Rudrani Astrological Services is the result of years of study of and brooding over the ancient scriptures of Indian Astrology such as Brihat Parashar Hora Shastra, Maharshi Jaimini Upadesha Sutram, Brihat Samhita, etc. by the erudite and philanthropist scholar Pratyush Shukla. It is his own bitter life-experiences which forced him to look at something beyond tangibility and now with an empathic attitude he wishes to help others.
Astrology is considered as eyes (Netra) among the Vedangas. So, it is capable of showing the right path to a distressed self grouping in darkness. It makes us aware about our hidden strengths and weaknesses about which we are oblivious. According to Swami Vivekanand, all the problems we are facing are created only by us – only we are responsible for those, and all the powers needed to eradicate these problems also lies within us. What we need is the correct guidance and it is our conviction that astrology is fully capable of bestowing that guidance.
To promote astrology as one of the finest tools in helping mankind by providing astrological counseling.
To provide the good and authentic quality of astrological remedial material such as precious and semi precious gems, Rudraksha, Yantras, Parad idols, etc.
To continuously spread the knowledge of astrology based on study and experience.
It is our conviction that cause and effect are essentially the same; the only difference is in the stand point of observer. So, if we can pin-point the cause concretely, we can get hold on the effect also. Astrologically, the cause is our good or bad works of past and the effect is our good or bad present condition respectively. And a horoscope is simply a picture showing all this. We must always remember that we have the capacity to destroy whatever we have created.
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Radio performance based on Qatari folklore
Fairy tale is one of the most familiar traditions for people of all ages all over the world, regardless of their education, social background and nationality. Fairy tales allow us to go back to the times when everything was simpler, safer, and dreams seemed real. In December, we will present a radio play fairy tale based on Qatari folklore, best traditions of the Russian audio plays and modern approach to storytelling. Original script written especially for Qatar National Day, acting and sound design will create for the listeners an atmosphere of a fantasy parable where kindness and persistence do wonders.
(EE)Radio · Pearl Diver
Pearl Hunting as an Ancestral Craft
On a traditional Qatari craft through the lens of one exhibition
Balancing Tradition and Modernity in Qatar
Shua'a Ali Al Muftah on heritage and her artistic project
Towards the Future, Preserving the Past
Introducing an exhibition on the culture and history of Qatar
On Access to the Past and Digitally Preserved History
Interview with Dr. James Onley about the Qatar Digital Library
A Short History of Russian Theater from the 17th Century to the Present Day: a Lecture by Valeriy Zolotukhin
A series of talks on Russian culture
Qatari Vaporwave: Bloodburn's "Disk Of Dreams"

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ESA Retail is proud to announce the launch of its new mobile app 'ESA Mobile' available for both Android and iOS devices.
Keep up to date with all the latest news from ESA Retail as well as frequent updates about available visits. If there is a visit you think one of your friends might be able to do, why not share our post to make them aware.
In an effort to make reporting even easier for our shoppers, ESA Retail are in the advanced stages of launching an app which will be available in the Google play store. With this app you will be able to view all your current assignments, including the instructions whilst you're on the go, giving you the ability to fill in your questionnaires when the details are still fresh in your mind.
In an effort to make reporting even easier for our shoppers, ESA Retail are in the advanced stages of launching an app which will be available in the iTunes app store. With this app you will be able to view all your current assignments, including the instructions whilst you're on the go, giving you the ability to fill in your questionnaires when the details are still fresh in your mind.


Once you are full residents, you and your family will enjoy the reassurance of a public welfare system that provides comprehensive support in a range of situations.
You do not see abject poverty or hunger here. Kiwis genuinely care for other people and have always had a strong commitment to social welfare. For example, New Zealand was the first country in the world to introduce pensions for the elderly (1898).
assistance if you need help with accommodation.
You may not qualify for these benefits until you have been a resident for at least two years.
For full details about the welfare that you may be entitled to, visit the A-Z benefit directory provided by the government's Work and Income department.
If you are laid off, made redundant or unable to work because of illness, you may qualify for Jobseeker Support.
If you are laid off, made redundant or unable to work because of illness, you may qualify for Jobseeker Support, paid by Work and Income.
There are various conditions for qualifying for Jobseeker Support and you must have lived in New Zealand for at least two years at any one time since becoming a citizen or resident.
If you do qualify, you will also receive a Community Services Card (see below) to help with the costs of prescriptions and going to the doctor.
If you are unable to work because of illness or redundancy and have dependent children aged 18 or under, you will also get Inland Revenue's family tax credit while you are on a benefit.
If you are unable to work because of injury from an accident, ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) may pay up to 80% of the taxable income you were earning before your injury.
Make a plan for what you want to happen in case you are unable to make decisions due to accident or illness.
You could get an Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) - a legal document that allows you to choose someone to make decisions about your property if you can no longer do so. The person you choose can be a trusted relative or friend, or a specialist organisation such as Public Trust.
There are also services available to manage your day-to-day finances and look after your property. The service is useful when you need time to focus on health and well-being.
The New Zealand Superannuation scheme - NZ Super - supports a basic standard of living in retirement. But to ensure the sort of lifestyle they want in their older years, many Kiwis are also doing their own retirement saving.
To encourage that, the government offers workers in New Zealand 'Kiwisaver'.
Learn the basics of KiwiSaver and what it means for you.
Basically, you pay in a certain amount from your wages or salary, which is matched by your employer and topped up with an annual bonus from the government. The money is invested for you by approved 'KiwiSaver providers' until you are eligible for NZ Super at age 65.
You can access the money earlier in certain circumstances - for example, if you are ill or have financial hardship or if you are buying your first home.
Find out more at the Kiwisaver website, and read more about retirement savings on our Retirement page.
NZ Super is available for citizens and residents aged 65 and over. It is not means tested and is paid regardless of any other private income you may receive (although ACC benefits for injury from accidents may affect your allowance). You pay tax on NZ Super payments.
If you qualify for NZ Super, you will also receive a SuperGold Card. It gives you discounts and offers from a range of businesses, government concessions (such as free off-peak public transport), and discounted services from your local council.
People over 65 may also qualify for help with housing and living costs and help with retirement home or assisted living costs.
Work and Income's website has the full details.
People on low incomes, who are citizens or permanent residents, may be eligible for a Community Services Card. This provides higher government subsidies on the cost of visits to a doctor (GP) and buying prescription items.
The Community Services card can also be used to access other health services from public hospitals, including travel and accommodation assistance.
If you do not qualify for a Community Services card, but face ongoing doctor's visits for a particular medical condition, you may be able to get a High Use Health card to help with the costs.
The Ministry of Health website has more information.
Many new parents are entitled to up to 22 continuous weeks' paid parental leave, if they meet the six or 12 month eligibility criteria. Partners may get either one or two weeks' unpaid leave, depending on how long they have been employed.
Read more at the website of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
New parents are entitled to parental leave in New Zealand.
Working for Families is a package that can include tax credits, subsidies for pre-school and out-of-school child care, and help with housing costs. Many families with children are eligible for it.
Working for Families is delivered by Work and Income and Inland Revenue.
You must be a New Zealand resident and have been living here continuously for 12 months to be eligible for these credits. The children you are claiming for must be dependent children aged 18 or younger who are both resident and currently living in New Zealand.
If you have transitional tax status, you will not be eligible for Working for Families credits.
For more information about who can get Working for Families Tax Credits, visit Inland Revenue's website.
Inland Revenue also has fact sheets about Working for Families tax credits.
Depending on how much you earn and other criteria, you may be eligible for Accommodation Supplement payments to help with rent, board, mortgage and other essential housing costs.
Find out more at the website of Work and Income.
Rebates are available to help low income homeowners with paying rates (council tax). You claim the rebate with your local council.
More information is available from the Department of Internal Affairs.
Public housing is provided by the government through the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). It is available for people and families on low incomes who are most in need of housing, for as long as they need it. They may also need to show that they have been looking for a place to live but have not been able to find one that meets their needs.
For more detail see the MSD website.
Financial and practical assistance is available for New Zealanders over 65 who need medical help at home or may need to move to a rest home or hospital.
Services include home support, caregiver services and 24 hour residential care. The level of government support varies according to individual circumstances.
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We have half a day left in the STEP for STEM experience.
It was good and I recommend it but I was way harder than I expected. PBL is hard and planning PBL within a PBL is hard. PBL stands for Project Based Learning.
I honestly think spending as much as we spent on a two week unit is not good. I am really glad I ended up with a six week project, a more efficient use of time.
Didn't you use to teach at Hillcrest?
One of my favorite questions. The answer is "Honey, you left, I am still there!".
When I was at TI on Friday, one of the security guards kept looking at me funny and finally got courage enough to ask the above. He didn't graduate from us, but did finish school.
But yes, I'm very proud of the fact I've been at the same school, same classroom for 19 years.
We're having to do 4 modules (adds up to two days of staff development), three of which are online and one is face to face.
I just finished the first, on designing multi-level lesson plans and it was by an outside company. It was short, to the point, and provided a template and a rubric for developing the lesson plans.
It wasn't anything I haven't seen or done, but I do like the template and the way things were put together. Emphasis was on active learning.
I like the way things ended up spread, I do a module about every 3 weeks or so.
I have one of the first Windows Home Servers and man is it nice. However, it started failing, and it may yet continue.
Since the software is SO old, recovery was difficult. Wouldn't work with any of my 64 bit Windows 7 Machines, so I grabbed an old Windows XP machine and it worked fine.
I had time to move everything off, and it took awhile, but everything is up and working again.
Why do I like it? It backs up every system I have set up automatically, and restoring is a complete piece of cake. You can store data on it, but I've moved the data to a more modern server. Pictures, movies, and the like.
My Windows Home Server has been telling me that the hard drive with the OS is failing. I've had it happen before, and it's a pain. Any other hard drive fails, I just go to the WHS, tell it to remove the drive, pull it out and put a new one in.
Unfortunately I haven't seen a tool that will help, but at least I have the original CD. Right now, I'm working on backing everything up on it, moving some of it to my Iomega server, and cleaning it up. Once I get that done, I'll be able to make up a clean backup, then pull that drive and reinstall everything.
I will be working a project for TI, so today they took us on two tours to two different places.
Its quite a place and designed so that workers don't have a lot of privacy but lots of toys. Lots of test equipment, but even some labview equipment.
The second was the Richardson Wafer Fab unit.
We have a tour Friday which will be in my old office building.
I have been reading about Digital Literacy with interest. While I can't quite completely define Digital Literacy, I certainly run into it on a daily basis, and at lot of the time, it is students.
And yes, I see it a lot.
Our students have are supposed to attend a technology lab during each grade. Our course there are a lot of pullouts in an attempt to bring students up to grade level, and they do get pulled from the technology lab (common compliant by those teachers).
They are in a required computer literacy course for 1 semester in high school, usually in 7th grade.
Those students who do not have access to technology at home, don't touch a computer any other time. Once they get to one of my classes, they have forgotten any skills.
There is definitely a digital divide, and we have to find a way to bridge it. By the way, this divide hits all income levels and ethnicities.
My first project for the summer is to purge. It helped that our hot water heater broke and we had to move a bunch of stuff around so that the plumber could fix it. Well, he moved around, I threw stuff away.
My rule is to go through a space and throw away anything I haven't used in two years. Or make sure I use it (thinking of a chair hanging in my garage).
The best part of this purge was to get rid of the old paint cans. I filled up half of my Escape with paint cans and pool chemicals, and I have to give kudos to the Dallas County Household Chemical Collection center. They rock. You drive up, show your driver's license and they take everything out of your vehicle for you. I swear there were over 20 cans of paint in the garage, which means we have more storage.


Our environment is built and affected by varying modes of production, its development persistently shapes our lives, work, and the world around us, we continually reinvent ourselves in response to these new realities.
The exhibition aims to understand the influences that technology and industrial developments have upon artistic production, and highlight some of the creative possibilities and critical potentialities artists are exploring in their work, from the industrial and the material to the digital and the immaterial.
Central to the exhibition is the shifting understanding of the artists' studio, its transition from a workshop for physical production to a new type of space which has increasingly been opened up by artists adopting multiple forms of practice with a more fluid approach to research and production.
By questioning our environment, artists help us to comprehend our historical situation surrounded by networks and the post industrial technological cultures.


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Parallel Programming Concepts (WT 2013/14)
Dr. Peter Tröger
Since the very beginning of computers, processors were build with ever-increasing clock frequencies and instruction-level optimizations for faster serial code execution, such as ILP, caches, or speculative engines. Software developers and industry got used to the fact that applications get faster by just exchanging the underlying hardware. For several years now, these rules are proven to be no longer valid. Moore's law about the ever-increasing number of transistors per die is still valid, but decreased structural sizes and increased power consumption demand stalling, or even reduced, clock frequencies. Due to this development, serial execution performance no longer improves automatically with the next processor generation.
In the 'many-core era' that happens now, additional transistors are used not to speed up serial code paths, but to offer multiple execution engines ('cores') per processor. This changes every desktop-, server-, or even mobile system into a parallel computer. The exploitation of additional transistors is therefore now the responsibility of software, which makes parallel programming a mandatory approach for all software with scalability demands.
Predecessor of this series: Parallel Programming Concepts (WT 2012/13)
Course Design 00:09:20
Course Topics 00:08:34
Computer Markets 00:10:51
Laws of this Universe: Pi 00:18:15
Three Ways of Doing Anything Faster 00:09:09
Moore's Law 00:13:13
Instruction Level Parallelism 00:11:54
Terminology & Fundamental Concepts
Recap 00:10:54
Conventional Wisdoms Replaced 00:13:54
Terminology 00:17:57
Deadlock, Livelock, Race Condition 00:15:27
Multiprocessor 00:12:36
Shared Memory 00:13:26
Terminology & Metrics
Shared-Nothing Workload 00:09:21
Programming Models 00:05:45
Metrics 00:15:32
Speedup 00:09:14
Amdahl's Law 00:11:21
About the Assignment 00:08:43
Karp-Flatt-Metric 00:17:25
Workloads 00:11:18
Execution Environment Mapping 00:14:00
Partitioning 00:08:28
Foster Methodology
Recap pt. 1 00:08:53
Surface-To-Volume Effect 00:11:02
Execution Environments
Shared-Memory Concurrency
Concurrency in History 00:05:57
Cooperating Sequential Processes pt.1 00:11:12
Test-and-Set 00:11:27
Shared Memory Concurrency (2)
Coroutines 00:21:50
Monitors 00:13:34
Java Example 00:11:29
High-Level Primitives 00:08:14
Shared-Memory Hardware
Shared-Memory Hardware 00:17:37
Parallel Processing 00:13:09
Pipelining Conflicts 00:16:40
Simultaneous Multi-Threading 00:15:00
Chip Multi-Processing 00:07:23
Multiprocessing 00:18:43
Hypertransport 00:16:48
Shared-Memory Hardware & Shared-Memory Programming Models
PRAM Extensions 00:10:52
LogP 00:04:45
Shared-Memory Programming Models 00:08:34
POSIX Threads 00:18:45
Java 00:19:00
Assignment Feedback & C++
Frank Feinbube
Assignments 00:04:15
Assignment 1: Problems & Solutions... 00:17:23
64-bit Overflow 00:18:02
Assignments to Come... 00:12:02
C++11 00:17:20
C++11 Memory Model 00:16:53
Assignment 3 00:06:45
Threads vs. Tasks 00:05:46
OpenMP 00:09:55
OpenMP Language Extensions 00:18:47
OpenMP Sections 00:10:57
OpenMP Loop Parallelization 00:14:46
Cilk
Recap C++ 00:20:53
Recap OpenMP 00:15:50
Cilk 00:06:14
Intel Cilk Plus 00:22:35
Intel Threading Building Blocks 00:14:10
Advanced Shared-Memory Programming
General Remarks 00:07:50
Advanced Shared-Memory Programming 00:15:40
Unified Parallel C 00:08:44
X10 00:15:52
Fortran 00:16:06
Functional Programming 00:07:07
Clojure 00:17:41
GPU Computing with OpenCL
Data Parallelism and Task Parallelism 00:13:41
History of GPU Computing 00:13:59
OpenCL Platform Model 00:16:23
OpenCL Memory Architecture 00:08:20
OpenCL Work Item Code 00:11:12
OpenCL Hello World Example 00:15:37
Hardware Characteristics & Performance Tuning
Assignment Feedback 2 00:17:52
Dynamic Parallelism: The Vision 00:14:04
GPU Hardware in Detail 00:17:35
The Power of GPU Computing 00:13:43
Use Caching: Local, Texture, Constant 00:09:43
Shared Nothing Parallelism
Introduction 00:07:53
Cluster 00:17:47
Cluster System Classes 00:16:42
Interconnection Networks 00:15:36
Bus 00:15:03
Completely Connected & Star Connected Networks 00:11:14
Shared Nothing Parallelism - Theory
Shared Nothing Parallelism - Theory 00:07:57
Communicating Sequential Processes 00:09:12
CSP: Processes 00:17:29
CSP Process Description - Choice 00:10:06
Communication in CSP 00:12:13
What's the Deal? 00:09:07
Shared Nothing Parallelism - MPI
Linda Model 00:13:07
Shared Nothing Parallelism - MPI 00:14:40
PVM Example 00:10:22
MPI Communicators 00:18:53
Deadlocks 00:12:53
Assignment Feedback 3
Heat Map with OpenMP 00:08:30
Parallel Decrypt 00:03:45
Worley Noise 00:13:19
Non-Blocking- & Collective Communication
Circular Left Shift Example 00:09:44
Non-Blocking Communication 00:07:17
Collective Communication 00:17:11
MPI Prefix Scan 00:16:28
What Else 00:04:36
Recent Trends of Discussed Topics
Actors and Channels
Actor Model 00:11:04
Erlang - Ericsson Language 00:10:59
Concurrent Programming in Erlang 00:15:45
Erlang, Scala & Go
Assignment 00:12:23
Scala 00:14:12
Object-Oriented Programming in Scala 00:15:16
Scala Actors and Case Classes 00:08:08
Go 00:10:44
Assignment 4: Problems & Solutions 00:06:56
OpenCL - Simple Reductions 00:16:09
Heat Map with CUDA / OpenCL 00:25:12
Convolution 00:08:37
Instructions and Precision 00:11:21
What Will Future Hardware Look Like?
Demanding Applications and Problems of the Future 00:16:12
Future Hardware 00:15:39
How Would You Program? 00:13:44
What Will Future Hardware Look Like? 00:13:42
(R)Evolution 00:14:47
Accelerators 00:08:29
Xeon Phi Hardware 00:17:37
Cilk vs. TBB vs. OpenMP 00:18:17
Systems 00:12:35
Super Computer Performance Development 00:12:27
OpenMC 00:09:31
Conclusion 00:08:49
What are the (Computationally) Demanding Problems/Applications of the Future?
Sparse Linear Algebra 00:13:13
Structured Grid 00:14:43
Map Reduce 00:14:12
Graphical Models 00:08:51
What Kind of Programming Model Can Bridge the Gap?
Dwarf Popularity 00:14:40
Hybrid System 00:15:16
Patterns for Parallel Programming Content 00:16:52
OpenACC 00:17:52
The GPU Paging Cache 00:14:47
MPI Collective 00:09:37
Nqueens with Scala 00:03:23
Parallel Programming in Real Life 00:02:44
Summary 00:12:51
Parallelism on Different Levels 00:11:13
Software View: Concurrency vs. Parallelism 00:14:36
Concurrent Execution 00:15:08


We follow a planned course throughout Reception Year.
At Lymington Infant School we aim to instill a love of Maths and encourage children to become confident learners.
At Lymington we aim to build essential mathematical knowledge, develop and embed key skills and challenge and extend the children's thinking. To support your child with this try bringing in numbers everyday. You could count the steps as you walk to school, spot numbers on houses and buses or count out the cutlery as they lay the table. Ask questions such as 'How many more do you need?' or 'How many have you got left?'. Just a few minutes a day of regular review will go a long way towards building fact fluency.
To find more ways to help your child at home see our handouts from the Maths Workshop.
We were lucky to have a chef come in to our school to show us how to cook a stir fry and noodles.
Look at the exciting things we do in Reception!


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Otto Witt (1875–1923) was a Swedish writer. He was one of the prominent figures in early Swedish science fiction. He did, among other things, publish Hugin, a science magazine which was filled "with speculative
articles and fiction". Hugin was one of the first magazines to regularly carry science fiction
in the world, although it appears to have had little influence outside Sweden.

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1923 deaths
Swedish science fiction writers
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JP Forbes leaves Alchemy amid rumblings of slow sales at Woolworth Building
Corcoran Sunshine vet jumps to Extell
TRD New York /
Nov.November 17, 2015 08:00 AM
By Katherine Clarke
Alchemy Properties has lost one of its top sales executives at a crucial time for its most important project.
JP Forbes, the veteran new development sales expert tapped last year to condominium sales at Alchemy's Woolworth Building condominium conversion, has left the company amid speculation that sales at the project are sluggish, sources said.
Forbes, a former Corcoran Sunshine broker, is now at Gary Barnett's Extell Development, where he is working on sales at 70 Charlton Street in Hudson Square and will work on a new condo project at 1681 Third Avenue.
Alchemy confirmed that Forbes, who is married to Kleier Residential's Samantha Kleier, was off the project, saying it would continue to handle sales in-house. The company declined to comment on how many units had been sold at the building.
For Forbes, who previously marketed the Brodsky Organization's 135 East 79th Street and the Mark at 25 East 77th Street, the Woolworth was the assignment of a lifetime.
It's "as if people could buy apartments in the Chrysler Building — it just doesn't happen," he told The Real Deal last year.
In 2012, Alchemy paid Steven Witkoff and Rubin Schron $68 million to buy the top 30 floors of the historic building, at 233 Broadway, and has poured many more millions into converting the floors into high-end homes. Alchemy CEO Ken Horn said that the cost of the restoration turned out to be significantly higher than even he expected.
Prices for the units start at $3.5 million for a 1,200-square-foot pad on the 44th floor, with the penthouse slated to ask a record-breaking $110 million.
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Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
The -45 region of the Escherichia coli lac promoter: CAP-dependent and CAP-independent transcription.
D Czarniecki, R J Noel, Jr, W S Reznikoff
D Czarniecki
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA.
R J Noel
W S Reznikoff
https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.179.2.423-429.1997
Published online January 1, 1997.
D Czarniecki,
R J Noel Jr and
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:: Martial Solal to Bernie Taupin
Roosevelt Sykes Biography
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Born January 31, 1906, in Elmar, Arkansas, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on July 17, 1984.
Considered by musicians and music historians the father of the modern blues piano style, Roosevelt Sykes possessed a much-copied keyboard style and a fine voice that, for over half a decade, brought him a vanguard of followers in America and Europe. His playing served as a model for such blues pianists as Peter Chatman, a. k. a. Memphis Slim. During the 1930s he performed solo piano pieces and with sidemen ranging from jazz drummer "Big" Sid Catlett to slide guitarist James "Kokmo" Arnold. A genial man with a vibrant personality, Sykes had an ability to entertain as well, often bringing audiences blues and rag-influenced numbers filled with risque humor. By the 1940s Sykes's incorporated elements of jump blues and continued to play in a formidable manner which kept him employed as a full-time musician until his death in the early 1980s.
Roosevelt Sykes was born on January 31, 1906, the son of a musician in Elmar, Arkansas, a community he later described, in Honkers and Shouters, as "Just a little sawmill town." In 1909 Sykes moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri. He often returned to his grandfather's farm near West Helena and played the organ in a local church. By 1918 he taught himself the art of blues piano and, three years later, left home to work as an itinerant pianist in Louisiana and Mississippi gambling establishments and barrelhouses. He led a life of a rambler, playing music for his economic survival. As Sykes told Margaret McKee and Fred Chisenhall, in Beale Black & Blue, "When I did get started, I wouldn't do nothing else, just play piano ... If I didn't play, I didn't eat."
While in St. Louis, Sykes performed jobs as soloist and occasionally joined up with other musicians like guitarist Big Joe Williams. He later attributed his early piano influences to local (unrecorded) St. Louis musicians such as "Red Eye" Jesse Bell, Joe Crump, Baby Sneed, and his most important mentor "Pork Chop" Lee Green. During his period with Green - which included a stint in Providence, Louisiana - Sykes learned Green's rendition of the "Forty-Four Blues" style. As Peter J. Sylvester observed in A Left Hand Like God, "`The Forty-Four Blues' was a popular theme in the South and many pianists attempted to master its intricate separated rhythms in the bass and treble."
In 1929 Sykes encountered Jesse Johnson, the owner of the Deluxe Record Shop, in St. Louis. Sykes, who at the time performed at an East St. Louis club for a dollar a night, quickly accepted Johnson's invitation to record him in New York. Accompanied by Johnson, Sykes arrived in New York by train in June 1929, and entered the Okeh studios at 11 Union Square. Of the numbers he performed was a version of "Forty-Four Blues," featuring vocals based on the theme of a .44 pistol. During the same year, while attending a session for Paramount, Sykes received the musical sobriquet "The Honey Dripper," from a song written by the recording date's leader, singer Edith Johnson. Though some have attributed Sykes's nickname to his sexual prowess, Johnson contended that she gave him the nickname in reference to his kind disposition and outgoing personality.
In the early 1930s, Sykes moved to Chicago. During the depression years, he recorded for several labels under various pseudonyms. For the Victor label he recorded as Willie Kelly on the classic 1930 side "32-20 Blues." Two years later, he cut his popular number "Highway 61 Blues" for Gennett Records's subsidiary label, Champion. During these years Sykes served as a back-up pianist for more than thirty singers including Mary Johnson and James "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden.
Through the recruiting efforts of Mayo "Ink" Williams, Sykes signed with Decca in 1934. His 1936 Decca side "Driving Wheel Blues" emerged as a blues classic (its modern reincarnation recorded by Herman "Little Junior" Parker in 1960). Sykes settled in Chicago in 1941 and, within a short time, became a house musician for the Victor/Bluebird label. Though the label marketed him to be the successor for Fats Waller (who recorded on the same label and died in 1943), Sykes found success as the creator of his own style and remained active as a session man, recording with such musicians as Robert Brown a. k. a. Washboard Sam. In 1943, while in Chicago, Sykes formed his own group, the Honeydrippers, which often numbered twelve musicians, and within its ranks many of the city's finest horn players. Traveling with his group, Sykes played venues like the Palace Theater in Memphis. In performing with a larger ensemble, Sykes worked to conform his loose solo-oriented piano style to formal chord sequences. He recalled, in Beale Black & Blue, how he "took up harmony, by having me a band. I had to tell the fellows what I wanted them to do.... But I didn't play what I told them, see, 'cause I never could play anything over again just alike."
In the post World War II years, Sykes recorded on several labels: Victor in 1945-1949, Specialty in 1946-1947, and Regal in 1949. In the liner notes to Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival 1973, John Sinclair noted: "The music of Roosevelt Sykes, so timelessly buoyant, so fresh and personal at times, transcended every vagary of the marketplace and lived a vibrant life of its own, no matter what current fads of stylistic alterations held sway, all through the turbulent years between 1929 and 1949." Sykes moved to New Orleans in 1954 and, despite the wane in the popularity of blues by the mid 1950s, continued to play in small clubs around the Crescent City. After returning to St. Louis in 1958, he moved to Chicago in 1960, where he was "rediscovered" by enthusiasts of the folk music revival.
The folk and blues revivals of 1960s brought a vibrant resurgence to Sykes's career. In later years, he graced the stage wearing a wide-brimmed hat, three-piece suit, and smoking a cigar that was characteristically poised in the corner of his mouth. By the early 1960s, he recorded for Bob Koester's Delmark label, cutting the album Mistake in Life. In 1961 Sykes toured Europe and appeared in the Belgian film Roosevelt Sykes the Honeydripper. In 1965 and 1966, he toured with the American Folk Blues Festival. While in Europe in 1966, he cut the album Roosevelt Sykes, Gold Mine for Delmark. During the decade he also recorded for specialty labels such as Bluesville, Storyville, and Folkways.
A resident of New Orleans in the late 1960s, Sykes often played at the Court of the Two Sisters. In 1969 he appeared as the opening act for the first annual Ann Arbor Blues Festival, playing before an audience of cheering young admirers. As Bob Koester recalled, in the liner notes to Roosevelt Sykes, Gold Mine, "He wound up in an historic confrontation-duo with the King of the Blues himself. I will never forget this set--B. B. left the stand with tears in his eyes." Sykes opened the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in the fall of 1970, and, as Jim O'Neal noted in the Down Beat review of the event, "barrelhoused his way through an enjoyable set."
In 1972 Sykes appeared in the French film Blues under the Skin and in September 1973 made a triumphant return to the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, a set captured on the LP Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, Volume 3. That same year, Delmark released Sykes's album Feel Like Blowing My Horn, featuring such Chicago-based bluesmen as guitarist Robert Lockwood, Jr. and drummer Fred Below. In 1976 he took part in the BBC television series The Devil's Music-A History of the Blues. He appeared on John Hammond Jr.'s 1978 Vanguard LP Footwork, in a guest performance of the "Forty-Four Blues." Sykes worked festivals and concert dates until his death of a heart attack on July 17, 1984, in New Orleans.
A man who lived life by his musical talent and ability to communicate with people of all walks of life, Sykes, in Beale Black & Blue, cited the real inspiration behind his musical talent. "Blues is a talent you're born with from God. He gave me the gift," explained Sykes. "I didn't even take a lesson in my life."
Roosevelt Sykes's Career
Around age ten played church organ; 1918 taught himself piano; from 1921 left home to play barrelhouses in West Helena; during the mid 1920s worked nightspots in Lake Providence, Louisiana; moved to St. Louis late 1920s; recorded on Okeh label 1929 and Victor in 1930; performed in Memphis in early 1930s; recorded for Bluebird label in Chicago 1933; recorded with the Decca label 1934-1941; formed the Honeydrippers in 1943 and played venues in the South; recorded on Victor label 1945-1949 and Specialty 1946-1947; on Regal label 1949; recorded for the United label 1951-1954 and Imperial in 1954; played club dates in Mississippi and St. Louis during late 1950s; recorded for Bluesville label 1960; worked Chicago clubs early 1960s; recorded for Delmark label 1963; toured with the American Folk Blues Festival 1965-1966; performed at Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969-1970 and Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival 1973; performed colleges and clubs throughout 1970s and early 1980s.
Selective Works
Solo work Roosevelt Sykes (1929-1941), Story of the Blues, 1988.
Roosevelt Sykes, 1929-1934, Matchbox.
Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 2 1936-1951, Blues Documents.
Boogie Honky Tonk, Oldie Blues.
Dirty Mother for You, Bluetime.
Hard Driving Blues, Delmark, 1995.
Feel Like Blowing My Horn, Delmark, 1973.
Gold Mine, Delmark, 1992.
Raining In My Heart, Delmark.
At Webster College, Document.
The Country Blues Piano Ace, Yazoo.
Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival 1973, Vol. 3, Schoolkids Records, 1996.
With others The Blues Of Lonnie Johnson, Swaggie (import).
Washboard Sam, Rockin' My Blues Away, RCA (Bluebird) Heritage Series, 1992.
John Hammond, Footwork, Vanguard, 1978.
Collections Postscripts, 1927-1933. The Piano Blues, Vol. 5, Magpie.
Hard Time Blues: St.Louis, 1933-1940, Mamlish.
Nashville Jumps-R&B from Bullet, 1946-1953, Krazy Kat.
Memphis and The Delta-1950s, Blues Classics.
Legends of the Blues Vol. 2, Columbia, 1991.
The Blues: A Smithsonian Collection of the Classic Blues Singers, Sony Music, 1993 .
McKee, Margaret and Fred Chisenhall, Beale Black & Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Street, Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Shaw, Arnold, Honkers and Shouters: Golden Years of Rhythm & Blues, MacMillan Pub. Co. Inc., 1978.
Silvester, Peter J., A Left Hand Like God: A History of Boogie Woogie Piano, Da Capo, 1988.
Down Beat, October 1, 1970.
Living Blues, Autumn 1983.
Liner notes Koester, Bob, Roosevelt Sykes, Gold Mine, Delmark 1992.
Sinclair, John Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival 1973, Vol. 3, Schoolkids Records, 1996.
Films Roosevelt Sykes "The Honey Dripper," (Belgium) 1961.
Roosevelt Sykes, 1971.
Blues under My Skin, (France) 1972.
Out of the Black into the Blues, (France) 1972.
The Devil's Music-A History of the Blues, (England), 1976.
Glad to have seen him play live. I'm worried cause I ain't worried


HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 3, 2014 – High Point University will host philosopher and theologian Peter Rollins as a chapel service guest speaker. The service will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 in the Hayworth Chapel on campus. It is free and open to the public; tickets are not required.
In his presentation titled "The Art of Worship," Rollins will discuss how worship is inherently a form of art and performance. The chapel service will also feature a performance by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro choir.
Rollins gained his higher education from Queens University, Belfast and has earned a bachelor's degree in scholastic philosophy, a master's in political theory and doctorate in post-structural thought. He is the author of numerous books, including "Insurrection: To Believe is Human; to Doubt, Divine" and "The Idolatry of God: Breaking our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction." He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and lives in Los Angeles.


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package org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import org.apache.ignite.IgniteCheckedException;
import org.apache.ignite.IgniteLogger;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.client.marshaller.GridClientMarshaller;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.client.marshaller.optimized.GridClientOptimizedMarshaller;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientHandshakeRequest;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientHandshakeResponse;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientMessage;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientNodeBean;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientResponse;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientTaskRequest;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientTaskResultBean;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientTopologyRequest;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.protocols.tcp.GridMemcachedMessage;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.GridClientByteUtils;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.typedef.F;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.typedef.internal.U;
import org.apache.ignite.logger.java.JavaLogger;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.APPEND;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.CAS;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.GET;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.GET_ALL;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.METRICS;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.PREPEND;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.PUT_ALL;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.REPLACE;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.RMV;
import static org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.rest.client.message.GridClientCacheRequest.GridCacheOperation.RMV_ALL;

/**
 * Test client.
 */
final class TestBinaryClient {
    /** Logger. */
    private final IgniteLogger log = new JavaLogger();

    /** Marshaller. */
    private final GridClientMarshaller marsh = new GridClientOptimizedMarshaller();

    /** Socket. */
    private final Socket sock;

    /** Socket input stream. */
    private final InputStream input;

    /** Opaque counter. */
    private final AtomicInteger idCntr = new AtomicInteger(0);

    /** Response queue. */
    private final BlockingQueue<Response> queue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>();

    /** Socket reader. */
    private final Thread rdr;

    /** Quit response. */
    private static final Response QUIT_RESP = new Response(0, GridRestResponse.STATUS_FAILED, null, null);

    /** Random client id. */
    private UUID id = UUID.randomUUID();

    /**
     * Creates client.
     *
     * @param host Hostname.
     * @param port Port number.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    TestBinaryClient(String host, int port) throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert host != null;
        assert port > 0;

        try {
            sock = new Socket(host, port);

            input = sock.getInputStream();

            GridClientHandshakeRequest req = new GridClientHandshakeRequest();

            req.marshallerId(GridClientOptimizedMarshaller.ID);

            // Write handshake.
            sock.getOutputStream().write(GridMemcachedMessage.IGNITE_HANDSHAKE_FLAG);
            sock.getOutputStream().write(req.rawBytes());

            byte[] buf = new byte[2];

            // Wait for handshake response.
            int read = input.read(buf);

            assert read == 2 : read;

            assert buf[0] == GridMemcachedMessage.IGNITE_HANDSHAKE_RES_FLAG;
            assert buf[1] == GridClientHandshakeResponse.OK.resultCode() :
                "Client handshake failed [code=" + buf[0] + ']';
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            throw new IgniteCheckedException("Failed to establish connection.", e);
        }

        // Start socket reader thread.
        rdr = new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @Override public void run() {
                try {
                    ByteArrayOutputStream buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

                    int len = 0;

                    boolean running = true;

                    while (running) {
                        // Header.
                        int symbol = input.read();

                        if (symbol == -1)
                            break;

                        if ((byte)symbol != (byte)0x90) {
                            if (log.isDebugEnabled())
                                log.debug("Failed to parse incoming packet (invalid packet start): " +
                                    Integer.toHexString(symbol & 0xFF));

                            break;
                        }

                        // Packet.
                        while (true) {
                            symbol = input.read();

                            if (symbol == -1) {
                                running = false;

                                break;
                            }

                            byte b = (byte)symbol;

                            buf.write(b);

                            if (len == 0) {
                                if (buf.size() == 4) {
                                    len = U.bytesToInt(buf.toByteArray(), 0);

                                    if (log.isInfoEnabled())
                                        log.info("Read length: " + len);

                                    buf.reset();
                                }
                            }
                            else {
                                if (buf.size() == len) {
                                    byte[] bytes = buf.toByteArray();
                                    byte[] hdrBytes = Arrays.copyOfRange(bytes, 0, 40);
                                    byte[] msgBytes = Arrays.copyOfRange(bytes, 40, bytes.length);

                                    GridClientResponse msg = marsh.unmarshal(msgBytes);

                                    long reqId = GridClientByteUtils.bytesToLong(hdrBytes, 0);
                                    UUID clientId = GridClientByteUtils.bytesToUuid(hdrBytes, 8);
                                    UUID destId = GridClientByteUtils.bytesToUuid(hdrBytes, 24);

                                    msg.requestId(reqId);
                                    msg.clientId(clientId);
                                    msg.destinationId(destId);

                                    buf.reset();

                                    len = 0;

                                    queue.offer(new Response(msg.requestId(), msg.successStatus(), msg.result(),
                                        msg.errorMessage()));

                                    break;
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch (IOException e) {
                    if (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted())
                        U.error(log, e);
                }
                finally {
                    U.closeQuiet(sock);

                    queue.add(QUIT_RESP);
                }
            }
        });

        rdr.start();
    }

    /** */
    public void shutdown() throws IgniteCheckedException {
        try {
            if (rdr != null) {
                rdr.interrupt();

                U.closeQuiet(sock);

                rdr.join();
            }
        }
        catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new IgniteCheckedException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Makes request to server and waits for response.
     *
     * @param msg Message to request,
     * @return Response object.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException If request failed.
     */
    private Response makeRequest(GridClientMessage msg) throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert msg != null;

        // Send request
        try {
            sock.getOutputStream().write(createPacket(msg));
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            throw new IgniteCheckedException("Failed to send packet.", e);
        }

        // Wait for response.
        while (true) {
            try {
                // Take response from queue.
                Response res = queue.take();

                if (res == QUIT_RESP)
                    return res;

                // Check opaque value.
                if (res.opaque() == msg.requestId()) {
                    if (!res.isSuccess() && res.error() != null)
                        throw new IgniteCheckedException(res.error());
                    else
                        return res;
                }
                else
                    // Return response to queue if opaque is incorrect.
                    queue.add(res);
            }
            catch (InterruptedException e) {
                throw new IgniteCheckedException("Interrupted while waiting for response.", e);
            }
        }

    }

    /**
     * Creates hessian packet from client message.
     *
     * @param msg Message to be sent.
     * @return Raw packet.
     * @throws IOException If serialization failed.
     */
    private byte[] createPacket(GridClientMessage msg) throws IOException {
        msg.clientId(id);

        ByteBuffer res = marsh.marshal(msg, 45);

        ByteBuffer slice = res.slice();

        slice.put((byte)0x90);
        slice.putInt(res.remaining() - 5);
        slice.putLong(msg.requestId());
        slice.put(U.uuidToBytes(msg.clientId()));
        slice.put(U.uuidToBytes(msg.destinationId()));

        byte[] arr = new byte[res.remaining()];

        res.get(arr);

        return arr;
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param key Key.
     * @param val Value.
     * @return If value was actually put.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K, V> boolean cachePut(@NotNull String cacheName, K key, V val)
        throws IgniteCheckedException {
        return cachePutAll(cacheName, Collections.singletonMap(key, val));
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param entries Entries.
     * @return {@code True} if map contained more then one entry or if put succeeded in case of one entry,
     *      {@code false} otherwise
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K, V> boolean cachePutAll(@NotNull String cacheName, Map<K, V> entries)
        throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert entries != null;

        GridClientCacheRequest req = new GridClientCacheRequest(PUT_ALL);

        req.requestId(idCntr.incrementAndGet());
        req.cacheName(cacheName);
        req.values((Map<Object, Object>)entries);

        return makeRequest(req).<Boolean>getObject();
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param key Key.
     * @return Value.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K, V> V cacheGet(@NotNull String cacheName, K key)
        throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert key != null;

        GridClientCacheRequest req = new GridClientCacheRequest(GET);

        req.requestId(idCntr.getAndIncrement());
        req.cacheName(cacheName);
        req.key(key);

        return makeRequest(req).getObject();

    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param keys Keys.
     * @return Entries.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K, V> Map<K, V> cacheGetAll(@NotNull String cacheName, K... keys)
        throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert keys != null;

        GridClientCacheRequest req = new GridClientCacheRequest(GET_ALL);

        req.requestId(idCntr.getAndIncrement());
        req.cacheName(cacheName);
        req.keys((Iterable<Object>)Arrays.asList(keys));

        return makeRequest(req).getObject();
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param key Key.
     * @return Whether entry was actually removed.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public <K> boolean cacheRemove(@NotNull String cacheName, K key) throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert key != null;

        GridClientCacheRequest req = new GridClientCacheRequest(RMV);

        req.requestId(idCntr.getAndIncrement());
        req.cacheName(cacheName);
        req.key(key);

        return makeRequest(req).<Boolean>getObject();
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param keys Keys.
     * @return Whether entries were actually removed
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K> boolean cacheRemoveAll(@NotNull String cacheName, K... keys)
        throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert keys != null;

        GridClientCacheRequest req = new GridClientCacheRequest(RMV_ALL);

        req.requestId(idCntr.getAndIncrement());
        req.cacheName(cacheName);
        req.keys((Iterable<Object>)Arrays.asList(keys));

        return makeRequest(req).isSuccess();
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param key Key.
     * @param val Value.
     * @return Whether value was actually replaced.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K, V> boolean cacheReplace(@NotNull String cacheName, K key, V val)
        throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert key != null;
        assert val != null;

        GridClientCacheRequest replace = new GridClientCacheRequest(REPLACE);

        replace.requestId(idCntr.getAndIncrement());
        replace.cacheName(cacheName);
        replace.key(key);
        replace.value(val);

        return makeRequest(replace).<Boolean>getObject();
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @param key Key.
     * @param val1 Value 1.
     * @param val2 Value 2.
     * @return Whether new value was actually set.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K, V> boolean cacheCompareAndSet(@NotNull String cacheName, K key, @Nullable V val1, @Nullable V val2)
        throws IgniteCheckedException {
        assert key != null;

        GridClientCacheRequest msg = new GridClientCacheRequest(CAS);

        msg.requestId(idCntr.getAndIncrement());
        msg.cacheName(cacheName);
        msg.key(key);
        msg.value(val1);
        msg.value2(val2);

        return makeRequest(msg).<Boolean>getObject();
    }

    /**
     * @param cacheName Cache name.
     * @return Metrics.
     * @throws IgniteCheckedException In case of error.
     */
    public <K> Map<String, Long> cacheMetrics(@NotNull String cacheName) throws IgniteCheckedException {
        GridClientCacheRequest metrics = new GridClientCacheRequest(METRICS);

        metrics.requestId(idCntr.getAndIncrement());
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He said the assets had reportedly been frozen, so that what remained to be done was to make administrative arrangements before the funds could be sent back to Indonesia and be paid to the Antaboga investors.
Antaboga has sold security products to the investors through Bank Century. Owned by Robert Tantular, Antaboga is a major shareholder of Bank Century.
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LKKHPG Named One of the Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2018
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HONG KONG, April 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 27, 2018, LKK Health Products Group (LKKHPG or the Group) was awarded as one of the Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2018 (Hong Kong Edition) by HR Asia Magazine, one of the most authoritative publications for senior HR professionals in Asia. It has won this honor for three consecutive years since 2016.
LKK Health Products Group Named One of the Best Employers to Work for in Asia for Three Consecutive Years
Best Companies to Work for in Asia™ is one of the most authoritative business management awards in Asia. LKKHPG was one of the 33 winners this year out of 168 nominees from a dozen industries across Hong Kong. Other awardees include Swarovski, A.S. Watson Group, Hang Lung Properties, Pfizer, and KPMG.
"While the program is Asia-centric, the survey's parameters are benchmarked against the best in the world," said Mr. William Ng, group publisher and editor-in-chief of Business Media International, the publisher of HR Asia.
The Awards was judged by an independent panel of industry experts, academics, journalists and government representatives based on the HR Asia Employee Input Survey™ (EIS) Report and the HR Asia Workplace and Employee Engagement Survey™ (WEES). The judges examined companies' HR practices, employee engagement, job satisfaction and workplace environment. The evaluation report shows that LKKHPG acquired high scores in all dimensions.
The Group said: "We are very grateful for winning this award. It is good recognition of our efforts and commitment to providing employees with excellent working conditions and development opportunities. 'Si Li Ji Ren' is LKKHPG's core values, meaning we should consider collective benefits before acting. Therefore, we always value our staff as one of the most important assets. We are glad to have a group of great employees, and we will continue to fulfill our responsibilities and help them develop along with the company."
LKKHPG's care for and devotion to employees continue to earn widespread social recognition. In 2018, it was honored as a Caring Company again by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, and named a Happy Company again by the Promoting Happiness Index Foundation and Hong Kong Productivity Council.
About LKK Health Products Group (www.lkkhpg.com)
LKK Health Products Group, a Hong Kong-based corporation, was established by the Lee Kum Kee Family in 1992. The Group operates diversified businesses in Chinese herbal health products, Chinese herbs plantation and trading, property investment, and venture capital for startups. The group employs approximately 5,000 people.
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Reaping benefits from the pandemic: Rethinking growth and inequality
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By Diwa C. Guinigundo
If there is anything useful about COVID-19, perhaps it is its devastating impact on the nation especially on the poor. Not for anything else, but many see it, and soon enough, many will feel and learn from it.
As a result, the civil society is now more prepared to accept the economic sense of providing income support for displaced workers especially from manufacturing and services, those whose skills would not allow them to work or conduct webinars in the comfort of their homes. Cash transfers are also vital for the very poor who have been further debased by the need for more soap and water, face masks and face shields — or otherwise risk arrest and denial of mobility. We realize now that the many years of neglect of our health sector would pay us back with nearly unbridled upsurge of COVID-19.
Bad governance that allows social inequality to persist is anathema to promoting inclusive and self-sustaining growth.
Yes, poverty alleviation in the Philippines has been showing some good progress in recent years. Poverty incidence had declined from 25.2% of the population in 2012 to 16.7% in 2018. Inflation for the bottom 30% of income households had receded from a high of 6% in 2014 to 2.7% average for the first 10 months of 2020. The percentage of households with savings had risen from 32.7% in the first quarter of 2016 to 37.8% in the first quarter of 2020, before the pandemic.
But the pandemic could be heartless. Various surveys including those by the SWS on the people's gauge of their finances and security and the BSP's own consumer and business expectations surveys — all good leading indicators of the national income accounts and income distribution — point to the virtual negation of such positive traces of social progress. People feel poorer and are afraid to go out even to look for work because of the virus. Consumers are not eager to go out and spend on food or personal items, while business has been intimidated from increasing capacity. Voluntary social distancing has left deep wounds and scars that could take years to completely heal.
In the Philippines, while we are proud of having achieved uninterrupted economic growth for the last 84 quarters or 21 years, moderate inflation, and turnaround in public finance and external payments position, we are now challenged to explain why one bout with Kid COVID knocked us down, not once but so far, three times. We need to reassess our institutions and policy framework to avoid a repeat of this ignominious performance.
Without doubt, the pandemic is just one of those shocks that could test the resilience of economies and civil societies. There is increasing evidence that economic growth could be more fragile, less robust in fact, when it is not inclusive and the fruits of development accrue only to the upper crust of society. The pandemic simply unmasked the sad reality of the weak support in some societies for public policies that offer better opportunities in education, health and nutrition, business and politics.
In many of our previous columns, we cited Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz as having traced the genesis of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 to income inequality. Since then, economics literature has birthed work after work demonstrating the vulnerability to economic contraction of those economies with high or worsening inequality in the years and decades before the crisis.
No less than the staff of the IMF, of all international financial institutions, have arrived at a similar conclusion. For instance, IMF senior staff Jonathan Ostry, Prakash Loungani and Davide Furcere in 2018* argued against policymakers' faith in and propensity to promote growth through supply-side measures and defer distributional issues. They considered this a dangerous gamble and proposed that simultaneous focus be given to both the size of the pie and its distribution.
Our tragic experience with the pandemic should keep us reflecting beyond the usual advocacy of reducing barriers to entry in both services and products markets, the call for greater flexibility and less friction in the labor markets and of course, adherence to the rules of globalization. We have been good students of the Fund for our own good. We supported the Fund's past policy advice on the removal of various impediments to trade and investments and championed the increase in economic efficiency and factor productivity through, among others, a general framework of market-based liberalization and deregulation.
Of course, we were not utterly wrong in pursuing growth in this neoclassical fashion. The Fund itself found strong evidence among its member countries that structural and policy reforms were partly instrumental in attaining good economic performance. In our case, with improved business conditions, foreign investments poured in, local capitalists enjoyed greater access to bank credit, resource allocation worked, and we started on a growth roll for 21 years. Credit rating upgrades turned euphoric as our credit spreads tightened to the levels of emerging markets with higher investment grades.
Again, the problem was that a single episode with a black swan, or a fairly predictable risk event like COVID-19, was enough to bring us to our knees. We have not been that resilient and self-sustaining.
IMF's Jonathan Ostry in Finance and Development of June 2018 argued that growth and inclusion do not have to be mutually exclusive. "With the right policies, countries can pursue both objectives."
Otherwise, we risk going through a vicious cycle between secular stagnation, when demand is persistently deficient, and secular exclusion, when growth benefits only those in the upper layer of income distribution, precisely because the many who are poor and are at the bottom do not have what it takes to support demand and promote growth.
We dread what will happen next.
Good indicators do not lie.
They show many businesses going under water and closing down especially in many malls across the archipelago, consumer and business sentiments remaining pessimistic this quarter and the next quarter, or even the next 12 months. What else is the meaning of the survey of senior loan officers indicating tighter lending standards and BSP data revealing still elevated lending rates? Or high frequency indicators of Google, Apple, and Waze still showing limited mobility?
It will be helpful especially for economists in the public sector to consider reassessing their infatuation with another Nobel laureate, Robert Lucas, who wrote in 2003, and was quoted by Ostry: "Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution."
Private sector economists who are in the advocacy business will also do well to remember that if economic growth is accompanied by worsening inequality, as what seems evident following the pandemic, economic costs could be very excessive. The public treasury will be hard pressed to produce revenues from weak sources.
The point here is for policy makers and private sector supporters to advance policy reforms with complete staff work on both their implications on growth and efficiency as well as on distribution and social equity. It is in this spirit that we hope CREATE can create more space for growth as well as for social equity.
Indeed, some policy changes do give rise to sensitive growth-equity trade-offs. The Fund staff, for instance, argued that liberalizing the capital account while increasing growth, could also aggravate inequality. We agree with their suggestion that it would not be correct to reverse the reform but instead to improve the initial design of policy in order to achieve a more broad-based and broadly-shared economic growth. Inclusive growth does not have to be singularly skewed.
The issue of minimum wage is another. It makes no sense to violate the law and depress the annual adjustment on the ground that it discourages business. What is important is to allow wage gains in line with productivity increases. Better wage agreement would somewhat prosper the labor sector and fuel consumption expenditure. During this pandemic, it cushions the sorrow of the working class, and provides one answer to slow business. Empirical studies show that minimum wage hikes could narrow wage disparities. If part of a broader policy, they could lead to significant poverty alleviation. There should be less reason for both physical and economic lockdown when more people have more resources to comply with health protocols.
Failure to achieve a more inclusive, more equitable growth will give space to ultra-nationalist, populist, and protectionist advocacy. It would not be good to waste this crisis on a growth model that will not yield resiliency to last even a single round with Kid COVID.
* "Are New Economic Policy Rules Needed to Mitigate Rising National Inequalities?" in Global Rules and Inequality: Implications for Global Economic Governance, edited by Jose Antonio Ocampo. New York: Columbia University Press.
Diwa C. Guinigundo is the former Deputy Governor for the Monetary and Economics Sector, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). He served the BSP for 41 years. In 2001-2003, he was Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. He is the senior pastor of the Fullness of Christ International Ministries in Mandaluyong.
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