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Spring snow turns roads treacherous
Freezing rain and snow turned area roads slick this April Monday afternoon. Accidents were reported in Chester, Landgrove and Weston among others.
The Subaru Impreza on its roof in Weston this afternoon. Photo courtesy of Ted Slaght.
According to witnesses and a State Police press release, at about 1:13 p.m. a 2006 Subaru Impreza was being driven west on the Weston Andover Road. Sarah Davidson, 21 of Weston lost control of the car on slush and ice and left the road, police report.
While state police say the car rolled over, bystanders who arrived shortly after the crash say the car seemed to have hit a tree and then rolled onto its side. The driver was not near the car at the time and witnesses say the car then rolled over onto its roof.
Police say that Davidson was not injured and was issued a warning for imprudent speed for conditions, although she was not speeding.
Also this afternoon, Richard Wheeler, 46, of Bellows Falls, was traveling west on Rt. 11 near Landgrove Hollow Road in a 2002 Chevy Suburban. When Wheeler braked on the icy road, the Suburban slid off into a utility pole head-on. State Police say the collision sheered off the pole, which fell and brought power wires down.
While there were no injuries, traffic was reduced to a single lane for several hours while a new pole was installed.
Also today, Chester Police, Fire and Ambulance were also called out to an crash on Rt. 11, just east of Andover Road. According to scanner traffic, the driver was taken to the hospital with what sounded like minor injuries and the scene was cleared quickly.
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Historical Note Patricia Peacock was born in 1938 and grew up in Stuttgart, graduating from Stuttgart High School in 1956. She won her first duck calling contest at the age of 12. In 1950, she was the Junior World Champion in Duck Calling. From 1951-1955, she was the Women's World Champion. In 1955, she was both the Arkansas State Champion and the Open World Champion.
Description Black and white photograph of Patricia Peacock, world champion duck caller, at the age of 17.
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The panelists do a good job describing the organizational and technological challenges associated with such a sea-change transformation. They briefly touch on the issue of change management: How do you transform the role of the employees from moving paper to knowledge workers?
Change management is raised in just about every discussion on optimizing citizen experience that I've read. Having employees understand how their jobs have changed is critical to the success of the transformation – but that's just the half of it. What I've yet to see are discussions of how employees need to change how they think about their customer: the citizen. That's something that seems to be taken for granted; which will magically happen once the processes and technology have been transformed.
Let me give you an example of what I mean from personal experience: My phone company has invested probably hundreds of millions of dollars integrating and upgrading their customer service systems and processes. As part of that, customer-facing employees were provided training and scripts to follow when customers called in for service.
I had just moved to a new home and needed a second phone line. I also needed to transfer the phone number of my second line in my old home to that of my new home. When I called, I was greeted with an outpouring of charm: "How are you today, Mr. Larkin? Thank you for calling XYZ. How may I be of service today? Once we got over the pleasantries and into the purpose of my call, I was informed the phone number could not be transferred (two customer service representatives had told me earlier this was possible). Furthermore, I could choose a new number from a selection of numbers. However, they could not guarantee the number would work and, hence, I would need to call in to get a new number (which, of course, was not guaranteed to work either – I'm not making this up). By the time we got to that part of the conversation, steam was coming out of my ears. The representative clearly could tell I was frustrated as she told me: "I understand Mr. Larkin why you would be feeling frustrated." Since none of this made sense, I asked to speak to a supervisor and was informed none were available. At that point, I decided to end the call. The representative thanked me for calling and then asked: "Have I provided you with excellent service today?" My point here is that this employee was providing exactly the same type of (poor) service she was providing before the "transformation." The only thing that was different were the responses she was giving.
So the moral of the story is: transforming employees' behavior and attitude towards the citizen are critical and must be an integral part of optimizing citizen experience.


Firms are extremely heterogeneous in their ability to transform a combination of inputs, like capital and labour, into the goods they decide to produce. Furthermore, the productivity of firms changes substantially over time (Asker et al. 2014). One can point to many potential sources of heterogeneity and changes in productivity. Some of these sources are exogenous to a firm's actions and can be most simply modelled as idiosyncratic (like random innovations or production disruptions); others are the response to active organisational decisions by a firm's owners and managers. These decisions can include responses to exogenous productivity disturbances, but also organisational responses to changes in demand and consumer tastes, factor prices, and other changes in the economic environment, like trade liberalisations and tax reforms.
Measuring the importance of endogenous organisational responses to productivity, demand and other shocks on the determination of a firm's productivity is extremely important. Ultimately, the productivity of firms will determine the productivity of an economy and so these endogenous responses could be essential to understand the large observed total factor productivity differences across countries (Klenow and Rodriguez-Clare 1997). So how important are organisational decisions in determining a firm's productivity?
In a recent paper (Caliendo et al. 2015), we use detailed employer-employee matched data, as well as detailed firm production data, to measure the effect of a firm reorganisation on firm productivity. In doing so, we distinguish between different measures of productivity. An essential distinction is the one between revenue-based productivity and quantity-based productivity, namely, the ability of the firm to transform a set of inputs into revenue, compared to the ability of firms to transform a set of inputs into a number of units of a particular good. The first measure is commonly used to compare productivity across firms because a firm's revenue is expressed in units of a common currency. However, a key complication is that it confounds the physical productivity of the firm with its pricing decisions. The quantity-based productivity of the firm refers only to its physical productivity, but it is expressed in units of the particular goods produced by the firm. Hence, it cannot be easily compared across firms unless one compares exceptionally homogenous products.
Consider a firm that experiences a surge in the demand of its product – say, because its product becomes fashionable. The increase in demand makes the firm want to increase production. To do so it chooses to hire more workers and perhaps change its organisational structure by hiring more upper-level managers (a division boss, an HR representative, perhaps an in-house accountant or lawyer). These organisational changes work against the decreasing returns faced by the firm when expanding production conditional on its current structure. By modifying its organisation, the firm can expand and increase its physical productivity. At the same time, the new organisational structure allows the firm to produce much more, and so the firm might optimally decide to move down its demand curve and charge a lower price. Hence, the response to a demand shock could result in an increase in quantity-based productivity and a decrease in revenue-based productivity.
In fact, the productivity response of any discrete decision of a firm can have similar productivity implications. Because discrete decisions (such as adding a new plant) lead to lumpy quantity and price responses, they can lead to differential quantity and revenue-based productivity responses. For the case of firm reorganisations that expand or contract the number of layers in a firm this is exactly what we find in Portugal for the period 1995-2005.
We measure reorganisations using changes in the occupational structure of firms as in Caliendo et al. (2012). As we show in Caliendo et al. (2015) for the case of France, in Portugal firms that reorganise change their labour force in ways that allow the firms to economise in the human capital (or knowledge) they employ. Namely, firms that expand and reorganise add management layers with well-trained experts, which allow them to routinise lower-level jobs for which they now hire less skilled and trained employees. The evidence that firms actively manage the knowledge characteristics of their employees to economise on labour costs is extremely robust and clear. The key feature is that firms that, say, face higher demand can reorganise to produce more and this allows them to achieve higher physical productivity. As in the theories developed in Garicano (2000), Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg (2006) and Caliendo and Rossi-Hansberg (2012), larger firms can use a better organisational technology due to their ability to concentrate knowledge in upper-level management. This allows them to economise on the knowledge, and therefore wage bill, of the lower level employees. This effect on the number of employees hired and on average wages in a layer is particularly clear in the data of both France and Portugal.
Using our data for Portugal, we measure the response of quantity and revenue-based productivity to a change in the number of layers of management of firms. We are careful to include industry, time, and, for many specifications, firm or sequence-of-layers-firm fixed effects. The results are quite stark. A reorganisation that increases by one the number of layers of management increases a firm's hours of work by 25%, value added by slightly more than 3%, and quantity-based productivity by about 4%. That is, firms that add a layer are about 4% more productive in transforming inputs into units of output. In contrast, firms that reorganise and add a layer decrease revenue-based productivity by about 4%. That is, as a result of the reorganisation prices fall to an extent that converts the positive quantity-based productivity increase into a 4% decline. We show that these results are quite robust and hold under a variety of specifications. Furthermore, the results can be interpreted as causal since they are verified when we use an instrumentation strategy building upon lagged firm-specific variables.
In sum, a firm's physical productivity varies significantly as a result of a firm's reorganisation. On average, we show that among firms that add layers, the increase associated with reorganisations accounts essentially for all of the increase in the productivity experienced by these firms over time. Namely, for the average firm that adds layers all of the experienced increase in productivity comes from this source. Other exogenous and endogenous components might account for changes in particular firms, but do not matter on average, and therefore in the aggregate.
In our view, these results imply that studying and understanding the internal organisational responses of firms to firm-specific and economy-wide shocks is essential to understanding the level and distribution of productivity in an economy. An implication is that in countries where reorganisation is hard either because labour markets are very rigid, or because monitoring or delegating is costly, firms will not be able to reorganise and therefore will not be able to enhance their productivity and growth. This is consistent with the evidence in Hsieh and Klenow (2014) who show that firms in some developing countries like India and Mexico tend to grow less rapidly than in the US, over their lifecycle.
Asker, J, A Collard-Wexler and J De Loecker (2014), "Dynamic Inputs and Resource (Mis)Allocation", Journal of Political Economy 122:5: 1013 – 1063.
Caliendo, L and E Rossi-Hansberg (2012), "The Impact of Trade on Organisation and Productivity", Quarterly Journal of Economics 127:3: 1393-1467.
Caliendo, L, F Monte, and E Rossi-Hansberg (2012), "The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies", Journal of Political Economy 123:4: 809-852.
Caliendo, L, G Mion, L Opromolla, and E Rossi-Hansberg (2015), "Productivity and Organisation in Portuguese Firms," CEPR Discussion Papers 10993.
Garicano, L (2000), "Hierarchies and the Organisation of Knowledge in Production", Journal of Political Economy 108:5: 874-904.
Garicano, L and E Rossi-Hansberg (2006), "Organisation and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy", Quarterly Journal of Economics 121:4: 1383-1435.
Hsieh, C and P Klenow (2014), "The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico", Quarterly Journal of Economics 129:3: 1335-1384.
Klenow, P, and A Rodríguez-Clare (1997), "The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has It Gone Too Far?", in B S Bernanke and J J Rotemberg 73–114, Cambridge: MIT Press.


The purpose of this study is the connection of the work style and behavior of the organization leader and the team performance in the Multi-level Marketing and uses the organization identity as the intermediary to proceed as the empirical study.
This study finds that the transactional leadership has the key leading behavior of offering vision, promise, intelligent inspiring and developing oneself that will be helpful to increase the organization identity of the members and the emotional identity and link to standing together through thick and thin and then effect the result and performance of the team.
The study objects are the direct sellers in Taiwan and survey as questionnaire. Total 500 copies had been distributed and retrieved useful samples are 443copies. The effective rate of recovery is 72.23%. The major statistics analysis methods are Item Analysis, Internal Consistency, Descripive Statistics and Hierarchical Multiple.
1. The organization leader in multiple level marketing has the ability of transactional leadership will effect the members positive to have the faithful emotion to coexist altogether with honor. That could be inferred that transactional leadership has the behavior of individual care, intelligent inspirer, excitement and encouragement to let the members feel respected, cared and satisfied with growth, so they identify with and depend on to the organization emotionally.
2. The leader adopts transactional leadership that will have the positive influence on the behavior and performance of the team members. The members could feel good of the active and praise because of the charm and behavior of the leader.
3. The level of the member's organization identity indeed results in the intermediary''s influence, so it suggests that when the leader guides the vision, toward the common goal and mission, the leader should consider the topic of organization identity at the same time. In the other words, one of the important success factors to develop the organization is to increase group cohesiveness, make the member to sense oneself and other members in the organization have common values, topic and benefit and bring the deep belonging.


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This group is ONLY to sign up for FPHS CREW LAUNCH DRIVER JOBS (both team launch driver jobs and VASRA launch driver jobs assigned to FPHS). Please DO NOT use this list to sign up any other FPHS Crew volunteer positions (there are separate groups for all other volunteer positions). If you haven't already been contacted by our Launch Driver Coordinator, Dale Casey, please contact him at [email protected] prior to signing up for any launch driver position to arrange for required launch driver training, to discuss your level of comfort driving launches, to discuss job descriptions, and to be added to our launch driver information email distribution list.
Dale is happy to provide any level of training desired, answer any launch driver questions, and welcomes parent volunteers who have never driven launches before but want to learn how to do so.
Please check your email the night before and morning of a regatta regarding possible time changes of your position. Please always remember to sign in at the Sandy Run HQ tent for VASRA jobs one hour before your start time or we will not receive credit. Also, remember your job number. Please provide your cell number and email when signing up for the positions. Thank you again for volunteering!
You MUST sign-in at the Sandy Run boathouse complex prior to starting your shift. Please remain at position until the regatta finishes.
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Join Kanopy Dance for our 2018-2019 performances, which all feature celebrations — some tied to holidays and seasons, some simply expressing joy. And isn't that what great dance is about? Translating emotions into movement that is more meaningful than words. Dance is naturally part of the rituals that mark the passage of time on the calendar — and the festivals that commemorate beginnings and endings, important milestones, change and growth. So celebrate with Kanopy throughout the year, as we create revels of all kinds onstage at Overture Center for the Arts.
We kick off our season of exuberant fetes and strong emotions with Martha Graham's masterwork Celebration. This signature piece is paired with Jacqulyn Buglisi's hauntingly beautiful Sospiri, performed by guest artists Virginie Mécène & Kevin Predmore.
As the snowflakes begins to swirl, and icicles dot the winter landscape, Kanopy presents two treasured December stories through dance: Once Upon a Winter's Eve and The Norse Tree of Life (Yggdrasil). Don't miss these holiday gems!
Enter the dark land of enchantment, the world of the Puppet Master, in this glam-rock evening of supernatural horror and hijinks. Delight in the topsy-turvy world, set to the music of Apocolyptica, a four member Finnish cello metal band.
The daffodils and tulips are poking through the frozen ground — spring is approaching, and with it a new crop of Kanopy Dance Lab Works, an ongoing initiative by Company members and guest artists committed to advancing the art of modern dance.
As the days get longer, the dancing continues long into warm, starry nights. After the fireflies come out, watch the next generation of dancers and choreographers take to the stage in an evening celebrating Kanopy Company 2.


Business chiefs have withdrawn plans for a giant TV screen in Gloucester city centre, months after they were submitted.
Gloucester Business Improvement District (BID) has said it will now move the 30sqm screen to somewhere else in King's Square.
It was originally planned to be on the south west corner of the square, in front of the Post Office and Iceland, but the move did not sit well with the city council's conservation officer.
They had recommended the proposal be rejected by the city council's planning department arguing it would have a "harmful impact on the visual amenity of the area".
The also said it would have a harmful impact on the multi-million pound scheme to improve King's Quarter.
But Nick Brookes, chairman of the BID, said the screen's new position would be a "positive" change.
Previously, the revised-now-withdrawn planning statement said: "The proposed Gloucester location, in the western half of Kings Square has been carefully selected to provide the optimal position in terms of screen visibility, pedestrian concentration, contribution to vitality, amenity and safety considerations.
The scheme, costing in the region of £100,000, will allow visitors to Gloucester to watch major sporting events, such as the Olympics, Wimbledon, Rugby World Cup or football matches .
It would also be used for major events of national importance such as Royal Weddings.
Earlier this year crowds were able to watch Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tie the knot before the FA Cup final was shown.
The screen would measure nearly four metres in height and more than 7.5 metres in length (when in landscape mode).
It would be mounted on a galvanised mast and (in landscape mode) it's base would be 5.35 metres above ground.
The plans were originally submitted back in October and a decision was due in December.


In this lecture, Os Guinness discussed the questions, "What does it say of us as human beings that we see ourselves as 'post-Auschwitz,' 'post-Hiroshima' and now 'pre-Singularity'? What does the Bible have to say to humanity on the verge of transhumanism, and those who claim that through science and technology we are now 'the gods of planet earth'?"
Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People's Suicide, and The Global Public Square. His latest book, Last Call for Liberty: How America's genius for freedom has become its greatest threat was published in 2018.
Since moving to the United States in 1984, Os has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter in 1988, a bicentennial celebration of the bicentennial of the US Constitution, and later of "The Global Charter of Conscience," which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012. Os has spoken at many of the world's major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences across the world. He lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington DC area.


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Patří mezi ně:
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Těchto sedm druhů se tradičně podává během svátků Tu bi-švat (židovský "Nový rok stromů"), Sukot ("Svátek stánků") a Šavu'ot ("Svátek týdnů"). Podle halachy jsou důležitější než jiné druhy, proto se po jejich jezení říká zvláštní požehnání me-ejn šaloš, které je vlastně zkrácenou verzí požehnání po jezení chleba (birkat ha-mazon).

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Foundations, Journalism, Management of Arts Organizations, Policy
Open Society Foundations Grant $5 Million to Sundance
Ruth McCambridge
January 19, 2014; Movie City News
For a good time, visit the site of the Sundance Festival, which is now on its eighth day. And NPQ would like to reintroduce the nonprofit behind it: the Sundance Institute, described here on its website:
Since 1981, Sundance Institute has evolved to become an internationally-recognized nonprofit organization that actively advances the work of risk-taking storytellers worldwide.
NPQ has been following many attempts to diversify and support journalism that allows and motivates people to understand the world more intimately and then to act upon that knowledge, and we see this grant in that sphere. The Open Society Foundations today made a $5 million grant to the Sundance Institute to support documentary films addressing critical issues.
"My foundations have long supported arts and culture—especially film—as a means to build and strengthen open societies around the world," said George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations. "This support will help bring open society issues to a wider audience." Soros clearly sees this type of independent filmmaking as an important aspect of new journalism.
The two organizations have a long relationship, in that Open Society Foundations inaugurated its Documentary Film Program in 1996, and this was made part of Sundance Institute in 2002. Chris Stone, president of the Open Society Foundations commented, "We believe that film can intensify conversations on rights, justice, and social ills."
According to this article, the Sundance Institute has long "promoted independent storytelling to inform and inspire audiences across political, social, religious and cultural differences. Through labs, funding, special projects with key partners and the Sundance Film Festival, the Institute serves as the leading advocate for independent artists worldwide."
"As the landscape of non-fiction storytelling continues to evolve, independent documentary filmmakers are increasingly exploring new forms and formats." said Keri Putnam, executive director of Sundance Institute. "With the support of Open Society Foundations, Sundance Institute will continue to seek out and support inventive artists whose work pushes the boundaries of non-fiction story telling and whose stories redefine existing notions of human rights."—Ruth McCambridge
Ruth is Editor in Chief of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.
Barr Foundation Funds Boston Globe's Educational Reporting
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Will the Media Find Its Voice in Our World's Climate Disaster?
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Yesterday, KFC Rockingham was doing a roaring lunchtime trade. Today, it is empty: Shut permanently because the US food giant will not renew its franchise agreement with Competitive Foods Australia, which operates the 46 KFC stores in WA.
The 40 staff have been promised jobs at CFA's other restaurants including Hungry Jack's and yesterday said they felt reassured that they would not be unemployed so close to Christmas. But the closure is a forerunner to a bigger battle which has politicians worried about the future of tens of thousands of franchise businesses around Australia.
CFA chief executive Jack Cowin said the owner of the KFC name, Yum International in the US, had seized on the expiry of the 20-year franchise agreement at the Rockingham store as part of a bid to take over CFA's WA and Northern Territory franchises.
The State Government has announced an inquiry and Brand Labor candidate Gary Gray has promised to take the matter to the Federal minister after the election on Saturday. He said franchisees needed protection through legislation similar to that in the early 1980s to protect petrol station owners from oil companies.
Mr Cowin said he would not bow to pressure from Yum to sell the KFC network at less than its market value. "On one hand, Yum have said they wanted to take over the Rockingham store at zero cost but on the other, they weren't prepared to extend the agreement to even allow negotiations to occur," he said.
The West Australian contacted Yum International's headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday but the company was not available for comment.


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Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
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Directed by: Rob Minkoff
Starring: Ariel Winter, Guillaume Aretos, Lake Bell, Lauri Fraser, Leslie Mann, Max Charles, Stanley Tucci, Ty Burrell
Genres: Adventure, Animated, Comedy
All mistakes 5 continuity mistakes1 factual error1 other mistake1 revealing mistake Order by popularity Order chronologically Titles starting with M
Revealing mistake: At the end of the film, when Peabody drops off Sherman for school and has just told him that he loves him, there's an animation error occurring in the background in the form of a car going from full speed to instantly being completely frozen. (01:21:00)
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Continuity mistake: After Ms. Grunion tries to have our heroes arrested, she gets into a police car, behind the driver. Patty Peterson is in the middle, Paul Peterson is on the passenger side. A few seconds later the car spins sharply left before striking the horse. Grunion is now on the passenger side, her and Paul having switched places. After the car lands, Grunion yells "The name is Grunion" from the driver's side once again. A few seconds later we see Grunion sitting behind the driver. The shot changes to a view out the windshield showing the fleeing WABAC, then cuts back to the interior of the squad car as Grunion yells "Don't lose them!" from her seat in the middle, Patty to her right, Paul to her left.
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Judge: Mr. Peabody, you are a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. An advisor to heads of state. A captain of industry. Why would you want to adopt a boy?
Mr. Peabody: Because, your honor, when I found Sherman, it reminded me of how I started out in life. And now, I want to give him the one thing I always wanted. A home.
Judge: And you're sure you're capable of meeting all the challenges of raising a human boy?
Mr. Peabody: With all due respect, how hard could it be?
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Question: How exactly did Peabody and Sherman fix time by going into the future?
Answer: By travelling to the future, as it approached the speed of light, the WABAC machine generated a gravitational field equal and opposite to the rip in the space-time continuum and cancelled the rip out - a combination of the suggestions of Sherman, Da Vinci, Einstein and Newton.
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After Ms. Grunion tries to have our heroes arrested, she gets into a police car, behind the driver. Patty Peterson is in the middle, Paul Peterson is on the passenger side. A few seconds later the car spins sharply left before striking the horse. Grunion is now on the passenger side, her and Paul having switched places. After the car lands, Grunion yells "The name is Grunion" from the driver's side once again. A few seconds later we see Grunion sitting behind the driver. The shot changes to a view out the windshield showing the fleeing WABAC, then cuts back to the interior of the squad car as Grunion yells "Don't lose them!" from her seat in the middle, Patty to her right, Paul to her left.


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Those 50 and Older Have a Tough Time Finding Work
60% of People With This Disease Don't Know They Have It
Many of those polled said there were few available jobs, few that paid well, and few with adequate benefits. Many cited personal experience with age discrimination.
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There isn't enough decent work for older Americans.
The Associated Press conducted a poll in partnership with the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research of more than 1,000 people aged 50 or older. Here's what it found:
55 percent of those who sought work in the past five years said it was difficult. Forty percent of those who have sought work in the past five years said they personally experienced age discrimination or prejudice while on the job or looking for one.
43 percent thought employers considered their age.
69 percent said there were few available jobs.
63 percent said there were few well-paying jobs.
53 percent said there were few jobs with adequate benefits.
About 4 in 10 felt they lacked necessary job skills or felt too old for the available jobs.
About a third were told they were overqualified for a job.
It wasn't all bad news. More than 40 percent said their skills were in high demand, and 31 percent said their experience was. The report also said:
Still, Americans 50 and over are far more likely to report positive outcomes because of their age. Sixty percent say they have had colleagues come to them for advice more often, and 42 percent say they have felt as though they were receiving more respect within the company since they turned 50.
The unemployment rate for those 55 and older was 5.3 percent last month, the AP says. It's lower than the 7.2 percent across all ages, but when older workers lose their jobs, they stay out of work longer. "Unemployed people aged 45 to 54 were out of work 45 weeks on average, those 55 to 64 were jobless for 57 weeks and those 65 and older average 51 weeks," the AP says.
If you need help finding work after age 50, check out the video below for advice.
Have you seen age discrimination in the workplace or job market? Comment below or on our Facebook page.
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Clackamas foundation supports victims of Riverside Fire
A total of $105,112 has been given to those impacted by the 138,000-acre fire near Estacada last year.
While delivering checks from the Clackamas Emergency Services Foundation to people impacted by the Riverside Fire, Jerry Kearney was struck by the generosity of some recipients.
Kearney, president of the foundation and a volunteer with Clackamas Fire, noted that one person who applied for funds had purchased food for the family that housed her when she had to evacuate.
"It's heartwarming to help someone that generous," he said.
After receiving more than $180,000 in community donations in the aftermath of the Riverside Fire, Clackamas's Emergency Services Foundation is distributing up to $1,500 to families affected by the incident — whether they had to pay for a hotel during evacuations or lost their home to the flames.
The 138,000-acre fire that began in the Mt. Hood National Forest in September didn't reach 100% containment until early December. The Estacada city limits and surrounding areas were placed under evacuation.
Because of the Riverside Fire and nearby Dowty Road Fire, 150 structures in the Estacada area were lost — 50 of which were homes. No lives were lost.
So far, the foundation has distributed checks to 70 families, the majority of them from the Estacada area. A total of $105,112 has been distributed to recipients.
"The need is absolutely there," Kearney said. "Most people have been extremely grateful."
He noted that collaboration was a key element in fighting the Riverside Fire.
"This was not a fireman's fire. It was a community event," he said. "The firefighters put out the fire, law enforcement helped with evacuations, there was (American Medical Response) for injuries and there was a tremendous outpouring of community support both during and after the fire."
Kearney is thankful to be able to support people in the aftermath of the wildfires.
"We're not healing the total wound, but at least we're helping to heal it," he said.
The Clackamas Emergency Service Foundation was formed in 1998 and helps coordinate Operation Santa Claus and the Art Johnson Memorial Scholarship, among other projects.
Applications for wildfire relief funds are available at the Estacada Fire Station, 261 S.E. Jeremy Loveless Ave.


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now it will be easier to gauge the likely impact of climate change on the services plants provide human beings. Researchers at the University of California and the University of Bonn in Germany have produced a global map of estimated plant species' richness. The map, which accompanies a study published on April 3, 2007, in the Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences (Vol 104, No 14) highlights areas of particular concern for conservation.
"Plants provide important services to humans--ornaments, food, materials for drugs and alternative fuels--that increase in value with their richness," says Walter Jetz, assistant professor of biology at ucsd and one of the authors of the paper. Tropical countries are almost 10 to 100 times more in richness than most parts of the us or Europe.
The researchers found that richness in a region is based on its environmental conditions."Given that it is difficult to know the individual distribution of the world's 300,000-odd plant species, we investigated how well the richness of plants can be predicted from environmental conditions," Jetz said.
The researchers analysed about 40 indicators (such as daily temperature, number of dry/wet days, latitude, annual rainfall) in 1,032 geographic regions. These represented natural (mountain ranges, desert) and political units (countries, provinces, national parks).
The study concluded that evapotranspiration, number of wet days per year, topographical characteristics and diversity of habitat are the major factors responsible for species richness. For example, the South African Cape region contains more than twice as many species as expected by the global environmental model.
"The map highlights areas of particular concern for conservation and helps pinpoint areas that deserve further attention for the discovery of plants. It also helps assess impact of climate change," Jetz said.
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Report advocates more support for staff in their 40s and 50s, with experts describing it as a 'win, win' for employers and employees.
Employers need to provide mid-life employees – between the ages of 40 and 50 – more support to help them stay in work into their 60s or risk losing out on skills and talent, a charity has said.
In a report, the Centre for Ageing Better has warned that despite over-50s making up a third of the UK workforce, older people were leaving the workplace faster than younger people were entering, and employers needed to act earlier to help workers prepare for later life.
The charity said employers needed to provide mid-life workers with better financial advice – including saving for retirement and making a will – and promote better physical and emotional wellbeing to help employees take steps to maintain good health and manage any health conditions that could arise.
It also supported the idea of a 'mid-life MOT', a proposal that has gained some support from the government, which recently launched a mid-life MOT website.
The report was welcomed by Helen Morrissey, pension specialist at Royal London, who said the use of the strategies were a 'win, win' for employers and employees. "Employers have the opportunity to improve retention of older staff members by making the most of their skills and experience and deploying them effectively within their businesses," she said.
"Such strategies allow employers to build and benefit from age-diverse workforces that benefit them and their employees alike."
Jill Miller, diversity and inclusion adviser at the CIPD, said it was vital that employers thought seriously about how to effectively manage an age-diverse workforce, beyond extending working life. Miller agreed that a mid-life MOT could be helpful to understand individual needs, but felt employers should be pushing these agendas regardless of age.
"It's also important for employers not to jump to conclusions or stereotypes about the requirements or capabilities of different age groups, or make assumptions about someone's intentions," she added.
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The report, which focuses on four areas of mid-life support interventions – work, physical health, wealth and psychological wellbeing – was based on a study by the Centre for Ageing Better and the UK branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation that found championing psychosocial skills such as mindfulness could provide major benefits to employees' wellbeing.
Dr Aideen Young, evidence manager at the Centre for Ageing Better, said: "Employers that prioritise supporting workers to plan and prepare in mid-life are the ones that will better retain skilled workers and be more resilient to future skills shocks."
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Ząbkowska Street is one of the oldest streets in Warsaw, Poland, located in the Praga-Północ district. It runs east from Targowa Street and is around one kilometre long. Considered one of the most interesting tourist destinations, it is famous for historical buildings, namely tenement houses that were built at the turn of the 20th century.

History
Before the First World War Ząbkowska Street was inhabited mainly by Jewish people. In most cases, they were real estate owners, traders, and entrepreneurs as they belonged to higher levels of the middle class of society. At the beginning of the 20th century,  Praga district (later divided into Praga-Północ and Praga Półudnie, Eng. Praga-North, Praga-South) consisted only of a couple of streets. The Jewish community decided to invest money in this area and built great houses which survived both World Wars and many other dramatic events of the history of Warsaw.

Ząbkowska Street was a place of entertainment from the very beginning. At Bazar Różyckiego (one of the most famous permanent marketplaces in Warsaw), which lies in the heart of the street, everyday, hundreds of people exchanged services and spent time together in a friendly, lazy, Warsaw-style atmosphere. Ząbkowska Street was also famous for Vodka Factory ''Koneser", (originally Spirit Distillation Plant) where top quality alcohol was produced. According to varsavianists, there are many fascinating stories connected with this place.

Ząbkowska Street today
Ząbkowska Street is a busy place with many restaurants and bars. In most of them, one can try Polish and Czech specialities at a very low price in comparison with other districts of Warsaw. Ząbkowska Street is a student, tourist and hipster friendly place. It has become an artist hub, where many musicians and painters are still looking for inspiration.

In 2013, Czesław Mozil, famous Polish musician and TV presenter opened his restaurant there. One thing which also lures people to this place is the great atmosphere created by the natives. During the 1943 Warsaw Uprising, the population of the capital of Poland was reduced drastically. From that moment, the structure of the society changed and would never be the same, but at Praga district there is still a lot of people who inherited special features of the native citizens of Warsaw (dialect, style). According to the statistics, Praga is one of the most dangerous places in Warsaw.

Future
According to the future plans, Ząbkowska Street will probably become a walkway. The economists and business experts agree that the second "Metro" line brings profits to the right-side of Warsaw and that Ząbkowska Street will have the chance to become a slightly different version of another famous walkway located in Warsaw - Chmielna Street.

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The clock tower of Yecla stands in the Plaza Mayor, in the heart of the old town, between what remains of the old grains store (or "Pósito) and the former meat and fish market which has now been converted into the municipal auditorium.
Originally this was the bell tower of the church dedicated to Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, consecrated in 1605, but in the 19th century the church made way for the Lonja market and the tower was left to stand on its own, fulfilling the important role of informing locals of the passing hours of the day. It now overlooks the collection of baroque and Renaissance buildings in the Plaza Mayor, including the Palacio de los Alarcos, the Town Hall, the remains of the grain store and the home of the tourist information office.


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Mary Henige has held many communications positions in her 25 years with General Motors. In her current role as director, social media and digital communications, she leads GM's social media strategy, employee policy and training; blogs; community engagement on GM's corporate brand channels; and crisis monitoring and response. Her team works in cooperation with other areas to broaden the reach of GM's "stories" including video development and media outreach.
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HerHighway's Editor in Chief Christina Selter interviewed Mary at the Detroit Auto Show regarding how the automotive and social meida industry is perfect for women. The video is coming soon, but for now enjoy some of the Q&A below.
I wouldn't be here today if it hadn't of been for my dad. He was a proud GM engineer for more than 30 years. Like many parents, he took it upon himself to send my resume to several GM public relations directors asking about internships. My resume made it to the right person, and as they say, the rest is history. Clearly, this isn't the best way to find a job! However, it's made me very aware of how college students need a bit of prodding from every direction!
I've had a couple of good mentors over the years. The first was Dee Allen who was the director of Pontiac Communications. He promoted me to PR manager when I was 27. One of the first things he said to me was, "You already know communications. What you need to learn now is the business and the industry." He was great with explanations, trust, supportive cheers, and frankly letting me know when I failed until the day he retired.
The other exceptional mentor I had was the General Manager of Pontiac-GMC Division Lynn Myers. At that time she was one of the highest ranking women in the industry. She was a great role model and freely talked about her experiences as a woman as well as helped me to understand the organizational dynamics. She also was incredibly supportive when I was on bed rest for a few months prior to having my second child.
I've mentored dozens of college students and new professionals over the years. It's kind of my "thing." I take great pleasure in helping others launch their careers, and in watching them excel. I've learned as much, if not more, from those I mentor than they probably do from me. Often leaders see mentoring as a time zapper, and it can be, but it's an important part of being a professional AND a human being.
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I don't think that the auto industry is necessarily difficult for women. This is a competitive and often exhausting industry for women and for men. Over the years I noticed that those who have grown up in the auto industry thrive on the pace and the competiveness, and many who come into the industry, give up and return to what they were doing before.
We do tend to travel in this global industry, more than most, and that can be hard on a family. In my fortunate circumstance, my husband retired early from his career as a GM engineering manager to become a stay at home dad eight years ago. Everyone needs support and flexibility and I've found that at home and at GM.
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Hard to say. I've enjoyed nearly every position I've had at GM over the last 26 years. A dream job is exciting when I'm able to define the role, learn new things, stretch, and meaningfully contribute to GM and my team's success.
I'm grateful to be a wife and mom and spending time with my family is always number one. That said I also enjoy cooking, reading and volunteering.


A Colorado based marijuana business recently petitioned the Supreme Court to determine whether the IRS exceeded its authority through an independent investigation and subsequent determination that the company was trafficking in a controlled substance. As a reminder, cannabis is still placed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. That Federal classification holds firm even though states across the U.S. are increasingly permitting forms of medicinal and recreational marijuana use. An enduring national proscription creates a major hurdle for businesses operating lawfully at the state level. The reason, aside from the numerous risks inherent to operating any business that flouts the laws of the United States, comes down to profit.
Currently, 29 states and the District of Columbia have legalized the use of cannabis for medical purposes. The steady growth in sales of legal cannabis in North America has so far proven to be big business, not only for the growers and sellers, but also for owners of real estate holding inventory that may be well suited to serve the growing industry. In 2016 alone, sales of cannabis grew to 6.8 billion. This is an increase of 34% from 2015 sales. The current trend suggests that there will be legalization of both medical and recreational cannabis in additional states, including the State of New Jersey where medical use has been legalized and significant efforts are being made to make recreational use legal as well.
By way of example of the real estate ventures inspired by the legalization of cannabis, Innovative Industrial Properties is a real estate investment trust that buys buildings, renovates them and leases out space to medical marijuana growers. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchanges in 2016 and is said to be valued at about $60 million. Among its holdings are properties in the State of New York, our neighbor, where medical marijuana is legal. Similarly, other real estate investors, even if at a much smaller scale, are likely to pursue the developing real estate opportunities surrounding the cannabis industry. Landlords can better prepare themselves for the cannabis boom by becoming knowledgeable of the potential issues that may present themselves in real estate leasing transactions with growers and sellers of cannabis.
The conditional approval is important because of the banking difficulties faced by cannabis-linked businesses. A "significant chunk of the financial system" is regulated by the federal government, which still considers the distribution of cannabis a crime. Therefore, the doors to traditional banking and lending institutions, not to mention credit card companies and processors, are often closed to cannabis-linked business, forcing them to deal entirely in cash.
The credit union still has some hurdles to overcome, including obtaining deposit insurance (the National Credit Union Administration, which provides such insurance rejected its application, and this decision is being challenged in the courts). But the Federal Reserve's decision, which resolved a lawsuit filed by the credit union three years ago, appears to be a promising development, albeit incrementally so, for cannabis-linked businesses.
Both houses of Virginia's legislature have unanimously approved bills that will expand the ability of Virginia doctors to recommend marijuana or cannabis extracts to their patients. The bills are not identical, but once the relatively minor differences between them are reconciled, a consolidated bill will be sent to Governor Terry McAuliffe for his signature.
On March 8, Dr. Shereef Elnahal, Governor Murphy's nominee to become the Commissioner of New Jersey's Health Department, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his testimony, Dr. Elnahal fielded several questions from Committee members about marijuana, both the State's medicinal program and the question of legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes. With respect to the State's medicinal marijuana program, Dr. Elnahal stressed that improving patient access would be one of his priorities as Commissioner. Dr. Elnahal did not elaborate on how access should be increased, but emphasized that the Department was reviewing all aspects of the program as directed by Governor Murphy's Executive Order No. 6. When presented with questions concerning legalization, Dr. Elnahal explained that he had not seen any analysis related to health issues. However, when asked if there was a connection between increased access to marijuana and opioid abuse, Dr. Elnahal referred to a recent study that showed a 6% decrease in opioid use when medicinal marijuana is readily available, and he also indicated that it will be one of the tools the Department uses in in its efforts to combat opioid abuse in the State. The Committee approved Dr. Elnahal's nomination, which now moves to the full Senate.
Although the status of marijuana legalization has been the focus of attention in New Jersey since Governor Murphy took office in January, the past several days have seen increased activity in this area. The biggest development that we will focus on is Governor Murphy's remarks supporting legalization in his Budget Address on March 13, but that is far from the only newsworthy development over the past few days.
The day before the Governor's Budget Address, Senate President Stephen Sweeney stated that he was opposed to a recent bill, S.1926, that was introduced by Senator Ron Rice, a Democrat, and Senator Robert Singer, a Republican, that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Senate President Sweeney told NJ Advance Media that "I really don't have an interest in it[.] I don't see it moving forward at this time. You're basically legalizing something that's not legal now. If you're gonna do it, do it right. Regulate it and manage it properly." (The title of the NJ Advance Media article covering this topic is "Decriminalizing weed instead of legalizing it won't happen, N.J. Senate president says".) In contrast, the Republican State Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick indicated that he supports the decriminalization approach, as he explained that "[n]o one should be a convicted criminal and not be able to get a job because they had a small amount of marijuana[.]" Meanwhile, Senator Tom Kean, Jr., the State Senate Minority Leader, noted that the Republication caucus in the Legislature did not have an official stance with respect to this subject.
Tilray is a federally licensed producer of medical cannabis products in Canada. On March 19, Tilray made big news in Canada, and around the world, when it announced that it signed a binding letter of intent to form a strategic alliance with Sandoz Canada Inc. ("Sandoz Canada"), an affiliate of Sandoz International GmbH, a global leader in biosimilars and generic products and part of the Novartis Group. The purpose of the strategic alliance, whereby Tilray will be the exclusive collaborator with Sandoz Canada, is to accelerate innovation and increase the availability of medical cannabis products.
Tilray's press release announcing the alliance identified four specific items areas that the parties will focus on, subject to necessary regulatory approvals and final agreements: 1) Tilray will utilize Sandoz Canada's knowledge and sales force to educate Canadian physicians and pharmacists about Tilray's medical cannabis products; 2) Tilray will become the exclusive partner of Sandoz Canada for non-smokable/non-combustible cannabis products; 3) Tilray will partner with Sandoz Canada to develop new, innovative medical cannabis products that provide an alternative to smokable/combustible products; and 4) Sandoz Canada will wholesale distribute non-smokable/non-combustible Tilray products to hospitals and pharmacies in Canada.
There were a number of significant developments during the week of March 12, 2018, in the world of New Jersey politics concerning marijuana. The biggest event was Governor Murphy's clear and unequivocal support for legalization in his Budget Address on March 13, but another significant development was Senate President Stephen Sweeney's statement that he was opposed to the bi-partisan legislation in the Senate that would decriminalize marijuana. Since then, there has continued to be additional reaction to Governor Murphy's Budget Address, as well as new developments.
For example, Senator Cory Booker, who has been a vocal advocate for legalization and who sponsored the Marijuana Justice Act of 2017 in Congress, which would legalize marijuana at the federal level, expressed his appreciation for Governor Murphy's position. The day after the Governor's Budget Address, Senator Booker tweeted the following message: "Thank you governor. Marijuana prohibition in NJ is bias against low income communities and communities of color. Prohibition has devastated lives and families. Economically harmed communities and wasted so many tax dollars. I applaud your leadership and support your efforts."


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Q: How to get the country and state from a paypal transaction? I would like to know how to obtain the country and state, from the billing address, in a paypal transaction.
So far I can get a transaction object via the code below:
  # ...
  def self.paypal_transaction_details(txn_id)
    @api = PayPal::SDK::Merchant.new
    get_transaction_details = @api.build_get_transaction_details({:TransactionID => txn_id })
    response = @api.get_transaction_details(get_transaction_details)
  end

Is it possible to get the location info? Or should I use geocoder to get the country and state from the ip address?
Reference: https://github.com/paypal/merchant-sdk-ruby
Response:
response.PaymentTransactionDetails.PayerInfo.Address
 => #<PayPal::SDK::Merchant::DataTypes::AddressType:0x007fd58f604660 @AddressOwner="PayPal", @AddressStatus="None">

Thanks in advance

A: I am not sure if you are using this gem 'paypal-sdk-rest'
but if you are, when you  Create Payment
you can do
require 'paypal-sdk-rest'
include PayPal::SDK::REST

PayPal::SDK::REST.set_config(
  :mode => "sandbox", # "sandbox" or "live"
  :client_id => "EBWKjlELKMYqRNQ6sYvFo64FtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM",
  :client_secret => "EO422dn3gQLgDbuwqTjzrFgFtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM")

# Build Payment object
@payment = Payment.new({
  :intent => "sale",
  :payer => {
    :payment_method => "credit_card",
    :funding_instruments => [{
      :credit_card => {
        :type => "visa",
        :number => "4567516310777851",
        :expire_month => "11",
        :expire_year => "2018",
        :cvv2 => "874",
        :first_name => "Joe",
        :last_name => "Shopper",
        :billing_address => {
          :line1 => "52 N Main ST",
          :city => "Johnstown",
          :state => "OH",
          :postal_code => "43210",
          :country_code => "US" }}}]},
  :transactions => [{
    :item_list => {
      :items => [{
        :name => "item",
        :sku => "item",
        :price => "1",
        :currency => "USD",
        :quantity => 1 }]},
    :amount => {
      :total => "1.00",
      :currency => "USD" },
    :description => "This is the payment transaction description." }]})

# Create Payment and return the status(true or false)
if @payment.create
  @payment.id     # Payment Id
else
  @payment.error  # Error Hash
end

I hope that this helps.
ps.
you have to request the info first, if not there would be nil or '' when you want to get them back

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This reliance on single-function sensors is one of the reasons connected-home systems cost so much. The guys at Notion think they have a better idea. They've incorporated eight types of sensors into one very small device that can detect motion, acceleration, moisture, light, proximity, and sound. You deploy the same sensor to determine the state of your doors and windows that you'd use to be informed of a leaky water pipe. Thanks to economies of scale, Notion plans to sell three of its sensors and the bridge needed to connect them to your Wi-Fi network for just $199.
Why this matters: I won't be able to render a final judgment on Notion until I get my hands on a kit and try it out, but the concept makes a lot of sense on paper. If Notion can tie into modern lighting controls—so its light sensor can send a message to turn on the outdoor lights when it's dark, and its motion sensor can turn on an indoor lamp when I enter a darkened room—it could significantly reduce the cost and complexity of building out a smart home.
Notion enjoyed a very successful Kickstarter campaign last year, raising more than $280,000 against a goal of $50,000, and today yesterday the founders announced the closing of a $2 million venture-capital round. The additional funding will be used to "help support their launch and expand their sales and marketing teams," according to a press release.
Notion sensors use a proprietary flavor of the ZigBee protocol to communicate with the Notion bridge, and the bridge relays data to your home router using Wi-Fi. The company plans to also develop a bridge with cellular connectivity, so you won't need to have broadband service to use the system. This would be a good option for a vacation home where you don't want to pay for Internet access month in, month out.
The sensors have a range of about 175 feet (with walls in between) or 300 feet if there's a clear line of sight. The smartphone app you use to manage the system will inform you if a sensor is out of range, and you can deploy multiple bridges if you have a large home (the bridges can relay data to each other, so you'd need only one bridge will cellular capabilities in any one home if you wanted that option). The sensors themselves can operate as a mesh network, but that feature is currently disabled because of its impact on battery life, according to Notion CEO Brett Jurgens.
The Notion ZigBee-to-Wi-Fi bridge is shown here. The company is also working on a ZigBee-to-cellular bridge.
You can set a Notion system up to receive text messages informing you of doors or windows opening when you don't expect them to, water pooling on the floor next to your water heater, your smoke or CO detector sounding off, and similar scenarios. Since each sensor monitors everything in the environment, the same sensor that warns you of an open door or window can also alert you if an intruder breaks the window, or if someone is in your house when it should be empty, or if your smoke detector is going off. Unlike the Leeo Smart Nightlight, however, you won't get a phone call with a recording of the sound that set it off.
You'll also be able to set up an alert tree, so that if you don't respond to an urgent situation—such as a water leak—in a timely fashion, the system will ping your friendly neighbor who can then check things out for you. Despite the real-time cloud-based monitoring and messaging services, Notion does not plan to charge its customers a monthly subscription fee (Jurgens said Notion does expect to charge $10 per month for the cellular model of the ZigBee bridge).
Water damage from an overflowing toilet can be hideously expensive to repair, especially if it happens while you're away from home.
Notion is accepting pre-orders now (with discounted prices). A single sensor and bridge will cost $129, or you can buy a bridge with three sensors for $199. Bundles with 5 and 10 sensors are also available, and three-packs of additional sensors will cost $135. Notion expects to ship its product in late July. I hope to be able to post a hands-on review soon after.


Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes, which give rise to the intricacy and specificity of life. The biochemistry program at Georgia Tech is multifaceted and relies on the use of state-of-the-art technologies. The program focuses on the evolution, regulation, structure, function, and interactions of biological macromolecules. The division also includes chemical biologists, who use new methods to manipulate and design new biological systems, and molecular biophysicists, who elucidate the physical laws underlying cellular processes. The application of these approaches to biological problems provides innovative solutions to our health and environmental needs.


tylerwilson Added gaffed card section.
Wesley James has claimed the Fusion plot as his, but he didn't publish his "Forgery" until //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14532/Stop+Fooling+Us+Lecture+Notes/46|Stop Fooling Us!]]//, 1989, p. 39. James has two cards fuse, one signed by the spectator, the other by the performer. Even if calculating by James's claims of creating his trick in 1965 (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12674/Enchantments|Enchantments]]//, 2004, p. 5), Houghton's fusion effect, although lacking signatures, predates it by nine years. Wesley James has claimed the Fusion plot as his, but he didn't publish his "Forgery" until //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14532/Stop+Fooling+Us+Lecture+Notes/46|Stop Fooling Us!]]//, 1989, p. 39. James has two cards fuse, one signed by the spectator, the other by the performer. Even if calculating by James's claims of creating his trick in 1965 (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12674/Enchantments|Enchantments]]//, 2004, p. 5), Houghton's fusion effect, although lacking signatures, predates it by nine years.
- The open use of gimmicked cards was later introduced to enhance the effect. Gene Maze, Richard Kaufman, and David Arthur used a double-backed card in their "Fusion" routine from //CardWorks//, 1981, p. 47. Strictly speaking this wasn't a fusion routine, regardless of the title. The cards weren't fused but merely "stuck together" (which, while similar, are conceptually very different). The double backer was then separated back into two cards, meaning the merger had no permanency. That same year, Paul Harris and Looy Simonoff published "The Beast With Two Backs" in //Close-Up Fantasies Finalé//, 1981, p. 113, which climaxed with two cards permanently fused together in the form of a red/blue double backer. Steve Beam developed the idea of ending with a double facer, publishing it as "Making Faces" in //The Trapdoor//, No. 7, Jan. 1985, p. 115 (in the text, Beam claims to have been doing the routine since his college days). + The open use of gimmicked cards was later introduced to enhance the effect. Gene Maze, Richard Kaufman, and David Arthur used a double-backed card in their "Fusion" routine from //CardWorks//, 1981, p. 47. Strictly speaking, this wasn't a fusion routine, regardless of the title. The cards weren't fused but merely "stuck together" (which, while similar, is conceptually different). The double-backer was then split back into two cards, giving the merger no permanency. That same year, Paul Harris and Looy Simonoff published "The Beast with Two Backs" in //Close-Up Fantasies Finalé//, 1981, p. 113, which ended with two cards permanently fused together in the form of a red/blue double-backer. Steve Beam developed the idea of ending with a double-facer, publishing it as "Making Faces" in //The Trapdoor//, No. 7, Jan. 1985, p. 115. In his text, Beam claims to have been doing the routine since his college days.
- Prior to the fusion effect being applied to cards, it was developed for [[coin:fusion|coins and billiard balls]]. + Prior to the fusion effect being applied to cards, it was suggested for [[coin:fusion|coins and billiard balls]].
+ Prior to cards being fused face-to-face or back-to-back, George Fairclough published a method of fusing cards end-to-end. His trick, "The Mystical Aces and Kings" appeared in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38527/The+Sphinx/5|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 6 No. 8, Oct. 1907, p. 93.


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Actor and writer gives trade tips | The Triangle
Actor and writer gives trade tips
By David Klein
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a Tony Award and Humanitas Prize-winning actor and Emmy-nominated screenwriter and director, came to Drexel Feb. 25 for a special interview and question-and-answer session for Drexel students after a screening of his film "Lackawanna Blues."
The film was adapted from his one-man show about his childhood. "Lackawanna Blues," which Santiago-Hudson described as "a love letter to the woman who raised me," tells the story of Rachel "Nanny" Crosby, the owner of a boarding house in the 1950s in a poor neighborhood of Lackawanna, N.Y., through the eyes of a young Ruben. The viewing was followed by an interview between Santiago-Hudson and Karen Curry, executive director of the Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies, discussing his life and thought process behind his film and play.
Santiago-Hudson was brought to Drexel by Andrew Susskind, a professor of TV production and media management. Santiago-Hudson said their history is a long one.
"Andrew Susskind produced a pilot that I did, and he came to see me when I was on stage at the Goodman [Theatre] in Chicago, and he brought me to LA, and we did some television together. He was one of the most fair and honest, if not the most honest, producer I've ever met — television producer. And so we stuck together and have been friends, and everywhere he goes I tell him, 'Whenever you need me let me know,'" Santiago-Hudson said.
On the topic of speaking to college audiences, Santiago-Hudson said, "Any time I go to a university, the purpose is to help educate them and bring a reality to them and a reality that I know. It can affect them to point to give them even more courage and make them even bolder in their choices and going out into the world and telling their stories."
Santiago-Hudson is currently working on a TV series, "Low Winter Sun," on AMC. Soon he will be recording all 10 of August Wilson's plays for National Public Radio. He is also writing both a movie and a play and is planning on directing a movie in the near future.


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April 10, 2021 April 11, 2021 by Sarah Moorhead
Jackie's Reading Corner
All I can start with is WOW what a read, I started reading this book last night, prised it from my hands early hours, then picked it up and finished it this afternoon. This had me HOOKED from start to finish, my heart was pounding as I got to the last 30 or so pages.
I love books with serial killers, I know, a little strange, maybe, but it fascinates me. But where this book is different from other serial killers is it's set in 2035, now think how much technology has come on in the last 20 years, then imagine what could be around in the next 15, despite the fact I will be getting on a bit, hoping I will still be a little tech savvy.
Kyra Sullivan is a Neuropsychologist, she has devised a machine that is known as CASNDRA which stands for "Computer Assisted Scientific Neurological Detail Recall Aid" she devised this technology in the hope of it being used in some way by the Justice system. What the machine is able to do, which we learn from the first chapter, is take the thoughts and images of events in that persons life, from his/her brain and transfer them to another person, like watching a movie. Kyra is the one in the seat receiving the information. If you have ever used any of the VR technology it's in some ways like that, as Kyra wears a VR headset to see the images. If you have ever tried these headsets you will know that everything feels so real, my son has one of these headsets and put it on me, not telling me the game I was going to be playing was a rollercoaster ride, and has clowns, it left me feeling quite sick. Unfortunately, Kyra's partner Carter, the man with the money has decided to sell this technology to the MOD without consulting her. What they don't yet know is if there are any side effects for the receiver of the information. As Kyra starts to have some recurring visions or phantoms from what she saw through the eyes of Brownrigg the man from the MOD.
I know, so what does this have to do with a serial killer? Kyra's sister Emma was murdered in February 14 years earlier by a serial killer, who is now behind bars David Lomax, except he has just escaped custody, but Kyra has always wondered if he was the right person, known as the Mizpah Murderer, because he always left a Mizpah pendant with the bodies. Kyra had at the time been a profiler with the police, she was also in a relationship with the officer in charge Tom. Every year for 3 years 2 women had disappeared they had labelled them type A and type B, the type A's had been mutilated and dumped in a horrible place, the type B's had been abducted, killed but left whole and been placed in water. Kyra's last words to her sister had been harsh, her sister had stormed off with her then 3 year old daughter Molly, Kyra had run after her, but had found Molly and never saw Emma alive again. This has haunted her.
Her and Tom had split up after Emma's death, but now he wanted her help. Kyra had said about doubts 14 years earlier but no one had listened, could she have been right, or not. This story is so well written and it's not just the story that flows so well, it's the characters, I like Kyra, yes she is haunted by those last words, but she is there for her mum and for Molly who is now 18, and still struggling with the loss of her mum at 3.
The technology is so well thought out no longer the internet but the hypernet, after all we are always wanting faster internet. Commset's instead of a mobile phone although it sounds like a similar thing except you can have a hidden earpiece, Kyra likes to use hers like a mobile. Electric cars are a luxury that Kyra has, a lot of people use free public transport. People can be micro chipped, vehicles can be chipped. So just a few of the main things used, which aren't far fetched, totally possible to be the tech we have in 15 years. Some of it is so close now.
As Kyra pushes to finally get the answers about Emma, the tension builds, another woman is dead, a type A, and now they need to find the second victim, who has already been abducted, they know how long they have, before the killer kills her, but can they save her? With David Lomax back in prison, they don't know whether he has left her somewhere, or if he has an accomplice, or did they have the right person in the first place? Kyra puts herself increasingly in danger. Everyone seems to turn their backs on her. Tom, another police officer Alex all start to think she has gone mad. Even Jimmy who is a best friend and colleague, although he is concerned.
So if you want a tense ride, grab a copy of this book, put your seatbelts on because once you start reading this you will not want to put it down.
I was lucky enough to have won a copy of this in a competition from the author, to which I am very grateful. But all opinions in this review are my own and my own words, totally unbiased.
This book most definitely gets out of it would probably get higher if I could give them, I will be certainly looking out for the next novel by this author.
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Kyrie Irving Has A Challenge For Kemba Walker
by Trap A Holics Staff May 11, 2020
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Kyrie Irving and Kemba Walker have a lot of history between each other
Kemba Walker and Kyrie Irving both grew up in the New York-New Jersey area and got to play against each other quite a bit growing up. Eventually, both were drafted into the NBA in 2011 with Kyrie Irving going to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Walker going to the Charlotte Hornets. Irving was playing for the Celtics last year and when he left, Walker effectively took his place at point guard. Not to mention, every time they play against each other, it turns into an entertaining show.
Kyrie is well-aware of his friendly rivalry with Walker and in a recent Instagram live session, Irving issued a challenge to the Celtics star. Simply put, he wants to play him 1-on-1.
"That's my matchup, I want K-Walk. That's my big bro. I want K-Walk. That's my big bro. You know we got mutual respect, but I know everybody wants to see it out of New York, New Jersey," Irving said. "Everytime we play against each other, it's always a game. He gave us 40, I gave him 40, back-and-forth. That's just part of where we grew up."
Walker is one of the best point guards in the league although Irving arguably has the best handles in the NBA. With that being said, it would certainly be an interesting matchup and we really can't decide who would win. Some might say it's too close to call.
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