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Where the device hits the network – a mobile device management update
Enterprises have become much more mobile over the past decade. In fact, mobility has fast become a major priority, both in terms of customer and stakeholder engagement and also worker mobility.
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According to a report by the Radicati Group, global revenues for the enterprise mobility management (EMM) market will total over $ 1.8bn by year-end 2017. This figure will grow to over $ 3.3bn by year-end 2021. This represents an average annual growth rate of 18% in the next four years.
The EMEA market for EMM software will grow from $ 565.8m in 2017 to $ 839.9m in 2021 at a CAGR of 8.2% according to analyst firm IDC (Enterprise mobility management software forecast, 2017–2021).
On the bring your own device (BYOD) front, Forrester Research reports that 70% of information workers use a smartphone at least weekly at work, with 49% choosing the device themselves as opposed to following a company-approved list or using a company-issued phone (Best practices for securing and empowering a mobile workforce).
To stay on top of your mobile strategy, organisations should be aware of a number of trends.
One of the most impactful trends in enterprise mobility management is the concept of device trust, which means providing a certificate of trust for the devices used, says Mike Paiko, director of enterprise mobility at Okta.
When a cloud app, such as Box or Google Suite, contains highly sensitive information, IT leaders need to ensure the device used to access that app is managed and meets the company's security standards. These devices may include desktops, laptops, or mobile phones.
Mobility management tool
Users have the opportunity to enrol their device into their mobility management tool, and once the device becomes "trusted", the user will have access to the application. "This is a great security process to ensure users only use managed devices to access sensitive corporate apps," he says.
Trust also plays a part in BYOD. The workforce is increasingly being their own devices, more so among third party contractors or other temporary workers.
"Workers would probably prefer not to carry two phones; however, they still do because they are reluctant to have their employer access personal info," says Mark Lorion, president and general manager at Apperian. Mobile device management (MDM) suppliers are responding to this with reversed enrolment flows, where a user can download the initial mobile portal without enrolling their device for control by their employer. "However, if the user wants access to corporate data, they will need to enrol their device in management," he says.
Mobiles on the edge
One trend which is already showing signs of exerting real influence when it comes to mobile device management is edge computing, according to Neil Bramley, B2B client solutions business unit director of Northern Europe at Toshiba. This is especially so as mobiles generate evermore data.
"In an increasingly mobile professional landscape, the ability to process data at the edge of the network and close to its originating source is invaluable. By minimising the strain on cloud storage services, organisations can ensure faster operations through reduced latency, only sending the most relevant data to the cloud," he says.
By spreading the load in this way, bottlenecks are greatly reduced, if not eliminated, while at the same time businesses can benefit from the additional advantages of improving their quality of service and reducing costs, adds Bramley.
The rise of IoT
One of the most important, yet least talked-about developments, in MDM is what is meant when talking about "devices".
The rise of connected devices and the internet of things (IoT) might not, at first, seem relevant to IT managers for whom MDM means struggling to bring Shadow IT into the corporate fold. But connected devices present greater risks to organisations, not least because they are generally so poorly-secured, as seen with the Mirai attacks from last year onwards, says James Plouffe, lead solutions architect, at MobileIron.
"The challenge for MDM/EMM providers is twofold: first, to educate users about the risks of unsecured connected devices; and second, to integrate these devices into their existing MDM platforms and tools, so that IT managers have complete visibility of every machine that's connecting to their corporate network," he says
This is echoed by Suneil Sastri, director of product marketing at Soti. He says the reason device management has taken such a sharp evolution is that it is no longer just about obtaining information from a mobile device.
"Everything that can be connected will be connected. That's the somewhat dog-eared maxim for the future of tech," he says. "Currently, around 23 billion 'things' are currently connected to the world's various communication networks and more are joining at breakneck speed. Mobile device management has advanced to encompass this innovation and companies must take advantage of this."
Sastri says IoT brings new business challenges around scale, interoperability, security and the management of devices and endpoints.
"The adoption of IoT is set to continue, especially with industrial IoT devices. Businesses need to ensure they have a solid central platform to ensure they don't become lost in a web of connected devices," he says.
MDM and GDPR
In the near future, privacy and sensitivity around personal data and personally identifiable information (PII) will only continue to increase, as new regulations, such as GDPR, are passed and as consumers and the general public become more aware of how vulnerable their information is.
Lorian says an example of this would be the fallout from the September 2017 Equifax breach. "Organisations will need to take measures to only control what needs to be managed – just corporate data and just corporate assets. Typically, this will be achieved with approaches that do not require enrolling in device management, especially for personally owned devices."
Organisations may also need to deploy tools that assist with data protection but also minimise data transferred to and held on the device. There will be a greater emphasis on mandating MDM to remove corporate data on a device if it is lost or stolen as well as using encryption to protect confidential data.
Rich Campagna, CEO at cloud and mobile security company Bitglass, says the mobile security space is ripe for innovation and we'll likely see tools evolve to meet the needs and changes in IT. "One example is the ability to selectively wipe corporate information from a BYOD. From an employee privacy perspective, this means their phone is never at risk of having personal data removed without consent."
Adapting to new trends
The latest trends in MDM are going to have an impact on enterprises and having a coherent security strategy is the single most important factor, says Plouffe. But, he adds, this is missing in so many user organisations.
"An effective security policy starts with organisations classifying their assets, identifying the risks to those assets, and defining their risk tolerance," he says. "This will allow them to determine what risks they need to mitigate and which they may choose to accept. For example, part of this exercise may include detailing which devices are corporately owned and loaned to employees and what level of access each employee in the organisation is afforded."
Paiko says there needs to be a balance between security and experience because if a user encounters too much friction accessing their apps, they'll go around the security control, and ultimately will not realise the productivity benefits. He points to a recent Google report that highlights that 90% of smartphone users have used their phone to make progress toward a long-term goal or a multi-step process while "out and about".
"Each of these 'micro-moments' lasts an average of 70 seconds, and these micro-moments are repeated dozens and dozens of times per day," he says. "Without a great user experience, these highly productive micro-moments would not be possible."
Broadening the scope of MDM
Today an employee can buy a smartphone, enrol it in MDM management, and be up and running with email and their corporate apps within 10 to 15 minutes – yet, they cannot get the same experience with a laptop, says Paiko. He adds that in the next 12-18 months, with Apple and Microsoft enhancing the MDM support in Mac OS X and Windows 10 respectively, more organisations will turn to MDM to manage third-party workers, such as contractors and business partners, and employee PCs.
"That said, with the current desktop OS MDM limitations and the existing need for group policies, it may take longer than 18 to 24 months for MDM to successfully manage the bulk of traditional PCs," he says.
It is also important to note the consumerisation of IT is now driving what devices are being used in the enterprise. Perhaps the best way to keep ahead of the trends in MDM in the enterprise is to keep an eye one what consumers are buying today; they may well be bringing it into the enterprise tomorrow.
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The Incorporated Knight is a fix-up fantasy novel by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, the first book in their sequence of two Neo-Napolitanian novels. Chapters 1-5 first appeared as L. Sprague de Camp's short stories "Two Yards of Dragon", "The Coronet", "Spider Love" and "Eudoric's Unicorn" in Flashing Swords!, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Year's Best Fantasy Stories in 1976-1977. The complete novel was first published in hardcover by Phantasia Press in August 1987, and in paperback by Baen Books in September 1988, with a trade paperback edition, also from Baen, following in 1991. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.

Plot summary
Squire Eudoric Damberson of Zurgau in the kingdom of Locania wishes to wed Lusina, the daughter of his former tutor, the magician Doctor Baldonius. The price is attaining the status of knight and supplying the magician with a portion of dragon hide for use in his magic. Dragons are locally scarce, so Eudoric and his trusty servant Jillo set out for Pathenia in the east to slay one. But once the two do manage to bring one down (by accident) they face legal complications for violating the local game laws. Returning, Eudoric finds his promised bride has run off with a minstrel, and his feudal lord Baron Emmerhard disinclined to knight him for his heroic exploit; he consoles himself by pursuing a scheme to establish a stagecoach line like those in Pathenia. (This material first appeared as the short story "Two Yards of Dragon".)

A subsequent rescue of Emmerhard from a magic spell finally secures him the knighthood, but he remains unlucky in love, as the baron's daughter Gerzilda also shuns his hand. (This material first appeared as the short story "The Coronet".)

Next Eudoric pursues Maragda, daughter of Rainmar, a local robber baron who has been raiding his coach line. Rainmar tasks him with slaying the giant spider Fraka, and once again matters go awry. While Eudoric's knightly reputation and stage line prosper, his marriage prospects remain nil. (This material first appeared as the short story "Spider Love".)

The pattern is repeated when he is commissioned to capture a unicorn for his ultimate overlord Emperor Thorar IX of the New Napolitanian Empire, intended as a gift for the visiting Grand Cham Gzik of Pantorozia. The emperor's daughter Petrilla, smitten with Gzik, weds the Cham instead. (This material first appeared as the short story "Eudoric's Unicorn".)

Seeking to extend his stage line into Letitia, capital of the kingdom of Franconia that borders the empire to the west, his reputation for getting things done leads to him being deputed to rescue King Clothar's sister Yolanda, held captive in the rude neighboring realm of Armoria. There he is forced to save her from a sea monster and then wed her, after which he flees back to Franconia with his new bride. He finds her a less than congenial mate — Yolanda is both a control freak and an enchantress. Fighting with each other and dangers along the way, they encounter the restless ghost of a king cursed to endure eternal boredom in his tomb, an orthodox ogre who kills and eats those of the wrong faith, and the soldiers of the hostile duchy of Dorelia.

Nor are Eudoric's difficulties left behind on their return to Letitia. Mewed up as a prisoner in all but name in his princess bride's mansion by her supernatural servants, he soon discovers she is a female Bluebeard who regularly collects husbands and petrifies them as she tires of them. By calling on the aid of Dr. Tsudai, a Serican sorcerer whose life he had saved during his earlier stay in Letitia, Eudoric is ultimately successful in freeing his three predecessor-husbands from statuehood and escaping their lethal spouse.

Safe back in Locania, where his nuptials are not recognized, Eudoric receives a message from Yolanda pleading for him to return, as he is the only one of her husbands whose loss she regrets. He prudently ignores her letter, choosing instead to resume his courtship of his original intended, Lusina — she is also back, having grown disillusioned with her unreliable lover. Meanwhile, he and Dr. Baldonius hatch plans to incorporate his coach line as a limited liability company after the fashion of the hongs of Serica.

Setting
The Incorporated Knight and its sequel The Pixilated Peeress are both set in the medieval era of an alternate world sharing the geography of our own, but in which a "Napolitanian" (Neapolitan) empire filled the role of Rome and no universal religion like Christianity ever arose, leaving its nations split among competing pagan sects. The New Napolitanian Empire, of which Eudoric is a subject, roughly corresponds to our world's Holy Roman Empire, or Germany, while Franconia and Armoria, the lands he visits to the west, are the equivalents of France and Brittany, respectively. The geography of more eastern regions such as Pathenia and Pantorozia are borrowed in part from the fanciful regions portrayed in Mandeville's Travels; the time-period corresponds to the historical 14th century. In keeping with the character of de Camp's fantasy world as a cognate of our own, its place names tend to echo those of the real world. Examples include Franconia, equating to France but derived from the historic German region of the same name; Armoria, based on Armorica, an ancient name for Brittany; Serica, an ancient name for China or Xinjiang; Sogrambrium, the capital of the New Napolitanian Empire, derived from the Sicrambri or Sugambri, an ancient Germanic tribe located on the east bank of the Rhine near the present border of Germany and the Netherlands; and Letitia, the capital of Franconia, a variation on Lutetia, the ancient name of Paris.

Reception
Reviews were favorable. Publishers Weekly, noting that "[t]he hallmark of Sprague de Camp's classic fantasy has been a wry humor as he asked commonsensical questions of the genre's imaginative but impractical motifs," called this book, "the adventures of ... a knight whose only goals are a wife and a decent living," "[m]inor de Camp but still most enjoyable,"  Jackie Cassada, writing for Library Journal, praised its "doughty and resourceful hero and ... generous dollop of the de Camps' boisterous humor."  Roland Green, in The Booklist, called the book "a pleasant fantasy romp," noting that while it was "likely to be released in paperback in due time," its "high quality definitely makes [it] worth considering in hardcover."

The book was also reviewed by Trevin Matlock in Locus no. 320, September 1987, and Darrell Schweitzer  in Aboriginal Science Fiction, November-December 1987.

Relation to other works
The main plot device of bickering male and female protagonists not destined for a happy ending together is featured in several late de Camp novels, notably The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982), The Bones of Zora (1983), and The Pixilated Peeress (1991).

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1987 American novels
American fantasy novels
Collaborative novels
Novels by L. Sprague de Camp
Phantasia Press books

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Fashion designers impress us with their creative designs; every new season there are some new items inter our wardrobes. Some of us didn't really know all their meanings or how to wear them; for that reasons this post is to inform a lot of us about some of the most popular winter outwears. So let's start with the smartest and cozy item!
The blanket poncho; which is something like a shawl or a blouse that you can wear it from your neck and it has no sleeves to put your hand through them. Some of them with fringe, and they came in many prints such the tartan print.
The cardigan; which is something like a light jacket in knit fabric, women wear it above a shirt or blouse. Sometimes they are tall above the knees and sometimes they are short. They have no zip at all, but we can see some of them with buttons, or without any thing. The new invention from these cardigans called the waterfall cardigan, and they have some ruffles in their designs.
The kimono; their design looks like the T letter and it has wide sleeves, and wide neck line. We see it in many lengths from tall, medium, and short.
The shawl; it's something like a scarf, they came in knit, or wool fabric and women could wrap them around their shoulders in an elegant way.
The capes; something like a cloak or a cover, I found them so near from the ponchos. They came in many fabrics and women wear them when the weather is so cold.


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– Sixty-eight percent of households in 2007 were family households, compared with 81 percent in 1970.
– The proportion of one-person households increased by 10 percentage points between 1970 and 2007, from 17 percent to 27 percent.
– Between 1970 and 2007, the average number of people per household declined from 3.1 to 2.6.
– Most family groups with children under 18 (67 percent) were maintained by married couples.
– The vast majority of fathers who lived with their child under 18 also lived with the child's mother (94 percent). In comparison, 74 percent of mothers living with their child under 18 also lived with the child's father.
– Stay-at-home mothers were younger and had younger children than other mothers.
– Stay-at-home mothers were more likely to be Hispanic than non-stay-at-home mothers.
– Stay-at-home mothers were more likely to be foreign born than non-stay-at-home mothers.
– Among children living with a parent, younger children were more likely than older children to live with two unmarried parents. So, while 10 percent of infants under age 1 lived with two unmarried parents, 1 percent of children 12 to 17 lived with two unmarried parents.
– Among children living with unmarried parents, older children were more likely than younger children to live with their father only, with no other adult present. Only about 2 percent of children under 3 lived with their father who was the sole adult, while 11 percent of teens 12 to 17 did.
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Restoration and Remediation Industry News
911 Restoration Adds New Franchise Locations
John Rollman - San Bernadino County, Calif.
Damarris Yuille - Virginia Peninsula, Virginia
If there is one attribute that 911 Restoration is known for it is the company's ability to spread the Fresh Start attitude to thousands of property owners all over the country through their rapidly growing franchise opportunities.
Franchise owner John Rollman is a huge advocate of the restoration company's Fresh Start attitude, which is why he is opening three new branches in San Bernardino County that are located in The Inland Empire, The High Desert, and Rancho Cucamonga.
The rapidly growing franchise is making it possible for people all over the country to receive top-of-the-line, local restoration services. The more locations 911 Restoration opens, the more people it's employees can impress with their Fresh Start attitude.
John has spent over four decades in the construction industry, during which that time he built hospitals for those in need. John's passion for helping people has become deeply ingrained into his role in the restoration industry and by opening The Inland Empire, The High Desert, and Rancho Cucamonga branches, he can focus his energy into providing a Fresh Start to as many people as possible.
Damarris Yuille is also opening a new 911 Restoration branch located in the Virginia Peninsula. Before joining the 911 Restoration family, Dammaris owned a carpet cleaning company and saw first hand just how devastating an impact the elements can have on a people.
The opening of the Virginia Peninsula franchise location will allow Dammaris to utilize the skills to give members of the Virginia community access to the around the clock restoration services they deserve.
This way of turning a property disaster into a Fresh Start is something John and Damarris genuinely pride themselves on achieving. By upholding this positive outlook, the franchise owners believe they can turn around any situation.
With the help of John and Dammaris, 911 Restoration will be able to provide even more property owners with expert restoration services by opening these four new branches, giving everyone an opportunity at a Fresh Start.
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Greater Noida (06/02/2019) : Tech Mahindra conducted a presentation over Enterprise Resource Planning before the officers of Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority. The presentation drive was inaugurated by Narendra Bhooshan CEO GNIDA.
So keeping all this in mind authority is planning to adopt this system so that work culture in authority will become more transparent, everyone will be more accountable to their actions and it will provide more speed to the work leading to good governance.
Once all the work in authority will become online then this system will help in disposal of complaints of allote in fixed period of time. This will save both time and money of allote.
During this presentation K K Gupta ACEO GNIDA also remained present.


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Some Kane Miller fiction is sequential - it's important to read these in order as listed on our series fiction list.
These series are good to read in order, but it's not essential.
The books of the Choose Your Own Ever After series are standalones with unrelated stories and characters. The pick-a-path format is what makes the books a series.
Questions? Please contact me at lynn@kanemiller.com.


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Greta Garbo went down in film history as the goddess and she became a myth unparallelled and perhaps the greatest star of cinema.
The life of the fascinating personality began in 1905, when Greta Gustafson was born in a poverty quarter in Stockholm. Whe was the youngest of three children.
When her father died in 1919, Greta Gustafson worked in a department store where she finally got the chance to appear in a promotion film. From then on she made the decision to become an actress.
She displayed a lot of courage and gave up the safe job in order to take on the unsecure future of a movie star. She got a place at the Royal Theater School where she got first important contacts.
Greta Gustafson made her film debut with "Herr och fru Stockholm" in 1920, it followed "En Lyckoriddare" (21) - where also her sister Alva Gustafson (1903-1926) appeared in a small role, "Konsum Stockholm Promo" (21) and finally "Luffarpetter - Peter der Landstreicher" (22). Still there were no signs for a future star, she still was a sweet teenager like countless other starletts too. But this should change soon.
The famous Swedish director Mauritz Stiller (1883-1928) went up to Greta in 1922 and became a sponsor of sorts. Greta played a role in his movie "Gösta Berlings Saga" (24) and with it she found first attention. This success inspired her and she wished a bigger part. Mauritz Stiller recommended her to change her name into the international more current name Greta Garbo - the foundation of a incomparable career was laid.
Stiller find her a place in Germany where she acted under the direction of Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) in the movie "Die freudlose Gasse" (25) at super star Asta Nielsen's (1883-1972) side, who also came from Sweden.
Greta Garbo became a star in Europe with this production but in overseas she was an unknown quantity as ever. Her friendship with Mauritz Stiller again proved to be guiding.
M-G-M vice president Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) became aware of Stiller and obligated the director for the USA. During the contract negotiation Stiller persisted in involving Greta Garbo as a part of the contract.
So it happened that Greta Garbo went to the New World in 1925 together with Mauritz Stiller, without knowledge of languages and depended on a interpreter.
M-G-M assigned Greta Garbo in the film "Torrent" at Ricardo Cortez's (1899-1977) side and the audience reacted positive on the charismma of this new screen star.
Her next movie was "The Temptress" (26), directed by Fred Niblo (1874-1948) and she was commercialized as a love goddess.
When M-G-M shot the third movie with her, they also engaged the already famous star John Gilbert (1899-1936) as her partner - a stroke of luck. The cast of "Flesh and the Devil" (26) caused a sensation and Garbo/Gilbert became to the pair of lovers of the 20's as such.
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert were the most famous pair of lovers in Hollywood in 1927. Their popularity led to the second common movie with the title "Love - Die Kameliendame" (27).
The film career of Greta Garbo got on. She appeared in "The Divine Woman" (28) at Lars Hanson's (1886-1965) side with whom she already played together in two movies during her time in Sweden and who was already her partner in "Flesh and the Devil".
It followed the movies "The Mysterious Lady - Der Krieg im Dunkeln" (28), "A Woman of Affairs" (28) - again with John Gilbert, "Wild Orchids" (29) and with "The Kiss" (29) she completed her silent movie career.
Greta Garbo's first sound film was "Anna Christie" (30) and stand for an other fresh impetus for her already great career. She was nominated for an Oscar for the best leading role for the first time.
M-G-M produced a string of other successful movies like "Romance" (30), for what she was nominated for a second Oscar, and finally "Mata Hari" (31), in which she played one more time the great seductress.
After the movie "Inspiration" (31) followed the Vicki Baum adaption "Grand Hotel" (32), a movie bristling with stars and which carried the myth of the unapproachable woman far.
The following film offers didn't come up to Greta Garbo an after the movie "As You Desire Me" (34) where she played together with Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) for the first time, whe returned to Sweden. Only when Louis B. Mayer offered her a production contract which gave her a free hand, she came back to Hollywood.
Greta Garbo chose the film adaption of "Queen Christine" (32), which became her most successful but also most controversial picture.
But the career of Greta Garbo was drawing to its close. She appeared only in few movies, in 1934 in "The Painted Veil", in 1935 in "Anna Karenina", in 1937 in "Camille" as well as "Conquest - Maria Walewska".
Greta Garbo experienced her last cinematically height with the comedy "Ninotchka" (39) for what she was nominated for the fourth Oscar after the movie "Camille".
M-G-M tried after this success to launch a new image of Greta Garbo as a comedienne and produced the movie "Two-Faced Woman - Die Frau mit den zwei Gesichtern" (41). But the film was torn to pieces by the critic.
Greta Garbo retired from the public life after this failure and lived complete sealed from the environment off in New York - a fact which was conducive to her fame as the unapproachable und mysterious woman.
Her death filled the front pages of the big newspapers a last time.
Other movies with Greta Garbo:
A Man's Man (29) The Single Standard (29) Susan Lenox - Her Fall and Rise (31)


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UNSMIL Condemns Attack on Misrata Court House
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned the suicide attack against the court house in the Libyan city of Misrata on 4th October.
The attack, for which the Islamic State (ISIL) claimed responsibility, killed at least three and wounded over 15, including civilians.
The Special Representative to the Secretary-General and Head of UNSMIL, Dr. Ghassan Salame (pictured), sends his sincere condolences to the families of those killed and expresses his hope for the swift recovery of those injured.
Indiscriminate attacks against civilians, including employees of the judicial institutions, are violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and cannot be justified. Those behind today's bombing and other such despicable acts must face justice.
UNSMIL conveys its solidarity to the Government and people of Libya.
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Message Body: Please pray for my husband Terry's cabinetry/millwork business, which has suffered due to the economy. He needs substantial contracts immediately and ongoing throughout the year. We don't seek wealth, we just need to support our family. We have been so discouraged and are feeling such fear, your prayers are very much appreciated.


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Kurt Schwertsik: book and CD released for his 85th birthday
Though Kurt Schwertsik's 85th birthday concert celebrations in Vienna in the spring were COVID-closure casualties, recent months have seen performances conducted by Dennis Russell Davies and Marin Alsop, a new book published and a recording of his piano music.
The 85th birthday of Kurt Schwertsik has been marked by a revealing new book, collecting together his thoughts on "what & how do you learn?" (was & wie lernt man?), alongside a new recording of his piano works on the Gramola label performed by Aya Klebahn, and performances of his orchestral music in Austria and beyond.
The book, published by Musikzeit Edition and designed by Andrea Neuwrith, covers crucial aspects in Kurt Schwertsik's years of music development. The composer looks back at his origins and his years of study with the best teachers in his subject, who were awake both to earlier music and the diversity of today's world. Schwertsik shows a refreshingly light sense of mercurial thinking. Although a student of Stockhausen, he turned from serialism towards a new tonality. While music may seek to entertain the listener, these 'love dreams' take a first step towards an 'alternative' modern culture.
As Der Standard noted in a birthday tribute article, "the book presents the charming character of a contemporary composer whose interests and concerns extend far beyond his field of work. There are ideas even about the entire cosmos. Schwertsik also shares his deep closeness to nature as well as his concern for the ecological and political climate… In addition to introductions to his works and reflective texts, the book also contains a cycle of poems that may refer to the agony of composing, with the title "I can't do it! The dark side of enlightenment & how I felt my way through".
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The new recording of Schwertsik's piano works by Aya Klebahn provides a companion to the recently published Boosey & Hawkes collection Albumblätter. The disc ends at the beginning with Schwertsik's Eden-Bar Seefeld, dating from his early Darmstadt years and premiered in 1961 by the composer at the bar of the title within a Fluxus event. The Cinq Nocturnes are transitional as the composer was moving from Stockhausen's strictures towards a new tonality, with the flexibility to be both tender and temperamental. The core of the recording is the intimate cycle of fourteen Albumblätter (Album Leaves), each taking the form of a personalised diary entry. The Fantasia & Fuga, composed for Angela Hewitt's Bach Book in 2010, is the most ambitious and contrapuntal of his keyboard works, while the recent Am Morgen vor der Reise offers a further album leaf.
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Concerts planned earlier this year to celebrate Schwertsik's 85th, with chamber and orchestral works at the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in his home city of Vienna, sadly fell victim to COVID closures. This made it welcome that the autumn has been able to see a range of Schwertsik performances, launched with Marin Alsop conducting Sinfonia-Sinfonietta in a livestream by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in September. Dennis Russell Davies gave the first performance of a newly extended version of Herr K. entdeckt Amerika, inspired by the anti-hero of Kafka's 'comic' novel, with the Brno Philharmonic at the start of October. Davies is also on the rostrum with the Brucknerhaus Orchestra in Linz on 4 November with Schwertsik's Violin Concerto No.1 featuring Benjamin Herzl as soloist.


About Horley Row Community Pre-school.
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Our Annual General Meeting is held in September and parents are encouraged to attend and elect the members of the committee.
We currently have 30 children on our register and, of these, 22 children receive government funding for early education.
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Q: Why modify function in item doesn't work? Scrapy I made def convert_date because dates that I scrape from the website look like this 2021-05-06T23:59:59 and also this is the expiration date so I have to subtract 30 days from this to generate the publication date. I'm looking for a reason why my modify function doesn't work. I've used the input and output process I but I still got in the database unchanged string. Could someone give me some hints about this?
#items.py
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
from datetime import timedelta, date
from scrapy.loader.processors import MapCompose, TakeFirst

def convert_date(text):
    text = text.split('T')
    year = int(text[0][:4])
    month = int(text[0][5:7])
    day = int(text[0][8:10])
    process_date = date(year, month, day)
    final_date = process_date - timedelta(30)
    return final_date

class JobOfferItem(Item):
    title = Field()
    employer = Field()
    country = Field()
    employer_page = Field()
    pub_date = Field(
        input_processor=MapCompose(convert_date),
        output_processor=TakeFirst()
        )
    salary = Field()
    seniority = Field()
    offer_id = Field()
    region = Field()
    city = Field()
    url = Field()

#pipilines.py
import sqlite3

class OfferscraperPipeline:
    def __init__(self):
        self.create_connection()
        self.create_table()

    def create_connection(self):
        self.conn = sqlite3.connect('joboffer.db')
        self.curr = self.conn.cursor()

    def create_table(self):
        self.curr.execute("""create table if not exists offer_tb(
                            title text,
                            employer text,
                            country text,
                            employer_page text,
                            pub_date text,
                            salary text,
                            seniority text,
                            offer_id text unique,
                            region text,
                            city text,
                            url text
                            )""")

    def store_db(self, item):
        self.curr.execute("""insert into offer_tb values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?, ?)""", (
            item['title'][0],
            item['employer'][0],
            item['country'][0],
            item['employer_page'][0],
            item['pub_date'][0],
            item['salary'][0],
            item['seniority'][0],
            item['offer_id'][0],
            item['region'][0],
            item['city'][0],
            item['url'],
        ))
        self.conn.commit()

    def process_item(self, item, spider):
        self.store_db(item)
        return item

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CHAPTER FIVE THE NEUROSCIENCE Your Brain on Psychedelics WHAT JUST HAPPENED in my brain?
A molecule had launched me on each of these trips, and I returned from my travels intensely curious to learn what the chemistry could tell me about consciousness and what that might reveal about the brain's relationship to the mind. How do you get from the ingestion of a compound created by a fungus or a toad (or a human chemist) to a novel state of consciousness with the power to change one's perspective on things, not just during the journey, but long after the molecule has left the body?
Actually, there were three different molecules in question—psilocin, LSD, and 5-MeO-DMT—but even a casual glance at their structures (and I say this as someone who earned a D in high school chemistry) indicates a resemblance. All three molecules are tryptamines. A tryptamine is a type of organic compound (an indole, to be exact) distinguished by the presence of two linked rings, one of them with six atoms and the other with five. Living nature is awash in tryptamines, which show up in plants, fungi, and animals, where they typically act as signaling molecules between cells. The most famous tryptamine in the human body is the neurotransmitter serotonin, the chemical name of which is 5-hydroxytryptamine. It is no coincidence that this molecule has a strong family resemblance with the psychedelic molecules.
Serotonin might be famous, as neurotransmitters go, yet much about it remains a mystery. For example, it binds with a dozen or so different receptors, and these are found not only across many parts of the brain but throughout the body, with a substantial representation in the digestive tract. Depending on the type of receptor in question and its location, serotonin is liable to make very different things happen—sometimes exciting a neuron to fire, other times inhibiting it. Think of it as a kind of word, the meaning or import of which can change radically depending on the context or even its placement in a sentence.
The group of tryptamines we call "the classical psychedelics" have a strong affinity with one particular type of serotonin receptor, called the 5-HT2A. These receptors are found in large numbers in the human cortex, the outermost, and evolutionarily most recent, layer of the brain. Basically, the psychedelics resemble serotonin closely enough that they can attach themselves to this receptor site in such a way as to activate it to do various things.
Curiously, LSD has an even stronger affinity with the 5-HT2A receptor—is "stickier"—than serotonin itself, making this an instance where the simulacrum is more convincing, chemically, than the original. This has led some scientists to speculate that the human body must produce some other, more bespoke chemical for the express purpose of activating the 5-HT2A receptor—perhaps an endogenous psychedelic that is released under certain circumstances, perhaps when dreaming. One candidate for that chemical is the psychedelic molecule DMT, which has been found in trace amounts in the pineal gland of rats.
The science of serotonin and LSD has been closely intertwined since the 1950s; in fact, it was the discovery that LSD affected consciousness at such infinitesimal doses that helped to advance the new field of neurochemistry in the 1950s, leading to the development of the SSRI antidepressants. But it wasn't until 1998 that Franz Vollenweider, a Swiss researcher who is one of the pioneers of psychedelic neuroscience, demonstrated that psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin work on the human brain by binding with the 5-HT2A receptors. He did this by giving subjects a drug called ketanserin that blocks the receptor; when he then administered psilocybin, nothing happened.
Yet Vollenweider's discovery, important as it was, is but a small step on the long (and winding) road from psychedelic chemistry to psychedelic consciousness. The 5-HT2A receptor might be the lock on the door to the mind that those three molecules unlock, but how did that chemical opening lead, ultimately, to what I felt and experienced? To the dissolution of my ego, for example, and the collapse of any distinction between subject and object? Or to the morphing in my mind's eye of Mary into María Sabina? Put another way, what, if anything, can brain chemistry tell us about the "phenomenology" of the psychedelic experience?
All these questions concern the contents of consciousness, of course, which at least to this point has eluded the tools of neuroscience. By consciousness, I don't mean simply "being conscious"—the basic sensory awareness creatures have of changes in their environment, which is easy to measure experimentally. In this limited sense, even plants are "conscious," though it's doubtful they possess full-blown consciousness. What neuroscientists and philosophers and psychologists mean by consciousness is the unmistakable sense we have that we are, or possess, a self that has experiences.
Sigmund Freud wrote that "there is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our self, our own ego." Yet it is difficult to be quite so certain that anyone else possesses consciousness, much less other creatures, because there is no outward physical evidence that consciousness as we experience it exists. The thing of which we are most certain is beyond the reach of our science, supposedly our surest way of knowing anything.
This dilemma has left ajar a door through which writers and philosophers have stepped. The classic thought experiment to determine whether another being is in possession of consciousness was proposed by Thomas Nagel, a philosopher, in a famous 1974 paper, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" He argued that if "there is something that it is like to be a bat"—if there is any subjective dimension to bat experience—then a bat possesses consciousness. He went on to suggest that this "what it is like" quality may not be reducible to material terms. Ever.
Whether or not Nagel's right about that is the biggest argument going in the field of consciousness studies. The question at its heart is often referred to as "the hard problem" or the "explanatory gap": How do you explain mind—the subjective quality of experience—in terms of meat, that is, in terms of the physical structures or chemistry of the brain? The question assumes, as most (but not all) scientists do, that consciousness is a product of brains and that it will eventually be explained as the epiphenomenon of material things like neurons and brain structures, chemicals and communications networks. That would certainly seem to be the most parsimonious hypothesis. Yet it is a long way from being proven, and a number of neuroscientists question whether it ever will be: whether something as elusive as subjective experience—what it feels like to be you—will ever yield to the reductions of science. These scientists and philosophers are sometimes called mysterians, which is not meant as a compliment. Some scientists have raised the possibility that consciousness may pervade the universe, suggesting we think of it the same way we do electromagnetism or gravity, as one of the fundamental building blocks of reality.
The idea that psychedelic drugs might shed some light on the problems of consciousness makes a certain sense. A psychedelic drug is powerful enough to disrupt the system we call normal waking consciousness in ways that may force some of its fundamental properties into view. True, anesthetics disrupt consciousness too, yet because such drugs shut it down, this kind of disturbance yields relatively little data. In contrast, someone on a psychedelic remains awake and able to report on what he or she is experiencing in real time. Nowadays, these subjective reports can be correlated with various measures of brain activity, using several different modes of imaging—tools unavailable to researchers during the first wave of psychedelic research in the 1950s and 1960s.
By deploying these technologies in combination with LSD and psilocybin, a handful of scientists working in both Europe and the United States are opening a new window onto consciousness, and what they are glimpsing through it promises to change our understanding of the links between our brains and our minds.


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Andie Macdowell, 64, is content with her gray hair and wrinkles, ignoring criticism: 'I'm Feeling More Honest.'
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It may be tough to age as a well-known Hollywood celebrity. With constant scrutiny from a plethora of fans, it's no surprise that many actors resort to cosmetic surgery to maintain their youthful appearance.
However, not every celebrity believes that aging is a bad thing. Andie MacDowell never tried to hide her signs of aging, preferring to flaunt her maturity.
The «St. Elmo's Fire» star recalled a story from when she was 40. Many reporters were intrigued by her age at the time, and they all wanted to know how she felt about growing older. When a journalist inquired about her feelings about losing her appearance, she stated unequivocally that she does not believe she is losing her appeal. It simply appears to her to be a different form of beauty.
As she grew older, MacDowell advocated for the preservation of natural beauty. She never chastised someone for getting cosmetic surgery, but she said she would never have it done on herself. She thinks natural aging is a great stage.
The actress admits to trying Botox once but disliking it and never doing it again. She also disclosed that she had previously visited a plastic surgeon and left after a brief session, believing she would never return.
Rather than having plastic surgery, MacDowell seeks to care for her skin with facials and self-care. The actress stated that she has accepted herself and who she has evolved into over the years.
Throughout her career, MacDowell has served as a spokesperson for the cosmetics company L'Oréal. Working for a well-known corporation, she noted, has been good since they have always been supportive of her and have enabled her to accept aging.
MacDowell has had to accept the fact that she is getting older throughout the years, but she has also recognized that aging isn't as devastating as many people believe. The actress learned to be confident in her age.
MacDowell recently made a major statement by refusing to colour her hair as she grew older. She was forthright about her decision, claiming that it was mostly inspired by her children.
MacDowell reported that she started turning grey at the start of the lockdown. She visited her children frequently during the quarantine because they lived nearby, and as her hair began to grey, her children were always there for her.
After receiving supportive comments from her children, MacDowell decided to keep her natural hair color. Her management first pushed her to color her hair rather than follow the natural approach. She was staunchly opposed.
MacDowell told them that the time had come to flaunt her greying hair. The actress explained that she had always admired the distinct appearance of hair that hadn't gone entirely grey, and that if she waited any longer, she would miss her chance.
She soon received an offer for a new project and had to make a decision. MacDowell chose to be strong, and she hasn't looked back since. She appears to be at comfortable with herself and her new all-natural hairdo.
Obviously, there was always some fear about how people might react to the change. MacDowell stated that she considered having a selection of wigs on ready in case she enraged anyone.
Fortunately, she discovered that she didn't have to please anyone except herself once she was out in the world. She was having fun with her new hair and the process of aging. She was not about to hide her age from anyone.
MacDowell explained why she chose to keep her natural hair color. She added that she watched other average women making the move on Instagram and appreciated their bravery.
She also remarked that her hair and features no longer appeared to be in sync. Her facial creases were obvious. Her youth contrasted with the lines on her cheeks when she colored her hair.
MacDowell felt fantastic after electing to preserve her natural hair color. She had the impression that she could be herself without feeling self-conscious. She thought she was beautiful simply for being herself.
She realized that by going out in public with her natural hair, she could speak for all the women who feel the need to hide who they are. She began using her platforms to inspire others, similar to the other powerful women who had influenced her.
In an industry where aging might indicate the end of your profession, especially for women, MacDowell has always been open about her age. Despite the danger, she realized she didn't want to conceal her identity.
Although MacDowell received a lot of support from her fans, not everyone thought her natural hair color was a good idea. Some fans expressed their support for the actress by recommending that she tint her hair.
MacDowell recently announced that her son and his wife are expecting their first child. She has three children and is expecting her first grandchild. In a post, she revealed her pregnancy and expressed her joy at becoming a grandma.
MacDowell has always prioritized her family over her professional career. She likes spending time with her three children, which she stated in an Instagram post.
She captioned the photo, saying she loves her children and that they have taught her so much over the years. She went on to remark that she couldn't wait to see what her grandson has in store for her.
The message included two photos of MacDowell's child and wife, both of whom appeared ecstatic about the forthcoming delivery. The new mother wore two outfits to show off her baby tummy, and the couple was spotted laughing and embracing.
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property rights in and to the Licensed Software shall remain with Philips.
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The competent court for any dispute between you and Philips pursuant to this End User License Agreement is the court of 'sHertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
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agree, once you give it the edge, your PC will never sound the same again.
reproduction that will transform your PC into a sonic powerhouse!
source is automatically upgraded to higher fidelity!
Modern and appealing look that is audio centric, naturally intuitive, and enjoyable to use.
headphone, 2, 4, or 5.1 channel speaker systems.
Totally customizable settings allow audio fine-tuning with extreme precision.
2.0/I3D Level 2, A3D enabled games.
headphone or two-speaker set configuration.
(QEM) algorithms for totally immersive gaming and dramatic musical performances.
experience that is smooth and natural.
volume variations for all audio sources - automatically.
digital audio lines to be captured by Sonic Edge for playback, recording, or monitoring.
external decoders to be connected to your new soundcard.
and movies – exactly the way you like it.
Windows® 98SE, Windows® ME, Windows® 2000, and Windows® XP.
higher limits than listed above.
before starting your soundcard installation.
Drivers section of this document.
appropriate section to disable, or remove the old sound system.
on a 4-inch end bracket (similar to your Sonic Edge end bracket).
examples of on-board audio connectors.
To disable your integrated sound (on-board audio) you will have to enter the system BIOS utility.
Warning: Do not alter any other settings of your BIOS, or your system may not function properly.
Refer to your system documentation on how to activate the BIOS utility.
For useful examples on how to disable the on-board audio please refer to Appendix C.
and all devices that are connected to the computer.
begin installation to discharge static electricity.
Follow these steps to remove the old card (Figure 3).
• Unscrew the soundcard and save the screw for the new soundcard.
connected to your CD ROM drive or DVD ROM drive.
• Remove the old soundcard by firmly pulling it out.
• If no soundcard, select an available PCI slot and remove its cover plate.
Follow these steps to install the Sonic Edge card (Figure 4).
• Remove the Sonic Edge Soundcard from the anti-static bag.
the soundcard is aligned properly and fits snugly into the slot.
DVD ROM drive to any one of these inputs. There are also two digital input lines (S/PDIF IN).
There are five jacks and one large D-connector (Game/Midi port) on the end bracket (see Figure 6).
Power up the PC and have the installation CD that came with your new soundcard ready.
Where D:\ is the name of your CD Drive.
right hand corner), as shown in Figure 8.
CD or follow the above direction to bring up the launcher panel.
PSA2 is the visual audio interface for the Sonic Edge soundcard.
settings, you need to expand to the Main Control Panel using the Resize Button. See Figure 9.
click on the pull down arrow at the bottom of the panel. See Figure 10.
Panel appears only in the expanded mode as a sliding cover for the Main Control Panel.
Master Volume controls the overall output level of the soundcard.
Toggles all sound on or off.
Closes the PSA2 control panel without affecting audio operation.
sliders are set to their factory default levels, and Presets go to Neutral.
stream. The button label lights up when QSizzle is enabled.
stream. The button label lights up when QRumble is enabled.
Toggles the 10-band Equalizer on and off. The button label lights up when the Equalizer is enabled.
When the button is not activated the EQ remains inoperative.
Agent 2 icon in the system tray. See Figure 11.
Resize button on the right hand corner, next to the Close icon.
of all the features on the Effects tab.
as MP3 and WMA formats.
QSizzle is enabled, and QSizzle Off when disabled.
Equalizer does not monitor the input signal or perform self-adjustment.
your speaker volume becomes a thing of the past.
unique combination of speakers with headphones.
no matter what the combination of signal type and output hardware.
Effect indicators on the Effects Tab light to show which algorithm is active at any given time.
optimizes the sound to create "virtual" speakers and immerse the listener in surround sound.
QMSS is optimal for multi-channel speaker set-ups (4 or 5.1 channel) when a stereo source is used.
depending on your speaker set-up.
frequency response of ten independent frequency bands.
center position, frequencies within this band left flat and the gain is 0dB. See Figure 13.
given band, move its slider below the centerline. Maximum boost or cut is ±12dB on each direction.
several other features as well.
number of speakers you have.
explanation of each output mode and each control on this tab. See Figure 14.
This option selects the headphone sound processing algorithms.
QXpander section of this manual.
Input Sources under Mixer tab.
simply click on Quad Speakers, or 5.1 Channel Speakers mode.
you to play a DVD on your PC using a soft-DVD player, utilizing an external AC3/DTS decoder.
Digital Output (S/PDIF) in the Setup Tab.
amplification circuitry. To the outside world it has the same effect as the master volume has.
Fader controls the balance between the front and the rear speakers.
This slider provides control for the volume level of the subwoofer.
speaker channel enables you to ensure that the speakers or headphones are properly connected.
sound to the corresponding speaker. See Figure 15.
Sounds is off, the sound will only play once for each click of a speaker button.
The Close button exits the test utility and returns you to the Main Control Panel Setup Tab.
Mixer Tabs allow you to select and control playback, recording, and S/PDIF input sources.
You can individually mute or un-mute as many playback sources as you wish.
Volume sliders set the playback level for each source.
time. Use the Playback Source Scrollbar to reveal more source controls. See Figure 16.
slider in its default position, right click on that slider.
controls that may otherwise be hidden.
microphone signals. If distortion occurs, turn Boost off.
that you have input to the source.
The following controls are on the Advanced tab. See Figure 18.
distortion occurs, turn Boost off.
be the source for recording the Recording sub tab of the Mixer becomes unavailable.
either your digital or analog speakers. You can select the type of output mode on the Setup tab.
Only one of the two inputs may be selected as a source for recording at a time.
controls, so that you can conveniently reload the same settings at any time.
next time you want to listen to a similar sound stream.
Your Sound Agent comes with several factory presets as listed on the Presets tab.
Clicking on this button loads an existing preset.
Sound Agent will not overwrite a factory presets, but you can overwrite your presets.
number, manufacturer's name, and the web page address for possible upgrade software.
that is applied to the music.
by means of the button at the center of its lower edge.
and click on the Philips Sound Agent 2 tab and select the Uninstall program.
Model number and date of purchase.
Computer type, processor speed, and memory available.
Computer operating system (IE; Windows® 98SE, ME, etc.).
Other hardware connected to your soundcard.
See Warranty Sheet in your package.
warranty on the product expires, the warranty on all replaced and repaired parts also expires.
product, and installation or repair of other systems outside of the product.
external causes not within the control of Philips Consumer Electronics.
• A product used for commercial or institutional purposes.
may be a delay if the appropriate spare parts and technical manual(s) are not readily available).
(800) 835-3506 (U. S. A. customers only).
and/or procedures covered in the manual may save you a service call.
A Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number must be obtained by calling (800) 8353506.
shipment is made by Philips.
The repair center may keep defective parts.
places on the package. The RMA desk will provide returning shipping address.
model and serial numbers found on the product.
state/ province to state/ province.
Following is some suggestions to help you set up your audio hardware for best results.
arranging each pair of speakers as symmetrically as possible.
speakers from the listener. They also need to be at the same height and angle as the front speakers.
around, this doesn't change your position relative to the speakers.
headphones can be used successfully.
strong compared to the original, which will reduce the clarity of the signal you hear.
the Philips Sound Agent 2 test utility to help you judge the volumes.
This practice applies to headphones as well.
the old soundcard out of your computer.
not deleting any other program.
Click on the Remove (or Add/Remove) button.
When uninstall is finished removing the drivers, click OK, close all applications.
Properties. A new window will open.
button at the middle of the window.
On Windows 98SE and ME select the Device Manager tab on top.
In the Device Manager window locate "Sound, video, and game controllers".
Click on the + next to it. A list of devices will drop down from this selection.
Select your soundcard, right click on it.
From the drop down menu select Remove. Click on OK.
remove all components before exiting the Device Manager.
of your PC. Please go back to Soundcard Installation section of this document.
"Press Del to enter setup", or "Press F1 to enter setup".
enter the setup utility. Find out how to enter the setup utility in your system and invoke it.
navigate through the setup utility.
moving the highlight on this menu, and hit Enter.
options are in your PC.
Save your settings and exit.


Today's story comes from Cammie McQuilkin, serving in university campus ministry in Salerno, Italy.
Each day I get the blessing of seeing God work through my limitations as I continue to do ministry here in Salerno. I also see him working in those around me. He is using what seem like limited circumstances and situations to draw people to himself. The university students whom my team and I work with are a majority atheists or agnostics. While attending University they are facing problems that they have never had before, which can cause great anxiety and stress. One student who I met when I first arrived in Salerno 5 months ago, who wanted nothing to do with God and was very hard to the Gospel, was facing some problems with preparing for a study abroad trip, and having anxiety about the future. As we talked about her problems and fears, I was able to share how God provided for me peace and comfort to get through these similar situations. She stated that it was nice that I was able to have a peace about stressful situations, and that I can trust Jesus with my troubles. Even the acknowledgment that Jesus could be a source of comfort shows that God has been working in her heart.
I was able to share that I am limited in controlling how things will work out, but I can have peace because I trust Jesus to provide for me in my everyday needs because I have trusted him with my eternal salvation. Through my stressful situations and weaknesses, my friend is seeing Jesus for who he is as a sovereign king, who is in control, and is a good dad who provides for his children. He does not waste anything, though at times we don't understand the purpose of stressful situations or having to function in our weakness. He has a purpose and a plan that is ultimately for his glory and our good.
I have been reflecting on what God has been teaching me, and I have realized that I have been learning the same lesson: how to be weak. God has shown me that I idolize my strengths, which sets my focus on making my glory known, instead of his. In 2 Corinthians 12, Paul had received the thorn in his flesh, saw his limitations, and prayed for it to go away, but the Lord told him that "my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." God did not take away his weakness, but used it for his glory.


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Go between may speed Vieira's Madrid move
By Nick Parkinson
July 21 2004, 1:00am, The Times
PATRICK VIEIRA'S possible transfer to Real Madrid appeared to move a step closer yesterday after an independent agent was sent to London to monitor the situation for the Spanish club. As Arsenal leave for their pre-season tour to Slovenia, Austria and the Netherlands today, the future of their captain looks increasingly likely to be in Spain next season.
Luis Vicente, a Portuguese agent who is not employed by either club, is acting as a go-between to start the process of a potential £30 million deal that could see Vieira leave Highbury after eight years with the Premiership champions.
Vicente, who has close links with Real, is keeping the Spanish club informed on the France midfield player's situation. Vicente is sending information to Madrid after talking…


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Transcosmos Asia Philippines: Transcosmos Inc. Establishes its 70thOverseas Location in Ortigas
Transcosmos Incorporated, the largest Business Process Outsourcing company in Japan with roughly 15,000 employees globally and with Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan has recently established Transcosmos Asia Philippines Inc. located in the heart of Ortigas Business District, as its latest overseas base in the Philippines and started its operations in September 2014. Popularly known for providing excellent BPO services, Transcosmos Asia Philippines also provides development and operation services for smartphone websites and applications for the Philippine market. In addition, other related to the said business such as contact center services with English as its primary language are likewise offered for the global market.
Transcosmos Philippines is a subsidiary which is committed to develop highly engaging games and applications for mobile,tablet and the web.
"The Philippines is a market that is attracting attention with a population skze of about 100 million and an economic growth rate of around 7%. Transcosmos Philippines aims to provide a variety of services beginning with contact center services for companies including global businesses who wishes to expand into the Philippine market, local firms, and client companies that are considering off-shore outsourcing, while it continues to pursue operational excellence. Our vision for the future is to further expand in areas such as E-Commerce one-stop services and analytics services, as we strive to improve services which will help increase sales while reducing costs for our partner client companies," said Transcosmos Philippines President Hideki Yamashita during the Transcosmos Asia inaugural opening held recently.
Distinguished guests of honor during the inaugural opening were Senator Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aquino IV and Director General Lilia B. De Lima.
Senator Bam Aquino is the youngest senator of the 16th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines, multi-awarded youth leader and social entrepreneur. He currently chairs the Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship and Senate Committee on Youth.
Director General Lilia B. De Lima is the Director General of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and Department of Trade and Industry Undersecretary.
The Transcosmos Philippines' inaugural opening also featured the Kagami Biraki/Japanese Sake Ceremony. A 300-year-old traditional ceremony which means "opening of a mirror, a beginning." The fourth Tokugawa Shogun was the first one to hold the said ceremony 300 years ago. It had been said that before going to the war, he gathered his daimyo in his castle to break open the sake cask. The battle was successful, so from then on a new traditional ceremony was born.
With the establishment of Transcosmos Philippines, global bases deployed by Transcosmos will extend to 70 locations, and its presence in the ASEAN region will move into its fourth country following Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. Transcosmos Philippines is targeting ¥2billion by year 2018.
Transcosmos began its operations in 1966. Since then it has proven its excellent "human resources" with the latest "technological" capabilities to further improve the strength of its corporate clients by providing them with superior services and topnotch value in overall information technology outsourcing services such as Call Center, Business Outsourcing Services, and Digital Marketing services. These are either as standalone solution or as combined services to its corporate clients to optimize marketing efficiencies, expand sales and gain new clients in E-Commerce business. Transcosmos Inc. is happy that these services have been expanded beyond Japan, and has gone globally focusing in Asia. In the next couple of years, Trancosmos Inc. aims to be the "Global IT Partner" of its corporate clients to provide them with world-class and top quality outsourcing services.
Transcosmos Philippines is located at 32nd Flr. One Corporate Center, Julia Vargas Avenue cor. Meralco Exchange, Ortigas, Pasig City
For more information, visit them on Facebook https://facebook.com/transcosmos.ph
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Former student develops Adventure Aide app to connect outdoor enthusiasts
Emily Merten
A full moon rises atop Terrace Hill one warm January night, and 37 people sit in a circle. Sounds of guitar strums and a didgeridoo echo outward, guiding students through yoga poses in the moonlight alongside their instructor.
This experience was made possible through Adventure Aide, an online platform designed to connect people to adventure opportunities in the San Luis Obispo area and beyond.
Users who download the Adventure Aide app can sign up for a wide range of activities, from horseback riding to one-on-one surfing lessons. The app also offers atypical adventures such as nature photography workshops, or a guided food tour through downtown San Luis Obispo.
"It connects people from all over the area, of all ages, of all interests, and it brings them together under one common love of the outdoors," journalism senior and Adventure Aide intern Molly O'Brien said.
The adventures range in price. Some trips are free, such as wakeboarding days out on Lake Nacimiento; others, such as $60 surf lessons with equipment provided, vary in price.
"The trips don't fill up as quickly as Poly Escapes do, and they cost a lot less, too," O'Brien said.
Adventure Aide partners with adventure enthusiasts and professionals in the community, known as "aides," who guide users along different adventures. Journalism senior and avid biker Sean Bird led a mountain biking adventure through Poly Canyon in the fall.
Users are not the only ones who gain a positive experience through the app. It provides aides with an opportunity to make money while sharing their passions with others.
"The greatest part about mountain biking for me is being able to share the experience with others," Bird said. "As an aide, that's one of the attractive parts of the platform: taking your every day ride or local adventure and being able to pass that on to someone who's never experienced that before."
Adventure Aide CEO Connor Woolpert is a San Luis Obispo native, skydiver, surfer, snowboarder and former Cal Poly student. He grew up traveling, inspired by his adventures and the people he met along the way.
"One night, I was writing down all my ideas, and I kind of had a 'lightbulb' moment," Woolpert said. "I thought it would be really cool to give people this all-access pass to the outdoors, and on the other side, give people an opportunity to create a business and a lifestyle out of what they love to do and make money doing it."
So, he threw himself into the app.
"During that time, the idea was taking over my life," Woolpert said. "I invested all my time on it."
He dropped out of Cal Poly shortly after.
"Frankly, I thought about [Adventure Aide] every minute of every day," Woolpert said. "There came a point where I thought, 'I'm not invested in my time in school anymore. This is everything I want to do, so I'm gonna just go for it.'"
The app was launched in 2017.
Fours years after that "lightbulb moment," Adventure Aide is expanding its range of activities, as well as expanding its reach south to include activities as far away as Los Angeles. Eventually, Woolpert hopes to take the adventures international.
"We're working on expanding to give people access to everything there is to do outdoors, whether it's in [San Luis Obispo] or Alaska or Patagonia," Woolpert said.
According to Woolpert, the iOS and Android apps are in the process of being "vastly upgraded"— improving user interface and adding features like adventure requests, which will allow users to interact with aides and request specific adventure times and activities.
Adventure Aide in the process of testing the upgraded Android app; it will likely be available in the next week , according to Woolpert. The upgraded iOS app will be available on the App Store March 7.
When O'Brien recalled her favorite Adventure Aide moment, she thought of the full moon yoga flow that January night. The moonlight illuminated Terrace Hill as Adventure Aide users walked to the hilltop together, forming a connection even before laying down their mats. As she looked around at this 360 view of San Luis Obispo, one word came to mind: "magical."
"SLO is the perfect kind of area for us to have these adventure experiences," O'Brien said. "And Adventure Aide really gives you an opportunity to take advantage of it to its full potential."
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Conservatives Shouldn't Trash Plastic Bag Ban
ANDREW DRESSNER
In New York, plastic bags must have a lifespan of at least 125 uses for carrying up to 22 pounds a distance of 175 feet to be considered "reusable" and in compliance with state regulations.
If you're ever driving along an interstate, chances are there are piles of trash on either side of the road — bottles, car tires, hubcaps, couches and, almost ubiquitously, plastic bags.
There aren't many items on this list that we can exactly outlaw. Cars wouldn't run too well without tires and hubcaps, and personally, I do enjoy having a couch. However, there is no reason that plastic bags should be a commodity of the future.
Following the lead of a handful of other states, New York decided to do just that on March 1, as single-use plastic bags (with limited exceptions) are now banned from Montauk to Buffalo. Consumers will still be able to use paper bags (with a per-bag fee of five cents in New York City) or opt to use their own reusable bags.
For such a benign and easily implemented policy, there's no reason to be outraged over taking a small step to help the environment. Many notable conservatives, however, have gone to bat for the plastic bag industry, arguing that New York's new ban on such bags is environmentally damaging and a "feel good" solution to saving animals. As one National Review writer put it, this ban is "an indication that our Empire State government continues to consider it its sworn to duty to harass and annoy its own citizens." Not only are these contentions wrong, but they are so absurd that they evoke a sense of complaining for the sake of complaining — an "owning the libs" type of journalism.
There is, for one, no real environmental concern about outlawing these bags. This argument stems from studies that show that reusable bags make a bigger carbon footprint in their manufacturing. However, this argument doesn't take into account that these bags are reused over time. Different studies show that polypropylene bags (the green reusables you see in many grocery stores) need to be used between 11 and 37 times to offset the cost of manufacturing them compared to a single-use plastic bag.
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This won't be an issue for New Yorkers, as the new law stipulates that plastic bags must have a lifespan of at least 125 uses for carrying up to 22 pounds a distance of 175 feet to be considered "reusable" and in compliance with state regulations. To the naysayers who argue that people won't reuse these bags because they get dirty and are unlikely to be cleaned, I say, let's see if that's the case now that consumers don't have a free alternative.
This argument also doesn't take into consideration the fact that plastic bags take thousands of years to break down, and even then, they absorb toxins that animals mistake for food. Other statistics are equally disturbing, considering that an estimated 100,000 marine animals are killed annually by plastic bags, and in 2014, an estimated 15 to 51 trillion microplastic particles were floating in the world's oceans, weighing between 93,000 and 236,000 tons. And because plastic bags are very lightweight and blow easily in the wind, we may never be sure of the true amount released into the open environment.
While this bag ban isn't a panacea to our environmental woes, it is a tenable start. Packaging makes up only 5% of the food industry's carbon footprint, but that shouldn't be the only method of calculating a potential gain from banning these single-use plastic bags. We should be balancing any potential costs with the gains from cleaner oceans, parks, roads, streets and sidewalks.
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Andrew Dressner, FCLC '23, is the photo editor for The Observer and is majoring in natural science on the pre-med track. Outside of The Observer, Andrew loves taking photos, is an EMT and enjoys rock climbing.
One Response to "Conservatives Shouldn't Trash Plastic Bag Ban"
Robert Held on March 12th, 2020 3:56 pm
So, once again, "notable conservatives" are concerned more with the bottom line than with doing what is right. Greed is good, plastic bags are good. Thank you, Mr. Bernabei.


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Invasive, Noxious, and Diseased Plants
Handle the following with care … then bring them to us for composting!
The blossoms of wild parsnip or giant hogweed may add beauty to the roadsides, but sap from the plant can prove quite painful if you get it on your skin. Ultraviolet light (present even on cloudy days) reacts with the sap and can cause reddening, rashes, discoloration, severe blisters, and burning.
And a disease like late blight won't just kill your potatoes or tomato plants – it can spread quickly to neighboring gardens or farms, wiping out entire harvests. It's important to identify the disease quickly and dispose of the disease plants properly to avoid spreading the infection.
Here's a brief guide on how to identify noxious plants and dangerous plant diseases commonly found in Chittenden County – and what to do with them.
How to identify common local plants & problems
Wild Parsnip
Description: Wild parsnip looks like a yellow version of Queen Anne's lace. Yellow, in flat-topped umbrella-like clusters at the top of the plant.
Season: Wild parsnip rosettes are among the first plants to become green in spring, and its flowers turn a prominent yellow in midsummer. After flowering and going to seed, plants die and turn brown in fall, but first year rosettes remain green until frost.
Habitat: Roadsides, abandoned fields, unmowed pastures, edges of woods, prairie restorations.
Description: Giant hogweed looks like Queen Anne's lace—on steroids. It is a biennial or perennial herb in the carrot family which can grow to 14 feet or more. Its hollow, ridged stems grow 2-4 inches in diameter and have dark reddish-purple blotches. Its large compound leaves can grow up to 5 feet wide. Its white flower heads can grow up to 2 1/2 feet in diameter.
Season: Late June to mid-July
Habitat: The species is common along railroads, roadsides, rights-of-ways, vacant lots, streams, rivers, uncultivated or waste lands and agricultural areas.
Description: It first appears on the lower, older leaves as small brown spots with concentric rings that form a "bull's eye" pattern. As the disease matures, it spreads outward on the leaf surface causing it to turn yellow, wither and die. Eventually the stem, fruit and upper portion of the plant will become infected. Crops can be severely damaged.
Season: Symptoms of early blight usually appear near the end of the season, though symptoms may appear earlier.
Affects: Tomato & potato plants.
Late Blight
Description: Late blight kills plants outright, and it is highly contagious. Its occurrence in your garden can affect other gardens and farms due to the wind-dispersed spores. The fungus that causes late blight is aptly named: phytophthora in Latin means "plant destroyer." Infected plant tissue dies. Outbreaks spread quickly under favorable conditions because the pathogen can produce huge numbers of wind-dispersed spores. Once a plant is infected, it must be destroyed.
Season: The disease spreads rapidly in cool wet weather, whereas dry weather tends to hold back the disease. The USA Blight website tracks the occurence of late blight in real time. Check the site regularly during the growing season.
Affects: Mainly attacks potatoes and tomatoes, although it can sometimes be found on other crops, weeds and ornamentals in the same botanical family, such as petunia, nightshades, and tomatillos.
What to do with them
Bag the plants (exercise extra caution with noxious plants, the sap from which can cause severe burns or blindness), ideally in a paper grocery bag or a compostable leaf bag (available at many hardware stores, garden centers, and grocery stores), and drop them off at one of the facilities listed below. If you use plastic bags, you MUST empty the parsnips out of the bag at all drop-off locations, and dispose of the bag in the trash.
Drop them off at:
Best: Green Mountain Compost on Redmond Road in Williston; let them know when you bring any noxious or blighted plant so they can bury it immediately and prevent the spores or blight from spreading.
McNeil Wood & Yard Waste Depot on Intervale Road in Burlington
Many people know what to do to remove the noxious wild parsnip and giant hogweed plants (wear gloves and protective clothing, dig them out by the roots, remove flowers to prevent seed production, etc.), but they may not be so sure about how to properly dispose of the plants, or plants affected by Early Blight or Late Blight.
Along with general yard and garden debris, weeds (even wild parsnip and giant hogweed) are banned from landfill disposal in Chittenden County. There are nine facilities in the county where you can bring them to be safely composted. All material brought to these facilities ends up at Green Mountain Compost in Williston, where, unlike backyard compost systems, composting temperatures are high enough to degrade the noxious compounds in the plants as well as destroy the seeds to prevent future germination.
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Cockle Shell's traditional meaning is, "jumping for joy".