The Finance Division is under the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Finance and acts on behalf of the Vice Chancellor in managing the financial resources of the University.
The Division implements the policies, procedures and directives issued by the University authorities (Council and Management) from time to time. These policies are binding and impact on all the University activities.
3. Internal Audit Department (for operation and administration only, otherwise for the executing of their mandate the department reports directly to the Moi University Governing Council- MUGC).
The Finance Department is under the stewardship of the Finance Officer. The Finance Department in bestowed with the responsibility to manage the Financial resources of the University effectively and efficiently.
iii) To advise and assist the University in handling accounting and reporting problems and recommend system revisions in tandem with changes that occur from time to time. These system changes are designed to improve reporting and provide the University Management with accurate and timely information for efficient and effective decision-making.
The Internal Audit Department is under the Chief Internal Auditor. The Internal Audit is maintained and supported in terms of its independent assurance and consultancy function to examine and evaluate the University's activities. The primary objective of the Internal Audit Function is to assist Management and the Council in the effective discharge of their responsibilities. The Department will furnish them with reports containing analyses, recommendations and counsel.
iii) To conduct special projects or studies as requested by Management.
The Procurement Department is under the leadership Senior Procurement Officer. The Procurement unit is responsible for provision of goods and services to the University thus supporting it in achieving its desired Mission, Vision and Objective. The Procurement Unit is always guided by the Public Procurement Act and the University rules and regulations.
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Pioneers of the Alabama Territory, Part 2
By Editor | October 17, 2018 | 0
By Mary Alice Beatty Carmichael
By 1817, Mississippi, as shown by US Census, soon had the requisite population for Statehood. At that time the eastern part of the former Mississippi Territory became the fairly short-lived Alabama Territory.
There were wonderful offerings of new land for sale for those who would venture there to settle. "Alabama fever" became the name by which this migration of pioneers was called. Alabama Fever called many to this area preceded by a number who had arrived during the years of the Mississippi Territory.
A short two years later, during the Presidency of James Monroe, on Dec. 19, 1819 the Alabama Territory had the requisite population by Census to become the State of Alabama. Some of the early pioneers had been known historically, some were family men and women, some were speculators, some were adventurers, and some were in multiple categories of description.
All wanted to have part in the "new land" that was Alabama. All had been infected with the "Alabama Fever."
The first county of the new state and the large "mother county" of later counties, Monroe, contained almost a third of the land mass of Alabama. It extended from the Florida border, northward to beyond Cullman and from near the Tensaw Swamp to the Georgia border at the southern end of the state.
In the Mount Moriah Fellowship Church Cemetery (listed on Oct. 17, 2012 in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register by the Alabama Historical Commission) lie a number of those brave pioneers who arrived in this area prior to the Alabama Statehood.
The earliest known pioneer of the cemetery was Col. Richard Warren who was born in North Carolina in 1763, served in the Revolutionary War, and then moved by 1785 to Burke Co., Georgia for about a decade.
This military man, who by 1803 was in the Mississippi Territory around the time of the Louisiana Purchase, was found the same year living in Conecuh County where he built Fort Warren, sometimes called Fort Burnt Corn, in the Pine Orchard Community.
He built Fort Warren to give shelter to the white settlers there for their safety in times of the frequent Indian uprisings; it is about six miles from Burnt Corn where in 1812 the Battle of Burnt Corn (referred to as a "skirmish" by many who were there) led to the Creek Wars of 1813-1814.
By 1830 he had moved to Butler County and at his death on July 4, 1835 he was buried in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery in an unmarked grave. Proof of his burial in this cemetery is found in a Greenville, Alabama newspaper written a few days after his death in which a tribute and a description of his funeral was made by one of the attendees. His wife was Sarah Brewer.
They had at least three sons and a daughter. His children were all born in this area during the Mississippi Territorial days. His daughter, Mary, married James A. Powers, Jr. who lived not far from the church.
The sons were Laban, Malakiah, and Robert. All were shown on the Tax List of 1818 along with their father, as being in Conecuh Co. in the Alabama Territory. The writer does not know the surnames of the wives of the sons or any other information about them.
The second earliest Mt. Moriah pioneer of record to settle here was James A. Powers, Jr. who was born in 1785 in Georgia. Before July 6, 1813, he was a resident in the eastern part of the Mississippi Territory (which later became Alabama) when he married Mary Warren who was born in 1795 in the part of Georgia that became the Mississippi Territory in 1795.
Mary, was the daughter of Col. Richard Warren. Land records show he was a landowner and a planter having land in both Butler and Wilcox Counties. The home he and Mary, built was a large colonial home in Wilcox County on the Wards and Grimes Mill Road between Mt. Moriah and Pine Apple.
It burned long ago, but in the 1970's the original barn was still standing. It has been surmised that he may have been a physician from the evidence of medical books and medicines that were listed as part of his estate inventory.
He evidently had some chronic illness. His tombstone tells this story: "Afflictions sore for years I bore. Physicians were in vain. At length God chose to give me ease, And freed me from my pain."
However, he was evidently well thought of, for the same tombstone bears this message: "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." He died in 1859. In the 1860 Census Mary Warren Powers was listed as a widow, as a "Lady," and as having been born in 1795 in Georgia.
Her only daughter, Frances Powers Yeldell, had just died and Mary was living in the home of her daughter, helping take care of the three little grandsons. She lived for some years with her son William A. Powers and his family, dying 15 years into her widowhood in 1874. Both are buried at Mt. Moriah. Their six children intermarried with the surnamed families Peaster, and Yeldell.
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The state of denial management part 2: How to build a comprehensive denials program
In collaboration with Conifer Health Solutions - Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 Print	| Email
Hospitals and health systems have become so inundated with claim denials in recent years that a poorly developed denials management strategy can tip a hospital on the brink into financial crisis.
In 2017, the number of denials that hospitals wrote off as uncollectible increased by 90 percent compared to six years prior, according to the Advisory Board's biennial revenue cycle survey. This means denial write-offs rose from approximately $3.9 million in 2011 to $7 million in 2017 for the average 350-bed hospital. To make matters worse, the same survey found a decline in the rate of denied claims appealed successfully by hospitals for both commercial and public payers. Between 2015 and 2017, the average successful appeals rate for hospitals fell from 56 percent to 45 percent for commercial payers and from 51 percent to 41 percent for Medicaid.
As clinical documentation becomes more complex and the reimbursement environment more stringent, providers must reconsider their traditional approaches to denials management. The status quo will no longer do. However, building new revenue cycle processes from scratch is no
simple feat, either.
Hospital and health system leaders should consider what a comprehensive approach to denials management might look like, then figure out how emerging technologies and revenue cycle teams can make this vision a reality.
The "three-legged stool" of denials management
A comprehensive denials management strategy must account for the whole life of a claim, from initial clinical documentation through appeal when necessary. Dawn Castro, vice president of accounts receivable management with Conifer Health Solutions, a provider of technology-forward revenue cycle solutions, described a comprehensive denials strategy as encompassing three primary areas of focus. "It's really all about prevention, recovery and escalation," she said in an interview with Becker's.
Ms. Castro's colleague Michelle Castillon, Conifer's vice president of product line management, says the three primary focus areas for denials management are like a "three-legged stool," meaning each area of focus is critical to the success of the other.
Ms. Castillon told Becker's, "In order to be successful in prevention, you have to be strong on recovery, and you have to be able to escalate and rapidly work with payers, which circles back and drives prevention strategies."
Here is how technology and teamwork can build the three-legged stool of denials management:
1. Prevention: Data and the capacity to derive actionable insights from said data are crucial to the overall success of the revenue cycle. However, data on payer behavior can be especially useful to prevent denials from occurring in the first place. Technology can help providers capture data on payer behavior during the escalation process, which can inform how claims are formulated on the front-end of the revenue cycle to minimize barriers to reimbursement.
"We use data analytics to create payer scorecards that document things like a payer's first-pass payment rate," Ms. Castro said. In addition to using these insights to strengthen documentation processes, Ms. Castro said these scorecards support Conifer's provider partners' approach to payer contracting. "We also use this data to bolster contract language to help avoid long-term litigation with a payer," Ms. Castro said. "We really want to solve potential denials at the lowest level possible without legal teams getting involved."
2. Recovery: The recovery component of denials management is focused on achieving fair reimbursement as quickly as possible. The current high rate of denials nationally complicates this effort as staff can become overwhelmed by denied claims, slowing down the rate of appeals. With data on payer behavior in place, hospitals and health systems can leverage technology-powered machine learning to automate portions of the appeals process. One area this has been
especially helpful in is bulk denials. Conifer has been able to group payer issues with a unique "fingerprint" that allows similar denials to be resolved in one bulk appeal by using machine learning and advanced trending methodologies. "You want to be able to create automated appeals for low-dollar, low-complexity disputes," Ms. Castillon said, adding that machine learning technology can also be leveraged to support staff when working on manual appeals by offering them insights into payer behavior in real-time as they're working the claim.
"We're able to create smart texts to really help our clinicians and our technical writers drive home the key parts of the argument an appeal needs to make," she said.
3. Escalation: Once a denial reaches the point of escalation, the human engine of the revenue cycle kicks into overdrive. For effective escalation, the teams tasked with this endeavor must have a sophisticated understanding of claims management. To get the right people in place and ensure staff have the resources to get the job done, providers must optimize workflows. The team members essential to escalation efforts should not have to devote an inordinate amount of time to less rigorous tasks.
"We have an escalation process that's supported by technology-enabled solutions that helps us utilize our resources in a smarter fashion," Ms. Castro said. "We are then able to create high-caliber teams that can interact directly with the health plan."
A commitment to collaboration and performance improvement
A comprehensive denials management program requires support across an organization, starting at the executive level to frontline clinicians and the revenue cycle staff. And the team tasked with ensuring the strategy is successful should be fully committed — the effort cannot be viewed as a side project to be worked on during lull periods. The effort requires widespread buy-in and a commitment to continuous improvement.
"A strong prevention program requires a commitment to methodologies that support continuous process improvement," Ms. Castillon said. "It also requires a very cohesive team set up to interact, share and collaborate. And this team has to be driven by that performance improvement mentality."
If prevention, recovery and escalation make up the structure of the denials management three-legged stool, then commitment from leadership and staff are the sturdy ground beneath its legs.


Add 10-15 drops of an essential oil to an ounce of a cooking oil and dispense with an eyedropper, into warm (not hot) water or tea. If the liquid is too hot, the volatile components of the oil will disperse and much of the benefit, especially that which relieves "wind," will be lost.
This section will present simple ideas that can be safely used by interested persons to promote health. AstroPharm has been launched with a description of a line of therapeutic grade essential oils.
Most essential oils are used by the perfumery or aromatherapy industries, and they are not pure enough to use internally. However, increasingly, we are learning that microdoses of absolutely pure essential oils that are distilled from organically grown plants have amazing effects. Sacred Medicine Sanctuary offers high quality, unadulterated essential oils that are suitable for aromatherapy, culinary, and internal use in extremely small dosages, such as a single drop of oil every day or every few days.
One of the most effective internal uses of such oils is to neutralize "toxic air"— noxious gases that arise as the result of poor digestion and elimination. The gases that result from fermentation in the stomach and putrefaction in the lower intestine are the source of a number of health problems ranging from embarrassing noises, bad breath, body odor, and slow peristalsis to restlessness and insomnia to serious nervous disorders characterized by spasms, pain, and even paralysis.
Ecologically sound, 100% pure, full-spectrum essential oils—oils that are steam distilled in the traditional manner rather than produced by industrial methods—can be effective in neutralizing both the odor and the gases causing the odor; but truly, only a drop or two is needed for these results.
For instance, with the epidemic concern for parasites caused by the popularity of Hulda Clark's books, people with abdominal and intestinal distress might want to consider clove oil. An easy and effective way to ingest this is by filling a capsule with another oil, preferably a high quality culinary oil, and adding one or two drops, not more, to the cooking oil. A single capsule, up to six capsules per day maximum, is usually sufficient to relieve a host of digestive complaints from bloating and gas to distention, abdominal cramping, and sluggish peristalsis. People are advised to start with one drop and only to increase the dosage if the desired results are not obtained with this small amount of oil. In most cases, there will be an immediate improvement in digestive and eliminative functions. Occasional use is likely to relieve many chronic complaints associated with low fire, deranged air, and general stagnation, but excessive use will destroy friendly bacteria and is therefore not recommended.
Be imaginative, try cinnamon or lemon or peppermint as a carminative and for halitosis; tea tree or wild oregano oil for immune support.
Though it cannot probably be proven without a shadow of doubt, there is some possibility that the prions linked to mad cow disease can remain viable in various gelatins, including the capsules used by many companies to encapsulate their powders. I therefore prefer to cap my own herbs, and I use capsules that are purely of vegetarian origin. Sacred Medicine Sanctuary sells these as well as a simple device for holding the capsules upright to make filling them easier. Rather safe than sorry!
Another solution is to add 10-15 drops of an essential oil to an ounce of a cooking oil and dispense with an eyedropper, into warm (not hot) water or tea. If the liquid is too hot, the volatile components of the oil will disperse and much of the benefit, especially that which relieves "wind," will be lost.
Oils presently constitute anywhere from 15-30% of the average diet of most persons. Except for certain olive oils, hardly any readily available oil is suitable for consumption. All oils are sensitive to heat, light, and air. In the pressing process itself, most oil is overheated. Various chemicals are added to mask the discoloration and odor that occur, but then the oils are put into glass bottles where they continue to deteriorate. In my opinion, if someone wanted to make one simple dietary improvement requiring almost no effort, it would be to switch to a properly pressed and bottled oil. At present, such oils are provided by only a handful of producers: Barleans and Omega Nutrition.


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Channel management involves using marketing to sell products to customers within a framework. The MarketingWit write-up below outlines a detailed description of channel management.
According to recent IT upgrades, technological innovation is predicted to be seen in terms of percentages - the asset/distribution/supply chain/channel management seem to have an opportunity of 46%, while reinsurance has 48%.
The advertising/marketing phase of a product launch is one of the most important phases. In fact, it could be considered as the most important, even more than the design and production phase. It is how effectively a product is promoted that determines its initial, and in many cases, the future success rate as well. There are plenty of jargon associated with marketing and sales, and channel management is just one of them. Not many people though (including some marketers themselves) are very clear about what this term means (in depth, at least). The words are tossed around during campaigns, as and where they fit in. Therefore, the paragraphs below elaborate on what is channel management, its importance, and some channel management examples.
It's a completely competitive, tech-savvy world out there, with companies and products increasing by leaps and bounds.
In the earlier days, businesses relied on good consumer service and word-of-mouth publicity in order to thrive; unfortunately, these strategies are insufficient today.
Irrespective of what your product offers, it needs to be launched in the most elaborate way possible.
There are a number of marketing methods - one can go in for print media (newspapers and magazines), digital marketing (cell phones and tablets), web advertising, campaigns, telemarketing, etc.
In the promotional phase, it is important to understand what the masses want, for they are the ones who could make or break your company.
To understand this, you first need to understand what kind of people prefer what kind of products and what kind of marketing.
To be more precise, people from a certain part of the city would prefer a particular brand of toothpaste, and would rely on telemarketing to know about the same.
Some others, residing elsewhere, may prefer some other brand, and may believe in promotional campaigns to buy that product, and so on.
Some prefer buying it directly from the company, while some prefer wholesalers.
It is important to understand the varying nature of this phase, and channel management helps in achieving this goal.
Thus, channel management is a process by means of which companies can market their products through the distribution network.
Channel management strategies vary as per many pointers.
Basically, the strategy comprises the different 'channels' or routes that a company goes through to ensure that the product reaches the consumer.
These change according to whether the direct model is used, or the indirect model, or the strategies of marketing and distribution mix, etc.
A channel by itself is an intermediary, which has further sub-divisions. They are all different, like sales channel management, marketing, distribution, etc.
Some strategies/types of channel management are enumerated below. In fact, these channels are widely used in marketing mix.
Every channel is named differently; in case of the distribution mix, the channels are called exclusive distribution, selective distribution, and intensive distribution.
More commonly, there are also channels called VAR/VAM (value-added reseller/value-added marketer), retail outlets, the web, etc.
This channel involves no middleman, i.e., no agent.
Whatever sales are carried on, are done directly between the provider and the customer.
This strategy has been analyzed and is found to work for a particular section of the masses, who prefer direct communication between the provider and customer.
The customers believe that they are relieved of any transactions that may take place between the company and the agent, and that they are directly benefited.
A large section of the urban population also prefers this kind of marketing; there are people who trade directly with the company rather than relying on their promotional campaigns and other marketing strategies.
As you can see, this channel works when an agent, like a retailer or wholesaler is present between the producer and consumer.
He will buy goods from the producer, and sell it to the public.
The discussions about price, advertising, sale, etc., remain unknown to the customer, of course.
Goods, like clothes, toys, furniture, etc., are first sold to the retailer.
This helps the producer sell his stock faster and also to a company that already has an established name in the market.
That is to say, before reaching the end-user, these products reach the retailers, and which helps the products come into the limelight faster.
The case is different with wholesalers; when you buy goods from wholesalers, extra costs are cut off, unlike the case with retailers.
Thus, consumers can buy stock in bulk at a lesser price.
Again, this need not be the case always, since the wholesalers can sell the products directly to the retailers instead of the consumers, which means that the price will again increase in order to make a profit for every party.
This channel management strategy involves two middlemen - one is the agent between the manufacturer and the retailer/wholesaler, and the other is the retailer/wholesaler himself.
When the products are ready, negotiations are carried on between the wholesaler and the agent.
After the discussions are over, the wholesaler sells the products to the end-user.
Farmers selling their vegetables and other produce, directly to consumers instead of going through the wholesalers, is an example of direct sales.
He has the freedom to set the prices in a fair manner, without having to be in the middle of an issue with the wholesale store.
In fact, many regular goods, like clothes, bags, accessories, furniture, etc., can be bought directly from the manufacturer.
Consider a soft drink. The manufacturer can either sell it to restaurants (in bulk), to grocery stores across the city, directly from his company (through advertising first), etc.
When he goes through an agent, the channel comes under indirect sales.
Goods like bikes and automobiles are again mostly sold through dealers.
Depending upon the customer value for that product, limited/excess amount of advertising is done, and the goods go through a number of routes from manufacturing till they are actually sold.
Consider a very simple instance. Consider that you need to book plane tickets.
A famous airline company would have already advertised themselves well enough, so you have the option of trusting agents to book your ticket, or you could call the airlines directly.
You can therefore go book your tickets by calling the airline office directly, booking through online websites, assigning a travel agent, combing through airline offices, or going directly to the airport.
A product can be marketed by various means, through the internet, digital media, events, etc. These are all tactics to spread awareness about the product and increase its sale.
Identifying the distribution network is always an advantage, as you will know from where exactly the customers buy goods.
Promotional events are not attended by all and sundry, neither will all customers rely solely on one form of media.
Adhering to the various marketing techniques, consumers will decide to buy from the manufacturer or the retailer.
Thus, channel management helps in achieving customer satisfaction, which is a primary need for companies to go on.
The producer can come to know the customer's reaction through these strategies - if, for example, a customer complains about the goods to your retailer, you can find out what was wrong and ensure it doesn't happen again.
You can carry out surveys to find whether the customers are satisfied and how they wish to carry on future transactions.
Channel management helps increase sales, and also helps to understand the magnitude of sales, i.e., you will come to know how many people shop online, which company is the most trustworthy, how many people prefer direct selling, etc.
Accordingly, you can adjust your production as well as distribution processes.
Your market share and position will be impacted via channel management; you will know where your company stands, and if you need to change your retailer, or your product quality, etc.
You can calculate your costs more effectively through these strategies as well.
A company or product thrives solely on public support. Therefore, it is important that it is efficiently promoted. Channel management is an effective method that helps companies sell and service consumers within a specific network. When used properly, it can work wonders for the company.


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How to Dispose of Amazon Packaging
With the holidays around the corner, package deliveries are ramping up around the country. According to one set of numbers, during last year's holiday rush, deliveries in the U.S. nearly doubled from an average of 45 million to 95 million packages per day.
Even without the holiday surge, online shopping generates massive amounts of packaging waste. It isn't just cardboard anymore — over the past couple of years, Amazon has increased its reliance on lightweight plastic mailers. About half of all e-commerce transactions take place through Amazon, so how Amazon chooses to ship its products has a big impact on what ends up in our landfills.
The new plastic mailers take up less space than bulky boxes, which allows Amazon to pack more of them into delivery trucks and planes. However, plastic mailers can't be recycled as easily as cardboard. Like plastic bags, the plastic mailers tangle up sorting machinery at recycling facilities, causing expensive delays.
How can you recycle Amazon mailers?
If the mailer is plastic on the outside with a layer bubble wrap on the inside, or if it is flexible plastic (like a plastic bag) with no layer of bubble wrap: Bring it to a plastic bag drop-off. Just remove the paper label first, since the paper and adhesive can contaminate the plastic film recycling. If you aren't going to take it to a drop-off, toss it in the garbage.
If the mailer is paper on the outside with bubble wrap on the inside: Because it's made of mixed materials, it can't be recycled at all. Reuse it or toss it in the garbage.
How does plastic bag recycling drop-off work?
Certain big box stores and supermarkets put out bins for plastic bag collection near the front of their stores. Once collected, all of the plastic film is melted down and turned into materials such as composite lumber, which is used to make decks, playgrounds and park benches.
Ready to recycle those plastic mailers? Find your closest drop-off location.
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Q: Validating consumer for wcf service We have created a WCF service which is deployed on our application server. Other applications from different servers are consuming this service.
Now we want that we should validate if the other application that is consuming this service is a valid application or not.
Since there are many methods present in the service, we would like to validate the consumer before calling any of these methods.
We can ask the consumer applications to pass details like username, password, server etc.
What will be the best way to perform this validation?

A: there are many ways to perform Authentication in web services. here you can find some simple examples: Authentication for Web Services
but i rather to have web service identity class and pass the username and password to the web service. you also can use a HttpContext in order to validate the user ip address, agent, host name or .... here is a simple method to show you how:
public static string GetUserIpAddress()
{
    HttpContext context = HttpContext.Current;
    try
    {
        return context.Request.UserHostAddress;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        return "Unknown";
    }
}

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A buy-to-let landlord in Edinburgh who evicted a young family and dumped their belongings in the garden after they fell into rent arrears may lose his landlord's licence.
David Love, who owns a portfolio of 15 buy-to-let properties in and around Edinburgh, hit the headlines last year after evicting mum-of-nine Donna Newby and her children, who had occupied the flat for nine years, for not paying the rent.
The family saw several of their items, including TVs, laptops and electronic toys, broken beyond repair after they were flung into the communal front garden in the city's Wester Drylaw Place by their 37-year old landlord, who is also an amateur boxer.
The incident took place in March last year after an eviction notice was served against the family to vacate the property.
Having failed to leave the property, Love, who was awarded £1,250 compensation on ITV's Judge Rinder last month, turned up at the flat and disposed of the family's possessions by throwing them from the second-floor flat's balcony.
However, Love, who faced potentially having his landlord's license revoked, allowed his existing licence to lapse last month in the hope it would take a year for his fresh application to be considered.
But councillors have moved to arrange a swift hearing next month to consider the new licence, which could scupper his plan.
Love told the Record in Edinburgh that he is now concerned that the council will strip him of the licence.
He said: "It was really self-preservation. It normally takes them a year to process the application. It was the fastest and easiest way to buy time.
Love added: "It's a serious threat and could happen. I don't believe it's been investigated properly.
"The council sent a letter saying that after hearing from Police Scotland, myself and council officers, they recommend my licence is revoked.
"But they never heard from me and the police correspondence never said I did anything wrong.
If Love loses his licence, he can appeal in the sheriff court, where he hopes he can win. But with lost earnings and legal fees, Love fears that he could lose in the region of £30,000.
"I'd also look at selling properties or transferring them into another name," he added.
Why would you rent to a single mum with 9 kids? come on you know you aren't going to get the rent paid, leave these sorts to the council, their problem.
My thoughts exactly. Perhaps he thought she'd be up for some 'favours'.
Perhaps the tenant didn't have nine children at the start of the tenancy. It is even possible she didn't have any!
I have one family who moved in 10 years ago with one small baby. the baby is now a lively charming 10 year old with 3 young siblings.
I don't see how this this landlord can really complain if he's denied a licence, he's shown himself to be a nasty piece of work and really only has himself to blame for all this.
In any event I'm sure he could find a letting agent/property manager to hold a licence on his behalf.


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Architectural Tile and Marble continues long tradition at TPA
(Dec. 2, 2015) As a boy in the late 1960s, Wil Ramos Jr. took a trip with his father to Italy to visit the source of the marble tiles for Tampa International Airport's new and ultra-modern terminal.
He remembers driving out to a small farm with a marble-cutting operation outside of a town on Italy's west coast. Underneath a simple pole barn, a man was cutting the marble and then splitting it by hand with a mallet and chisel.
"I thought it was pretty amazing," Ramos said. "The amount of care that went into making the tile is something I'll never forget."
His father would later install the marble on all the columns of the airport's main terminal – a feature that remains in place today.
Now Ramos and his company, Architectural Tile & Marble are back at the airport to continue the work his family started more than four decades ago.
The Tampa-based company that Ramos took over in 1987 is doing all the tile and carpet work on the airport's main terminal expansion project as well as on the automated people mover stations and rental car center. Combined, his company is installing roughly 340,000 square-feet of tile and carpet with a total contract value coming in at more than $6 million.
That's a good size contract for Ramos and his company of roughly 40 employees, ranking up with the larger projects they have undertaken. Ramos estimates they will have about 20 people on site working. He expects to add about 10 people to his field crews to accommodate the project.
Ramos is no stranger to TPA himself. Between 2012 and 2014, he worked on the airport's Main Terminal modernization project, which included roughly 110,000 square-feet of tile and carpet work on the ticketing level and airside F.
"I am certainly proud of the work we have completed and the upcoming work at Tampa International Airport," he said.
Ramos, 57, is a fourth generation Tampa resident and comes from a large family of five boys – all of whom are in the construction and development business in Tampa. His company is his second family, and many of his employees have been with him for decades. His daughter, Ansley, has been with the company for three years.
Ramos started working in the business during the summers in between high school and college. He started full time in the field in 1980 for a man, Richard Martinez, who is still with the company as a general superintendent. Ramos says he has a few employees who have been there 20-plus years, including his Vice President Paul Schmidt.
"The airport is typically the first and last impression of a city for travelers," Ramos said. "As a lifelong Tampa resident, I am honored to have the opportunity to work on such an influential landmark."


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Gameshow on finance and banking to debut
A man plays a game which will be featured on the gameshow Tiền Khéo Tiền Khôn. — Photo courtesy of SBV
HÀ NỘI — A new gameshow, which challenges contestants on financial and banking knowledge, will debut on national TV from November 25.
Entitled Tiền Khéo Tiền Khôn, which literally means Clever Money, Smart Money, the gameshow is co-produced by Vietnam Television (VTV) and the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV).
Speaking at a press conference about the gameshow at VTV, head of the Communication Department under the State Bank, Lê Thị Thúy Sen, said that the gameshow is part of a communication project, aiming to support the State plans, which have been approved by the Prime Minister. The plans include improving accessibility to banking services and increasing cashless payments in Việt Nam between 2016-2020.
"Our purpose is to improve public awareness on finance and banking, therefore reducing the risk for people using financial services, and to lessen social expenditure. In addition, the goal is also to enhance the accessibility to financial services, and promote cashless payments in Việt Nam," she said.
Through several funny games, contestants as well as the audience can learn about how to properly use credit cards, how to access different banking services, including savings products and loans, and other necessary information.
The Tiền Khéo Tiền Khôn gameshow will air on the VTV3 channel every Saturday on the second and fourth week of every month, from 3.10pm to 3.55pm. — VNS
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Summer school is in full swing and I've decided not to slit my wrists.
I really didn't know what to expect when I said, "Sure, I'll teach summer school…" to my admin. How hard could it be to teach a few 3-4th graders math? I can do THAT math…. Little did I know. When it came down to the actually 'planning' of summer school, I was subtly informed that I was teaching math AND language arts to students in grades 5-7. Okaaay……slight change of gears, but I can DO this!
Yeah, day one was a bit of a scramble. Things didn't take as long as I'd hoped and kids showed up early. Can you say, "Guilt free summer day care?" Trial by fire is my favorite side dish.
Day three was actually fun. I was beginning to figure out what my students actually needed, what levels they were actually at, and who needed to sit far away from the others to avoid chaos.
Day four was a breeze. Okay, a 'breeze' for me. Translated loosely, I used technology, used my stern teacher voice without making anyone cry (including me), and did crafts. I can't think of a better way to end the day than a smiling teacher, smiling kids, dripping Popsicles, and fingers glued together.
Life in room 201 is good.
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for concert on Saturday 16th October at St Peter's Church, Formby.
Mozart – Mass in C minor
It is both disappointing and poignant that Mozart did not actually complete his two greatest sacred works – the Requiem (the story of which is dramatised in the play and film Amadeus), and the C minor Mass. Obviously, Mozart's untimely death prevented the completion of the Requiem, but the C minor Mass was hindered by Mozart's move from working for the Archbishop of Salzburg and his marriage to Constanze Weber in 1782. When they travelled from Vienna to Salzburg in 1783, Mozart took the partial score with him, and apparently had every intention of completing it – but didn't! If he had, it would have been a monumental composition comparable in scale to Bach's B minor Mass.
Most of the Credo is missing, and it completely lacks the Agnus Dei, and significant gaps existed in the orchestration of the Credo and Sanctus. A number of editors have tried to provide completions of the work, but the edition we are using tonight (by Richard Maunder for Oxford University Press) merely fills the gaps in the orchestration and the Osanna which can be deduced from Mozart's sketches – it does not attempt to provide new music for which Mozart left no clues.
What we do know is that it was first performed on 25th August 1783 in St Peter's Church, Salzburg, and Constanze herself took one of the soprano solo parts. Presuming that this was a liturgical performance, in the context of a mass, it is not known whether the missing parts were completely omitted, spoken or sung to entirely different music.
Rutter – Feel the Spirit
The heritage of the African-American spiritual has been a source of inspiration for composers and performer for more than a hundred years. There have been many arrangements and interpretations, though rarely combining the forces of soloist, choir and orchestra. Feel the Spirit is a cycle of seven spirituals arranged by John Rutter. It was designed in collaboration with the mezzo soprano Melanie Marshall and first performed at the Carnegie Hall, New York in June 2001. Worked with Rutter's hallmark craftsmanship, the cycle of seven spirituals is beautifully balanced as a whole, with each individual song being full of harmonic and rhythmic interest and excitement, and finished with sparkling orchestral colours providing interest throughout. Much of Rutter's output has been sacred music, and although he claims to veer more towards being agnostic than Christian ("I'm more a fellow-traveller than a believer"), he also says about Christianity: "it's given me my values and a strong sense of faith."


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To deploy the updated toolkit support set to UFT, copy the WebExtBook.js file (and WebExtSample.xml if necessary) to <UFT installation folder>\dat\Extensibility\Web\Toolkits\WebExtSample.
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INSIGHT: The SEC's Proposed ETF Rule Creates Fintech Opportunities
By Edward Baer
Sept. 18, 2018, 1:38 PM
Edward Baer of Ropes & Gray discusses the increasingly important role fintech is poised to play in the ETF industry, in light of the SEC's proposed ETF rule.
The ETF industry has waited a long time for an ETF Rule, and now that the Rule seems to be on its way, fintech is poised to play an increasingly important role. Should that make ETF sponsors nervous?
On June 28, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") proposed new Rule 6c-11 (the "ETF Rule"), which would permit Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs") to organize and operate without the expense and delay of obtaining an exemptive order from the SEC. The SEC seeks to "create a consistent, transparent, and efficient regulatory framework for ETFs and to facilitate greater competition and innovation among ETFs."
If adopted, the ETF Rule would significantly ease the regulatory burdens associated with launching ETFs and create a more level playing field for ETFs. The ETF Rule should also bolster the efficient operation of the arbitrage mechanism that helps ETF shares trade at market prices that are close to the ETF's net asset value per share ("NAV").
The ETF Rule:
Provides a new portfolio management tool for most ETFs by permitting them to use "custom baskets" in connection with creation and redemption orders;
Improves disclosure for retail investors by requiring additional information about the costs of owning ETF shares; and
Removes barriers to entry into the ETF business and eliminates the distinction between index and active ETFs.
Each of these areas will present opportunities for financial technology (fintech) companies and applications.
Custom Creation and Redemption Baskets
The ETF Rule would permit ETFs to transact with authorized participants ("APs") using customized baskets of securities for purchases and redemptions. While some of the early ETF sponsors currently have few restrictions on using custom baskets, most ETFs can only utilize a pro rata or representative sample basket of the ETF's current portfolio.
As the SEC noted, custom baskets should enable ETFs and APs to benefit ETFs and their shareholders by reducing costs, increasing efficiency and improving trading.
To use custom baskets, ETFs must adopt written policies that govern the use of custom baskets. These policies must detail the parameters for constructing and accepting custom baskets that are in the best interests of the ETF and its shareholders, and must identify specific employees tasked with reviewing each custom basket for compliance with the parameters. Sponsors must maintain detailed records of any custom baskets accepted, and must perform back-testing to ensure compliance with the custom basket policies.
Custom Baskets Present Opportunities for Fintech Applications, Including Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence ("AI")
As part of their normal operations, ETFs regularly publish lists of the securities in their portfolios and examples of creation and redemption baskets that they expect APs to use when creating or redeeming shares. Detailed information about these holdings and creation and redemption baskets are published daily through the facilities of the National Securities Clearing Corporation ("NSCC").
Sponsors and/or the NSCC may wish to explore the use of distributed ledger (blockchain) technology to provide basket and holdings information to APs and to verify creation and redemption transactions with APs. Moreover, with the expansion of custom basket usage across the ETF industry, sponsors may look to create private blockchain applications to publish and verify custom basket transactions with each AP. In the future, these baskets may take the form of "smart contracts" that APs can self execute when the embedded conditions have been satisfied.
Most ETFs today, both by number of ETFs and by assets, are index-based. For ETFs that track equity indexes, acquiring the appropriate securities is relatively straightforward. However, for ETFs that track indexes of fixed income securities, it may be difficult to acquire all of the securities in the benchmark. For example, several of the most popular fixed income ETFs seek to track the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which includes over 8,000 bonds, many of which do not trade regularly.
To attempt to acquire the right bonds, ETFs use custom baskets that are negotiated with the APs. When bonds that the ETFs need become available, the ETFs work with APs to agree on an appropriate custom basket. Building these custom baskets often entails finding the right mix of bonds – considering sector, coupon, duration, credit rating and other factors – and agreeing with an AP on a transaction. In the future, sponsors may choose to make use of AI technology to help construct the optimal custom basket (or mix of custom baskets) for every ETF on a given day.
Finally, as noted above, ETFs that use custom baskets will have to adopt policies governing their use. These policies must include parameters for determining that individual custom baskets are in the best interests of the ETFs, and also must provide for back-testing to ensure that the custom baskets accepted came within those parameters.
Some common factors that could be used to verify that a custom basket was in the best interests of the ETF include whether the custom basket:
improved tracking error;
reduced transaction costs;
reduced potential tax liabilities;
eliminated over- or underweights in the portfolio;
removed or added securities in connection with an index or portfolio rebalance; or
helped the ETF maintain the appropriate portfolio characteristics (duration, credit ratings, country or sectors weights, etc.).
Many of these factors are verifiable through mathematical testing. Fintech companies could develop compliance software that would enable ETF sponsors to forecast the impact of a custom basket prior to acceptance, as well as to analyze the actual impact after the basket has been accepted into the ETF's portfolio. Some existing portfolio compliance software could also be adapted to assist sponsors in complying with their custom basket policies.
Improving Disclosure for Retail Investors
Under the ETF Rule, ETFs will be required to make additional website disclosures designed to help retail investors understand the costs associated with investing in ETFs, including
The portfolio holdings (daily);
A creation and redemption basket (including estimated cash) (daily);
The ETF's NAV, market price, and premium or discount, each as of the end of the prior business day (daily); and
Historical information regarding the median bid-ask spreads for the ETF's shares over the most recent fiscal year.
The ETF Rule also requires new prospectus disclosure designed to provide investors who purchase ETF shares in the secondary market with additional information regarding ETF costs. The new disclosures include:
A narrative explanation that investors may be subject to brokerage and other fees when buying or selling ETF shares; and
A new Q&A section designed to provide information about bid-ask spreads and other trading costs. Questions include:
What costs are associated with trading shares of an ETF?
What is the bid-ask spread?
How does the bid-ask spread impact my return on investment?
Where can I get more trading information for the ETF?
The Q&A also must provide links to the ETF's website, which must feature an interactive calculator for hypothetical cost-related information.
Improved Disclosure for Retail Investors Means ETFs Will Need More Data and Tools
As the price for receiving custom basket authority, lower barriers to entry and a more level regulatory playing field, the SEC will require ETFs to supply additional disclosure of ETF trading and ownership costs to investors. The disclosure requirements mean ETFs will have to obtain additional data regarding bid-ask spreads and other trading information.
Bid-ask spread information is not measured by ETFs. Instead, exchanges and other market participants calculate and disseminate this data. ETFs may need to license the relevant data, establish connectivity and website functionality, apply the data to the existing bid-asked formulas, and verify the resulting data prior to making it available on the fund websites and in prospectuses.
In addition, the SEC is looking to add a new requirement that ETFs provide a prospectus link to the fund website where retail investors can access an interactive cost calculator. The calculator would allow investors to customize two data points – investment amount and number of trades – and the calculator would rely on the same third-party bid-ask spread data noted above.
While some larger ETF complexes may be able to develop their own interactive calculators, it is likely that most ETF sponsors will purchase or license a calculator from a third party. This may lead one or more fintech companies to develop tools for use by ETFs in presenting bid-ask spread information and in calculating potential trading costs using the interactive calculator.
Removing Barriers to Entry and Eliminating the Distinction between Indexed and Active ETFs
Because ETFs developed over several decades, the rules applicable to one ETF might not be the same as those applicable to other ETFs. To remedy this, the SEC finally proposed a set of rules that would cover most existing ETFs. The ETF Rule would subject both old and new ETF sponsors to a consistent set of rules.
For new entrants into the market, obtaining SEC permission to launch ETFs can currently take many months. The ETF Rule is expected to substantially reduce the length of time needed to break into the ETF market. Once a new ETF sponsor is up and running, they too will be subject to the same, consistent set of rules.
Another development of note arising from the ETF Rule is that the Rule largely does not distinguish between indexed and actively-managed ETFs. All ETFs relying on the ETF Rule would have to comply with the same conditions.
The SEC explained that it eliminated the distinction between index and active ETFs because they operate similarly and do not present significantly different concerns under applicable rules. The SEC also noted that the distinction between index and active ETFs has been blurred due to the recent "proliferation of highly customized, often methodologically complicated, indexes."
For many years, asset managers have struggled with the decision of whether to jump on the ETF bandwagon. Many "active" investment shops have resisted the temptation, often over concerns that the portfolio transparency demanded of active ETFs might require them to give away their "secret sauce". While it would lower the barriers to entry, the ETF Rule would not solve the transparency challenge these active managers struggle with. The so-called "non-transparent active" ETF applications that have been filed in various forms with the SEC over the past dozen years have not yet been approved, and if the SEC's focus on the importance of transparency in the ETF Rule proposal provides any indication, non-transparent active ETFs may still be a ways off.
Low Barriers to Entry and Significant Investment Flexibility Might Entice Fintech Firms into the ETF Industry
While traditional asset managers might still hesitate to enter the ETF market, one or more of the Fintech giants may decide to crash the ETF party. Imagine a fintech firm – let's call it . . . "Amazin" -- deciding that it can use its technology and data to build a better, less costly ETF family.
This firm has behavioral and demographic data on millions of regular customers. It uses data to target advertising and search results, to recommend products and services and to influence customer decision-making. It could choose to couple this valuable data with highly customized ETFs targeted towards cohorts of similarly situated customers.
The ETF Rule could make this scenario quite plausible. The barriers to entry will be low, and if you are willing to be transparent about your holdings, there is no longer a need to distinguish between index and active ETFs. Fintech applications such as AI and predictive analysis can be used to manage assets and create custom baskets, and shares could be replaced by tokens tracked on public blockchains.
These developments allow you to picture the ETF "world of tomorrow." The Amazin Pacific Northwest Mass Affluent Socially Responsible Small Cap Value Equity ETF has a .4 basis point expense ratio. A series of data mining drones search every scrap of online data every second for investing insights, and a sentient, solar-powered "portfolio managebot" makes investing decisions in real time. APNMASRSCVE cryptotokens can be traded on the secondary market or created and redeemed in exchange for USTreasuryCoins or Ether. And with "Primo membership," you get next day settlement and your brokerage commission is free!
Edward Baer is counsel in Ropes & Gray's investment management practice in San Francisco. His practice focuses on advising exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other investment companies, as well as their sponsors and their independent directors/trustees. He has deep experience in operational, governance, compliance, regulatory, capital markets and business issues related to ETFs and other investment companies and asset managers. Ed also has experience advising clients on investments in cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether and other coins and tokens, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and simple agreements for future tokens (SAFTs), cryptocurrency fund formation and related trading, custody and valuation issues.
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Abengoa delivers phase 1 of the Taweelah desalination plant and commercial operation begins
The plant is now in commercial operation desalinating 450,000 m3/day, thus completing phase 1 of the project. Phase 2 is at an advanced stage of construction and, once completed, the plant will desalinate a total of 909,000 m3/day (phase 1 + phase 2).
It is the largest reverse osmosis desalination plant in the world and the first to combine the production of drinking water with the generation of clean energy.
June 9, 2022 - Abengoa, the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the infrastructure, energy and water sectors, in consortium with the engineering and construction company SEPCOIII, has begun commercial operation of what will be the world's largest desalination plant, with a capacity of 909,000 m3/day. The Taweelah desalination plant has passed the contractual tests for ACWA Power, the leading company in the development, investment, ownership and operation of power generation and desalinated water production plants. The project is located at the Taweelah power and water generation complex, 45 km north of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).
The Taweelah desalination plant is now producing 450,000 m3/day of desalinated water, thus completing phase 1 of the project. Phase 2 is currently at an advanced stage of construction. Once completed, the plant will desalinate a total of 909,000 m3/day (phase 1 + phase 2).
The Taweelah desalination plant will guarantee year-round supply to the city of Abu Dhabi. In addition, it will be the emirate's first large-scale desalination plant to combine the production of drinking water with the generation of clean energy, thanks to the installation of a solar photovoltaic field with a capacity of more than 40 MWp. In this way, once phase 2 of the project starts operating commercially, the desalination plant's energy demand will be reduced in a sustainable manner.
Abengoa's scope in the Taweelah desalination plant project has been extensive, including design, engineering, supply of the main equipment, supervision of assembly, commissioning, start-up of the reverse osmosis and post-treatment systems and advice on the pre-treatment processes carried out by third parties. All in all, the Taweelah desalination plant meets each and every one of the drinking water parameters required by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, including hardness, alkalinity, LSI (Langelier Saturation Index), SDI (Silt density Index), PH, and boron content.
This project, located on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is part of the plan developed by the government of the United Arab Emirates to encourage private participation in the development of the country's infrastructure. The desalination plant will have the capacity to supply approximately four and a half million people.
Thanks to this new milestone, Abengoa once again demonstrates its technical capacity, undertaking highly complex works, as well as adapting to adverse working conditions, in very diverse countries. It also consolidates its position as a leading company in the desalination sector worldwide, with an installed capacity of three million m3/day, which will be increased to four million m3/day when the portfolio under execution is also completed.
Abengoa is also strengthening its presence in the Middle East, where it is currently executing, among others, the Jubail 3A (600,000 m3/day) desalination plants in Saudi Arabia; and has constructed the Shuaibah III (250,000 m3/day) and Rabigh III (600,000 m3/day) plants in Saudi Arabia, and the Salalah (114,000 m3/day) plant in Oman.
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Iron and clay in the toes of Daniel 2 image
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This image is a representation of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream that was interpreted by Daniel and is found in the prophecy of the book of Daniel Chapter 2. All of that prophecy has already been fulfilled except the last part, which describes a "stone that smote the image" on the toes, because of chronology (time is illustrated running from the head to the toes) and the stone "became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." The period when this happens is in the latter days when Christ returns. The "great mountain" represents His kingdom on earth.
Daniel 2:42,43 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Today the toes remain in the governments of man, both strong (iron) and weak (clay). It has been suggested, by various Bible commentators, that the "iron" governments are found in communist and fascist type dictatorships (China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran etc), while "clay" governments are found in democracies (USA, UK, Australia etc).
But a new idea has been suggested by my friend James Arendt ("James Japan") that the "iron" extends from the legs inside all the toes but some of them have a covering of "clay."
James Japan writes ….
On June 1st while talking about the iron and clay of Daniel chapter two to a friend, he replied, "the clay is covering the iron!" I suddenly saw the iron and the clay in a new light! All democratic governments have an iron dictatorial core which the common people do not see! They can't see it because it is hidden behind the democratic process, the clay which covers the iron control of the elite!
According to the symbolism of the stature, the modern-day nations now represented by the 10 toes (with 3 broken) should be the extenuation of the European nations that conquered the pagan Roman empire. This means that even though these final nations are ostensibly democracies, in reality they are nations controlled by a ruling elite from within–a secret (or shadow) government. That control, though hard to clearly see, leads back to Rome.
The people in "democracies" around the world believe they have a choice in their own government, but like the old joke: "It does not matter who you vote for, the government always gets in." So the iron core in so-called democracies is where the power resides. The iron then could almost be visualised as the skeletal structure of the toes in this image.
Imagine, if you will, in this image in the right, the legs are iron, representing Rome in both its pagan and Christianised forms (papal Rome), but the iron extends into the skeletal bones under the flesh. This is "iron mixed with clay," which symbolically could represent the so-called democracies in the European Union, though actually they are ruled by a shadow government. It is not uncommon to read in the press complaints from people stating how their sovereign laws are bypassed by dictates from the centralised European law-makers, who are from the perspective of their people are unelected. This is also true of the UN, which makes laws over sovereign nations, where the people of those nations have no say.
This notion of iron covered by clay presents a new interpretation for the toes in Daniel 2, one that I believe is really worth considering.
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Tags Daniel, Daniel 2 prophecy, Daniel chapter, image of Daniel 2, iron and clay, Jesus Christ, John Hartnett, Papacy, Roman Catholic Church, the book of Daniel, toes
By John Gideon Hartnett
Dr John G. Hartnett is an Australian physicist and cosmologist, and a Christian with a biblical creationist worldview. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. (with distinction) in Physics from The University of Western Australia, W.A., Australia. He was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) fellow at the University of Adelaide, with rank of Associate Professor. Now he is retired. He has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.
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By Christina Warren 2010-05-05 11:47:24 UTC
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Genius Idea: bee.tv is a service designed to help you discover the best video content available via traditional television, iTunes, Amazon.com, Unbox and free web streaming services, all customized to your interests. The company also has an iPhone app in the works and special sections dedicated to video you can view on your iPhone or iPad.
The service is just starting out, so its selection in terms of actual recommendations is a bit limited. Thus far I really like having access to the local TV listings, because when you click on any show in those listings, similar shows appear to help me find more content I like. I can create queues of programming I want to watch and rate shows based on how much I like or dislike them. Those ratings will inform the suggestions bee.tv shows me in the future.
Right now, much of the content is sourced from Amazon.com and iTunes, which makes finding free online content more difficult. I would like it to be easier to segregate "pay content" from either free content or subscription content services like Netflix. Still, the recommendation engine shows promise and I like the fact that an iPhone app is in the works for on-the-go or local TV resources.
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Rainway is an upcoming app that can provide a service that will allow gamers to stream games on-the-fly from their PC to their Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and of course smartphones and tablets.
SNK Heroines is scheduled for a Summer 2018 release on Switch and PS4. Here is the list of games releasing.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will be released for Switch on May 4. Nintendo will continue with Wave 2 of DLC for Pokkén Tournament DX, which will include Blastoise as a traditional fighter, and Mew and Celebi as support Pokémon. This may be due, in no small part, to the arrival of the Xbox One X.
Later in the year we'll also see some big movie tie-ins with theme park management simulator Jurassic World Evolution (what could possibly go wrong?) and a new Spider-Man game from Insomniac, exclusive to PS4.
Nintendo surprised everyone with the Direct Mini January 2018 presentation, and as the name suggests, it's a pretty short show - just shy of 15 minutes.
In an interview with French tech magazine Les Numériques, France's Nintendo Managing Director Philippe Lavoué said that we should expect further titles from EA during the lifespan of the Nintendo Switch.
The Super Mario Odyssey will get a new competitive game mode.
Wii U's Zelda-themed battle game is headed to Switch complete with all of the characters, maps, missions, and DLC from both the Wii U and 3DS versions of the game.
The game was set up to have quests to be completed and riddles to be solved, but there are monsters called "noise" and other adversaries in the game world, as well. Most likely, 999-star power players will hide it in hard-to-reach areas. The wording was a bit ambiguous, and they wanted to know: Did Xbox sell better than usual, or did it sell better than the competition? At first, it would have been easy to attribute this to the low expectations set by the Wii U. It really looked like Nintendo might be losing whatever edge it had.
It was leaked in the hours and days before the Direct, but the original Dark Souls is coming to the Switch indeed.
After a month of rumors (and few trolling tweets), Nintendo uploaded a surprise 15-minute Nintendo Direct morning.
In contrast, QLED TVs lacked impressive advancements compared to their AMOLED counterparts, leading to lower-than-expected sales. LG, Panasonic , Philips and Sony are now the only manufacturers producing OLED TVs , something that Samsung hasn't got behind.
These will have to wait till the later stages of the tournament - Djokovic's current ranking of 14 has handed him a rough draw. This year's Australian Open has been deprived of some of the biggest names including Andy Murray and Kei Nishikori.
This is the first time a Democrat has won a senate seat in the deeply conservative state of Alabama in 25 years. But the president had sharp criticism for Bannon, accusing him of unfairly taking credit for his election win.
Mario steps onto the court in classy tennis garb for intense rallies against a variety of characters in full-blown tennis battles. A final release date is yet to be confirmed, but when it's released it'll incorporate both touchscreen and Joy-Con controls.
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Trump, who grew up in a Presbyterian family, shot back saying it was "disgraceful" for the pope to question his faith. He then reportedly asked why the United States didn't bring in more immigrants from a country like Norway .
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Resplendent Quetzal, Pharomachrus mocinno, in La Amistad national park, Chiriqui province, Republic of Panama.
Feb. 26, 2012 - Al Azhar University, Coiro; The Resplendent stronghold of Islam - lies in the heart of Cairo. It is surrounded by the old popular quarters of the city.
Oxford, UK. 19th April 2018. The world-famous Radcliffe Camera, part of Oxford University's Bodleian Library, looks resplendent in the glorious spring sunshine. Today is predicted to be one of the hottest April days on record, at around 27°C. Credit: Martin Anderson/Alamy Live News.
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Q: Java - define variables that are different for every instance of a constructor? Sorry if the title was worded incorrectly, please change it if it's not quite what I describe here.
So I am creating a program to simulate some fictitious creatures, and I need many objects that all store different statistics about each individual creature with values that can all be checked at the same time. What would be the correct way to go about doing this?
For reference, here is the code that I have right now.
public class Model {

static int mfood;
static int mdefense;
static int mattack;
static int mhealth;
static int msize;
static int magg;
static boolean update = false;

public Model(int food, int meat, int defense, int attack, int health, int agg) {

        mfood = food;
        msize = size;
        mdefense = defense;
        mattack = attack;
        mhealth = health;
        magg = agg;

}

The problem is, of course, that I have variables that store the values that are put into the constructor that are changed each time the constructor is called. This works well if I have only one object running at a time, but I will have around a dozen, most likely. These values need to be called in other methods as well, such as
    public void Attack() {
    mhealth = (mhealth + mdefense) - mattack;
}

The mattack variable would be a different object from the mhealth and mdefense variables.
Thanks for any help I can get, I'm sure this is a simple fix, but I can't find the answer anywhere.

A: Your variables are static, meaning they exist at the class level, not the individual object level. This means no matter how many objects you create (new up), they all share the same variables. Remove the static keywords and each object will have it's own copy of the variables.


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Children Die of Poisoning in India after Eating a Free School Meal
At least 22 students in Bihar, one of the poorest and most populous states in India, have died after eating a free school meal. The children, between the ages of 4 and 12 had eaten a lunch prepared by the school as a part of the Mid-Day Meal Scheme.
It is believed that an insecticide, organic phosphorous, got into the food during preparation but it is unclear if the poisoning was intentional. The deaths have sparked protests by women's groups. Allegations of corruption in the generally celebrated program have become common. The Chief Minister of the region, Nitish Kumar, has offered about $3,400 to the families of the dead children. He has also called for an investigation into the cause of the poisoning.
The Mid-Day Meal Scheme began in 1925 and is currently the largest school meal program in the world providing food to about 20 million children daily. The state education minister, PK Shahi stated, "the scale at which the operation is being carried out, serving food to 20 million children every day and that too in remotest village schools, checking food before it is served – that itself is a challenge." Shahi acknowledged that the food was not being properly checked before being served.
Media Resources: Al Jazeera 7/17/13; BBC 7/17/13; Reuters 7/17/13; Times of India 7/17/13
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CRUVEILHIER, Jean
CRUVEILHIER, Jean (1791 - 1874) Wikipedia
Anatomie pathologique du corps humain. 2 vols.
Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1829 – 1842.
The fine hand-colored lithographs of gross pathology make this one of the greatest works of its kind. Cruveilhier, first Professor of Pathological Anatomy in Paris, gave the first description of multiple sclerosis (in vol. 2 above), and an early description of "Cruveilhier's palsy" (see No. 4734). Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis and ulceration of the stomach due to hyperacidity were also for the first time described in the above work; to each the name "Cruveilhier's disease" has been attached. From publication in fascicules, 1829-42. See Eugene S. Flamm, "The neurology of Jean Cruveilhier," Medical History, 17 (1973) 343–355. (Available from PubMedCentral at this link.)
The extensive text accompanying many of Cruveilhier's plates was translated into English in John Allard Jeançon (1831-1903), Pathological anatomy, pathological and physical diagnosis. A series of clinical reports comprising the principal diseases of the human body (Cincinnati: Progress Publishing Co., 1884). Jeançon, a French physician who immigrated to the United States and served as a military surgeon during the American Civil War, also provided fine chromolithographed reproductions of many of Cruveilhier's plates, without crediting Cruveilhier either for the text or plates. Jeançon's version remains the only English translation of any part of Cruveilhier's pathological atlas.
Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders › Multiple Sclerosis, NEUROLOGY › Neuropathology, PATHOLOGY, PATHOLOGY › Pathology Illustration
Sur la paralysie musculaire, progressive, atrophique.
Bull. Acad. Méd. (Paris), 18, 490-502, 546-83, 1852 – 1853.
"Cruveilhier's palsy", the progressive muscular atrophy already described by Duchenne and Aran. The slimness of the anterior roots was first noticed by Cruveilhier and was thought to be the essential lesion until Luys (No. 4737) reported degeneration of the anterior horn cells.
Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Myopathies