* Get in the spirit. The Manhattan Cocktail Classic returns May 11 - 17 for the first time in three years. Actor Bill Murray , who's an investor in the vodka brand Slovenia will kick off the festival with a black-tie cocktail gala at The Loeb Boathouse ($275 per person) in Central Park. Spirits expert James Moreland has taken over the booze fest, which features events in Queens, Brooklyn and throughout Manhattan with a special focus on Harlem.
* If you hate wine and love bourbon, this bottle is for you. Robert Mondavi Winery has launched a barrel-aged chardonnay that's been blended and aged in 100% American Oak Barrels before a portion of it's then aged in Kentucky Bourbon barrels for two months. Chardonnay purists may want to hold off, since this tastes like pure Bourbon with notes a vanilla. ($13.99).
* Posh dining room Kola House (408 W. 15th St.) in the Meatpacking District is launching "Big Band Mondays" starting April 17, transforming the space into a 1930's style supper club. Guests can indulge in standout bites like the fried chicken for two, while savoring sounds of the Glenn Crytzer Orchestra. Each week, the 14-piece band will perform music by Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
* Got the munchies? Dig in to a nugget-eating contest at The Nugget Spot (230 E. 14th St.) in the East Village in honor of 4/20 (that's April 20, aka pot-appreciation day for those of you who don't indulge.) The lucky contestant who smokes out the competition by inhaling the most nuggets wins a $50 gift certificate. The contest starts at 7 p.m., and it's $20 to enter at thenuggetspot@gmail.com. Or take your time with the new "Secret" menu, which includes a spicy chicken biscuit sandwich .
* The food at sushi sanctuary, Suzuki , in the Theater District (114 W. 47th St.) is almost too pretty to eat. Fortunately, you can get beyond the guilt of devouring the edible art at this tasting menu-only spot when courses like Zensai (appetizers), comprised of sesame tofu, and scallop with scallion, are served. Then there's the Yakimono, velvety uni served in a turban shell with miso marinated and grilled codfish. Another theatrical dish is the Nimono, a wagyu hot pot you cook yourself over a flame. Chef Toshio Suzuki, formerly of Sushi Zen, opened this sprawling Japanese restaurant with his son, Yuta. The Uzuki (Ultimate Experience) lineup costs $150 for 10 courses . On the lowest end, the vegan tasting menu costs $70.


Just got it at BB and it registered and did a download.
When I call my home phone number it gives me a busy tone, even though the phone is NOT busy.
I did fill out the paperwork to port that number to my Ooma-but that was barely a week ago. My home phone still rings with it's original number.
Anyone know why it is saying my home number is busy when it is not?
Secondly, how can I find out if it has the most uptodate firmware?
stubeeef wrote: Just got it at BB and it registered and did a download.
Are you calling your Ooma number from your Ooma to check voice mail, or calling from another number?
Your Telo, DECT base, and Telo Handset firmware versions are all displayed in the Handset's Information screen, which is at the bottom of the Handset menu (scroll down). You'll see a Version number, PTCL number, and FTCL number (again scroll down). Currently the Telo firmware version is 32829, and the PTCL & FTCL numbers end with 20091228.
no I was using my Ooma to call my present home number that has not been ported to my Ooma yet.
The Ooma has only one number, not a number I have had before getting and activating the ooma.
When I use it to call my regular home phone-I get a busy signal even though they are not tied together in any way, and the line is NOT in use at my house.
Strange if you ask me, just curious if this is something going on with others.
I find that I often get a busy signal if I dial a number manually (too slow I guess) but if I dial it again using redial it goes through. Try it again but enter the numbers before pressing the dial button.
Groundhound wrote: I find that I often get a busy signal if I dial a number manually (too slow I guess) but if I dial it again using redial it goes through. Try it again but enter the numbers before pressing the dial button.
Still get a busy signal.
If you call other numbers in the same area code and exchange, do they connect?
Groundhound wrote: If you call other numbers in the same area code and exchange, do they connect?
Pretty strange. I guess if it only happens to you calling your landline number from your Ooma number (correct?), it sounds like something in the porting process on Ooma's end happened before it was supposed to, and will likely be resolved once the port is complete.
Same thing happening to me. I just figured it was part of the porting process. Exactly what was just said by Groundhound. I suspect that Ooma has pre=staged my account with the needed info for the port and are just waiting for my LEC to follow through on the port request. It is scheduled for the 21st. Home phone works fine when called from my work phone or cell phones and still rings when others call, just get a busy when called from my Ooma line with temporary phone number.


More than a 125,000 people are estimated to have visited the Twin Cities area in February for Super Bowl 52. While the main event was in Minneapolis, Bloomington saw plenty of action in the week leading up to the big game. The Patriots and the Eagles stayed at the JW Marriot and Radisson Blu in South Loop, Mall of America hosted the media center and Radio Row and the City and Artistry hosted Illuminate South Loop—an outdoor art event featuring local artists, interactive art installations, regional food, bonfires and hot drinks—at Bloomington Central Station.


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Picture Books At The Library 64
I catalog hundreds of new picture books each year, and I read as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, I can't review them all, but I can share them. Below are a few recent titles. (Summaries have been taken directly from the books whenever possible.)
As Elliot moves from one foster home to another, his visits with his real parents leave him anxious and conflicted about where he wants to be.
A young brother and sister spend an afternoon imagining great adventures together.
Making friends is hard, especially in a new country. But even though everyone is different, it's the differences that make friendship so magical.
Tina is a very curious cow who believes the sky is the limit and anything is possible. But her sisters think her ideas are very silly.
What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an eclectic array of playful insects.
When a boy plays hide and seek with an elephant, he soon discovers just how good the elephant is at playing the game.
Follow young river otters through the seasons as they chase one another, slide down mudbanks, and learn to swim.
It's hard to get your parents to go to bed. But follow this young girl's instructions and your parents will be sound asleep in no time.
Georgie the cat loves to throw parties but this time, not one of his friends can come.
Captain Jack and his fellow sailors are off on a swashbuckling voyage, complete with enemy pirates, a disastrous shipwreck, and the perfect treasure to end the day.
A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play it, and travels to the big city to become rich and famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all.
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Joshua Folkes
Date: 3 Dec 2013
Place: Bowes Road, Palmers Green, London
Joshua Folkes was stabbed to death in Bowes Road, Palmers Green.
He was stabbed just shortly after midnight, about 12.45am, outside a friend's house in Bowes Road, on 3 December 2013 and later died at 1.26am at the scene.
Three youths were tried for his murder at the Old Bailey but acquitted in June 2014.
Two of the youths were acquitted due to lack of evidence and the third youth claimed self-defence, saying that Joshua Folkes had been armed with a knife and that they had struggled over it, during which Joshua Folkes must have been stabbed and the knife then fallen to the floor. The third youth was acquitted of murder and manslaughter.
The court heard that at the time of his death, Joshua Folkes was wanted for attempted murder.
His post-mortem was carried out at Haringey Mortuary and the cause of death was given as a stab wound to the chest.
At the trial it was claimed that the three youths had planned the attack on Joshua Folkes because of growing animosity between them.
He was also known as Money J and went to Christ College. He was studying to be a car mechanic and was an Arsenal fan.
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The debate over workers' electronic privacy is dying right when it's needed most
This was supposed to be the year employees finally obtained some privacy rights. Thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, they're getting the opposite.
Instead of 2020 being the year of debating employee data privacy in California, it's become the year of thermal temperature scanners, software that monitors remote workers' keystrokes and wearable devices tracking employees' locations.
Back in January, when California's legislative session was getting underway, Jennifer Kramer and her fellow labor attorneys at the California Employment Lawyers Association had one item on their agenda: Passing legislation that protects employee privacy.
Lawmakers in California had punted on the issue when they negotiated the sweeping California Consumer Privacy Act in 2018, largely exempting employee data from being covered under the law until 2021. This was the year that businesses, labor groups, privacy advocates and the legislature were supposed to figure out what would happen after that. If they succeeded in ironing out privacy protections for workers, they would set a new standard in the country's most populous state, which is home to many of the world's most powerful companies and the heart of the tech industry.
But the COVID-19 crisis changed everything. Instead of 2020 being the year of a robust debate about employee data privacy in California — and in America — it's become the year of thermal temperature scanners in warehouses, software that monitors remote workers' every keystroke, and wearable devices tracking employees' locations.
In the rush to keep people safe and productive in an unprecedented time, Kramer said, "Employers have sort of lost their minds."
The turnabout underscores a key distinction of electronic privacy laws that have passed in the past few years: They almost universally exclude data that employers collect on their employees. That information has proven trickier to regulate than consumer data.
But workers have been left without recourse if, say, they're automatically fired as a result of an algorithm, or if their employer tracks their menstrual cycle. Now, as even more invasive employee monitoring systems weave their way into corporate life almost overnight, some fear the debate over worker privacy is dying out at the very time it's needed most.
"We're essentially turning our employers into a form of national surveillance," said Vanessa Wu, general counsel for Rippling, which makes human resources software. "We've been seeing regulators asking employers to be the front line of doing tracing for COVID-19. I find that to be very concerning because it puts a lot of responsibility on employers, who are not health professionals, and presumes a level of data-sharing that I don't think has ever been seen before."
There are, of course, plenty of good reasons why even labor and privacy advocates say employee data shouldn't be regulated in the same manner as consumer data. Consider that under the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, consumers have the right to see all the data a business of a certain size has collected on them. In a workplace, that could expose sensitive information, such as a sexual harassment complaint against the person requesting the data.
It could also become burdensome for employers, who, on top of responding to consumer requests, could be forced to respond to workers' data requests. And that could ultimately open them up to spurious litigation, said Usama Kahf, who specializes in CCPA compliance as a partner at the Irvine-based law firm Fisher Phillips.
"The concept of giving employees the right to access, free of charge, a copy of all personal information collected about them by their employer is, just, to put it in legal terms, crazy," Kahf said.
For that reason and a slew of others, business groups fought hard to ensure that employee data would be exempted from CCPA altogether. And they might have gotten their way had labor groups like the California Employment Lawyers Association and civil liberties organizations like the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation not fought back. According to Emory Roane, policy counsel with the group Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the two sides eventually agreed to the one-year exemption, for fear of rushing through "a weak standard."
"It's unfortunate that it wasn't hammered out," Roane said. "No one could have seen this [pandemic] coming, but this is exactly the kind of situation where it would be great to have stronger protections for employee data."
Even with the exemption, employees do have some limited rights under CCPA. Employers must disclose information they're collecting on workers in California, and if a company has a data breach that exposes employee data, those employees all have the right to sue.
"If an employer wants to turn on the panopticon software, they're going to at least have to turn on the notice," Roane said. But he argues that simply securing data, and notifying employees data is being collected, "falls far short" of the protections privacy groups want, particularly now.
Privacy and labor groups have pushed for policies that would prevent an employer from retaliating against workers who refuse to give consent to different forms of tracking. They've also advocated for concepts like data minimization to be amended into CCPA. That would require companies to limit the data they collect up front to only what's necessary to carry out consumer requests and court orders or to ensure security.
In February, a coalition of privacy groups threw support behind a bill that would have required data minimization for both consumer and employee data. But the California Assembly declined to hear the bill this year. "Allegedly, it wasn't related enough to COVID-19," said Samantha Corbin, a lobbyist for the privacy coalition.
In a statement to Protocol, California Assemblyman Ed Chau, who leads the Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, said he is "closely monitoring government and employer practices" with regard to COVID-19 and stands "ready to work" on crisis-related legislation. "While the current pandemic has resulted in complications to the legislative process," Chau said, "there is still some time to work on the employee data exemption from last year where stakeholders are willing to do so."
Yet many of those stakeholders, including labor unions and employment lawyers like Kramer, have had to shift their own focus to basic worker protections like unemployment insurance and paid leave. With millions of Californians out of work and millions more working at considerable risk to their health, Kramer said she and her colleagues have been in "triage" mode. "There's been a big shift in our priorities and what we can tackle," Kramer said.
Complicating matters further is a ballot initiative called the California Privacy Rights Act, or CPRA, that may be headed to a vote this November. The measure is sponsored by Alastair Mactaggart, the real estate mogul who authored a similar ballot measure in 2018 that became the basis of CCPA. This new initiative would rewrite CCPA and extend the employee data exemption for three years.
Even before the pandemic hit the United States, the possibility that the measure might pass in November had thrown a wrench into negotiations over CCPA. Mactaggart didn't respond to Protocol's request for comment. "I think there's a lot of businesses quietly sitting on their hands and hoping [voters] sign off on that initiative that will give them another three years," Corbin said.
The labor and privacy advocates who spoke to Protocol said that if CPRA somehow doesn't make it to the ballot (Mactaggart pulled his 2018 ballot initiative at the last minute), they expect the legislature to pass another extension under the wire. Otherwise, come January 2021, employees would have the same data rights as consumers do in California, a shift that voices on both sides of the issue agree could have disastrous consequences.
The advocates are not arguing that workplaces should be barred from putting in place measures to protect worker safety. Quite the opposite: They welcome safety measures, as long as there are limits in place to prevent, say, the use of location tracking technology to monitor union organizing.
Even in the state with the country's most expansive privacy law, none of those limits exists. Not only that, but the window for discussing those safeguards has, at least temporarily, closed.
For now, Kramer said, workers in California can at least take solace in the fact that the state's constitution guarantees them the right to privacy. How that right applies to the workplace during a public health emergency, though, remains unclear.
"The question," Kramer said, "is how creepy is the employer being?"
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In 2020, COVID-19 derailed the privacy debate
From biometric monitoring to unregulated contact tracing, the crisis opened up new privacy vulnerabilities that regulators did little to address.
Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, says the COVID-19 pandemic has become a "cash grab" for surveillance tech companies.
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As the coronavirus began its inexorable spread across the United States last spring, Adam Schwartz, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, worried the virus would bring with it another scourge: mass surveillance.
"A lot of really bad ideas were being advanced here in the U.S. and a lot of really bad ideas were being actually implemented in foreign countries," Schwartz said.

In China, where the virus first took hold, the country had already begun using draconian smartphone-based tools to track sick people's whereabouts and effectively force them to stay home. In Israel, lawmakers rushed through a proposal to give government officials access to Israelis' location data. As the White House met with tech giants including Facebook and Google to discuss ways they could help, Schwartz and others feared the U.S. might be next in allowing fear of the virus to subvert basic civil liberties.

Nine months into the crisis, Schwartz said, the "worst ideas" being deployed internationally have yet to take hold in the U.S. But that doesn't mean COVID-19 hasn't created a slew of smaller, but still insidious privacy setbacks for Americans who, in recent years, have become increasingly wary of all the intrusive ways that governments and private companies use their personal data. Since March, corporate offices and college campuses have been flooded with biometric scanners, employers have deployed software that lets them remotely monitor workers' keystrokes and giant corporations like Ticketmaster have contemplated linking people's negative COVID-19 tests to their tickets to gain entry to future events.

While many of these precautions are well-meaning attempts to preserve public safety and to use technology to get the economy up and running again, they can come at a cost to personal privacy. And yet, the crisis has once again relegated privacy legislation to the back burner in Congress as lawmakers battle over how to handle dueling health and economic disasters.

Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, says the COVID-19 pandemic has become a "cash grab" for surveillance tech companies. "I think this has been the most dangerous moment for civil rights since 9/11," he said. "When you're faced with impossible choices like whether or not to keep schools open and deprive kids of an education or put them at risk, it's so easy to be taken in by the allure of magical thinking and startups that say if you just install this tracking device you'll somehow be able to avoid doing the impossible."

Contact tracing has been a source of concern, as governments across the country work with a slew of private firms to manage manual contact tracing with no real guardrails in place. "People by the thousands are telling contact tracers where they've been, who they're with, and we don't think there are sufficient ways to secure that data, especially when private contractors or for-profit corporations are helping," Schwartz said.

In New York, Cahn's organization supported legislation that would have protected New Yorkers from having their contact tracing data used against them in court or administrative proceedings. That bill passed over the summer, but Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to sign it into law, leaving that information vulnerable. "In most states, police or ICE can get contact tracing data with a subpoena," Cahn said. "This not only creates a privacy threat, but it's a public health nightmare. There are millions of Americans who would second guess whether to fully disclose their potential contacts."

Apple and Google partnered on a contact-tracing tool that went to extremes to ensure people's data wouldn't be centrally stored or shared with either company or with the government. But health officials, at least early on, scoffed at the limitations. "Digital apps and technology have struggled in the in-between space of wanting to track the path of this disease, this virus, while at the same time really struggling with very real privacy concerns," said Malkia Devich-Cyril, founding director and senior fellow at the advocacy group MediaJustice.

The imminent rollout of a vaccine presents even trickier questions, like what happens if businesses or governments begin requiring people to prove they've been vaccinated in order to access certain spaces. California's legislature already defeated a bill that would have created a blockchain-based system to create what Schwartz calls "immunity passports." EFF argued that requiring people to hand over their smartphones to prove their immunity would open them up to other privacy invasions and would require people to have a smartphone in the first place. "We view this as a horrible, horrible idea," Schwartz said, noting that EFF will be "in the trenches" if any similar proposals arise.

Over the course of 2020, there have been other, subtler attitudinal shifts too. In the spring, news outlets that, in the past, criticized apps for surreptitiously tracking and selling people's location data, suddenly began tapping that same data to track where people were actually staying at home or whether anti-shutdown protesters might be spreading the virus. "We think there's a lot of COVID-washing going on," Schwartz said.

That COVID-washing hasn't been uniform though, Devich-Cyril said, noting that Black and brown communities with a long history of being surveilled remain wary of that kind of intrusion. "The simple fact of a medical disaster is not enough to turn people away from their desire for basic freedoms and rights," Devich-Cyril said.

Still, despite these setbacks, privacy advocates did score some wins in the midst of the chaos. On Election Day, Portland, Maine succeeded in banning facial recognition technology. Michigan voted to require police to seek search warrants before accessing electronic data. And California passed Proposition 24, a measure that rewrites the California Consumer Privacy Act and gives Californians new rights over protecting their data.

"That is the story of privacy in 2020," said Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, which backed Prop. 24. "That was a significant step forward." It's worth noting that not all privacy groups celebrated the passage of Prop. 24. Some, like the American Civil Liberties Union, opposed it over concerns that it created new privacy loopholes for businesses.

Schwartz is at least relieved that so many of the "bad ideas" that emerged at the beginning of 2020 have not been adopted in the U.S. But as the pandemic rages on through 2021, the fight for privacy in the face of a global health crisis will undoubtedly continue.

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The year our personal lives took center stage at work
2020's blurring of professional and personal boundaries exacerbated disparities, humanized leaders and put personal values front and center.
In 2020, the personal and the professional became inextricable at work.
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For those of us lucky enough to keep our jobs and privileged enough to be able to work from home, our whole selves were bared at work this year. Our homes and faces were blown up for virtual inspection. Our children's demands and crises filled our working hours, and our working mothers became schoolteachers and housewives, whether they wanted to or not. Our illnesses became vital public information, and our tragedies shared. Our work lives ate into our social lives until there was no boundary between them.
In 2020, the personal and the professional became inextricable at work. Remote work might be the most sexy 2020 trend, but for the CEOs and leaders I spoke with, the de-professionalization of work could be the most important effect on a personal level. It's the one that has caused the most harm to women in the workplace and destroyed work-life balance for basically everyone. It's also what has contributed to the majority of work-from-home Americans being more satisfied with their work lives than they were before, mostly because they feel more connected to their families, they're able to set their own schedules and they're more comfortable at home, according to a Morning Consult poll. While we can't know exactly how many and who will be going back to the office just yet, as long as there is some kind of flexible work schedule, people's personal lives will be part of their work lives and vice versa.

"In some respects, it has created intimacy in a way we didn't expect. Because you can't hide your life. You can't hide your whole self," explained Erika Fisher, chief administrative officer and general counsel at Atlassian. This can allow people to set their own schedules around their needs and increase empathy between workers and their managers. The increased intimacy also became an equalizer in meetings, because it democratizes participation and gives everyone the same physical space online, according to Fisher. "You don't have to worry about the man-spreading that happens in meetings, literally or metaphorically," she said.

Personal politics and activism at work are also an element of newly blurred professional boundaries. The summer of protests following the killing of George Floyd, combined with the chaos of the 2020 election cycle, spurred more than just diversity pledges by corporations; it created a new wave of people bringing their politics and values to work. While Brian Armstrong stirred up support in some corners when he declared that political and social beliefs had no place at Coinbase, his memo also crystalized for others that personal identity and personal values should be welcomed where they work. Company leaders at SF-based edtech startup Outschool encouraged their employees to get involved in the 2020 election, while people like Kary Campbell, Airbnb's former director of design, told me that "companies and societies can no longer just exist to create profitable numbers for their shareholders. We need to evolve as human beings to be more creative than that."

While global comms provider Mitel has never taken explicit political positions, the historically quiet company saw a big jump in activism, affinity group creation and values discussions among its workforce this year. "I think we can agree that people need to be treated fairly and that we should embrace and welcome who people are," said Mary McDowell, the company's CEO. "That is part of people's whole selves. It's part of what they bring to work now, when it wasn't before."

But while falling professional boundaries have been good for some people and some parts of work, they've seriously damaged others. Just because personal lives are now dictating work schedules and kids, pets and houses take center stage on screen doesn't mean that workers' relationships with peers and managers are as healthy or social as they were before. Instead, intimate personal information is shared without the buffer of friendship and companionship that can be found in the office, making most workers feel more lonely, isolated and judged, not less.

"Increased intimacy also makes differences much more acute," Fisher said. And it's those differences that contribute to the fact that one in four women in corporate roles have considered downshifting their careers, according to McKinsey's Women in the Workplace 2020 report. The "always-online" remote work norm has made caretaking responsibilities, which fall more heavily on women, increasingly visible at work; now, "worry that their performance is being negatively judged because of caregiving responsibilities during the pandemic" is one of the key factors affecting why working mothers are considering downshifting their careers, according to the report.

But falling professional boundaries could also help solve the problem, said Lareina Yee, McKinsey's chief diversity officer and the report's leader. Many companies have policies that encourage flexibility and leave-taking, but workers don't see their leaders take advantage of those policies. If leaders are clear that they are fighting the same battles, they can "de-risk this perception that their career will be hurt if they actually say they need to use something that a company already offers," she said.

Fisher is focused on physical space in her search for solutions. Some workers are comfortable in their home spaces and willing and even eager to share them on video, but others may not have privacy, or a clean room, or enough space to be conducive to work and to help them feel comfortable at home. Twitter's RoomRater and other Zoom-rating accounts, while mostly funny and well-intentioned, made that abundantly clear, literally assessing the quality of a person's room and helping legitimize the judgment and subsequent shaming of people's personal spaces.

So, whether people go back to the office full time, Fisher wants to find ways for Atlassian to provide a physical space that allows people to enjoy the flexibility of work-from-home while reducing the disparities and judgment that can come with the increased intimacy. "Space is one of the choices that you can extend to people," she said.

In 2021, the conversation about work will be a conversation about the choices we make in physical spaces, and about whether we want to rebuild the walls between our personal and professional lives. Fisher described it best: "There's this wave happening. Even when the wave comes ashore and washes back out … There will be a different direction."

Here at Protocol, we've written more stories about the future of work than I have the energy to count (I got to 20 before I gave up, and that only took me as far back as May). So if you're looking for more on what we learned in 2020, I selected some of the most interesting and important articles we've written this year:

Issie Lapowsky wrote about how remote work is hurting mothers, and Mike Murphy delved into why the future is probably not entirely remote. David Pierce profiled Dropbox's Drew Houston, who hopes to capitalize on a new world of work and interviewed Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on how to run a remote company on our podcast. I talked to Salesforce's futurist Peter Schwartz about why companies will lose talent if they aren't flexible about work and dug into how new ideas about work will make it easier for companies to diversify their workforce by investing in places like Atlanta.

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How Christian Klein's reboot of SAP's strategy is working out
The pandemic wasn't kind to the company. But the way it's working with the major COVID-19 vaccine makers is a model for what comes next.
Christian Klein became SAP's sole CEO in April.
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Joe Williams is a senior reporter at Protocol covering enterprise software, including industry giants like Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. He previously covered emerging technology for Business Insider. Joe can be reached at JWilliams@Protocol.com. To share information confidentially, he can also be contacted on a non-work device via Signal (+1-309-265-6120) or JPW53189@protonmail.com.
Christian Klein took over as SAP's sole CEO in April. It wasn't an ideal time to take the helm of an organization that sells expensive enterprise software.
As the spread of COVID-19 forced corporations everywhere to cut costs, one of the first places they looked was IT budgets. Specifically, companies around the world trimmed spending on back-end products, such as those offered by SAP, many of which still run via on-premise data centers.

But now, with an end to the pandemic in sight, Klein is charting a path toward recovery. Central to his strategy is for SAP to become even more of a key tech vendor for the world's most complex companies, analysts say. That means doubling down on industries that are already robust SAP customers, such as manufacturing and automotive, as well as convincing them to pivot to use SAP products in the cloud.

"We have always been the leading on-premise application platform," Klein told Wall Street analysts earlier this year. "Our intention is to repeat that for the cloud."

Those sorts of sectors would be ideal clients for SAP because they run very data-heavy operations. SAP's enterprise resource planning software helps track those processes and, perhaps more importantly, allows the stored information to be more easily accessible across the enterprise.

And by transitioning to the cloud-based products, SAP has the opportunity to deepen its relationships with existing customers. For one, clients switch from paying large upfront costs to monthly installments. That's an increasingly attractive model for organizations because it becomes easier to scale up or down based on demand. As that adoption grows, it could also increase the likelihood that corporations will pile on additional cloud-based SAP applications, ultimately helping the provider achieve its vision of underpinning all operations across the enterprise.

"[With] asset-intensive organizations, it's important to be able to manage the end-to-end processes. And that is something that SAP has focused on," said Paul Saunders, a senior research director at Gartner.

That strategy is apparent in the company's work with the life sciences industry. Moderna, which hopes to start distributing its COVID-19 vaccine this year, uses SAP's ERP software known as S/4HANA. That's enabled Moderna to "improve the quality of drugs being produced," according to a synopsis of the partnership from SAP. And Moderna is deploying other solutions on top of the core ERP, like a program that will help the company prevent counterfeit vaccines. Similar tools are in use at AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer — pharmaceutical companies working on COVID-19 vaccines — according to publicly available information.

"When you look at what is just happening out there on the vaccine side, there we are almost supporting every manufacturing, every logistic provider," Klein said at a recent Wells Fargo conference.

That all serves to demonstrate how, despite its most recent struggles, SAP remains a powerhouse in the enterprise software industry.

But it's not to say Klein's onto a sure thing: For many of these companies and others, SAP is just one of a slew of vendors currently in use. Enterprises are also reimagining how they use their ERP systems, according to Deloitte, and shifting more non-critical business functions to other third-party applications to reduce legacy IT debt — a phenomenon that could ding SAP in the long run. Some companies, for example, may seek to take software that helps manage the human resource function off of the ERP and run it separately.

And despite being a market leader in ERP software, SAP isn't without competition. Oracle remains a key rival, and its founder Larry Ellison has alluded to a more fierce competition ahead in the cloud. He even told analysts during a recent earnings call that Oracle would soon announce a slate of large-scale customers it stole from SAP.

"Oracle is the clear market leader in cloud ERP," Ellison declared on a call with Wall Street analysts earlier this month. That "will become even more obvious when we announce that several major large-scale SAP ERP customers are leaving," he added. Still, that's a promise Ellison also made last year, and one which has yet to materialize — at least publicly. An Oracle spokesperson declined to comment.

Despite the challenges, SAP's overall sales grew slightly to nearly $20 billion In the first nine months of 2020. But while for Klein the recovery is a long-term vision, his plan hasn't exactly been embraced by investors. Following a statement in late October that outlined a two-year delay in reaching prior revenue targets, SAP's stock dropped 22% — a fall it has yet to recover from.

Underpinning vaccine development

Even so, a deeper look at how SAP is deployed across top vaccine-makers shows why it's hard to count the software giant and its CEO's vision out entirely.

Companies typically want to remain quiet when it pertains to an ongoing initiative as critical as eradicating a virus that led to a global pandemic. True to form, spokespersons for Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Pfizer, GSK and Sanofi did not respond to a request for comment about how they use SAP products for this article. But many of the objectives previously outlined by executives at those firms in adopting the company's technology align with the goal of now quickly developing and producing a vaccine.

GSK, for example, has over 90% of its pharmaceutical and vaccine businesses running on SAP's ERP system. The global deployment enables the UK-based manufacturer to better "leverage the significant amounts of data" it collects and develop insights from that information to improve operations, former technology product manager Jonny Dent said during a February webinar.

On top of that software, GSK also uses Ariba, SAP's procurement manager, to improve how the company works with its many suppliers and contract manufacturers — the same ones that could be tasked with helping to mass-produce a vaccine.

"We're a SAP house through-and-through," Dent told participants at the time.

At Sanofi, the French drugmaker opted to implement S/4HANA in 2017. The software initially went live in several pilot countries in 2018 in Europe before the company deployed it more broadly earlier this year. One of the goals of the pivot was to consolidate the 10 disparate ERP platforms that Sanofi had as a result of over 300 acquisitions since its founding in 1999, according to a promotional video posted by SAP. Now, the company says information can be more easily accessed by individuals across different business units.

AstraZeneca uses SAP's Work Manager software to better oversee its manufacturing equipment. The tool effectively allows factory workers to more closely track their performance on the floor to help managers determine when machines may be close to breaking down. One exec previously said it led to a "6[%] to 8% increase in efficiency." Such an application could play a role in ensuring the production of a vaccine doesn't run into any major hiccups.

And J&J employs Ariba to help it partner with more diverse suppliers. Overall, roughly 80% of J&J's spend runs through Ariba, totaling more than 250,000 purchase orders as of February 2018.

So as SAP aims to become an end-to-end partner for key industries, its work with Moderna, GSK and other pharmaceutical companies will serve as a model for how it should try to insert itself in other sectors. Now Klein just needs to make sure that happens.

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The first grand blocks of the future USS John Finn (DDG 113) are erected on the building ways at the Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Pascagoula, Miss. Huntington Ingalls Industries photo.
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Navy and two shipbuilders are moving forward with the Flight III upgrade to the Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers (DDG-51), which adds an air and missile defense radar to the ship class starting this fiscal year.
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding are collaborating on detail design of the Flight III upgrade, which should be complete by the summer of 2017, and both have responded to the Navy's draft request for proposals (RFP) for Fiscal Year 2016 ship construction, DDG-51 program manager Capt. Mark Vandroff told USNI News in a Nov. 12 interview.
The two yards have taken the Navy's preliminary design for Flight III, which was broken into 17 individual statements of work, and are working together to develop a 3D model of the ship that includes all equipment and distributed systems.
"We always planned to complete that some time in the late summer of 2017 because a ship that's appropriated in FY '16 generally spends about a year [procuring materials]," Vandroff said.
The air and missile defense radar, Raytheon's AN/SPY-6, is in the engineering and manufacturing development phase but is on track to be ready in time for ship construction, Vandroff said. The radar development is run out of the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems, which has passed information to the shipyards through Vandroff's office to support the Flight III detail design.
Virtually all the changes in Flight III support the addition of the SPY-6 radar. Vandroff said the primary requirements for the flight upgrade were to add additional power, cooling and weight margins for the ship's service life.
"I could put a SPY-6 onto a DDG Flight IIA today with the power plant it has today, and it would work fine," he said.
To achieve sufficient power margins, Vandroff said the program office chose to replace the three Rolls Royce 3-megawatt generators on the Flight IIA ships with Rolls Royce's 4-megawatt generator used on the Zumwalt-class destroyers (DDG-1000), which take up the same footprint on the ship and therefore give more power without forcing any ship design changes.
The new generators, however, make power at 4,160 volts instead of 450 volts – which Vandroff said is more efficient and safer, but necessitates more expensive switch gears. The America-class amphibious assault ship (LHA-6) uses the 4,160-volt power plant as well, so the DDG-51 program took the big deck's electrical distribution system to support the new larger generators.
The SPY-6 radar is much bigger than the old SPY-1D(V), which means it makes more heat and requires more cooling capacity. The Flight IIA ships could handle the bigger radar, Vandroff said, but would again leave no margin. The Flight IIA ships use five air conditioning plants that produce 200 tons of cooling each – but the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock (LPD-17) program was already in the middle of an effort to improve those AC units. By developing advances in the magnetic bearings, motor control of the compressor and more, the LPD program and Naval Sea System Command's (NAVSEA) engineering directorate were able to get the AC plants to put out 300 tons of cooling each, rather than 200.
"Frankly, if we didn't have the radar, I would still be doing this just because, I would be doing it as a savings of lifecycle money because these AC plants produce cooling more efficiently than the current ones," he said.
The new SPY-6 radar is not any heavier than the old SPY-1D(V), but the weight is distributed on the ship differently. The old radar has a separate signal generator, which is a heavy piece of equipment and is located lower in the ship for its own protection and for shipkeeping purposes. The SPY-6 is an active array radar, which means the signal is generated on the array itself – meaning the array is heavier but must still be placed at the top of the ship, throwing off the ship's overall balance.
To bring the ship's center of gravity back down, Vandroff said he wanted to make the hull thicker in some places and to thicken the scantlings, which has the added advantage of creating a more survivable hull in the event of an underwater explosion. A ship can only be so heavy and still be safe to steam, and Vandroff said that adding steel to the hull and scantlings stayed within the weight margins but left little room for growth in the future.
"To get back that growth margin, we changed the hull form a little bit in the stern, and I mean a little bit," he said.
Aside from those must-haves to support the new radar, Vandroff said he's working with the shipbuilders to add in a couple nice-to-haves as well.
And second, the Navy learned when it upgraded USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) that tearing out the Aegis Combat System to upgrade the hardware was a more challenging task than it ought to be.
"It should be easier to swap out equipment than it was with John Paul Jones. For John Paul Jones, we buried the vital combat system equipment on purpose in the Arleigh Burke design deep inside the hull, inside lots of steel and lots of structure because that makes it more survivable in damage condition," he said.
For all the changes going into the Flight III design, Vandroff said the Navy will get a ship with "tremendous capability" in the SPY-6 that is not only a "huge leap forward" in integrated air and missile defense but also is much better prepared to ward off jamming attacks; has the margins to support future weapons; and still feels the same to the average sailor walking through the ship.
Excluding the lead Flight III ship, Vandroff said the new ships won't cost much more than the older ones. The average Flight IIA destroyer during the last three years of two-a-year construction across two shipyards cost $1.5 billion per destroyer. Vandroff said his office was in the midst of updating its cost estimate, but NAVSEA has estimated that the Flight III follow-on ships, under the same type of two-a-year multiyear buy, would cost $1.75 billion each and could drop in price as the radars become cheaper to build.
Vandroff could not, however, discuss the timing of the new Flight III ships. The draft RFP is out and the Navy has already responded to comments from industry, but Vandroff said he could not discuss any future actions in the competitive bidding process, including a release date for the final RFP.


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Alexis Lafrenière, né le  à Saint-Eustache dans la province du Québec au Canada, est un joueur canadien de hockey sur glace. Il évolue au poste d'attaquant pour les Rangers de New York dans la LNH.

Biographie

Carrière junior
Il est repêché en  position au total lors du repêchage de 2017 de la LHJMQ par l'Océanic de Rimouski.

Il termine sa saison recrue dans la LHJMQ avec 42 buts et 38 aides en 60 matchs. Lors des séries éliminatoires, l'Océanic se fait éliminer en première ronde par les Wildcats de Moncton en sept rencontres. Néanmoins, Alexis récolte 4 buts et 3 passes lors de la série. Après sa saison, il remporte le trophée Michel-Bergeron remis à la meilleure recrue offensive dans la LHJMQ en saison régulière.

La saison suivante, il est nommé assistant-capitaine de l'Océanic tout comme les attaquants Carson Mackinnon, Jimmy Huntington et Olivier Garneau. Lors de la saison régulière, il obtient 37 buts et 68 assistances en 61 matchs. Pour cette belle production de points, Alexis met la main sur le trophée Michel-Brière remis au joueur le plus utile dans la LHJMQ pendant la saison régulière et le trophée Paul-Dumont remis à la personnalité de l'année dans la LHJMQ.

Carrière professionnelle
Le , il signe son premier contrat professionnel en carrière avec les Rangers.

Le , il joue son premier match en carrière dans la LNH contre les Islanders de New York mais les Rangers subissent une défaite de 4-0. Alexis n'inscrit aucun points lors de ses six premiers matchs en carrière dans la LNH jusqu'à son  match, le  contre les Sabres de Buffalo, où il inscrit son premier but en prolongation pour permettre à son équipe de remporter le match 3-2. Il termine sa saison recrue avec 12 buts et 9 assistances en 56 matchs.

Carrière internationale
Il représente l'équipe du Canada au niveau international.

Lors de l'édition 2020 du championnat du monde junior de hockey sur glace, Alexis Lafrenière remporte la médaille d'or avec l'équipe du Canada et est élu meilleur attaquant du tournoi. Pour l'édition 2021, les Rangers de New York préfèrent le garder à New-York en vue de sa préparation pour la prochaine saison de la LNH.

Vie privée
Lafrenière a grandi à Saint-Eustache, au Québec. Il est le fils de Hugo et Nathalie Lafrenière, une enseignante de première année. Il a une sœur, Lori-Jane, qui a trois ans de plus que lui et qui joue au soccer à l'Université de Montréal. Alexis a également été un talentueux arrêt-court de baseball dans sa jeunesse avant de décider de se concentrer sur le hockey. Bien qu'il soit un partisan des Canadiens de Montréal en grandissant, le joueur préféré de Lafrenière était Patrick Kane des Blackhawks de Chicago.

Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.

En club

| 2017-2018 || Océanic de Rimouski || LHJMQ || 60|| 42|| 38|| 80|| 54|| 7|| 4|| 3|| 7|| 12
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| 2018-2019 || Océanic de Rimouski || LHJMQ || 61|| 37|| 68|| 105|| 72|| 13|| 9|| 14|| 23|| 14
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| 2019-2020 || Océanic de Rimouski || LHJMQ || 52|| 35|| 77|| 112|| 50||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| 2020-2021 || Rangers de New York || LNH || 56 || 12 || 9 || 21 || 8||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| 2021-2022 || Rangers de New York || LNH || 79 || 19 || 12 || 31 || 37 || 20 || 2 || 7 || 9 || 11
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| 135 || 31 || 21 || 52 || 45 || 20 || 2 || 7 || 9 || 11

En équipe nationale

|-
| 2018 || align=left|  - 18 ans || align=left|Championnat du monde -18 ans ||5 ||4 ||2 ||6 ||2 || align=left| Septième
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| 2019 || align=left|  - 20 ans  || align=left|Championnat du monde junior ||5 ||1 ||0 ||1 ||2 || align=left| Quatrième
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| 2020 || align=left|  - 20 ans  || align=left| Championnat du monde junior ||5 ||4 ||6 ||10 ||4 || align=left|

Récompenses et honneurs personnels

Ligues juniors
Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec :
Remporte le trophée Michel-Bergeron pour la saison 2017-2018
Remporte le trophée de Recrue de l'année pour la saison 2017-2018
Sélectionnée dans l'équipe d'étoiles des recrues pour la saison 2017-2018
Remporte le trophée Michel-Brière pour les saisons 2018-2019 et 2019-2020
Remporte le trophée Paul-Dumont pour les saisons 2018-2019 et 2019-2020
Sélectionnée dans l'équipe d'étoiles pour la saison 2018-2019
Remporte le trophée Jean-Béliveau pour la saison 2019-2020
Remporte le trophée Michael-Bossy pour la saison 2019-2020
Sélectionnée dans l'équipe d'étoiles pour la saison 2019-2020
Ligue canadienne de hockey :
Remporte le titre de Recrue de l'année en 2017-2018
Remporte le titre de Meilleur joueur de l'année en 2018-2019 et 2019-2020

Internationales

 Championnat du monde junior 2020
 Meilleur attaquant du tournoi
  (MVP) (en français, Meilleur joueur) du tournoi
 Sélectionné dans l'équipe d'étoiles du tournoi

Références

Naissance en octobre 2001
Naissance à Saint-Eustache (Québec)
Joueur international canadien de hockey sur glace
Premier choix au total au repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH
Choix de repêchage des Rangers de New York
Joueur de l'Océanic de Rimouski
Attaquant de hockey sur glace
Champion du monde de hockey sur glace
Joueur des Rangers de New York

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Thousands of West Africans gain identity documents, one million still stateless - UN
by Kieran Guilbert | KieranG77 | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thursday, 25 February 2016 13:25 GMT
ARCHIVE PHOTO: Town hall workers in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan check through paperwork as people born in the war-divided West African state apply for birth certificates, May 18, 2006. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
Stateless people not accepted as citizens by any country, denied basic rights and vulnerable to exploitation and traffickers
By Kieran Guilbert
DAKAR, Feb 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 20,000 people in West Africa have gained identity documents in the past year as part of a drive to eradicate statelessness, yet around one million in the region still have no nationality, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Stateless people, sometimes referred to as legal ghosts, are not accepted as citizens by any country, which means they are denied basic rights - leaving many unable to work or access healthcare - and are vulnerable to exploitation and traffickers.
Many West Africans are left stateless by laws which prevent women passing their nationality to their children and a lack of birth registrations, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
Around 22,000 people in Ivory Coast, Benin and Mali have received identity documents or birth certificates since the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signed a declaration in January last year that it would end statelessness.
"Thousands of people who, until now, did not have a determined nationality, will come out of the shadows," said UNHCR regional representative for West Africa Liz Ahua.
"Thanks to the reforms currently being implemented in several states in West Africa, these men, women and children will finally be able to obtain a legal identity," she added.
Around one million people are thought to be stateless or at risk of statelessness in West Africa, according to the UNHCR.
Yet Ivory Coast, where statelessness helped fuel a decade of civil wars, is the only nation in the region to give an estimate - some 700,000 people - of the number of individuals living in limbo, so the figure could be far higher, experts say.
Several West African countries have adopted action plans to tackle the issue, the UNHCR said. Guinea, Burkina Faso, Liberia and Togo are reviewing their nationality laws, while Senegal is working on a law to protect children from being born stateless.
"Thousands of children in West Africa, such as street children, are not declared at birth... they can be easily exploited by human traffickers or forced to work," said UNHCR senior regional protection officer Emmanuelle Mitte.
There are an estimated 10 million stateless people worldwide with other big populations in Nepal, Myanmar and Thailand.
The UNHCR launched a global #ibelong campaign to end statelessness within a decade in November 2014.
(Reporting By Kieran Guilbert, editing by Tim Pearce. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit news.trust.org)
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Transcript: Julian Edelman Press Conference 8/3
PATRIOTS WIDE RECEIVER JULIAN EDELMAN
Q: What could the potential addition of a guy like Eric Decker mean to this team?
JE: I think we're more worried about what we've got going on right now, right here. He's a good player and if he is, it is. I haven't seen anything. Mostly just focused on trying to go out here and get our unit to do better and focus on the little things such as lining up right, or not jumping offsides, and getting my route dips right along with the other guys in the room. So if he comes, he comes. If he doesn't, he doesn't. I'm worried about [Chris] Hogan, Malc [Malcolm Mitchell], Phil [Dorsett], little Honey Nut [Braxton] Berrios, Riles [Riley McCarron], Dev [Devin Lucien], PT [Paul Turner], CP [Cordarrelle Patterson] and KB [Kenny Britt]. That's who I'm going to worry about.
Q: Did you get Tom Brady something for his birthday?
JE: Um, I did not give him anything for his birthday yet. It's hard to shop for a guy who has everything.
Q: What have you noticed from working with Cordarrelle Patterson?
JE: You know, he's a great guy to be around. He works hard, he's very athletic and he definitely helps push the unit so I'm happy we got him. He's going to contribute in a whole different other way. He's very versatile and just from his track record, I'm glad we have him.
Q: I know last week when you spoke you said you felt good but were still being mindful of your knee. How has this week felt?
JE: It's been a grind. Honestly just trying to get your legs to - you're compounding day after day after day after day. When you're working in the offseason, you may put three together - I think we're on what, eight today? So you're always trying to go out and get better and I have to do a lot better. I feel like I got to get my legs under me a lot more. I don't have my camp legs, I don't have football legs and it's evident out there. You get tired, you create bad habits, you don't run your routes right and you get yelled at in meetings for it. I'm expecting to do that because I got to pick it up. I wasn't as good as I want to be today and feeling that's because I'm not in the best shape right now.
Q: Is there anything you can do to get that shape back?
JE: You just keep on going out and you grind. You keep on when you're tired, when you don't feel well. You got to be able to perform when things aren't going great and that's what this does. That's what eight days in a row does and that's what going out in training camp - there's no light at the end of the tunnel right now. You got to go out and embrace it and take advantage of each day.
Q: Are you anxious to get to a preseason just to test it out even further?
JE: Definitely. You know, when it comes, it comes, but ultimately I'm more anxious to see how I feel tomorrow and what I can do and go from there.
Q: Every year in camp you celebrate Tom's birthday. Do you think he likes the attention and having it so public like this every year?
JE: I don't know, I don't think - he's really kind of a dorky, like shy guy so I don't know if he likes it or if he doesn't. But, you know when you're singing "Happy Birthday" to Brady you know it's football season.
Q: How incredible is it just to see Brady perform at such a high level at age 41?
JE: I mean, it's very incredible. You know, we're not that young anymore. Wedding crashers. It's - you know, he's the GOAT [Greatest of All Time].
Q: What's it like working with Berrios and McCarron?
JE: Honey Nut? Honey Nut Berrios?
Q: Is it like looking at yourself 10 years ago when you see those guys?
JE: You know, little things you do see. Just the confusion or you know - I mean you got to think about it. You're a young guy and you're going into a whole new system, you're going into a whole new part of the country you probably haven't been. You know, you got to learn calculus when you just got out of regular math. So you definitely can relate to a lot of those things and try to help them out as much as possible to get them to feel a little more comfortable. And I think that's what we all try to do. We all try to learn from each other and help each other out and that's - as a veteran that's what you got to do I guess.
Q: Did you ever feel really comfortable or do you always feel like you're fighting for a roster spot, even at this point in your career?
JE: I put at the top of my paper every day, "Never comfortable." It's just how I feel always. There's a lot of crazy stuff in this league and you got to go out and you got to earn your role out every year. So there is no comfort level here and you learn that from the top. Coach [Bill] Belichick's never really comfortable. At least he doesn't look it. Or sound like it. But, I don't like that - to feel comfortable. That's how complacency kicks in.
Q: Isaiah Wynn's catch the other night - is that the new, "The Catch?"
JE: Sure. Good catch. Good catch.
Transcripts are provided by the Patriots media relations department as a courtesy to the media and are edited for readability. All press conferences are posted and archived in their entirety at patriots.com.
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Meeting Gerry
by S.Fagnan
A lot of Canada in the flower village Weitenung
by Christina Nickweiler Badisches Tagblatt, Nr. 17 22 Jan 2020
submitted by Larry McJannet
Reunions & Special Events
They will be missed
- read what was happening at CFB Baden in 1969
Stories & Contributions
Weitenung Exhibition
Mon, Dec 31st, 2012
Submitted by: Christina Nickweiler
Badisches Tagblatt, Nr. 17 vom 22. Januar 2020
The exhibition in the Weitenunger Heimatmuseum pays tribute to the
40-year presence of the Canadian Armed Forces
By Christina Nickweiler (former employee of the Base Hospital)
Buehl - For the first time, the 40-year-old presence of the Canadians is honored with its own exhibition in the
Heimatmuseum (local history museum) in Weitenung.
The special exhibition entitled "Canadians in Central Baden" shows how much Canadians have shaped social life in the region.
Particularly impressive are the unique exhibits that have never been seen in this form before.
The history of the Canadians is told from the perspective of the German-Canadian Club (DCC), whos beginnings go back to 1972.
The exhibition also traces the history of the club using numerous illustrations and contributions on information boards.
The photographs are rare documents as there was a strict ban on photographing uniforms and Airbase facilities until the end of the Cold War.
The initiative to found a club came from citizens of Weitenung. At the beginning of the 1970s, more than 750 Canadians lived in the
purpose-built housing (PMQ's) in the flower village. The children played on the streets and teenagers drove around with
roller skates or skateboards. For the local predominantly rural population, these were completely unfamiliar impressions,
explains Karl Burkart from the Weitenunger Heimatverein. The association maintains the museum. Karl Burkart remembers
In order to counter any misunderstandings about the cultural differences, efforts were made by the Canadians as well as on the German side.
The military police regularly patrolled at night and during the weekend to take away the fear of the strangers and provide security to the general public.
Active citizens sat down to form a club and founded the German-Canadian club in 1975. "The executive board members were parity-based, t
he former mayor Gerhard Fritz was responsible as chairman for the German side and Ken Mc Crimmon was responsible on the Canadian side.
The former Starfighter pilot still lives in Baden-Baden today and enriched the current collection in the local history museum with remarkable exhibits.
Working in the club's operational affairs Tom Miles and Klaus Maurer, still revive the club spirit during the weekly English conversations.
Eye-catching in the collection is a life-size mannequin wearing a dark green parade uniform from the Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR).
The red sash suggests that the wearer of this uniform was the master of ceremonies. Other attributes reflect the military career.
The members of the Heimatmuseum invested in glass showcases for the exhibition, reports the chairman of the Heimatmuseum,
Patric Genter in conversation with the Badische Tagblatt (local newspaper). A scout uniform is displayed in another showcase
and the acoustic highlights of the former military band "Baden Rube Band" pressed onto a vinyl record. The recordings were
made in the radio broadcasting studios of the former Suedwestfunk (Southwest Radio).
Models of the jet aircraft document the era of the various fighter planes on the former airbase, such as the Saber, Starfighter
and the F18 Hornet, which was put into service in 1986. A model of the training and reconnaissance aircraft "T 133 Silver"
can also be seen. Former military personnel, who have settled in the region and are now organized in the German-Canadian
model-making club, also worked here, explains the chairman. Beer mugs with the Canadian national symbol , the maple leaf,
and the license plate number of the Airbase are presented.
From the beginning, the Canadians were enthusiastic about the local carnival tradition and designed impressive carnival cars.
The pictures shown show how tow vehicles for planes pull the cars. "The Widdenunger Carnival experienced great popularity
through the Canadians, "says Karl Burkart, referring to the presented carnival medal. The biggest social highlights of the year
were set by the German-Canadian club with the international Volkswandertage (volksmarches), which enjoyed great popularity
with several thousand participants since 1978. Therefore, the collection of volksmarch medals diplay from the early days
- until the Canadians bid farewell in 1993.
Chairman Patric Genter shows the rare exhibits for which showcases were purchased. Photos: Nickweiler
a special thanks to Christina Nickweiler for permission for letting us use this news article on our pages, please respect the copyrights of the photographer and author!
please feel free to contact Sonja
© Badenremembered.com 1998-2010


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Q: working with namespaced XML i got an xml structure :
<xml>
    <variable>
         <values>
               <enum>
                 <value>2</value>
                 <level>high</level>
               </enum>
               <enum>
                  <value>1</value>
                  <level>medium</level>
               </enum>
               <enum>
                  <value>0</value>
                  <level>low</level>
               </enum>
          </values>
      </variable>
</xml>

now, i passed this into a dataProvider:
namespace degro ="http://www.degro.org/td";
use namespace degro;   //this is to bind the namespace
dg.dataProvider = new XMLListCollection(xml.variable.value.enum);
and the dataFields of the dg datagrid are value and level
but it wont show when i run the programme..
anyone experienced this before?

A: This is Useful link from Adobe Side Using XML namespaces
you may also need to read about QName
an objects represent qualified names of XML elements and attributes
Hope that helps

A: The XML you posted does not identify a namespace. I'm not an actionscript guy, but in other programming languages if you don't specify the correct namespace the serializer is not going to be able to generate output.
You should probably either update your XML to include a namespace definition (i.e. <xml xmlns="http://www.degro.org/td"> or you should set-up your provider to use a blank/empty namespace.

A: This is how you should access a namespaced XML in flex
private var degroNS:NameSpace = new NameSpace("http://www.degro.org/td");
//
//
//
dg.dataProvider = new XMLListCollection(xml.degroNS::variable.degroNS::value.degroNS::enum);//Assuming xml is the variable name for the xml

A: This worked for me.Check it out and let me know if that helps
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
               xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
               xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600"
               creationComplete="application1_creationCompleteHandler(event)">
    <s:layout>
        <s:VerticalLayout/>
    </s:layout>
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[

            import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;
            import mx.events.FlexEvent;

            private var ns:Namespace = new Namespace("http://www.degro.org/td");

            protected function application1_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
            {
                dg.dataProvider = new XMLListCollection(dataXML.ns::variable.ns::values.ns::enum);
            }

            private function valueLabelFunction(item:Object,column:DataGridColumn):String
            {
                return item.ns::value+'';
            }

            private function levelLabelFunction(item:Object,column:DataGridColumn):String
            {
                return item.ns::level+'';
            }

        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
    <fx:Declarations>
        <fx:XML id="dataXML">
            <xml xmlns="http://www.degro.org/td">
                <variable>
                    <values>
                        <enum>
                            <value>2</value>
                            <level>high</level>
                        </enum>
                        <enum>
                            <value>1</value>
                            <level>medium</level>
                        </enum>
                        <enum>
                            <value>0</value>
                            <level>low</level>
                        </enum>
                    </values>
                </variable>
            </xml>
        </fx:XML>
    </fx:Declarations>
    <mx:DataGrid id="dg">
        <mx:columns>
            <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Value" labelFunction="valueLabelFunction"/>
            <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Level" labelFunction="levelLabelFunction"/>
        </mx:columns>
    </mx:DataGrid>
</s:Application>

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Tom Sawyer is a dare-devil, a schemer, a prankster, a main-chancer. His inventiveness and energy know no bounds; whenever his Aunt Polly thinks he is tucked up in bed, he is most likely creeping out into the night on deeds of daring – 'not the Model Boy of the village,' as the author puts it. In creating this humorous and dramatic story of childhood, Mark Twain has given us a vivid picture of life in a small town on the Mississippi in the mid-nineteenth century and created one of the most popular boy heroes in literature.
Garrick Hagon has appeared in many films including Batman, Star Wars, Cry Freedom, Antony and Cleopatra, Fatherland, Black Book, The Walker, La Vie en Rose and Churchill at War. His television credits include A Perfect Spy, The Nightmare Years, Henry V, The Chief and Love Hurts. On London?s West End he played Chris Keller in All My Sons, and he is a frequent story reader for the BBC. He also reads The Sea-Wolf, The Call of the Wild, Classic American Poetry and Huckleberry Finn for Naxos AudioBooks.


Data center vendor Vertiv is expanding its line of UPS systems that can use lithium-ion batteries rather than traditional lead-acid batteries, offering more options for data center operators interested in new options for their power infrastructure.
Lithium-ion batteries are commonplace in devices like smartphones and laptop computers. But they've thus far been used only sparsely in the data center, where banks of lead-acid batteries have been the standard choice for providing backup power during utility outages.
Vertiv, previously known as Emerson Network Power, is one of the world's largest vendors of power and cooling products for the data center sector. It is among the companies making the case for lithium-ion batteries as a better option than VRLA (valve-regulated lead acid) batteries. In 2016 Data Center Frontier profiled Vertiv's first installation of a lithium-ion UPS in a data center, in this case Forsythe Data Centers facility in suburban Chicago. That site used lithium-ion battery cabinets supporting Liebert NX UPS 300kVA systems.
Advocates of lithium-ion batteries cite multiple advantages over lead-acid batteries, including a longer lifetime, reduced weight and footprint, and less rigid cooling requirements. The primary resistance point is cost: lithium-ion systems are currently 2 to 3 times the cost of a valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) system at the same power level and runtime.
The Liebert EXM 480V is the latest UPS system from Vertiv to be tested and qualified for lithium-ion batteries, offering a larger capacity. The lithium-ion batteries and battery cabinets are UL listed for use in data center environments.
Great article! The system in the picture is LiiON's world's 1st UL CERTIFIED Megawatt Lithium UPS system (www.liion.com). LiiON has many systems installed (over 45MW since 2012) on many different UPS platforms.. Let's keep this technology advance moving forward.


We all know that Ikea furniture is awesome, it's affordable, comes in a wide variety of different sizes and styles to suit all needs and it's pretty good quality too but the downside of that is everybody has it.
We recently redecorated our master bedroom and needed some extra storage but we didn't want to spend a fortune so we opted for some drawers from the ever popular Hemnes range. They're great value for money and gave us tonnes of storage space but I wanted to make them look a little different and also tie them into our blush pink, grey and copper room.
I see lots of people upcycling furniture on Pinterest and Instagram but I've never had the courage to have a go myself, I always assumed it looks too hard or that I'd mess it up but for some reason this time I decided that I was going to give it a go.
I chose to keep it simple and make one minor change to the furniture and that was to spray paint the knobs of the drawers and the matching bedside tables copper. I've never used spray paint before but I figured "what's the worst that could happen?" if I made a total mess of it I would just buy new knobs.
So I decided to go for it and I'm so glad I did, I used a primer first and then the copper spray and they turned out better than I expected. I think it's given the furniture a more unique and expensive look and I'm so pleased with how they turned out.
Here are a few other ways you can make simple yet very effective changes to the Hemnes furniture or any furniture for that matter.
Firstly you can use marble vinyl on the fronts of the drawers or on the tops to give them a modern and more luxurious look, I love this and I'm very tempted to give it a try on my desk in the office so watch this space.
Changing not only the colour but the style of the draw knobs can make a huge difference to the look of them as you can see on the picture above.
Lastly a simple paint job can really transform them into completely different looking furniture and would be very quick and easy to do, I love this pink ombre look which is perfect for a little girl's bedroom and the grey bedside table just looks so chic.
If you're thinking about giving something like this a try I say go for it, if you'd like any advise or would like to ask any questions leave me a comment below and if you have a go at any of these hacks tag me in your photos as I'd love to see them.


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Q: Can We Style Inside A Const In React I am new to react , can i style inside a const
Here is my code
const initialStudentCounter =
    'Students' + ' ' +  JSON.stringify(studentCountInitial);

I need to style this "JSON.stringify(studentCountInitial)"
I tried this way , but didn't work
const initialStudentCounter =
    'Students' + ' ' +  JSON.stringify(studentCountInitial) ;

Can some one help me please

A: You don't need JSON.stringify in JSX.  You do need to insert this into your JSX with a surrounding element.  You shouldn't need the + for concatenating strings anymore either.
export default function App() {
  const studentCountInitial = 4;
  const initialStudentCounter =
Students {studentCountInitial}
;

  return (
    initialStudentCounter
  );
}

A: In React, you need to use double curly brackets (The first set of brackets is telling the compiler that this is Javascript, the second set is telling the compiler that this is an object.) when styling elements. Also, surround your element with a string.
Code:
const initialStudentCounter =
    'Students' + ' ' + `<span style={{ color : 'red' }}>${JSON.stringify(studentCountInitial)}</span>`;

A: There are at least two problems here:

*

*You're concatenating a string with a JSX element.

*Your style attribute's value is missing a pair of curly braces for opening and closing an object (the first pair merely lets you use JS syntax).

const initialStudentCounter =
Students {JSON.stringify(studentCountInitial)}
;

I also suspect that studentCountInitial is just a plain number and thus it probably doesn't need to be stringified. So you can probably just do this...
const initialStudentCounter =
Students {studentCountInitial}
;

If you really need to then convert that JSX element to a string, you could use something like ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(), but that's likely unnecessary.


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Looking For the Best theEMPLOYEEapp Alternative for Frontline Employees?
Katrina Dessavre
When it comes to employee engagement software, there is no shortage of options to choose from. theEMPLOYEEapp is a popular solution that promises to keep both frontline and office workers connected. But as communication demands on frontline industries are increasing (especially in a post-COVID climate), more companies are looking for theEMPLOYEEapp alternative to meet the unique needs of their essential employees.
Frontline workers are adapting to a "new normal" post-COVID-19. Many industries, like retail, manufacturing, and hospitality, have to prepare for a new digital future. That involves finding software solutions that can connect a dispersed workforce, give instant access to information like health and safety regulations, and offer mobile-friendly communication.
Why Look for Alternatives and Competitors to theEMPLOYEEapp?
As the frontline workforce moves into a post-pandemic world, it's critical that companies explore all software options for connecting their employees.
1. Two-Way Employee Communication
Effective employee engagement needs to involve opportunities for two-way feedback that are built into the communication platform. theEMPLOYEEapp does have a news feed for companies to present business news and information. But that isn't really enough to facilitate bottom-up communication and true employee engagement.
While theEMPLOYEEapp offers opportunities for companies to create surveys, these are integrations, not native features. Compare that to an app like Beekeeper, which does offer native survey and poll features, allowing you and your employees to participate immediately without having to use third-party tools.
2. Easy-to-Use Interface
Your employees shouldn't have to dig through multiple folders to find the resources they need. Frontline workers need access to critical safety information immediately, and they don't have time to look for it. With its segmented and nested structure, theEMPLOYEEapp is not intuitive to navigate. This not only creates confusion, but it also makes it less likely that users will find the right information when they need it.
When a workplace tool is clunky and difficult to use, adoption rates will suffer, and eventually, employees may just stop using it altogether.
3. Secure Group and Direct Messaging
While theEMPLOYEEapp is well-suited for top-down communication, you may want to consider a platform that also offers peer-to-peer and group messaging capabilities as well. If your frontline workforce is divided into different teams, departments, or locations, group messaging is a fast and effective way for smaller groups of employees to coordinate tasks and collaborate with each other in real time.
Chats and group messages also encourage bottom-up communication because employees can easily engage with their colleagues and managers rather than only receiving information top-down from their managers.
Best Alternatives & Competitors to theEMPLOYEEapp for Frontline Workers
1. Beekeeper
Beekeeper has been evolving to keep up with the changes and challenges frontline workers are facing post-COVID-19. With Beekeeper 2.0, the platform allows companies to go beyond top-down communication and foster real employee engagement. Beekeeper has:
Both 1:1 and group messaging functionality
The Innovation App, an online forum that encourages employees to share and vote for ideas
An intuitive interface with dedicated, transparent communication streams
A Customer Success Team that provides specialized support in the form of a quarterly business review
While theEMPLOYEEapp has no Capterra profile or verified reviews, Beekeeper is proud to have achieved a 5-star Capterra rating, with feedback like:
"Our employees did not even need to be trained on the tool and were able to start using it right away. The team at Beekeeper is very helpful and supportive both during and after implementation, taking into account our feedback and pushing new features requests."
– Quentin S., Director of Operations
2. Butterfly
Butterfly takes a data-driven approach to allowing managers to get feedback and initiate conversations with employees. It enables every team member to feel connected regardless of where they work and offers manager reports for immediate, actionable insight.
With Butterfly, managers have access to a real-time dashboard with employee engagement metrics. They can use customized surveys to go from receiving feedback to starting a conversation and taking steps to help employees.
P.S. Beekeeper also integrates with Butterfly.
3. Webalo
Companies that prefer a greater level of freedom when it comes to customization will appreciate Webalo. It has a no-code platform that empowers process engineers to update and maintain their platform without relying on corporate resources.
Besides its customization features, Webalo has a Control Tower app that gives a 360 degree view of what's happening at a particular location. With that awareness, managers can track progress, manage workers, and allocate resources to improve performance.
Want more info about how Beekeeper can help increase employee engagement for frontline workers? Request a demo and speak directly to one of our product experts.
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Q: How much does it cost to travel with the compass? In the Workshop, there is a Compass on sale for 4,000 coins with the following description:

Found hidden in the Temples, this compass allows you to travel to the biome of your choice for a small fee.

The description doesn't clarify how much "a small fee" is, which makes me think I should consider spending my coins somewhere else.
How much does it cost to travel to a new biome with the Compass?

A: That "small fee" is actually 1000 gold per use.


He won the 100-yard butterfly in a state-qualifying time of 55.40 seconds vs. Wenatchee and won the 100 freestyle against Moses Lake.
She had 23 points, 13 rebounds and four steals in an SCAC East win over Warden and scored 21 points in a win over Wahluke.
He was unseeded at 135 pounds at the Resers Tournament of Champions yet won the title, 13-4 over Canby's A.J. Ballard.
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