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The second round of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Bank of America's Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program opens next week. Applications will be accepted May 15 - August 2, 2012. Each grant award includes $25,000 cash and educational resources. During the first round of grant awards in 2010, multiple projects were awarded grants - in fact, over 10 separate and unique projects received grant funding!
For more information about the Grant Program please check out this link to their website: USGBC: Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program. This website will be updated May 15 with the 2012 details.
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After several stormy years in the beverage business, Coca-Cola Co. announced the expected news that CEO Muhtar Kent will be succeeded by COO James Quincey, effective May 1, 2017. The word comes amid several senior leadership changes the company announced today (Dec 9). Kent, who turns 65 next year, will remain board chairman.
A 20-year veteran, Quincey will stand for nomination to be elected by the board as a director at its 2017 annual shareowners meeting in April 2017. Experts expected the $178-billion company was grooming Quincey for an eventual CEO position when the company appointed the him president and COO in August 2015.
"This transition comes at a time of important evolution for the Coca-Cola company," Kent said in a statement. According to the Wall Street Journal, Coca-Cola has missed its growth targets for past three years as consumers cut back on cola and sodas in general. Although Coca-Cola has diversified into juices, bottled waters and other beverages, soda still represents about 70 percent of its sales. Coke's annual sales have declined slightly for the past two calendar years, and in the first nine months of this year revenues lagged 5 percent.
After more than a year in his leadership role, Quincey will need to forge a path forward for the soda giant in the wake of consumers' changing beverage preferences. Coke said Quincey has been involved with recent moves aimed to fit these trends, including selling soda in 7.5-oz. "mini cans" and reducing added sugar across the company's portfolio.
According to WSJ reports, Coke has posted solid results in the U.S. lately as it increases prices and downsizes packaging, charging consumers more per ounce. But growth has stalled or reversed in many emerging markets including Russia, China and Brazil.


districtchronicles students can sell Constitutional Law (ISBN# 1454849479) written by Chemerinsky, Erwin Chemerinsky and receive a $18.55 check, along with a free pre-paid shipping label. Once you have sent in Constitutional Law (ISBN# 1454849479), your Independent , DC Area textbook will be processed and your $18.55 check will be sent out to you within a matter days. You can also sell other districtchronicles textbooks, published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited and written by Chemerinsky, Erwin Chemerinsky and receive checks.


Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany, since 2008. Studies printing at Musashino Art School. While working at the advertising company and the nursing institution for the handicapped, she starts devoting to her art. Watabiki explores the photo collage works at the beginning and gradually establishes her distinctive style that uses washi paper, textile and oil pastel. Her theme extends from self-examination to engagement with others. The intriguing motif and the prosaic title leave unforgettable resonance. Nominated two years consecutive for VOCA Exhibition which is considered as the gateway to success for rising talents in 1997 and 1998. Her exhibitions are highly appreciated not only in Japan but also Europe mainly in Germany, South America, etc. Since 2011 joins the project TEGAMI which delivers letters to encourage and support people in Fukushima.
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan), Collection Reinking (Neuss, Germany), Japan Energy Corperation (Fukuoka, Japan), etc.


my question would be, is this tree healthy?
Normally olives on our side throw out long extensions continuously during their growing period.
yes, I shortened a lot of the branches.
It has been doing fine.
I've long liked this image of Carl Morrow's olive in South Africa. Yours is quite similar.
wow, that is very similar!!
Max the best place to go with that is to your post office and send it to me !
That's a beauty and can only get better.
Max, do make sure to look around at pictures of real olive trees as you decide. Also take a look at Harry Harringtons olive trees, he's got some nice examples of what can be done. I like this tree a lot. The lower section is the focal point for me, with the big sweep from the lower trunk up the deadwood. Not sure you need the upper trunk, but that would be a big decision.
I love it with two trunks.
That foilage virtual could stay above that interest in the big trunk.
I would push both virts outward, keep them 2 separate entities.
I think the deadwood in between is enough to force the gaze up and back.
I also think the deadwood in between shows the forces that keep branches from growing to close to there.
Sip i ended up spinning it around (looking from left on the first pic), chopped it and now it is budding at the top.
This is a nice material.
After 4 years! This is long!
Is this your preferred front? Or the one with the deadwood/shari?
@barrosinc could you please post a picture of the tree taken from the same side as your first one and put them side by side in thumbnail format so we could better see the difference?
Trying to find info on which type of pot will go with my olive tree.


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The following table summarizes the terms and fair values of our derivative financial instruments, as well as their classifications within the consolidated balance sheets (notional amounts and fair values in thousands):
Effective Date Maturity Date Notional Amount Bank Pay Rate Company Fixed Pay Rate September 30, 2021 December 31, 2020
Assets (Liabilities)(1):
Interest rate swaps:
April 13, 2016 January 1, 2021 175,000 1 month LIBOR 1.03 % $ — $ (17)
March 1, 2018 January 31, 2021 40,000 1 month LIBOR 2.47 % — (75)
August 14, 2018 January 1, 2021 150,000 1 month LIBOR 2.20 % — (34)
July 1, 2019 February 1, 2024 25,000 1 month LIBOR 1.75 % (785) (1,192)
January 1, 2021 February 1, 2024 150,000 1 month LIBOR 0.60 % (718) (1,901)
January 1, 2021 February 1, 2024 100,000 1 month LIBOR 0.22 % 396 (139)
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Total $ (1,015) $ (3,358)
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In August, TUHS announced the agreement to sell the current ambulatory care center.
On Aug. 27, Temple University Health System announced an agreement with real-estate company Haskell Acquisition Partnership for the purchase of the buildings that are currently Temple's Northeastern Ambulatory Care Center.
In March 2009, TUHS announced that due to its financial situation, Northeastern Hospital, an inpatient care hospital, would become an ambulatory care center. In July 2009, the center opened and provides services to Port Richmond, Kensington, Fishtown and Bridesburg.
During the nurse's strike last spring, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals cited Temple's closing of Northeastern Hospital as an example of TUHS not meeting the needs of the community.
Jerry Silberman, PASNAP representative for the Temple nurses, said he still feels that way.
"Of course, it doesn't meet the health care needs of the community, and I see this primarily as a way for Temple to minimize their financial risk exposure, while making their obligation even more tenuous," Silberman said.
"We are pleased to continue to provide health care services to the communities surrounding Northeastern Ambulatory Care Center, and we welcome the additional resources that will be available to community residents as a result of this sales transaction," CEO of TUHS Sandy Gomberg said.


Original Thread: Begging for an E/N pun: Let's Play 007: Everything or Nothing!
Begging for an E/N pun: Let's Play 007: Everything or Nothing!
• What's with this game?
The year was 2004. Call of Duty had yet to reach critical mass; Epic Games were still picking out the right shades of brown and grey for Gears of War; and James Bond fans were still licking the wounds of Die Another Day from little over a year previous. EA, in an odd stroke of genius, decided to forgo the idea of making the next interactive Bond adventure another first-person shooter, instead opting to develop Everything or Nothing as a third-person action game, featuring more varied hand-to-hand combat, driving sequences powered by the Need for Speed engine, various open levels that would reward alternate methods of dispatching (or avoiding) enemies, and cover-based shooting that was ahead of its time. It's the best James Bond game that has been made to date, and as Pierce Brosnan's final performance as James Bond, serves as a much better sendoff than Die Another Day.
• What's with this LP?
I'll be playing each mission in the game on the standard difficulty, "Agent", with the exception of the first level, which the game automatically sets to the easiest difficulty, "Operative", to make it basically impossible to lose. In each level, I'll endeavour to play relatively stealthily; there's plenty of shooting throughout the course of the game, and I want to show the alternate ways of progressing, should they come up. I'll also aim to earn as many of the "Bond Moments" as I can, however I don't expect to get all of them, as my memory tells me some of them are ridiculously annoying.
• What about platinum ranks for the levels?
Hah. Good one. Yes, though detailed runs of the levels to get the platinum ranks aren't really part of the focus of this LP. I'll be making those outside of this LP, and there'll be a link to a playlist with those videos in the video list.
Keep it in the tags until the LP covers it. Though, if you recall that it's a James Bond story, you'll likely see everything coming anyway.
Maybe as bonus videos, if I find the guy I play with. Of course!


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District Reports on Initial Geological Work at the Tomtebo Property
September 30, 2020 – District Metals Corp. (TSX-V: DMX) (FRA: DFPP); ("District" or the "Company") is pleased to report on the results of its recently completed initial fieldwork at its polymetallic Tomtebo Project in the Bergslagen Mining District of south-central Sweden. This initial work consisted of geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical sampling at the former Tomtebo Mine, and regionally across the 17 km mineralized trend within the 5,144 hectare Property (Figure 1). This fieldwork will be further complemented by a recently commenced review of available historic drill core from the Tomtebo Mine. The fieldwork program and review of historic drill core will enhance the historical data compilation and recently flown SkyTEM survey, all in preparation for a drilling campaign at Tomtebo planned for early-2021.
Initial Fieldwork Highlights
All outcrops in the former Tomtebo Mine area and most outcrops around the mine area were mapped and sampled, and strongly altered and mineralized rocks were identified to the south and southwest of the historic Tomtebo Mine for at least 600 m. Surface mapping west, north and east of the mine was not possible due to a veneer of overburden, but the recently flown SkyTEM survey is expected to provide valuable information about this area with no outcrop.
All rocks within the two accessible Tomtebo open pits are strongly altered throughout with occurrences of sulphide mineralization. Varying proportions of silicification (quartz-flooding), phlogopite/biotite, and anthophyllite were observed, which are all important alteration minerals associated with polymetallic mineralization in the Bergslagen District. Also, a tremolite skarn after former limestone was identified, often one of the controls on mineralization in the District.
Sulphide mineralization observed at the Tomtebo open pits comprises disseminated and stockwork vein-style pyrite and chalcopyrite with minor pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite and sphalerite. The dominance of pyrite-chalcopyrite in a strongly quartz-phlogopite altered host rock, suggests hot hydrothermal fluids from the core of a hydrothermal system, which confirms the open pit mine areas as proximal feeder zones.
Geological work at the Nyberget area which encompasses the historic Lövås Mine mapped out two large marble units with associated replacement style banded semi-massive to massive sulphide mineralization. Quartz vein with abundant chalcopyrite from a historic showing was also identified, which is interpreted as distal to massive sulphide mineralization or epigenetic mineralization.
Regional geological work at the Kvistaberget area identified several mineral occurrences consisting of small pits and underground workings where quartz-chalcopyrite veins were mined.
Garrett Ainsworth, CEO of District, commented: "Our preliminary geological work at the former Tomtebo Mine and regionally across the Tomtebo Property has provided us with valuable information that is being integrated with existing historical data and our recently flown SkyTEM survey to generate an even more robust understanding of the geologic package on the Property. Surface mapping of the open pits at the Tomtebo Mine has provided geological data that correlates well with the historic drill data, and provides additional confidence in the orientation of structures and mineralization at the Tomtebo Mine. Also, geological work on several regional areas within the Property identified and confirmed important indicators that have enhanced the possibility of discovering additional polymetallic mineralization."
Fieldwork at Historic Tomtebo Mine
The objective of ongoing geological work at the historic Tomtebo Mine is to identify the rock types and the hydrothermal alteration pattern that hosts the copper-gold and silver-zinc-lead mineralization, interpret the structural geometry of the rock units, and determine relationships between the mineralization and the stratigraphy and structure. The data and subsequent interpretations, combined with evaluation of the historical drill data, interpretation of the conductive and magnetic data from the recently flown SkyTEM survey, and ongoing 3D modeling of the mineralized zones at the Tomtebo Mine will form the basis for defining priority drill targets.
Mineralization at the Tomtebo Mine is within strongly altered felsic volcanic rocks, which are most likely stratified felsic volcanic ash sandstone-siltstone. An altered limestone bed (altered to tremolite skarn) up to one meter thick occurs in the east wall of the southernmost open pit. The mine workings (and likely mineralization) appear to be discordant to both the bedding and the foliation. Confirmation on the orientation of mineralization will be crucial for drill targeting, and the presence of tremolite skarn is significant given this unit's relevance to other large polymetallic deposits in the Bergslagen Mining District.
Mineralogical layering and early foliation are observed locally throughout the Tomtebo Mine area, and are defined by bands of varying quartz and phlogopite content and trains of andalusite porphyroblasts. This layering shows a consistent northwest to southeast orientation, and a moderate dip to the southwest. An overprinting foliation shows a consistent east-west orientation and sub-vertical dip. The structural data suggests that the Tomtebo Mine area is on the western limb of an antiform that plunges moderately to the west-southwest. This structural data obtained from surface mapping correlates well with the 3D modeling of the mineralized zones at depth where frequent structural measurements were historically recorded from the -200 m exploration drift.
Rock samples have been sent to ALS Geochemistry in Malå, Sweden for multi-element analysis. Whole rock geochemical samples were recovered to quantify the alteration intensity and assist with the interpretation of the protolith lithologies.
Regional Fieldwork
The regional fieldwork focused on known polymetallic mineral occurrences, preliminary SkyTEM conductive and magnetic anomalies, and outcrop exposures. Much of the Tomtebo Property has a thin veneer of overburden, so mineral occurrences at the historic Lövås Mine within the Nyberget area and the Kvistaberget area were the main focal points of the regional fieldwork.
The historic mineral occurrences within Nyberget revealed that most of the sulphide mineralization present is related to carbonate replacement within the marble units. Several marble units were identified with two large marble units containing sulphide mineralization in the form of banded semi-massive to massive sulphides. Confirmation of these mineralized marble horizons is important given their spatial relationship to significant polymetallic mineralization in the Bergslagen Mining District. Additionally, quartz veins with abundant chalcopyrite were also identified around historical mine workings, and are interpreted as distal to massive sulphide mineralization or epigenetic mineralization.
At the Kvistaberget area an approximate northeast trending felsic and mafic volcanic sequence was observed. Both the felsic and mafic units are at least partly extrusive in nature and in the case of the mafic volcanics represent fire fountains proximal to a vent. This observation is important as these specific rocks are often closely spatially associated with significant polymetallic mineralization in the Bergslagen Mining District and elsewhere, as the metal bearing fluids often use the same or parallel structures as the mafic magmas. Quartz-chalcopyrite veins of a similar nature to Nyberget were also identified at Kvistaberget.
Several outcrops and historic showing were visited at the Källberget area, which revealed two outcrops with semi-massive to massive pyrrhotite-dominated sulphide mineralization with associated strong alteration. The southernmost outcrop is related to a contact between laminated felsic rocks and more mafic units, whereas the northeastern showing exhibits distinct skarn alteration.
The lithologies mapped at the Uvberget area are dominated by banded, clastic felsic volcanic rocks striking approximately northeast. A locally well-developed foliation of more than 45 degrees to the bedding was observed, which suggests a possible location close to a fold hinge. Mapping found indications of an extrusive origin of the basalts (possible pillow basalts), as well as possible small fragments indicating a clastic extrusive setting. Finally, two large, angular boulders of impure marble observed in the area might indicate the presence of another unmapped marble horizon further to the north or northwest.
Rock samples have been sent to ALS Geochemistry in Malå, Sweden for multi-element analysis.
Figure 1: Geological Work Areas on the Tomtebo Property
All scientific and technical information in this news release has been prepared by, or approved by Garrett Ainsworth, PGeo, President and CEO of the Company. Mr. Ainsworth is a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
Mr. Ainsworth has not verified any of the information regarding any of the properties or projects referred to herein other than the Tomtebo Property. Mineralization on any other properties referred to herein is not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the Tomtebo Property.
The data disclosed in this news release related to drilling results is historical in nature. District has not undertaken any independent investigation of the sampling nor has it independently analyzed the results of the historical exploration work in order to verify the results. District considers these historical drill results relevant as the Company will use this data as a guide to plan future exploration programs. The Company's future exploration work will include verification of the data through drilling.
About District Metals Corp.
District Metals Corp. is led by industry professionals with a track record of success in the mining industry. The Company's mandate is to seek out, explore, and develop prospective mineral properties through a disciplined science-based approach to create shareholder value and benefit other stakeholders.
The advanced exploration stage Tomtebo Property is located in the Bergslagen Mining District of south-central Sweden is the Company's main focus. Tomtebo comprises 5,144 ha, and is situated between the historic Falun Mine and Boliden's Garpenberg Mine that are located 25 km to the northwest and southeast, respectively. Two historic polymetallic mines and numerous polymetallic showings are located on the Tomtebo Property along an approximate 17 km trend that exhibits similar geology, structure, alteration and VMS/SedEx style mineralization as other significant mines within the district. Mineralization that is open at depth and along strike at the historic mines on the Tomtebo Property has not been followed up on, and modern systematic exploration has never been conducted on the Property.
"Garrett Ainsworth"
Cautionary Statement Regarding "Forward-Looking" Information.
This news release contains certain statements that may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "targets", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "an opportunity exists", "is positioned", "estimates", "intends", "assumes", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved" and other similar expressions. In addition, statements in this news release that not historical facts are forward looking statements including anticipated results of future exploration and the results of additional compilation work.
These statements and other forward-looking information are based on assumptions and estimates that the Company believes are appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances, , including, without limitation, assumptions about the reliability of historical data and the accuracy of publicly reported information regarding past and historic mines in the Bergslagen District the Company's ability to raise sufficient capital to fund planned exploration activities, maintain corporate capacity and satisfy the exploration expenditure requirements required by the definitive purchase agreement between the Company and the vendor of the Tomtebo property (the "Definitive Purchase Agreement") by the times specified therein (failing which the Tomtebo Property will be forfeited without any repayment to the Company); and stability in financial and capital markets.
There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results, and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include ; the risk that historic data regarding the Tomtebo property is unreliable, the risk that information concerning production and mineralization at current and historic mines within the Bergslagen District proves to be inaccurate; the risk that the Company will be unable to raise sufficient capital to finance planned exploration (including incurring prescribed exploration expenditures required by the Definitive Purchase Agreement, failing which the Tomtebo Property will be forfeited without any repayment of the purchase price); future metal prices, , general economic, market or business conditions, \ and other exploration or other risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Company with securities regulators, including those described under the heading "Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's MD&A for the financial year ended June 30, 2019. The Company does not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements, except in accordance with applicable law. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.


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Home » News » Business News » Cheshire-based entrepreneur launches Zumu UK
Cheshire-based entrepreneur launches Zumu UK
April 23, 2013 Business News 0
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Cheshire entrepreneur Neil Ouzman has announced plans to launch his highly successful business Zumu in the UK.
Zumu is currently available for the US market and is a media recycling platform, through which users can sell used CDs, DVDs and games.
Ouzman, who originates from Cheshire in the UK, has decided to launch a UK version of the site now that the US version has grown sufficiently.
The US arm of Zumu was launched in July 2012 and Ouzman is confident that its British sister will perform just as well.
The new head office of Zumu will be based in Congleton, Cheshire, and will open up 30 new jobs, while the processing plant for the website will be located in Leyland, Lancashire, and will take up a 55,000 sq ft facility.
The launch will coincide with a TV ad campaign across the UK and the British version of Zumu will follow the exact same design as the US one.
Customers can scan the barcodes on their media to find out how much they're worth, and then simply need to package them and send them off to the Zumu handling centre in order to receive their payment. Customers can even choose to donate the value of their sales to charity.
Neil Ouzman said: "Based on our experience in the States, the UK site is expected to gain momentum very quickly following its launch this month.
"We all love music and films, but as the importance of digital media increases and as our tastes change, consumers just don't need their old discs anymore.
"If you've already moved onto something new after your last Adele CD, or wish to clear the loft of the Madonna and ABBA CDs of yesteryear, you can sell them easily for cash on Zumu.co.uk. This benefits not only your pocket (or that of a charity), but you are also doing your bit from an environmental perspective, particularly in view of the enormous landfill pressures that we have here in the UK."
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Employers often ask job applicants, "Where do you see yourself in five years?" as a way of determining whether their career plans or ambitions will fit well with the role they're applying for. Although you might not know exactly where you want to be in five years, you can still come up with a good response.
What does an employer want to know from you?
A job interviewer who asks the question, "Where do you see yourself in five years?" is trying to learn about your motivations and career goals. In your response, indicate your enthusiasm for the role and that it aligns with your career goals.
Will the employer be able to satisfy your ambitions in the job?
Employers want to make sure that the people they hire are well-suited to the job and enjoy their work. For instance, if you're applying for a position as an administrative assistant at a large company and say that you want to be an Office Manager in five years, your interviewer will likely see you as a good fit for the role. Being promoted to a manager's position is realistic based on the experience you would gather in the role. On the other hand, if you apply for a job as a customer service representative and explain that you want to be a graphic designer within five years, the employer may be reluctant to hire you because they'll question whether you're making a serious commitment to the role.
Your interviewer may also be trying to find out if the role will satisfy you. For example, if you interview for an entry-level position but say you want to be an executive director in five years, they might suspect you're over-qualified or might leave if a better offer comes up.
Do you see a future with the company?
Employers invest considerable time and financial resources to bring new employees on board. As a result, they often want to know whether you see a future with the organization over the long term. This doesn't mean you need to make a firm commitment to work for the company five years from now. However, indicating that you believe you can grow and develop your career with the employer can be an effective way to show them why they should hire you.
Will you show drive and ambition in the role?
Some employers might not need to know what you'd like to be doing in five years. Rather, they might want to know that you are highly driven and ambitious, traits that often make a successful employee or colleague. Therefore, try to include points that illustrate how you aim to develop your professional skills in your answer. For example, talk about your desire to participate in on-the-job training to improve your professional qualifications or work towards additional certifications in your field.
Does the role really interest you?
Of course, not every interview in life will be for your dream job! But even if you don't see yourself taking over the company one day, you can still answer the question "Where do you see yourself in five years?" effectively. Elaborate on the relevant soft skills you want to develop. For example, if you're interviewing for a customer service role, you could say that you hope to strengthen your communication skills. Alternatively, if you're interviewing for an administrative position, you could talk about your interest in developing your organizational and coordinating abilities.
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How to answer "Where do you see yourself in five years?"
The best way to answer the question, "Where do you see yourself in five years?" is to explain how you want to grow in your new role. To have an effective and direct answer ready, you may find it beneficial to plan what you'll say ahead of time. Sometimes, this may come easy to you. If you've landed your dream job as a graduate engineer, you could talk about how you want to build experience in various fields, manage your own projects, and apply for a senior engineering position.
Reviewing the job description for the role can be helpful if you're finding it a little harder to decide what you'll say. Look over the main responsibilities of the role and the skills and qualifications the employer is looking for. Then, try to come up with an answer that relates to them.
Here are some other best practices that may help you during your interview:
Consider what you'd like to have on your resume in five years
Imagine what you hope your resume will include five years from now. Things to consider include:
Can you grow into a more senior position in this role? For instance, an assistant manager may be able to become a manager.
Could you develop soft skills or technical skills in the role? If you're interviewing for a healthcare job, you may want to gain a specific type of clinical experience.
Could you obtain a professional qualification? For example, an accountant can work towards getting certified as a chartered professional accountant.
Can you achieve certain goals in your job? For example, you may aim to become a team leader of your sales team or specialize in certain topics as a Journalist.
You don't necessarily need to go through all of these points in your answer. Instead, try picking out one or two areas to talk about that seem most relevant to your role and level of experience.
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Think about how the role could help your interests develop
A new profession or job allows you to grow as a person and develop your interests. Generally, you'll learn new things as you develop in your role that could change your career goals. A social media manager may start out with an interest in supporting marketing campaigns and engaging with customers. Over the course of their role, they may learn more about specific techniques and programs used to conduct campaigns, which may encourage them to learn more about marketing techniques. As a result, they may decide to move into the field of marketing management.
To apply this example to your own situation, think about the parts of the job that interest you and how your interests may evolve as you learn more. You don't need to map out a precise pathway for the next five years.
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Example answers to "Where do you see yourself in five years?"
Unlike the detailed answers many employers want in response to other interview questions, this is one where you can respond more generally. Try to identify two or three main points about where you want to be five years from now.
Answering in more general terms can also be beneficial because it shows the employer that you respond well to change and are willing to learn. For example, you could say:
"In five years, I'd like to have become an expert in sales. I want to lead a team of sales associates who can turn to me for advice on our products and customers' needs. I've taken the lead and shown initiative in previous roles, and I think I can use these traits to support the company's growth targets."
Here, the candidate explains that they have a goal of moving up to a more senior position in the company. They also highlight how their skills could help them fulfil the responsibilities of a more senior role and how they want to develop their knowledge about the company's products and customers.
An alternative response could be something like this:
"My goals for the next few years include managing my own project from start to finish and providing supervisory support to the design team. My background as a product designer means I have the technical knowledge and understanding of the various processes involved. But I'm looking forward to learning more about how your company operates at the management level and engages with its clients."
In this answer, the candidate connects their previous experience to the opportunities for growth offered by the role they're interviewing for.
Thinking about your future career development may seem challenging at first. However, by carefully reviewing the job description and thinking about your own interests and skills, you'll find it much easier to craft an effective answer to the question, "Where do you see yourself in five years?"
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Think of dental implants as metal anchors, usually made of titanium, that are surgically placed into the jawbone to hold permanent replacement teeth or dentures. Through a process called "osteointegration", the jawbone actually attaches itself to the implant over time, providing tremendous stability.
Implant treatment is usually performed by a general dentist, oral surgeon, periodontist or a team of these doctors. To devise the best treatment plan for you, we first complete a medical and dental history and a thorough oral examination, including x-rays. The procedure and follow-ups are often performed in the dental office using local anesthetic. Depending upon your individual situation, other types of anesthesia may be used to ensure your comfort.
Immediately after surgery we will give you specific post surgical instructions to assure the best possible healing. In addition, we may prescribe pain medication and in some cases, antibiotics to aid in the healing process and help alleviate any discomfort. At this time, you may be fitted with temporary dentures or natural-looking teeth to help you function as normally as possible. You also will need to limit your diet to soft foods and follow important oral hygiene instructions. Follow-up care is important during this time.
Once the jawbone has firmly healed around the implant, a small post is attached to each implant. The post protrudes through the gum line and serve as an anchor for the replacement teeth. This short procedure usually requires only local anesthesia. After your gums have healed, the replacement teeth or dentures are securely attached to the posts.
Because dental implants are patterned after the structure of your natural teeth, they provide a highly stable support system for the replacement teeth or dentures. Other benefits include:What Are the Benefits of Dental Implants?
Improved biting pressure. Healthy teeth are able to absorb over 500 pounds of biting pressure per square inch. If you've worn dentures for a long time, that pressure may be diminished significantly to one tenth that of natural teeth. Dental implants can often restore the amount of pressure that can be withstood to nearly the same level of healthy natural teeth.
Comfort and fit. Because your replacement teeth are anchored securely to the implants in your jawbone, they can't slip and slide like unsecured dentures can. When dentures aren't secure enough, they often cause sores in the mouth and an annoying clicking sound. Dental implants eliminate these problems.
Increased self confidence. Because dental implants function remarkably like natural teeth, most people who get them experience a renewed sense of self confidence once they realize they can again chew, talk, laugh and smile with confidence.
Dental implant surgery has proved to be successful for hundreds of thousands of people over the years. Negative effects such as bleeding, infection, injury to the nerves or sinus cavity, or incomplete healing of the bone around the implant resulting in implant failure are rare. During the healing process however, discomfort, swelling and inflammation of the gums, normal responses to oral surgery, may be present in varying degrees. If you have questions about your individual situation or want to discuss what is considered normal in the healing process, we will be happy to address your concerns.
If you face the loss of one or several teeth or if you're dissatisfied with dentures or other options available to you, you may find that dental implants are right for you. Age is not typically a major factor: successful dental implants have been performed on young people as well as the elderly.
The care you give to your dental implant makes a tremendous difference in the overall satisfaction your experience, as well as the longevity of the implant itself. With proper oral hygiene habits brushing, flossing, and regular dental check-ups your implant will serve you well.


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There are a variety of healthcare products in the market today. The market is full of these products. Healthcare products come in different varieties. a person who has health concerns has the freedom of choosing between synthetic and natural remedies. The product you settle on should be beneficial to you. Natural healthcare products are better than the synthetic ones. A lot of reasons can tell you why this is the case. Many people are unaware of the existence of healthcare products. This has forced them to resort to synthetic products. Luckily, the natural remedies have been in use for as long as you can remember. The benefits of natural healthcare products are immense. To start with, natural healthcare products have little to no side effects. Natural products are cleaner compared to synthetic products. The products are safe to use since they are made from natural components like plant material. Their side effects are minimal. Due to this, individuals from all age groups can safely use natural health care products. The products do not have preservatives that are chemical in nature.
There is no artificial preservative found in natural products. The longevity of these products is increased using natural preservatives. Artificial preservatives found in synthetic products may be irritating to the user.
Another advantage of natural healthcare products is that they have a long-lasting relief. Compared to synthetic products, organic goods have longer lasting relief. A person tends to feel much better when using organic stuff than when using artificial healthcare products. You could explain this by stating the fact that natural remedies are made from pure natural ingredients. Natural remedies see to it that the user feels more energetic and full of life contrary to how a person feels when using synthetic products. The body is filled with toxins when one uses artificial products. It becomes a hustle to clear out the toxins left in the body after the use of synthetic drugs. Some of these synthetic products are made from harsh ingredients that may be harmful to the liver. The beauty of natural products is that not only are they devoid of impurities, but they are also gentle to your body. Natural remedies aid in flushing out harmful; toxins from your body.
Natural healthcare products are not harmful to the environment. The ingredients used to make natural products are safe, and this explains why such products are environmental friendly. The wastes left after manufacturing organic stuff is usually safe to be disposed. The environment is polluted by harmful wastes produced by the manufacturing of synthetic products. These usually include gases that are harmful to the ozone layer. It is good to note that traditionally, people used natural healthcare products and their health was at its optimum. For this reason, it is good to make a switch and move from synthetic products to natural remedies.


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"use strict";

var Assert = require("assert");
var Client = require("./../../index");

describe("[search]", function() {
    var client;
    var token = "c286e38330e15246a640c2cf32a45ea45d93b2ba";

    beforeEach(function() {
        client = new Client({
            version: "3.0.0"
        });
        /*client.authenticate({
            type: "oauth",
            token: token
        });*/
    });

    it("should successfully execute GET /search/code/:q (code)",  function(next) {
        client.search.code(
            {
                q: ['test', 'repo:mikedeboertest/1423836276146'].join('+')
            },
            function(err, res) {
                Assert.equal(err, null);
                Assert.equal(res.items.length, 1);
                var file = res.items[0];
                Assert.equal(file.name, "TEST.md");

                next();
            }
        );
    });

    it("should successfully execute GET /search/issues/:q (issues)",  function(next) {
        client.search.issues(
            {
                q: ['debate', 'repo:mikedeboertest/node_chat', 'state:open'].join('+')
            },
            function(err, res) {
                Assert.equal(err, null);
                Assert.equal(res.items.length, 1);
                var issue = res.items[0];
                Assert.equal(issue.title, "My First Issue");
                Assert.equal(issue.state, "open");

                next();
            }
        );
    });

    it("should successfully execute GET /search/repositories/:q (repos)",  function(next) {
        client.search.repos(
            {
                q: ['pasta', 'language:JavaScript'].join('+')
            },
            function(err, res) {
                Assert.equal(err, null);
                Assert.ok(res.items.length > 0);
                Assert.equal(res.items[0].language, "JavaScript");

                next();
            }
        );
    });

    it("should successfully execute GET /search/users/:q (users)",  function(next) {
        client.search.users(
            {
                q: "mikedeboer"
            },
            function(err, res) {
                Assert.equal(err, null);
                Assert.equal(res.items.length, 2);
                var user = res.items[0];
                Assert.equal(user.login, "mikedeboer");

                client.search.users(
                    {
                        q: "location:Jyväskylä"
                    },
                    function(err, res) {
                        Assert.equal(err, null);
                        //XXX: this is likely to change often. I added this for
                        //     issue #159.
                        Assert.equal(res.items.length, 30);
                        var user = res.items[0];
                        Assert.equal(user.login, "bebraw");

                        next();
                    }
                );
            }
        );
    });

    /*it("should successfully execute GET /search/user/email/:email (email)",  function(next) {
        client.search.email(
            {
                email: "String"
            },
            function(err, res) {
                Assert.equal(err, null);
                // other assertions go here
                next();
            }
        );
    });*/
});

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Shami Chakrabarti served as Director of Liberty for more than a decade. In that time she has led many high-profile campaigns, changed the face of Liberty (formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties), and oversaw the organisation's involvement in the defence and promotion of human rights in Parliament and wider society. She now serves as Shadow Attorney General in the Labour Shadow Cabinet.
After training as a lawyer and serving as a barrister, Shami joined the Home Office where she worked for five years before joining Liberty as their in-house counsel. The organisation was at the time a small, charitable organisation more given to providing legal support for those whose rights may have been infringed than to campaigning.
Shami joined Liberty the day before the 9/11 attacks and much of her and the organisation's work would thereafter be defined by those events. Under her leadership Liberty took on government, media and public opinion, fighting for human rights and civil liberties and attacking proposed legislation on ID cards, detention without charge and surveillance.
Established in 1934, Liberty has worked on everything from the Hunger Marches to counter-terrorism legislation and asylum issues. Shami helped advance the organisation in profile and professionalism, making them a formidable and respected force in lobbying and public debate. She changed its culture, developed a greater collaborative ethos, and became an indomitable advocate for rights and liberties, frequently facing personal criticism by the press and politicians.
As her and Liberty's profile rose, they became an important counter to much of the extreme, knee-jerk reaction to threats both real and imagined. In this role she frequently contributed to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers. She was described in The Times as "probably the most effective public affairs lobbyist of the past 20 years". Between 2014 and 2017 she served as Chancellor of the University of Essex.
In 2016 Shami was made a life peer in the Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. In 2018 she was announced as a member of the Privy Council. Shami is also a governor of the British Film Institute. She is the author of On Liberty and Of Women.
As well as addressing the continued importance of civil liberties and human rights, Shami also considers the importance of balancing security, privacy and freedom. She looks at the way public and commercial organisations view information and how legislation and technology are changing things. She also examines the lessons in leadership, working with government, and campaigning her time at Liberty taught, as well as reflecting on life as 'the most dangerous woman in Britain' (according to the Sun).
Shami carried one of the eight white Olympic flags at the London 2012 opening ceremony, alongside Doreen Lawrence and Nobel peace prize winner Leyma Gbowee. She was a panel member of the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking and has written a personal examination of rights and liberties.
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A CHRONOLOGY OF AZERBAIJAN'S FOREIGN POLICY
KEY STATEMENTS BY OTHERS ABOUT AZERBAIJAN
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Azerbaijan's information and communication technologies sector: Some development peculiarities
Ninety-nine percent of Azerbaijanis say Turkey is their country's biggest friend
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Vol. 5, No. 21 (November 01, 2012)
Contaminated rivers as main threat to Caspian ecology
Paul Goble
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Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy
Azerbaijani experts taking part in an international telebridge on October 31 argued that the chief threat to the ecology of the Black Sea comes not from the impact of oil and gas production, but rather from rivers flowing into it whose waters have become contaminated by agricultural and industrial chemicals. That view was disputed by participants from two other littoral states—the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan—and it is thus one that may complicate long-running talks on the territorial demarcation of the sea even as it promotes greater environmental awareness across the region.
Rasim Sattarzade, the head of the department of ecological and nature protection policy at the Azerbaijani ecology and natural resources ministry, said that "only two to three percent" of the environmental contamination of the Black Sea comes from oil and gas extraction. Overwhelmingly, he said, contamination comes from run-off waters, already contaminated by industrial effluents and agricultural fertilizer, flowing into the sea. Obviously, he said, risks associated with oil extraction exist, but they can be "minimized through the application of contemporary technologies and methods of control."
Azerbaijan is already doing its part in both regards. On the one hand, it has introduced the most advanced forms of control against oil and gas spills. And on the other, Baku is currently spending "about a billion dollars every year" to build and modernize new water purification facilities along the Caspian coast." The one at Hovsan, he pointed out, will process 640,000 cubic meters of water each day; that at Sumgait, 200,000; the third at Mardakan-Shuvalan, 20,000; and the last at Buzovna, 10,000.
In the future, Sattarov said, Azerbaijan will construct such plants along "the entire coastline of Azerbaijan." On the Absheron peninsula around Baku, he added, there are plans to set up "mobile purification" facilities to handle particular problems.
Mehman Akhundov, the director of the Azerbaijani Research Institute on Fishing, agreed with his colleague. He also said that Azerbaijan was working to counter the problems caused by the dumping of ballast waters from passing ships. Telman Zeynalov, president of the Azerbaijani National Center for Ecological Forecasting, added that Baku is currently stepping up efforts against poachers, who also by their actions affect the purity of the waters of the Caspian.
Sattarzade spoke for his Azerbaijani colleagues when he said that he hoped that a conference on the ecological framework convention for the Caspian, scheduled to take place in December, will adopt a two-year plan to reduce pollution, including contamination from oil-bearing shipping.
Boris Golubov, a senior scholar at the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, suggested that his Azerbaijani colleagues are "somewhat understating" the impact of the oil industry on the Caspian's ecology. Indeed, he said, there is "a hypothesis according to which the development of new fields will provoke outflows of oil on the surface of the sea." Thus, the threat "arises of the progressive death of the Caspian." He conceded that "external sources of contamination are important, and preventing this danger is needed," but he insisted that "what is happening" with oil is "much more serious," an "obvious threat to the degradation of the unique biological diversity of this eco-system."
The Russian scholar said that "near Baku are preserved hundreds if not thousands" of wellheads from which oil may flow into the sea. Moreover, oil is one of the effluents of the mud volcanoes. And there is a danger of "the militarization of the region," because "where there is oil, then there are conflicts, social, economic and international." According to Golubov, the five littoral states have not taken sufficient note of "the sad Soviet experience of oil extraction and are not prepared for possible new accidents."
A similar view was offered by Mels Eleusizov, president of Kazakhstan's Tabigat Ecological Union, who argued that contaminated rivers in Kazakhstan do threaten the Caspian. However, he insisted that contamination connected with oil and gas exploitation is "much more dangerous than surface water flows." Past agreements to combat these problems, he said, have not worked, and most conferences about it are "simply talk shops." He added that, "the resolution of the problems of the protection of the Caspian will be found only when the societies and leaders of the Caspian littoral states take it up seriously."
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Q: Converting array into polynomial In MATLAB, there exists a function ppval for evaluation of polynomials in points, which given the polynomial in opportune format and the points where to evaluate it as input, returns the vector of the evaluations. Now I have built a function that finds the coefficients of a certain polynomial. Is there a function that, given an array of coefficients, converts it to the polynomial format ppval works with? Or do I have to build a function that evaluates the polynomial myself?

A: I think you want polyval:

Y = POLYVAL(P,X) returns the value of a polynomial P evaluated at X. P
      is a vector of length N+1 whose elements are the coefficients of the
      polynomial in descending powers.
    Y = P(1)*X^N + P(2)*X^(N-1) + ... + P(N)*X + P(N+1)

Note ppval is for evaluation piecewise-polynomial functions, rather than polynomials.

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Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries was back on the acquisition trail yesterday - snapping up Southampton-based Celtic Inns Holdings in a deal valued at more than £43 million.
W&DB said it had acquired Celtic for £43.6 million on a debt and cash free basis from private equity firm Dunedin Capital Partners and existing management and employees of Celtic, subject to an adjustment based on net working capital at completion.
Ralph Findlay, chief executive of W&DB, said: "The acquisition represents good value for our shareholders and meets our returns criteria.
"Celtic has a good quality estate which complements our existing business both opera-tionally and geographically.
"The acquisition also represents an excellent opportunity for Celtic tenants to access W&DB's industry-leading agreements and a much wider brand portfolio."
W&DB expects the acquisition will generate annual purchasing synergies of £200,000.
The group added that the majority of the deal was satisfied in cash with certain employee shareholders receiving loan notes. The cash element was funded from existing bank facilities, the regional brewer said.
Celtic Inns, which was formed in 2002 by Duncan Murray and Clive Williams, has an estate of 70 community pubs based predominantly in South Wales, including 21 in Southern England.
managed houses. Dunedin invested £3.5 million in Celtic Inns to generate proceeds of £8.7 million from its invest-m ent. Over the past 18 months, the estate has been increased from 47 pubs to 70.
Mr Murray, managing director at Celtic Inns, said: "Dunedin's provision of funding has assisted us in creating an estate of real scale and focus which has now attracted the interest of W&DB." Giles Derry, investment director at Dunedin added: "Celtic Inns has been an excellent investment for us, returning a money multiple of 2.4 times over 18 months."
The management team had done "a great job" in securing the sale of the business.
In December W&DB - the owner of the Pitcher & Piano, Bostin' Locals and Service That Suits Me chains - posted underlying pretax profits of £90.1 million for the year to October 1, up 16 per cent from the £77.7 million reported for the previous 12 months.
W&DB said the acquisitions spree that saw it take over rivals such as Burtonwood and Jennings over the past year, explained why its turnover during the period jumped 16.3 per cent to £597.3 million, along with the steady rise in like-for-like sales.
The company, a key player in the ongoing consolidation of the pubs industry, operates 1,748 leased and tenanted inns that form its Union Pub Company plus 542 managed inns grouped in its Pathfinder Pubs business.
W&DB paid £119 million for control of the 460 Burton-wood pubs and then followed this deal with a £45.8 million takeover of Jennings.


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Hard Rock was the perfect choice for their wedding – modern & unique architecture, elegant decor with a Caribbean twist, perfect weather, and their loved ones to witness their union. Rob & I had a blast documenting their love here and we can't wait to come back! Wishing you guys all the best in your new life & home together!!!
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The rapid development of technologies in cars is becoming an increasingly popular topic of conversation in my circle of family and friends. Why is this? Certainly part of this is because of my job at HORIBA MIRA but I'm convinced this is only a small part of the reason and that I am only providing a conduit for them to express and explore an increasing fascination with the subject.
The Mercedes-Benz F015 autonomous concept car. Is this the car of the future?
My 94 year old uncle who has now stopped driving is particularly interested in developments in driverless cars and what they will mean for helping keep older people mobile in the future. In the meantime he is getting to grips with apps for public transport and booking taxis (unfortunately uber do not yet cover his village though). For those still driving there is the fascination with increasing connectivity and improving navigation services as well as advances with driver assistance features. For those currently too young to drive there is the fascination with how cars are changing in to robots and what terms like "artificial intelligence" mean and whether "you can do this at university." It was this last point that gave me the idea of doing a blog on what these changes in the car will mean for the skills needed to imagine, design and develop them.
The comment about cars changing in to robots was made by my young niece. I think it captures the essence of the revolution that is taking place in the whole of transport, namely its transformation by digital technology. Numerous studies point to the significant economic opportunities this transformation will bring which is good news for jobs and perhaps my young niece will benefit from this as she considers her career choices.
But what are the skills industry needs to design and develop the car of the future? There is no doubt that traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) skills are part of the mix but the car industry needs to go much further and develop the disruptive skills that will also be needed. In particular computer science and its various components such as cyber security, wireless data communications, machine learning and artificial intelligence will be key. The more automation technology we introduce in to cars the more important it will be to understand and design for the safe interaction of this technology with human beings. Human factors and psychology skills will therefore be increasingly important. New skills in creativity and imagination will also be important as disruption brings innovation opportunities to radically re-think what the car of the future will be like and how it interacts with people and infrastructure (both physical and wireless).
These skills are not new per se but what is new is the need to apply them on a large scale in order to imagine, design and develop the car of the future. Why then, has there been a drop in computer science graduates and courses1? This trend suggests that the message is not yet getting out from the car industry to signal the level of demand there will be for such skills. No doubt this is hampered by the traditional image of the car industry as well as the tendency of established industries to work in silos with limited cross sector approaches. Attracting and developing these disruptive skills therefore needs to be part of the marketing mix for car companies and their supply chains and partners. New entrants in the car market are leading the way in this respect.
Developing new skills is something we are taking very seriously at HORIBA MIRA. For example, in my own area working together with Coventry University we have 2 cyber security PhD students, a computer science placement student and a games technology placement student working alongside our core team of engineers. They are actively engaged in developing our capabilities for engineering and testing the car of the future. The combination of their disruptive skills and non-traditional automotive roots are adding real value to our project teams and this is something we plan to extend significantly so watch this space! More widely our rapidly growing Transport Technology Park has advanced plans for a £9.5M investment in an onsite institute. This will be a collaboration with further and higher education to provide both disruptive and core skills development from apprentice to post graduate level courses. Nationally, government is also working to develop strategies for addressing this skills gap and the recently published Intelligent Mobility Skills Strategy2 is an example of this.
But all these initiatives will be inadequate if we don't capture the imagination and creativity of children like my young niece before they leave school. The fact that only 10% of app developers and 6% of engineers are women, for example3 suggests there is much to do in this respect. So how can we do this? My daughter who teaches music introduced me to the educational ideas of Sir Ken Robinson. His central belief is that creativity is as important in education as literacy and that the education system should treat it with the same status. Listening to some of his talks I think he has a point4. Perhaps, therefore, we need some disruption in the education system to help prepare our children for a future we can't grasp.
Intelligent Mobility Skills Strategy, Transport Systems Catapult, October 2016.
Select Committee on Digital Skills – Report of Session 2014–15.
Anthony thank you for an article that stimulates thought and encapsulates some of the opportunities and challenges that face many industries. Embrace disruption, value imagination and look forward to an exciting future.


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Pharrell Williams Wants You To Smell Like His 'G I R L'
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Artist/producer Pharrell Williams can't be stopped right now. After making every artist in the game tuck their whole summers in, Pharrell is getting into the fragrance business. The "Get Lucky" singer recently partnered with a Japanese fashion brand to create a unisex fragrance.
Williams and Japanese brand Comme des Garçons have teamed up to bring a fragrance called "G I R L" to the public. The product is set to debut sometime this fall and was obviously named after Pharrell's hit new album.
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Pharrell expressed his excitement about the new fragrance. "I am so honored to be working with Comme des Garçons and cherish the education that I've experienced in this collaboration."
The brand is also very excited to partner with Pharrell. The chief executive of Comme des Garçons Parfum SA, Adrian Joffe said, "This is the first time we have created a fragrance for a musician, and I can think of no greater talent and no greater gentleman to have done this with. Pharrell knew exactly what he wanted the perfume to smell like right from the beginning. It has been an honor to work with such a creative artist with a great vision, which for Comme des Garçons is the most important thing."
Since 'G I R L' is going to be a unisex scent, I have one question. Do men really want to smell like a 'G I R L'?
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Preston Robert "Bob" Tisch
Posted by BBI Guest Contributor
By David Oliver
There is a certain weltschmertz in sitting down to write about the Giants these days. First the passing of Wellington "Duke" Mara, and now the passing of Preston Robert "Bob" Tisch leave me feeling as if a heavy load has been placed on my all too quickly aging back. There have been so many down happenings in my life since my involuntary departure from the 'family' that they underscore my previously expressed feelings that the cycle of my life has moved in tandem with that of the Giants.
But before anything else is said, allow me to express my condolences to the Tisch family and the Giants family in the best way I know, by stating simply, that Bob Tisch was a real Mensch in a world of saccharine personalities. I have lived a long and pretty good life. I have supped with janitors and dined with the politically and financially powerful. Coming from a background of Newark and its working class sentiments, guided and befriended by own brilliant father who, by choice, spent his life as a factory worker, I have come to respect, or not respect men based on how they interact and treat those around them.
Bob Tisch was a caring man, interested in everyone who touched him or came into his sphere of being. Just as Wellington Mara, he knew his place in the world. His expression of joie differed from Wellington, but his curiosity, his respect and his emotions came from the same rootstock. I first met Bob Tisch at a mini-camp, when he walked over to a group of us, writers and photographers, and asked how we thought the team was coming along; asked what we liked or not. There was an embarrassed shuffling and silence as none of us were about to point out to the team owner our opinions on the strength or weakness of his team. Finally, someone said to Mr. Tisch that his coaching staff might be the more appropriate people to answer his question. Mr. Tisch, without missing a beat, told us that he valued our opinion, as we were the guys watching the team go through its workouts, we were the guys who interacted with the players, and that he valued an independent opinion.
That day opened up a whole new appreciation for me of Mr. Tisch, or Mr. T as we called him. Here was a man, who by his own admission did not know all his players when he became an owner. Here was a man who was so self-effacing that he wanted to learn the game and the players, and those who covered the game and its players. And he was the same in every business he owned. He was often on the field, particularly at away games such as Washington. He was joyous when the team won, and crestfallen when it lost. He was expressive in a guarded way with those he knew, not by words, but by body language. We were friendly with his personal assistant and his pilot, and we met employees from his Hotel chain. There was nothing but praise and enthusiasm about the man, so unlike many things those who know them from a subordinate relationship say that about those in power. We would convey our messages of support to him and he would likewise respond through these people.
Bob Tisch was an owner, a businessman, a fan and a Mensch – a Giants' Mensch. Just ask Cathy from Maine who spent a night discussing the Giants, and other matters, with Mr. Tisch in the lounge of the hotel in Albany. He was one of us, in a way in which few owners of any enterprise are one of the populi. I can tell you of at least one instance when a photographer was faced with a family emergency on the road. There was no way to catch a flight after the game to get home. Mr. Tisch put him on the team plane and got him back that night. When my brother-in-law passed away, I wrote to Mssrs. Mara and Tisch to express my profound gratitude for Michael Strahan's visits and encouragement to him. I wanted them to know that their feelings about the Giants' family had filtered down to their players. Both responded, but Bob Tisch did so almost immediately, expressing his own personal condolences and telling me of his own sense of loss over the death of his brother, which had occurred recently. Soon thereafter, it was made public that he, himself, was ill.
The kindness, the generosity, the humanity of Duke Mara and Bob Tisch are reminders of an age past. These were not "me" generation men. These were not men of limp personality. These were genuine men who stood tall and lived with the same passion as we do for this thing we all know as the NY Football Giants.
We are all the lesser for their passing.
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Wellington "Duke" Mara
It is a day we all knew was coming; it comes for each of us. That doesn't make it any less sad. Notwithstanding the Irish tradition of sending a loved one on his way with celebration and telling of tales, I must take a moment to grieve for football, for fans of the game, for us as Giants fans and family. Each of us here has been born to the Blue. Wellington Mara was the essence of Blue. He was the owner of our team, but more than that, as we do, he cheered, he mourned, he angered, he reveled in the game and in his players. Mr. Mara was not perfect; no man is. But his last action as scion of the Giants speaks volumes of the man. He hired a coach in whom he believed; a Coach he hoped in his heart could bring us a return to the Glory Days of Giants football. It was his final gift to us.
Those of us who have reached a certain age cannot remember a time when there were no Giants; and concomitant with that remembrance, there was Wellington Mara. He, Mr. Rooney and Papa Bear Halas were the NFL. They were patricians and they were Gentlemen. In a violent world, in a violent sport, Wellington Mara and his cohorts maintained a sense of dignity, a style, and as my mother once told me, you have to know your place in the world; Wellington Mara knew his place. He sacrificed personal gain for the good of the sport and although the sport was good to him, there may not have been a sport without him.
I spoke very little with Mr. Mara. We would nod to each other, say hello or good morning and pass on our respective ways. But he knew I was a long time fan and he smiled at me a lot. He would smile and nod as he walked the field at mini-camp, or summer camp; he would nod and smile in the locker room after a Giants win; and he smiled and nodded that cold day in February as I was leaving the Meadowlands after interviewing a Coach and he was coming to work, walking into the Stadium alone.
He loved his team and his players and the team's fans. Every day, at practice, when he was younger, he would pace up and down the field; later he would be stationary, but intent on watching every player, every play. Although not gregarious with strangers, he was not isolated. He would answer a question; sign an autograph, treat each fan as if he was, what we are, members of the Giants' family. I have seen him sign autographs for young men and I have seen him sign autographs for fans wearing the jersey of another team. Everyone respected him, and he respected everyone.
The game is changing once again. The players are different, the owners are different, and the fans are different. With the coming of free agency, heroes come and go. In the age of entertainment, PSLs are the acronym of the day, the cost of taking a family of four to a game is astronomical. Players take pens out of their socks or cell phones from hidden places. But I remember a day when players and fans took the same subway to the stadium, when Frank Gifford regaled us with stories of Wellington Mara slipping enough C notes in his shoes to enable him to go home to California or buy a present for his family, and when Wellington Mara answered the cry of the fans to end the horrid days of the 60s and 70s and return football, Giants' football, to its proper place.
But most of all, I will remember a courtly middle aged man as he, and I, aged, walking the field before his players arrived, watching every practice, nodding and smiling in my direction. As he always thought of us as family, we likewise count him in our families. So for a moment we will grieve; then we will celebrate a life well lived. Thank you, Mr. Mara, and God Speed on your final journey.
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Webinar – Implementing the SSF Guidelines: what we have learnt and what we need to do next
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The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), endorsed by the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in 2014, provide a framework for small-scale fisheries governance and development. To support their implementation, a Global Strategic Framework (SSF-GSF) was put in place as a partnership mechanism giving small-scale fisheries actors, government representatives and other stakeholders a space to collaborate at a global level.
Since their endorsement, governments, small-scale fisheries organisations and other stakeholders and partners have been working to ensure that the SSF Guidelines are known and applied. Today, a few years down the line, various experiences exist of SSF Guidelines implementation support and a discussion around these experiences would be useful to guide continued efforts.
Accordingly, the SSF-GSF Friends of the SSF Guidelines group, consisting of selected FAO members [1], and the Advisory Group (AG) representing small-scale fisheries and Indigenous peoples organisation [2], proposed this webinar to showcase experiences of applying the SSF Guidelines at different scales, by different actors, and in different contexts. It allowed sharing approaches and lessons learnt and to discuss how the implementation of the SSF Guidelines, can be further promoted to enhance the contribution of the small-scale fisheries sector, to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including with regard to food security and nutrition, and equitable development for men and women in the sector and beyond.
On the eve of the 34th session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI), the webinar provided inputs to ensure synergies between the implementation of the SSF Guidelines and the objectives of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA2022), and the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF).
[1] Canada, Indonesia, Norway, Peru and Tanzania.
[2] WFF, WFFP, IITC, and LCV, collaborating within the alliance space of the IPC.
Recording of the webinar:
Download here the presentations and the interventions of the speakers (click on the icon to download):
Presentation of Ms Lilian Ibengwe, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Fisheries Development Division, Tanzania
Intervention of Mr Herman Kumara (NAFSO/WFFP), on behalf of the Asia&Pacific SSF Regional Advisory Group
Presentation of Ms Sibongiseni Gwebani (Masifundise Development Trust/WFFP)
Presentation of Mr Adrian LaRoda (CNFO/WFFP)
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I've decided to leave my old employer medienreaktor in favour of going a completely different way than the one someone in my age would normally go. My initial idea was to start freelancing, and that's also what I'm currently doing. However, I'm not really sure if it will stay that way. So instead of just going on with my work, I've also decided to pull some additional levers.
And in the next few months, one of those might turn out to be better for me than just playing the lone wolf and doing everything alone. While I'm very proud to finally be able to pay for my own life by myself, I also miss how much fun it is to work together with a team. Nevertheless, I wanted to grow into a different, extended direction.
All in all, I feel like I have more time to enjoy what really matters to be: Building great software.
However, I definitely need to find a way to combine this new way of being with a better social environment than the one I currently have. It does make an awful lot of fun to write and design such things, but it makes even more fun to do so with a awesome team.
But as I said: The next few months will decide how I proceed with this.
Another big thing that happened to my life. It took me nearly half a year to convert my thoughts and ideas into a working product. At first, it was really tough. And when I say "really", I mean "really". I've created a lot of things on the web, but this one is without doubt the biggest one of all.
More than four complete iterations of the design, multiple rewrites of the whole codebase and countless cups of tea went into it. But all in all, it was definitely worth it.
If you want to learn more about what Muffin actually does and why it's awesome, take a read at this. If you're more into the design part, rather than into how it works, check out the Dribbble project.
Thanks to my new schedule, I was also able to finally start journaling again. For the past months, it was something I simply didn't have enough time for. Text seems simple, if you can just read it. But if you're writing, it consumes a lot of effort and time.
So if you haven't tried it already, you definitely need to. Just grab the latest version of the beautiful app Day One and start right over today!


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Areas with worst air quality had 27% increase in bipolar disorder analysis found.
People who grow up in areas with poor air quality are more likely to develop depression and bipolar disorder in later life, a new study has suggested.
Analysis of health data from millions of patients found a "significant link" between mental health disorders and exposure to air pollution, especially in childhood.
The research, based on population data from the US and Denmark, is the latest of a number of studies to link air quality to ill health.
Led by scientists at the University of Chicago, the study used an American health insurance database of 151 million people with 11 years of inpatient and outpatient claims for neuropsychiatric diseases. Researchers then compared those claims to measurements of 87 potential air pollutants.
They found countries with the worst air quality had a 27 per cent increase in bipolar disorder and a 6 per cent higher incidence of major depression when compared with those with the best air quality.
"There's quite a few known triggers [for mental illness] but pollution is a new direction," said the paper's author Andrey Rzhetsky, professor of medicine and human genetics.
He added: "Research on dogs and rodents shows air pollution can get into the brain and cause inflammation which results in symptoms resembling depression. It's quite possible that the same thing happens in humans."
The Chicago team applied the same methodology to data from 1.4 million Danish patients to validate their findings.
In collaboration with researchers at Denmark's Aarhus University, they examined the incidence of neuropsychiatric disease in Danish adults who lived in areas of poor environmental quality up to the age of 10.
The team found there was a 29 per cent increase in mental health disorders for people living in the most polluted areas.
Exposure to high levels of air pollution was linked to a more than two-fold increase in schizophrenia among the Danish patients as well as higher rates of personality disorder, depression and bipolar, the study found.
"Our studies in the United States and Denmark show that living in polluted areas, especially early in life, is predictive of mental disorders," said computational biologist Atif Khan, co-author of the study, published in PLOS Biology.
However, academics who were not involved in the research said other factors may account for the correlation.
A critical commentary, published alongside the study by Stanford professor John Ioannidis said it raised an "intriguing possibility" that poor air quality might cause mental illnesses but had failed to make a clear case.
"Despite analyses involving large datasets, the available evidence has substantial shortcomings and a long series of potential biases may invalidate the observed associations," he wrote.
Dr Daniel Maughan, associate registrar for sustainability at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said the research built on the "increasing evidence" of a link between air pollution and the development of mental illness.
He said that, while the study does not show that air pollution causes mental illness, it suggests a "strong link" exists between early exposure and an increased risk of developing mental ill-health.
Dr Maughan added: "However, there are many environmental factors which could contribute to poor mental health for those people living in areas of high pollution – such as population density and diminished access to green spaces – so it is therefore difficult to isolate poor air quality as the cause of mental illness."
The World Health Organisation estimates that air pollution kills 7 million people each year – equivalent to 13 deaths every minute, and more than the combined total of war, murder, tuberculosis, HIV, AIDS and malaria.
Previous studies have linked poor air quality to a range of conditions including asthma, heart disease, and various types of cancer.
Source: Independent


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Rediff.com » Business » Bharti keen on buying African telecom PSUs: Rajan Mittal
Bharti keen on buying African telecom PSUs: Rajan Mittal
By Ruchi Kapoor in Lagos
The Bharti group, which has just acquired a majority stake in the Bangladeshi mobile operator Warid Telecom, is on the lookout to acquire government-owned telcos in developing markets like Africa which are up for divestment.
"If the government in any other developing country like Africa, Bangladesh etc are looking for disinvestment in PSU telcos then it can be looked at. But it would only be in mobile services and not in fixed lines," Bharti Enterprises managing director Rajan Bharti Mittal said.
Reflecting on the failure of his company's talks with South African telco MTN twice, he said, "you always have a look out. MTN (which also holds Nigeria) did not happen. But if given an opportunity, we will look at it."
Mittal, however, ruled out any fresh talks with MTN saying, "that chapter is closed. But we are always going to look at new opportunities. "As you are aware, we have just done the Bangladesh deal. We want to go into a continent and this is a continent that attracts us."
Bharti last week signed a pact to acquire 70 per cent stake in Bangladesh's fourth largest telco Warid Telecom from the Dhabi Group for $300 million.
Bharti's first foray outside the country was Sri Lanka where it entered last January. Bharti Airtel chief executive Manoj Kohli had already said that his company's only strategy is to focus on emerging markets and not any big or small buys.
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One Day, 5,000 Job Openings: Taco Bell Plans Hiring Spree for April 21
The goal is to hire 5,000 team members across the system for the April Hiring Parties day as Taco Bell looks ahead to more restaurant reopenings, remodels and new builds throughout 2021.
Anna Wolfe
Senior Editor - Restaurants
Taco Bell is preparing for continued restaurant growth and reopenings by launching its fourth annual Hiring Parties event on Wednesday, April 21. Converting parking lots into job fairs, these one-day events with on-the-spot interview opportunities will take place at almost 2,000 participating company and franchise-owned locations across the U.S. The goal is to hire at least 5,000 new team members from this year's Hiring Parties.
Adhering to COVID-19 safety precautions, this year's Hiring Parties will be held outside, in creative locations like patio areas—some candidates may even be able to participate in drive-up interviews without needing to leave their car. Among other protocols, all participants and interview spots will stay at least six feet apart and masks are mandatory.
"It's no secret that the labor market is tight, which is why we are thrilled to host our fourth round of Hiring Parties in partnership with our franchisees," said Kelly McCulloch, Taco Bell's Chief People Officer. "This initiative continues to be successful for us year after year, and we welcome candidates to join in to learn more about what makes Taco Bell a great place to work. We're eager to welcome prospective new hires into the family and show them why working at Taco Bell can be more than just a job."
Taco Bell has continued to evolve its benefits for corporate employees who stay with the brand over time. Most recently, general managers at company-owned stores now have expanded leadership benefits, including up to four weeks accrued vacation per year.
Regardless of tenure, team members are also encouraged to apply for a Live Más Scholarship to pursue their educational dreams; up to $2.5 million will be given to team members this year alone.
Collaborating closely with its franchisees, Taco Bell restaurants have pivoted its roles and recruitment efforts in navigating the past year. The goal is to hire 5,000 team members across the system for the April Hiring Parties day as Taco Bell looks ahead to more restaurant reopenings, remodels and new builds throughout 2021. Open roles will vary per each restaurant's needs but will include positions at all levels, from Food Champion to General Manager. Restaurants will also be hiring for more 'bellhops' to support drive-thru service with tablet ordering.
In working towards its goal of having 10,000 locations open globally this decade, Taco Bell restaurants are just as excited to continue offering more elevated, innovative opportunities for team members. Candidates who are interested in applying for Taco Bell roles near them can visit jobs.tacobell.com**.
*Taco Bell Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants for all job openings are welcome and will be considered without regard to race, gender, age, national origin, color, religion, disability, military status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Any offer of employment is contingent upon a satisfactory background check and proof of employment eligibility.
**Those applying for work with a franchisee of Taco Bell are not applying for a position with Taco Bell Corp. or any of its affiliates. If hired, the franchisee will be your only employer. Franchisees are independent business owners who set their own wage and benefit programs that can vary among franchisees.
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