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Double success for Wales girls.
Aug 19, 2015 | News, Sport
Wales U17 girls cricket team has scored a double success – winning the prestigious Taunton Festival for the seventh successive year, and winning the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) County Championship South West Division.
They defeated both Cornwall and Kent in the festival at Kings College Taunton, to secure the trophy again.
In the first match, Kent restricted Wales to 125 all-out, with Charlotte Scarborough (Gwent) top scorer with 41 not out.
An excellent opening spell of swing bowling from Sara Jenkins (Carmarthenshire) removed the Kent openers with catches behind from Georgia Parfitt (Gwent).
Further excellent bowling from Gwent duo, Ella Reed (2-14 off 4 overs) and Jessica Thornton (5-4) helped Wales to an unlikely win, after posting a below par score.
Batting first against Cornwall next day, Wales lost Rose Evans (Gwent) and Charlotte Scarborough without scoring, but finished on 172-7 off 45 overs, with Aimee Hughes (Carmarthenshire) achieving her first half-century, with 51 not out.
Cornwall's innings never got going, and they were bowled out for 71, giving Wales a win by 101 runs.
West Glamorgan pair Amy Collins (4-3) and Sarah Gambold (2-7 off 3 overs) returned the best bowling figures.
The U17 girls have also performed well in the County Championship, clinching the ECB South West Division with a win over rivals Somerset in the final fixture.
The game was played just outside Weston Super Mare at Uphill Castle CC.
Wales didn't get off to a great start at 9 for 2 when we came off for an unexpected rain delay. Anwen Morgan (Carmarthenshire) (39) and Georgia Parfitt (26) got the innings back on track, with a third wicket partnership of 72, which helped Wales to a total of 158- 7 off their 45 overs.
The sun had started to break through, improving conditions for the Somerset innings.
Somerset were reduced to 22- 3, before they began to rebuild, but a good spell of leg spin from captain Nicole Reid (Gwent) (3-25 off 9 overs) meant Somerset needed 40 to win off 4 overs with 3 wickets remaining.
Somerset had a last push and eventually needing 12 off the last over with 2 wickets remaining. Some straight bowling and good fielding left Somerset 7 runs short and Wales with the win that meant winning the South West Performance division and qualifying for the ECB National finals.
Wales will face Warwickshire at Rugby School on Thursday 20th August, with Sussex facing Lancashire in the other semi-final. The final will be the following day at the same venue.
Peter Hybart, chief executive of Cricket Wales, said: "The girls have had a tremendous season so far. Under coach Aimee Rees, they have shown real team spirit, as well as individual flare when it is needed.
"To win the Taunton Festival yet again is a sensational achievement, and winning the South West division has made it an excellent double, with the chance of the national title still to play for."
Cricket Wales is the national governing body for junior and recreational senior cricket in Wales. It works closely with Glamorgan County Cricket Club, which governs the men's professional game. For information visit www.cricketwales.org.uk
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Cell (Biology): An Overview of Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells
What Happens to Cells Due to a Sodium Imbalance?
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What Happens to an Animal Cell in a Hypotonic Solution?
By Angela Libal
Most of a cell's volume is composed of water. A sodium imbalance could cause water to rush across the cell plasma membrane in either direction. Too little water makes the cell shrivel up; too much water makes it burst. The balance between water and electrolytes, such as sodium, controls cell integrity. Electrolytes determine the action potential across cell membranes. Action potential is the shifting electrical charge that determines a cell's ability to regulate its fluid volume, exchange waste for fuel and respond to nerve impulses. Sodium is the most abundant electrolyte, and is therefore essential to a cell's function.
Cells are basically membrane-bound sacks of fluid, existing within bodies of fluid. Cells' functions rely on their ability to regulate this fluid. Electrolytes are molecules that influence cell fluid regulation. Sodium is the most abundant electrolyte. Too much sodium in the surrounding fluid - or too little in the cells - sucks too much water out of the cells. These dehydrated cells and their organelles shrink, crushing vital internal machinery. Too little sodium in the surrounding fluid - or too much within the cells -causes cells to swell as their higher sodium concentration draws too much water in, which eventually causes cell and organelle membranes to burst. A sodium imbalance will paralyze the cells' transport and communication systems and kill the organism.
Sacks of Water
Cells are basically tiny, membrane-bound sacks of fluid. Most single-celled organisms live in fluid, while most cells within multicellular organisms exist awash in body fluids. Cells' functions rely on their ability to regulate this fluid. Electrolytes are molecules that influence cell fluid regulation. The concentration of electrolytes is called osmolarity, which means the amount of a solute, or dissolved substance, per unit of liquid. Sodium is the most abundant electrolyte within organisms, so it determines the osmolarity.
Too Much Sodium
Sodium plays an important role in maintaining cell volume. There has to be enough sodium both within and outside the cell to keep necessary fluid in and excess fluid out. Too much sodium in the surrounding body fluid - or too little in the cells - is called hypernatremia. In hypernatremia, the excess sodium in the body fluid sucks too much water out of the cells. These dehydrated cells and their organelles shrink, crushing vital internal machinery.
Too Little Sodium
Too little sodium in the surrounding fluid - or too much within the cells - is called hyponatremia. When excessive water increase outside the cell causes hyponatremia, it's called euvolemia; when water and sodium levels both increase but water increases more, it's called hypervolemia. When loss of both fluid and sodium results in a hyponatremic imbalance, it's called hypovolemic hyponatremia. In all of these cases, hyponatremic cells swell as their higher sodium concentration draws too much water in, which eventually causes cell and organelle membranes to burst, spilling the contents into the surrounding environment and killing the cell.
Broken Pump
The sodium-potassium pump is the locus of a constant exchange of electrical charge across cell membranes. It trades positively charged sodium ions for negatively charged potassium ones and allows the transfer of substances across cell membranes. The sodium-potassium pump also generates the electrical impulses necessary for nerve signals. Sodium imbalances interfere with this exchange and with the ability to receive and transmit signals. If the interference is great enough or lasts long enough, the sodium imbalance will paralyze the cells' transport and communication systems and kill the organism.
University of California, Berkeley: Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
National Institutes of Health: Hyponatremia
Protein Data Bank: Sodium-Potassium Pump
Angela Libal began writing professionally in 2005. She has published several books, specializing in zoology and animal husbandry. Libal holds a degree in behavioral science: animal science from Moorpark College, a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and is a graduate student in cryptozoology.
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SeaWorld has come under fire again -- this time for its treatment of wildlife, not its captive orca whales. The company's San Diego location, which hosts fireworks displays from March to September, is being criticized for polluting the bay where the fireworks explode, harming the wildlife that live there.
The park has 79 firework shows planned for this year, to be held over San Diego's Mission Bay, a saltwater bay that is known to be home to many endangered species of birds.
It's well established that fireworks are something of an environmental disaster for wildlife. The chemical reactions that happen to create bursts of color -- strontium and lithium burn red, copper burns blue, magnesium, titanium and aluminum make white sparks, boric acid makes green -- release numerous byproducts, like cancer-causing dioxins. And the gunpowder used to launch them leaves a slew of chemicals behind it as well -- potassium carbonate, potassium sulphate and sulphide, unreacted sulphur and fine particulates.
When fireworks explode, the chemicals they give off settle on whatever soil or water they land on. And they have sticking power -- one EPA study of an Oklahoma lake found evidence to support that even 14 hours after a fireworks display, levels of a chemical called perchlorate (a known water contaminant harmful to people and wildlife) were 1,000 times higher than usual. It took up to 80 days for those levels to return to normal.
Considering, then, SeaWorld's claim that their company "makes a difference for animals all over the world," the regular fireworks displays over Mission Bay seem at best misguided, at worst reprehensible. Research into the effects of fireworks on wildlife is sparse, but it seems contrary to a conservation agenda to risk contaminating areas that are densely packed with wildlife.
SeaWorld has responded to these concerns before -- in 2008, SeaWorld spokesperson David Koontz told SDNews.com that they had "monitored a number of metals and elements and constituents to see if there [were] any elevations in the bay."
"It was shown that there was no negative impact on the quality of the bay as a result of our fireworks," he added. However, short-term elevations in chemicals can still be harmful, as Edwin Decker noted over at San Diego City Beat.
Just because there aren't dead fish washing up on the shore doesn't mean some seriously bad mojo isn't happening. Also, no mention of studying trends in animal mortality, birthrate, disease, food supplies and habitat destruction?
This isn't the first time SeaWorld has come under fire for polluting Mission Bay. It's well known that the park dumps discharge into the bay -- in 2000, documents revealed that SeaWorld's water quality permit was violated eight times within a six month period. In 2012, SeaWorld was cited again for exceeding Mission Bay effluent limits.
On its website, SeaWorld says that their guests "leave with a heightened sensitivity to the world around them and an awareness of the plight of animals in the wild" -- a claim that rings hollow, given their own relationship to animals in the wild.


I think I'm finally getting the hang of Twitter! It's really due to two things: I picked up my ASUS EEE PC 1000HE on Saturday (do I love it? do I LOVE it!), and I downloaded Seesmic Desktop, a desktop Twitter application, and have been making full use of its list-making feature to keep track of things.
Note: I liked using the word "Twitter-ific" in the title of this post, but for anyone wandering in from Google, this post isn't about Twitterific, which is a Twitter app for Mac and iPhone users.
I work from home, and spend most of my work time in front of the computer. So, while blogging is fun, I've been feeling kind of chained to my desk lately.
At first I was thinking of the Dell mini laptop, but then I surfed around, looking for reviews, and the ASUS EEE PC 1000HE looked perfect for me. CNET"s Crave blog rated it the no. 1 netbook in its top ten list of mini laptops.
I already have a laptop but rarely use it because I'm always paranoid it's going to run out of juice just when I'm getting to a good part of whatever I'm working on, and having to plug it in everywhere kind of takes away from the whole portability thing, you know?
The EEE PC weighs a little over 3 pounds, has a nice, almost full-size keyboard and best of all, has a battery that lasts 9.5 hours! Of course, that's if you use it in the optimal battery-saving mode, but all the reviews I read clocked the battery at lasting around 7 hours and 20 minutes, give or take ten minutes or so, running in normal performance mode.
The only thing I don't like about the EEE PC is the multi-touch touchpad, but that's just me. I've never liked touchpads or trackpads – I prefer plugging in a small USB mouse and going with that.
I have felt so free the entire weekend! I can sit and "watch" a Diego DVD with my little one, check up on my favorite bloggers, tweet to my heart's content, and not feel any "bad mother" guilt at all.
I'm also loving Seesmic Desktop. It helps me keep track of different groups of people I follow, I can use it with more than one Twitter account (I have another Twitter account for the food blog my husband and I do together, Muse in the Kitchen) and so far (knock wood), unlike Tweetdeck, I haven't experienced any problems with Firefox slowing down.
I like the number of sections I can have open, too; I now keep my replies window open so that I can keep track of replies, too.
Of course, this is now – who knows how I'll feel about Twitter in a week or two. But for now, I do feel like I've got the hang on it. And now is really what's important, right?
So all in all, it's been a very good, Twitter-filled weekend. Do you Twitter? Look me up – my Twitter name is @msbookish!
This entry was posted in Books and Reading, Life and tagged Asus EEE PC, book thoughts, mini laptops, netbooks, Seismic Desktop, Twitter on May 25, 2009 by Belle.


Tampa, Florida, December 4, 2018	(Newswire.com) - Supporting an evolving, complex technology stack along with the needs of both internal and external customers is not easy for IT vendors. Automation and artificial intelligence will redesign the way in which tech support firms function and the result is a support operation that will look significantly changed from what exists in 2018.
Healthcare providers and payers are experiencing the early stages of a bigger transformation of how healthcare organizations look at the role of tech support.
Artificial intelligence, chatbots and other forms of automation are now grabbing attention within most of the systems targeted at the healthcare IT support industry, but there's not a lot of companies employing them. Only 3 percent of healthcare providers and 5 percent of payers responding to the Black Book survey have launched automated client service strategies.
"Healthcare tech support is on the cusp of change and as healthcare technologies evolve and improve, they are likely to reshape the very nature of what is client services and tech support," said Brown.
With innovations like AI-powered conversation platforms, tackling challenges in natural language understanding and context resolution, healthcare tech support firms will be able to create advanced virtual agents that retain deep knowledge about supported products.
EHRs are putting significant resources toward the creation and protection of experience-based customer value. Delivering and support a superb customer experience is becoming the primary driver of competitive advantage.
The shift to a more holistic perspective is resulting in a growing trend of service desks and other support teams supporting both internal and external customers.
Eighty-eight percent of CIO respondents reveal they are beginning to re-imagine the role of the support organization as they recognize technology is now critical to the patient experience and that their existing support teams are not well positioned to provide the best support.
Blockchain offers a shared, distributed, and decentralized ledger that serves as a foundation for trusted collaboration among multiple parties throughout the tech support processes. As healthcare industry practitioners gain more experience with the technology, the next wave of innovations will be focusing on standardizing blockchain solutions that can be seamlessly integrated with organizations' IT systems to jointly drive the tech support ecosystem.
Healthcare organizations are growing increasingly dependent on big data direct their initiatives. While this tsunami of data can spot trends and enables more accurate and more confident decision-making, it requires more computing power, more hardware, more network capacity and more devices, both traditional and mobile, along with the need for ongoing maintenance of cloud infrastructure, servers, desktops, laptops and storage and network devices. IT vendors and managed services providers must have a deep pool of skilled subject matter experts available to proficiently service clients and also maintain the certifications to support multiple manufacturers' hardware, storage devices, operating systems, and networks.
Cloud, mobile and social technologies are forcing the healthcare IT industry to have a robust approach to security as transformational change becomes second nature. As these new technologies meet the new demands for greater information access, hospitals and their services providers will need to deploy new tech support functions and processes to keep information systems safeguarded from external threats. Team members from third-party organizations who come in contact with patient data should have the proper industry clearance and knowledge of HIPAA compliance standards and regulations. Protective measures, systems, policies and protocols must be put into place to prevent unauthorized access at multiple points of entry. Tech support and client services partners must serve their clients as trusted allies through all security management layers.
Throughout the health care industry, patient monitoring systems are connected wirelessly to a central monitoring station to help monitor vitals. As this technology expands to meet the needs of the industry, service desk teams are given the opportunity to specialize and research better ways to manage these devices and ensure they are under their control, and return value, and not risk to any environment.
According to Black Book™ user results, health information system vendors not offering clinically-based EHR tech support either internally or through a competent outsourced technical support firm, experience far less opportunities to positively affect patient care by the use of technologies. Eighty-eight percent of clinicians responding assert their delivery of patient care services are continually impeded by subpar user tech support, increasing nearly ten percent from last year's survey.
Ninety percent of hospital chief medical offices surveyed asserted multi-level tech support from their health records vendor ranging from help desk through engineering interventions will be a leading competitive inpatient EHR differentiator in 2019.
Of the ninety-two percent of hospital respondents that view high quality user support as a make or break feature in a vendor relationship, sixty percent say their tech support (both EHR firm provided and from EHR tech support outsourcing partners) are currently falling short in their responsibilities to ultimately allow patient care improvements through well trained delivery personnel.
Eighty-three percent of hospital tech managers prefer that their EHR deliver direct, comprehensive tech support, not push the responsibility to third parties or on the hospital system itself as the only options. Eighty-one percent of those clients employing third party outsourcing tech support are significantly dissatisfied with the level of response and the quality of their services in the twelve months following go-live. Clients could potentially be leveraging one vendor for their help desk services and another for their upgrade services and so on which can lead to an overall disparate support strategy.
"The increasing complexity of healthcare technology has made it even harder for an in-house help desk team, especially in small and medium sized communities to have sufficient expertise to meet all of an organizations' tech support needs," said Brown.
Enterprise tech support is a highly complex and niche area in healthcare, where specialists can make a big difference in client loyalty by catering from Level 1 to Level 4 product support to ensure all the provider's business goals are aligned with technology readiness.
Vendors scoring highest among the four comprehensive levels of technical support are Cerner, Allscripts and MEDITECH. The majority eighty-four percent of tech support for Epic clients were attributed to third party outsourcers, consultants, and independent tech support firms working in Epic Systems client facilities.
Black Book's mission is to improve healthcare delivery by expanding the stakeholder's voice from the front-line employee, IT and financial managers, clinical and nursing staff through the C-Suite and Board, as well as healthcare consumers.
Since 2003, Black Book™ has polled the vendor satisfaction across over thirty industries in the software and services sectors around the globe. In 2009, Black Book began polling the client experience of over 590,000 current healthcare software and managed services users. Black Book expanded its survey prowess and reputation of independent, unbiased crowdsourced surveying to IT and health records professionals, physician practice administrators, nurses, financial leaders, executives and hospital information technology managers. Over 4,400 users participated in the 2017 polls of IT tech support client experience in a sweeping five month set of studies.


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When asked to identify their strategic priorities for 2016, more organisations (53%) chose data-driven marketing with their top vote.
This year's Digital Trends report – part of the Quarterly	Digital	Intelligence	Briefing	series	that Econsultancy publishes in partnership with Adobe – tells the customer experience story. When the 7,000 professionals who participated in the survey talked about their most exciting opportunity, the top three answers were 'optimising the customer experience', 'creating compelling content for digital experiences' and 'data-driven marketing that focuses on the individual'.
14. 14 Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: 2016 Digital Trends In association with customer at no marginal or transactional cost.8 This transformative opportunity to serve any given customer, regardless of their profile, is at the heart of some of the most disruptive organisations. However, in most instances, organisations have an extensive journey in front of them as they aim to realise the potential behind any of these approaches. Company respondents Figure 6: Most under-valued capabilities for customer experience excellence 8% 9% 11% 18% 9% 9% 12% 15% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% Real-time marketing Social media analytics Joining up online and offline data Marketing automation 2015 2016 Collaboration is least likely to be ranked as most important to CX success 8 https://stratechery.com/2015/beyond-disruption/ Econsultancy / Adobe Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing Respondents 2016: 3,167 Respondents 2015: 2,748 Note: The full list of ranked priorities for 2016 can be seen in Figure 1.
15. 15Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: 2016 Digital Trends In association with When respondents were asked to identify the top digital priorities for 2016, the results were emblematic of the disparity between the strategy and process/collaboration elements highlighted in Figure 4. The top priority for company respondents was 'targeting and personalisation' (31%), with the next two priorities being 'content optimisation' (29%) and 'social optimisation' (25%). While the first is well in line with strategic aspirations, the latter areas are relatively basic and are not so well aligned. In contrast, some of the areas that are truly required to target and personalise experiences are the focuses for a minority of organisations, as seen in Figure 6. It is not feasible for organisations to effectively target and personalise without being proficient in cross-functional areas like automation, social analytics, real-time marketing and joining online and offline data, if applicable. Of course it is important that organisations are competent in delivering fundamental individual elements of the customer experience. However, if they are truly going to make considerable strides in improving CX in 2016, it will be critically important to prioritise the cross-functional capabilities that allow businesses to engage with customers in the most valuable way.
21. 21Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: 2016 Digital Trends In association with 12 https://econsultancy.com/reports/data-driven-marketing-trends-briefing-digital-cream-london-2015/ Accessing, defining and using customer data is one of the most difficult challenges faced by the modern marketing organisation. If marketers are facing difficulty when it comes to the collection and selection of the data itself, it of course carries through that there will be difficulties in deploying this data. In a data-driven marketing trends briefing12 , based on the issues discussed by marketers at Econsultancy's Digital Cream 2015 event, it was emphasised that "before embarking on a fully-fledged data-focused programme, marketers need to have an in-depth understanding of their business requirements". The report goes on to say that "the prospect of having so much data to work with is exciting", but it can quickly become overwhelming. The risk here is losing sight of the bigger picture, and not being clear enough of the exact business case for each activity. Of almost equal difficulty, with 13% of respondents ranking it as 'most difficult', is technology. As mentioned earlier, this refers to the tools which interpret and manipulate data, in order to power data-driven marketing activities. Not only does the technology need to be fit-for-purpose, but there also needs to be the skillset within the team or externally to use the tools correctly. With so many tools and programmes available to marketers, the choice and functions can be overwhelming, and the selection of the correct tools problematic. There are also many companies of all sizes struggling with legacy systems. As a short- term solution, bolt-ons can be added but legacy systems are often unfit for purpose, and can lead to problems when trying to push forward with a new data-driven strategy. This leads directly to the third element shown in Figure 9: process. Behind any tools, technology and data, must be processes to use, select and interpret it. With over 40% citing this as one of the most difficult elements of customer experience, it is clear that while technology can help assist companies in their process challenges, it's not a solution in and of itself. Process is a reflection of culture over time. Long-standing companies of any size are inevitably slowed by processes that were designed for a set of circumstances that have since changed. Any important innovation should be accompanied by a review of associated processes, but that's rarely the case. Yet, when transformation efforts are examined, we find that many failures owe to the small but persistent ways in which processes don't conform to new conditions. In marketing, for example, many creative departments still have slow, largely manual processes for handling creative assets, reviews and authorisations. The time taken up by these activities erodes the opportunity for rapidly deploying or optimising campaigns, undermining the responsiveness that should be a strength of digital communications.
26. 26 Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: 2016 Digital Trends In association with There are many examples of retailers such as Tesco, Target and Waitrose experimenting with location-sensing technologies. Most of these examples revolve around location- based offers and reviews. Of course one of the biggest challenges to making use of beacon technology is that for them to work, customers may need to download the retailer's mobile app and thereby provide their location in return for a better experience or reward. The opportunity to deliver valuable personalised experiences is real but shoppers will need to be convinced to download apps and adopt this technology before it can be contextually integrated into their buying habits.
27. 27Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: 2016 Digital Trends In association with Transformation isn't easy. Corporations today are grappling with multiple issues in how to become genuinely data-driven and customer-centric, and they're doing so in a context of constant change. Their customers' habits, beliefs and personal technologies are evolving at a faster pace than ever before, and yet marketers have to not only keep pace, but anticipate what's next. Looking at how survey respondents prioritise their efforts for the medium-term future, it appears that the first order of business is to bring together technology, process and talent in ways that create a seamless, consistent and valuable experience for their audiences. Marketing to changing realities	7 Respondents 2016: 2,355 Respondents 2015: 2,192 Company respondents Figure 14: Proportion of respondents saying these will be 'very important' for their digital marketing over the next few years 35% 43% 52% 63% 70% 38% 43% 57% 66% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Using offline data to optimise the online experience Using online data to optimise the offline experience Training teams in new techniques, channels and disciplines Ensuring consistency of message across channels Optimising the customer journey across multiple touchpoints 2015 2016 Econsultancy / Adobe Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing Note: 'Optimising the customer journey across multiple touchpoints' is a new option for this year's survey.
29. 29Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: 2016 Digital Trends In association with We define creativity as the ability to make connections between diverse ideas, concepts and data with the aim to originate new ideas and challenge existing concepts and models. Some might argue that in a lot of organisations, particularly larger ones, a data deluge and an ingrained reluctance to experiment stifle creativity. A common issue indeed, but problems often run deeper than that: agile creation of ideas is only possible if there's a joined-up approach to strategy and creative. The importance of developing the practices and processes required to nurture untapped creative potential and putting creativity back on the business agenda is widely recognised: as seen in Figure 4, having tools that allow for streamlined workflows between creative and content marketers or web teams was ranked as being important to CX success by nearly two-thirds (63%) of responding organisations. However, two in five (40%) rate this as a 4 or 5 on the difficulty scale. When exploring the perceived importance of various internal factors in delivering a great customer experience (Figure 15), none of them emerged as being a stand-out factor. While it's encouraging to see that the vast majority of those surveyed recognise the importance of creative workflows (94%) and internal collaboration (91%), ongoing testing and experimentation are perceived to be 'very important' by less than a third (31% and 29% respectively). According to Jarek Ziebinski of Leo Burnett Asia Pacific, we live in the era of data-driven creativity: pulling meaningful, actionable insights from your data and using those to drive the creative process and in turn elevate business results might become one of the most efficient approaches to modern marketing.
32. 32 Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: 2016 Digital Trends In association with 19 https://econsultancy.com/reports/effective-leadership-in-the-digital-age/ Planning and execution in 2016	8 Is the integration of digital at a standstill? At first glance, Figure 16 suggests that there's been little movement in the level of digital integration across an organisation's marketing activities. Comparing the 2015 and 2016 surveys, the responses are essentially identical. However, now more than ever businesses need to catch up with the reality of how consumers are engaging with brands, and over the last 12 months marketers have been newly dedicated to meeting the rising demands of connected consumers. How do these contrasting insights coexist? Econsultancy's recent Effective Leadership in the Digital Age Best Practice Guide19 revealed a key shift in the approach to integrating digital into 'business as usual'. While many organisations have traditionally centralised digital capability to some degree in digital 'centres of excellence', there is now a growing expectation that digital should be the responsibility of a far wider grouping of roles, disciplines and functions. But there remain challenges on the path to full integration, with 21% of respondents agreeing that digital marketing is very much separate. Companies are making progress in reducing the limiting impact of old technology, either through finding agile workarounds or major re-platforming initiatives. However, in the main, legacy technologies and systems remain a particular challenge.


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Sep 04, 2000 · An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) makes equipment or components that are then marketed by its client, another manufacturer or a reseller, usually under that reseller's own name. An OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) - Encyclopedia oem manufactureSep 04, 2000 · An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) makes equipment or components that are then marketed by its client, another manufacturer or a reseller, usually under that reseller's own name. An OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) - Definition oem manufactureWhat is an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)? An Original Equipment Manufacturer or OEM is a company that manufactures and sells products or parts of a product that their buyer, another company, sells to its own customers while putting the products under its own branding Brand Equity In marketing, brand equity refers to the value of a brand and is determined by the consumers perception oem manufacture
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Jun 04, 2018 · The OEM manufacturer only manufactures what the buyer requires. In this manner, both the companies benefit from the strengths of one another. In some cases, companies seldom have the required machineries to manufacture high volumes of products within the stipulated time frame and outsourcing the production may be cheaper compared to in-house oem manufactureOEM deployment of Windows 10 for desktop editions oem manufactureApr 29, 2017 · The system then places these tiles automatically within the newly-created groups at the end of Start. The first six tiles are placed in the first OEM group and the second set of six tiles are placed in the second OEM group. If OEMName is specified in the Unattend file, the value for this element is used to name the OEM groups that get created.OEM Watch Manufacturers in China, Build Your Own Watch oem manufactureThe Advantage of OEM. OEM (Origin Entrusted Manufacture) can objectively analyze the international and domestic market situation, to accurately determine product direction. It also can improve the utilization rate of cash flow and velocity, and reduce fixed costs to create more economic benefits.
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Nicolae - (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Left Behind
Sub-Genre: Christian
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Book theme: Futuristic
Author: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins
Street Date: April 1, 2011
In one cataclysmic instant, millions all over the globe simply vanished, leaving everything but flesh and bone behind. Global war has erupted, and the Tribulation Force sets a suicidal course that places them in direct opposition to the rise of Antichrist, in this repackage of the third book in the Left Behind series.
Book 3 in the 12-book series that has sold over 63 million copies!
Read the books that launched a cultural phenomenon!
"This is the most successful Christian fiction series ever."
--Publishers Weekly
"Combines Tom Clancy-like suspense with touches of romance, high-tech flash, and biblical references."
--New York Times
"Call it what you like, the Left Behind series . . . now has a label its creators could have never predicted: blockbuster success."
--Entertainment
Are you ready for the moment of truth?
Mass disappearances
Political crisis
Worldwide epidemics
Environmental catastrophe
Military apocalypse
And that's just the beginning . . .
of the end of the world.
The 12 books in the series by New York Times best-selling authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins cover the events of biblical prophecy surrounding the rapture and the seven-year period known as the tribulation that follows.
Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist
Rayford Steele and Cameron "Buck" Williams find themselves pressed into service for the man they believe could be the Antichrist. Nicolae Carpathia takes over the United Nations, signs a peace treaty with Israel, and begins to lure the nations of earth together to form one global village. As believers band together following the Rapture, their peaceful world is destroyed again when global war erupts.
Global Community forces shatter U.S. cities. Carpathia promises peace, urges global unity. Military vows to eliminate insurgent 'Tribulation Force'.
In the two years since millions vanished in an instant, a new world order has risen from the rubble. Tension crackles as the strangely enthralling leader Nicolae Carpathia consolidates his power over the new Global Community. Heads of state, financial and religious leaders, and even the media cower before Carpathia, reduced to puppets of his regime. Only pilot Rayford Steele, journalist Buck Williams, and the rest of the Tribulation Force know Carpathia for what he truly is--a dictator intent on snaring the world in his web of deceit. Amid personal heartbreak and the bloodshed and chaos of World War III, the Tribulation Force must stop him at any cost.
Evil has a name: Nicolae--#3 in the phenomenal New York Times best-selling Left Behind series that rocked the publishing world and made millions think seriously about the future and their places in it.
With special features relating to current events and end-times prophecy.
The Rapture - (Left Behind Prequels) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
Deceiver's Game - (Left Behind Series Collectors Edition) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
Tribulation Force - (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
Cooking for Picasso - by Camille Aubray (Paperback)
The Last Graduate - (The Scholomance) by Naomi Novik
The Remnant - (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
Glorious Appearing - (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
Left Behind - by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
The Indwelling - (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)
Armageddon - (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins (Paperback)


Introduced in 1853, The Indian Railways was introduced in India in 1853. Because of its widespread reach and fairly cheap fares, the Bhartiya Rail has continued to be the favourite mode of commutation for millions of Indians over the years.
Across 17 railway zones, there are 6,909 railway stations across India and the total route length is about 63,327 Kms. The railways operate around 9000 passenger trains daily while help approx 25 million commuters travel daily.


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CAF President Ahmad put under house arrest in France, Pinnick may step in
CAF President Ahmad Ahmad have been reportedly put under house arrest in France over financial crime allegations.
Ahmad was detained by Officers from France's Central Office for Combating Corruption and Financial and Tax Crimes at the luxury Hotel de Berri, where he is staying for the FIFA Congress along with FIFA Council colleagues.
While there has been no detail of any charges against Ahmad, who is not a French citizen but from Madagascar, the police investigation is believed to be linked to a contract broken by Ahmad with Puma in December 2017 and placed with French company Tactical Steel.
As first reported by Insideworldfootball, the Puma contract was worth €312,000 but cancelled in favour of Tactical Steel buying the same equipment for $1,195,603.
Tactical Steel is run by Romuald Seilier, a close friend of Loïc Gerand, the personal attaché of Ahmad.
The deal with Tactical Steel did not end there.
To date it is estimated the French company has invoiced CAF almost $3 million with a number of payments requested by Seilier to be routed through a Turkish company called Serin Hidrafat Ltd and its account with ING bank.
The French authorities are believed to be investigating non-payment of taxes and criminal conspiracy to avoid tax duties.
Tactical Steel is registered as a company in France and based in La Seyne-sur-Mer.
Ahmad could potentially face charges of facilitating criminal conspiracy to avoid taxes and defraud the French government.
His arrest compounded a chaotic week of African football politics with the confederation ordering the second leg of the Champions League final to be replayed having originally awarded the title to Esperance after Wydad Casablanca walked off and refused to return to the pitch in protest against the non-working VAR system.
With that decision still sending shockwaves through African football, news that its president – already engulfed by multiple corruption and sexual harassment allegations – had been arrested sent further waves of distrust in Ahmad's leadership throughout the continent.
CAF sources revealed that there is now a growing belief within Ahmad's increasingly critical CAF executive committee that he must stand down to allow the confederation to prepare for its AFCON championship in Egypt that kicks off June 21.
It is hard to see how he could maintain management duties while confined to France and potentially fighting criminal charges.
The senior vice president who would step in should Ahmad stand down or be removed is Nigeria's Amaju Pinnick.
Pinnick had already left Paris for Lagos when news of Ahmad's arrest broke.
It is understood he is returning to Paris for a series of urgent CAF meetings.
The position of FIFA is still to be made clear.
The obvious course of action for the world governing body would be to suspend Ahmad while their Ethics body completes its own investigation – which it today alluded was in progress without directly confirming.
The fact that it has refused to act to protect women who have reported multiple incidents of sexual harassment is shocking enough and makes something of a mockery of its own women's symposium currently taking place in Paris and which will be addressed by FIFA president Gianni Infantino tomorrow.
The longer FIFA refuses to act, the louder the calls for real change become and the stronger the public belief (and within football) that FIFA's talk of being a "clean" organisation is just window dressing by a financially bloated organisation which has not learned the lessons of its past or showing any real inclination to.
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Amaju Pinnick
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The last time we got an update from Curl Up And Die, it was 2012 and the band told us they were reforming. Sadly, that was the last we heard from them... until now, that is.
Yesterday, the band added a new photo to Facebook (see below) with the message, "We May Be Through With The Past But The Past Ain't Through With Us. Stay Tuned."
CUAD fans might recognize that phrase as the title of the companion EPs the band released in 2003. Regardless, the "stay tuned" portion gives us hope.


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Chinese envoy meets PM; says next CPEC stage to focus on investing, buying more from Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Ambassador in Pakistan Yao Jing met Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday and said the next stage of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would focus on investing and buying more form Pakistan.
The ambassador updated the prime minister on the CPEC projects and said Pakistan and China were the closest friends and partners, a PM Office statement said.
He also reaffirmed his government's resolve to work closely with Pakistan to further strengthen the bilateral relations.
Later, talking to media, the ambassador termed his meeting with the prime minister "very successful".
He said he had conveyed that the Chinese leadership, government including the business community were encouraged by the vision, agenda and priorities set by Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government like the ease of doing business, Clean and Green Pakistan and opening up of Pakistan's economy to the world.
He also lauded the government's policies for inviting direct and indirect investment to the country besides enhancing its exports.
The ambassador said he had assured the prime minister that China would continue to be a strong partner of future development of Pakistan.
"We have every confidence that with the leadership of new government, Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan will achieve its destination of prosperity and development," he remarked.
During the meeting, the prime minister said Pakistan and China were close friends and strong partners.
Praising the vision of President Xi Jinping for socioeconomic development of China, he said Pakistan could learn much from the Chinese experience for the social uplift of the people of Pakistan.
The prime minister viewed that CPEC had added a new dimension to bilateral ties and reiterated Pakistan's commitment to its timely completion.
He expressed satisfaction over the significant progress made on the CPEC projects.
The prime minister also underscored his priorities for transfer of technology and capacity building in the agricultural sector, which would have a direct impact on poverty alleviation in rural areas.
Clean and Green Pakistan
Yao Jing
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Q: How to float/wrap figures in ConTeXt? I have a simple two column document in ConTeXt. I tried to float/wrap the figures within text with `placefigure`, but it inserts the figures exactly where they are. This will leave a empty space in the previous column, if a figure is not fitted.

In addition, ConTeXt ignore figure float positioning commands of top,bottom, etc. What should be the standard figure placement to float/wrap within the text?
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\startcolumns[n=2,tolerance=verytolerant]
\section{Introduction}
LaTeX is based on the idea that authors should be able to focus on the content of what they are writing without being distracted by its visual presentation. In preparing a LaTeX document, the author specifies the logical structure using familiar concepts such as chapter, section, table, figure, etc., and lets the LaTeX system worry about the presentation of these structures. It therefore encourages the separation of layout from content while still allowing manual typesetting adjustments where needed. This is similar to the mechanism by which many word processors allow styles to be defined globally for an entire document or the use of Cascading Style Sheets to style HTML.
\placefigure[top,bottom][fig:1]{LaTeX can be arbitrarily extended by using the underlying macro language to develop custom formats. Such macros are often collected into packages, which are available to address special formatting issues such as complicated mathematical content or graphics. Indeed, in the example below, the align environment is provided by the amsmath package.
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LaTeX is based on the idea that authors should be able to focus on the content of what they are writing without being distracted by its visual presentation. In preparing a LaTeX document, the author specifies the logical structure using familiar concepts such as chapter, section, table, figure, etc., and lets the LaTeX system worry about the presentation of these structures.
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A: To float images, contextgarden's Using Graphics describes two ways. Either using starthanging, like:
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\stoptext

or using Floating Objects, which are numbered and placed by ConTeXt, and can get a caption, like:
\placefigure[right]{My Caption}{\externalfigure[cow.jpg]}

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I love the words spoken by Zechariah (John the Baptist's father) who poetically refers to Jesus as "the sunrise from on high" who came to "give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Luke 1:78-79).
This Christmas, may Jesus be the light that brightens the dark places in our world and guides your steps into the way of His peace in the New Year.
Thank you for your friendship and your partnership in the ministry of training men and women to carry the light of Christ into churches and communities across Canada and around the world.
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Cambridge City Centre
Animal Rights Cambridge locked people in animal cages in tribute to founder Joan Court
Residents and shoppers in the city were greeted by the unusual sight of people in primate cages, as campaigners made speeches claiming that "life in a cage is no life at all"
Tara Cox
Cambridge animal rights campaigners locked people in cages as they made their voices heard at an event held in memory of community campaigner Joan Court.
Joan Court, who died in December last year aged 97, was famous for her stunts to highlight the plight of animals, as well as her work in India where she met Ghandi.
A rally and vigil was held at Senate House in the city today (Saturday April 8) to protest against animal testing in her memory.
08/04/17 A rally and vigil organised by Animal Rights Cambridge in memory of Joan Court. Picture: Harry Hubbard
The event was organised by Animal Rights Cambridge – and offered passers-by free literature, free vegan food and the chance to sign a petition against animal testing.
Famous Cambridge campaigner Joan Court dies 'surrounded by her cats'
Residents and shoppers in the city were greeted by the unusual sight of people in primate cages, as campaigners made speeches claiming that "life in a cage is no life at all".
Protestors dressed in 'bloodied' lab coats also encouraged people to get involved in the rally.
Speaking at the rally, Campaigner Sue Hughes said: "We held this event in memory of our lovely Joan Court, and we tried to hold it as close to her birthday (on April 13) as we could.
"This weekend was the closest weekend to that. It also falls quite close to the World Day for Animals in Laboratories (April 24).
"Joan was given a leaflet about animal vivisection – she was horrified and it all went from there with her really.
"She founded Animal Rights Cambridge in 1978. At our event today we also have the director of Animal Aid, Isabel Hutchinson, to give a speech which is great news."
08/04/17 Vigil for Joan Court Melissa and Tasha take part in a rally and vigil in memory of Joan Court. Picture: Harry Hubbard
Protestor Edward Maile said the group were carrying on what Joan would have wanted.
He added: "Joan was a relentless activist her whole life and we're carrying on what she believed in.
"She was a very special person."


The owner of TELAVOX was Clemen Jørgensen, born 1893, death 1992, he was a watch maker and began in 1924 to build loudspeakers in a backyard in his sparetime. He stopped in 1925 som watch maker and established a carpenter factory together with his brother. TELAVOX got famous for his very beautiful cabinets, they built e.g. the popehat from Philips. The name TELAVOX is greek/latin and means 'the far away voice'. TELAVOX produced all their components, 1927 have they had 30 employees and in 1943 already 250. The fabric got sold on the 1st of April 1952 to To-r and the brothers Karl Åge continued building radio cabinets for Neutrofon and LL.


The IRS Small Business/Self-Employed operating division presented this seminar at the 2012 IRS Nationwide Tax Forum, and the information was correct at the time of recording.
There have been a number of changes in estate and gift tax law in the last few years, including changes to the tax rates, exemptions, filing requirements and portability. This session highlights these recent changes, as well as recent estate and gift cases and rulings, current exam priorities and other recent developments.


1870, extended circa 1970. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa with fine interior. Coursed rubble with contrasting roughly squared quoins and droved margins. Round-headed, keystoned and pilastered porch. Stone mullions and chamfered arrises.
SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay with steps and flanking dies leading to flat-roofed corniced porch with 4-panelled timber door and semicircular plate glass fanlight, window above breaking eaves into finialled dormerhead; bipartite window to ground in bay to right with 1st floor window as above; 3-light canted window with blocking course and blind shield under stepped semicircular moulding in bay to left of centre at ground, bipartite window above and single window in gablehead. Single storey extension projecting to outer left.
SE ELEVATION: gabled elevation with window to outer right at each floor and further small window in gablehead. Pitch roof of low garage extension clasping outer right angle.
NE (LOWER OAKFIELD) ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation with variety of roof heights of ancillaries forming former courtyard infilled with garage extension; Myrtlebank Cottage to right and boundary wall abutting to outer left.
NW ELEVATION: gabled bay with variety of elements including Myrtlebank Cottage to outer left and extension to outer right.
4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with full complement of polygonal cans. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding and kingposts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
INTERIOR: fine decorative scheme in place including unusually elaborate and detailed plasterwork ceilings, panelling, skirtings and door surrounds. Tesselated floor to hall with etched glass to screen door, dog-leg staircase with timber balusters and ball-finialled square newels. Panelled plasterwork to coffered ceiling over stair with guilloche bands giving way to ropework moulding and frieze with 4 diminutive masks in roundels, all surmounted by elaborate egg and dart moulding and etched glass in rectangular small-pane cupola. Black marble, timber and cast-iron fireplaces.
MYRTLEBANK COTTAGE: 2-storey, 2-bay house with crenellated porch.
SW ELEVATION: crenellated porch with panelled timber door, plate glass fanlight and small window on return to left, window above breaking eaves into dormerhead. Ellangowan abutting at outer right.
NW ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to right with bipartite window at ground and single window in gablehead, recessed bay to left with window to ground and further window above breaking eaves into pedimented dormerhead, small pitch-roofed timber porch projecting in re-entrant angle to right.
NE (LOWER OAKFIELD) ELEVATION: plain gabled bay with boundary wall abutting at outer right and ancillary abutting at outer left.
4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Coped ashlar and dry-dashed stacks with polygonal cans; overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding.
INTERIOR: decorative plasterwork cornice and stair window with coloured margin.
Listed in consideration of its fine interior, Ellangowan is built on land feued from Mr Butter, and later sold by James G Fergus Esq of Baledmund in favour of Miss Catherine Macbeth, the house is thought to have been erected by a master plasterer who lived in Myrtlebank Cottage whilst letting out Ellangowan as a holiday home. A number of speculative buildings were erected from mid century onward when Pitlochry developed rapidly as a healthy holiday town approved by Queen Victoria's physician. The remarkable plaster masks (see above) are duplicated in niches at Wellwood, West Moulin Road (listed separately), and putti masks in similar niches can be seen at Dundarave, Strathview Terrace and Dun-Donnachaidh, Knockard Road (also listed separately). Building Bye-Law Plans record and application for 'alterations and additions' to Myrtle Cottage, Lower Oakfield for Alex McLean by P Graham & Sons, Builders, Bankfoot.


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Flooding on Jekyll Island can be caused by severe weather, including tropical storms and hurricanes and it's important to be prepared in the event flooding impacts your property. The areas most prone to flooding are along the beach and marshes. Flood waters can cover streets up to two or three feet deep, and can come with little warning.
Please take heed of any storm and hurricane warnings on Jekyll Island.
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In September of 2019, Jekyll Island, and the Southeast coast of the U.S., were impacted by Hurricane Dorian. For a summary of Jekyll Island's response to the storm please visit our Hurricane Dorian page.
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George L. Pla, an entrepreneur and philanthropist whose business and civic activities have helped communities across California, was awarded a California State University, Los Angeles Presidential Medallion during Commencement 2017.
A Cal State LA alumnus, Pla is president, CEO and founder of Cordoba Corporation, a nationally recognized civil engineering, program and construction management firm specializing in transportation, education, and water and energy infrastructure.
Pla delivered a moving address at the May 20 afternoon ceremony of the College of Natural and Social Sciences. He was applauded as he spoke about his immigrant background and how Cal State LA prepared him for a successful career. Pla, who was raised in East Los Angeles, arrived in the United States undocumented from Zacatecas, Mexico. He was the first in his family to graduate from college.
The Presidential Medallion is the University's highest honor and is bestowed upon individuals who have displayed outstanding leadership and extraordinary service to the students and faculty of Cal State LA.
"George Pla is one of Cal State LA's most distinguished alumni," Covino told the thousands of people who filled the University Stadium.
Pla earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Cal State LA in 1972 and a Master of Public Administration from USC in 1974. In 1991, he was honored as Cal State LA's Alumnus of the Year.
Pla has led Cordoba Corporation for more than 30 years. It is one of the top firms of its kind, providing services for large public infrastructure projects across the western United States. His professional achievements have been recognized by the Hispanic Business Magazine, where he was named as one of the "100 Most Influential Latinos" in the nation.
Pla has been a strong supporter of higher education and has served as a regent emeritus at Loyola Marymount University, presidential associate at the University of Southern California, and co-founder of the USC Latino Alumni Association.
Pla currently serves as the co-chair of the Southern California Leadership Council, a non-partisan, non-profit public policy partnership comprised of business and community leaders. He is also a member of the Cal State LA President's Council.
He is a co-founder of the City Club, a premier private business club in downtown Los Angeles that embraces and reflects the diversity and spirit of the city. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Science Center Foundation, and he chaired the planning and engineering efforts of the transport of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Pla is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Catalina Island Conservancy, which stewards approximately 42,000 acres on Catalina Island through a balance of conservation, education and recreation.
Cordoba Corporation is ranked by Engineering News-Record as one of the top professional services firms in the nation and transported the Space Shuttle Endeavour through the streets of Los Angeles in 2012 as more than one million cheering bystanders watched the historic event.
The May 20 ceremony was the second of nine that will run through Monday evening. More than 4,700 Cal State LA students will receive diplomas during the three days. The ceremonies take place as the University celebrates its 70th anniversary.
Cal State LA is ranked number one in the nation based on the upward mobility of its students. Founded in 1947, Cal State LA is the premier public comprehensive university in the heart of Los Angeles and is dedicated to the mission of engagement, service, and the public good. The University serves more than 27,000 students and more than 247,000 distinguished alumni, who are as diverse as the region we serve. Led by an award-winning faculty, the University offers nationally recognized programs in science, the arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and the humanities.


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Q: Is data stored in one location when a variable is assigned the value of another, and the value of the second isn't changed? Given this Perl code:
sub a{
my $variable = $_[0];
}

The content of $variable is the same as that of $_[0]. It doesn't change for the life-span of the variable.
Does interpretation of the assignment prevent Perl from creating two memory locations for the contents of $_[0]?

A: It's not clear what you mean, but there are two "containers". $_[0] and the argument passed to the function consist of one. my $variable creates another one. Assignment doesn't create containers/scalars/variables.

Based on comments, it appears your question is actually about if my $variable and/or the assignment are optimized away. They're not.
>perl -MO=Concise,-exec,a -e"sub a { my $variable = $_[0]; return; }"
main::a:
1  <;> nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v
2  <#> aelemfast[*_] s
3  <0> padsv[$variable:1,2] sRM*/LVINTRO   <-- my $variable
4  <2> sassign vKS/2                       <-- scalar assignment in void context
5  <;> nextstate(main 2 -e:1) v
6  <0> pushmark s
7  <@> return K
8  <1> leavesub[1 ref] K/REFC,1
-e syntax OK

(I added return since the sub returns $variable otherwise.)
my $variable is not optimised away, since the assignment can't be optimised away, since it could have side-effects for magical args.
Magical variables have code attached to them. The code is called when you read from them, for example (e.g. getching from $ENV{PATH} translates to getenv, and storing, putenv). I suppose you could evaluate $_[0] as the assignment would and then clear the result from the stack, but that's a lot of work to remove code that should never exist.
If you want to find unused lexicals, use perlcritic.

A: The assignment operator = always¹ copies the value. This means that if $_[0] contains a very large string, then $variable will contain another and completely seperate very large string.
If this bothers you, you could use references:
my $reference = \$_[0];
# the value can be accessed as $$reference

1. Except when the value on the right hand side of the assignment would be discarded anyway.

A: Conceptually speaking, a normal assignment always makes a shallow copy of the data.
By "shallow", I mean that when my $foo = \@array is a reference to, say, an array, then my $bar = $foo makes $bar into a different reference to the same array, so when you push @$bar, $quux, you're appending to the same array as you would when you push @$foo, $quux, but if you do $bar = \@another_array, then $foo is still pointing to the original array.
By "conceptually speaking", I mean that you can think of it that way. As an optimization, Perl does occasionally keep the two variables in the same part of memory until you attempt to modify one. This is called "copy-on-write". But unless you dig deeper under the hood than most XS code goes, the idea is that you should never notice it happening.
There are however situation where you can have multiple variable referring to the same data. These are generally referred to as "aliases". Within foreach, grep and map blocks, the $_ variable (or another lexical variable in the case of foreach) is an alias for the item currently being processed:
foreach my $foo ($bar, $baz) {
    # In here, $foo is an alias for $bar, then $baz.
    # When $foo is aliased to $bar, then modifiying $foo
    # also modifies $bar, and vice versa.
}

Aliases can also be created by assigning to a glob. Here's an example:
our $foo;
my $bar = 19;
*foo = \$bar;        # alias $foo to $bar
$foo++;
$bar++;
print $foo + $bar;   # 42

Note that $foo there is a package variable (our); glob assignment only works for package variables. But Data::Alias and Devel::LexAlias allow you to do similar things with lexical variables (my).
The other situation where aliases crop up is the @_ array in subs. Here:
sub quux {
    # In here, $_[0] is an alias for $foo
    # In here, $_[1] is an alias for $bar
}

quux($foo, $bar);

Lastly, aliases can also be faked with careful use of tied variables.

A: I don't understand what you mean by two containers. How can a scalar have two items?
Please note: $_[0] is an alias to the first argument in the calling function. If the first argument is a variable, and $_[0] is change, then the value of the variable in the calling code is changed.
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

sub a {
  $_[0] = 1;
}

my $var = 0;
a( $var );
print "$var\n";