, the episode really hit its stride after that much-needed invigoration from the Warblers. As promised, the "Thriller/Heads Will Roll" mash-up was eye-popping, well shot, and sounded fantastic. Katie Couric's bit at the end was hilariously self-aware. Even better, the football game ended with a nod to my personal favorite football movie, 1994's underappreciated Rick Moranis film, Little Giants (Intimidation!). No word if the game-winning play was the Annexation of Puerto Rico, but I choose to believe it is. See? It is possible to be a fan of both football and musicals. Someone should alert the media. Your move, Diane Sawyer.
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'Glee' Does Christmas: Cheesy but Charming
'Glee': Sectionals Bring Out the Best in Everyone
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'Glee' Takes On Katy Perry, Gay Bullying
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'Glee': Hitting a High Note, or a Sophomore Slump?
'Glee' Gets Religion, With Mixed Results
'Glee': Britney Spears Meets Britney S. Pierce
'Glee' Season Premiere: The More Things Change...
Kevin Fallon is a reporter for the Daily Beast. He's a former entertainment editor at TheWeek.com and former writer and producer for The Atlantic's entertainment channel.


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Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks. Subscribe Here!
And yet, despite the continued advancement of global trade management solutions, many companies still rely on Excel spreadsheets to manage this highly strategic and risky supply chain process. I went downhill skiing for the first time in 15 years yesterday.
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Contents Supply Chain Movement 19 – 2015 Q4. Sharing Dutch supply chain knowledge in Turkey. Acquisition of GT Nexus Underlines Infor's Focus on Supply Chain. Supply chains in Europe are facing a wide variety of changes.
Joydeep Ganguly from Biogen Ide c spoke in my Supply Chain Relationships class last week, and shared his insights on how Biogen's supply chain evolved. Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world's oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. The supply chain is NOT nimble and people struggle.
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2011): Supply chain management: A multidisciplinary content analysis of vertical relations between companies, 1997–2006. Particularly, the article confirms my suspicion that there is "shortage of studies conducted on the supply chain as a network of enterprises " Instead, most research turns out to focus on a single enterprise or on the relationships of a single enterprise with its suppliers or customers.
In my previous blog " Balancing Cash, Cost and Service: The Supply Chain Triangle " I have introduced that in essence supply chain management is about balancing the service, against the cost and the cash required, cfr. The Need for Balanced Supply Chain Careers.
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Doetinchem, The Netherlands, 26 January 2016 – Gartner and Supply Chain Media have formalised their relationship by signing a collaboration agreement aimed at further improving the quality and international relevance of research in the supply chain sector.
India is on the cusp of a supply chain transformation that may end up being nothing short of a major game changer. This usually leads to a lively discussion as to why companies in India have surprising supply chain configurations. A system of poor supply chain incentives. We spoke to Raj Reddy, supply chain VP at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. This is the start of what will likely be a profound transformation of supply chain in India.


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Q: $\frac{x^5}{5!}- \frac{x^7}{7!}+ \frac{x^9}{9!}+\dots>0$ holds for $x>0$ Show that:
$\sin x> x- \dfrac{x^3}{6} ~~\forall ~x>0$
Attempt:
Let $y = \sin x - x+\dfrac{x^3}{6}$
We have to prove that y is increasing for $x >0$
$y' = \cos x -1 + \dfrac{x^2}{2}$
$y'' =-\sin  x+x$
$y''>0$ for all $x>0$.
$\implies y'$ is increasing for all $x>0$
$\implies y$ is an increasing function with $y(0+)>0$
Hence proved.
Attempt 2:
Writing the Taylor expansion of $\sin x$,
we get this inequality to be proven:
$\dfrac{x^5}{5!}- \dfrac{x^7}{7!}+ \dfrac{x^9}{9!}+...>0$
Is it possible to prove it? I tried to (by rearranging) but couldn't.

A: Consider any alternating series $a_1-a_2+a_3...$ with $a_n >0$ and $a_n$ decreasing to $0$. If the series is absolutely convergent then  we can group the terms as $(a_1-a_2)+(a_3-a_4)+...$ and the sum is greater than $a_1-a_2$ because the other terms are non-negative. Your question is a special case of this. Attempt 2 also works by the same method. Details: $x^{5} /5! -x^{7} /7! >0$ if $x <\sqrt {42}$ Similarly $x^{7} /7! -x^{9} /9! >0$, etc for such $x$ so we get $\sin x > x- x^{3} /3!$. It remains to see $\sin x > x-x^{3} /3!$ when $x \geq \sqrt {42}$. But here $x-x^{3} /3!<-1 \leq \sin x$ since $x^{3} >6x>6x-6$.


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Kosachev: the transfer of differences between countries to the attitude towards people is unacceptable
MOSCOW, November 28 – RIA Novosti. Political disagreements between states should not affect citizens and the humanitarian sphere, the corresponding norm should be fixed in international legal documents, said Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.
"In the relevant international legal documents (need to be included) – disagreements between the interstate and political levels under no circumstances can be transferred to the attitude towards people, starting with citizens of the respective countries, and to people who ethnically find themselves in appropriate situations," the politician said. during a round table meeting on countering Russophobia abroad.
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The transfer of political differences to the humanitarian sphere should be recognized in the world as absolutely unacceptable, a "red line," he added. Kosachev believes that now these initiatives are difficult to implement, but such goals should be set for ourselves.
He stressed that at present the Russian Federation is faced with a situation where all the "stop taps" have been thwarted. According to him, it is alarming that the rejection of some states by others "goes to the everyday level, and already in the societies of the respective countries there are no doubts that it is possible to behave this way." According to the legislator, in countering Russophobia, one must work not alone, but find allies.
The senator recalled that there is such a thing as ethnocide. Kosachev believes that it is necessary to more systematically organize work to record all cases of violation of the rights of people abroad in a broad context, including the fate of monuments and all other subjects that are designated as Russophobia. He believes that the Russian Foreign Ministry should publish monthly reports on such violations. "It is important that there be a wave of civic activity abroad among those concerned," the senator said.
When will the West stop choosing Russophobes
According to him, now people are frankly afraid, intimidated, "we understand this very well, they know that if they come out with some kind of protest against the loss of their rights, they will be overtaken by a punitive machine that will run them over with a bulldozer or a tank at the next stage" .
"Nevertheless, from my point of view, it is very important to explain to our compatriots abroad that if earlier certain disagreements concerned disagreements between states, and you had to actively defend and support Russia, or somehow remain silent, now we are talking about not only about Russia, but about themselves, about their own destinies. As a result, they will either have to leave their respective countries, where it will be impossible to live, or fight so that they remain in positions that they consider acceptable to themselves," the legislator believes . Kosachev noted that it is necessary to provide maximum legal assistance to people who find themselves in such a situation.
October 7, 08:00Special military operation in Ukraine
Sadism has become a new stage of Russophobic propaganda
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